FEELING STUBBORN?!, November 2023

FEELING STUBBORN?!

“Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” Niels Bohr

           This month we have a strong opposition which doesn’t always exist as strongly as it does now. Uranus, which lives in a sign approximately seven years, has been in the sign of Taurus since March of 2019 while Jupiter, who typically lives in a sign for about a year, also shifted into Taurus beginning May of this year. Earth joined these two on October 24^th, creating a strong Taurean faction on one side of our heavenly chart while Sun, Vulcan, Mercury and Mars are all in the sign of Scorpio on the opposite side. Since these latter are always close to each other, it’s not unusual for them to be in the same sign, but this opposition with our far out, slower-moving planets, is. And just to set the teeter totter teetering, we end October with the fickle Full Moon, also in Taurus, leaving the Taurean cluster and by mid-month swooping around our skies to instead lend its weight to the Scorpion cluster for New Moon.

Oppositions are very important in astrology as each can serve as an example to the other of where you are going as well as where you have been. They actually have a lot in common, but like any oppositional relationship, they don’t always get the compatibility as quickly as they get the opposites bit. As we know, oppositions can both attract and make sparks fly. In esoteric astrology, oppositions are not necessarily considered challenges, but rather strengtheners, like a tug-of-war. Both sides build muscle, lung power, stamina which can feel both stressful and beneficial. If one side drops the rope everyone falls down. In this case, both signs are fixed, a quality which means loyal, reliable but can also mean stubborn; heels digging furrows kind of stubborn. So, while we may all experience a sense of being pulled in directions we think we don’t want to go – especially if you have strong Scorpio and/or Taurus in your charts – it is also time to look to that other side tugging on our stubborn strings and determine what it is they can teach us, what it is we can offer them.

 Everyone: November 18 is Leonid Meteor shower. Leo is also fixed!

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 20 – DEC 21
Planet: Earth

Dynamic: You’re in good company; so are they.

Direction: Forge a new tool.

Soul Thought: For everyone’s journey.

CAPRICORN

 DEC 21 – JAN 20
Planet: Saturns

Dynamic: Time to slow down for a while.

Direction: Instead of climbing, try diving.

Soul Thought: The end result may be the same.

AQUARIUS

JAN 20 – FEB 20
Planet: Jupiter

Dynamic: Are you waiting for your ship to come in?

Direction: Why?

Soul Thought: What are your greatest hopes and wishes?

PISCES

FEB 20 – MARCH 21
Planet: Pluto

Dynamic: You are not particularly caught up in all the foofaraw.

Direction: Therefore, your discernment is good.

Soul Thought: How to use it for them?