On Friday, November 1st, 2024 at (5:47am PDT & 8:47 am EDT) the moon begins a new cycle in the deep, penetrating and intense sign of Scorpio. A sign that lives in the unseen world, connects us to shadow, and pushes us to uncover the truth of what’s really happening. This sign will lead you into your emotional depths and plunge you into the most hidden parts of yourself. It will take you to your edges, highlight your greatest fears, passions, and cravings. It’s the sign that’s most aware of death and so it can also teach you the most about what it means to live. This particular New Moon happens right alongside Samhain, All Saints, and the Day of the dead, a day to honor our ancestors and those who’ve passed on from the earthly plane.

This is the first New Moon following eclipse season and it’s happening with just enough time before Mercury and Mars Retrograde. This lunation allows us to put things into motion, asks us to remain curious about where we get stuck, and invites us to uncover the unhealthy patterns we keep repeating.

Saturn, the planet of restrictions, limits, and hard lessons is making a helpful alignment to this New Moon. It might highlight some of our fears, insecurities, and frustrations, but it’s also here to teach us lessons from the past and show us what we need to integrate in our current world. Ultimately, this alignment will help us stay grounded as we dive deep into our own depths, and it will help us feel contained during any intense emotional experiences.

Mars, the planet of assertion, will, and our drive is in a challenging aspect to Pluto, lord of the underworld. Both these planets are rulers of Scorpio, and carry strong, intense, and dramatic energy. Mars in Cancer will trigger some of our unhealed wounds and unmet emotional needs from childhood that keep us stuck in old attachments and patterns. While Pluto in Capricorn might highlight our obsessions with material security, status, achievements, and work as a way to avoid dealing with any emotional pain. The alignment between these two planets is edgy and can bring up repressed feelings of anger and frustration, possibly some grief, and will likely pull our unconscious fears and desires to the surface. Look at your chart and see which houses Cancer and Capricorn occupy and it will give you a clue about what issues might be activated up until the beginning of the New Year.

You can also pay attention to what’s holding you back from asserting yourself more or where you’ve been pushing too much. This will give you some extra clues as to what you might need to confront during this transit. Keep in mind with all of these strong energies at odds, people will be on edge, and you’ll see themes of power and control surface inside some of your relationships and we’ll also see this play out on the big collective stage. A few days later on November 3rd, Mars will move into the sign Leo. You might feel tempted to make decisions quickly as if it’s a now or never moment, but it’s not. Make sure you take your time and think things through on any big decisions.

While we all might feel pulled to reflect deeply on the truth of who we are and what we need to transform, we will each experience this lunar energy differently depending on where Scorpio is located in your chart or if you have a natal planet associated with it. If you would like a more personalized reading, to learn about who you are and what you’ve come here to do, I’d love to set up a session with you.

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