15th century {{PD}}

28 November Pallas squares Juno and Venus sextiles Pluto–and that doesn’t even count the Lunar eclipse! These two aspects suggest a tug-of-war between wisdom and empowerment (sounds familiar, of late) and the temptation to sell out in order to feel that power. Let’s just call this a theme that may weave itself into the eclipse material obliquely, challenging already tense psyches with the power/ values/ payoff conundrum.

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Red and the Big Bad in conversation. {{PD}}

November 27th may come off like a Big Bad Day, but everything negative we encounter will, without exception, reflect some interior reality of our own. Ego, rage, and an intense desire to change the undesirable will prevail, and conduct in relationships and with money may be decidedly iffy. Mars conjuncts Pluto and sesquiquadrates Sedna, making us blind to our own actions and motivations, while Venus semi-squares Juno and sesquiquadrates Pallas, suggesting that power, love, and money decisions arise from empowerment issues and, too often, from a choice to turn away from what we know to be wise.

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An early example of a composite photo, where the photographer appears to be taking his own picture. By A.H. Wheeler of Berlin, WI 1893 {{PD}}

From the current ECLIPSE:

November 26th we see Venus conjunct Saturn and sesquiquadrate Vesta, while the Sun trines Uranus and the Sun-Earth axis squares Chiron. Either we are suppressing our feelings in relationship due to our highest values, or clamping down on expenditures because of these. The reality picture may tell us things can’t go on as they have been, in the relating or spending departments. We have a strong urge to show our uniqueness, to truly be proud of our individuality, and we may seek to join a group that we feel will enhance this, but the true driving force will be a buried sense of hurt. We are trying to make up for something from long ago–that doesn’t negate the legitimacy of what we’re doing, it only makes it necessary for us to be aware that the wound is, to some extent, playing a role here.

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‘Boats by a Cliff’ Nordstrom 1911 {{PD-Art}}

November 19th we are suddenly faced with a good deal of pressure, and some really good advice–that we will likely as not disregard. Mars opposes Ceres, casting our action urge in a somewhat juvenile light; the temptation may be to act in some way just because Mom or the authorities wouldn’t like it, or we are determined not to respect Mother Nature, simply wanting our way somewhere she’d best be taken into account. We are done in by our own perversity, and the worst part may be that there is some perfectly lovely information, advice, logic, or reasoning at our feet–and we either don’t see it, don’t recognize it as useful, or dismiss it as wrong–gee thanks, Mercury retrograde! Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any way to sort that gem from the dross that seems to flow everywhere–so we will just have to do our best and accept that our judgment is off, one way or another (Vesta square Pallas, Mercury trine Pallas, quincunx Vesta, opposed Sedna).

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