Mars, Jupiter and Ketu Create An Epic Window of Change

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look at Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node of the Moon in Leo, all coming together this week. This is a pretty epic lineup, and the South Node of the Moon gives it that very deep sensation that this has a lot of history behind it, past lives perhaps.

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I just want to recognize that for a moment. Anyway, here we go. So we're looking at this conjunction of planets right here. So this is Mars, Jupiter, and the South Node. Let's give you the timeline first. Today's Tuesday, November 10. We're going to take this forward. We're going to notice that the triple conjunction is occurring not perfectly, but the South Node and Jupiter will cross each other Thursday of this week, and then we're going to see Mars get in, and they'll all be at the 25th degree, though sort of imperfectly.

They're not going to be at the same minute of the same degree. But by Saturday, all three of them are on the 25th degree. We're going to see Mars and the South Node cross by Sunday, and then we're going to see Mars and Jupiter get together between Sunday and Monday, so that's a very powerful triple conjunction between these planets, and that's your timeline. We're looking at let's back this up to today.

We'll say if we're starting with today, that's Thursday, November 12, all the way through let's say Monday, November 6. Sorry, November 12 to the 16th. There you have it. There's a little banner. I forgot to put it up. So now, what I have for us today are a list of things to watch for. But it's a little. I didn't have time to get through organizing them and distilling them down into my five things to watch for.

So what I want to say is that one way of thinking about Mars is like the commander of an army, and Jupiter is like the king of the army. So another way of putting it would be like using kind of some metaphors. Mars is like a military leader, let's just say in general, and Jupiter can be the leader, or Jupiter could also be a counselor or a professor.

So you put these two together, and you get like a professor of military strategy, a teacher of martial arts, a guru of I don't know mixed martial arts fighting or something like that. You also have the king and the king's army as significations of the two things getting together. Now you put these two together in the sun sign of Leo, and we have questions about authority coming up.

And if you add Ketu, the South Node, then we're starting to talk about where the specific roles or beliefs or victories, or pedestals that once gave us a sense of purpose or power start to lose their grip. Now this is sort of Jyotish informed today because I'm thinking a lot about Ketu, the South Node of the Moon, through the Indian lens.

Jupiter will give Mars a sense of principle and purpose that is worth acting on decisively. Sometimes even worth going to war over. Mars and Jupiter can give you the nerve or the courage to follow through with something or to do something difficult. And add in Ketu, and we get a belief behind the action that has been forged through many, many experiences or cycles of experience that are leading to this moment, or maybe we're looking at what gives us a sense of faith, hope, belief, or confidence that we're going to act on, and maybe the belief behind it is dissolving, and a new one is replacing it.

Let me give you an example. At certain stages in a person's career, they may be motivated purely by success, whereas at a later stage in life, the same kind of motivation, the same motivation that you have when you're super jacked on a Saturday to go for a run, or you're super excited to do some spring cleaning or something. That motivation is there, like it has been many times before. But somehow this time, rather than it being your advancement and your ambition being about success, it's about the development of craft.

So let's just say you're an artist, and early in your artistic career, there's an emphasis on like let's get some critical praise or success or something like that. Totally legitimate. Maybe you've achieved that. Then at a later phase in life, it becomes about the development of a different mode or style of art for the sake of the art itself.

Like you've graduated from needing all of the approval. Excuse me. So, Ketu can change the motivation that we have behind something because some old motivation has run its course, some old belief, or some old sense of why we're doing what we're doing and the ambition related to it. What I also want to emphasize is that we all have beliefs, but when they require that we do something on their behalf, that we actually stand for what we believe.

That's very Jupiter Mars South Node. The reason for that is that the South Node will test us. The South Node tests: Have you really learned this? Have you really integrated it? Do you really mean what you say? And so, when there's an opportunity to do something concrete tied to our values and beliefs, and we're being tested to put it into practice or recognize that hey this doesn't actually work this isn't what I believe I can't stand behind this and hence I have to stand for something else that's very Jupiter Ketu and Mars.

Now the idea the past life signature that modern evolutionary astrologers talk about here would be that there's real soul history behind why this is happening right now. So watch for the context to be sort of historical. It's like there's a lot of weight and a lot of history, and so the things that you're taking action on behalf of right now, kind of like the counselor and the military leader, the plan and the action that they're strategizing and implementing has an opportunity to clear almost like lifetimes or many many years of cycles and patterns.

So, what an opportunity that is! Another thing that I thought about was Mars is such Mars and Jupiter is such a sign of like battle and victory, and in Leo with Ketu, it's like at what cost? Like the I don't know if you guys know the Five of Swords in Tarot. Let's see if I can find it. All right, let me show you this image.

So this is the Five of Swords, right? And it's kind of like poor winners, poor losers. I think about Mars, Jupiter, and Ketu together here as like a poor winner, and you know if you if you don't explore your relationship, your ego's relationship with victory or needing to win, then a lot of victories are slowly becoming bad karma, right?

Because they're victories on one level make you feel good about yourself, but on another level, they're building you up to eventually feel horrible with yourself when you lose, and this is what happens when we derive our self worth from winning or losing. On the other hand, you could be looking at this as poor losers. Like there's just a unfortunate level of defeat, and maybe there's some level of like, fine, I quit. You know, I quit life. I quit this game. Fuck this game. I quit.

All right. So if anyone knows that reference, okay. Now six of wands is another image of victory, and this card is very Jupiter, Mars, Ketu as well. There's a real sense of royalty and victory and pride and a little parade celebrating you. And there's you know, but the dark side of this is also what was the cost of that victory, and these are different little subtle things that could be coming up this week.

So, you know that that prize of recognition, the last word proving that you're the best or what you're capable of. But you know what's the battle and what's the cost of victory here, and how are you handling defeat potentially? Now, another one on my list would be any kind of teacher, mentor, father figure, CEO, central authority figure that comes off of the pedestal.

Jupiter brings in the guru or the advisor or the leader. The sun's sign puts that into view or gives it some kind of central authority. Mars may end up challenging that figure or trying to even harm them, and so we have. I mean, this is the this is a configuration that can, and I'm just using this as an example. I'm not at all you know predicting this, but this is the kind of thing where it's like, let's overthrow that leader. God forbid, you know, someone's assassinated. It's like the Ides of March, the Julius Caesar reference.

I think that is, right? Wasn't Caesar assassinated? Wasn't that in? Wasn't that Shakespeare? The Ides of March. Anyway, I don't know. The idea, though, being that ousting someone can be part of this configuration, and sometimes in ways that are honestly about domination, not like let's you know great if I don't know great if people that don't deserve to be in positions of leadership because they're so corrupt.

Are being I don't know held accountable. I guess that's one probably positive version of this. But the other version would be jealousy, vindictiveness, revenge, hunger for power. That says let's just displace them. Let's just take it and push someone out, even if they there's no they deserve to be there. You know what I'm saying?

And also, I think there's a healthy way in which we can separate a person from a role that they play, and we have to do that for ourselves. We have to we have to do that for ourselves in the roles we play. I am not just a dad. I'm not just an astrologer or YouTube figure. Like I'm a, I'm. I have those are roles, right? And the same for you. You're not just X, Y, Z.

Those are roles that you play. This is the kind of combination that can help us separate those things out a little bit more, and in a healthy way too. There's also differentiation that needs to happen with roles and potential for conflation. So Mars Jupiter in the South Node says, "I'm going to escape into the power of some mantle of authority, some role, some spotlight, and I'm going to dissociate through that."

The South Node can be very dissociative. So, when we think that a role can save us from having to just be a person, this is a triple conjunction here that suggests we might feel empowered by something that we're escaping into and trying to conflate ourselves with a role, an archetype. On the other hand, the same tendency toward conflation can also be that that that disillusionment of the South Node, the the dissociation of the South Node, and then the potential for the the detachment.

So detaching from roles of power, positions of authority happening. I would say that there's a real theme of like righteous, self-righteous anger. This is real fiery. This triple, you know, triple conjunction, all in a fire sign. We've got testimonies from trining Saturn and Neptune in Aries with Saturn in its fall, you can feel that this might be a little. This is like someone who's a little hyped up on their point of view.

See, Mars has got heat. Jupiter's got a big moral argument, and you know, Ketu may have this willingness to sort of detach or sever things, and so you know that's where you could have someone almost feeling like my position, my authority, my perspective. I have the moral high ground, and I'm just going to cut ties with anyone who doesn't.

See, one of the subtlest things that can happen is that in, and I I believe this to be true only through my own process, right? I'm not trying to, and and obviously what I've observed in others in my astrology practice over many years, when people don't have a a a personal spiritual path that they're on.

This is just my opinion. Okay, so take it or leave it. Then we often replace that kind of relationship with God or the universe or the anima mundi or any kind of spiritual path that connects us to something outside of ourselves, which is also inside, but it connects the inner and the outer. Then we tend to pick up moral, what do I want to call it, like moral or ideological positions that we treat just like it's God, or or just like it's spirit, or just like it is a spiritual path.

This is a combination that can have people acting just like a fanatical religious extremist about something that they believe to be morally good, and it's often the thing the thing that is not helping a person recognize that fanaticism is an unconscious. An there's a kind of unconscious theme around not having something outside of ourselves that we connect to in a deeply personal way. It's a heart-centered way. That's the Leo piece. Let me give you an example.

So, in when I was in my early 20s, I had just I was a youth minister at a church, and I hadn't I hadn't I mean Christianity. Was a part of my life ever since I was a kid because I was a preacher's kid, and then I was a youth pastor. During that phase, I had a lot of really intense, I don't know, social moral positions that were pretty conservative.

That was like early in my life, and those things were essentially things that gave me something to stand on prior to my faith itself being that thing, which didn't happen for me until I had some powerful healing experiences throughout my 20s, kind of initiation experiences that put me on a spiritual path and that made my faith really, really substantive and real.

Then all of a sudden, the idea that my moral and spiritual ground needed to come from the certainty of various political, ideological, moral positions, like that, that didn't need to be the case any longer. So that's where that observation comes from. But the reason I wrote this down to talk about is that this this configuration is one that can have us really looking at whether or not we have anything that connects us on the level of consciousness, heart, soul, spirit to reality, to self, you know, and a lot of people who don't have that will find that the thing that they were standing on, the conviction or the you know the moral high ground on some various issues or whatever, that those things will not be enough.

There'll be this real feeling of lack or hollowness. Like I just I can't derive all of my self worth from some social issue that I take up. You know what I'm saying? Not that social issues aren't real and important as well, but this is the kind of combination that says if there isn't something substantive directing your life with conviction from the heart that connects you to something transcendental, it's going to feel hollow eventually, and that the steam, the enthusiasm, the interest, the conviction will run out.

Um. So, and it's funny because a lot of the people that I went to school with, say, I went to a Christian school, and I was going to be a preacher, and I was going, you know, start with youth ministry, and I had there's this whole thing, right? I noticed this. A lot of the people that I went to school with, these strong, quote unquote, like I would call them socially identified Christians. Not to be a jerk, but like I noticed that as adults, the strong moral convictions they had about things like drinking, right? That was like a thing. Like we don't drink. Well, they're all drinking now, and they're adults, you know, and they're still in the faith community, but the point is that at at some point the conviction you have to make you know people are like well if you're a Christian it means you don't drink well actually if you're a Christian it means that you have this deep intimate relationship that's budding and flowering throughout your whole life with the divine source of everything and that may or may not have anything to do with whether or not you have a Budweiser.

For fuck's sake, you know. I'm just I'm trying to be funny here, but you know, the point is that if if your faith is about the anti beer stance or whatever it is, you know what I mean? It will run out eventually. That's a big important point. I wanted to be sure that I got across today. So hope that makes sense. Okay, let's see here.

Yeah, because what happened to me, in all honesty, I wrote this down. But what happened to me was I had that like I don't drink. I'm morally above it because I'm a child of God. Whatever. And then of course, as soon as I left college, hit the real world, it was a lot more intense than I imagined. I became an addict. You know, I mean, I'm only laughing because of just what a hypocrite I was. You know, you know, and and that's what lies beneath a lot of this stuff.

We we we have an opportunity to detach our sense of self worth from temporary platforms that lack soul. Right, the soul is the ultimate Platform, you know, building a relationship with the soul and heart of the universe that we see in others, that we find in ourselves. This can be a really enlightening combination. These planets and combinations speak to spiritual courage. But that spiritual courage comes from being honest with ourselves. What is really life-giving? You know, where if I am honest, then I dump out all of my false certainty.

What judgments have can I notice that I built my life upon? Right, like this group, this person, this thing is bad, and that's what makes me right. But in order to get that far, we have to be willing to dump out our certainty and confidence that we have all the answers. I think for a lot of us, including myself, getting into the habit of doing that is terrifying, you know, because we we build up these little castles, little Leo castles, to feel confident, and and we think that we need a reason for the sun to shine straight out of our hearts, you know, and we don't. We don't.

So I hope that whatever happens, I hope you're able to just come back into your heart if you've left it for any reason, and realize that it is your birthright. You need no permission to be there in this beautiful warmth that exists inside of you. No one can take it from you. No one can, you know, no one can censor it from being there. You always have a complete right to be happy in your heart.

That doesn't mean it's we can be happy 24/7, but you don't you don't need to prove to anyone or anything, even yourself, that you deserve to be in your heart, you can just walk right in. The door is always open, and that's the that is the definition of mercy and grace. That that heart door is always open for us. Let's step through and have a beer. No, I'm just kidding.

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