The Astrology of November

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take a look at the major astrological transits of the month of November. This is a broad overview. Of course, as the month goes on, what we tend to do on my channel is look at each of the individual transits and break them down on an archetypal level, meditate and reflect on them as we go. Maybe even do horoscopes on some of them, especially like earlier this week we did Mars Retrograde, which was at the very end of October. We'll be doing something similar for the Eclipse coming up. So there'll be maybe a few opportunities for horoscopes as the month goes on.

I'm also joined today by my friend and colleague Alex Amorosi, who you guys have met a few times before. Last month I was dealing with a cold I'm still on and often dealing with a cold, Saturn's opposing my ascendant ruler. So that's been fun. And so he wasn't on last month, but we intended to, and then we just didn't get around to it. So he's back this month. And we're going to be taking a look at the astrology together.

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Alex Amorosi
Hey, live dance party. Just dress up like Saturday Night Fever.

Adam Elenbaas
I know right? Yeah, people will be like, he's my astrologer. He is not my dance instructor. Big the big takeaway

Alex Amorosi
with us the number one that's amazing.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I literally I've asked like so many days in a row. And there's at least like 20 people being like a live dance party. I don't get it. That's a great idea. I guess. Although I think about it, it's probably like on Instagram, I look and I see on the there's a lot of people that like to just video themselves, like just like oily hips just like dancing going for it. And I'm like, that's cool. I'm not that in touch with myself, I guess.

Alex Amorosi
My cousin showed me on Tik Tok. It's a whole thing. Like people just doing their own dance and then like, getting 4 million views, and it's insane.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, you know, I have we have like my cousin. My wife's cousin has a wedding coming up and like if there's an actual dance happening like I love to dance, so I'm not like averse to it. I just have a hard time like just dancing online, I guess.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah. In front of the camera when no one else is there. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
Well, anyway, enough about dance parties and all of that. We are about to get into the astrology of November. For people who don't know Alex, Alex is an astrologer, yoga teacher, and energy healer. You can find him on Instagram, Alexamorosihealing, if you want to connect with him for a reading, get on his clients' schedule, stuff like that. Alex, we have a lot in common just because we both have a lot of love for astrology and also come from the yoga world. So it's been really natural and fun to work together. We're going to be looking at all of the transits and just kind of looking at, you know, well, I shouldn't say all of them, I write down all of them. And then as I'm going, I usually as I'm going along, I usually pull out what I think are going to be the biggest and most significant transits of the month. And then Alex and I will rap about them for a little bit. So that is our agenda.

You ready? So, here we are. And we're going to start on November 5, actually. And I think early on in the month, there's a few Venus transits that are pretty big. Then let's go to the fifth here, and there's Venus opposing Uranus normally. So here's Venus between November 5 and November 7. On the fifth, Venus opposes Uranus, and on the seventh, it squares Saturn. So it's effectively Venus activating the Saturn Uranus square. My thought about this is, you know, it's not right away. But the fact that this is happening, and then boom, on the eighth, we have a lunar eclipse in Taurus. Venus's sign. So I'll just fast forward this just a little bit more so that everyone can see that. So to me, it's a really like powerful and very Venusian-flavored sequence of events. The lunar eclipse is coming through in Taurus in conjunction with Uranus, you're gonna see it. Obviously, the full moon always opposes the Sun. And so the there's the Uranus for this is a Uranian lunar eclipse. After Venus, the ruler of the Eclipse, has just passed through the Saturn Venus square. So I have a few thoughts about this. I kind of want to hear what you have to say first. What do you think about this sequence? We're just gonna go Venus opposite Uranus Venus square Saturn lunar eclipse in Venus's sign. What do you think about that?

Alex Amorosi
Oh my god, I mean, you know, this lunar eclipse, you know, and it will be exactly conjunct Uranus 16 degrees of Taurus. You know, with Venus in Scorpio, I have a couple of thoughts just opposing Uranus and then we'll get to Saturn. One is that, you know, I think Venus this may reveal or break open or have the sort of lightning strike of insight into darker ideas around Venus about desire or lust or you know, even darker art or music or science, something like that. There's something that Uranus brings to that sort of cracks it open or reveals it or there may even be also on the other side of that and impulsivity that comes around it or something that feels like you know, I have to follow this instinct right now I think Scorpio can have a very instinctual quality both Taurus and Scorpio in different ways. So I think, you know, Venus hits that first, she kind of hits the you know, that electrified feeling of Uranus and then she comes into a real quick reality check. Where Saturn, you know, Saturn sitting there, like, you know, I always think like Amadeus there's that, you know, there's that strong music in this big imposing figure turns around and kind of shames the figure at the bottom of the stairs is sort of the that can feel like that, which might be a darker interpretation of that.

Or it might be Saturn, just bringing a little like, I think Saturn does bring that voice of reason, you know, a little bit of stability and something that feels like it gets a little erratic or out of control. It could feel really imposing and like, you know, a very heavy responsible voice comes down or just some kind of healthy discipline that says like, Okay, well, you know, that is something you're getting an insight into. Let's see if we can move with that in a more maybe responsible, disciplined way that brings about a more long term desired result. That's what I'd go with that at first, at least with those two ideas.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a great point. The thing that comes to my mind is also, or, I guess, the additional point that I want to throw in here, that Venus is we're coming off from a solar eclipse at the end of October on October 25 that featured Venus coming out of cazimi in being in Scorpio. Venus is naturally in its exile in Scorpio, which means it's just, it's just an archetypal tension that's present when Venus is in Mars's sign. And so you have a more controversial Venus. Well, if I think about that, and then I think about how potent that Venus is around this lunar eclipse in Venus sign, I think. Okay, so I was been reading this book lately called the Bible as Dream. It's like a Jungian interpretation of the Bible. And it is absolutely fascinating. But one of the distinctions that it makes throughout the text archetypally speaking, is the difference between some of the feminine characters throughout the biblical stories that are either sort of in support of the heroic narrative or those that are seen as like temptresses that could take the hero off the hero's path.

If that ultimate heroic goal is to become the fully individuated Christ-like individual, right? Like if that's sort of the goal of the Christian read of the Bible, obviously, the Jewish experience of the Bible is going to be a completely different thing. The Torah, for example, but like, you have characters like Ruth, and Deborah, who are basically like handmaidens of the Lord, you know, they're like? I think that's what I was, except the set the thing that was what's the Lord of the rings were what help me geek out here, Lord of the Rings handmaidens are they were called? Shieldmaidens.

Alex Amorosi
Shieldmaidens.

Adam Elenbaas
That's what I was thinking of shield maidens. like shield maidens of the Lord, they're like, they're the feminine that somehow aids and supports the heroic, more masculine narrative, right? And then, they have, then there's characters you know, who are considered to be like, you know, temptresses, for example, Eve is often cast in that light or there will be the temptation of the flesh, which is often depicted as something more feminine. Tiamat is conquered, and Tiamat would be like, you know, the sort of primordial feminine chaos or something like that. So there's always in but you always have in the story of Jesus, you have Mary the Virgin, you have Mary Magdalene, who is a prostitute. So you get the kind of archetypal virgin/whore dichotomy. And I'm not using that word, disrespectfully.

So the but the idea is that there is often a splitting in the anima in the in the feminine image, you know, there's like a duality, and is it a real duality? Or is it a false duality? Whose duality is it? And I think oftentimes, you know, it's, it's a duality that maybe a society puts on women, for example, well, you're either pure and avoiding temptation and being in support of the heroic narrative, or you're like you're a total slut who's just degrading anyone and everything including yourself into chaos or, you know, carnal lust, and it's these images of the feminine that dual image of the feminine is so like, overblown and so strong, and I see it like you know already like in the programming my girls are receiving through movies on TV, you know, the bad girl and the good girl, and the bad girl is always often depicted as someone who likes to be selfish, you know, like, well, is it always bad to be selfish? Is it always bad to, you know, where's the good girl is often the one who's supporting a guy, you know what I mean? Like, stuff like that.

So there are all these images, and my point is, that I can't help but wonder with Venus in Scorpio, where Venus in Scorpio to me is like, complicated around desire and passion and sensual enjoyment, pleasure. It would be very easy because we say, well, you know, Venus is in its exile, to look at that Venus and say, Well, I like that Venus is like a temptress who will get you off track by, you know, making you cheat on your spouse or something like just the stereotypical image of Venus like that. I can't help but wonder if some of these dichotomies between like the good girl and the bad girl are ready to be blown up. And I don't mean that just in the lives of women, I mean that as an archetype within everyone's life, if this cycle doesn't have something to do with discarding a false dichotomy, you somehow have to choose between being good or being beautiful, like enjoying the body, or somehow, you know, being in service to the transcendent realm of heaven. There's some kind of false dichotomy there that feels like it's baked into this eclipse cycle.

Alex Amorosi
That's a really; first of all, I'm going to read that because I was just looking at some of that stuff on YouTube last night about the different types of stories. But you know, I think that there's something a friend of mine who does a lot of sexual healing work for queer people, especially queer men, will often talk about this idea of the dichotomy between you're either sexualized, or you're intelligent, you're either hot, or you're, you know, or the nerd or whatever it is, and realizing like we're much more complex than that, and also that our desires are very complex, and they don't always fit into a rigid box, they don't always fit into what someone feels comfortable putting their own idea around. And I feel like Venus in Scorpio can kind of be very fearless in that idea of being like, you're not going to put me in a box, you're not going to put what my desire is, and that sometimes it may be that around this eclipse as well. Uranus kind of, you know, flashing is open, you know, that it brings to light some of those, you know, this is something I'm coming to understand is a desire of mine. So I'm gonna kind of understand as a part of me that I may have exiled out, you know, I think like internal family systems, the exiled part, right, that I'm bringing back in and owning and bringing back into my heart. That's a really cool way of looking at that ahead and consider that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it's like, it's like the shadow of Venus is, And I think it's very possible, given the opposition to Uranus in the square to Saturn, that there's this internal conflict around some Venusian aspect of our lives, pleasure, sex, desire, beauty, self-image, self-worth, what we're attracted to are repulsed by these kinds of things. And I think Saturn tends to be the one that has the oughts and shoulds. And is, you know, more. More about rules, right? Uranus tends to be the one that's more about breaking, and letting go of inhibitions. And so I just wonder if this eclipse cycle with at the start the month, the fifth, let's, roll through it again, here on my, on my little notes, so the fifth, Venus opposes Uranus, let's break free. And it's a complicated breaking free, it's an opposition. So it's like, yeah, this is not an easy thing to do. But I have to, and I'm not going to; I'm not going to be ashamed of what I love or what I'm attracted to. There's some need to be liberated. And maybe there's a little bit of, like, calibrating that has to happen. It's sort of like, the nerdy kid in the high school movie that, you know, decides to drink on the last day of school, and they get way too drunk, but it's not like you have to worry about them becoming an alcoholic, they just drank for the first time, you know, that maybe you go a little nutty at first, you know, and, or something.

But my point is that there's a complicated sort of, let me just own My pleasure impulse here on some level, and whatever that is. That's, that seems to me like that's the first step. And then the second one, is this the check from Saturn? You know, well, is that going to make you other different black sheep? Cast out? Heretic? You know, what does that make you? And or maybe you should check yourself, maybe you should go back to being safe, and you know, laws, rules and so forth. Now, on the other hand, and then finally, we get to the lunar eclipse in Taurus, and the lunar eclipse is with an exalted moon and Uranus. And to me that it speaks it goes back to the Venus opposite Uranus transit, and it says, Yep, we're doing this is happening. Doesn't it feel like that?

Alex Amorosi
Oh, yeah. It totally feels like that. I mean, I feel like, you know, what's interesting about Taurus, I find with Uranus there and I sometimes think of Taurus is like, you know, where Taurus comes in the light cycle, the northern hemisphere when I was growing up, my dad was really into gardening, and so he would always start our plants inside during Taurus season because it's too cold in New England to put them outside you know, until it's about you know, later in May. And it how the Taurus likes to have this you know, we think of Taurus is like wanting things to stay the same, very rigid, but that's because it's incubating new life. It's still its sort of in this place where it's, you know, the conditions of like the seedling has to be in the right soil with the right amount of water with the right amount of light, in the right temperature, in order that it germinates and becomes new life. That's Tauruses job so to speak, and I think like Uranus coming in there and Uranus is like if like my cat got up on the table with all those seedlings started like knocking them over and like digging them out and like peeing on it just there's like a more of a chaotic feeling to it. But sometimes there's this sort of feeling of like, Where have I been incubating or holding or keeping it the same too much? Wherever I've been feeling that I've had to keep things in too much of a container, I've had to keep everything a little too safe. And the lunar eclipse, you know, with this sort of a little bit more, you know, this kind of like badass Venus in Scorpio is kind of being like, no, it's time to break free. It's time to break loose, it's time to you know, the seedling has incubated enough. It has grown. It's okay to be outside now. It's okay to be in the elements in the more unpredictable nature of the outer world, so to speak.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, that feels right to me as well, that the interesting thing is, let's go forward here a little bit; you go to November 8. And on November 9, Mercury and the Sun oppose Uranus. So let's move this forward just a little bit. On so on the eighth and ninth, and I'll just kind of draw this in so you can everyone can see it. So the Sun and Mercury, we've got Mercury cazimi, first of all, so it's like going through the heart of the Sun, after both are just opposing Uranus, some ballsy stuff coming through, like all in a row with Uranus, like the urge to recreate, to innovate, take a step forward, to break out of old things, to let go of old things, or things that feel confining is super strong. You know, I look at this, and the fact that, like, my own ascendant ruler is in the mix of all of this, and I go well, I mean, that is precisely what was at work in, for example, my choice to leave the formal commitments to a religious path that I was on.

It's not that I'm not spiritual any longer, or that I don't value meditation, or that I don't believe in God, or something like that. But for me, anyway, it was just this need to act like leave behind something that was feeling more confining than helpful. Now, I'm not saying it is that way for everyone. I'm not trying to say because I have a lot of friends who are on that path, who probably still watch my channel, or who I still really love. So I'm not suggesting that religion has to be that way for everyone. But that's what I was starting to experience. I will tell you what's really interesting is I saw a talk from a popular yoga content creator, and I'm forgetting her name now. But anyway, she's like, a popular yoga influencer, you know, and she moved back to her home country, and I forget where it was, like Sweden or something. And she had been like ultra vegan and under the same Venus or the same Saturn Uranus dynamic; just recently, she let it be known that she was no longer feeling comfortable with veganism, which I thought was really interesting, not so much because I have an opinion about whether someone should be vegan or not, I really don't it's up to every individual to make that choice.

But because I thought it's just this is so fitting of needing to leave behind like breaking out of something breaking out of a shell, it's sort of like the moment where the, you know, super cliched image but the butterfly breaking out of a cocoon, it's very Uranus, Saturn, you breaking out of an old structure of your psyche, but this is like doubling down on it. Because right after we get this whole sequence with Venus, then we have the Sun and Mercury, and they start to concretize in my mind, Venus helps us a breakthrough, in my mind really physically. Like Venus to me is like the Lord of the five senses, the goddess of the five senses, you know, so she's like, the ruler of that, that Sun and Mercury coming together feel to me more ideological or intellectual, like we're starting to understand or have some, some coherent, not just logic, but understanding about why we're doing what we're doing. Like, sometimes you start making changes, and you're like, well, this just feels like the right thing to do. I feel it in my body. So I'm doing it, you start doing it, and then you go on, I understand why I'm doing it now.

Alex Amorosi
Right, right. And I think that you know, as I said, you know, we were talking about riffing off of that. There's that instinctual sense nature of Venus in Scorpio, right and then you get Mercury coming in love brings more of a well what's How am I communicating this? How am I thinking about this? And then the Sun, you know, what are the new ideals that are coming through because of it? What's the new light that I'm shining? What's the, you know, Uranus is interesting. Uranus is, I think, like during a thunderstorm at night, like it's the lightning strike where you see all of a sudden and then it's dark again. It's like this I can't unsee what I just saw. And then Saturn can, even though he's just squares to Saturn, Saturn can bring a little bit more of like the Okay, here's the durable long term around that, you know, here are the possibilities. Here's the this and that, that you know, we're talking about. Oh, Saturday tends to be a little bit more of this or that, um, I think Uranus is wonderful for the insight. Uranus doesn't often have a long-term plan around it, it's just the, this is what needs to happen. Right. And it's very immediate. And then Saturn could have the effects here, and especially as we get later in the month to get to Neptune and Jupiter, and Pluto involved, but like, you know, that's effective. Okay, how is that going to be actualized?

Adam Elenbaas
You know, how does it become? I mean, as much as I don't want to say we'll turn around and concretize things right away again because we've just, maybe we've just broken free, and now we're going to turn around and, like, get it tattooed on her arm, you know. And I'm joking around when I said, you know, I'm gonna let myself just be open to what comes next in terms of like a spiritual community I might belong to, or spiritual commitments I might have, because I'm a guy who likes I like having spiritual community and practices and you know, things that I'm getting into, and I might just be a church hopper the rest of my life, so to speak. But who knows, but I said I have to just leave myself open rather than rushing out to do something right away. I think that the shadow of this might be just that, well, okay, I've broken free. And so now I have to concretize what I've done through some new commitment, you know, some new ideology that I have to put in place in order to justify or further support what Venus just brought through, which was much maybe more sensual and intuitive, and organic and feminine, you know. And so I think we need to be careful because I think the suns approach to these placements is going to be much more about the logos of it all. And you know, that well, that could be a good thing. It could also be like, just slow your roll let things, maybe understanding developing is different than defining commitments and ideas too quickly or something.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. I think, you know, it's the idea in Buddhism. Buddhism is a study of groundlessness, just letting yourself be groundless, letting your feet float, letting you know, allowing the more feminine aspects, the Yin aspects, to receive and letting things come to you and letting yourself be brought. Because Saturn is the, you know, the shadow that it absolutely is just what you said, and I would just add to that, too, is, you know, getting back to what's familiar, getting back to, oh, my God, that feels really scary to be new. And maybe I want to go back to what felt like the tried and true method. Just my riff on that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, totally. I'm going to skip around here a little bit. We have a series of very brief trines and sextiles in the middle of the month. I am probably not going to make any videos about those throughout the month. So I want to jump ahead to two transits that are coming right around the middle of the month that I do think are a little bit bigger of a deal.

First of all, we have the Sun trining Neptune Mercury will trine Neptune, and the Sun will trine Neptune Mercury does so on the 12th. And then the Sun does so on the 14th. That encourages me because it's like, you know, first, the Sun and Mercury hit Saturn, but then right away, they both hit Neptune. And so I feel like I could just I can just feel like almost like it's a template of experience where you go through a change, and you're scrambling to understand the change which has come up from the unconscious, so you're trying to be reasonable about it. And initially, that's the hit with Saturn, right? That's Mercury and the Sun; then they go through the trine with Neptune; they both do from the 12th to the 14th. And I feel like that's an invitation to let our understanding unfold and be more process-oriented. Or if we've gotten too concrete too quickly, something will happen that will make it more nebulous and porous. Like right away. So there's a little bit of a like almost like it could be a little manic, like little back and forth around this time. It's a powerful month.

Alex Amorosi
It is, and you know, if I were the Sun, Mercury, or Venus, I would be very happy to see Neptune approaching and this trine coming up just being like, you know, because I think that Neptune provides a little bit also like everything you said and just like a little grace of being like, you know, you know what you're loved unconditionally. Try it out as long as you're not harming anybody or yourself. You know, you're loved. You're open, you know, you're held in a much bigger and more intuitive space.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah, I like that. That's a nice way of putting it on the 15th Venus trines Jupiter who is retrograded back into Pisces. I like that very watery. That's a very fertile transit. So in terms of it being romantic, good for like, like, love camaraderie, friendship, anything that's uplifting and entertaining. For example, I'm going to a concert with a few friends right around this transit, and like well that makes total sense where we're going to see a rocker who's very Venus in Scorpio as it's trining Jupiter like it'll be a fun night out with friends. Like, you get that it can be romantic if you don't want to get pregnant from a one-night stand. I'd be a little careful Venus in Scorpio with Jupiter in Pisces is like, I'm going in with, you know, chemical burn about, you know, the way I feel about this person. And I'm coming out like pregnant, like, be careful with that.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, yeah, the fertile signs on the benefics.

Adam Elenbaas
Exactly. Even around that time. I mean, you can even see, like, the moon is in Cancer, too. So it's a super fertile time, like the middle of November, you know, things, things that we love, things that we're thinking will create growth, there'll be growth around them. So just something to watch out for. I like it in terms of, like, things that are growing, you know, when you think about things that are growing and fertile, you can think about things that are just pleasant and enjoyable. And you can also think about things that are like financially that people that you meet in partnerships that are created in business could be fruitful, even if it just happens to be that you meet under this period. You got a lot of water in the air, and that makes things grow.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, for sure, it's a nice respite for a lot of these planners from is more a little bit more jarring oppositions and squares earlier in the month.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, by the middle of the month, it's like there's this big watery flow compared to earlier in the month where it's all like, you know, it's like explosion restrictions, explosion restrictions. So intense. Well, Venus goes into Sagittarius on the 16th. Why don't you tell us what you love about Venus and Sagittarius? Or what should people watch for when Venus enters Sag?

Alex Amorosi
Oh, it's a lot. I think just a lot hopeful hopefulness on expansion. You know, be merry, so to speak; you know, I'm speaking as the resident Sagittarius here, so I'm speaking with some bias, but I think also like what might feel like I'm wrestling with these, you know, he's coming to terms with these darker exile parts of myself in Scorpio a little more existential starts to feel like and now and pop the cork and have fun. You know, that I think what I've really loved seeing about this month I think, you know, it's such an interesting dichotomy of like, you know, just a little bit more intense feeling of the Scorpio opposition's and squares and then now these planets are moving into Sagittarius. Mercury is moving in, and the Sun is moving in under the rulership of a more empowered Jupiter. You know, Jupiter in Pisces is a little bit more imaginative and sensitive and emotionally deep and just; I think this will feel like a big breath. When Venus finally moves into Sag.

Adam Elenbaas
I love the early part of this because, on the 17th, Mercury also enters Sagittarius, you get the 16th Venus into Sag, the 17th Mercury into Sag, and then Mercury conjoins Venus on the 21st Just a couple of days later. And what I love about that combination, especially because on November 20, just the day previous, you also have the Sun is also trining Jupiter. So the Sun's trining Jupiter at the same time that you get Venus and Mercury together in Jupiter sign, this feels like a moment that could be very charming and fun and charismatic like good for if you're like in sales like I could see you know, you could sell your best house or whatever you're trying to you know you're trying to sell someone the big house. If you're a real estate agent like this could get it done. Do you know what this reminds me of? You ever see the Indiana Jones movies?

Alex Amorosi
Oh, I love them. Yeah, okay, so there we go.

Adam Elenbaas
We got Star Wars, got Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones

Alex Amorosi
The trifecta.

Adam Elenbaas
Like Mercury and Venus in Sag are like the charm and wit and attractiveness of Indie, and like, whatever, whoever his chick is. And you know what I mean? Like he's always got someone, and he's always got this witty banter going back and forth. I remember; I think it was in the first one. I think her name was Miriam. Yeah, she had dark hair. And she was a really strong Saj character, in my opinion. And you know, he's a very Sag-like character. Same thing as Han Solo and Princess Leia. Do you know that? So I think it's very witty and charming and fun. There's a big quality to this moment and but it's also frothy.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, yeah. I love it. It's interesting. I never thought Indiana Jones for many reasons and also because there's the bigness, the traveling right kind of all over, you know, hard to pin down sort of thing and there's also but there's also in Sagittarius too. And just speaking as a Sag, there's a lot in Sagittarius, I think, around meaning and what gives me meaning and what gives my life meaning that Jupiter idea, and there can also be sort of darkness and nihilism even it sounds like it means less, you know, Indiana goes through some tough darker stuff, too. And there's like a, there's an interesting interplay, I think, in Sag, around all those meaning meaningless, that's what gives me meaning. Where do I feel like I've sort of lost gas and I need to like refuel in some way.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's fascinating. I mean, if you think about Han Solo, he's a smuggler, who's only in it for the money, but then he eventually finds, you know, a reason for being a part of the team. You know. I think the same thing is true, for I mean, other Sagittarius type of characters that come to mind for me would be like James Bond.

I'm not a big fan of a lot of the misogyny in James Bond, you know, but I grew up on it as a kid. So it's baked into my archetypal databanks and James Bond, to me, is also someone who, like you don't really know, he's the one he's the best agent, couldn't care less, in some ways about, like the crown. Do you know what I mean? Like his, his loyalty to the political establishment is like; I think he just likes being an agent, you know. Then I think, and I think Indy's similar, he's similar in that. You know, there's always, well, there's always some sense in which he sort of doesn't give a crap. Do you know what I mean? And especially in the last one. The last one is called The Last Crusade.

Alex Amorosi
With Sean Connery. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, funny that there's a Bond character in The Last Crusade; he has to, in a sense, make that spiritual leap. Like he, he takes this big spiritual leap. And then, of course, he has to let go of the temptress woman who wants it for herself, which is terrible. It's another terrible image of the feminine, like, you know, there it is, but I think the point is just that what you're saying is absolutely correct. Where there's a lot of this big jovial quality in the air around this part of November, if we go, you know, this is right around the, let's say, 16th, through like the 23rd. Because by the 23rd, we're also getting a New Moon in Sagittarius. We're coming through a Dark Moon in Scorpio, where when you have all these Sagittarian planets present, I could see a little bit of an eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die or who gives an F? Yeah, like in the air, it could be really fun. But there could also be a sense of bottoming out and maybe trying to like restore meaning or find meaning through that process.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, for sure. For sure. It's really interesting, I think, um, you know, Sagittarius, for me, all the double-bodied signs are always dealing with the tension between two ideas, right? They're always dealing with the sort of, and I think Sagittarius does find that that is trying to think of. I'm trying to like kind of localize it from my own experience. There's that sense that it's the darkest time of the year. Does anything really matter? You know, what is it, you know, that that sort of feeling, and then there's oftentimes just in the nick of time, you know, that Jupiter hub comes back and says, This is what matters, this is what's meaningful to you. And, you know, with the dark Scorpio moon coming in, but then coming into Sag, it might be like, Oh, okay, this is the moment where I'm starting to restore my faith, so to speak. Yeah. Here it's those sort of Jupiter ideas.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right. Yeah. I like that as it's a moment. You know, another thing is that we've gone through this whole process, especially if trying to, like, vindicate Venus if that's a theme at all for the month. And you see this new moon coming through with the Venus Mercury conjunction and Jupiter's sign, by the way, as Jupiter is stationing to turn direct on the same day of the new moon. To me, this represents a turning point in our faith in our understanding, in what somehow gives coherence and order meaning to our lives, and it's somehow been earned through the turmoil of the earlier part of the month.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, yeah. What might have felt disjointed. We were talking about those like all these sorts of instinctual ideas Venus And Scorpio in the Uranus opposition. That sentence was what might have felt disjointed or like a roller coaster; maybe it starts to feel like a coherent philosophy or meaning or belief system starts to form around it at this point.

Adam Elenbaas
With Venus involved, it feels to me like those early attempts with Saturn are probably not the right ones. Maybe I'm maybe I just feel like the temptation right away with, like, hit Uranus and then hit Saturn is going to be about the thing that tries to pull us into Saturn too quickly. It's like pull us out of order and definition to quickly make an ideology etc. Whereas when Venus is involved with the new moon in Jupiter's sign. Jupiter's turning direct in the exultation of Venus, not far from Neptune. It just feels like this is a much more realized and embodied place that we're coming from by the next new moon.

Alex Amorosi
For sure, it feels. Um, yes, exactly. And it has expansiveness and hope. And there's potential for that. Now, that sort of feeling.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, let's go back just a minute because one transit, we sort of scooted over in the midst of it, which I think is also interesting and may also speak to this feeling of trying to find or reclaim a sense of mission or purpose, while we also have Mars is retrograde hitting the square to Neptune again, and that is happening on November 19. What comes to my mind immediately, Alex, and then you told me what you think is, I'm looking at this and going. I mean, I made a video not long ago on, you know, Mars Retrograde, hitting Neptune as trying to reclaim youth, reclaim magic, reclaim playfulness, reclaim childlike, imaginative spontaneity.

And I talked about those things and reflected on them in light of having gone to Disney World recently with my kids, where I was watching Mars slow down to station in a square with Neptune and sort of going there myself in a way, while also having to distinguish between the magic and the mayhem that is Disney World, you know. So I feel like if you look at this, it's like, Isn't that isn't Mars, sort of on the same page, if you think of this, the youthful spring sign of Gemini on the cusp of spring in Pisces, and then the emphasis being given to Venus over and over. It's like; there's something about the feminine, the aesthetic, the embodied, the intuitive, the playful, that's trying to figure itself out. So I think about this as adding to that theme of trying to give Venus a coherent place like no Venus, you're not just the temptation to eat and watch Netflix at the end of a hard day of work, you know, and when I should just go to bed early, you're something that needs to be right in the start of every day, in the middle of every day. And at the end of every day, along with everything else. I think Mars is trying to get us there too. But its agenda has more to do with perception and the mind and its relationship to like spontaneity and play and things like that. Anyway, I'm rambling; what do you think about this one?

Alex Amorosi
No, I'm actually just kind of processing. I had never considered it from that point of view before. And I think that it actually there can be a sense I think sometimes where maybe I'm going off course here, but you know, track me here see what, you think like where the serious, good, goodness gets too much. I'm trying too hard to be writing to do good and to follow all these things and to track all these things and to, you know, do my journaling and eat my kale and do all the things all the self-care I need to do? Do my yoga, whatever, you know, and I missed it wherever. And there's a little bit with like Mars in Gemini. It reminds us of like, you know, my little cousins were a little how they would just be talking and then you know, as you've probably seen your kids, it just off doing something else. They're just like they're not concerned with whether this was the right or did just go off and do something because it's fun. And it's brought out in some way, and it's instinctual but not, and that's sort of emotionally from Scorpio but more in the like, Air sign intellect of square of Gemini, right? Where it's just like, Oh, I think that it sounds good. I'm just gonna try it. I'm just gonna try that and use imagination and Neptune fueling the imagination with the broader sense of that.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right, And doesn't that, to me, play into like this flavor of Mars Retrograde with Neptune feels a little bit more like it feels more in tune with Venus than Mars usually would because there's something inherently more playful about it? And to me, when you get a more playful Mars, and then you get, you know, Venus in a fire sign. I think that they're opposed to one another by whole sign. But, you know, it feels to me like that opposition is probably more like chemistry, the cooking of tension and chemistry like the tango, than it is an indication of like some big conflict that's coming up to say between the masculine and feminine. I feel like this one because of Neptune because Mercury's sign tends to be very playful. I just feel like there the two of them are. You know, it's like, we're trying to figure out how to how to do like how to assert some new part of ourselves, but in a way that's fundamentally more spontaneous, playful and Venusian.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, exactly. And that you're, you're letting yourself in a healthy way fly by the seat of your pants a little bit and just kind of fall, you know, and that, I think, is actually really necessary, and I speak as a Buddhist who can get very middle road focus, right like there Well, that's out of balance, you know? Yeah. Like, what the hell, you know, it's not harming anybody, it's not harming me like, you know, like, why don't I try this? There's that; actually, I think it kinda even ties back to some of the Uranus opposition that are happening early in the month a little bit of, like, I'm gonna still try it.

Adam Elenbaas
Do you know what is the archetype that comes to my mind, Alex? It's the magician card in Tarot. I mentioned this in the talk that I gave on Mars and Neptune, which is just that the magician is experimental. We've got Mars in Hermes sign retrograding. Just like a very Hermes-like thing to do with Neptune. This nebulous, otherworldly thing. And, of course, Neptune and Jupiter are back together; they're in the sign of Venus in exultation. Venus is opposing. I get the more like I was mentioning those tensions between, you know, Indiana Jones and the Miriam in the Raiders of the Lost Ark or whatever those like onscreen tensions like Princess Leia and Han Solo, those, that's the kind of tension that I feel in the air, it feels very playful and dynamic. And I, you know, there are some moments where I think it could get more intense, and we're actually going to go there next, but I feel like right around the new moon, this energy to me is, it's about trying to make room for something playful and Venusian?

Okay, well, let's go to that. Now, at the end of the month, we get into Mercury, opposite Mars. And so you can see, here it is. So it's right around November 29, into the 30th, that Mercury will go through the opposition to Mars, excuse me. And then, if we're going forward just a little bit into December, then we can see, you know, right about December, it's November 30 into December 1 that Venus follows suit and opposes Mars. So you've got the Venus, Mercury, and Mars opposition to end to sort of end the month of November. Now, of course, we're at the first quarter moon around the same time, and a lot of Jupiter energy is in the air with the Moon and Jupiter sign at the first quarter sun and Jupiter sign Mercury's; there's a ton of Jupiter in the air. Me again, I would then look at this as more of the kind of chemistry that leads to lovemaking. Or, or like creative. You know, like, the tension of the opposites, that leads to a third, some creative result that comes from a tension, I would look at it like that much more than I would like some big throwdown between these planets. But I think there are some tensions here too. What do you think?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I think I think that the moon was quite significant there, especially as conjunct Neptune in, which is ostensibly still squaring this whole, this whole configuration. There's something about, you know, the opposition's creating a little bit of trying to think of where the desire to separate or the desire, you know, like, I'm done with this, or you said that you know, this communication that wants to separate that wants to begin with Mercury and Mars involved. But there's almost like this cloak of Jupiter and Venus that are unifying principles and even the moon, which to me is a unifying principle that wants to bring things back together. It's like, I know, we're getting into a fight, but it's like, the fight that like leads to sex afterwards, in a way. We're really fighting, really fighting but are we just needing to release tension or like to start a release of tension or something like that?

Adam Elenbaas
It's like going to a game. I like going to professional sports games. Some games are so much fun. And then even if your team loses, if it's the middle of the season, and they've got 80 games to play, and it was a close game, but they lost, and you had a ton of fun, it doesn't matter that they lost it, you know, and I feel like, I mean, maybe for some diehard fans who decide to throw their TVs out the window, no matter what, then they'll be pissed, you know, but like, I like having fun at sporting events. So, to me, this would be the kind of thing where it's like, you know, what, I'm happy to lose. That was fun. There's, there's still a playfulness in the air.
Okay, on the other hand, I could also see this being a space where people are getting, if there has, if a member we have, we run the risk throughout this whole month of November on behalf of Venus; let me get ideologically rigid again. So if that's been the case, and we got, you know, a lot of Venus being supported by Jupiter, which could form dogma around Venus, just as much as Venus squaring Saturn after hitting Uranus could form dogma around Venus. So if that's been the case, and we hit this moment, then I do think it could be a moment of ideological conflict that this thing that we've tried to form is now being tested. And it is being tested by Mars in the trickster sign. And so I would say, you're going to have a formidable opponent in a Mars Retrograde in Gemini coming at you, you know, if you're, if you are Venus, and Mercury locked down, and your new sense of certainty that allows you to justify whatever Venus has been up to, you know, and it's maybe it's been something that hasn't been good. Maybe it's something that hasn't needed any explanation or dogma behind it, you know, but you've done that. And then all of a sudden, now it's like, well, now you're going to it's going to be tested, and you're going to maybe have to realize that, like, I've gone and tried to put Venus in a box all over again. And I think Mars could actually, like, push that button.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I think so too. I think it's interesting. I was thinking of these two ways it could go. There's also an erotic theme I'm trying to think of; I can't think of her name, and in one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, there's the woman that he's trying to get something. I think it's the King of Bohemia who is trying to get something back from her, and she winds up being way smarter than him. She evades him, and I think she's one of the only people who actually evade Sherlock Holmes in what he wants to do. And he's deeply attracted to it like its the only time you ever really see that side of his character, but it's from an adversarial relationship, he's trying to, you know, there's a, there's a matching of wits, so to speak, that he's deeply drawn to because she's really challenging him and is, you know, one of the only opponents that actually beat him at his own game. So there's that, and there could be then also the devolvement into especially with Mercury, I think, a Sagittarius and speaking with, again, natal placement here. Sort of just speaking without having your facts straight, you know, trying to just conflict with just like, just off the top of your head, I saw this, or I heard this, or making something totally up. You know, I know, one thing I've had to learn how to do in my life is not talk out of my ass. And that's been my Mercury and Sag, you know, that sort of idea?

Adam Elenbaas
Well, it's, like, not you. But if one is trying to win the argument through wit and charm, rather than accurate, like facts or something like in on the debate team, this would be, you know, look, the judges aren't gonna grade your personality very much here, you know, like, they're gonna, look at the arguments that you made, and how convincing and compelling were they? So this could be where if you have been relying on that charisma to sell the house, suddenly the question about the foundation is going to come up, you know, suddenly, that kind of thing. And that's, I'm extrapolating from what you just said, anyway, if I've got that, right?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, exactly. The inspector comes, and then you get to actually see what's going on in the house.

Adam Elenbaas
Now, to me, what's really interesting about this, for example, is that the, you know, you could be returning to old conflicts or debates, too. You could be going back in time to revisit things that have been debated or argued about in the past, or claims that were made, that are now being challenged, or something like that. And I think the message I'm going to take for myself around this time is, if something like that comes up, have fun, you know, can't you do this in a way that's fun? You can't lose something that you're willing to give away really quickly in a debate. So, for example, if someone comes, you know, right now, for example, in the astrological world, people are starting to debate once again whether whole sign houses are the oldest form of house division or not. Right, okay. So, for example, when people nowadays approach me and say, well, is that true? Well, from everything I've understood, It is, but also, let me tell you that I don't care if it isn't. If you start off that way, it's really hard for the space of the debate to be, like, you've just taken away that anything can be really at stake. Do you know what I mean?

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, that's a really great way of putting it; it's, um, you know, one thing I think Sag takes a lot of heat for sometimes is bluntness and just being just straight up. And sometimes that's one of the best ways to walk in disagree and be like, Yeah, I can see that. Or I can; I can see that point. Yeah. Okay, and what, like, you know, let's talk about something else. I think it's, um, that's a quality that can be very helpful when wielded correctly in Sagittarius.

Adam Elenbaas
That was such a good point. I was just thinking about that. Alex, I was like, I was talking to another astrologer friend of mine and was saying, like, you know, one of the criticisms that were being made of the whole sign house sort of movement was that, like, well, Project Hindsight, where the proponent first real proponents of whole sign houses as the oldest form of house division was sort of coming about, a lot of them were like, trying, they were very absolutist in their thinking, you know, and my response to that is, yeah, they were doesn't mean they were wrong about everything either. And, it's that kind of, I feel like that with Venus in the mix. It's like, take away the idea that your ego is at stake, and think instead about whatever, whoever or whatever you're getting involved in some debate with, as, like, can I make this into a harmonious, fun experience? Right, like, yeah, you know, can this be playful?

Alex Amorosi
And can it stimulate, you know, creativity and thought and new ideas, and, you know, that's the, you take into Jupiter sign to, you know, a new creation or a boundless hope, or something like that, where I think, you know, sometimes debate, a healthy adversarial relationship can be really creative, and fun, and spark all sorts of interesting, different types of ideas that can come out of it.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Anyway, I'm sidetracked on that because I've been thinking about that all day today and talking about it with a friend. But Alex, we've made it through the month of November. I'd love to hear; well, why don't we each give a sixty-second summarization of what we can expect from this month? Give me yours; then I'll try to come up with one too.

Alex Amorosi
So I'm going to give and try not to make too heady a musical example here. I've been thinking of this month, very much like a symphony of Gustav Mahler, and the symphonies, often especially his early symphonies, began with a lot of wrestling with deeper, darker motifs and crystallization of what you know, his relationship to darker emotions and darker places within himself. But they end with this almost exuberant, exaggeratedly triumphant finale where there's just this amazing amount of hope that comes out of it. So I'm kind of thinking I always think of charts and sound and music, I'm thinking of it as sort of like a, there's some stuff to wrestle with, there's some stuff to discover, there may be stuff that comes to light that you had no idea was there. But if you can, in the last half of the month, find the sort of path towards the triumphant finale that the archer of Sagittarius, you know, kind of looking out into the future, that sort of idea that it can be the source of a lot of new creativity and fun.

Adam Elenbaas
Hmm, nice. Yeah, that was really nice. And for someone who knows nothing about classical music, I followed that that was I was able to, like, understand. Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna go back to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. I'm gonna say that it's a very adventurous month. But the main character is Venus, and she's going on an adventure. I feel like she has to liberate herself from caring too much about what other people think. False dichotomies about the feminine and could be for a man or a woman; however, anyone identifies. We're just talking about that feminine anima Yin quality in us. It's not just good woman, bad woman, or good Yin bad Yin. There's something else. There's like a third or fourth, or fifth possibility that we are carving out for Venus right now. And I think that this is the adventure where Venus gets to go from dealing with, like being the smuggler, you know, being the nihilistic problem to, you know, discovering her own transcendent part of a story. And a soulful, meaningful part of the story that also goes beyond the good Venus, bad Venus distinction. And that then as the month goes on, we're going to be starting to the temptation to like concretize the philosophy again, so that this Venus and we have to like somehow resist that. And just let Venus flow along and have fun. And if we've tried to pin down this new Venus too much, the trickster will challenge us at the end of the month. So I almost feel like this is like a rather than Indiana Jones or like Han Solo, I feel like this is like Princess Leia as the protagonist, you know, or Miriam from the first Indiana Jones-like she's the protagonist like I just feel like it's Venus's adventure this month.

Alex Amorosi
Oh, I love that. I just had in my head with Princess Leia was that moment of liberation where she, you know, in The Empire Strikes Back, she goes, I love you. I know.

Adam Elenbaas
No, by the way, did you know that that moment was not scripted?

Alex Amorosi
Yes, I've heard that. Yeah. Yeah, just say love you back, you know? Right.

Adam Elenbaas
That's great. So I'm really looking forward to this. And I'm eager to hear what people have to say. So you guys know what to do. Please use the hashtag grabbed or email us grabbed at nightlight astrology.com. For any stories that you have about any of the transits this month, we'd love to collect those into a future storytelling episode. Don't forget that you can also sign up for my new course Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic starts on November 12. That is very soon. So you have just a little bit of time to sign up.

If you want to find Alex's work. He's at Alexamorosihealing on Instagram. And he would love to book a reading with you. You know, put you on a schedule so he can read charts, chart your chart for you and tell you about the transits and how they're going to be affecting you. Any other thing you want to shout out, Alex?

Alex Amorosi
No, thanks so much for the mention. I'll just reciprocate by saying Adam's class was one of the best things that I've ever done for myself in my astrological career. And really, that's why I feel so confident in my practice and my ability to keep learning astrology today. So I just want to put that back to you because it really had a huge effect on me.

Adam Elenbaas
Thanks, man. That's that's, that's great. Yeah, that's a great compliment. I appreciate that. Well, anyway, you guys have a great day. Have a great month of November, and we will see you again next time. Bye, everyone.