The Astrology of November 2024

Adam Elenbaas
Hey everyone. This is Adam ellenbass from Nightlight astrology, and today I am joined by my colleagues and friends, Alexandra and Whitney, to break down the astrology of November. It is a really big month with a lot of intense astrology. We've got a New Moon in Scorpio, with Mars opposite Pluto to start the month. We have Pluto moving into Aquarius as the month moves on, mercury, trining retrograde at the end of the month. So a lot to unpack. I'm really excited to be chatting again with Alexandra and Whitney today. Also be sure that you check out the horoscopes that Alex and Dana and myself did. Another angle on the some of the major transits of the month, looking at your the whole sign house placement in your chart, so that might be useful for all of you, as well as some other coverage that I'm doing this week on the Mars Pluto opposition. So yeah, a lot of good content to come. It's interesting that all of this is happening also right before a major political election, obviously here in the United States. So yeah, there's a lot to unpack before we get into it, as always, remember to like and subscribe. We're trying to get to 80,000 subscribers. That's our next milestone that we hope to achieve by the spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere. Thank you for everybody who has subscribed. Over the past couple of months, you've doubled our monthly average. It's been a really awesome thing to see. You can find transcripts of any of these daily talks on the website, which is Nightlight astrology. Nightlight astrology.com One promotion for today, and that is the upcoming year one program. Before we dive into horoscopes, check out the Courses page on the website. First year course starts on November 16. It's coming up now. It's a great election with Pluto moving into Aquarius. To start your study. Under at the bottom, you'll find enrollment options. And in any of the other videos that you watched this week, except for horoscopes and monthly overview, you will find additional an additional informational video about the program tagged on to the end of our normal content for the week, so you can check that out to learn more about it. There is need based tuition assistance as well, so all the way up until the start of the program. If you're someone who'd like to take it, but is living on a limit, living on a limited or fixed income or experiencing financial hardship, maybe you're a single parent, or you're on disability or retirement a fixed income, we get it. So we want to make sure that astrology is accessible for people. So please check out that option if it would help you. And on that note, I am very excited to bring Alexandra and Whitney back. Hey guys, how are you guys doing?

Alexandra Blair
We're doing all right,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, yeah. How was how was October? We had an eclipse, and it was a wild month. What's been up for you guys?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, it's been a crazy month. I started moving in September, and I'm still not done. We just moved our last box, like two days ago. Just living in box city, moving with the baby is not the most fun thing I've done

Adam Elenbaas
was, was your move? Whitney, in August?

Whitney Kranz
Mine was in August. So yes, lots of transition here.

Adam Elenbaas
They say that moving is like one of the most stressful life events for human beings. And you would think, with all the excitement, that's often, I mean, sometimes you don't want to move, but a lot of times people are consciously choosing to move, yeah, and they're excited about it, and yet it is so stressful.

Alexandra Blair
I'm just like, I lived in New York for a while, so I was used to just like, well, if it doesn't fit in two suitcases that I can carry on the subway. I don't own it. So this is, like, a very different, you know, my 30s now, I have a child. I'm a family, so we have to, like, box things up. It's, it was a whole new, surprising journey for me, right? Yeah, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
that's wild. I remember in New York City, the other my experience of being there for three years was that I also moved a lot, just because apartment situations changed and roommates changed, and it was the whole thing.

Whitney Kranz
I think I counted. And throughout my late teens and probably to about 30, I moved like 17 times.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, my god, yeah, wow. 16 years it was, like, one of the things that I remember someone asked me is, like, what is one thing that you really want to do differently from what your parents did in the way you raise your kids? And I was like, well, that's a huge question. You know, the very first, I know this was just, you know, a kind of casual conversation, and I was like, not move as much because we moved a lot as a family. And I also, I mean, not that there's anything wrong. I'm not judging anyone who has to move. Me sometimes you have to move, yeah. But I do feel like one of the things that was most stressful for me as a kid, growing up, was moving tons and tons of times. That was just hard. There's a lot of Mars in Cancer in the air this month, because of the start of the month with a moon, New Moon in Scorpio, with being ruled by Mars in Cancer and the potential for displacement, emotionally, the feeling of. And, you know, like the nest being disturbed or just that, that more vulnerable space around home and family is front and center with the Fallen Moon and the mutual reception with Mars and cancer and stuff like that. So I've been thinking also a lot about how many stories I've heard over the past month from people, clients, students, people around me in my life, about that Mars and cancer, and what it's been, how it's been showing up for everyone. It's been really powerful.

Whitney Kranz
It's been so prevalent. I continue to hear stories as well, like, wow, that and my husband is a cancer rising. So it's been interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. One of the things that I've shared in several videos now is that I've had multiple family members with pretty significant health issues, and that is just so like textbook. That's like, just textbook, Mars and cancer, where the vulnerable spot in your life, your family, your friends that are really close, like family, whatever it's, it's, it's the it's a vulnerable place for things like that to happen.

Alexandra Blair
Gosh, I've heard this week alone from clients and friends, like five or six different people saying, I'm going through a really difficult friend breakup right now. I just keep hearing that from everybody and the family. I mean, my whole family is all cancers, so the health issues is hitting home over here too.

Whitney Kranz
Well. I feel like some of that could also stem from our Libran solar eclipse last month, right? I mean, there's so much there with friends, those Venusian connections, right? That, yeah, it's been, it's been real. That's, that's, that's for sure. I'll, I'll just mention that my month, even though, obviously, like, emotional with these, like Cardinal, the eclipse in the Aries, full moon, man, they've been really, really constructive. So even though, going into last month, I was, like, a little concerned, maybe for my emotional health, it's, it's, it's, like, all been good things for, you know, the betterment, yeah,

Alexandra Blair
that's really good.

Adam Elenbaas
Um, yeah, my sister was dealing with has been dealing with some health issues, and Mars is in my third so I was, yeah. I was like, wow, okay, there it is. She's okay, which is good, but yeah. And also, I think I mentioned this. I might have mentioned this in the last episode. I've certainly mentioned on my channel a few times. So my dad has a knee replacement surgery happening right around the Mars. I find that so interesting. It's just such an interesting surgery signature too, because Capricorn literally rules the knees. Yes, knee replacement. So I found that very interesting. But anyway, I do have some stories from some of the subscribers on the channel who wrote in and shared stories this past month with the Libra Eclipse. So I feel like I'll share a few of those. You guys have any other other stories you guys want to share before I get into them? No,

Alexandra Blair
I just had a good client who pointed out some interesting parallels between they were like, you know, I heard you mentioned on the show the last Eclipse cycle in October 2005 and they were like, that was pretty close to Hurricane Katrina and Wilma. And I did go back and do some digging. And there was definitely some ties there, interesting to this more recent cycle with Helene. And then I already blocked it out Milton bad guys. Um, yeah, so I thought that was really interesting. I just appreciated hearing from a client like, Hey, I was chewing on these dates that you guys threw out on the show, so I wanted to put that out there. Wow,

Whitney Kranz
that's so interesting. All that water.

Adam Elenbaas
There's so much water we're going to look at this month as well. Just so much of it. Here's a story from someone there are the Eclipse in Libra. Am I going crazy? Yes, it was Libra. Sorry. This eclipse hit my mercury in the 12th house. So it would have landed on natal Mercury in Libra in the 12th house, and about two weeks before the Eclipse, I had a rant, a random phone call with a mutual friend of my best friend that passed away in December of 2021 he informed me that he did an audio interview with her a few years back and sent it to me the day after the Libra solar eclipse, conjoining my mercury in the 12th house. So she was listening to a voice of her friend from the dead. Essentially, is kind of how she goes out to describe it around the Eclipse and a. Um, and also, she studied astrology together regularly with this friend who passed in 2021, and then got to hear her voice again while the Eclipse landed on mercury in her 12th. Oh, that's beautiful. Wow, yes. And really neat symbol. I love that story. So, yes, let's see here. Um, so so we have, we have someone who had the Libra solar eclipse in the 12th house, and long term boyfriend broke up with her out of the blue, and she said she's devastated, but at least knowing that there was an eclipse in her seventh house made her have some more, some deeper level of acceptance, because it was really not expected from the way she described it. Oh no,

Whitney Kranz
that's really interesting, because actually, over the same Eclipse, my very dear friend also went through a very surprise breakup.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's, yeah, that's, it's just incredible. I find this one interesting. Someone wrote in with a Libra rising, and some of these, by the way, I pulled myself and some of them. Anita sent to us this afternoon, but that's the person who helps us aggregate them from my staff, the solar eclipse in the first house Libra found themselves unable. I just loved it. They found themselves unable to hold their tongue in finally, just blowing up and calling out a friend rising. Isn't that kind of perfect?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
That was nice. Okay, so, yeah, oh my gosh. Okay. So her, this, this person, let's see this person had the eclipse on their ascendant and their father, the solar eclipse on their ascendant and their father, and that's the birth line. So the solar eclipse on the ascendant can actually activate connection to your your paternity, right? Father was diagnosed with blood cancer. So just devastating. But again, like people really expressing throughout most of these that when difficult times, when you know the astrology is so spot on. There's some, there's some way in which we call it, we call it like it's, at least it's astrology, good, yeah, which is a weird way of saying, like, there's some peace. There's some way in which we're able to, I don't know, just resolve ourselves to the moment and the gravity of it, because we know that it's astrological. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
I like the way that you talk about this in your classes, Adam as tying what's happening to you to a divine narrative, to something else that's happening. And it feels very validating to people that I talk to when, when they're able to see transits and see that there's like, oh, there's something there,

Whitney Kranz
here, here, and just the connection to something that's greater, right? And again, it's like the the age old question of of fate and fortune. But it I at least it helps me make peace when tough things happen.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, exactly this person had knowledge of astrology. And mom and dad have cancer placements at the exact same degree. And as Mars in Cancer rolled over. My mom's ascendant in cancer, she slipped and broke her foot. That's really fascinating, because my daughter has Mercury in Capricorn as her ascendant ruler. When Mars opposed that, she sprained her ankle. So, I mean, for whatever it's worth, it's just that there's that symbolism of Mars and like, you know, little nicks and bruises and injuries and accidents the same week as it also conjuncted My dad's son, he got inexplicably sick a few days after that as it rolled over his natal Jupiter, all in his 11th house, he went to the emergency room and was found that he was severely anemic. Then on the day after the Solar Eclipse in Libra, it was found he has a rare type of cancer, which is basically pre leukemia. That's what she said. Wow, isn't that crazy? Yeah, I know some of these are really tough, and a lot of these are reflecting the Mars in Cancer and Eclipse dynamic at the same time. And the Eclipse dynamic, notice how it hits a few dads, right? There's dad stuff in there. So this is, if this is a fascinating one. So this person has Pluto on their descendant at the 29th degree. Remember that 29th degree is anaretic called. The Killing degree that the descendant all

Alexandra Blair
these dramatic names. We gotta undo this.

Adam Elenbaas
I'm perfectly fine to keep it. I like, I like things that are

Alexandra Blair
killing degree and the widow maker Eclipse, that's

Adam Elenbaas
right. Well, we'll, we'll, we gotta, we gotta keep astrology goth.

Whitney Kranz
All right, I'll paint my nails black.

Adam Elenbaas
The more it sounds like a medieval dungeon filled with torture devices, the better. Yeah, so the 29th degree is a difficult degree, and that what's interesting is that the 29th degree on the descendant, which is the place of the setting sun, also has a strong association with death, the death of the sun and the death of planet setting this place was associated with death as well as the eighth house. Anyway, this person had a dream as Pluto came back onto that 29th degree of plucking bones from ashes of human remains after a cremation. And I had the distinct sense that I what they were plucking through was a deceased ancestor of theirs. But I have no memory of anyone in particular, even if I knew who this was, and I was plucking through this. It was so real, it was so visceral. The bones were so light of weight, and the super fine ash clung to my fingertips. I remember feeling that it was a joyful task, as if I was aware of the privilege to be doing this. It may seem odd or morbid, but I actually remember feeling happy. I felt no horror or squeamishness. I feel what our ancestors leave us. I mean, the good stuff is real treasure. It can't die. It can't be burned away. And that's what I'm taking from this dream that was something in the bones that was alive. It was beautiful in the strangest way, just a beautiful Pluto and Capricorn on the descendant 29th degree kind of dream. I think, yeah.

Alexandra Blair
I wonder if they have eighth house, benefics, yeah, right, enjoyment of the family stuff. If it's Capricorn,

Adam Elenbaas
they'd have, they'd have Jupiter ruling their eighth, right? Sag in the eighth. That's a good call. Yeah? And then someone else has a story about having to go into the basement. It's a very old stone basement that has a dark void of a hole which goes under the road where old infrastructure in the 1800s is still remaining. Like, yeah, that sounds like the beginning there. Why? Why did

Whitney Kranz
you do it?

Adam Elenbaas
I've never been afraid to go down there. It's always been, for the most part, clean and dry and well lit. But I do have a childhood fear of basements for a variety of situations. I don't need to elaborate on here. However, I find it peculiar that being a cancer rising and having Mars go through my first house is definitely conjuring up all kinds of childhood stuff, family relationships, childhood memories, difficult memories, but also a lot of catharsis. Anyway, back to my story. When in the basement, gathering up some items, I heard a shift and a thud and another really big thud coming from the corner where the hole is. Couldn't see it from where I was shelving blocking my view. I felt the tightness grip around my ribs and a heat rising up into my face, and I was frozen in panic. It was probably just a mouse or maybe a rat, but my vivid imagination went right to Pluto in Capricorn. And I love that, because there's someone with Pluto in the seventh again of entrance to the underworld, and they're contemplating this hole in the basement and feeling Plutonian energy around it. And that's that's why I love astrology, by the way, because, because, where else can you be like contemplating the actual presence of Hades in your life? You know, you know, it's incredible. I love that in every basement we've ever had. I have always, I don't know why I got this idea from an Ayahuasca ceremony. I don't know where it came from. It just popped into my head during a ceremony one night, and I decided to have, I had this huge jar of coins that I just collected over time, and I got this idea to leave it as an offering for Hades in every basement of every house I would ever live in.

Alexandra Blair
I love that beautiful

Adam Elenbaas
so I've just got a jar of coins down in the basement. So. And then there's this funny thing, because, like, the the girls know that that's Pluto's jar, right? Yeah? And like, one day we had this situation. I can't remember what it was, but for some reason, we needed Virginia to have, like, four quarters for school, for some reason or another. And I was like, well, we could take it from Pluto. We could, like, I could ask, I could ask Pluto for a loan. You should see my daughter's face just went white. It was like, yeah, no,

Whitney Kranz
don't ask. Okay, we won't we'll

Adam Elenbaas
just leave it well,

Alexandra Blair
she had more wisdom than you,

Adam Elenbaas
exactly. But anyway, that's a kind of a. I love create, like, creating little rituals like that, and creating ways of bringing the gods into our lives, whether it's just acknowledging that Pluto is in your consciousness when you're in the basement, or, like, whatever I just I love that kind of stuff. I think that's if you can take astrology and accompany it with some intentional rituals in your life, some altar that you have in your home. I think that's when it's really special.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, absolutely. I work with a lot of clients on that, for sure, and Pluto energy. I mentioned because my friend and I have been doing these shamanic journeys, theming around the transits. Those are starting back up again. This month, we're going to do one for Capricorns only because I think the Capricorns need some help right now this month, and we're gonna do one of kind of about Mars and cancer before mercury goes retrograde. But yeah, it finding those little ways to access the energy. Even if you just sit down and you look for images in your mind and you do a little meditation or something, the energy is very accessible and can can teach us. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
absolutely something that I when I was talking about the constructiveness of like these, this last moon cycle with my life, one of the things that I was finally able to integrate with regularity crossing my fingers that it sticks right, is that real morning ritual with journaling around the transits, pulling my cards, reflecting on the astrology of the day? And I can't tell you what a difference it is making in integrating these things, right? So good, good reminder. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
that's a wonderful practice. I tell my, like, people in the year two program, when they start learning transit sound like, honestly, the best way to, like, learn just the placements of the planets and kind of memorize them and have them really present a look at your Ephemeris every day on your probably on your software program, but be like, take do some journaling around them. I mean, obviously the first two years of my practice, I did at least once every other day, if not every day, of tracking transits and just noting what I was feeling or connections that I saw or whatever. And then eventually, you know that that practice changed into other things, but it's even just for a period of time to do that is really valuable.

Alexandra Blair
It's so helpful. I have clients who send me a whole personal history of certain accidents, injuries, people with chronic illness say, like, okay, here are my flare ups. And then we can go through and actually see, oh my gosh, this is these are Mars aspects, everything. Every time this happens to you is Mars crossing the ascendant or something going on. So if, if only going back in the past in that capacity can be really helpful.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, totally. Well, on that note, are you all ready to dive into the astrology of November?

Whitney Kranz
I can't wait. I mean, I maybe I can wait for the astrology itself, but let's talk about it. Oh my

Adam Elenbaas
god. Well, we've had, we have little titles for each part of the month. We're going to start with what we are calling the opening intensity of November, which is really taking place the first four days of the month. And I'm going to open the chart right now to just initially outline what we're going to be looking at in this first phase of our talk today. And that is going to be the New Moon in Scorpio, which happens on the first followed by Mars, the ruler of the new moon, opposing Pluto, while at the exact same time, Venus is opposing Jupiter. Now, one interesting connection I found, by the way, and I'm not sure if either of you noticed this in advance in your like note gathering, but when I looked at the bounds, and I used the Egyptian bounds, I noticed that the New Moon is actually happening in the bound of Venus, and that there is therefore some interesting connection behind this new moon to both the Mars Pluto Opposition and the Venus Jupiter opposition. And I thought that's interesting, because they really feel so different to me, Venus opposite Jupiter versus Mars opposite Pluto like could we have two more different looking transits? What could that possibly mean? So we're going to talk about that to open up here these first couple of days of the cycle feature some other interesting little details that we might just kind of passively mention. For example, in the first couple of days, we're also going to see by the fourth Mars will enter Leo. We see over the weekend. We also see Mercury enter Sagittarius. So those are two planetary ingresses that happen over the weekend. Is there anything else I'm missing in those first couple missing in those first couple

Alexandra Blair
of days? No, I don't think so. Yeah, those are the

Adam Elenbaas
big ones we try to highlight, just like super what we see as the most important things. But that's there's a couple of other little ingresses like that that are interesting to note. I think Mars heading into Leo is probably the more significant. Ingress of the two, because mercury moves so quickly and because, well, you know, what's interesting is that mercury will have mutual reception, which does make it nicer. That's kind of interesting. And then Mars, moving into Leo also puts the sun in Mars into mutual reception with each other, where Mars will be in the sun sign, and the sun in Scorpios in Mars's sign. So we actually get a couple of mutual receptions with those ingresses that, along with Venus's opposition to Jupiter, feel a little bit like a silver lining in the midst of that just such a just turbulent transit with Mars opposite Pluto. But anything else that, just before we get into the nitty gritty and breaking down these individually, is there anything that stands out to you guys about this, this kind of opening intensity, just generally, I guess, just, I mean,

Alexandra Blair
not exactly by degree. We're still dealing with this sort of like water, Trine, Fallout movement. They really, I agree with you, they kind of feel like different pieces. And I have more to say about that, but it just, it feels like this is the real culmination of all the Capricorn stuff that's been happening all summer. And it this is, like heavy and intense, and then the month changes. It becomes a different month all that mutual reception that you talked about. So I think this is kind of one of the more difficult. This is the difficult part of the month

Whitney Kranz
for me. I completely agree. It seems to get a little lighter. I'm happy about the mutual reception. But yeah, this first, this first chunk, this opening intensity, and it really feels a little dark and murky.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, Grand Water Trine, right? It's sort of, sort of, it's, it's not exact, but it's very close. You've got Mercury in Scorpio, Neptune in Pisces, Mars and cancer all connected very closely, as Mars opposes Pluto at ruling a Scorpio New Moon. I mean, that's intense, that's really that's a huge potential release of energy, emotionally, the feeling of like major catharsis and release overwhelm. I mean, those are themes that come to my mind right away. But let's just talk. How do you connect each of you? How do you connect the meaning of a Scorpio New Moon with the ruler Mars opposing Pluto? Like, what themes stand out to you for the cycle ahead, or even just the intensity of these first days?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I was feeling a lot of like the things that were kind of coming up were like about ambition and family ambition and ancestral ambition. And like, lineage. There's something about, like, Kings that's coming up because of the Jupiter stuff as well. And it was like, it was really reminding me, I feel like cancer is like the ancestral family home, but Capricorn is like the ancestral family burial plot. And so there's this something from beyond the grave, and it was really making me think of Macbeth, like, particularly Roman Polanski's Macbeth, which, like, definitely not going to get into it on this polite program. But Roman Polanski is a Plutonian figure. He's like Moon Pluto in a te square with Mars and Uranus, and he's got the rap sheet to show for it, but that film is so much what we're talking about. It is like the ambition of a king that then kind of becomes increasingly tyrannical and paranoid and ends up consulting with some witches, and then it leads to a crime spree with ghosts haunting him from beyond the grave, and like all of this cost of ambition. So for me, this kind of felt like a inflection point, or like a turning point in the quest for ambition and power and personal power, which is something that I've heard from a lot of Capricorn clients about this Pluto in Capricorn thing anyway. So when Mars is in the mix, there can be that, really, that dark side of ambition. And in cancer, it's, it feels a lot like those Macbeth feelings were really coming up for me.

Adam Elenbaas
Interesting. Yeah,

Whitney Kranz
wow, that's really, I will have to, I I'm not familiar with that particular rendition of Macbeth, so I will have to look into it for sure, because I love all the witchy stuff. I mean, Hi, um, yes, similarly, the New Moon in Scorpio combined with Mars opposing Pluto, feels like we have this like journey into the underworld that is the New Moon in Scorpio, right? And I'm feeling the. Uh, transformation that can happen through destruction, right? Like creation begins with destruction. And so a lot of what was coming through for me, it was funny, because as I was taking my notes on this month, I got to the end of those notes, and then I watched your recent video, Adam on the karmic fault lines of Mars Pluto, and something that you brought up that I had written word for word. What prior to hearing this was the kind of Jupiter and Gemini concept of two things can be true at the same time, and that feels really potent for me here, you know, with Mars opposing Pluto and thinking very visually about this. Now, over the last month, let me tell you, I also watched the second season of Rings of Power, which is the Oh, nice Lord of the Rings installment, right? And for huge Tolkien fans out there. I understand there's some debate whether this is, you know, the most accurate reflection editorially that could be presented. But let me tell you, it's a damn good show. I loved that season, and so when I was thinking about this, of course, I could not help but think about Sauron, the Lord of the Rings, right? And the Mars Pluto, to me, feels like the blood rage of the orcs right as they plow through Middle Earth. And I think it's so interesting that you brought up Adam. Did you mention that this is how did you mention by by bound to the Venus opposite Jupiter,

Adam Elenbaas
yes, so the New Moon in Scorpio is in the bound of Venus. So in the fact that that Venus is therefore has some power in relation to the new moon, and that Venus is opposing, Jupiter then comes into the picture. I

Whitney Kranz
love that, because I did not look look into that. But even though you know me, I'm like, oh, benefics, yeah, optimism, let's go. But I saw this Venus opposite Jupiter here with the New Moon in Scorpio and Mars opposite Pluto. And there's something a little bit more sinister to about this, to me, it almost feels like all of this together, a little bit like wolf in sheep's clothing, you know? And again, that's that two things can be true at once. And then, if we think even further about it, and take us back to Rings of Power. Well, think about how Sauron presents himself in Rey says power as other identities, right? He's presenting himself to Galadriel as the long lost halib, the human king of the southlands, right, and he's presenting himself to Caleb brimbor as the, you know, mythic Lord of Elven gifts. And so it just that immutability of Venus opposite Jupiter in, you know, Sagittarius and Gemini really pulls through that two things at once for me. So that's where I

Adam Elenbaas
went. Oh, that is so dark and so interesting. And so it really, really like rings true to me, especially given that we have that Mercury in Scorpio hitting the Neptune in the Mars where deceptiveness or things that fly underneath the radar, or something that looks really nice, Venus opposite Jupiter, but there's more to the story. It like a wolf in sheep's clothing. That's really interesting, that two things can be true line on this period of time in the cycle ahead. I really like where you went with that, Whitney,

Whitney Kranz
thank you.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's fascinating. I feel like one thing that almost like a sequence that I imagine we're heading into November is like a sequence that we're coming off from heading into the month is Mercury's recent opposition to Uranus. What will that have. Brought up that was unexpected or disruptive. What will it have illuminated from a darker, deeper what kinds of motivations will it have shown or exposed? What kind of information are we becoming aware of and and that information then connected so intimately to Neptune and Mars and Mars opposite Pluto feels like it's very cathartic. It's whatever it is that comes up with Mercury's opposition to Uranus, given that it feeds into the Grand Water Trine, and then the new moon and then the Mars opposite Pluto, it feels like whatever that is might act as a trigger. So I almost wonder you can almost back this up to that opposition that comes just, was it the 30th or 31st or whatever it is? Well,

Alexandra Blair
also the full moon on the 15th of November is conjunct Uranus with the sun opposite Uranus. So, yeah, it does, definitely unfolds,

Adam Elenbaas
right? Yeah, that's so powerful. I think a lot about Mars Pluto ruling a New Moon in Scorpio and just thinking about, excuse me, the basic, the basic reasons that ancient astrologers had for putting the moon in a debilitated position and Mars is sign, and Mars in a debilitated position and the moon's sign, because that's obviously creating a mutual reception between the Moon and Mars, But they're both debilitated there. So like, why was Mars in the moon? Why were they seen as difficult? And it's very, very simple in a way, the moon was called fortune, and Mars was the god of bad fortune. It was that simple for them. Bad fortune in the ancient world did not mean evil. It did not mean absolute dichotomies between good and bad. It's about honoring and acknowledging human experience, and how we evaluate or describe human experience, for example, a blowout with a lover, a big fight you get in, most people would be like that was a bummer, right? So in the ancient world, that's bad fortune. It doesn't mean that there wasn't a good reason to have a fight, or that you didn't learn something from it, or that it didn't have a divine sacredness to it. It just means that was a bummer. Sorry, we had to fight, you know. And the fact that it's that simple to me is something that we just overlook all the time. And we just, we just way overthink the meanings of difficult dignities at times, trying to, you know, just like, kind of trying to redeem difficult planets. And it's like, well, I mean, all we're really saying is that Mars and cancer, for example, will tend to bring up things that we experience as challenging and difficult to what to the desired state of being that we have as creatures in the realm of fortune, which is flow, safety, sweetness, peace, ease, happiness, right? Like, those are, like the lunar themes are always kind of the themes that you think of as, like, creating a little bit of a homeostasis, you know, like the mom ideally creates a feeling of everyone feeling safe and good and fed and and whatever like kind of think about the archetypal mothering role. Well, Mars in Cancer provides you with a sick mom that can't cook or take care of you, you know. Or Mars in Cancer provides you with things that threaten the peace and stability of your home or family, right? And, but those, those are only a few examples. But when i So, when I anyway. The point is, when I think about this new Moon in Scorpio, a difficult place for the moon ruled by Mars, opposing Pluto, a difficult place for Mars, but they're in mutual reception with one another, I think about something that could represent a real difficulty, like a difficult cycle for lunar themes, yeah, so lunar themes, main themes with family, home, body, mothers, more more vulnerable, emotional spaces. And it's just a little bit more of a turbulent month for those things, especially the beginning of the month where Mars literally, you know, directly opposes Pluto. So the opening of the cycle feels like pretty dramatic, pretty cathartic, pretty difficult stuff. For pretty difficult energies, for Luminar things, difficult experiences. Does that mean that ultimately, there could be something good about this, something transformational, something of great value, something healing, something that you need to process or let go of, of course, but probably these point to some difficult encounters or releases or like, moments of catharsis in at least the first opening days of the cycle.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I was really, I love that you, the way you talked about two things at once, Whitney, and because something that was coming up for me that ties into all this too, was like the sopranos, like, I kind of just couldn't get Tony Soprano out of my head, like being a mot boss and being a dad, and just the interactions that he has with his family and that tension that he has every day when he comes home, or maybe something like The Godfather, and also the tension between the family and his literal family, those two things being true at once. And. And so I think a lot of that was coming up, and I agree with you, Adam, it's, I see clients a lot who are like, Oh no, what's going to happen to me? Like, is something horrible going to happen because anxiety, difficult transit in my chart, and it's kind of like, okay, but you've lived your whole life with that in your chart. You have your whole life of experiences, you know, and we can go through and see that. So I feel that hard in a time like Mars and cancer,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, yeah, there's, I think the fact that the two planets are in mutual reception might suggest that there will be, somehow resources will be available that will help us to confront or deal with, you know, what's coming up. Something I'm always reminded about with Scorpio is that, you know, this autumnal part of the year where the darkness is steadily deepening into the darkest time of the year for this is, of course, from the symbolic standpoint of the Northern Hemisphere, that there's two ways that we typically, I think Scorpio can be kind of go in two directions that I like to use. One is we have attachments and the deepening of the darkness. One of the things that that it signifies is death, which we can think about in the most basic sense, as a relinquishment of attachment. The most fundamental one is to our bodies. It's like, I don't want to die, I don't want to let go of my body, but the soul will pass out of its body. And then, on the other hand, you have so any kinds of attachments that have to be relinquished and let go of and that we have to be separated from through crisis or turmoil or difficulty are very scorpionic. That's why it's a Mars ruled sign, right? But on the other hand, Scorpio has this role to play when it comes to attachments that need protecting. Like sometimes there are invasive or predatorial energies that seek to destroy or in, or, you know, that are like invasive and that want to take something and so Scorpio. The other direction that Scorpio often goes in is with respect to protectiveness, or kind of like a guardianship. And I've been listening to this podcast called The Emerald, and he had this episode about guardianship that I just loved. And he was talking about how in so many traditions, you don't just walk around this completely open person. You have gates that open and close, and because you have this real deep respect for the need of for protection, you have spirits that are protector, spirits you work with in so many traditions, even Buddhism, people would think of, well, Buddhists are just open, flowing Bodhisattvas. It's like, yeah, the vast, like vast tradition, the vast history of Buddhism is filled with animistic relationships with guardian spirits. It's very shamanic in many ways. So, you know, our sometimes, I feel like our New Age spirituality could deal with a little bit more of an understanding of protectors and guardians and things like that, a little bit more of an animistic perspective. But my point here is that this cycle could go in the direction of, what are we protecting? What do we need to protect all costs, and what do we need to like, endure and like, how do we fortify? And I could see the Mars Pluto being about enduring a crisis and protecting from something that is it almost feels like something's trying to be taken from us, and we have to protect, which, interestingly, Venus opposite Jupiter is sometimes associated with possessions and resources. And so when you when you see the opposition between the two, there can be tension that exists around like wealth and resources and so on and so forth. So that's interesting, like one, okay, so two different ideas, images that came into my head. One was okay. So there could be a theme of feeling like someone is trying to cheat you or take something from you, that you feel like you really have to protect the being a stupid opposition can make you feel as though some resource is under threat and that you're in danger of it being taken. But the other thing would be that if you are called to utilize resources to protect or aid or support, a great outpouring of support for this purpose of protection and guardianship could also be seen with Venus opposite Jupiter and the scorpionic theme of protecting things. So I just thought there those are interesting angles to take with Mars Pluto and Venus Jupiter, like, maybe there's a theme of some things we don't want to be parted with. Well, Venus Jupiter, opposite is representative of greed in ancient astrology. It's one of its one of the ways that ancient authors talk about that opposition is in terms of, you know, like spending too much on your credit card or, or, yeah, trying to amass or accumulate things. And could there be some theme of having to deal with or face attachments and what we don't want to let go of that we do have to let go of. Or, on the other hand, could there be a theme of almost like a charitable sharing of resources for the sake of protecting or safeguarding things? So those are some images that came to my mind. Yeah.

Whitney Kranz
That was so spot on Adam. And I really, really appreciate the the protection angle, because, listen, I think if you consume astrology these days, Scorpio gets a bad rap, right? Scorpio keeps secrets and all of this nonsense, right? But isn't keeping a secret just protecting your truth or protecting the truth of a friend or and so I think that is such a powerful way to look at it, and something that I'll take with me absolutely

Alexandra Blair
for sure. Yeah, definitely. I had something along those lines, kind of coming up with the, like a kingly figure. It was giving me like, you know, busy feast Hall and like, the king's advisors, and everyone's sitting there having a good time. But there's, like, those whispers out in the crowd, there's people, there's unrest, there's something unsettling no one can quite pin until, of course, it's like, maybe just a little too late. Maybe I'm back at Macbeth here, but that was like coming up for me a lot. I

Adam Elenbaas
love that. Yeah, one of the other things that was said about Venus opposite Jupiter is that it tends to create or amplify that. One of the tensions between Venus and Jupiter, although they're both benefics, astrologers would mention that morality or virtue or piety will be pitted against sensuality, so that you have that theme of like, you know, like, I'm going to be a good moral person and do the right thing, and then Venus is like, I'm going to Go to the spa and treat myself. They're just there's like, they're not opposites, but they are that. You know what I mean? We frequently think that. I mean, throughout the history of in the Christianity in the West, we have a tremendous polarization between sexuality, the human body, shame and the morals, or like the virtues and doctrines of the church like that. Those have been those. There's been a long tension between those things in church history. Of course, clergy, in order to be pure, you can't be sexual. That's the thing in the Catholic Church, not saying it's right or wrong. It's just Venus Jupiter have this background of, you know, there's like a tension around like, here's here's another thing that Venus Jupiter, like this, could pose would be, you know, how? More so, in my opinion, like the last decade, than at least when I was younger. There's been a surge of protests or demonstrations. Oh, this comedian is coming to the campus to give to do a Stand Up Show, and there's protests because maybe they their humor goes too far. And, you know, is, is maybe inappropriate or something or or maybe it's perceived to be inappropriate. I'm not saying it is or isn't I, just that kind of thing. Is also very Venus Jupiter, where the kind of polarizing, some kind of moral or polemical or like ideological view against something that's meant to be, like entertaining or performative, or something, those tensions, to me, are interesting to consider in the midst of all of this, because we also have, I think, something about what could be initially looked at as like, like Venus and sag could have something on her mind that's like fun and it's no big deal, but it suddenly meets with some kind of tremendous, like ideological backlash or opposition, and we could see that as A part of the clash of the Mars Pluto opposition. It's like a clash of wills over something that is about a difference different set of beliefs or ideas or opinions. I even wonder if it could present like that.

Alexandra Blair
I wonder how that ties in too, because mercury, you know, later in the month, comes in to Sagittarius, and then forms the opposition with mutual reception, which, this is another one where it's like the mutual reception, not sure that it totally makes it nicer the temple swapping, but it it takes us from that, like sensual spiritual into, I think, actually a better spiritual place like that was bringing up for me, like walking as a spiritual practice, or like some sort of more asceticism, and then mercury will, of course, retrograde, and then station direct again. So it's kind of an extended period of mutual reception in detriment for both.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, there's that two things can be true, right? Yeah, almost like that. I love that theme that they're like, that theme could, really could be the slogan for the month. In fact, it's making me feel like we need to like in the next month, I need to do like riff off from Whitney's. Two things can be true and well, I mean, I'm not the whoever said it first, I heard it somewhere too. So whoever said it thank you, because it's a great little phrase. But we maybe. Need to riff on that with Jupiter this month. But like that is, like such a good point, which is that, you know, this mutual, here's what I would almost associate it with, like, as the month goes on, is there some way in which, you know it's like, what's that saying the pot calling the kettle black, or whatever? Is that absolutely where I wonder about thing like sort of ironic juxtapositions of what people say and what they do. Or, you know, almost like people being exposed for the exact opposite thing they say they are, you know what? I mean, something like that. Or even people, people that look like they're one thing actually being another. It turns out they're not what you've judged them inaccurately or something, right? Yeah, there's

Alexandra Blair
a sign, oh, go ahead. No no no, you please. I was just gonna point out that there's also this like sign based square to Saturn throughout all of this stuff, and it kind of has moved that mutable t square. Ish thing going on over here, whereas before it was from Virgo to Gemini to Pisces in the summer, it's kind of transited. And so we'll want to watch the Moon for sure, especially as the moon is in Virgo, or if you have Virgo placements like that's going to be hitting you, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Well, why don't we bring it back a little bit, and on that note, why don't we take this into mid month? The next major section of astrology comes around the middle of the month, and we're going to start on the 12th speaking of mercury with a square from Mercury to Saturn. This is happening on Tuesday, November 12, and it's one of the more interesting signatures around the middle of the month that comes just before the full moon as well, which we'll visit in a second. But let's take a look at this one. So Mercury is in the superior position Mercury overcoming Saturn. To me, when I see Mercury overcoming Saturn, one of the things that comes to my mind immediately, because I've seen it many times, is that mercury overcoming Saturn is often about finding creative or intelligent or strategic maneuvers or decisions or ideas that can help you overcome what initially seems like an obstacle or an impediment because of that overcoming square. It's like mercury will find some way of overcoming something that Saturn presents, although initially may be sort of held back or frustrated by it. That's something that comes to my mind. What do you guys think about this

Alexandra Blair
one? Yeah, it feels a little like Mercury and Venus are conspiring against Saturn here, especially looking at the bounds there, where they are in each other. Wow. And then Venus has just moved into Saturn, sign of Capricorn co present with Pluto. So it does feel a little bit like some some forces conspiring against a little bit of the doom and gloom.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, right. And with the square, there are tensions. To me, this mercury square Saturn could almost be previewing our Mercury retrograde at the end of the month, because it has that to me. This has even though Mercury is in the superior position, it has that quality to me, of almost like it's nothing a flame, if that resonates like in the flame is our insight, right? But like, or, or, it's like, you know, when you light a candle and the wick is too short, and you've got that real weird little baby sort of flame that just won't take off, and you're like, come on. So I wonder if there's something here about how we're stoking the flame of our insight.

Adam Elenbaas
Nice, yeah. Mercury, yeah, yeah. I like that image. Yeah. Mercury, Saturn squares will often coincide with a tightening or narrowing of focus and as well as sometimes a limitation in the way that we're thinking, like a like, don't limit yourself. That's like, a good response to Mercury square Saturn. Don't be, don't be too limited in your thinking, also trying to get things right, or being a little bit perfectionistic or a little overly strict or methodical. At the same time Mercury square Saturn is wonderful for things like, you know, learning the technical exact science, or learning the exact way to do a technique in astrology. So it's wordsmithing and careful editing and things like that. So. Yeah, it's a what I find interesting about it is really the fact that it is preceding the opposition to Jupiter with that mutual reception, which happens on the 18th and then, of course, we're seeing Jupiter and Saturn coming back together in December in their next square. I wonder if this isn't almost like especially given Mercury's retrograde at the end of the month, which takes place on the 25th in Sagittarius. We'll jump to that again later, but then it'll come back through all of this. So it really does feel like it's the precursor to the kind of structural redesigning that Jupiter and Saturn are about to do, that this Mercury Retrograde is somehow anticipating the kinds of structural like, like the renovations and reorganizing of larger structures, both socially, culturally, politically and personally, that Jupiter Saturn are going to do. And somehow Mercury is kicking us off by hitting Saturn, hitting Jupiter, retrograding back and doing the same thing. And then by the time Mercury's directing, going through them again. Now it's Jupiter Saturn, time in their square,

Whitney Kranz
100% and with this particular Mercury square Saturn, I think it's interesting that that aspect releases just prior to the full moon and Saturn turning direct. So it almost feels, with mercury in the superior position, that mercury is this catalyst for change, right? So, like, what have we learned in these areas, these jupiterian, Venusian areas of our life that we're ready to move forward with.

Alexandra Blair
It's totally like, oh, go ahead. No, go ahead. You go ahead. It's like reminding me of the opening sequence of like an Indiana Jones movie where he's like, foiled in a beautiful and comic way. And then, of course, we have the full moon in Venus rule. There's some Uranus action Saturn stations Direct. And it's like, we spend a bunch of time learning and crafting little fun solutions and maybe falling in love on the way, and then we get to go back to the temple and, like, actually escape the closing door or whatever.

Adam Elenbaas
That's great. I love that. Yeah, I was the image that came to my mind with the little te Square here in Mercury's, you know, because Mercury and Jupiter are opposed, but in mutual reception. And because Jupiter is doing this square as the ruler of Saturn, in in, in Pisces, you know, with Saturn, I'm like, you know, okay, so there's a story that just popped into my head while I was looking at this, literally, just right now. And when I was a kid, there was another kid that I just had, like, a feud with. You know, there's just some people where it's just like, you're just, this is my nemesis. And I don't know why, because I'm only in fourth grade, but this is just my, I don't

Alexandra Blair
know what a nemesis is, but you're IT guy, you're

Adam Elenbaas
you, you're my, you're you're my, like, my shadow or something, and I'm like his shadow. This is very Jupiter and Gemini, right? Anyway, um. And so there was a day on the playground where there was this kid who I was in like, an altercation with because of how we were playing football. We were arguing about the way a play went.

Whitney Kranz
Were you fighting on the playground Adam? We

Adam Elenbaas
were not fighting. We were arguing, right, but it was getting it was like things were escalating and, um, so anyway, what I find really interesting is that this, this kid that I had this brutal opposition with, also really despised this kid that I was getting into a fight with, and so the kid, and this was in the winter in Minnesota, the kid I was getting into it with over how the football game was being played, threw a punch at me. We're wearing like winter gloves, you know. So this didn't really connect in a way that was very painful, but he hit me on the side of the head, punched me, and my nemesis ran in. He was a hockey player. He played hockey. So they're just programmed to jump on people and pull their shirt over their head and just start pounding on them. So jumped in. The kid was wearing a starter jacket. You remember those? Of course, those are bad now. In Minnesota, everyone had the, I don't know why the Miami Dolph probably the colors, and as a dolphin, so dolphins, but he ran, he ran in. He pulled the hood of his Miami Dolphins starter over his head, and just started pounding him. And then we were friends. From that moment forward, my nemesis and I were buddies. And I swear to God, like, I started going over to his house a lot. And anyway, the point of that story and the kid was okay, and he was another, like, he was just another kid that we played with all the time, and, like, by the next day, we were all fine. Like, that's fourth grade, you know, so anyway, but the point is that it this image popped into my head where it's like. What's the thing, the friend of my enemy is my how does that go? Do

Alexandra Blair
you know enemy of my enemy is my friend? Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
So anyway, it's something like the reverse of that. The enemy of my enemy becomes an enemy that I can focus on in order to transform the relationship with my enemy into friendship. You found

Whitney Kranz
your common ground? Yeah. So

Adam Elenbaas
could there be something like that going on? Because that mutual reception is an opposition, but mutual reception and they're both trying to deal with Saturn. You know what I mean? Jupiter rules Saturn. Mercury's overcoming Saturn, Mercury's and Jupiter sign, Jupiter's in mercury sign. It feels like they're both trying to deal with Saturn, and maybe their opposition, their beef, gets set aside because they can come together over something to do with Saturn.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, that's a really brilliant connection. Adam, you've outdone yourself on that one today.

Adam Elenbaas
When that image, when that like memory, popped into my head, I was like, Oh my God, that's perfect. I It's, I love doing this. Like, you know what it's like with astrology, when you're doing this for a long time, it's like your brain when you start talking about symbols, it's like when you tell your brain, hey, what were the lyrics to that song? I can't remember. And then, like, five minutes later, you go, oh yeah, I was this was the song or whatever. And it's like that when you start talking about things, your brain's like, I know, I know. This is the it's like this. Thank you. That's really helpful. You've

Whitney Kranz
been taking your lion's mane.

Adam Elenbaas
Yes, totally. Actually, we just plotted out for our roots and spheres class next year. One of the, I think it's Lion's Mane that we're using during the Aquarius moon cycle.

Whitney Kranz
Oh, hell yeah, I have to say, being part of roots and spheres. Anyone who is not part of it, please join for 2025 literally changed my life. But I've been taking Lion's Mane since we started taking Lion's Mane last February, like the cognition, the quickness, the memory, it it's amazing little plug for lion's mane. It's

Adam Elenbaas
a good one for sure. Well, let's move on then to the full moon, which is on the 15th. And let's take a look at this Full Moon, which is conjoined with Uranus in Taurus, right on my ascendant fun times this. Thought it'd be interesting. I'm at 25 Taurus rising, so I've been looking at this one for a while, going, Okay, I'm gonna like, I'm not gonna hide, but I'm gonna have to get like, Astro proof, like, like Astro armor or something.

Alexandra Blair
Listen, you made it through the Mars Uranus, like an exalted Moon Uranus. That's kind of feels like it could be a fun surprising, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
that's why, thank you. I'm looking Yeah, let's do it like that. That sounds good.

Whitney Kranz
And if I'm being honest, I feel like this is where some of that levity comes in, like with all of this Venus here. Maybe it's just my rose colored glasses, but I feel like, are we experiencing a revolution around Venusian themes? And I'm so, so excited that this is conjunct Uranus, because I know Uranus is a wild rebel. Some of us Aquarians may be more comfortable in that energy than others. I'm really excited for this, so I'm interested to see what happens Adam and

Alexandra Blair
yeah, I get, yes, definitely, like it can't, it's, it's definitely nicer than the Mars artists. And like Venus, you can see what's happening, but through sign based Trine. So there's some of that.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, I will be i this coming. This last week, I just started in, you know, in bodybuilding, you go through cycles of bulking and then cutting, which is basically you put on some muscle, but with muscle comes a little bit of water and fat. So then after you put on some muscle, you cut back, and that seesaw over time is how you build the physique, or whatever. This just like a super simple summary. And there's other ways too, but that's a pretty common one anyway, so I find it interesting. This will, you know, be really, as my bulk program is gaining some traction, so I've been kind of hoping that it might contribute to good results in that sense. But, you know, whatever, that's pretty vain and basic. So it doesn't

Whitney Kranz
mean it's not important. We all.

Adam Elenbaas
It's my hobby, yeah, so I'm it's, you know, there's a few things that I have outside of astrology that really get me excited, you know, and like, outside of, like family and astrology, work and home, and that would be sports and bodybuilding, and it always changed my guitar too, like that gets me pretty excited practicing and learning new things on guitar, for sure. You. To be traveling. But you know what I feel like? The older I get, the more the traveling feels like torture. I don't know why that is, if it's just like Syrian, yeah, well, that would be a big part of

Alexandra Blair
it. It's so disruptive, especially for a fixed rising sign with your chart ruler and another Fixed sign, it's like you're just disrupting your whole life for fun for a while, especially in bodybuilding and nutrition, and you disrupt that routine, it's it's really disruptive.

Adam Elenbaas
That's true. You know, that is definitely a part of it. I think it is also what Whitney said about kids, though, anyone out there listening to this, you guys tell us what you think about travel and whether you love it and are maybe have a bunch of sad energy. I feel like sad, just like to travel. But yeah, anyway. So the what other thoughts do we have about the Full Moon in Taurus that we might add in here?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, do you guys? Have you seen the movie moonlight? I guess I'm taking everybody to film school today. The

Adam Elenbaas
Oscar winner.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I love that movie. It was a good one. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
it was kind of bringing up some of this for me, like that nocturnal love, the restrictions, some of the surprising and shocking stuff that happens in those relationships, but also in Chiron life, the will to individual expression and like suppression of identity versus like expression and sometimes um, release, or, like, explosion, even of identity out into a situation. So kind of, some of this was reminding me of of that movie, for some reason, that's

Adam Elenbaas
a good one, isn't it interesting? The name, the name, when I saw it, I was like, Oh, it sounds like Chiron. Yeah, yeah. I think it's spelled like that, but it's

Alexandra Blair
spelled like Chiron, but they say it Chiron, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, that was a great movie. I think it actually came out the same, because there's a guy who's doing a talk for Nightlight, like the next year. His name's in the dove, and he did this amazing presentation on the astrology present in the sky on Oscar nights and what films went and he did this whole theme on La La Land and moonlight and the the energies that were in the air at the time of the award ceremony that matched with the kind of nocturnal themes of La La Land and

Alexandra Blair
and that's so interesting. Yeah, it looks like it was released pretty much on a Virgo Eclipse. So we're in that cycle. Interesting.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, yeah, I mean, so when it comes to Venusian revolution, especially with respect to the moon, you're thinking about, often, like the body. So, yep, yeah. I mean, when it whether it's a change of style, a change of esthetic, a change of appearance, a change of wardrobe, you know, cutting your hair, dyeing your hair, those things are, on the one hand, there's this great each Ching hexagram, number 22 called adornment. And it's talking about how there there's a way in which adornment can be nothing but vain and superficial, like what you wear could be just so superficial in vain. But on the other hand, adornment is also a reflection of essence, and you want to your adornment should be reflective of your essence too. So there's like Venus. You know, when Venus comes out of the ocean, immediately she's adorned. And I just think of that as like, well, people can mistake Venus for adornment, but actually, Venus has to do with the adornment of the soul. You know, it's like, like, when you find something that you like to wear that really feels like you or a haircut or something. There's a way in which you just feel like yes, at least right now, in this chapter, this season of my life, this is me. And it's not that you mistake yourself for the article of clothing you're wearing. It's that it it feels like it reflects and adorns something authentic about who you are. Hell

Alexandra Blair
yes, preach

Whitney Kranz
as your co host who went to fashion school, this is what it's all about for me. Oh, really,

Adam Elenbaas
I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. So I

Whitney Kranz
no longer work in the fashion industry because it's you got stories, yeah? Not the, not the greatest, most encouraging and uplifting environment. What it does have is lots and lots of beautiful clothing, and that's where it's always been for me, is how, how the way we adorn ourselves not only affects others, perception of us, right, but really at its heart it it is all about how we it reflects how we feel about ourselves. And I think that's such an important lesson. And having worked as a stylist and worked with. With clients who have either lost or not quite grasp what sense of style is, and watching that transformation that happens when somebody really finds like something that works for them, it is just so beautiful

Alexandra Blair
that is so so Moon Uranus in Taurus vibe right there. Because I know what you're talking about. You see those videos, and the person's just kind of, you're like, Okay, that's who they are. But then when you see the negative space between their true joy, the exuberance, the expressions that they have when they feel like they are showing as they want to be shown and being seen as they want to be seen. That's a really beautiful tie in Whitney.

Adam Elenbaas
I like where we've gone so far with this. I'm going to turn it into, I have to, I have to flip it into Hades for a second, something. We

Whitney Kranz
need to go to the basement show in the basement.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right, that would actually be, you know, it reminds me like, you know, Moon Taurus in Uranus, reminds me of, like Rocky horary picture show, especially with the little Trine of Pluto, you know, the opposition of the Sun in Scorpio. But anyway, no, the thing that comes to my mind as well is that, okay, so in Taurus, we have the opposite of what we have in Scorpio with those two things I was talking about, where Scorpio you have maybe attachment and protection as like themes like letting go of attachments death and detachment as major crises, or moments of death and transformation and rebirth and as well as guarding or protecting things from being taken or something like that. Well, in Taurus, you have two directions that things will often go in, which have to do with possession, right? So you come into possession of things that you desire. So Taurus has so much to do with the pursuit of what we desire and the possessing of what we desire. But there's this weird way in which Taurus is very much like Scorpio, because it's, it's it's shadow is the Minotaur, you know, the bowl and the Minotaur. And we can become possessed by what what we we what we think we possess, has possessed us. And that's epitomizes the story of King Minos in the in the Minotaur. If you ever heard that story, I won't. I won't do the whole thing, but so I could see the moon and Uranus being this very powerful symbol of allowing ourselves to love and want and desire what we desire. You know, just freedom of desire and to move into an attachment of what we desire, because we're no longer repressing or holding back, or we're somehow letting ourselves just eat the piece of cake, you know. But on the other hand, we could see this as a moment of exorcism that the Full Moon in Taurus on Uranus could be about exercising the the Minotaur, where we're becoming we have to become dispossessed in order to be free of something that has taken hold of us, even though we think we're holding it.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, that's certainly bringing in that trine to Pluto, right? And, like the sun and Scorpio and Mars and Leo, for sure, really

Whitney Kranz
interesting. I kind of want to talk about the process right? I think that that's another recent focus of yours. Adam, right? Is the is the process, right, rather than the event? And we just recently had a Venus ruled Libran solar eclipse, right? And so I'm thinking about this and wondering how that Eclipse plays in here like this is how we focus on Venus in a different way. And so what was happening, or what has come from the Solar Eclipse in Libra? And you know, could we already be, this is a full moon with realizations, right? Could we already be reaping some of the hopefully rewards, or we could at least say karma, of the new possible structures that we put in place around the Libran Eclipse, and does that impact the Taurus area of our chart?

Adam Elenbaas
I love that, and I've gotta, I've gotta say that it's interesting to me that the ruler of that Full Moon, Venus will be in Capricorn. So there's a Trine configuration. And. You know, one of the things that Venus and Capricorn, I think, is really good at, is putting in whatever work or effort it takes to accomplish or achieve what you desire, like Venus. I know this great story that I had a client who had Venus in Capricorn, who built furniture, and she had, she was a designer, but she actually had a shop where they built the furniture. And she, you know, kind of like someone in the fashion world I imagine, where design was really important. There was an esthetic and everything, but then there was this literal chopping and sawing and, you know, just the whole actual building. And she was just, you know, relentless designer and worker and crafter and, you know, woodworker and all this stuff. So I always think about that person when I think about Venus in Capricorn, and her dad, I believe, built guitars or something like that. So anyway, she had Venus in the fourth house, by the way, in Capricorn, if I remember correctly.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I love what? Oh, sorry. I was just gonna say, I love that Pluto is leaving and Venus is saying, rising I am I am not kidding. I have another friend who is a Capricorn astrologer, and we are gonna throw an Instagram Live party, and everyone is welcome to come celebrate with us once in our lifetimes, like goodbye Pluto will tell stories. We're celebrating. We're having a party.

Whitney Kranz
Wait This one's not just for Capricorns, right? No, anyone

Alexandra Blair
can come. Anyone can come.

Adam Elenbaas
Make sure. I'm gonna tell you all at the end how you can follow Alexandra and join her for her party. Yeah, yes, and into Aquarius, which is our next topic on the 19th. So this is really the next section of the story we're telling for the month, with only one other thing really on our on our list of things to cover today, which is Mercury's retrograde, which we already touched on a little bit, but Pluto entering Aquarius. So I just just finished what I think is going to be about 120 slide webinar on Pluto and Aquarius. And most of what I did involves extrapolation from Pluto's last period, which was around 1778 to 1798 or 1777 to 1798 1798 or something like that. So about 20 years, and it coincided with the American Revolution, the French Revolution, many events that would kind of perpetuate the Industrial Revolution, things that were coming off from the scientific revolution. I mean, it's just revolution, revolution, I am really interested to see where things go now that Pluto is not just poking his head in the door, so to speak, or its head in the door, but like now I'm here to stay. I have a feeling this ingress will be the most powerful of those that we've had. I think we've had two previous ingresses. This will be, I think, probably the most significant, because it really does feel different when a planet pops in and then is there to stay.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, absolutely. What was the title of your talk? I just want to hear you say it. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
So it's Pluto and Aquarius, AI aliens and new world orders.

Alexandra Blair
It made me happy to read it. I still wanted you to take on it.

Adam Elenbaas
I'm so excited about that talk, and I'm actually it's funny, because in so many ways, the themes of artificial intelligence, alien aliens and new world orders were all present during that last period in ways that are metaphorical, right? But they were the same themes were present, and I'm just I'm excited, because there's no topic that like I think I get more geeked out about than the potential for human beings to discover any kind of life outside of our solar system. For sure, definitively, because of how I'm just convinced that it would shift culture and consciousness in a major way, in in in, you know, in on planet Earth. So it really would.

Alexandra Blair
I think there's, like, a lot of tension. I think it's so easy to forget about the tension, if you're a person who's excited by that, but there are like, there's a lot of disruption and tension and maybe nihilism, maybe destruction, that could be inspired by, you know, everyone On Earth finding out something that challenges your fundamental epistemological, foundational knowledge of existence. Like, it's so huge. I've been I'm really excited about disclosure too, and we've been definitely seeing it the minute Pluto moved into Aquarius. I think another interesting part of Pluto Aquarius is like, we kind of track the sun Pluto cycle. But in this case, those oppositions are going to happen with the sun and Leo and so I, you know, I know, I think we talked about this before, but I think there's going to be so much tension between the individual and the individual, the sense of me, and then the sense of like, oh, there's so much more than even just this big, wide earth. There's so much more to what's going on here. And also, I think there's, like, a major I there's an isolating element to individualism, and individuality, not on like a political level. I'm thinking more along the lines of AI and just where that's going. Like, you know, when I was growing up, for example, like, we would read and write fan fiction, like, just to give you an example, like, where that's the that's how we got the stories we wanted to hear. Okay, teens and kids today are going to be able to have aI write stories about them. They're going to be able to have their favorite artists like, Hey, have Post Malone sing a song about me and my boyfriend, and actually conjure that up. And there's something that's so insanely isolating about that that I think there's a real tension that's going to emerge from like those little micro communities that kind of used to pop up around those niche interests and around those spaces where you would gather, everyone's kind of going to be playing with that in their own spaces now. And so I feel a lot of that tension too, among many other Plutonian stuff,

Whitney Kranz
it's so exciting. As your resident Aquarius, I am so excited for Pluto in Aquarius, which I know sounds wild, because I have clients reaching out to me, like, I have astrology about Pluto and Aquarius and what's going to happen, and are we going to be okay, and are we going to get through this? And I am just over here, like, Bring it on. This is so exciting. It's such an interesting discussion. I have a lot to say about AI. I was now I work in the corporate world in my nine to five job, and AI has been a hugely Top of Mind topic now for in my organization, really seriously the last six months to a year, right as Pluto has been ingressing and out of Aquarius And I had the pleasure of attending last month the trend Hunter conference in Toronto that was focused all around artificial intelligence, not only all of these various tools that are coming to be, But basically what the future of AI looks like. And something I came away with was just how fast the acceleration is happening. Basically, even within the last six months with AI, you know, with generative AI, we're talking images and videos, right. There are these programs, you could say, Make me a video of one of the examples they used was Kamala Harris and Donald Trump riding away into the sunset on horseback. Okay? So crazy, because six months ago, the technology resulted in, like, stick figure, awful, whatnot, but now, right now, that technology, in only six months, has become so advanced that it's almost indistinguishable, right? And so what, what's so interesting about how quickly this is happening is how we're all going to have to react to it. So, so, so fast, right? And the entire time I was sitting there, and everyone was getting so excited about AI I'm over here like, what about humanity? Like, what about artificial intelligence? Sure, but aren't we going to have to see some sort of response that is like radical humanism rather than radical artificial intelligence, it's so it's, it's mind boggling. And Alexandra, I think you're absolutely right, that nihilistic perspective, there's something, there's something very Aquarian about that. Too, right? It's like pressure in the form of nihilism or angst, like, what? What has humanity become? What will it become? And does it even matter? Will we even be here to witness it? Right?

Adam Elenbaas
Right, right? Yeah, that that certainly a lot of people, I mean, just, I've, you know, in the past couple years, as I reflect on things that I've spoken to my friends about, and there's this growing sense of, like, I don't know what the word is, it's like a helplessness, like a the individual is too small in relation to collective forces, which is, interestingly, Aquarian like that, that that, I think that really started to rise into our experience collectively since the Jupiter Saturn conjunction in Aquarius. I'm not saying that it's, I think there's been some really interesting and very positive things that that configuration has brought as well. But it is important to note that Pluto is essentially as it ingresses. This month, it will be reactivating that zero degree of Aquarius, point where Jupiter and Saturn can join back in 2021 do I have that right? So? 2020 I can't remember, sorry, which one Jupiter Saturn in Aquarius, was that December 21

Alexandra Blair
2020, 20. Top of her head. It was December 21 that's why it's in your head as 2021 it was the

Adam Elenbaas
winter solstice, right? You know, I mean, so that that's yeah. But anyway, the interesting thing about doing my research for this talk that I'm doing, and one of the things that I thought was so profound was you have, like the the so many things that are the wheels of the industrial revolution are beginning, and there's this huge starting to be a belief that institutions can save humans from the worst, and whether that's in the form of democracy in the French and American Revolutions, or that's technology or medicine, or that the institutions and technology can save and take us to the next level, is kind of like the promise of Aquarius. Like better social organization, better social programs, better social organization, better technological things can take us into a better space. And there's, remember that, that image of Ganymede, the water bearer, who is abducted by Zeus and taken up to the realm of the gods, because he's like an exceptional human, and he gets to hang out with the gods. And he's the close proximity to the gods is also a dissociating thing, right? He's, he's, he's, you know, he's separated from humankind, but he's close to the gods. It's an interesting position, but Aquarius so resembles that tension of taking us close to things that are sort of godly but will also potentially dissociate us. And so there's this weird way in which the there's, so what start what's really fascinating is at the very end of Pluto and Aquarius, all of these super intense romantic kinds of philosophical and artistic ideals started pushing back against the Aquarian ideals. And you have the beginnings of romanticism, with, of course, Pluto and Pisces being a huge part of that, like wave in art and culture and literature and and even the East Meets West spirituality that came in through romanticism. But what I found interesting was that you had people like, you know, it, like the earlier part of the Pluto and Aquarius transit, there's like, you know, democracy, the rights of the individual, equality, and then gradually, as it goes on, like there's like a shadow of colonialism and like the state as salvation. That is like a part of some of the bloodiest portions of the genocide of Native American people in the United States. Or that's part of the continued development of slavery in the South. And the cotton gin is developed. And the in in Australia, is it? Oh, is it? I always mess this up, Great Britain, right? So they end up occupying. Do I have that right? Is that the is that the way that the what was the country named? Was it Great Britain? Is that, like a new way of I think it's Great Britain. I have no idea they occupy. They colonized Australia and started slaughtering indigenous people in Australia during Pluto in Aquarius. And there's other examples too, like the second awakening in us. Religious history happened while Pluto was an Aquarius, where the institutions of the church were thought of as the vehicle through which humanity would achieve salvation and the second coming, and they would midwife the apocalypse. And like so it's really. Interesting to me, how these huge Aquarian systems and ideas become the vehicle for human progress, but also have this way of stamping out things that are diverse and individual and particular, like Native American tribes or individual groups of people that aren't a part of the great Manifest Destiny, which is also an idea, by the way, that had its seeds during Pluto and Aquarius, or that that was like greatly expressed during that period. Anyway. So all of that is just to say that I think the it's also mind blowing to think that this transit is coinciding with the transit of Neptune in Aries, which took place during the American Civil War. Most recently, those two together are, you know, just very it's like, sort of startling that there's a real promise of of major cultural and political revolution on on the horizon. And some of it could be very exciting, yeah, I think some of it, they'll be, there'll be shadows, right?

Alexandra Blair
Let's not even talk about Uranus into Gemini. Let's love the dooms. That's what the Doom singers talk about that one. It's reminding me of this great painting from the French Revolution called the death of Marat by Jacque Louis David. And it was a painting of a French revolutionary who was murdered by a woman in his bathtub. And it's so Mars in Cancer. Mars was in cancer at the time. Pluto was in Aquarius at the time of his death, and he had his natal Venus in cancer, and Mars had just crossed over his natal Venus. And he was betrayed and murdered in this way, and so I've been thinking about that a lot too. I'm sure I'll make a little video about that. But there's something that's so revolutionary and interesting, and I love that you bring up, that it morphs over time and changes over time. I mean, just reflecting on the way that Pluto has inspired us to think about things like financial resources, the our relationship with the Earth, our relationship to work while it's been in Capricorn, for example, and how those topics have changed in our cultural consciousness from 2008 until now. It's like, I just can't I kind of can't wait to see how it plays out on in a mundane way. But Whitney, I'm handing you the torch, babe. You take Pluto away. You have fun with Pluto in your Aquarius parts. Okay,

Whitney Kranz
yeah, I don't know what I've asked for, especially because I've got a pretty stacked, uh, stacked, Aquarius.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my gosh. Where am I did something just weird. Just pop up on the screen. No. Okay, good. I

Whitney Kranz
think we're good. Okay, good, sorry.

Adam Elenbaas
I lost for a second. I lost my screen share, so I don't know what happened. I think there might have been, like

Whitney Kranz
a little flash I saw, but I think we're good.

Adam Elenbaas
Well anyway, it would have just been flashing insights from our business that, like, we have a good data tracking website that I think might have flashed up for a second, but it's like, it tracks. It tracks like, whatever your sales for the day. It's like your Shopping Cart page. Oh, see how many. You can see how many people bought a webinar today, if it flashed up on the screen, apparently, lots

Whitney Kranz
of people signing up for the November what? What will this be? Nightlight, 28 year one,

Adam Elenbaas
this will be Nightlight 29 Wow,

Alexandra Blair
so awesome, Adam. I've had so many clients email me. I joined Adam's class. I finally did it. It was so it's been so cute.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, thank you. That's awesome. I you know. So I was just looking back at my notes really quick because I wanted to double check this. Yeah. So it was, I read this interesting article that was talking about how the roots of the concept of Manifest Destiny, which is for people that don't know, just this idea that the United States had a God ordained right to expand and colonize, and also, obviously this idea is used to justify displacing and killing native people who lived here, right? And that this, this idea had its roots in the American Revolution, which was seen as the initial affirmation of God's plan for the United States. And so there's this idea of certain groups or certain people are exceptional, and that goes along with the Ganymede mythology around Aquarius, where it's this exceptional human who goes to live with the gods. And so the one thing that I really worry about is that this can be something just in general, because Aquarius thinks in such collective terms and sometimes institutional terms. There's a way in which things that are unique and individual and that can't be put into a grouping are denied, which is interesting, because often you will also find Aquarians who are just very, very sensitive about that exact issue. And. So you'll have some Aquarians that will present as, like a punk rocker, for example, super Aquarian, like, you can't peg me, you can't define me. I'm not part of your group. I'm not part of your institution. There's that revolutionary quality. And then at the same time, there will sometimes be this, this adherence to ideologies or institutions or technologies or ideas that somehow can, you know, almost like mute individuality, and that the tension between those two things is such a interesting part of the sign, and it certainly is not a it's a wonderful sign. I think we have a lot to look forward to, and my favorite thing being that I think there's going to be more receptivity to astrology. I really do. I think Pluto and Aquarius a lot like we saw with yoga, how there were a couple decades where it just really blew up at times problematically, because, you know, every other person is now an expert on something that maybe they have no authentic connection with. On a spiritual level, it's just, you know, mundane or something that could be a problem for astrology too, but I do see this as a promising transit for celestial divination, you know, like, I

Alexandra Blair
think especially the Saturn, like, when Pluto was in Capricorn, there was a period of time where Saturn was also in Capricorn, and that was sort of mean, Saturn doesn't end up back in Aquarius. Okay, so the the most we get from Saturn during this is, like, you know, sextile square Trine, but Saturn will be exalted in Libra trining towards the end of that transit with Pluto and Aquarius. And that feels extremely supportive, because I was worried about that actually Adam, I was thinking, what about the fear of spirituality and spiritual topics and like, the sort of, like maybe a backlash against it, and people holding out from that. But it feels like it actually might be supportive. And then by the time Pluto and Saturn actually can join, it will be in Pisces, which is actually a more spiritually conducive sign, in a way. So,

Adam Elenbaas
okay, yeah, I love that. Yeah, this is so it's so interesting. We will leave it here, because we already talked a little. Last thing we had on the on the schedule here is Mercury's retrograde and Sagittarius, which we'll just mention quickly here. This is happening on Right, right. I have it on the 25th that it stations and turns retrograde. But you know, just depends on how you measure exactly when a retrograde happens. Is it, you know, as it's actually moving at the minute, or like some sub unit, so either way, it's going to be the 25th the 26th the 27th where you really notice the effects of the retrograde. And then, of course, we're coming into a dark moon at that point in time. And then, if you look, you'll see this next New Moon is November 30. This is going to be at nine degrees of Sagittarius in a pretty tight square with Saturn. This takes us into December's astrology, so we'll look at it next month. But it's interesting to note that Mercury's retrograde will almost instantly take it back through the opposition to Jupiter. And just to kind of fill out what we were saying earlier, Mercury will then station and turn direct about the 17th, and at that point in time, Jupiter and Saturn are almost perfectly square, uh, at which point then Mercury comes back through and participates in the Jupiter Saturn square. There it is. So it is. It's like, we can't just think of Jupiter, yeah, we have to think about square in terms of the whole process of mercury, which is why looking at Mercury, as we did earlier in the month, and looking at its whole pattern, was important. So we'll be coming back to that in December and sort of unpacking it more, but it's worth tracking Mercury's square to Saturn in opposition to Jupiter this month. Well, we will end on that note, because we are out of time and we have gone, I just feel like we went all over the universe today. This is really

Whitney Kranz
fun. No surprise, we talked about Aquarius and Pluto and Aquarius and all the things,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, Whitney. You can find Whitney at Astro arcana.com where you can book a reading with her, yay. And then you can also find her on Instagram at Astro dot Arcana dot astrology. So I highly recommend following Whitney and getting reading with her, Alexandra, you can find at nine lives astrology.com where you can also book a reading with her and work with her to look at these energies and how they're affecting you, and maybe she'll help you craft some interesting rituals or ideas that she was talking about earlier for working with the energies. I love that Instagram for Alex. Sandra is nine lives astrology, and she is going to be having a party where she will be giving away cars to every attendee.

Whitney Kranz
So follow Nine Lives astrology for more information. Yeah,

Alexandra Blair
yeah. Pluto send off party. And Dana, who does the monthly horoscopes, and I, are doing a transit tracking workshop for anyone. We just have been getting a lot of questions like, How do I start tracking transit? So we're going to be doing a workshop, and I'm going to have some other stuff going on. So check it out. It's

Adam Elenbaas
Dana Solara, and you can find her if you want to follow her. And this talk that they're doing together, you can follow Dana on Instagram at self help, which so she is you. You guys know her. If you watch the horoscopes, she's there every month. So that is it for this month. Um, remember that in the middle of the month on the 17th, I will be doing that webinar on Pluto and Aquarius. So if you want to come and learn a ton more about Pluto's last transit through Aquarius and how I'm connecting that to things like aI aliens and new world orders. You can come out for that. That'll be fun. And otherwise, make sure you stay in touch with Alexandra and Whitney this month, and we will be back with you all again in December. So until then, have a good one. Everybody. Talk to you later. Bye. Bye, thank

Alexandra Blair
you. Bye.