1. Mars conjunct Pluto provides the energy to deal with, and
move beyond, the past
Monday, November 26
We’re caught in the middle as energies run hot and cold today. We are wired by the electric Sun-Uranus trine and
ready for change. But excitement comes and goes quickly as sweet Venus runs into strict Saturn, encouraging us
to forego pleasure so we can focus on a long-term strategy. Although communicator Mercury’s direct turn means
that words flow smoother in the days ahead, the patient Taurus Moon gives us the determination to achieve our
goals.
Astrology Today: Oracle for Monday,
Nov. 26, 2012 Posted on November 26, 2012 by Eric Francis While you’re not out of the woods
yet, you’re headed in the right direction, but I must say your particular forest is looking pretty
lush. So what’s the rush? Well, maybe you have the sense that you’re avoiding something. It’s
something that you have previously found in your inner world, which is now appearing in your
outer world in a tangible, powerful form, and waiting to meet you face-to-face for a real
exchange of insight. There’s no reason why you have to lose your inner focus in order to do
this.
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The main structure is what we feel and experience inwardly, contrasted with what we express to
the world. These are like the two poles of a battery that seems to charge the whole psyche, and
direct the flow of nearly all events — until you tap into soul level, when another source of energy
and clearer, more dependable information becomes available.
The passion, pathos, layers of deception and truth, the double lives of seemingly ordinary
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2. people, and all the things we figure out that we don’t know — that’s what the astrology for this
week looks like. It’s the subtle, often un-admitted forces that are driving things forward now, and
it would be an excellent idea to make conscious contact with them, if you haven’t begun to do
so already. Mercury stationing direct will bring more to the surface than we’ve already seen
these past few weeks.
I am not implying that this is unfriendly astrology, though for some it will be experienced as
‘intense’ or challenging. The aspects are genuinely intriguing and also are revealing of the
deeper layers of what you may be feeling or experiencing. Mercury stationing, whether direct or
retrograde, can come with the experience of the truth coming out. That’s not easy for some,
though you can make it easier by making contact with the truth within. Once you’ve done that,
what might be known to those around you is of secondary importance.
There is a touch of the dark side to the current planetary movements, and there is a rich quality
of healing available as well. Yet the setup offers compelling reasons to stay in contact with the
shadowy dimensions of your emotions, your sexuality, your quest for healing and your creative
process. Anything that is (or has been) subject to denial is relegated to the world of shadows. If
anything emerges in shadow form, for example as something fearful, something associated with
guilt or shame, or something seeming to have undue consequences, see if you can trace the
developments back to a moment of denial somewhere in the past.
Mercury’s change of directions addresses the power of words as a means to healing.
Communication and awareness — the specialties of Mercury — can be the most accessible and
useful means to healing, though for many reasons they need to be used with precision and with
caution. Those reasons involve the next few aspects.
Venus conjunct Saturn emphasizes one side of the power aspect of sex. There is something
here about an obsession with secrets, and the way that they help us accumulate power. That is
THE purpose of secrecy. If you can raise this to full consciousness, you may discover some
exquisite modes of contact, including exploring the dance of domination and submission, the
interplay of female and male, interesting attributes of age differences and how good it feels to
use personal revelation and self-disclosure as a means to intimacy.
Mars conjunct Pluto provides the energy to deal with, and move beyond, the past. Look for even
a moment and you will notice the obsession with the past that keeps us trapped in its patterns,
ideas and compartments. Nothing says busting out of the box like Mars-Pluto in Capricorn,
especially when aligned harmoniously with Venus and Saturn. You don’t need to apply much
force, or any at all. Use intent and precision instead.
The eclipse suggests that the way to the center begins at the edge. It’s not necessary to dive
into your feelings all at once; rather, make contact with what is moving through you, and
proceed inward gently. The eclipse has momentum and if you set yourself in a direction you
want or need to go in, that momentum will carry you there dependably. Everything in your life
may not change in a day — though this is certainly a moment that contains the seeds of
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3. progress, and some fully manifested progress.
Horoscopes | Week of November 26-December 2, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Slippery emotional responses (yours and/or someone else’s) may
tempt you with the possibility of a moderating retreat from the pretty obvious (and obviously
irreversible) direction things have been headed. Maybe one more good conversation and a
renewed inclination to reinterpret the storyline from another perspective (theirs, perhaps) will be
enough to dam this torrent of churning, rushing, forward flow? Fat chance, Aries. Compromises
made now, due to sincere-enough-sounding words or the proverbial turning-over-a-new-leaf in
situations requiring a whole lot more than that to prove ultimately sustainable, could come back
to bite you in the ass. Just because there’s suddenly an easier communicative dynamic, that
fact doesn’t alter the longer history of unresolved differences which cannot be neatly tied up in
a bow. Even if you end up cathartically mending fences, it will not happen overnight—and you
remain quite far (i.e., several steps away still) from that miraculous moment. What’s hard to
swallow: You may be attaining a peaceful leveling-off that permits more pleasant interactivity,
yet the formidable knottiness persists.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Not the time to fudge an interpersonal-integrity question, Taurus,
just to momentarily ease your way in what could be written off (albeit with a slightly
self-deceiving inflection) as an unrelated case of ‘just taking care of practical business’. Sorry if
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4. that isn’t the answer you’d like to hear, but none of us are presently getting away with much
relative ease when confronted by potential disagreement. Falsely believing you might slip
through a crack in the mutual commitment to a certain unflinching high-mindedness, gaining
yourself some shiny trinket at the probable expense of fairer allocation, will haunt you later—if
not in an actual all-out war of morals, then in a slow guilt-driven deterioration of the trust
between you. On the other hand, what you may sacrifice in immediate personal gain by instead
offering up an outward exposition on the question and inviting possible contention to the
bargaining table (which necessarily circumvents anything that would qualify as ‘easy’), you’ll
more than gain back in huge stores of trustworthiness. Anybody worth keeping around in this
capacity will value trust over being supposedly ‘spared the headache’.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Yet again, unfortunately (or, in another sense, not), it isn’t just
about what you want out of the situation. Gosh darn it, Gemini, those ‘extenuating hand-tying
circumstances’ keep you locked into a push-pull with inescapable individuals, ensnaring entities
and/or unalterable agreements in which your only productive possibility involves ongoing
step-by-step maneuvers that will eventually work you into a different situation. But the good
news is, thanks to this week’s lunar eclipse in your sign, you’re beginning to really and
authentically feel the simultaneous existence of another storyline that will continue to grow in
importance… all while that main entangling narrative, which has dominated headlines for way too
long, starts to decrease in its centrality (only, of course, as a direct factor of the continuing effort
you put in to achieve just that) over time. And though this handing-off of the baton is necessarily
a very gradual process, it will happen—as long as you continue reminding yourself that both
tales are concurrently true. This is exactly the sort of juggling act that you versatile Geminis are
built for. Just be sure to never forget the actuality of one whenever you’re too deeply involved in
the developments of the other, and vice versa, and so forth…
CANCER (June 21-July 22): This is hardly the optimal time to skulk slyly away, rescuing
yourself from the vulnerability that this situation clearly requires, though the possibility to do so
may appear more convenient than ever. And no attempting to blandly escape notice either,
Cancer, as if staying as docile and acquiescent as possible will deliver you from the heightened
stakes of this underlying standoff (which may or may not have yet come to an unmistakable
head). An absence of any action which might legitimately demonstrate you claiming your own
agency is, in effect, a surrender of control… yet still is no less a self-assertion, though what
you’re asserting is a passing-of-the-buck of responsibility. Nobody else can be blamed if you
aren’t getting what you want from your present relationship (or lack thereof). You must clearly
and repeatedly state what will make you happiest—and not just romantically speaking, but in any
situation where someone’s bombastic ‘I’-statements could easily drown out your voicing of
very certain specific proclivities—or you should expect not to be especially happy, since you’ve
taken no step allowing others to support your happiness. I say all this not to scold you: In fact, at
this moment, Venus and Mars are conspiring to fulfill these very desires, as long as you’re
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5. willing and able to properly solicit.
LEO (July 23-August 22): What’s good for the goose ain’t necessarily grand for the gander,
now, is it, Leo? Your wisest instruction manual for how to continue cementing a healthful system
of personal habits is a fairly subjective one, etched in relative stone inside your heart. And
therefore, you’d better beware of even the most well-intended ‘words of wisdom’ from others
in your community about alternatives to how you might better manage your day-to-day
routine—particularly because their suggestions may sound so very appealing in their
too-good-to-be-true simplicity, you may start to wonder if you’ve been making things too hard
on yourself. You have not been ‘making things hard’, by the way: They actually are hard. Your
own unique challenges are presently demanding to be met with persistent effort, not quick-fixes
or shortcuts. Furthermore, each of us has facets in life that come more and less easily to us. So
while the dear-hearted advice-giver may indeed derive smooth and/or speedy results from the
methods they are now recommending to you, that doesn’t mean you will have the similar
experience. (Meanwhile, in other areas, you are at such a decided advantage, it almost doesn’t
seem fair.) Your inner voice knows exactly what you need to do; don’t let outside voices talk
you into a different direction.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22): I’m not sure you should continue presuming that delicious
opportunity for pleasurable interpersonal connection—you know, Virgo, the one that’s been
lingering right in front of your face for a little while now—will exist as a possibility for much longer,
unless you take some initiatory step towards it pretty damn soon. I understand you’ve got
plenty of preoccupying professional success to reel in and tinker with (as well as the likely fear
that, if you take your eye off that ball for more than a second, you’re risking your entire
trajectory of ambitions), but, I’m sorry, can’t you tackle more than one important life-aspect at
the same time? This invitation to speak up for desire seems too awesomely promising to pass
up, which is why I’m sort of bullying you into going for it. Or maybe you’re
unconsciously-purposely passing it up, so that, if nothing ultimately pans out, it won’t have
been an instance of full-on rejection but a mere ‘casualty of circumstance’? Letting potential
passion peter out without giving it its fair chance? What kind of life-choice is that? If even the
thought of going for it is getting you all hot-under-the-collar, there’s your clear sign of awesome
promise right there.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Don’t waste your breath arguing a calm-and-clear case
that articulates why you believe as you do, particularly if it’s in response to somebody who
adamantly believes otherwise. Despite your obvious aptitude for such articulations, Libra, you’d
actually be diluting the fervor behind your belief by fitting it into the constraints of reason. The
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6. real truth is that you feel strongly on this matter (as opposed to merely thinking a certain way
about it)… and those strong feelings, unjustified and unapologized-for, serve to undergird the
very purposefulness with which you live your life in relevant contexts. Yes, I agree you ought to
defend such fundamental beliefs to the death—because this really is a question of survival for
this state of emotional independence you’ve sought to declare—but not through hand-to-hand
ideological warfare. You simply need to fortify the castle walls, in order to keep manipulative
saboteurs and intrusive invaders from getting too close to the crown jewels. Forget about
convincing them they’re wrong. Instead, continue solidifying your confidence that you’re right.
Because we’re talking psychological realities here, you don’t need a bunch of objective
supporting data to back up yours. It’s your domain, wholly and totally, and you get to decide
what rules the roost… as long as you’re adequately taking care of all basic material concerns.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Advantage still in your court (thanks so much, Venus!)…
and, at the same time, onus-of-duty still resting on your integrity-bearing shoulders (you’re
welcome, Saturn!). Despite any near-irresistible allure, then, Scorpio, you ought not to go along
with hasty slides into immediately-appealing intimacies—sexually, financially, emotionally,
psychically—without forcing that very unromantic, anti-idealistic, sobering-reality-check
conversation about crucial determining details which, admittedly, just might spoil the ‘easy’ fun.
On one level or another, you probably know this ain’t as easy as y’all might wish it to be… and to
pretend otherwise is to flirt with a later consequence you’ll experience as even less easy (i.e.,
way more painful than it ever had to be) than the comparatively minor buzzkill interruption
demanded of you now. Let’s be frank: You don’t do casual all that well. So if you’re under some
belief that this situation has presented itself as an opportunity to shrug off your innate
way-of-being and perform an easy-breezy devil-may-care casualness (which is ultimately
nothing more than a pretending act that does disservice to your genuine, if not inconvenient,
emotional reality), I think you may be deluding yourself.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Somebody’s bright-and-cheery
encouragements to ‘chill out’ or ‘let it go’ or ‘stop taking [x] so seriously’ are obviously meant
with the most supportive intentions… and yet, Sagittarius, I urge you to be very suspicious about
following their advice. Go on and accept the vibes of support, sure, but ignore the actual
instructions. They don’t know what they’re talking about insofar as the specific details of your life
are concerned. You do have items to take seriously, and naturally they’ll weigh on you a bit.
Trying to slither away from these necessary contemplations, according to somewhat impersonal
suggestions purported to suit one individual’s life-circumstances as well as another, is a bit like
turning a blind eye to the main action because some hottie walks by selling cotton candy and,
caught up in the distraction, you miss a pivotal game-play. What you can, however, rely on your
well-meaning partners and pals for is basic companionship—as long as you aren’t being urged
to be in a different headspace than you already are. Being asked or expected to ignore a basic
component of your present situation is not helpful.
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7. CAPRICORN (December 22-January 19): Pretty much nothing can be incidentally written off
as ‘inconsequential’ at this point, Capricorn, since an almost laughably potent thread
of interconnectedness is running through your life these days. You cannot run and hide from the
ever-throbbing penetration of power through your etheric bloodstream. To disown it is to attract
powerful pests and problem-children who congregate around you in an intrusive fashion until
you must lash out with properly boundary-restoring assertions (and then you come off like the
asshole). To flauntingly lord it around town is to heartlessly play with the tender spirits of all
those who are flocking because they desire something in you they imagine to lack in
themselves… hurting their feelings by first accepting their adoration only as far as it feeds your
ego, then turning them down flat as if you hadn’t a clue what was going on a moment earlier.
To brandish it wholly but with dignity, the ideal ‘middle-way’, means you use it to bring out the
best in everybody around you: You so believably convince them of their goodness, yours
becomes a self-evident emanation, and everybody’s good honor flares up in sympathetic shine.
Your choices in every moment matter—but you’re unable to choose ‘without an impact’.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): As much fun as FUN sounds right about now,
Aquarius, you and I both know that the undeniable weight of professional and/or public-world
obligation continues to loom large. There simply isn’t a lot of leeway for goof-offs at the present
moment, is there? Yet, we’ve got to put it into perspective, too: This sense of ‘obligation’ is
merely the mirrored flip-side to the success of having achieved this level of mastery out there on
the proverbial stage, which is something you’ve worked hard for and, therefore, obviously
deserve. Just because it’s weighing a bit heavier for a spell, that doesn’t overturn the fact that
you actually want this. (You do want this, don’t you? If not, then you’d damn well better plan on
spending 2013 figuring a path off this unrewarding hamster-wheel.) In the meantime, the
seductive hankering for a fun-filled deliverance from said weightiness must be properly
acknowledged and honored and made room for—yet only in carefully structured and measured
amounts. Enough to quench the thirst, sure, but not in compulsive overdoses meant to
obliterate your unceasing awareness of what still must be accomplished… why? so you can be
inarguably proud of yourself.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): Don’t be afraid to really and truly go there—all the way there,
if necessary, Pisces—to ensure that everybody present is aware of what you believe and what
you just won’t sign off on with a silently passive free-pass. Though it would sure be a lot more
agreeable to quietly take note of the divergence in opinion and adjust your private loyalties
accordingly, you’d undoubtedly miss out on an opportunity to impact others’ thinking. You
needn’t assume an explicitly preachy tone to your expressions in order to make such an impact
either. (Actually, closely concentrating on simply speaking from your own heart on this matter is
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8. less didactic and, thus, far more convincing.) Too often, you Pisceans are unfairly accused of an
aimless wishy-washy quality that does a massive disservice to what typically motivates your
behavior above all else: an unfaltering compassion for all living beings, which is born from an
emotional connection with universality that trumps any convenient statements of ideological
superiority. Therefore, it’s a no-brainer that you might go head to head with any blowhard who
sets forth a commentary which demonstrates clear disrespect to others (i.e., those whose
life-experiences this pontificator is, due to his/her heart-limitations, unable to understand).
Viewed this way, you’re perfectly positioned as a crusader for such compassion… an ideal in
great need of brave active defense these days.
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