While the month is likely to get off to a busy start, the momentum of this professional year is set to level off to a point that it will stay at for the rest of the year, before experiencing another surge in the New Year. Getting things off to a busy start is Mars, with the warrior planet of the cosmos working to cram as much into his final days before leaving your busy work sector on 4th May as possible. Mars is still separating from a friendly aspect to Neptune in your income sector that peaked last month while Mercury, in his final days before leaving your career sector on 3rd November is doing the same. This will get the month off to an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts. However, while in the New Year Mars will retrograde back into your work sector and the Sun will keep the solar spotlight on your professional game before leaving your career sector on 22nd November the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment’s return on 3rd November, the same day that Mercury leaves, will keep the wheels turning and things on track for the rest of the year. Mercury is not only responsible for getting the month off to a good start across the income, work and career fronts but he begins the month at a friendly aspect to Mars. Yet even though they are both shifting focus, that partnership will not only endure but for the rest of the year. It is a day after Mercury joins Venus in your friendship sector that Mars will return to your relationship sector. With Mercury’s retrograde turn on 26th November keeping the planet of communication here for the rest of the year and Mars’ retrograde turn next month keeping him here for the rest of the year, they will continue to work together. Along with the North Node and both planets in your communication sector, this sets the scene for a positive month and end to the year across the communication, social and relationship fronts. Meanwhile, the most important event for you will be Pluto’s return to Aquarius on 20th November. Just 11 weeks after retrograding back out the planet of change and transformation will not only return but to spend the next 20 years in Aquarius.
As Jupiter moves into his first full month in retrograde motion in your romantic sector he is no longer at a standstill and is starting to move back over ground already covered. Having returned in May to begin your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade, this was always going to be the part of the journey where there was a chance to turn back and go back over ground already covered. This has opened the doors to the past and second chances, but it is Venus, the planet of love’s return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 12th November that will allow you to take full advantage of this. For the second time this year, this will see Venus return to take your heart on a nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane that will end with her return to Aquarius for the second time this year. This time with Jupiter in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, giving the planet of love access to the doors open to the past and second chances while increasing an overall sense of romantic nostalgia. This will be heightened even more when the Moon returns to your romantic sector from 16th November to 18th November. These will be some of the most romantically charged days of the month and when a sense of romantic nostalgia is likely to be at its peak. Meanwhile, while there has been no planetary activity in your relationship sector since the Sun and Mercury left in September and you wouldn’t normally expect any until they return next year, that will change when Mars returns on 4th November. Normally here for just six weeks, a retrograde turn next month will not only keep Mars here for the rest of the year, but after retrograding back out in the New Year he will return for a do over a couple of months later. By the time the Moon returns from 21st November to 23rd November Mars will have time to settle in and a chance to become more emotionally engaged and aware will give you a feel for the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos’ influence.
When the Sun and Mercury left your financial sector in September, this ended all planetary activity on this side of the financial fence while leaving you with the awareness and smart head for money needed to stay on top of money matters. While your financial sector, the side of the financial fence where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have is normally only active for a few months out of each year the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment had kept things active all year. Juno returned in October 2023 for what should have been a three month visit, but a retrograde turn kept her here until August. By then the Sun, Venus and Mercury had returned and Mercury’s own retrograde turn phase here kept things going right through to last September. This was when all planetary activity on this side of the financial fence ended, but not before leaving you with everything needed to stay on top of money matters. Meanwhile, this has seen the focus shift to the planets on the income side of the financial fence and the timing couldn’t be better. While both planets in your income sector are in retrograde motion, they are holding the doors open to the past, second chances and untapped income potential just as this professional year has come to life. While Mars will leave your work sector on 4th November, not before spending the last two months firing things up on the job front while the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of November in your career sector. By the time the Moon moves through your income sector from 10th November to 12th November, something that every four weeks can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger, Saturn will be at a standstill ahead of his direct turn on 16th November. This is when the brakes will come off and everything held back will get the green light. It is two weeks later that with no more planetary activity in your financial sector, the Moon’s visit from 23rd November to 26th November will be a valuable chance to check in on money matters.