Stellar Insights: November 13 - 19
Scorpio New Moon + Mars Cazimi Inspires Transformative Action
Here are some insights about the opportunities and challenges that this week’s astrology may offer. May they help you make the most of this moment. Should you want to see what the current planetary movements are catalyzing for you—what your here/now and near future may be inspiring—based upon your personal astrology chart, we can explore that in a Stellar Guidance Session.
Monday brings the Scorpio New Moon, a lunation that invites us to access a greater sense of determination to dig in and move in the direction of what we desire. It can be a moment in which we have a breakthrough as it relates to our emotional life and the role it plays in helping us navigate the world. We may also find ourselves attuned to discovering and re/integrating buried treasures that reside in the caverns of our hearts and minds.
Don’t worry if the pathway to realizing what you want to initiate is indirect and winding. Allow it to be peppered with the wonder and awe that can arise when we don’t limit ourselves to our assumptions, when we don’t take things for granted but rather approach situations with a beginner’s mind. Allow yourself some spaciousness so that you can make room for something to come forth that features facets that surprise you. Attune to what it means to have freedom; find ways to shake off a sense of limitation that could otherwise curtail your independence.
Why do I share all this? Because the New Moon opposes revolutionary, let’s-change-it-up Uranus. If that planet sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote a bit about it last week in reflection of its opposition to Mars on 11-11. As its dynamic shake-it-up energy is still quite prevalent this week, refer back to last week’s Stellar Insights for a review of how to incorporate its invitations into the way you orient.
Later in the week, we have both the Sun and Mars making a harmonious trine with poetic Neptune. Opening to a sense of softness may provide a solution, even if just temporarily, to the feelings of heaviness we may be carrying. Allow yourself to follow the currents of flow, attuning to the paths you can take that seem to feature more ease and grace; these may be the routes that have you sense that you’re not alone and that you’re connected to a force greater than yourself, which can support and guide you. Allow yourself moments to be in stillness so that you can feel more instilled with peace, compassion, and faith.
Also this week, we have the Sun and Mars conjoining, an alignment known as the Mars cazimi. While the meet-up between the radiant Sun and assertive Mars occurs about every two years, the last time that it took place in dig-deep Scorpio—as it does now—was in 1991 (November 8, to be exact).
Cazimis bring a great clarifying power to the planet that is having a celestial tete-a-tete with the Sun. To understand more what this alignment may offer us, I thought to quote myself from the cazimi primer I wrote for Well + Good (check it out if you want to learn more about what these alignments are as well as the other cazimis that will take place in 2023 and 2024).
When Mars conjoins with the sun, we can access a storehouse of energy and willpower to fuel us in the pursuit of our aims. After all, Mars is the planet of action and initiation, and with the extra power of the sun, it only follows that these qualities will feel that much more potent.
Under Mars cazimi, we want to fight the good fight and champion causes that ignite our spirit. There’s also a laser-like quality to this alignment, which turns our awareness toward what it is that we desire and encourages us to seek it out. Additionally, we can gain more understanding into the root of our anger—another emotion associated with Mars—and see what really inspires our ire.
With the cazimi occurring in Scorpio, a sign in which Mars feels exceptionally at home, we’re able to access a greater fount of determination. We are inspired to know what it is that we want by feeling into it rather than just thinking about it. Going in, going deep, as well as unveiling and revealing that which has been covered over may offer us the routes for transformative discovery and exploration.
All my very best,
xxStephanie
Astrological Highlights
November 13: Sun/Uranus Opposition; Scorpio New Moon
November 15: Mercury/Venus Sextile
November 17: Sun/Neptune Trine; Mars/Neptune Trine
November 18: Sun/Mars Conjunction (Mars Cazimi)
All days reflect Eastern Standard Time (-5 hours GMT)
Photos: Susan Wilkerson, via Unsplash
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