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There has been a stronger emphasis on Scorpio this month , with Mercury, Venus and Mars all spending most of the time in the sign in addition to the Lunations! It has been a time to test who and what we can truly trust as well as diving deeper into the meaning behind what is going on in your life! The Scorpio New Moon will be at 5.27 pm on November 20, at 28 degrees and 11 minutes of Scorpio, it’s 29th degree. The Sabian Symbol for the lunation is “An Indian squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children”. Love as a principle of redemption, intercession!

The Sun and Moon will be making a partile conjunction to Mercury Retrograde, applying by just 16 minutes of arc, having recently separated from Dark Goddesses Black Moon Lilith and the asteroid Nephthys, the Egyptian Neter associated with the Underworld and evil sister to Isis the Neter or Goddess for Love.

The Scorpio New Moon will be in tight opposition to newly retrograde Uranus, making up a Grand Square with asteroid Achilles in Leo, the Greek hero warrior from the Trojan War, and asteroid Persephone, Hades dark Queen of the Underground in Aquarius. You will be struggling to make sense of the meaning behind, unexpected events that will come into focus!

A Water Grand Trine will be in play from the New Moon configuration in Scorpio to Jupiter in Cancer and Neptune conjunct Saturn in Pisces, so emotional issues will dominate. The opposition to Uranus will form the focal point to a Kite configuration with the Grand Trine, focused on the trio in Scorpio.

There will be an unexpected resolution to the new dilemma brought about by matters from the new Sun Mercury cycle! An awkward quincunx aspect from the Moon to Chiron in Aries suggesting that issues of self-esteem will need to be alleviated!

With the Sun and Moon in the sign of Scorpio, the focus will be on:
• Self-preservation, standing your ground and confronting what is necessary
• Transformation and self-development
• Strategy, integrating logic and intuition
• Investigating anything that is mysterious or suspicious, keeping secrets
• Studying all things esoteric, psychological or supernatural
• Intensity, penetrate deeply to feel secure, resilience
• Extreme and complex emotions, jealousy and possessiveness
• Manipulation and power plays

The area most aligned with the position of the New Moon can be best gleaned from your natal horoscope chart, however if you only know your Sun Sign, then affirmations around the areas indicated below are likely to be the most powerful.