ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER | NOVEMBER 16–22
I have only a few spaces left on my books for ASTROLOGY and TAROT for the year. An astrology reading with me is a way to glimpse into the future—to understand where these tides are flowing in your own chart, what is closing, and what is waiting to begin.
Here we are again, standing at the turnstile of another week, feeling the deepening that has been moving underground now rise toward the surface. There is a sense that something long-rooted is shifting, not abruptly, but with the slow insistence of truth finally ready to be acknowledged. We enter this week with MERCURY RETROGRADE stepping back into SCORPIO on November 18, retracing degrees we walked only weeks ago, stirring emotional sediment that had settled, and asking us to read a situation differently this time. When MERCURY moves from fire back into water, the mind becomes a receptor rather than a broadcaster. Thought drops into the body. Memory becomes sensation. Old stories travel through the hips, pelvis, and the subtle spaces in between. We are encouraged not to force clarity but to allow understanding to rise from its own depth. This is a week to soften into honesty rather than pry it open.
This retrograde turn deepens as we approach the NEW MOON in SCORPIO on November 19, a lunation that arrives with a force that is felt more than seen. This NEW MOON sits in CAZIMI with MERCURY — a rare, exquisite alignment that places the mind, the heart, and the body inside the same flame for a moment. It is a recalibration point where intuition sharpens, emotions speak in their original language, and the future becomes something we can sense with more accuracy, even if we cannot yet articulate it. This is not a lunar event for lists or manifesting scripts. It is one for listening. For witnessing. For letting something finally click into place inside you, quietly but undeniably. It is the kind of new beginning born from sincerity, not spectacle — a commitment whispered in the dark that carries more power than anything said out loud.
As we cross November 20, the MOON enters SAGITTARIUS and the internal texture of the week subtly, but noticeably, changes. Where Scorpio compacts, Sagittarius expands. Where Scorpio dives, Sagittarius lifts. After days of pressure, introspection, and emotional excavation, there is an exhale, a widening of the psychic field, a return of the desire to explore possibilities instead of circling the same old wounds. Momentum gathers. The future calls again, not as an escape but as a direction. This shift prepares us for what comes next — the annual turning of the wheel as the SUN enters SAGITTARIUS on November 21.
With the Sun’s move into SAGITTARIUS, we arrive at a completely different energetic landscape. The tone, the temperature, the tempo all change. The quiet intensity of Scorpio gives way to fire, inspiration, reinvention, and the forward thrust of a season built on vision. This is where we lift our gaze from the underworld to the horizon line. This is where we pick up the bow we shaped during Scorpio season, draw back the arrow with intention, and finally choose something to aim at. Sagittarius season is not about reckless expansion but inspired alignment — widening our field of possibility while remaining anchored in the truth we unearthed over the past few weeks.
This entire week is a pivot point — the turning from depth to ignition, from internal reorientation to forward movement. The retrograde of MERCURY keeps us honest, keeps us accountable to our inner knowing, keeps us in conversation with what is still unresolved. The NEW MOON CAZIMI offers the clarity we didn’t know we were waiting for. And the arrival of Sagittarius energy reminds us that even after descent, even after digging through the difficult terrain of our stories, there is always a place where the light returns.
Nothing about this week is accidental. Nothing is wasted. Every transit forms a bridge from what you have been navigating to what you are becoming. This is the moment the subterranean shift finally reaches the surface. This is where the next chapter begins.
SUN | MOON | RISING
Read through your SUN | MOON | RISING to know where this week’s energy unfolds in your chart. Take what resonates, leave the rest.
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ARIES
Something you thought you were done with isn’t quite finished. As MERCURY RETROGRADE slips back into SCORPIO, emotional truth rises from a place you rarely linger. This week asks for courage of the quieter kind — the kind that sits with discomfort long enough to understand what it’s trying to reveal. The NEW MOON CAZIMI pulls you into an intimate honesty with yourself, showing you where you’ve outgrown a dynamic, a fear, or a habit of self-protection. As the SUN moves into SAGITTARIUS, your fire returns — not as impulse, but as clarity. You’ll know exactly what needs to be released and what deserves your full-hearted pursuit.
TAURUS
A conversation or connection loops back around, and this time, you’re able to hear what was impossible to hear before. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SCORPIO stirs vulnerability, but it also offers repair. Let the NEW MOON CAZIMI highlight the truth of what you need from others — and what you need from yourself. As SAGITTARIUS energy arrives, you feel a widening, a willingness to trust again, a sense that something dormant has been watered. Relationships reach a turning point, but the turning is gentle, honest, and yours to choose.
GEMINI
Your mind wants clarity, but your body wants slow. With MERCURY RETROGRADE retracing the deeper chambers of Scorpio, your nervous system speaks louder than your thoughts. Listen to it. The NEW MOON CAZIMI reveals the spaces where you’ve been running on instinct or overextension rather than alignment. As the SUN enters SAGITTARIUS, relationships — personal, creative, professional — awaken with new momentum. But this time, you’re not scattering your energy. You’re choosing where your attention goes and letting the rest fall away.
CANCER
The return of MERCURY to SCORPIO taps a well of emotion you thought had dried. But what surfaces now comes with purpose — a reminder of what lights you up, what inspires you, what you’ve been quietly longing to reclaim. The NEW MOON CAZIMI is a heart-based renewal, returning your creative spark and reviving joy where it had gone dim. When SAGITTARIUS season begins, you’re ready to commit to routines, projects, and practices that support your energy rather than drain it. Something begins moving forward — and you’re ready for it.
LEO
Home, belonging, and the architecture of your emotional foundations take center stage as MERCURY RETROGRADE re-enters SCORPIO. You’re not being asked to fix the past — you’re being asked to understand it. The NEW MOON CAZIMI illuminates what safety truly means for you now, not who you used to be. As the SUN enters SAGITTARIUS, joy returns, creativity swells, and your desire to express, play, and initiate comes back online. A week that begins with introspection ends with a kind of internal sunrise.
VIRGO
Your thoughts spiral inward in a way that feels necessary rather than overwhelming. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SCORPIO pulls you into deeper truth-telling — what you really meant, what you really felt, what you couldn’t say until now. The NEW MOON CAZIMI gives you the words, the insight, and the emotional grounding to articulate something with precision and compassion. As SAGITTARIUS energy emerges, your focus turns toward home, nourishment, and tending to the spaces that hold you. Communication clarifies; foundations strengthen.
LIBRA
This week brings a soft but decisive turning in your sense of personal worth. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SCORPIO invites you to revisit old beliefs about value — not financial, but emotional, energetic, and relational. The NEW MOON CAZIMI asks you to release the last remnants of doubt about what you deserve. As the SUN enters SAGITTARIUS, ideas expand, inspiration returns, and something in your perspective unlocks. You begin to feel the path ahead widening again, especially around creative projects, writing, and learning.
SCORPIO
Everything funnels inward this week — identity, desire, memory, instinct — but not in a way that weighs you down. MERCURY RETROGRADE returning to your sign gives you the rare gift of hearing yourself clearly. The NEW MOON CAZIMI is a reintroduction to your own power, your own voice, your own truth. It is a reset that feels like recognition. As the SUN moves into SAGITTARIUS, you become more aware of your resources — time, energy, money, and what you want to invest them in. You’re choosing with sharper intuition and deeper confidence.
SAGITTARIUS
Before your season bursts open, there is a quiet retreat — intentional and necessary. MERCURY RETROGRADE moving into SCORPIO pulls you behind the scenes, into intuition, into the subconscious, into the truths that reveal themselves only when everything else goes quiet. The NEW MOON CAZIMI illuminates a threshold moment of release and renewal. And then, the SUN enters your sign, returning your fire, your hunger for horizon, and your sense of possibility. You are stepping into a new cycle with clearer intention than ever.
CAPRICORN
Old dreams, forgotten desires, and long-standing hopes return this week — not to tease you, but to remind you of what still wants to happen. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SCORPIO reopens a vision or goal that was prematurely tucked away. The NEW MOON CAZIMI strengthens your resolve and reconnects you with the people, communities, or networks who help you move forward. As SAGITTARIUS season begins, your inner world becomes more active, intuitive, and symbolic. You’re in a powerful phase of behind-the-scenes alignment.
AQUARIUS
Your public life shifts tone this week. As MERCURY RETROGRADE re-enters SCORPIO, you are prompted to rethink a career decision, a boundary, or a direction you once felt certain about. The NEW MOON CAZIMI offers clarity around your purpose — why you’re doing what you’re doing, not just how. As the SUN moves into SAGITTARIUS, connection softens, collaborations expand, and support appears where you weren’t expecting it. You’re moving toward a new configuration of visibility and belonging.
PISCES
A belief that once shaped your worldview begins to dissolve, making space for something truer. MERCURY RETROGRADE through SCORPIO pulls you into philosophical and emotional recalibration — a reorientation of meaning. The NEW MOON CAZIMI invites a new commitment to your own growth, your own path, your own inner compass. When SAGITTARIUS season begins, your work, purpose, and direction become illuminated. You’ll notice the horizon widening, urging you into the next chapter with more courage and clarity than you expected.
TAROT OF THE WEEK: SEVEN OF CUPS
The SEVEN OF CUPS arrives as MERCURY RETROGRADE slides back into SCORPIO and the NEW MOON pulls you inward. This card is the landscape of fog, intuition, and possibility. It’s the liminal moment before clarity appears but after you’ve realised things cannot stay the same. The SEVEN OF CUPS doesn’t confuse you; it slows you down just long enough to notice which desires are real and which are residue from older versions of you.
With this NEW MOON in CAZIMI, every cup before you becomes illuminated from within. Options that once felt overwhelming begin to separate themselves. Some dissolve. Some sharpen. Some call your name with new certainty. This is the power of SCORPIO: not choosing quickly, but choosing truthfully.
As the SUN moves into SAGITTARIUS, the SEVEN OF CUPS becomes a portal. What was once a question becomes an arrow. The dreaming turns to direction. The inner sorting you do at the start of the week becomes the clarity that lifts you into motion by the weekend. A decision wants to be made, but only after you’ve allowed yourself to feel which path holds real resonance and which is simply a mirage.
This card reminds you: you are not lost. You are discerning. You are refining. You are preparing for the moment you step forward, eyes clear, bow drawn, anchored in your own knowing.
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