Written by Tereza Bartova
Are you ready for emotional truth and to let go of what is no longer viable? Stay with me for guidance on how to swim in November’s cosmic waters.
November arrives with an undeniable sense of revision – as if life grants us a second chance to look more deeply at past choices, face reality, and solidify our foundations with raw but viable truth so that future growth can arise from purified resources. The month is thick with retrograde signatures, accompanied by both challenging and supportive celestial configurations, urging us to interrogate the invisible architecture beneath decisions, inner motives and relationships. We may benefit from seeing what refuses to move forward not as a flaw or purposeless delay but as information – pointing precisely to what calls to be revisited.
The month opens with Venus in late Libra squaring Jupiter and opposing Chiron on the 2nd, exposing wounds around over-compromising our will in relationships for the sake of harmony and belonging. Jupiter’s growth principle can slide into appeasement or expanded protective care to avoid pain or preserve peace at any price. However, this tension also offers an opportunity to shift from over-giving to a form of nurturing that includes reciprocity. Meanwhile, a Water Grand Trine between Jupiter, Mars, and Neptune-Saturn provides a stabilizing emotional background, supporting our moral integrity if we dare to be honest.
On the 4th, Mars trines Neptune, softening and idealising our drives and defenses before leaping into Sagittarius – a shift that lifts motivation from depth (forensic, inward) to breadth (outward, aspirational), and prepares the stage for the intense Full Moon that follows.
The Full Moon in Taurus on the 5th peaks strongly charged. With a Kite in the sky involving Pluto, Mars, Neptune, and Jupiter, plus the Venus-Jupiter-Chiron T-square reverberating in the background, something long-stalled reaches a breaking or clarifying point, illuminating patterns in how we share our resources and power. For many, this lunation is likely to expose the place where the comfort of the known has been confused with material or emotional safety – and where releasing something could be necessary for the future to remain vital. The Sun’s trine to the North Node adds a sense of guidance or destiny behind whatever is revealed.
Venus slips into Scorpio on the 6th, deepening what we value and sharpening the instinct to strip away any false facades in relationships. On the 8th, Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus, electrifying the very ground highlighted by November’s lunations, while Mercury stations in Sagittarius. On the 10th, Mercury turns retrograde, and Jupiter stations – going retrograde on the 12th. This cluster signals a significant turn inward: narratives, expectations, legal or financial plans, and relational agreements may require revision before continuation.
Backward-moving Mercury conjuncts Mars in Sagittarius on the 12th, sharpening words into weapons to help us fight for our visions. Blunt truth is ready to come out, but honesty delivered with too little tact can do damage that may need repair once Mercury returns over this point.
A gentler window opens on the 17th, when the Sun in Scorpio forms a Water Grand Trine with Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces, both retrograde. This is a moment for wise correction – a chance to stabilise what we now know must change, and to do so with mature sovereignty rather than with the impulse to get what we want as soon as possible.
On the 19th, Mercury re-enters Scorpio, pulling the mind back into detective thinking. The New Moon on the 20th at 28° Scorpio – conjunct Mercury and part of the Grand Trine – plants seeds of corrective intention, not a new beginning from scratch but a reset from unearthed truth rather than from a narrative.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, reframing November’s excavations within a wider horizon by lifting the insights gained in Scorpio into perspective and orienting them toward meaning and direction.
As Mercury retrograde conjuncts Venus in Scorpio on the 25th, old conversations, past lovers, and unresolved relational debts may resurface, asking for renegotiation or closure.
The month ends with Venus opposing Uranus at 29° on the 30th, in exact trine to the Moon–Neptune conjunction at 29° Pisces, bringing a final wake-up call where enchantment confronts the reality of our values and partnerships. What has been emotionally intoxicating yet unsustainable may now tilt or finally dissolve.
Themes of the month: Correction and letting go of the unviable before continuation. Relational accountability and revision. Returns, restatements, and renegotiations. Delays as information showing what needs to be revisited. Emotional truth as a prerequisite for future growth. Tereza is a devoted student of the Faculty. At this year’s Summer School, she gave an evening talk titled “Praga Mysteriosa.” You can find out more about her work at www.farvis.cz
