Energies of the Week November 4-10, 2024 ✨🦋 Mars enters Leo ✨♌
‘’Butterfly on a Wheel’’
We are officially in November, the month that finds us in a state of transition from the old to the new, a time that is about to change everything and will be remembered!
This month began with a transformative New Moon in Scorpio and will unfold further with a powerful, revolutionary Full Moon in Taurus, conjunct Uranus, and Algol. Alongside Pluto’s monumental move into Aquarius on 19th, these potent cosmic forces urge us to break free from the past, prompting transformations in relationships, values, ideologies, beliefs, societal systems, and personal and collective power.
Embracing Growth amidst Tension
✨🦋The first week after the potent Scorpio New Moon, we encounter the challenging Mars-Pluto opposition at 29° Cancer-Capricorn. This alignment exerts intense evolutionary pressure, bringing fatigue, tension, anger, worry, passion, and a sense of drama. This aspect coincides with a Venus-Jupiter opposition at 20° Sagittarius-Gemini, which fills us with hope, promises, and expectations, opening a door for luck, abundance, and expansion if we can recognize and appreciate it.
Meanwhile, Mercury entered Sagittarius on November 2, aligning with Venus, and will remain in the sign until January 8 due to retrograde (November 25-December 15) inviting us to see the big picture and have a more optimistic perspective even amidst challenges. Mars’ entrance into fiery Leo in the middle of the week boosts courage and initiative, raises energy levels, and gives us new tools and new reasons to fight.
Challenges and Transformation: The Mars-Pluto Opposition
✨🦋The critical and transformative Mars-Pluto opposition on November 3, occurring for the last time at the anaretic 29° of Cancer-Capricorn, will repeat on January 3 and April 27, 2025, with the planets positioned in the early degrees of Leo and Aquarius. This aspect may manifest as conflicts, violence, competition, resistance to change, destructive tendencies, and intense power struggles. These challenges can strain both psychological and physical health, testing boundaries. Yet, they also carry immense transformative power for those in the final degrees of Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn, as well as the early degrees of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius.
If you are directly affected, you may now feel that what once defined your life, held authority, or exerted control over you has run its course. Now is the time to break free from the bonds and legacies of the past, release karma, and abandon family, social, or ancestral patterns that you’ve followed faithfully. It’s an opportunity to regain control over your life and destiny, and to choose a more authentic path.
Understandably, this process isn’t easy. Ghosts, wounds, and fears from the past may resurface, while internal or external struggles for control can be especially intense. However, the energy invites us to be courageous, to safeguard what is essential, to set healthy boundaries, and to distance ourselves from negative patterns, whether they stem from collective influences or personal tendencies. This is the way to reclaim your power and harness it more effectively in the future.
Pluto is known for breaking illusions and temporarily taking away control—not to punish us, but to make us stronger, revealing through trials new versions of ourselves, along with dormant abilities, skills, and talents.
Mars Enters Fiery Leo: Ignite Your Ambitions
✨🦋On Monday, November 4, Mars, the planet of desire and action, moves into vibrant and bold sign of Leo♌. This energy will be with us for some time, as Mars will retrograde back into Cancer on December 6, only to return to Leo from April 18 to June 16, 2025. Mars in Leo will set in motion events and situations that we may revisit later during its retrograde and direct phases in the same degrees.
Mars in Leo will gradually activate the Fixed Signs, boosting the Fire and Air signs, and encouraging them to take risks and initiatives that will set them apart. This new cycle will overall increase passion for life, libido, confidence, generosity, and the desire for creativity, self-expression, and personal achievements.
Building Towards Success: Sun-Trine Saturn
✨🦋On the same day, the Sun forms a trine with retrograde Saturn at 12° Scorpio-Pisces, which benefits the second decan of Water signs. This aspect brings patience, discipline, organization, and steady progress, helping you achieve long-term goals, complete demanding projects, establish yourself socially or professionally, and gain trust and support from authority figures. If you are directly influenced, don’t hesitate to commit to responsibilities that will allow you to prove your worth, seek a better position, or earn a promotion. This aspect also supports personal growth, enhancing emotional stability and encouraging a mature approach to relationships and goals for long-term investments.
Destiny Unfolds: Mercury Trine North Node
✨🦋On Thursday, November 7, under the influence of the Mercury-North Node trine at 5° Sagittarius-Aries, which favors the first decan of Fire signs, pay close attention to ideas, conversations, and information that come your way. These won’t be coincidental but will be deeply connected to your destiny and personal growth.
This aspect encourages expanding intellectual horizons, making it an ideal time to envision the future, plan your next steps, and make bold choices. Use this energy to explore new paths, gather experiences, travel, and invest in friendships, social networks, groups, or advanced studies that will propel you forward and broaden your potential.
Romantic and Financial Surprises: Venus Quincunx Uranus
✨🦋On Friday, November 8, Venus forms an inconjunct with Uranus at 25° Sagittarius-Taurus, affecting the third decan of Mutable and Fixed signs. This can bring unexpected developments in your love life, values, and finances, leading to disruption and dilemmas.
A sudden breakup, an unexpected encounter, or surprise expenses could highlight where you need more freedom and the adjustments, compromises, or changes required to overcome commitment fears and to continue being creative while feeling secure.
Courage to Be Yourself: First Quarter Moon in Aquarius
✨🦋On Saturday, November 9, the Moon in Aquarius ♒at 17°.20, in its First-Quarter phase🌓, squares the Scorpio Sun and converges into a trine with Jupiter, prompting a focus on future goals and desires. However, it may also bring obstacles, disagreements, and challenges, especially if you’re stuck in situations that hinder your growth, suppress you, or restrict your freedom.
The Sabian symbol for this degree of the Moon, “A man removed his mask,” reflects a desire to reveal true intentions and authentic identity. This is a time when you might choose to make announcements to others, defend radical ideas, make a personal revolution, and say no to what does not align with you to break free from previous constraints.
Moving Past Illusions: Venus Square Neptune
✨🦋On the same day, Venus squares retrograde Neptune at 27° Sagittarius-Pisces, directly impacting the last five days of Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, and Pisces. This aspect may make us feel vulnerable, disappointed, insecure, or even deceived—victims of misguided choices, relationships, investments or disillusionments.
If you feel your boundaries have been violated and your hopes and expectations turned out to be false, resist making hasty decisions. It’s likely that your judgment is now clouded, seeing only what you want rather than what is true.
Despite the illusions, this influence also enhances compassion and empathy, calling for self-care and engagement in activities that provide a healthy escape. Use this energy in creative endeavors, spirituality, and acts of service to others, and be cautious of overindulgence, addictions, aesthetic interventions, and poor financial investments that may not yield the desired outcome.
Embrace Change as a Path to Renewal
As the Scorpio New Moon invites us from the very beginning of the month to accept the concept of endings as a necessary part of rebirth, this week could reveal newfound strengths and resilience, that allow you to transform even the hardest challenges into positive changes and build something from the ashes something that will hold greater meaning for you and the world.
Even if you can’t control every change, you can ensure that your transition is in the right direction and trust that each shift aligns you with the path that your heart and your evolving self long for.🦋
Wishing everyone a blessed and magical week ahead!✨🦋🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli