With electric Uranus positioned almost directly across from this week’s New Moon, best to be prepared for a few jolts. While the lights may go on suddenly in dark corners, the changes arising from what you discover unfolds best over time. That doesn’t mean there won’t be pressure to do something now, rising up from the unconscious. The Scorpio New Moon helps you let go of what no longer serves. It assists you to mature your emotions, sculpt them into something that is your particular work of art.
The stressful change aspects the first two thirds of this month allow us to see our past self, how remnants of your history show up now in your life. If you pause, see your initial reaction, let more light (thanks Uranus) into the equation, a fresh update on you emerges. This picture is truer to who you are now. Immediate reactions mostly come from where you have been, rather than the actuality of your present situation. Your ability to watch yourself before you act and choose this moment’s interaction deliberately is rich with power.
Here’s an example. I stood waiting for Lyft ride that I hustled downstairs to catch. I had a lot of errands and was delighted he was early. The app showed him getting to the end of my block but then he didn’t turn. Suddenly it said I missed my ride. First thought was, missed was NOT what had happened. He bailed on me. I was furious picturing the delay for the next ride, the lost time and all that needed to be done. Then I took a breath and decided to imagine a kinder interpretation than those damning thoughts of him running through my mind. Had he gotten a call from a child who needed him immediately? Had he realized a bathroom break was no longer postponable?
Now I still don’t know why he canceled so close and so abruptly. The facts matter less than my willingness to think in kinder terms. I make my world a softer place to land when I keep those options front and center. Believing the worst and working up a defensive lather changed nothing of what happened. Nothing except my body chemistry on full alert of fight, flight or freeze. When I took command of the inner dialogue and changed it up, I felt better. Guess what? All my errands got done ahead of schedule.
As you sail across time’s ocean, even a small correction now can mean the difference between landing in North America or South America over time. That adjustment has to do with your ability to see the light and dark in you. With the planets making their way through Scorpio, deeper meanings, stories and motivations get ‘illuminated’ this month. It’s not always comfortable. My thoughts about that driver didn’t start out charitable. Mentally I was firing resentment bullets his way. When I can own that starting point and choose a different thought my world changes from the inside out.
It helps to level the playing field in your mind. Everyone has their shadow bits. Observe what you criticize or what bothers you the most in others. Brene Brown’s research shows that we judge others who struggle with our issues. We are just doing better in the moment than they are. Which is why we notice the gap between their bad behavior and our own to reassure ourselves of our progress. Sadly, this just locks in the behavior. This moon cycle brings those darker inner pockets to light. Not comfortable. Still I guarantee you are better off knowing and seeing your hidden motivations and emotions than you are blindly groping your way ahead.
So, find your unique process that helps talk you off the trigger point. One where you self-soothe the sting of judgement and then dare yourself to do it differently. Judging them silently reinforces our own self judgement when we make a similar mistake. Call on the inner witness again and again. As you turn your eyes inward you get the most out of the turbulence of these first couple of weeks. Reassure yourself that meaningful change takes time. Deliberately look at things with fresh eyes.
Create a better interpretation of what’s happens and even why you think it happens. One possibility is just as likely as another, especially when there’s no hard data. These small changes, mindful changes have big impact over time. There is a lot of that recognition and momentum to change available to each one of us this month. See where you want to sculpt with this energy in your world. The cards and Stars will help.
Thank you,
Lisa Greenfield
11/4/21 New Moon Queen of cups
What an interesting card to pair with this New Moon. The upside of this Queen is the hallmark of good fortune. Which, let’s acknowledge, when you command the real estate between your ears, you are fortunate indeed. The Queen’s also highlight receptivity. In this case, cups are emotional receptivity. Imagine it as your capacity to receive love. When you live in a defensive mind set, it’s hard to let anything in, right? You are always on guard against threat. So the good things are just as screened out as the ones your fear brain deems ‘threatening’.
More than almost anything else this New Moon, how kindly can you accept yourself where you are? Self love is allowing yourself to start where you are and then think and act in a way that is sustainable. Anger is a necessary emotion to help hold a strong boundary. It’s a receptive power. When things don’t agree with your sense of justice or fairness you get to say, ‘that doesn’t work for me’. Anger consolidates you, so instead of trying to appear bigger than you are it makes a firm boundary that won’t allow someone to transgress. This Moon Cycle it’s worth some time to investigate where and how you use (or misuse) your anger.
Think of it like a fire hose. When something is on fire, those compact, dense emotions can save a house. If there is little wrong but you misread the situation, suddenly you are destroying whatever receives that blast of liquid emotion. Notice where you overestimate the threat, which is really just underestimating you. Get your attention back on you. Pause, reflect, pull from the wisdom of all you’ve lived through. Now, thoughtfully deal with what’s in front of you and watch the good fortune promised in this Queen flow back your way over time.
11/5/21 eight of pentacles
As the eight implies motion that returns, so do the aspects. Venus moves into Capricorn today. Mercury moves into Scorpio to join the parade of planets in tense aspect to Uranus and Saturn. This month’s aspects are called a T-square and it looks like a one way street deadends where you can’t go forward, you have to turn left or turn right. The Sun, Mars and Mercury all hit this aspect and it requires a choice from you. This is why quality time looking at your shadow and what you fear losing is so vitally important.
Often our fear of loss is hardwired into a survival instinct and not really connected to what is helpful or necessary to the situation now. One client summed it up beautifully, he said, ‘I was faced with doing something I didn’t want to do in order to keep a job I didn’t want’. His priorities became clear, so did the course of action once he sat with the choice and what really mattered. It was hard to see how security driven he had become, but once he faced it, he took the leap. Which way will you turn this month? Let your wiser self make the choice more than your fearful self.
11/6/21 nine of swords
The theme of facing your fear is high on the list today. Because when you do look at it, you’ll be glad you did. Like any shadow, it reduces down in size the more directly the light hits it. Which is why we often race past our fear, rush to a measurable success marker to calm us down. With Pluto and Ceres in an uncomfortable relationship, what we eat matters. That means mentally and emotionally as well as physically. Please don’t feed the fears, unless you want to contract down into a lump of coal to become a diamond. You can do that, it just requires enormous pressure. There is a different choice if you want it. Shine the light on those dark places and work with what you find.
11/7/21 ten of swords
With this ten on deck today and the aspects, time to look at your history of betrayal. This is not a comfortable inventory, yet it is one that yields exponentially good results. Anytime there is betrayal it helps to look at your own part in what happened. Not to blame, but rather to learn. Were there places where things had a rough start and you judged instead of improved the situation? Were there places where you over gave or over did rather than asking the other person to meet you in more of a center ground?
Some of those places were just a raw spot and that’s all there is to it. Others had your help in letting you down. Going forward you are better prepared to work with the raw materials of any situation and know you can bring about a better result with your contribution. Or you are much wiser about knowing that you are unequally matched and look for a better place to invest your precious time. That sense of self gives you a self confidence to risk new opportunities rather than living in fear of the past repeating itself. This truly is victory from the jaws of defeat.
11/8/21 the magician
The aspects today are likely to have you doubting your choices and discoveries. You may feel like the old ways, while not comfortable any more are at least predictable. Except they aren’t. It’s not possible to keep doing what you have done and get familiar results. The exciting thing to keep hold of is that in the uncertainty is Magic. This Magician means that you being ‘in the mix’ of change can turn lead into gold.
So don’t worry so much about what things look like right now. Notice how reassuring predictable results are, yet they are ships in a harbor. That’s not what a ship was made for. You are here to live your life, not avoid difficulty and pain. When you find what you love, spend time making sure it has a place in your life, those difficulties and hurts shrink in comparison to the joy you have. Honor the fear of the unknown and find a way to trust what is inside you will make the most out of the life ahead, one moment at a time.
11/9/21 Queen of wands
The aspects today promise you will see the heat of this fiery Queen. The receptivity of the Queen means there is a good chance to practice healthy boundaries today. Instead of trying to force your will on others, focus instead on mapping a firm and flexible edge to what you will and won’t do. Because it’s likely someone will try to get you to do things there way. Hold it lightly. Let there be an element of play to it all. Like going to the gym to build muscle, find out what matters to you and why it matters. Watch out for scarcity mentality. Don’t dig in just so you don’t give up something you no longer want or need. Let whatever happens today burn off the dead wood in your life and show you what you value now and why.
11/10/21 the hermit
Today we have both Mercury and Mars huddled together at odds with Saturn. The Hermit is a strong statement to GO WITHIN. Nothing external matters here except it reveals our patterns of acting in ways that ultimately separate us from the good in our life in pursuit of a quick or aggressive result. Obstacles are often a great way to help us refine what we want enough to work for, even for long periods of time. Today you want to investigate the underground of what you commit to and where you haven’t committed consistent action. Where do you spend the bulk of your time and what does that time investment give back to you?
Instead of lashing out or fuming at delays, detours and denials, discover what truly matters to you when you don’t have it yet. How you achieve what really matters to you will ultimately define you. There is nothing wrong with wanting to stand out in your success. There is also nothing wrong with not caring about standing out. Find your individual expression that matches you and let everything that happens be what helps define your edges. Hold those healthy boundaries in spite of chaos or uncertainty and you can rest knowing that ‘being you’ is something you came her to do. Then just work on doing it well. This brings all the success you are meant to have, as if by magic.
11/11/21 five of cups
This Five of Hearts cautions us against too much focus on what you don’t have, didn’t get, didn’t want today. How do you handle disappointments? What do you tell yourself and how much blame is present? It’s healthy to honor the frustration or unhappiness we feel when things aren’t exactly going our way. The challenge is to see where we can over react with a negative interpretation when we don’t get what we want. This shuts down the creative ability to work with what we do have and help it become more of what we do want for an outcome.
Once you understand where the younger you can short circuit your ability to transform the current state into something better because it’s attached to a powerless mind set, things change. Understand that feelings of powerlessness can also make people throw their weight around to prove they aren’t helpless. Whether the compensation for a fear of hurt is under or over-performing, neither one is tuned in to what the situation requires right now. Instead it is colored by those fears, hurt and anger. Sort through those feelings, don’t shame yourself for them. Then do something constructive with them. Like see how many options are in front of you right now. The more you practice doing this, the more flexible firm and constructive you get.
11/12/21 king of cups
Have you notices that every time we get a difficult card this cycle, it is surrounded by positive cards? Hmmm… a little reminder of a nice aspect we have coming soon that means reward for good work on yourself. The harvest will be rich indeed. There are some nice ‘aha’ moments into the evening when we are willing to hold off on doing what your first impulse might be. You don’t have to hold off long, just breathe into anything that triggers you and remember the bigger outline of who you are now.
Everything you need is at hand or within resource reach. Patience, commitment and curiosity go a long way to making the magic promised by this King available to you. Remember the New Moon was the Queen of Cups. Male and Female together are a creative playground where one plus one equals three. Don’t worry about what things look like today. Manage your emotions, learn more about you and let that expand whatever unfolds. Most of all, be willing to be happily surprised over time as the seeds of today bear fruit down the line.
11/13/21 six of cups
This Six of Cups highlights childhood, as well as our own inner care system for our feelings. Which is right on cue for the Mercury/Uranus opposition. Uranus is the lightning bolt of insight that illuminates. Mercury is the Messenger who refers to how we take in information and how we then put it back out. The stories of who we are that go back to childhood are on the editing table today. Where can you right size the view of you? This matters because today offers up a window to dream of the future you want, one that is more than what you have in hand. Make sure you see yourself as big as you are and where you can grow into any space you fear you lack at the present. You have time to get ready to live that bigger life.
11/14/21 Seven of cups
This card of opportunities pairs beautifully with the exuberant Aries Moon today. Allow the fun and excitement of what’s possible to percolate through you before you rush to do anything with those possibilities. It is the feeling of potential that lubricates your imagination that is required, not refinement or action just yet. By evening some of the old sore points may pop up to help you balance the equation between what was and what may be. Hang on to your enthusiasm, it’s a lightning rod for the new. Then just work out how to integrate what doesn’t work, any resistance you may have into that dream of what can be. All your emotional ingredients serve a purpose, so be sure you include them all. Adjust proportions and you are good to go.
11/15/21 The devil
The Sun squares Jupiter then interacts with Chiron. So our ego is dialed up only to walk into the wounded side of us. This is a difficult combination if you aren’t aware. It can have us offending from a wounded position. It’s easy to use our hurts as justification for being indifferent to the feelings and wishes of others. Tend your own wounds first, this helps break the cycle. Injured pride can justify all kinds of bad behavior and the smarter you are, the better the rationalization sounds. Except it continues a cycle of abuse and scar tissue that creates little of any value. A healthy ego helps us take risks and tries something new. An unhealthy one has us trying to level old playing fields with current behavior at anyone else’s expense. The first moves you forward, the second doesn’t.
11/16/21 Ace of wands
There is a short hero’s journey to go on today. This torch of Truth, the Ace of Wands will help you navigate the dark spots. The Aries Moon meets up with the asteroid Eris, Goddess of Discord. Time to own the unclaimed parts of us. In order to belong we often abandon those parts of us that are seen as unacceptable. Where can you look with love at the bits and pieces of you that weren’t met with approval or welcome? Everyone has a measure of selfishness or greed, dishonesty or competitiveness. Let those less attractive aspects have a seat in the room, even if it’s in a corner. They are part of the human experience. When you acknowledge them, they aren’t causing mischief out of sight. You want all your energy for the forward journey ahead.
11/17/21 The Chariot
Ah, the Major Arcana card for Success! Congratulations on making it through a rather turbulent transit period. Look back and do a little review of where you met this T-square turn challenge with more authentic choice. Don’t worry if you see where one or two of those turns were dictated by old habits. Learn from that and make a conscious choice going forward. Watch for impulsive bursts today as Mars opposes Uranus and then the Moon meets up with it. It will be a safe bet that fear driven over reactions may pop up. Use all that you’ve learned leading up to this and manage your own internal weather ahead of this intense Full Moon tomorrow.
Manage the anger axis, too. It is your consolidation tool to help you hold a firm and flexible boundary. People who are unaware will resist anyone who tells them no. The young place is like a four year old with hands on hips saying ‘you aren’t the boss of me’. Your focus is to be in charge of your internal dialogue, no matter what the provocation. When you do that, nothing can stop your success. No matter the obstacle, your internal command is your guaranteed win every time.
