Exact time of New Moon: November 9, 2026 1:01am Central
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Lunation Square Mars, trine Ceres.
As the Moon begins to become more apparent and its crescent becomes more visible in the night sky later this week, both Mercury and Venus Station direct from their apparent backward motion, which, for many of us, is the conclusion of an eight year period of exploring who we really are in relation to everything that is not us with the deeper purpose of living our most authentic and meaningful life.
For the last eight years, we have been on a very conscious exploration of learning how to live deeply, passionately, and with presence, power, and purpose. That exploration has not been easy. What alchemical process is easy? On a deeply astrological level, and in the words of an undeniable process which occurs in Nature, we have been composting our life’s experience. We have been digesting life, extracting what nutrients we can, and finding pathways of excretion for that which has been… undesirable.
This has literally been eight years of consumption that we have been digesting intensely since the Full Moon in Libra on April 1. Venus, the planet most resonant with Libra, is stationing direct in Libra this Friday the 13th along with Mercury stationing direct in Scorpio.
Hold on and allow me to describe the enormity of this…
Every 19 months or so, a retrograde Venus conjoins the Sun. Arielle Guttman calls this a Venus Star Point. Over eight years there are five of them. Placed on the circle of the zodiac, that forms a five pointed star! Where those five points of that star (or those stars, since it happens throughout our life), fall in our chart, we are looking at a story, a theme, a sequence of learning, growth, and evolution that we can often see percolate up biographically in our life.
We are at the conclusion of eight years of a star beginning and ending in early Scorpio
This New Scorpio Moon brings into our multidimensional awareness what these incredibly deep themes in our life are all about. We may have experienced glory. We may have experienced tragedy. We may have experienced profundity. We may have seen the Dark. We may have experienced complete and total karmic transformation of our unconscious trauma. But whatever may be going on in our biography; our relationships, our needs for peace, our definition of self and what it needs, suggests our prerogative with this new moon to set intentions of creating the end product of the composting process; the rich, yummy compost which feeds our growth and blossoming.
With whatever we have experienced in life, we are now asked to come to a place where we live more deeply, more honestly, more truly, and more in alignment with our power, our passion, our purpose, and our presence. In Scorpio, we acknowledge the deepest truth of our life; that we are mortal. This all ends. Some pieces of us will stay in this three dimensional realm, carried on by children, art, and the love we have infected others with, but our self in this life, ends. Therefore, every moment is sacred. Therefore, there is no room for the superfluous, the false, or anything other than the purity of our love, our joy, our contributions, and maybe some ice cream, flowers, and good lovin’ along the way!
Set the intention, this New Moon of living your most passionately alive life, not out of the fear of death, but with the acknowledgment of how incredibly and beautifully sacred this life is. Choose to live life as deliberately as Nature. Compost the fear of mortality, spread it over that which you wish to see blossom, and all will be well.
– Courtesy of Evolutionary Astrology with Ryan Evans. Visit ryanevansastrology.com for readings and classes.
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