On November 8 we have Jupiter moving into Sagittarius until December of 2019. All planetary movement is important, but this particular one is beneficial since the planet is moving into its home sign. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Fittingly, it was named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology. Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus. Jupiter takes approximately 12 years to travel through all of the signs and stays in each sign approximately 1 year.
Today Venus turns retrograde until November 16, 2018. Venus begins in the sign of Scorpio and then on October 31, moves backwards into Libra for the remainder of the retrograde period. Unlike Mercury that orbits retrograde 3 or 4 times a year, Venus only retrogrades every 18 to 24 months. For the next 6 weeks, we are going to be casting a critical eye on all our relationships and evaluate if they are enhancing our lives.
Conflict or Accord? It’s going to be one or the other this month. While the first half of the month we bask in the Sun in fair-minded Libra, its peacekeeping qualities become diminished when Venus (Libra’s ruler) joins Neptune and Uranus and turns retrograde on October 5 until mid-November. This year, Venus will spend the first part of its retrograde (from October 5 to 31) in intense, erotic Scorpio, dredging up power struggles, forcing us to look at intimate ties and dangling tempting-yet-toxic “sex with an ex” scenarios.
