This month, I'm continuing the approach that (I hope) makes the forecast more practical and actionable. Rather than trying to track every transit, you're invited to work more deeply with what's actually alive in your life right now. As you read through the themes below, notice which questions make you think 'that's what I'm dealing with.' Those are your invitations to go deeper. It's kind of a "choose your own adventure" where you trust your intuition to pull out the parts that make sense for you to weave your magic with this month.

November presents a month of profound emotional archaeology. We're being drawn down into the Scorpio depths to excavate and release (if appropriate) what's been buried, to honour what remains when everything else has fallen away. This month we work on completing the emotional and psychological integration that October's dissolution began.

The defining pattern is a Grand Water Trine that repeats three times. First the Sun, then Mercury retrograde, then Venus - each moving through Scorpio and connecting with Jupiter and Saturn retrograde in Pisces. These aren't separate events but a continuous cycle: dive deeper, surface with what you've found, dive again. (More on this later). 

Most planets are retrograde this month (Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto). Only the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars remain in direct motion, and even Mars' movement is complex - beginning in intense Scorpio before shifting into Sagittarius and immediately opposing Uranus. So, forward momentum is the exception and so November is a month to turn inward and backward, to revisit, to look at what is undone. 

Scorpio season dominates November. The Sun, Mercury retrograde, and Venus all move through this sign of emotional depth and psychological excavation. The Full Moon in Taurus on 5th November, ruled by Mars, brings embodied wisdom to balance Scorpio's intensity. The New Moon at 28° Scorpio on 20th November, conjunct both Sun and Mercury retrograde, offers a potent reset, a chance to plant seeds in the rich fertile soil of all you've processed.

This is completion work at the bone level. We're getting down to the skeletal structure of our lives, our patterns, our ancestral inheritances. What remains when everything else has been stripped away? What foundations do you want to carry forward into 2026?

November is a traditional time of ancestor reverence across many cultures. The veil remains thin, inviting connection with lineage - both wounds needing healing and treasure waiting to be excavated. 

NOVEMBER 2025 TRANSITS AT A GLANCE

2nd November - Venus in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer

4th November - Mars in Scorpio trine retrograde Neptune in Pisces; Mars enters Sagittarius and opposes retrograde Uranus in Gemini

5th November - Full Moon at 13° Taurus

6th November - Mars in Sagittarius sextile Pluto in Aquarius; Venus enters Scorpio

8th November - Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius; Sun in Scorpio trine North Node in Pisces; Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus

11th November - Jupiter stations retrograde at 25° Cancer

12th November - Mars in Sagittarius conjunct retrograde Mercury (second meeting this autumn)

17th November - Sun in Scorpio trine retrograde Jupiter in Cancer AND retrograde Saturn in Pisces (Grand Water Trine); Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius sextile Pluto in Aquarius

19th November - Venus in Scorpio trine North Node in Pisces; Mercury retrogrades back into Scorpio then opposes retrograde Uranus in Taurus; Mercury retrograde in Scorpio trine retrograde Neptune in Pisces

20th November - Mercury retrograde conjunct Sun in Scorpio; New Moon at 28° Scorpio; Retrograde Uranus in Taurus sextile retrograde Neptune in Pisces

21st November - Sun in Scorpio opposite retrograde Uranus in Taurus; Sun in Scorpio trine retrograde Neptune in Pisces

22nd November - Sun enters Sagittarius; Mercury retrograde in Scorpio trine retrograde Saturn in Pisces AND retrograde Jupiter in Cancer (Grand Water Trine)

23rd November - Sun in Sagittarius sextile Pluto in Aquarius

24th November - Mars in Sagittarius square North Node in Pisces

25th November - Venus in Scorpio conjunct retrograde Mercury

26th November - Venus in Scorpio trine retrograde Jupiter in Cancer; Venus in Scorpio trine retrograde Saturn in Pisces (Grand Water Trine)

28th November - Saturn stations direct at 25° Pisces

29th November - Mercury stations direct at 20° Scorpio

30th November - Venus in Scorpio opposite retrograde Uranus in Taurus; Venus in Scorpio trine retrograde Neptune in Pisces; Venus enters Sagittarius

THE MAJOR THEMES FOR NOVEMBER

As you read through these three themes, pay attention to which resonance questions spark recognition in your body and experience. You don't need to work with all three - in fact, it's often more powerful to go deep with one or two rather than skimming the surface of everything. Trust what calls to you. The themes that make you think "yes, that's exactly what I'm navigating" are your invitations for deeper work this month.

Theme 1: The Repeating Grand Water Trine - Waves of Emotional Integration

Three times this month, planets in Scorpio form a Grand Water Trine with retrograde Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces (retrograde until the 28th). This isn't a single event but a rhythmic pulse of emotional processing. The Sun activates it on the 17th, Mercury retrograde on the 22nd, and Venus on the 26th.

Grand Water Trines create a flowing circuit between the personal waters of Cancer (family, roots, emotional foundations), the collective waters of Pisces (spiritual connection, ancestral patterns, collective unconscious), and the transformative waters of Scorpio (deep psychological work, shared resources, intimate bonds). Each activation offers another opportunity to integrate what's been stirring in the depths. Think of it like waves on a beach - each one reaches a little further up the shore, smoothing and reshaping what it touches.

Resonance Question: Are you feeling waves of emotion that seem to come in cycles, each time taking you deeper? Is there healing work around family patterns, spiritual beliefs, or emotional foundations that keeps resurfacing, asking for another layer of attention? Do you sense that something profound is trying to integrate, but it needs multiple passes to fully land?

Journal Prompts:

• What emotional pattern keeps returning for review this month? What new understanding emerges each time?
• How are your family stories and ancestral patterns showing up in your current emotional landscape?
• What spiritual or emotional truth is trying to find its way from your unconscious depths into conscious understanding?
• Where do Cancer (home/family), Pisces (spirituality/collective), and Scorpio (intimacy/transformation) themes intersect in your life right now?

Micro-Practice: Each time you notice an emotional wave rising (especially around the 17th, 22nd, and 26th), pause and name it: "This is the wave returning." Then ask: "What wants to be integrated this time?" Let each wave take you deeper rather than resisting the repetition.

Ritual: Find three small objects that can hold water - shells, small bowls or cups - even bottle caps will work. These three objects each represent an area of your life that is being activated this month. One each for:

1. emotional inheritance (what flows to you from family and ancestors)
2. what you're transforming within yourself
3. what healing and/ or devotion you're offering back through your spiritual practice and/ or to the collective.

Before filling them, hold each one and speak aloud what it will represent, for example : "This holds my emotional inheritance from family and ancestors," "This holds what I'm transforming within myself," "This holds the healing I'm offering back to the collective/future generations." (Use the words that feel right to you).
Then fill each vessel with water and place them in a triangle formation somewhere they won't be disturbed.

Each day, or when you feel the need, check in with your vessels. Notice the water levels, how you feel as you look or or handle them. You may notice which evaporates fastest, which stays full. Top them up as needed through the month, noticing what thoughts arise as you tend each one. At month's end, pour all three waters together onto the earth or a houseplant (or down the drain is also fine), speaking aloud anything that has arisen for you that month, and anything you wish to let go with the water.

Theme 2: The Retrograde Tide - When Moving Backward IS Moving Forward

This month, forward motion is the exception rather than the rule. Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn (until the 28th), Uranus and Neptune are all retrograde, leaving only the Venus, Mars and Pluto in direct motion (and Sun and Moon, but they never retrograde). This is an invitation to honour the work of revision, completion, and integration.

When most planets are retrograde, we're being asked to stop pushing forward regardless (soldiering on) and instead tend to what's unfinished or needs to be released. This is particularly potent as we near the end of 2025, preparing for the new territories that 2026 will bring. What loops need closing? What conversations need completing? What patterns need their final untangling?

Resonance Question: Does forward momentum feel impossible right now, like you're swimming against a current? Are old patterns, relationships, or unfinished business from earlier in the year (or further back) demanding completion before you can move forward? Do you feel the weight of incompletions - things unsaid, undone, or unprocessed - that need tending before 2026 begins?

Journal Prompts:

• What from 2025 (or earlier) keeps calling for completion or closure?
• Where have you been trying to push forward when you actually need to go back and tend to something?
• What pattern or cycle that began earlier this year is ready for its final chapter?
• If you could only complete three things before year's end, what would they be?

Micro-Practice: Make a "Retrograde List" of incompletions - conversations, projects, decisions you've been avoiding. Choose one small thing each week to complete. Focus on closing loops rather than starting new ones.

Ritual: Take a piece of string or yarn about arm's length (colour doesn't matter - use what you have). Think of five incompletions that are weighing on you: unfinished conversations, incomplete projects, unresolved feelings. For each one, tie a loose loop/ knot in the string while speaking aloud what it represents: "This knot is my unfinished conversation with [name]," "This knot represents the project I abandoned in spring," etc.

Hang or place the knotted string somewhere you'll see it daily. Each time you complete one of these incompletions (or consciously choose to release it without action), pull the know tight. As you tighten it, say aloud: "This loop is closed" or "I release this as complete." 

By month's end, any remaining loops can be buried in earth letting the earth complete the composting for you (only do this if your string is biodegradable) or burned safely. The goal isn't necessarily to close every knot, but to consciously engage with what needs closing.

Theme 3: Scorpio Season Intensity - The Depth Work

Scorpio dominates November with the Sun, Mercury retrograde, and Venus all spending significant time in this sign of emotional excavation and transformation. Scorpio demands we go into the caves of our psyche, the hidden places where we store our deepest truths and fears. (This theme is a continuation of the Deep Truth Excavation theme from October). 

The Full Moon in Taurus on the 5th, ruled by Venus, offers grounding and embodiment to balance Scorpio's psychological intensity. Mars begins the month in Scorpio before shifting into Sagittarius on the 4th, immediately opposing Uranus - a sudden break for freedom after diving deep! The New Moon at 28° Scorpio on the 20th, with Mercury retrograde conjunct, marks another deep point of excavation before we begin to surface as the planets move off into Sagittarius.

This is the month for the conversations you've been avoiding, the truths you haven't wanted to acknowledge, the shadows you've been skirting around. Scorpio doesn't let us stay small and comfortable. It asks us to be radically honest about power, intimacy, shared resources, and what we've been hiding from ourselves.

Resonance Question: Is there something asking to be excavated from the depths - a truth you've been avoiding, a transformation you've been resisting, or an emotional intensity you've been trying to bypass? Are issues of power, intimacy, trust, or shared resources coming to a head? Do you feel that magnetic pull toward the very thing you've been trying to avoid looking at?

Journal Prompts:

• What truth have you been dancing around that needs to be spoken (even if only to yourself)?
• Where in your life are power dynamics asking to be acknowledged and transformed?
• What are you ready to excavate and examine that you've kept buried until now?
• How is your relationship with intensity, depth, and emotional honesty evolving?

Micro-Practice: When you catch yourself avoiding something emotionally intense, pause and say: "Scorpio sees this." Then take just one small step toward it rather than away - send the text, open the bill, look at the photo, speak the first word. Small moves toward intensity rather than away from it.

Ritual: Write a secret on a piece of paper - something you've never told anyone, maybe even something you've barely admitted to yourself. Fold it small. On the New Moon (20th), bury it in soil (houseplant or garden) with a seed or bulb. You're not burying it to hide it but to transform it - letting it become fertiliser for new growth. The secret stays secret, but its energy transforms from something hidden into something generative. Water it through the rest of the month, knowing that your shadow work is literally feeding new life.

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Horoscopes for November 2025

(Read for your rising sign, or your sun sign, or moon sign, if you don't know your rising).

 

Aries

Keywords: Emotional excavation, shared resources, spiritual completion, ancestral healing

Life Areas Highlighted: The Full Moon in your 2nd house on 5th November illuminates values and resources, while the Grand Water Trines flow between your 4th house (home/family roots), 8th house (shared resources/deep transformation), and 12th house (unconscious patterns/spiritual work). Mars, your ruler, shifts from your 8th house of intimacy into your 9th house of expansion on the 4th, immediately opposing Uranus - breaking free from emotional depths into new philosophical territory.

Invitation: What ancestral patterns around money, power, or intimacy are ready for healing? November asks you to complete deep emotional work around family resources and shared power before launching into 2026's new adventures. The freedom you seek requires excavating the roots first.

 

Taurus 

Keywords: Relationship depths, personal revolution, partnership completion, embodied wisdom

Life Areas Highlighted: The Full Moon in your 1st house on 5th November (ruled by Mars in Scorpio) brings intense self-awareness through relationship mirrors. The Grand Water Trines connect your 3rd house (communication), 7th house (partnerships), and 11th house (community), revolutionising how you connect at every level. Venus, your ruler, spends most of the month in your 7th house of partnerships, diving deep into relationship transformation.

Invitation: Who are you becoming through your deepest relationships, and what partnership patterns need completion? This month brings opportunity to transform how you show up in intimate bonds. Your embodied wisdom (Full Moon in your sign) is the anchor while relationships undergo profound renovation.

Gemini

Keywords: Daily ritual transformation, health revelations, work completion, service evolution

Life Areas Highlighted: Uranus retrograding back into your 12th house on the 8th stirs unconscious patterns, while the Grand Water Trines flow between your 2nd house (resources/values), 6th house (daily life/health), and 10th house (career/public role). Mercury, your ruler, retrogrades through your 7th house (partnerships) back into your 6th house (daily rituals), asking you to revise how you serve and structure your days.

Invitation: What daily practices and work patterns from 2025 need completion before you can build healthier rhythms? November highlights the connection between your unconscious patterns and your physical routines. The deepest healing happens through transforming mundane habits.

Cancer

Keywords: Creative depths, ancestral creativity, romantic transformation, inner child healing

Life Areas Highlighted: Jupiter retrograde in your 1st house connects with the Grand Water Trines, making you the personal anchor point for collective emotional processing. The trines flow between your 1st house (self), 5th house (creativity/romance), and 9th house (beliefs/expansion). The Moon, your ruler, touches every planet this month, making you unusually sensitive to the collective emotional weather.

Invitation: How is your creative expression ready to mature, and what childhood patterns around joy need integration? You're the emotional conductor this month, helping others process while doing your own deep healing around pleasure, creativity, and self-expression.

Leo

Keywords: Home excavation, family patterns, foundational transformation, emotional roots

Life Areas Highlighted: The Grand Water Trines activate your 12th house (unconscious), 4th house (home/family), and 8th house (shared resources/intimacy), creating deep currents of ancestral healing. The Sun, your ruler, moves through your 4th house of foundations most of the month, illuminating family patterns that need completion.

Invitation: What family patterns or home situations require your brave heart to transform them? November takes you into the emotional basement to renovate the foundations. The psychological excavation happening in your roots will free up tremendous creative energy for 2026.

Virgo

Keywords: Communication depths, mental renovation, learning completion, neighbourhood transformation

Life Areas Highlighted: Mercury, your ruler, retrogrades from your 4th house back into your 3rd house, revising how you communicate your deeper truths. The Grand Water Trines connect your 11th house (community), 3rd house (communication), and 7th house (partnerships), transforming how you connect and share information at every level.

Invitation: What conversations need completion, and how is your voice ready to carry more emotional depth? November asks you to speak the unspeakable, to find words for what you've only felt. Your practical wisdom becomes the container for others' emotional processing.

Libra

Keywords: Value excavation, resource transformation, self-worth completion, material security

Life Areas Highlighted: Venus, your ruler, spends most of November in your 2nd house of resources and values, participating in all three Grand Water Trines. These flow between your 10th house (career/reputation), 2nd house (money/values), and 6th house (work/service), revolutionising your relationship with material security and self-worth.

Invitation: What beliefs about worth, value, and security need updating? November reveals the emotional roots of your material patterns. The deepest abundance comes from transforming your relationship with power and resources at the core level.

Scorpio 

Keywords: Personal revolution, identity transformation, self-mastery, authentic emergence

Life Areas Highlighted: This is your season of power with the Sun, Mercury retrograde, and Venus all moving through your 1st house. The New Moon in your sign on the 20th with Mercury retrograde offers profound reset potential. The Grand Water Trines flow between your 9th house (beliefs), 1st house (self), and 5th house (creative expression), supporting deep personal transformation.

Invitation: Who are you when you stop hiding your power? November is your annual resurrection moment, but this year asks for deeper excavation than usual. The person emerging from this month's cocoon will be ready for 2026's entirely new chapter.

Sagittarius

Keywords: Spiritual excavation, unconscious patterns, mystical completion, shadow integration

Life Areas Highlighted: Mars enters your 1st house on the 4th, immediately opposing Uranus and giving you energy to break free from old patterns. The Grand Water Trines activate your 8th house (transformation), 12th house (unconscious), and 4th house (roots), creating a powerful circuit for ancestral and spiritual healing.

Invitation: What spiritual or unconscious patterns have been running your life from the shadows? November brings your deepest work to the surface for integration. Your natural optimism becomes wisdom when it includes the shadow.

Capricorn

Keywords: Community transformation, friendship evolution, collective healing, future vision renovation

Life Areas Highlighted: The Grand Water Trines connect your 7th house (partnerships), 11th house (community), and 3rd house (communication), revolutionising your social connections. Saturn, your ruler, stations direct in your 3rd house on the 28th after months of communication and learning reviews.

Invitation: What role are you ready to play in collective healing, and which connections support your evolution? November shows you which communities and friendships align with who you're becoming. Your practical wisdom becomes medicine for collective transformation.

Aquarius

Keywords: Career transformation, public role evolution, reputation renovation, authority patterns

Life Areas Highlighted: The Grand Water Trines flow between your 6th house (service), 10th house (career), and 2nd house (resources), transforming your relationship with work and public authority. Pluto in your sign receives supportive aspects all month, empowering deep authentic transformation in how you show up publicly.

Invitation: How is your public role ready to transform to match your internal evolution? November asks you to bring emotional depth to your professional life. The authority you're stepping into requires integrating everything you've learned about power.

Pisces 

Keywords: Belief transformation, spiritual maturity, wisdom integration, philosophical completion

Life Areas Highlighted: Saturn stations direct in your 1st house on the 28th, completing months of identity review. The Grand Water Trines flow between your 5th house (creativity), 9th house (beliefs), and 1st house (self), with retrograde Jupiter and Neptune in your sign making you the spiritual anchor point for collective processing.

Invitation: What spiritual beliefs and practices have matured beyond recognition this year? November asks you to embody the wisdom you've gathered, to be the mystical anchor others need. Your sensitivity is a superpower when paired with Saturn's newfound direct motion boundaries.

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