Pisces Monthly Horoscope

Friends and Groups

I talk a lot about friendship and also group involvement as a regular concern in your horoscope because you are ending an historic cycle not seen in your lifetime regarding these people we might call your allies, amigos, frenemies (in some cases) or ‘the team.’ November is hugely important as it enables you to finally end, in fixed and firm fine detail, a situation with a friend or group which has dominated for years.

From Christmas 2024, you are headed for your first ‘social’ New Moon without Pluto, so it’s really clearly a year-end clear-up and clean-out. The group may be Alcoholics Anonymous or a trade union. The friend may be old or new, or even a frenemy, as Nancy Mitford christened these people. Ah, dear Lavender…

Pluto has been in your Eleventh House for about 16 years, and he comes with a dog. A many-headed dog named Cerberus. This may explain the appropriate nature of canine metaphors when describing what you have been through. There have been questions about who the Top Dog is. Online circles like Facebook may have been dog-eat-dog. You may have encountered bitches. Men may have presented as hound dogs. A pack mentality has been present with teams, clubs, societies, charities, political parties, communities, coalitions and the rest. Hierarchy! Well, not for much longer.

Do you have Aquarius natal factors? Then this tremendous shift in November with, for or about your groups is personal. Power is now in the space. A diverse collection of people from all backgrounds – sex, colour, age – has a particular kind of potency from November onwards. Yet, dealing with so much new power also means that the control has to be managed quite carefully.

There will be a two-step process of sign-off with matters involving friends and groups – in November then December. A sweeping new agreement which allows for genuine give-and-take with a friend or collective will alter everything, permanently. It will be empowering for some and, perhaps, rather disempowering for others. But collectively, you will find this is a far more interesting world to wake up to in 2025, even though it is remarkably different. Reshuffles, mergers, demotions (in terms of people politics), promotions (the same) and departures are extremely common and may mark everything from a cricket team to a rock band by December 7th, 2024.

Pisces, there is something else to say about November and it concerns your workload and wellbeing. So let’s see what’s going on.

The Leo Retrograde and Your Lifestyle

You are now going to see a great deal speed up and heat up with the Mars Retrograde cycle in Leo. It is about your workload, housework and work ethic, and any study you have been involved in. It also very much involves your wellbeing – mental or physical health. What you begin, in terms of instant response or immediate action, will be about your health, job, course, part-time work, unpaid work, housework, role, mental health, fitness (the whole lifestyle) and so on. Yet, it will go backwards, get stuck and perhaps come to nothing by 2025. Allow for two steps forwards and one step back, Pisces. A classic example would be gym membership, martial arts, or a switch to a vegan diet. Mars turns around and races backwards even as you feel you have begun. The transit runs as follows:

* November 2024: Mars 0 to 5 Leo
* December 2024: Mars 6 to 2 Leo (Backwards or Retrograde).
* January 2025: Mars 1 to 0 Leo (Backwards or Retrograde).
* February 2025: Mars vanishes from Leo
* March 2025: Mars vanishes from Leo
* April 2025: Mars 0-5 Leo (Retracing his steps)
* May 2025: Mars 5 to 20 Leo (Retracing his steps)
* June 2025: Mars 21 to 29 Leo (Finishing the cycle)

I’ll quote from my book 2020 Vision (Penguin) to fill in the details.

This cycle is very much about your full-time or part-time job. If you run the home instead of working, then it applies to your daily routine in the house or flat. An issue will arise now which requires realistic timing. This may send you back and forth for weeks, even months. Be aware of that with paperwork. Read the fine print. Under normal circumstances, you would race off with priorities regarding your work or wellbeing in November and see rapid outcomes. Instead, Mars Retrograde in Leo suggests a long loop or circuit, stretching into the first half of 2025.

If you have anything in Virgo in your natal chart, this is doubly important as you are going into the South Node in Virgo cycle (also in your zone of work and wellbeing) from January 2025. Rather than just dive into action regarding your job, health, housework, unpaid role, wellbeing, study and lifestyle – find out. A bit of research in November could help a lot, next year.

If you have anything in Capricorn in your natal chart, then November ends a long period of power and control issues with your career, vocation, course or role. There is a final compromise in December. This may be directly relevant with the long, drawn-out Mars cycle in your workload zone into 2025. So, this is personal for you. Pick up the Tarot, your Garden Oracle reading or Astrology Oracle reading for personal insights on what can work for you.

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