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Aries, you spend November with Mars Retrograde in Leo in your Fifth House which describes sexual relationships (with parenthood potential). This same house, or horoscope zone, also points to babies, infants, schoolchildren, teenagers or Millennials (Gen Y). Backwards action describes it. Mars is your ruler. What you might normally expect to be over and done within a few days (like a break-up) or even a few weeks (blending the families) will drag on into 2025.
Aries, you can accept that you’ll have an inner conflict or someone else will. Mars is the god of war. Obviously, you’d pick a different period to conceive a child, enrol your son at university for 2025 or talk to your daughter about her career. You’d want something other than Mars Retrograde in Leo to fall in love with. In fact, Aries, it becomes much easier if you realise you are cycling backwards (or they are). Real breakthroughs in understanding once you realise how Mars works.
* 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)
This is when you could adopt or conceive, but with rescheduling or perhaps even retracting a promise. It marks a new beginning in terms of the next generation in your circle of friends or within the family, but backwards. Of course, Leo is not just about your own children, godchildren, nieces, nephews or grandchildren. This zodiac sign is associated with raising the young, by educating them or influencing them – setting an example. So a teaching, mentoring or guiding role could be reshaped backwards, or even come to nothing.
The phrase ‘Marry in haste, repent at leisure’ is redolent of Mars, the planet of impulse, heat, speed and action before thought. Mars is also notorious for strife, so be sharply aware of November 2024 as the start of a pinball machine game where the ball will be pinging all over the place until June 2025. Yes, June 2025. If you have Leo factors in your natal chart, you can double that message. This is personal for you.
You will be (soon) in a much easier position with your profession, unpaid vocation or academic career. Even though November will give you a couple more hurdles to jump on this Olympic marathon, you should be able to see the light at the end of 2024. By Christmas, only the Sun will remain in this zone of your chart (in terms of factors of any importance) and the intensity of this year in particular should be a fading memory. This has been about social status and success. But it’s really been about your formidable willpower and steely self-control, hasn’t it?
In terms of your success, achievement, ambition and status, you did what you had to do and learned a lot. Yet, life should never be that hard. Once you have jumped over a couple of barriers, you will get your second wind and from the middle of November. Use what you are left with to take full advantage of an opportunity to park the past in the past.
You need to (even now) get over 2017 when Saturn (slow, serious, stuck, sombre situations) moved into your job, study and unpaid work zone, as you have been dealing with a long and drawn-out process of tests and trials for many years.
The other reason for the long and drawn-out feeling of tests, trials and waiting games was the South Node of karma, also in Capricorn, from November 7th, 2018, until May 5th, 2020. The South Node put you on a repetitive loop, taking you back to karma from April 10th, 2000, until October 13th, 2001, in your working life, your profession or your student life. This will all take time to unpack in November.
As if that wasn’t enough, Aries, you have also been living with Pluto (a slow and intense transformation) in your Tenth House of success, status, ambition and achievement too. Pluto entered Capricorn and your Tenth House on January 26th, 2008, and remained there on and off into late 2024. So, these years of steady and deep change also need reviewing as it has been affecting the balance of power with your staff, colleagues, employers, clients, professors or classmates. It is notoriously a cycle of demotions, departures, promotions and new appointments, Aries. Boy, do you ever need December to relax on the sofa with a Bloody Mary.
As for Neptune in Pisces in your Twelfth House – that has been your escape throughout as this transit has been about private escapism. The Twelfth House is about your unconscious mind, your soul, your spirit or etheric body. The Twelfth House is linked to out-of-body experiences as much as it rules psychics or psychologists. For years now, you have been taken into alternative realities through being alone. Meditating, dreaming, experimenting with the Tarot or exploring Christianity are all good examples of what it means to have Neptune in the Twelfth House. Finding an alternative world through your hypnotist, your religion; astrology; Tarot cards; counselling; psychics; psychologists has been your ‘out’ for some time. Again, this is a closing cycle. It finishes in 2025.
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Taurus, what we have here is a big, backwards focus on your family circle, family tree, household, apartment, house, property interests, town and/or country. So, let’s look at the process before you commence with buying or selling property, renovating, or making substantial choices about the family or household.
* 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)
What would normally take weeks could take up to eight months. Read the terms and conditions on building contracts and think about a third professional and impartial opinion if there is serious issue about a relative or flatmate. This extends to your town and country, as well, as some Taurus people are more concerned with their sense of nationhood, citizenship or heritage, history and ancestry. Mars is the Roman God of War. Choose your battles carefully because they may involve rescheduling and even cancellation, Taurus.
What we are also seeing in November is the end of power and control issues about foreign people and places, regional differences about local culture or customs, the worldwide web and your use of the global internet, digital and traditional publishing, and formal or informal education. One or two areas on that list are more important than the rest to you.
You were, at one point, living with some really heavy realities since December 2017, when Saturn changed signs and 2018 was a very big ask indeed. Now, you are unpacking the past – because you can afford to do it.
Taurus, what you’re looking at here with your Ninth House (the areas which it rules I just listed above) is a rebalancing. A new world. A better deal. A superior arrangement which addresses all those issues you have been living with for such a long time. This can and does end well for you, Taurus, but you are going to have to cross bridges as you finish Pluto in Capricorn in November, then must finish Ceres in Capricorn by December 7th, 2024.
A high percentage of Taurus people will be switching courses, enrolling in degrees, taking part-time home tuition, or doing it the other way – teaching, mentoring, guiding, tutoring. The personnel will be foreign or bilingual. Again, the power and control issues stop in November with a wrap-up in December.
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We have some rare Capricorn end game events in November. Capricorn rules your finances, house, superannuation/pension, salary, credit card, apartment, business interests, shares, possessions, charity, tax return, loans, deals and so on.
You have been living with questions about self-control and self-discipline since 2008. So, years of ongoing issues about how empowered you are or how powerless you feel before (you fill in the blanks). Now, there are solutions. Now, there are options. What you farewell (or whom you farewell) in November enables a deal in December with a life-changing compromise by the 7th. In fact, Gemini, it is all leading up to a big finish when there will be a deep change in the balance of power. This may be your bank manager or your business partner. You’re going to see alignment and balance at last. But you don’t really get there unless you cross a few bridges in early November.
You are going to make or save a lot of money from June 2025 until June 2026, so it is worth peering into the future. Jupiter moves into your profit and savings zone from June next year. That’s not so far away. They called Jupiter ‘optimi maximi’ in Rome and you should maximise your optimism now about next year. Whatever you are seeing for yourself with the financial, property, charity or business side of your life should become a straight goal.
With Pluto transits, like the one you have had since 2008, empowerment coming from willpower is the answer. There is also control coming from self-control. These are the only ways forward. Who or what has come your way is the means to an end, and it’s a very good end, as you will see in November. Pluto does leave you with permanent economic strength and clout if you put the years in.
You have quite a long backlog to work through regarding your phone, computer, use of the worldwide web (Twitter or YouTube, for example) or the media. We would also include education and publishing in this category, just because they are all linked to communication in your chart. Expect backwards action. A long period of rescheduling, rethinking, retracting statements and reprising what was there.
The Third House, where Mars Retrograde in Leo reverses and vanishes, is also where we find your brother, sister or cousin. Mars can see battles. Do not let anything become a war or it will drag on rather like 1939. Try to expedite your most important media, internet or sibling plans before Mars Retrograde begins. While it is at full tilt, allow for the ‘re’ prefix for everything. Here are the dates to show you the reversals and vanishing acts.
* 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)
By the way, this is a good period for first and second drafts. But try not to get into a war of words online as it will drag on. And on. Mars does love a fight and he’s running backwards and forwards (then running away) far more than is sensible. You don’t really want that kind of thing, eating up your internet, by 2026. He enters Leo on November 5th, 2024. Your Guy Fawkes moment.
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The sign of Capricorn rules your other half, or the other side, as you probably know. They could be any sign at all, of course, but when we see a lot of activity in your opposite sign of Capricorn in November and December, it’s obviously the end of a chapter. In fact, this is an ongoing background story which began around 16 years ago, either with this same person or a sequence of them (multiple dates or relationships). Faces may have changed but the song remains the same. Total Control by The Motels may have been one of them. I’m joking…but not quite. The relentless transit of Pluto in Capricorn has made Complete Control (Joy Division) a recurring issue either with the same person (your husband, your ex) or a chain of partners, exes or enemies. Now? You sign off, for good.
Partnership is usually sexual on this cycle (a marriage for example), but it can be purely for work or business. Sometimes partnerships, duets or ‘dynamic duos’ spring up for other reasons, but it’s always about the two of you trying to balance the scales together. This does end with permanent empowerment if you pushed back and pushed hard. How well, depends on you! If you are going to put a huge amount of time and energy into crossing the bridge to get out of this space, you may as well make sure that the final deal around December 7th, 2024, is as strong as you can make it – both with them and yourself.
The second half of November and December is a long overdue piece of repair work. You might call it the ultimate rebalancing. Something has been unbalanced for years in terms of your own empowerment or control in a situation. Well, let’s be frank – since 2008, you’ve often not had it at all. This may be down to the personality of your former or current partner (he or she may have been dominating and controlling). That can happen on this cycle. There are so many outcomes, and your personal chart really tells the story. Perhaps you have been stuck on some kind of online dating loop for years and have felt at the mercy of some “Fat Controllers” to quote Thomas the Tank Engine. Or thinner Controllers. Again, this is really down to your personal birth chart which you will have if you are a Premium Member.
Sometimes the Pluto issue is the acceptance of someone/something you know you are controlled by and have given into regarding a partner. This could be a potential date which never happens, or the memory of someone you lost. And it can be the entire online dating industry. Control is something you have won the long, hard way, Cancer. Rather than list the examples of Pluto transiting Capricorn for you, suffice to say it’s been ending in slow, stop-start stages since 2023, and November is the final sign-off for another 248 years.
If you are in a really difficult relationship which you cannot escape from, it may be that November/December 2024 provides you with the apartment you need. Or the other person may find a lover and you are given permission to go. The get-out clause with Pluto in Capricorn is followed by the compromise and deal-making of Ceres in Capricorn, following up until December 7th, 2024.
Cancer, Leo rules your rent, your debts, your business interests, your pension or superannuation, your bank, tax return and so on. Be aware that the heat rises and the action doubles or trebles in speed and quantity once Mars enters Leo. He moves backwards, so time your moves with that in mind as this is an agenda (yours, his, hers or theirs) which will also move backwards.
* 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)
If you have factors in Leo, then the issues here may be about your children, your new partner’s children, or the teenage and younger adulthood concerns for a son, daughter, godchild and so on. Fertility, unwanted pregnancy (abortion) and adoption also come under Leo. If you can hold your horses…then hold your horses. If you can’t, then allow for this really long to-and-fro cycle into June 2025. Choose your battles carefully if this is about child custody as they will go for longer than you thought and, at one point, reverse.
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Leo, this is the firm, final, fixed and finished end point with your lifestyle, wellbeing and workload. You can’t really separate your body from your job or your unpaid work or study. In fact, from head to toe, everything is connected. We include your mind in that, too, as mental health is obviously about self-care as much as the issues you might take to a doctor or healer.
Ever since Pluto changed signs in 2008, you’ve had around 16 years of questions about ‘fitness for duty’ or ‘fitness for service’ as so much of what you do is about putting other people first. This can be the case even if you’ve been the President of the United States which Barack Obama was. Leo, you have quite naturally kept your mental and/or physical health issues to yourself unless it was obvious to others. Pluto in Capricorn has challenged you to find your self-control and willpower all this time and you are now stronger for it.
Capricorn weather, prolonged for years (virtually climate change in your chart) rules your wellbeing, job, unpaid work, full-time or part-time study and your housework. People, organisations or situations which have pushed you very hard have come and gone. Now, in November 2024, you sign off for the last time in 248 years. And so, to your doctor, hypnotist, naturopath, surgeon, personal trainer, yoga teacher or your health insurance, medication, food, drink, drugs, and the rest. You are proceeding towards a reckoning-up and rebalancing here by the 7th of December as Ceres in Capricorn succeeds where Pluto in Capricorn leaves off. This may be a half-and-half arrangement with yourself, him, her or ‘that’ in your life.
Workload is the other sign-off here. For some Leo people, this is clearly the end of a job, redundance, retirement, promotion, or a new role. In other cases – depending on your health situation possibly interfering with work, housework, study and so on – it’s a year-end wrap. You will unwrap it in a thorough way in November and early December.
As I’ve said, this may have been about your unpaid work, as much as your paid work, or a university/college degree. Housework is integral as is the care of a dog or cat (all ruled by the Sixth House in your chart). It all adds up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and what you are doing now is quite momentous. You are stronger. Not quite invincible, but you must feel quite close to that. Your stoicism is formidable. Pluto’s gift to you for all that you have been through with workload and wellbeing since 2008 is tremendous self-respect, self-reliance and deep self-knowledge.
This cycle can end in a trivial way. You move into an apartment with a dishwasher, drier and service (a cleaner). You realise the dog which bullied you when a puppy is now a completely different creature. More seriously, Leo, if you have been undermined, ignored or short-changed professionally by jealous rivals, you will now see them moved out of the picture, for whatever reason. Or – you will simply no longer care.
Mars Retrograde in Leo needs some tactics. Leo rules the First House of your solar chart, which is where you focus on your title, reputation, personal appearance, persona, profile, packaging and presentation. Half the battle is how you are known or viewed – how you appear. Expect delays, stop-start, and even cancellations between now and 2025. Plan accordingly.
This is the full timetable of Mars Retrograde in Leo:
* 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)
Mars rules what you attack (so, attacking your appearance as an example) and also what you pioneer (so, pioneering a new way to promote yourself online). Mars is also associated with a battering ram approach – ramming forward, locking horns and charging in. Just be aware that doing this regarding your own name, face, appearance and projected personality will involve reversals and perhaps cancellations. If you jump the gun on a name change, for example, or your Facebook status (if you are even on there), then you may have to un-jump later on.
Do you have Aries factors in your natal chart? Double that message. There is more to this profile business than meets the eye, especially in 2025, when Saturn and Neptune enter your natal First House. If this is about branding, you may want to seek impartial professional advice.
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Virgo, you are now at the end point with long-running issues (for the last 16 years) about sexual relationships with parenthood potential; pregnancies; babies; infants; schoolchildren; Millennials. This includes your own grown-up adult children if you are the right age.
This is such an important downhill slope of relief and release, coming in slow stages, that I will quote from my books (2020 Vision, Handbag Horoscopes, Astrolove: Penguin) to give you the detail.
As discussed, this long cycle which began in 2008, affects the world of children. This means your own son or daughter, as well as any godchildren, grandchildren, nieces or nephews in your life. A looser connection to children through your job, for example, or through friends’ sons and daughters, or even through your hobbies, roles, goals and interests involving much younger people may also have been on the agenda. You may also be concerned (or have been concerned) with issues like pregnancy, infertility, adoption, postnatal depression, miscarriage and abortion at this time too. The loss of a child can be almost impossible to bear on this transit.
Pluto ruled the underworld in the Roman tradition which informs modern astrology today. Pluto took, took over, seized, tried to control and the rest. Resisting this, him, her or them (Pluto shows up as both people and situations) has made you impressively strong since 2008. You are now well and truly empowered, having taken on formidable odds and can congratulate yourself on having earned permanent status (in the eyes of others), as not just a survivor, but a victor.
You can be a grandparent or even a great-grandparent on this cycle and have issues with that role and the realities of those younger faces. A teacher with a class, or an entertainer with a young audience. The father in the IVF process or the mother who is still dealing with a miscarriage. This is a two-step. Pluto vanishes from Capricorn and your solar Fifth House by the middle of November. Ceres then resumes the job of deal-making, compromise agreements, shared control and redistributed reins. By December 7th, 2024, you will sign off.
Do you have Leo factors in your natal chart? There is an aftermath to this, as Mars Retrograde runs through Leo, also your Fifth House of offspring and younger people 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)
Allow for stop-start, cancellation and go-slow please. Don’t just assume you can rush at this and have it over and done within a few weeks because Mars is backwards here. If this is child custody or similar, be aware that what you begin in November will be walked back in December. This seems likely for those of you organising Christmas. Your personal chart will tell a more personal story. You are welcome to use the Tarot, Garden Oracle and Astrology Oracle on this website for more guidance if you are a Premium member.
Leo weather (Mars Retrograde in Leo) is more like climate change from November 2024 to June 2025. It brings a strong focus on your psyche, soul, spirit, psychology, psychic ability, astral body, chakras, aura and inner life. Your hidden self. Your relationship with your God or the Universe. So, astrology or Tarot, and, in some cases, found in others such as counsellors and therapists, even diaries or journals. We associate this transit with the use of new psychiatric drugs for depression or anxiety, as much as we associate it with mediums and the spiritualist church. It’s about the invisible inner world, Virgo, and it’s about to heat up and move far more quickly. Dream interpretation is another example of this transit. This can be the Vatican (if you are a Roman Catholic) or the Church of England if you were brought up in that faith.
The Leo weather is so personal because you may not be religious at all (of course). Yet, what we are seeing here about your inner life, inner world, secrets, spirit, and soul is a call to action. The dates above are the same for this cycle, but in your solar chart (not your natal chart) it is about the need to push forward, possibly attack, and certainly charge in with an area of your soul, psyche or spirit which nobody can see. I would be extremely careful with magic, however it presents itself, as you are dabbling with the lower astral when you do this and Mars Retrograde is not helpful. Dion Fortune knew a thing or two.
Do you also have Pisces natal chart factors? Then this is even more important as your natal Twelfth House of inner life, solitude, Christianity (and its rivals, like psychiatry) is currently taking up a huge amount of your time and energy on a personal level. It needs time, but the cycle ends in 2025.
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Political party? Twitter? Theatre group? Charity? The area of your chart ruled by Leo is now action stations, but it’s action running backwards. You will need some strategies. This may be a football team or an online group like Substack. Friends are an integral part of the cycle, and Mars Retrograde in Leo in the Eleventh House indicates the potential for conflict. You will only ever act if you feel a situation is unjust, unfair or even illegal, Libra. Choose your battles with groups and friends carefully on this transit as it runs for months – not weeks, as it normally would.
Remembering Mars is about action, heat and conflict, understand its motion retrograde (or backwards) 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)
You will see what one episode of Eastenders on rewind until June would normally be next year. Bearing that in mind, make sure you write the script very carefully this November 2024. If you have the luxury of putting off major plans with friends or groups (for example a coalition enterprise) until after Mars has corrected his motion, you may want to do that. If you can begin a new political party, at any time, you may want to think about the second half of 2025.
Do you have Aquarius natal chart factors? This entire episode with friends, social media like Substack, or a group is far more important. Real power is now in the space. From November, you will become aware of what you saw in 2023 and earlier in 2024 – higher stakes and bigger questions about who or what holds the reins. If so, use your Tarot, Garden Oracle and Astrology Oracle to guide you on this.
As you know, November is a sign-off with the family (perhaps just one or two relatives) and, likely, your house or apartment. Your local area or town may be another target for a sign-off or even your entire country. The household (flatmates, live-in partners) is another obvious area here. When Pluto finally, irrevocably leaves your home, family, property and country zone for the last time, you are rid of some of the biggest challenges you’ll ever know. You’ve had this transit since 2008. As this cycle is so central, I am going to quote from my book 2020 Vision (Penguin) to explain it better to you.
Let’s look at your lease, mortgage or property investment first. You need to become a DIY expert on all this for the very last time in November and December, so you can be thoroughly updated about everything from your legal situation with landlords, to the realities of hiring builders. Do build a plan that works and stick to it for the sign-off moment in November (phase one) and then up to December 7th (phase two).
How will you know if your sign-off strategy is sound? Firstly, it will have worked before – for other people. Secondly, it will be absolutely right for now. As I’ve mentioned, this can be about your council and town as much as your government and country. On a smaller scale, it can be about the apartment or house itself, as a metaphor for what is going on with family members or household members too.
Your relationship with your parents, your close relatives (anyone from sisters to uncles) and your own immediate family (your partner and children) needs attention as your famous ability to balance the scales is now central. The advice and insights of experts or those who have been there, done that, with their own families could be enormously helpful. This may be a legal matter.
There are some aspects of your family, household, hometown, homeland, house or apartment situation from 2008-2024 you would prefer to forget. Yet, they have made you stronger. Pluto empowers those who have the willpower. What has happened to you has been very difficult to bear. Perhaps this has been about your own country. Yet, as you sign off in two stages in the second half of November and first half of December, you will also realise that you are a formidable presence these days. Your self-respect and self-knowledge have transformed since 2008, purely as a result of your steely grip on your own reins. That never goes. Yet, you will welcome 2025 as a completely different year with the family, property, town and/or country. Pluto has well and truly left the building. Any manipulators, power-trippers or control freaks may also have gone, for whatever reason. This is a huge detox for you, Libra.
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I doubt very much the situation with your particular company, field, business, industry, profession is normally this heated or action-packed. This sequence of dates, below, will show you the stop-start nature of what is in store. November is extremely important, Scorpio, because what you begin now will hang around for far longer than usual. The maxim to choose your battles is very wise.
* 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)
The Tenth House of your solar chart is about your rank, status, position, mission and ambition. Leo rules this and now Mars is going backwards in this sign, which suggests reversals, vanishing acts, stop-start progress and even cancellation with an original plan. It is rather like being Henry V going once more, once more, once more – wherever he is going. Mars is always about battering rams on one level or another, but you would be wise to have long-term tactics here allowing for retreat and then charge more than once.
Mars can show up as an old-school man, rather like a gladiator in the arena shoving his way forward or a member of the armed forces in the front line. If somebody like this emerges, or re-emerges, in your career, at university or with your unpaid work – be aware. This individual will go backwards and forwards and even drop off the scene at one point. That’s the astrology. You also have Neptune and Saturn going into your Sixth House of work, unpaid work and academia in 2025. So, there are long-term consequences of how you deal with him/her/them or this. Mars does occasionally show up as a woman pretending to be John Wayne but, in general, this is a male, or males, plural.
Next year, you will go into a completely different phase of your existence, taking a vacation from reality and a holiday from normality. This may be early retirement or a very particular kind of job. It is there partly as a consequence of the run-up which begins in November 2024. You may return to study, for example, and go into an Ivory Tower bubble. If ever there was a time to sit down with a notebook and plan some plans, it’s November. Just allow for the potential for reversals and also long pauses in the plan. Need I say that health may also be uppermost in your mind, if your natal chart agrees?
If you have anything in Capricorn in your natal chart, then the picture becomes even more personal and important. There is a sign-off in November and December involving people, organisations or situations which have had far too much control for far too long. Nobody would be surprised to see mergers, retirements, redundancies, resignations or even other kinds of departures dot the landscape.
Talking about a sign-off, when we go back to your solar chart, it’s curtains for organisations (like Google or Facebook, for example, or The New York Times or X-Twitter) with any lingering control over your powers of communication, internet use, the phone, public speaking, writing, education and so on. In general, even beyond your actual mental processes, what we have here is a major question about the media for some of you. And, in other cases, it’s very much about being read or being heard on YouTube, email, Zoom and the rest.
As a Scorpio, total control is very important to you because it defines how you operate, particularly with financial, charity, business or property relationships. Yet, since 2008, you’ve never had it because of the peculiar sequence of transits in Capricorn, which rules your Third House of writing, public speaking, private correspondence, the telephone and the rest.
You are now on the downhill slope and will see progress in two stages. The first sign-off is in November and the second up until December 7th. There are issues here about becoming empowered online and that comes down to your willpower. Also, about control (again online), and that comes down to self-control. There will need to be a compromise here, but you’ll successfully make it. A new landscape will open up for you in 2025.
Scorpio, sometimes the issue is not Facebook on this transit, nor is it media outlets which ignore you, undermine you or try to belittle you. (The word ‘belittle’ being characteristic of Pluto, the dwarf planet, locked in combat with the other dwarf planet, Ceres). No, you may have been dealing with issues affecting your hearing, eyesight, voice or hands. Perhaps your ability to remember or process information. This is Pluto in the Third House, writ large. As he disappears for another 248 years, so does a very long stretch of challenge for you.
Do you have Gemini factors in your natal chart? Double the message. You are in a terrific cycle for problem-solving and redemption. In fact, the best is yet to come for you online, behind a microphone or a lectern, with results rewarding you by June 2025 at the very latest.
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Challenges, tests of your character and trials involving your finances, company, charity, valuables or property have made a kind of chain since 2008. The long transit of Pluto in Capricorn, in your Second House of money, business, philanthropy, possessions, houses and apartments has pushed you very hard for an exceptionally long time. You can be rich on this transit (as rich as Taylor Swift) and still experience the relentless nature of Pluto, which is associated with nuclear levels of power, coming at you from all sides. Overpowering people, organisations and situations have been a staple for around 16 years, Sagittarius. This may be your husband who holds the purse strings or just the reality of your government’s tax policy.
There is a double sign-off here. Mid-November 2024 rings the changes as you realise that what you have seen since 2023 was the slow but sure exit of people, situations or organisations which dominated. That’s no longer the case. At about the same time, the Ceres transit encourages you to sign off on a compromise or deal no later than December 7th. Leave the feelings parked outside. Emotions do not assist in what needs to be an enduring agreement with him, her or them.
This will hold and, in fact, you will realise that 2025 is going to be a completely different year from just after Christmas when the New Moon in Capricorn comes in. New year, new life budget, and new life (actually). What you have done is wrangle Pluto in Capricorn for many years and this has made you stronger, more resilient, and given you something which money cannot buy which is sure and certain self-respect. They can’t take that away from you.
November needs a strategy for you as a tourist, explorer, migrant, student, teacher, author, publisher or worldwide web user. For reasons that will be clear by December, you are going to see reversals and delays for some months, perhaps even with a cancellation. This is Mars Retrograde in Leo in the Ninth House. The dates are as follows, below:
* 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)
This is particularly relevant to your life as a teacher, lecturer or professor if you also have Leo factors in your natal chart. When you plan the next term or two, allow for retracted steps. Mars describes the assertive push to be first or compete as best you can. This now applies to a person or group surrounding your intention to travel, study, teach, publish or emigrate. Normally, you would wrangle this in a few weeks and be done with it. Now, the retrograde or backwards motion of Mars suggests a protracted period of recycling, retreating and just about any word with the ‘re’ prefix.
If you have the luxury of travelling at any time at all, you may want to put it off until Mars is out of the loop. Destiny is negotiable, as Geoffrey Cornelius famously observed. It really depends on your personal chart, though. If you have a Sagittarius stellium in the Ninth House and you can see it’s caught up in squares or even a T-Square, then you may want to think quite seriously about what you intend to do and when you intend to do it.
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Capricorn, Pluto now moves into Aquarius for the next 20 years or so. Now, there will be enlightenment and also discussion – facts and figures – in November, December, January and February. You will ultimately end up with a fresh start with all that you own, earn or owe. 2025 is a big year. Historic, actually.
The money question doubles in importance as Mars will retrograde through Leo, which rules joint finances and property too. So, this is not just about your own private income, debts, possessions, house or apartment. Your own shares or company. It is also about an unusually long period of to-and-fro with your husband (say) or your father-in-law (for example). Be really careful about what you begin in November, Capricorn, because it will be with you for months. Retrograde means, backwards. Vanishing, means vanishing. This is most peculiar and means the situation disappears for a time.
* 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)
Choose your battles. This may be about what is free (though really, there is no such thing as a free lunch) or the terms of a will. It may be even more complicated than that, but this entire issue about control dates from 2023. It is only now in November that you realise a new deal is on the table – and that will be nutted out from December 7th. As you go into January 2025, it will become clear that February is the end point for the calculations. And you will be adding up, subtracting, or dividing what cannot be priced. Some people are precious enough to be priceless and some ‘commodities’ (like your values) don’t have a tag on them either. Capricorn, this is even more important if you have natal chart factors in Taurus, as this is nothing short of a revolution. Yet, like all revolutions, it ends (in 2025), and you will win independence which can’t be purchased in any auction.
I write a lot about this for you, Capricorn, because it’s been a story about 16 years. That’s how long you have had Pluto in your sign. Essentially, this may be wardrobe, Wikipedia entry, Twitter profile, portrait, basic title, or your face. The clothes on your back (for some of you), your reputation or what the web says about you (which you cannot control). If you are famous, how the media portrays you and how it seeks to operate the strings.
You get to see the final pay-off in November when there is a tremendous and sweeping solution once and for all. It runs very deep and will correct a great deal. Then, from December 7th, the compromise over yourself is off your back. Just before Christmas. Sure, this is superficial stuff. It’s just your exterior. But it has become a channel for so much else. Your own power or lack of it. Your own control or lack of it. The behemoth that is Facebook may have had a direct impact on how you feel about yourself, for example. And none of it has been anything you can control.
I am going to quote from my book 2020 Vision (Penguin) to give you more detail on what is going on. This cycle was actually predicted for you many years ago, back in 2008, when this book first appeared, Capricorn. It’s good to look back. To see what and who made you stronger. You are now formidable, hugely respected and have won solid self-respect for all you have survived and triumphed over. This entire sequence of transits since 2008 has ruled your mask, your performance, and your image. This cycle has nothing to do with the person inside, but everything to do with how you are seen and how you project, present and package yourself to the outside world.
When Saturn was in Capricorn, you learned a great deal about self-control and self-discipline. Whatever concern you had about how you were seen, how you appeared, what you looked like on Google – and how the world rated you – encouraged you to work hard on shoring up your image. Saturn is your ruler, so being in a ring-fenced situation came naturally, but that did not make it any easier. This may have been your physical appearance (some Capricorn readers were on crutches) or just your very public internet face. It will take time to take stock and start again. However, the New Moon just before New Year’s Eve is ideally timed for a relaunch in 2025. In fact, your diary may already be showing a particular event that suits this so well, Capricorn.
If your reputation or image is tied up with your career, and your chart is tilted the right way, natally, then it looks as if January 2025 will see the end of a stuck, circular situation which kept you landlocked with your status, success in life, position, mission and ambition. It naturally follows that you are now free to present yourself to the world without any of the issues of the last few years.
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The story with your ex-husband (for example) and current girlfriend (let’s say) is about to run backwards until 2025. Partners can be professional as well as personal, of course, so this stop-start process may be about your other half in business. Duets, in general, are the focus for this long period of backwards action, so the two of you may share a house (but not a bedroom) and be identified as a pair even though you are separate creatures.
Do you also have factors in Leo in your natal chart? The world of babies, infants, schoolchildren, teenagers or adult children (Generation Z) will be held up, restarted and even cancelled at times, Aquarius, because of this unusual Mars Retrograde. These are the dates below. If you have Leo factors at these degrees, allow for delays, retractions or re-runs. There may be more impatience, heat or even outright beating of war drums. Pace yourself and pick your battles, Aquarius, if you do have Leo factors.
* 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)
Are you single? This cycle is about courtship and the bedroom and there will be a faster pace, less tolerance, less patience, a more competitive edge and, yes, the potential for conflict. Mars was the Roman God of War. He is the red planet. Remember a red light stops what a green light can rush through, too quickly. A lot of astrologers will caution you against unwanted pregnancy on this cycle and that’s quite right. Mars is about impulse and leaping in without thinking.
Mars Retrograde in Leo is in your Seventh House of battles, wars and conflict. This only happens if a situation is deeply unfair or perhaps illegal. The scales are unbalanced. Aquarius, what you begin in November will linger for months following the Mars Retrograde pattern. So, there will be an odd and protracted period of attack and defence her, with the complete absence of heat at certain times – at others, a replay or re-run of what happened before. This is why November is so important. Be sharply aware of what you are starting or engaging with. Rivals in love triangles are a common outcome of this transit. So is heated professional rivalry.
Aquarius, we also have some end-game Capricorn weather in November, so you are really overdue for a soul inspection. In the Middle Ages, this zone of your chart, ruled by Capricorn (the Twelfth House), was about God. Today, it is about psychics, psychologists, astrologers, Tarot – as well as religion. It is about being alone and soul-searching. Contacting the psyche, soul or spirit through dream analysis, perhaps, or by prayer. To say this is a long process is an understatement. It has been going on since 2008, when I first launched my book, 2020 Vision (Penguin) which I quote from here. What was there, so obviously, some 16 years ago, is still relevant now.
The world of the psychic reading, the confession with the priest or the recollections on the psychologist’s couch are all here. However this transit has manifested for you – you end this, once and for all, in November. There is a second bump in December when you agree to differ with others or even with yourself. This ends some years of relentless pressure from ‘this’ or him/her/them. All of it has affected how life is, by yourself, but also your understanding of your inner life and interior world. 2025 will be very different. For that, read ‘easier.’
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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.
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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