Starcodes November 22, 2024

Thanksgiving epitomizes three things key to Sagittarius: travel, risky honesty, and the search for gratitude. We’ll need every bit of our flexibility and centering. Mercury, that arbiter of communications and transportation turns retrograde in outspoken Sagittarius on Monday which can encourage unfiltered conversation in a politically challenging year and add a certain awkward piquancy to travel on this peripatetic holiday.

The Sagittarius Sun brings an inclination, even a compulsion, to travel between November 21st and December 21st this year, whether its travel around town to get ingredients, travel to Madagascar to get away from it all, or over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving. But that travel can get tricky or need extra time as Mercury stations, so let’s pace ourselves and keep an eye on the weather reports.

Sagittarius inspires an unfiltered mouth and a tendency to say too much, which can be great with our buddies or in public debate, but difficult when we gather with people we don’t see very often, and with whom we might profoundly disagree. Those table-top arguments could be exacerbated by both that Mercury retrograde, and by the moody Moon in Scorpio on the feast day. In extreme circumstances, it might further take a year off from family gatherings and try again next year.

But first, over the weekend an industrious Virgo Moon can help us get the house clean, bags packed, work completed, and basic Mercury retrograde skills engaged. Confirm flights and appointments…