Starcodes October 25, 2024

The nights grow longer, the Sun is now in Scorpio and asks us to befriend our fears by facing them directly, whether we’re afraid of the winter’s cold, monsters on Halloween, unsettled family ghosts, or the fears now trying to run the political show.

Welcome to the spooky, sacred time of Samhain, Halloween, and soon, All Saints’ Day and the Day of the Dead, when the veil thins. This year the true halfway mark, the cross-quarter day between the fall equinox and winter solstice occurs on November 7th, but the scariest, most potential- filled day of all may be voting day, just a week and a half away.

Two big astrological patterns perfect over the next few weeks. A Mars-Pluto opposition brings a confrontation of wills while a visionary grand trine with Mercury, Mars, and Neptune offers inspiration.

Building now- peaking November 3- that opposition between willful Mars and powerful Pluto intensifies our personal search for meaning and exacerbates power plays. It occurs at the last degrees of Cancer and Capricorn and can return us to old wars and problems we thought we’d already defeated. It’s easy to see this play out in this highly-contentious presidential election, but it may be trickier to spot the tension building up in our own daily lives. We could feel this as an internal argument between different needs or an external argument between different…