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Remember how I said that Mars in aspect to Pluto, especially with Pluto stationing (stopped) in the sky = violence? I tend to speak on a personal scale, but it applies globally as well, so, I'm gesturing to Gaza at the moment. That's just plain violence and awfulness, is it not?

My therapist was out of town for the past week or so, and she remarked that (seemingly) everyone had a crisis in the past two weeks. I started laughing and she said "don't agree with that!" She knew what was coming. (Drama. Drama was coming.) If you noticed some people had eruptions in the past two weeks, it was Mars + Pluto in probably 95% of cases.

On a different note, a Saturn-Pluto or Pluto in Capricorn (essentially the same thing) trait is the dumbest, most arbitrary rules you've ever heard in your life, like when someone's on a power trip and just makes up hoops for you to jump through. Here's an example. Cruelty for cruelty's sake is another trait, but I don't think I need to find examples of that for you. Pluto returns to Aquarius in January, where it will cause different problems.

By the way, in my mind this is obvious, but it occurred to me that you don't live in my mind, so: all the economic instability is Uranus in Taurus. Taurus is a money sign. Uranus is a planet of discord. Uranus entered the sign in 2018 and will leave around 2025. Other discord planets in earth signs (looking at you, Pluto) aren't helping much, but Uranus in Taurus is the primary issue causing money fluctuations everywhere.

As for recent happenings in the sky: Mars is in Scorpio now. You can use this energy for spooky season if you want: haunted houses, Ouija boards, and the like, but (bias warning) Scorpio's one of the hardest-working signs in the zodiac, if not THE hardest working, and so if you need to do something that requires sustained effort, now's the time. One thing Scorpio does not do is quit when effort is required to see something through. If you would like to hear stories of not-quitting way past the point that a reasonable person would have and should have quit, I can regale you for hours, if not days. So if you would like to start something and not stop doing it, go forth. Or you can contact the dead, if you *really* want. As someone who can, I am telling you: it's actually not very interesting. It's the same energy though (sustained effort and spooky shit), weirdly. (I don't make the rules, I just tell you what they are.)

November looks full of potential, because for the first time in a while, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all moving at a decent speed at the same time. There was a brief experience of that in June, but before that, the last time was summer 2022. Mercury, Venus, and Mars are personal planets, so the opportunity here is for you to do things to improve your quality of life, perhaps things you have meaning to do for a while, but haven't had the time. So, hell yeah to that, right?

The one thing still not in your favor in terms of work productivity is Saturn: it's not moving. It will not be moving in an appreciable way until late November, so if there's something in your work life that you can't (for the life of you) make budge, try again after Thanksgiving.