We’ve tried, and there’s simply no way to sugarcoat it: November’s astro weather is extremely challenging. The good news is: The problems we’re facing now aren’t anything new. We’ve known what’s up for a long time. The bad news is this: Whatever it is can no longer be put off. We have to deal with it now. One last push to get through this perfect storm. Heavy sigh.

We enter the month in the midst of eclipse season with action planet Mars moving retrograde. While the eclipses stir fate, summoning sudden beginnings and endings, Mars retrograde brings confusion, wars of words and delays. The solar eclipse in Scorpio on October 25th forced us to let something go—whether that was a toxic relationship, a bad habit, or those boots collecting dust in the back of the closet—so there’s space to fill now!