Keeping an Eye on the Real Sky — Part 5

November begins with Jupiter back in Pisces, Mars retrograde and a high powered lunar eclipse involving Uranus opposite Venus and a Mercury Cazimi. With Mercury’s cazimi, we are reminded that in Scorpio this is the axis that Mercury makes his Transit across the Sun, as its nodes is at . The last transit was interestingly in October 2019, and the next not till 2032 place of Mercury’s nodes are 19° Taurus/Scorpio, which won’t occur again till 2032. The Moon occulted Uranus at eclipse time also, with Mercury directly opposite. There have been many occultations by the Moon of Uranus this year and another to come on Dec 5th, highlighting further the big shifts we are in to do with the chaos and economic insecurity surrounding us. If only our governments and world forums would listen to the cosmic call, it’s time change the way business has been done “as usual” , Pluto in Aquarius awaits.

With Jupiter hovering over the zero point of Aries for the past few weeks since mid October and now back in Pisces in this very wet part of the sky, noted in issue 2 of Timelords SKY SPY, where Jupiter and Neptune met back in April. This time Jupiter hovers at the fixed star Scheat at 29° Pisces, notoriously connected to floods, flooding, water disasters and shipwrecks. Australia is experiencing major flooding again, this time mostly in Victoria and N.S.W around the Murray River and tributary floodplains. The river hit 94.8 metres above sea level in late October with Jupiter in partial conjunction (in 1° degree) of Scheat.

It was 12 years ago, in October 2010, that Jupiter and Uranus met at 29° Pisces and Australia also experienced sever flooding. With the recent South Node eclipse and Venus I recalled the dedicated C*I*A Agents back in 2010 doing a C*I*A Report for the LibraEquinox 2010, when we mentioned the line up on fixed star Scheat and clearly indicated “move to higher ground everyone” - see our report here at the 8 minute mark - still on you tube. Jupiter will hover at this 29th degree as he slows down for his direct station all through November and into December re-entering Aries on December 20th.

Mars Retrograde - OCT 31st- January 12th 26° Gemini - 8° Gemini

We are now also in one of the most pivotal transits of the year. Mars retrograde in Gemini is a rare occurrence, the last time we experienced the retrograde fully in Gemini was 1990-1991 as Europe changed its borders and many countries claimed back their freedom. Back in 2007/2008 Mars retrograded from Cancer to Gemini, and the coming GFC financial crisis was being seeded. This time in Gemini it is a call to be fully aware and awake to all that circulates around us.

The retrograde of Mars the planet of energy, drive, action and passion in the sign of curiosity, awareness and learning re-organizes a few directives. Mercury the ruler of Gemini is now linked to Mars, and in his night sign of Scorpio, Mercury digs deep into the emotional realm, the intuitive realm to sense the messages rising from within to shift the dynamic. With the peak of Mars retrograde on December 8th at 16° Gemini with Sun opposing in Sagittarius, highlights Truth Out scenarios, scandals and media mayhem. To heighten this opposition, a Full Moon will also occult Mars a few hours later. Visible over North America and parts of Europe, check links below for more info.

Mars has also stepped Out of Bounds, OOB beyond the safety net of the Sun's path, as he does at the signs near the solstice points - Gemini/Cancer - Sagittarius/Capricorn to do his own thing, adding to the unruly theme, the doing it "my way" call. Mars remains OOB way beyond his retrograde till May 2023.

Unfortunately, as Mars stationed retrograde and stepped OOB over past few days we have seen a stampede crush people in Seoul, a bridge collapse from overcrowding in India. Two radicals born a few days apart with a stationing retrograde Mars in Aquarius in 1971, highlight the news, Elon Musk and Julian Assange - both seeking their Truth in different ways.

By the end of his retrograde Mars locks in with red star Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, a star known as the follower of the Pleiades, the watcher of the East, the "Bull's Eye". A focus point for us all to get through this transit. The best thing is we can watch this transit through the sky, as the red planet passes closest to the earth during a retrograde and is up all night at his biggest and brightest. Being conscious of the planet's pass right in front us helps us evolve, grow and mature with his backward steps.

It's important to remember that Mars retrograde is not a weak Mars but perhaps a more determined one. We are reminded of individuals with Mars retrograde in their natal charts like Michael Jordan, and the incredible feats that can be accomplished with Mars retrograde. A strong example of this is the rescue of the 13 Thai soccer team players in Thailand on 23 June 2018, as Mars stationed retrograde at 9° Aquarius. Mercury was also opposite Pluto at the time. Jupiter in Scorpio retrograde and Saturn in Capricorn.

The chart for the time they were noticed missing, we can see also Saturn rising connecting to Neptune by quintile and biquintiles to the North Node. Over the 20 days it took for the rescue mission to complete, which involved many people from around the globe , expert divers and marines, and even an anaesthetist from Adelaide Australia, Richard Harris. Saving the young boys from the cave after 20 days, involved anaesthetising them before 1 by 1 in full scuba gear and unconscious they were escorted by expert divers out of the treacherous fast flowing river tunnels.

All of them making it out alive, yet a loss of one of the marine divers. By the time they were rescued Jupiter had stationed direct at 13° Scorpio, there were 13 of them. What an impossible yet successful effort. The Aquarian inventive team work involving young males in distress. It was so lovely in to see in the film in July this year of this story depicted in 13 Lives, where we see the way of survival for the Team trapped before being discovered and given supplies and dealing with hunger, was through meditation.

What will be your incredible feat be during this retrograde, something to accomplish and approach or activate in a different way? Can’t do’s may become can do’s! Won't do's into will do's, or no need to do's, into have to do's!

Mid November Venus who has been in the underworld, or on the other side of the Sun, as far away from us as possible in her orbit invisible and under the beams of the Sun, will now rise as the evening star by early December. Rising as an evening star she is still very low and dim in the sky, as opposed to when she rises as a Morning star, when she seems to pop out from in from go the Sun and quickly moves to brightness and height in morning sky. As she now comes out from behind the Sun in the evening sky, it will take another 6 months to see her at her best to reach maximum elongation from the Sun and then to maximum brightness 36 days day apart! She will re-appear in amongst the stars of Scorpius.

As the first Libra Star Point of our times has just been seeded, we may want to consider, the transition we have gone through in the past 2 months with Venus’s long transition from morning to evening star, and how we may bring this experience down to earth as she gets closer next July and August 2023, ready for her next retrograde in Leo.

By the end of January as the Sun gets closer to Saturn, we see him begin to disappear in the evening sky as Venus takes off. A conjunction of Venus, a crescent Moon and Saturn on January 23rd. With Venus and Saturn in the same parallel this will be a delight to observe. This also heralds the 1st Moon Gate over 7 months , as a wing Moon escorts her out of the underworld, to return to be crowned the Queens of the Heavens in July 2023, this time in Leo.