It's a wild ride, Leo, but someone's got to take it. Your travels, even if purely physical, are leading you inward rather than strictly out, and with Mercury turning retrograde this month your self-expression has a strong interior component as well. You do well to be journaling, especially since what most continues to amaze and confound you lies with delving into the secret motivations of yourself and others, and the associated unresolved residue of early trauma. The outer world is less fun; although optimistic regarding future expansion, dealing with the details can get you rather more bogged down than you bargained for. But there are lessons to be learned from all of the delays and digressions, and most particularly from the ongoing exploration of your own inner depths.
As the month begins, you are coming out of the important Full Moon from the last few days of the previous month, when your attention was drawn to your inner depths. You are finding your way through, even though things could still be a bit murky. Saturn is residing these days in your fourth sector and you might very well be reaching out for new understanding regarding the basis of your deep psychological roots in home, family and tribe. Something about your living space might be changing in a constructive way; or family ties could become more pressured or even a sense of isolation could be looming over loss of some vital connection there. Partly as a result, you are digging down to uncover the roots of your connections within this important area of societal matrix that gives you your truest sense of security.
Neptune is also strongly configured in your solar chart, residing in another of the water houses, the eighth, referring to intimacy and personal evolution, and to your deep connections with significant others in your life and your own depths. This implies a widening and an opening and also a factor of uncertainty regarding these matters in your life, which when combined with your strong water house emphasis means that you will be uncovering new wrinkles within your emotional makeup all month long. Issues could continue come up stemming from childhood trauma regarding intimate connection with others. The time of the powerful Solar Eclipse of Tuesday, November 13th, might well be a time of special significance when some of these issues will manifest more directly, at least to your conscious understanding.
In an almost perfect fit with your current inner proclivities, Mercury turns retrograde this month, on the 6th. You are therefore naturally more introspective than usual and might want to take the opportunity to jot down your ideas in journal form or to engage in conversation that might lead you further into the mysteries that lie inside you.
Detailed Monthly Forecast
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, November 6th, you are brought to an interesting juncture in the lunar cycle. You are questioning almost everything that has to do with your emotional involvement with the world around you. There are directions that have spring to life within you rather suddenly over recent weeks that you must take greater account of in order to progress with your main mission these days of more fully understanding yourself and your connections with others at these deeper levels, as you attempt to more fully define your pathway forward toward a more integrated future self. You are intent on being of true service to yourself and to the world around you and it is no simple task.
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse of Tuesday, November 13th, takes place in your sector of home and family, and could well be the occasion for greater depth in all your close connections coming to the fore. Events could transpire that seem to arise rather quickly, and surprising insights also, all part of the acceleration of your own personal evolution in this crucial time period of the latter part of 2012.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, November 20th, you are running into what seminal astrologer Dane Rudhyar referred to as a ?crisis of action' whereby what was initiated in the New Moon phase just passed inevitably runs up against some snags as it interfaces with real-world practical concerns. At this time also, confusion might reign as to true motives, yours or someone else's, which add to the tension of this week for you. You are looking ever more closely into your inner realms for answers and the view is more that a little cloudy, uncertain and vague, so that your best bet might be to accept the paradox and live with the uncertainty.
The potent Full Moon eclipse a week later, taking place on Wednesday, November 28th, in your sector of future plans, makes for an exciting closing few days of the month. Your creativity is scintillating, but also somewhat stymied by the presence of Saturn positioned still within your sector of home, family and tribe, so that there could be hidden conflicts there that eventually become exposed. You are attempting a difficult task, over the course of these closing months of the year of 2012, which might be likened to a high-wire act without the benefit of a net, although the actual direction of your journey of exploration is downward. You win when you keep faith as best as you can, with the universe and with your expanding process of greater awareness.