New Moon in Scorpio: Breakthrough

On November 4, 2021, we have a New Moon in sexy, mysterious Scorpio, setting the stage for a new beginning in our lives. This New Moon features an opposition with Uranus, the planet of revolution, unpredictability, and freedom.

Both Scorpio and Uranus are extreme: Scorpio plummets the emotional depths, while Uranus soars intellectually high in the clouds. Since the heavens above reflect us below, we may notice contradictions within ourselves this New Moon and its two-week waxing period thereafter.

Contradictions are a part of life: We may want a relationship, but value our independence; we may love being a parent, but miss having more time to ourselves. Such discrepancies are normal. But now, with the New Moon in Scorpio opposite Uranus, the heavens are broadcasting a polarity that reveals the dichotomies within ourselves: We may feel as if something other than what we want to focus on needs attention; that’s Uranus demanding change in one life area, while the Scorpio sun and moon want us to start fresh in another. The result: something has got to give.

Luckily on this New Moon, planet of the mind Mercury will harmoniously sextile loving Venus, so we could get two opposing views to cooperate and even be complementary. In fact, that might be what we’ve been meant to do all along: to make peace with our different desires, framing them in…