A Watershed Moment:
When the sky gods conspire to liberate you
On Monday, 17 November, the sky performs one of its rarest choreographies: Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune join the Sun in a Grand Water Trine, a configuration so infrequent it will not return within our lifetimes. It arrives like an ancient memory surfacing, as though the ocean itself has risen to whisper forgotten truths against the walls of the psyche.
This trine is the waterfall at the ocean’s floor—a paradox of descent and ascent. It draws us downward only to reveal what has been living beneath the threshold of awareness. The unconscious moves to reclaim its symbols, and the gods behind those symbols stir awake, reminding us that the forces shaping us are older than thought.
The waters are heavy with revelation.
And water, when it avalanches, does not ask permission.
Three days later, the New Moon in Scorpio stands defiantly opposite Uranus in Taurus, cracking open the inner shell we’ve grown too accustomed to living inside. The electric shock doesn’t wound—it awakens. It is the moment the dream jolts the dreamer into remembering that they are dreaming.
Around them, six planets retrograde through the sky as we descend into Scorpio season, the annual underworld. Time thickens. Shadows lengthen. The psyche becomes a chamber of echoes where old narratives dissolve. This winter promises one of the deepest alchemical turnings we will undergo.
In the Year of the Snake, shedding became a rhythm: skin after skin, belief after belief, illusion after illusion. With the old husks gone, the soil is finally bare enough for the new human—the one formed through inner truth rather than inherited myth—to take root.
Even in retrograde season, the alchemy moves like water: steady, inevitable, and threaded with tears that cleanse rather than spiral. Let them fall.
Catharsis is the clean burn that clears the path.
Venus in Scorpio continues her paradox—detriment made luminous. Her light feels as though it burns from inside obsidian. Those with strong Scorpio or Earth signatures feel her blessings descend like rain rising from beneath the ground, as if the roots themselves have begun to glow.
Soon she will trine Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, delivering the long-promised reward:
the moment when inner change finally shapes outer reality.
And here, the magical doorway opens.
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In love with your becoming
Venus xo
