HOROSCOPES
Week of November 13-19: A New Moon and a New Mars
Tomorrow! (November 13): Mini New Moon Readings
November/December astrology openings
Alchemy of the Word
INTERVIEWER
Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Read it four times.
-from Jean Stein’s Paris Review interview with William Faulkner, 1956
When a planet meets with the sun, it gets reborn by those rays. This week begins with a new moon in Scorpio and ends with a brand new Mars. Uranus and Jupiter sit in Taurus, eyeing the curious sun-moon-mars trilogy. What’s above/under -ground which always reminds me of the opening shot in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and the labyrinthine terrorbeauty that comes with the risk of walking into what’s unseen, an engine moving neath a surface apparently still. Hard to read. There’s a sacred silence about Scorpionic waters, a low reverberation, bellowing with the knowledge of the pain and death that’s gotta come before anything gets new, renewed, born—-and that all true humor is dark, unwieldy. Mars’s rebirth is across from Uranus and Uranus brings the unexpected, a sparrowlike and trembling electronica, a liberation that we must read four times at least. The mythology of Mars and Venus is all about conjunctions and separations: found in bed together having an affair, punished, banished to separate islands, rinsed and repeated. Now the sparring lovers, forever marriedivorced, are in their autumn homes—Mars in Scorpio and Venus in Libra. For what’s fair (just) and fair (beautiful) they fight with-for each other. The sky’s thick liquid disbands by week’s end—-& that Jim Morrison moment enters my head—-break on through to the other side—-plus the alchemical question: how to keep a steady heat? Without going too quick, burning the work completely? There’s a break on/through—but the past is never dead. It’s here, says William Faulkner, alchemy, and Scorpio.
Horoscopes for all twelve signs below, I suggest reading for your sun and rising signs, though all may apply….