Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of November 18th, 2024: Welcome back, Pluto in Aquarius

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

Episode 205 Want to make 2025 your best year yet? Check out our brand-new, limited-edition 2025 Yearbook. Filled with 300+ pages of 2025 astro readings, rituals, affirmations, and activities for all 12 signs, this beautifully crafted print resource is designed to be your go-to guide for all things astro in 2025. You can order yours at chani.com. But word to the wise: Limited means limited, so act fast. In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all. The astrology of the week of November 18th, 2024, ushers in change and excitement. Pluto (the planet of transformation) exits Capricorn for good and moves into eccentric and futuristic Aquarius. And a couple of days later, the Sun boogies into Sagittarius, bringing more adventure and wonderment to our lives. Over the next seven days, we can expect to wrap up lessons we’ve been learning since 2008 — and have a little fun in the process. Let’s get into it. This episode covers: Mercury’s opposition to Jupiter on Monday, November 18th The Sun’s trine to Neptune on Monday, November 18th Pluto’s ingress into Aquarius on Tuesday, November 19th The Sun’s ingress into Sagittarius on Thursday, November 21st The Sun’s sextile to Pluto on Thursday, November 21st Venus’ sextile to Saturn on Friday, November 22nd This episode was recorded on 09/30/2024. For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app — now on iOS and Android. The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

Hello and welcome. This is the astrology of the week ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie Channy Nicholas. And in this episode, we are talking about the week of November 18th. Y'all, we are at the end and end and end of an era that started in 2008. Pluto is going to finally, for the last time, for good, for good in our lifetime, leave Capricorn. It won't be back in Capricorn for another 240 something something years. Now, unless you're a weird billionaire that plans to live forever, you won't have Pluto back in Capricorn again in your lifetime. And neither will I, because I don't want to do that. So what does that mean? Well, when a planet is hanging out at the last degrees of a sign, it was viewed by some of the ancient astrologers, many, as not so great. And this is why we hear a lot about planets at the end of a sign being about

finishing something up, which, okay, totally. Yes, because we're at the end of a chapter. When a planet takes that long to move through a sign like Pluto does, Pluto has been in Capricorn since 2008, so that's a hefty chunk of time, not exactly two decades, but a decade and a half and some, then we know that we can look back at 2008 and be like, well, what was the mark of that year? And how did it relate to Pluto? And how did it relate to Capricorn? Well, the mark of 2008, as we all know, was a financial collapse in the world. I'm not predicting a financial collapse when Pluto leaves Capricorn. But I'm saying that's how the story of this planet through this sign started. So Capricorn is an Earth sign. So it is a big.

the material world. And Capricorn is a sign ruled by Saturn. So it's a lot about the structures that we exist within. And it is a very restrictive sign. It is a Saturnian sign. So it is by nature restrictive. And because it's an Earth sign and it's Saturn ruled, it's restrictive on a material level. So when a planet is in Capricorn, especially a planet that takes so long to get to a sign, like Pluto, we can bet that there's something going to be restrictive on a material level. Now, Pluto is about the sometimes destruction of things. It is about the underworld. It is about the transformation of things. It is about what is rotting and decrepit and needs to be composted and alchemized and transformed. So, in Capricorn,

At least in 2008, when it entered the scene, it was very much about what was so decrepit and rotting in our material systems, our financial systems. Now that we're ending that chapter, what is happening now that is like a bookend to 2008? What is happening now that is wrapping something up since 2008? Now, we might notice that in our personal lives. So we might be like, oh, the part of my chart that contains Capricorn has had this huge tectonic shift. So it's not like a one in debt. It's like a long haul transformation that happens in the part of our chart that contains Capricorn. So in this week's readings, I go over that in depth because it's so important.

Now, some of you might be too young to remember what was going on in 2008. but surely, presidentially, something was happening in 2008. And surely, I'm recording this in the past in September, so I don't know what's happening in November, but surely there's something happening here. And those two things might also be linked. Okay, that was a really long-winded rant that I just went on.

My point is that ancient astrologers thought that there was something specific to every degree of every sign. So there's a lot of different ways to look at each sign of the zodiac in ancient astrology. And there's one thing that we call the bounds. And the bounds are different segments of each sign being ruled by different planets. Now, stay with me. This is why I don't go with the theory of like, oh, I'm on the cusp of a sign because, okay, fine. But each and every single, single degree of the zodiac has significance. So you're not just like maybe 29 degrees or maybe zero degrees. You're one or the other. I don't mean that you don't have other planets in the next sign that would influence the ways in which you act or behave or experience life. I just mean

that there's something specific to every single degree of the zodiac when you get into traditional astrology and looking at it from a lot of different concepts and lenses and philosophical ways of looking at things like the sky. And so the last couple of degrees of the zodiac, if we look at something called the bounds, are ruled by the two hard planets, Mars or Saturn. So that's why in traditional astrology, or it's one of the reasons why the last degrees of a sign are a little like, oh, gosh, that seems hard. And we can also think of the planets getting to the end of the signs as a time when they're just like tired. Via Anderson gave me that kind of way of looking at things.

Their planets are exhausted by the time they get to these last signs. There's not a lot of umph left. And so, you know, you might notice November feels tiring, like we're ending something, hopefully. But also like, oof, there's a heftiness to this. There's something here that feels like a little dangerous even. Mars and the what we call the Egyptian bounds rules the last couple degrees of Capricorn. So Pluto being in the bounds of Mars and Capricorn gives us this feeling of like, that's like a tough place without a lot of soft landing or places that feel very helpful. It's just tough. But, you know, we got to do hard work sometimes. So here we are. So there's that. Then there's the beginning of Pluto's. absolute transit through Aquarius in terms of the tropical zodiac. This is not Cedereal. We are talking

tropical zodiac. So this is the beginning of it, although Pluto has been in and out of Aquarius for a minute now, right? This isn't the first entrance into it. But we know that this is where it is going to be until 2040 something. So it's a long time. So now the part of your chart that contains Aquarius gets this big overhaul. And let me tell you this, anyone with a planet or a point, ascendant, descendant, mid-heaven, I see, or the nodes, I would say, or Chiron, at the end of Aries, Cancer, Liber, or Capricorn, or at the very beginning of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius is getting a major, major Pluto transit. So if you want to back that up to like the beginning of the year, like 28, but definitely 29 degrees of

Ares, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, or zero to one degree of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. Those placements in our chart are getting a big moment from Pluto. Now, again, Pluto moves so slowly, it rolls back and forth. It, you know, moves just a little bit, and then stations retrograde, and then moves back a little bit, and then stations retrograde, and then moves back maybe a little bit more. And so it edges, you know, a little forward at a time or forward a little at a time. So it's a slow process. We don't know all the things that are going to happen when Pluto rolls over a planet.

But we do know that it's going to be a significant alchemical process that we are being asked to undertake. And this is one of the things about Pluto as an underworld deity in any myth that you, you know, the world over. get to know if it's about the main character going into the underworld, usually what has to happen is they have to give things up on their way down. Because what functions for us, what works for us in the upper realms, it doesn't work for us in the lower realms. Meaning as we descend into our own personal darkness, as we descent into our own unconscious, as we descend into our own underworld. The stuff that works on the conscious realm doesn't work in the unconscious realm. We have to have a different orientation to life when we go into an underworld journey. We have to look at it more

metaphorically or more mythically, I think. That's the most helpful thing that I've found. So when Pluto rolls over a planet, we're being asked to give something up. But we're being asked to give up is what we thought gave us power. And in the underworld journey, we find, oh, those things actually weren't powerful at all. My power is from within. My power is my ability to make contact with that deep, deep, deep part of myself. And that I'm not being afraid to be too intimate, too connected to my life, my entire life, my entire self, all of the parts of me. The good, the bad, the distorted, the weird, the cringy, the all of it. And the underworld journey helps us to strip what is extraneous away.

The underworld journey helps us to really understand where our power is and where it is not. And it is never in the world. It is always in us. And that is one of the most potent and powerful gifts that Pluto can give us because the world will tell us otherwise. And I'm not saying you don't have access to supremacy or the ability to do harm when you engage with the world's supremacist power structures. You do. But that's not real power. That's just abuse.

So Pluto helps us to understand the differences and understand the kind of power that we actually. actually want to connect to. So what is Pluto and Aquarius mean for us? Well, the robots are coming. You know what I mean? It is pretty on the nose right now, y'all. It is AI for sure, for sure. And if Pluto is about power and Aquarius, the sign it's going into now, is in some way, shape, or form about advancing things or experimenting with things or being able to think outside the box. And if that has something to do with tech and technology, then we should be very engaged with what that means for us. What does AI mean for us? What does it mean to live in this day and age where, yeah, we're partnering with technology in ways that are phenomenal. If we use the,

tool correctly. And if we don't, if the powers that be want to, you know, dominate and control us, then this is a pretty good sign and signal that there's a technological revolution that we are in the midst of. We know it very well. We started to see it in the headlines as soon as Pluto entered Aquarius for the very first time. In March of 2023, again, it went in and out. Now it's in as of Tuesday. So if we look back at headlines about AI in March of 2023, you'll see a lot of stuff starting to come to the surface. The last time Pluto was an Aquarius was also the French Revolution, American Revolution. And back in March of 2023, there was also a lot of headlines about France and the connection between that moment and the uprisings that were happening then

and the French Revolution. So we're thinking about groups of people and how groups of people make connections or contact with collective power, because that is probably the most hopeful take, the most helpful take on Pluto and Aquarius, because Aquarius is also the collective. It is the us.

And Pluto is about the transformation. So when we get together and we demand a transformation, something happens. A lot happens. That's the only way change is made in history against ruling classes and ruling powers. So there's that kind of feeling to it as well. I'm not saying it's easy or simple or that revolutions don't go the wrong way as well, that we don't get more militaristic after some revolutions. That's obvious. Like you study history and we see that. I'm just saying that there is an emphasis on collective power. So what are you doing to organize with folks to create actual real deep, deep, deep, deep, Pluto, deep transformative solidarity? What are you doing to create deep transformative solidarity in your life, in your communities, in your activism? This is the call to action because we know we're up against things that are really beyond our comprehension even. So the main theme is who's your collective, who's your group, and how does that help you to

expand your awareness, not tunnel vision? Because that's another thing with Pluto can get very extreme and very tunnel visioned. So we don't want to just wall ourselves off from the rest of the world. How do we facilitate a broadening of our collective awareness and collective movements instead of a siloing. How do we know how to work with our actual collective power instead of making us more kind of siphoned off? With Pluto in Aquarius and Jupiter in Gemini, it does feel like from November 19th into June of 2025, the tech of it all, the communication of all goes wild because both planets are in air signs. Jupiter and Gemini and Pluto and Aquarius does feel like a flurry of information about how tech is being used and what to expect from it.

Okay, so that's the biggest headline. If you have something at the very, very end of a cardinal sign or the very, very beginning of a fixed sign, this is a moment. If you have something at the very end of a cardinal sign, again, the very end, like 29th degree of Ares, of cancer, of Libre, or of Capricorn, this is the official parting from Pluto. So if you're like, Chani, I do. I was born at the 29th degree of the sun in Aries. I am being tired. Then I can say, well, Pluto's leaving for good.

It's going. It's slow going. But it's going. And if your son is at the very first degree of Aquarius or Taurus or Scorpio or Leo, this is a big moment of personal potency for you. I went through a Pluto transit to my son a long time ago. And it was really, really, really, really helpful. It actually was a moment of incredible transformation for me and for me to really understand and locate my and start to engage with it in a way that I never had before. And I had to give up a lot,

but I was ready. So I also want you to know, like, you might be so ready for this if you're in a major Pluto transit. And if you want to check, if you are, check the Chani app and go to the transit section of the app and see what Pluto is up to. Go down to long-term transits. Scroll all the way down and you'll see what Pluto transits you are in. But just know that it was one of the best transits I think I've ever had. I've had other Pluto transits that are pretty major that were really challenging and that I still think about quite a lot and the things that I lost and the relationships that I lost marked me in a very deep way. But it's also something that I've come to understand as like, Well, that was necessary because I would have stayed in the situation, not if Pluto hadn't come,

but if the series of events hadn't happened, I would have just stayed in the bad relationship or in the bad situation. But because of the series of events that happened at the same time as Pluto making this major transit to my chart, it propelled me to move forward to let go of things, to let things depart, and to have to make peace with it. And it doesn't mean that it's easy, but it means that I get why it was necessary. I get why it was ill-fitting. And we had to do different things. So just to bear all that in mind, the astrology is never against us. It's always for us. I really truly believe that. Okay. Beginning of the week, the sun makes a trine to Neptune. Lovely, dreamy. I've got no problem with it. It's a lovely way to open the week, Mercury in Saj, in its pre-retrograd shadow very much now, slowing way down,

is making an opposition to Jupiter in Gemini. Now, they're in each other's signs. So they're going to hype each other up. They're kind of like two inebriated people helping each other home. You know what I mean? They're going to have fun. I don't know if I'd ask them for directions, though. So we're still in that pocket of time where it's like, okay, good news.

Can I trust it? is that person in the same reality? Like, is this actually something I can hang my hat on? Or should I be like, okay, let's see if that actually comes through? Big ideas, fun conversations, big tales, love it. But can I bank on it? I don't know. We'll have to see. Mercury is about to station retrograde on the 25th of November. Tuesday, Pluto changes signs. That's it. Now we're in. in super tech land. And we are going to have to make friends with the robots. I don't know. We've got to figure it out piece by piece, moment by moment. We still have time, I think. Thursday, the sun moves into Sagittarius. Welcome Sagittarius season. The sun immediately makes a sex style with Pluto.

I love this. This is like deep, cathartic adventures and some very transformative wild times. I like it. I like this beginning. We've not had this. This is a new kind of thing. So it feels like a new beginning to Sagittarius season. And then on Friday, Venus makes a sex style to Saturn, which is really, really lovely. Venus is right now in Capricorn, which is Saturn's sign. And Saturn is in Pisces, which is the sign of Venus's exaltation. So this is excellent astrology for creative work, for relationships, and for building connection. in a very structurally sound kind of way. I think it's like one of the nicer things that happens. I really like it. Y'all, thank you so much for writing reviews for us in the App Store.

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I love everything about this app, and I highly recommend it to you. Her rising sign first approach really resonates with me. I'm in Aries Rising, Pisces' sun, and many of the Pisces readings haven't resonated with me as well. I love how this is like a weekly tutorial to the stars and how they work in general, and also how they are specifically working with me this week. Okay, so that is the reading for the week. Just want to add a couple other things. Remember when I was talking about the fact that every single degree of the zodiac is ruled by a planet in different systems.

You can look at it in different ways. I just want to say that the very beginning of Aquarius is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and translation. And so it does feel like extra tech enthusiast this beginning. of Pluto in Aquarius. The other thing I want to say is that Pluto now is in a sign-based opposition with Mars, which these two are just in this really tense aspect. They made an opposition on November 3rd in their different signs, and now they've moved signs, and now they're back in that tension, and that it will be exact in the very beginning of January. So we're just kind of like locked into something. And we need a long-term determination because Mars,

is stationing retrograde. So take note of where Leo is in your chart. Take note if you have anything again at the beginning degrees of fixed signs because Mars is sitting at six degrees. Well, it will station retrograde at six degrees of Leo. This week it's not there yet. But it's getting close. So 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 degrees of anything in your chart that is in Taurus or Lio, Leo or Scorpio or Aquarius is going to get a hard, quote-unquote, aspect from this Mars retrograde over the course of this part of November and December. So I just want you to know that, that those planets will also get pulled in to this Mars retrograde. And it's good to know if you have anything there, like your ascendant or your moon or anything, you know,

of note in your chart. Not really like your Pluto or your Uranus or your Neptune. I don't know. I don't know if you'd feel that. Maybe you will, but I wouldn't really include those as much as sun, moon, rising, Mercury, Venus, up to Saturn. Okay. Next week, come back because Mercury is stationing retrograde on the 25th on Monday in Sagittarius in a square to Saturn. Also in opposition to Jupiter.

So maybe that's really helpful. Maybe the opposition to Jupiter is like the two inebriated ones hobbling around, helping each other, maybe not really getting very far, but having a funny time. There's some jokes involved. Maybe it'll be funny. We could hope for that. There's also a new moon and such. So come back and we'll talk about that and send you lots of love, many, many blessings.

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