The Week of November 20th, 2023: Power, obstacles, and courage from Pluto, Saturn, and Mars
00:00Hello and welcome. This is the astrology of the week ahead podcast. I'm your host,Channy Nicholas, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the astrology of the week of November 20th,which is a mixed bag. In this podcast, we look at the astrology of the upcoming week and how it will be landing for all of us collectively.For a more personalized reading that dives into the ways that this week's astrology will play out for you,download the Chani up.All right, y'all, the sale of the season has arrived.For the next week, you can get up to 70% off our best-selling Astro offerings at chani.com while supplieslast.
00:52Y'all, this week starts out superpowered.It starts out wanting to help us make some big leaps and bounds.There is a mark of success at the beginning of this week.also like a mark of deep determination and an ability to get things done and to go into like apretty significant process, which could be helpful in terms of getting in touch with our own power,our own drive, our own resilience, our own energy, and putting it to use in a particulararea of our life, which is phenomenal because the second half of the week does not lookso supportive. Now, I don't think planets make us do things. I don't think planets are the cause of
01:41what happens here on Earth. I think that the sky is this beautiful mirror that we can use and thereflection that it gives tells us something about where we are in the year, like where we are in time.And it gives us a sense of the quality of time that we're moving into. So the beginning ofof the week has a quality to it that feels really supportive and successful or the beginning ofthe week looks like we are making some big strides forward. So I want us to focus on what we canactually get done, what we can make strides towards in the beginning of the week. I want us to thinkabout the beginning of the week as our ability to do the things we want to do. And it looks likewill get supported in doing so. And then by the time the sun moves in to Sagittarius on Wednesday,
02:43the 22nd of November, we are in a different storyline. By Wednesday, November 22nd,we're in a little bit of a cautionary tale. And if you've been with me over the past couple weeks,I have been talking about this period of time as one where I highly recommend notoverdoing things. I highly recommend not putting too much on our plate. I highly recommend gettingvery, very, very concentrated on the necessary things that we need to do, our priorities. I highlyrecommend thinking about life in a kind of essentialist way. Like what is essential for me to doand what is not? And that's because the second half of the week into the weekend feels like alittle bit of a traffic jam. You know, when life just starts coming at you and then it comes at you
03:37and then it keeps coming at you and you're like, wow, I didn't know there were going to be so manythings that we're going to pile up. Kind of like when you're trying to get across town in traffic,it's not impossible. It just requires a lot of extra time and also patience. I mean, you don'thave to be patient, but then you're going to like burn out your energy and your cortisol. And that'swhat the last part of this week is. For some of us, for others of us, it'll feel like we've justkind of energetically stalled. So some of us will feel like, oh my goodness, I've got so much to doand not feel like. Some of us will experience the later part of this week, like, wow, I have somuch to do. And I did not necessarily give myself the time to do it. Note to self, need to time manage
04:24better. And some of us will experience the end of this week like a feeling of lethargy or not beingable to quite focus on something. And this is the astrology of it. This is why I'm saying it. The sun movesinto Sagittarius on the 22nd and immediately squares Saturn on the 23rd and then Mars moves intoSagittarius on the 24th and then squares Saturn on the 25th. Now in astrology, Mars and Saturn are theto like tough cookies of our little solar system.And they teach us lessons that are really important.Nothing is wasted.But they're just not the most fun to learn.
05:06So fine.We've got to learn some lessons this week that maybe won't be so joyful.Definitely lessons around boundaries.Definitely lessons around how to move through obstacles in the most.productive, patient, but diligent and kind of like dogged way, there's something that's out in front of us.And again, it could feel like an energetic low or it could feel, could be that there's too manythings going on. And I keep saying too many things because the sun and Mars and Saturn are allgoing to be in what we call mutable signs. And mutable signs are everywhere all at once. And they're
05:53about variety usually or they're at least about doing two things at the same time, which is literallyimpossible, but trust a mutable sign can try to do it, at least try to do it. And so when there'sproblematic astrology or astrology that looks a little challenging to our lives, and it's immutablesigns, it can be kind of challenging in multiple ways. And the sun and Mars are going to be in a firesign in Sagittarius, and that's really loud and active, and also a little dramatic, definitelygets our attention. And so the issues that are going to come up this week are ones that are goingto be really obvious. And this is good for one reason, maybe a couple, but definitely one.We want to know what the problem is. And a Mars Saturn square or a challenging Mars Saturn aspect
06:45will always point out the problem. It'll never be shy. It will never be like, oh, don'tworry about it. I got this. It'll be like, this is the issue. This is what's wrong. This is the stop sign.This is the collision. This is the like, this is the place where the energy got stuck. This is thesituation that could not move forward. And this is why. So again, for some of us, it'll just feel likewe've got too much on our plate. I want you to take the small moments of rest that you can.and again, just take note of if you're taking on work that doesn't have to be taken on.If you're taking on other people's responsibilities, why are you doing that?If you're taking on things that don't need to be taken on this week, then definitely think about pushing it on the calendar a little bit.
07:37Just don't try to do it all this week if it doesn't need to get done.Stick to what's essential.Stick to what is needed.And take note of the harsher, harder,lessons and maybe they're not so fun to learn but what are they teaching you about the issues at handwhat boundaries are you learning to set and what obstacles are you learning to be resilient inthe face of and what obstacles are you refusing to keep you stuck and it's a hefty kind of you knowprice for entrance, but at the end of the day, it's usually a good one. And this is a setup that
08:25might even relate to something that happened back in the summer or back a couple months ago.But either way, it's a setup that isn't going to last forever. It definitely will be feltas of, again, Wednesday and definitely by Friday, definitely Saturday. And then it will linger,but it will fade over the coming days.I do want to point out, though, that we're having a full moon on Monday, the 27th of November.And that full moon is in Gemini, which is the other mutable sign, the other mutable sign,another mutable sign.And that full moon is in this configuration.
09:05So this podcast just takes us to Sunday, but come back next week and we'll talk about the Monday of it all,because that full moon in Gemini on Monday the 27th of November is also a many faceted situation.And it will be curious and it will be lively and it'll be chatty.But there's also this feeling of consequences or this kind of motif of consequences that is hanging out over the course of the later part of this week and in to next week.And just know that through the weekend we're building towards a full.moon. And so Monday is the peak of it, but we're going to be feeling that like heightenedenergy throughout the weekend and probably noticing, again, a kind of increase of, I don't knowif it's chaos, but it's definitely a lot of different things going on at once that need our attention.
10:02And perhaps, you know, it's Saturn. So it might be a lot of different responsibilities that comeup at one time. And it's hard to pick between them.but we've got to make sure that we're doing our due diligence with as many responsibilitiesas are on our plate and are urgent at the moment.And that's the thing.It's just like Mars Saturn makes everything feel urgent and you've got to be very conscientiousabout not buying into that if it's not what's actually happening.All right, y'all.
10:37Really important to know where this Mars Saturn Square is happening in your chart.You can go to the Chani app.You're not already there and listen to your reading for the week and take note of whathouse Sagittarius falls in and what house Pisces falls in in your chart because thesewill be the two parts of your life that will really be going through this refining and definingprocess.And you can also read your horoscope for Mars and Sagittarius.And that will give you a pretty good understanding, even the sun in Sagittarius horoscope too,
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11:59platform. Cheers to us journeying together. Sending you so much love. Many blessings be easyon yourself this week. Go slow when you can. You know, like sometimes you have to goslow to actually go fast. So slow down to take note of the little shortcuts that might be open,the little openings that might reveal themselves, and the way forward, even when it looksa little too compact to get through. Bye for now.
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