Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of November 20th, 2023: Power, obstacles, and courage from Pluto, Saturn, and Mars

Episode Date: November 20, 2023

Episode 153 In this podcast, New York Times bestselling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all.  The astrology for the week of November 20th, 2023, tests our resolve. On Monday, the Sun sextiles Pluto (the planet of transformation), connecting us with our power. On Tuesday, Mars (the planet of action) sextiles Pluto, providing us with deep drive and resilience to take potent action. On Wednesday, the Sun enters Sagittarius, marking the beginning of Sagittarius season. On Thursday, the Sun squares Saturn (the planet of boundaries), presenting some serious obstacles. On Friday, Mars enters Sagittarius, igniting a desire to be everywhere at once. On Saturday, Mars squares Saturn, highlighting a problem or tough lesson we must confront. In all, remember to be kind to yourself and take things slow when possible. P.S. This week, you can get up to 70% off our best-selling astro offerings at chani.com. Happy Black Friday.  This episode was recorded on 10/25/2023. 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, 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 supplies last.

Y'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 a pretty 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 particular area of our life, which is phenomenal because the second half of the week does not look so supportive. Now, I don't think planets make us do things. I don't think planets are the cause of

what happens here on Earth. I think that the sky is this beautiful mirror that we can use and the reflection 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 of of the week has a quality to it that feels really supportive and successful or the beginning of the week looks like we are making some big strides forward. So I want us to focus on what we can actually get done, what we can make strides towards in the beginning of the week. I want us to think about the beginning of the week as our ability to do the things we want to do. And it looks like will get supported in doing so. And then by the time the sun moves in to Sagittarius on Wednesday,

the 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 not overdoing things. I highly recommend not putting too much on our plate. I highly recommend getting very, very, very concentrated on the necessary things that we need to do, our priorities. I highly recommend thinking about life in a kind of essentialist way. Like what is essential for me to do and what is not? And that's because the second half of the week into the weekend feels like a little bit of a traffic jam. You know, when life just starts coming at you and then it comes at you

and then it keeps coming at you and you're like, wow, I didn't know there were going to be so many things 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't have to be patient, but then you're going to like burn out your energy and your cortisol. And that's what the last part of this week is. For some of us, for others of us, it'll feel like we've just kind of energetically stalled. So some of us will feel like, oh my goodness, I've got so much to do and not feel like. Some of us will experience the later part of this week, like, wow, I have so much to do. And I did not necessarily give myself the time to do it. Note to self, need to time manage

better. And some of us will experience the end of this week like a feeling of lethargy or not being able to quite focus on something. And this is the astrology of it. This is why I'm saying it. The sun moves into Sagittarius on the 22nd and immediately squares Saturn on the 23rd and then Mars moves into Sagittarius on the 24th and then squares Saturn on the 25th. Now in astrology, Mars and Saturn are the to 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.

So 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 many things going on. And I keep saying too many things because the sun and Mars and Saturn are all going to be in what we call mutable signs. And mutable signs are everywhere all at once. And they're

about variety usually or they're at least about doing two things at the same time, which is literally impossible, but trust a mutable sign can try to do it, at least try to do it. And so when there's problematic astrology or astrology that looks a little challenging to our lives, and it's immutable signs, it can be kind of challenging in multiple ways. And the sun and Mars are going to be in a fire sign in Sagittarius, and that's really loud and active, and also a little dramatic, definitely gets our attention. And so the issues that are going to come up this week are ones that are going to 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

will always point out the problem. It'll never be shy. It will never be like, oh, don't worry 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 the situation that could not move forward. And this is why. So again, for some of us, it'll just feel like we'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.

Just 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 hand what boundaries are you learning to set and what obstacles are you learning to be resilient in the face of and what obstacles are you refusing to keep you stuck and it's a hefty kind of you know price for entrance, but at the end of the day, it's usually a good one. And this is a setup that

might 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 felt as 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.

So 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 heightened energy throughout the weekend and probably noticing, again, a kind of increase of, I don't know if it's chaos, but it's definitely a lot of different things going on at once that need our attention.

And perhaps, you know, it's Saturn. So it might be a lot of different responsibilities that come up 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 responsibilities as 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 conscientious about not buying into that if it's not what's actually happening. All right, y'all.

Really 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 what house Sagittarius falls in and what house Pisces falls in in your chart because these will be the two parts of your life that will really be going through this refining and defining process. 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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platform. Cheers to us journeying together. Sending you so much love. Many blessings be easy on yourself this week. Go slow when you can. You know, like sometimes you have to go slow 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 looks a little too compact to get through. Bye for now.