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#390-"To Remember the Other World in this World"-Week of November 9, 2026
Sunday, 8 November, 2026
Freya's Day and the ReturnInanna has risen. After weeks in the underworld, Venus has been back in the pre-dawn sky, and this week she turns toward the light for real. Many of us in the United States are also still carrying an election in our bodies and hearts. Naming the outcomes are less important that what you feel, and trusting that. What I can offer is the long view, and a reminder that you do not have to metabolize all of the changes in a single week.Key Cycles This Week:Monday, November 9: Venus retrograde in Libra sextiles Mars in Leo.Desire and action find each other. What you came to value in the descent meets the courage to move on it. Venus is still in review, so think small and true: one honest conversation, one boundary kept, one thing you finally say yes to.Friday, November 13: Freya's Day. Mercury turns direct at 5 degrees of Scorpio. Venus turns direct at 23 degrees of Libra.The cycles at the heart of the week. Friday the 13th belongs to Freya, goddess of love and wisdom. On her day the Relational Alchemist and Mercury as the Truth-Teller begin moving forward again. Inanna returns changed, carrying knowledge of her dark sister, and Mercury walks beside her as Hermes, conductor of souls and god of the crossroads. You may feel a loosening, a sentence that finally has words. Don't rush to act on all of it. Let what you learned come up into daylight slowly.Sunday, November 15: Mars in Leo conjunct Jupiter in Leo.The biggest fire of the month. Courage and conviction in warm, generous Leo can lift us into inspired action, or puff us up into righteousness. Leo is also where the South Node sits, an invitation to lead without needing the spotlight. Ask gently: is this in service of something, or in service of being seen? The world needs your fire grounded.The Bigger FieldThis week sits inside the year's astrological backbone. In February, Saturn met Neptune at the first degree of Aries, the starting point of the zodiac, and many of us felt we were beginning again. Neptune now moves through Aries for fourteen years, asking us to track a calling from a spell. In July, Uranus trined Pluto for the first time, when the mood of metamorphosis and unrest became hard to miss. The next exact meeting is November 29, one of five reaching into Spring of 2028.Within it, the United States is completing its Pluto return, the once-in-248-years return of Pluto to its founding position (the effects are felt several years before and after the exact return). A return is a descent, and what was built on the foundation rises for review. Pluto brings what is hidden into view so it can be faced. In my 2026 forecast, I invited these practices for the year: courage without certainty, responsibility over righteousness, adaptability without collapse, participation over paralysis. The question is not what we fight for, it is how we act when called.Reflection QuestionsWhat did your own descent teach you that you are only now able to say out loud?Where do you feel the pull toward righteousness this week, and what might responsibility look like in your body, not just your head?Imagining yourself as an ancestor looking back, what small act of participation today would you want to have made?Podcast poem: What to Remember When Waking by David WhyteIf this podcast has helped you see the shape of the year you have been living, my 2026 astrology forecast recording is available for free. It maps the backbone cycles we have walked all year and may land differently now that you have lived through them. Find it at ontheedgesofchange.com/astrology.I will also offer a free astrology forecast webinar for 2027 on Saturday, January 2nd. To stay informed about the webinar details, join my email list through the button on my homepage of website.Support the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comThis episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
