Mercury meets the Sun tonight
Tonight Mercury passes in front of the Sun, the middle of its retrograde. The words go into the fire and they start again clean.
The Bigger Picture
Your Birthday number
Your Birthday number is the simplest number in your chart, the day you were born, and it names the gift you brought with you.
The Week Ahead: 2 to 8 November
Mercury meets the Sun on Wednesday night, the heart of the retrograde, and on Saturday evening the Month of the Pig begins.
Halloween on the other side of the wheel
Tonight the north keeps Samhain and we keep Beltane. Two festivals on opposite sides of the year, and the veil between them.
November is a 3 month
November 2026 is a 3 month in numerology. Words, joy and being seen, arriving right in the middle of a Mercury retrograde.
The Full Moon in Taurus
Yesterday’s Full Moon in Taurus, Venus’s own sign, during her retrograde. What is enough, and what you have been holding on to.
The Week Ahead: 26 October to 1 November
A Full Moon in Taurus opens the week, Mercury and Venus are both walking backwards, and on Sunday November begins as a 3 month.
The morning star
Yesterday Venus passed in front of the Sun, the middle of her retrograde. The old story of her descent, and what it asks of you.
Mercury turns around this afternoon
Mercury turns retrograde this afternoon in Scorpio, with Venus still walking backwards. What a double retrograde asks of you.
The season of Scorpio begins on Friday
The Sun enters Scorpio on Friday evening. What Libra gave, what Scorpio does, the still dam, the grudge, and the practice.