START NOTHING: 4:10 pm Mon. to 0:28 am Tues., 10:57 pm Tues. to 6:38 am Thurs., and 5:20 am to 2:40 pm Sat.
(NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, AS BRITISH COLUMBIA HAS ABANDONED PACIFIC TIME, and will use Mountain Standard Time year-round. Pacific Daylight usually would end Nov. 1, but B.C. has rejected Pacific Standard, and will now run as Pacific Daylight, or Mountain Standard, year-round.)
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WEEK AHEAD — SUN SIGNS:
As noted last week, the planet Venus is retrograde, and will stay that way until November 13. TAURUS and LIBRA will be most affected. In general, love slows down, or returns from the past.
Mercury retrogrades October 24 to November 13. So DON’T start new projects now to mid-November. Acquaintances, ideas, projects, and communications from the past might now enter, and could be valuable, could be worth taking up. But don’t commit to anything brand new.
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TO ALL SIGNS: Don’t be-over optimistic in November, especially right around mid November. Strong ambitions, pie in the sky, unwarranted hopefulness, blithely expanding what you are into — these can all be pathways to dead ends — even worse, to loss. So be hardheaded and practical this month.
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ARIES, you are both bold and attracted to romance virtually all November. At the same time, your sexual side is fired up. What this will lead to depends on your present situation (e.g., married or not?) your age, and your preferences. If the object of your passion is someone that you knew or even romanced in the past, you could be in for a very pleasurable time. But if it is someone new, your chances of long-term success with this relationship are pretty slim. In addition, the other person might be indecisive or reluctant – whether in business or love. Sunday/Monday are super romantic and creative and blesses gamblers. Tackle chores mid week. Eat, dress sensibly. Thursday onward brings relationships.
TAURUS, the weeks ahead feature relationships of all kinds, business, love, etc. They also prove important in domestic zones, where huge good luck, bad decisions, friction and argument stir into a potent brew. These two, relationships, and home/family, are very likely to conflict. Until mid November, a person you’re dealing with whether in love or business can be quite indecisive. Considering the turmoil around you, his or her indecision is probably wise. DON’T launch any new projects or attractions before November 14. But if a person or project returns from the past, they/it could be a winner. Your domestic scene is very apparent Sunday/Monday — go with your luck, but remain honest and self-aware. Mid week is romantic, creative (but watch the start nothing times). Tackle chores Thursday to Saturday. Saturday night needs diplomacy.
GEMINI, you are deeply into a month of work, health, concerns, and involvement with machinery or tools. Avoid new jobs, unless they come from a past contact. Instead, stick with ongoing projects. All this applies until November 13. Someone very attractive, perhaps a libra, might return from the past. If so, judge the future of this relationship by its past. Could be a good one! Your travel, paperwork and communications zone is very active all month, and is tied in with at least one of your hopes, especially this Sunday/Monday. Perhaps, for example, you’re writing a letter proposing something to a company executive. It might be better to wait until mid-November onward to launch any important messages. Love, beauty Thursday to Sat.
CANCER, chase money or spend it early week – you might splurge Monday. Midweek brings paperwork, communications, and errands. (Not much gets done, but that’s OK during this slowdown.) Thursday onward steers you toward home. Hug the kids — and remember that brilliant idea Thursday — it could relate to home computer, home wiring, or a gathering of like minds. Until late November, money flows toward you in gratifying amounts, but you will also have a subconscious urge to spend — fight it. Although this is a very romantic time for you, your home is the place of most comfort and affection. Children will be charming!
LEO, you are full of vim and vigour all November – courageous, impulsive, and the world’s great lover (or creator!). In addition, lucky Jupiter, your romance, and good luck planet, both expands and encourages whatever direction you’re running in. Read the warning above: excess optimism can lead to failure. If you are careful, and think things through before you act, you might pluck a real plum from the universe. Don’t make any decisions or plans around your home or children for the next two weeks. You are the star of the show early week. Your Christmas surges so ask for what you want! Midweek hovers around money issues, but almost nothing gets done. Thursday onward brings paperwork, errands and communications – some nice ones, especially Thursday.
VIRGO, the weeks ahead centre on paperwork, communications and errands — but the two weeks ahead are filled with mistakes, wrong addresses, maybe the wrong communication. Go slowly and carefully. Avoid starting any new project or relationship. Your dealings with management or the government are expanding and stressing. Make no decisions nor commitments in this area until after November 13. Your money/earnings picture looks good all month. A payment or bonus from the past might arrive. Lie low, rest and contemplate early week, seek advice, but don’t bother making plans – they would change. Mid week, your energy and pizzazz shoot upward – you’ll have lots of attention, but somehow I don’t think you’ll get a lot done unless you live in Asia, Australia, etc. Thursday onward, buy/sell, or hugger, casual lover.
LIBRA, November is a month of money for you, so you should be fine on this front. However, for the next two weeks, do not start any money projects nor buy anything significant. This will probably be easy, as you yourself are going to be indecisive until November 13 — not only about money, but the world in general. A money source might return from the past. If so, grab it. YOUR SOCIAL LIFE IS FILLED WITH THRILLS AND PROGRESS. IF YOU’RE SINGLE SOMEONE YOU CONSIDER AN ATTRACTIVE MATE PROSPECT MIGHT BE HAUNTING THE SOCIAL GROUPS YOU ATTEND. REMEMBER, IF THIS IS SOMEONE BRAND NEW BEFORE NOVEMBER 14, LEAVE IT ALONE. OTHERWISE, THOUGH THIS COULD BE A VERY PASSIONATE FRIENDSHIP. (These capitals mean nothing – the computer did it and refused to undo it.) Don’t talk too much if you want to win someone over. For many of you single libras, the 6 years ahead will bring weddings and marriages.
SCORPIO, your energy and charisma are at a yearly high. I didn’t add the word effective, because five of the eight planets are retrograde — making it hard to make headway in any area. However, the two most important retros – Venus and mercury – both turned direct November 13. After that day, you can make some important decisions. Your career is hugely favoured until the end of July 2027. However, during the same period, that lucky career zone is also studded with potholes — temptations, or unwise decisions that can lead you into a dead end. So step carefully, and look ahead down the years when making a decision. In November this year, bosses and higher-ups can be impatient and temperamental. All this career stuff really shines Sunday/Monday. Mid week is for fun and friends. Thursday into Saturday brings weariness, so rest up or investigate (good results).
SAGITTARIUS, in your sign of friends, you have sweet Venus. In your sign of weddings, you have lucky Jupiter, and hot-to-trot Mars. All this points to the possible rapid development of a love affair and or a marriage. However, the lunar south node is also in your sign of weddings. The south node brings difficult karma, cosmic punishments for past transgressions, and unwise decisions. It could turn a wedding or a love affair or an international journey into a mess. My advice: continue to be hopeful about a partnership (even a business one if you’re already married) but do not take major steps (e.g., buying a house together) until after March 2028. Sunday/Monday illustrate these themes. Be ambitious mid week, although nothing much will happen and you should stick to routine. Thursday onward can bring a wish true or lead to other delights: flirting, entertainment, party time.
CAPRICORN, November is a powerful month. Most obviously, it will be a month of friends, fun and flirting. You will feel optimistic and happy. Join a group or two. However, deeper things are going on also. With mercury and Venus retrograde until November 13, avoid starting anything new, project, relationship, or significant purchase. Your zone of secrets, research and investigation, lifestyle changes, surgery, big finances, and strong sexual temptations is very alive Sunday/Monday, but also for 9 months ahead. Now to next summer, this area will be both very lucky and subject to dead ends and failures. Much depends upon your morals and your wisdom. (And it’s always wise to be moral.) This whole nine months, if you experience unexpected delays in any situation, this is your clue to get out.
AQUARIUS, your ambition, career, worldly standing, and prestige relations fill the weeks ahead. Work with ongoing projects/situations, or revive such from the past. Before November 14, do not start any new project, relationship or major purchase. Your relationship scene is very active now – in your partnership sign, Mars, Jupiter, and the lunar South node, make everything lively, but also perhaps consequential in the wrong way. You could be highly attracted to someone now, but also find that you want to argue or fight, or they do. So you need to be wise, calm, and tolerant, both in work and in love. I told you before that last year to 2033 will be the prime romantic and creative phase of your entire life. A former lover may contact you this week or next.
PISCES, November is always a great month for you intellectually, travel-wise, philosophically, in the media, and in love. It’s time to spread your mental wings! But before November 14, don’t try anything big and new such as a relationship or project or big purchase. (They would fail, waste time.) So this great intellectual journey will succeed if it takes you to a place you’ve been before, or to an idea or set of ideas that you once embraced and then let go. It might also bring back a former lover – this might or might not succeed. In work, health and machinery areas, proceed carefully, and safely. On the good side, the work you do for the next nine months will rebound to your benefit and could bring a promotion. On the downside, you could lose your job or create suspicion between yourself and higher-ups. This will occur if you cut corners, tell a fib, or otherwise act unethically in order to get ahead. If you do this, it will be like walking through molasses.
AFTERWORD:
We are the authors of our own destinies.
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Good old Canada: we used to have five time zones from BC to Atlantic Canada. But Quebec has decided now to never use daylight savings time again, which means they will always be five hours from Greenwich. And British Columbia has decided to never have standard time – they will stay on daylight forever.
This means that BC is really on mountain standard time forever. There is no more Pacific time. So during the summer, BC will only be seven hours from Greenwich rather than it’s actual eight. And Quebec, refusing to go on daylight, will remain five hours from Greenwich. In other words, the entire wide expense of Canada will be covered by three time zones, mountain, central and east. (With Atlantic Time another hour east.)
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Here’s a possible AI law: that everyone owns their own face and body image. So anyone who sees themselves in an AI generated photo, such as Sanford university did to its band without permission, can sue for damages.
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Engine light on in your car? Maybe check your heart, too. Many things are omens.
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Well, I was wrong about the BC election. I said the NDP would win. The trouble was, I didn’t rely on astrology; instead, I was seduced by the arrogance of logic. The basic conservative party had just fallen apart, fractured into two factions, one of which was starting a new party, and begging for members. At this point, David Eby, leader of the NDP, called an election two years before he had to. It was a vastly cynical move — the opposition party fell apart, so he called an election, looking for an easy victory. In fact, it looked like the conservative or new conservative party couldn’t even get enough members to contest every riding.
Boy, was I wrong.
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Why don’t they do this in football: there are 11 guys on the team, so take away the quarterback, and you got five guys for defence and five for receiving. But instead of spreading these people around the field, you make a square with four players and a fifth in the middle. They run up field in this formation. Then the quarterback is almost certain not to have his passes intercepted, as it will be difficult for the defenders to penetrate the square. It might be so successful that they outlaw it. No longer does the quarterback have to scan the field to try and find someone who’s open. He always knows where to throw the ball and where his receivers will be, which means he can release at any time, essentially markedly reducing the sacks. And the receiver who catches the ball will have four blockers nearby. For the defenders, it might be like trying to bring down a castle.
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One way you could try to predict the outcome of the midterm elections in America would be to get the date/time for the founding of the Republican and Democratic parties, and then see how they stand on November 3.
Only two things wrong with this idea: one, you can’t predict an election on the election day chart anymore because some elections are decided long before the election day with early voting. The election date chart gives a hint or an indication. The second problem is you have to do some research. In the old days, I wouldn’t even try because it meant hiking down to the library maybe or maybe not finding the data, etc. But now I can look on Google, which I will do it in a minute and you know what I got.
The Republican Party was born either March 20 or July 20, 1854. The Democratic Party was born January 8, 1828 (or in 1796). So let’s say just for the fun of it, that the Democrats are Capricorns and the Republicans are cuspal — March 20 is the Aries/Pisces cusp, and July 20 is late Cancer, almost on the Leo cusp. All this tells me almost nothing. On November 3, the voting day (supposedly) the moon is in Virgo, the sign of opportunity for Capricorns, and the sign of restless talk and not much result for cancers. So I guess I would still stick with an overall democratic victory. Still, my gut goes against this. I’m sorry guys. I just don’t know.
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I wish Kamala Harris wasn’t so dumb. Because I like her, I really do like her.
Personally, I like AOC also, but her cheerful prejudice and charming hatred repulse me. She makes me feel a kind of fear of what she wants and is; some could be hypnotized by this, as if by a snake.
Love or hate them, snakes are charismatic, and so is AOC. She looks very strong; there’s some kind of steel in her. I think the fear I feel is focussed on the possibility that she might become president. She is a hard nut, but nuts are seeds. Planting the seed in the White House would grow a tree bigger than the house and it would strangle the house. It would be the fulcrum point of the change I keep referring to. (The one in which communist countries become more capitalistic and capitalistic countries become more communist, but that’s only before the brew is mixed – once cooked, it will be a brand new, different political system. But as I’ve said before, this system will only survive/thrive if the bureaucracy can be changed.)
And to some degree we’re already in the zone of that major turning point or fulcrum — witness the DSA, Abdul, Piker, et al.
At first glance, the left is crazy, absolutely insane. But if you keep looking, you see the ambition to attain a society held together by those crazy ideas, and they are doing it through the political process. Now having gained the stage, they moderate the crazier of their ideas and present themselves as palatable. Their feast of ideas attracts low income people and those who feel they are being taken advantage of. But where to draw this line is a puzzle. Even someone with a house, a picket fence, a happy wife and three kids and a two car garage, earning 120 K a year, can feel that this is as far as he goes, that everything is against his going any further. That can lead to a feeling of oppression or of lacking the advantage, and knowing someone else on some other social level possesses that advantage. Question is, how many people feel that?
Wow. I started this item to compare AOC and Kamala, but as is common with me, I got sidetracked.
I think Kamala would be a great fling, a warm, adventurous friend. But she could only have two types of husband: one who totally dominates her, or one who is very soft.
AOC, on the other hand, could have a successful marriage with almost any man who had enough spirit, although I could see her wiping her hands of a man. When it comes down to it, beneath emotion, there is a steely resolve.
I feel closer to Kamala, maybe because she’s less threatening.
In 2024 I said that she would tend to decline in popularity and eventually find the stage smaller and smaller. I didn’t use those words, I said something about Kamala being a soccer ball, falling to earth after it’s been kicked up. For a brief period, she had everything — she was the de facto president, the nominee for the next term, and the warrior leading the entire party to its ultimate spectacular defeat.