Weekly Hello

November 16th was my late mother’s birthday so whenever that date comes around I am reminded of her. She was a double Scorpio with Mars in Scorpio rising so to say she was a formidable fighter is something of an understatement. Fortunately, she also had her Moon in Sagittarius, which gave her a wicked sense of humour, although none of Sagittarius’s thirst for adventure and exploring the beyond. Which is probably why she ended up with a fearless, much-travelled daughter whose job it was to push the envelope.

Monday’s Mars-Jupiter conjunction is about pushing boundaries. It inspires acts of great courage but also encourages Icarus-like behaviour – people fly too high, go too far and the result is a vertiginous fall from grace. We are seeing examples of this already with once hugely popular celebrities tumbling off their Olympian perches, and while this is also a reflection of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which will remain in play until next February, it is also about super-sized egos, super-sized confidence and super-sized bubbles bursting. Jensen Huang is a recent addition to the Hubris club, prompting this quote from his biographer, Stephen Witt, “Mr Huang’s unravelling is not a technology story, it is a timeless tale of masculine hubris, a man undone by reckless overconfidence.”

What makes this Mars-Jupiter conjunction even more powerful is the Sun’s 90° angle to it. And if this combination makes contact with anything in your natal chart, while opportunities should be seized, there is a caveat, you must have what it takes to fulfil them. And there must be no trace of overweening ambition in there. I have Mr Trump in mind here since his natal Mars is 26 degrees of Leo, and bang on the Mars-Jupiter conjunction. It’s going to be quite a week for this president.

You will probably have noticed that I didn’t do a New Moon video for November. This is due to all my writing commitments, which at this time of year and the approach of 2027 are humongous. I will eventually get back on track, and I am recording a Full Moon video on Monday. In the mean-time, you can watch my first Talk at the first Ammerdown Conference from Spring 2025.

Onward and starward.