November Horoscope: Starting the Final Lap

Written with love by Mariah the Mystic

November promises one thing: a hell of a ride! Expect all the thrills and none of the frills with jam-packed Scorpio & Sagittarius notes, and the whopper of retrograde action continued for yet another chapter.

October was repressive. November says, 'Ready to actually get to work?' Scorpio rolls up her witchy sleeves and manually resuscitates our heartbeat. We finally see movement— a reprieve, an electric shock to restart the rhythm. 2026 promises plenty more drama, but from November to December, we're meeting the fever pitch and coming down the other side. By Capricorn season, all that will be left to do is nail our crude but sound structure to the ground. We have been productive and diligent through a very complex and challenging time. No matter the state of our personal or collective progress, we can be sure that we are weathered to face the new year.

The beginning of November starts out with a little renewed amp. We’re starting to visualize what all of these tests have been prompting in us—our self-evolution, as well as the collective. Now, with Uranus's reversal back into Taurus, we are witnessing firsthand the collective shrink back from connective and tech ‘progress.’ This is seen in the backlash of AI, the breakdown of AWS, international talks of peace, and continued war, genocide, and struggle. Notably, this marks Uranus’s last spin in Taurus for most of our lifetimes. In the fixed earth sign, we are reminded of the climate crisis, highlighting our limited access to resources—not only through environmental issues but also through tariffs and economic trials. Ultimately, Uranus in Taurus pushes our abundance mindset to the absolute brink: how much do we need to survive? And how different is that reality from our neighbor, our boss, our country’s leaders, or the humans living across the ocean from us?

In the center of November, Mercury goes for a spin cycle, retrograding through Sagittarius and then back into Scorpio. During this time, it torments the New Moon in Sagittarius, signaling challenges for Sagittarius Season. Meanwhile, Scorpio is in the womb, intricately reforming our fetal form into its newness. At the same time, Sagittarius wants so badly to do EVERYTHING Mercury Retrograde warns us not to. Sagittarius wants to make brash decisions off the cuff, party, travel spontaneously, spend money like it's their last day on earth, and not face any consequences—today, at least. Sorry, Sagittarius, the work needs to be done before we can open the magnum of champagne.

Mercury stations directly before the end of November, as does Saturn, bringing massively uplifting energy. While the clouds are still lazily clearing, we already experience the first wave of reprieve. This uplift arrives just in time for Sagittarius to romp with Venus’ ingress. However, for those with natal Saturn in late Pisces or early Aries, you are not completely out of the dark. Saturn is still pressing its heel on your temple; your Saturn return is still completing. Although obstacles and conflicts may arise, you are moving toward even greater personal transformation than the usual yearly cycle.

Like trees winterizing and us finishing end-of-year projects before the holidays, November urges us to work before we enjoy the rewards. This hasn’t been fun work this year, but it’s still important. Cycles and chapters may be large, small, slightly annoying, or massively disruptive. This is unique to you and your natal Astrology. Still, these themes might resonate in simpler ways. November’s horoscope gives a blueprint for your own interpretation and integration.

As the rule maker and rule breaker of your Astrology and life, you choose what speaks to you, what is garbage, and what you are still wrestling to define.

November 4: Mars enters Sagittarius + forms Opposition to Uranus

Flavors: Growing pains, refreshed enthusiasm, an “anything is possible” attitude, impatience.

Micro Joy: Not rushing through the journey. Visioning far and wide instead of nitty-gritty. Rough drafts.

Be Xtra Soft: With your timeline and expectations, with obstacles that are holding up rolling progress, with self-doubt or imposter syndrome.

Outlets & Resets: Slow down when you start feeling anxious or jittery. Vision in your own way, whether visually, verbally, or something else. Lay down broad strokes and trust they will be fine-tuned in time. Play with your inner relationship to control and surrender.

Wonderings: What am I excited to explore, what spaces am I growing into, and who is the “me” I’m yearning to become?

Indulgences: Take out food. Meandering conversions. Networking for fun. Celebrating milestones along the way. Sketching without an eraser.

November 5: Full Moon in Taurus

Flavors: Reaching a rest stop. Embodying. Indulging yourself shamelessly.

Micro Joy: Allowing gentle whimsy to color your day. Listening to your inner compass. Allowing your schedule to flow organically. Spoiling yourself and others.

Be Xtra Soft: With any guilt or expectations around constant productivity and feeling like rest has been properly earned.

Outlets & Resets: Avoid clocks and timers if possible. Wear something you feel confident in. Languish in downtime or the experience of a task.

Wonderings: What can I do to fill my cup a bit extra today, just because I deserve it?

Indulgences: Sitting in silence. Romanticising the mundane. Taking an extra-long lunch break. Being in rhythm with the subtle.

November 6: Venus enters Scorpio

Flavors: Reigniting flames. Fortifying bonds. Getting down and dirty. Weathering storms.

Micro Joy: Kisses that last longer and feel deeper. Re-defining your look or playing with your aesthetics. Making commitments official or defining the relationship. Being brutally honest with your heart.

Be Xtra Soft: With an intensity you feel that isn’t reciprocated or recognized by a partner, distance that feels lonely or confusing, with your bodily or human changes & cycles.

Outlets & Resets: Couples therapy or creating space to debrief & co-tackle relationship challenges. Non-sexual intimacy and closeness. Being incredibly tender with yourself and your human body. Doing shadow work around your relationships to love and self-love.

Wonderings: How are my worlds of romantic passion and aesthetic play beginning to morph or solidify?

Indulgences: Physical touch. Eroticism focused on pleasure, not sex. Vow renewals. Making a ritual out of it.

November 7: Uranus Retrograde Re-enters Taurus

Flavors: Abundance or lack of resources. Disruption to the status quo. Lens switches focus from tech & communications to nature, material stability, and emotional security.

Micro Joy: Re-emphasizing & re-aligning with human and earthly concerns over tech rollouts and large collective changes regarding mental or understanding.

Be Xtra Soft: With any tech related issues or obstacles, with relying too heavily on AI, with overly ambitious intellectual pursuits that require progressive support, with any issues that arise around finances, job security, food access, or natural events outside of our control, with any body image issues or regressive takes on body positivity or outdated gender/race related beauty standards that become invoked.

Outlets & Resets: Stepping away from the endless feed for a moment and being present with being human. Considering your budget, or perhaps any dried or canned food stock. Volunteer in the community or donate cozy, nourishing, or comforting items. Focus on your and others' most pertinent needs. Refusing to perpetuate outdated beauty and body standards.

Wonderings: What does it mean to be a patron of the earth and neighbor to fellow earth-dwellers at this current passage of time?

Indulgences: Cheap comfort meals. Free Outdoor Activities. Picking up trash. Treating your body with respect. Going analog when possible.

November 9: Mercury Stations Retrograde in Sagittarius

Flavors: Retracing your steps. Heading out on a solo journey. Staying buoyant and cheery when challenges arise.

Micro Joy: Taking some time for yourself. Walking down memory lane for an afternoon. Visiting places that hold importance to your past self. Dusting off your old ideas.

Be Xtra Soft: With words, especially with being too bold or brash in your communications with others. With attempts to tread new waters. With steamrolling ahead against better judgment or warning signs.

Outlets & Resets: Enjoy the adventure of retreat, or perhaps of reconnecting with people, places, and things that have slipped our grasp but now come to mind. Laughing when it falls apart, glitches, crashes, or goes wrong.

Wonderings: What have I been running from, and what am I running towards?

Indulgences: Disappearing acts. Scheduling brain rot time. Follow-up questions. Nostalgia.

November 11: Jupiter Stations Retrograde in Cancer

Flavors: Halt in progress. The confrontation before the end of the chapter. Trust falls with your intuition. Returning to your own mythological fates.

Micro Joy: Holing up with just enough for hibernation. Feeling extra psychic. Seeing dots connect between past, present, and future experiences and desires.

Be Xtra Soft: With the process of reckoning with changes, with loss, and with stagnation.

Outlets & Resets: Reminding yourself of the plotline. Seeking out the sustenance of a safe and supportive community. Forgiving yourself and others, though it takes courage.

Wonderings: If it’s not too late to turn around or change course, am I satisfied with my current direction?

Indulgences: Downy soft sensations. Facing your fears. Exploring emotions without automatic judgment. Strong gut impulses. Embracing homebody essence.

November 18: Mercury Retrograde Re-Enters Scorpio

Flavors: Seemingly unyielding stances and obstacles. Desire to level up and evolve past certain behaviors, relationships, and beliefs. Disclosures, confessions, and slips of tongue.

Micro Joy: Feeling open enough to go there. A heightened connection to your psychological world and emotional sensitivities. Rekindled eagerness to learn, dissect, seek truth, and connect on profound levels with yourself and the people around you.

Be Xtra Soft: With your grief process, or forthcoming loss of anyone, anywhere, or anything. With your quickness to jump to conclusions or misunderstand other people’s words or intentions.

Outlets & Resets: Sleeping on it and awaking with a fresh perspective and disposition. Leaning into the raw and ugly parts of the process instead of recoiling. Surrendering to the pace of the bloom without rushing the painful and intricate developments.

Wonderings: What truths am I uncovering and unlocking in myself?

Indulgences: Vent seshes. Autumn Retreats. Observing from the sidelines. Saying what you mean, and meaning what you say. Being thorough. Horror & Romance.

November 20: New Moon in Scorpio & Mercury Cazimi

Flavors: Turning points arrive. Contention in our dynamics between our relationship with others and our untethered independence. Visions or strikes of lightning that help formulate our path and reinforce our confidence and grip on the transformative process.

Micro Joy: Finding solace and softness in the arts and creative expressions. Acknowledging the ways that we are extraordinary through affirmation, outfits, or creation.

Be Xtra Soft: With doubts or confusion regarding traditional expectations, roles, or timelines. With parts of us that feel out of orbit or disconnected from the flock. With any wounds or scars that are particularly fragile and require care and attention.

Outlets & Resets: Placing more emphasis on how you feel than how it looks or how it is received and judged by others. Focusing on research and gathering more information on any ideas or potential solutions that occur to you. Do something restorative for yourself — whether spiritually, emotionally, physically, or holistically.

Wonderings: How can I tune down the noise today and tune into my body and the universal vibrations?

Indulgences: Following your soul, not the crowd. Juxtaposition. Choosing kindness. Strange or prophetic dreams. Informing your decisions.

November 21: Sun enters Sagittarius

Flavors: New horizons appearing in the distance. Trying again before quitting on something for good. Searching for new thrills and experiences with a moderate dose of caution.

Micro Joy: Feeling emboldened to live a little after your reflective time.

Be Xtra Soft: With acting overly bombastic or disregarding respectful social cues and general vibes. With immediately or spontaneously jumping into anything too risky without the full picture.

Outlets & Resets: Resorting to open-mindedness, not just to things that are easy, but to things that are difficult to wrap your mind around. Focusing on a healthy balance of responsibility and play.

Wonderings: What do I feel excited about right now?

Indulgences: Experimenting with new cuisines. Blockbuster movies. Belly laughs. Moving your body. New, low-risk hobbies. Childlike wonder.

November 27: Saturn Stations Direct in Pisces

Flavors: Fog lifting and leaving a renewed clarity. Feeling a kindred companionship towards the ethers or the unknown. A brimming hope that promises a new chapter.

Micro Joy: The beginning of a load lightened, and obstacles cleared in your path.

Be Xtra Soft: If you are a Saturn in Pisces, especially late degrees of Pisces, be soft with the themes of whatever house your natal Saturn nestles in, with reorienting to your surroundings and next steps, especially until Mercury stations, with feeling still a bit cloudy or confused, and with feeling a bit lost in a surreal landscape and reality-altering states.

Outlets & Resets: Grounding yourself in the present using your senses. Avoiding vertigo by not rushing forward. Leaning into the abstract by means of cinema, music, strange food creations, or artsy projects that don’t need to have a sense, use, or purpose.

Wonderings: How do I return to myself physically and ‘spiritually’?

Indulgences: Daydreams. Sentience returning. Floating in space. Grogginess upon waking. Lucid Dreaming.

November 29: Mercury stations Direct in Scorpio

Flavors: The veil is lifted. Opening a window to find a gust of reinvigorating air. Tying up loose ends while we allow the final embers to burn out in the post retrograde shadow.

Micro Joy: Feeling deeply reconnected to an integral part of who we are. Letting Sagittarius loosen up the scorpionic energy.

Be Xtra Soft: With immediately trying to integrate any new findings instead of giving them the time and care to naturally incorporate into the batter. With hurrying any lingering mourning in the process, you are now exiting.

Outlets & Resets: Journaling or speaking to a close confidante about any truths or new understandings that have developed for you during the retrograde period. Honoring your work and toil by enjoying your favorite pastime or outlet without guilt or shame.

Wonderings: What am I currently feeling intrigued by or magnetized towards in my current state?

Indulgences: Letting our shoulders drop. Sacred offerings. Deep cleaning. Giving serious demeanors a holiday weekend. Giving a proper goodbye.

November 30: Venus Enters Sagittarius

Flavors: Rays of sunshine pulling through the cool autumn weather. Feeling awoken in a state of awe and escapade. Feeling drawn towards expressing ourselves in new and fearless ways.

Micro Joy: Playing with color, texture, and fabric in our closet and in our environments. Seeking to learn something new or connect with our community or neighborhood by stepping out and finding it. Showing your partner exactly how you want to be touched.

Be Xtra Soft: With your potential sea legs that are still improving and gaining assurance again after major reconstruction. With parts of you that feel like they’re still ‘playing’ the part and not personifying it. With any potential to be skittish or non-committal with potential partners.

Outlets & Resets: Being daring in a low-risk environment. Putting less emphasis on the external validation of others, and more so, the joy it sparks for you. Being open and honest about what you’re looking for, whether it's a one-night stand or a future monogamous marriage.

Wonderings: What feels extra yummy to me, aesthetically and through pleasure, these days?

Indulgences: Dressing flamboyantly. Enjoying a cheeky night out. Making the first move. Buying the item in your cart.