Saturn and Mars continue to be strong in November, no matter who wins the election.

The astrology of November is not about Donald Trump or about Joe Biden. The astrology of November is about Mars and Saturn.

Mars is the cultural outsider. Mars exists in states of exception where violence is done that are assumed to be at the borders of the domestic territory but actually lives normalized in churches, in schools, in hospitals, and in spaces where we look to create intimacy and political power. Mars is about anger and desire but, more importantly, Mars is about fear and Mars is about blood.

Saturn is the land. Saturn is about soil. The creation of the United States is a story about the marginalization of land and aliens.

In November, Mercury goes direct right after election day. Venus then enters Scorpio on the 22nd, which is the same day that the Sun ingresses Sagittarius and Mars goes direct. Sagittarius Sun is ruled by a debilitated Jupiter and Venus and Mercury are ruled by Mars while a Moon eclipses in Gemini.

Saturn and Mars, which are the malefics, are my favorite planets in astrology. Saturn is about accountability to life while Mars is about the continued survival of those who have experienced violence. These two planets are the planets that are considered to be the most detrimental to power. They’re planets that are messy and painful to sit in but they are planets that must be incorporated into our communities if we are to become people who respect life.

Saturn and Mars continue to be strong in November, no matter who wins the election.

Power is not about supreme courts or presidents. Power is not about an electoral process. Power is a social agreement. No matter who wins an election, the hardest thing that we can do is to commit to one another in our full vulnerabilities even when we are scared by precarity. No matter who wins an election, we have to find ways to continue to survive. No matter who won the elections, we have found ways to continue to survive.

Feel scared but with people. Feel shame but with people. Feel responsibility but with people. Feel anger but with people. You were never meant to do the things that you were put here to do alone.

The audacity of hope that you were sold when you were younger is really the audacity of transformation, of love, and of strength. It is the audacity of survival in a world that was built to exclude you.

Scorpio

Take your time back. You no longer have patience for anything that is not actively contributing to the type of life and love that you wish to see in the world. You no longer have the time for anything that is not actively contributing to the life and love that you wish to see in the world.

In some ways, November can be very busy for you. Make sure that you are working on your own time and not someone else’s. Working on someone else’s time is an exercise in banality and working on your own time is an exercise of transformation.

Sagittarius

Give your definition of love some dimension by forcing it to express your fears and vulnerabilities instead of only your power and visibility. Your relationships are shaped by the things that you are afraid that other people will do to you as much as they are shaped by your visions for the future. Fear is never a good look but those who love you don’t care about how you look.

Don’t let your quest towards an abundance mindset bypass your fear. Your fear is valuable and abundant relationships honor your fears. They are the most tender part of you.

Capricorn

It’s not your job to feel settled. The unsettled parts of you are the parts that are alive. Settling is for settlers. Avoid the urge to isolate during the colder days. For some, isolation is home and, for others, isolation is work. For still others, isolation is a relationship that binds you to another person’s logic. You decide what it means to you.

You might feel some anger in November. Anger is always a form of fear. Figure out what your anger is afraid of. This fear might seem to betray the person who you thought you were because it makes you uncomfortable.

Aquarius

The impact that you have on your communities will never be a net good or a net bad. The good parts also don’t cancel out the bad or vice versa. You will never be able to atone for the violence that you are complicit in by doing good deeds or not by buying out as long as that violence is ongoing. Your shame for being complicit in capitalism will not go away until social change happens.

Social change is possible. Releasing shame while violence is ongoing is not possible. Let go of what you can’t control and grasp what you can.

Pisces

Community, in how it was imagined for you, has never been a thing that allowed you to create self agency through. Imagined community has always been patriarchal, supremacist, and capitalist. You were never included into the vision of community. Imagined community has always been a survival mechanism of those who didn’t consider you.

It’s up to you to ensure that you do not neglect yourself. This means that you must figure out if the future of the communities that you are held by imagine their survival to the exclusion of the people around you. You won’t feel comfortable while you figure these things out but you will earn your own respect.

Aries

You have lived with oppression for so long that it is no longer important to search for imagined authentic presence in an utopia that dreams of your comfort. Your fear responses are a precious part of you and your anger mechanisms are valuable. You know how to live in dignity even when your existence is undignified.

Be louder about your survival in November. Not everyone gets to hear enough about it. You’re an imperfect person who is just hanging out and there’s nothing more lovable than that. You, of all people, know how to create strength when things feel hopeless.

Taurus

You’ve been doing this for a long time—surviving, that is. Now is the time to do the same things that you have always done, which is to feed yourself, sleep adequately, and to see people who you trust. Your relationships will withstand crisis and you are not going anywhere. You are safe and well loved.

Continue to pour our heart out in trust that love will always come back because you value your own existence. You have always been here and you will continue to be here. The people who fight with you will not leave you.

Gemini

Make friends with people—not institutions or ideologies or ideas. Make friends with people. How you define personhood can be up to you because your relationships with plants and animals are animated in the same ways that your friendships with human beings are. Make animated relationships with the world around you.

Movement defines you and you won’t ever stop moving. Moving is also the hardest thing but the thing that keeps you alive. Relationships are about defining movement for you and this is something that you have full creative agency over.

Cancer

You don’t have to be perfect in order to have relationships. Your most raw relationships are the ones in which you have fucked up. There, you can experience what it feels like to not be punished, finally, for having a trauma response. There, you can learn to forgive others for their desperation.

Forgive yourself for your fuck ups and be in relation anyways. Bringing people closer together is a messy project because everyone, including you, is afraid of being seen. Do it anyway and always move at the speed of trust.

Leo

Your politics are not the question—your existence is. There is no ethical existence under capitalism no matter what you believe but you continue to survive anyway. That is not a character flaw. That is a work of transformation and future making.

Do the work of social transformation outside of non-profits. No organization that asks for a resume will ever mobilize you in the ways that you need. No movement that working mothers cannot participate in will move you in the ways that you need. Build yourself by making sure that your life is built according to your principles.

Virgo

Your asks for accountability are multifaceted and numerous. Sometimes, they can sound like whispers in someone’s ear, teases of suggestion, and questions that ponder the unanswerable. Accountability doesn’t have to happen in long letters signed by big names. Accountability happens within intimacy and is a form of love.

Ask for accountability from the people who you care about. Don’t spend your energy reforming institutions that evade your love languages. Ask for love from those who you trust to still be with you when you ask a hard question.

Libra

Your beauty doesn’t come from social validation but from presence. Take up the space that you need. Your fear and your anger wasn’t built to please anyone but the people who are able to share that fear and anger. These things will do the work that is needed to pull loved ones to you.

Create relationships of strength with the people who you live with. Relationships of strength will not alienate you to the world but allow you to have the validation that you need to navigate discomfort elsewhere. Trust other people to move with you when you challenge them.