Last Quarter Moon and Mars Venus Conjunction: What is Holding You Back from Enjoying Life?

With the sun in Scorpio, we are continuing the recent theme from the full moon in Taurus.  The full moon in Taurus was all about comfort and enjoying the comforts and companionship we have, but the opposing sun in Scorpio may have brought light to the subconscious fears or beliefs that keep you from experiencing that. 

On November 3rd we reach the last quarter moon in Leo.  The last quarter moon places emphasis on reevaluation on a subconscious level.  If something was illuminated at the full moon, then this last quarter might be urging you to shift your beliefs and thoughts and be fluid with the changes that are trying to occur in your life. 

On November 11th we will have a new moon in Scorpio, so this continues the Scorpio theme and is a chance, now that we have had awareness with the full moon and release at the last quarter to use the new moon in this same sign to set new intentions around the Taurean ideals of security, comfort and enjoying life.  This new moon is a time to choose your beliefs and manifest them through changing your thought and behavior habits.  Set the intention and then be aware of falling into old patterns so that in each moment you may choose a different thought or action or reaction.

On November 2nd, we have the third and final conjunction between Mars and Venus.  The two were joined first in February in Aries, highlighting the idea of the self and each person’s needs – a prelude to that eclipse on the Aries/Libra axis in September that illuminated how we were honoring self within relationships – and then again in Leo back on September 2nd while Venus was still retrograde, and now they will be in Virgo, the sign of healing and grounding ideals, so we can assess what we’ve learned emotionally and spiritually with this series of conjunctions and bring it into our everyday lives.   What have you learned in love and relating with the previous two conjunctions this year, and how are you moving forward?  Do your relationships with others have the support of a strong foundation of self-love? 

As we begin November and the winter season, we are being prompted to release those things in our subconscious that are holding us back from “the good life”, from feeling secure and enjoying what we have.  At the same time, we are completing an examination of how we relate.  We have been asked to remember that we must be able to stand on our own, and love and value ourselves before we can have a healthy relationship with another. We have been asked to be “selfish” in the sense that we are our own source, our own supply, and sustain ourselves from within, so that when we come together with another we might freely give and truly enjoy the gift of the other without fear or demands.  The security and comfort (and love) we experience is directly connected to what we feel we are worthy of receiving and it will be filtered by any negative belief that opposes it.  Now is a perfect opportunity to release any belief that is negatively affecting your value of self so you may more fully experience “the good life”.