Astrologer Tisch Aitken
Tisch Aitken is a New York and Los Angeles based astrologer who translates the language of the cosmos into every day wisdom that is both practical and accessible.
As an intuitive astrologer, Tisch studies the cycles of the planets and how they impact us on the individual and collective level.
Named one of the Top 75 Astrology Instagram Influencers most followed in 2022 on Feedspot.com, Tisch maintains an active and engaging presence on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
With a diverse personal and corporate clientele ranging from musicians, artists and writers to financial advisors and CEO’s, Tisch connects with her client base in a manner that is honest and heartfelt.
New Moon in Scorpio: Pluto transforms your life!
Hi, Everyone,
This is a particularly intense Scorpio season for multiple reasons. To begin with, both of the rulers of Scorpio are in combat and will peak on 11/3/24, which is just two days before the Election in the United States.
Mars is the Roman god of war and is the planet of action, drive, passion, desire, and anger. It is also can be connected with the masculine and with sexuality. Pluto is the higher octave of Mars. It represents power, alchemy, transformation, intimacy, death, destruction,rebirth, transcendence, joint resources, and unhealed wounds.
Mars and Pluto are building up to a HUGE opposition, which peaks on 11/3/2024 at 6:37 am EDT at 29 degrees and 45 minutes of the Cardinal signs of Cancer and Capricorn. This is very combustible energy, and it is highly combative. We always feel the onset of Mars’ energy before it becomes exact.
Mars starts to kick in 10/28/24 when it reaches 28 degrees of Cancer setting of Pluto in a bigger way we can all feel. Currently, there are five points transiting in water signs: Mars, the planet of action, in Cancer; the Sun, which represents ego and identity in Scorpio; Mercury, planet of perception, perspective, and the mind in Scorpio; Saturn, planet of karma, challenges, and restrictions, in Pisces; Neptune, planet of dreams, imagination, delusion, and deception, in Pisces.
With all of these points in water signs, this heightens intuition, psychic abilities, dreams, and messages. Pay attention to your dreams and all of the messages you may receive through music, clocks, birds, or however you get them.
Try to connect to your intuition and find ways to heal through getting more rest, journaling your anxieties or anger, meditation, sound baths, walking in nature, listening to music, and tapping into the healing modalities.
This is very sensitive energy, so people can feel both very vulnerable and triggered; but, also easy to anger. Mars is now in its shadow period, which means that it has already reached 17 degrees of the Cardinal water sign of Cancer, which is where it stations direct when it finally does go direct on February 23, 2025.
Mars is both slowing down to retrograde and also involved in combat with Pluto, which is about to change signs and re-enter the Fixed air sign of Aquarius. When Pluto ingresses back into the Fixed air sign of Aquarius, that means HUGE shifts on the collective level.
While Pluto finishes its sixteen year tour in the Cardinal earth sign of Capricorn, old systems are getting demolished in our lives and on the world stage. We are preparing for a whole new world and a whole new era of new beginnings!
Energetic shifts are real, and Mars activates the purging of the old to make room for the new. Pluto is the cosmic eliminator, and it is interesting timing that all of this occurs during Scorpio season, which Pluto rules.
As I write this article, Mercury, the cosmic messenger, opposes Uranus, planet of enlightenment and surprise. This could bring unexpected news and can make you think on your feet! It can also be very exciting energy that brings good brainstorming and innovative ideas that come to you out of nowhere.
The New Moon kicks off the month of November with a lunar opportunity to initiate new beginnings around purging, detoxing, healing, and empowering. This New Moon chart has the energy of Mars and Pluto opposite at the very degree and building up to that opposition on November 3rd. The need to detox and let go is real. The need for change and letting go of old systems, patterns, and relationships that hold you back is real. The need for change on the collective level is real.
The New Moon occurs on 11/1/2024 at 8:47 am EDT at 9 degrees and 35 minutes of the Fixed water sign of Scorpio. In this New moon chart, there is a kite, which brings a beautiful opportunity to work with healing, purging old painful memories, and connecting to your intuition.
Mercury, planet of thinking, forms a helfpul trine to Saturn, planet of structure, and the two both trine Mars, planet of action. This is a Grand Trine in water, which is a flow of energy and helps to connect to your intuive abilities and imagination to manifest.
This Grand Trine is involved in a bigger aspect known as a Kite, in which one of the planets involved in this lucky Grand Trine, which is when all three planets form the shape of a triangle. One of the planets is involved in an opposition, which is a pain point.
In this case, Mars in Cancer is opposite Pluto in Capricorn. Both are at an anaretic degree, which means that they are at the final degree of the sign. This is a degree of crisis, culmination, and finality. Old power structure are being released.
Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn, which rules time. Capricorn represents the old, and it represents leaders and people in power. Old hierarches and power structures are morphing with the times. The times, they are A-changin’.
This kite gives us a cosmic opportunity to work with magic, manifesting, and those fun cosmic tools right after Halloween and in a season that loves witchy things and those cosmic tools that we all have within us if we can suspend disbelief and connect to the source within us, which is unlimited. Part of this involves letting go of anger with the Mars/Pluto opposition; letting go of past resentment with Mars in Cancer, which could trigger old childhood resentments and things that hurt you.
Old memories could surface or the feeling of something you have experienced before. People are a lot more moody and touchy when Mars transits in the sign of Cancer.
The New Moon in Scorpio forms a helpful angle to Saturn, planet of responsibility, structure, accountability, and realization. Saturn stations direct on November 15, 2024 at 12 degrees and 41 minutes of the Mutable water sign of Pisces. Saturn will remain at 12 degrees of Pisces through early December, and this is an optimistic signature with this New Moon in Scorpio, that there are guides around us and cosmic protection if we open our hearts and minds.
I will not deny that this energy is very combative, and some people may really go off the deep end with anger, violence, and passion. Kim Jong Un launched a missile test designed to threaten the United States and is also deploying troops to help Russia.
This is just days before the presidential election in the United States and another sign of the Mars/Pluto opposition that bursts on 11/3/24 and just weeks of completing Pluto in Capricorn, that represents world leaders in power.
We have to use the energy of the Grand trine in water and of the Kite to manifest love, protection, and healing of hatred. We need to shield with love. Mars enters the Fixed fire sign of Leo on 11/3/24 at 11:10 pm EST. Mars retrogrades on 12/6/24 at 6 degrees and 11 minutes of Leo; therefore, try to get as much done now that you want to launch for the New Year if it is something new altogether.
Mars in Leo is passionate, fun, creative, and courageous. It is figuring out how to shine in what you do and doing what makes your heart happy. Use this New Moon to release fears, be couragous, use power and even anger in a healthy way, release resentment, and purge the toxic. I wish you much luck.
The New Moon is always an excellent time to write down intentions, do a manifesting ritual on your own or with others to magnify the energy, and to do the Law of Abundance.
To do the Law of Abundance, take a blank check and date it for 11/1/2024. Where it says, “Pay to the order of, ” write down your full name. Leave the small numeric box empty. On the following line, where you normally print out the amount, write, “Paid in Full.” Where you normally sign your name at the bottom of the check, print, “The Law of Abundance.” I wish you much luck in this time of transformation!
Full Moon in Aries packs a punch!
Hi, Everyone,
In spite of being awake until after 4 am, I feel called to write this newsletter. It will not a big one; but, Aries energy tends to blow up so quickly, that it need not be. The caffeine is soaring through my body like the Grand Cross soon will be in the sky, and I am amped up and ready to go!
Before we dive into this tempestuous and stormy Full Moon, let’s reflect on what recently has occurred. Jupiter, the Grand Benefic, retrograded on October 9, 2024 at 21 degrees and 20 minutes of Gemini. We feel that energy five days before and five days afterwards. Jupiter represents optimism, hope, the big vision, philosophies, belief systems, higher learning, and benevelonce.
Jupiter is the greater benefic, but it also exaggerates whatever it touches — good or bad. Pluto, the planet of power, dominion, death, regeneration, destruction, and renewal, stationed direct on October 11, 2024 at 29 degrees and 38 minutes of the Cardinal earth sign of Capricorn. We feel that INTENSITY five days before and five days afterwards. This was all within about a week of the Solar Eclipse in Libra.
When Pluto stations, generally there are big endings, major revelations to get brought to light, layoffs, and breakups. As I used to say about a guy in college whose name I did not know, “There goes Mr. Intense.” He really was not anything but a sheltered rich kid, but we will utilize him for this story. Mr/Mrs/Ms/Mr/they Intense is definitely walking around, and it is heavy! Unlike the joker in school, Mr. Intense is not joking around with us. Lessons that come up now for you need to be heeded.
Mercury, the planet of the mind, thoughts, and ideas, entered the Fixed water sign of Scorpio on October 13, 2024, where it will tour through November 2, 2024. Pluto rules the sign of Scorpio, and it is a phenomenal placement for uncovering information and getting to the bottom of things. Pluto is the cosmic detective, and it will get to the bottom of things.
All of the outer planets retrograde for several months per year. Pluto retrograded on May 2, 2024 at 2 degrees and 6 minutes of the Fixed air sign of Aquarius. Pluto will ingress back into Aquarius on November 19, 2024, where it will transit through March 8, 2043. The New Age of Aquarius will be moving at such a rapid pace, and the frequencies will be on a whole other level.
In the interim, we are wrapping up karmic stories around the material goals, finances, money, power, people in authority, status, and Capricorn themes. This is the final ending of the Epoch of Capricorn, which was at its height in 2020 when Saturn and Pluto met up at 22 degrees of Capricorn, Jupiter was transiting in Capricorn, and Eclipses were in the Capricorn/Cancer axis.
29 degrees of a sign is a degree of crisis. This is the universe imploring you to let go of the old structures, relationships,patterns, and lifestyle that no longer serves you. We were unconsciously already working in a new era of intuition, new ways of thinking, and technology for several years; but, we shut the doors down permanently on November 19, 2024. Pluto will be leaving the building to start something completely new.
Therefore, this Full Moon is a wopper of a Full Moon because it is combative, contentious, argumentive, and it wants endings. It also wants you to be a warrior with disgression. Is that possible?! The Full Moon occurs on October 17, 2024 at 7:26 am EDT at 24 degrees and 35 minutes of the Cardinal fire sign of Aries.
I set the chart for Washington DC, and the Eclipse chart has Libra ascendant with the Sun right on the angle. It forms what is known as a Grand Cross in that the Sun and Moon are always opposite during a Full moon; they are 180 degrees apart.
Add to the fact that Mars in Cancer, which is a moody placement for Mars and the ruler of this fiery full moon in Aries, sends out a punch both to the Sun and Moon in Libra; it also forms a wide opposition to Pluto, which says this has been a drawn-out goodbye, but good riddance! Chiron, which is the Wounded Healer, is only three degrees away from the Moon in Aries and emphasizes all of the pain and wounds. All of the loss. Chiron sets of that legendary pairing of the two malefics: Saturn and Pluto. They met up at 22 degrees of Capricorn, and that is getting triggered by Chiron and this Full Moon in Aries.
This Full Moon marks the official end of Eclipse season, as it is the first lunation since the Eclipses; however, I feel we deal with the lingering effects a while longer — particularly with Pluto at its final degree in Capricorn. A lot of people in power being brought down, a lot of heavy world situations that are highly tentative, and a lot of fear. Aries is such an impulsive sign, but this is certainly not a time for any of us to act with impulsivity. Mars and Pluto in combat is an aspect of violence. Those are the two rulers of Scorpio.
I think this Full Moon also reminds us that Mars will be retrograde for quite some time; as it only retrogrades once every 22 months. Mars enters Leo on November 3, 2024 — right after it forms an exact opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. That is very virulent energy. Not to be in fear but to mindful that that energy is at play in early November. We always feel Mars transits before they are exact; therefore, it may be at play on November 1st and 2nd.
Mars retrogrades on December 6, 2024 at 6 degrees and 11 minutes of the Fixed fire sign of Leo and stations direct on February 23, 2025 at 17 degrees of Cancer. It will not leave the sign of Cancer until April 18, 2025 and will not clear its shadow until May 2, 2024. This is very useful energy because when Mars is retrograde, it is not an ideal time to get surgery, to launch a new business, to start a new job, or to change your appearance.
We cannot all avoid those time frames, so do as much as you can now to eliminate the fears of what keeps you back. This Full moon could incite so much anger in people; but, the idea is that the first Eclipse in Pisces was so vulnerable and delicate. It was conjunct Neptune, which reached the final degree of Pisces and of the Zodiac. These natural disasters, storms, hurricanes, and floods throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico, America, etc. has been horrific. I am sure I have left places out, but it shows how many storms have occurred since September.
Pisces is the part of the subsconscious mind. As much it is indicates our dreams and imagination, it also summons our fears and nightmares. This Full Moon in Aries may be incendiary, but maybe that is what we need to fuel us to fight the unknown. Not with impulse, not with meaningless destruction, but with confidence and forward motion. Do as much as you can to get yourself in line for 2025. Mars will retrograde before the end of the year, but we will still have six weeks. If you are launching something big, take all of the micro and macro steps now to get it in motion.
If you are in a group setting tomorrow, a meditation circle, a sound bath, or with friends, this is a great time to do a group ritual to release fears together.
A lot of breakups and endings since the Solar Eclipse in Libra. Focusing on what is of value and finding people that align with those values as we re-enter the REAL NEW AGE OF AQUARIUS! I know this is such a tough time for all, and I am going through something on a personal level as well. Rember that the North Node of Karma is still in Aries through January 6, 2025, which encourages you to have COURAGE and be BOLD in this very uncertain time in the world. Most importantly, please keep love in your heart! #fullmoon #Aries #Libra #plutodirect #astrology