Wizard Weekly by Daniel Giamario | Nov 12 2026 |
The next few days offer a peak period for the currently dazzling morning sky. The four most naked-eye-visible, planets, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, are on full display. Beyond their seen presence is their contribution to global humanity’s deathing and birthing process. How will you be contributing to this planetary evolution through your own willingness to grow and evolve?
Mercury and Venus
Both planets station retrograde on the same day, Friday the 13th:
- Mercury at 7:54AM PST at 5Scorpio02. It is at magnitude 0.68, with Khambalia, exiting the Priestess and entering the Scales.
- Venus at 4:27PM PST at 22Libra52 near Spica, at a blazing magnitude of -4.74.
Venus’ heliacal rise on October 30 birthed the new Venus Libra Overstory, the master archetype for the next 584 days. Upon turning direct, she now begins her long journey to the exterior underworld, on the other side of the Sun, disappearing around July 6, 2027. Meanwhile, also on Friday, Mercury begins the new Scorpio synodic Overstory that lasts for 110 days. Mercury also begins to be seen rising before sunrise.
Both planets had been retrograding simultaneously since October 24. This is a 40-year pattern similar to 1906, 1946 and 1986, all coinciding with United States mid-term elections where one political party captured both houses of Congress. Only this current pattern cycle finds the station direct on the same day. This 40-year pattern is the synchronization of the synods of Mercury and Venus, and is surely connected to the esoteric concept of the Shekhinah. In their books, particularly in “Solomon’s Power Brokers” , Christopher Knight and Alan Butler suggest an astronomical basis to this ancient Hebrew concept. They postulate that twelve 40-year Mercury-Venus cycles create a master 480-year time period showing a planetary expression of a theological concept representing God’s indwelling presence (and later, in Kabbalah, the Divine Feminine). 1546 CE, as seen through the lens of Fourth Turning theories, was known as the era of intolerance and martyrdom in Europe, dominated by the tragedies and triumphs of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. The Venus heliacal rise with Spica, the master star of the Sacred Feminine in the Priestess constellation, adds additional weight to the importance of this Friday the 13th.
Mars and Jupiter
The morning sky conjunction of Mars and Jupiter is equally of interest. Their alignment with the South Node is also important.
- Thursday, November 12: the South Node meets Jupiter at 25Leo32
- Saturday, November 14: the South Node meets Mars at 25Leo12
- Sunday, November 15: Mars meets Jupiter, 10:24PM PST at 25Leo53, with the two planets passing about 1.2° apart in the morning sky. Jupiter at magnitude -2.07 greatly overshadows Mars at 0.76.
Following this November 15 meeting, the two planets will not align again for more than 2.5 years, next meeting on July 19 2029 near the bright star Spica. In general, their conjunctions do happen every 2.2 to 2.5 years. Here are the most recent conjunctions.
- August 14 2024: Mars and Jupiter had a remarkably tight pairing in Taurus, separated by only about 0.3°, less than the width of a Full Moon.
- May 29 2022: The two planets met in the predawn eastern sky in Pisces, passing roughly 0.6° apart.
- March 20 2020. Mars passed just 0.7° south of Jupiter alongside Saturn.
The conjunction on November 15 sees Jupiter amplifying Mars. Both are just entering the Lion constellation, on their way to Regulus, the Heart Star of the Lion. Regulus symbolizes sovereignty and autonomy in both men and women and is also related to Archai and Time-Lord, Mich-ael, in union with the Sun and the etheric Christ. Let’s imagine Mars leaning in that direction, rather than in the direction of war!
The South Node Alignment
Not to be overlooked is the highly significant alignment with the South Node. Past. present, and future collide.
Can we have a Soul Return to the pre-patriarchal and pre-KaliYuga commitment to Divine Kingship? Or do we instead have to continue suffering the megalomaniac psychopathy of the tech-bro billionaires and spiritually uninitiated kings and tyrants? Mercury, now direct, will pass again through the balance beam of the Scales from November 25-29. Will the human heart be the same weight as a feather? Can Mercury in Scorpio integrate the shadow, do deep inner work, and acquire empathy and compassion? Can Venus in Libra commit to non hierarchical conscious equal partnership? Time will tell.
One additional thing to take into consideration is that the Mars-Jupiter-South Node alignment is facing the United States natal Aquarius Moon! It’s pretty obvious just how deeply that country is being weighed on the balance now. Will the original ideals be validated or ignored?
Meanwhile, we individually must do our part. Relative to our own place on the wheel and aligning with our life purpose, we must be willing to death and birth in our own evolution and awakening, in order to assist the planetary beings in their evolution. There is a Divine Reciprocity that is intended by Great Mystery.
Friday, the 13th
Anyone who loves the Sacred Feminine should love Friday, the 13th. In pre- patriarchal times, Friday was the most sacred day of the Goddess, and 13 was often associated with 13 menstrual cycles a year. It was a magical day. This all changed as the patriarchal Christian church took over. Slowly but surely, this day and date combination acquired a dangerous and sinister connotation, by way of Judas betraying Jesus, Loki, the trickster, the arrest and slaughter of the Knights Templars on a Friday 13th, and increasing negativity through horror movies.
TOTAMS finds this all rather ridiculous, as we do love the Sacred Feminine, and look forward to these infrequent occurrences. However, the “powers that shouldn’t be” love to use these dates for nefarious activities from the dark side, so there is reason to suspect some kind of trouble on this Friday. No doubt the very rare stationary direct of Venus and Mercury on the same day and the Mars-Jupiter alignment can be hijacked relatively easily.
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