Weekend Entertainment Guide 11/29/24 + New Moon 11/30/24
Mercury Retrograde; Blogging with planetary days
My Black Friday gift to myself is pushing the publication date for Changing of the Guards: Pluto on the Precipice out into January 2025. It just does not make any astrological sense to insist on that right now with Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius. Initially, my goal was to publish close to Pluto changing sign in mid-November, but the project got too big. When the Sun joins Pluto near the Capricorn/Aquarius cusp in January, the sign change energy is likely to be strong again!
New Moon November 30/December 1
The New Moon is exact at 10:21 p.m. Pacific on November 30, or 1:21 a.m. Eastern on December 1. Either way, the Sun and Moon in Sagittarius are both square to Saturn in Pisces, which may put a damper on the influx of vital energy that a New Moon typically provides.
The New Moon in Gemini on June 6, 2024, had a similar configuration of the Sun, Moon, and more in Gemini all square to Saturn in Pisces. Events from that time might therefore be revisited. My posts about the June 6, 2024, New Moon are linked below:
https://astrologybooks.substack.com/p/new-moon-6624
https://astrologybooks.substack.com/p/weekend-entertainment-guide-6724
This time around, though, the Sun and Moon are also both trine to Mars in Leo, so there is support to take productive action despite whatever the frustrations might be. The Sun and Moon are also both trine the North Node in Aries, potentially providing important insights.
Hot on Substack
, How to read Tarot Cards #18White explains what to expect when receiving a psychic reading and how to get the most out of the experience.
, Somewhere over the rainbowSuler reflects on the continuing aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
, The Swift and True Arrow - New Moon in SagittariusThis post provides a detailed look at the astrology surrounding the upcoming New Moon in Sagittarius as well as the first decan of Sagittarius more broadly.
, Lunar News: New Moon in SagittariusCosmographia analyzes the major transits of the coming week including Venus trine Uranus and Sun square Saturn.
, The Astrology of 2025Corbesier lists the New Moons and Full Moons of 2025 and also offers a free downloadable 6-page handout of 2025’s significant mundane aspects.
Posts regarding the current Mercury Retrograde (Nov. 25 - Dec. 15)
, A change of courseDorje Kirsten comments on the confused vibe of Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius.
, Mercury Retrograde PlaybookFontana advises on how to use Mercury Retrograde periods for business purposes.
, Rekindle Your Dreams Under the Sagittarius New MoonTouhey supplies Mercury Retrograde recommendations for each Rising sign.
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Blogging with planetary days and hours
I started putting out Weekend Entertainment Guide on Fridays this past March because I thought it would be a good idea to try to shape my freelance workload into a normal Monday through Friday work week. I then signed up for my first Kepler College class the next month, which threw off my schedule enough that the effort to keep weekends free didn’t go anywhere. Weekend Entertainment Guide, however, stuck.
Eventually, I realized that I was posting on the planetary day of Venus. Each day of the week is assigned a ruling planet, so any blogger who has a regular post that always comes out on the same day of the week should look into this.
Planetary days technically start at sunrise, though. Sometimes I stay up late Thursday night, post Weekend Entertainment Guide shortly after 12 a.m. Friday, and then go to bed. Venus’s planetary day doesn’t begin until sunrise Friday morning, so those posts are actually going out on the planetary day of Jupiter (Thursday sunrise to Friday sunrise).
On my Substack Notes thread about this,
pointed out that posting during a Jupiter hour on a Jupiter day can be ideal if you’re in a Jupiter-ruled profection year, and I happen to be in one of those now. brought up that one’s own chart could be relevant to finding the best astrological times to publish blog posts. I have wondered whether posting on Venus’s day allows me to get away with occasionally discussing controversial subjects without too much blowback, but I also have 38 years of practice living with Venus in Libra conjunct my Ascendant — in other words, posting on Venus’s day might work for me personally because I have that energy prominent to begin with.Each planetary day is broken down into planetary hours, allowing this process to potentially become more refined. I haven’t really gone that far myself yet in terms of Substack posts. To see current planetary hours for your location, visit https://planetaryhours.net/!
That's great about take the planetary hours into account. Just perfect 👌
Thank you so much for the mention!
Thanks for the mention! I've Venus exacta parallel Asc (along with Pluto and Chiron (tell me about drama), but I'm not an Asc Libra (well, by progressions, yes) I use the "Hand's teory": The righ moment is always now. Usually a chart with good aspects to my progressed Sun or Moon, or a chart for the newsletter (Asc = Moon *people*) but O cannot do anything about other people charts, or the moment they see the post.