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🗽 HERETIC EVENT ALERT! Join me in-person here in NYC OR on the livestream tomorrow, November 20th at The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, an independent, all-volunteer queer bookstore, cultural center, and event space that is in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center. RSVP here!
🔮 For those of you who love to plan, schedule, and optimize: my 2026 Year Ahead readings are booking now! My readings are unique in that they can also incorporate electional astrology, or the art of finding ideal timing and dates for big life events; my readings are essentially a 2-in-1. Of her own Year Ahead reading, USA Today bestselling author Nikki St. Crow said,
This literally changed the trajectory of my career! We chatted about submission dates for my new book proposal and selected [a day in February]. The proposal went out as planned and we had an offer within an hour. The book later went to auction and I landed with one of my dream publishers. Planning that date with Jeanna gave me so much motivation and confidence to push forward when I doubted the writing and I’m so grateful for it.
The New Moon is exact at 28* of Scorpio Thursday, November 20th at 1:47am Eastern.
Exactly conjunct Mercury (which is retrograde in Scorpio), this moon also opposes Uranus in Taurus and is more loosely conjunct Venus in Scorpio. Which is a way of saying the new energy around our erotic impulses, perhaps manifested through artistic work, is strong.
This is a New Moon for saying the hard thing.
This is a New Moon for articulating the desire you were taught was shameful.
This is a New Moon for excavating stories that are central to what made you.
This is a New Moon for writing about family secrets.
This is a New Moon that sits with you in the darkness.
This is a New Moon that reveals truth.
This is a New Moon for refusing to settle.
This is a New Moon for expecting the unexpected.
This is a New Moon for tricking your brain into creating, for coming at story sideways.
This is a New Moon for a scalding hot, candlelit shower — and a shower beer/seltzer.
This is a New Moon for initiating descent.
This is a New Moon for embracing transformation.
This is a New Moon of Inanna’s descent, of Persephone’s journey.
This is a New Moon for knowing that you have survived everything that has happened so far, so what more can possibly be done to you?
This is a New Moon for Becoming.
Writing Prompts for the New Moon in Scorpio
Take one of the lines above, and consider it through the lens of your main character. How do they need to embrace transformation or say the hard thing? What could they learn from Inanna or Persephone?
As we approach holiday season here in the US, consider what Scorpio’s uncomfortable truth has to teach you about family and home. What attitude did your parents/caregivers have about art and an ~artistic career~? What did they say about people who cared about aesthetic and culture? What were you raised being exposed to, or not exposed to, and how has that shaped the artist you are today?