Cassandra Eason

Happy full super-moon on 5th November at 13.19 UTC. This moon is called by the Algonquin nation and others, the Beaver Moon. It rises in stable, reliable Taurus and is the second of three super-moons of 2025 when the moon passes closest to the earth and so seems extra bright and large in the sky and beautifully orange. Read more here

Happy November as we pass through the gates of Halloween and the Days of the Ancestors on 1st and 2nd November taking with us into the new month all that is good from the past and leaving behind memories, regrets and resentments. 

It is a month often undervalued for combining what was with what is and what can be and not using it as a waiting room for Christmas so by the big day in December we are over-shopped and jaded. Named after Novem, the ninth month in the old Roman calendar, it is the month when custom dictates you should stand beneath a tree and catch 12 falling leaves to bring health in each of the 12 months ahead.

It is a time of memories and resolution. November 1st and 2nd lifted the veil between worlds, so we are aware of our roots, heralding a month of thankfulness for blessings received and opening the way to the return of light in December, New Year and a new cycle of opportunity.

November 27th is Thanksgiving Day when wherever we live on the globe we can use a large green plant to attach messages of thanks for blessings received and for wishes not just for ourselves but the troubled world.

November is a rich month for completion and tidying of the year that is passing. November 5th is the second and brightest supermoon of the year, the Beaver Moon in the stabilizing zodiac sign of Taurus that steadies uncertainties and banishes doubt and regrets for what should have been achieved or resolved. The 19th century philosopher Henry David Thoreau called November the month of the harvest of thoughts, richer than any other crops of the year. 

We are entering the period in different faiths of the festivals of light (last month heralded Diwali) and Remembrance/Veterans Day when we recall those who fought for freedom. November falls under the sway of the love saints, St Catherine of Alexandria whose blessings are sought at her wells on her day November 25 for new love and lasting happy marriage. November 29th at midnight belongs to St Andrew for promises of dreams and visions of a present or future love. A month then of balancing the books and completion and accepting what we can attempt again at New Year perhaps in a new form - or find we did not want after all. 

The angel of November is Adnachiel the Voyager, the angel of learning and exploration with bright yellow robes. Wherever we live in the world Adnachiel encourages the uncovering of truth, widening perspectives and possibilities through brainstorming, flexibility, open-mindedness, optimism, enthusiasm and creativity especially in writing-even writing that special email for reconciliation or to offer appreciation; the angel too of preparing for action after the tidying up and maybe repackaging of dreams. A time of total honesty with self and others but with tact and kindness as we finally tackle the tangled in-tray of obligations and desires, accepting that some must be fixed, and others cleared away as memories to be shared around the fireside or held close to the heart.

The crystals that are lucky and powerful in November are yellow topaz, ruby and turquoise.

November fragrances are sage and sandalwood. 

Its colour is bright yellow or rich blue, to break through the gloomy skies in the northern hemisphere.

November flowers are the chrysanthemum, red for passion and what or whom really matters, marriage and motherhood, yellow for ending relationships with gentleness, followed by a sudden burst of sunlight to find new happiness or try just one more time, white for truth and love forever and for memories of those who have departed, especially mothers and grandmothers, orange for health and long life and for satisfaction of effort and endeavor as the year moves to a close-and of course the red poppy of remembrance. 

During November, weigh up past and future and re-assert your authentic self to carry forward whether light is increasing or fading in your part of the world. Happy November and may your month be golden.