november is our kinda month
Are you ready to upgrade your home to all that you have always imagined it to be? Here's your chance, dear Leo. Your home, family, and other real estate decisions are about to form a big theme in November, and with so many planets coming together to help you, you may be amazed at how easily - and quickly - you can get things into place "just so."

Mercury was retrograde last month in this very same area, so you probably had a number of frustrating setbacks or delays, but those are now history. Mercury is about to go direct on November 1, so you will soon see the pace of your progress pick up. Still, you need to give a little space between the date Mercury goes direct and the date you begin to act. November 1 and 2 will still be filled with static and confusion, so it would be best to begin announcing decisions, making big purchases, and negotiating new deals from November 4 onward.

November 4 will be a strong and positive day, when Mars will send the mighty Sun a lovely vibe. The Sun is Leo's ruling star, so this day should help you find an option in a real estate or family-related dilemma. Use this day to view new housing spaces, furniture, or accessories, or to interview a new roommate, as a few examples.

November 7 may be a sparkling day, when the Sun and Uranus will trade secrets. Financial luck should excite you, especially in regard to real estate matters. You may get approved for a mortgage or home improvement loan, very suddenly and unexpectedly and at very attractive rates. Alternatively, on this day, you may win a small prize in a raffle or scratch off contest. See what happens. Do you feel lucky yet? You will!

Your most important moment of the month will occur when the new moon arrives November 9. This new moon will be fantastically friendly - unusually so - and will open up all the areas discussed so far: Home and real estate, along with other domestic decisions, can now be advanced and make you very happy.

This new moon on November 9 will set up a grand trine or golden triangle with Uranus in your mortgage / loan sector in your eighth house, and Mars in your confidential sector, twelfth house. Both planets will work with the Sun and new moon, November 9, in your fourth house of home and family. Suddenly all the impediments you've faced in solving a housing or real estate situation will drop away. Expect to get very lucky, very quickly.

You will have to be poised to work fast, however. Opportunity will arise quickly in the hours after November 9, but just as quickly, Mars will turn retrograde on November 15. I'd like you to take your most decisive home and family-related goal steps close to the appearance of that new moon. A new moon is a portal to a series of days, not just one day, so you have from November 9 to 14.

(Under normal conditions you'd have much more time than this, but Mars' impending retrograde will shorten that window of opportunity.)

Of these dates, November 12 will be your best for signing papers, or to buy or sell a house, choose furniture, or hire contractors - decisions like that. My runner-up choice would be over the weekend, November 10 - 11. I just love Jupiter's conjunction to the Sun on Monday, November 12, for you.

If you do make a decision in regard to property, whether to lease, buy, renovate, redesign, or repair, it appears this endeavor will beautifully upgrade your living situation on a very large scale. Next month Jupiter will make a monumental dock to Pluto, an event that will only happen once every thirteen years. It's coming - next month these two powerhouse planets will meet on December 11.

This is not a conjunction that would affect you only for a day or two, but rather Jupiter and Pluto, by joining in conjunction in fellow fire sign Sagittarius, will kick off a cycle that would affect you in a very positive way over the coming thirteen years. This aspect is massive in importance, potentially hugely profitable, and also enormously beneficial to you.

Jupiter and Pluto are meeting in your fifth house of creativity, but keep in mind that Pluto rules your solar fourth house of home. This tells me not only do you have an opportunity to vastly appreciate the value of your home, but also to put a strong creative imprint on your space as well. (Of course, Jupiter and Pluto may also bring you love, something we will talk about next month.) It sometimes takes weeks or months to feel the effect of such a powerful aspect. Slow moving planets like these often have to click off certain planets in your chart before their effects are felt.

You and I will talk more about this massively important conjunction in your December forecast. Other planets are speeding toward Sagittarius to be present when this monumental event occurs on December 11, including Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and new moon. This will be the most important event of 2007 - possibly of the whole decade. As said, these two planets will meet in your house of love and happiness, but also have bearing over your home, family, and real estate situation. Come back next month for more on this - it's all very, very good, dear Leo!