City Paper has a birth chart, and it’s remarkably on point

November can sometimes seem like a forgotten month. The transgressive, candy-fueled high of October is behind us, and we’re staring down the barrel at the festive frenzy of December, and the new year approaching behind it. Sure, November has Thanksgiving, but feelings around that holiday are especially fraught, and there’s Election Day — even fraught-er. Right now is the perfect time to figure out what you don’t want to do for the rest of the year. We’re just animals, after all. Most mammals slow down as the sun fades. Instead of fighting it, what if we freed ourselves to embrace it? Living under capitalism, there are obviously things we can’t afford not to do. But those very pressures often steer us into making decisions (and purchases) that have nothing to do with our actual heartfelt desires. They can also leave us feeling drained, unwilling to try new things, take chances. Unhelpfully, only your intuition knows how to strike the right balance, and that voice often speaks in whispers.  Outside our windows, the brilliance of fall is easing into that quiet leafless inhalation before the first snow. What can you hear in that stillness? Maybe the question is not: “What do you want to say no to?” Maybe the question is: “In saying no, what are you clearing the way for instead?” Let Scorpio season winnow you down to just bare branches, the slowing sap of an organism preparing for a tender and necessary rest. Root yourself in the clarity of your decisions and boundaries. And then — contrary to all reason, burst forth for one final shout: it’s Sagittarius season, baby. Starting on November 22, Sagittarius season trips alongside the fading of our daylight until the longest night of the year on December 21, the Winter Solstice. Sagittarius energy invites you to rage — rage against the dying of the light, literally —but not rage as in anger. Rage as in party . It’s an energy of laughing til the end, of eating, drinking, and being merry, for t