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November Is Here & Your Horoscope Predicts A Month Of Positive Growth

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If you’ve been feeling like the past few months have been slow, sluggish and full of procrastination, you’re in luck—November will present you with an exciting, energetic shift. Your November 2020 horoscope begins with the sun in passionate, transformative and truth-seeking Scorpio, and things really get going when brainiac Mercury retrograde (finally!) comes to an end on November 3. This will help you think clearly, plan accordingly and stop focusing on the past. When Mercury re-enters Scorpio on November 10, it might even leave you with a revelation that completely blows your mind and helps you connect all the dots. It’s gonna be a good month, y’all.

This November will also give you enough drive and ambition to make up for all the laziness of the past few months. With Jupiter—planet of expansion—joining forces with Pluto—planet of creation and destruction—on November 12, you’ll find powerful and meaningful emotional reasons to go after all the goals you’ve been dreaming of. And when Mars—planet of vitality—finally stations direct after a long retrograde on November 13, prepare to feel like fighting for your desires and competing harder than ever before.

You might even feel like starting something entirely new, and on November 15, the New Moon in Scorpio will inspire you to rise from the ashes like a phoenix, and remind you that failure means you’re one step closer to success.

November is a month your love life definitely won’t forget! Venus—planet of affection—spends the majority of the month in partnership-oriented Libra, encouraging you to blow air kisses, hold hands and celebrate what cuffing season is all about. When Venus enters Scorpio on November 21, your love life will sizzle with passion, sexiness and intimacy. This will titillate your desire to belong to someone and get to know them on the deepest levels imaginable.

Wild, adventurous and open-minded Sagittarius season also begins on November 21, launching a period marked by spontaneity, cultural exchange and philosophical expansion. Banish monotony and tradition in favor of new ideas. Take a step back and look at the big picture. Sag season is a major turning point in astrology, as a lunar eclipse in Gemini on November 30 encourages harsh endings, new beginnings and unexpected surprises. You’ll soon find out where you’re headed next!

#stinewriting Answer the questions Fibbing Friday Random Writings Weekly Writing Prompt

Fibbing Friday: October 30th, 2020

For PCGuyIV: https://pcguyiv.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/fibbing-friday-october-30th-2020/

What is a poltergeist? The ghost of a baby hen
What supposedly happens if you look in the mirror and say, “Bloody Mary” three times? You know you are drunk
What’s so unlucky about the number 13? It can never be the day at the end of a week
Why do banshees scream? Because she is mad that she is banned from doing something
What happens to a vampire in daylight? Their pale skin heavily contrasts their black robes.
A Nightmare on Elm Street wasn’t about a monster who could kill people in their dreams. What was it about? a bad traffic accident
Who did Norman Bates dress up as in the movie, Psycho? Randle McMurphy
The Amityville Horror wasn’t about a haunted house. What was it about? The prostitution ring that got busted in the suburbs of Amity.
What are the three witches doing at the beginning of MacBeth? Getting their costumes on
What classic monster lives under the Paris Opera House? The grumpy old landlord

OCTOBER 30TH, 2020 FIBBING FRIDAY, QUESTIONS

#stinewriting Christine Bialczak poetry Poetry to enjoy Random Writings Take Seven Weekly Writing Prompt

Take Seven 30th October

Our words were:
beg, chest, cup, current, curtail, desk, draw, final, half, hound, moth, open, ribbon, shrink, sigh, sleep, small, speech, try, velvet, wind.

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Martha’s Cup

Martha knew she’d have to beg
To see inside the chest
She knew there’d be a cup inside
She didn’t know the rest

The current mood inside the room
Was pensive and so grave
Afraid her brother would curtail
The one thing she could save

She pulled a chair up to the desk
To draw a little map
And at the final resting place
Were nice words, not a trap

She knew she couldn’t hound her bro
He’s no moth near a flame
She’d have to be quite open
Not wind up throwing blame

She’d try to tie a ribbon
Like a bow on her request
But by the look on his face
She thought shrinking might be best

And so she sighed a half a sigh
And said it’s time to sleep
Her brother just surprised her then
He said that cup she’d keep

She was so happy she could cry
A small tear ran down her face
She try to say the speech she’d planned
She knew this was the place

Her velvet words fell from her lips
Thanking him so much
She was so happy she could cry
Sweet tears beyond his touch.

#stinewriting Book Blitz! Fiction New Books! stinewriting

Book Blitz! True You 101

What a perfect read for the spooky season! Congratulations to T.J. Eckhart on the release of her magical Urban Fantasy novel, True You 101!

Read on for an exclusive excerpt and book details!

True You 101

Publication Date: October 20, 2020

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Publisher: Liminal Press

If one class during high school could help you become the person you were meant to be, would you take it? At the Reinholdt Institute of Sortilege Arts, sophomores are required to take True You 101 no matter whether they live in the mortal or magical realm. Over the course of a year, each student must confront all possibilities until their outer form matches their inner self. Blake Trudeau has always just wanted to be normal and hopes the class will make that a reality, but will the final spell conjure Blake’s fondest wishes or worst nightmares?

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55743964-true-you-101?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=U6VQSjR3p8&rank=1

Excerpt

Chapter 1: Most Loved, Most Hated

In the mundane world of Collegiate Academy, where everyone in New York City thinks I go to school, Professor Russo’s course would be called Human Sexuality. Here at the Reinholdt Institute of Sortilege Arts, the course is called True You 101. It’s the most loved and hated course of the sophomore year.

I look at the textbook, similar to the school journals, because each copy will be blood-bound to one student. The magics we’ll be working with can track our progress, our changes, and our reactions on physical, emotional, and mystical levels. However, professors, tutors, and even administration can read it at any time. At the end of the course, the books erase and reset for the next year.

How do I know? I read all the materials my uncle gave me about this place at the end of eighth grade, when Grandmother informed me that I needed to leave the private school in Brooklyn and attend a magic school in Manhattan. My family taught me that the best way to keep a secret from the mortal world is to learn everything about it. I read, watch, and listen to everything I can get my hands on. I study things that not even my family knows about, and certainly not anyone at school. I once thought about telling Seb, but I’m worried that he’ll be afraid of me, as I am of myself most days. I’m grateful when the professor speaks up again, because it disrupts this distressing line of thought.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L5XB5LF

About the Author

Since 1995, TJ Eckhart’s fiction and non-fiction work has been challenging readers to look at themselves and their world through a different lens. True You 101 continues Eckhart’s challenge to reimagine a magic world colliding with the mortal one in regard to our true nature, one that rejects either a reversal or continuation of our everyday biases in favor of the more realistic complexities of what such a realm might be like. If you’re willing to risk opening up your mind, you may find Eckhart’s worlds opening up your heart as well. You may find her via her email (dr.tj.eckhart@gmail.com), on her main website (https://www.tammyjoeckhart.com/), or join her adventures on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tammyjoeckhart).

Twitter Tags: @thetammyjo @RRBookTours1 @btwnthelinespub #RRBookTours #UrbanFantasy #Magic

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