On November 25th, all the gremlins come out to play. This is when Mercury turns retrograde, and its reverse direction will release a Pandora's box of glitches, debacles, and fiascos into your day-to-day life. These could manifest as automobile breakdowns, computer malfunctions, or your coffeemaker suddenly calling it quits. It's bound to be a headache, but as long as you take it all in stride and keep your sense of humor handy, you'll be OK. But Mercury retrogrades aren't always bad. Sometimes they can bring the most unexpected opportunities if you keep your ear to the ground. Who knows? You might wind up inheriting a better car, getting a price break on a new computer, or being gifted a fresh coffeemaker by a friend who was somehow given two. Stranger things have been known to happen. Mercury comes out of retrograde on December 15th.

You may feel a lot like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz. Yes, your feet are bruised and blistered, but you stayed the course—despite the allure of poppy fields, abduction by flying monkeys, and the bittersweet discovery that the Wizard you pinned your hopes on was a fake. So what do you have to show for all this? The realization that the answer you've been looking for has been with you all along. And it's not the knowledge that three clicks of the heels will spirit you home; it's the understanding that you have to be behind the choices you make. You have to be in your own corner. People will talk you out of things, circumstances can thwart you, and even the Stars may be misaligned. But if you're in your own corner, then things will turn out right eventually. It's why we travel these meandering yellow brick roads—because sometimes it's only by getting lost that we discover our life's true purpose. This is something you'll see for yourself when the Sun in Sagittarius forms a sextile to Pluto in Aquarius on November 21st.