Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Moves and Maneuvers Brinkmanship and Battles: November's Sagittarius New Moon

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. Seneca

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian proverb

It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. Joseph Marie De Maistre

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. Amar Gopal Bose

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Anon–On war games

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. Lou Brock

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower–Chess master

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Goethe

The new Moon in Sagittarius happens on November 25 and is a partial solar eclipse which happens just hours after Mercury goes retrograde. This is the first of two eclipses, the second one will be on December 10, in Gemini, and will be a total lunar eclipse. 

New Continents Arising: November's Taurus Full Moon

One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island. Ambrose Bierce

Today, the treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or seas – they are in the minds of men. Allen Claxton

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. Henry David Thoreau

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Henry David Thoreau

November's Taurus full Moon occurs on November 11 in Australia and November 10 in the United States. The Sabian Symbol is Taurus 19: A New Continent Rising Out Of The Ocean.