While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of November in a playful and creative part of your chart before returning to your work sector and this is when the solar spotlight will always shift onto the busier side of life’s fence, there is often going to be an overlap that goes both ways. It is not unusual for Mercury or Venus to get there ahead of the Sun or for one or the other to return late, making it easier to maintain a balance between work and play. This year, this is not only heavily weighted towards the playful and creative side of life’s fence, but with a chance for some future proofing. While the Sun’s return to your work sector on 22nd November will kick off the first planetary activity on the job front since Mercury left in the New Year, he will return to find that things are not only very active on the income and career fronts, but with Saturn and Neptune getting ready to turn direct in your career sector next month. With Mercury returning to your work sector early next week and Venus’ return in the New Year setting the scene for an active end and start to the year on the income, work and career fronts, the more you can ease into this the better. Helping to keep things balanced for so long was a rare event that took place in the Sun’s first 48 hours in a playful and creative part of your chart. Venus, who had returned in September to spend 24 days here, had already turned retrograde, something that saw her retrograde back out two days after the Sun’s return. Venus will return on 4th December and that’s what will keep her here for the rest of the year. However, before she left Mercury also turned retrograde and for 24 hours they were not only in retrograde motion at the same time, but it means that he can keep the momentum going until Venus returns to take over. The last time that Venus and Mercury turned retrograde here at the same time was in 1986. This will give Venus a chance to spend the whole of November back in your home and family sector, where she will not only make home where your heart is, but with some heavy duty support.