November 2026 Energy: Why Your Intuition Knows What to Trust

A woman pulls her car over outside a post office on the way home from dropping her kids at school. She means to buy stamps. Instead she looks up through the windshield and sees her boss in a romantic embrace with someone who is not his wife, a man she has worked alongside for fifteen years. That is the story Sonia Choquette tells to open the heart of her November 2026 energy update, and she uses it as a template for the whole month. Choquette, who published the video on November 1, 2026, describes the first two weeks of November as a slingshot: a deliberate pullback before the release. In that pullback, she says, her Angels and Guides want a serious, honest inventory of everything incongruent with where your soul wants to go, the things you have ignored, denied, tolerated, or quietly negotiated with because they never seemed like a big deal. She asks viewers to trust their detective sense, the sudden certainty that someone is not being truthful, that a room feels off, or that a decision does not resonate, and to treat that detection as the way a higher self has been speaking all along. She also reframes Carl Jung's idea of the shadow, argues that Mercury retrograde is bringing endings forward rather than slowing anything down, and points to a second-half window for naming one goal. What follows works through those ideas as she presents them, with the caveat that this is a spiritual framework built on her own experience with clients, not a clinical or scientific account.

Why does November feel like a slingshot?

The central image of the video is physical and simple. "We have an image from the guides that November is like a slingshot," Choquette says at the start (0:00). "You pull it way back and then bam, you shoot towards your goals." The first half of the month is the pullback, and it is not a rest. She calls it "a chance to do a serious deep dive and real conscious connection" with whatever is out of line with your soul's direction.

The mechanics of the metaphor matter. A slingshot stores tension before it releases. If you try to launch in the second half without having cleared what is pulling against you, the release goes nowhere useful. That logic is why Choquette insists the first two weeks are not optional housekeeping. "Clear the first half and November will carry you," the video's closing pitch puts it, and the body of her argument is an argument for doing the pullback honestly.

What does it mean to trust what you detect?

The most practical instruction in the video is a rule about belief. Choquette describes what she calls the November detective sense: "If you detect someone is not telling the truth, believe it. If you detect that something feels off in a space or an environment, believe it. If you detect something doesn't resonate or something isn't good about a certain decision, believe it and change the decision" (3:20). She says more people are writing to her and to the channel to report that they suddenly know, "without any explanation," whether something is true, whether to act, or whether to trust someone.

She frames this as sensing that is already happening and is simply becoming louder. In her telling, the sensing is "5D awareness coming online" and "how your higher self has been speaking to you all along." Whatever one makes of the cosmology, the instruction is concrete: notice the signal, and let it change what you do. Choquette's examples are built around exactly that move, a sudden knowing acted on rather than argued with.

Her first example is a client in a 25-year feud with her mother. The two had barely exchanged more than holiday cards. Then, as Choquette tells it, the client woke up with a sense that something was asking for change. The client wrote to her mother asking for goodwill without asking for agreement on values. Shortly after, the mother was badly hurt in a fall. Choquette's point is not the injury but the timing: the conversation happened before the crisis, which the client said she was glad of. "These are the sorts of weird epiphanies, and that word means sudden ah-has, that are going to happen in the first 2 weeks of November," Choquette says (1:43).

What is the difference between ignoring, denying, and what surfaces on its own?

Choquette draws three distinctions for the inventory, and they are worth keeping separate, because they call for different responses. The first is what you are ignoring: things you have seen and set aside. The second is what you are denying, which she explicitly distinguishes from ignoring. "I'm aware of it but I'm denying it," she says (4:29). The third is what surfaces on its own, things you were not expecting and that arrive without your effort.

The distinction between ignoring and denying is the most useful one. Ignoring is a passive habit of attention. Denying is active: you know, and you argue with the knowledge. Her second client example fits that pattern. A client who had been told to look at an addiction had argued about it for a long time. Then, Choquette reports, the client went to buy another pack of cigarettes and "everything in me said, 'Stop.'" The client quit and asked Choquette to act as a witness (6:41). Choquette's reading is that the month makes such things impossible to keep hidden: what has been held, ignored, or denied "is all flinging forward and not just to come to light, but to come to an end."

Her third example is the post office scene that opens this article. The woman had known her boss for years, and the discovery forced a choice. When he asked her to cover for him, she refused, explaining that she knew his wife and needed to look her in the eye. By the end of the day, he came back and said he would clear it up himself. Choquette calls this a test: "You will be tested on what feels right for you. We can't control others" (9:31). The lesson she draws is about your own response, not about his behavior.

What did Carl Jung actually mean by shadow, according to Choquette?

Choquette makes a deliberate correction in the middle of the video. Many people hear "shadow" and think of the rotten or dark parts of a personality. Choquette says that is not how Carl Jung, "the famous therapist psychotherapist," used the word. In her account, Jung meant "the things you're not recognizing" (5:30). That reframing lets her make a surprising claim: some of your shadow may be good. Her example is intuition itself. You may be quite intuitive, she says, but you do not acknowledge it "because you've been taught to ignore it."

Read this way, the month's work is not only confession. It is also recognition of capacities you have been hiding from yourself. Choquette's phrase is "the gift you have kept hidden." The practical step she recommends is to stop the habit of dismissing your own knowing. She says that if you do, "your life will transform in such incredible ways" (6:19).

It is worth noting that Choquette's use of Jung is her own interpretation, and the video does not quote his writing. Readers who want to test the framing against his work should go to the primary texts rather than rely on this summary.

Why does Mercury retrograde bring things forward?

Choquette acknowledges that Mercury is in retrograde for part of this window, and she reads that as an accelerant rather than a brake. "That's not to slow things down. That's to bring things forward to terminate" (7:23). In her framing, the retrograde is the mechanism by which what has been half-hidden is forced into view, so it can end cleanly.

She also invites viewers to test the claim against their own lives. "Put in the comments what has come to light for you right now so far," she says, asking people to name what has become impossible to continue or what they now "can't deny." The invitation makes the framework participatory: the detection is supposed to be checked against the record of your own month, not accepted on authority.

How can you stop abandoning yourself to belong?

Near the end of the first-half segment, Choquette turns from detection to relationship. Many of the people in her examples were not simply finding out about others; they were discovering what they had been doing to themselves to keep the peace. Her advice is short and firm: "Don't abandon yourself to belong" (17:28). She adds that the goal is not to walk away from people you love. The mother-and-daughter story illustrates this. The client did not cut off her mother or demand that her mother agree with her. She asked for goodwill, and she accepted that the two of them held different values.

In practice, Choquette's guidance is a sequence. First, detect what is off. Second, name it honestly to yourself, without argument. Third, make one clear, relational move that keeps your integrity intact. The boss story follows the same arc: the woman declined to lie for him, which protected her own standing, but she did not punish him or assume she knew his marriage. She let him own the next step.

What should you do with the second half of the month?

The video's stated payoff arrives after the pullback. Choquette says the second half is a manifestation window, and she is most excited about it. Her instruction is to name one goal now, not a list. She gives an example list of ordinary aims people might choose: paying a bill, buying a car, making a move, getting a job, or building close friendships. The goal is to pick the one that matters most and name it so that, in her words, "your angels and guides and higher self, if you get clear, will absolutely lead you right there" (13:52).

The sequence she describes is worth keeping: first clear the first half, then name the goal, then move. The video does not offer a timetable beyond the two halves, and it does not say what a goal should look like beyond being specific and yours.

Where to go from here

If the ideas in this video are new, begin with the practice Choquette recommends first: notice what feels off this week, and write it down before you explain it away. Pay attention to the difference between ignoring something and denying it, because the video treats those as two different problems. Then name one goal in plain language. The video description also points to a free guide on protecting your energy and to Choquette's book Read Life Accurately, both of which go beyond what appears in this episode. Read them as Choquette's own material, and test her claims against your own experience rather than taking the slingshot on faith.

Source: Sonia Choquette, "November Energy Update! Your INTUITION Knows (Trust What You Detect)," YouTube, published November 1, 2026. Client accounts are as Choquette relates them and were not independently verified.