Deep dark PLUTO is stationary now, since it went retro yesterday May 2 – at 02°06′ AQ (until Oct 11). That’s the furthest it goes into AQ this year.
PLUTO is not quiiite done yet with CAP, and will (in retro motion) re-enter Sept 1 – Nov 19 (the timing, re: U.S. Elections!), for unfinished business.
This is the last transition year of PLUTO, on the CAP – AQ cusp. It’ll enter AQ fully on Nov 19 (until 2043 / 44!)…
PLUTO’s Turnaround comes on the heels of the early SCO (ruled by PLUTO) – TAU Full Moon / Astrological Wesak Full Moon (Apr 23) which was squared by PLUTO – Dive Deeply & Find Freedom!
Have you gone through deep personal processes that called for release of sticky sabotaging ‘material’ – now in the waning Moon phase?
You’re certainly not alone (even though it might feel like that, in the oh-so separative, isolating, detached AQ world of late…).
Pluto-Cracy, Techno-Cracy, and the CAP – AQ Cusp
PLUTO-Cracy & Techno-Cracy are looming – and happening.
SO important not to give power away and feed the ‘monsters’ with frozen attention – Or avoid dealing with change, via ‘head in the sand’ denial.
PLUTO’s Turnaround helps with recognizing power patterns, and with digging to re-access our inalienable intrinsic power– especially in an Era of Change.
How does your Soul / Core go into the deep change? What do we contribute to the Evolution???
Power-to-Change
…lies within, and societal Change for a better future is a collaborative endeavour… Given the developments of our times, where top-down structures (CAP) have amply shown their shadow, incl. often historically entrenched destructive ‘control issues’ (PLUTO), and things can’t go on like this.
If your SUN / MOON / AC / Planets / Nodes are round 0 – 3° AQ (or TAU, LEO, SCO!) you probably feel the intensity and pressure.
A pressurethat helps us transform from the inside-out.
Rather than banging our heads against a wall / mountain of density (CAP) or feeling alienated by where society has gone (AQ) without really being able – or needing! – to change those external things.
Change is not supposed to happen ‘the hard way’ (old conditioning…), by working with resistance (theirs, yours), or pushing against what ‘doesn’t work’ in the system (AQ) and we seem to be out of control about.
Early AQ where PLUTO has gone retro has a LIBRA undertone, and sure enough, we’re dealing with issues of fairness, balance, right relationship, and justice, in various social contexts. Long time built-up issues are now coming to the surface – to prompt a purge and transformation / evolution of various paradigms of power.
“You can’t solve a problem from the consciousness / dimension where it originated” (did Einstein say that?). To let go & transform, we have to go to another level of experience (which can be a fine line with spiritual bypassing…).
Have you been dealing with / feeling trapped in systemic issues? I.o.w., come up against issues that are really ‘heavy’, ‘old’ and ‘thick’ (not much breathing space / openness / flexibility)?
Feeling intensely affected by certain things a while ago, waking up some morning, I realized “these are density problems”, andsomething major shifted. We don’t need to go into ‘social relationship’ (AQ) with these issues, take on those challenges or be frustrated and burdened by them (late CAP – where PLUTO goes back to, in the Summer / Fall).
How can life be lighter and freer – shared with other mature (CAP) and free-spirited friends (transformed AQ)?!
Been listening to Playing for Change – Music unites Humans (so apropos SATURN – NEPTUNE in PISCES also, accentuated by the MOON today as I’m writing this.
Clearly, I felt also called to look up the
Sabian Symbol for the PLUTO Station
PLUTO went retro at 02°06′ AQ.
Thunderstorm Toronto (A. Furtado – Pexels)
“AQUARIUS 2° AN UNEXPECTED THUNDERSTORM
KEYNOTE The need to develop the inner security which will enable us to meet unexpected crises
An interesting connection can be made between the symbols for 1° & 2° TAU – “A Clear Mountain Stream” and “An Electrical Storm” – and those for 1° & 2° AQ, 270° apart (a waning square, in terms of a cycle of relationship, such as the lunation cycle). In the first case, we deal with energies or activities that can be related to the natural development of the individual. But here we are primarily concerned with social, collective processes and the function of the individual within them.
The symbol itself – “An Unexpected Thunderstorm” – could be given a very positive meaning in an arid environment, but the emphasis on “unexpected” tends to accent the sudden and dangerous character of the event. Such a thunderstorm in a region of dry hills can cause a devastating flood.
At any rate, it refers to an event for which one is notprepared – a menace to human works.
Seen as a 2nd stage symbol – thus in contrast to the preceding one – “An Old Adobe Mission in California” – this scene stresses the fact that nature may reduce to impermanence the seemingly most permanent endeavors and constructive activities of human beings. Under a downpour of rain, adobe brick can return to mud.
All human institutions and their achievements can be washed away, even in their day of great glory. “Dust you were, dust you must become”. This is NATURE’S CHALLENGE.”
Sudden intervention is associated with URANUS – ruling planet of AQ where PLUTO is going retro, and these years in TAU – the Earth sign associated with Nature, food, and anything sustaining & stable.
Having been passed by JUPITER on Apr 20 – a big deal, happens only every 13 – 14 y.! – their combo can bring big wake-up calls in those areas (already does…). Greedy human intervention, disruption & destruction of Nature (URANUS in TAU) inevitably has effects on Humanity (AQ) as on other Living Beings in the Web of Life (PI).
Apparently permanent (TAU) edifices can be swept away. Yet also, systems (AQ) that were once built-to-last (CAP) can transform (PLUTO), for better or worse. Evolution happens, and we’re all part of it.
Finding Soul Power within is ever so important.
PLUTO Retro once more back into CAP
PLUTO retro will one last time re-enter the very end of CAP on Sept 1, go direct on Oct 11, and leave CAP ‘for good’ on Nov 19.
True leadership requires integrity – essential (PLUTO) to CAP. Corruption, abuse of power and authority, and disrespect of Humans and Nature Beings whom the leader serves (late CAP – VIR undertone) are shadow expressions that come up now for full revelation and purging.
Pushing us to co-envision / co-build a better future for Humanity (from the ground-up, not the top-down) – as the AQ Age is setting in.
And hey – we’re the ones we’ve been looking for and looking up to.
Also, the way how we respond to ‘what’s going on in the world’ has likely to do with our own shadow too. Well worth digging and ‘seeing through’.
We can ‘repurpose’ & transform situations (esp. those challenging ones that we suffer, resist, and judge) by connecting with our spiritual core (PLUTO retro). Which brings us to a higher vibration, as we surrender to the Higher Order of the Universe that ‘uses’ / positions us, for a higher purpose.
PLUTO initiated the RetroSeason of the Year
Planets in retro areinward-backward energy.
Old – perhaps karmic – patterns, conditioning and internalized experiences come up again…
So that we can better understand and transform them, and regenerate from within.
Much Love, Power, and Cosmic Blessings to You and Us ALL, from the Inside-Out! Melanie
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Deep dark PLUTO is stationary now, since it went retro on May 1 – at 00°22′ AQ (until Oct 10). That’s the furthest it goes into AQ this year – more to come in 2024… It’s not done yet with CAP, and will re-enter it in retro from June 11 on – until Jan 20, 2024.
Whoaaa – PLUTO’s Turnaround comes right in the middle of Eclipse Season:
The mid-SCO – mid-TAU Full Moon / Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on May 5 is ruled by PLUTO, and catalyzes URANUS in TAU next to the SUN / MERCURY retro. Purging of intensely felt deep seated emotions and of old mind forms brings Freedom.Time for a Ceremony.
If you have anything on or round 0 – 1° AQ (or TAU, LEO, SCO) you probably feel the intensity and pressure.
A pressurethat helps us transform from the inside-out.
Rather than banging our heads against a wall / mountain of density without really being able to – or needing! – to change those external things.
At least not ‘the hard way’, by working with resistance (theirs, yours), or pushing against what ‘doesn’t work’ in the system (AQ) and we seem to be out of control about.
Early AQ has a LIBRA undertone, and sure enough, we’re dealing with issues of fairness, balance, right relationship, and justice, in a social context. Long time built-up issues are now coming to the surface – to prompt a purge and transformation / evolution of the whole paradigm.
“You can’t solve a problem from the consciousness / dimension where it originated.” To let go, we have to go to another level of experience (fine line with spiritual bypassing though…).
Have you been dealing with / feeling trapped in systemic issues? I.o.w., come up against issues that are really ‘heavy’, ‘old’ and ‘thick’ (not much breathing space / openness / flexibility)? Feeling intensely affected by certain things a while ago, waking up some morning, I realized “these are density problems”, andsomething major shifted. We don’t need to go into ‘social relationship’ (AQ) with these issues, take on those challenges or be frustrated and burdened by them (late CAP – where PLUTO goes back to, in the Summer / Fall).
How can life be lighter and freer – shared with other mature (CAP) and free-spirited friends (transformed AQ)?!
I felt called to look up the
Sabian Symbol for the PLUTO Station
San Juan Capristrano Mission, CA
“AQUARIUS 1° AN OLD ADOBE MISSION IN CALIFORNIA
KEYNOTE The power inherent in all great human works to endure far beyond the workers’ life spans
The works and spirit of the Spanish priests who directed the building of the California missions have had a lasting influence on the development of this land; these remain as a monument to the men who were able to make their mark upon this alien environment.
While the zodiacal sign Capricorn begins with a symbol of socio-political power, Aquarius at its start presents a more spiritualized and idealistic or creative picture of the social forces at work. Moreover, it stresses the enduring character of human achievements ensouled by a great vision.
At least within the frame of reference of our Western civilization, the symbol speaks of the projection of a noble ideal into concrete forms of beauty and significance, thus of the radiation of a ‘civilizing’ power into an institution offering to primitive [men] humans the opportunity to reach a higher, more organized and productive, level of activity.
This is the first stage in the sixty-first five-fold sequence. It speaks to us of THE CONCRETIZATIONOF AN IDEAL. This also implies the ‘immortalization’ of an individual within a great collective and cultural enterprise.“
Whoaaa – what a blatantly colonial-missionary coloured symbol! Showing the old and clearly outdated paradigm, in the name of a ‘great vision’ / ‘civilizing power’ – a mission to ‘organize’ the ‘primitive’.
SO apropos ‘Old Empires’, their global extension and distribution of influence, and the function of the missioning churches. Not much respect for ancient traditions and mundane & spiritual ways of life, in the colonized land. Abuse of people, in the name of ‘conversion’ – CAP shadow. Not much equality of free humans, in collaboration – AQ ideal.
De-colonizing efforts (PLUTO retro) are under way currently. Yet, there’s still so much unquestioned (conditioned and historically anchored) attitude in the mentality. Reconciliation can’t be ‘manufactured’ / shortcut.
Plus, there’s neo-colonialism lurking everywhere. The spirit is well and alive. Driven by greed. Esp. when it comes to the pervasive real estate ‘gold rush’ at the expense of people and cultures being pushed out of their environment and social cohesion. The mission is quite clear, it’s about maximization of profit. Let alone the blatant evidence that there’s more money than taste / style in the picture.
Yet also by neo-globalist missions which, in the name of urgency & importance of “joining forces to collaborate on critical issues” set out to amalgamate and ‘equalize’ countries and people with their rich and diverse culture, while introducing a technocratic, dehumanizing system. A la the program(ming): “We need a ‘Great Reset’!”
I.o.w., don’t push your ‘ideals’ and ‘visions’ on everyone whose world you invade, and force them to change! Shadow of PLUTO on the CAP – AQ cusp (2023 / 24). Ideals and visions need to be freely negotiated and shared (AQ essence).
PLUTO retro will re-enter CAP on June 11.
True leadership requires integrity – essential (PLUTO) to CAP. Corruption, abuse of power and authority, and disrespect of Humans and Nature Beings whom the leader serves (late CAP – VIR undertone) are shadow expressions that come up now for full revelation and purging. So that we can go forward into a better future for Humanity – as the AQ Age is setting in.
And hey – we’re the ones we’ve been looking for and looking up to.
And, the way how we respond to ‘what’s going on in the world’ has likely to do with our own shadow too. Well worth digging and ‘seeing through’.
Time to realize from within that we can ‘repurpose’ situations (esp. those challenging ones that we suffer, resist, and judge) by connecting with our spiritual core (PLUTO retro). Which brings us to a higher vibration, as we surrender to the Higher Order of the Universe that ‘uses’ / positions us, for a higher purpose.
Old – perhaps karmic – patterns, conditioning and internalized experiences come up again…
So that we can realize and transform them, and regenerate from within.
Much Love, Power, and Cosmic Blessings to You and Us ALL, from the inside-out! Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
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We’re in the Heart of the Spring Eclipse Season (Apr 19 / 20 & May 5). No wonder it’s an intense time, and so much else is going on, in the Heavens and on Earth…
The rare 2nd (‘Blue’) ARIES New Moon this year is on the horizon: The already Epic Hybrid Total / Annular ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse on Apr 19 / 20 at the very end of ARIES, bordering TAU.
The Eclipse will be at its maximum on Apr 19 at 9:17 pm PDT. Just 5 min after the exact New Moon, and less than 4 hrs before the TAU Season starts (1:14 am PDT on Apr 20).
A rare event. Only every about 10 years. Here’s a Hybrid Eclipse guide, with helpful illustrations. Also revealing that the last Hybrid Solar Eclipse happened on Nov 3, 2013.
This Ningaloo Hybrid Solar Eclipse has its Aboriginal name from the remote peninsula of Western Australia that the path of totality passes over.
So potent to have a combination Eclipse showing up. She is a TOTAL Solar Eclipse and an ANNULAR ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse – dependent where She is seen on the Eclipse path. Australia and SE Asia are the ‘epicenters’. Her effects may affect these countries most.
There’s SO much to this Eclipse New Moon
* She’s the 2nd (‘Blue’) New Moon in AR this year. After the Spring Equinox NM on March 21 – both frame the ARIES Season.
* She’s a rareHybrid Total & ‘Ring of Fire’ (Annular) Eclipse
* She comes in a sequence of ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipses (Dec 2019 – Oct 2023)
* Suuuper cuspy New Moon, on the ‘Settling Point’ (at 29º50′ ARIES – while the Eclipse North Node is at 4º25′ TAU)
* Strong gravitation in AR – TAU these months, which the cuspy Eclipse ‘pulls together’ (see chart)
* Seed Eclipse (with the North Node) A super powered New Moon, inviting to trustingly co(!)-plant new seeds.
* She squares PLUTO invery early AQ – also super cuspy, and now stationary (going retro on May 1).
* MERCURY in TAU goes retro on the day after the Eclipse (Apr 21 – May 14), after a 3-months NO-retro phase since Jan 22. Opening the ‘Retro Season’ for the rest of the year (which culminates in Aug / Sept).
I was interested in the sequence of the most recent and up-coming Annular ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipses. Interesting patterns & themes revealed themselves.
A brief History of recent ‘Rings of Fire’ Eclipses
And it set the tone for the‘infamous’ SATURN – PLUTO conjunction on Jan 12, 2020 which comes only every 38 years, and occurred in CAP the last time in the early 1500’s(!). The ‘Old Empire’ with its ‘Top-Down’ structures does expire. Yet not without ‘fall-out’ of the massive shadow re: Power (PLUTO) and Control (SATURN) – which we’ve seen over the last few years.
And now for the upcoming Very Cuspy / Very AR / TAUHybrid Total & Annular Solar Seed Eclipseon Apr 19 / 20, in square w. stat. PLUTO in early AQ Planting New Seeds for Joy & Freedom, in Co-Creation! The only one with the North Node in TAU (since Dec 23, 2021), soon (July 13) to shift into ARIES for the next 1 1/2 years (while the SN will be in LIBRA).
Followed by the Very LIBRA Annular Solar Release Eclipse on Oct 14, also in square w. stat. PLUTO, then in late CAP With the South Node in late LIBRA, bridging over to MARS in early SCO.
All these Eclipses accompany PLUTO (which became a BIG deal, right after the 1st ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse on Dec 25 / 26, 2019, via the SATURN / PLUTO conjunction in Jan 2020).
PLUTO is now going out of CAP and into AQ. The shift into a New Era, while shadowy ‘decay’ from the ‘Old Empire’ / top-down hierarchical power / control structures is being ‘washed up’, making the ‘why’ for the transformation / evolution blatantly clear.
A sequence of opportunities to jump (or be pushed) through the ‘Ring of Fire’ – From the old ways of being / conditioning / defined by structures (rings?) – CAP ‘Overkill’ / PLUTO – into a new life / new beginnings. Also emphasized by the TAU / ARIES part of the Zodiac where so much is happening now.
This much for the ‘Rings of Fire’ Eclipses context… Now more about THIS one, specifically.
She’s an exact & suuuper cuspy New Moon, on the AR / TAU ‘Settling Point’
The max. Eclipse at 9:17 pm PDT tomorrow Apr 19 follows an exact New Moon at 9:12 pm PDT at 29º50′ ARIES. While the Eclipse North Node is at 4º25′ TAU. The MOON enters TAU just 13 /17 min after NM / max. Eclipse. The SUN enters TAU(!) on Apr 20 at 1:14 am PDT – 4 hrs after NM / Eclipse.
A very cuspy scenario, indeed. All happening on the AR / TAU ‘Settling Point’. Where the spark & spirit of New Life (AR) manifests and takes on form. So many conflicts, so much warfare and ‘battling’ for life naturally settle. Visions (late AR has a SAG undertone) find their first manifestation (early TAU has a CAP undertone).
Plus, the North Node connection with the Eclipse makes it a ‘Seed Eclipse‘. All this bodes well for intention setting and seed planting (literally, and symbolically), while trusting the Earth will help bring them to bloom, while we do our own part.
Let’s take a look at the
Birthing Chart for the AR – TAU cusp New Moon / Hybrid Total / Annular ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse
The exact New Moon at 29º50′ ARIES will be on Apr 19 at at 9:12 pm PDT. Followed by the max. Eclipse at 9:17 pm PDT.
What a strong gravitation in the AR – TAU Field! The cuspy Eclipse ‘pulls it together’.
TheAnnular Solar Eclipse catalyzes what’s going on in the Astro sphere otherwise, even more so than ‘regular’ New Moons & Full Moons.
What’s going on here? Big ARIES ‘backdrop’firing up the Eclipse, via CHIRON / JUPITER. They aligned on March 11 – only every 13 years. SO much division and warfare, on so many fronts and battlegrounds. Medical warfare / modern medical war paradigm (fighting the enemy = pathogen, cancer…).
“Who benefits?” “Follow big money.” says TAU post-ARIES. The military-industrial-pharma complex – now revealed as never before. Greed capitalism / inflation / exploitation / neo-colonization.
Lots of awakening (shocking? liberating?) paradigm shifts, now as URANUS is in TAU (2018 / 19 – 2026), to serve EmBodying Freedom.
CHIRON in AR, squared by MARS in CAN (building up, exact on Apr 27): The Wounds of War / The Medicine of Authenticity & New Beginnings. Separation and warfare on all levels re-traumatizes early wounds of the battle for life / separation from mom. Magnification & awareness leads to outgrowing the old (JUPITER).
Can we jump through the Ring of Fire? And leave the Ring of the old Matrix behind?
Scary to do that all by oneself – and land out ‘in the cold’ (AQ).
The Eclipse NM squares PLUTO which is also cuspy: Freshly (since March 23 – catalyzed by the Equinox ARIES New Moon) onthe AQ side of the ‘Prometheus Point’ cusp (trying on AQ in this 1st phase until June 11) and currently a stationary focal point – since it’ll go into ‘U-turn’ from Earth perspective, and retro, on May 1.
So here’s a good challenge (square) to make new choices (early AQ has a LI undertone), for our future, individually, but even more so, for a shared humane future. And to do so together with other compatible, like-minded, and free-spirited humans (early AQ). Respectfully working with one another and with the Earth (TAU), and generating grounded Joy (TAU) and Freedom (URANUS – ruler of AQ where PLUTO is now – in TAU).
MERCURY in TAU about to go retro, super close to URANUS, on Apr 21, is also fed by the Eclipse. MERCURY retro will go back to almost the North Node, and in its turnaround to forward / direct (May 14) be in wide square w. PLUTO retro / stat. While more intel re: Power structures / economy / monetary systems / food may emerge we’re called to be in our intrinsic power (PLUTO retro). Ideas and conversations can be picked up again, re: shared values, nature, the Earth, food, and everything organic & intrinsically joyful, which can lead to new alliances & shared projects (AQ).
Hence the Eclipse motto: Planting Seeds for New Earth Medicine, in Joy & Freedom, and Co-creation.
Eclipse Saros Cycles and YOU Apr 19, 2004, anyone?
Did you know that Eclipses come in cycles (known as Saros Cycles), and repeat in the same sign combination every 18 – 19 years (which has to do with the 18½ year Nodal cycle)?
We had a Partial Solar Seed Eclipse at the same position in last time on Apr 19, 2004 (SUN / MOON also at 29° AR, North Node then at 11° TAU / presently at 4°25′).
Do you feel the upcoming Annular Solar Seed ECLIPSE is significant for you energetically? Maybe your SUN / MOON / AC / Planets are end of AR / early TAU (or on the CAN / LEO, LI / SCO, CAP / AQ cusp)?
If so, you might want to check out:
* Where were you at / what started for you in Spring 2004?
* What grew from the seeds planted at the time?
* What comes full circle now?
* How are you invited to bring AR / TAU gifts to life NOW, in a new way?
* What are you called to bring into manifestation – and contribute to, as part of the bigger evolution (PLUTO on the CAP / AQ cusp)?
Where in your chart does the upcoming Eclipse and did the 2004 Eclipse fall (Houses, Planets)? Which areas of your life were / are again now affected?
Example: AR / TAU in your 10th House What happened with your career / public side / purpose in the last 19 years? What’s coming to fruition / what starts a new cycle?
Eclipses are like ‘Light Switches’
In a Solar Eclipse – even more so a Total / Annular one -, the SUNlight is temporarily blotted out by the MOON, and re-newed, from Earth perspective. An old consciousness, when it comes to AR / TAU, is being re-set since it’s not in resonance with feelings & needs (MOON) anymore, if it ever was. The Lunar Feminine steps in front of the outmoded Solar Masculine. A new Alchemy occurs.
Newways of emBodying Freedom (NN / URANUS in TAU) and one’s authentic, autonomous, experienced understanding & Medicine (CHIRON / JUPITER in AR). Yep, a lot goes into the Alchemy and is in the making in that regard.
AR / TAU has also to do with doing business, as in: being entrepreneurial and building what serves others, based on one’s values and gifts. We need a new economy that is truly based on values, not on speculation and greed.
Traditionally, a Solar Eclipse is associated with ‘the death / abdication of an old king’. Interestingly, the Eclipse happens closely to late QE II’s birth date (Apr 21). An Era has ended, indeed.
In so many ways, the Old top-down Empire expires, even though it dies hard, and holds on with teeth and claws, says PLUTO in CAP (where it goes back to, June 11 – Jan 20). It gets intense and extreme as inevitable transformation & evolution happens. Check-check, these years….
New Light needs to come in / a light switch turn is needed, at this wild & crazy time. Not via the top-down instrumentalized / WEF pumped out ‘Great Reset’ (also promoted by CIII, btw). But organically, from the ground up (TAU) and in freedom, since WE are the People (AR, PLUTO in AQ, URANUS in TAU).
Let’s check out the
Sabian Symbol for the Eclipse New Moon Degree
The exact New Moon will be at 29º50′ ARIES
Collective Duck Bath – photo by moi
“ARIES 30° A DUCK POND AND ITS BROOD
KEYNOTE The realization of natural boundaries.
After the preceding symbol (THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES) this may seem anticlimactic. What is shown here is that every form of activity has its limits, and that even the consciousness that has been able to get a glimpse of universal order has to bring down to its own karmic field of operation the message of harmony it has heard inwardly. Peace and inner contentment with one’s essential destiny (dharma) is required to meet the everyday world. The mystic may experience flights of imagination and transcendent vision, but he must return to the concrete earth and to his task in his social environment. Extensive as the latter may seem it is still very small compared to the galactic field; it is indeed a duck pond compared to the ocean. But it is there that the substance for concrete action has to be found, and every effective activity has to be focused; thus the boundaries imposed by the very nature of this activity have to be consciously accepted.
This is the last stage in the last five-fold sequence related to the second scene, characterized by Potency. It leads to the third scene, whose Keyword is Substantiation. Potency has to become substantiated – it has to mate with substance – in order to be effective power. Power must accept the principle of FOCALIZATION.”
HA – a surprise symbol. This ‘duck pond situation’ doesn’t have to be experienced as a limitation. The ducks seem to have lots of fun, in their refreshing splish-splash. All organic, from the ground-up. No ‘top duck'(?) nor VR / AI involved. 😉
The AR / TAU cusp to the 1st Earth sign calls to bring Spirit into Matter. The square to PLUTO in AQ shows the social context. YES to finding our like-spirited people and co-creating together with them.
Being present and focused, showing up authentically (AR), and feeling good in our skin (TAU) with ‘just anybody’ – Human to Human (AQ) –is freeing and grounding at the same time.
Where in your Birth (or local) Chart is the AR / TAU Cusp whichthe Eclipse directly activates?
Maybe even your AC, SUN, MOON, Planets, Nodes are there?
Which House in your chart is being visited by the Eclipse? That’s the area of Life where the cosmic energies suggest a ‘light switch’ / support your New Light.
The Eclipse effects may well evolve until the next Eclipse Season in Oct.
AR / TAU in your… brings out your…
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7thHouse Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
Cosmo-terrestrial blessings to you and us all, for this Ecliptic Juncture – with positive extended effects into our human future! Melanie
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Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
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It’s happening! PLUTO started the 2023 – 2024 CAP – AQ Transition. Clearly one of the major Astro transits of these 2 years.
PLUTO goes into AQ in3 phases – and we probably need those. After all, PLUTO is ALL about Processes of deep Change:
♒️ Phase I: March 23 – June 11, 2023 – then back into end of ♑️ 2 1/2 months into AQ – 7 months back into CAP
♒️ Phase II: Jan 20 – Sept 2, 2024 – then back into end of ♑️ 7 months into AQ – 2 1/2 months back in CAP
♒️ Phase III: Nov 19, 2024 – 2043 / 44!
PLUTO will be for a substantial time in AQ, 20 years.
While it’s been in CAP ‘only’ 15 years since 2008. Due to its highly elliptical orbit, PLUTO’s stay in Zodiac signs is very irregular (was in SCO only 11 years, 1984 – 1995, and is the longest in ARIES to GEM, ‘these centuries’ – about 30 years in each of them).
These irregular activations must be in ‘perfect cosmic order’ / ‘just-in-time’…
No Human alive has experienced a PLUTO in AQ era, since PLUTO has an average 248-year cycle.
The last PLUTO passage through AQ occurred between 1778 and 1798 (while celestial body wasn’t scientifically discovered by humanity until 1930). At that time, during the ‘Age of Enlightenment’ (18th to early 19th C), the Western World saw major historic developments, re: human & civil rights, freedom and equality movements, de-centralization of power, beyond established hierarchies, culminating in the French Revolution.
Here’s a line-up of what stands out, during that phase:
1792 – 1815: The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars & lead into the Napoleonic Wars.
1792: New York Stock & Exchange Board founded
1793: Upper Canada banned slavery
1795: Pinckney’s Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the US.
1796: British ejected Dutch from Ceylon.
LibertéLeading the People – painting by E. Delacroix (1830)
The FR motto “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” (Freedom, Equality, Solidarity)was about essential (PLUTO) principles of AQ.
Freedom for all People, under Natural Law (CAP)! Beyond discrimination, exploitation, and dehumanization, by hierarchical institutionalized top-down structures of the corrupt ‘Old Empires’ – which are now expiring, as they’ve exposed their shadows in the PLUTO in CAP years (2008 – 2023).
How does our current evolution mirror the Zeitgeist of the late 1700’s – on THIS present level of the evolutionary spiral?
Our dark friend PLUTO represents exposure of shadow, and purging / death / transformation of what does’t serve evolution.
Resistance to the necessary change is futile, because Power is stronger than force.
Yet, PLUTO doesn’t take everything away. It brings us closer to the essence which tends to be covered by all kinds of defense layers. These are being revealed and stripped, so that the core can regenerate itself.
Esp. at the onset of a phase transition (here: into AQ) the whole spectrum of the energy to work with can show up: The AQ shadow is already snarling its monstrous & metallic teeth, and displaying a range manifestations… Centralized digital convergence is one of those, promising a ‘bright future’ in the name of convenience, yet with the danger of basically irreversible systemic control mechanisms being put into place.
If taken too far, and control is abused / disempowerment is experienced by ‘The People’ its manifestations are prone to face evolutionary (humanity’s!) pressure. Followed by an inevitable change-or-die transformation – a ‘birthing process’ out of the ‘modern control matrix’ and into intrinsic human power. PLUTO in AQ can bring a huge evolutionary potential for Humanity to live, and co-create from our inalienable power.
Birthing of a New Era – with Pluto & Friends
We are truly in a shift of Eras.
The AQ Age is in the making – as PLUTO comes out of CAP where ‘The Old Empire Expires’, and enters AQ. Abusive, exploitative hierarchical structures are called out – to change. The crescendo of old and unsustainable structures was marked by the SATURN – PLUTO conjunction in CAP, on Jan 12, 2020, initiated by the pair of Eclipses of Dec 26 / Jan 10).
Then, on Dec 21, 2020, JUPITER & SATURN aligned1º AQ – Initiating A New Era for Our Shared Humanity. That’s the degree PLUTO goes to this year (until May 1 when it goes retro), getting the change fully going.
PLUTO’s journey through AQ brings us into the AQ Age.
With SATURN recently joining NEPTUNE in PI (March 7, 2023 – Feb 14, 2026) – they will unite in 2025 / 26 – we see another marker of closure / transition – out of the PISCES Age.
URANUS (the ruler of AQ) in TAU (2018 / 19 – 2026) during this critical transition phase plays an important role in the process: Wake up, Earthlings! EmBody Freedom!
In the birth process – and other ‘birth like’ processes, their Planetary Archetypes show up, in the following order:
Phase I: NEPTUNE – oneness / union / co-dependency in the womb / matrix.
Phase II: SATURN – labour / painful yet necessary separation starts as the ’embryo’ has outgrown the womb, and ‘the time has come’.
Phase III: PLUTO – transition through the birth canal – an irreversible process, where powers of Nature take over.
Phase IV: URANUS – the ‘newborn’ is ‘out’, the umbilical chord will be cut, first independent breath & life starts.
All these Archetypes of Change are currently activated, and mirror the divine timing and topics of the change.
As with human birth, at new Beginnings, things can be turbulent, and adjustment is needed. With PLUTO entering AQ, we see the onset of ‘wild’ shadowy developments that could pervert / invert the essence of AQ. A process is required.
AQ is the fixed AIR sign – and the attachment can happen to ‘fixed ideas / ideals’ – at the expense of what’s truly human. Utopia gone too far can turn Dystopia.
Dystopian Technocracy is a looming monster on the horizon…
Just because science & technology have evolved to provide certain ‘magic wands’ (and produce wants), is it ethical and humane to give green light to an instrumentalization of science on steroids, and to let it go out of control / have ‘a life of its own’???
Reminds me of Faustian and Atlantean agendas and their consequences.
Should we relegate what used to / should be ‘humanity’s business’ (like socio-political processes, esp. decision making) to ‘science & technology’???
The term technocracy is derived from the Greek words τέχνη (tekhne) meaning skill and κράτος (kratos) meaning power, as in governance, or rule.
I.m.o., it can be also problematic to give ‘default’ power, governance, and rulership over others to ‘those with skills’ – which can be bureaucrats / technocrats, and the like – without proper democratic / moral control by us, The People.
And there’s another issue that has evolved exponentially in this millennium: Many of the human skills can already be exerted by programmed & operated artificial technology (AI) – technically often even better than humans could – but obviously soulless. An undue / out of control power & rulership of soulless and non-ethical technology itself (vs. democracy…) can have horrendous implications, esp. dehumanization.
Humanity is already giving soo much power to technology, and individuals have relegated / ‘uploaded’ their identities to the virtual realms. What’s next? Will these developments become irreversible, and change Humanity forever???
Trans- and Post-Humanism?
Image from The Guardian (2018!) – composite: Lynsey Irvine / Getty
Transhumanists believe we should augment our bodies with new technology. The human & technology merger and various ‘bio hacks’ seem to be fascinating options (soon the new standard?) to facilitate replacement & ‘upgrading of ‘faulty’ or ‘outworn’ body parts (‘human machine’ model).
What a double-edged sword, though!
Has technology become the God, and are ‘bio hacks’ the magic of this time?
Will the tools used by the ‘Magician’s Apprentices’ (humans playing God) turn against the apprentices and have catastrophic consequences for the whole system that humans can’t control?!
Can PLUTO in AQ (where it’s b.t.w. traditionally ‘in Fall’ – the most challenging position in the Zodiac) bring the End of Humanity as we know it?!
Will there be a divergence between organic humans and ‘trans’-/ inhumane ‘super humans’? I found in my research these interesting statement:
“Transhumanism essentially means the end of the organic human and our own innate natural abilities, and the birth of the synthetic human or the post human (meaning after human) which means the human will eventually be void of any spiritual connection and will lose all sovereignty”…
“The only way to create a ‘superhuman’ is spiritually and is an inside job, and can never be done from the outside in. We can only do this by tapping into our own divine essence, by going on the inner quest, healing our trauma, connecting to our heart centre, and awakening those supernatural abilities that lay dormant within each one of us but that takes a lot of inner work, and no amount of AI can ever replace that.”
And then, there’s even Posthumanism. “…As technology is transforming our lives, we seem to have caught a serious case of vertigo. Are we turning into gods or are we in the process of making ourselves redundant? Posthumanism is a philosophical framework that asks the deeper question of what we mean when we say “we.” Could Posthumanism be the philosophy for the 21st century?…”
Well, I’d say, with Technocracy & Transhumanism fueling Posthumanism, the philosophy can turn into a paradigm in no-time.
Humanity is being confronted with deep existential questions… Reflected by PLUTO’s activationof AQ (2023 / 24 – 2043 / 44) – Which has only just begun.
OtherProblematic Tendencies with Pluto in AQ
Well, PLUTO isn’t traditionally ‘well placed’ in AQ (considered ‘in Fall’ there).
Important to be aware of, and heed these dangers, through…
Soulful Solidarity & Community Cooperation
How can Humanity, and associations / groups within it transform soulfully, at this turn of an ERA?
Retaining our soulful Humanity, in this process of radical change seems the imperative. Not via resistance but via going deeper, befriending our Inner Power, and sharing from it.
The essentials of AQ are evoked with the PLUTO transit:
Solidarity & collaboration is better than conditioned competition & division, and seeded wars. Everyone wins when we share and inspire each other.
Joint efforts are required to manage a multi-crisis (health, food, work, economy, monetary system, climate). “What parts of the crises have been ‘seeded’ / ‘engineered’ / fueled / unnecessarily sustained, by interested power players to serve their interests?” has been a question in the recent PLUTO in CAP phase. PLUTO is still finishing its CAP shadow revelation / transformation business in these two Transition Years…
All these structures where crisis occur currently are part of a bigger system / linked in systems. “How can the system be managed? Who manages the system? Does the System self-regulate?” “What’s the Power and Shadow of all that?” More questions emerging, with PLUTO on the CAP / AQ cusp, these year / at the onset of its activation of AQ.
True change requires revelation and processing of the shadow. Which reminds me of the prime example: ‘Truth & Reconciliation’ in Canada. Truth must be revealed and spoken about colonial atrocities & abuse – a prerequisite for reconciliation. Just like in any relationship.
Early AQ where PLUTO will be for the rest of this decade (and yes, in the yearly calendar also applicable to Jan 20 – 29) has a LIBRA undertone.
Collaboration & Social Justice are big themes.
Speaking of the CAP – AQ Cusp activation by PLUTO:
CUSPERS / Cuspy Energies mostly affected, in the PLUTO Transition Years 2023 / 24:
* CAP ♑️ – AQ ♒️ How can (this side of) you be empowered, in co-creation, contribution, and sharing, in soulful Friendship / Community?!
* AR ♈️ – TAU ♉️ (also in 2023 by the Lunar Nodes & Eclipses – shifting this year from TAU – SCO back into LI – AR)!!! Where is the Place on Earth you hear a Soul calling for? Better together, with your Spirit Community.
* CAN ♋️ – LEO ♌️ Your care, love, and creativity can get enhanced when with your Soul Tribe. Everyone is seen and part of something bigger.
* LIBRA ♎️ – SCO ♏️ (also in 2023 by the Lunar Nodes & Eclipses – shifting this year from TAU – SCO back into LI – AR)!!! Don’t get sucked into strategy or manipulation. Soulful choices & relationships can be a no-brainer.
More about PLUTO in your AQ House below…
Major Alignments with Pluto in AQ – in the critical initial years until 2026
When slow moving Planets (JUPITER to NEPTUNE) enter a new sign, these years, they’ll immediately create aspects to PLUTO freshly in AQ. PLUTO will be the catalyst for these shifts.
2023 JUPITER enters TAU on May 16 – and immediately goes into square w. PLUTO on May 17.
2024 JUPITER enters GEM on May 26, going into Air trine w. PLUTO early June.
2025 – what a year, so much initiated!
SATURN & NEPTUNE enter ARIES (1st phase) in Spring, and together go into wide sextile w. PLUTO (not exact but within 2º orb, closest in July).
JUPITER enters CAN on June 10, to go into quincunx w. PLUTO end of June.
URANUS enters GEM (1st phase) on July 7 – Nov 8, going into Air trine w. PLUTO in Summer (esp. Aug / Sept, almost exact, within 1º orb)
2026 – full force changes!
SATURN & NEPTUNE fully enter ARIES in Jan / Feb, and together go into sextile w. PLUTO in March (SATURN) / the 2nd half of the year (NEPTUNE!).
URANUS fully enters GEM on Apr 26 (until 2033), going into Air trine w. PLUTO in Summer.
Pluto in AQ Alignments in the 1st Transition Phase (March 23 – June 11, 2023)
Whenever the MOON, SUN, or a Planet enters a new sign, they form an aspect to PLUTO freshly in AQ.
Extra catalysts into newness / new paradigms / the Spirit of a new era – and it’s Spring!
Not featuring lunar shifts here. You can find them in the Cosmic Calendar on my email Astro~News, together with lots of other goodies. Send an email to licht@islandnet.com (“pls subscribe!”).
MARCH 23 PLUTO entered AQ (first phase) The Power of Our Shared Humanity, in an Era of Deep Change.
APRIL 3 MERCURY enters TAU – to immediately square PLUTO freshly in AQ Values & ownership clashing with ‘the System’? Check what’s going on with economy, esp. banks…
APRIL10 VENUS enters GEM to go into Air trine w. PLUTO on Apr 11 Time for Alchemy of Loving Lightness & Brightness!
APRIL 20 – day after the TSE NM (Apr 19) The SUN enters TAU, to right away square PLUTO EnJoy Life in Spring, find your ground, plant seeds – of sharing goodness with your community.
MAY 1 – Beltane PLUTO goes retro – until Oct 10 (then in late CAP) Unraveling dysfunctional relationships with systems and people where you gave power away. Accessing Soul Power within that regenerates.
MAY 7 VENUS enters CAN (until June 5), to go immediately into quincunx w. PLUTO stat. / retro Love sweet Love – and Freedom?!
MAY 16 JUPITER enters TAU (until May 26, 2024), to square PLUTO stat. / retro on May 17 So much goodness, joy, abundance – to share.
MAY 20 – day after the cuspy end of TAU NM (May 19) MARS enters LEO (until July 10), to immediately oppose PLUTO stat. / retro Dare to show your passion & your colours (and check in on your ego) – add your specialness to this world-in-change.
MAY 21 The SUN enters GEM, and and into Air trine w. PLUTO stat. / retro in AQ Let’s share in the Height of the Light!
JUNE 5 VENUS enters LEO (until Oct 8! due to retro phase July 22 – Sept 3), to immediately oppose PLUTO retro in AQ We’re all Stars – in the Constellation of Love.
JUNE 11 PLUTO retro re-enters CAP (until Jan 20, 2024) More unraveling of ‘Old Empire’ shadow. Good to deal with unfinished Soul Business, and find Power in the Change.
Your SUN, MOON, AC or Planets in (esp. early) AQ
These Inner Archetypes are up for major Life Changes, in 2023 / 24. What’s the best way of soulful sharing with like-spirited Light Leaders, and contributing to the changes?
Acutely initiated this Spring, t.b.cont. most of 2024. You’ve probably already noticed it coming…
Where in your chart is cuspy / early AQ?
URANUS Rules AQUARIUS – painting by Johfra Bosschart
That’s wheresharing in independence – and for the greater good of all – comes up.
PLUTO freshly in early AQ in your… House is here to help transform and soulfully empower these areas of your Life.
A time to channel the energy into contributing your best, on a deep level, with / via…
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
✨ This is to Our Regenerated Humanity!
✨ Power of the People!
✨ Light Leaders, showing the Way.
✨💫✨ Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it guides you on your Earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Live in person, or online. Most Astro~Experiences are designed as ‘hybrids’, with some participants joining us online, some in person.
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Happy Spring-ing, dear Cosmic Friend on Planet Gaia!
Cherry Blossom Bliss – photo by moi
Happy Astrological New Year! New Life emerges. A new cycle starts.
The SUN entered ARIES today March 20, 2023 at 2:30 pm PDT. Nice date / time alignment! More about the Spring Equinox in this special article.
Followed by a SUPER SPECIAL cuspy ARIES New Moon, on Day One of the new cycle – tomorrow March 21 at 10:24 am PDT. Bringing so much energy into fierce & fearless & renewing ARIES (SUN, MOON, CHIRON, JUPITER) –
Begin the Begin. BE You!Live NOW!
What a radical shift – even from last week, with so much PISCES, incl. SUN / NEPTUNE. May the Winter wash-out lead to radical renewal & fresh Life!
The cuspy / early ARIES New Moon initiates even MORE Newness, to start a super dynamic ARIES Season (see the itinerary above)!
For now (directly activated by the cuspy ARIES NM):
* SATURN now freshly in PI– which was already ‘birthed’ by the Full Moon on March 7, but gets fully started with the ARIES New Moon – and the upcoming Water trine from MARS freshly in CAN – on March 30: Asserting our instinctual needs / being a tribal warrior,andmoving away from toxicity on all levels, while practicing the Dao of Unity, in the Web of Life.
* PLUTO enters AQ for the first time March 23 (until June 11) …to start the 2023 – 2024 CAP – AQ Transition Phase The Power &Evolution of Our Shared Humanity, in an Era of Change Astro article for PLUTO into AQ to come (thx for the patience, ARIES!).
A ‘mutual reception’ / double whammy of MOON & MARS / ARIES & CANCER will be ON this week, and as a start into the Spring Season, between the New Moon in ARIES (ruled by MARS) – even happening on Tue (day of MARS – Mardi / Martes!) and MARS in CAN (ruled bu the MOON). Asserting instinctual needs; defending & protecting New Life.
You can see those shifts in the ARIES New Moon ‘birth chart’ below…
Happy All-NEW Spring Equinox week!
Spring is here – and Nature is freshly-fiercely alive!
What an Inspiration & Medicine (also a la JUPITER & CHIRON in AR), showing us how to regenerate & renew, after the cold and dark Winter, and silvery-grey wash-out over the last month.
Nature is ‘by nature’ / organically in alignment with solunar / cosmic cycles, and resilient through adaptation – when not excessively disrupted, as has been happening so much over long time. Humanity’s only waking up to it lately – URANUS in TAU. So much to learn from Her, and integrate into our lives!
In the last years (since 2020), it’s been such an obvious contrast how Nature is free from the calamity in human-to-human / human-to / in-society (AQ) and country-to-country interaction / conflict.
How freeing to be in full NOW presence in Nature (URANUS in TAU) – highly recommended for daily grounding, regeneration, and overall sanity!
What a fierce time it’s been for Humanity – for the last 3 years!
Pretty much since the early ARIES / Spring Equinox New Moon on March 24, 2020 – which came with LILITH & CHIRON, when ‘everything started’ – the beginning of a wildly new world of Medicine – of battles therein, and of finding our intrinsic, authentic (ARIES) Medicine (CHIRON).
I hope and trust you haven’t been in emergency / chaotic survival mode (understandable, given what’s been going on, yet one of the low vibrations of the PISCES – ARIES cusp: “Am I making it / do I even want to be here, or am I going under?”). And I hope you’ve been blessed to be well, ready to let something new & alive emerge, and get activated, out of the ‘chaos’ – just as Nature always does, on-goingly, especially NOW.
If you or your loved ones have been affected by the virus and the Wars in / round Medicine, and its ripple / fall-out effects, physically,mentally, or emotionally over the last years – and who isn’t nowadays???! – I’m sending heartfelt blessings for a good regeneration of body, mind, spirit, emotions, livelihood to you / them – and to all of our Humanity!
Likewise, the tragically escalating & expanding war in Ukraine, involving and affecting in the meantime so many countries and its people, while wasting and exhausting so many resources, and destroying infrastructures, and killing so many soldiers and civilians. The massive wounds of war… and who benefits from keeping it going???! – more CHIRON / JUPITER in ARIES themes here. This cruel unconsciousness needs to end / go extinct asap. Precious lives must be saved. The end of PI Age ‘noble martyrdom’ / sacrificial lambs. New life& PEACE must be given a chance.
Battles of ARIES
Mars Rules Aries – painting by Johfra Bosschart
Itcan be super stressful (even by osmosis) once we get caught in vibes of panic & scare, via exposure to the omnipresent topics the media. But hey, fear & stress doesn’t help the immune system, or overall health / wellness.
Warrior Archetype MARS rules ARIES, and deals with assertion, warfare, survival, immune defense, adrenaline, iron, spikes and all.
Battles have been fought on so many fronts, since CHIRON has been in ARIES (Feb 2019 – Apr 2027), incl. literally in / round the medical field (ruled by CHIRON)!
What’s the like-heals-like / higher vibrational ARIES Medicine? As simple as: Healthy self preservation, and even more so: Being authentically alive, and: living from the inside-out.
…while SATURN in AQ (March 2020 – March 2023) has taught us to also be mutually respectful rather than judgmental with each other, in / between groups / in society. Everyone is going through their own challenges, and we’re all inter-dependent.
How can we co-create in the New Era for our Shared Humanity? A good challenge at this time. The epic JUPITER – SATURN conjunction in early AQ at Winter Solstice 2020 started a new 20-year cycle for exactly these themes – and was a pre-cursor for PLUTO’s entry into AQ in 2023 / 24 (starting on March 23!). The multiple / layered crises have also brought out opportunities (JUPITER in AQ) to reinvent community, as we need to stay connected in innovative ways.
It IS a new LIFE now. Let’s show up in our Best – together!
JUPITER is in the meantime also in ARIES(was May 10 – Oct 27, 2022 for starters, and fully since Dec 20, until May 16, 2023- having met CHIRON on March 11)! How’s it going with seeing things with fresh eyes, and stepping into the NEW, with our Truth, Trust, and Understanding? JUPITER in ARIES can support us, in all the newness now unfolding.
The upcoming pre-Easter Full Moon in LIBRA – ARIES on Apr 5 / 6 will bring out JUPITER & CHIRON, big time.
Young Jacob Lambs, as seen at the Petting Zoo – photo by moi
One day & moment at a time, says ARIES.
Baby steps matter.
Trial & error is ok.
Every day and moment is a new situation, and a new beginning.
Just deal with what’s present NOW.
LIFE is NOW.
This is to a fresh & (re)vitalizing Start!
This year’s first New Moon of Spring(!) on DAY ONE(!) fully initiates the astrological cycle (just check out that chart below!), and brings a big boost of energy.
Welcome to the rare & all-new Equinox New Moon of March 21, with MERCURY, CHIRON & JUPITER all in ARIES! * Calling for a new Medicine & the Medicine of Newness from within! * A Medicine that’s ALIVE, and arises from the inside-out. * A Medicine that heals wars, on the battle fields, and in the minds.
In this corrupted & disrupted world of turmoil & strive, division & warfare, may natural healing agencies prevail, and may there be a new Start from the Heart!
The ARIES New Moon ‘backed’ by NEPTUNE in PI carries a PI – ARIES theme. What would the Spiritual Warrior do? How does s/he show up NOW?
Shamanic CHIRON is with / IN us in this – channeled through the gifts & perspectives of JUPITER
JUPITER in ARIES met CHIRON recently – on March 11. The energy of their encounter is also channeled through the early ARIES New Moon!
We can learn so much from the Medicine of Nature, and from tapping into vibrations of ease, calm, relaxation – when we’re in Nature, witness and are being blessed by the re-Emergence (ARIES) of Life!
What a resilience to show up again, year after year, after the cold & bleak of Winter! A whole interconnected (AQ – PI) natural system / network is coming alive (AR) now.
Reminding us of our own birth & vital existence (ARIES), connected in the Web of Life (PISCES). Such a good Medicine, bringing Healing on all levels, always, and esp. in times like these.
It doesn’t have to be the wilderness – can be a deep connection with a tree or plant, its life force & spirit. Even with our house / balcony plants.
I’ve found it SO helpful for body, mind, heart, and spirit, to be a lot in Nature over the last challenging years – and am in immense gratitude for her gifts. Let’s take her Medicine (CHIRON) – start with fierce Self Love (ARIES), and show up with the fresh & vibrant Spirit of Spring!
The first New Moon in Spring 2023 will be on March 21 (Day ONE) – at 0º49′ ARIES – so: Let’s check out the very first of the 360 degrees!
“ARIES 1° A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER
KEYNOTE Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness
This is the first of the 360 phases of a universal and multilevel cyclic process which aims at the actualization of a particular set of potentialities.
These potentialities, in the Sabian Symbols, refer to the development of individualized human consciousness – the consciousness of being an individual person with a place and function (a destiny) in the planetary organism of the Earth, and in a particular type of human society and culture.
To be individually conscious means to emerge out of the sea of generic and collective consciousness – which to the emerged mind appears to be unconsciousness. Such an emergence is the primary event. It is the result of some basic action: a leaving behind, an emerging from a womb or matrix, here symbolized by the sea. Such an action is not to be considered a powerful, positive statement of individual being.
In the beginning is the Act; but it is often an imperceptible, insecure act. The small tender germ out of the seed does not loudly proclaim its existence. It has to pierce through the crust of the soil still covered with the remains of the past. It is all potentiality and a minimum of actual presence.
In the symbol, therefore, the emergent entity is a Woman; symbolically speaking, a form of existence still close to the unconscious depths of generic biological nature, filled with the desire to be rather than self-assertion.
The Woman is seen embraced by a seal because the seal is a mammal which once had experienced a biological, evolutionary but relatively unconscious emergence, yet which retraced its steps and returned to the womb of the sea. The seal, therefore, represents a regressive step.
It embraces the Woman who has emerged, because every emergent process at first is susceptible to failure. This process is indeed surrounded by the memory, the ghosts of past failures during previous cycles.
The impulse upward is held back by regressive fear or insecurity; the issue of the conflict depends on the relative strength of the future-ward and the past-ward forces.
The possibility of success and that of failure is implied throughout the entire process of actualization. Every release of potentiality contains this two-fold possibility. It inevitably opens up two paths: one leads to perfection in consciousness, the other to disintegration – the return to the undifferentiated state (of humus, manure, cosmic dust – i.e. to the symbolic great Waters of Space / Chaos).
This symbol characterizes the first of five stages which are repeated at three levels. This stage represents the initial statement, or theme, of the five-fold series which refers to the first level: IMPULSE TO BE.”
WOW! I’ve seen this Symbol many times in charts / contexts, and ‘simply’ by reading the very beginning of the Sabian Symbols – and am being wow’ed each time.
At this time, what presents is not ‘just’ the transition from the universal field (PI) to the individualized impulse of ARIES (Out of Oneness comes the One!). Which itself is strong and powerful – what a start into the New Year!
Also the emergence out of collectivism and pervasive unconsciousness of the now ending PISCES Age (SATURN / NEPTUNE in PI), into – what’s NEW and unfolding – as we show up for and as LIFE. The intrinsically Feminine Life Force (ARIES NM) is a great symbol for this.
And, out of the dystopian perspective of a mechanized & dehumanizing technocratic anonymous ‘pool’ of ‘information’ to fresh organic individual Beingness – in community / as true Humanity (one of the PLUTO into AQ themes).
This is to the (RE)Emergence of Life, in so many ways!
Which also reminds me of my theme of the PI – AR Cusp – which I like to call the ‘Emergence Point’.
Voila – here is the
‘Birth Chart’ of the Equinox / Cuspy ARIES New Moon
The New Moon will be exactly at 10:24 am PDT tomorrow Tue March 21. For a New Moon Ceremony, March 21 / 22 are perfect to ‘plant new seeds’.
What a striking concentration, on the PI – AR Equinox ‘Emergence’ Cusp!
Out of the NEPTUN-ian / PISCEan Waters (oh-so strong last week) emerges the New Moon, MERCURY, and have emerged over the last years JUPITER & CHIRON – sitting closely together (within 2º!) in the centre of ARIES, after their conjunction just 10 days ago (every 13 years only).
JUPITER / CHIRON in AR are also positioned in the centre of a ‘Bowl’ shape constellation of ALL Planets – covering only 150 of the 360º, from late CAP (PLUTO) to late GEM (MARS).
No Planets (only Asteroid LILITH in early LEO & the lunar South Node in early SCO) are presently between CANCER and end of CAP. More than half of the Zodiac is empty these months (!).
Pretty lopsided, with wintry-springy vibes predominant. Out of the old & cold the NEW & Fresh arises…
The ‘Bowl’ also calls for the ‘missing handle’ opposite the centre of the Bowl (which is mid-AR with CHIRON / JUPITER) i.o.w., mid-LIBRA (w. AQ undertone): Peaceful relationships in Humanity are in dire need at this times, vs wars that are primarily driven by egoic forces (mid-AR w. LEO undertone).
Currently presented via ARIES: Showing up a-new, self-directed, and authentic. Being the Warrior of NOW, of the NEW – and: of Peace.
The ARIES New Moon and Her Entourage
We’re not ‘just’ moving into a new Spring, but into a New World & Era. The future of humanity, society, and economy are uncertain. It has all just begun. Let’s not go ‘rogue’, and into survival / full-on emergency mode with it (definitely a possibility to experience it this way) but let something new, beautiful, loving & healing emerge, and come to Life!
CHIRON since more than 4 years now fully in ARIES has shown (has it ever!) how new situations can make us vulnerable and bring up prior / early wounds. The Inner Medicine shows up with this too, by being direct and authentically ourselves.It’s our life. No (more) fakeness, pretending, hiding.
What’s in our face (ARIES literally rules the head and face / facing things boldly) and shows up in front of us NOW leads us to our Medicine!
The SUN in ARIES will meet & pass (once a year) CHIRON on Apr 5 – day of the LI – AR Full Moon, and the MOON already on March 22. Time to bring consciousness to the Hero/ine’s Journey of Healing.
Maybe someone really inspires you who has stepped out & forward, to brave the New. Maybe it’s YOU?!What’s YOUR first step?
On March 26 / 27, MERCURY meets and passes CHIRON & JUPITER in ARIES. Consciously thinking in new ways about a situation, communicating boldly, directly & authentically is healing. Bright & fast & brilliant mind – don’t let it run the show, though.
The ARIES New Moon pulls it all together, and brings it to the point. It all starts here, and only happens here. Spring – and Life! – only know the NOW.
Where in your birth (or relocation) chart is early ARIES?
That’s the House relating to the area of life where themes of Authenticity, Boldness, Aliveness, and fresh Beginnings are (re?)activated by the Equinox / cuspy ARIES New Moon.
And where you’re called to show up asbeing truly YOU.
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, your Body, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations / Deep Processes
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
Loving Blessings for the fresh Equinox / cuspy ARIES New Moon helping us with birthing our New & True Self!
Melanie
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SATURN makes a significant move this month, into multi-dimensional PISCES (how does that work???)… …and out ofAQ (since March 21, 2020), where it’s been about challenges / teachings (incl. learning from mistakes!) / re-structuring, when it comes to humanity, group consciousness, systems, science, as well as groups / friendships. Yet also the necessity (SATURN) of solidarity (AQ). Sooo many divisive experiences among humans, even endings and closures, yet also many new alliances and friendships were formed…
Sooo many people passed away, in these last 3 years. Some of them, like Queen Elizabeth II, representatives of an ending era.
My sincere condolences to you, if you also lost dear & loved ones!
Old structures (SATURN in CAP), systems / associations (AQ) that don’t work anymore / proved lack of integrity / didn’t pass the tests of time / of what’s fit for a shared future (AQ) are ending / dissolving (PI). Easily, judgment could have slipped into these experiences – sooo SATURN (“Those people… those systems…”).
Could you find closure, while seeing / acknowledging old / dysfunctional systemic issues?
Humanity (AQ) has re-shaped, in these SATURN in AQ years. Which came with many painful experiences, and with lots of separation.
SATURN in the birth process represents the pain of labour, which indicates, the embryo has outgrown its womb state – a new phase must begin. Followed by the PLUTOnian process of the inevitable passage through the birth canal (Cesareans miss that stage, and PLUTO experiences later in life can be affected by this – another story….), that transforms everything – out of the womb / matrix, into the world – becoming an independent Being.
PLUTO will be next to enter AQ, after SATURN has ‘done its job’. 2023 – 24 are the transition years. Humanity’s birth canal out of the ‘Old Matrix’. While the SATURN ‘midwife’ will be in PISCES, supporting a perhaps painful, yet necessary, transition ‘labour’ into a ‘New Era’.
How might PLUTO in AQ affect Humanity? The ‘end of Humanity as we know it’? The ‘newly engineered’ Human in the making? Transhumanism…? And / or: Evolved / Evolving Humans turn away from the take-over of a mechanistic & digitalized new matrix, come together in Freedom, shared values, and co-innovate community and even society?!
PLUTO’s transition into AQ will be in 3 phases: The first one is coming up March 23 – June 11, then it goes for ‘unfinished business’ back into CAP until entering AQ for the second time on Jan 20, 2024. On Sept 2, 2024, it goes once more back into CAP, until Nov 19, when it finally enters AQ, for the following 20 years!
In the transition phase, by nature, we can envision and intuit, yet, by the very nature of it, it’s a process. We’re ‘not there yet’ – not as Humanity as a whole. Being connected to Soul Power, based on Natural Law (which we can carry from PLUTO in CAP with us…) matters.
More thoughts about PLUTO’s Transition years, in a separate blog post, before its initial entry into AQ, on March 23.
SATURN in PISCES can teach us during these transition years, into not just a new phase but a new era(!), at a time of perceived lack of control, in a world of loss, overwhelm, chaos, and confusion,to navigate the unknown & unknowable, acknowledge the impermanence of things… While also releasing residues of PISCES Age paradigms…
What’s our anchor in the Waves of the ‘Great Sea of Life’?
Great Wave of Kanagawa – by Japanese Master Katsushika Hokusai
Let’s glean cosmic insights, for navigating with SATURN’s entry into PISCES
…and bring an ancient & timeless paradigm shifter into the picture, for what might be hidden in plain sight (one of the PISCEAN paradoxes):
Ganesha – Elephant headed Hindu god, known as the ‘Remover of Obstacles’ on the path, and Guru that takes us from the darkness (of not seeing what the obstacles is / was) to the Light.
Elephant headed Ganesh is buddies with SATURN. He can be invoked to bring the (actual) obstacles to the light, whatever they may be, and show a path to overcome or release them.
Often with SATURN, the obstacle / darkness comes down to a condition of fear.
When we lead with fear / let fear be in charge of perception & action, we reap the results – there’s always more to be afraid of / since ‘the other’ / ‘that thing’ is out of control. Fear is a low – and quite common vibration of SATURN.
Fears that came up with SATURN in AQ (2020 – early 2023): Fear of isolation / or of other people / certain groups; fear of systems. Social fear leads to even more separation / isolation.
With SATURN in PISCES (early 2023 – early 2026), what can come up: Fear of chaos, loss, the unknown / unknowable, of inescapable energies, overwhelm, collapse – fear of everything (omniphobia / panphobia), a diffuse dread of evil in life. Snowballing fear based mass phenomena.
Fear leads to separation (and vice versa) – from one another, from our connection with the Universe, and from our strong vibrant core. The resulting vulnerable human state can be exploited / manipulated (into polarization, blame agendas, demonizing ‘the other’ / ‘that thing’, with the notion for an externalized authority to ‘do something’ to save / protect).
Bottom line, when we’re in fear, isolation, and separation, we can be so much more easily controlled (externally and by internal ‘demons’). SO important to be aware in that regard, in these quite isolated times.
Healthy socializing regulates our minds and emotions. We’re social animals, and inter-connected in the Web of Life (AQ / PI).
And we can ‘personally’ contribute to a better overall vibration. The opposite of pan-phobia is healthy ‘Urvertrauen’ (a German word for being rooted in trust in life – more like a JUPITER in PI experience).
SATURN rules the Root Chakra. Is fear or trust the foundation from which we live / which permeates our experience? Childhood wounds play a role of course – CHIRON now in ARIES invites to healing…
Exposing ourselves to / immersing in trust / surrender / letting go, and unifying vibrations, is what SATURN in PISCES can teach us. …rather than feeding that ‘Fear Wolf’.
Connecting with our deep roots that connect all Life, and to one another can be one of the (maybe foundational) contributions during SATURN in PISCES.
Where SATURN’s motto Less is More can come in, when in PISCES: Less pondering on / getting weighed down and depressed by what’s out of control, by Laws of Nature – as in: What’s uncertain, impermanent, by the very nature of life, in its ambiguous & paradoxical ways (“One never knows…”, “This or that, or both could be true”).
What to do with the energy instead?
Maybe for starters, doing our part to make the world a better place, one vibration and ‘random act of kindness’ at a time. That’s where the upcoming VIRGO – PISCES Full Moon on March 7 comes in that invites SATURN into PISCES, just 1 hr after the FM.
Practicing living by – timeless & spiritual life principles…
Any spiritual practice – Yoga, meditation, Qi Gong, chanting, that brings us into the ‘flow state’ is certainly helpful to us individually, and to the whole, in these times.
May we let the light of inner spiritual wisdom remove the obstacles – whichever they may be. And wisely and compassionately raise vibrations, for a smoother ‘flow’.
Jai Ganesh!
Paradoxical PISCES, ‘evaluated’ & supported by SATURN
The two Fish of the (large) PISCES constellation swim into opposite directions. ‘Up into ecstatic / otherworldly realms’ if you will, and ‘down / going under’ – or maybe ‘checking out’, as the illustration could also suggest. Bonded in this juxtaposition, the ‘opposites’ are united.
SATURN the ‘Lord of Karma’ shows us more clearly the ’causes & effects’ of either state, what can help to shift the ‘wheel’s direction’, and how to reconcile the paradoxes, in the grand Paradox of Life.
Going down / going under phenomena Which esp. show up, when in low vibe / heavy SATURN mode:
*Chaos – through overwhelm, and / or loss / feeling lost (maybe post AQ alienation / isolation)
*Loss of social bonds, and of identity
*Groundlessness
*Exposed to / experiencing insanity, ‘weirdness’ of ‘consensus reality’ – not through specific issues, but through overall / pervasive atmosphere
*Helplessness (“I’m unable to do something about… / help others” / “Nobody helps me…” “Who / what saves me?”)
*Victim or martyr consciousness
*Free floating anxiety and depression
*Addictive compensations (substance use / behaviour).
Going up into ecstatic / otherworldly realms SATURN calls these Zeitgeist phenomena out, in these framings, and can be the coach to really embody higher dimensions of Being:
*Lost in dreams, phantasies, illusions
*Addictive-passive media exposure / consumption / going ‘high’
*Taking the ‘flight’ option, disappearing from confrontation – or from the World
*Spiritual by-passing / superiority / judgment (“If you / they only were more spiritual….” “I, however…”)
*What helps you to be in ‘flow state’ / what gets you out of it?
*Living the dream – are you? Why not?
Reconciling the paradoxes, in the grand Paradox of Life
The essence of timeless Dao Wisdom: Yin-Yang
What appears polarized are often apparently opposite expressions of their union, and of the interconnectedness and Unity of all Life.
Everything contains its polar opposite. The balance of ‘opposites’ is interwoven. Always dynamic and impermanent… In constant flow & change.
When we humans experience polar opposites as too intense, we want to resist or check out, rather than experience their dependency & rhythm (light attracts / turns into darkness and back to light again, awakeness into sleep, ease turns into tension, and release again), and allow things to change & pass.
PISCES is oceanic – the interconnectedness of all Life. The miraculous and fragile Web of Life is a PISCES theme… As are literally oceans and atmosphere. Water IS Life. SATURN: Take responsibility for your part, identify the major factors and parties that have brought ‘All Life on Earth’ into peril, and course correct, before it’s too late. Also: Time to find more ‘scientific evidence’ for the interconnectedness of all Life, and for the mystery of the Universe!
Personally, some bonds / connections / co-dependencies can be toxic. SATURN helps to disengage from those, and not feed more into the ‘karmic contracts’ of those relationships – lessons learned! It helps to ‘take the pulse’ of the vibrations and resonance, to gain clarity. And to ask for / get help from an unbiased outward source.
Addictions are often a re-directed / compensated need to connect and be one-with / loose ourselves in a state or activity. Is there a way of going to the ‘real thing’? A purer way of connecting (with Nature, one another, the Universe…)? What are the root causes (SATURN) for the compensation? Maybe lack of healthy bonding in childhood? CHIRON now in ARIES can help reveal and heal early wounds.
Bottom like with SATURN about to enter PISCES: Spiritual teachings need to be practiced and embodied – esp. at times like these. What would the wise and compassionate spiritual teacher say – and DO?
Voila, here is the Chart of SATURN entering PISCES
A few striking factors in the initiatory ‘cosmic framework’:
* SATURN enters PISCES just 1 hr(!) after the VIR – PI Full MOON, on March 7! (blog post about Her to follow)!
Interesting how the VIRGO Full Moon ‘births’ SATURN into PI – its complementary energy. And the MOON is almost (besides LILITH in early LEO and the SN in SCO) the only ‘counterpart’ to quite acelestial concentration from late CAP (PLUTO) / early PI (SATURN) to mid-TAU (URANUS) / extended to mid GEM (MARS) – known as ‘bowl’ pattern. All about Transformation (PLUTO), Transition (PISCES), new Beginnings / fierce Authenticity / Healing (ARIES / CHIRON), EmBodying Freedom (TAURUS / URANUS).
The Full MOON ‘handle’ of the ‘basket’ (extension of the ‘bowl’) can bring specific issues, and notions for ‘order’ in a world that appears ‘out of control’ / chaotic to acute awareness.
What’s SATURN’s teaching on the AQ – PI cusp? Esp. about Unity Consciousness. We’re all in this together / in one boat, part of the Web of Life.
* It’s PISCES Season Being overwhelmed, ueber sensitive / influenced and feeling like going under, esp. media wise? Good to not get sucked in and brain washed, and do on-going ‘hygiene’ / cleanses and phases of asceticism (VIR) – on all levels, while being compassionate with all Beings. While going with the flow of things, and practicing raising vibrations…
* NO Planet is presently (until Apr 21) retro. Lots of momentum – in certain areasof life (relating to CAP to TAU).
Which ‘Areas’ of PISCES will SATURN cover, in 2023 / 2024, and 2025?
In case you’d like to track which years SATURN might affect or even station (go retro / direct) close to your PISCES features. Always a good idea to find specifics in the Ephemeris. Or let me do the ground work and come to a session…
Naturally, the SATURN retro phases serve integration of challenges / teachings, and find ‘inner authority’.
In 2023: 0° – 7°13′ PI SATURN will enter PI on March 7, go retro this year on June 17 (day of the Summer Solstice New Moon in late GEM) until Nov 4.
In 2024: 3°15′ – 19°26′ PI SATURN in PI will go retro on June 30 until Nov 16.
In 2025: 14°31′ – 1°56′ AR SATURN in PI will enter AR on May 25, go retro on July 13, re-enter PI on Sept 1, and go retro until Nov 28.
In 2026: 26°08′ – 0° AR SATURN in PI will enter AR on Feb 14.
SATURN in PISCES historically
Saturn and Earth – Hubble Space Telescope
SATURN has a 29-year cycle (approx one human generation), and hasn’t been in PISCES since Feb 1994 – Apr 1996.
History comes in patterns and offers lessons (both SATURN themes). Here are some key events of the ‘most recent’ SATURN in PISCES phases. So much more could be said and explored – leaving that to your memory / investigation.
* Feb 1935 – Apr 1937, and Oct 1937 – Jan 1938
At the time, also, major mid-Thirties transits: SATURN in PI opposite NEPTUNE in VIR. URANUS in TAU (which is also now on – one 84-year URANUS Return!).
Ending of years of Depression, turning into pre-WWII years. Nazi Totalitarianism / tyranny / war mongering, Jewish discrimination & exclusion. Communism clashes with anti-Communist alliances. Some key events, according to the timeline on this page, starting in 1935, may evoke parallels to the present time.
1935 Feb 10 Hitler describes the Soviet Union as a menace to peace March The National Council of Jewish Women in New York City describe Hitler as a “world menace.” Mar 16 The Versailles Treaty allows Germany to have no more than 100,000 men under arms. Hitler orders conscription for all able-bodied men reaching the age 19, violating the Versailles Treaty. May 2 With Hitler’s Germany in mind, the Soviet Union and France sign a treaty promising to join the other should either be the victim of unprovoked aggression. May 6 Democrats in Congress and President Roosevelt create the Works Progress Administration (WPA), an economic stimulus program that is to continue until 1943. It is to cost billions and to employ millions. Conservatives dislike the spending and refer to WPA project inefficiency as “We Poke Along.”, and describe Roosevelt as taking the US down the road to Communism. May 27 A conservative US Supreme Court declares the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. Sep 15 The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany. Jews are denied the rights of German citizenship. Marriage and extramarital relations between Jews and “Aryans” are prohibited. Nov 1 New York’s governor, Herbert Lehman, asks President Roosevelt to increase the immigration quota for Jews. Roosevelt says there is no quota specifically for Jews. The request is denied. Dec 27 Mao Zedong issues the Wayaobu Manifesto, calling for a National United Front against Japanese imperialism.
1936 Feb 16 An election gives rise to a “Popular Front” government in Spain, ending two years of rule by a coalition of center and rightist parties. Peasants will take this as a signal to seize land. Strikes will erupt against employers. Anarchists will begin setting fire to churches, monasteries and the homes and offices of capitalists. Armed robberies against common people will skyrocket in Barcelona. Feb 29 In Japan the coup has failed. Emperor Hirohito orders the Army to arrest 123 coup conspirators. Nineteen of them will be executed in July. Mar 7 In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies its Rhineland, Hitler believing that France and Britain will not oppose his move militarily. Apr 19 Arabs in Palestine rebel against British colonialism and the increase in Jewish immigration. They kill nine Jews in Jaffa. Jewish homes are set afire, shops looted and orchards destroyed. Struggling for independence, the Arabs stage strikes, boycotts and demonstrations. Trying to maintain order, British soldiers kill more than 140 Muslims. The rebellion will last to November and cause the British to adjust their policy regarding Jewish immigration to Palestine. May 5 Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia has been underway since October. Italian forces have been using mustard gas in artillery shells and bombs. They take Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa. Haile Selassi goes into exile. Jul 17 General Manuel Goded Llopis and General Francisco Franco begin a rebellion against Spain’s “Popular Front” government. The rebels gain the support of Germany and Italy. Aug 1 The Summer Olympics open in Berlin. Aug 19 In Spain, members of the fascist group “Escuadra Negra” kidnap the poet Garcia Lorca and force him to dig his own grave. They execute him. Later they will say they did so because he was a homosexual. Aug 20 In the Soviet Union, a show trial begins for sixteen accused of being members of a “Trotskyite” terrorist conspiracy. All were sentenced to death, incl. Leon Trotzky (in absentia). Nov 26 Germany and Japan sign an “anti-Comintern Pact” directed against the Communist International (the Comintern) and the Soviet Union.
1937 Jan 30 Hitler formally withdraws Germany from the Versailles Treaty. This includes Germany no longer making reparation payments. He demands a return of Germany’s colonies. Jan 31 In the Soviet Union, 31 accused of Trotskyism are executed. Mar 19 Pope Pius XI publishes an encyclical titled Divini Redemptoris, condemning atheistic Communism. Apr 26– first day of SATURN in ARIES – Germany and Italy are allied with Franco and the fascists in Spain. German and Italian airplanes bomb the city of Guernica, killing more than 1,600. Nov 6 Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact, created by Germany and Japan in 1936. Nov 9 Japanese troops take Shanghai. Dec 21 Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon, becomes a smash hit. Dec 29 Ireland’s Constitution, adopted by plebiscite, goes into effect. It establishes an independent state based on a system of representative democracy. It bans divorce but guarantees certain fundamental rights.
* March – Sept 1964, and Dec 1964 – Feb 1967
At the time, also, major mid-Sixties transits (esp. 1965-66): CHIRON in mid-to-end of PISCES, conj. SATURN, and opp. URANUS – PLUTO in VIRGO. Starting in 1964 with black voting / Civil Rights movement. Vietnam (proxy) war against Communist North Vietnam in full force, at the expense of soldiers and civilians being killed – while anti-war and free speech movements, spawn out of universities. One SATURN Return after discrimination of Jews in the ‘3rd Reich’ started, diplomatic relationships between West Germany and Israel were re-established. Decolonization of several countries from France, Belgium, and Britain. Golden Gate Park anti-war sit-ins started, followed by the ‘Summer of Love’ 1967 at Haight-Ashbury, SF). Peace & Love & Unity? Not easily attained…
1964 Mar 8 Malcolm X has broken with Elijah Mohammad’s Nation of Islam. He believes in the separation of races and announces that he is forming a Black Nationalist Party. Apr 19 Malcolm X is in Mecca meeting devout Muslims of different races. He has softened, believing that racial barriers can be overcome and that Islam is the religion that can do it. May 2 Four hundred to 1,000 students march through Times Square, New York, and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and in Madison, Wisconsin. May 25 The Supreme Court rules that closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional. May 27 The US has 16,000 military people in Vietnam, and so far 266 of its forces there have been killed. In a taped conversation, President Lyndon Johnson says to his national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy: “I don’t think it’s worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out … What in the hell is Vietnam worth to me? What is Laos worth to me? What is it worth to this country?” Jun 3 In Seoul, Korea, an estimated 10,000 student demonstrators over-power the police. President Park Chung Hee declares martial law. Jun 12 In South Africa, Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Robben Island prison. Jun 15 The last of France’s military leaves Algeria. Jun 19 The Senate votes on and passes the Civil Rights Act. Jul 6 Malawi declares its independence from Britain. Jul 18 In Harlem, New York, six days of rioting begins. Aug 1 The Republic of the Congo, formerly the Belgian Congo, changes its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sep 1 “Freedom Summer” in Mississippi is drawing to a close. Sep 17 Some twenty student activist organizations form a coalition to oppose the regulations announced by Berkeley Dean Towle. The “Free Speech Movement” is born. Sep 17 Some twenty student activist organizations form a coalition to oppose the regulations announced by Dean Towle. The “Free Speech Movement” is born. Sep 21 Malta becomes independent from Britain.
1965 Jan 2 Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters in the US South. Jan 4 In his State of the Union address, President Johnson proclaims his Great Society. Also he announces plans to promote birth control abroad, using “our knowledge to help deal with the explosion in world population and the growing scarcity in world resources.” Jan 20 In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jews to discuss legitimizing their communities. Feb 6 A Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku, South Vietnam, kills 8 Americans. This is done by Vietnamese believing that they are continuing a fight that began with French colonialism and that they are fighting murderous foreign intruders and a minority of Vietnamese who supported the French. Feb 8 President Johnson orders more bombing in North Vietnam. Feb 21 In New York, Malcolm X is assassinated in front of 400 people. His assassins will be described as members of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. Mar 8 In Vietnam, 3,500 US Marines arrive – the first ground force units from a foreign power since the war between the Vietnamese and the French. Mar 24-25 At the University of Michigan the first teach-in is held against the US war in Vietnam. Apr 7 In a speech at John Hopkins University, President Johnson says that we fight in Vietnam “to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny.” He describes “the first reality” in Vietnam as North Vietnam having “attacked the independent nation of South Vietnam.” May 12 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations. May 13 Several Arab nations break diplomatic ties with West Germany. May 21-23 On the U.C. Berkeley campus, the Vietnam Day Committee runs an anti-war teach-in. Jul 2 President Johnson announces that he has ordered an increase in US military forces in Vietnam to 125,000. To accomplish this, the monthly draft call is raised from 17,000 to 35,000. Jul 30 President Johnson signs the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. Aug 1 In Britain, advertising cigarettes on television is banned. Aug 6 President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law. Sep 28 Fidel Castro announces that anyone can leave for the United States. Nov 6 Cuba and the United States agree on an American airlift of 3,000 to 4,000 emigrants from Cuba to the United States each month.
1966 Jan 8 In Vietnam, the US launches its largest operation yet – Operation Crimp – with 8,000 troops and tanks. The purpose is to clear away the Viet Cong and capture their base near the district of Chu Chi, just north of Saigon. The area is razed and no Viet Cong base found. Jan 10 In the US, a duly elected young black, Julian Bond, is denied his seat in Georgia’s legislature because of his opposition to the war in Vietnam. Jan 24 In India, Indira Gandhi is sworn in as prime minister. Mar 4 John Lennon is annoyed and says, “We [Beatles] are more popular than Jesus now.” Some believe he is bragging and move to boycott Beatles music. Mar 27 In South Vietnam, 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against Saigon regime policies. Apr 29 US troops in Vietnam total 250,000. June 29 US planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong. Jul 4 North Vietnam declares general mobilization. Sep 30 Botswana acquires independence from British rule. Dec 7 The Caribbean Island of Barbados achieves complete independence from Britain. Dec 31 There are now 385,000 US troops in Vietnam. There, 5,008 US military personnel died in action 1966, an average of more than 13 per day. Another 1,045 died from “non-hostile” occurrences.
1967 Jan 14 In San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park approximately 30,000 take part in a “be-in.” Among the participants are Allen Ginsberg, credited with creating the term “flower power,” and Timothy Leary, fired Harvard professor and LSD guru, who calls on people to “Turn on, Tune in and Drop out.” Jan 27 The US, Soviet Union and Britain sign an Outer Space Treaty. The treaty prohibits use of space, the moon or other celestial bodies as a military base or for any purpose not peaceful. Feb 18 China sends three divisions to Tibet. Mar 6 President Johnson announces his plan for a lottery for conscription into the military: “the draft.”
* Feb 1994 – Apr 1996
At the time, also, significant early / mid-90’s Transit: URANUS – NEPTUNE conj. end of CAP (esp. 1994).
SATURN in PI themes of those years, starting in 1994: Nuclear disarmament / control of global annihilation. More countries join the European Union. NAFTA was also consolidated. Same-sex unions started to be legally sanctioned. The brutal Civil War in former Yugoslavia / Bosnia between Croats & Serbs that started in 1991 finally ends in Dec 1994.
One SATURN Return since then. In what ways does History repeat itself? What are the lessons? Assessments of the state / effectiveness of NAFTA and EU.
1994 Jan 1 In Mexico the Zapatistas declare war against the Mexican government, take hold of five municipalities in the state of Chiapas and announce plans to march towards Mexico City. Jan 14 Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which end the aiming of nuclear missiles at each other and provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. Feb 3 The US lifts its trade embargo against Vietnam. Mar 4 Four men of Middle East origin are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing (in Feb 1993). Apr 5 The siege of Sarajevo begins its third year. Apr 27 In South Africa, multiracial elections are held for the first time. Nelson Mandela is inaugurated president on May 10. May 6 Paula Jones has waited three years to file a civil suit against President Clinton, accusing him of sexually harassing and assaulting her, and defaming her with denials. Jun 17 Former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn responded to an invitation to visit North Korea. Following Carter’s meeting with Kim Il-sung, the press describes astonishment by the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency at Kim’s agreement to stop his nuclear research program. Jul 25 Israel and Jordan formally end the state of war that has existed between them since the founding of Israel in 1948. Aug 31 The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces its “complete cessation of military operations.” Aug 31 The last of Russian troops leave Estonia. Sep 3 Russia and China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. Sep 13 The Federal Assault Weapons Ban is signed into law by President Clinton. It prohibits certain kinds of semi-automatic “assault weapons” manufactured after this day to be sold to civilians. The ban is to expire in ten years. Nov 13 In a referendum, Swedes choose to join their country to the European Union. Dec 11 Russia’s Boris Yeltsin sends troops and planes to Chechnya, a largely Muslim region. He hopes to crush what began in 1992 in Chechnya with a new constitution that included a declaration of independence. Dec 19 Investigation of decades-old real estate dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates with the failed Whitewater Development Corporation begins. The prosecutor leading the investigation is Kenneth Starr, a judiciary committee’s appointment as Special Counsel. Dec 19 Civil unions for same sex couples has been created in Denmark and Israel, including equal employment benefits with opposite-sex couples. Civil unions for same sex couples becomes law in Sweden.
1995 Jan 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union. Jan 9 Valeriy Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (male), completes 366 days in space, breaking a duration record. Jan 31 President Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse. Feb 13 A UN tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity. May 11 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. Jul 11 Dutch UN peacekeepers are pushed out of the way in the area around Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian Serbs round up and kill an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys, the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Oct 30 Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada. Nov 16 A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War. Nov 21 A peace agreement for Bosnia is reached. Dec 4 First NATO peacekeeping troops arrive in Sarajevo, including 700 US troops, an international force to number around 60,000. Dec 14 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, ending 3 1/2 years of war in Bosnia.
1996 Jan 29 In France, President Jacques Chirac declares a “definitive end” to France’s nuclear testing. Feb 13 The Communist Party of Nepal declares a “People’s War.” Mar 19 The city of Sarajevo is united again, as city authorities take control of the last district held by Serbs.
In the upcoming SATURN in PISCES phase March 7, 2023 – May 25, 2025, and Sept 1, 2025 – Feb 14, 2026,
* How can chaos, random ‘fall-out’ and annihilation be averted / controlled? Esp. as we’re seeing more weaponization and nuclear danger through the NATO confrontation with Russia?
* In what ways is the war in Ukraine comparable with the pre-WWII phase, the war in Vietnam, or the civil war in Bosnia? What can bring it to an end? Anti-war movements are emerging in Europe.
* Where is Union / Unification necessary, in our times? In sooo many – and inter-related – ways…
SATURN in PISCES will ‘be there’, for / with these Planetary Transits, in the next Years
* PLUTO’s Transition out of CAP (ruled by SATURN) and into AQ 2023 / 24 1st phase: March 23 – June 11, 2023 2nd phase: Jan 20 – Sept 2, 2024 3rd full phase: Nov 19, 2024 – 2043 / 44
* NEPTUNE’s (ruling PI) Conclusion in PI (2012 – 2026) SATURN will catch up with NEPTUNE on Feb 20, 2026 when both Planets will be at 0° ARIES(!). Which could mark the end point (if there’s such a specific ‘thing’) of the PISCES Age, and the beginning of a New Era / AQ Age, with PLUTO in AQ at the onset of it.
* URANUS in the second half of TAU (2019 – 2026) SATURN end of PI will form a ‘friendly’ sextile with URANUS end TAU (at 25° respectively), on Apr 5, 2025. Perhaps an integration of the fierce square between SATURN in mid-AQ and URANUS in mid-TAU we saw in 2021. New ways of emBodying Freedom, while following the Laws of the Universe?
* CHIRON will continue to be in ARIES until Apr 2027 A highlight of the phase is the upcoming conjunction of JUPITER with CHIRON (on March 11, just 4 days after SATURN’s entry into PI). Big time understanding of what’s been going on in the World of Medicine and ‘New Medicine’ in the last years. Outgrowing what doesn’t support the Medicine of Authenticity.
* JUPITER will be during SATURN’s phase in PI… In ARIES until May 16, 2023 – conjunction w. CHIRON on March 11, 2023 In TAURUS until May 25, 2024 – where it’ll go into sextile w. SATURN in PI on June 20, 2023, and meet URANUS on Apr 21, 2024 In GEMINI until June 10, 2025 – where it’ll square SATURN in PI (at 18 / 14° respectively) on Aug 20 and Dec 25, 2024. In CANCER until June 30, 2026.
* The Lunar Nodes will be… In SCO (SN) – TAU (NN) until July 13, 2023 In LI (SN) – AR (NN) until Jan 12, 2025 In VIR (SN) – PI (NN) until July 27, 2026 – SATURN will meet the NN in Apr 2025.
* LILITH will be… In LEO until Oct 4, 2023 In VIR until June 29, 2024, where it’ll oppose SATURN on Oct 12, 2023 In LI until March 27, 2025 In SCO until Dec 21, 2025.
SATURN in PISCES in YOUR Chart shows…
Neptune Rules Pisces – painting by Johfra Bosschart
…where YOU are called to regulate overwhelm, work with chaos, yet also surrender, (re)connect, and go into unity consciousness, rather than into separation, and surrender to the Order of the Universe… …which areas of life (relationships, career, creativity, etc…) bring it out, …which other dynamics are linked into this (Aspects to your Planets).
If you have SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, or Planets in PISCES – and / or NEPTUNE is important for you – and for all of us, where PI is in our charts, this is a 3-year initiation phase, to cultivate connectedness and unity – despite challenges & ‘obstacles’.
Here are keywords for the astrological Houses. Whichever one/s PISCES is in points to the area of life where surrender and the path / DAO of Unity present themselves (while chaos can come up there too).
SATURN moving through PISCES can bring your potential to manifestation. If you work on it – and ‘work’ on letting go and connecting, while bringing unhealthy patterns and old ‘karmic contracts’ / entanglements to a close.
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House Your Environment, and its Mentality
4th House Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
SATURN in PISCES affecting other Zodiac Energies
PISCES (your SUN, MOON, Planets, Nodes, AC / MC) will be directly affected by SATURN – To mature and embody spiritual teachings…
VIRGO will be opposed by SATURN – A good challenge to see specific ‘issues’ from a place of Dao, flow, unity. Chances are the juxtaposition comes up in relationships with significant others – or with ‘all-that-IS’.
GEM and SAG will be squared by SATURN – The intellect and intuitive knowing only go so far. There’s a vaster field ‘in effect’…
Are you in a SATURN Return ‘Generation’?
If you were born between Feb 1994 – Apr 1996, you’ll have your 1st SATURN RETURN (round age 28 – 30).
If you were born between March – Sept 1964, and Dec 1964 – Feb 1967, this will be your 2nd SATURN RETURN (round age 57 – 59).
If you were born between Feb 1935 – Apr 1937, and Oct 1937 – Jan 1938, you’ll have your 3rd SATURN RETURN (round age 86 – 88).
Full Circle to be in your Natural, God / Universe given Authority, and to show up in your best, to help with Unity!
Wishing you and all of usthe Reliability of Unity & Flow, in the Waters & Waves of Life, with SATURN in PISCES!
Melanie
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