Our Relationship with Illusion at the end of the Astrological Piscean Era

Cosmic Taskmaster Saturn transits Pisces from March 2023 to February 2026. This indicates a three-year period when successfully learning and applying our "Pisces lessons" is very important. Saturn turned retrograde at 7 degrees Pisces on June 17, 2023. It will retrograde to the zero degree of Pisces, turning direct there on November 4. At the same time, transiting Neptune is slowing to station retrograde at 27 degrees Pisces on June 30. It will station direct at 24 degrees Pisces on December 6. Working through the damaging effects of illusion in these "cult of image" and social media-dominated times is a key theme now and over the next three years.

 

Pisces is a sign that indicates a bit of the otherworldly - strong spiritual, psychic, or etheric elements working away behind the scenes.

The sign of Pisces involves a web of ethereal connections that transcends time, space, and location. When the threads of the web are plucked, we start to see and sense connections to other people, times, locations, and eras that may have been invisible previously.

Part of the beauty of the human condition is that we're connected at the heart, soul, and spirit to those who experienced similar things as we have during their time on the planet. In this way, we're never truly alone. These shared experiences create a psychic imprint that is accessible and relatable no matter what era we're living in, and it's perhaps the more painful and isolating experiences that create the deepest and most long-lived bonds, the strongest psychic connections that endure through time and space.

Pisces connects us at our most vulnerable places, in the most poetically painful or bittersweet of human experiences.

Pisces also relates to illusion, and in these social media and "cult of image"-driven times, illusion is very prevalent and can also be very painful.

As we move further into the astrological Aquarian era, it's beneficial to see through the element of illusion, to learn its tricks and to pop the Neptunian bubbles before they take us too far out of reality.

When Pisces, Neptune, or the 12th house are strong in the natal chart, Secondary Progressed chart, or transits, the rose-coloured glasses can be very thick, providing a skewed - and even potentially dangerous - view of life.

When these energies are strong, people may be bothered more than usual by those trying to portray "the perfect life" or "the perfect relationship" or "the perfect physical looks" through media or social media.

Narcissistic tendencies are another Piscean/Neptunian theme, and we certainly have more than enough of those going around these days. Being drawn into those dynamics without our knowledge can be very disheartening, draining, and again, even dangerous.

In these highly illusory times, we're looking to develop the skills to see through the carefully-curated lifestyles and immaculately-filtered images. Once we pop the illusion, once we disrupt the glossy surface sheen and see that there is no such thing as "the perfect life" or "the perfect relationship" or "the perfect looks" or "the perfect Instagram filter," there's really no going back. There's no going back to a time when we were fooled by those things.

And at that point, we really have to ask: why are so many people putting so much time, effort, and money into portraying this false image of lifestyle perfection? Why are people creating lifestyle illusions designed only to make other people covet their lives and what they have? Why are people creating illusory images of themselves and their lives that make other people feel less than?

It's a little pathological, really, isn't it?

We're now officially in the astrological Age of Aquarius, but there are still plenty of old Piscean-era ghosts traipsing around and Piscean-era illusions left to dissipate.

The high romanticism of the standard Neptunian love story is another illusory element that needs to be put in tighter check.

Within the pages of a classic English novel, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester find blissful union - at last, long last - as two halves of the same soul meet in holy matrimony. A fictional love to make your heart ache, feverish that you might never find its equivalent. And in real life, its author Charlotte Bronte marries a clergyman she is merely fond of - no great, melting love of her life - after watching her entire family perish, one-by-one, only to die herself while pregnant soon after being wed.

How's that for a sobering reality check?

How many of the great historical love stories, so implanted in the collective psyche and so sought after, have been myth, illusion, just a good story?

And how many of the great Facebook or Instagram love stories are cut from that same cloth?

We have now planted our flags on the Aquarian-era side of things and are looking to create a more rational and realistic version of romance and of life, in general. Even if we aren't looking to do that, this is the path to greater success, veering away from the highly-idealized and soft-lit versions of love, romance, beauty, and "lifestyle" that generally end in disappointment and bad feelings.

We're looking to maintain the beautiful Piscean love and connection, but we're doing it with our feet on the ground, with a keen eye toward egalitarian love, rather than a love that places anyone or anything on a pedestal.

We're making the distinction between real Piscean love, spirituality, understanding, and communion and the highly-illusory, highly glossed-up, cardboard cutout versions we see portrayed so often through media and social media.

If we're not able to make the distinctions between what's real and what's illusory, some big karmic wallops are possible.

As we move more fully into the Aquarian Era, we can move further out of reach of illusion and all that goes along with it. With diligence, we can be released from old psychic or etheric webs that have bound us. The lightning bolt strikes of Uranian insight (Aquarius' planetary ruler) are lighting the way into new territory and fresher dynamics. They're showing us the route out of "Image Factory Hell" once and for all...

Let's go, shall we?

 

Saturn in Pisces (2023 - 2026) and Deconstructing New Age as a Pseudo-Spiritual Pyramid Scheme

 

Jupiter Re-Enters Pisces: A Consolidation and Review of Spiritual Knowledge and Truth

Luck, blessings, and expansion planet Jupiter, moving retrograde since July 28, 2022, has just dipped back into late Pisces. Jupiter throws the cosmic spotlight on one of the most complex and karmic areas of the zodiac - the final degrees of the entire zodiac, 28 and 29 degrees Pisces - from October 27 to December 20, 2022. Jupiter will station direct on November 23 at 28 degrees Pisces, re-entering Aries on December 20.

What follows is information that was first presented in a patron article on May 13, 2021 and then published on the public blog on December 21, 2021. I've updated it a little for this final dip of big, bold Jupiter in the sign of the fishies:

 

Jupiter in Pisces: Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Wisdom, and Spiritual Law Put into Action in the Material World

 

During the transit of Jupiter through Pisces, we’re coming into new understanding as far as how to apply our spiritual principles and energy in the day-to-day world in the most effective and needed ways. Much of this will involve work that is invisible to most people. We’re acting as airy, invisible sylphs, flowing through even the toughest of situations and the tightest of tight spots by drawing on our unerring spiritual source and applying its guidance in the world. 

Jupiter is a planet related to ethics, morals, and worldly experiences. We’re applying our own sense of right and wrong in this world, doubling down on a path of spiritual and energetic integrity, come what may. 

Some tricky situations pertaining to this path may be all up in our faces during Jupiter in Pisces, as this planet has a tendency to blow things up to epic proportions. 

The navigation of this transit could involve the translation and application of complex psychic/spiritual impressions, or it could be as simple as getting out of our own way and going with the flow. 

Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac and comes with some very complex conditions. This ingress and transit will highlight suffering on Planet Earth, but they also indicate a direct source of spiritual wisdom, truth, and knowledge that can be drawn on to keep our spirits bolstered and buoyed as we traverse the often suffering-filled human condition. 

Those who live by an active spiritual philosophy in their day-to-day lives may experience relative ease under this transit. There may be renewed recognition of the wisdom (Jupiter) of living according to spiritual principles (Pisces), even in a highly materially-focused world. Those with a strong grasp of spiritual principles, applied successfully in the worldly life, may find themselves in the sweet spot during this transit with their particular wisdom playing a crucial role in some clutch moments. 

If we have stubbornly clung to what we feel is right - to our spiritual and energetic integrity - in an ongoing way, Jupiter could provide considerable expansion, development, and blessings. If not, we get a chance to come into this spiritual and energetic integrity in new ways, defining these things and living them according to our own principles. 

Jupiter transiting Pisces indicates a period of time when the world is thirsty for the spiritual, the otherworldly, the mystery and magic of the unseen energy underlying it all. A reason. A purpose. 

VIDEO: Fluoride/Fluorine Poisoning Through Water and Pharmaceuticals

 

Note: this video was originally removed by YouTube for "medical misinformation," but a couple months later, it was back. Very mysterious censorship programme!

Here is the video on Odysee and Bitchute:

Odysee: Fluoride/Fluorine Poisoning Through Water and Pharmaceuticals - FULL VIDEO 

Bitchute: Fluoride/Fluorine Poisoning Through Water and Pharmaceuticals - Part One

Fluoride/Fluorine Poisoning Through Water and Pharmaceuticals - Part Two

 

April 1, 2022 Article: Jupiter in Pisces and Picking Up the Long, Long Historical Fight Against Fluoride Poisoning

May 3, 2022 Article: Hundreds of Studies Indicating Health Damage from Fluoride Exposure 

Jupiter in Pisces and Picking Up the Long, Long Historical Fight Against Fluoride Poisoning

Anti-fluoride community bulletin board campaign...commenced!

I put these posters up on the bulletin boards in my condo complex, and someone had taken them down in both buildings within three hours. A new record! I knew they would be coming down at some point, but three hours was impressive, even for the Censorship Brigade. Highly prone to hypocrisy, the Censorship Brigade left a poster hanging that was advertising a Christian church event that involved a politician as the keynote speaker. (Religion and politics all rolled into one poster!) I put the anti-fluoride posters up a second time, and pointed out this hypocrisy on the bottom of my poster.

 

Pisces is one of the signs of the zodiac associated with poisoning, especially poisoning that is invisible and dispersed or dissolved widely in water. The radioactive poisoning of the Pacific Ocean via Fukushima nuclear fallout is an example of this type of invisible, widely-dispersed poisoning of water. The poisoning of public water supplies via fluoridation is another example, and it's this example that I'm, unfortunately, working with intensively these days. 

Just before I relocated to the city in which I'm currently living, Regina, Saskatchewan, the City Council here voted 10 to 1 in August 2021 to add fluoride to the city's water by 2025. 

Near-simultaneously, the City Council in Calgary in the neighbouring province of Alberta, voted 13 to 2 in November 2021 to add fluoride to the water there.

Now, I find it impossible to believe that fluoridation of the cities' water supplies became such an important issue - just organically, spontaneously, and near-simultaneously coming up in both these cities - during a pandemic when there were many more pressing issues for these Councils to address. 

Indeed, I smell outside, top-down influence here, as fluoridation of public water supplies is supported by the Alphabet Agencies and by those who are influential within those agencies. (The information shared at the link above appears to have been scrubbed by Soros' Open Society Foundations website.)

These sneaky and snaky votes on fluoridation - made by these City Councils while people were distracted, distressed, and traumatized by a pandemic as well as the criminal mandates - created a situation where it was impossible to bring together a cohesive opposition ahead of the votes. Ahead of these votes, people were being forcefully "socially distanced" and were being entrained to fear human contact of any kind. It also bears mentioning that these votes were snuck by, under the radar of most of the public, following decades of opposition to fluoridation in both cities. According to long-time residents here, Reginans have voted no on fluoride four times in the past.

That said, poisoning the water supply is a crime. Poisoning just one person is a crime, let alone thousands of people. It doesn't matter if local governments decide it's a good idea. It doesn't matter if a majority of the population has been deluded into believing it's a good idea. Poisoning the water and forcing people to ingest fluoride, daily and against their will, is wrong. It is a crime. Period. End of story. 

We've known fluoride was toxic for decades now, and I had naively believed no Canadian government could be so misguided and deluded as to vote in fluoridation of public water. 

Oh, how wrong I was.

Jupiter in Pisces Puts a Spotlight on Spiritual Law: Inborn Freedom of Conscience

 

Jupiter transiting Pisces indicates a period of time when spiritual (Pisces) law (Jupiter) is in the spotlight. 

Jupiter first dipped into earliest Pisces from May 13 to July 28, 2021. Jupiter re-entered Pisces on December 28, 2021, and it will transit the sign until May 10, 2022. Jupiter will slip back into latest Pisces for one final concentration point, for one final sweep of the Cosmic Spotlight over late Pisces, from October 27 to December 20, 2022 before moving into Aries for good. 

Jupiter in Pisces is illuminating many aspects of spiritual law during this transit, including the inborn or God-given rights of biological human beings such as: freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom to choose and practise our spirituality (or lack thereof), freedom of association, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of movement, personal autonomy over body, mind, soul, and spirit, freedom to protect ourselves from harm, autonomy over our homes and the land on which we live, freedom to work, freedom to pursue happiness, meaning, and satisfaction in life, freedom to be peaceful, freedom of privacy, freedom to know and pursue the truth, and freedom to reject the authority of anyone or anything that contravenes or threatens these sacred rights and freedoms.

The transit of wounded healer Chiron in Aries (2018 to 2027) has a particular theme of human rights and the painful infringement on those rights, including via a health-based rationale. Jupiter transiting Aries (May 10 to October 27, 2022 and December 21, 2022 to May 16, 2023) will put a spotlight on all these rights-related issues, making them even bigger and bolder. 

It's imperative that we know our rights under spiritual law during Jupiter in Pisces so that we can actively defend our rights and the rights of others from such infringements during Jupiter in Aries. There will be an expanded (Jupiter) requirement to fight for our rights (Aries) as biological human beings, including body autonomy, privacy, and medical choice (Chiron). 

Jupiter will form one exact conjunction to wounded healer Chiron on March 11, 2023 at 14 degrees Aries, but the Jupiter-Chiron conjunction will be within orb for most of the transit of Jupiter in Aries. Asteroid of hearth and home, Vesta, will form a triple conjunction on 14 degrees Aries at the time, along with Jupiter and Chiron. This indicates a background that involves a long, historical fight for these rights against those who would infringe upon them. It also indicates a major investment of time, energy, and resources in this historical fight, and we will be drawing on this investment for support in the present-day battles. We'll be taking tips from those who have fought these same battles in the past.

Jupiter-Chiron-Vesta conjunction at 14 degrees Aries - March 11, 2023

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With Jupiter moving from Pisces to Aries this May, it's important to understand the difference between inborn, inherent, or God-given rights and the version of rights that are encoded in man-made law. As we have seen, the rights encoded in man-made law are being removed by governments that have given themselves the right to do so with some fancy legalese footwork and "emergency orders"...

The inborn right I'd like to focus on today is: freedom of conscience. I think this freedom has been infringed upon particularly egregiously over the past two years.

One of the many inborn rights we have as human beings is freedom of conscience. This means we are free to live according to our own consciences and understanding of right and wrong as long as we are not breaking spiritual law. Freedom of conscience is an inalienable right, inborn in each biological human being. This right is not granted to us by any external authority on Earth, and it cannot be taken away from us by any external authority on Earth. 

No one has the right to force you to live in contravention of your conscience. We can only be stripped of our inborn rights and freedoms, including freedom of conscience, if we willingly give them up.

Ay, there's the rub.

One of the problems with the current global scenario is that people are being intentionally misled and/or coerced into going against their own consciences and sense of right and wrong. 

People might go against their consciences - going along with things they know deep-down are wrong - to maintain employment, relationships, power, public status, social approval, or other perks that come with following the crowd and adhering to dominant narratives.

People can also have their natural consciences interfered with by bad information or partial information. In this case, people believe they're doing the right thing, but only because they've gotten some very bad intel and don't have a full understanding of the situation. These people are basically tricked, manipulated, or duped into giving up their moral compasses and the right to live by their own consciences.

Some people find going against the crowd and the dominant narratives more challenging than others, and it's possible this could be visible in their astrological make-ups. 

Certain signs, like Capricorn, Cancer, and Taurus, are more tradition and authority-minded and might find it difficult to disobey authority figures or to rock any boats. 

The sociable and social approval-conscious air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) can definitely have a bit of a "go along to get along" theme. These signs might be more willing to talk out both sides of their mouths, depending on the audience, in order to maintain social harmony and acceptance. They might be more willing to go along with the crowd simply because they fear rocking any boats or ruffling any feathers. The conflict-averse among us can justify quite a lot in their efforts to avoid confrontation or other social unpleasantness. 

In my observation, the sign of Aquarius can be particularly conflicted when it comes to the dueling desires for social acceptance/status and the autonomy to do its own thing in the world. As we are now moving into stronger Age of Aquarius themes, with Saturn currently transiting the sign and Pluto entering the sign in March 2023, acknowledging these conflicting desires is important as we move forward.

While the sign of Aquarius is known for being open to the unconventional, even to the straight-up odd or weird, there is also a strongly conservative element of this sign that desires social and public status, approval within the group. Traditionally, Aquarius was ruled by status quo-loving Saturn. It wasn't until the 1800s that Uranus was assigned to Aquarius, opening a new chapter for the sign that involved more of the avant garde - edginess, shake-ups, shocks, upsets, and general revolutionary breaks from the status quo. 

Saturn is currently transiting Aquarius (March 22, 2020 to March 7, 2023), and we're all challenged by the dueling desires and conflicted nature of this sign, as well as the effects these dueling desires have in our communities. During this transit, we're challenged to build a community and a world around us where we can follow our consciences with the least amount of friction, opposition, or difficulty possible.

The only way we can truly be free on this planet is by following our consciences. Going against our consciences to maintain approval, acceptance, privileges, or rewards is, ultimately, a controlled and orchestrated existence. 

There are consequences that come from going against our consciences, even while in a state of delusion or mass (masked?) psychosis. If you are a believer that the soul or spirit continues after physical death, you know that these consequences can follow us even after we've left this Earthy life. 

Though Jupiter can definitely be associated with bad situations being made even bigger and badder, this planet is generally considered a beneficial influence, referred to as the Greater Benefic. Jupiter is currently shining its light on the spiritual laws that underpin life on this planet. This gives us the opportunity for greater understanding of spiritual law on Earth so that we can align our own thoughts, behaviours, actions, and choices with it.

As mentioned in a previous article, we will be tested and challenged on our understanding and application of spiritual law, including freedom of conscience, during the upcoming transit of Saturn in Pisces (March 7, 2023 to February 13, 2026). Saturn is a planet that brings concrete consequences to us that we must work our way out of, step-by-step, over time. Saturn is a planet related to lessons, including hard lessons, that result in increased maturity and experience. 

Just as Saturn enters Pisces on March 7, 2023, Jupiter will be forming the triple conjunction with Chiron and Vesta at 14 degrees Aries, exact March 11, 2023. Pluto will also enter Aquarius on March 24, 2023. It's all connected. It always was, and it always will be. 

We've just experienced a New Moon at 12 degrees Pisces on March 2. This New Moon was tightly conjunct Jupiter at 14 degrees Pisces, and it initiated a lunar cycle (March 2 to April 1) that involves expanded awareness of spiritual law and its application in our daily lives. At the time of the Pisces New Moon, Venus, Mars, and Pluto were tightly conjunct in late Capricorn, and Mercury was exactly conjunct Saturn at 18 degrees Aquarius.

We're encouraged during this lunar cycle - and during the comparatively benevolent transit of Jupiter in Pisces - to get right with our consciences and moral compasses and to live in alignment with these things, even when this creates social or professional waves. There is long-term power and protection in doing so.

Jupiter relates to the truth, and we are tasked with diligently seeking the truth in a world of illusions, deceptions, half-truths, and lies (Pisces), being expertly pumped into the collective ethers daily by the various pyramid schemes of power on this planet. 

Again, there are consequences to doing the wrong thing, even when you were under the mistaken impression that it was the right thing. There are consequences to falling for schemes, scams, and mirages, even when we fell for them in a state of innocent ignorance. Even in this state, there are admissions to make, corrections to make, amends to make. There is expanded awareness to embrace so that the same mistakes don't happen again.

Saturn is bringing up the rear in the sign of the fishies beginning in March 2023, and it will be grinding us on every neglected detail. 

To put yourself in good standing, make sure you're willing to accept any consequences then, under Saturn in Pisces, for the stances and actions you take now, under Jupiter in Pisces. 

 

For more on this transit:

Jupiter in Pisces: Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Wisdom, and Spiritual Law Put into Action in the Material World

 

Jupiter Re-Enters Pisces and Puts a Proactive Spotlight on “Old Pisces” Tendencies

 

"Jupiter Re-Enters Pisces and Puts a Proactive Spotlight on 'Old Pisces' Tendencies" is an article available to Willow's Web Astrology patrons. 

 

 

Refuse to be Cocooned! Moving Out of the Piscean Era Tendency of Giving Till it Hurts

The river looking like an abstract painting 

Photos: Willow 

Does anyone remember the 1985 movie Cocoon where the old people find alien pods in a swimming pool? The pods emit an energy that makes the old people feel like a million bucks. At first, only a few oldsters know about the pods and use the pool on the downlow. They visit once in a while, swim around, feel good, and then go back to their regular lives with renewed energy and vigour, end of story. 

But before long, the other oldsters in the seniors community want to know why those guys are feeling so good. Soon, everyone finds out about the swimming pool full of alien pods, and all hell breaks loose. Hordes of seniors jump in the pool, practically dry humping the pods. They're all having a heck of a time, swimming around, laughing, doing cannon balls, trying to break the pods open to see what's inside. But unknowingly, their antics drain the pods of all their energy, spoiling the fun for both the aliens and themselves. 

(Energy healing + aliens = a strong Pisces-to-Aquarius themed film)

This is why I'm using the phrase "being cocooned" to describe some Old Pisces dynamics. 

"Being cocooned" happens when someone in your vicinity is attracted to your spiritual energy and then tries to get closer and closer to the source of it through you. They might sense in you a calmness, a peaceful groundedness, an inner knowing or strength, and they desire to be in that place, too. To try to get to the source of this and to understand it for themselves, people will create situations where you are in a tight dynamic of energetic interaction with them. 

For example, they might ask you one question after another to keep you talking, putting you under the microscope and examining you in an intense way.

They might lock you into a one-sided conversation where they do almost all the talking, requiring you to listen and process the word-energy they're downloading into you. 

They might delve into their personal problems in inappropriate ways, pushing the emotional energy or trauma of their situations onto you in an attempt for you to process it - or maybe just to relieve themselves of the burden for a few moments. This is the classic over-share, and it can happen even with people you've just met. 

People might find flimsy excuses to come into repeated contact with you.  

Or they might try to set the dynamics up in an attempt to make you feel as if they have something you need. (The opposite of what's really going on.)

People might be curious about the spiritual energy or healing energy they feel coming from you, especially in times of uncertainty or crisis. They might want to know what you know and how you've gotten to that place. They want that spiritual peace and that calm sense of knowing, and these dynamics allow them to take it in as if by osmosis. 

To a small extent, depending on personal tolerance levels, this can be OK. The problem comes when people start dry humping your pod!

An Astrological Review of Two Chiron in Pisces Ocean Disasters at their 10th Anniversaries: the Gulf of Mexico Oil/Corexit Disaster and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

April 20, 2020 marked the 10-year anniversary of the British Petroleum/Deepwater Horizon oil gusher and Corexit disaster that poisoned and continues to poison the Gulf of Mexico and the plants, animals, and people living in the area.

March 11, 2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima, Japan that poisoned and continues to poison the atmosphere, Pacific Ocean, and plants, animals, and people all over the world.

I've covered both disasters on this site:

Fukushima nuclear crisis

Gulf of Mexico oil spill

This article looks at astrological and thematic similarities between the two and illustrates how these are actually ongoing disasters.

As you can see in the charts below, both disasters occurred with tight conjunctions between Neptune in late Aquarius and Chiron in early Pisces. 

Wounded healer Chiron (wounds, injuries, health, healing, lessons) was just beginning its transit of Pisces (oceans, oil, dissolution, dispersion, the invisible) as these disasters were initiated. In both cases, we see tremendous harm to the health of the oceans and to all life connected to them.

Neptune, the ruling planet of Pisces, is the God of the sea. Neptune was in late Aquarius at the time of both disasters. Aquarius is associated with energy and electrical current, and both disasters involved the production of energy - oil in the case of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig and nuclear power in the case of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Neptune in late Aquarius was in a mutual reception and tight semi-sextile aspect to Uranus in late Pisces in both charts. Mutual reception means each planet was inhabiting the sign ruled by the other at the time of the disasters. This intensifies the interplay and the inter-meshed themes between the two, including the element of instability and explosiveness, as well as the magnitude of the shocking or unexpected events involving the ocean.

Both disasters occurred at the time of a major ingress. The Deepwater Horizon explosion occurred on the day Chiron entered Pisces. The Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred as Uranus re-entered Aries. Note: Japan is 15 to 18 hours ahead of North America, so this event happened on March 11 in Japan, which was March 10 in North America. News broke in North America on March 11, as Uranus re-entered Aries. 

Deepwater Horizon explosion 

April 20, 2010 at 9:56 p.m. 

Neptune in late Aquarius conjunct Chiron in late Pisces

This event occurred on the day of the Chiron ingress of Pisces.

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Juno in Pisces and Our Relationship With Illusion at the end of the Astrological Piscean Era

Soul mate asteroid Juno entered Pisces on February 24, 2018 for a transit that will last until April 28. Juno in Pisces adds a bit of a supernatural element to things - stronger spiritual, psychic, or etheric connections that are working away behind the scenes.

Juno in Pisces indicates a web of ethereal connections that transcend time, space, and location with certain threads being plucked at certain times throughout the transit. As particular threads are plucked, we start to see and sense connections to other people, times, locations, and eras that may have been invisible previously.

Part of the beauty of the human condition is that we are connected at the heart and soul to others who have experienced similar things as we have during their time on the planet. We're never truly alone. These shared experiences create a psychic imprint that is accessible and relatable no matter what era we're living in. It's perhaps the more painful and isolating experiences that create the deepest and most long-lived bonds, the strongest psychic connections that endure through time and space. 

Juno in Pisces connects us at our most vulnerable places, in the most poetically painful or bittersweet of human experiences.

From a previous article: 

"With Juno in Pisces, we are also working with "soul mates" where the connection we have is almost entirely unseen, etheric, and non-tangible. These are individuals we feel some connection to (desired or not) that cannot be fully explained logically. Juno is a complex and often frictional symbol, and this indicates we are working our way out of energetic entanglements we have with people that are almost purely psychic or etheric.  

Simultaneously, we are finding sometimes surprising moments of communion as we see evidence of the unbreakable love of the universe, and our spirits are shored up." 

Juno transiting Pisces indicates a period of time when we are working intricately with our relationship to illusion - a textbook Pisces theme.

With transiting Juno in Pisces, the soul mates in our lives may be helping us with these illusions in some way - perhaps drawing attention to areas where the rose-coloured glasses are a little thick or providing experiences that pop our Neptunian bubbles and bring us back to reality.

Under this transit, we may be bothered more than usual by people trying to portray "the perfect life" or "the perfect relationship" through media or social media. (Narcissistic tendencies are another Piscean/Neptunian theme, and we have more than enough of those going around these days...)

At the same time, we may have soul mates who are helping us to see through these carefully-curated lifestyles and immaculately-filtered images. Once we pop an illusion, once we disrupt the glossy surface sheen, once we see that there is no such thing as "the perfect life" or "the perfect relationship" or "the perfect Instagram filter," there's really no going back. There's no going back to a time when we were fooled by those things.

And at that point, we really have to ask: why are so many people putting so much time, effort, and money into portraying this false image of lifestyle-perfection? Why are people creating lifestyle illusions designed only to make other people covet their lives and what they have?

It's a little pathological, really, isn't it? 

We are now officially in the astrological Age of Aquarius, but there are still plenty of old, Piscean-era ghosts traipsing around and old, Piscean-era illusions left to dissipate.

The high romanticism of the standard Neptunian love story is one illusory element that may need to be put in tighter check under this Juno in Pisces transit. 

Within the pages of a classic English novel, Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester find blissful union, at last, long last, as two halves of the same soul meet in holy matrimony. A fictional love to make your heart ache, feverish that you may never find its equivalent. And in real life, its author Charlotte Bronte marries a clergyman she is merely fond of - no great, melting love of her life - after watching her entire family perish one-by-one, only to die herself while pregnant soon after being wed. 

How's that for a sobering reality check?

How many of the great historical love stories, so implanted in the collective psyche and so sought after, have been myth, illusion, just a good story?

And how many of the great Facebook or Instagram love stories are cut from that same cloth?

We have now planted our flags on the Aquarian-era side of things and are looking to create a more rational and realistic version of romance and of life, in general. Even if we aren't looking to do that - that's the path to greater success, veering away from the highly-idealized and soft-lit versions of love, romance, and "lifestyle" that generally end in disappointment and bad feelings.

We're looking to maintain that beautiful Piscean love and connection, but we're doing it with our feet on the ground, with a keen eye toward egalitarian love, rather than a love that places anyone or anything on a pedestal. 

A 27-degree Pisces New Moon conjunct wounded healer Chiron on March 17 (Happy St. Pat's!) stirs the associated themes, and this continues through the following 28-day lunar cycle. 

Juno will form a conjunction to Neptune at 14 degrees Pisces on March 26, 2018, and the soul mate lessons here involve the differentiation between real Piscean love, spirituality, understanding, and communion...and the highly-illusory, highly glossed-up cardboard cutout versions we see portrayed so often through media and social media.

Chiron is very potent in late Pisces during this lunar month, traversing the final degrees of the zodiac. Big, collective karmic wallops possible. 

On a personal level, we may find ourselves a little haunted, a little hamstrung by all the psychic threads we're connected to, even beyond this Pisces season. But the fiery-potent 26-degree Aries New Moon conjunct Uranus and Eris on April 15 releases us from some of the old etheric webs. It burns up some of these webs, simultaneously lighting the way into new territory and fresher dynamics.

The Aries New Moon on April 15 also opens us into the Chiron in Aries transit (2018 - 2027), which begins on April 17. Mercury will station direct at 4 degrees Aries in a conjunction to Chiron on April 15, as well.

Juno enters Aries on April 28, 2018, following the Chiron ingress of Aries April 17. Juno and Chiron will form a conjunction at zero degrees Aries, the first degree of the zodiac, on April 29, indicating some refreshing movement out of the reach of old ghosts, old illusions, and old Neptunian bubbles. 

This Juno-Chiron conjunction at zero Aries - such a potent initiatory degree - provides the cosmic impetus to carve our way out of "Image Factory Hell" once and for all. Let's use it!

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Navigating the Dreamscape Under a Pisces Stellium

We're currently experiencing a large concentration of bodies and points in Pisces, which, among other things, indicates a period of time when dreams may be more vivid or intense.

There's a lot going on in the unseen, etheric realms when Pisces is strong, and our sleeping hours may involve an even more powerful release of the unconscious than usual.

With transiting Saturn in Sagittarius square Chiron in Pisces, our dreams may have something important to teach us or to tell us. We may experience prophetic or foreshadowing dreams, also, as our spirits inform us of the path ahead through future events - albeit through the strange imagery of the dream world, which may not be comprehensible until said future events are upon us...

We may be working things out via our dreams in a more intense or active way under these astro conditions, solving problems or releasing old traumas. 

This concentration of Pisces energy will continue throughout the month of January, with Venus (as of January 3), Pallas Athene, Mars, Neptune, Chiron, and the South Node of the Moon transiting Pisces.

The veil between the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial, becomes thinner when multiple bodies and points crowd the sign of the fishes. Things are watery, slippery, hard to pinpoint, hard to nail down. Even waking life takes on a sense of the surreal and dreamy with synchronicity and "cosmic winks" from the universe more common. 

With aggressive malefic planet Mars in the mix, there may also be an emphasis on nightmares or otherwise unpleasant dreams (letting up by January 27 when Mars enters Aries).

The Pisces concentration picks up some juice yet again in late February with the Sun and Mercury transiting Pisces, until Mercury enters Aries March 13 and the Sun enters Aries, marking equinox, March 20. 

So because the dream life is such a prominent arena at the moment, let's buck the common wisdom that no one cares about other people's dreams except therapists and that's only because therapists are paid to care about them!

I was considering this Mars in Pisces transit, in particular, and its potential correlation to edgy, intense dreams or nightmares.

What type of nightmare do you find most terrifying or disturbing?

I think the one I find most terrifying is when you wake up and for a couple seconds, you see a figure in the room with you. You're aware that you just woke up, so it seems certain that someone (or some thing) is right there with you. It takes a few seconds to realize that no one is there, that it was part of a dream, and those few seconds are truly petrifying.

Recurring dreams are also really interesting. (Again, maybe not other people's recurring dreams, but let's throw caution to the wind on this one!)

I have a few different recurring dreams. One that I've had throughout my life is a dream about tornadoes coming. Sometimes I can see the tornado on its way; sometimes I only know it's coming. Generally there is a panic to get everyone (including pets) into the basement in time. Sometimes, I'm considering what possessions I have time to collect. In some of the dreams, I have to call for help and can't seem to get the number to the ambulance/police right, having to dial again and again. This dream is not all that mysterious, as my mother was in a tornado while pregnant with me and barely escaped before the tornado hit the trailer home she was living in.

The recurring dream I have the most these days is about eating food! This isn't mysterious, either. Since being poisoned by Cipro, I have had to limit my diet to a very small list of items. Most foods are off limits. If I stray from my highly limited diet, even with basic, non-junk foods, there is the possibility that I will trigger a cellulitis infection on my face, which has (horrifyingly) happened three times before. So my dreams usually involve eating some sort of contraband foods, realizing with horror what I've done, and then feeling intense dread that I will wake up the next day with cellulitis. heh

What types of recurring dreams do you have? Can you pinpoint the reasons for them?

Feel free to share your own thoughts/dreams, or feel free to skip this boring post filled with someone else's boring dreams. ;-)

Neptune Stationing Symptoms: A Friendly Reminder from Your Anarchist Astro-Reporter

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Neptune is slowing in the zodiac to station direct November 19, and it is exactly conjunct the South Node of the Moon at 9 degrees Pisces.

This Neptune-South Node conjunction intensifies the effects of the Neptune direct station, and it also adds an element of increased caution related to blind spots, spaceiness, wishful thinking, illusions, and areas of psychic vulnerability.

There are many nasty karmic loops and ass-biting scenarios associated with the South Node of the Moon, in particular the Pisces South Node, and in particular the Pisces South Node with Neptune stationing direct in exact conjunction!

I've woven together and updated some information from a few past articles on the subject to describe the conditions under which we find ourselves at the moment, with much of the world under the intense illusions of engineered U.S. presidential election maya. One of these illusions is the belief that there is any real choice between the two candidates, that either one would alter the violent and fascistic trajectory that has already been set out and followed to the pre-planned letter for decades, centuries, and millenia now. The belief that a woman in office will be kinder and gentler or that the billionaire male candidate in office will be "anti-establishment" (with his cozy Goldman Sachs and high finance cronies) is yet more of this mind-fogging maya.

(Just like Obomba was supposed to be the great hope for the people and for race relations...)

So let's just say we have some fairly major collective illusions being played out under this particularly potent Neptune station conjunct the South Node, with election theatrics and related mainstream media mind control diverting the public's attention from much more important matters.

The Moon will be in Pisces during the U.S. presidential election (November 8 - 10) to boot, forming conjunctions to Neptune and the South Node in the early morning of November 9.

Physical reality can feel heavy and burdensome as Neptune energy concentrates in the astro atmosphere, as it is doing now. This effect is exacerbated, again, as Neptune stations in exact conjunction to the karmic pitfall-oriented South Node of the Moon. People are under the effect of illusion and delusion more strongly now, and decisions and commitments can be reversed very easily. Things are not entirely as they seem (ahem, watch for those false flags) with Neptune in Pisces flooding the psyche so strongly.

Wounded healer Chiron is also slowing to station direct in Pisces (at 20 degrees on December 1). This can heighten the psychically painful aspects of our collective situation and inter-related circumstances on Planet Earth. The false divisions being created among the people by our so-called leaders are particularly painful to experience under Chiron in Pisces. Ultimately, this placement teaches us that those divisions, too, are part of the mind-fuck illusions being used to deceive us and to divert us from our real, unified collective power.

From a previous post (updated): "Hollow-gut disappointments hang around us like stale fumes. End-of-era love relationships are a confusing, disorienting mess. The idea that our dreams are not special, that we're not special under egalitarian Aquarius, can erode us at the heart. The discrepancy between where we hoped we'd be at this point versus where we really are is staggering at times - both personally and on a broader societal or collective level.

Anyone aware of the circumstances of humanity on Planet Earth at this time will find them humbling, to say the least.

Warning: Way Too Much Pisces Up Ahead

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We have a massive Pisces stellium forming in the skies at the moment, which will cluster around the karmic-as-hell Pisces South Node.

At its peak, this stellium will involve the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Ceres, Chiron, and Neptune, along with the South Node of the Moon, all transiting the sign of the fishes.

Wounded healer Chiron is tightly conjunct the South Node at the moment, and this positioning continues through early May. 

We are also heading into eclipse season and will experience a New Moon at 18 degrees Pisces, closely conjunct Chiron and the South Node, on March 8. This New Moon is a total solar eclipse, and we can expect the associated events that are spun up to be particularly powerful.

We need a new chapter quite desperately as far as the sign of Pisces and its associated themes go, and this New Moon total solar eclipse provides a strong opportunity for that.

Unfortunately, with Chiron conjunct the South Node in Pisces so strongly involved, it also provides the opportunity for wrong turns, blind spots, weaknesses, naivete, and general confusion that we then have to work our way out of (Virgo North Node)... 

This Pisces New Moon total solar eclipse sets the tone and the trajectory for the 28-day lunar cycle that follows, and suffice it to say, this is one karmically-loaded lunar month on Planet Earth. Expect some chaos, some overwhelm, and some screwiness - but also expect the tools and the support you need to navigate it.

I know many astrologers will be waxing poetic about how spiritual and dreamy and transcendent all this Pisces is, but I'm here as the cautionary astrologer to tell you that this far into the end-of-Piscean-era, a large amount of Pisces energy like this can be dangerous. This far into the end-of-Piscean-era, a large amount of Pisces energy like this can be nasty as fuck, to be entirely honest.

You see, there's a version of reality that is in the process of going down the drain. The plug has been pulled. And as things start to swirl, we have to make sure that we (and the ones we love) don't go down the drain with it. 

We're beginning the astrological Aquarian era with the utter destruction of the Piscean era constructs. This destruction is intentional, diabolical, and has been intricately planned and executed by the powers-that-be for their own benefit and profit.

Mass unemployment, homelessness, money woes, poisonings, health problems, mental health problems, extreme stress - all these things and much more have been built right into the current systems.

And when we're identifying ourselves too closely with structures and systems that are in the process of disintegrating and going down the tubes, we can get taken down by it, too.

We may feel we have a handle on things, but this degree of collective psychic pain (Chiron-South Node in Pisces) can potentially take us under very quickly.

Pisces and its ruling planet Neptune are known for some fairly funky emotional and psychic states involving punctured illusions, feelings of extreme isolation, delusions, disappointment, depression, devastation, hopelessness, listlessness, inaction, despair.

The inertia and passivity and "just roll over until it goes away" characteristics of Pisces can take us into extremely low (and ultimately karmically dangerous) places, and this can happen almost without us being aware of it.

Sensitivity and vulnerability are heightened under these transits.  

Drugs, alcohol, junk food, shopping, gambling, romantic fantasizing, or any form of escapism may be used to numb the pain of a disappointing and dissatisfying reality, but this only increases the danger of getting too far out there, too far out into the abyss to return.

Rolling over and playing dead - no matter how tempting Pisces makes that seem - will simply not do the trick. Living in a world composed of dreams and ideals will also not do the trick. We have to be working actively and diligently (North Node in Virgo) right where we stand to build our preferred reality.

The last time we experienced something of this magnitude was in March 2013, as the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, and Chiron (along with the Moon) formed an extended stellium in Pisces. Mercury was also retrograde in Pisces (the sign of its detriment) at the time, which dragged the themes out even further.

That Pisces stellium took a dear friend of mine, and I don't want it happening again.

Pisces energy has a great way of convincing us to let things slide.

But March is not a month to let things slide.

With Jupiter conjunct the North Node of the Moon in Virgo, participation is not optional.

March is a month to reach out, to connect, to stay in touch, and to cheer people up, even when they seem to be closing you out or choosing isolation.

March is a month to stay active and to plan healthy activities that involve others.

March is a month to work hard and to work diligently - at even the smallest of tasks.  

March is a month when we have to actively bring people back into the loving fold, especially if they've forgotten they're loved at all. The Piscean/Neptunian fog will do that to a soul. It can make us forget who and what we really are. It can overwhelm us, swallowing us up in self-pity. It can make the void appear oh-so-tempting.

We can be fooled under these transits and fooled badly. Fooled in a way that takes a lot of time and work to correct.

Wishful thinking is at a high this month, especially during the transit of Mercury through Pisces (March 5 - 21), and especially as Mercury crosses Chiron and the South Node in Pisces March 17/18.

Again, with the influence of wounded healer Chiron conjunct the South Node, March is not a month to let things slide.

If you've been thinking about someone, let that person know. If you can lift the spirits of someone you come into contact with, do it. If you have a chance to be kind, any chance, take it. This is a month to appreciate the kindness of strangers and also to be that kind stranger when an organic opportunity for loving kindness presents itself.

Now, the currently forming stellium in Pisces does not appear to be quite as mean or as drawn out as the one in 2013. The current Pisces stellium is in effect now and will be at its peak March 12 - 21. At that point, the Sun and Mercury will move into Aries, marking spring equinox in the northern hemisphere and a return to the light. We also do not have a Mercury retrograde in Pisces this time around to extend the agony, and for that we can be grateful.

There is a powerful new expression of Pisces emerging during this lunar cycle - a successful expression of Pisces for the astrological Aquarian era.

But we have to make our way out of the muck and mire, beyond the siren songs and karmic loops and self-sacrificial tendencies, in order to get there. We have to puncture our own illusions and update our own energetic flow. We have to break the grip of it. And we have to help each other with all this, as well.

This March, we all have to do our part to hold the love and to hold people in that love when they've forgotten it's there at all. That's beautiful Pisces. We all have to do our part to make this a profoundly healing lunar cycle, rather than a devastating one.

And Jupiter and the North Node in Virgo will not tolerate any slacking on that front!

Uranus in Aries is here to lead the way, breaking the identification of precious human beings with dissolving structures that have been set up to fail.

Uranus in Aries tells those dissolving structures - the ones teaching people that they are redundant, unimportant, unnecessary - to just plain fuck off.

Listen to Uranus in Aries. It won't lead you astray.

Mercury transits sign-of-its-detriment Pisces from March 5 - 21, indicating some potential for brain fuzz and confused or deluded thinking. Plans may be difficult to nail down or solidify during this transit.

Venus transits Pisces, the sign of its exaltation, and spreads some of that pure, unconditional Pisces love, from March 12 - April 5. Because this Pisces stellium involves benefic planet Venus (rather that malefic planet Mars as in 2013), we can expect some softened edges with this one. The people who most need to catch some breaks may catch some under the influence of lovely Venus in exaltation.

As stated, the 18-degree Pisces New Moon total solar eclipse activates the Chiron-South Node conjunction in Pisces on March 8. The Sun in Pisces will conjunct Chiron and the South Node exactly March 10/11. Mercury will activate this karmic point March 17/18. And Venus will come behind, spreading some healing love balm on some old wounds, on March 29/30.

The Sun exits Pisces and enters Aries, marking equinox, on March 19.


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"Pisces For the Aquarian Era" and More Post-Pisces Clearance on the Love Front

 Pisces Season. Sleepy. Shh.

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We are now moving into a 29-degree Aquarius New Moon on February 18 (5:47 p.m. CST) - the bookend New Moon to the zero-degree Aquarius New Moon we experienced January 20.

New Moons indicate new cycles opening and something fresh about to unfold, especially related to emotions and emotional patterns. With bookend New Moons in Aquarius, we are developing and securing an emotional anchor that will carry us through the turbulence and into the new astrological era.

Now, according to my data, this February 18 New Moon occurs on the very last breath of Aquarius, at the very last possible moment of the sign. Other people are calling this a zero-degree Pisces New Moon.

To me, it doesn't really matter all that much. We are in a major "change of eras" transition and a major clearing of the emotional slate as we move through the first months of 2015. It's a little messy, a little confusing, but a lot exhilarating. And it likely isn't necessary to quibble over the details.

What we can be sure of is that this New Moon keeps those "change of era" themes rolling.

From now through the 29-degree Aquarius New Moon, both relationship-related planets, Venus and Mars, are traveling through oh-so-karmic late Pisces. It requires nothing less than Uranian dynamite charges to break up and change the dynamics and patterns held here. Lucky for us, Uranus is in very strong and influential position at the moment. You can read more about the effects of the strong Uranus energy during the first months of 2015 in this post: "Powerfully-Positioned Uranus in Aries Leads the Charge Through Aquarius Season."

As we move into Pisces season 2015 (February 18 - March 20), we're making the final transition into a new expression for the sign of Pisces - Pisces for the astrological Aquarian era. This is true for all 12 of the zodiac signs. The way we express them in the new era is different, and we are tasked with experimenting and figuring out what will be successful in every passing moment. Challenging!

But Pisces may just be the trickiest sign to transition, caught as it is so often in the attachment to old-era love ideals, dreams, and illusions. The cycles of bliss then torment, hope then despair. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

Keeping Our Heads Above Water During Another End-of-Era Pisces Season

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The Sun enters Pisces on February 18 (11:59 a.m. CST), where it will remain until equinox on March 20, marking spring, sweet spring, in the northern hemisphere.

We're at the point of the year where only faith in the coming spring and in the new life up ahead can get us through the drag-ass dregs of winter. Symbolic as always, no? Pisces season.

At the tail-end of the astrological Piscean era, it hasn't proven easy to get through each successive Pisces season. With wounded healer Chiron transiting Pisces until 2019, we are dealing with some of the most painful aspects of this sign and of life on Planet Earth, in general. We're overwhelmed by the dysfunction, by the pain, by the exhaustion, by the psychic malaise, by the problems that face us as a whole on this planet, by the too-easily-swallowed deceptions, and by the understanding that no one can escape what is being unleashed now against life on this planet.

One shining light of this particular Pisces season, Pisces season 2014, is that we do not have a seven-body stellium in the sign as we did last year! Pisces season 2013 involved the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Chiron and Neptune in the sign of the fishies, along with the Moon for a couple days. That Pisces stellium swallowed us whole for a time. We were drowning in Pisces. It was over-the-top and often not in a good way, tipping many of us into the psychic bleak. I lost a friend due to drug use, and my tiny, rural village lost a young man to suicide. I'm sure most people have a similar story from that time period. It was in the ethers - that point of overwhelm where you can't see your way out. I wish I could have explained the astrology and the dangers of that time period to both of them, to everyone who needed to know. You can read more about the stellium and that time frame here: The Pisces Circus Starts Pulling Up Stakes or here: Major Stelliums in Perspective.

This year, we experience a relatively lighter Pisces season, but we do have a potentially difficult New Moon at 10 degrees Pisces conjunct wounded healer Chiron on March 1, 2014. And as we move through that New Moon portal, we head straight to the three-year anniversary of the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan on March 11.

Three years ago, we heard that an earthquake triggered a tsunami, which washed over the Daiichi nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan.

This caused explosions at Units 1 and 3. The explosion at Unit 3, complete with mushroom cloud, likely aerosolized a large amount of Plutonium, which was released as miniscule particles into the atmosphere, along with Cesium, Uranium, Strontium, Tritium, Neptunium and many other radioactive isotopes. That initial release of radioactivity came down in precipitation all along the West Coast of Canada and the United States. It has continued to come down in precipitation all over the northern hemisphere ever since.

Contrary to media reports that the "radioactive plumes" are just now reaching the coastline, radioactive contamination from Fukushima has been found all along the West Coast of Canada and the United States since early spring 2011. It has been here, showing up via ocean currents and air currents, since early spring 2011, and it has not stopped coming in the three years hence. It will not stop coming until the reactions have been contained and until contaminated water is no longer being released into the Pacific.

For three years now, night-and-day with no cessation, nuclear reactor Units 1 through 3 have been in meltdown, releasing radioactivity into the atmosphere, into the ground, and into the Pacific Ocean. You can literally see the reactions underway on the footage streamed from cameras trained on the reactors. They are glowing, flashing, reacting. Things are not under control. Not even close.

The Pisces Circus Starts Pulling Up Stakes

The upcoming week opens into a New Moon in Pisces at 21 degrees on March 11, which conjuncts Venus at 17 Pisces and Mars at 29 Pisces, on the last degree of the zodiac.

At this New Moon, we have both relationship planets (Venus and Mars) along with Neptune, Chiron, Mercury retrograde, and the Sun and Moon in the sign of the fishies. This ongoing stellium in Pisces has had us swimming around in circles for over a month now. It's hard to even remember the last time things weren't soggy-foggy, swirly-whirly confusing. The Piscean mind fuzz.

All this mutable water has worn us down over the past weeks. Or is it over the past 2,000 years?

Some of  those gorgeous and glowing Neptunian mirages are looking mighty tantalizing right about now. Like the answers to our prayers. (Don't they always?) But keep your eye on things. Keep moving through the spectral images. Don't chase dead ends or tired siren songs. We're being tested on the end-of-Pisces karmic loops this week. Keep in mind that a lot of this is make-believe.

You can pick up a good and lovey Neptunian buzz from all this Pisces. You can indulge in some high romanticism and fantasy and woo woo. But don't make the mistake of believing these things are concrete, stationary, or long-lasting. The Pisces circus starts pulling up stakes coming out of this New Moon and will move on down the etheric highway, regardless of how many hearts may be broken in its wake.

We've been completely immersed, swallowed whole by this Pisces stellium, but it starts to break up after the New Moon, as Mars moves from the last degree of the zodiac to the first, entering home sweet home Aries on March 12.

At that point, though still very influential, the Pisces stellium energy has reached its peak.

This Pisces New Moon on March 11 marks the two-year anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. It also marks the two-year anniversary of Uranus entering Aries for its full transit of the sign. Fukushima was kicked off as Uranus moved from 29 Pisces to 0 Aries. Now, we have Mars moving over those degrees. In 2012, we had Mercury retrograde moving over those degrees. You can read more on that here: Stationing Mercury Conjunct Uranus in Aries on the One-Year Anniversary of Fukushima and a Retrograde Over the Zero Aries/29 Pisces Point

This 29 Pisces/0 Aries point is highly symbolic as the simultaneous close of one cycle and opening of another.

Jupiter Direct!

Jupiter is in a multi-aspected direct station right now at 6 degrees Gemini. It goes direct in the early morning of January 30.

Our major benefic planet is ready to turn and unload its cache of blessings on those who have been successfully and responsibly working two Yods and a square to Neptune and Chiron in Pisces over the past couple months.

There's a longer article on the station here:

From January 5, 2013: A Potentially Inflammatory Jupiter Direct Station: Awkward Yods, a Detrimental Sign, and Squares to Chiron and Neptune

The Jupiter in Gemini square to Chiron and Neptune has some major Piscean-era wishful (or deluded) thinking being kicked up, however.

This is a time when telemarketing scams can be potent, greased as they are by all the wounding Neptunian gloss and goo and pixie dust and blind spots. Scammers of all sorts can potentially slip by our bullshit detectors under these influences, particularly the entertaining big talkers (Jupiter in Gemini) and the people with Neptunian mind control techniques at their disposal. Be careful with the phone and internet. And the credit card.

Jupiter stationing in Gemini within these aspects has brought an increase (Jupiter) in mental and psychic energy (Gemini/Pisces). Telepathy. Brains that won't turn off. Ideas, thoughts, and conversations that keep spin, spin, spinning in our heads. These themes continue for the next couple months, but the direct station should bring a break in the intensity. Some relief for any mental and psychic overload.

With the Chiron-Neptune conjunction in Pisces in tense aspect, feelings of end-of-era futility have been bubbling to the surface over the past month, as well (including during that semi-nasty Capricorn stellium clustered around Pluto). We have to keep moving through these feelings and keep interacting, despite the weirdness and awkwardness we're experiencing now with the two Yods.

The tense Chiron-Neptune influence also indicates a time period when health can be glitchy. Our systems are quite sensitive now. Old injuries and weird pains can pop up. This can be quite unrelenting or even gruelling, in fact, with the current influence of Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Scorpio. This is a time to be careful with food, drink, drug, media consumption, who you're around, and general psychic environment.

Understand that Neptune in tough aspect is fucking with us a bit and has been for about a month now.

With Chiron in Pisces involved, we have the opportunity for great psychic and spiritual healing around this Jupiter station but also for "should have known better" wounding. We have to be smart (Gemini) about things in order to sidestep potential pitfalls and move beyond the entrapping Piscean-era karmic loops.

This Jupiter in Gemini station has blessings to bestow, fruitful connections to make, and awesome news to share, as long as we can navigate and avoid the pitfalls of its tricky positioning.