Wounded healer Chiron is stationing direct at the moment at 20 degrees Pisces (November 30), bringing the need for clarity around how our personal pain is intricately tied to the broader collective pain and pain-inducing dynamics.
This body in this sign moving through a station can bring a definite "emotional wet blanket" effect.
On the heels of the Neptune direct station exactly conjunct the South Node of the Moon at 9 degrees Pisces on November 19, the pain we are shouldering due to our collective circumstances is intensified.
Thanks to a comment made by one of WWA's intuitive and researching readers, I've updated a previous post on the subject from October 25, 2013. The themes still very much apply and may help to put things into helpful context:
"Depression is often talked about as if it is a disease, and it certainly can be.
But depression is also a natural bio-chemical response to the state of
things on this planet. This is what most people miss. Or maybe it's what
they choose to gloss over because then they are not in control. Then
the issues snowball. They become huge and unmanageable via the usually
prescribed methods. And there is no real solution - only understanding,
acceptance, love, endurance, and a willingness to stare it all down, to
expose it.
One of the biggest sources of fuel for depression these days is the
degree of collective denial we are living with en masse. It's
emotionally upsetting, to say the very least. This is the distance
between the bottom line reality on this planet and the way most people -
including our so-called leaders - are living. The decisions being made
and the options being presented don't have much basis in that bottom
line reality. Most are living in an artificial state of manufactured
reality, and there isn't much that is more depressing to a natural,
biological being than living in artifice. Take a look at the animals in
the zoo.
We are connected to the living beings who are suffering on this planet,
and they're connected to us and to our suffering. And when that
suffering is denied, avoided, glossed over, brushed aside, it adds a
heaping helping of psychic disturbance to our psyches. Did you really
think you were just going to go about your happy, happy life while the
majority of this planet suffers under systems and structures that create
and reinforce that pain? That's not how life on this round, rotating
ball really works.
You remember what went on in Iraq? What's still going on? Well, the
devastation and pain from that is monstrous, unimaginable, and it has
ripple effects that haven't even gotten started yet. We're going to be
dealing with this one for centuries.
You know the nightmare going on in Fukushima these days? That affects
you. It affects all of us. It seeps into our psyches, whether we pay it
any conscious heed or not. We're tied to the water on this planet, to
the creatures in that water. We're tied to the workers on the Fukushima
front lines who are being irradiated as I type. We're tied to the
emotional and psychic states of other living beings. We can't separate
ourselves from this "terrible tragedy that's happening somewhere else."
We're teetering on the brink, right here, right now, and we have
been since March 11, 2011.
You remember when we thought the oil gusher and massive, criminal dosing
of Core-exit in the Gulf of Mexico was the big collective problem?
Doesn't Chiron in Pisces have a funny way of putting things in context
for us?
We live in a world that wants to separate people into the happy and the
unhappy, the joyful and the depressed, the fortunate and the
unfortunate, the normal and the abnormal, the positive and the negative.
But those distinctions are not real.
If the scenarios on planet Earth during transiting Chiron in Pisces (2011 - 2019) teach us anything, it's that what affects one will
eventually affect all. There is no real line between the fortunates and
the unfortunates. We cannot separate ourselves from the corruption, the
murder, the erosion, the destruction, the poisoning that is going on -
no matter what dimension you mistakenly believe you are ascending to, no
matter how much fake currency you have in your bank account.
