I had wonderful intentions of writing a post last week about this week’s busy astrology, what with the equinox and the Aries New Moon on the same day, and Pluto changing sign a couple days after that, and Mars finally leaving Gemini after about seven months… but life often reflects astrology on both macro and micro levels. In other words, I got too busy — preoccupied with the process of transitioning out of a job (amusingly apropos of Pluto leaving Capricorn) and preparing for a trip to a new sea (echoing Mars entering Cancer). Sometimes all you can do is just keep swimming, no matter what's going on in the skies!
I've been thinking in recent weeks about Pluto leaving Capricorn (where it's been since 2008) and entering Aquarius next week on March 23. Pluto has been nicknamed "the irresistible force" and it compels us to change at very deep, fundamental, foundational levels...
If Saturn signals growth and maturity, and Pisces is the ocean, what would it mean to put what we've learned to work for the collective health of our water and ourselves?
Do you feel called to "stop the buck" on anything relating to your spiritual, mental, emotional, or energetic health? A need to get something in tangible order and to (re-)focus priorities? A sense of something interrupting the way things have been going for a while -- kind of like an intervention?
The energy generated from this week's astrological friction could translate into good luck with some well-considered action...
I find it a little incongruous to be finishing the astrological cycle nearly two months into the civil calendar's "new year." Yet maybe there's something about this timing that actually works in our favor, especially this year as the Sun enters Pisces.
The signs of bunnies frolicking and foraging feels apropos of where we are in the season: halfway between the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice and spring equinox, marked by the ancient Pagan holiday of Imbolc -- and, this year, a Full Moon.
Astro quickie: there’s a total lunar eclipse in the wee hours of Monday morning. The degree of the Moon for this event relates to “The ability to adjust swiftly to a new situation by tuning in to its requirements,” and “…the message of peaceful adaptation to nature, and through adaptation, of efficient functioning in all life situations”...
What are you cultivating? If you look at where you've been directing your efforts lately, how you feel about them, and perhaps even the short-term fruits of those labors, do they align with what you say you want in your life?
Heads up, folks! We have the first eclipse in a pair this Saturday, April 30. I'll have more to say about it soon. But wanted to note a few things briefly today: