Over the next few days, the planet of love, Venus, is aligning with the planet of high love, Neptune. They are currently both in the empathic sign of Pisces. The exact melding is February 15 at 4:25 am, deep into your Valentine night sleep.
Although Venus represents romantic love, in Pisces the vibe is soul centered, merging, magical love. Joining with Neptune expands the waterfall of idealized love, the cosmic explosion of sparkles.
Could this be an appetizer for what comes next when Saturn moves into Pisces on March 7th, creating a new three year cycle?
As we enter this new Pisces structure cycle, we are faced with a need to be grounded and disciplined in our spiritual practices: meditation, prayer, yoga (also known as breath-full stretching), and nature for sure. We will be served by developing maturity on a path of service,
Without spiritual discipline we are likely to fall prey to the Pisces shadows: overwhelm, feeling victimized, illusion, delusion, fantasy and numbing out (with an array of numbing possibilities ever present in modern society. We’re good at it!)
Saturn always asks us to be successful with a particular developmental task. Our natal Saturn holds our soul path destiny imprint about exactly what that is we’re working on. But where Saturn is in the sky for a couple of years at a time tells us where to focus so these long term goals are met.
Since life and our inner development is a spiral, and Saturn goes around the wheel every 29 years or so, it’s helpful to review the previous Saturn in Pisces times, if we’ve been alive long enough to have a cycle or two in the rear view mirror.
I’ve been reviewing my last two experiences of Saturn in Pisces. The first was when I was age ten to thirteen. Then again from 39 to 42. In both cases I can see now that I made decisions based on fantasy and illusion. These were not my best years. At ten I was a nerd, unpopular and slightly overweight. By 13 I had starved myself into a body so thin I thought Vogue models were fat, sewed myself outrageously fashionable and sexy clothes, and found that by misbehaving I could be accepted by the “bad” kids. I was on a one-way road to some serious hard times.
At 39 I was in the midst of a divorce, moving with my two small children to New Mexico, idealizing the joys of living in a small town surrounded by nature. Living in Taos was great in some ways, but I was lonely. I had left behind my role with Dolphin Dream, a thriving in person practice and a robust teaching platform. Now I had to travel back to the Bay Area regularly to have that same soul fulfilling experience. I left my kids with various caregivers. And after nine years I moved us all back to the Bay.
Was the move worth it? Yes, in the way we say, “Yay, another transformational experience!”. Was it necessary? Now I’m not sure. I’m not one to focus on regrets, but I can see how each time Saturn offered me a choice to dig into higher frequencies of Pisces and at best I floated along in the middle.
The beauty of astrology is that it offers these cyclical choice times. We can review the past to understand our path more deeply. We can evolve.* Pondering these earlier periods in my life is slowing down some of my current decisions. I’m choosing to meditate more, be more diligent with all aspects of spiritual and psychological consciousness. I’m stopping to reassess my urge to move yet again to nature, to discover if I can cultivate greater peace within no matter where I’m planted..
I share this because with the March sign changes of Saturn into Pisces and Pluto into Aquarius, we all need to slow down and reconsider our choices and motives. It is difficult if not impossible to imagine how different the next 20 years will be or where we will feel most supported.
Exercise: Imagine yourself in the center of a circle. Your beloved friends and family all around you. Community in circle around that. Nature and the planet holding you, as you offer your love and energy to the fabric of life.
The mandate of Saturn is discipline. But it doesn’t need to be harsh or unpleasant. We can lose the thread, and come right back the next day. We can count restorative yoga as part of our yoga practice. We can breathe deeply regularly, woven into daily life. A cup of tea can be grounding.
Life is often scary and overwhelming right now, no doubt. At the very same time, we can turn our lens to the awesome expansion of consciousness, visible all around us. People around the world meditating, connecting, building new organizations to solve the multitude or problems we’ve created through self-centered and short sighted thinking. Transformation.
Saturn in Pisces. Building a world based on Oneness and spiritual principles.
Where is your Pisces? How do you normally engage with it? How will you choose going forward with Saturn’s support?
*I will be lecturing on a conscious approach to Pluto with San Francisco Astrological Society on February 23rd, and with the Las Vega Chapter of NCGR on Saturn in Pisces on March 28th. Details in Classes & Events