The commencement of solar Pisces, just before 1 pm EST today, implies good breaks. Maybe it will be a break in the serial winter weather assaulting both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps you’ll get to exhale after holding your breath for days. You may even break through whatever has had you flummoxed. With an exception for the weather the crucial factor will be your participation in making the breaks happen.
Your participation is implied by how an astounding six major objects will be pairing up to form three major square aspects precisely (to the degree) as the Sun enters Pisces.
Square aspects (two celestial objects separated by 90 degrees) are very personal. There is often a corresponding feeling of personal discomfort, which is usually resolved by personal action to break the tension.
Three simultaneous square aspects concurrent with a solar sign change is a downright auspicious indication that a lot of tension may be resolved soon through action on your part — hence the symbolic potential for good breaks.
Most auspiciously, the fleet Libra Moon will be precisely 90 degrees away from Pluto’s plod through Capricorn when the Sun enters Pisces today. Moon square Pluto is exact for only about four hours every month. Even those who would discount such timing must certainly take notice of four other major planets simultaneously in duplication.
Duplicating the lunar aspect to Pluto when the Sun enters Pisces today are retrograde Mercury’s brief square (the second of three) from Aquarius to Saturn’s slog through Scorpio, and retrograde Jupiter’s long, drawn-out square from Cancer to Uranus in Aries (also the second of three). That sort of thing does not happen every day, much less on a day the Sun changes signs.
Please keep in mind, we are not talking about asteroids here. Neither is this about minor aspects. We are discussing the rulers of Cancer (the Moon); Scorpio (Pluto); Gemini and Virgo (Mercury); Capricorn (Saturn); Sagittarius (Jupiter); and Aquarius (Uranus). All of those planets are pairing up to form the same major angle at the same time, differing only in how long the individual aspects hold.
In the temporal difference is a clue regarding how you should act to take advantage of this rare moment in astrology. It seems you should act on several levels of time.
For example, make like the Moon sometime today. Find an issue inside for which you have held the same emotions for a long time. Then, experiment and let those emotions shift for a few hours to see if it makes a difference in how you feel. After that, take on Mercury.
Think back a few weeks to Jan. 25 or so, when Mercury first squared Saturn, and figure out what has come back for a closer look now. Once again, experiment. Ask yourself how you might be the difference you want to see in the structure of your life. Figure out how to act differently in response to the same-old for a day or two just to see what happens. Don’t commit to a longer path of action yet; let that wait until Mercury squares Saturn a third time on March 11.
Finally, there is Jupiter.
Jupiter is moving at a crawl right now in advance of returning to direct motion on March 6. The result is a long cardinal square with Uranus. Implied in the scenario is how you have more time to resolve a greater tension of longer standing. Probable is how the Jupiter-Uranus motif serves as a sort of mirror image to the slower, longer cardinal square from Uranus to Pluto that defines our era.
It’s almost as if the square from Jupiter to Uranus represents your side of the mirror. Looking back at you from the other side is the changing world. With the beginning of solar Pisces, expect to grasp the magnitude of how long it has been since you began gazing into that mirror (basically since the first Jupiter-Uranus square on Aug. 21 last year) — but work against being overwhelmed. Rather, stretch your capacity to take it all in.
You know stretching relieves tension. So, for the rest of solar Pisces, through solar Aries, and on until Jupiter’s concluding square to Uranus just as the Sun enters Taurus about two months from now, stretching is among the things astrology says you should do.
Stretch to accept who and what you could never accept before. Act to make a place for yourself in a world not yet defined by taking its changes in as your own. Finally, break with whatever is holding you back, and know that somehow you will be breaking good.
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P. Sophia: Thank you for your observations, which are a gratefully received expansion on the theme. As regards to your question(s) – yes, the lunar nodes are pertinent, indeed they are of profound importance – they are where eclipses take place. Yes – the lunar nodes remain in their respective (perpetually opposing) signs for about a year and a half. Hence we are entering about a year and a half of the lunar north node in Libra and the lunar south node in Aries. Because each lunar node has two location values (“true” and “mean”), and because the nodes switch frequently from direct to retrograde (with a net retrograde motion over time) their transition from one sign to another is gradual, very gradual. Hence, it’s not really possible to tie the lunar node sign change to any one event, rather the nodal sign transition is more like a bridge, or an overture. Yes, the Libra-Aries tenure for the lunar nodes will be very interesting indeed. Please let me know if my reply is not satisfactory for you.
Thanks for this Len. Yep all those squares you mention leading up to the Sun’s emergence in Pisces I am sure contributed to the last 3, or so days of feeling a real heaviness and intensity of energy coming in and set on me, as I believe Chief and Sina also elude to. Maybe it was too much stretching?? I have been practicing a lot of yoga to try and lift this energy up. I am feeling much lighter today, although I finally had a more fluid nights sleep..which always helps.
Similar brief periods have happened over the last year or so and I really do believe there is some kind of energy transfusion, a clearing or ‘sweeping away’ if you will, (in some ways beyond my effort or control) that I am aware of as I go through these shifts. It is always the same, a feeling of extreme heaviness as though I am getting sick (but do not) and then on the other side is a lightness and a increased flow of appreciation, awareness and creativity.
I also noticed along with these squares we had the nodes yesterday cross over the Libra and Aries house axis. Which may have also had something to do with this energy surge and a re-alignment as well. Just guessing Len, but could this not bring with it is a real shift and push in refining energy fields as they have just left one field and begin to make room in preparation for new space as they move onto work in the next phase?
For me this occurred over my 2nd/8th House axis. I am hopeful with North Node in Libra with ruler Venus I will experience a more relaxing objective, co-operative, and compassionate balanced form of energy into my relationships. As I continue to move further away from and let go of the unproductive actions and scenarios of this Mars energy and the Victim-Rescuer, pattern mentality that is so generationally in-gained and I have been working to release for so long, my ease and healing success to a greater degree will also depend on how well I did in re-balancing in the last Scorpio/Taurus phase.
Len, I believe North Node will be in Libra for a quite a while, so I am hopeful it will become a healing experience towards further developing tolerance and an ‘uplifting’ perspective for all. At the very least it will be a very interesting period to live in and for us to grow into!
Bette Loreen: Thank you for sharing how my service has synchronized for you.
Strawberry: It gives me joy to know it worked for you as it did for Bette Loreen.
Lizzy: You are very welcome.
aword: Thank you again for sharing how the transits coincide with your amazingly resonant nativity. And yes, you are correct, the tension of so many synchronized (yet sequential) squares not only allows for a shift – it makes a shift necessary.
Daniel: Thank you for your kind words and amazingly (amusingly?) pertinent link.
Brendan: Thanks to you also for your kind appraisal. We support you in covering that ground.
Sina: Thank you. It’s the most gratifying feeling to know my service works for you as it has.
Chief Niwots Son: Absolutely beautiful. My heart thanks you for sharing. May you never thirst.
“…a lot of tension may be resolved soon through action on your part…”
A chance meeting last night at the hot springs with a healer friend brought about the resolution of long standing tension. The action I took was to suggest a doing a trade in the waters. This morning I come here to discover everything is just exactly perfect. Thank Len!
Wow, Len, this is brilliant. Last night, I couldn’t sleep mulling over my problems – my ex wanting to come back for another try, finances, work deadlines, stroppy teenage kids, and wanting to nurture my beautiful new relationship. I decided to just hand them all to the angels, so listed them and handed them off, and fell asleep almost instantly. In the morning, I already had a couple of solutions come up, as well as the drive to just tackle some of the stuff I had been putting off as too hard. It was great stretching the brain, the body and the heart to get everything done. Your astrology just matches perfectly what’s going on and what needs to be done. Thank you x
Thank you, Len. Go away for some months, and you’re still on the ball! Stretching: I like that. It describes perfectly what I have to do for the rest of the school year, which ends in Late May for me. Lots of ground to cover (and re-cover) in that time in order to move forward.
Thanks Len!
Jupiter retro-ed right back to my MC and now it’s square Uranus! Holy moly, talk about about moving beyond barriers! I like it spicy. And Mars is opp my natal mars like exact.
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Ah and for me here it’s more of the same ol’ same ol’ re: what’s political is personal;
This is a Mercury Return day for me, so Merc plus Merc trine Saturn (and that’s sextile natal Saturn).
That lovely transiting Libra Moon is sextile natal Uranus while transiting Uranus (still trine natal Uranus and on natal Moon.)
Jupiter continues to trine Jupiter although the orb is getting wider….but transiting Jupiter is also opposing natal Saturn today.
The tension of the squares may allow for some shift, yes?
Stretching……stretching….hopefully it’s for a 10K, not a Marathon….
🙂 Thanks, Len.
Truly wonderful! Thanks so much for this, Len.
Len,
I had a checklist of tensions I needed to start moving — and the solutions for doing so — when I woke up this morning! The first two situations I understand clearly, though I love the idea to “experiment and let those emotions shift for a few hours to see if it makes a difference in how you feel” as a way of moving them forward. The second third is also in my awareness, and yet I’m happy to know I get to spend some time stretching into it. Wonderful, Len!
So much to ponder & integrate here! Thank-you, Len, for your insight & guidance.
Where I live, a break in two & a half months of very cold weather has finally arrived, & I shall reflect upon your post today as I attend to errands that have awaited more pleasant weather.
Bette