This week we embark on the adventure of a new season, when the Sun ingresses Aries on Tuesday. This is followed by the Aries New Moon conjunct Uranus on Thursday; together these events are a fitting commencement to a season that moves at the pace of a good hockey game. Spring 2012 (autumn in the Southern Hemisphere) includes eclipses, the Venus transit of the Sun and the final approach to the Uranus-Pluto square.
Before we get there, the Sun is in Pisces for a couple of more days. Mercury is currently retrograde (apparent backwards motion) in early Aries, and will soon be ingressing Pisces, where it will be between March 23 and April 16, extending some of the Pisces Sun energy by proxy from a planet very close to the Sun.
Though they may not know it (or think of it that way), everyone likes the feeling of Pisces — whether it comes in the form of an erotic pleasure, visiting the seaside, film, music, photography, artwork, cannabis or a few drinks. Pisces in its most life-affirming expression is the sign of the finer things, most of which cannot be paid for — they are the result of human love. It takes more than paint to make a painting, and an open heart to appreciate the pleasure of the ocean.
Mercury’s retrograde in Pisces (it arrives on Thursday) will carry the theme of what it’s like to think in a ‘Piscean way’ — which is a blend of intuition and logic, of an idea and its application — that makes all of these art forms, or modes of pleasure, possible.