Today’s Piscean New Moon (4:34 am AEDT) represents an exceptionally powerful initiating moment in an extraordinary period of historical and astrological time. Pisces, the sign of divine discontent, the dissolution of boundaries and borders, and non-ordinary forms of consciousness, has two planetary rulers: the Greater Benefic, Jupiter, planet of magnification, amplification and growth, and Neptune, planet of dreams, delusions and water. Although Jupiter is associated with good fortune, it also enlarges everything it comes into contact with, and its steady movement towards and inflation of Neptunian tendencies is reflected in enormous floods and extremes of ideological aggression. Possibly the most mystical and disturbing of the planets, Neptune rules dizzying extremes. It can veil reality in clouds of toxic illusion, paranoia or addiction, it rules mass manipulation and the kinds of delusional ideologies that lead to devastating violence. And yet, Neptune also governs the highest forms of human love, profound acts of compassion and forgiveness, visionary imagination, and transcendent musical, artistic and mystical experiences that stimulate higher consciousness.
Today’s lunation is intensified by a number of significant transits that immediately surround it. Three minutes after the New Moon, the planet of love, diplomacy and material resources - Venus - conjoins both the god of war - Mars - and Pluto - god of power, obsession, death, destruction, the ordeals that lead to transformation and the riches that result from them - at 27 degrees of Capricorn. It marks the third and final encounter between Venus and Pluto in a cycle of trials that’s been playing out since December 11. Less than an hour later, Mercury, planet of mind, magic, communication and mercantile endeavour merges with Saturn - planet of obstructions, repressive force and established orders of reality - in Aquarius, sign of the people and potential futures. Another three hours later, the waxing Moon merges with Jupiter at 14 Pisces, triggering a fresh torrent of its magnifying influence. It’s a day of immense potency for prayer and meditation, and for seeding intentions that open a path for collectively moving forward in the world with a new level of spiritual maturity and integrity.
The next two months contain more of these increasingly amplified and polarised energies as Jupiter edges closer towards exact conjunction with Neptune on April 11: sublimely beautiful moments of creative transcendence, and frightening encounters that evoke such profound feelings of compassion that they take on a kind of mystical quality. On March 7, Mars and Venus conjoin at 0 degrees of Aquarius, a critical, world-changing degree since 2020. But as Venus finally overtakes Mars she also moves into a malefic enclosure between the god of war and Saturn. Challenges and obstructions in relational, creative and resource-related matters should be expected but as always, we can find mitigation by ‘serving the gods’, which is to say, by cultivating their highest expressions. Mars rules violence, aggression and the severing of things but is ennobled by passionate acts of courage, chivalry, and the protection and defence of the vulnerable. Saturn represents authoritarian power and repressive control but rewards maturity, discipline and wisdom. As we emulate their best selves, we become co-participants in their field of influence, opening ourselves more fully to these channels of energy. And as Venus heads towards her own exaltation in Pisces on April 6, we should hopefully see the plight of Venusian topics - love, peace, diplomacy, creativity and fortune - begin to improve incrementally.
Since Mars and Venus began their passionate entanglement on February 14, we’ve seen the unimaginable intensification of war. In the ancient world, Venus was known as Inanna, Queen of Heaven, one of the most powerful gods in the Sumerian pantheon whose cult continued from 4000 BCE until the 6th century AD when she was finally deposed by Christianity. Although Inanna possessed the same Venusian attributes we ascribe to her now, in the ancient world she was also known as the Goddess of War. Driven by a territorial lust for power her murderous acts of betrayal resulted in the death and rebirth process associated with the stage in her synodic cycle, which we’ve been moving through since December. And in her current phase as a morning star she was considered by the ancients to be most warlike.
This third and final encounter between Pluto and Venus today also coincides with the last conjunction between Pluto and an exalted Mars in Capricorn in our lifetime. As mentioned previously, an exalted Mars with negative intentions is an incredibly dangerous Mars. Today the planet of war is at its exact degree of exaltation. The lovers’ encounter with Pluto will be transformative at some level, and specifically in relation to the storylines that have been playing out in our lives since December, but they may be cathartic and intense. Putin is Mars-ruled, and transiting Pluto, Venus, and Mars are currently wreaking destruction from his third house of neighbours, local territory and the mind. Driven by Venusian lust, Martial aggression and a Plutonic obsession with power, his desire to regain the glory of former empire is being enacted through the violent theft of a neighbour’s territory. The Ukrainian resistance, in turn, reflects some of the nobler Martian, Venusian and Plutonic qualities, and has been surprisingly disarming, seemingly rudely awakening Putin’s troops from the Neptunian fantasies of their allotted mission as they face the reality on the ground. Saturn is still powerful in its rulership of Aquarius, however, which continues to give Putin the upper hand now, but there’s something about the conjunction with Mercury that speaks to the potential for sober and sophisticated strategic analysis and breakthroughs that favour the people and reality checks that curb the growth of delusional ideologies but also of a downturn in markets, increased censorship and repressive controls over those who dare to speak out against authoritarian aggression.
Neptune’s discovery (1846) closely coincided with its last transit through Pisces from 1848-1862, and the themes that were playing out then are once again activated in the unfolding narratives of our time. It’s a moment, which strongly brings to mind the famous words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., and one of my favourite quotes of all time. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. King borrowed the phrase from the Transcendentalist Unitarian minister and Abolitionist, Theodore Parker whose sermon ‘Of Justice and Conscience” was published in 1853 when Neptune was one degree away from today’s New Moon. It’s worth remembering, as devastating floods and aerial bombardments continue, that these events too bend the arc of history eventually towards justice. Make sure you take a moment today to disengage from the human drama and tune into the subtle dimensions of the energetic world and the higher expressions of consciousness that animate our awe-inspiring cosmos… And send powerful prayers out into the world today for all those who need them.
Much love beautiful people 🌞🌙🌊🐋♥️
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