Finally, We're Exiting the Too-Tight Piscean Birth Canal

The sensitivity to future possibilities—that's the all and everything right now—because this is what, as a culture, we need most.

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RECENTLY THE MOON ZOOM group practiced two short meditations to help foster each individual’s direct, body-based assessment of the current placement of Saturn in Pisces and Neptune in Aries.

The whole point of the upcoming end-of-February conjunction in Aries is a return to authority. One’s own. I asked the participants to release whatever we’ve heard or read or watched about what to expect from the era-defining conjunction and to use the meditations to garner insights unique to each individual.

For tuning into the Saturn in Pisces placement, we closed our eyes for several minutes and simply listened. That was the entirety of the instruction for the meditation. Because listening is a more passive sense than seeing, it fit with the Piscean matrix. And I wanted folks to use their auditory nerve to convey what the closing bit of the Saturn transit was like.

Then for the Neptune in Aries transit, we did an open-eye meditation for a couple of minutes. Seeing is a more active sense, as the eye must move out and discriminate and make distinctions within whatever field it is observing. With Neptune in Aries, we must learn how to discriminate (make distinctions) while not losing track of the seamless field that is unified and boundless. We only know distinctions because we have named the nouns in our life.

Try these meditations for yourself and share what you experience between the two different states.

Now I want to say a little bit about the sign Aries that’s important to keep in mind as the conjunction begins to coalesce this month. What’s often forgotten about Aries is the sign’s intellectual acuity and intuitive chutzpah. When I say intuitive, I’m not talking about what is usually associated with the water signs, which is more of an astral or psychic reading of events. Intuitive here, as it relates to the fire signs, is meaning-driven rather than informational. Fire intuits purpose, direction, and potential, not details. It also has an uncanny ability to see the entirety of what’s before it and then suss out from that ‘vision’ how an event will evolve.