Metaversal Hyper-abyssic Astrology Forecast and Light Specific Yoga Platform: March 2020

Greetings Fellow Lightcrafters, as the month of January began, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto and Ceres partook of a Capricornian alignment made more intense by the recent Solar Eclipse in Capricorn on December 27^th. Capricorn’s righteousness is shining. It walks on ruby shoes. There's not too much of nothing. You cannot make it do. These influences mean that our overall focus in January was on goals, work, and responsibility. It was a serious month, one in which we could potentially get a lot done. In fact, we may have gone into workaholic burn-out mode. Though, in case we forgot, the potent Eclipse in Cancer cried out to remind us of our emotional, psychic and family needs.

Capricorn is a sign of paradoxes. It is the last of the earth signs, and yet it makes its appearance at Winter Solstice, as the fiery Sun is newly rising for the year. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the sign of the deepest winter, and yet the days have already begun to grow longer. It is the sign of initiation into the spiritual life, and yet its concerns are more practical than any other sign. It is focused on the perfection of structure, but only so that it can move beyond that world of form.

The symbol for Capricorn is the mountain goat, with the tail of a fish, another paradox. Give me the mountains. Give me the sea and build a mighty tower especially for me. Fill the tower up with food, the kind goats love to eat, send a couple maidens with soft hands to rub my feet. This shows that the depths of the unconscious are the foundations which Capricorn uses to build its structure, to climb its own particular mountain, to meet its unique challenge. For Capricorn must be rooted in the true depths of motivation in order to build firmly and enduringly. In Sagittarius we found our truth and validated it through sharing. Now, in Capricorn we must grasp it tightly to our bosoms and act on it. The last nine months have been like a gestation period and now, at the Holiday Season, the baby is born, and we celebrate that birth. Capricorn is a cardinal, goal-oriented sign. Cardinal signs are doers, and in earth the job is to ground our values, plans and ideals. We need to translate our ideas into achievements.  First, it is essential to clarify our goals—New Year’s Resolutions—and strengthen our intentions. At the same time we notice what is around and within us, and connect with those things which can help us move towards those goals. We take responsibility for our own pathway, and we ACT in an effective manner. Capricorn needs to achieve, and to be recognized for worthwhile contributions to society. These needs have produced many famous Capricornians. They also have to build carefully, for any missteps will be caught, as in the cases of Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. They can also pick themselves up again and continue the climb, as did Mr. Nixon. Capricorn absorbs the Sagittarian truths so that they become part and parcel of his/her very being. During Capricorn time these truths can enter us like lightning bolts, so that we can feel in our bones (Capricorn rules bones) what needs to be done. Accompanying this deep absorption of truth is a special awareness of our uniqueness, of our inner authority, of our responsibility, and of our life purpose. We are alone with ourselves as we climb the mountain. Another paradox: that very aloneness allows Capricorn to open to the voice of spirit, our ultimate companion. Capricorn thus has a special affinity for divine inspiration. There are many examples of Capricorn devotion to the spiritual life: Paula’s Mom’s guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship; Alan Watts, pioneer proponent of Zen Buddhism in the West, Joan of Arc, Aaron Hooks, Suzanne Newton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. are but a few. Indeed, Capricorn asks us to manifest our ideals in daily life, to involve ourselves fully in the work of humankind in a manner which increases the expression of inner life. It is a time for attending to the work at hand, approaching it with inspiration and love, to honor the best within and around us, and to initiate changes which will enable these elements to become more dominant. We often resist making these changes because it means going counter to the past, the known, the habitual, against tradition and accepted norms. It is Capricorn’s work to overcome that resistance while in the midst of it, and to help self and others to continue to evolve into the light. The mountain goat is uniquely qualified to climb that mountain.

That very same effort is also the special opportunity of Capricorn time, to penetrate beyond the outer conditions of life and tap into new revelations and spiritual power. And as we become more and more aware of the inner life, we are better able to cooperate with the changes which are unfolding.

We can best tune into the forces of Capricorn by reviewing our good qualities and the good things in our lives, and by expressing gratitude for them. They are the fruits of our light, and that light is meant to shine. Perhaps this is the final paradox, that we can best fulfill our outer social responsibilities by focusing on the light within. As I wrote at the time, Saturn’s “moment in the Sun” should be viewed as a preparatory exercise for the strengthening of resolve we’d need as the collective moved towards Saturn’s conjunction with Pluto in 2020.

Have you ever watched that reality TV show Hoarders, where the dazed homeowner stands in front of a mountain of crap, wringing his hands and worrying about how he’ll continue to live without his collection of used paper plates? Or seen John Favors mountain of highly collectable brick a brak. The Saturn Pluto confluence has a similar air about it, exposing the disparity between what we think we need and what is essential. The trick is engagement regardless of our ambivalence and anxiety. Should we persevere newfound courage can meet the moment, allowing us to release the spent and worthless—and get on with living. But those first wobbly steps must be of one’s volition. More on this crucial point later. We haven’t experienced Saturn forming a conjunction with one of the outer planets—Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto—in close to thirty years. The last was in 1988 when Saturn touched off Uranus in Sagittarius and the Soviet Union collapsed. An event that seemed to materialize out of nowhere (in keeping with the nature of Uranian surprises). But where Uranus’ function is to accelerate and shatter, and Neptune’s is to dissolve and disperse, Pluto invites a re-materializing effect that turns the tiny into a gigantic superstructure that occludes the aperture, or whatever is massive becomes invisibly small and insignificant. Regardless of the mutation, whatever was perceived as being one way ends up another way—and thus Pluto’s association with quantum physics. This is a tricky dimension to articulate. And for that reason, I explain to students that the jury is still out on Pluto’s influence within the larger cosmic cycles. Like so many aspects of quantum physics, the established views and theories, like Pluto, are shifting and mutating constantly. 

Pluto’s entry into Capricorn in 2008 heralded the systemic collapse of the global financial markets. Too, the planet’s ingress marked the moment when the cliched disparity between the ‘haves and have nots’ became a criminal act and fact. Because Capricorn tends to literalize or concretize events related to the sign, the fallout from Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn was immediate, jarring and in our face. Following the epic wobbling of the reality matrix (financial crashes destabilize the entire planet), a bizarre cognitive dissonance took hold. Corporate media continued to tout economic improvements and stock market highs while more and more people were setting up tents beneath freeway underpasses. Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest spots per inch on the planet now sees one in four people teetering on the edge starvation. Who wants to try and untangle the confusing contradictions that plague modern life? Whatever energy we have is funneled into our own efforts to safeguard our own piece of the pie. There’s only so much consciousness to spend in a day and so who or what are we going to spend it on?  Is it any wonder we are walking around with our heads buried in our phones? Everyone seems in search of yet another New York Times article that might explain everything, to help make sense of the nonsensical. But solutions won’t come from more information, data, social networking, texting and sharing. The info-well is deep and seemingly endless with information exponentially compounding every second; a literal representation of the void. 

Pluto’s twenty-year transit through Capricorn heralds what I call “propagandistic denial.” All collapsing structures, states or governments follow this pattern; it seems to be a culture’s key defense mechanism, a creepy codependence and complicity that says: “You lie to me and because I don’t really want to know what’s happening I’ll buy your bullshit.” This type of propaganda foments fake news, alternative facts and conspiracies. And on the other end: Stock market highs that shatter historical records and technological monopolies that mutate into new religions. Are we really ready for AI deities and overlords? 

The first thing is to remember this is a cycle and it will end. By the time we get into 2021, the tension should ease off a bit. We do have a Saturn Uranus alignment that year which could feel stressful but it won’t be as oppressive as the Saturn Pluto conjunction. And by the middle of the coming decade things could feel great – although that depends on how we respond to the current situation. How you experience this alignment also depends on your personal horoscope. People who resonate with Pluto are less likely to be surprised or freaked out by what happens because they’re used to this powerful energy. That includes anyone with a strongly placed Pluto, or Pluto in aspect to the natal Sun, Moon, or Ascendant, or lots of planets in Scorpio or the 8th house. It could also be significant if Saturn and Pluto are in aspect to each other in your chart, especially the hard angles, because that means you were born during one of the previous alignments of this cycle, or the one before. For example, my natal Saturn is at 22° Taurus and trine Pluto at 26° Virgo, so the conjunction is going to form a Grand Trine with my natal placements. Pluto is currently transiting trine to my Saturn, but Saturn doesn’t get there until January 2020 – looking forward to that! As my example shows, this conjunction is significant if you have natal planets at or near 22° in any sign, except Sagittarius and Aquarius, and possibly Gemini and Leo unless you work with quincunx transits. I also have Venus at 22° Libra so Pluto is transiting square to that point too. Check your chart for any planets at or near 22° Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, or Libra because Saturn and Pluto will be conjunct, square or opposite those points. Also check for planets at or near 22° Taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, or Pisces because Saturn and Pluto will be sextile or trine those points. These transits should be easier to work with and you should be able to make constructive use of the energies involved – depending on the planet and how you relate to it already. Don’t forget to check for progressed planets, angles and other points like the nodes or part of fortune, because these could be significant too. Finally, check the house position of the conjunction because this area of your life is due for transformation. No doubt you’re feeling it already and you might be getting nudges to change or do something about a situation that needs fixing. Listen and cooperate. Look at your life – both inner and outer – and see what needs to change, then get to work. Saturn Pluto alignments represent the need for cyclical change to the structures of life and how you relate to reality. This kind of deep change is always a challenge because it involves loss, endings and death. But no matter how bad things get, it’s important to remember there’s nothing inherently bad about any planet or transit. Everything happens for a reason and nothing is meant to be mindlessly destructive. It only feels that way because it hurts and that’s why we tend to react badly to these transits.

But if you’re willing to work with the energies of Saturn and Pluto, you can use these times to transform outworn structures and systems in your life by taking responsibility for yourself and your choices. This is especially true now because the conjunction is happening in Capricorn which reinforces the need for integrity and the constructive use of power and authority.

At best, these times can be empowering, when you can work with great discipline to organise systems and resources that improve life and create abundance. While in dark times, you may discover an ability to endure hardship with courage and perseverance, and the strength to resist destructive forces, both inner and outer. This all sounds very dull and unexciting – the message to ‘work hard and take responsibility’ isn’t what we want to hear! – and this is where the problems start.We tend to see more negative events during Saturn Pluto alignments because people try to avoid the truth about themselves and reality because they don’t want to change. And that plays out in the world the way it does because the inner and outer worlds reflect each other.So what happens in the world depends on the state of your consciousness – yes, you! That means: If you want to see peace in the world, then you need to have peace within yourself.

When Saturn gets together with Pluto it represents a collision between the hidden forces of the unconscious (Pluto) and the structure of the psyche (Saturn). This tends to trigger your deepest fears and defences because your psyche is under assault by the forces of change. How you react depends on the strength of your natal Saturn and your ability to express it positively. As the reality principle, Saturn has to contain Pluto. In other words, you have to find a way to work with your deepest instincts and handle their transformative power so it doesn’t destroy either you or anybody else. With a healthy Saturn you can harness the energies of Pluto and use them to transform your life in constructive ways. But if your Saturn isn’t strong enough you can’t contain the forces of Pluto. This leaves you wide open to the energies erupting from the depths and can lead to breakdown or irrational behaviour. If your Saturn is too strong you repress the instincts and try to control or ignore the energies coming from the unconscious. This leads to obsessive and paranoid behaviour, trapped behind defensive structures and driven by compulsions you don’t understand.

When something is repressed or denied it doesn’t disappear – it leaks out in distorted form and becomes destructive. So if you give your power away, that power will be used against you. If you refuse to take responsibility for yourself, then somebody else will control you.

Ideally, you want to be as conscious as possible about what you’re doing and the reality of your situation, whatever that might be. This makes it easier to express the energies of Saturn and Pluto in a positive way. Here are some examples:

Negative expressions of Saturn

• Fear
• Denial of your problems
• Blaming others for your problems
• Avoidance
• Depression
• Cynicism
• Controlling of others

Positive expressions of Saturn

• Self-control and discipline
• Self-responsibility
• Accepting your natural limits
• Accepting your weaknesses and willing to work to change them
• Inner security
• Resilience
• Patience

Negative expressions of Pluto

• Victimisation and feeling powerless
• Giving your power away to others
• Addiction and self-destructiveness
• Obsessive compulsive behaviour
• Paranoia
• Cruelty
• Abusing your power over others

Positive expressions of Pluto

• Self-empowerment
• Making positive changes
• Letting go of the past
• Allowing yourself to grieve loss
• Allowing yourself to heal
• Deliberate positive self-transformation
• Using your power to help others

During these times, Pluto brings up whatever is hidden in the shadow so you can see it and deal with it – and it won’t necessarily be bad. The shadow contains all the unloved or unacknowledged parts of yourself, so you could discover hidden talents or skills that are waiting to be expressed.

But if you do unearth something dark and scary, the worst thing you can do is pretend it doesn’t exist. In fact, the more unconscious you are, the more likely it is that you’ll experience the destructive side of this alignment. Your denial and avoidance will act like a magnet that pulls the dark side of the shadow to manifest in your life. Saturn teams up with Pluto to let you know that you can’t avoid change. If you try to ignore what’s happening and keep your head down, you’ll invite a catastrophe into your life. Having said that, you might experience a catastrophe anyway, even if you’re super conscious and awake and totally on top of everything. There are no guarantees with these alignments – sometimes shit just happens.

But as I said, everything happens for a reason, even if you can’t understand why at the moment. Sometimes dark and difficult stuff has to come up so it can be healed and integrated into wholeness. Your soul may have its own deep and obscure reasons for wanting to go through certain things. Whatever happens, how you choose to deal with it will influence the outcome and it’ll become either self-destructive or transformative. This alignment represents an opportunity to heal the past and let go of what no longer works. If you work with the energies you’ll be able to create a new life that truly reflects who you are. However, no matter how conscious you are, you still have to live in an imperfect world full of other people who are far from conscious. So despite your best efforts, you may experience problems with external power structures and authority via the collective unconscious. This includes situations where you need to take back power or control that has been taken from you. It’s safe to say that you can expect a certain amount of resistance and pushback. If you find yourself in this position, you’ll need to channel the positive side of Saturn and Pluto to deal with what happens.

It’s a good idea to find where your own shadow intersects with the collective unconscious. It’s easy – just ask: What really pisses you off? What triggers you?

Any extreme emotional reaction is a sign that you’re projecting something from your own shadow onto others. This is particularly obvious in arguments, especially online. If you don’t accept responsibility for what’s lurking in your own depths, then you’re more likely to get overtaken by the collective shadow – and that can be really dark.

Beware of becoming polarised on any issue because the further you go to one side of an argument, the more you push the other person to the opposite extreme. It can quickly degenerate into a screaming match – just look at Twitter or comments on YouTube to see how this works.

The interesting thing is that polarised positions end up sounding the same – it’s like they turn into each other. This happens because when you polarise against something, you become possessed by it. The thing you hate so much begins to control you from your own unconscious and you start accusing others of doing what you’re doing yourself.

Remember that everyone is affected by this alignment so if something annoys or upsets you, take a deep breath and don’t be too quick to react. Everyone is struggling with their own demons and the real enemy isn’t out there in the world. The real enemy – if we can call it that – is unconsciousness. So it’s your job to be as conscious and responsible as you can.

Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn are encouraging you to become more conscious so you can work towards self-mastery and self-empowerment. It’s a good idea to cooperate because these alignments tend to force change. You can’t negotiate with Pluto – you either let go of old relationships, situations, and ideas, or get your arse handed to you. If you don’t cooperate, Pluto will grind you into the ground and Saturn will help. The more you resist and try to hold on or control events, the harder you’ll make it for yourself. As the saying goes: Let go or be dragged. Or even: Let go or lose your fingers!

If you try to hold on to what’s ending, your life will be centred around an old, dead structure and this can only lead to exhaustion and depression. Holding on to the past is really an attempt to do the impossible – to stop life from changing. You need to grieve for what’s dying and let it go. Then your energy will return and new life will start to sprout.

Pluto destroys what needs to end and Saturn rebuilds and gives form to new life. But don’t try to rebuild until Pluto has finished his business of purging the old. If you try to get ahead of yourself, you’ll only hit a brick wall and have to start again.

If things keep going wrong it may be because you need to rethink. You might be doing the wrong thing, or doing the right thing in the wrong way or at the wrong time. Sometimes things end because you got lost and need to get back on track. But sometimes they end because it’s just time.

Take a realistic look at your life and see what works and what doesn’t. Then make specific, concrete changes. Don’t expect positive results to fall into your lap without effort because both Saturn and Pluto are tough on laziness. Make a plan and a schedule and create a positive routine to bring about change, and then methodically work your way through it.

This is a really good time to get stuff done. Saturn is great for bringing ideas and creative possibilities down into manifest form. So if you’re willing to do the inner and outer work to transform yourself, you could achieve a huge amount. By taking responsibility and walking your talk, you can make long-lasting, positive changes to your life.

In February, a plethora of Neptunian influences combine with forceful placements of Mars and Venus, strong lunations, and triggers of the Aries point to make for a month that facilitates inner and mystical processes, while it also calls us to action. If you have something to start or promote, take advantage of Saturday, February 1, the last day before Mercury enters pre-retrograde shadow on Sunday, February 2. The Moon is waxing, and it’s worth moving on our ideas in whatever way we can. The Sun is in Aquarius. Aquarius is a sign of “light workers,” quite literally in the case of Thomas Edison. Now, during this time of Aquarius, we all become light workers. It is time.

There is a need for light, not only in California but throughout the nation and world, and we have much to do.

In Aquarius time we each open to our own light and let it shine for all. We learn that when we put light on any situation, we get light back. Our fear and misgivings were dissipated. In Capricorn we built the life forms to contain spirit. Now, in Aquarius, we can let that light of spirit shine through everything we do. Like electricity, the cosmos flashes through us, and we become conductors of divine messages, each in our unique way.

As Aquarius enters, we feel the stirrings of individuality. Those stirrings can be symbolized by the groundhog, who emerges from his winter hibernation on February 2 to check on his shadow. How do we cope with these new impulses for autonomy? Do we become aware that we cast our shadow wherever we go, and awaken to the world? Or do we remain oblivious of our impact and return to sleep?

Aquarius calls on us to awaken—to become conscious of our world, responsive to the needs of others, and open to our own self-expression. As we become more sensitive to those forces around us, our responsibilities increase. Our ideals of brotherhood and sisterhood are stimulated, and we desire to make the world a better place.

As a fixed sign, Aquarius demands commitment—commitment to our nobler aspirations, our higher selves, to that great light which radiates from the heart of each of us.

Expressed poetically, the time of Aquarius might be called the month of the ‘flowering of consciousness,’ as though the service we perform now is like a rose blooming in midwinter, when no one expects it.” —Leichtman and Japiske

(In fact, in northern California our flowers DO begin to bloom during Aquarius time! The first delicate white toothworts appear in the woods at the end of January, and the bold yellow acacia blooms suddenly startle us in the first days of February. Pink buds enliven the leafless branches of flowering plums, and elegant while magnolias, like big tulips, spring like magic from leafless trees.)

Aquarius is an air sign, and it is important now to return to the greater grounding of the other fixed signs to help us to manifest Aquarius’ new consciousness. Scorpio gives us insight into our motivations and a grounding in our unconscious drives. Leo allows the flowering of creative self-expression, and Taurus, with its ear to the earth insists that we remain connected to reality. Aquarius can give objectivity and social relevance to all of these impulses. Aquarius is the sign of freedom, because it is in Aquarius that spirit is freed. We have the opportunity to drop willfulness, fear and pettiness as we give ourselves up to the workings of spirit and allow wisdom to penetrate.

With this direct link to spiritual truth we can accomplish much during Aquarius time. We are wide open to inventions, new ideas, better ways to do things. Our convictions are strengthened, and if we can create an agenda through which to express them and use our group connections to mobilize force behind them, the sky’s the limit. Franklin Roosevelt is an example of an Aquarian who did just that.

The expression of goodwill and higher truth encouraged during the sun’s passage through Aquarius of course meets resistance—within ourselves, within groups, within nations. Conflict, inner and outer, is likely during Aquarius time. These conflicts are opportunities for increasing our understanding of the patterns of life, and for developing compassion for all of life.

As spring is right around the corner, (starts March 20 with a solar eclipse) I felt it incumbent on me to invite you to a thunderstorm which is scheduled to take place outside Metaversal Lightcraft this Lunar cycle at dusk. Will there be fireworks? No, there will not be fireworks, but there’s a young Christian girl (a bastard daughter of Sydny's, if Reverend Favors is to be believed) who will read from the Bible for tips and cheese. The Sun now in Pisces reminds us that we are on an infinite journey, ever leaving, ever returning. Where have we been? And who are we? We are a raindrop. We are the ocean. As warm jets, we are two fishes swimming in opposite directions, symbolizes the imperative to integrate two dimensions - the finite and the infinite. Neptune, which rules Pisces, was the mythic God of the Sea; he is associated with the swells of emotion and the vast mysteries of the collective unconscious. In the modern Western world, this is largely misunderstood territory. Chickadees have been known to fornicate with badgers here, for christsakes. . This is the enigma of Pisces. Paradox. Mysticism. Madness. The longing for Home and the realization that we never left. Pisces represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 28 weeks after Conception till Birth, when after the electrick nervous system of the fetus switches on (Aquarius), we become psychically tuned to the entity later to be known as Mother. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Meteversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Pisces represents the enlightened Self which must give itself totally to the whole, dissolving into the void, in order to achieve the final unity with the realm of pure spirit. On the World scale, Pisces occupies the period between 1910 and 1969. heralded by the founding of Psychoanalysis, when Mankind began exploring again the Unconscious strata of Life, and by Albert Einstein's (a Pisces) Theory of Relativity. This was the time of Jung, Joyce, Hesse, Huxley, Leary, Burroughs. We transcended the limits the illusion, Maya, the physical World of Assiah, extending inward with the electron microscope and outward with the high powered Telescope. The entire range of audible musical notes and the whole spectrum of visible colour, apprehended and understood. The dissolving power of mutable Water, Second coming of the Fish with the Double Wand of Power, Atom Bomb and LSD. With the Moon in Pisces we have a heightened sensitivity to Musick and the Dreamtime, and we feel the depths of pure compassion for the Metaverse and it's inhabitants. Let the subtlety of thought and expression, the depth of imagination, and the ability to think nonverbally inspire you to create beautiful art and music today.Information flows, conversations sparkle and restlessness looms as a barrier to staying on track. The diversity of this sign is amplified by a challenging square to this Sun-Moon conjunction from diffuse Neptune. This planet of illusions and dreams inspires imagination, sometimes at the cost of recognizing reality. Creative endeavors and tuning into the ethereal vibes of spirituality open rich areas of exploration. And you, you gorgeously tall drink of Water,Every time I think of you I get a shock. Sparks fly from my third eye, spray from my crown in a luminous froth: waves crashing on cranial shores. On obsessive nights this stroboscopic cogitation hypnotizes passersby on 22nd street.Yet turning concepts into concrete form demands discerning minds that distinguish the difference between wispy wishes that will float away and useful notions that can be successfully applied to daily life. You'll definetly wanna check out Cosmic Coincidence Control Center, playing live at Metaversal on Friday, March 6th. They last time they played in the United States they got caught tasting a woman's Giraffe and vomiting cashews. Pisces is the last of the signs, the place where all of our lives, successes and failures, loves and hates, past and future, light and dark, are integrated. It is where our soul and our personality finally meet—and join. In Aquarius we incorporated our guiding star, our ideals, into our lives. Now in Pisces we can touch that inner spirit in ourselves which informs us how we are living up to those ideals. We can use that starlight to move through the dark of unfinished business, and its fire to burn away the final dross of our zodiacal journey. It was a Piscean child who could say, “See, the Emperor has no clothes!” Pisces is a water sign. All water signs are healing and bridging signs. Through them we touch our e-motions, which literally spur us to motion, move us into expression of what has real meaning to us. Pisces’ connection to proper understanding is shown by its association to the feet, which stand under us.
Water signs are in touch with suffering, and most suffering arises in the letting go of something to which we cling. In the air signs, which precede the water signs, we tend to hang onto outmoded ideas, attitudes, perspectives, and ways of thinking. Now, in Pisces, we allow intuition to work with mind to separate the significant from the petty, so that we can let go of nonessentials. In Pisces, the last of the water signs, we must go all the way, we must finish the job. It is time to go through that metamorphosis which leads to transcendence of all those earthly ties which bind only the personality. The way must be opened for the soul.
The energy for this inner ruthlessness is like the great depths of the sea. During its quiet times the sea erodes the land inconspicuously but inexorably. In its stormy times, tidal waves and hurricanes can be totally devastating. Always, the sea releases its debris. We can see it on the beaches and in the fishermen’s nets. Purification is the goal. It is during Pisces time that we engage in the fasting and penance of Lent. We are preparing the space for the fresh birth of Aries at Spring Equinox. The night force is now in its closing phase, and all the remaining ghosts must be cleaned out if we are to become agents of universal wholeness.
Our imaginations open. We touch the grand symphony of the spheres. As we strengthen our inner focus, our purpose can become clear. In Pisces we need to align ourselves with spirit; if we fail to do this, confusion and chaos result. As our sensitivity is increased, as we refocus around our spiritual center, we find a new strength to act, and that strength is generated through love. In Pisces we will be drawn to whatever we love the most, and if we focus our love on our true purpose, we will draw to ourselves opportunities for growth and success. Love is the greatest of all healing powers. In Pisces we can appreciate the poetry and beauty of life. We have a restlessness to become part of the good, the true, and the beautiful which persist through time. The eternal verities draw us. As we detach ourselves from one time and place, we can tune into all times and places. As we open and listen to our own deepest selves, we become attuned to all of life. We become aware that we are connected with one another in one vast web of life, and what happens to one part affects all the parts. We thus develop compassion and true humility. Examples of Pisceans with an ability to see the whole combined with a strong sense of purpose are George Washington, the Father of our Country, James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, and Johannes Ayres who has been behind most of the cool shit happening in the Metaverse these days. Talk about purification!With Mercury, planet of perception, retrograding through Pisces, sign of intuition, and Aquarius, sign of higher reason, this is a month of altered consciousness. If lately you’ve been finding yourself wondering whether you’re awake or in some kind of surrealistic dream, it’s probably due to Mercury’s retrograde in Pisces. You know you need something to ground you, and you wish you were in a list-making or alarm-setting mode, but you have more than usual resistance to following up. There can also be confusion. The fish wants to stay in the pretty waters and avoid the harsh truths of the surface, so the uncertainty or emotional fog may not get resolved. Fake news is on the upsurge, along with problems with travel, and emotional drama.

But it’s not all bad. While in Pisces, Mercury, also planet of thought, favors inner-directed activities: meditation, prayer, journaling, and dream work. We may have close encounters of the angelic kind. We may feel inclined to take a permanent spiritual retreat. Setbacks in communications may not just frustrate, but rather than spark us into action. Or, they might fade into the sense of confusion we’d like to be on retreat from. (Pisces rules viruses and quarantines; the latter are a kind of involuntarily retreat that can nonetheless be applied in prayer, meditation and inner work in general.) If you identify with any of this, you can expect more of the same from Sunday, March 1 to Tuesday, March 3.

On Wednesday, March 4, the planet of thought backs into Aquarius, where it’s exalted as its rational potential expands. Through Sunday, March 15, this transit gives us a chance to come up for air and see things in a clearer, more objective light.

Does that mean they’ll seem more normal? Remember, Mercury is still retrograde, drawing our thinking more inward than out. Also, Mercury again begins to retrograde through Aquarius, the sign of the water bearer, who is curious and always on the lookout for alternative versions, so we’re apt to see things in a new light. We can get our thoughts in order, research effectively, and come up with creative solutions for the seeming confusion. We can expect hopeful or freeing news about the Corona virus. But this transit isn’t about waiting for media dictates. Media is ruled by Pisces, while Aquarius focuses on independent research.

During this 12-day period from March 4 through March 15, the aspects will fuel both intuitive and analytical perception. On Sunday, March 8, Venus, goddess of love and values, squares…

SUNDAY, MARCH 1

With Moon exalted in creative Taurus trining Saturn in diligent Capricorn, morning is great for work, business and other productive activities. We can apply these energies to further our own interests, or to help someone else with something practical like bookkeeping or online banking.

At 11:21 pm (2:21 ET), Moon enters chatty Gemini and squares ruler Mercury in foggy Pisces. Add in a sextile to Chiron, the wounded healer, and afternoon is not so great for business, going on a trip, or communications requiring clarity, but it does work for informal socializing and mystical activities.

Write letters, study, bless the car, do crossword puzzles, play a table game, or take in a movie. On a metaphysical level, repeat and write affirmations, prayers or mantras, journal, contact spirit guides and angels, or do dream yoga.

MONDAY, MARCH 2

Today is highly creative but not particularly harmonious. Apply mind and intuition, but save crucial or potentially prickly interactions for another day. For today, when we do connect with others, take an extra an extra tablespoon of patience and an extra helping of calm.

Moon in communicative Gemini makes a quincunx to restless Mars and at 11:57 am (2:57 pm), squares Sun in imaginative Pisces, reaching her Second Quarter. Take a look at progress on intentions seeded at last week’s New Moon, and apply imagination to finding alternative ways of moving on them. At 12-13 Gemini, this lunation’s Sabian symbol says:

WORLD FAMOUS PIANIST BEGINS TO PLAY TO A HUGE AUDIENCE. Extreme exaltation in social standing. Reaching of climax in selfhood. Ghastly sense of emptiness at the end of the quest.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3

Yesterday’s creative streak continues, although with love-planet Venus squaring Saturn, people-connections may seem cold or stern. It’s a good day to take a hard look at spending habits or relational patterns, attend a 12-step group, and on a more upbeat note, to consider ways of beautifying our work.  Review and reorganize independent projects started before February 2 involving study, communications, writing and promotion, and save situations requiring charm or PR for tomorrow, from morning through midday. At 6:20 pm (9:20 ET), Moon goes VOC. She enters Cancer at 8:25 pm (11:25 ET), favoring a relaxed evening at home.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

With Moon in Cancer, sign of growth, and Mercury in friendly Aquarius in sextile to Venus in enthusiastic Aries, morning and midday are good for connecting with friends, family, and business contacts. It’s hard to explain how weird and how comfortable the energy is today—all at the same time. We might think we’re fish out of water once trickster Mercury retrogrades back out of Pisces and into the airy realms of quirky Aquarius at 6:07 am EST. However, Mercury forms a cozy sextile to sensual Venus, opening a channel between our logical minds and our desire for pleasure. We are on course for satisfaction, especially when Venus enters her home sign of Taurus at 10:07 pm. But all is not smooth and easy, for the day culminates with an anxious Sun-Venus semisquare that can turn our emotions into a minor storm. Meanwhile, the nurturing Cancer Moon reminds us that caring for those we love supersedes the changing dynamics of the moment. Today’s constructive numerology of 4 enforces our spirit of progress, supporting tangible results. Avoid touchiness or taking things personally and reach out to others before 6:25 pm (9:25 ET), when Moon makes an opposition to Mars the warrior. Then, take a hot bath and cuddle up with popcorn and a movie or good book.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 

With Moon in sensitive Cancer in aspect to otherworldly Neptune and visionary Jupiter, morning is great for media production, sales, dream work, visualization, prayer and contacting light beings, or for that matter, any spiritual activity. Morning is also today’s best window for connecting with others.  At 3:50 pm (6:50 ET), the sweetness fades as Moon clashes with powerful Pluto and soon thereafter strict Saturn, making evening good for venting our compulsive-obsessive impulses by scouring the kitchen, organizing the bookcase, and cleaning out the refrigerator.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

In the wee hours, Moon enters vital Leo, followed by squares to artistic Venus and inventive Uranus that accent the Leo lion’s creative gifts. Luna then trines wounded-healer Chiron in Aries, sign of identity. With the Moon in Leo as the Sun rises, some may shave Celtic crosses on the rumps of consenting pooches and airbrush infrared barcodes on the haunches of catnip-tripping felines, but most won’t. Leo represents the period of when as children we begin primary school, which is the first detachment from the family structure, where we learn to make relationships and satisfy the need to be loved in the world. Games provide a way to relate to others and they teach us to accept and make rules, the basis for being able to structure our lives (from 7 to 13 years old). On the World Scale, Leo is between 3,000 to 800 BC when both the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations flourished, when religion became monotheistic, where one being represented or was, God on Earth. During this Time of Pharaohs and Kings, Lion images proliferated in architecture and monuments, for the Lion is of course, King of Beasts. With the Moon in Leo today we may be seeking romance with a flare for the dramatic..Don’t let an insecure ego run rampant trying to overcompensate for what you think you don’t have. It’s easy to turn emotional incidents into high drama. Build emotional security by using your willpower. Be romantic. Love. Revel in the warmest kindest most tender parts of yourself. Clarity comes in the morning on Mercury sextiles to Neptune and Chiron. If you remember your dreams, take note. They contain the seeds of solutions to areas where you feel blocked. The Beast of War will continue to ravage the globe today, and there will be nothing on TV except reruns of curling matches and infomercials about wheatgrass grow-kits. Mercury later squares Uranus, adding volatility to our speech and mood, and bringing unexpected plot twists into our current story. so Do not expect curb service with the mind that we had previously, because we now Have a Quantum Mind Deluxe . Love is the Law. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, thought and expression, the depth of imagination, and the ability to think non-verbally inspire you to create beautiful art and music. Cyclonic Banshee Satori is the new mantra we assign to you free of charge. You want one of the round thingies, too? A mandala? All we have left are the ones with Aztec Mermaids in Cowboy Hats Riding Turquoise Emus. Oh, you’ve already got one of those? Well, you’ll have to wait if you want the Hedge-Devas on Bumblebees. Next week, maybe.Moon-Mars and Moon-Mercury trines lift our spirits and spread joy. Giant maple keys may come spiralling from the sky to cut off the heads of the Evil Ones and delight the children. Laughter will clear our hearts of sadness. Skyscrappers should be renamed cloudsnaggers.

This morning, reflect and/or journal on your own likes and dislikes, and then write down what you really want to manifest and express. Independent, creative activities go well, as does art therapy, creative writing, and breakfast or brunch with friends.

Save romance and business connections for this afternoon and evening, when the effects of this morning’s individualistic aspects will have subsided. Afternoon and evening call upon us to:

·         Go on a date or adventure

·         Socialize

·         Take in a show or play

·         Go dancing

·         Ask for support

·         Share your talents

·         Be romantic

·         Express your feelings in style

·         Do something requiring a lucky break.

But, we should take care to avoid being prideful, overbearing or melodramatic, partying until late, and inappropriate flirting!

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

The Day of Saturn in the kabbalistic World of Water. Wearing Black and facing North, invoke the spirit of Johnny Cash into your Base Chakra (The Malkuth "Lil' World" Morphogenetic Field Transceiver) with the mantrum. "Because your mine, I walk the line". With it being Water week, honor Saturn today by creating greater stability in the Metaverse, actively expressing or experiencing your security needs, and cleansing and strengthening your base Chakra. Our consciousness in this chakra is concerned with survival, with our fight or flight response, with our instincts. It links the individual with the physical world. Serves as the foundation to evolve and build personality. If we are to ignore this chakra, and concern ourselves with the higher levels, we will be growing without roots, we will be unstable, unable to withstand the trials that will come our way. If our survival needs are met, the Base Chakra will function healthily, but if there is a perceived threat to this, (such as a difficult house move, job change, health problems, etc.) it can create an imbalance. Other Saturnian imbalances can show themselves in various ways, from sleeplessness and the inability to relax, to obsession with money, possessions or health. To begin neutralizing our judgment about Saturn, let us remember that it is the governor of nothing less than Time and Space. The implications of this rulership are quite stunning. No other planet has anything to do with either of these two ubiquitous features of the Earth plane, which we think of as so constant and immutable that they don’t even enter into our worldview phenomenologically – except perhaps in science fiction or the more esoteric reaches of metaphysicsWe may feel like socializing, but Moon in Leo makes tense aspects to ruler Sun, imaginative Neptune and expansive Jupiter, so interactions may seem out of sync.With today’s perceptive, intuitive numerology of 7, what does flow well are mystical and psychic activities, such as connecting with angels and light beings, consulting the I Ching, a medium, or a favorite oracle, renewing a dream board or visualization materials, joining in a ceremony or sharing a gratitude ritual. Artwork and contact with children can also go well. In view of these sensitive energies and the upcoming Full Moon, we are apt to be open to energies; it’s wise to be selective about who we consult or spend time with. Save extreme sports and risky adventures for another day. At 12:57 am (3:57 am ET), Moon goes VOC.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

At 3:47 am (6:47 ET), Moon enters dedicated Virgo, supplying a grounded backdrop for the conjunction of Sun with Neptune in mystical Pisces, which opens portals of intuition. Our unconscious is open and connected to tomorrow’s Full Moon portal.

Creativity runs high, further fueled by a conjunction of Venus the beautifier with genius planet Uranus. This combination can reconnect us with our own true priorities, release blocks to effective visualization, unknot ties that don’t connect with our current values, and release blocks to expressing our original ideas.

We might engage in independent or reflective activities—go on a retreat, reach out to someone who’s original work or mindset inspires us, redo a project in resonance with our own true voice, recommit to an altruistic endeavor, or reorganize visualization materials and practice. Make a list of activities you can release to focus on your dreams, and affirm for forgiveness and release.

Affirmation:
The force of infinite good flows through my being, dissolving any resentments or attachments towards or from others and freeing me to my higher good now.

MONDAY, MARCH 9

Projecting Light Specific purple or octarine (a particular shade of electric pinkish purple) into your forehead and facing West, activate the Ajna Holographic Image Projection System (third eye), then invoke blessed Gabriel. Diana, or Sailor Moon into your Brow Chakra. It's the Moon's day in the week of Earth and the emotional body in reflection. The lunar orb being receptive and reflective, focuses the qualities of the signs and other planets to our personal Lightcraft. The Lunar center, and its intimate connection with the Holographic Image Projection System, is not only the foundation for the astral plane, but is the fiery aspect of astral energy itselfIn trine with restless Mars, expansive Jupiter and intense Pluto, today’s Full Moon in Virgo is rich with action, creativity and the need to release whatever keeps us from living our ideals. As a Super Moon, Richard Nolle’s term for lunations that are in perigee (90% or greater of its mean closest approach to Earth), its magic is particularly potent.

This Virgo Full Moon offers a grounding influence for the current Sun in Pisces, whose conjunction to ruler Neptune brings out all the mystical, intuitive and unrealistic tendencies the fish is known for. Pragmatic Luna also gets romantic Venus back in line, just in case she’s been urging us to elope since she joined rebel Uranus yesterday. Exact at 10:48 am, this Full Moon portal anticipates the Spring Equinox, and can help us get perspective on our progress towards our goals for 2020, tie up loose ends, or finish up a project we’ve been stalling on. It also helps us identify old patterns we may be dragging around like a frayed safety blanket, and release them. Mercury goes direct today, but is still in shadow. Although this is the Seed Moon, it’s more about re-seeding or tending seeds planted sometime before February 2. Today’s numerology of 9 is about conclusions, metaphysical activities and altruism. The Sabian symbol for 19-20 Virgo says:  A GROUP OF SETTLERS START ON THEIR JOURNEY IN OLD CARS. Rising to achievement in spite of inadequate equipment. Joy in meeting life’s challenges. Venturing forward with faith.

This is not a portal to party, imbibe or get into fights. What we can do is make headway on creative, metaphysical and also practical endeavors.

METAVERSAL SUN SIGNS
SEPTEMBER 2010

Aries

Your charts suggest strongly that you are making some decision involving marriage. You might be thinking of creating a marriage or of ending one; or you are formulating your thoughts on the subject. Here is what I see: You have a concept that marriage simplifies things. This is consistent with the old expression ‘tying the knot’. There’s nothing so simple going on, however. In truth, your charts present a complex situation regarding not just a relationship, but also your whole idea of what a relationship is. What I suggest is that you shift the entire thought process from ‘relationship’ to yourself. The most important relationship is the one you have with you. When we confuse our inner relationship with the one we have with others, that is called projection. It may not be literally true that whatever you are saying about, or appreciate about, or dislike, in others is true of you; but you would be wise to look for the connection points. In this project, you will learn something from photos. Photos are interesting because they are historical documents and projection screens. Photographs of you, of loved ones, family photos and in particular wedding photos will tell you a lot right now, in the sense of providing useful information. At the moment, certain pictures will paint a thousand words.

Taurus

Nearly every Taurus I know is struggling with their career. This seems to be a life-theme of your sign. Let’s pretend that has something to do with all the activity in Aquarius, your career house. Going back quite a long way — five years, 10 years, even 15 years, depending on how you count — there’s been constant change, movement and an odd sense of insecurity about what you want to do, or what you ’should be doing’. You’ve had plenty of ideas along the way, some of them excellent, but less in the way of traction or stability. Perhaps you know what you want, not how to make it work for you. Remember that most of our experiences train us to compromise passion and curiosity, or to expect certainty and incontrovertible correctness of the plan. Sure, that happens. More often, we find ourselves involved with events, uncertain where they will lead. Through many such experiments, we can arrive in an interesting place. What you have going on is subtler than either of those usual paths. At the moment, you have a rare perspective (think of it as visual, from a high place) that you didn’t have before. Use it to observe the ways you have been conditioned to not know what you want; to want what others want for you; and to doubt your own ideals, for the sake of others. What would your life be like, if you moved all that out of the way?

Gemini

This month’s Mercury retrograde is pretty impressive, and its affects working out well for Gemini. For you, it was all about agreements. You tend to live your life trying to figure out what others expect from you, rather than determining what you want. In the tangle of opinions, obligations and pushing and pulling and sorting out the details, I trust you’ve learned to make this distinction. It’s not only okay to want; whatever the Buddhists may say, desire is your organizing principle. It’s the value by which you decide what to decide: including what to do and who to associate with. Jupiter in Pisces, which just crossed the potent midheaven angle of your solar chart, is offering you a wildcard of desire. This may be arriving as an idea or a vision; or it may be an opportunity you’re not sure is solid. I promise you one thing: this qualifies as something different. It may take you a few weeks to catch on, but now that you have a clue, I suggest you look carefully and make a decision while you’re still excited. One of the distinctions between this and the kind of opportunity you’re accustomed to involves going beyond your usual sense of scale, to something much wider: so wide, indeed, that you may not recognize it for what it is, or selling yourself short because this seems too good to be true.

Cancer

Life would be easier, were the playing field level. Usually it’s not; and it’s slippery, and some people cheat. The deeper issue, though, is what game you are playing, and the rules that you apply. Deeper still is making sure you take full authority over your own life. Two games show up on the radar as being particularly dangerous to your peace of mind. One is retribution; the other is teasing. It’s possible to tease yourself, and it’s possible to get revenge on yourself: if humans are good at two things, it is luring themselves with what is unavailable, and self-loathing (in its many subtle forms). Remember that guilt is not an indicator that you are wrong. Rather, it suggests you have an issue to work out, potentially that you don’t believe your life is your life. It’s altogether better if we get those around us on board with the process of mutually freeing ourselves from guilt. But you don’t need anyone’s permission; that’s part of the game. When we feel guilty the tendency is to blame ourselves or seek forgiveness; a better approach is to offer forgiveness for what you think has been done to you. It may indeed be unclear who is responsible for what, or who is perpetuating any dysfunction; account for the ways you are perpetuating anything distasteful to you, and change your act on the spot.

Leo

There has hardly been a more magnificent time to get clear on the intentions of your relationships. Indeed, it is happening without your deliberate intervention; you seem to be coming into alignment both with yourself and with the people around you. In an odd way, this quality is morphing from your sense of individuality to your sense of mutual purpose in one-to-one experiences; and this is shifting your group encounters. By alignment, I mean sense of purpose and mutual understanding of one another’s most important values. One of your gifts to the world is to love people despite their seeming flaws, and to hold yourself out with dignity as a whole person, understanding perfectly well that you’re not perfect. You now have an opportunity to see how those seeming imperfections provide sources of strength and awareness. This really is the key to enlightenment, in these days when one of the most pressing psychological issues is self-loathing, and when the lack of self-understanding seems to verge on total. It’s deep in your nature to use mistakes, misunderstandings and paradoxes as footholds for learning and awareness; it’s good times when the people around you get into that same mode, and that is approximately what you have going on now. In simple terms, everything is an opportunity to raise awareness. Every seeming fact implies a question. How you see yourself directly influences how you see others.

Virgo

You may not have counted the rewards of so much restless instability in your relationships, going back so many years. The planetary setup has not lent itself to your romantic ideals; you probably canceled your subscription to Modern Bride in 2004. Yet one benefit of what you’ve been through has been to take nothing, and nobody, for granted. There has been no prefabricated scenario that was supposed to come true; you developed a knack for liking and loving people despite their wild oddities, despite what your parents would think; despite what you thought you would think. People have pushed you and challenged your beliefs and made sure you couldn’t hide in your mental box for long. In moments when spontaneous changes happened, you learned to move on. You leaned to envision the future rather than obsess over the past. But something has been missing: a degree of comfort, a space of authentic respite, an actual sense of benefit. Over the past year, you have gained an unusual new depth of clarity and focus, and I imagine you determined that was an omen of positive developments to come. Let that clarity give you the discernment to know healthy, loving influences when they manifest for you. You have been through enough, over enough time, for this to be truly possible. Lay down that restlessness for a while and open the door to love.

Libra

You are not really caught in a situation you cannot get out of — but someone else may really be certain they are. You cannot convince them of the reality of their situation; but you can figure out for yourself that you have options. Having options is another way of saying that you are at a turning point. I suggest you make peace with the possibility that someone you care about may not quite see themselves at that place where a decision is necessary; to the contrary, they may be at a point of maximum chaos and confusion. Even on a good day, you have little choice but to negotiate with the world on your own terms. You are, at least, aware of your situation, and that provides the closest thing to a guarantee that you are going to work it out sooner rather than later. The risk you run is getting drawn into someone else’s drama, their romantic ideals, or their sense of fragmentation. Keep an eye on that third one. It’s the one most likely to drive you nuts, because when people are feeling fragmented those around them tend to respond in fragments. Note, the issue that is troubling them is likely to be a past idea of what a relationship should be, and the way that gets tangled up in the simple reality of life. Give the situation till mid-March to work out; I think it will.

Scorpio

You may be questioning your treatment of someone important to you. You have become deeply sensitive to how someone feels in the environment of your emotions. In any form of emotional healing, step one is getting beyond the guilt that is so deeply entrenched in our relationships. The usual way to do that is by ‘not caring’, and obviously that’s not the answer: you would not be here unless you cared. One way to process guilt is to forgive yourself so that you can forgive everyone else. Most guilt, indeed, nearly all of what we think others think, is projection. Projection is something that is happening internally that we are then perceiving or ascribing to some experience or event ‘outside ourselves’. Just like you cannot write on a movie screen and change the plot, you cannot write on the world or on your relationships and change the underlying feelings. That is why you have to start with you. One thing that is clear is the extent to which you are subject to group dynamics. Much of what you’re dramatizing in your relationships right now involves what happened to you as a child; and that, in turn, created a situation where you don’t feel safe being yourself. So, let’s short-circuit this whole psychological process and summarize it as one question: what would you do if you felt absolutely safe being exactly who you are?

Sagittarius

I’ve noticed something about some Sagittarians I know, which is that they don’t seem to mind living in half-renovated places. I guess when you feel like you came from a different galaxy, living on Earth like it’s a camping trip isn’t so bad; so you don’t mind if your house is wrapped in Tyvek or your bedroom floor is made of plywood as long as it keeps out the rain. Or do you? Jupiter has arrived in Pisces, which is the place we look for information about the home environment of Sagittarius. I suggest you take a series of swift steps to transform your home into someplace you’re actually comfortable. Finish work in progress; make a list of anything that’s broken or out of place and repair or remove it. Get someone who knows Feng Shui to come and help you arrange things to maximize the efficiency of energy flow. Clean, clean, clean — with Dr. Bronner’s soap and water, not chemicals. If you don’t like where you are, now is the time to make an easy move to someplace better. All of this will have useful material effects, and the sense of closure that you get from fixing that which was long broken will help you feel more settled, like you’re here on the planet to stay for a while; and your home is a place where others who love you feel welcome.


Capricorn

Do you know those email things designed to prevent you from writing to people if you’re drunk? The one with a series of arithmetic questions to make sure you’re clear enough to handle yourself? I suggest installing one of those on your entire life this month. Be careful what you do under the influence of any substance; ‘do’ includes say and do; it includes what you don’t do; and most of all, this includes how you respond to what you feel and what you think. You’re under a mix of influences that could lead you to act uncharacteristically: impulsively, or ‘not really coming from you’. Your emotional confusion is calling on you to take conscious, careful steps with the people you love, particularly with yourself. This month’s planetary setup won’t prevent you from feeling clearly who you are, unless of course you let it do so. Yet you must be especially careful with substances, which will emphasize some emotions over others, sometimes contradictory. In itself this is not a bad thing: every emotion is valuable for what it teaches you. It’s just that you don’t want to act on certain darker sentiments; better to acknowledge and make peace with them. To give another example, if you want to have sex with someone on a few glasses of wine, first make sure they’re still interesting when all you’ve had is a coffee — preferably not the next day.

Aquarius

Why are you the way you are? You seem to have lost contact with your motives — which you’re finally figuring out, now that you’re back in the groove of listening to them again. In the journey of awakening, you’re in that delicate space of playing snooze tag with yourself, only it’s not a single day you’re preparing to embark on; it’s the rest of your life. Denial is a peculiar state, unique to human consciousness: the ability, in essence, to pretend we’re not aware of something that we are actually aware of. Denial presumes that there is something to deny; and that we have a motive to keep it from awareness. If you notice that you’re struggling to admit something to yourself, break it down into what that something is, and why you might not want to acknowledge it. While you’re pondering that, here is another question: is this whole thing a dance around how you were treated as a child? Are you covering up for someone else’s psychological stance toward you? Once that pattern is established, it can establish a pattern that the mind copies, which then propagates and takes root in many other relationships. See if you can get to the original motive; the original transaction that led you to learn any mode of response that involved pretending or denying that something obviously true was not. Get clear about that and much else will come into focus.

Pisces

For a long time, longer than you may care to admit, you’ve grown accustomed to a certain kind of progress in your life: behind the scenes, or in theory, or in principle. Fortunately, you have a rich inner life, and this enables you to stay interested in existence even in times when movement is slow or invisible, or when fulfillment seems unlikely. Yet this has caused you to live in two worlds: one being a world where so much is happening, and where you can envision what is possible; and another where the people around you seem oblivious to their own potential and where potential, in general, seems frozen. Get ready for something different. Jupiter arriving back in your sign Mid month is going to do a lot in a short time, all of it in visible, tangible ways. If you write plays, you may find them suddenly being produced on the live stage. If you write books, you are likely to discover people interested in publishing you. If you drum alone, you will surely find other drummers. What was solitary can now become social; what you were sure was worthless to the world now suddenly may have a high value. Yet to manifest this potential, you must do what is perhaps the most challenging thing for a Pisces: think in a forward direction; exist outside your previous states of confinement; leave behind your prior role of victim of existence for your new role as benefactor.