Fate and the Pisces Stellium

Through March 30th we’ll see in the sky a fairly tight stellium in Pisces of Uranus, Mercury, Venus, and Vesta, with Chiron semi-sextile and Jupiter sextile these. For most people this is likely to go by almost unnoticed, at least consciously; these energies come together and work a sleight-of-hand trick on the psyche, misdirecting our attention and fueling an idea that the action is ‘anywhere but here.’ Many astrologers are couching this effect in terms of typical Uranian chaos, accident, and mayhem, but that’s not what it looks like to me; I see a moderate but continual level of anxiety, with a small chaser of fear, that will overtake our mental processes and leak into relationship dynamics, financial matters (as nothing can make us feel more vulnerable than seeing money in emotional terms), the home front, the sex life, and virtually all communications. We are worried, we sense that we may at any moment be hurt, and, though we suspect that our own perceptions may be exaggerated, the social arena seems to be reflecting back to us with unusual precision the very same reality that we are experiencing in our minds; the lack of discrepancy between inner and outer is unusual, and that alone should make us stop and ‘prick up our ears.’ We must understand that this isn’t a dynamic of action, but of perception and sensation, and as such doesn’t require us to react, though our lizard brains (that primeval, survival-oriented part of us) will surely prompt over-reaction, knee-jerk responses that will create the feared chaos–but only if we give in to them.

Stellium ruler Neptune is conjunct the North Node in Aquarius, lending an air of fatedness, and perhaps an intellectually-based sense of resignation to our perceptions; we may feel we can’t help what we see around us. Now we reach the most important thing to remain aware of: this is not the time to make pronouncements or judgments based on what is essentially an emotional (and therefore changeable) perceptual picture. We know this situation will be seen through an emotional lens because of Pisces, which imbues those energies resident there with a sensation of being part of the primordial soup, lacking language or any way to shape concepts and separate them from the ‘All That Is.’ This can be both frightening and overwhelming, kicking us into panic mode without ever seeing any real danger on the horizon. As long as we know that this is the case, we can deal with it, through the mechanism of Pisces/ Neptune in our natal charts.

If you vibe strongly to Pisces, or Neptune is prominent, especially if either is connected to identity significators (Sun, Moon, ASC, or Venus for women, Mars for men) the current Pisces dynamic can seem very personal–you may feel that deep and intense things are happening only to you–and this is something you may deal with on a regular basis, only now it’s exaggerated: the feeling is that extraordinarily significant things are happening, which you must decode and fathom. Know instead that this is like a wave, catching up everyone as it rolls toward shore–just allow it to wash over you, to tumble you a bit, but don’t try to stop the wave in its tracks or pin down its meaning–it just is, and it’s happening to all of us, and because of this we may want to emphasize that this is a shared perceptual experience, and as such will disorient all of us in a similar fashion.

The most effective way to deal with this is probably to simply allow that Cosmic wave to not just wash over you, but through you. This is a fear-inducing thought for many, especially those of us wedded to Saturn/ Capricorn or Virgo, but letting, even welcoming, an influx of Universal energy and creative psychic ‘juice,’ and releasing our boundaries long enough to allow what feels like chaos but is really the infinitely organized intelligence of the life force to surge through us and heal, rejuevenate, and expand our consciousness, is the only way to play it. The Universe is offering us an energy gift–let’s be ‘together’ enough to accept it.