Bats in the belfry

Maybe it's just me, though it's usually not just me, but it feels like everyone has at least one person in their midst who has totally lost the plot. I have two and a possible third (time will tell) and I'm scratching my head wondering how this plays out, because despite all evidence to the contrary, they believe things that make no sense, and are holding on to these beliefs with their respective talons, despite the people around them literally constantly telling them that what they believe should happen is 1. wrong and 2. won't happen.

This is part of the problem caused by two heavy-hitters (Saturn and Neptune) in Pisces. Pisces is chaos of the emotional variety: Saturn likes to build things and Neptune likes to dissolve them (these are two planets that are polar opposites from each other and them being in the same sign is not great). They're not in close aspect...yet...but they will be in a year or so, which will change the nature of the realities for the aforementioned two (three?) people in my midst. Maybe they'll still be around, but they likely will have moved on and been replaced by more or different, since that's what tends to happen in life—things come in phases.

I once read that being disillusioned is one of the most painful things that can happen to you. I think that's probably right—it's at least in the top 5. Think about a time where you had to make a massive adjustment to what you believed to be true about life and how happy you were about that. It could be as simple as realizing that the future you planned for wasn't going to turn out the way you hoped, or maybe you trusted someone you shouldn't have, or maybe you had a safety bubble you got kicked out of. These are all Pisces concepts, these emotional investments we make in our futures, so let me put this another way: what if you made emotional investments in a pyramid scheme and then got left with nothing? Ouch.

One of the main problems right now is that Saturnian logic is usually one of the building blocks to use to pull yourself out of a stupor, but how much assistance can Saturn be in Pisces, when Neptune is causing a lot of these reality problems in the first place? Not much, I don't think. Saturn's notorious for causing reality checks, but what I've noticed is that the aforementioned people are serious fighters when it comes to reality, so they could go the opposite way when faced with opposition and become even more delusional.

To be reductive, Pisces is water energy and losing touch with reality is a water energy problem. There are other heavy-hitter planets in earth signs/energy right now (Pluto and Uranus, mainly), and I think that's making it worse, because earth is stark reality, and you escape stark reality with fire, air, or water. Said another way: these guys are running away from things they don't want to deal with by getting focused on a fantasy and believing it's real.

So I think the other options are air and fire, since water problems DO NOT benefit from more water (said another way: overwhelming feelings are not solved by seeking out more feelings. People with water problems tend to gravitate toward people who are just as emotional or chaotic as they are and then wonder why they don't feel better). Air is about circulating and new ideas. Fire is about movement and passion. Essentially, if these people would listen to people who have different ideas from theirs (air) or just find a different activity (fire) other than their passion project of being a noisy victim who no one wants to listen to anymore, we'd all be better off.

I think everyone has had reality problems from time to time, though they'll differ in intensity and severity based on your own personal energy composition. Every time it's happened to me, I've had a chorus of people around me saying the same thing, which was the opposite of what I wanted to be true, so I believe life will send you assistance to pull you out of your own stupor if you're open to it. There's also a chance, if you have a lot of toxic people around you who are saying the same thing, that they're wrong and, if you believe them, you can set yourself back considerably. This happened to me, too, and I found a good therapist who helped me separate out what was what. Either way: if you have reality problems, you will not solve them in a vacuum, and you will not solve them by hanging around people who also have reality problems. Find higher ground by identifying the most stable and functional people you know (or if you don't know any figuring out why that is) and asking them for help. You may have to leave your immediate environment to get out of an echo chamber and that's probably a good thing.

Circulate. Go for a run. Do anything besides stagnate.