Focus mode

So obviously the big thing in astrology this week is Pluto's return to Aquarius. I'm not exactly expecting fireworks, like, this is the second time it has happened. What it feels like to me is a shift from the gut feeling that everything is awful (Pluto in Capricorn feels like paranoia about impending disaster more than anything) into more of a mental focus where you really have to think things through. Aquarius is an air sign, and it just feels more electrical, somehow. It takes me a little while to get used to these shifts, and I also like to see what they do before being thorough about it, so bear with me.

Uranus is stationing, or appearing to stop relative to earth, and I know so many people with active Uranus transits, it's crazy. You guys are coming out of the walls and the woodwork to talk to me. When anything is stationing, it's so much more potent than the normal transit. Even if it's not an exact transit for you, if you didn't get the message it was trying to impart in the first place, stations can be like an elbow to your head, or in the case of Uranus, someone screaming at you to snap out of it. The number one thing to watch for is car accidents with this transit, because you're slightly too wired, like you accelerate just a little too much or you brake just a little too hard because you have a wacky energy flow when Uranus is involved. When I say "car accidents" I mean 95% of the time those incidents where everyone is okay but then there's paperwork and insurance and visits to the auto body shop and your routine is disrupted, so think about it in that cascading sense of "because of [initial incident] all these little baby incidents were born and I have to devote the time and energy to dealing with it and it takes me out of what I consider to be normal." That's the vibe. Nothing will wake you up quite like a logistical adventure and being annoyed that you're on hold for the 40th time, though the silver lining is you'll meet new people, I guess? Even if you do not have an active Uranus transit, people are lower on patience at the moment (for the next couple of weeks) so don't push them if they seem stressed.

Actually, Saturn and Uranus are both in the same place they were last May-June (how nice of them to sync up!) so if you have a source of stress that went dormant early last summer and is ba-ack now, these are the two top suspects. The thing is, Saturn is going to be moving on and covering new territory very shortly, so if you have Saturn stress (usually manifesting as feeling stuck under a pile of work and sad about it, or forced to face up to limitations you don't particularly like, and again, sad about it), good news: you've reached the almost-conclusion of that. If you have Uranus stress, usually manifesting as tension, you are going to need to make some adjustments to deal with said tension. For me, I am prepared to be sad about my limitations (pretty sure I'm familiar with them at this point, thanks to last May-June) and I'm trying to avoid situations in which I start yelling at people, which also happened last May-June at my day job. In the meantime I have tried to reorganize my life to avoid the stimuli that caused the yelling.

I don't think anyone relishes Saturn in Pisces, which I've been working on describing (go check out my Vibe Check Challenge for a productive use of Saturn in Pisces), but I'm surprised to find that I'm excited about it, and I really didn't expect to be excited about Saturn (ever). For those of us who got wiped out by Neptune in Pisces between 2011/2012 and present day, Saturn offers a chance to rebuild now. Neptune puts you in a state of uncertainty, and Saturn is the reverse of that (you're a little TOO certain and usually need to take yourself a hair less seriously). If these two planets had feelings, they'd hate each other (obviously I love an anthropomorphization). So with Neptune, you start winging it and trying things to see if anything works, because Neptune will put you in an extended period of feeling like nothing works correctly. Saturn is now showing people in this population which of the things they tried actually work. You're reading an example of this right now. I had a Neptune transit that was almost a decade long that wiped out about half of my personality, but on the bright side, taught me astrology and psychic endeavors, and now with Saturn where it is, I'm taking those things more seriously, because I have more demands on my time and resources now, so if I want to keep doing this work I enjoy, which is helping you guys find answers to pervasive problems you're having, I have to do it intentionally. The irony for me is that I really needed help that no one could give me almost a decade ago at this point, and in my search for answers, I've become that resource that I needed back then. It's almost poetic.

Anyway, I've seen several other examples of people who got overwhelmed by circumstances and gave up on themselves because of Neptune energy in the last decade, and Saturn will offer them a chance to get back on the metaphorical horse in the next year or so. The issue is going to be that it's been a while since they've seen said horse, and it's...bigger and more intimidating than they remember it being. Just remember with Saturn that you don't have to do everything all at once. Incremental progress is what we're going for, but you'll have to be intentional and hustle to get back in the game if you gave up and walked away before.