Poison

Saturn in Pisces is going to make some people realize they’re being poisoned. Probably not literally, though I would expect more headlines of discoveries of health concerns from unexpected places like this one. I mean mostly mentally and emotionally. This type of poison is the daily small things that add up over time, rather than a one-dose event, too. So if your Aunt Linda finds a way to tell you she hates your hair either directly or subtly every time you see her, it’s going to add up, especially if you see her often. Pisces is usually pretty indirect, so you might not even notice the effect Linda’s having on your self esteem, until one day you wake up and you absolutely LOATHE Aunt Linda.

What I just described was the progression of nothing—> nothing—> nothing—>overwhelm. THAT is Pisces in a nutshell. And the trick is going to be learning to notice the subtle things. Like you have a little headache every time you eat those crackers. Or you feel a little resentful of your postal worker’s scattershot mail delivery method. Or your car is making a weird but quiet noise. Catch this shit early, before it gets out of control, because if it gets to the danger point, you’re in trouble. Pisces is overwhelming.

Virgo’s the opposite of Pisces, and Saturn in Virgo knows exactly what’s wrong, and exactly how to solve it. Pisces only knows vaguely what the problem is, and tends to try a bunch of different things to remedy the problem with varying results. Prayer won’t fix your car’s weird noise, but sometimes dumping a bunch of cold water on it will get it to start if it’s overheating. But really, a mechanic would be best, wouldn’t it?

I would be 0% shocked if the first few weeks of Saturn in Pisces was people with alarm bells going off about something they didn’t previously realize was a problem AT ALL. Like “oh shit, I’m doing ___ and it’s actually really bad for me.”

Let me put on my deviant hat for a second. Saturn in Pisces is great energy for a concerted effort to mess with someone else’s mind, or to influence them a certain way. Think Jim Halpert vs. Dwight Schrute. If you wanted to make someone think they were going crazy, there’s a lot of ways you could do that, and one would be to move their keys to a slightly different place than where they put them down, or their shoes, or their coat, or all of those things, every day, for months. Obviously you can’t get caught doing this or it’s ruined, but if you wanted to make someone feel like they’re losing their mind, that’s a good way to start. They probably won’t say anything for a while but over time they’ll get more and more anxious that they’re starting to lose it, and suddenly one day they’re downright hysterical because they think they have dementia when it’s really that you’re being cruel. Do you see the progression here? And the fact that their conclusion is dementia when really it’s you? That’s Pisces. It’s tricky.

I once had a very stubborn significant other who wouldn’t believe things when *I* told him, so I had to arrange for multiple other people to give him the same facts coming out of my mouth—that were usually factual rather than my opinion, by the way, and the only commentary I’ll make here is this: 🙄—so subtly over time he’d see sense. Again, Pisces in action, ya’ll! That’s how I won arguments back then. My relationships are less dysfunctional now, for the record.

I believe my blanket statement for Saturn in Pisces will be “cut the shit.” But I reserve the right to change my mind. I think some people will wake up to realizing they’ve been fed a bunch of bullshit recently and they’re done with it. Others will bullshit more (don’t be like them!). Most things in astrology can cut both ways, but Pisces is one of those signs where that’s really true.