Here's what's interesting in terms of what the sky is doing this month: Saturn leaves Pisces for Aries but the personal planets are in Pisces, and Mercury retrogrades in Pisces, meaning that we continue to reflect on Pisces themes: stuff that's ambiguous, overwhelming, and that we can't do much about. Hold this thought.

When you first learn astrology, there's this honeymoon phase that lasts for about a year (longer if you just dabble), where everything is cool and meaningful and mind-bendingly connected to everything else. But then after that, the sky becomes a weird combination of insistent like a toddler and hell-bent on making its point like an authoritarian parent. So we might want to do something nice, like have some energy in Leo or Libra or Sagittarius. But the sky goes "No. PISCES." Now extend this argument for weeks/months/years. Now Saturn's leaving Pisces for Aries and yet the sky is still somehow saying "No. PISCES!!!" (I can't make it louder in text so just yell that in your head.)

My writing about the current sky is redundant for this reason. It's not me being uncreative. We've been scrubbing tile floors with toothbrushes, energetically. It's annoying because it's annoying.

So literally we're being let out and shoved back in because Mercury goes retrograde in Pisces, so the mental focus is still there even if the work (Saturn) is elsewhere. I'd argue that there's still plenty to dwell on because (gestures to everything). The world moves on but we're standing around like "hey all this shit is still upsetting! hey!...hello?" My guess is that the Mercury retrograde will be covering some shit you forgot about that's Pisces-themed (where's Pisces in your chart? Look up the themes of that house) because you were busy being aghast. If you're still connected to human empathy, that is. For a handful of people, it might be about going back and relocating said empathy. I don't want to get people's hopes up too much for their loved ones who have succumbed to the lack of empathy, but the sheer amount of ambiguity in the sky right now does make this possible.

If I could play around with calendar time, I would chunk January - March 2026 into 2025, and then the rest of 2026 is different energy. In April, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune are (together—we will discuss this later because yikes) in Aries and at the end of April, Uranus ingresses into Gemini. Right now is different from two months from now. You don't have to believe me because you've spent the last many years with "No, PISCES!" whether you're aware of it or not. It doesn't seem like change is possible. That's still waking up after a bender energy. It'll fade.

Honestly, I do this a lot, where I look at the energy and think "no way" and then sure enough, energy moves to a new location and new location-specific activities crop up. So I do not ask to be believed, in large part because the combination of Neptune and Saturn in the sky makes the normal "Aries!!!!" into "Aries???" We'll get there. It'll settle. But right now don't beat yourself up if you can't focus fully on what you're trying to do, because the sky is still doing its "No, Pisces!" thing. You can try fighting the prevailing energy and insist on an Aries focus, but I wouldn't recommend that (especially because Saturn's not in Aries til the 13th, but it's not going to feel that way for a few months).

BTW: something I'm noticing about the Saturn-Neptune conjunction is the disappearance of coping mechanisms acquired during the Neptune in Pisces energy, where Saturn goes "lol that's not gonna work for you anymore, so how about you sit with your actual thoughts/shitty reality you were avoiding? how about that?" (See what I mean about annoying authoritarian parent?) So if you're experiencing this, it's not just you, it's just that people don't want to talk about this or admit it. It's actually a unique opportunity to get rid of emotional crutches and be real with yourself, but that requires some white-knuckling right now. I will say that with Saturn in Aries, fortune favors the bold, but you have to be an adult about it. Give it (sitting with yourself) a shot, though.