From the Water to the Fire: Saturn, Neptune, Venus, & Mercury Carrying New Seeds of Perception
When we look at the news, it doesn't seem like a Mystery, does it? More like a nightmare. Yet all that's happened in the last 25 days has been so swift and surreal that when we step back, nothing is more clear than the fact we're not in ordinary time. We're in the time of reality shift.
This week's full moon -- and the three squares of Uranus to Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon in the three days leading up to it -- was the shock wave that catapulted us deeper into reality shift than we've ever been.
This morning, our tiny Messenger planet entered the dream fields of Pisces. This happens every year, but never again in our lives like this — with Saturn and Neptune, Reality and the Dream, not only within the 10’ orb of conjunction for the first time in over 300 years, but just one year and six days away from exact conjunction in the Degree of Creation, the Aries Point.
Exactly one year from yesterday, Saturn will enter Aries for the second time, after retrograding back into Pisces in September 1 — and Neptune will be waiting. For six days in February 2026, Reality will move closer and closer to Dream. On February 20, they will merge their frequencies into something new and never-before, in 0’46” Aries.
It will be their first conjunction there since 1742 BC.
Between now and then -- beginning on March 30, just 44 days away -- all four giant planets will change signs within three months and one week. No one knows the last time this happened. But all the signs point to a turning point that is civilizational.
Everything I have learned in my 40 years of stargazing tells me that the Universe is not static and unchanging, but dynamically evolving -- and that we are in no way separate from it, but woven right out of it, and right into it. That tells me that we too, are evolving -- and that these unprecedented times are an evolutionary cauldron, alchemizing us into the ones we came here to be.
Both parts of this are a lot, and receiving them both, as deeply as we're able, feels life-changing. We came here for this. We took birth for this experience that would change us, and for the deep acceptance that activates that wondrous, terrifying, utterly mysterious of allowing reality to change, as us, in us, and through us.
Like just about everybody born between 1950 and 1958, or between 1979 and 1983, or 1990 and 1995, this week's full moon made a nearly exact connection to my own Pluto. Next month's eclipses will fall close -- by conjunction or sextile -- to the Pluto's of those born between 1941 and 1950, and between 1965 and 1978. We're all getting a summons to the depths where our unclaimed transformative power is waiting.
It's no random accident that two weeks from tomorrow, Venus stations retrograde in Aries, and begins her own underworld journey. That's the oldest story in the world, etched onto clay tablets found buried in the desert that was once Sumeria. It's a suprisingly contemporary story. In many ways, Inanna was much like us -- privileged yet powerless. Her improbable underworld journey -- never before dared by anyone, and made by a naive young woman who had no idea what she would face -- brought her face to face with a pathetic reality at the heart of the evil she met (her sister, the Underworld Queen, was too wounded by her refusal to release a dead baby from her womb to embrace life) and also with the fiercely indestructible life force in her own being.
When she left the Underworld, Inanna was forever changed, and no longer powerless. It was Inanna -- the first name of Venus -- that Ntozake Shange channeled when she wrote "I found god in myself / and I loved her / i loved her fiercely" in her unforgettable 1975 play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
When Neptune enters Aries on March 30 -- just 44 days away -- Venus will still be in the Underworld. We won't see her, but she'll be carrying a seven-day old seed of a new and never-before way to embody the reality-changing power we call love, full of all the ground-breaking power of Aries. And so will you, Nicole.
Mercury, too, will be carrying a new seed of perception.
In myths from cultures around the world, it is the feminine who transforms -- who lets herself be changed. Even today, as Mercury is squaring the Edge Goddess Sedna, the Creatrix is letting herself be changed. Sedna's medicine is that of shift -- from patriarchal victim to life-regenerating goddess of the great ocean that holds us always.
Sedna’s reality-transforming medicine is allowing. It’s letting go. It’s receiving. With that square she’s making to Mercury, she’s breaking new ground for your perceptions. She’s showing you how to shape shift — and become medicine.
You’ll hear me talk a lot more about this -- and the potency of the days ahead -- on my newsletter and if you schedule a reading with me.
Luna enters her waning gibbous phase tomorrow, and on both Tuesday and Wednesday, she'll still be there. That's an unusually long gibbous phase -- when speaking what is true for us becomes a creative force. The truth that carries that creative power of the waning gibbous is not the truth that you knew last month, and the month before that. It's the truth of now, fresh-minted from your beating heart, and Luna's telling us that it's the world needs most.
What else could possibly open the heart of this world so deep in metamorphosis but that?