Apr. 1-15 MERCURY/VENUS/SATURN at the PISCES NORTH NODE

APRIL 1:

Meanwhile, Mercury Rx, Venus Rx and Saturn all conspire to rendezvous near the Pisces North Node… and this time Neptune is NOT in the picture…

The next month forces us into a period of raw retrospection, shredding that nonsensical, superficial logic to pieces and laying bare the clever little delusions we’ve talked ourselves into; stripping back the sugar-coating and showing the damned compromises, the shameful ways we’ve demeaned and undercut ourselves, the wily bargaining we’ve done in love, sold our souls for aesthetics, pimped our arse out for all it was worth. Saturn, brutally direct and unflinchingly cynical near the anaretic, acts as the unmovable pillar of all-seeing truth: enough with the bluffing—there are literally no more bargaining chips left.

Ouch, yeah… ’cause the old bullshit scripts won’t cut it, here, at the edge of the tired old ‘reality’. Nobody’s buying. We’re gonna be confronted by a whole new level of perspicacious transparency, reconstructing our world from the rubble of internal conflict, emotional ambiguity, and the slow, grinding demand to grow the fuck up. Integration requires dropping the masks.

What’s about to go down here is the wholesale pulling of psychic functions away from the props of external validation. Retrograde Mercury stationing near the Node shows that information and perception are being re-routed, digging up old assumptions and bullshit communication habits. Venus retrograde stationing on the Node is by no means a “romantic review”—it’s coming to terms with outdated values that no longer support evolution. While the North Node in Pisces speaks of surrender, it’s not the kind that lets us flounder. It’s the dissolution of false mastery. Saturn won’t let you weasel past the hard edge of personal responsibility.

Together, these forces create a triangulation of reckoning: a kind of “judgement day” that lasts two or three weeks, where your clever mouth can’t talk you out (Mercury), your cute arse-wiggling charm can’t sway you through (Venus), and you can’t delay the lesson (Saturn). Strangely, it’s dragging us inward—towards the quiet place where wisdom isn’t granted, but forged internally.

UPDATE: APRIL 4

That moment just before utter resignation can be agonising: you’ve poured your heart, sweat & tears, invested everything, taken every risk, pushed up every climb, and now you sense it can’t go on. You feel spent and bewildered on every level about what’s next—if there is a ‘next’—and how to proceed. It’s all pure instinct now, ’cause you’re damned if you can pin down the exact reason it all turned to crap.

You only know you once loved it—consumed it wholeheartedly—and now you’re struggling to stomach any of it, feeling weak, even a little sickened. Soon, you must decide whether you’ve got the guts to walk away or let it push you to the brink, where fate will surely find a way to disentangle you from ‘it’.

What is ‘it’?
Well… that’s complicated…
(you’d better sit down):

Either ‘it’ was the ultimate real deal and you failed to see that, or a big pile of lies and misconceptions (‘shit’ for short). You might have to accept that one of you must step aside and let the other be. All that shit needs to be expelled; expunged; excreted.

That’s the story, with Saturn reaching the butt-end of Pisces. If Pisces put the “S.H.” in IT, Saturn’s here to push it out, if ever so slowly. And think of Mercury/ Venus retrograding back from Aries as the slow-acting laxative suppositories helping to break that sh*t down.

UPDATE: APRIL 6

Two things are certain here:

1. This shitty relationship must end.
2. You will endure a period of depression.

*They’re not mutually exclusive or necessarily bound to any particular order.

Unlike clinical states of depression, where people are permanently stuck in an entrenched, persistent condition whose roots are deeply biological, psychological, and sometimes have mysterious genetic underpinnings, transitional or situational depression comes up as a direct reaction to an external stressor—like a toxic relationship or major life setback.

While it often improves once that trigger is resolved, a transiting depression, such as those felt during hard aspects of ♄/☊, ♄/♃, ♄/♆, ♄/, ♄/☽, usually throws out symptoms signalling you’re stuck in a situation misaligned with your deepest sense of self. Depression can be the spirit’s way of revolting against misconceptions and forced arrangements, demanding you strip back the layers of ego attachment and see what’s fundamentally sucking the life-force out of you, blocking you from being the best possible you that you can be. In this sense, it’s both an alarm and a compass—a stark message to reclaim your authenticity, recalibrate your context, or exit a suffocating pattern that’s ultimately preventing you from experiencing real psychological wholeness.

Two facts about the current situation:

1. It affects the entire planet.
2. You’re better off handling it alone.

* Sorry to use the expletive so much—there’s no other word for it.

** At least there’s a lifeline: The Mercury–Venus–Saturn pile-up (sorry) is sextiled by Uranus in Taurus, affording enough obstinate self-worth to enable a bold, resounding exit. The water trine from Cancer provides the gut-fuelled impetus for an almighty dump. Sure, every planet (except Venus) is in a mismatched sign here, and we’re all operating on the lowest common denominator—time to isolate that awkward remainder (maths analogy).

*** The Sun is exalted in Aries, and with the coming Full Moon in Libra (13 Apr), it’s make-or-break for any relationship dangling by a thread of impropriety.

• Mercury turns direct 26º49′ (Apr 7), enters Aries, Apr 16
• Venus turns direct 24º37′ (Apr 13), enters Aries, Apr 30
• Saturn enters Aries, May 25

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