What remains is the ocean...
As students of astrology, we are taught not to pay too much attention to trines by transit - not compelling or challenging enough, not likely to bring real change. I beg to differ. Neptune on my Mercury means that the current Saturn Neptune trine is affecting me, walls looming out of the fog to catch me out, structures I was barely aware existed.
Watery energy is strong this year - Saturn in Scorpio trining Neptune in Pisces, forming a grand trine as Jupiter moves through Cancer. Mercury retrogrades in water signs, making us re-think how we express our feelings and connect to our intuitive minds. Emotions, imagination, instinct. For us airy types, these things do not come easily.
Ideally, Saturn trine Neptune is a time to manifest our dreams, to bring our imagination down to earth and make something tangible from it. But for me, Saturn is demanding that I plumb the watery depths, dredging up past hurts, old insecurities, all the negative patterns that too easily define us. It's painful, being forced to feel them again. But - and here is that helpful trine energy - I begin to flow through them, to let that old definition of self flow away for good. Under a square or an opposition by transit, the events of the last couple of months would likely have caused serious upheaval, maybe even broken my family apart. Happening as they did under a trine, I am left feeling more solid, more able to be in harmony with my true self, than I have done in a very long time.
Manifesting dreams, yes, it's coming, but you have to make space for
them first.
Last weekend we went to the sea, and I swam, letting the waves carry me. The only way to navigate the waters is to let go, to let the current take you and the feelings wash through you. The ocean is watery Neptune, but also salt, the preserving strength of Saturn. Trines by transit may not bring conflict, and the inevitable changes that result, the way a square or an opposition might, but they have a strength and compulsion of their own.
Watery energy is strong this year - Saturn in Scorpio trining Neptune in Pisces, forming a grand trine as Jupiter moves through Cancer. Mercury retrogrades in water signs, making us re-think how we express our feelings and connect to our intuitive minds. Emotions, imagination, instinct. For us airy types, these things do not come easily.
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| Water may appear to flow around solid structures, but it breaks them down nonetheless... |
Last weekend we went to the sea, and I swam, letting the waves carry me. The only way to navigate the waters is to let go, to let the current take you and the feelings wash through you. The ocean is watery Neptune, but also salt, the preserving strength of Saturn. Trines by transit may not bring conflict, and the inevitable changes that result, the way a square or an opposition might, but they have a strength and compulsion of their own.