Aerin Fogel || Queen Of Swords

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As we prepare to make our journey back to the surface now, Mercury ensures that we can forgive where we need to, but that we do not forget, carrying the charge of our memory back to the surface of life. 5/5

Here, we uncover some insight or understanding that cannot be accessed from the surface. Something that waits in the felt state, engulfing us in a deeper knowing that we cannot just walk to. Only grief can power those currents. 4/

Today we find those rivers in the floodgate of grief opening during this Mercury retrograde, rushing us along memories we didn't even know were waiting, in a sharp current of longing and nostalgia that carries us to the heart of the underworld. 3/

The underworld is reached through rivers, that carry us in and out of these treacherous and mythic realms. We cannot just walk there. 2/

Mercury meets the Sun today at 16º Pisces, marking the midway point of its retrograde period and the inferior conjunction that accompanies this moment. In the heart of this place, where Mercury has disappeared from visibility, an insight is uncovered from the invisible realms. 1/

Mercury cazimi got me feelin like I might f* around and start playing music again🪽

Mercury retrograde in Pisces as in the rivers of grief that enter and exit the underworld

We are all challenged in our own ways, and we leave imperfect imprints on the world. Somewhere along this axis is the concept of 'good enough,' where we learn to tolerate the almost unbearable love we feel for this vast world, while also bearing our mistakes and imperfections along the way. 5/5

The Virgo/Pisces axis also proves that this truth is not an unreachable standard of perfection. While we grieve the ripple effect of harmful choices made around us, we are also none of us perfect. Everything matters, but this is not a call to purity. 4/

The Virgo/Pisces axis proves that every tiny word and detail of our lives matter in the big picture. Every thought, action, and gesture can be an outpouring of compassion. Every tear shed in grief repairs the wound. Nothing is separate, and everything matters. 3/

This eclipse season has been heartbreaking for so many of us as we witness a fever pitch of tyranny, cruelty, and greed swirling through the world. What can this mean for our individual lives, those of us who care, and feel the effect of this harm? 2/

Today is the lunar eclipse in Virgo, ruled by retrograde Mercury in Pisces, and part of an unfolding series of Virgo/Pisces eclipses spanning from 2024 until early next year. 1/

This square tends to be reactive, so we will do well to channel that restless energy into something productive, and resist the temptation to fly off the handle or push back against others. It also signals some themes that we will revisit in early July when Mars and Uranus make their conjunction. 2/2

Mars squares Uranus, a heated and explosive aspect that can show up in our relationships and around us in the world. 1/2

So these three weeks are a time to pull back our energy and let ourselves swim in the waters of our uncertainty, our dreams, our deep feeling. 3/3

There’s been an intense force of change, exposure, and disillusionment all around us. Although we may be highly ready for this change, we still need space to feel our grief, as the old forms melt away. 2/3

Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces, conjunct Venus. This is the first of 3 Mercury retrogrades through the year, all taking place in water signs. So it’s about making space to process our feelings. 1/3

Gray and I chatting March astroweather over here!

What follows is unknown to us all, but we steer this ship together, guided by the strength of our resilience and the loud calling of the better world we know to be possible. 9/9

Occurring at 0º Aries, the very first degree of the zodiac, the call is urgent, radical, and unplanned. It is a birth happening before we are ready. It is an initiation into a chapter we did not sign up for. We answer the call, we enter the birth canal. 8/

Our effort must be wrested away from the iron grip of just surviving to pour ourselves into matters of the soul. In times of great disillusionment we inspire new agreements, in moments of great confusion we are forced to learn discernment, and in eras of creative imagination, new realities birth. 7/

But first we must accept the profound heartbreak and disillusionment, the sense of being utterly lost, the leaders that steered us wrong, the beliefs that are crumbling. We must let go of a clear direction, to plunge ourselves into an oceanic revision of our collective agreements and efforts. 6/

Our unending labours, putting one foot in front of the other and white knuckling our way through harsh times, are interrupted by a dream (see - I Have A Dream, Saturn Neptune square). 5/

These desires, to feel the unbearable joy of being part of something much greater than ourselves, desires for meaning, for the vastness of being, flood through our resigned acceptance. 4/

and we dare to long for something we previously found impossible, something maybe even painful to wish for as we stare at the current world around us. 3/

During Saturn Neptune collisions, the powerful tides of our dreaming consciousness erode the brittle structures we have erected. The walls crumble (see - Berlin wall, Saturn Neptune conjunction), 2/

Saturn and Neptune form an exact conjunction on February 20th, a slowly forming aspect that hasn't been exact since the late 80s. This is a profoundly significant renewal of Saturn and Neptune's decades-long cycle. As they meet, a 37yr chapter closes, and seeds are planted for a new chapter. 1/

Feels a bit surreal entering Pisces season without Neptune there! Kind of like our odysseys will be straight to the point, if not a bit random, and not so profoundly vast and unending