The Exalted State

Venus in Pisces (March 11, 2024, 2:50 pm PDT by way of April 4) finds her within the signal of her exaltation, that means the goddess of affection does a few of her perfect work on this otherworldly signal.

Have you ever ever recognized somebody who falls profoundly in love and all of the sudden turns into non secular, or a minimum of non secular? There’s a scene within the Cary Grant model of An Affair to Keep in mind that illustrates this properly. Grant performs a good-looking playboy who meets a beautiful nightclub singer, performed by Deborah Kerr, on a cruise ship – there’s Neptune for you! Over the course of the voyage, their intelligent and witty flirting results in deeper emotions.

The ship comes right into a port the place Grant’s saintly, ageing grandmother lives in a fascinating villa on a hill. He takes Kerr with him to go to his aged relative, who’s portrayed as virtually a saint. The 2 girls after all bond (an indication that Kerr is certainly particular) and finally we see Kerr and Grant kneeling collectively prayerfully within the little personal chapel on the property. It’s a sign to the viewers that their bond isn’t just flirting, not simply play, not simply bodily attraction – that are Venus’s calling card – however one thing non secular, and holy.

Falling in love with somebody – love, not simply obsession or lust – brings us into an exalted state, one through which one’s greatest self meets the best qualities of one other. We see the easiest of this individual, and we turn into higher variations of ourselves. Should you see a relationship or marriage of a few years through which the couple nonetheless maintain palms in public and say good issues behind one another’s backs, you’re wanting on the sweetest expression of Neptune.

Past the Story

The Solar’s annual conjunction with Neptune (March 17, 2024, 4:22 am PDT) could also be one of the acceptable planetary points we might probably see on St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day right here in america is principally an excuse to exit and get out of your head for some time. And that’s, in some methods, what we affiliate with the Solar’s conjunction with Neptune – or with Mercury’s, which occurred final week.

When Mercury and Neptune come collectively, it’s time to look at what we name ourselves. Mercury is a naming planet, and it’s not a lot about who we’re, however concerning the story we inform about who we’re. The names that we give to animals, to folks, are very highly effective. They typically inform us one thing about who we’re, who we’re purported to be. My husband and I’ve realized this by way of naming our cats. One, we named Spike, as a result of after we noticed him within the animal shelter, he was a tiny little factor and he had had mange, and his fur was very spikey. As he received older, his fur grew to become stunning and modern, however his persona grew fairly spikey! Bodhi turned out to be one in every of my nice non secular lecturers as I nursed her feline diabetes for ten years. Our present cat, Toby, has developed this predilection for biting my husband’s toes – Toe-by! And as for candy little Violet, she’s very loving with us however very shy and skittish with virtually everybody else. Which made me later understand that, after all: she’s a shrinking Violet!

So that’s Mercury with Neptune. However the Solar’s conjunction with Neptune provides us the chance to, in some methods, submerge our photo voltaic self, our ego, our sense of who we’re, and as an alternative to reimagine it. The Solar’s side with Neptune says, properly, do you have to be that? Is that actually your story, or a narrative from the previous, one which others gave you years in the past that has simply form of lingered?

When the Solar comes along with Neptune, get past the title, get past your look, your upbringing, your on a regular basis life, and ask: Who’re you actually? That’s what the Solar is absolutely making an attempt to find when it makes this annual pilgrimage to Neptune.

Contemporary Begin

The Gemini First Quarter Moon (March 16, 9:11 pm PDT) is at 27º03′ Gemini. I like its Sabian image, 28 Gemini: A person declared bankrupt. It might sound somewhat bit humorous for me to point out such affection for that diploma. However I prefer it as a result of it implies a recent begin. Should you’ve been declared bankrupt, it means your previous sins, your previous indiscretions, your previous dangerous luck, have been forgiven and you can begin over.

Within the wake of the March 10 Pisces New Moon, it wouldn’t be stunning to really feel caught in quicksand or discovering it somewhat bit troublesome to get away from bed and have interaction. However the Pisces New Moon cycle, whereas efficient for therapeutic physique and soul, doesn’t require staying inside for 28 days. This Gemini First Quarter pulls us out of the quicksand, away from bed, and will get us shifting – towards the intentions of the current Pisces New Moon, but in addition these of the June 17, 2023 New Moon close to this First Quarter diploma.

Mercury-ruled Gemini is a connecting signal. If you’re requested round this First Quarter Moon to be extra social than you’ve gotten been currently, say sure! As a result of with a purpose to work out the massive solutions to life, which is a factor that Pisces is absolutely interested by, it’s essential to first ask some questions, have some new experiences, and domesticate curiosity. In all of these issues, Gemini excels.

Simply do not forget that you don’t must know the entire solutions. You simply must ask loads of questions. And since the First Quarter is the time within the lunar cycle to take some sort of motion, that motion may be so simple as studying a guide, or asking somebody the sorts of questions that you’ve got by no means thought to ask earlier than.

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