TRANSCRIPT Ep. 225 | A Venus in Pisces to Bear in mind

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Hiya, invisible good friend, April right here, and the date right now is March 11, 2024. Welcome to Episode 225 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast. This week: Quieter skies as we start to tiptoe towards eclipse season, which begins on the upcoming Full Moon. The Solar makes its annual conjunction with Neptune, Venus enters Pisces, and the Gemini First Quarter Moon provides a recent begin. And I reply a listener query about prenatal eclipses and the Lunar Node cycle.

Venus enters Pisces (March 11, 2:50 pm PDT)

Venus enters Pisces on March eleventh at 2:50 pm Pacific Time. It’ll be on this pretty signal by way of April 4th. Venus is the planet of what we love and want, and Pisces is one among its strongest indicators.

Venus signifies love, but it surely’s typically love of a really bodily nature, the love of cash and bodily possessions, love of intimate bodily connections, and there’s nothing fallacious with any of that. However when Venus is in Pisces, that love is elevated.

There’s a lecture I gave about Neptune in relationships, and I gave the instance of that scene in An Affair to Bear in mind with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant. The 2 play two characters who’re on a cruise. He’s an actual girls’ man, a rakish man about city. She’s a complicated cabaret singer. And so they develop a reference to one another, and you’ll see that they’re falling in love.

The ship comes into port in a stupendous little village the place Cary Grant’s character’s grandmother lives in a fascinating little villa. He takes Deborah Kerr with him to go to her, and she or he takes an on the spot liking to her grandson’s new good friend. There’s a scene the place Debra Kerr and Cary Grant’s characters are in a stupendous little chapel that the grandmother has on her property, and they’re kneeling collectively and misplaced in silent prayer.

There’s something about falling in love with somebody who is actually particular, somebody that goes to vary your life, who makes you a greater model of your self. And it’s one thing that feels particular and virtually holy. Whereas Venus is transferring by way of Pisces, love and the issues that we want have the potential to raise us, to get us extra in contact with the kinder, sweeter, extra poetic sides of ourselves, and to carry extra kindness and sympathy and a sure religious one thing to our closest relationships.

Solar conjunction Neptune (March 17, 2024, 4:22 am PDT)

On March seventeenth at 4:22 am Pacific Time, the Solar makes its annual conjunction with Neptune at 27º21’ Pisces, on the Sabian image 28 Pisces, A fertile backyard beneath the Full Moon. And I simply wished to say that in my final episode, when Mercury was connecting with Neptune on this identical diploma, I mistakenly recognized the Sabian image as a fertile backyard beneath a New Moon, but it surely really is a Full Moon, so much more tends to be revealed.

That is in all probability probably the most applicable planetary facets we might presumably think about for St. Patrick’s Day. Right here in the USA, St. Patrick’s Day is mainly a celebration of ingesting and an excuse for folks to essentially exit and get out of their heads for some time. And that’s, in some methods, what we affiliate with the Solar’s conjunction with Neptune, and even Mercury’s conjunction with Neptune, which we had final week.

I feel when Mercury and Neptune come collectively, it’s extra an examination of what we name ourselves. Mercury is a naming planet. It’s not a lot about who we’re, however extra in regards to the story we inform about who we’re. However the Solar’s conjunction with Neptune offers us the chance to, in some methods, submerge the photo voltaic self, our ego, our sense of who we’re, and as an alternative to reimagine it.

My husband and I’ve shared two units of cats collectively, and the naming course of for all of them was slightly prescient. One, we named Spike, and we named him Spike as a result of after we noticed him within the animal shelter, he was actually little, he had had mange, and his fur was very spiky, and earlier than we even touched him, we named him Spike. Nicely, as he obtained older, his fur turned stunning and smooth. However his persona grew fairly spiky!

The cat we named Bodhi turned out to be one among my biggest religious lecturers as I nursed her for 10 years with feline diabetes.

Now the cats now we have now, one is known as Toby. And that seems like a really unusual identify, however what’s humorous about it’s he has developed this predilection for biting my husband’s toes. Toe-by! The opposite one is known as Violet, and she or he is extraordinarily candy, however she may be very shy. She’s very skittish with folks she doesn’t know, which, after all, later it occurred to me, oh, after all, she is. She’s a shrinking violet!

The names that we give to animals and to individuals are very highly effective. They typically inform us one thing about who we’re, who we’re presupposed to be.

In order that was the standard of Mercury with Neptune. How does what we name ourselves decide what we develop into? However this photo voltaic facet with Neptune says effectively, do it’s important to be that? Is that your actual story, or only a story that you simply’ve given your self, or a narrative that others gave you, that has simply kind of lingered by way of the years?

When the Solar comes along with Neptune, it says, get past the identify, get past your look, your upbringing, your on a regular basis life and ask, who’re you actually? That’s what the Solar is actually attempting to find when it makes this annual conjunction to Neptune.

Gemini First Quarter Moon (March 16, 2024, 9:11 pm PDT)

And now for the Moon Report. And it begins with the Gemini First Quarter Moon on March sixteenth at 9:11 pm Pacific Time. It’s at 27º03’ Gemini and the Solar is at 27º03’ Pisces. I like the Moon’s Sabian image right here. It’s 28 Gemini, A person declared bankrupt. And it could sound slightly humorous for me to indicate such affection for that diploma.

However I prefer it as a result of it implies a recent begin. In case you’ve been declared bankrupt, it implies that your previous sins, your previous indiscretions, your previous unhealthy luck has been forgiven and you’ve got been given a recent begin.

The Pisces New Moon on March tenth may need left us feeling slightly bit caught in quicksand or in mattress and discovering it slightly troublesome to stand up and get out and have interaction with the world. Now, ideally, the Pisces New Moon is a cycle for therapeutic physique and soul, embarking on a religious path, but it surely doesn’t imply that now we have to remain inside for 28 days. And this Gemini First Quarter Moon pulls us out of the quicksand, away from bed, in order that we will start transferring on.

Gemini is dominated by Mercury, and it loves making lists. It’s additionally an indication of connections with others. So if someone asks you round this First Quarter Moon to exit and do one thing, to be extra social possibly than you’ve been recently, say sure. As a result of with a purpose to determine the large solutions to life, which is the factor that Pisces is actually fascinated with, we first need to ask some questions, have some new experiences, and domesticate curiosity and in all of these items, Gemini excels.

Simply bear in mind, at this First Quarter Moon, you don’t need to know all of the solutions. You simply need to ask loads of questions. And since the First Quarter is the time within the lunar cycle to take some form of motion, it’s easy. Simply ask a query, learn a e book, discuss to someone, and ask the form of questions you’ve gotten by no means thought to ask earlier than.

This First Quarter Moon additionally makes a pleasant facet to Mars in Aquarius. So, merely being in movement, and hopefully with teams of individuals, must be invigorating.

Lunar Part Household Cycle

That is the First Quarter in a lunar part household cycle that started on June seventeenth, 2023 with a New Moon at 26º43’ Gemini. Now, 9 months later, now we have a First Quarter Moon close to that very same diploma, and that implies that no matter it was you have been consumed with, fascinated with, intending, finally June’s New Moon, no matter it was you felt you would possibly need to think about for your self – now’s the time to provoke some motion. Not solely on what we have been fascinated with at the newest New Moon in Pisces, however what we imagined for ourselves at that June 17, 2023 New Moon.

9 months from now, the Full Moon on this identical Lunar Part Household Cycle, on December 15, 2024, will present us slightly extra about what was really initiated on the New Moon. After which 9 months after that, on the Final Quarter Moon close to this diploma, on September 14, 2025, we will take yet another closing motion to carry the entire issues of this lunar part household cycle to a satisfying conclusion.

Void-of-Course Moon Durations

Let’s discuss in regards to the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week. On March twelfth, the Moon in Aries sextiles Mars in Aquarius at 4:08 am Pacific Time. It’s Void of Course for almost an hour and a half, after which enters Taurus at 5:28 pm.

Sextiles carry alternative and the chance of this Void-of-Course Moon interval is to get used to making the most of conditions that provide spontaneity, and likewise to get within the behavior of preventing for the issues that actually matter to us, causes which might be near our coronary heart, conditions that make us or the folks we care about lower than free.

On March 14th, the Moon in Taurus sextiles Neptune at 3:29 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for almost 5 hours after which enters Gemini at 8:16 pm. Right here’s one other sextile facet, and the chance of this Void-of-Course Moon interval is to let go of patterns the place you end up floating alongside in damaging Neptune behaviors like denial or procrastination and never taking good care of life’s practicalities. It is a good Void-of-Course Moon interval for initiating new habits that target figuring out that steadiness between Taurus’s practicality and Neptune’s great creativeness and empathy.

And eventually, on March sixteenth, the Moon in Gemini squares Neptune at 9:43 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void of Course for about 5 hours, after which enters Most cancers on March seventeenth at 2:40 am. There’s a battle after we see the Moon in a sq. facet to a different planet. And the battle that begins this Void-of-Course Moon interval is {that a} busy thoughts, Moon in Gemini, could be at odds with contemplation, with meditation. A chatty tongue can generally be hurtful to people who find themselves very delicate. A want to be in all places directly could be seen as inconstancy and it may possibly break hearts. So, what we’re in search of throughout this Void-of-Course Moon interval is to interrupt habits that hold our minds and our tongues slightly too busy always and to domesticate habits that invite that Neptune expertise of being slightly quieter, slightly extra nonetheless.

Maybe this can be a Void-of-Course Moon interval for initiating some form of meditation follow or a prayer follow. To deal with simply stilling your thoughts and letting spirit rush in.

Listener Query: Prenatal Eclipses and Nodal Returns/Oppositions

On this week’s listener query, listener Taylor asks, “Why are prenatal eclipses so vital? And are they extra vital than nodal returns and oppositions? What can we anticipate throughout these instances, and the way can we finest use prenatal eclipses and nodal return intervals?”

Taylor, thanks a lot for that query. And since we’re nearly per week away from the start of eclipse season, it’s a good time to speak about prenatal eclipses, which I don’t assume I’ve ever really talked about on the podcast.

For anybody who’s unsure what a prenatal eclipse is, it’s merely an eclipse that happens previous to your beginning. There can be at the least one photo voltaic eclipse that occurred inside six months previous to your beginning, and infrequently a lunar eclipse as effectively. And for many births, that’s after we’re nonetheless within the womb. Poetically, I think about these factors are form of imprinted on us by way of our mom’s expertise of them after we’re within the womb.

In my eclipse report, Adopted by a Moonshadow, I cowl these factors and I examine this imprinting to little chickens who’re born recognizing the shadow of their pure predator, the hawk. This could be slightly dramatic, however I do assume that these prenatal eclipse levels are very delicate factors in your chart. And so they reply strongly to transits and to contacts from different folks’s charts. You would possibly discover that a few of the most vital folks in your life, the truth is, have vital planets or angles of their beginning charts which might be near the levels of your prenatal eclipses.

If a number of eclipses occurred inside six months previous to your beginning – it’s potential – all of them appear to be vital, however I feel in all probability the one closest previous to your beginning could be slightly extra delicate, however I’m not 100% positive of that. I undoubtedly would take a look at all of them.

Anyway, when these prenatal eclipse factors are activated, whether or not by a transit or in an interplay with one other individual, experiences pressure us to confront these instinctual fears or sensitivities. I feel that is very true when eclipses repeat at these identical levels. That occurs about each 19 years. So, across the ages of 19, 38, 57, 76, and so forth. I feel it’s additionally true when transiting eclipses oppose these prenatal levels. That occurs about each 9 and a half years or so. And it’s particularly noticeable if these prenatal eclipse factors have been linked with planets in your beginning chart and particularly planets which might be in troublesome facet.

So, Taylor, you requested, how can we reply to those instances in a useful approach? And with regards to the prenatal eclipse factors, the emotions that they awaken could be robust and form of irrational.

However I feel merely understanding the levels of your prenatal eclipses – and you are able to do that by simply getting the ephemeris, leafing again over the six months previous to your beginning, till you discover the eclipses. After which as soon as these levels, you’ll be able to determine when these are the factors which might be being activated and it’s an vital time then to take steps, to floor your self, to ask for slightly assist from folks you belief and general to keep away from panicking about issues that could be very strongly felt however considerably transitory.

I really feel the prenatal eclipse factors are literally actually vital. Returns and oppositions of the lunar nodes in your beginning chart are simply as vital. They’re simply completely different. They discuss with one thing within the beginning chart. So by definition, after your beginning. So, I feel they work slightly in a different way from the prenatal eclipses.

And since a Photo voltaic Eclipse can happen at a New Moon inside greater than 17º of one of many lunar nodes, and a Lunar Eclipse inside 11º. Eclipses and the Lunar Nodes don’t essentially even fall in the identical indicators in your beginning chart or throughout an eclipse season.

The cycle of the Lunar Node axis is eighteen years, and each 9 years the North and South Nodes commerce indicators. Proper now, as an example, the transiting North Node of the Moon is in Aries. 9 years from now, the North Node can be in Libra.

If we take a look at this axis as describing private and religious progress, lets say that the returns inform us that if we’re confronted with a state of affairs that threatens our sense of ease and safety, Then, really, that’s a great factor, and it’s a great time to maneuver forward and take motion towards the unfamiliar, which is represented by the North Node.

The South Node has form of a horrible status. I’m not a part of an astrological custom that views it as being fairly so evil, however the truth is, I feel the South Node, as a result of it represents what we all know effectively and what we’re very comfy with, it’s form of like a storehouse of those nice qualities and treasures that we possess. We simply need to keep away from hanging out within the South Node, as a result of if we do, then we don’t problem ourselves and we don’t develop.

On the Lunar Node’s transiting opposition, which is when the transiting North Node is on the natal South Node, I image the transiting Node making a cease at that storehouse of South Node riches, stocking up on them, after which carrying them ahead alongside our path again to the North Node, the place what we all know can assist us get extra comfy with the unknown that we’re attempting to embrace.

In order that, I feel, is what’s vital in regards to the prenatal eclipse factors and the transiting lunar nodes. Transits to the prenatal eclipse factors awaken our intuition that we could be in a state of affairs that’s probably dangerous or hurtful. As we get a bit older, I feel we be taught to guard ourselves in these conditions. And simply understanding when these transits are occurring is useful, as a result of it’s a sign to not panic, simply train applicable warning. And the nodal returns and oppositions are a sign to ensure we’re transferring ahead, and never simply hanging out in our security zone.

Taylor, I hope that that helps. Thanks once more a lot on your query. And for those who, Invisible Good friend, have a query you’d like me to reply on a future episode, simply depart a message of 1 minute or much less at SpeakPipe.com. Or, you’ll be able to e mail me at april (at) bigskyastrology (dot) com, and make sure you put the “podcast query” within the topic line.

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