The month that ushers in the spring, begins with the goddess of love in her “milk of human kindness” sign, compassionate Pisces. Venus encourages us to be in love with everyone, unconditionally, from February 26th to March 20th, 2021--the day of the Spring Equinox when the Sun enters Aries.
Deeply empathic love with Venus in Pisces is accompanied by a penetrating and necessary look at some intense feelings that have been hiding beneath our masks. Our own unmasking is voluntary--and is courtesy of the lord of the underworld, Pluto, who will provide the spyglass for an up close look at our own personal hell (no need to take a trip there!).
Letting go of the past with love and compassion is the help we will get from Venus in Pisces.
Now, let’s think about Darth Vader. He’s an archetypal image of Pluto at work. A character who is dark and deadly and mysterious, until he is unmasked. Then we see the scars of pain and suffering that caused him to turn away from the light.
Powerful Pluto, aka Hades, will spend four months apparently motionless at 28 degrees Capricorn: March, April, May and June of 2021 (Pluto turns retrograde April 27th).
From our perspective on Earth, Pluto appears to be at a standstill. It’s an optical illusion that we call “retrograde.” The effect is like a laser beam, drilling through rock and dirt to reach what is hidden underground. That stuff we’d rather not think about, like trauma, death, disease, that we have relegated to our unconscious minds where we imagine our fears are buried--out of sight, out of mind.
And if we also put our ear to the ground, if we listen with our intuition, we can hear the hissing as the veil of fear burns and hatred dissolves. We’re setting fire to old, even ancient, abuses of power.
Find resonance with the right use of your personal power. Call out your tiny obnoxious dictator, the monkey mind who writes and directs all your nightmares. Ignore the screaming. It is not an indicator of size or power or strength. Yelling is a puff-up. The ego inflating itself with hot air.
The archetypal lord of the underworld stirs the cauldron of chemical change. Truth is, Pluto’s hell is actually the place of transformation--if we are willing to let the past go. Then we see that nothing is left except the love we gave and the love we received.
Messenger Mercury bows his head in prayer on March 15th, 2021, when he sails on the waters that dreams are made of, oceanic Pisces.
Prayers rise to heaven from every open mind when Messenger Mercury catches up to visionary Neptune on March 29th. A beautiful day for a daydream, but you will have to furnish some boundaries for your imagination so that you don't build castles in the air. Or rather, you don't build castles in the air that you believe are real.