Submerge and Emerge

Most of us have been overwhelmed with the feeling of drowning. Even if some we escaped that feeling, I imagine most of us are waterlogged at best.  The Sun has moved into the fire sign Aries today, a scant 2 days after we step into spring. Today we have begun the process of emerging from the watery spell that the Sun in Pisces, and the Neptune transit in Pisces has held us under.

 Mercury, the planet of communications and travel has been retrograde in Pisces as well, where we hear things in a vague echo and communication from the outside world is hazy at best. Very often we make up what we hear, just to make some sense of what is going on around us. The powerhouse planet of aggression and war, Mars has been in deep hiding, Retrograde in service oriented Virgo. I would think comparing Mars to a POW would be an apt description; being forced to serve and be still when all we really want to do is escape.

It has been a strange place for many of us. While we may have been in a fugue state, we have also been more intimate with ourselves than before. In this space, we are forced to confront the things we dare not speak. We have been trapped in our subconscious. We can’t hide from it, no matter what we do. It is in this place that we see what we hide from, and realize how our hidden fears and feelings are like stones in our pockets while we struggle to stay afloat. If we focus on our hopes and dreams, we will find that we can bob along happily in this place.

 Now please understand, this is not all bad.  This time of being under water and of feeling slow and as if every single thing we do is a major undertaking presents us with two options: A, we can drown, go under and let ourselves get lost. Or B. treat this time as the process of being in the enriching waters of being encased in a womb, quietly floating and waiting for the moment to be born.  If we have chosen option B, we are invigorated from our time in the spiritual world’s version of a spa retreat.

If you haven’t felt the magnificent push of being reborn or woken up in some significant way, then I believe that you will very soon.  The Sun in Aries demands action, truth and of being present in the moment. We will be compelled to discuss what we discovered in our time in Pisces. We will be compelled to discuss the things that we are afraid of, and of what shames us and makes us hide. We will have the deepest need to discuss our most fervent hopes and dreams.

However, we won’t feel the full effects until after the second week in April where Mars and Mercury are both direct.  Mid April on will be a wild ride indeed…but that’s for another entry.

Swim well my friends…