Astrologically, we are now in Solar Pisces Season — which means the rest of the world gets a much-needed taste of the All-Encompassing Piscean Emotion that many of us negotiate on a daily basis.
Currently: the Sun, Mercury and Saturn are all within the Sign of the Fish, where they will form an exact Triple Conjunction at 9ish degrees in a few days time (the Sun and Mercury will leave next month, soon to be replaced by Venus and then Mars). Up ahead, at 26 degrees, lies Neptune: making it four Planets in the Final Sign of the Tropical Zodiac.
Neptune in Pisces
Much (arguably too much, given the inherently self-fulfilling nature of Tropical Astrology in particular) has been said and made about the entrance of Pluto into Aquarius; perhaps we should be thinking more about the Collective implications of Neptune — the Master of Universal Empathy, Victimhood and Self-Sacrifice — passing through and exiting the final degrees of the Sign that it rules and becomes most vulnerable to Spiritual Transcendence and Martyrdom.
Why? Because yesterday, Aaron Bushnell offered his body up to the flames in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC. And one can only assume he won’t be the last Martyr to be made in this Season of Self-Sacrifice — before these Piscean Stelliums dissipate and Neptune itself moves into the Fire of Aries.
As any self-respecting Piscean Astrologer with Pluto in their 8th House should, I immediately checked the Stars to see what they had to say about this shockingly confronting and morbid act of political protest.
And, yet again, the Skyclock did not fail to deliver the true Archetypal Meaning of the current Traumatic Event.
The first thing to note is the Venus-Mars Square to Jupiter, which we are still in the peak of: where the Great Benefic’s qualities of Expansion and Higher-Mindedness are most in danger of slipping into Exaggeration and Holy Crusade. Pluto remains on the periphery, playing the discomforting role it excels in.
The best indication I could find for when this event occurred was mid-afternoon Washington DC time. I stopped the clock here at 3pm, which corresponded (of course) to the timing of the Transiting Moon (found in the 2nd House of the above chart) moving into Opposition with our aforementioned Neptune. You can see how precisely this played out in the Screen Recording below:
Moon-Neptune?
The Moon-Neptune Aspect: Heightened Sensitivity to Suffering; Drowning in Deceptive Feelings; The Emotional Need to be The Saviour.
And where was Neptune located, along with our soon-to-be-united Sun-Mercury-Saturn?
Neptune in the 8th House: Transcendence through Acceptance of Death; Extreme Depths of Spirituality; Guided by Deep Intuition and/or Voices; Dissolution of Boundaries of Self.
The kicker (and a fairly sharp reminder that Aspects we consider “good” in theory can manifest as anything but “good” in practice): the Moon also forming a Trine to Uranus, creating a Free-Flowing channel for Spontaneity and Disruption in the name of Liberation.
Also a sharp, and stark, reminder from the Heavens — fellow diggers — to be Conscious and Careful about the Holy Crusades we sign ourselves up for during this Season of Self-Sacrifice.
No new drum cover, this time — and even this Jupiter 2nd House Native has the Saturnian Discipline to not plug a Paid Service in such a moment.
What I do feel compelled to finish with is a post I made in the direct aftermath of October 7. It was inspired by a song written in 2016 by Gareth Icke — Son and Redeemer of OG Reptilian David — attempting to describe the reality of an innocent life lived in Gaza.
I wonder what he feels about the title, now that the Art — along with the Astrology — has become vividly manifest.
🙏 the msm writes that Bushnell was an active duty airman.
They left out that apparently he was also an artist. His fb & website were wiped, but they missed instagram. Pretty sure the photo in upper left is him:
https://www.instagram.com/aaron_bushnell/
I'm not on instagram so couldn't view the entire works. I did screen capture as much as I could so they won't be able to totally wipe him if they discover their mistake.
Off to put it in archives...
Oh, poor man, good-hearted man. Made me cry. How can I judge someone who gave everything for his beliefs? I am sad, and my own trials are more in perspective, as I am now hearing, after my Day of Despair the other day, more and more stories about individuals and their suffering... So my picture of Self in the World is greatly expanded.
xo Isaac