By Barry Rosen
Mars entered Pisces on April 2nd and can stay there by way of Might eleventh. Usually I welcome this transit. Pisces is dominated by Jupiter, a pal of Mars, and the calming, religious vitality of the Fish tends to appease Mars’ hot-headed nature. However this 12 months, Mars is strolling right into a crowded room, and the corporate is intense.
Saturn is already sitting at 12-14 levels Pisces. Mars will conjunct Saturn precisely on April twentieth at about 13.5 levels, proper within the coronary heart of Uttarabhadrapada nakshatra, which is dominated by Saturn itself. When Mars meets Saturn, you get the warrior operating into the taskmaster. Saturn says decelerate. Mars says cost ahead. The friction between these two creates frustration, blocked vitality, and a sense that irrespective of how laborious you push, the world is pushing again.
Then Mercury joins the celebration. Mercury enters Pisces on April eleventh, getting into its signal of debilitation. Mercury in Pisces means our sharp analytical thoughts drifts into fog, instinct, and confusion. The problem deepens as a result of Mars and Mercury are bitter enemies in Vedic astrology. When these two journey collectively, the battle between appearing and pondering turns into nearly insufferable. Mercury conjuncts Mars precisely round April twenty first. From about April 14th by way of the twenty sixth, Mars, Saturn, and Mercury are all inside a number of levels of one another in Pisces. That’s lots of compressed, conflicting vitality in a single signal.
In the meantime, Rahu holds regular at 13 levels Aquarius in Shatabhishak nakshatra, spinning its standard webs of hysteria from simply subsequent door. Saturn and Rahu collectively are at all times creating psychological unease, and this month it’s possible you’ll really feel it greater than standard.
I’ve personally been by way of intervals like this, and once I discuss to my buddies and purchasers, I hear the identical factor: a way of misery that appears greater than the circumstances warrant. Persons are feeling caught, anxious, and overwhelmed. Well being challenges pop up. Monetary pressures appear to come back from nowhere.
Here’s what I need you to know: a lot of that is the planets doing their job. Saturn creates emotional and psychological fog that tugs at us however doesn’t at all times manifest as bodily issues. It begins in our head. Eckhart Tolle in The Energy of Now reminds us that 99% of the fears that manifest in our thoughts are phantasm and by no means really come to move. We’d like the attention from religious observe to step again and say, “There goes Saturn once more, creating ineffective fears.”
The trick this month is participating Mars for braveness whereas dismissing the rumbling unconscious anxiousness operating within the background. Mars in Pisces, regardless of the challenges, carries Jupiter’s calming, compassionate affect. The Uttarabhadrapada constellation is related to the clever outdated man, to the crown chakra, and to the fruits of religious data. That is deep water, however there may be treasure on the backside.
There may be excellent news. Venus enters its personal signal of Taurus round April twentieth, and Jupiter stays robust in Punarvasu nakshatra. If we search deeply, there may be an underlying core of wellbeing that we have now to carry onto. It’s there. Jupiter and Venus are someplace soothing the tough edges. We’ve got to faucet into that core and never purchase into the psychological worries that Saturn and Rahu hold spinning.
What to do that month:
Attain again and discover the sweetness and surprise in small issues. The flowering crops if you take a stroll in nature. The innocence of young children that reminds us of easy play and pleasure. The love of household and buddies. The paranormal magic of your religious observe.
Meditation is your strongest device proper now. If we don’t attain again and discover that lightness of being, we’re going to get gripped by Saturn’s grumbling and complaining. Train is crucial for transferring the Mars-Saturn frustration by way of your physique. Yoga, strolling, and any observe that grounds you bodily will assist enormously.
Deal with necessary communications and selections within the morning when Mercury’s debilitated fog is lightest. Keep away from making main purchases or signing contracts April 17-23 when all three planets are inside a number of levels of one another. Be affected person with misunderstandings; Mercury and Mars collectively make it very straightforward to say the mistaken factor on the mistaken time.
What can be can be. Discover these moments of affection and lightness to fall again on, or you can be doomed to the gnawing, complaining thoughts. Discover the sweetness of Venus, belief within the Divine, and transfer into grace.
We’re at all times given a alternative. Can we get caught within the concern that wishes to ship us over the cliff, or can we flip to the Divine and deal with all the nice issues which might be additionally occurring? I do know which alternative I’m making.
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Concerning the Creator
Barry Rosen has been working towards Vedic astrology since 1988. He has visited and studied in India on 4 events and has spoken quite a few occasions on the Sedona Vedic Astrology Convention since 1999 and in addition the British Affiliation of Vedic Astrologers in London since 2006. He has been concerned in Vedic tradition since 1973 and is a longtime meditation and yoga instructor and a printed poet.
Lately, he has been pioneering analysis in different areas of Vedic astrology together with Vedic Astro-locality, the consequences your present bodily location have in your chart, connecting astrology to hatha yoga for therapeutic functions and creating transformational therapeutic work to maneuver by way of karma and the religious dimensions of Vedic astrology. He’s a Neo-Vedic astrologer and makes use of the outer planets. He’s significantly excited by Jaimini astrology and the soul’s journey by way of the bodily world and its karma and function and has taken reside seminars in London with Sanjay Rath.
For questions, please contact Barry by e mail at: [email protected] or name Fortucast at 800-788-2796.