Saturn Enters Pisces
March 7, 2023 – Feb. 13, 2026
Pluto First Enters Aquarius
March 24 – June 10
(It will go back and forth from Capricorn to Aquarius until Nov. 20, 2024)
The End Times
New Beginnings
This most important time in our history of life on earth marks the end of an age in human history that has led us exactly to where we are now. It is a time of gestation and formation in the “waters of life” that will result in the birth of the embryo of the new age to come. We have no idea whatsoever what the child of this new era will look like.
The old formats for our lives are disappearing – governments, institutions, religions, countries, and continents, are being swept away in the floods, storms, droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and a kind of insanity gathering in the minds of men and women consumed in fear and hysteria — because they often no longer know who they are or to whom they can turn to for guidance and assurance. Since they cannot depend upon the outside, they either crumble and give up or – look deeply within themselves – sense a greater reality, and something just beginning to form – a new miracle of life. Once this discovery is made, peace descends. We only need to take care of ourselves and allow the process to take place, knowing that birth will take place that may exceed all our expectations. We are compelled to believe in miracles!
Global Tectonics and Climate Change:
We have already witnessed extreme expressions of climate change, as record-breaking high temperatures and severe droughts have arrived in the Global South, accompanied by severe and more frequent hurricanes in the coastal areas. The Polar Vortex has been pushed south as temperatures have risen at the North Pole, pushing cold and moisture south, which accounts for the severe Winter in the Northeast we have recently experienced. It has been recently reported – “A sudden stratospheric warming is coming, collapsing the Polar Vortex and potentially the weather into early Spring.” The massive earthquake in Syria and Turkey (the worst in 200 years) has cost over 40,000 lives and counting. In March, Mars is square Neptune that is conjunct Mercury between March 10 – 16th, signaling severe storms, flooding, and tectonic instabilities.
In the years to come, coastal cities all over the world will be flooded and dry hot regions will turn into deserts, becoming uninhabitable. In my opinion, we will have nuclear fusion ready to go in various sites throughout the world and will end the Age of Fossil Fuel. This will be a great breakthrough but will come too late for many nations.
When Saturn conjuncts Neptune at the last and critical degree of Pisces in January 2026, it is likely that a serious natural event such as a tsunami/earthquake will mark a turning point in history as to how we respond to global environmental crises. Pisces is a sign that presides over liquids – water, oil, chemicals – all of which will have to be managed, conserved, cleaned up, and even eliminated from use, as all life on our planet faces extinction.
At this time, we are watching mass migrations of literally millions of people who can no longer live in their nations of origin because they are either under water, or turned into deserts. Often their governments have collapsed into corruption and violence. Haiti may qualify as the worst of these nations as they have been hit by multiple earthquakes and storms over the past decade and its government and economy have violently collapsed.
Humanity as a Species:
Humans are composed of Hobbits, Heroes, Geniuses, and Deranged Violent Killers. If an alien from another galaxy came to visit us, he would be hard-pressed to describe us to her relatives back home. We seem programmed, at times, to self-destruct and at other times to literally save the world. The ancient symbol for Gemini, the sign of the twins, contains legends and stories about brother against brother – Cain killing Abel, the “good twin and the bad twin”, leading to competition for resources – leading to tribal wars leading to world wars.
The “Lucifer Principle” as described by biologist and author Howard Blume highlights a need in nature for a dominant (Alpha) leader (usually male) present among animals and humans that “leads the pack” to hunt its dinner and defend itself against being another pack’s dinner. It seems as if this ancient system is leading to our over-consumption, greed, and willingness to kill each other. It has led to 20th and 21st-century dictators possessing weapons of mass destruction and threatening all life on earth. Somehow, the process of evolution in humans has often subsumed the need for critical thinking, cooperation, and sharing of power and resources. Russia’s attack and invasion of Ukraine revisit the willingness to destroy the lives of millions in a power and resource grab.
Another serious problem for human civilizations is the proneness to join destructive and dangerous “cults” (Saturn rules structure and Neptune rules “faith”). Born out of personal failures, despair, and a loss of a cultural connection to society, family, and friends, disillusioned people will often look to submit to and worship a religious leader who frequently takes them down the path to suicide. This pathway often leads to “hate crimes” we have witnessed far too often. The Jim Jones cult that committed mass suicide in Guyana, the Branch Davidians that went down in Waco, Texas, and the Heaven’s Gate group who committed mass suicide to join a UFO all come to mind. The latter two rose and fell during the last transit of Saturn in Pisces (1993-1996). The current transit of Neptune in Pisces (Feb. 2012 – Nov. 2025) highlights the current movement of extreme “right-wing” Protestantism into the wings of the US government mandating new anti-birth control and anti-abortion rights — extreme violent Islamism throughout the Middle East — Prime Minister Bodi in India declaring India to be an entirely Hindu state — and Israel declaring itself to be an entirely Jewish nation.
Pisces is a sign that craves spiritual enlightenment, elevated consciousness, emotional clarity, and peace. It also is a sign of “addiction” that craves the “high” at all costs, even at the expense of its own life. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, and even social media seems to lead many down the path to suicide. The leading cause of death in people ages 18 to 45 is overdosing. Just this year alone, 100,000 people have died in this way!
As terrible as all this is, it is a wake-up call to all of us who sincerely wish to change this tide, join the “fish” in the sign of Pisces that swims upward toward the light; support the artists, musicians, compassionate leaders, geniuses whose spirit and insights may contain the seeds of our salvation. Pisces suggests humanity has the possibility of experiencing the greatest ideas through its transcendence through space and time to a greater reality that may be awaiting us in the eternal “now.”
The War:
Dejavu all over again?
Since the end of WW11, the US built up an enormous “military-industrial complex”, initiated the “Cold War” against the spread of global Communism (primarily Russia and China) resulting in a build-up of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and built the greatest economy in the world. We now recognize that we tragically involved ourselves in the Korean War resulting in the creation of No. and So Korea, with serious hostilities to this day, overstepped our boundaries in the tragic Vietnam War and interfered in civil wars in South America and the Middle East. It all culminated in our invasion of Iraq creating a war that was shown to have nothing to do with the 9/11 terror attack (which was executed by Osama bin Laden, a rogue Saudi) and initiated the destruction of the “balance of power” in the region. Americans are now aware of these disastrous foreign policy decisions leading to military involvement.
In so many words, we are, again, facing an invasion in Europe — the War in Ukraine – invaded by Russia’s Putin, arguably similar to Germany’s Hitler invasion of most of the European nations in WW11. China is an “ally” of Russia, they want to take back Taiwan which we are committed to protecting, and it has recently been revealed they are sending weapons to Russia. We must remember that we only got into the war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. All great wars are started in order to invade and control resources, mainly farmland, oil, gas, minerals, and rare earths. The ruthless sociopaths and dictators of the 20th Century headed up these nations. We must remember that democracy failed in Germany when the Nazis took control. Americans, like in the 1930s are wary of involvement in another war in Europe. Some people believe that if we had stopped Hitler early on, we might have prevented the war. This is the interpretation and resultant policy of the Biden Administration. Putin recently announced he is now backing out of the decades-long arms control nuclear pact with the US.
The transit of Uranus has returned to its position where it was June 1934 – May 1942. We won WW11 while Uranus transited Gemini (June 1942 – June 1949). History rhymes! The array of powerful slow moving planets on the horizon point to massive changes. Science and technology can move us into a great era of human civilization or enable us to build weapons that will destroy human life on earth. Uranus in Gemini is in our natal horoscope of the American Revolution (July 4, 1776), transited Gemini during the Civil War, and, as shown above, was in Gemini in WW11. Pluto is entering Aquarius this year and Neptune will enter Aries in April 2025. We now have weapons of even more massively destructive capabilities and the US, Russia, and China have multiple satellites orbiting the earth. Pluto in Aquarius will highlight movements to institute and conserve Democracy, as this transit was there when the US won the Revolutionary War and the French Revolution abolished their monarchy. It will move over the ascendant of the chart of China, motivating the Chinese, who have benefited from Western democracies, to overthrow its own government. The present government may get into a world war in order to divert the attention of its population away from this movement.
Saturn in Pisces will sextile Jupiter in June this year may give us a way to make a deal to end this war. Pres. Biden’s chart shows struggles with his health. Pres. Franklin Roosevelt had serious problems with his health during WW11, resulting in his death before the war ended. History rhymes again.
Humanity’s fate rests in its hands. Will it be extinction or evolution?
The Economy:
March 12 through March 24 as Mars finishes its transit in Gemini, square Neptune, and inconjunct Pluto, there will be serious uncertainties as to where stocks are going to land and just what federal policies will be. Instead of an outright recession, we may be in an economy that is in the “misty flats.” Questions will be raised as to the “insanity” of Bitcoin and there may be an effort by the government to regulate it. The insatiable greed of large corporations to make money on the internet at all costs is leading us to a path of regulation that should have been there in the first place. The Chinese have been “hacking” our sites and stealing data for years (remember the hacking of Equifax and Marriott) and we are now quite familiar with Russia’s creating “dark sites” to influence politics in the US. Cybersecurity should be at the forefront.
Social media is now being credited with seriously hurting the psyches of our young people and addicting them to their cell phones. Information will come out this month that may lead to laws and regulations limiting and protecting commerce and usage of the internet. The last week of March contains a tone of optimism for markets as Mercury transits Jupiter and is semi-sextile Uranus. Between now and June, the expensive housing market and ideas about creating “affordable” housing will be explored.
Science & Technology:
In the February Issue of Scientific American, an article was published entitled “The AI Biologist” by Tanya Lewis. We are all in awe of the potential of AI, but too often are unaware of what it may or may not do for us, other than storing massive amounts of data and winning games of chess. One of the biggest problems in medical diagnosis is “figuring out a protein’s structure, or solving the “protein folding problem”. The article goes on to report: “But last year, an artificial intelligence program called Alpha-Fold, developed by the Alphabet-owned company DeepMind, predicted the 3-D structures of almost every known protein – about 200 million in all.” This article is worth reading in its entirety as this breakthrough opens the door for applications that range from expanding our understanding of basic molecular biology to accelerating drug development.
Another interesting article in this same issue is entitled “Life as we don’t know it” by author Sara Scoles. It explores how life on other planets could express itself differently than what we know about life on earth. “Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.” As we hope to explore other planets as the future dawns, it will be interesting what we find. Interestingly, recently we have discovered another solar system with a possibly habitable planet named WOLF 1069 that orbits its solar system’s “habitable zone.”
NVIDIA has announced its AI system is complete. This is the biggest jump in progress since the advent of PCs and the Internet. AI will eliminate calling stations and hundreds of thousands of jobs serviced by human labor. Pluto in Aquarius points to enormous advancement. As usual, we will have to adjust to a change of this magnitude.
Jimmy Carter
Former President, Jimmy Carter, at age 98 years, is now at the end of his journey here on earth. A Libra, he is one of the great humanitarians, noted for global peacemaking, fair and safe voting, and economic equality of opportunity. For most of his life, he was a supporter of Habitat for Humanity by working with his own hands, and, as President, was way ahead of his time in promoting alternatives to fossil fuel energy, solar panels, and windmills in the 1970s during the energy crisis. In my opinion, he stands out as a human being for his sincere belief in equal rights and respect for all races, women’s rights, and the highest aspirations of Christianity – the principles of love and forgiveness which he taught in Sunday School every week for most
of his life in Plains, Georgia where he lived most of his life. We will all feel his loss.
Final Thoughts:
As we begin to experience, once again, the transit of Saturn in Pisces, we could be well served to explore the sign of Pisces within ourselves – the beautiful, spiritual, musical soul forever searching for itself. The words that most describe the experiences with this sign are – journeyer, explorer, wanderer, and searcher for enlightenment. Being the most sensitive and empathetic of all the signs, Pisces is capable of kindness and understanding and, at the same time, must protect itself from feelings of being overwhelmed or drowned by the “ocean of troubles” that follows humanity everywhere.
Society likes to “define” us by our current professions or carefully formatted direction. The wise Pisces knows better. The sign of the Fish is always moving with the waves and waters of life – one upward into brilliant light, and the other down into the realms of sadness and despair. Some “escape” into drugs, searching for that “high” that eventually leads to seeming nothingness. Others are endlessly curious as they read, paint, dance, write, and pray – always knowing that openness to all things leads to many experiences that could not have even been imagined before.
Pisces knows “the secret” that all things are possible – that even after so-called death, existence never ends – that we will be very different tomorrow than we are today. We could all do well to pay attention to the siren song of Pisces as we navigate through these challenging, mysterious, and ever-changing times.
Stay tuned!
Linda
Important Points of Reference for Astrologers:
Full Moon in 16 degrees Virgo trine Uranus March 7; New Moon at 00 degrees Aries March 21, Saturn goes into Pisces March 7 and will transit this sign until Feb. 13, 2026; Mercury goes into Pisces March 3 and is conjunct Neptune and square Mars March 16; Venus goes into Taurus March 17, is sextile Saturn March 18, and is conjunct Uranus March 30; Mercury goes into Aries March 19, and is conjunct Jupiter March 27; Pluto goes into 00 degrees Aquarius March 24 (and retrogrades back into Capricorn June 11); Vernal Equinox (Washington, DC) March 20, 5:25 PM EDT.
