I was going to begin my three-day weekend break from daily posting today, but the historic Neptune/Saturn situation — both moving from Pisces to Aries (Neptune March 31, precedes Saturn May 27), to then join together and remain nearly exactly conjunct, at 0-1° Aries, through August — just won’t let me go. This truly is a liminal moment in time. Reminds me of the fabled 1960s (1962-68) when long-cycled planets Uranus and Pluto joined together for the first time since the Civil War. I was in my 20s at the time; the mass unconscious process that infected society completely upended my boring life as a good girl/wife/mother/graduate student.
(Couple these historic shifts with tomorrow’s New Moon/(partial) Solar Eclipse in Aries, further cementing the shift from the old to the brand new; it appears we truly have been stirring the ashes of what we’re leaving behind only to plant the seeds of what is to come. NOW!)
Okay, back to Neptune/Saturn.
I tend to find Maureen Richmond’s astrological posts extremely well articulated, and especially appreciate that she has absorbed pioneering humanistic astrologer Dane Rudyhar’s recognition of the cyclical nature of time into her very bones. And it’s not just one time cycle, but as many as can be said of anything ephemeral that can be nailed down as having begun at one particular moment in time. Which means, astrologically: the fullness of meaning embedded in the time/space arc of any planet, as well as any astrological conjunction cycle between two planets, can be discerned, or at least contemplated, upon reflection, for both individuals and within the slowly evolving zeitgeist.
Or to put it another way: each of us a sovereign soul (Aries) at one with all (Pisces).
Or yet another: both our own individual lives (Aries), and the mysterious unconscious mind that unites us all (Pisces), are in motion.
Aside: had I not discovered Rudyhar’s profound understanding of astrology as an ever-widening framework to include the multitude of disjointed events, themes, and relationships in my own unusually peripatetic life, I would not have been able to consciously appreciate the ever-deepening, ever-penetrating layers of meaning I can now, at 82 years of age, ascribe to that life!
So here we are, with both Saturn and Neptune approaching ground zero, the brand new beginning at 0° Aries, but seemingly stuck, for awhile now, in the final, foggy, soggy degrees of Pisces. There could not be two signs as different in kind as Pisces and Aries! Ignitiatory fire arises from fertile, impregnated water. BOOM!
Maureen Richmond
2025: The End of An Era
Excerpt:
Independent of geopolitical stresses arising from international tensions and changes in political administrations, the psychospiritual effects of planetary cycles affect human psychology from beyond the world of appearances.
Though the mainstream media would most assuredly have the public believe differently, the cause of such feelings is not primarily political. Donald Trump, the abolition of federal agencies, the mass laying off of federal employees, the deportation of non-citizen persons, the involvement of Elon Musk in government audit, and mistakes in the use of chatting apps, though assuredly disturbing to at least 27% of the American population, do not rise to the level of true metaphysical cause. Instead, these recent events are simply effects of greater influences and not causes in and of themselves.
What does drive these feelings of collapse, loss, and sorrow is a very real astrological situation. It’s the fact that three profoundly powerful astrological cycles terminate in this year of 2025. In order of strength and power of punch, they are: 1) the 36-year Saturn-Neptune cycle, 2) the 14-year transit of Neptune through Pisces, and 3) the 2 ½ year transit of Saturn through Pisces, all of which begin to terminate in 2025.
Read through the entire post. Well worth it. Includes an unusually clear elucidation of Rudyhar’s insight as to the cyclical nature of time, when viewed through the multidimensional lens of astrology.
