Please have a look at my current Nova article: Click HERE (in retrospect I am quite impressed with the writing even if I might be a little biased!) for an overview of the month. Some of you with a lot of fire and water in your charts will relate to some of the challenges of having those two elements very prominent and to a certain extent, working across purposes to each other.

Uranus square Pluto (or, oh no, not again!)

This is the heavy duty transit that rocked most of our worlds from the years of 2011 to 2016 with six or seven exact peaks over those years producing deep and radical change. And even though the two of them are far from exact, 5° apart in fact, you look around the world to see how this crazy and unpredictable dynamic is still playing out, especially if you look at the behaviour of some alleged world leaders.

History shows that whenever some leader’s ego and/or wounding gets entangled with this kind of radically dangerous dynamic, then the potential for disaster is high.

On an inner level however, this is another great transit for both transformation and liberating change that frees up our potency and authenticity.

The intensity of this will increase in the next months as the Black Moon heads towards conjunct in Pluto, peaking in May.

Pisces Sun, Neptune, Mercury sextile Pallas Athena in Taurus

The element of water is obviously not so stable, alongside its spiritual and creative capacities and without some good anchoring in the element of earth, can struggle with translating its gifts into physical manifestation. These sextiles to the culture goddess Pallas Athena are fabulous support to do precisely that, especially in the grounded and quietly potent creativity of Taurus. Not only does it provide earthy grunt to our creativity but also the much more subtle creative and spiritual potency of this goddess, who has the yogini’s ability to concentrate and direct the mind as a tool for directing that spiritual power with great precision and one-pointedness.

Pisces Sun, Neptune, Mercury sextile the Saturn/Black Moon conjunction in Capricorn

These sextiles provide similar enhancement as Pallas Athena, but with arguably even deeper potency, thanks to the presence of the Great Mother energy of the Black Moon.  As I’ve written in earlier columns, the Saturn/Black Moon conjunction is very challenging on many levels but also an opportunity to bring the power and wisdom of the deep masculine and feminine together, to develop some kind of unity.

If we are to imagine all that Piscean energy represented by a hyper creative and yet ungrounded child or adolescent, Saturn and the Black Moon, especially in Capricorn, might be represented by potent grandfather and grandmother figures, who gently and powerfully support the child to manifest his or her brilliance. (Pallas Athena might be represented by a creatively individualistic auntie, who doesn’t need a man to complete her!)

Black Moon, Saturn in Capricorn trine Pallas Athena in Taurus

If we imagine the Black Moon as the red lava of Shakti that bubbles from the hidden wellspring within the core of the Great Mother (and from our own lower chakras) with all that transformative power and creative potency, then both Saturn and Pallas work to contain and concentrate that sacred power to be directed creatively into the world.

Saturn at his best provides masculine structure and healthy wisdom to the channelling of this Shakti, much like damming a river and generating hydroelectricity from its more concentrated flow. Pallas Athena, who at her best is the pivotal figure between the deep feminine and the outer world, then further refines the energy so that it can be directed with piercing potency using higher expressions of the human intellect.

For those who can tap into the core Shakti the sacred feminine within, this is awesome support for translating inspired vision and creativity into manifestation in the world. Basically, you can bring some very deep possibilities to make them real.

Chiron in Pisces in Grand Trine with Jupiter in Scorpio and Hekate in Cancer

Chiron trining Hekate is a quietly magnificent combination of healing and sacred power, the essence of the Medicine Man in flowing relationship with the Witch Queen/Medicine Woman par excellence. Both are shamans, initiators, mentors, multitalented healers. Having both dance with the gracious, benevolent Jupiter brings the very best of both and, from this form of a sacred healing marriage.

And both in their own ways are wounded; Chiron by disturbances to his own masculine power, Hekate by the long history of persecution of practitioners and devotees to the goddess. Jupiter, operating especially deeply in Scorpio, mines a reservoir of emotional, spiritual and psychosexual grace and power, offering his own lubricating forms of healing to these great healers.

For Hekate, having two benevolent forms of masculine potency on her side, given her traumatic history with the patriarchy, is such a gift and healing balm. She in turn offers back her fierce, deep wisdom to keep the masculine honest and in integrity.

For us mortals, this means there is an extraordinary amount of grace-filled healing power available at this time and, we have additional support to go into layers of emotional and spiritual wounding which are normally too painful or too frightening to go near.

It also helps enormously that Venus/Aphrodite sits by Chiron, adding her own energy to this dynamic. One classic Chiron wound is that of abandonment and rejection, so having Venus, so mystical and unconditional in Pisces, loving him offers great healing to the wounded masculine.

Similarly with Hekate, who can severely mess with relationships if she is unhappy and wounded, being loved so unconditionally by Venus draws her back to her original loving power.

With love and blessings,

Daniel