Midlife Transits

Your solar chart is still absorbing a tremendous amount of information about the world courtesy of your ruler Neptune in your 12th house, which meets up with Chiron again this month. Visions of healing are dancing through your chart’s head like sugar plums or fairy tales. What this actually will mean to you varies, but if you’ve got chronic problems of any sort, you might as well meditate on them during the week of the 7th. Couldn’t hurt.

To the 17th, this is also your time to share what you know, due to Mercury, the sun, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus in your own sign. If you’ve found some secret to happiness, let the rest of us in on it.

From the 17th on, your chart’s mind turns to money and financial matters as Mercury moves into Aries. You will actually have 3 planets move into your money sector in March. Sometimes this brings in money, but in many folks it signals instead a desire to spend it. You will probably need to exercise caution before whipping out the checkbook or the credit cards, as Saturn in Libra is currently looking at any spending you do as a symptom of some sort of a horrible disease it wants to cure. Save, Saturn says, save, for the love of God, save your money. Saturn’s probably right, but perhaps you could sneak in a small birthday indulgence or two without breaking the bank.

As for the rest of your year, the money theme will continue to be important. Your chart is gearing up for a semi-wild ride through a rollercoaster of changes in both income and outflow. You could make big money and spend big money both. The changes in how you spend money will reflect the changes in your value system that have been gradually accumulating over the past 7 years. You’re actually on the threshold of big changes in your life. A new romance could come into the mix as well. Friendships could come and go.

The thing that may well ground you during the year is your spirituality or religion. Pisces is a spiritual sign by nature anyway, and that theme is greatly amplified in your chart during 2010. Communicate with your version of God and let him/her/it or them communicate back with you. Your own internal sense of the divine is probably your best navigation tool through what looks to be a very interesting year.

Woo-hoo! Venus is in your sign from the 11th on, and then the sun is from the 18th on. Venus in your sign is traditionally said to make you popular or at least involved in lots of pleasurable social interaction. Venus in your sign can also mean money coming in, although the sign of Pisces tends to be oriented more toward intangibles than cold hard cash.

But wait! There’s more! Jupiter is in your sign as well, giving not only February but the entire first 5 months of a the year a playful feel. Jupiter in one’s sign encourages lots of tries, even at things you’re not normally good at. The spirit of adventure pays off with Jupiter at your side.

The other planet in your sign is Uranus. He’s been there for a good long while, so you’re probably used to that. Uranus is changeable and disruptive, but when he’s in your own sign, you’ll often find your life paradoxically stable, as you process the inner changes. When he leaves your sign, though….the outer changes often start appearing. As it so happens, Uranus will leave your sign for the first time since 2004 in early June of this year, so things may start moving around in your life in 2010. Just a head’s up.

Meanwhile, Mars is still in your work and health sector, giving you the ability to solve problems in either arena. With Saturn in Libra in your 8th house, you’ll do best if you solve them tactfully and discreetly.

Happy New Year, Pisces! Jupiter enters your sign this month, on the 17th, and that’s generally considered happy news indeed. Jupiter is often beneficial in a financial sense so you may see an increase in this area while Jupiter is in your sign. Jupiter will be there from January 17 through June 5. Then he’ll be in Aries until September 9. The back to your sign for the rest of 2010.

Saturn in Libra in the deep and mysterious 8th house also squares off against Pluto in your social 11th house during the second half of the month. Saturn wants to do things like curl up in the house with a good book and explore the depths of the past or the psyche, while Pluto wants to put the stress on your friendships and social obligations. Pluto will probably win because he’s got an eclipse on his side, one that occurs January 15. The eclipse is also in good angle to Uranus in your sign, so there may be a bit of excitement in the air.

As for 2010, it’s quite a year. Uranus will leave your sign briefly for the first time since 2004, taking away both pressure and excitement from your sign. Uranus in Aries is forceful, and will have an impact on your finances. The weightiest influence of the year is Pluto in Capricorn, urging you toward power in how you relate to society. Saturn and Neptune will be influential, but in a more subtle way. But the single most dominant energy of the year is that of cardinal dynamism. Cardinal signs have lots of energy, are inclined toward action, vigor, and force, while putting a premium on effectiveness. We can all expect a more dynamic year in 2010 than in a long time.

December is the happy time of year for the Pisces career. If you’re going to get good news, this would be the month you would get it. Try not to take too much time off before Christmas, except maybe a day during the first week. Do, however, accept all opportunities to socialize with the boss or with important colleagues.

You’ll need to work for your career rewards, no doubt about that, as go-go Mars is still burrowed into the part of your chart that deals with your job. And Mars in Leo does require that you be very organized in your work. It’s just that Venus in Sagittarius can help you really stand out from the crowd. The week of the 13th is most fortuitous for this; after that, things may decelerate a bit.

After Christmas, Venus moves into your sociable 11th house, essentially making yours the popular sign. Expect calls from friends or make them yourself; this is not the time to hang out by yourself.

At the very end of December, there’s a lunar eclipse in your solar 5th house. Lunar eclipses, when they affect a person, usually require the person to let go of something they have–a relationship, a project, a hobby or activity that drains energy. Not always easy to do, but beneficial in the long run.

November’s a pretty active month astrologically, but first priority is channeling your energy into constructive activities on the job. The best thing you’ve got going for you all month is an optimistic combination of job and career energies. This is most prominent at the end of the month, but there is strong energy in your job sector all month long. Even better, Jupiter in Aquarius is now zooming direct, which should have the effect of brightening your outlook on life.

Watch out that Jupiter doesn’t encourage you to bite off more than you can chew the week of the 8th, when it squares the sun and Mercury. Jupiter is the least of anyone’s problems this month, though. The big problem comes from Saturn in your 8th house of joint finances and debt, because it will be squaring off with Pluto in Capricorn in your solar 11th house. This is the kind of big deal major aspect that can be associated with large-scale events that affect society at large. Not always, but it can be.

We’ve seen a bunch of those here lately, what with global economic meltdowns, health care screaming matches, historic elections, and generally interesting but unsettling times. Since this hits one of your financial houses, you want to keep your butt covered by excelling on the job. No need to put yourself at risk if your corporation undergoes a fit of downsizing. The aspect itself is exact on November 15, but you should figure that the tense energies could be in play from the week of 8th through the end of the month. Stay positive, and you should be able to remain on top of things in a proactive manner.

October is Libra month, and that’s good news for you because it moves the inner planets away from Virgo, where they put pressure on your sun. Libra is also a sign concerned with other people, and because it represents your solar 8th house of sex, activity here helps intimate relationships. Even better, one of the remaining bits of Virgo energy is represented by loving Venus (until the 14th). Perhaps you can grease the wheels of intimacy by establishing date night with your spouse. Take the time to do it up right and splurge by going somewhere really nice. If you don’t have a spouse and want one, get busy looking. Mars in Cancer is supporting all this relationship stuff until the 16th.

Of course, the 8th house is also rather a heavy house, concerned with cosmic topics like death, trauma, regeneration, abuse, and healing. Saturn will be moving into this sector of your chart at the very end of the month, and he may bring a dose of heaviosity with him when he comes.  If you’ve got heavy issues from the past that Saturn will be interested in exploring, you may find yourself turning to self-help books and other resources. The best resources will come in the form of other people, so if you’ve ever considered therapy, the next few years would be the time to make the commitment.

Get ready to ad-lib your love life. Mars is in your love affairs house and a whole mess of crazy planets are roiling around your committed relationship house. You may not know what to think and neither do I. Play it as it goes, and see what happens.

Admittedly, conflict of some sort is the most likely guess, but maybe you’ll be able to dance your way around it and turn energy into positive action. You do have a ton of planets in your spiritual 12th house, so it could be that a spiritual approach will soothe the nerves that the skies are trying to rile up. Or maybe a mental vacation will help you keep your cool–a nice daydream about escaping to some island hideaway til the storm blows over could provide some relief.

It mostly gets better about the time the sun moves into Libra on the 22nd. At this time, the focus turns toward financial matters. That would be non-routine financial matters, such as insurance settlements and so on. If you’ve got bills to pay, this would also be the time to get all caught up on them.

Lots of opportunities in August. First there’s work, which may take up a lot of your time whether you’d like it to or not. The last week in July and the first week in August are the days when traditionally Pisces is supposed to focus on the job due to the sun in Leo.

The rest of your chart, however, is either in play mode, love mode, or wanting to do stuff around the house. It seems your chart needs to rest and rejuvenate itself as well as take care of business.

For play mode, we have a variety of options. There’s the Venus in Cancer option, an option that would love to lazily hang around the house with a delicious member of the opposite sex tasting the fruits of summer. That’s in operation from the 1st of August through the 25th.

There’s Mars in Gemini which can be used for brainy play (’cause Gemini’s a brainy sign). Gemini enjoys things like a good summer read, puzzles, competitive games like Scrabble, poker, backgammon, and chess. Don’t worry if you’re not usually very good at these sorts of things, it’s just a way of recharging your mental batteries and letting off some steam. Besides, your intuitive mind is operating a high level this year (thanks to Jupiter in Aquarius), so you may be better at strategic game-playing thinking these days than you realize. The socializing would be restorative as well.

If you can’t bear the thought of playing games, there’s always spending money on relaxing and health promoting products, especially if they have a beauty-enhancing component to them. Or you may just want to indulge in nice things for your home this month. Venus would be down with both these kinds of things.

If you’re in the mood for romance, August is also an excellent month for that. There’s activity in your love life sector virtually all month long. Pisces with children can also enjoy quality time with the kids this month. The one caution is that when Mars moves into Cancer on August 25, it may bring problems with lovers or children in its wake. Mars will be in Cancer from this date to October 16, so you will have plenty of time to solve the problems if they come up.

If you’re still not satisfied with your late summer options, there’s also a lot of energy around taking care of your home. Mars in Gemini and Venus in Cancer can be used for decorating, remodeling, doing necessary repairs, sprucing up the property in general and just generally getting everything all ship-shape before fall.

There ought to be something in there to suit everybody’s taste.

July has something for everyone. We’ve got a bunch of fixed sign energy; we’ve got a bunch of mutable sign energy; we’ve got eclipses in the cardinal signs of Cancer and Capricorn. No one goes lacking. So…what’s it all mean?

Well, first off, you’re likely to start the month off quite busy. The busy nature of your daily schedule may even interfere with your need for rest and recuperation, leaving you a bit foggy during the first few days of the month. As July progresses, activity in the sector that represents your job heats up, meaning that you’ll probably need to keep your mind on your work from mid-month on.

Meanwhile, things on the home front seem to be begging for your attention almost all month long. Get help if you need it. Siblings or neighbors may provide the most assistance (or the most headaches!). If you need to talk through things on the domestic front with your partner, you may get a chance to do so toward the end of the month.The first week of  the month is not the time to bring things up, as things might get a little crazy around then.

On a personal level, those born during the last week of the sign may find themselves bouncing off the walls with energy. Meanwhile, eclipses affect your solar 11th and 5th houses on July 7 and 22nd respectively. This is the lose a friend, gain a lover configuration. Single Pisces folks may find themselves unexpectedly involved in a new romance. It’s quite a month!

I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, Pisces, but your chart has been busy spending 2009 pondering your self-imposed limitations via a trio of placements in Aquarius and your solar 12th house of stuff a person accidentally does to screw her or himself up. In June, the Aquarius placements are pondering this subject so deeply that they’re practically comatose. You, however, can’t afford to be so sluggish, thanks to Mars in Taurus in your solar 3rd house of moving about attending to all the daily errands and chores that pile up in life. The Aquarius placements don’t really like all the Taurus energy of June that is interfering with their summer nap, and the Taurus placements of the month return the favor by considering the Aquarius ponderings to be incomprehensible, impractical, and a bit irritating. So you may feel yourself caught between fatigue or spaciness and the necessity of getting stuff done.

My suggestion is to play hooky and call in sick for a few days,  so you can catch a bit of rest and get some of those chores done. If you were born in the middle of the sign, especially, you probably really do need the break, as Saturn is opposing your sun these days. If you were born near the end of the sign, the opposite may be the case, for Uranus is energizing your sun throughout June and he won’t let go. You may be having spiritual insights, switching religions, or semi-seriously contemplating a plan to move to Tahiti. Hard to say what will be going through your mind when Uranus gets ahold of it. My only caution is to try not to let all these mixed planetary influences leave you so spacy that you leave your handbag somewhere while you’re running all those errands that Taurus insists you take care of.