Sunday, 30 March 2025

Astrology: Some notes on Neptune in Pisces ending March 30

Some notes on Neptune in Pisces 2011-2025

Music, Film, Graphic Arts

Neptune, ruler of Pisces, makes for a very creatively inspired period, thus ideal for artists of all stripes. The previous Neptune in Pisces period, 1847–1862 saw the  formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of Painters in 1948 and began a period of  Neo-Romanticism which saw Richard Wagner create his sprawling Ring Cycle.  Thoreau published Walden in 1854.

Both Neptune and Pisces are very intuitive and all-encompassing, totalizing, inclusive energies. I tended to notice tendencies and currents, in art, music, and films, that showed a creative blending of styles, eras, and technologies in bold, free, intuitive, eclectic way. Below is a brief listing of some works, artists, and trends that I’ve noticed by and by

Rise of Retro

The sense of inclusiveness entailed a look at old forms of recording technology, for example vinyl records made a strong comeback. With the rise of youtube as a massive archive repository, older musical styles saw a resurgence, such as Classic Rock . 
 
Before the Neptune in Pisces period, Amy Winehouse was an artist who helped spark a revival in R&B and jazz styles from the 1950s & 60s. Sadly, since she died four month after the Neptune ingress into Pisces, she could also be cited as an exemple of the dark side of Neptune in Pisces, a tendency for escapism into the world of addiction and substance abuse. The opiod crisis is another example. More recently, Laufey has emerged with a retro-jazz style with pop and classical influences.

Ethereal Waves

Another quality that I noticed about Neptune in Pisces, besides the eclectic blending of styles, is a dreamy, ethereal sound. For example, in a 1980s dance-pop context  there is London Grammar. London Grammar's music has been described as "a blend of ambient, ethereal and classical sounds" with melancholy guitar, soaring vocals, plaintive lyrics, and often displaying trip-hop and dance influences.

Ambient electro-pop band  Hundred Waters  formed in 2011. The Moon Rang Like a Bell, 2014, a dreamy eclectic album of bold experimentation is a good example. The singer, Nicole Miglis, a Piscean who has a classical piano training, explained her writing approach:
'In my mind, all these different genres, classical and dance music, are really similar to me; they just exist in different time periods. Even the idea of time – I don’t know how to articulate this and it probably sounds really woo, but I don’t think of classical music as the past music and electronic music as the future music. It’s the same thing, just different tools. Classical music – those were the pop songs at the time, those were the dance songs. People were waltzing to this music at parties; it had a different place than what eventually became art museum music. Because my process is so serendipitous and instinctual, I have to trust there’s a reason those tools are there, or that there’s a reason I picked up that guitar or drum machine.'
 
Grimes,  also a Pisces, who’s first album appeared just at the beginning of Neptune in Pisces has been described with a number of labels, including synth-pop, electropop, art pop, indie pop, dream pop, experimental pop, dance-pop, pop, avant-garde pop, lo-fi, dance, witch house, electronic, glo-fi, bedroom pop, and electronica with elements of rock, hip hop, R&B, folk, drum and bass, and classical.
Eclectic ethereal, techno pop musician Bjork produced her most ambitious musical tour in 2018, titled Corrnucopia which featured elaborate multi-media audio-visual effects, mixed with performance art, dance choreography, classical orchestra and choir. 
 
In the classical world, there has been an emerging popular trend of ethereal modern neoclassical minimalist piano music with artists like Jean-Michel Blais, Nils Frahm, Joep Beving, Philip Glass, and Alexandra Stréliski. Classical guitarist Sean Shibe’s work, Lost and Found features an eclectic mix of pieces from Medieval, jazz, avant-garde played on an ambient sounding electric guitar. 

Film

The anime genre, with it’s eclectic genre-bending styles, often with elements of fantasy and science-fiction, saw an increase in popularity during this period

In 2015, an all-record-high of three hundred forty anime series aired on television. The global popularity and demand of anime continued to rise during the decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medium's wide availability on streaming services. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train became the highest-grossing Japanese film and the world's highest-grossing film of 2020.

Computer animation cgi developments helped spur the success of companies such as Pixar and superhero films with Marvel Entertainment and others giving new possibilities to explore fantasy and science-fiction themes.

Graphic Arts

The world of illustration and comic books saw a fruitful period of creativity, with an increasingly cosmopolitan market of cultural exchange and new computer technology with a blending of styles from different genres and different countries, often with a dreamy, decorative, fantasy style, with artists such as Peach Momoko, Bilquis Evely, Kim Jung Ji  and Matías Bergara to name just a few.

This period also saw a popular trend of museum exhibitions dealing with esoteric and occult-themed art. 

References

https://camoinassociates.com/resources/vinyl-records-resurrection/
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 20, 2025 - Part 2 - Chart


The Shape of Things to Come
 
Occuring between two eclipses (March 14 and 29), we have an exceptionally assertive and dynamic Spring Equinox chart with a 5-planet conjunction (stellium), including a tight Sun-Neptune conjunction as Neptune enters Aries on March 30. By July, we'll be moving into the more definite 5-year part of the optimistic 10-year phase in the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn cycle. Optimistic does not necessarily mean peaceful. It can signal a gung-ho conquest energy as well as cooperative, peace-building trends, as the Neptune, Pluto, Uranus minor grand trine (or Uranus, Neptune, Pluto 2025 to 2028 –  Magic Triangle ) moves into it's beneficial influence over the next few years. The Spring chart has three remarkable inter-connected Minor Grand Trines (which means that the potentials require work to be actualized). Simply put, the center is the still loose Magic Triangle with well-placed Moon and Mars aspects that energizes it to give a strong glimpse of the more stable, tighter 2026 aspect patterns. The dynamic energy continues into the next month as, just after the Mar 29 – Solar Eclipse, we have the initial instability and confusion of the major transition of Neptune in Aries, bringing a heroic idealistic drive, and  Saturn sextile Uranus (1 of 3), on April 4, which should provide some balance and stability. Friday, March 28, marks the strongest point of the Stellium, with 7 planets closely conjuncted.
 
According to Cerena Childress:

Pluto shifted into Aquarius, March 2023 and is established at 3° AQ at the time of Neptune’s sign change. Now that he is safely functioning in his new sign, 4 more outer planets also make sign changes in 2025 during only 100 Days! Since Pluto is only at 3°, they will all soon be aspecting him at once! Neptune, Pluto’s spiritual companion, has been in sextile connection with Pluto continuously since 1942, 82 years!

  1. Mar 30   Neptune, on its 168 year cycle, arrives in Aries, stays through March 2039!
  2. May 24   Saturn goes into Aries too, a 29 year change, 2¼ to 2½ year stay! This makes THREE outer planets in Aries, Neptune, Saturn and Chiron!
  3. June 09  Jupiter goes home into Cancer. Travels a Sign per year.
  4. July 07   Uranus zips out of Taurus into Gemini, on an 84 year cycle, a 7 year sign shift.

Sun, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn Stellium
This pattern brings strong empathy, identifying with others, occult intuitions, meditative, impulse to realize dreams, tendency for escapism, confusion. Other aspects bring facility for planning, communicating assertively, sharp intellect, joy, humour, charm, artistic inspiration, compassion. Difficult tendencies include, overly cautious, detached, confused, deceived, separations. A proactive pattern that brings independent impulses for new ventures. A certain sense of organization, realism, and steadiness can help keep the enthusiasms stabilized.

Neptune stellium, Uranus, Pluto Minor Grand Trine 
This very special pattern brings possibilities for new beginnings, social change, based on deep insights in a spirit of idealism, spiritual awakening, expanding consciousness. Projects of social reform, constructive change, healing, realizing potential. Abilities for alert, perceptive, creative, problem solving, including group issues are favored. Strong leadership in practical and inventive social innovations are favoured.
 
Pluto, Moon, Neptune Stellium  Minor Grand Trine
Brings a sense of deep positive feeling, great sensitivity, strong feeling of sympathy and compassion. It also bring a capacity for sympathetic listening, expressing feelings and sentimental moods. It also inspires a tendency for daydreaming and imaginative fantasy in an optimistic and spontaneus attitude.
 
Uranus, Neptune Stellium, Mars Minor Grand Trine 
This brings feelings of restlessness and impatience, with an insight into new ideas and the practical ability to apply them in one's life. It also brings an impetus to help others, with social or charity work, for example, with a concern for family safety and protection. It can be a good time to complete projects in course and tie up loose ends.
 
Moon Opposite Jupiter, although in a wide 8 degreee orb, can bring a significant sense of independence, a need for freedom, especially of expression and communication. There may be times of self-doubt.
 
Jupiter square Saturn wide aspect can brings tensions between optimism and realism, inflation and depression, pessimistic feelings
 
Summary
This looks to be the most positive season of the year, a foreshadowing of next year's exceptional positive alignments. With a powerful focus on the first degree of Aries, Spring begins with lots of positive energy. 
We have a trio of harmoniously inter-connected minor grand trines that signal a deep, introspective, intuitive, innovative, spiritual change with a practical drive to realize your dreams in a sociable, insightful, articulate, friendly, creative atmosphere. There will be tensions based on a need for independence and insecurities, as well as the Jupiter-Saturn square, ending the first quarter of the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn cycle, that creates tensions between optimism and pessimism, depression and over-confidence as the first of the cycle adjusts to move into the next five-year phase, the most positive of the 20-year cycle. 
As of April 1, two volatile aspects, Mars opposite Pluto (Apr 26  orb April 1- May 20) and  Mars square Uranus Jun 15, orb May 20-July 10) will provide some dynamic tensions that underscore the general instability of this year, as the powerful planetary shifts gradually fall into place by 2026. With Mercury retrograde, (March 14 to April 6), and Venus retrograde, (March 1st to April 12th), in the chart, things can be rather unfocused and disorganized, with old relationships issues coming to the fore, creating some awkward feelings. 
Prognostic
This very powerful Spring chart signals a deep sense of introspective, intuitive, innovative, spiritual change with a practical drive to realize your dreams in a sociable, insightful, articulate, friendly, creative atmosphere. 
However, as this dynamic energy prefigures the energy of powerful planetary changes and paradigm shifts, there can be expected  moments of volatility, uncertainty, and confusion, with insecurities based on needs for freedom and independence, bringing dramatic conflicts and accidents. There can also be times of dreamy, scattered, deluded moments of exaggerated optimistic enthusiasms. There are also possibilities of communication mishaps and old relationship issues re-surfacing.
 
Upcoming Aspects
  • Mar 29 – Solar Eclipse at 09♈00
  • Mar  30 Neptune in Aries 
  • Apr 04 – Saturn sextile Uranus (1 of 3)
  • Apr  7 Mercury Direct 
  • Apr 26  Mars opposite Pluto (orb April 1- May 20)
  • May 25 Saturn in Aries 
  • June  9  Jupiter in Cancer
  • Jun 15  Mars square Uranus 
  • June 15 – Jupiter square Saturn (3 of 3)
  • June 19 – Jupiter square Neptune (1 of 1)
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    Sun in Aries A new sense of self, a more assertive personal style, a more dynamic approach to life: 

     Mercury in Aries New ideas and an independent or pioneering mental orientation take on more importance in your life

    Venus in Aries Romance at the drop of a hat is part and parcel of the cycle you have just begun. 

    Mars in Cancer   A sensitivity to the needs and wants of others and an appreciation for their frailties (as well as your own) makes you more cautious and conservative …

    Jupiter in Gemini Facilitating the transfer of ideas and information takes on a special priority for you now. 

    Saturn in Pisces Making peace with the past, coming to terms with karmic debts: these are some of the issues that confront you as a new phase begins in your life. 

    Uranus in Taurus Practicality and ingenuity combine as powerful drives in your life now that you have begun a new cycle.

    Neptune in Pisces Things spiritual and psychic take the driver’s seat of your imagination as you begin a new cycle. 

    Pluto in Aquarius Reform, revolution, a rejection of the past and a focus on the future: these are the signatures of the new phase now beginning in your life. 

     
    The following aspects are not exact until 2026, but they come within 2° orb in 2025:
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    Saturday, 15 March 2025

    Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 20, 2025 - Part 1 - Review

    For the Winter Solstice, the prognostic was: 

    This semester could be characterized as an intense reality check, where one's optimistic emotional enthusiasms get critically and rigidly confronted according to the realistic and practical validity of one's pretensions. There is a tendency for lively, outspoken discussions, with much cleverness, although rather unfocused and imprecise.

    The tumult can bring capricious, unstable, rigid, moody tendencies, with a volatile combative, recalcitrant attitude that can be faced by bringing a friendly, creative, optimistic, energetic demeanour in a general spirit of resilience, flexibility, idealism and perseverance.
     
    Mars retrograde opposite Pluto, January 3, with added pressure from the Jupiter-Saturn square and the still unstable Pluto ingress into Aquarius, heralded a dramatic start to the new year. Some events, over the full period of the aspect, which ended around January 29, including the dramatic Eaton, California fires where, sadly, the Altadena Theosophical Library Center and Press was lost: 
     
    South Korea plane crash (Dec. 29)
    Jimmy Carter passing (Dec. 30)
    Lightning strike US Capitol, Washington Monument, and Empire State Building (Jan. 2)
    Mass shooting (New York) (Jan. 2)
    Puerto Rico power outage (Jan. 2)
    Two US-based "terrorist" attacks (New Orleans and Las Vegas) (Jan. 3)
    Massive fireworks explosion in Honolulu (Jan. 6)
    Central US winter storm (Jan. 6)
    Canadian PM Justin Trudeau steps down (Jan. 6)
    Tibetan Earthquake (Jan. 7)
    Los Angeles fires (Jan. 7)
    Elon Musk Rotherham rhetoric (Jan. 8)
    Korean President arrest standoff (Jan. 15)
    David Lynch passes (Jan. 16)
    Space X Rocket explosion (Jan. 17)
    US Inauguration fallout (Jan. 20)
    Garth Hudson passes  (Jan. 21)
    Southern Us Snow storm (Jan. 21)
    Turkish ski resort fire (Jan. 22)
    Indonesia flood (Jan. 23)
    Slovakia protest (Jan. 24)
    Germany protests (Jan. 25)
    Congo rebels (Jan. 27)
    Colombia rebels (Jan. 27)
    Kumba Mehla deaths (Jan. 29)
    Washington Plane/Helicopter crash, 67 deaths (Jan. 29)
    Storm Eowyn (Feb.1)
    Australia fires (Feb. 3)

    January 13 Full Moon in Cancer  conjunct Mars opposite Pluto, sextile Uranus, trine Neptune, a cradle pattern or trapeze, which gives good support against a strong opposition... Stern Venus conjuct Saturn opposite Jupiter. It was also close to comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as the  full Moon occulted Mars and Venus was at its greatest eastern elongation.
     
    At this time, the initial Israel-Hamas cease-fire agreement  was reached. The Israel-Hamas war began October 8, 2023 Mars square Pluto (exact) (Oct 14  New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra) Israel-Gaza cease-fire Jan 13 Full Moon in Cancer conjuct Mars rx opposite Pluto (5 degree orb).
     
    There have been several high-profile airplane crashes, with US fatalities from crashes more than doubled in 2025 compared to 2024. It seems to coincide with the ingress of Pluto in Aquarius, an air sign. 
     
    One event that can serve as a good overall illustration of the prognostic was the Washington Ukraine Minerals deal press conference on February 28. 

    2024 was a great year for the Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum legacy, whom his mother-in-law Matilda Joslyn Gage helped inspire. There was a very successful theater revival of The Wiz and the amazing success of the Wicked film, as well a well-received Russian film version of the original novel. The Oscar ceremonies on March 1 featured numbers from all three great 20th musicals, and so this very Theosophical fairy tale has cemented itself as an enduring myth maker in popular culture, with no signs of slowing down...

    The Full Moon March 14, 2025 Lunar Eclipse saw Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on historic peace treaty, avalanches in Canada,  and severe storms in southern U.S. Around the same time, March 12, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live began its first tour in North America,

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    Friday, 14 March 2025

    Astrology: Saturn sextile Uranus April 4, 2025

    This can be a time to solidify connections, bond with allies, and work on the primary structures of our lives.     The changes we make can have long-lasting benefits. Original ideas may take form or develop quite successfully now. There is an opportunity to combine stability and improvement or excitement with good results. The same can be said about innovation and tradition.

    In 2025-2026, Saturn forms a sextile to Uranus in April 2025, then August 2025, and finally, January 2026. From https://cafeastrology.com/aspects/saturn-sextile-uranus.html

    Saturn sextile Uranus transit gives self-discipline and endurance, as well as open-mindedness and inventiveness. This enables you to make constructive changes, leading to significant achievement and recognition. Common sense blended with creative flair allows you to take calculated risks that increase the likelihood of success.


    Previous uncertainty or restlessness should settle down during this balanced phase of life. So you can commit to someone or something new that you were once unsure or hesitant about. This would be an excellent time to renovate a house or move because any changes you make now will run smoothly. Unexpected repercussions are less likely than at other times. You can work well as part of a team because of the ability to unite people for a common purpose. Your leadership skills, mentoring abilities, determination, and strong work ethic could earn you unexpected recognition and promotion. From https://astrologyking.com/saturn-sextile-uranus/

    As the first aspect of Neptune in Aries, it sets the tone, the intent of Neptune’s sign shift! Saturn in Pisces, Neptune’s sign, has already been harnessing Neptune’s sometimes erratic talents! They have learned how to work potently together. Saturn in Pisces is an adept guardian, is ace with Change Maker Uranus, the genius Aquarius planet! Uranus in Taurus makes new amazing ideas be unusually grounded, stabilizes changes! Neptune in Aries may really need that in its new heady wild free-for-all state, LOL!

    In today’s thinking, Saturn represents conservative, Patriarchal old powers, the CEO/President, law maker. Uranus is thought of as the upstart, ungovernable, futurist genius ahead of his times. As THE electronics genius of the Internet, world communication pro, electric vehicles, inventions, humanitarian of the Brotherhood of Man, his standing is prime. It is essential for Saturn and Uranus to coordinate the old and the future as we face planetary changes, to bring the forces into working order. It’s a perfect combination to collaborate with Neptune fresh in New loving Aries! And they can do it well!
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