Saturn in Pisces, No Exit Meets Oceanic Oneness

Venus is coming into her yearly conjunction with Saturn in Pisces. As Pisces makes his way through the last degrees of the sign before entering Aries in late May.

Reality checks may abound inside of this energy.

In the immediate, with Venus/Saturn, we may get a reality check that concerns our values. Places where we are out of integrity with our values. And places where we are holding our values to rigidly. These may come dancing right out of shadows or unconscious, with little to no warning.

In the long term, the reality checks may be around how you are managing your time. Places where we’ve been invested in fantasy. Where we lack responsibility… etc.

The Saturn in Pisces energy has felt so palpable these last few weeks for me. And I don’t expect it to ease up, given that Saturn is winding down its time in this sign. It will potentize the last two degrees of Pisces (the end of the zodiac) and the first two degrees of Aries this year. Given that, themes of beginnings and endings, even apocalyptic (revelation) in nature, may arise.

I want to share a pieces of Archetpal astrology with you all, as Saturn in Pisces energy definitely elicits the tension between, oceanic love, and “no exit” places.

In Archetypal Astrology, we work with the PeriNatal Matrices. I’ve attached a link that explains more about them should you care to dig into the technicalities.

The perinatal matrices or BPM for short are the four stages of birth that Stan Grof posits are part of the make-up of our psyche and are based on our personal birth experiences. He asserts they greatly shape our relationship to the world. Again, it’s not so important to understand the technicalities, only to try the words on for size. See if they fit for the current moment.

Sharing words again from Renn Butler …. (My teacher)

“Archetypally, people influenced by BPM Il report encounters with the Judging God or Devouring Mother accompanied by sequences of the Fall from Paradise, descent into hell, and cosmic engulfment. These are spontaneously depicted by the psyche in various cultural forms, relatively independent of the individual’s beliefs or culture of origin. This stage of birth is the prototype of experiences of loss, victimization, and lack of meaningful connection in human life; the pain of birth is where the separate ego is formed.

However, the difficult stages of birth are also a crucial and essential “transform station” where collective energies and karma can enter an individual lifetime to be experienced and worked through. Surrendering to Saturn’s no-exit experiences in holotropic states consumes their constricting pressure on the psyche and allows the process to move to the next stage. The paradox is that when we are emotionally stuck, we are stuck halfway between being uncomfortable and descending deeply enough into our unconscious pain to release it. The protective ego prevents us from suffering deeply enough to work through the inner material. Our first problem is the wound of birth and our consequent fear of death and dying. The bigger problem is our repression of that wound, a repression that can gradually impoverish the entirety of life.

The Saturn-BPM Il energies will also specifically manifest through the areas of life symbolized by the other planets interacting with Saturn by transit. Saturn transiting the Sun can manifest as inhibitions in energy and vitality, as well as confrontations with the Divine in its contracting, judging, or negating Terrible Father expressions, such as Jahweh, Ouranos, or Cronos. Saturn transiting the Moon will tend to constrict people's experiences of nurture, connection, and belonging, and reveal the repressive or demanding faces of the Divine in its feminine expressions, such as the Death Mother, the Crone, or the Sphinx. When transited by Saturn, it is as if these archetypes will be in a kind of birth labor in the psyche, stuck inside the cosmic uterus until their energies are liberated. As that happens, Saturn's focusing energy will resolve as a positive tempering and maturing of the Sun's impulse toward self-expression and enthusiasm and the Moon's impulse toward connection and gratification.

Saturn ultimately represents the forces of involution in the universe: the hylotropic or

"moving toward matter" principle. The second perinatal matrix is an important transform station where Divine Consciousness becomes tied to physical matter, jammed into a mortal, finite human body in time and space.

Cosmic Engulfment and "No Exit" - Saturn

represents the principles of contraction, separation, boundaries, and time in the universe.”

Given this writing, I’m curious how many of you are in a “no exit” portal? Feeling like the fly stuck in the spiders web?

Art Anastasia Tsvetkova