True Beauty

Art Verona Wild

There is sincerely so much shifting in the collective right now.

We’ve caught glimpses of it leading up to this transition…

But to have our two Titans of death, grief, severing, contraction, time, limitation, and deep shadow, changing signs within two weeks of each other may leave some of us feeling whiplashed energetically.

Saturn in Pisces (3/7) - has the potential to rip the rose colored glasses off right off our faces.

There’s always those moments where our eyes need to adjust to the light. (Or in this case, the truth)

We frequently talk about how living in a dissociated state of illusion is bad. It can be, but it’s also a pretty common coping mechanism.

People will be waking up to some pretty unsettling truths. Check on your friends. Remember everyone needs support and co-regulation from time to time.

This is a good opportunity to practice discernment between rescuing/saving the victim, (a shadow of the Virgo/Pisces axis) to holding space, so the psyche can become more resilient.

It’s also a time to back our Aquarian idealism. We spent the last three years talking about the “way things should be”.

Saturn in Pisces helps us to remember what really matters in our lives, down to brass tax, and to get in action around those things. Paying lip service to the things we love will begin to feel fruitless and unfulfilling.

We will likely see a religious revival. (It’s already begun) It’s not really God (perse) that many people are returning for. It’s the community and works.

The questions for what ails us around this transit are…

How can we ground our values, beliefs, and ideals? How can we join with others in the flesh who have common aims? Put our hands to work, so we don’t get lost in Saturn/Pisces melancholy, isolation, & relativity?

Pluto into Aquarius (3/23) The Aquarian Archetype can be a very detached, inhuman, & cold. It is almost an archetype of an archetype. In the sense that it holds an ideal, a hope, of something perfected, something better, something futuristic.

The key here is to bring in our Leonine energy. Our personal, giant, radiant heart. To remember our individual humanity, and the humanity of others.

Remember that our innocence, our joy, our laughter, and playfulness are at the heart of what drives our desire to live.

So as the world becomes a more somber place with Saturn in Pisces, and more cold and detached with Pluto in Aquarius, it may make good practice for us to demonstrate to our children that the true beauty of the world is found in imperfections, and the organic, spontaneous, nature of reality connected to life.

I remember visiting Dubai while living in Palestine.

Dubai is a very Aquarian city. Everything is planned and synthetic. It has its own kind of character, it’s not a “bad” place. It’s a perfect place. They brought a man made oasis to the desert with superb urban planning.

Then you had Palestine, with its haphazard, lovingly hand crafted grottos. There are no straight lines, no city grids. No planning commission.

Everything is old.

But it’s oozing with life, and history. It’s lack of perfection, it’s age, the flowers that grow from cracks in the sidewalks, are the thing that makes it beautiful, and real, and true. It’s vibrant, the land literally has its own heartbeat.

I’m thinking, the most important thing I can do for my children is make a practice of presencing & protecting beauty.

Teaching my kids the difference between glamour magic (Dubai) and true, organic, beauty.

From magazines, to media, to how we frame things in our minds, glamour magic is a contraction, it’s anti-life, anti-realness, anti-truth. We can enjoy it, but it won’t feed us the same way real beauty does.

If we can remember together, that beauty is truth, and truth/life makes an incredibly powerful elixir, we can make it through the next several years. But it will have to be hand in hand with the people we love.

#astrology #saturn #pisces #aquarius #pluto