Pope Francis takes his exit, Venus and the Moon conjunct Saturn and the North Node today - all roads lead to May 2nd and the magic and miracles of Venus and Neptune

Our humble and benevolent Pope closing out his well-lived life with this magical astrology shows the Church still very much an integral and influential part of our collective experience here on planet Earth. 

We covered this week's final Mars/Pluto face-off in the last couple posts, but Venus is also making UBER important machinations right now, accompanied by the Moon.

The Moon has left logical and future-focused Aquarius - where she was for Pope Francis's birth and death, and he was a Cancer rising, so ruled by the Moon - and is now in watery Pisces. We are nurtured/nourished by our imagination, spirituality, art, music, rest, water, going with the flow. Our boundaries are more porous, so we are more likely to pick up other people's moods, thoughts and head colds. 

On THURSDAY, the Moon catches up with the North Node, Saturn and Venus just as Venus catches up with the North Node and Saturn. 

This Pisces pile-up that has felt like it has lasted forever - the confusion, the nostalgia, the creativity, the self-sabotage, the compassion (whatever this extreme Pisces has stirred up for us) was always going to go out with a bang. Without any actual banging of course, if there is banging - it will be the Mars/Pluto!

This mega-emphasis on the North Node of Fate - Saturn, Venus and the Moon - is DESTINY CALLING via the karma/results we are now receiving. A cycle closes out - one that we have returned to in order to get a better ending - and a cycle begins. Combine Saturn and Neptune (making the dream real and all that doing that entails) toss in an EXALTED Venus and our best path forward - shake them up (the Mars/Pluto) and this is what we get. It's scary, exciting and divinely timed.  

Saturn brings the reality check. Limits. Maturity. What we CAN'T HAVE is part of the picture. Saturn says - here are the results of the decisions you have made. Here is the bed you have made (or left unmade). Saturn always brings us what we have ordered. If we don't like where we are/what we have ordered, well, this is the time, with the North Node of Fate - our best path forward - TO COMMIT to what we want and need. 

Some word salads for this energy would be - making a long-term commitment, aging gracefully, good timing, taking beauty and women and resources and money SERIOUSLY, taking a long-term view of relationships and resources, putting work into appearances, being responsible for and with kindness/compassion/intuition, getting better with age, being attracted to people that find the good/beauty in challenging circumstances, being attracted to stability and maturity. 

The challenges with this collective 'destiny' point would be something about the lack or restriction of Venusian benefits - love, relationships, money, resources, values, self-esteem. So, the lack or restrictions on - resources/love/money, etc, is putting us on the best path forward and making us more compassionate and connected, turning us toward greater faith (the North Node in Pisces). Our natal charts and use of free will determine how this all plays out for us individually. 

Less could be more. 

Venus meets Saturn about once a year, but to connect with Saturn AND the North Node - best path forward - is very, very rare and then to have the ruler of that sign (Pisces ruler Neptune) right there, too, is surely once in a lifetime, so we know this Venus/Saturn is UBER important collectively, and maybe especially for people with planets in late degree Pisces (and the other mutable signs) and people with natal Venus/Saturn aspects (Trump has a tight and challenging Venus/Saturn conjunction in late Cancer). 

Happening in Pisces tells us a sacrifice might be involved. Sacrifice has gotten a bad rap, but sacrifices have to be made in life and what doesn't come in through the door must find a window. 

Keep in mind - the Gods hunger for symbolic gestures. That bread you baked with good intent offered in sober and quiet dignity will do more than open up some inner space where you already know there is PLENTY. It will inoculate you against the compulsion to make unconscious sacrifices. Maybe do something only you know you are doing today. 

Maybe, with Saturn, what we sacrifice is TIME - things take longer, we have to work longer/harder to get the results. Saturn and Pisces both connect to endings, and this whole time period we are living through now is connected to, among other things - GOING BACK TO GET A BETTER ENDING. 

If we are in the crapper right now with some situation it is likely because of decisions we made or avoided in the past. Maybe we have held onto something too long - this is where the Mars/Pluto will help cut the cord. But the Venus/Saturn says this doesn't have to be some kind of hatchet job. We can get a better ending. Your intuition, strong with all this Pisces, will help. 

If things are going swimmingly (and some things will be for each of us) - it is VERY IMPORTANT to pay attention and appreciate the good stuff - here is your reward as Saturn/North Node set our new path. And good news benevolent Venus exalted in Pisces plus our precious Lunar is here, too!

What does it mean that the Luna, Venus, North Node, Saturn, Neptune stellium is happening in Pisces? 

Pisces is the last sign. The space where we 'let go and let God'. This isn't about checking our rearview mirror/someone's Facebook page, etc to see if the thing/person/situation we released is still there. Pisces says LET GO (maybe of the idea we need something). If we want our future to be different we need to let go. Imagine a tsunami just washing it away. Sometimes we have to accept the loss. Make peace with the past. We will talk more about this in the New Moon post next.

Pisces is also about what is UNCONDIITONAL. No strings attached. So, we start this North Node journey maybe not even knowing where anything is going, but certainly without being tethered to an outcome. In reality, this would only restrict/limit us. The truth is Piscean energy is NOT ABOUT US anyway. There is a bigger story/bigger picture - it is hard to know from the small picture if what is happening is 'good or bad'. 

Pisces is about ALLOWING. If not having 'everything under control' sounds scary, well that is because it takes an enormous about of faith and inner strength to ALLOW while not compromising our boundaries (why Saturn is such a blessing here). Pisces people are always stronger than you think they are. 

Venus conjunct Saturn conjunct the Moon conjunct the North Node of Fate in PISCES can pull old resources, talents, money, love, healing, faith, and more, from the collective ethers (past lives, ancestral) and into our hearts, bodies and bank accounts. It works its magic 'over time', so karma from the distant path can be pulled into the present and into our futures. Again, there will be a 'bigger than we are' purpose here with whatever shows up. Ancient debts can show up, too, of course. Thank them. Pay them. Move on. 

On May 2nd, when Venus catches up with Neptune in Aries and Mars finally completes his back and forth through Leo and Cancer - we will see where we are (and will be exact on the United States North Node of Fate) ...

We talked about the recent Mars trine Neptune looking to bring a softening to the Mars/Pluto challenges - and maybe to Trump (Mars) with the Pope's North Node/Sun tightly opposing Trump's own North Node/Sun.

Surely a SOFTENING can come in through a collective grieving via the destiny of the beloved Pope Francis. We may never know what could have happened if we hadn't had this immense collective grief to dissolve some of the Mars/Pluto potential. Let's pray it has. Pope Francis left planet Earth during a Grand Fixed Cross and just hours after Easter Sunday services. Born with a tight North Node/Sun conjunction on the Galactic Center (homing signal/black-hole in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy) in wise and religion-ruling Sagittarius and a Moon/Venus in humanity centric Aquarius, his chart looks destined for the incredible life he lived.

Ordained at 33 years old with the Sun and Moon back in the same positions as his birth, Jupiter on his IC (the roots of his chart), the North Node (fate) on his Saturn (work, responsibility) in Pisces (sign of the higher consciousness, spiritual consciousness and our divine connection) and transiting Saturn on his natal Uranus (ruler of his chart ruling Aquarius Moon). Pope Francis became a cardinal at age 65 with a stellium in future/humanity-focused Aquarius, the Sun on his natal asteroid Karma, wounded healer Chiron tightly conjunct his Sun/North Node of Fate, the transiting North Node in Cancer conjunct his Ascendent and Neptune exact on his natal Venus. He became Cardinal on 2/21/2001 and he would become Pope, at age 76, on 3/13/2013 (the numbers?!). 

He was hospitalized during Eclipse season with his natal chart highly activated and we are now in the Libra Full Moon cycle (Moon conjunct his Mars) that closed it all out. The ruler of his Aqua Moon, his rebellious and intelligent 10th house Uranus sits at 5 degrees Taurus and was/is intimately involved in this week's Mars/Pluto clash and Easter Sunday's Fixed Grand Cross that flows into next weekend, and Sunday's New Moon at 7 degrees Taurus.

His funeral will be on Saturday, during the Mars/Pluto opposition (!) and hours before Sunday's New Moon in Taurus conjunct Pope Francis's forward-leaning Uranus. 

(I don't think it's a coincidence Vance met with the Pope just one day before his death and that Trump will be attending his funeral and we'll talk about this in the next post. I also noticed Black Moon Lilith - part of the current Fixed Grand Cross highly active for Pope Francis and we'll look at that, plus, of course, what the New Moon means for all of us!)

New Moon post tomorrow or Saturday - I hope something here is helpful.

xo all