Welcome to Pisces Season. The Sun arrives in the last sign of the zodiac, the culmination of a long journey that brings us into the end of the astrological year. It’s a period meant for reflection, the search for answers within, the exploration of the liminal, spiritual.
The zodiac is the wheel of life. Each sign takes us, step by step, through a journey that can be lived in a day, a year, or a lifetime. And each sign is a revelation, something for us to discover about ourselves and the world around us, if we know where to look.
Over the last four week’s we’ve been traveling through Aquarius, the eleventh and penultimate sign. As an element air sign, we’ve seen the information and ideas of Gemini and the social connection of Libra — both air signs — make systems and networks. Aquarius builds our world. It’s the collective ideas that shape it, the interconnectivity that allows information to flow, and the weaving of the societal fabric.
While Aquarius gives us a high vantage point and the intellect to make worldly advances, it’s not the finality of the zodiac. Pisces is.
Another way of saying it is that the mind can only take us so far. It’s the heart and the soul that brings us to the end.
To understand Pisces is to understand the two fishes that form its celestial symbol. Further, it is to understand that Pisces is the link, the bridge between our manifested and material world — Capricorn and Aquarius, ruled by Saturn — and our spiritual world — Pisces, ruled by Jupiter.
Pisces is our inheritance. It takes all of our lived experiences and transmits them to an energetic space beyond this world. Pisces is also the substance that fills the spaces that Saturn built. Without Pisces, we would have no empathy. Our world would be merely rational and analytical, systems and networks that serve no greater purpose.
Pisces, through the two fishes, says that our experiences can nourish the material … or they can nourish our souls.
It’s a deeper yet important look at Pisces. Perhaps a little esoteric, but Pisces is an esoteric sign. It’s water isn’t physical water, not like Cancer and Scorpio, its fellow water signs. It’s the water that carries us into our dreams, that opens our intuition, that helps us to look within, and reconnect with our spirits.
Right now there are four signs in Pisces. While the Sun joins Mercury in Pisces, Saturn has been in the sign since March 2023 and Neptune since February 2012. The North Node, our collective “North”, is also in Pisces. So Pisces is a sign and archetype that we need to find our place in. It’s a call to find more substance in our lives.
Speaking of the Nodes, we’re less than a month away from a lunar eclipse at 23 Virgo, Pisces’s opposing sign. The eclipse on March 14 is part of a series of eclipses that will activate Pisces and Virgo from September 2024 to February 2026. The eclipse next month is our first eclipse in Virgo since 2016. And eclipses and eclipse season means that March will be a turning point for many, especially those who have major personal placements in Virgo and Pisces.
To get you ready for this latest eclipse season, I’m doing a 2-hour webinar on March 5 at 8pm ET. Replay available for those who cannot watch live. In The Eclipses of March 2025 webinar, I’ll speak about the importance of eclipses in marking the major milestones of our lives as well as what we can possibly expect this eclipse season, sign by sign. Learn more and register.
If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for February 19, 2025.