It has now been a year since Saturn has been in Pisces.

Saturn is extreme cold and dryness. It brings scarcity, because structure cannot be created, order cannot be brought to space and time without solidity, and solidity cannot exist in wet environments. This is why Saturn has a hard time in Pisces. Order cannot truly be brought into the ocean, because water dissolves things.

Personally, I’ve had a hard time with discipline this past year. It took a lot more motivation to do stuff, than it did during the previous years when Saturn had a firm grasp on how things should be controlled.

Because Saturn shows our foundations and how we hold ourselves responsible, its transits have a lot to say about the heaviness of effect, noticing the chains of causality that brought us here and might take us there.
Pisces directs its attention everywhere, it tries to understand the meaning behind everything. Combining responsibility with compassion for the whole of creation results in the very depressed millennial generation of ’93-’96. If you’re part of this generation, you’re feeling the pressure more than before, but you’ll be fine because you were born in the darkness, molded by it. If you’re not part of this generation, I hope you’re enjoying how those of us that were have felt most of our lives.

Are we really crybabies or is it that we’ve been constantly faced with the increasing pressure of the dispersal of illusion we thought was the real world? From parents who refuse to go to therapy because they are fine, but have been feeding us fantasies of what should be done when we grow up, while slowly realizing as we grow up that things cannot continue to be like they thought, that society is slowly moving towards collapse and is in no small measure due to the fantasy that things were alright?

This particular generation of Saturn in Pisces has in no small measure Jupiter in Scorpio to thank for its wateriness. As ruler of Pisces, Jupiter decides how Pisces should act. For the generation born between Nov ’93 and Dec ’94, things have always been extra emotional. Pisces has a magic ability of accepting and understanding, but also letting go of things. With Jupiter in Scorpio during this time frame, it brought the scorpionic relentlessness into all things emotional. Simply accepting and moving on was not an option, especially since the North Node was there to disturb and deepen the waters.

When Jupiter moved into Sagittarius in Dec ’94 until Jan ’96 it made things easier. The buoyancy of Sag came to the rescue, bringing some optimism and appetite for improvement. People born during that time frame have a lesser doom and gloom outlook towards life, though not completely devoid of the burden of Piscean responsibility.

Jupiter is in Taurus right now, and on a physical global level, a lot of the news have been about water. Since Taurus is all the stable and basic things, our food and our crops, we’ve been looking not only at submarines and pirates, but also at water scarcity and contamination. Forever chemicals in the US soil, clean water scarcity in India and Mexico, deadly floods in Peru, most looming long-term dangers are water related.

Maybe things will turn for the better, maybe the focus will finally shift towards the importance of conserving and protecting vital resources. Times of crisis breeds creative solutions because necessity is the mother of invention.  If not for the upcoming Jupiter&Uranus conjunction that is bound to bring some scientific breakthrough, then perhaps Jupiter’s ingress into Gemini will bring some of the mercurial problem-solving into the sphere of water issues.

What’s certain is that we need to hold on and do our best to play our parts, especially with the looming upcoming Mars&Saturn conjunction of April which is certain to set the tone for what will go wrong with our metaphorical and physical waters for the next two years.