"Surrendering to the Undercurrents": The NEW MOON at 09°41′ Pisces, Friday, 28 February 2025, 00:46 UTC
"This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed." ~ Terence McKenna
Greetings fellow travellers,
With the Sun’s arrival in Pisces we enter the final stage of the travelling solar carnival. By Thursday/Friday, we have the last lunation before the eclipses; this New Moon at 09°41′ Pisces on 27/28 February is more than just your regular monthly reset. It’s a real curtain closer, the final act in a long, winding play—one last swirl of old energies before cosmic gears shift dramatically. It’s been a tumultuous 12 months, lots have unravelled in our world, and if you’re feeling unmoored, adrift in uncertainty, you’re not alone. If your relationships, career, or entire worldview seem like they're poised precariously on a knife’s edge, it's likely you're reflecting the greater cosmic currents in play.
These aren't your regular times. In fact, by now, you've either forgotten what 'regular' means or have awoken from a dream so awfully restless and disruptive that you do not want to go back to sleep. The essence of this moment lies in recognising that times of total dissolution are not only necessary but are often the precursor to profound evolution. The waters now may be treacherous, but the undertow also carries the seeds of transformative new beginnings. So whether you’re willing to ride these most disorienting cosmic waves—or struggle against them in what may be an interminable war, mainly with yourself—the personal journey ahead will somehow be defined by your pre-eclipse intentions.
North Node/Neptune: Social Erosion & The Vanishing Trust Factor
Lurking at the far end of Pisces is this disquieting North Node/Neptune concoction, radiating a weird funk of social withdrawal and blurred boundaries. In practice, it shows up as outright confusion in group settings—friends, associates, and entire communities suddenly seem off-kilter, either because they’re busy avoiding reality or spinning illusions that don’t hold water. Collective ideals lose all form and definition, and people drift either into surreal dream-world escapist wonderlands or shut themselves off entirely into siloed lagoons, alienated from the so-called wider currents of ‘normal’ life.
Manipulation and misplaced trust become real dangers here. It’s easy to become seduced and conscribe your faith over to someone offering vague promises of a better world, or elated visions, only to end up betrayed when the bubble pops. It is at this point that eclipses happen, and we all know eclipses often bring about surprising big reveals. Romantic illusions and secret affairs become all too tempting, as Neptune’s mystique clouds judgement. The line between genuine spirituality and self-deception dissipates quickly—you might sense a higher calling, some greater, albeit hazy, mission in all this. Yet in Pisces, ‘direction’ is a laughably slippery concept: those who want to merge with like-minded souls, only come to find that the more they merge, the less one can tell who’s who or even what’s real any more. Like some fallacious cult, the camaraderie and sense of belonging ultimately dissolve into second-guessing; intangible goals incorporated with vague, intangible group dynamics to create a potpourri of noise and nonsense, the resulting vibe becomes a sociopathy of misguided deeds and collective fatigue: When it all just gets too exhausting to engage in dialectics of half-truths and delusions, many start to completely retreat or isolate, letting go of existing ties, or perhaps wander off into new circles that feel equally unstable.
In short, this combo tends to choke out trust and unity, fomenting an atmosphere where deception—self-imposed or inflicted by others—can run rife. Yet—and this is quite possible—if you manage to keep a foot on solid ground, it can also be a portal into boundless creativity or spiritually charged experiences. The question is whether you’ll glean genuine insight or get lost in another illusory mirage. With Neptune in the mix, the difference can be heartbreakingly subtle. This is where Saturn can make or break everything.
Saturn’s Encroachment: Structure Dissolves Into Nothingness
Saturn, always the hard taskmaster, is now in his second year of wandering through Pisces like a fatigued refugee trudging across quicksand. Instead of stability and structure, we’re pummelled by wave after wave of despair and demise, as though trying to build our dream castle out of fog and wet clay. The result is mounting defeatism: lonely vigils, thankless efforts, unacknowledged sacrifices, and humiliating expressions of forced modesty. With Saturn lumbering towards Neptune and the North Node, lines once drawn clearly in bold black outlines blur into dull, runny, grey watercolours, fading away before our very eyes.
On a psychological level, Saturn in Pisces demands tremendous perseverance, self-restraint, and sacrifice, often unleashing hidden wells of kindness, caution, and spiritual dedication. Yet it can just as easily breed emotional anxieties, draining all conviction overnight and fueling a gnawing cynicism. We become haunted by the futile sense of grinding away for no discernible gain, battling leadership rot or government hypocrisy with little more than cardboard swords. Mercury, likewise drowning in Pisces, sits grimly at the lugubrious midpoint of Saturn and the North Node–Neptune combo, compounding the paralysis. Logic is eroded beneath the morass of swirling emotional chaos; we grow convinced entire social movements are illusions, and we suspect everyone’s ulterior motives with a lens of transparency. Institutions buckle, radical sentiments simmering beneath, but whenever we try to seize control, reality morphs into an unfathomable phantom.
And so we end up drifting in a half-waking dream, painfully aware of how abjectly flimsy our old structures have become and how unprepared we are for total dissolution. On good days, this can foster genuine compassion and humility, stimulating meaningful—if unacknowledged—works of painstaking effort behind the scenes. On bad days, it spawns corrosive negativity, fear of a future forever out of reach, and a sense that the world is losing its mind. Ultimately, Saturn in Pisces heralds a colossal recalibration, and our only real weapons are renunciation and the courage to forgive. Pisces may teach surrender, but Saturn reminds us that such surrender isn’t necessarily blissful. Sometimes, the emotional despair we feel is simply the price of clearing away the debris so that we might rebuild on steadier ground.
The Pisces New Moon: Seeds in a Sea of Uncertainty
This New Moon at 09°41′ Pisces (on 27/28 February) intensifies the existing conflux of these confoundingly nebulous energies. Normally, we think of a New Moon as a time to set fresh intentions—but in Pisces, under Saturn’s ominous scrutiny and Neptune’s ethereal haze, “intentions” might be more like half-formed dreams. Mercury’s position at the Saturn–Neptune midpoint fouls up the mental works, making crystal clarity a luxury few can afford. Instead, our ideas float around in a haze of doubts, impossible idealism, and disillusionment.
What does that feel like? Imagine trying to plant seeds into quicksand. You might have the best of intentions: start a new job, embark on a spiritual pilgrimage, or patch up a fraying relationship. But the moment you push the spade into the ground, it feels as though your footing is about to give way. This culture here rewards those who can handle a dash of ambiguity, those who can throw caution to the wind, let go of needing every answer spelled out. Rather than force solutions, the trick is to flow with the universal currents, trusting that sometimes not knowing is the most honest place to be. It’s disconcerting, but oddly liberating—especially in a climate where illusions are wearing thin and the old ways of thinking are long overdue for an overhaul.
Eris in Aries: The Uninvited Guest Crashes the Piscean Dream
If this New Moon wasn’t already hazy enough, Eris—semi-squaring the lunation from Aries—marches in with all her Trojan Horse tactics. She’s the archetypal party-crasher, fuelling primal rivalry and puncturing our attempts at gentle Piscean drift with a raw hunger for conflict and discordance. While Pisces might prefer to float off into a sea of cosmic unity, Eris sneaks in stealthily, dethroning illusions left, right, and centre.
Societal friction ramps up because Eris loves to expose hidden tensions and break the status quo. If people are angry about political incompetence, social injustices, or a general sense of betrayal by corporate and government structures, Eris amplifies that outrage. Suddenly, hushed frustrations turn into public showdowns. At the individual level, repressed envy and resentment bubble up, refusing to stay buried. If you’ve been sugar-coating problems—or passively wishing they’d dissolve in the Piscean fog—Eris throws them back in your face, fully loaded. This can be the jolt needed for real change, or the spark that sets everything ablaze. One thing is certain: Eris ensures that no one’s illusions stay intact for long, and you can barricade the doors and windows, but she will find a way to filter through the porous Piscean membrane and go to work disintegrating any remnants of order from the inside out.
Jupiter in Gemini: Scattered Narratives and Cognitive Overload
Adding to the anarchy, Jupiter in Gemini—though finally direct—operates in its detriment here, flinging data points in every direction. Normally, Jupiter is the great integrator, weaving grand themes into coherent meaning, but in Gemini, any coherence of morality and judicial ethics is a mere luxury. The clever mind-trickery and voracious curiosity of Gemini meets Jupiter’s expansion, and we get a dizzying array of half-baked ideas, contradictory opinions, and talk-show-level debates.
Under a tense square to the Pisces New Moon, these fractured narratives clash with an already murky emotional undercurrent. It’s hard to maintain faith when you find yourself flipping from one conversation to another, only to discover that nobody has a consistent sense of truth. Politically, it’s a feeding frenzy for conspiracy theories and media spin, turning any attempt at clarity into a labyrinth of “he said, she said.” On a personal level, you might collect so much information—from headlines, social media, that chatty coworker—that your brain becomes a scatter plot of half-facts. If you’re suffering from information fatigue, blame Jupiter in Gemini. Everyone’s an amateur expert; few are genuinely informed, and even those are looked upon spuriously here. In the end, it can feel like an exercise in futility, accumulating knowledge without ever landing on certainty.
Mars in Cancer: A Warrior Lost at Sea
Meanwhile, Mars—stationed, finally direct, but still in Cancer—fights a losing battle against this cosmic onslaught. Side-stepping Cancer is no domain for Mars’s typical forward charge. Instead of open combat, energy turns inward, brewing a hotbed of emotional tension. Out-of-bounds and in its fall, this Mars is seething yet reluctant to strike. This is the image of a warrior trudging through soggy marshes, unsure whether to mount a direct offensive or retreat altogether.
The square from Chiron in Aries only pokes at unhealed wounds of masculinity, triggering outbursts that feel deeply personal. It’s more “fighting tears” than “fighting words.” At the collective level, there’s a sense of indirect aggression—whisper campaigns, under-the-radar sabotage, or silent boycotts. These covert power plays blend seamlessly with the Piscean fog, making open confrontation increasingly rare. If you’re feeling pent-up frustration or you notice others acting passive-aggressively, that’s Mars in Cancer for you: too keyed-up to maintain serenity, too emotionally drained for a knock-down, drag-out fight. Combined with Eris’s raw push and Jupiter’s mental overload, it all forms a tense backdrop, forcing us to question where, and how, we direct our energy before the dam finally breaks.
Pluto and Pallas Athena in Aquarius: The Bigger Transformational Arc
Lest we ignore the tectonic shifts happening beyond Pisces, Pluto continues its slow, relentless jaunt through Aquarius, joined intermittently this year by Pallas Athena. Pluto’s agenda is total regeneration at whatever cost, often turning an ideology or system inside out. Pallas Athena, archetype of strategic wisdom, can direct this potency toward reform, exposing corruption, and crafting radical new solutions. However, Pluto’s tendency is to morph any position into its polar opposite—where progressive can become reactionary and regressive, and vice versa. Being a fixed sign, stubborn adherence to an idealogy can quickly morph into extremist dogma and Athena can unleash it with ravenous zealotry.
At the communal and global levels, the presence of Pluto and Pallas Athena in Aquarius underscores a concurrent campaign for transparency, technological revolutions, and a complete social reorganisation. While the Piscean meltdown fosters a kind of emotional and psychic ennui, Pluto’s slow-motion tremors in Aquarius sets the stage for large-scale transformations in governance, human rights abuses and reforms, and a jarring redefinition of collective and group identity. Outdated sociopolitical structures are being dismantled—some violently, others more subtly. Pallas Athena’s influence can tactically provoke this force into constructive territory, but Pluto’s tendency to push to extremes, and its corrosive impact can also unleash despotic tendencies, especially when patience runs thin, illusions shatter and people scramble desperately for control.
Personal, Transpersonal, Communal, Global: Why It All Matters
On a personal level, this lunation forces us to confront where we cling to illusions out of fear. Pisces stirs compassion, imagination, and surrender, but Eris’s friction and Mars’s emotional volatility demand honesty about repressed anger and envy. Saturn’s ineffectiveness in Pisces can leave us feeling adrift, uncertain of how to structure our daily lives, while Jupiter in Gemini peppers us with unending questions and contradictory answers. It’s an emotional labyrinth that can bring either profound inner insight or overwhelming despair.
Transpersonally, we sense a shift in the collective psyche. The Neptune/Node conjunction drags us into a shared dissolving reality, where trust in leadership, social unity, and future prospects is waning. On a communal scale, we witness the erosion of confidence in institutions, confusion over collective aims, and a growing cynicism. Eris exploits these fractures, igniting rivalries that can either spur necessary social changes or breed senseless destruction. Finally, at the global level, the interplay of Pluto and Pallas Athena in Aquarius sets the context for revolutionary leaps in technology, governance, and cultural norms—but only if we can navigate the illusions being stripped away on every front.
This final New Moon before eclipse season underscores a pivotal moment of confrontation with the intangible. With a total Lunar Eclipse looming in mid-March at 23° Virgo 57′, we’re on the brink of unveiling hidden truths and reordering our worldview. Eclipses often act as catalysts, revealing the deeper currents that conventional lunations only hint at. Here, the last seed sown in Pisces merges vulnerability with urgency. If the tension between Jupiter’s scattershot attempts at meaning and Pisces’s demand for surrender feels impossible, it’s because we are at the end of a cycle. We must let certain illusions die to move forward.
In Conclusion: A Critical Flashpoint Before the Eclipses
This Thursday/Friday’s New Moon sets a tone of deep perplexity, which ironically might be just what we need. Some illusions should dissolve. Some structures are meant to crumble. The intensity is meant to rouse us from complacency, even as it blinds us to the next step. The simultaneous presence of Mars (now direct again in Cancer), Eris (provoking conflict from Aries), and Pluto/Pallas Athena (catabolysing radical shifts in Aquarius) ensures that none of us can hide entirely. Everything is in flux, and the coming eclipses will only amplify this volatility. Have faith… we (humanity) are at the final stages of our terrestrial development, heading for the stars.
For many, this period will feel deeply unsettling—like being caught between the impulse to abandon everything and the hunger to fight for meaningful change. The guidance here is to remain curious, to allow the uncertainty without slipping into blind escapism or knee-jerk aggression. Acknowledge your emotional surges, your cynicism, and your desire for radical transformation, but recognise that clarity won’t come by forcing a narrative. Sometimes, the only path forward is to embrace the unravelling. After all, Pisces teaches us that an ending can be the prelude to a remarkable birth, if ultimately, into a brand new dimension.
Leading Into Your Personal Horoscopes
In my latest lunation horoscopes and New Moon intentions (links below), we explore how these influences may manifest for each zodiac sign. Offering careful, distinct guidance and insight, they serve to empower you on your journey forward. Under Pisces lunation’s soulful gaze, you’re invited to transform these turbulent energies from mere chaos into profound growth. Instead of allowing repressed anger and hopelessness to fester, harness them as catalysts for resilience and self-mastery. Even in the murkiest, most distant waters, new life stirs. Let that be your reminder that surrender need not be defeat, but rather the first step in discovering a deeper form of truth and renewal.
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Perfectly descriptive of these waters! Thank You.
… ‘like being caught between the impulse to abandon everything and the hunger to fight for meaningful change’ … if only there was somewhere to escape to!!
Let’s continue to fight the good fight, my dear Ang, and thank you so much for this intricate cosmic roadmap ✨🙏✨