Saturn in Pisces, Jupiter in Gemini with Mars thrown in the mix

How these encounters mix and might need help to match!

I’m writing this on a Mars day, and few months into my personal Mars year.

And since Mars rules my 9^th house of philosophy, religion, Astrology and higher education, and rules it from a very personal house, I’ve always found myself correlating the personal experiences and events with the underlying philosophy or bigger currents of life around. Is it an accurate approach? I’d say it’s a personal approach. Does it yield results? In many ways, yes.

As I evolve in my life and in my astrological understanding and practice, I have found that our personal stories can easily replace myths, sagas, and drama series. We are, at the end of the day, everlasting, ever-living myth and archetypal experience that keeps repeating yet ever shape shifting.

I come from a tiny, lovely piece of land in the Middle East, right on the Mediterranean, called Lebanon.

We’re the land of mountain and sea, of Sun, Snow and Four Seasons. Of generosity of heart, mouthwatering dishes, of history and traditions mixed with modern trauma and western copy cat behaviorism. It is the land of confused organization, extreme temperaments and easy jokes.

The old and the new in constant flux with the minimal organic order. Traditionally, the younger generation would take care of the older, but with multiple financial crisis and the upheaval of the last couple of years, there is a generation of elderly who found themselves with their children immigrating and them vulnerable to the loss of economical status or at the least, lacking community support.

In Astrology, Jupiter and Saturn archetypes speak to our societies and are concerned about creating better possibilities (Jupiter) and maintaining sustainable foundations for them (Saturn).

Saturn entered Pisces in March 2023 and is staying there until February 2026 (with a quick visit to Aries in the Summer of 2025).

Saturn in Pisces is in Jupiter’s sign. Saturn has little to do with Jupiter. Where Jupiter expands, Saturn restricts, and where Jupiter hopes, Saturn evaluates the foundations seriously and denies any hopefulness before the terrain is completely ready.

Since March 2023, Jupiter has moved from Aries to Taurus in May 2023 and recently to Gemini on the 26^th of May 2024.

Jupiter is not in a comfortable position in Gemini, which is ruled by chatty Mercury.

In a Mercury ruled sign, the hopeful Giant is limited in its hopefulness and more dependent on data - for its expansion plans - than on good old faith.

So, how do these energies translate in the life of us, mere humans?

Saturn in Pisces speaks to old age, compassion, long term solutions for emotional entanglements and personal accountability for more maturity. Saturn can highlight the need for stripping sentimental skeletons as a proper foundational work for our communities.

To these issues, Saturn raises the questions.  

However, during this retrograde, the answers do not feel ripe yet to show sustainable solutions. And until this moment of writing, the experience feels like exposing the issues more and more now that the square with Mars in Gemini is perfecting on the 14^th of August, 2024. It will also highlight the first square between Jupiter in Gemini and Saturn in Pisces that is preparing for the 19/20 of August. Jupiter will have a follow up meeting with Saturn on the 24^th of December 2024.

The intellectual curiosity through abstract conceptual interests and mental capabilities of Gemini is definitely challenged by the emotional embracing experience of Pisces.

Gemini is an Air sign, Pisces is a Water sign.

At an elemental level, Air and Water share some things and differ in others.

They do share the “moist “and therefore create a sense of “connectedness”, which makes them both “humanely” oriented. They do however differ in that same experience of humaneness: Where the Air Element of Gemini wants to connect on a fun, exploratory and communicative level, the Pisces experience is more swimming through the feelings in the vast ocean of emotional “connectedness”, that doesn’t find solace in mere mundane wordings.

On the contrary, for the Piscean feeling realm, words and specifically “too much words” can feel futile.

At its core, Pisces understanding comes from the observation of undercurrents that move beneath the surface of words and communication to create that minutiae of beingness: a complex dance of moving from “within” so the “without” looks the way it looks.

When two planets meet in the sky, they form something called an “aspect” and they highlight their particular traits and bring to the foreground the experience of the signs they are visiting.

In this case the “aspect” (a square) is challenging.

An adjustment is definitely needed.

Saturn is rather stern as an archetype.

In a sign like Pisces, it can bring melancholy, nostalgia, guilt and judgment to these parts of life that are under oceanic influences of Jupiterian magnitude.

The interaction of Saturn with other planets from this fundamentally emotional place can be casting some gloomy, sluggish and confused vibes of feeling judgmental about some of our human experience that is being thrown under the current radar of the retrograde motion…

Mars archetypal experience varies between action, confidence and assertiveness to being hot headed and rather rash. In some problematic expression it can become quite abusive and violent.

In Gemini, the Martian (and Jupiter) expression is under the influence of Mercury. So we may experience it through words, commerce, news, the internet, social media and even aviation and flying devices.

But Mercury is currently in the middle of its own retrograde motion as well, and we may feel confused. We might not be as quick to act as usual, or prone to do one thing a couple of times before we get it right. That is FRUSTRATING for Mars.

Mars in Gemini usually feels light, airy and chatty. But this Mars in Gemini feels heavy and sticky while being exposed to the saline moisture of Saturn in Pisces’ waves.

When hesitation is highlighted, we might need to pause and review some short term actions for the sake of bigger, long term plans.

Remember that Pisces/Gemini conversation will have a second chapter when Jupiter and Saturn meet again around Christmas time.

We do need that pause.

That pause is needed.

Whether we consider it as an internal pause, or experience it as a “freezing” in life’s motion around us.

Nothing can be built to last by rushing through the process.

We are the process.

Our internal process matters.

We need emotions.

We need communication.

We can use the heaviness to ground us.

And we can use the airiness to carry us like a feather to the heavens of existence.

It’s just that we need to use creative ways that include them both.

We need enough compassion to call out the imbalance, to stop the momentum of a rolling stone that is speeding towards the hells of human experience.

We need to allow grief to surface so another lighter course of life might be possible.

Mars’ energy can be explosive, especially when associated with Jupiter.

Any bypassing of this process through jumping into action without taking in all the aspects of that process, can result in a dynamite kind of experience, and God knows we need less of those.

Saturn’s energy can be quite depressive and judgmental. Any wallowing in sorrowful states of victimhood or feeling sorry for oneself is going to feel like an imprisonment in the dungeon of despair.

But Life is a creative force that is constantly being born from opposition and contrast.

That might be the angle we need to look from:

We are here for a reason.

And the reason is creation.

If adjustment is the first step towards creation.

How are you adjusting?