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Early tomorrow morning here in California, on the same day as the Virgo Full Moon, Saturn, Lord of Karma, planet associated with structure, limits, obstacles and difficult lessons, will leave Aquarius, where it's been transiting for the past three years. Saturn entered this sign of society back in March of 2020, in perfect synchrony with COVID lockdowns instituted worldwide. Leaving Aquarius, a sign it rules and where it strides particularly strong, Saturn will now begin a transit of alien territory: the Neptune and Jupiter-ruled sign of Pisces.

Over the next three years, our most earthy, pragmatic planet, Lord of the Realm of Ordinary Reality, will be taking a trip through the sign of non-ordinary reality. When two such contrasting "flavors" are combined such as this, it always makes for a complex and unique stew: one that will take, however, extra effort, extra pains to get right. Let's examine the concepts that lie at the heart of what it means for us all when stoic Saturn moves through Pisces' Sea of Love.

I wish I had better reasons to write to you today. Planet-wide entrenched power continues its death and destruction rampage, dragging all of us closer and closer to extinction. The events happening in the Ukraine are horrific, and will probably result in destabilization of the region for some time.

Astrologically speaking, what is happening is highly Saturn-Pluto in nature, in both the apparent themes of the actual events (and their causes), but also indicated via transit. While the most recent Saturn-Pluto conjunction happened over two years ago now — January of 2020 — just two days ago, on the 24th, the day the bombing and invasion of the Ukraine began, Mars, the God of War, was transiting the exact degree: 22° Capricorn. This shows, not only how potent a trigger Mars can be, but also how long a degree can remain sensitized.

Two of astrology's heaviest hitters, Saturn and Pluto, have come together in an exact conjunction: an end-of-an-era alignment that brings to a close a long, almost 40-year chapter that began back in 1982.

Several planetary cycles converge with this turning-point conjunction, breaking shore on the turbulent tide of a complex lunar eclipse, with not only the Sun and Moon, as every lunar eclipse, but Mercury, Ceres, Saturn, and Pluto — all in a tight huddle, less than three degrees apart.

Disruptive and destabilizing Uranus, catalyst for change is also involved, stationing direct on the very day of the eclipse; and Eris, Greek Goddess of War and Strife, sister to Ares, God of War, has thrown a monkey wrench of her own into the works: tightly squaring the whole conflagration from Mars-ruled Aries.

SOMETHING WILD AND NEW is crashing into awareness right now, shattering an old, tangled knot of limitation and stagnation, all the while Saturn forces keep trying to re-tie the same knot: keep the status quo/gravy train in place, forces that have long been mobilized, entrenched and powerful.

Yet Pluto disintegration, death and renewal has been unleashed and there is no going back. The knot has unraveled. We are in the death throes of an old, outdated system that does not, like anything, want to die, and will not give up without a fight. But destiny, if there is such a thing, has arrived: the seeds of a brand new cycle, one that will build over the next three decades, have been sown. The Age of Aquarius is dawning, born from the ashes of human-made division and devastation.