Mary Jo Wevers

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Saturn in Pisces

The planet Saturn is the archetypal principle of maturation and gaining wisdom over time. Saturn brings us face to face with reality in the material world. It teaches us perseverance and tenacity. We learn to work within the constraints of time, space and resources to accomplish our goals. We create structure and organization, routines and systems in which our ambitions can begin to take shape and manifest. 

Watery Pisces has a flowing, creative, visionary, idealistic and imaginative energy. Its planetary ruler is Neptune, the archetypal principle of transcending the world of matter and entering the realm of spirit that lies beyond physical manifestation. Both Neptune and Pisces have a dissolving, misty, foggy or cloudy quality that lends shapelessness, lack of definition, to anything they touch. 

Saturn acting in Pisces lends its contractive and crystalizing forces to solidify the nebulous, intangible, transcendent quality of our Piscean dreams and visions. Saturn’s gravitational pull brings them down to earth and helps us define our goals. Economical and hierarchical, Saturn asks us to set priorities and be resourceful with time and materials. It ground truths and tests the reality of our aspirations, and then evaluates their usefulness and applications in the world.

Saturn transits the sign of Pisces from March 2023 until May 2025, and then again from August 2025 until February 2026. During its approximately two and a half year period in Pisces, Saturns tasks us with taking more responsibility for our spiritual nature. It asks us to take our spirituality seriously and dedicate time and energy to becoming more spiritually attuned. Spiritual practices such as prayer, meditation and yoga provide ways to tap into universal or oneness consciousness. Align with Saturn in Pisces by organizing your schedule and creating space in your life for spiritual pursuits and activities. 

Saturn in Pisces asks us to become wiser more responsible members of our communities by having more empathy and charity for others, rather than striving for personal success and material gain. In Pisces, Saturn directs us to integrate our spiritual values into our goals for worldly achievement. Saturn in Pisces is a wise elder in its community, serving others and future generations by providing a spiritual as well as material legacy.

Saturn sets beneficial limits on problematic expressions of Pisces. It places a reality check on an overactive imagination, with its fantasies and illusions. It asks us to curb and restrain tendencies towards pessimism, self-pity, victim mentality and martyr-like behavior. Sensitive and impressionable Pisces can lack boundaries, be too submissive, and engage in dependent or co-dependent behavior. Escapist Pisces can succumb to addiction. 

Earthy Saturn directs Pisces to exercise self-discipline and care for its physical body by avoiding unhealthy habits and behaviors. It invites us to enjoy our imaginative inner world in creative ways, and to value the richness and insight our inner life provides. It asks us to be a cosmic adult, practicing empathy, compassion and forgiveness towards others. Saturn desires we experience oneness consciousness with all of humanity, and appreciate we are all spiritual beings having human experiences.

“Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.” ― Steven Forrest

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Finding Spiritual Meaning in Everyday Life

The archetypal principle of Neptune, modern planetary ruler of Pisces, is to transform our consciousness by expanding our spiritual understanding of individual and collective experiences. Neptune and Pisces guide us to transcend the superficial appearances of everyday events by turning our awareness from preoccupation with the outer world, and examine them from an inner, deeper place. Working with the principle of Neptune is a process that helps us soften the boundaries of our ego-identified self in order to find greater spiritual meaning in life.

The ego tries to protect us in the physical, material world by interpreting and judging experiences from the point of view of the individual self. The mind chatter generated by the ego tends to be fear-based and self-centered. It can lead to suffering, selfishness, jealousy, and all forms of disillusionment. When we quiet the mind we allow ourselves to tap into deeper, more intuitive levels of our being. By listening to our inner knowing we can find a broader and more universal perspective on matters. Neptune and Pisces help us transcend our personal earthly experiences, find commonality in our human condition, and guide us to find the spiritual significance in them.

When we find ourselves emotionally charged by something that is happening we can use our ego-mind to explore inwardly rather than re-act outwardly. Ask yourself these questions in this three step introspective process.

  1. What happened? What was the experience? Simply state the incident or event.
  2. How did I feel? What emotions arose naturally and spontaneously? Instead of judging your emotions, just recognize and name them.
  3. From a place deep within, ask why your soul or higher self might wish you to have this experience. Why might you have attracted or created it? What is the opportunity for healing, for growth, or simply for greater awareness? Finally, gently ask yourself what judgments you made about the experience, or about others or yourself, that interfere with understanding the spiritual gift of it.

Neptune and Pisces ease our suffering and misery in life by dissolving and washing away the boundaries and limitations of the ego and its self-importance. We surrender the need to be a victim, a martyr, or a rescuer in the world. We release co-dependent dynamics playing out in life. We find unity with all of humanity through sensitivity, sympathy, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness. We can experience Oneness consciousness and universal Love. Even when our ego-mind cannot fully comprehend the meaning of our life experiences, we can have faith they contribute to our greater good and spiritual evolution.

“All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.” – Henry Reed

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Neptune, Modern Planetary Ruler of Pisces

The modern ruler of Pisces is the planet Neptune. This large planet is surrounded by a thick atmosphere of gases, water and ice. Neptune’s atmosphere is known for its active weather patterns and storms, driven by the strongest winds of any planet in the solar system. Neptune is named for the Roman god of the sea. Its glyph is the sea god’s trident.

Neptune spends approximately 14 years in each sign of the zodiac, taking about 168 years to orbit the Sun. Considered the second transpersonal planet, it’s transit through a sign affects an entire generation, and represents their idealistic wish to rise up to a higher plane of existence.

Neptune was discovered in 1846 when it was in the final degrees of the sign of Aquarius. Soon afterward it entered its own sign of Pisces and the United States entered into Civil War, in large part due to collective efforts to end slavery. We will undergo our country’s Neptune return soon, and civil rights issues, which stem from our country’s economic foundation in slavery, are being revisited. This is a time to heal the wounds from our past.

In the astrological chart, Neptune symbolizes the need to experience suffering in order to atone for our sins and become more compassionate and empathetic towards others. This is referred to as the “path to redemption.” This path to redemption often creates unhealthy perpetrator/victim/savior dynamics in our relationships, resulting in compulsions, co-dependencies and significant psychological problems for us.

Ultimately Neptune directs us to have compassion for ourselves without martyrdom. It asks us to form universal emotional connections with others through hope, faith, forgiveness and unconditional love. Through sacrifice of our ego needs we redeem ourselves, transcend our material existence, and are reborn again into the human condition transfigured.

Neptune in Pisces

Neptune was in the sign of Pisces during 1848-1863. Since then it has traveled full circle around the Sun and is once again in the sign of Pisces, where it will stay until 2025.

What can we expect during this current 14 year transit of Neptune in Pisces? What collective experiences will we have that will deepen our empathy, compassion and universal love? Must we re-experience the divisiveness  in our country that lead to our Civil War, or can we move forward from a higher spiritual awareness? As a country, can we transcend racism, sexism, “other-ism” and come to appreciate our connections with everyone, regardless of race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation?

On the personal level, how do you need to retreat from the material world to revitalize and replenish your connection to your soul? What spiritual practices will support your own spiritual development? Use this 14 year period to create a deeper sense of your own inner divinity and connection to all of humanity.

“Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.”

– Betty Williams

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Pisces, Final Sign of the Zodiac

Pisces rules the ocean, the source of all life on this water planet. It teaches us that like so many drops of water in the ocean, we are all individuals and at the same time we are all one. Pisces challenges us to find a balance between defining the boundaries of our identity and physical experience, and dissolving our self-hood and merging into oneness. Pisces asks us to be aware of our universal connections as we live our individual lives.

A changeable and adapting mutable sign of negative polarity, receptive Pisces experiences the world through an emotional and idealistic filter. It receives images, impressions and visions that are subtle, undefined, or nebulous. Knowledge and insights seep into its mind through osmosis. Pisces has an active and creative imagination and is adept in visualization. Images, metaphors, archetypes and symbols hold deeper, richer, more spiritual meaning for Pisces than literal descriptions of objects and events. Artistic and romantic, Pisces expresses itself through poetry, painting and music.

Pisces’ sensitive and intuitive nature is strongly affected by the emotions and energies of others. Because it merges effortlessly with other people, it has difficulty discerning its own feelings from the emotions of others. Empathetic Pisces has much sympathy and forgiveness for humanity with all its imperfections. Its generous nature is devoted to easing grief and suffering in the world.

Impressionable and susceptible to outside influences, Pisces can feel overwhelmed and inadequate dealing with the physical world and the day-to-day realities of life. It can be impractical, careless, or delusional.Pisces can feel fearful and retreat into itself or seek escape through addictive substances and behaviors. In relationships Pisces can be timid and submissive, naive and co-dependent.

Being humble, Pisces feels guilt, shame and consequently a need to atone for past sins. It deludes itself by believing that in order to become spiritual it must place itself “above” a material world it believes is imperfect and tainted. However Pisces must learn to trust and have faith while keeping its feet firmly planted in the physical world.

Pisces rules mystical experiences where the boundaries that define us and our material reality become foggy or hazy. Spiritual practices fall in this realm, including meditation, prayer, and vision quests. In these practices we merge into oneness and connect with Source. Pisces also rules sleep and our dream world, our subconscious and the collective unconscious, karma and spiritual debts. Dream analysis, past life regression, hypnotherapy, and other methods of accessing the other-than-conscious mind fall under its jurisdiction.

This final sign of the zodiac governs the final stage of life, when that which is corporal or material falls away, dies, and dissolves. The physical realm is transcended and we return as spirit to Source. Pisces teaches us to let go and have faith. The key phrase for Pisces is “I Believe.”

The symbol for Pisces is two fish swimming in opposite directions, symbolizing the struggle to reconcile the polarity of the material and spiritual worlds. Pisces asks us to balance and integrate our spiritual self with our physical existence. We can swim in cosmic consciousness as we live in a corporeal body and navigate life on earth.

Colors for Pisces are lavender and aquamarine. Platinum is its metal. The gem for Pisces is amethyst. Water lilies and lavender are its flowers. Parts of the body ruled by Pisces are the feet and toes, lymph and white blood cells. Fish, whales and dolphins are Pisces animals. Archetypes for Pisces include artists, religious pilgrims and spiritual seekers, slaves, beggars and the poor, drug addicts and alcoholics, social and welfare workers. Sanctuaries, hospitals, charities, convents and monasteries, prisons and penal colonies are Pisces places.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”   – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin