The Sun may have officially arrived in Pisces but with the host of retrograde we experienced late last year through January, you may not really be feeling it just yet. In fact most of our personal planets have some serious catching up to do before they reach the zodiac's end with Venus and Mars still on the craggy cliffs of Capricorn and Mercury floating through the Aquarian spacetime.
But that just means there's more to learn from these placements before we move on. And that's exactly what Chiron asks us to do later this week when it moves into the orbit of Mercury.
Chiron is one of our greatest indicators of karmic buildup, representing the wounds we have not--and often refuse--to heal. In Aries, it tugs at the stitches of those cuts which allow our lifeblood to pour out--we may tell ourselves it nourishes others, that it fertilizes the ground for those ahead, but it certainly doesn't do us any good. But this sextile with Mercury in Aquarius asks us to take a step back and remove ourselves entirely from the equation. View the situation objectively, perhaps a bit utilitarian, and ask yourself what good comes of continuing to pick this scab. If you can shift your focus from personal pain and onto the larger objective lesson, you may be able to burst through the blockade once and for all.
Just be careful that you're not transposing that pain--that same day, love-and-money Venus moves into aspect with Neptune, a planet infamous for clouding vision and dissolving boundaries. It would be a little too easy to "reinvent" yourself through luxury or material gains or at least long for the opportunity to do so. Remember that the spirit has its own riches--you might even need to strip the material away in order to find them.
On Friday, Mercury squares off with Uranus, which remains a planet to watch. We're not even close to the end of Uranus' time in Taurus and we've already been asked to redefine so many concepts we never looked at twice--currency is in flux, health is under the microscope, and we openly experiment with diet and nutrition for both biological and environmental reform. It's also spelled mischief for supply chains and systems of production. With Mercury also ruling transportation, commerce, and travel, this could manifest very literally with obstacles or blockages to roads and businesses, service outages and shortages, or at the very least some inconveniences that result in very real changes in plan. Keep yourself (and your schedule) open and flexible. Mercury in Aquarius is more about concept than execution. Come up with a Plan B (and maybe also a C, D, and E while you're at it) just in case you need a last-minute pivot.