Celestial Readings Astro Update for Feb 19-26 201

The week starts off with the Moon in electric Aquarius squaring Jupiter in Taurus, both of which are fixed signs ~a dynamic aspect and undeniably, a forceful one. This sets the tone for those (who are so inclined) to express their opinions in a most straight-forward fashion, standing on their point of view without wavering, or even with the slightest bit of wiggle-room.

The Sun also moves into Pisces (Sun > Pis, Feb 19, 1:18 AM, EST) conjoining Neptune so that both planets are at ZERO degrees. To recap, let’s understand the importance of the critical degree of Zero. In ancient astrology, Zero was ostensibly considered to be a ‘degree of war’. Contemporary astrology however, far more metaphysical than our ancient stargazing ancestors, see Zero degree a bit more expansively, progressing now from the ‘degree of war’, into ‘an initiation point’, no less powerful, especially for those who are born on the cusp, usually between the dates of the 19-23rd, depending on the given month and year. Cusp-born people are generally very dynamic individuals and where-ever their natal Sun is (in their particular birth-chart) plays out in distinct and sometimes profound ways.

Neptune will be at Zero degrees until March 1st, making it a 10 month transit (in total) of a single degree, (including its retrograde motion). This is due in part to Neptune’s own 14-year long sojourn through any given sign. Then, the Sun moving a degree a day -its own gradual motion as it moves from sign to sign each month. This coupling of the Sun and Neptune is brief (together, the two of them only in effective orb for about a week). However, Zero degrees in Pisces, is POWERFULLY positioned, no matter which side of the FISH you’re standing on! So, you can expect an intense week, especially if your journey is of a spiritual nature. Such folks~ (we spirits in a material world)~ seem to attract events designed to further our spiritual progress; sometimes surprising, always awakening. Your anchor is, of course, your spirituality, planting you firming like a mighty Sequoia tree, with roots that run deep and branches that reach lofty and soaring to the heights of the heaven within you…the heaven you were put here to manifest on Earth, by the very grace of simply BEING.

Consider it NOT an accident then, that at the very start of enigmatic 2012, Neptune happens to be sitting at ZERO degrees in Pisces, the sign that allows us to access our spirituality to its most profound depths. Nothing spells Enlightenment like the combination of these two astrological elements, which form their own ideal idiom.

NEW MOON joins this conjunction, on Tuesday Feb 21, (12:31 PM EST) inspiring us to new projects and endeavors, creating a powerful stellium of planets in Pisces, (Mercury, The Sun, Moon, and Neptune) all in trine aspect to Saturn in Libra. This amplifies relationships, opening the doors of our hearts, intensifying communication and supporting co-operative effort.

The tempo of the workplace increases as well, as Mars in Virgo finds itself in opposition to Mercury in Pisces. Make concerted attempts to be patient, clear and concise with your co-workers, applying yourself in a collaborative fashion so as to create,