Astrology for Tuesday, 25 February 2020:

Today the Moon in Pisces makes sextiles to Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn before ingressing into Aries. So often it is the places where we’ve been wounded and the parts of ourselves that have been abandoned that hold the deepest sources of power for creating change in our lives. This is not accidental because it is the parts of us that present the greatest threat to existing systems, structures, and operations of power—the parts of us that are most different or divergent, farthest from that which is centered in our culture or elevated within the current hierarchies—that endure the most forceful repression, restriction, or punishment. As the Moon completes its time in Pisces and moves into Aries, how might you begin to feel for those broken and abandoned places within yourself, then take up the charge to defend and protect those precious places, beginning to access their power? Today we also experience a moment of clarity within Mercury’s retrograde through Pisces. As Mercury makes its first conjunction to the Sun—a condition called “cazimi”—we may glimpse a pathway through the fog, and catch a glimmer of understanding of what this period of reflection and review might be teaching us. This is not the end of the retrograde, but a moment of insight, inspiration, or intuition to guide us as we continue to retrace our strokes to learn what we perhaps missed the first time we swam across these waters.