Today’s eclipse in Pisces was what you might call a watershed moment: a point of transition from one phase of your life to another. This one put us under considerable pressure to wrap up old business and make way for new experiences.

Ruy Queiroz caught the Feb. 26 eclipse in Sao Paulo, one of the world’s major financial centers and the most populous city in Brazil.

Eclipses have lasting effects, and this one is not over. The Sun is still moving toward Neptune in Pisces, which will be inspiring if you can stay above the confusion.

To work with Neptune you must keep your confidence and clarity of mind, while still honoring your creativity and intuition. You can do it; it will help to take one thing at a time.

While this eclipse is pulsing through the water of Pisces in circular waves, another event is happening in Aries: Mars passing through the Uranus-Eris conjunction. This is radical astrology, it’s bold and it’s also asking for careful and reasoned thought.

Remember, the Sun is conjunct Neptune at the moment, which can be idealistic or foggy. Mars is mixing it up with electrical Uranus and rebellious Eris. So you’ll want to think before you act, even if you want to make some kind of sudden move. The problem with Neptune is that it can either conceal information, or make you think something is a great idea when it might not be. Hence, discernment is necessary. Real-time tests are necessary, before you go all-in.

One relevant example is that, often, people will smoke a little pot and think something is a great idea. It may be, it may not be, but you need to think it through in the morning, and maybe test it out in real life. Mars-Uranus-Eris can indeed spark inspired ideas; it’s just not guaranteed.

This mosaic image of the Feb. 26 annular eclipse is from Slooh.com, which captured the event live in Coyhaique, Chile, and broadcast it around the world.

I covered both events in detail on the current edition of Planet Waves TV.

Later this week, on March 4, Venus stations retrograde in Aries. That will last through April 15. Venus in Aries seems like a permanent condition of our society: people demand and respond to focus on themselves. It’s so pervasive as to be invisible. And self-obsession is being fed by the most sophisticated mirror ever invented, the glitzy and glamorous internet.

The problem is that most people don’t know it’s a mirror. It’s easy to forget that the entire internet is an extension of your senses and your nervous system. It’s easy to think that it’s about all these other people.

Venus retrograde turns the emotional quest inward. This is astrology that’s demanding self-awareness and a measure of humility. Humility does not mean acting humble. Rather, it means staying close to the ground, and staying moist rather than hot and dry. Venus will soon be retrograding back into Pisces, which is an image of going deeper into oneself.

Pisces represents the emotional realm, as well as what we think of as creative. And Pisces takes us into a wide space of humanity, where individuals swim together in collective experience. Much of the ‘cosmic teaching’ of this retrograde is about the relationship between the individual and all these other beings around us, and their feelings.

I’ll have more to say about Venus retrograde in Tuesday’s edition of Planet Waves FM, and in my article this coming Thursday evening. Your weekly astrology reading is below. It applies to both your Sun and your rising sign.

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