The Batism of a Blog in Holy Water
Taurus Sun in the 8th House of Thresholds & the Underworld (Galactic Center) and the 9th House of Horizons & Revelation (Material Form of the Renaissance, Seasons of Time & Nature).
My First Solar Return
since My Saturn Return
There are birthdays, and then there are thresholds.
This one is both.
Once a year, the Sun returns to a place it occupied when you were born. Astrologers call this a Solar Return — a cosmic birthday candle lit just for you. But this year, it’s not just any birthday: It’s my first Solar Return since completing my Saturn Return: the dissolution of a very merry unbirthday, indeed.
Venice, Italy; a land of Saturn in Pisces; Alice in Wonderland; A Very Merry Unbirthday, Saturn-Solar Return, Pisces-Taurus
As my Sun and Saturn return pass — one for the first time, the other on its trigintennial return — I find myself writing this beneath a sheer sky of concave glass, frosted in the falling sands of time. Saturn, the Father of Time, hovers above the anaretic threshold, poised to tip over the hourglass and start again upon the Alpha-Omega point of the celestial sphere.
anaretic threshold
hellenic zodiac: 29° pisces
vedic nakshatra: 29° revati
alpha-omega point
hellenic zodiac: 0°-1° aries
vedic nakshtra: 0°-1° ashwini
I stand at the precipice of this liminal space as the ocean recedes to reveal a forgotten city, its foundations still intact beneath the waves. This blog is my Atlantis, these words the first of many archeological digs.
They say Saturn in Pisces is a strange placement — where structure meets spirit, and boundaries try to hold water. Historically, it accompanies a thinning of the veil where illusions spread like droplets of water along the jewel-encrusted intersections of Indra’s Net.
This submerging of our interconnected world can result in a sea of duality between the two extremes of its expression: from the Black Death and the spread of darkness to the Renaissance and the spread of enlightenment.
from the Black Death and the spread of darkness (1300’s ) to the renaissance and the spread of enlightenment (1400’s).
AI Siren Art by Celestial Subliminals
The Song of the Siren
Before the 19th century, Pisces was ruled by Jupiter. After planets were found orbiting beyond the rings of Saturn — and the boundaries of the eye — its throne was ceded to Neptune.
Research into Lunar Mansion placements reveal that Jupiter is Lord in the House of Music.
"Jupiter as nakshatra lord also continues in the art field, with a huge presence in the Musical Arts in particular." — An Astrological Research Study on 1,200 of the World’s Most Influential Artists by Claire Nakti
Her research further reveals that this influence extends not only to Jupiter-ruled signs, but also to the Lunar Mansion’s in harmonic trine with them. As one musician with this harmonic trine to the Lord, puts it:
“Music is only sound under governance of certain laws…”
So we wind the cosmic clock and turn our eye back to Saturn — transcriber of certain laws; both covenant and commandment.
While Jupiter and Neptune converge to create the mythical creature of Pisces or the Siren — divine, seductive, drowning — not meant to be silenced, but survived. This survival is an art of self-binding, where discipline becomes devotion.
According to Safron Rossi at The Archetypal Eye, the mythos of the Siren is to “lure sailors to their deaths by promising divine knowledge,” the epitome of Neptune and Jupiter — or the unconscious God principle.
They go on to say:
“It is the heroic part of us that experiences the Siren as devourer; as the greatest temptation of heroic consciousness strives to know as the gods (know)… This hubris, which is part of the human condition, is the blind spot of ego consciousness.”
Odysseus, himself, only survived the lure of this siren call because he was warned by Circe: —
lash yourself to the crystal ship before you slip into unconsciousness
the curse of the Black Pearl of wisdom
Saturn in Pisces is the protective figurehead of a ship cutting through the vast sea of unconsciousness. Carved and made from wood: the living memory of root and branch, of containment and curve. In traditions where wood is sacred, it is the element of becoming — of breath given form.
As Saturn traverses the last sign of the zodiac, he approaches a gandanta point — the degrees between the elements of fire and water, ending and beginning, ego and dissolution. Sacred areas of the celestial sphere which I believe may be the positions of the cosmic wombs.
This number aligns with the sacred figure of the Triple Goddess or The Fates.
It is here that I believe we encounter the blind spot of ego consciousness or the siren song described by Rossi — that perilous yearning to know what God knows inside of the cosmic womb.
It is only through the containment of Saturn that we survive this breach with the vast state of universal unconsciousness. The Lord of Karma may rule this sacred binding within gestation; whether we reform and reincarnate or whether we follow the siren song of annihilation and oneness with the unconscious divine principle.
This is the lesson of Saturn in Pisces: the art of self-restraint leads to reverent release upon true birth. This energy can be experienced in the exploration of the perinatal matrices, a therapy developed by Stanislav Grof or the knotting of soul to skin in the devotional ritual of shibari. You can also experience the energy of Saturn in Pisces in destinations which have built structure from water. Venice, Italy is one of the most well-known examples to exist in our time but there are many others ranging from the labyrinthine Amsterdam to the idyllic Annecy, or the suburban Cape Coral (USA) to the stern industrial-age Birmingham (UK).
In the Netherlands and Scandinavia, it was believed that water spirits lived inside of figureheads, and if a ship were to sink without one, it would “condemn the sailor's soul to haunt the sea forever”.
Without the figurehead, the ship drifts. The siren becomes seduction. And the sea devours all.
Without the blessing of the Gatekeeper, the soul becomes lost inside the interior of the cosmic womb.
Kharon, Ferryman of the Dead
Saturn in Pisces is akin to the figure of Kharon. The Father of Time still rules at the thresholds between life and death, in Pisces, as the liminal guide who ensures safe passage—but only if the dead are properly prepared. He’s not malevolent but bound by rules and ritual.
Even in the 16th century, as the oriental mystique of the East met European ambition on the high seas, it was not lawlessness that sustained the longest-lasting pirate societies — but freemasonry, freedom, and the right to self-government. These outlaws carved moral codes from open waters, binding themselves not to empire, but to creed. They made sacraments from shipwreck.
Saturn in Pisces, at its most wild and wise, governs not with law, but with vow. Not with force, but with sacred binding.
The mast. The rope. The chalice.
Those with a crystal ship or without a figurehead — the sea swallows (w)hole. Those with an obol (a coin to pay the ferryman) may bargain. The Lord of Karma is exalted in Libra, the sign of justice, beauty, and fairness. Thus Saturn is willing to bargain but is most likely to offer deals to ones who stay true to the spiritual and humanitarian nature of Pisces, the sign of this final crossing.
Even in cases when Piscean ideals and reforms fail; when the martyr bleeds or the dream dies on the cross — Saturn in Pisces, from the depths of its ocean floor, proclaims the final truth through a third century King of Sparta that was under its power. His last words before being executed for actions he was taking to abolish debts and enhance societal wealth distribution were:
“Weep not for me: suffering as I do, unjustly, I am in a happier case than my murderers.”
This is how Saturn in Pisces reflects the Crucifixion of Christ:.
Not through survival, but through resurrection of meaning.
How can you alchemize Saturn in pisces? by transmuting lead into gold
As Saturn travels further into the Piscean realms of Neptune and Jupiter, the Lord of Karma, Music, and Spiritual Love learn the secrets of transmutation together— how to turn infection into gold, transmutation into antidote, and the metamorphosis of form.
In this archetype: Gold is not bought or gifted, but salvaged — washed ashore from one’s own undoing or scavenged from the depths of a watery cavern. It is here that we gain the scales of a siren or the tail of a sea-goat — where we learn that dreams without form become delusion, while healing without boundaries becomes martyrdom, and power without justice sinks.
The same Saturn in Pisces that once distilled through erosion, infection, and bondage now offers its rarest form — structure not as confinement, but as containment. A chalice, not a cage. An antidote to the infection of trauma. A Trojan horse of wisdom.
a chalice, not a cage.
This wisdom doesn’t come from theory. It comes from the lived memory of natal Saturn in late Pisces — a lifetime submerged in the waters along an underwater canyon ledge, erecting barrier reefs where the world once blurred and bled them. It’s here, in the borderlands of sea and salt, that I learned how even the softest barriers can hold life — and how erosion, over time, becomes design.
The antidote begins beneath the surface.
By the final anaretic degree of Saturn in Pisces, something hidden begins to rise. It is not violent. It does not erupt.
It emerges.
A forgotten pearl reveals itself in the tide. A blueprint of the dream that endured the flood. And then — like Atlantis breaching the surface — the shape becomes clear. Not illusion. Not ruin. But revelation.
Not ruin. But revelation.
Disney’s Atlantis: The Last Empire Princess
