Astrological Bumper Cars: Unpacking The Current Astrology w/ Christopher Renstrom
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🎬 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
- 00:03:50 – 00:06:51 → The Stars Incline, But Do Not Compel
Christopher introduces the idea that astrology influences but doesn’t dictate, emphasizing the role of free will. - 00:06:51 – 00:08:01 → Mars Retrograde: The Spark of Disruption
Mars goes retrograde in Leo, setting off a chain reaction of cosmic turbulence and emotional unrest. - 00:08:01 – 00:12:51 → Venus Retrograde in Aries: Harmony Withdrawn
Venus reverses in Aries, disrupting peace, relationships, and agreements—urging a return to manners and diplomacy. - 00:13:12 – 00:19:56 → Lunar Eclipse in Virgo: Shadows Over Work & Health
The eclipse amplifies Virgo themes—work, health, women, and bureaucracy—hinting at collective instability. - 00:20:31 – 00:27:18 → Mercury Retrograde in Aries: Mixed Signals
Communication and commerce unravel as Mercury joins Venus in Aries. Patience and precision are key. - 00:30:00 – 00:41:38 → Final Sun-Neptune Conjunction in Pisces: A Spiritual Close
A rare event marking the end of Neptune’s era in Pisces, symbolizing closure, confusion, and emotional overwhelm. - 00:42:12 – 00:44:15 → Solar Eclipse in Aries: A Bold Reset
A fiery eclipse disrupts the status quo, pushing for a sharp, new direction and personal awakening. - 00:44:15 – 00:46:19 → Neptune Enters Aries: Vision Takes Action
Neptune’s shift into Aries launches a fresh wave of idealism, energy, and momentum toward the future. - 00:47:24 – 00:50:17 → Mercury Direct & Mars in Leo: Green Light Energy
With Mercury direct and Mars in Leo, plans gain traction and confidence returns. - 00:51:21 – 00:53:53 → Venus Trine Mars & Sun Sextile Neptune: Healing & Reconnection
Harmonious aspects bring resolution, renewed connection, and optimism after weeks of cosmic tension.
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Transcript:
00:00:00:01 – 00:00:21:04
Christopher
Hello, my name is Christopher Renstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology Hub. And today I wanted to talk to you about that cosmic game of bumper cars that's going on upstairs in the sky.
00:00:21:06 – 00:00:57:19
Christopher
Let's see. What do we have going on right now? I think we have a Venus retrograde, lunar eclipse in Virgo. Mercury retrograde, the sun's last conjunction to Neptune, and the zodiac sign of Pisces. Then the sun enters Aries. Then there's a solar eclipse, an Aries, and finally Neptune follows the sun into the astrological sign of Aries. Now, I can completely understand if any of you out there just want to go and find a place to hide during this entire, the cosmic lollapalooza, for lack of a better way of putting it.
00:00:57:21 – 00:01:20:20
Christopher
There are so many things going on in the sky all at once we've got, and the impact that it's having on us here below on earth, we've got on again, off again truces. We've got on again, off again trade wars. We have on again off again tariffs. And you really don't know what's up, what's down, what's coming or what's going.
00:01:20:22 – 00:01:48:04
Christopher
But again all of this can be tied to the planets in the sky. And it's very much a temptation to sort of say, okay, everything's gone crazy and just hide out or duck and cover, and that's going to be it. But it's an astrologer's job to really isolate everyone of the planetary aspects and try to interpret what's going on and hopefully give some kind of guidance.
00:01:48:06 – 00:02:10:11
Christopher
I find that when I go through difficult times in my life, yes, my first response is always to feel overwhelmed. You know, that I'm that that what's going on is too big. It's too much for me to manage or even wrap my head around. But then there are those moments where you sort of take a couple of steps back and you're like, okay, let's break this down into pieces.
00:02:10:11 – 00:02:37:14
Christopher
Let's break this down into easily mentally digestible parts so that we can begin to sort of, understand what's going on. And that's that's again, what I'm hopefully trying to do today. I'm not saying that I've got the answers, but but maybe if we understand the different pieces of the puzzle, we can put those pieces together and then make some sense of the picture that emerges.
00:02:37:16 – 00:03:06:18
Christopher
The first thing that I want to share with you is this phrase. It comes from Aristotle or Plotinus. It's not really quite clear who first said it, but it is Astra inkling. It said nonpublic. And again that's Astra inkling. It said non obligate which basically means the stars incline but they do not compel. And I want you to think about that for a moment.
00:03:06:20 – 00:03:26:23
Christopher
The stars incline but they do not compel. We're used to sort of thinking of astrology in terms of like fate, you know, in terms of, you know, the stars up there or are not getting along with one another. And so we're going to have stormy seas or the stars are getting along with one another and things will be nice.
00:03:27:00 – 00:03:56:01
Christopher
But even for those of us who still see the stars as as move, as in movement, there are still many people who regard astrology as a fixed fate that, you know, the stars just say what it's going to be and you're going to have to deal with it or something along those lines. But it's nice to know that as early as Aristotle and Plotinus, there was this notion that the stars can incline, they can influence, okay?
00:03:56:04 – 00:04:19:05
Christopher
But they don't compel. They don't make you do anything that you don't want to do. All right. And this was their very sort of light way of introducing free will or the notion of free will. And, and really more along the lines of reminding us of free will. Now, is there such a thing as free will? Not really.
00:04:19:05 – 00:04:40:21
Christopher
When you think about all the environmental conditions and economic conditions and things like that, people's wills aren't really as free as they would like them to be. But what we do have is freedom of choice. We can we can choose where we want to go. We can choose what we're going to deal with. We may not have complete, you know, range, wide range of choices.
00:04:41:02 – 00:05:20:04
Christopher
You know, there going to be days in which it's 1 or 2 choices and that's it. Okay. But even at the those times when we feel like we have no choice, there are choices. If you stop to look and examine the picture that's going on. So let's let's begin with the first bumper car. And I like the image of saying, cosmic bumper car going on in the sky because it seems like no sooner does one planet move forward than another planet has retrograde and moves backwards, and another one's moving backwards and curving on it, and it's almost like each of the planets are sort of hitting one another and bumping one another, in,
00:05:20:04 – 00:05:41:14
Christopher
in the sky. So so let's take a couple of steps back and really sort of examine what's going on here. I'm going to be throwing some aspects in your direction and hopefully describing them in such a way that that, you know, you can you can follow what I'm saying, that it doesn't feel so overwhelming. My point here today is to make all of this less overwhelming.
00:05:41:14 – 00:06:18:20
Christopher
And so you can sort of follow what's going on here. But the first planet that we're going to want to pay attention to is Mars. Mars was named after the Roman god of war, and it's the ruling planet of the zodiac sign Aries. So Mars is pretty much about fighting. It's about combat. It's about upsetting things. Okay, so everything dealing with contests and competition are associated with Mars, and also fights, resistance and struggle are all associated to the planet Mars.
00:06:18:22 – 00:06:46:10
Christopher
Mars likes to cause a ruckus, and and Mars likes to be loud and boisterous. So the first planet of our bumper car scenario that we're dealing with is this is is Mars. And Mars sort of begins the whole snowball effect when it turns retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo on December 6th of 2024. I've talked about that before on this show.
00:06:46:10 – 00:07:08:04
Christopher
I think maybe a couple of episodes ago about Mars turning retrograde and now having come out of retrograde. Mars turns retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo, which is ruled by the Sun on December 6th, 2024, Mars turned direct. That means it came out of retrograde or retrograde, just when the planet appears to be moving backwards in the sky.
00:07:08:04 – 00:07:34:10
Christopher
And so there's a backwards motion and a retrograde, like you either regress or you return to or, something has been thrown in the works that messes up your best laid plans. And now, you know, you have to have to have to deal with that. So. So Mars retrograde was moving backwards. It was regressing in the sky. It moves down into the zodiac sign of cancer, where it comes out of retrograde on February 23rd.
00:07:34:12 – 00:08:01:18
Christopher
And that's all you pretty much have to remember is that Mars is now moving direct or forward in the sky in the zodiac sign of cancer, but it's got to get back to the point where it turns retrograde, which was in the zodiac sign of Leo. Okay, Mars is connected to fight and combat, struggle and difficulty. Mars is direct in the sky right now, so that's the idea that you want to keep in mind.
00:08:01:20 – 00:08:34:14
Christopher
Now on, March 1st, Venus turned retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries. Okay, so what you want to keep in mind here is that Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Venus rules over treaties, truces, contra acts, and pledges. Okay, so whenever you form an agreement with someone that is going to be ruled by Venus.
00:08:34:20 – 00:09:06:06
Christopher
All right. So Venus is about an agreement that you're forming with with someone to form an alliance or a love affair or a relationship or a partnership. These are all things that Venus rules over. All right. So when Venus turned retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries, what you want to keep in mind here is Aries. Okay, well, areas is ruled by Mars, which is named after the Roman god of war.
00:09:06:08 – 00:09:47:02
Christopher
So when Venus entered Aries, there was already a sort of word like or dissenting or not going to be harmonious aspect to her. But then when she turned retrograde in Aries on March 1st, that's when she basically pulled back her powers of harmony, peace, and people getting along. So what happens with the Venus retrograde when she moves backwards in the sky is that I've found over the over the years that I've been practicing astrology is that she revokes, okay, what we expect from her.
00:09:47:03 – 00:10:14:02
Christopher
We expect from Venus peace, love and harmony. What happens when Venus turns retrograde? She revokes the peace. She revokes the love and she revokes the harmony. Okay, so that if you don't say please or if you don't say thank you, you can cause a lot of trouble. All right? Venus is the planet of etiquette. It's the planet. She's the planet of courtesy.
00:10:14:02 – 00:10:47:16
Christopher
She's the planet of good manners. And so when when she revokes the peace, the harmony. And then when you sort of trespass or go against Venus, which is you don't practice good etiquette, you don't practice good manners. Those things can flare up. And, if you remember what took place on March 1st, it was the, it was the demand for gratitude and and, resistance to, to give the gratitude that created all of that trouble.
00:10:47:16 – 00:11:22:20
Christopher
Okay. So that's very Venus turning retrograde. And then it was dealing with the prospect of, of war because she said the zodiac sign of Aries. Okay. So that's the thing to that's the thing to keep in mind. There. So Venus isn't so much about fighting, okay, that she's retrograde. Venus has removed the things that have restrained fighting. Okay, so if you remove trust, if you remove a truce, if you remove a treaty, what happens?
00:11:22:22 – 00:11:47:02
Christopher
People are free to, you know, people who are feeling animus towards one another, anger at one another, not liking one another. They're free to go and have, I don't know, a, a food fight in the cafeteria might be a good way of putting it. So that's what took place during that period of time. So Venus is retrograde from March 1st until April 12th.
00:11:47:04 – 00:12:18:18
Christopher
Okay. So what do we do to work with that energy? You know, with Venus going, retrograde in that regard, what we want to do is no matter how much we're being provoked, you know, because Venus is in Aries, which is a mars ruled sign, no matter how much we might feel provoked or that someone's poking us in the ribs or someone's looking for a fight, or saying all these nasty things, we want to practice Venus, okay?
00:12:18:18 – 00:12:51:00
Christopher
Venus might have revoked her powers and her influence, but the best way to counteract it is to practice. Venus, you want to practice good etiquette. You want to practice good manners. You want to observe protocol, all right? Because if you don't, if you don't do that during the period of time that Venus retrograde, which is March 1st until April 12th, then you could find yourself in some very, very difficult situations.
00:12:51:04 – 00:13:12:12
Christopher
So the more that you can reach out, the more that you can practice good manners etiquette, the more that you can make yourself, available or that you're looking for some kind of peace. The more that you can advertise. I'm not looking for fight here, okay? This this is what you want to do during this period of time that Venus is moving backwards in the sky.
00:13:12:14 – 00:13:44:23
Christopher
Venus retrograde was followed by a lunar eclipse in Virgo, which took place on March 14th. All right. So a lunar eclipse is well, eclipses are very powerful, okay. Because they're really going to talk about dramatic changes in direction. Eclipses really sort of bring this tremendous bolt of energy forward. And what happens like with a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse is that the two lights in the sky, that's what they were called by the ancients.
00:13:45:00 – 00:14:06:20
Christopher
The sun lights, the day, the moon lights, the night the two lights in the sky are eclipsed. They are overshadowed. In the case of a lunar eclipse, the lunar eclipses take place when there's a full moon, when the sun is opposite the moon. And because the moon reflects the sun's light, she is the brightest. She is the most lit.
00:14:06:22 – 00:14:27:06
Christopher
Okay. At night, on a full moon. But during the lunar eclipse, the shadow of the Earth or the shadow of the Earth moves between the sun and the moon. Basically, the Earth moves between the sun and the moon, and it casts a shadow on the moon so that the moon turns red. Okay? It turns red and it turns red.
00:14:27:11 – 00:14:51:09
Christopher
And it's been eclipsed in ancient times. This was a very frightening thing. Okay, you have to remember, this is this is way before electricity, okay? And, and and people are looking at the nighttime sky. And there was, an insistence that the lights in the sky behave, you know, that there was an expectation. You know, that the sun rises on a new day.
00:14:51:09 – 00:15:16:08
Christopher
That's a good thing, that the moon goes through its phases and a full moon, it shows its light. That's a good thing. So when that didn't happen, that was cause for great crisis. That was cause for great concern. And it still is to this day. So when we have a lunar eclipse in the zodiac sign of Virgo, okay, the sun is in Pisces right now.
00:15:16:10 – 00:15:50:16
Christopher
You know, if we're in March, the sun is in Pisces right now. So the moon is in its opposite sign, which is Virgo, and it's being eclipsed. What happens is that things that are pertinent to Virgo become, sort of they've become powerful. They're they're unleashed. But it's almost like shadow Virgo is like unleashed on the planet on us here below, a solar eclipse or is dealt with, public figure and a lunar eclipse, or is dealt with the people, the body politic.
00:15:50:22 – 00:16:09:15
Christopher
The moon rules the body in astrology. And when you're looking at eclipses, which were used a lot to predict the fate of nations, for lack of a better way of putting it, the lunar eclipse always dealt with the body politic, with the people. It was something that, you know, was it was there going to be a famine?
00:16:09:15 – 00:16:31:18
Christopher
Was there going to be pestilence? These were things that were asked during lunar eclipses, things that could, have a negative effect on the land and on the people. And if, you know, we had natural disasters or things of that sort having a negative effect on the land and the people, well, then that that would upset government, that would upset the smooth running of things.
00:16:31:20 – 00:17:09:10
Christopher
So when there's a lunar eclipse in the zodiac sign of Virgo, what do we know of Virgo? Virgo is the sign of work, health and service. All right. Okay, so we would be wondering is there going to be something eclipse does a shadow going to fall on the areas of work, health and service. All right. Are there going to be things that are shaken up and things that are distressed and things that are disturbed and and so we look to the workers, we work to the people who perform services.
00:17:09:12 – 00:17:37:20
Christopher
We may even look to bureaucracy. Actually, we're absolutely going to look towards, bureaucracy because Virgo is ruled by Mercury, which is the planet of the scribe. Scribes were the people who took down what the king said, okay, back in Sumer. Okay. They would take down, they would they would write exactly what the king said so that the king would remember it, and that if the king made a rule or a law, it was written down.
00:17:37:20 – 00:17:57:23
Christopher
And so this was going to be the rule in the law. Scribes were people who counted things. They counted the money, they counted cattle. They, they, they made an accounts of things, and they were responsible for the smooth running of a government. You could have a king on a throne, at a court. But who's going to run the government?
00:17:57:23 – 00:18:26:07
Christopher
Okay. If everyone's, like, showing up and listening to the king and the kings sitting on the throne and talking, who's going to run the government? Who's going to send the messages of the king? Who's going to record, sales and purchases, that are going on? Those were the scribes. And so those scribes are our mercury. Okay. Mercury rules over anyone who takes account who writes, who speaks basically anyone who is a messenger.
00:18:26:09 – 00:18:50:15
Christopher
All right. And that comes from Hermes being connected to, the Roman god Mercury. Hermes was the messenger god of Zeus. If Zeus wanted to send a message to someone, Hermes was like, I'm on it. And like, went and told them that. So? So Hermes was basically, the Twitter of ancient Greece or the Instagram, messaging of, of, of ancient Greece.
00:18:50:15 – 00:19:17:17
Christopher
And, and indeed those social medias are ruled by Mercury. And so that's also going to be affected by the lunar eclipse in Virgo. So we deal with the zodiac sign that's being eclipsed, which is Virgo, which is the common folk. Okay. The worker, we also know that Virgo is the zodiac sign of women. All right. So, it's the only zodiac sign that really portrays a woman.
00:19:17:19 – 00:19:56:22
Christopher
So so we know that it's going to impact women, and then it's also impacting messaging, buying and selling and probably bureaucracy and probably, teachers, you know, people who also teach as well. Okay. So so this is being impacted with the eclipse. The shadow is being thrown, over the smooth functioning of these things. And as the moon's light turns ruddy and red, and darkens in the sky and is concern for and is cause for concern and upset, that is what's going on in the land below, as a result of this.
00:19:57:03 – 00:20:31:02
Christopher
And that is the lunar eclipse taking place on March 14th. 2025. Then we go to March 15th, okay, the day after the lunar eclipse. And that is when Mercury remember Mercury, the planet of scribes, of messengers, of bureaucracy, even people who instructor teach or or train Mercury, who makes things happen, you know, in government, or in, in trade, in economies, Mercury turns retrograde.
00:20:31:02 – 00:21:02:01
Christopher
So again, to break it down, we've got a lunar eclipse taking place in the zodiac sign of Virgo. Virgo is ruled by Mercury. And on the day after the lunar eclipse, which is March 14th, the day after it's March 15th. And that is when Mercury turns to retrograde in the zodiac sign of areas. So we just had a bumper car move backwards, a bumper car to sort of like stay in the middle, and then another bumper car moved backwards into it, and everyone's kind of like slamming into one another here.
00:21:02:01 – 00:21:31:18
Christopher
All right. So Mercury has turned retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries. Just to remind you here, what other planet is retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries? All right, Venus. Venus is retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries right now. Okay, so we know that Aries is important. Now we have a second planet that's turned retrograde in the zodiac sign of Aries.
00:21:31:23 – 00:22:04:15
Christopher
And that planet is Mercury. Mercury and Venus have a lot in common. All right? They they really, really do. The first thing that they have in common is that in our solar system, they're the only two planets that orbit inside the orbit of the Earth. Okay? All the other planets are outside the orbit of the Earth. And even if you want to invoke the moon, which in astrology is regarded as a planet, the moon orbits around the Earth, and so goes inside the orbit of the Earth and outside of the orbit of the Earth and inside.
00:22:04:20 – 00:22:34:17
Christopher
Okay, so the moon is not strictly inside the orbit of the Earth. Mercury and Venus are Mercury and Venus are also the two very social planets. Okay, Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty and mercury. Mercury is named after the Roman god of messengers of messaging. And so they both talk to people. They're both very one on one in their types of dynamics.
00:22:34:19 – 00:23:05:23
Christopher
We talked about how Venus retrograde is broken troth. It's broken truce. It's broken trust. It's broken treaty. All right, the pledges. All right. So, Mercury, Mercury, who in Latin, the root of Mercury is Merc. And that's where we get our word merchant and merchandise and mercantile Mercury is in charge of buying and selling. That's what Mercury does.
00:23:06:00 – 00:23:26:09
Christopher
Venus is packaging. Okay, so Venus like, packages something and makes it look alluring and beautiful. Seductive and like, oh my God, I want to buy that. Okay, but Mercury is the one who's selling it. All right. So so, so Mercury is in charge of buying and selling and Mercury moves retrograde and it starts moving backwards. On March 15th.
00:23:26:11 – 00:23:56:18
Christopher
And so that means that buying and selling gets kind of messed up okay. It gets kind of fouled up. That that things aren't that purchases aren't going through in the way that they should be. And that one expects them to, so traditionally astrologers will say you shouldn't do any buying or selling during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde and Mercury is retrograde from March 15th until April 7th.
00:23:56:20 – 00:24:21:13
Christopher
Okay. So the understanding is no buying, no selling during that period of time. It's not a good idea. Deals will fall down or go south or not come through and and just. You don't want to risk it. Well, that sounds great if you're not living in the real world. All right. But the fact of the matter is, we live in a world of constant commerce, okay?
00:24:21:13 – 00:24:48:10
Christopher
So we can't take time off to stop buying and selling or something along those lines. This is this is a regular way that we that we live our lives. So so how do we navigate this period of time when Mercury is retrograde, this period of time when Mercury is retrograde from March 15th until April 7th? Well, what you want to do is that you want to be careful, you know, about what you're purchasing or what you're beginning.
00:24:48:12 – 00:25:17:10
Christopher
But you also want to be really, you want to scrutinize, okay. If there is a contract, that is being set up, you want to go over the wording of that contract? Venus may rule over pledges and contracts and agreements, but when you get with Mercury, you're getting into the wording of that contract. You're getting into the wording of that pledge, you're getting into the wording of that agreement.
00:25:17:12 – 00:25:41:04
Christopher
And you also want to examine the clauses, the addendums, the things that are being added to and also the things that have been left out. Okay. These are all the things that you want to do during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde. And you're probably to find things that, you know, the wording is bad or you know, oh, I didn't know that that was a penalty fee or something along those lines.
00:25:41:04 – 00:26:04:09
Christopher
And you want to pay attention to them typically when for when Mercury is not retrograde. And if this isn't something that you do habitually, a lot of people would be like, oh, sign here. Okay. But during the Mercury retrograde, it's like, take a look at all of that language and make sure that you understand fully what you're agreeing to and what you're signing on for.
00:26:04:10 – 00:26:24:04
Christopher
This is what you want to do during the period of time that Mercury is retrograde, because you have to you have to do business during this time. You don't have, you know, you don't have the option to not do it. That's something that you have to do. So if you sort of take that on, that that puts you in a good stead.
00:26:24:06 – 00:26:49:16
Christopher
The other thing to keep in mind when Mercury's retrograde is to probably add two weeks to whatever deadline you're working with, and that's because Mercury is going to make up. It's going to mess up your calendar, your schedule, your flight plan, your commute. You know, Mercury rules over the day to day business of our lives, but Mercury also rules over commutes, okay.
00:26:49:16 – 00:27:18:03
Christopher
And and it's not long journeys or voyages, you know, out of state or out of country. That's Jupiter. Although Jupiter's in Gemini right now and it's ruled by Mercury. But I'm not going to muddy the waters here. But Jupiter rules over long journeys and long voyages. Mercury rules over your commute, your day to day commute, getting the train, driving your car, the subway, getting Uber, you know, your commutes and the way that your commute behaves.
00:27:18:03 – 00:27:43:07
Christopher
So during a retrograde, things can be messed up, okay? And things can take longer than you expect. And so basically, going into any sort of endeavor or any sort of enterprise, knowing that it's going to take longer than you think it's going to take, that there are going to be complications. What this does, especially because you've got mercury in the zodiac sign of areas, Aries is ruled by Mars.
00:27:43:07 – 00:28:02:17
Christopher
Mars is named after the Roman god of war. And Mars can get angry and fuming, you know? So if you know that going in, then you're not going to get angry and fuming. I mean, you can still have your reaction, which is, why is this happening? But then you could be like, well, you know, things are going to not go off as planned because Mercury is retrograde.
00:28:02:17 – 00:28:34:13
Christopher
And that kind of puts you in a mindset that puts you in a in a mindset to sort of be like, I'm not going to get all pissy about this and okay, here's the complication. I have to make time for the complication. Just deal with the complication right now. And as you deal with the complications and the various and sundry monkey wrenches that are going to be thrown into the works, you're going to find that you move from where things are going as planned, to getting inventive.
00:28:34:15 – 00:28:56:15
Christopher
You know, something gets thrown in. It's like, okay, something got thrown in. So, so you, you go back over what you did that wasn't done right or you have to deal with what was thrown into it, and it starts to make you inventive. You may even learn. I mean, I had a situation the other day with me and the printer where it wasn't working right, and I was like, you know, but then I was like, like rethink.
00:28:56:15 – 00:29:19:03
Christopher
And, you know, I worked with the rover and I discovered, I don't know how I discovered I pressed a button. Then I discovered that the back of the printer came off. If you squeeze these two, levers or whatever together and you can actually get the jammed paper out of it. And, and so, you know, I wouldn't have learned that had the paper not gotten jammed and the machine stopped cooperating.
00:29:19:03 – 00:29:40:00
Christopher
All right. So that's kind of what I want to share with you as a way of thinking. During Mercury retrograde, you're going to have things jamming, not working, not functioning right. You know, instead of getting angry at yourself for the machine, what what you do is try to figure it out. And as you try to figure it out, you're going to learn, you know, and that's a different way of learning.
00:29:40:00 – 00:30:00:16
Christopher
And learning, of course, is associated with mercury. So it's a wonderful way to deal with that. Mercury retrograde instead of saying I can't buy or sell or, you know, whatever you you just get into that mindset of, of dealing with things as they prop up. And that's going to actually end up teaching you things that you probably didn't know before.
00:30:00:18 – 00:30:27:04
Christopher
Now, on March 19th, the sun forms a conjunction to Neptune. In Pisces. And this is the last time that the sun will conjoin Neptune in Pisces in our lifetimes. Okay? This will never happen again. Okay? As long as we're, like, here, alive on the planet. Unless we're living to, like, 148 years old or something along those lines.
00:30:27:04 – 00:30:51:23
Christopher
All right. So. So this is the last time that that the sun and the in Pisces are going to be in the same place at the same time. And it's very important because Neptune is the modern ruler of the zodiac sign of Pisces. So when we unpack that, you know, something that comes to mind immediately is that Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, right?
00:30:52:00 – 00:31:19:23
Christopher
And so something things are coming to an end, or there's going to be this feeling that things are coming to an end. This could be a pervasive, mood or anxiety. Things are coming to an end. It can be this feeling, like maybe it's about time that things came to an end, you know? But. But there's this feeling of things coming to an end, and.
00:31:20:00 – 00:31:37:09
Christopher
And it can be like an end, like, okay, you know, I'm done with this, or it's the last day of a class, or it's when you move out or can be a denouement, which is that moment that follows the ending of a film when it's kind of like it ends. And then there's a little comment made at the end of it.
00:31:37:11 – 00:32:00:18
Christopher
So this feeling of things coming to the to an end, it's going to be very powerful. What's also powerful is, Neptune ending its residents in Pisces. I mean, it will retrograde back down into Pisces in the fall of this year and then leave at the beginning of next year. But but it Neptune is going to move from Pisces into Aries.
00:32:00:20 – 00:32:28:03
Christopher
Before talking about Neptune in Aries, I want to address very quickly Neptune and Pisces. Neptune in Pisces. It's they're not easily separate ideas because Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces, and there are so many attributes of Pisces that are connected to Neptune that one sort of just puts them together, right? Which is very Neptunian, by the way.
00:32:28:05 – 00:33:02:08
Christopher
But Neptune, I like to think of Neptune as the planet of the collective unconscious, and that comes from a term that was used by the psychotherapist Carl Jung. And he was what he was referencing there is that Freud talked about our subconscious and our dreams, the dreams that we have at night, and Freud's relationship to that is that, you know, if you can unlock the dream, you could unlock that, that the dream was speaking to you symbolically about your own neuroses or about your own problem.
00:33:02:10 – 00:33:28:14
Christopher
And so in Freudian therapy, you would talk about your dreams and they would be interpreted in terms of like what the dream was trying to tell you about your neurotic behavior or your compulsive patterns. All right. But it was very much situated in the subconscious. It was very much situated in the personal psychological history of the person, and maybe the effect that social mores or pressures were having on that person.
00:33:28:14 – 00:33:52:18
Christopher
But it was still, you know, the subconscious of the person. My own subconscious, like my, my, my, my dream is a mishmash of of what's going, what went on before in my life. And, and if I can interpret this, I can break myself of some neurotic pattern. I can solve something. Jung took it further. All right. Jung felt that.
00:33:52:20 – 00:34:18:00
Christopher
Yeah. You could dream. And it has to do with your day to day experiences. But what are dreams really drawing from? Okay. And Jung's feeling was that they were drawing from a collective unconscious. Okay, so collective means everyone, okay? Not just you. So you can have your own personal subconscious. Like you could be your own personal person. Okay?
00:34:18:05 – 00:34:45:05
Christopher
But when you got into the collective unconscious when you dreamt at night, you're you were dreaming and accessing a sort of global imagination. All right. It was originally described as sort of like. Or if you think of Neptune, named after the Roman god of the ocean. Well, oceans are made up of streams and rivers that flow into them.
00:34:45:05 – 00:35:20:17
Christopher
Okay? And so it's almost like you would go to sleep at night and your, you know, subconscious would access or flow into this collective unconscious, which would then flow into you. And so the idea here was of archetypes that in the collective unconscious were these archetypal symbols that, that that all cultures recognized, but interpreted differently in the context of their own culture, like, for instance, you could have a messianic figure or a savior figure.
00:35:20:19 – 00:35:43:16
Christopher
And that would be an archetype. But Jesus isn't going to be the same as Muhammed. And it's not going to be the same as Buddha. All right. So you can have this sort of divine, messiah or this divine, you know, Savior, but you know, according to the culture that it shows up and the context would be very different.
00:35:43:18 – 00:36:16:09
Christopher
So it was all about accessing the archetype, which was sort of the generating symbol, but then that generating symbol was going to be interpreted or understood in the context of different countries and cultures. But also it was going to be understood in the different contexts of each of our personal lives. So when we access an archetype, a symbol which is kind of generic, it resonates with a very powerful meaning.
00:36:16:11 – 00:36:42:05
Christopher
And there's a sense of like that, that, that you understand it not consciously, but you understand it unconsciously, and it speaks to you. And and think of how powerful symbols are. The symbol of a cross, the symbol of a moon and a crescent, the symbol of a flag. People take these things very seriously, you know, don't don't don't burn that flag.
00:36:42:05 – 00:37:24:16
Christopher
Don't desecrate, you know, that sacred symbol, you know, and and so, so symbols are very, very powerful. And and they carry with them a sort of sacredness, a sort of sexuality. The modern day version of this or what kind of allowed us to understand it in a more easily accessible way. Is the internet okay? With with the internet and social media, we can access, into greater images, integrator narratives, into greater stories that are being told, you know, and when when the internet was first experienced, this was sort of seen as a good thing, like a global village.
00:37:24:16 – 00:37:49:01
Christopher
And people could share their stories and narratives and things like that. But what we've seen, during the period of time, particularly that Neptune has been in Pisces, it entered Pisces in 2012, is that we don't know what to believe here. You know, images can be distorted, they can be altered. They can be faked. News can be set up.
00:37:49:03 – 00:38:17:15
Christopher
You know, that's not fact. But then what's fact? But then what's agreed upon. So, you know, it's it's. And that's the sort of dark side of this collective unconscious. On one hand, it could be like, oh, we all understand and recognize a savior figure. And that feeling that the Savior figure brings to me is so powerful and ineffable and mystical, and it makes me want to join that.
00:38:17:17 – 00:38:47:10
Christopher
But then it could also be like, here's, here's a fable, here's a myth, here's an alternative truth, here's a fiction. And but it has all the power, all the magnetism, all the allure of, of of of an archetype. And so and then what happens is you get into what's truth, what's fiction, and people getting extremely emotional about it, you know, and not just emotional.
00:38:47:10 – 00:39:07:20
Christopher
Like I'm angry, but just it really has a powerful thing. There was a phrase that was used a lot when I was growing up in the 1970s, which was, something in the water was the phrase. It was this idea that someone put something in the water that they had laced the water with some sort of, I don't know, drugged or unfettered mean or something like that.
00:39:07:20 – 00:39:36:04
Christopher
And, and it's almost like, this is what Neptune does. It sort of releases this energy into, into the, zodiac sign that it's traveling through. And here with Pisces, we we know that Pisces can be associated association with, associated with the redemption with, with the knowledge that every saint was once a sinner. You know, these are things that are wound up in, in Pisces.
00:39:36:06 – 00:40:03:21
Christopher
But what Pisces also carries with it is a very dark pessimism. And, and even a sort of apocalyptic fantasy. It's the last zodiac sign. Okay, so so everything comes to an end, you know, in, in Pisces. And even if you think of Noah's Ark and the flood, you know, the, you know, God wiping out the world with the flood to get rid of the stain, to get rid of, you know, what was toxic and pollutant, you know, only to realize that it will just grow back.
00:40:03:21 – 00:40:26:03
Christopher
So that's not going to work. But anyway, that that idea, of of things coming to an end of, of things just being out of control, of not knowing what to believe, where a symbol becomes a trigger, or a or you have symbol, you have trigger and maybe a symbol triggers or a trigger symbolizes, you know, this is this is what's going on.
00:40:26:04 – 00:40:51:13
Christopher
So this this is very, very powerful. It's in our unconscious, okay. Because of our, in the way that we've been able to access, you know, on social media and things like that. So, so that's something that's coming to an end and that's going to shift and change its flavor. When Neptune enters the zodiac sign of Aries. But this is certainly something that we're all experiencing right now.
00:40:51:13 – 00:41:12:07
Christopher
This this I don't know what to trust. I want my mystical experience back. I want, you know, this thing that resonates within me. Maybe. Maybe that is what it really is. All of these questions, are very Neptune in Pisces because it's all of a swirl and you don't really know what's up or down or what's left or right.
00:41:12:09 – 00:41:38:05
Christopher
So what's happened basically with Neptune in Pisces is that the collective unconscious has overrun its banks. You know, it's it's gotten too big and it's overrun its banks into our conscious life and our conscious world. And we're trying to figure that out right now. And that has reached an apex or a climax with this, Sun Neptune conjunction in Pisces on the day after March 19th.
00:41:38:05 – 00:42:12:08
Christopher
The sun is conjoin Neptune in the zodiac sign of Pisces on the day after, the very day after which is March 20th, the sun enters the zodiac sign of Aries. All right. And that's a big switch of energy. Okay, we're going from water to fire. We're going from end to beginning. Okay? Because Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, areas, because it has its association with the spring equinox marked marked the beginning of an agricultural year here in the Northern Hemisphere.
00:42:12:10 – 00:42:40:15
Christopher
And so there's that sense of like a new beginning, which is something that we all feel every year at this time in the Northern Hemisphere. And the reason why I underline Northern hemisphere is because astrology, Western astrology at least originates in the Northern hemisphere. And so when we're talking about an agricultural calendar, which is very much caught up in the character of each one of the zodiac signs, this this is why I say here in the Northern hemisphere.
00:42:40:18 – 00:43:07:17
Christopher
So spring equinox for us here in the northern hemisphere is the beginning of the agricultural year. And as I said, we experienced this whenever the sun comes into, Aries. So, no sooner does the sun come into the zodiac sign of Aries than there is a solar eclipse on March 29th. And so with the solar eclipse, what you have is that you have the sun in the sky here, and the moon moves in front of it and blocks.
00:43:07:17 – 00:43:27:16
Christopher
It's like, you know, that's a solar eclipse. And if you're in a part of the world where the solar eclipse is visible, it's going to be a very dramatic and very memorable experience. But for a lot of us, we're not in a part of the world where it's where it's visible. But nevertheless, astrology records this event taking place.
00:43:27:18 – 00:43:52:13
Christopher
You know, where you've got the sun in the sky, and then the moon moves in front of it. What happens here is that the light is being blocked out in the sky of, of of sun. And so that was also a very alarming experience. If you happen to be able to see that, back in the day and you weren't always sure and civilizations talked about this as to whether the sun was going to come back or not.
00:43:52:13 – 00:44:15:02
Christopher
Okay. And and there was a feeling that during a solar eclipse, when the moon blocked the rays of the sun, that dark forces were being unleashed onto, on, into the world. And so that's where solar eclipse has its kind of, nefarious type of energy. With the solar eclipse blocking the face of the sun in the zodiac sign of Aries.
00:44:15:04 – 00:44:42:16
Christopher
That says a couple of things. First is that this is the last of the solar eclipses taking place in the zodiac signs of areas in Libra. So everyone born under areas in Libra, or if you have areas in Libra rising, you can say thank goodness. Last one. Okay, no more. You know, and this is a good thing. But eclipses also talk about a radical change in direction can be taking place.
00:44:42:18 – 00:45:04:09
Christopher
And so this one's very potent okay. The sun is in the zodiac sign of Aries. It's carrying a lot of energy with it. The sign is exalted in the zodiac sign of Aries. And it's being eclipsed. And so there's kind of this, like, you know, I need to shine, you know, type of type of push, pull and struggle that's going on.
00:45:04:11 – 00:45:28:12
Christopher
So this eclipse could bring a very dramatic, departure of events. We thought things were going one way and now they're going to go somewhere else. This is certainly going to be supported by Mercury and Venus, both having turned retrograde originally in the zodiac sign of Aries. All right. So so this could be, a very tumultuous period of time.
00:45:28:14 – 00:45:50:13
Christopher
And then what follows? This is Neptune entering the zodiac sign of Aries on March 30th. We have the eclipse on March 29th. And then we have Neptune entering Aries on March 30th, the day after. So what's what's Neptune? An area is going to be? Well, it's going to be a lot of things and it's very complex. But let's bring it up to one idea.
00:45:50:15 – 00:46:19:13
Christopher
Basically the idea that I would want to share with you with Neptune entering into the zodiac sign of Aries, is fresh future or at least the belief in a fresh future. That's that's basically what the stars are mapping out here. We have the collapse of things coming undone. We hear this a lot, you know, these days, which is, you know, get rid of what's old and doesn't work and do something radically different and new.
00:46:19:15 – 00:46:36:23
Christopher
You know, there's a lot of Mars energy about this. I don't know where we're going with with shaking things up and breaking things down, but at least we're going somewhere. At least there's action. This is this is very Mars if you hear it, type of type of energy. But the thing is, you have to have a plan.
00:46:36:23 – 00:46:58:06
Christopher
You can't just, like, rip things down and that's it. There has to be a plan here. And with the Neptune moving into the areas and following the eclipse, we're going to start getting an idea of where all of this energy is going. Now, why are we going to start getting an idea of where all of this energy is going?
00:46:58:08 – 00:47:24:17
Christopher
What I want you to focus on. Here are three ideas. The sun, which is an Aries. Neptune which is an Aries after March 30th. Right. And Mars, the ruler of Aries. Okay. We're still we began with Mars and we're still tracking Mars. So just sort of keep that in your back pocket here. Mercury comes out of retrograde in the Zodiac sign of Pisces.
00:47:24:17 – 00:47:51:13
Christopher
It went from Aries to Pisces, the sign behind Aries. Okay, so Mercury starts, stops moving backwards on April 7th, moves forward and reenters Aries on April 16th, where it conjoins Neptune, in in Aries. And that's interesting because we're dealing with the sun and Neptune. Neptune can be, that collective unconscious that I was talking about.
00:47:51:13 – 00:48:30:05
Christopher
It's also your vision of the future. Visions can either be deluded or they can be inspired, you know? And inspired visions have done a lot to change the world and for the better. All right. So. So, Mercury reenters Aries on April 16th, where it conjoins Neptune in Aries. But what makes this positive is that Mars, the planet that rules Aries, enters the zodiac sign of Leo on April 18th, which is the day that follows, that conjunction of Mercury and Neptune in Aries.
00:48:30:07 – 00:48:56:01
Christopher
This is very powerful because remember that the sun is exalted, meaning most celebrated in the zodiac sign of Aries. It's like that because when the sun shows up in Aries, we know that spring has sprung. And this is good that the old year over the new year is beginning. Fresh life and growth is growing again. Okay, and so this is why the sun is exalted, meaning most celebrated in the zodiac sign of Aries.
00:48:56:07 – 00:49:24:05
Christopher
This is where we feel like the sun is the most joyful. All right, so here the sun is an Aries, which is the zodiac sign of its exaltation celebration. And at this point on April 18th, Mars, which rosaries has entered Leo. Okay. And what planet rose? Leo the sun, which is exalted. Most celebrated in Aries. Yes. This is as good as it sounds.
00:49:24:08 – 00:49:45:07
Christopher
Okay, this is a wonderful thing. So not only is Mercury back on track again, it's out of retrograde, you know, so you can go back to buying and selling, or at least feeling like you can buy and sell with some kind of confidence. Not only is Mercury back on track again, but it gets an extra boost in Aries.
00:49:45:09 – 00:50:17:08
Christopher
Because now Mars has entered, the Mars has entered. Leo, we've got to keep this out going. Mars is enter Leo, which comes back to the sun in Aries. So everything in Aries is turning its gaze towards the sun, and it's heading in a positive direction. So not only are things back on track, with Mercury going direct again, but now that Mercury is an Aries and Mars has just moved into, Leo on April 18th, you're going to have a sense of like, okay, this is all making sense.
00:50:17:08 – 00:50:45:16
Christopher
I know where things are going. The sun has risen on a new day, you know? And and but this is also going to do, because the lunar eclipse can deal with health issues or working issues. So, so when you experience that lunar eclipse in Virgo, you might also have had like, health issues or difficulties at work now that mercury, Mercury, which rules that lunar eclipse that took place in Virgo, now that it's moving forward, it's an Aries.
00:50:45:18 – 00:51:21:06
Christopher
It's very optimistic and things are moving together. People are kind of optimistic about resolving their differences. Now Venus comes out of retrograde on April 12th, but remember that she retrograde it back down into the zodiac sign of Pisces. Venus doesn't reenter Aries until April 30th. Okay? And, she conjoins Neptune on May 2nd. But what I really want you to look out for here is Venus forming a train to Mars on May 22nd.
00:51:21:08 – 00:51:52:04
Christopher
Okay. Venus is in Aries. She's ruled by Mars, which is in Leo. They form a trine, and this is a good thing. Trines always bring good things. So does textiles. But trains bring good things. So this trine between, Venus and Mars taking place on May 22nd, that should bring about some resolution to what started, what went wrong when, Venus turned retrograde all the way back on March 1st.
00:51:52:06 – 00:52:15:17
Christopher
So issues that erupted came forth. Broken treaties, broken trust, broken truces. These should actually be resolved. I'm not saying they're going to be resolved right on May 22nd, but certainly in the days leading up to May 22nd, I should see that happening. And then what also happens on May 22nd is that the sun and remember the sun and Neptune.
00:52:15:17 – 00:52:44:04
Christopher
I said, keep your eyes on Sunday, Neptune, the sun in Neptune form a sextile on May 22nd, something that's just as good as a trine in my opinion. Better, is a sextile. And so here we have a sextile taking place between the, Neptune in areas and the sun in Gemini on the very same day that, Venus forms are trying to Mars, Venus in areas, forms are trying to Mars in Leo.
00:52:44:06 – 00:53:14:18
Christopher
It ultimately, goes to or will, genuflect to the, sun and the Neptune sextile. And this is wonderful because what's nice about this is that it's really about resolving the differences in a chummy way. Okay. It's not like resolution like this has been resolved or whatever, but it's more chummy. It's more friendly because of the nature of Gemini.
00:53:14:20 – 00:53:53:07
Christopher
Gemini has this way of sort of breaking the ice of, getting people to laugh at something, you know, to sort of be chummy again. And with these two, planetary events taking place on the same day, which is May 22nd, I see that as actually being good. Now, I know I threw a lot of things at you, but what I wanted to demonstrate to you is that what can begin with bumper cars, and it looks like it's a calamity when you begin to look at the separate planets in play, you know, it's not just good day, bad day.
00:53:53:07 – 00:54:29:09
Christopher
With astrology. We were dealing with planets that are in place. So this whole thing begins with planets as bumper cars. But as we go through what I describe, the planets kind of move from this bumper car thing to an alignment where they're there, where things have been torn or ripped. Now they're being mended and they're being sewn back together, but in new ways that are different and in new ways that are not only different, but inspiring for heading in a new direction.
00:54:29:11 – 00:55:06:18
Christopher
Now there's still Mars elements. So there's still, you know, a sort of, you know, robust and, and and, and combustible and incendiary element. But what's coming into play here are things that can also be along the lines of good sportsmanship or people, you know, transferring a combat into a contest, you know, instead of it being combative. Now it's going to become a contest, and now we're going to find our way to being more, camaraderie, more friendly to one another.
00:55:06:21 – 00:55:42:20
Christopher
We we went through these these spills and these feuds, and now we're finding something which might be a workable situation. And certainly with this alignment of planets, it's looking much more optimistic than pessimistic. But again, this is my way of saying that when we sort of on on a not, you know, the planets begin very knotted, but then we when we sort of disentangle the different strands, we can see that there's not only, a design, but there's also a direction that we're headed in where things will be well, where things will make sense.
00:55:42:22 – 00:55:53:24
Christopher
But not only that, where it will really inspire each of us to embrace the higher angels of ourselves rather than the lower demons.