If you feel like you’re failing, I doubt it’s as bad as you fear. With Saturn and Neptune are retrograde in Pisces, it’s entirely possible you’re moving through your problems at a good speed. It’s just too foggy to see your progress.
This is happening in the lives of individuals, but it’s also happening among the collective. Specifically, veils are dropping, left and right. It’s creating tons of confusion, as the real and the unreal, battle it out.
In many cases, it’s hard if not impossible to discern between the two. This does not give a person a feeling of confidence. From there, it’s a slippery slow into depression and the land of “I suck”.
Well, you don’t suck. We’ve got these planets retrograde in Pisces and traction is elusive. The way forward is to flow around or under obstacles. This is not ideal for a good many people, but it’s what we’ve for now.
Marry that to the intense pressure people feel (Mars opposing Pluto in Capricorn) and various other sundries, like:
- Someone actually telling you that you suck
- Heavy, invisible burdens of all kinds
- Vague or otherwise, hard-to-treat illness
- Changes, more changes and other changes, if you don’t like change
- Inflation & other money problems
- Splits with friends, family, colleagues or whoever
- Caregiving of all kinds
- Many other things…
This is the climate right now. You’re probably doing way better than you realize, considering these conditions, which I expect to be sustained until these planets turn direct.
Saturn will turn direct in November.
Neptune turns direct in December.
Rather than thinking about suffering until then, try thinking you have nothing to worry about, as this is going to straighten out on it’s own!
Good luck!
I resonate with every single thing you’ve said, including caretaking and being told ‘I suck’. 😂 I have enough wisdom to see that for what it is, but still, none of it feels great, and I am getting mighty tired.
I also feel intuitively that getting to January will make a difference. For now I’m just showing up each day, putting in the hours, so to speak, as consciously as I can, and trying not to worry about the rest.
Thanks for this.
Thank you Elsa. It’s important to remind this things. Both retrógrada in 4th house, lots of caregiving and heavy burdens. It will pass!
Oh my! Elsa, this post is meant for me, right!?? 🙂
*Someone actually telling you that you suck – 🙁
*Inflation & other money problems – with no income and more expenses (more of the 6th house kind of debt towards disease)
*Caregiving of all kinds – my dog just got dxed with inoperable brain tumor – she is on diligent palliative care with prognosis poor; trying to get to a new normal but failing in taking care of self; caregiving with loads of anticipation grief and asking questions of why my dog has to go through this after her entire life of being in cage producing puppies and just a year of new life experiences with us..
This post hit me well – i actually have no tears to spare..too dry and completely numb with things that are observed now in my life context.
Thanks for this timely post, gives me something to work on.
Hi, Anu.
Man, I think it was meant for all of us with a modicum of sensitivity to such things. My heart goes out to you and all of the other posters. Never experienced anything like this in my entire life on this planet, truly. All of you take good care of yourselves, and if it applies, each other. Kindness, for both others AND ourselves, is the only way forward.
I seem to have dried up all the tears too, over the past 16 years, and I don’t like being so cold all the time when what I want is to create solidarity and to connect, even very simply, with other people. I hate being so numb and silent or indifferent out of seeming necessity all of the time, even though I understand the idea of reserving and applying energy.
Enough, already. We were all meant, whatever our challenges are, for more than this.
Thank you, Jamie!
I think, for me, self-compassion serves me well as the best self care tool than anything else, especially for now. The thing is there is no energy or intention left for it. Until the wait is over, life goes on.
Thank you. Even across the internet it’s nice to know one isn’t alone in what they are going through. 😊
Everything is so “instant” except for our daily lives. My mind is for far ahead of where I am physically. This is where I struggle to keep up.
Wow, that is such a truism at the moment!
I pray, every day, to learn and grow from the blessings/challenges of what you describe, with blind faith that the Universe is prescribing exactly what we need for such…
<3 to all
This one hit home strongly Elsa.
Several bullet points mentioned are real and ongoing.
These planets are currently transiting my 6th house.
No one has said I suck but it’s in the air
6th house health (Neptune squaring my natal Venus) – illnesses are vague if not elusive.
Ongoing chronic stuff hides and then reappears.
I’m doing much on my part to ameliorate these things but doctors visits are a real trip.
Invisible burdens and endless ‘changes’ which truly upset my natural Taurean sensibilities.
And the splits with friends and family has left me stymied and too confused to hurt but there’s dull pain too.
Neptune has been dogging me for years now. To add Saturn to Neptune has gotta be one of the trying if not enduring aspects of astrological possibilities
Thank you Elsa! I also needed to read this today. I think this transition is hitting my chart hard – but I never learned to read my chart, that’s what I have you for!
Two cataract surgeries and still my vision is not crisp and clear as promised. Driving me crazy. They say it takes time to heal. Heal faster, dammit!!
Rescuing a dog that was just what I wanted but he’s too big for us and needs too much training and a 6 foot fence. He was literally dumped on us by a horrible woman. We kept him for six weeks, got him neutered and in good health. He’s with a good rescue but I long for him.
Two hurricanes two weeks apart. Fortunately we were spared but at 68 and my husband 77 it’s a lot to prepare for. We are still getting over those scares.
And the political landscape! I keep remembering what you advised: stay in your boat. It’s like a mantra for me. Stay in my boat. One of my closest friends is opposite my views. We just say ‘I love you’ and leave it at that.
So thanks for keeping it real. I keep thinking transition are just that. They move! Eventually.
I can’t wait until this election is over!
Spot on, Elsa.
I wish they would tell me I suck so I could apologize; but no! they just disappear.
Leaving me to do I-suck-let-me-count-the-ways a thousand times over !! ( Virgo Ascendant.)
I’m comforted by your post and by the commentators here.
@Constance
I am getting both. I can’t seem to do anything right at the moment. Just doing what I need to and backing off a lot. This is definitely not the time for provocation; my feeling is that it will just ruin relationships at present. Clarity is not in great supply. Trying to be loving through detaching, myself. It is indeed creating some distance with people, but I guess I figure that’s better than irreparable damage. The time will come to reunite.
Good call to back off, imo. Things can change so fast, it seems ages ago I wrote that sad post and it was only yesterday or the day before. Today I am filled with well-being. The distance you create in favor of self-care will bring its own reward. “The time will come to reunite.” Wonderful wisdom!