A Black Cloud

Shortly after 6pm today, March 8th of 2026, a very heavy feeling washed over me and I felt quite depressed. It came out of nowhere and vanished within the hour but the experience was so unusual that I drew up a chart for the time it happened. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

At the time, transiting Venus was passing over transiting Saturn and both were conjunct my natal Mercury. Though the planets do not affect us directly, their positions reflect what is happening in our psyches and what was happening in my psyche wasn't pleasant at all. Depression occurs when libido is blocked. We are not connected to source. The Saturn archetype, that works to limit and control, is clearly the culprit.Venus and Mercury are the inner planets leading to the Sun, our source of life and vitality, but I felt very cut off from that.

Revisiting Spiritual Discipline

On Sunday February 15th 2026, Saturn will enter Aries for a two year stay. It already popped in but then popped back into Pisces. I asked Nano Bananas to create a graphic using this prompt:

Create an image around the theme of SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE. The image should contain the astrological glyphs and physical images of Saturn and Neptune. The emphasis should be on the synergy between these two very different planetary energies: the materialism and concreteness of Saturn meets the etherealness and diffuseness of Neptune. The image should be in a 1 : 1 aspect ratio. Colours should be warm and a golden brown should suffuse the scene.

Here is what it came up with:

A conjunction of the two planets will occur on February 20th 2026 in the first degree of Aries. The last occurrence was about 9000 years ago.

Looking ahead to my 77th birthday, a chart drawn up for that time is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Outstanding features are:

• transiting Uranus conjunct natal Moon
• transiting Neptune conjunct natal Mercury
• transiting Chiron conjunct Ascendant