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.

Depression

This morning I woke up feeling distinctly depressed, which is not all that common for me. I thought I'd look to the stars to find out why. Figure 1 shows my early morning transits:

Figure 1: created in Astrolog

The almost exact opposition of transiting Saturn to the midpoint of my natal Ceres-Pluto in the 4th house could have been a contributing factor. As I marked on the chart, transiting Chiron and Ceres are in sensitive positions as well. As the day has worn on, the depression has lifted and been replaced by a feeling of ill-humour.

Pluto contains to backtrack toward my MC which it will pass over on June 24th 2021. The planet will later station in 24°19' of Capricorn on October 6th (Sabina's birthday and my half birthday). This position of course is closely square my Ascendant-Descendant axis.