Enchanting Backwash

In the backwash of this year's most enchanting conjunction, Neptune and Jupiter's long kiss in Pisces, it is easy to feel unmoored in deep waters. High magics rarely land like the bippity boppity boo of our Disneyfied pop-witchery. Their heft and significant weight is what generates the ripples that will move us beyond dormant realities, tethering us instead to the future our soul has mapped out for us. So does the world shift in tandem.

Everything seeds in the dark, far below ground and frequently out of conscious sightlines. Still to push through heavy layers to expose itself to the light that will foster its growth. This diverse strata is womblike by design, protecting vulnerable younglings from harsh exposure and the grim grip of a world rebirthing itself.

Each layer offers challenge, choice and learning that qualifies entry to the next. There is no leapfrogging this nourishing darkness, nor the shadows that occupy its molten corners. We are required to set root into distinct terroir as we meet it and learn to thrive in each peculiar landscape.

Back at the start of this week Merc's move into Taurus, via a pointed square with Pluto at the lashing tail end of Aries, was prelude to the kiss. Its grounding is balm for weary minds exhausted by this transformative year's steep learning curve and constant initiation. Merc in Taurus helps our marvellous minds set its roots in our bodies, the physical oracle of this life.

Call your attention back to the temple. Reclaim valuable mental real estate from everything else entraining it how to think, feel or be. Tend what has seeded now by tapping into the river that runs inside your bones, linking our cerebral existence to the spine that gives it form and function. Ensure you will never be parted again.

In this place here, we flesh
~ Toni Morrison


Words and photography c. Kerrie Basha 2022