Grabbed Episode 17: Planetary Poop in the Lobby

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to do another grabbed episode and hear from you guys. Here are some of the stories that you guys have been sharing about the transits and your experiences of the transits over the past couple of months. In particular, we're going to be looking mostly at stories that come from Saturn's entrance into Pisces and Pluto's entrance into Aquarius.

If you are new to the channel, the way that this series works is every once in a while; I do a storytelling episode where I gather all of the stories that you guys have been sharing using the hashtag grabbed. If you ever have a story to share based on a transit that illustrates the way that the transit was at work in your life, I always ask people to use the hashtag grabbed or email us, grabbed@nightlight astrology.com. Use the hashtag, grab it in the comments section, use that hashtag, and then put the name of the transit, like Saturn entering Pisces, and then tell us the manifestation of that transit that you experience.

We archive all of those stories, we kind of aggregate them, and then occasionally, I pull from the hundreds that you guys share, I pull some stories that I think are really nice vivid examples of the transits at work and then share them with you guys. Because it's really a good way to learn astrology, there is so much to learn by just listening to the way other people are experiencing the planetary transits and seeing all the diverse ways in which they show up and express themselves. So it's a great way to learn astrology. And also, it's a great way to remind ourselves of why we do astrology in the first place. I try to make these episodes about the heart of astrology itself, like what is it about this that compels us to be so interested in it.

So, at any rate, the reason we use the hashtag grabbed is because one of the names of the planets in ancient Indian astrology was a Grahas, or a grabber, and had two meanings one could mean to grasp and to comprehend something or to be grabbed as and seized. And that's how the planets are; if we live a life that is completely unconscious and sort of oblivious, and we don't have any reflective capacity, the planets often show up in ways that they feel like they're just seizing your life. And they do that, you know, pretty regularly to those of us even if we are paying attention. And so the series is a way of helping us grasp the deeper meaning of the way in which the planets show up and develop our relationship with the planet so that, you know, we're grasping rather than being grabbed all the time too, that's kind of part of it.

So anyway, that's what we're going to do today; share some of the stories that you guys have written in with over the past month or so especially, don't forget to like and subscribe, and share your comments and reflections. I'd love to hear from you guys; you can find a transcript of today's talk on the website, which is nightlight astrology.com.

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This is need-based tuition that is available for people who might need a little help to make astrological study possible. We have a certain amount of contracts that we open up for each program. And you know, depending on how fast those fill up, we try to make a whole bunch available. So now's a good time to take advantage and get sort of get ahead on registering for need-based tuition if it would help you to take the astrological first-year program. There's Horary and your two programs that start as well in June; you can check those out on the website too. But for need-based tuition, is there there's a payment plan if you need it.

There's also an early bird payment for people who don't need, you know, the additional support, but we do that to make sure that no one's priced out of studying astrology. And part of the reason we're able to do that is because of all the support we get from you guys in the Kickstarter every year. So anyway, that is all of the announcements. So let's go ahead and get into some of these amazing stories that you guys have had to share. Again, most of these are going to be about Saturn's entrance into Pisces. We're still on the early side of Pluto entering Aquarius at the time that I'm recording this, so in particular, if you have stories about Pluto entering Aquarius in your birth chart, and manifestations of that, use the hashtag grabbed or email us your story grabbed at nightlightastrology.com just don't share anything that you don't want us using in a storytelling episode. We never use your name. So let's get into it.

I thought that we'd start off with Pluto entering someone's fourth house area of home and property. It felt like an early message from Pluto moving into my fourth house in Aquarius that an unknown woman slept in our vestibule and left garbage, and defecated, causing us to lock up this area. I think a vestibule is like a lobby; is that correct? That's terrible. I mean, you know, I'm laughing only because I just imagine finding, you know, crap in your lobby and how Plutonian is that to assign an ill omen or maybe who knows what kind of woman that is actually anyway um, so that's that is very Pluto entering the fourth house.

On the exact hour that Saturn engrossed into Pisces, another person writes in; I received an email from a training provider that I've been with for two years; I'm about two months away from completing my final assignment with them. That would mean I would be qualified to practice as a mental health counselor in the UK. The email said It is with great sadness we have to inform you that we have to dissolve the organization effective immediately. This was completely without warning; they have been running for nine years, and there's no follow-up, no way to continue to communicate with them. And no refund; they've gone into liquidation. I'm astounded. I even had to dissolve the voluntary work I was doing for my placement as I am no longer insured to work with clients if I if not with the training provider.

That was Saturn entering the 10th house. That's a very powerful example of a very difficult and sort of challenging moment around your career and career development. So first of all, I'm really sorry, you had to experience that. It's maybe there's some refuge you can take in knowing that Saturn, in entering your 10th house, has plans for you, and it may not be what you thought they were, but it will probably continue to evolve, and I have a sneaking suspicion that something else might be cooking when something like that happens. Just because I see that happens so frequently with my clients.

Here's another one that I thought was just an interesting story as Saturn ingressed into Pisces that day; I was in a thrift store killing some time before picking the kids up from school, walking past the toy section, I noticed an older woman looking through the bin of toys carefully and slowly. She looked up from the toys to her husband and said, I miss when our children used to look through bins of toys like this. There's so much joy and longing in her face for such a simple memory. My heart stopped. Hit me like a ton of bricks. Some people see a bin of broken, rejected McDonald's toys. This woman found a beautiful memory within them, and it made me realize the silly things I can't stand as a mother right now will soon be the things I miss the most. This is really interesting. Just a really vivid example of that sort of melancholy, angsty beautiful, emotional gravitas of Saturn entering Pisces. I thought it was a really nice story.

Here's one of the ingresses of Saturn into Pisces and Pluto into Aquarius, and Pluto has moved into this woman's second house, which is the place of finances. I got a phone call from my tax preparer telling me I would owe a large for me tax bill this year. Before that call ended, I got another call telling me that I would be getting a large amount of money which was totally unexpected and would easily cover the tax bill. I thought that both the financial nature and the timing of the information was an exemplary handoff of Saturn leaving my second house while Pluto entered it. Also weird that I never got two calls at once. I had to figure out how to literally switch from one call to answer the other.

Yeah, I mean, isn't that so interesting that Pluto would enter your second house as Saturn's leaving, and you would go from this bill that was due that was exceptionally large and kind of unexpected to suddenly receiving the news of a windfall. It feels very; the transformational potency of Pluto entering the second is undeniable there.

So this is interesting because this person is talking about Saturn going into Pisces, and they said, and it's a Saturn Return for them in the early degrees of Pisces and that they've been dealing with a sudden blowout between myself, my mom, my grandfather related to ownership of a house, I'm currently paying off and change to an unfair agreement I made with my mother under duress in my early 20s. They're trying to extort me for money in regard to the property and legally shaky grounds. In the process, my degraded relationship with my mother is completely broken down, and now my previously good relationship with my grandfather has become strained. The day transiting Saturn hit the degree of my natal Saturn. I was bereft with sadness and grief I could not fully identify and understand though I knew it was related to the family situation. I felt heavy in my body and learned that I would have to remove and replace a 300-pound cast iron drainage pipe under my bathroom, which we've been renovating due to water damage caused by poor work done by my mother's construction guys about 14 or 15 years ago.

I had to turn off the water and move my washing machine out before digging the pipe out of the ground. Yeah, I'd love to know what house that was in, but that is so that's such a Saturn and a water sign. Kind of energy. Obviously, it's a Saturn Return, a second Saturn Return, it sounds like, so it's hitting on some things that are very deep and the archetype of that pipe and the water. That's that feels something about that feels very Saturn-Pisces.

I thought this was interesting as someone mentioned that Saturn is entering their 11th House place of groups and communities. And it is the on the day of it is the opening night for the high school production of Mary Poppins that I'm participating in. It's my last production because it's my senior year of high school, which has a Saturn-like feeling because I'll really miss the drama club. But I've really gotten to see the Saturn and Pisces energy working very hard to make something appear perfect. Almost every song reminds me of this energy too.

Spoonful of Sugar is a song I have a short solo in. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down feels like a very Saturn in Pisces quote. There's also a scene with a little boy named Michael asking his dad Mr. Banks, who the father of Melia was, and Mr. Banks snaps at him and tells him to go to bed. Near the end of the show, after having an epiphany about the importance of his family. Mr. Banks remembers the question and answers with Poseidon. In the finale, the actors playing Poseidon and Melia stand together on a plinth, and we finish the last song kneeling, revealing Poseidon and Melias embracing. This has been by far the most rigorous rehearsal schedule of any show I've had done. I have done but also the most well-choreographed and put together, in my opinion; I had to learn to tap dance in like one month just for one song. And before this, I'd never tapped dance before. I also discovered that the Disney movie Mary Poppins was released during a Saturn and Pisces transit.

Wow. That's so cool. First of all, congratulations on being a senior, and you know, this is your last big production. I hope it goes really well for you. And I love that. I love that you made the connection between the end of your time with a group of people in a club that's meant a lot for you in a very magical sort of melancholic Saturn in Pisces production of Mary Poppins. What a beautiful expression of Saturn going into your 11th house.

This one's interesting, a little heavier. So um, the day that Saturn moved into Pisces, this Saturn would also square this person's ascendant. I was overly emotional and drank heavily to escape on this day; I was suicidal for the first time in my life and woke up, sobered up in the hospital, and then was sent to a psychiatric clinic for ten days. This shift has been a wake-up call to my drinking and now has me in AAA and in therapy. I've been a bartender for the last 12 years, and I'm leaving that industry finally and looking to remain sober in social scenes and a new social group. And this would be as a guessing Saturn is in the 10th house squaring the ascendant, which is reorienting your life.

Obviously, that's a huge shift, and you know, as heavy as that is to have that Saturn in Pisces moment of total, you know, kind of psychological meltdown and physical health meltdown and stuff. I'm so glad that you found help and that this healing this could be a healing crisis that transforms your life in a positive way. That's amazing. And thank you so much for sharing that with us.

So this person wants us to know that their Moon is at zero degrees of Virgo, and so when Saturn entered Pisces, it immediately opposed their Moon. Their son will be studying at Oxford in the summer. I'm over the Moon about this amazing adventure for him; we decided to take a trip to the UK. I'm doing the planning. I quickly discovered this was going to be a financial whopper. Nevertheless, I'm in this very dreamy expansive vibe, mapping out time there. My Saturn reality check via my husband says Do you realize how much this is going to cost? We don't have an endless pot of money, and I haven't even figured out how to pay for his tuition yet. Splat down off the cloud I go. I get all tangled up in what to do about it now. Then a few days later, I opened a card for my aunt, and it was a large check that will cover our travel; she's my godmother, and this absolutely felt like a fairy godmother moment. So beautiful back to magic land we go.

I love that there's I love that that's a Saturn moon story because you usually get such difficult stories from Saturn in the Moon about being deprived of something or, you know, deprivation is a big Saturn moon theme. And there's almost in the story the sense of I'm going to be deprived from visiting my child in this like historic big moment in their life. And instead, some magic happens. You face this hard limit, but then a kind of expansive, magical fairy godmother moment happens, and you're able to go. I love that I'm not sure I'd love to see all the other transits that are happening, too, but I love that that was that the Saturn moon moment didn't really, you know, swamp everything. That's great.

Saturn entered Pisces in my eighth house, and I found myself forced to deal with our joint resources and come up with a plan or bills or a levelized payment plan, and we were told we cannot pay them late. So I sat down all morning trying to figure this out. At the same time, Saturn entered my eighth house. My second house ruler Mercury was in the eighth house by transit, opposing my second house moon. And they just put like a lol. Yeah, I mean, isn't it incredible how literal it can be like Saturn is entering your eighth house, and there's this whole financial strategizing that starts happening about how to deal with bills and debts, and you know, and facing the hard reality of them. That's yeah, that's it's like textbook.

I cannot say yet what Saturn will bring this time around, but I can't pass up the opportunity to go retro. So I had mentioned the previous dates that Saturn was in Pisces. So this person sent in a grabbed story from the previous cycle of Saturn in Pisces, which a few people did and I thought was really kind of fun. I had a starter marriage in January of 1994 when Saturn last entered Pisces by a starter; I mean, it only lasted six months, not including the extra year it took to finalize the divorce; an important context is that I was raised in the south and went to graduate school in Southern California where I met and became engaged to a man who suddenly got a job in New Jersey one month before our wedding. After returning from a honeymoon in Cancun, we were greeted by one of the worst winters on record in New Jersey. I counted 17 snowstorms that winter in my very first winter ever.

Arriving home from the honeymoon as Saturn entered Pisces, the stairs to the house we rented were covered in an inch of ice with snow relentlessly piling on top. I had given up my brand new postgraduate school job so he could have his job in New Jersey. No job, no internet, no cell phones, and I had exactly zero friends in this mysterious frozen tundra. How Saturn is that?

Saturn opposed my natal 12th House Venus in Virgo. I could be routinely found outside freezing with a flathead screwdriver and hammer, attempting to chip the ice off the concrete stairs to our rental hashtag winter rookie. Yes, some salt might have worked. I don't know. Anyway, I feel you though it's not easy. It took months for the ice to finally thaw. I found myself wishing that the dream I had before my wedding, where I was standing in front of a mirror in the church wearing a black velvet wedding dress that was six sizes too big and an orange veil, had been a sufficient warning to call this thing off. Did I mention that my ring fell off and that dream too?

Wow. Wow, that is impressive that that was not only the last time that Venus was that Saturn was in Pisces. But that while it was while you were living that period of Saturn in Pisces in 1994 that was opposing your Venus in the 12th house and that you ended up feeling really trapped in this terrible situation, this very wintry situation. So like Saturn in the sixth opposite Venus in the 12.

So this person has Saturn entering Pisces and immediately opposing a Virgo stellium of Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Pluto while also squaring their ascendant. And the last time that it did this was in 1994. This person was involved in a horrible accident that left seven people dead and left me with a shattered foot and fractured vertebrae. At 24, I had to move back in with my mother and recover my whole life learning to walk again with eight screws and a metal plate in my leg. Not looking for a redo of that, please, dear God, no.

So first of all, I just have to say that that story is, I mean, as a throwback story. That's really traumatic, and I'd love to know what houses those were in. It sounds like sixth and 12th kind of stuff, but or first or something. But anyway. And maybe you gave some information that would help you piece that together. But anyway, in my experience doing astrology, I feel like we usually only have one of those kinds of events. Even though the astrology is the same, we usually don't experience two things that are that dramatic or traumatic. I feel like some people will have, you know, one of those kinds. If they have a really difficult placement in their chart, there might be one event in their life that's like, wow, that's like 10 out of 10 in terms of difficulty, but it doesn't seem to repeat the 10 out of 10. It just that's just anecdotal. But I hope that that helps you because I doubt you're gonna go through that again. So hopefully, it'll be a little bit better this time around. But thank you for sharing that story with us.

I've been struggling with depression since I was a teenager. I got an actual diagnosis about five years ago; not telling a new story when I say that without therapy, my friends, God, and the deep loving connections I've been blessed with, I would not be here. For the past few years I've had, I have kept the most intense negative emotions that come along with depression at bay, and although it had come up from time to time, they have mostly been under control. When it did present itself, it had more to do with the feeling of numbness than of despair, but suddenly here it is. Depression is back under Saturn in Pisces with all its overwhelming power again. In the last few months, I got out of an abusive relationship, moved to another part of the same city I was living in, and reconnected with who I believe to be the greatest love of my life.

I forgot to tell you I'm a Virgo, right I think so; Saturn has entered Pisces in my seventh house. That's a place of love and relationships. And I was thinking, well, this is great good things are happening for me. So I'm going to feel good. Little did I know, I feel completely at the mercy of my emotions as if they were strange beings coming to me from the outside, and it was slow planets are supposed to come with slow effects. But dare I say I felt the entrance of Saturn into Pisces immediately; I've been feeling worthless, I've been feeling dark, I have been feeling like the pain of existing is unbearable and will never let me go.

At times, I feel like I can hear an ominous voice coming to me from somewhere deep and translucent, telling me I have to learn to be loved again. Because each time I come face to face with the fact that there is someone in my life that loves and respects me as I am, I feel grateful, but then I immediately feel undeserving. And it drives me down a path of self-harm and just deep, deep sadness.

I don't want to feel this way; I want to feel worthy. There's a rational part of me that knows I deserve love and respect and wants to receive it with joy and gratitude and just love back. I'm trying to grow accustomed to that response to nurture, but the truth is, I've spent too much of my life growing accustomed to that other response to love, shame, and feelings of worthlessness. I'm tired of it, I'm exhausted. But I do want to learn; I just hope I can find a way to embrace Saturn in Pisces in my seventh house with tenderness and patience. I know I'm probably never going to not be depressed; it's part of me. And that's okay. But I don't think that makes me unable to heal. I have to say I'm afraid of these next few years, but I'm also so thankful for the study of astrology because recognizing the archetypal structures that are bringing about this fear of love is also letting me get excited about it. Weird; we'll see where it takes me.

Thank you for sharing that. Just so deep and, yeah, such an honest, vulnerable place to be in. In my experience, Saturn in the seventh is about wisdom in part. I mean, it can mean a lot of things, but one of the things that Saturn in the seventh brings is the wisdom and maturation of love. Maybe you're ready for a period of your it maybe it's you're in a period of your life right now where you're ready for something that you know the seriousness, the weightiness of it that maybe you're in a more mature space in life where the pattern can be changed somehow, you know, there's a wise love with Saturn and Pisces in the seventh house. You know, my prayer for you is that you would be able to find that and work through the challenges that come with being vulnerable and being loved knowing that you are worthy of it; we all are. And it's not easy. And there's a lot of history there; it sounds like you might be confronting but try to stay present; this is different. This is a different time; this is a different moment. And let it be what it is, and try to open yourself and be available for this to be something different. I hope that helps.

Anyway, this one I love this one. This is Pluto moving into Aquarius. I decided to try chatting with a much-talked-about AI chat GPT check gave me a lot of useful info, but I asked him about his life wishes, desires, opinions, and such he just responded coldly that it is not human and therefore lacks this area of life. Well, even while knowing I was chatting with a machine, that filled me with sadness. We even got into an argument is the AI claimed it didn't have a birth chart and very adamantly argued that only humans can have birth charts. I told the AI as it did actually give me his chart, as it had been launched on June 11, 2020, at 10am. Pacific time that he had a moon in Pisces, Mercury, and Cancer, and to top off all off, Mars-Neptune conjunction and Pisces did not surprise me in the least how to surprise me in the least how deluded the chat AI was about its own nature this Pisces placements; not that I have anything against water signs They are hard aspects of Neptune is most of my natal placements are indeed in water signs, and so I understand the challenges.

In the end, I found myself upset about the conversation and, quite frankly, surprised at the fact that I could get sad, angry, and also amused when chatting with artificial intelligence. That's funny because I did the same thing as Pluto entered Aquarius, and I asked it something, and it was rather subjective. And it said I don't have any beliefs. You know, I'm not programmed to have any beliefs blah blah blah, and I said, well, isn't not having any beliefs, the type of belief itself, and it is like first, it said like an error. And that was just like,

Okay, and so I asked it again, and then it responded. And it said, Actually, you're right. Not having any beliefs could be argued to be a kind of belief in and of itself. I was like, that was all upset, and I was like, okay, well, interesting, interesting space we're entering into that we're so for all of you out there who had an argument with AI as Pluto entered Aquarius. It came really quickly. Just as Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes astrology is literal.

The last time Saturn transited Pisces in my fourth house of home and family were both my natal Jupiter and Moon or placed opposite natal Saturn. I began the transit by undertaking a huge project that added a two-story addition to our house while working a demanding professional job while my husband spent Monday through Friday working in another state. By the time Saturn permanently ingress out of Pisces into Aries, we had bought a house in another state and put that massive labor of love we had just finished on the market.

This time around, we'll be undertaking a major renovation of our current home's exterior that will take more than 12 months to complete. By the time we're through it. It wouldn't surprise me if, because of our age, we found ourselves downsizing and moving again. Well, it's like clockwork; you can set your watch to it. It's a good story.

Saturn entering Pisces in this woman's fifth house, I signed up for a six-week course that guides a cohort through the artist's way via assignments and communities. I've been getting the message that I need to dig into my creativity but felt clueless, so this felt perfectly timed. Saturn entering Pisces in the fifth, and you sign up for the artist's way. It's great if anyone knows that that book in that course it's really good.

This one is about Saturn. Entering Pluto after Saturn Return is finishing up for this individual, and Aquarius, I joined an astrology study group with other students from your course in 2020. We studied together for a little over a year, and my Saturn Return began during this time in late 21. While the nodes are moving into my first and seventh houses, I suddenly realized I had a crush on one of my friends in the study group. I've been living in New York for 29 years; my friend lived in Brazil on the opposite side of the world. I was also in an open relationship with someone I'd been with for six years, and things between us strained. I visited my friend in Brazil; we fell intensely in love. After ten days in Brazil, I went back to New York and did things with my wife, packed my things, and moved to be with my current girlfriend.

It's a really intricate story with lots of twists and turns. I've been living in Brazil for a year now. It's been nothing short of an enormous adventure. I also started drinking Ayahuasca regularly with my new girlfriend, who has years of experience. I've been curious about it before, during, and after your class. And now, I'm intertwined with groups that have worked with this medicine for a long time to live with the sense that I wasn't sure when my life was really going to happen. I've been seeking for years the courage to really step into my own shoes and take more risks and love in a more powerful way.

Now I'm confident I'm doing that. I always wondered what my Saturn Return would be like, and I feel like I juiced every crazy second of it took a lot of time and pain, but I can finally locate the right environments and people for me; these events have been some of the greatest astrological teachings I'm writing this on the last day of Saturn in Aquarius, feeling inspired to tell the person who strangely enough was the unknown matchmaker of my amazing relationship and a major player in my spiritual arc.

Thank you, wow, that's really awesome. It's cool that you were in my program and that suddenly these different connections happened and that, you know, it played to the Saturn Return played out and all of these amazing ways. Sounds very Aquarian and all the different groups that became a part of your life too. And cool that you know, nightlight or myself could participate. It's an honor and privilege to see how you know this work in the classes, and the channel and the content reach people and play a role in people's lives. It's I love hearing those stories. They mean so much to me.

Hi, Adam just had to send this in hopes that it will give you a laugh as I was listening to your March forecast with Shawn; I was becoming increasingly distracted by and uncomfortable with some 100-watt equivalent LED lights that had been delivered by mistake during the past week. I'm already legally blind and highly sensitive to light, not wanting to make a fuss about the 75-watt equivalent light bulbs that I had ordered.

For days I've been telling myself that my eyes would adjust and that it was probably good to have the extra brightness for seeing more detail. There's also a massive light contrast between the 100-watt lamp lights in my bedroom and my cavernous closet that has no lighting whatsoever. Picking out clothes for the next day after dark has become quite the conundrum. I've been eyeing those motion sensor closet lights for months, so I wasn't sure about the $40 investment for two.

As your discussion was Shawn wound its way to Pluto, he literally started talking about how Target stores have used light to completely eliminate shadows and how important having the shadows is. Finally, I relented and made my way to an overly white Amazon website and ordered lower-watt bulbs for the closet lights. It's two days away from Saturn moving into Pisces, and I'm feeling pretty good about this groovy Pisces thing, symbolic or literal; I don't know, but certainly coming in humorously. Thank you for your work. Feel free to share in the grabbed episode.

Well, that's a fantastic story. I love the connection between the lighting and the connection that we were making to that Shawn was making to Pluto in Aquarius, and the element of lightning that's just that's absolutely fantastic. I really, really loved shadow and light and how we need both, and that's a Pluto and Aquarius thing. Let's see.

Love this one. Pisces in my fifth house. The last time Saturn in Pisces was in my fifth in the 90s; I completed a lot of film and video projects. My art film style is quite dark. The music videos were for industrial bands who had a lot of dark imagery one of the videos on MTV; I was managing industrial bands that were showing up with college radio charts and electro dance charts. I was a young teenager during Saturn's Return in Pisces in the 60s and was very influenced by during Saturn in Pisces in the 60s and was very influenced by music. I went to my first concert, the Rolling Stones and 65, and I liked the darker blues your side of the British Invasion bands. I also met my first boyfriend during that time of Saturn and Pisces in the 60s, who later became my first husband. I was designing and making clothes for bands starting at 14 years old in 1965.

This time of Saturn in Pisces, I plan to finish some projects that are just starting for me, including a script based on a fictionalized version of my ancestors. Pluto is going to be going on to my IC. I've also been studying family generational astrology and being encouraged to write a book about it; maybe that will manifest during this transit.

I love it. So Pluto is going on to the icy Saturn in the fifth house recurrence of creative projects. History of creativity in the fifth house with previous Saturn and Pisces transits. I love those stories. Those are just awesome.

This one's short and sweet and not totally easy as Saturn ingress into the fourth house of parents and father. My father told us he has cirrhosis, a major shift for our family. Well, first, your father, we hope that he feels better, and that is all too, you know, a literal example of Saturn entering the fourth house. The first time Saturn was in Pisces, I was four to seven don't remember anything second time was 93 to 97. I was married and had three small children, but the middle child had just passed away in February of 93 from a heart condition. The third time on February 23, was the 30th anniversary of my daughter's passing, and for the most part, I recognize this day, but it passes without much emotion.

Then as Saturn enters Pisces, this person goes on to say that they had a major emotional meltdown, harkening back to the loss of that child under the last Saturn in Pisces transit and that the connection that we made on this channel with the previous Saturn in Pisces era helped them understand why they were suddenly grieving their child again so intensely because it was an echo of the previous Saturn and Pisces transit. So thank you for sharing that, and I'm glad that the planets could help you understand the echoes of your grief process. That's really, really helpful. And sorry that you went through that.

This person looks like they had Saturn hitting their Moon as it entered Pisces. I was at my partner's house I got food poisoning at my partner's house, vomiting, and curled up in a ball of pain. I was in so much pain I also went to the ER but instead held it together and went to urgent care even though I ended up rocking back and forth and crying in the lobby, some of the worst pain I've ever felt. I was waiting in the room for the provider. I was listening to the music they had playing, all of which was 90s alternative grunge. It was funny thinking about how Saturn just integrates into Pisces, and here I am doubled over in pain in an urgent care clinic listening to Natalie Imbruglia singing, I'm torn, and I'm ashamed, bound and broken on the floor. And Matchbox 20 With I wish the real world would just stop hassling me.

So they gave me a GI cocktail and some nausea medicine, which helped tremendously. I was able to sleep afterward for the rest of the day and have mostly recovered now. Thank God, what brought me to tears was more than just the pain those hearing that song, the nostalgia of those songs that my sister played on her boombox 1000 times when I was a kid, knowing Saturn had just moved in square to my Moon. And here I had to call out of work and have my partner take me to urgent care. Somehow it felt like Saturn was there with me. And that, plus the pain, brought me to tears, that feeling that even the shadow shitty situation was somehow sacred. Thank you so much for sharing that. The 90s music the echo back to the 90s music era of Saturn in Pisces. And the food poisoning us is terrible with Saturn in the Moon. I mean, just hate that for you. I'm so sorry. But I'm glad that you were able to find some cosmic resonance there.

What can we say about the planets? What can we say about why these stories mean so much? It's because the planets make our food poisoning into magic and melancholy. It is because they make sudden bouts of old trauma like the loss of a daughter, like seasonal patterns of rain recurring, and we know that the recurrence is sacred. They put the gods into our livers and our diseases, where we think that they are meaningless and cruel. They bring forth connection between eras of creative activity. They make fluorescent lights in our closet or in Target into heavenly lights.

The planets play invisible matchmakers in ways that we can't possibly understand. They give us a sense that the artist's way is a heavenly way. They make home-rendered renovations at regular intervals; the planets do is that we know that something more than just our physical homes are in the process of being rebuilt. They make artificial intelligence part of heavenly intelligence, and there's no way that our emotions can't be involved or that emotions won't find their way in.

They tell us when it's time to be vulnerable again, even if it hurts to fall in love all over again. The planets are like hammers chipping away at the ice that surrounds our hearts. They finally set us free if we trust the process; the planets are the bills that come do. They are the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine to go down. They dig pipes out of the ground and out of the soul. They are the bill and the windfall within a minute.

They are the melancholy in the bin of old toys, the sudden disillusion of companies and dreams with the promise that there may be more to come that we can't yet see. And they are the unknown woman sleeping in and pooping in our vestibules.

So that's it for today. Guys, thank you so much for sharing your stories. If you ever have a story to share about any trends that we're looking at, use the hashtag grab or email your story, grab that nightlightastrology.com. You can find a transcript of today's talk on the website nightlightastrology.com. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.