A Cosmic Grand Finale: The Last Grand Water Trine — Horoscopes for All 12 Signs

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Friday, everyone. Today, we're going to take a look at the last Grand Water Trine, which is coming through this weekend. It's being activated by Mercury, who has recently turned direct in the sign of Scorpio. This is it. This is the grand finale we have experienced several months of this Grand Water Trine being active and reactivated by planets, especially Mercury, going back and forth several times. So this is the last one.

I'm going to give you horoscopes for all 12 signs today. I'm going to give you a list of final things to think about and watch for. I think this is the perfect time to do it, since technically it's coming in over the weekend, but here we are on Friday. We might as well prep for it now. So that's our agenda for today.

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Okay, well, on that note, let's turn our attention to the real-time clock as we do. And here we are. We're going to take a look at Mercury creating the final Grand Water Trine.

So Mercury recently, in the past week, turned direct. Spent some time this week talking about Mercury's appearance as a morning star. Now if you didn't watch that episode on the sort of messenger and some of the ancient motifs of Mercury appearing as the morning star, check that episode out, because that's going to give you a lot more to work with, given the framework of today's horoscopes and Mercury's role in the last Grand Water Trine.

So anyway, you can see Mercury coming through, creating the Grand Water Trine with Jupiter in Cancer, who's retrograde, Saturn in Pisces, also Neptune in Pisces, north node in Pisces. So it's a pretty watery situation.

Now I want to give you some context for this. We're going to go back in time a little bit. Actually first, just… just note that the Grand Water Trine perfects between now and Sunday. By Monday, the Grand Water Trine will have passed and then Mercury next week will be getting into the opposition with Uranus and the final trine to Neptune. That's another… of course, that's a big event we'll be talking about next week.

But for now, between now and the end of the weekend, we're talking about Mercury rolling through the trine to Jupiter and Saturn, creating one last Grand Water Trine moment.

Now, if we go backward in time, we're going to take this all the way back to late October. It's in late October that we start to see the first Grand Water Trine configuration getting started. So here you can see Mercury and Mars coming together and creating the Grand Water Trine, which is not totally perfect between Jupiter and Saturn, but those two planets got progressively closer between October and December.

But here's the first, and this would have been late October, that these two planets, Mars and Mercury, first activated this. So especially with respect to Mercury, think late October. What was happening around late October? Mercury is getting to the point where it's now perfecting that process from the standpoint of its final moment of the Grand Water Trine, and that's because it retrograded.

So if we take this forward a little bit further, we're going to notice we get into November, and by November, Mercury and Mars have gone into Sagittarius, and the Grand Water Trine is getting activated again, but this time it's going to be by the Sun in Scorpio. The Sun in Scorpio is now moving through. And this is… this is about mid-November, so it activates right around the 15th, 16th, 17th of November.

And then following close behind it is Venus. Venus's Grand Water Trine moment is what has just occurred, like very recently. So if we take this forward, you're going to see Venus was activating this right before Thanksgiving in the United States, and coming through, you know, the space of Thanksgiving week, basically last week.

So then we have, during that period of time, Mercury had retrograded backward into the Grand Water Trine and been a part of reactivating that trine about late November. This is around the 22nd or so. So we can see it's moved in stages. Now we have the final moment of this Grand Water Trine, which is taking place here this weekend with Mercury one final time.

So that's the… that's the total timeline of this Grand Water Trine. So that's from late October all the way through early December. That's several months worth of a very powerful configuration, element-based, water-based configuration in astrology.

I'm going to give you some final thoughts on this Grand Water Trine and then… let's do… we're going to do some horoscopes given the final configuration. And these horoscopes are going to focus on Mercury's placement, because it's the fast-moving planet. So we can think of it as something like a trigger planet.

What I want to also do today is we're going to focus a little bit on the purusharthas again. So as we go along, I'll focus on the whole sign house of Mercury in Scorpio in your chart for horoscopes. But then we'll also sort of zoom out and keep in mind those three houses connected philosophically in ancient astrology: dharma, artha, kama, moksha. That'll be a way of tying the themes of Mercury's house placement in Scorpio together with a larger set of scene themes through the other two houses.

Okay, so anyway, that's our agenda. Let's get into it. The five things to watch for. So these, to me, are… some of these encapsulate things that we've mentioned at every single previous Grand Water Trine moment, and some of them are a little bit more… what do we want to say? Cumulative.

So first on my list is plain and simple: when water signs abound, the opportunity for emotional healing occurs. What is emotional healing? I feel like that's a good starting point. Well, I'm certainly… I don't like… I don't have the final say or word on this, but as I've understood it throughout my time as a counseling astrologer, what I would say is that when you have strong watery transits and someone experiences healing, one of the ways that healing happens is for a movement of pent-up energies to be released creatively in a way that's like cleansing.

The healing experience can be something that doesn't have to be traumatic or about pain or grief. It can be simply about releasing something that's pent up emotionally, and a Grand Water Trine allows for that flow. So over the past couple of months, you may reflect upon what kinds of stored emotions, memories, and patterns are being released in powerful emotional moments, or in powerful moments of a creative, emotional release.

I think, for example, one of the things that happened for me during this Grand Water Trine, which I've been talking about on the channel, is I finished my book. That was such a powerful release. Now, of course, part of this for me has been that the Grand Water Trine are all configured to my Sun because Jupiter is stationed on my Sun in Cancer in the third house.

So the Sun in the third house in Cancer with Jupiter on top of it, for me, has been about a long process of writing and a kind of creative written transmission, but that has felt like years. I mean, the process took me two years to write the book, and the process leading up to writing the book, between my last book and this book, was 16 years.

So, you know, if you go back to the starting of the writing of my last book, it was a full nodal cycle, 18 to 19. So a lot of stored emotions being released for me creatively. Now there was some healing there, some catharsis, some processing of grief and some processing of pain, but I would also just broadly describe it as a significant release.

And that's what I mean when I say emotional healing that doesn't have to look like trauma therapy. It doesn't have to look like my feelings were hurt and now they feel better. Emotional healing can be such a complex thing in terms of storing and releasing or processing or moving of emotional… let's call it data.

So keep that in mind, that how emotional healing has looked for you might not be textbook therapeutic kind of emotional healing, but what's moved and how has this process allowed for you to reflect on how you feel.

That leads me to number two: these Grand Water Trines have given us the opportunity for deeper emotional insight, deeper emotional awareness, and hence, deeper emotional intelligence. I would say that on this level, and I tried to reflect on what my own experiences have been, and again, what I've seen from others that I work with, who I work with.

And one of the things that I reflected on, and this may have to do, again, with the… you know, the placement of Jupiter on the Sun in my chart, because the Sun is emblematic of fathers, and I feel like I've had a crash course in my role as a dad. And there's been a lot of insight, a lot of insight around, well, my… the primary like emotional bonds in my life: my dogs, my wife, my girls, you know.

And there's been a lot of a lot of deeper insight about how to be present, more present, deepening of presence. This isn't like I was not present before, but there's more presence now. There's more capacity for presence and emotional… my ability to be emotionally bonded in healthy, happy ways, has increased.

So sometimes the deeper emotional insight or intelligence of a Grand Water Trine is about exposing those emotional bonds or attachments that are unhealthy, and it can be very illuminating. Some of them may even have to be released, have to be like the people that have to be let go of, bonds and attachments that aren't healthy.

And even… it doesn't even have to be a person. There are substances in our lives. There are lifestyle habits and patterns that create a sense of emotional disease, that our emotions become unregulated, we become ungrounded, in part because we're trying to address pleasure or happiness emotionally with the wrong things or the wrong rhythms or the wrong patterns.

And any deeper insight or awareness into what actually makes us feel good and what does not could have been a really significant part of this process and is now coming to a head.

This is quite literal, but I can't believe, I seriously can't believe how literal I've seen this play out. It has played out so literally over the past couple of months. And sometimes I forget how literal astrology can be, because it's often so metaphorical. It's symbolic. And therefore there are all of these, like, you know, analogs that show up, but sometimes it's just literal.

Water is liquid and fluid. And so whether it's hormones or hydration or chemicals in the body, or drinking alcohol, anything involving chemicals, fluids, and liquids… that the intelligence surrounding their use or their balance or their… the appropriate relationship with them, I need to hydrate better, or I'm drinking too much alcohol, for example.

I've seen at least a dozen people come through my programs who, you know, we share a lot actively in our programs about what we're seeing and experiencing astrologically. People have been talking about how literal. And another thing, though, is any kind of… I've seen people dealing with dishwashers and washing machines in the house breaking down. What do they call those softeners? Water softeners needing to be updated. Issues with plumbing. Like it's profound, so don't count out the literalness of liquid.

The literal and the other ways, the metaphorical liquids, which could be like the chemical balances of things like hormones, hormone therapies, hormone replacements, hormone balancing, the right herbs or natural supplements, or dietary… you know, dietary choices that can more intelligently balance the body's chemical… there's like rivers flowing through our body: blood, water, hormones, all these different kind of chemical rivers. So keep that in mind.

Number four: in Indian philosophy, as an element, water is closest to the purushartha that's called kama. Kama is bliss, happiness, enjoyment, emotional satisfaction. You know, like… I'll give you an example. Last night, I'm recording this just after Thanksgiving. I record these always a week in advance. For Thanksgiving, someone brought pie, and I ate a piece of it, and didn't realize that this pie had been purchased from whatever the grocery store and had corn syrup in it.

I do not eat corn syrup. I literally, I haven't had corn syrup in my diet for years. It's just something that I came to realize about myself… doesn't just doesn't feel right. I'm not trying to preach or anything. So anyway, I had this huge piece of pie that had corn syrup in it. I couldn't believe it. And the reason… but the reason that I knew, the reason that I knew it had corn syrup, is because I started feeling really sick.

And I was like, I mean, I eat pretty healthy, so sugar sometimes hits me a little hard, but I started feeling really messed up. And I was like, "No, this is… you know, what is it?" And like, Hilda's like, "What is it?" No, she hears someone in the driveway. So I was like, oh yeah, this doesn't feel right, you know? This doesn't… this. This isn't the right… This isn't the pleasure that I thought I was going to receive from eating this.

So the reason I make this connection is because water is close to kama. Kama is the experience of happiness and pleasure, which is natural to human life, whether it's sex or having fun with friends or going to a concert and hearing music you like, or dancing or any of the things we do.

So last night, I was feeling really gross after this, and just like sick to my stomach, and I came back, and I was like, how am I going to feel grounded and happy again? And I sat down next to Hilda, and I just started scratching her ears, and she, like, crashed into my lap, and I just sat there for probably like half an hour. The girls were playing or whatever, and Ashley was reading a book, and I was just sitting there playing with Hilda's head.

And gradually my emotions and my body started regulating, and I looked and she… she was in heaven. And that's such a dog thing, right? Like you scratch their ears, whatever, they're just… it's so instant. It's like, "You, if you scratch me, I'll drop into my bliss body. Just watch me." It takes two seconds. And watching her drop into her little bliss body… you know, I dropped into my little bliss body, and before you knew it, I think my body was processing the chemicals it was not used to having in my body.

And… but all of that made me realize, yeah, I made the right choice years ago to refine what pleasure looks like. That tastes good, but it doesn't feel good later. And so kama is really the study of what… not just feels good immediately, but feels good later.

The wisdom of kama is the wisdom of making the choice in the moment that says, not just what will this make me feel now, but even more importantly, what will this make me feel later? And that awareness, you know, it's like, obviously, I had no idea that I was eating pie with this chemical in it or whatever. But how did I get back to my healthy, happy body? I got back to it by playing with Hilda and… watching her drop into her animal body, then kind of getting back to mine. Anyway.

So that was… that was… that's a… it's a good way of thinking about kama. What is the wisdom of happiness look like? Not just what will it make you feel right now, but what will it make you feel later? She's… you can see she's in her little bliss body, right there.

All right, number five: what's been washed away or cleansed? Quite simply, water is a purifier, and so you can simply look at the past couple of months and say, what… what is the process of purification been? What have I… what has needed cleansing or purifying? Like when people have cuts, we clean it with water. You know, water is the thing. Everything comes from water. Everything sort of returns to water.

I remember, speaking of dogs, we had a black lab, and I was living out in the country with him, excuse me, and when it was his time to die, we found him by the pond. There's a pond in my grandfather's backyard, an artesian well-fed pond, and he went to lay down next to the water and pass. Like, why do we do that? Because it's comforting. You know, it's so beautiful.

There's… I'm sure there's interesting chemical explanations or whatever. But I think that we seek… often, animals will go to water to pass. Something very comforting about that. So anyway, right now, you can think about the healing of the great feminine, the great waters having washed through over the past couple of months. Just ask yourself, what in me has been washed clean, or has been purified or cleansed?

All right? Well, these are just brief reminders, because I swear to God, I've never talked about water so much on the channel in one… couple of couple of months, couple of month period. But what I want to do now is, let's get into some horoscopes.

Let's remind ourselves of where all of this has been taking place. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to eliminate everything from our chart perspective. I'm… let's just make sure I've got this. There we go. All right, let me just turn off… one. Siri, okay, here we go, getting notifications popped up.

All right, so we're going to advance this to get Aries on the ascendant. Now I'm going to go through the purusharthas. We're going to remind ourselves of the philosophical area of life highlighted, but we're going to try to translate that through the focal point of Mercury in Scorpio.

Mercury's retrograde was in Scorpio. Mercury's appearing as the morning star in Scorpio. This week, did some horoscopes for the full moon on the livestream. This week, we took a look at Mercury's appearance and some of its meanings. Mercury is also the fast-moving planet, therefore the activator or trigger of the last Grand Water Trine.

So we're going to connect the purushartha to the whole sign house of Scorpio. Watch how this works. Let's start with Aries.

So for Aries, and for all of the fire signs, these are taking place in the Moksha houses. That's four, eight, and twelve. So Moksha means liberation or freedom, and it is specifically associated with the process of relinquishing attachments that keep us sort of dense. We're trying to move into a light body. We're trying to evolve and grow spiritually, which means that even if we inhabit a material form, even if we move about a universe that is comprised of all these different dimensions, and part of them are material in nature, there's nothing wrong or bad with any of that.

But we're trying to let go of the imprisoning attachments that keep us bound rather than free in spirit, and the Moksha houses have to do with processes in life that are about liberation. So the big picture for Aries right now is liberation from entanglements, from suffering, entanglements that keep us tethered and bound.

Now Mercury is the focal point of the last Grand Water Trine in the eighth house, the place of soul contracts, debts, penalties, karmic exchanges with other people, the give and take, questions about sacred reciprocity that exist in the eighth house. So there's been a process of evaluating soul contracts for Aries folks, and that process now is coming to a head.

So you're looking here at the question of what in human relationships, which are natural… there's going to be bonding and attachment, which is also natural. There's nothing wrong with attachment, per se, but the difference between healthy attachment and unhealthy is that healthy is rooted in love, unhealthy is rooted in objectification.

So we're looking very closely at that level of things in relationships, within the broader question of liberation from karma right now for Aries.

All right, we're going to move to Taurus. So for Taurus, we're looking at moving from the Moksha houses to the Kama houses. Well, now we're talking about something that water naturally shares as an element with Kama. So water was associated with pleasure and emotional and psychological fulfillment and happiness, which is a natural part of human life.

For Tauruses right now, the question is about what really brings happiness, the kind of happiness that facilitates spiritual growth, the kind of happiness psychologically, mentally, socially, communally, interpersonally, that is a true wellspring, and that is life-giving.

Now, some of this may have to do with what kind of… what kind of validation you seek, and from who. What… what are you cultivating within yourself, mentally, emotionally, physically, and what kind of happiness can it bring? How much can it bring, and what is unhealthy or unrealistic to demand or expect?

For example, you know, expecting that one social group or community or one person or spouse, or even one ability or skill you develop, or something that you call forth from your own intelligence or nature, say in the third house… how much can you really expect for those things to deliver you from the universal problem of suffering?

I think that there's a lot right now for Tauruses to look at when it comes to what… what really provides satisfaction and happiness, joy, connection, validation, excitement… and also like, what are the limits, you know? So we can't expect salvation through emotional fulfillment or happiness. There's always going to be… I think about this for myself, for… you know, for example, you write a book, you think, well, once I finish this book and publish it, you imagine that it will somehow solve things, or it will… its promise is to fulfill you in a way that nothing else can.

And I've heard this said by many artists, that you come to realize that, you know, if you're… if you make a movie and you get to Hollywood, or if you make an album and it gets a lot of critical acclaim, there will still eventually be a place you come back to where you have to face the same old things, and you can't expect creative success or output to keep you happy forever.

There are ebbs and flows in our happiness in life. So I think there's a deep exploration of happiness emotionally that Tauruses are looking at right now, and the focal point is Mercury in the seventh house of love and relationships, of interpersonal dynamics, of… what can you… what is fair to expect, how deeply can your needs be satisfied and met by another person?

What can be shared that can truly lighten the load, because there's a deep level of connection and satisfaction, and then also, how much is too much? You can't expect someone else, or any relationship, to shoulder the… you know, the pain of existence. You know, it's like, it's just part of it, so things that we're just going to have to learn how to deal with. So some thoughts there for Tauruses.

Let's move on to Geminis. So for Geminis, we move into the Artha houses. All the air signs will have the Artha houses configured, and the focal point is going to be Mercury in Scorpio. So the Artha houses are about the material world and about thriving and surviving, or surviving and thriving, I should say, in that order.

So for Geminis right now, the question of building and developing assets, building and developing your career, your work in the world, you know, building a sense of material security and prosperity. Those are all big questions, but Mercury is the focal point in the sixth house which creates hard work, discipline, duty, perseverance, experience the grind of the work.

It's not a fun house in terms of the kind of work that's required to succeed materially. This is the house for a lot of effort, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of hurdles and obstacles that you have to work around, that you have to be innovative, you have to have stick-to-itiveness, and you typically need something bigger or transcendent to care about for the grind to be worth it over a long enough period of time.

Anything that's simply rooted in the ego tends to break down in this house eventually. You know, the biggest empires, corporations, over span of a long time, they fall apart. That's the nature of the sixth house, called Mala Fortuna, bad fortune, and it means things in this house are getting carried down. They're being weighed down into the underworld.

Everything, you know, there's dilapidation and decay and ruin, and all of that is a constant in the material world. It's like entropy. The only way that you can make it through the reality of the sixth house is typically to have something bigger that you care about that makes the suffering worth it, that makes the adversity worth it.

There's a lot of reflection on what makes it worth it right now for Geminis, and what are… what have you been building or developing, materially, professionally, and what kinds of healing or insights have you gained over the past couple of months in these connected houses? Oops, let's… all right, we're going to move this along now to Cancer.

Now for the water signs. This is Dharma. All the water signs have the Grand Water Trine taking place in your Dharma houses. And that for Cancers means that Mercury as the focal point is in your fifth house. Now this focal point has to do with creative authenticity.

It has to do with what provides a very deep level of creative happiness and satisfaction, makes you feel authentic. It helps you… this kind of creativity helps you get into some of the deeper layers of your own nature. There's a kind of personal Renaissance happening for Cancers with Jupiter in your first house.

It also is intimately connected to the ongoing development of faith, study, religion, spirituality, maybe even the opportunity to travel or take a pilgrimage of some kind has come up or… I mean, I think my wife, who got the opportunity to do some meaningful travel during these Grand Water Trines that she'll do in the spring, the opportunity to do so arose during this Grand Water Trine configuration, and it's kind of like a goddess pilgrimage that she's going to take.

I'm really excited for her, but when… and she's also during this time, she's been taking a painting class and has been painting goddesses. I think her story is a good illustration of the symbolism for Cancers. It's about expanding your sense of who you are, deepening your sense of who you are, creatively, religiously, spiritually, in terms of learning, in terms of self-development.

And then with Mercury as the focal point of this Grand Water Trine, again, it's about creative gestation, creative… speaking of something creative into the world. So there's almost like a creative proclamation that's making itself known in your life right now, or there's a kind of creative communication that wants to take place.

Any of this could also relate to things like parenting, pregnancy, fifth house topics like that, religion, spirituality, teachers, travel or self-development and health and body and identity, things like that in the first house.

Okay, let's move on to Leos. Now for Leos, we come back to the Moksha houses, all the fire signs again in the Moksha houses. The focal point of this final Grand Water Trine for you Leos is in the fourth house of home and family, of ancestry, of roots, you could even say of soul history, and it's a little like abstract but sometimes there's a feeling of almost like deep, cellular past-life memory that's somehow coming to the surface or that may express itself in terms of ancestral or family patterns.

And I would watch for that right now. This Mercury, ultimately, like the other Moksha houses, is pointing toward liberation from entanglements. For Leos, there's a pretty powerful story being told about, I would say, family, parental and… astral karma, the way that your emotional bonds with other people that you live with more intimately or immediately, as well as the history of your own family karma, how you were raised, is offering some opportunity for reflection and insight and healing and maybe releasing of stagnant or stuck emotions.

There the potential for something very therapeutic around home and family exists for you right now, if you're a Leo. That could have something to do with speaking what you actually feel to other family members, or really deeply receiving how other people are feeling or seeing something, allowing for deep, meaningful conversations to occur.

And then also, again, the broader question of what needs to be let go of. That's the Moksha… what? What is it time to surrender and give back? Because holding on to it is not going to take me in the right direction. That could be very psychological. It could be somehow literal. It could be with relationships or, you know, something as concrete as a living environment, or something as abstract as a psychological pattern.

All right, let's move along to Virgos. We're going back to the Kama houses. The earth signs in the Kama houses. So the focal point is the third house for Virgo. There's a lot of emphasis here on learning and your mind and your own psychological makeup.

These houses have to do with happiness. We're talking about this with Taurus, and what gives true lasting happiness, and also becoming wiser about how happy can we expect to be in this world, dealing with disappointment well, dealing with frustrations or sadness, or so-called negative emotions, and being able to live with them is a really crucial part of how we develop a healthier, more robust ability to be happy.

Like, I can be really happy because I know how to be sad. I can be really happy because I know that some things take a lot of effort and work and aren't easy and or aren't fun, but because I've accepted that and learned how to do hard things, it becomes easier to be happy with smaller things, you know? Interesting.

And I would say particularly for Virgos right now, an exploration of what you could get better at, where you could improve in terms of your skills, your mental, psychological, communicative abilities, and putting in some real effort to develop things that you're not as good at may provide a lot of happiness right now.

And rather than receiving any kind of feedback socially or relationally in a purely negative state, open yourself up, become receptive to… you know, maybe some of this could be received constructively. Maybe some of the feedback you're getting right now could be taken as a challenge, and if you accept that challenge with grace and humility and curiosity, let's see, how much happier could you become?

On the other hand, if you are seeking the wrong kinds of validation and you're never feeling like you're getting the kind of feedback in relationships or social situations that makes you feel really loved or seen, you might be with the wrong people, seeking validation or happiness in the wrong ways.

And that might be providing you some meaningful feedback in terms of your own self-esteem, your own self-perception. Maybe there's an opportunity right now to love yourself more or see yourself more clearly, and therefore separate yourself from social dynamics or relational dynamics that can't please you because you're seeking validation from people who simply aren't going to give it. You know, that might be it as well.

So these are the kinds of things to watch for anyway, for the focal point of the Grand Water Trine being in your third house.

All right, let's move along to Libra. So for Libra, we're back in the Artha houses. All the air signs have the Artha houses configured, and we're looking at the focal point of Mercury in the second, the financial house. So question here being, what is the focus around things like money, resources, time, energy?

Mercury in that second house can have you thinking a lot about what you want, what you want to be in possession of. And maybe there's an opportunity to refine or reflect upon what you have, what you own, what you possess and what you desire, maybe what you desire that you don't yet have.

But the opportunity here is to reflect upon what's going to provide you with real, lasting emotional security. For some people, you know, having a lot of money saved up, or maybe invested, is going to create a feeling of ease and safety. But for other people, you may find that a more balanced approach, where you maybe you save some money, but you also go and try to enjoy a little bit of what you have.

Maybe opening yourself to how you use your resources, so that, you know, it's like some people are so frugal that they don't enjoy anything; you might need more of that. Some people… they spend so much so that they end up constantly feeling worried that they should be setting some aside.

Whatever the case might be, the point is the opportunity to reflect upon assets and resources and material things, including your job, including your… your work life, your… but all of it is happening in terms of the pleasure and emotional satisfaction of the water.

So for all air signs, the question is about things like job, money, security, work in the world, a certain degree of like power, prestige or influence, materially, is often a concern when planets are in these houses. But along with this is a deeper question about emotional depth, emotional intelligence, emotional healing, and like real emotional satisfaction or happiness.

All right, let's move to Scorpio. So we're back to the Dharma houses, and what an opportunity there is here for the water signs when they're in your Dharma houses. It's like such a unique moment to reflect upon your own true nature and identity, and the opportunity to revise or reflect on how you act and behave.

I know a Scorpio who recently reached out and said, you know, "If you took something in this way that I was saying, I just wanted to say I'm sorry, because I realized it could have come across like this, and I didn't mean to say it like this. And I've been trying to work on these things," this person said, "because of the way I was raised." I was like, I know, I know there are Scorpio rising.

And I was like, "Oh, if that isn't Mercury retrograding in your first house." You know, it's like the opportunity to reflect upon how you communicate and how you come across, and whether or not your words, your speech, your character, your psychology, your personality, is creating positive, emotionally healing and uplifting, satisfying connections with other people.

This is an opportunity to reflect on what is real, what is true, what is creatively authentic, what is personally enriching and substantive, that creates happiness in you and in your connection to everything else you do.

That's the powerful focal point of Mercury appearing as the morning star in your first house. It's like there's a new way. It's a time for me to refine and deepen my capacity to communicate in meaningful, healthy, harmonious ways, even despite the fact that I might be a little bit more deep or penetrating or intense, probing as a personality.

Still, how can I, you know, how can I make sure that that's happening in a way that, for example, aligns with soft, sweet teachings about truth and love, Jupiter in Cancer in the ninth, that's creatively enriching and imaginative and sweet with the Piscean planets in the fifth? So this kind of existential, personal reflection on happiness and your own true nature, really profound for the water signs.

All right, let's move on to Sagittarius. So we go back to the Moksha houses for the fire signs. For Sagittarius, of course, the Mercury placement is in the 12th house. Really powerful opportunity right now for Sagittarians to reflect on the unconscious dimensions of their mind and emotional makeup.

Let me give you a simple example. Let's say that you are a Sag rising, and occasionally, you know, like a good Sag rising, you say something that's true, true-ish, but maybe lacking a little bit of tact. Call it the foot-and-mouth syndrome for Sagittarians, right?

This would be a Grand Water Trine where you might be getting feedback, or somehow you may be starting to see or understand that, gosh, you know, sometimes I say things that really hurt other people. Or sometimes… is I, my… there's a blind spot that I have in communication with other people.

So, you know, your ability to identify that blind spot could coincide with these Grand Water Trines, the Moksha houses focal with a focal point of Mercury in the 12th can be… really helpful, releasing mental, emotional toxicity, patterns that keep us stuck. Your inability to see your own blind spot is a… it's a problem for all of us, but for Sagittarius right now, there's a really special opportunity to understand more about communication and what works and doesn't work, and your own blind spots.

And also, who have you surrounded yourself with, potentially, right, that amplifies a mental or emotional environment of disease or sickness or a lack of health. You know, it's amazing how I've seen this so many times. You know, people will get sick, or they'll start to feel really bad or miserable, and it'll be, you know, after several years after a new job, or several years after a new relationship.

And, you know, I'll put… I'll be able, through the transits, to track the appearance of something that's making a person not feel well to the time at which they started the job or the relationship. And I can see that pattern very lightly, trying to draw someone's attention to that connection without necessarily, you know, blaming someone or something, or saying, "Oh, you have to get out of that relationship," or "You have to quit that job."

But simply drawing the awareness to that again, that connection can be very healing, because sometimes it's not that you have to leave the job or the relationship to get out of the toxicity that's creating disease; you just have to bring more awareness to the connection, and that awareness can then facilitate some changes in how you manage or interact that can act like bridges to be more conscious with… you know, you can, and then you experience less disease because you drew consciousness to a space that was maybe problematic.

These are the kinds of things I would hope for for you Sagittarians right now.

All right, let's go to Capricorn. So with the earth signs, we're back in the Kama houses, but now the focal point for Capricorns is Mercury in the 11th. So we're talking about happiness. And remember, there's a natural connection between the element of water and the area of Kama: happiness, satisfaction, emotional fulfillment, natural part of human life.

These houses reflect the same thing that water tends to reflect in terms of our seeking of emotional fulfillment in life. Very social. We can't seek a lot of… there's… there's one house out of the three that has more to do with emotional fulfillment that is somehow within ourselves, and the way we develop intelligence, and the way we develop skills and abilities, and the things we cultivate that give us a feeling of being good, being… taking some emotional satisfaction from within ourselves.

So that's certainly part of it, but houses seven and 11 are very social: interpersonal relationships, sex, marriage, intimacy, close connections with others, and then the 11th house: social, cultural, professional validation in social groups and circles.

For Capricorn right now, the focal point is on that greater social sphere of the 11th house. What groups, what communities, what allies, what colleagues, what friends, what networks of people provide you with happiness or contribute to feeling happier in some way in life?

There's a real inflection moment right now for Capricorns upon that part of life, and whether you're with the right people or whether it's the right kind of happiness. I mean, the 11th house can be very opportunistic. "Oh, you're… you're wealthy, you have the name-brand clothes, you have a nice car, you move among people who are, you know, also maybe wealthy or successful. And isn't that great?" Well, not if it makes you feel dead inside, you know? Then probably not.

So being able to reflect on… where… everyone has to have some feeling of being socially loved, accepted. There's some dimension of social public life that provides us with some measure of happiness. So we can't avoid this conversation just because we think it might be somewhat superficial to care what other people think.

It is not superficial to care what other people think. It's superficial to care what the wrong people think for your soul, you know? It's like, there's a saying I heard and it was a meme or something I saw, probably on Instagram, and it was like, "Don't spend too much time caring about how people judge you that aren't living the kind of life that you yourself would like to be living."

That's good feedback, right? That's very 11th-house kind of feedback, you know? If they're… if you're receiving criticism or lack of validation from people who really have their shit together and are living the kind of life you want to live, and there's a genuine way you can see and feel that, then that feedback is really valuable, because it's going to help you align and grow and evolve.

I remember when I was in art school, the artists that I really loved, who I appreciated, the kind of feedback they gave me: gold, you know? And I didn't take offense to it because I admired them. That's different than receiving criticism from people in some of my writers workshops who are just jerks, whose lives I did not want to emulate. You know, many of them were struggling with alcoholism. You know, common thing in art school, my experience anyway. So whatever, you get the… get the point? All right. Well, not to be judgey there.

All right, so let's move on to… so Capricorns, that's what you're… that. That's where your focus is. Let's move on to Aquarians. With Aquarians, we're back in the Artha houses. So these Artha houses are work in the world, achievement and accomplishment in the world. And for Aquarians, it is smack dab in your career house.

So the focal point here is the connection between emotional happiness, emotional fulfillment, emotional health, emotional healing, and your career, your public role, your vocation, your role in the world, your responsibilities, your skills and abilities in the workplace, and a poignant moment of reflection or shifting or changing or realization in that area of life, connected more broadly to the material world that we live in, work in, earn in, and how we find some measure of happiness in the things that we have, earn, the things we need to survive, etc.

So that question of vocation, job, career, reputation, publicly or socially, connected pretty intimately to the sixth and second house topics: work in the world, the things we're exerting ourselves to achieve, putting in a lot of sacrifice to achieve, the work we're doing to try to survive and thrive, to develop assets and acquisition which contribute to a feeling of security in the world.

And, you know, it's like, I've said this before. It's like Maslow's hierarchy; the base of Artha is just survival. You build up to things like, I don't know, do I have the TV that I want? Or, you know, do I… I have my guitar that I was finally able to purchase in my 40s that I could never afford before. You know, stuff like that. We all live in that world where there's things.

And the question for Aquarians right now is, between things, how much happiness they give you and work in the world, and what's the right fit or match for things like skills and intelligence, professional direction and focus, and how those things contribute to this overall question of material happiness.

All right, last but not least, we have Pisces. This takes us back into the Dharma houses to close, and the focal point is Mercury in the ninth, the place of higher wisdom. Every Dharma house has to do with the essence of something: the first and the fifth being the essence of you as a being, as a soul, as a creative; the ninth house has to do with aligning personal Dharma with an understanding of universal Dharma, which means what is real, what is true: philosophy, sages, gurus, religion, spirituality, astrology, all things that are trying to help us understand a little bit more lifetime by lifetime about what is real, what is true.

As we develop and evolve in our understanding, questions about who we are in our creative Dharma in this life also get clearer. So for Pisceans right now, the question is about authenticity, creative and personal authenticity. The focal point is on learning, education, spirituality, religion, and an opportunity to deepen that process of learning in the way that it can contribute to a feeling of personal authenticity and creative authenticity.

So, you know, really powerful moment for all of these water signs. The… the water signs are, you know, it's… it's like, what fulfills me is rooted in getting in touch with who I am and what's real. Really existential, powerful, especially for the water signs.

So that has been our horoscopic exploration. A bit of a… bit of a longer episode today, but this is the grand finale of the Water Trine, so I feel like we needed to just sink into it a little bit more. I hope this has been useful.

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