Pisces 2027

Pisces is where the year's first Mercury retrograde begins. In the second week of February Mercury stations in Pisces's first decan and starts walking backward, leaving the sign for Aquarius and turning direct there in early March. Your season opens with the messenger already in reverse and does not see him move forward until it is 13 days old; the post-shadow lasts three days past your season's end at the equinox. The first message of your year, in other words, is a returned one.

The penumbral lunar eclipse of late February falls with the Sun in Pisces's second degree and the Moon in Virgo — the first eclipse of the year to happen under your Sun, two days into your season. The new moon in Pisces comes in early March, 5 days after Mercury turns direct, while he is still in his post-shadow. The full moon in Pisces arrives in mid-September, when the Sun is in Virgo and the practical light shines across at the dissolving one.

Saturn and Neptune have both left Pisces for Aries and do not return in 2027; after years of the two of them in the sign, Pisces is unoccupied by slow planets. Venus passes through in the spring. The tradition reads the fishes as the last sign, the dissolution before the new spark — solutio, the stage where the fixed thing is made liquid again. In 2027 that dissolution is uncrowded. The message that returns in February is your own, and there is nothing heavy in the sign to blame it on.

During the retrograde that begins in your sign, each evening write one sentence you said in January that you would now say differently. Read the January version aloud, then the new one. Feel where the body softens between them — that softening is solutio, the dissolution the sign is for. When Mercury turns direct in March, keep only the sentences that still feel liquid. Let the others set where they are.