Still Swimming: The Ongoing Age of Pisces
- 5 days ago
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The Sun, The Soul and The Collective Current
There is still a lot of mixed interpretation when it comes to astrology, especially around the ages we’re moving through. And that in itself should make you pause and consider what is true for you.
The astrological ages shift roughly every 2,000 years. The transition to a new age is slow, gradual and unfolds over time. That’s why, even with all the talk about the Age of Aquarius, the Sun was still rising in Pisces at the March Equinox. At this point of balance, day and night are equal. Light and dark are in harmony. For many, this marks the beginning of the solar year. But the constellation the Sun rises in at the equinox shows us the age we’re actually moving through.
There’s a lot of conversation about us being in the Age of Aquarius which is believed to be a time of unity, innovation, and collective awakening. And while that idea is powerful, when you really look around, it doesn’t match up with what we are experiencing. We still live in a world that is deeply divided. This is exactly the lesson of Pisces. It holds up a mirror, showing us duality and polarity so we can remember that we are already whole and always have been.
If you look around we are watching the systems that once felt permanent; political, economic and social all fracturing rather than reforming. Nations are arguing over identity, resources, and belief systems. And at the same time, we speak about connecting with higher intelligence, star beings, other realms… but how can we expect that level of unity when we are still debating what it means to belong here on Earth?
And this polarity isn’t just external. It’s playing out in our relationships, in our communities, and within ourselves. We see it in the way we relate to each other. The push and pull between independence and connection. The expectations we place on partners, friends, even within spiritual spaces. There’s a strong focus on the feminine rising, but often that conversation forgets that true balance includes the masculine too. It’s not about choosing one over the other.
Pisces asks us to move beyond labels. Not just in identity, but in everything. Relationships, roles, even the way we define ourselves day to day. The more we label and categorise, the more we separate. It is our uniqueness and our differences that are meant to bring us together, not pull us apart.
We wrestle with how the “masculine” should behave and what the “feminine” should want or need and while there are very real and natural differences in how these energies are expressed in the physical world, this isn’t about gender, orientation, or who you’re attracted to. It’s about integration. It’s about learning to recognise and embody all aspects of yourself so that you become whole. Pisces guides us to stop fighting ourselves. To remember we were never incomplete, we have always been whole. We can honour both expressions within us without suppressing or rejecting either side.
Everything in life is held in tension until we allow it to flow together. We, too, are part of that cosmic rhythm.
Pisces energy teaches us that pressure and chaos are not failures, they are invitations. Just as shadows reveal light and storms show us what it feels like to be calm and at peace. The divisions we see in the world and within ourselves highlight where balance is needed.
Duality exists as a path to integration. Polarity isn’t here to separate us, but to be felt, understood, and woven back into harmony. We see this in the ancient symbol of the Yin and Yang. Opposite forces flowing into each other, inseparable and yet complete only in balance. Nature mirrors this too. Rivers meet oceans. The tides caress the sand as they meet the earth. Night gives way to day. Predator and prey exist in cycles that are not rigid or hierarchical, but balanced.
We’re not in Aquarius yet. This isn’t the golden age. Things are escalating, not settling. So how do we move through it? Pisces has always known… just keep swimming.
Pisces doesn’t resist the current. It moves with it. It adapts. It survives. It keeps swimming and asks us to look more closely, feel the fracture lines and to practice wholeness here and now. It asks us to embrace the in-between moments, the soft spaces where none of us have the answers and none of us are fully awake yet. To see that this space is fertile for remembering who you are before the world told you who to be.
This is the whole point of being here right now. Not to escape the chaos, but to become conscious within it. To see the patterns, to feel where you’re still divided within yourself and to choose differently.
It’s not about waiting for the stars to align or for society to catch up. It’s about the work you do internally first. Embracing every part of yourself. Dissolving the walls between what you’ve been taught to separate. Realising that wholeness isn’t something you find, it’s something you return to. And when you begin to live that way, everything shifts and every moment of chaos becomes a teacher showing you exactly where you’re still being pulled out of alignment. Maybe that’s the real gift of Pisces. It reminds us that life isn’t about perfection or waiting for a golden age to arrive. It’s about waking up inside the one you’re already in.
Ancient cultures didn’t guess the sky, they observed it. They tracked the stars and built structures that aligned with the cosmos. Places like Stonehenge weren’t built based on a theory they were created due to a direct relationship and observation of the sky. Even today they are an exact match with the stars above.
Here is the important layer that often gets missed. At the time of writing this the sun still has a couple more weeks before it reaches Aries depending on which type of astrology you resonate with. If you actually look up, or use tools that track the real-time sky, you’ll see clearly that the Sun is still in Pisces. Not Aries.
Just because we like to automatically think this time of year is Aries season, it doesn’t mean the Sun has physically reached that constellation yet. In true sky astrology, the sun is still moving through Pisces at the equinox, taking a little longer before it fully shifts forward.
If you tune in, you too can probably feel that pause. It’s that in-between energy when the days are getting longer, flowers are starting to bloom, but something in you isn’t quite ready to jump fully into spring. There’s still a sense of tying things up, or finishing something before stepping into what’s next.
Nature reflects it too. Even animals don’t just burst into full energy. Take bears for example. Have you ever seen them coming out of hibernation? They’re not scary at all. They look thin, almost fragile and with saggy skin. Nothing at all like the strong, powerful image we usually associate with them. They’re still in a kind of dream state. Hungry and in need of nourishment, but not yet ready to hunt. They’re lingering between worlds. Just like us in this Piscean age and even more while the Sun is still moving through this constellation.
This is what Pisces season actually feels like when you stop following the calendar and start paying attention. So perhaps the invitation now isn’t to blindly follow labels or fixed ideas about what age or what season we’re in, but it is to become the observer again. To look up and notice what’s actually happening in the sky today. To feel what’s true in your body. And to trust that more than anything you’ve been told.
The age we’re in isn’t something to claim with certainty. It’s something you feel. And right now for me it still feels like Pisces. A time of transition, reflection, and subtle awakening.
If you’ve made it this far thanks for being here.
I’m really excited to share something I’ve been dreaming over for five years… and it finally feels like the right time.
I’m opening up a monthly online cacao circle, aligned with the movement of the Sun.
Each month, we’ll journey with the Sun, exploring how to work with its energy and align with the true sky. You can join regardless of which astrology system you follow. It’s a space to connect, reflect, and come back into rhythm through ceremony… just like the ancients did.
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