The Ecliptic Corridor that Collapsed Time
We are halfway through the ecliptic corridor, and I find myself observing the observation itself, watching how Aquarius has not simply moved through us, but has reorganised the invisible wiring behind our very thoughts. Aquarius - an air sign -never arrives loudly.. at first. It builds networks in the background. It reroutes the wiring of perception. And depending on where Aquarius lives in your chart, you can trace the disturbance — or the awakening — to that house. That specific chamber of your life has been quietly rewired and will continue to do so for the next 18 years.
As we approach the lunar eclipse — the second eclipse of 2026 — at 12° Virgo, there is a sense that the sky is thinking about itself through us.
On 25 February, Mercury enters its shadow at 22°, dissolving into Neptune’s ocean before its inward turn. And here is where the mind begins to watch itself think only to realise it’s futile. In Pisces, Mercury abandons linear scaffolding. Thoughts become tides. Language becomes porous. Meaning leaks out of its containers. We may notice how quickly the intellect tries to explain what is happening and how futile that feels. Pisces insists on symbolic literacy. It asks us to read between dimensions. At that degree, the Sabian symbol whispers: we are not creating spirits; we are contacting what was already here. What feels new is in fact echoes from the water the water bearer the Aquarian is pouring into the collective consciousness.
On 28 February, the Sun meets the North Node in Pisces at 8°. Identity loosens its grip. The ego notices itself trying to steer and then, almost curiously, lets go. There is something profoundly metacognitive about this moment: awareness observing surrender as it happens. Control dissolving into participation. Hence why even my writing voice has rewired itself into a metacognitive genre (Pluto doing its work in my 3rd house of voice!)
Simultaneously, and building toward the 3 March eclipse, Mars forms a tense fixed square to Uranus in Taurus, conjunct Algol. The ground beneath power symbols trembles. Inflated authority structures flicker. We may continue to witness public reckonings and the theatrical fall of those who believed themselves untouchable. The beheading of false certainty. History correcting its posture.
Yet behind the spectacle, a quieter spell is being cast.
Saturn and Neptune in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius are working like unseen architecture. Saturn strikes the match; Neptune ignites the dream; Pluto redraws the blueprint of the collective psyche. Something in us is learning how to imagine differently and noticing that we are learning. Venus in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus adds a current of soft electricity. Inspiration hums beneath matter. The future feels less like invention and more like recall.
Pluto rests at 4° Aquarius, where the Sabian symbol reads: A council of ancestors has been called to guide someone. And it does feel as though something ancestral has gathered in the way patterns repeat until they are witnessed. The past leans forward. Memory becomes participatory. We are not alone in this transition; we are accompanied by accumulated time and time chokes with memories; people, events, stories..
The upcoming lunar eclipse on 3 March is a threshold in perception, a reorientation of how we perceive events. It is ruled by Mercury, which will be retrograde in Pisces. And in Pisces, narration dissolves. We do not explain; we absorb. We do not define; we drift.
If you pay attention, you might notice a story ending before you can articulate it. A narrative dissolving in the subtle realms of psyche and dream. And because something is dissolving, something else is forming but not yet solid enough to name. To rush naming it will only result in short-circuiting a collective nervous system that is still in embryo.
It is assembling itself in the deeper waters of the collective imagination, where thought watches itself soften, and surrender becomes its own kind of intelligence.
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