What Dreams May Come - Mercury in Pisces

When Mercury enters pisces, in the binary scheme of ‘good and bad’ astrology talk, Mercury is technically in detriment and exile here - double d - debilitated. Why do you ask? Well, because Mercury is both the domicile ruler and exaltation ruler of virgo, where mercury is 2x rational, detail oriented, practical, and quick. 

On the other side of the astro wheel spectrum from Virgo sits Pisces, a place where practicality and strict rationality isn't as highly valued. But one of my favorite things about looking deeper into astrology is that planets in fall, exile, debilitated, etc. are actually pretty dang awesome if you change the lense. They are underdogs, they are the superhero who has to prove themselves worthy in a foreign land. They are likely uncomfortable, but being uncomfortable makes opportunities for strength and growth. 

Sometimes the things we are good at naturally, become a crutch, and a lot of times we don’t have to work too hard to be good at them. There is no struggle, no story. Mercury bends toward rationality, and clear unfussy communication, and in Pisces, language is poetry, clarity is sometimes wrapped in a misty puzzle box of layer meanings. Mercury has to adapt in Pisces, and chill the heck out man, be a witness, feel instead of rationalize, stop excessive explanation, listen rather than talk, be speechless in the face of the sublime unknowable all. 

The place where Mercury can shine in Pisces is through the dream. Dreams during this time become more clearly able to communicate, gaining a voice path and glides onto the power of the mercury filter of rationality. Imagination can be communicated, ideas flow to the surface to be transcendently expressed, a portal opens to the great mysteries and a Mercury container, however inconsequential, for the sublime realms of Pisces of vision, wonder and awe. A thimble full of magical messages. 

Paul Mccartney Dreaming Let it Be and Yesterday

McCartney has recalled how his late mother - who died from cancer when he was 14 - inspired him to write the track. "I had a dream in the Sixties where my mum who died came to me in a dream and was reassuring me, saying: 'It's gonna be OK. Just let it be...'"

McCartney's mother was also named Mary, which has been cited as an inspiration for the "Mother Mary" lyric. However, when asked if it had any reference to the Virgin Mary, The Beatle has been known to leave it up to fans' interpretation. There, that’s more mercury in pisces - the words are multivalent, convey multiple meanings, and it is up to the listener to determine what that meaning is. Incidentally, Mccartney has a Pisces ascendent. Another time he heard a melody in a dream was for his massive hit, yesterday. 

Mercury in Pisces can be the messenger of content coded in the dream,  extraordinary melodies and images that can reach millions of listeners, binding transformative sound to words which are more than the sum of their parts. 

So what are you saying, L Natale, pay attention to my dreams? Yeah. We have double the opportunity to get messages from the subconscious realm and bring them back thanks to the dynamic duo of both Mercury and Saturn being in Pisces when they are briefly together in Pisces in March 2023, and February 2024, 2025, and 2026. 

And why not pay more attention to dreams anyway? 

⅓ of our lives we are in an unconscious dream state, and yet we forget at least 95 percent of our dream experiences as soon as they are exposed to the waking world, like a glistening snowflake brought inside to treasure, only to immediately melt and be gone forever. Saturn and Mercury together can help you remember, help you understand. 

There is a concept called Lucid Dreaming, where the dreamer is aware of the fact that they are dreaming, and can interact with the dream consciously. Mercury in Pisces represents the lucid dreamer, with the message that we are the dreamers of this reality, providing us the view beyond the illusion, beyond the veil of consensus reality. There’s MORE. If we are too fearful of this glimpse at the sublime truth of reality, the shadow side of Mercury in Pisces prevails, allowing us to buy into only the illusion of our reality, not being an active lucid dreamer, but a consumer, a passive participant in whatever gets you through the day. 

In the space between sleep and waking, those first five minutes, this is the best time to be tracking the messages during Mercury plus saturn plus neptune in Pisces season. Have a notebook and pen at your bedside and write whatever flows from your subconscious to your hand. Observe and feel first before judging with rationality, allow space for other perspectives and interpretations that may be confusing to understand at first, welcome that bit of confusion, and remember that we surely do not know everything. This is a wondrous place of maybe and I don’t know, and pure potentiality - a trillion possible realities at your fingertips. This is a time to leave space for a bit of the lustrous nebulous mystery, letting words fall away, lighten your grip on so-called reality. Just Let it Be. 

But sometimes it takes a very conscious action to do something as ‘simple’ but hard, like Just Let it Be. The imagery is of a loving mother, a guide, that helps us feel like within the darkness or confusion of life, the hard times, that there is still love, there is still a light. Simple things are not usually easy things. 

When I was a teenager, there was this movie called, What dreams may come, do you remember that movie? It was billed as this stunning afterlife flower extravaganza starring our favorite funny guy, Robin Williams. I have always loved afterlife stuff - my other favorite movie was Defending your life, so I was so excited to see this movie. What a bait and switch. I went to the theater, and have never forgotten the deep darkness that really overwhelmed the film, and the sadness. What I remember is the reality of life within the structure of a dream, within this wide open landscape of duality, both heaven and hell, and the complexity of it all. It is based on a book by Richard Matheson, who also wrote I am Legend and Somewhere in time. He was born under a natal Pisces sun, Pisces Mercury, Pisces Uranus. 

1978 book, and I’m not sure if it is a good idea or not yet, because I am obviously sensitive to this story. So far it’s different from the movie, but still pretty sad. But it brings into focus the power of our state of mind and how that creates the reality we are in. We can work hard to overcome the darker mindsets, and sometimes that hard work is enough, sometimes it takes more than that. In any case it always helps to remember loving kindness and faith that something bigger is going on. We only see one or two small tiles in the greater astro mosaic at a time.

So whenever Mercury will be in Pisces 2023-2025, Saturn will be there too, lending a serious tone there, deep thinking and structuring around a dreamscape, with a challenge to bring back something more concrete and useful from the realm of space and ocean and spirit. Don’t be fearful, but brave, because you are not alone in this journey, and the rewards and riches you bring back, can be magical. 

I like you just the very way that you are.