There is a saying, that Time is a river that flows in two directions: the future and the past. An indirect solution to a very real problem, coming in sideways. While not productive in the usual sense, water does lend itself to improbable solutions, as seen in The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy grabs a bucket from the sidelines and splashes water all over the Wicked Witch of the West, melting her away. The Grand Trine in Water isn’t a time of productivity as much as it is a time of experiencing life on an emotional level, or imagining the year ahead, or reflecting on matters important to your soul. The element of water also shows itself in our lives when we lack obvious and clear direction, when our vision of the future is foggy and blurry, leaving us feeling bogged down with uncertainty or confusion, or feeling stuck. To “reflect” means to “bend back.” The reflective soul looks backward, behind the mere what-you-see-is-what-you-get arena of life. We see “Starry Night” and pause to reflect on where it takes us. It evokes enormous feeling, yet does so indirectly. When you stand in front of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” the painting says so much. The soul expresses itself indirectly through symbols, through metaphors and stories, music and poetry, and through artwork. Additionally, the two fish are usually imagined swimming away from each other, rather than toward each other in the direct, head-on approach of, say, fiery Aries. And the two fish of Pisces, with eyes on the sides of their heads, don’t exactly look at the world in a straight-forward manner. The scorpion of Scorpio stings from behind, thanks to the bend of its tail. The crab of Cancer walks sideways on the beach, thanks to the bend of its legs. We see this indirection in the creatures depicting the three water signs of the zodiac. Water is connected with memory and reflection, and like the soul it operates indirectly. The Grand Trine in water, then, moves us into the mysterious ways of the soul, its emotions and feelings and sensitivities and longings and desperations, and the kinds of experiences that “make” soul, if we’re willing to dive in and get wet. From the archetypal perspective, fire and air have spiritual connotations, while earth and water connect more naturally with the soul. The four elements-fire, earth, air and water-work nicely within this distinction. This bi-polar combination of spirit and soul in each of us allows us to, in the words of Mother Abbess, climb every mountain and ford every stream until we find our dreams. The spirit is excited, optimistic and jubilant, while the soul tends to be more depressed, moody and downtrodden. The spirit seeks clarity and vision, while the soul lingers in the mysteries and unanswered questions of life and death. The spirit is, naturally, spiritual the soul is more psychological (“psyche” means “soul”). The soul tends toward descent, moving downward into the depths to what’s buried underneath or left behind, reflecting on history and loss, welcoming shadow and darkness as rich and necessary terrain for soul-making. Within this distinction, the spirit tends to fly high and look forward and ahead, aiming up and out, looking to transcend the world below, rise above it all, and escape the events of the past. To best understand the element of water, I first go to the often-overlooked distinction between spirit and soul. The watery ways of the previous and next few days can set tones or feelings reverberating for Jupiter’s entire transit through Cancer, which ends July 16, 2014. Right now we are immersed in a Grand Trine in the element of water, a rare astrological event linking Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces in harmonious aspects with each other.
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