The configuration of planets and stars in the morning sky this week suggests that we’re in a “threshold crossing” moment.
The constellation Capricorn hugs the eastern horizon at dawn right now, unusually imagined as a sea-goat since ancient ages. A sea-goat has the upper body of a goat and the lower half of a fish, and while that seems like a crazy combination, this region of sky was often regarded as the most holy, in that it represented the gateway of the gods.
The stars that mark the forehead of the goat and the tail of the fish can be imagined as the sacred pillars that adorn the gate, and it’s here we find the morning sky planets: Venus and Mars at the head, near the star Algedi; Saturn at the tail, Deneb Algedi.
The ancients represented this region of sky this way in anticipation of the time when the Age of the Goat would give way to the Age of the Fishes. This happened in 215 AD, when the Vernal Point moved from Aries, where it had been for a few thousand years, into Pisces, where it is now, and where it will be for several hundred more years. This whole Piscean Age can be imagined as crossing through the gateway of the gods, as a humanity, and even in our personal lives.
The message that sounded out at the beginning of this era, when the goat gave way to the fishes was “To love one another, just as I have loved you,” to “Love thy neighbor,” and to note that “all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
Watch this configuration of Venus, Mars and Saturn all month, moving across the Capricorn gateway of the gods, from where they ask us whether we’ve found the way.
