Mother Saturn

“We may lose our minds, only to find our souls.”

Virgo and Pisces are sister signs. They represent the healing axis on the wheel of signs. Both have to do with healing, but they are expressed differently. Pisces heals with compassion and surrender, while Virgo heals by fixing and serving.

If you’re a boss, manager, supervisor, or hold any other type of managerial role, this year will emphasize the importance of providing your team with a clear WHY more than ever. With the North Node in Pisces, the collective energy is calling people to find meaning in their lives. Piscean energy is highly spiritual and ethereal, inviting us to delve into our subconscious and align with deep spirituality beyond the physical realm.

This is why we’re seeing a larger-than-ever surge of people entering spiritual practices—lightworking, healing, Reiki, spiritual coaching, astrology—the very practices many once dismissed as “woo-woo.” As more of us become conscious of the importance of spiritual health, we’re entering an era where spirituality is no longer just an abstract realm of thought or belief; it has become a legitimate field of business, practice, study, and personal identity.

What is the North Node?

In a personal birth chart, the North Node represents our soul’s karmic journey. It indicates areas of growth and holds the greatest potential for a person in this lifetime. It’s not an actual planet or asteroid but a mathematical point where the lunar and solar orbits intersect. The North Node is one of the most revealing aspects of a birth chart when it comes to understanding a person’s soul. By understanding the sign or flavor of your North Node, you can incorporate it into your life to align your soul with your ego. It can also offer insights into the type of work that will be most fulfilling for you.

Note: The MC (Medium Coeli), or Midheaven (sign and house), is a stronger indicator of where and how a person has the greatest opportunities to make money. Understanding the North Node sign can bring soulful meaning and purpose to that pursuit. The North Node may feel out of reach or uncomfortable, but it is ultimately where your soul will find its greatest fulfillment and reach its highest potential.

The South Node

The South Node is the spiritual toolbox you come equipped with. It represents the exact opposite, or sister sign, of your North Node. For example, with a North Node in Capricorn, the South Node is in Cancer. For Pisces/Virgo or Taurus/Scorpio, the South Node reflects past life tendencies.

The South Node sign represents your comfort zone—an energy you’ve mastered in past lives. It’s an emotionally safe space that’s familiar and comfortable. Whatever sign your South Node is in is what you’ve brought into this world from a past life. Your soul enters this lifetime with a sense of “déjà vu” or “been there, done that” about the South Node. You are being asked to master the highest expression of your South Node energies and dive into the exact opposite sign—the North Node—in this lifetime, to create a harmonious balance and fulfill your potential.

The Nodes On a Collective Level

The North Node represents where the collective wants to go, while the South Node represents what we need to release. It’s important to reflect on where we’ve come from to move forward effectively. What have we experienced? This reflection will guide us toward where we’re going with clear intentions as the nodes shift into Pisces and Virgo.

The collective North Node moved into Pisces on January 11, 2025. Prior to that, the North Node was in Aries, with the South Node in Libra. For the 18 months leading up to 1/11/2025, you may have experienced or witnessed struggles related to relationships, particularly between codependency (South Node in Libra) and independence (North Node in Aries).

The Libra South Node energy encouraged people to move beyond codependent tendencies. It highlighted areas where many of us were overly nice—sometimes to the point of losing ourselves for the sake of others. The empowering push of the Aries North Node urged us toward independence and strength. If you struggled with setting healthy boundaries or feared conflict, the Aries North Node energy urged you to say, “Enough! I’m good enough to choose myself.” This period illuminated where we lost ourselves in the pursuit of connection and shed light on people-pleasing as a shadow quality, inspiring us to confront conflict—not out of selfishness, but to break free from overly passive Libra energy.

Many people likely reached a boiling point where they broke out of relationships or jobs. Think about your coworker who snapped and made a scene when they quit, or your friend who finally ended a toxic relationship, but not quietly. That was the Aries North Node energy urging a release. Resentment built from falling into the lower expressions of Libra eventually led to a sudden eruption. The Aries North Node reminds us that it’s okay to express anger.

Nodes Are Complementary

The point is to find the sweet spot where you balance the polarity of the two signs. The last 18 months with Aries North Node and Libra South Node urged us to find balance between the fiery Aries energy and the airy Libra energy. The disempowered side of the South Node in Libra became too individualistic and too comfortable with conflict. This led to a battle of “I’m right, you’re wrong,” and as a collective, we depleted the feminine energy of Libra. The Aries North Node brought a decline in peace, balance, and cooperation, while the rise of war, gun violence, individualism, and masculine aggression ensued.

While the nodes were on the Aries-Libra axis, the collective energy was asked to reflect on questions like: “How well have we maintained individuality while enjoying balanced, cohesive relationships?” Losing connections due to an inability to cooperate was one downside of the Aries North Node. The duality of Aries/Libra either helped you master the ability to meet in the middle and resolve conflicts, instilling a great sense of peace. One of the higher expressions of Libra is stepping into conflict while agreeing to disagree, approaching others with differing views, and still honoring each other with love.

The Nodal Shift from Aries/Libra to Pisces/Virgo

Astrology is about recognizing patterns. To preview the themes that may arise in your life during this nodal transit, think back 18 years. This is the last time we collectively experienced the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo. What lessons were you learning, and what did you have to let go of? It can also be helpful to look at where Pisces or Virgo are placed in your natal chart.

This upcoming nodal transit with Pisces North Node and Virgo South Node will bring attention to where we’ve been expressing the lower vibration of Virgo. This could show up as an overwhelming need to fix things, know the outcome, control situations, and be overly critical.

There’s a cosmic umbrella over the collective right now, inviting us to leave behind the disempowered qualities of Virgo. It’s as though the cosmic forces are saying:

“Society is out of balance on the Virgo-Pisces axis; let’s help them.”

Being overly productive, too busy, thinking we know what’s best for everything, fault-finding, and a need to be right—these are all Virgo traits that we may have overused. The previous Aries North Node transit may have led us to become overly combative and conflict-oriented. Now, we are called to step into the Virgo South Node and evaluate how we’ve gone to extremes.

The North Node in Pisces will bring a compassionate air, encouraging trust in a higher power and a search for deeper meaning in life. The North Node (in a collective sense) is where society needs to grow, while the South Node is where we release old patterns and destructive tendencies that we need to become aware of.

The Pisces-Virgo Duality

Virgo represents the known, while Pisces represents the unknown. Virgo is the mind, perfectionism, and control. Pisces is a water sign that represents the soul, sacred release of control, and surrender. I am a Virgo myself and know this energy all too well. 

I am a Virgo Sun with a Pisces Moon, and I’ve always felt the pull of these two energies in my life. Virgo is the practical, grounded, and service-oriented sign — a perfectionist at heart, driven by a need to fix and improve things. My Virgo nature (and life circumstances) pushed me to start working at the age of 13, and from there, I carried that relentless energy into my adult life, constantly keeping myself busy. I thrived on efficiency, always striving to do more, to be more — but, of course, there’s a shadow side to that.

Virgos can easily slip into being overly critical, both of themselves and others, and that critical energy can manifest in a need to fix everything — sometimes at the cost of our own well-being. For me, this rigid mindset extended beyond just routines — it became an obsession with finding the “perfect” way of living, especially in terms of wellness. I became so fixated on controlling every aspect of my health, habits, and decisions that I was left feeling drained and burnt out. My need to stay on track and be perfect in everything I did left little room for flexibility or softness, and I found myself operating from a place of stress rather than balance. I created unnecessary anxiety and stiffness for myself and the people around me. 

Pisces, the water sign ruled by Neptune, offers a softer, more spiritual and intuitive energy. My Pisces Moon has always whispered to my soul, reminding me to surrender, to release control, and to flow with life’s mysteries. From a young age, I’ve been deeply drawn to art and music — creative endeavors that allowed me to tap into that Piscean world of intuition and fluidity. These moments of artistic flow brought a sense of peace, but it wasn’t until my adult years that I really learned to integrate that energy into the physical world.

In my adult life, I turned to practices like surfing and yoga — activities that not only aligned me with the fluid, free-flowing energy of Pisces, but also grounded me in the physical realm in a way that balanced out my Virgo tendencies. Surfing taught me to surrender to the ocean’s rhythm, to embrace the unknown, and to trust that everything would come together if I just stayed in the flow. Yoga, too, became a way for me to align my body and mind, learning to soften and let go of my need for control while still maintaining a grounded presence.

However, even as I embraced this connection to my inner world, I had to navigate the tension between Virgo’s need for order and Pisces’ need for surrender. There are times when my Virgo side tries to “fix” everything, even my emotions or the chaos around me, while my Pisces Moon is calling me to release control and trust that things will unfold as they should. This duality creates an ongoing inner dance — one where I’m constantly balancing my desire for perfection with the wisdom that comes from embracing imperfection and surrender.

The lesson for me has been learning to integrate these two energies: Virgo’s practicality with Pisces’ intuition. I’m learning that it’s okay not to have everything figured out, that sometimes letting go and trusting in the flow of life is the most powerful way to heal. Virgo’s sharp mind and attention to detail can be incredibly beneficial when paired with Pisces’ spiritual insights and empathy. When balanced, these two signs create a deep understanding of both the material and the spiritual realms, guiding me to live a more fulfilling, aligned life.

In the end, both Virgo and Pisces hold wisdom, and they’re not opposing forces, but rather complementary ones. Virgo teaches me to ground my spiritual insights into practical action, while Pisces reminds me to soften, trust the process, and surrender to the mysteries of life. It’s an ongoing journey of growth, where I’m constantly learning to balance these two energies for greater harmony and fulfillment.

This is the duality of Virgo-Pisces. I’m putting myself out there to paint a picture of what we can expect from the nodal shift to Virgo/Pisces over the next year and half or so. Being aware of this duality helps us understand the energies around us and navigate them successfully. Virgo energy is prone to being a “fixer” or feeling the need to fix things or people. With the South Node in Virgo, the universe is asking us to step away from this obsessive need to fix. We’re called to set limits on our need to control and fix, avoiding burnout and resentment. Virgo struggles to let go and let things be. Virgo needs to know the outcome and see what’s coming, but life is unpredictable, and we never truly know what’s ahead.

The Pisces North Node invites us to embrace the Piscean power of letting go and allowing things to unfold. What if everything works out? What’s the best that could happen? The balance between Virgo and Pisces will emerge in the current nodal transit, blending science and spirituality.

Virgo is the nurse, the massage therapist, while Pisces is the breathwork yoga instructor. Both serve and heal in different ways, neither being better nor more important than the other. Both energetic and physical wellness will be highlighted, especially where imbalances exist. A magnifying glass will shine where the Piscean veil may have hidden some truths in Virgo fields (think tech, science, healthcare). You may find yourself visiting your primary care physician, who recommends ashwagandha before prescribing a benzodiazepine.

Finding Deeper Meaning

This is a breath of fresh air, illuminating where we need healing. It marks a fresh start after the conflict-ridden nodal transit of Aries. By using Aries North Node energy properly, you can move forward with confidence in your ability to navigate conflict, knowing how to be an individual in a relationship without needing to fight or scream.

Pisces energy is free-flowing and will call us to find deeper meaning in our lives. Many people have already left situations where they felt no meaning. Now, they might be in a void, much like the free-floating abyss of Pisces energy at the bottom of the sea. It’s essential to reconnect with your why, your core mission statement, and your values. Without this, it will be hard for people to stay in a job without emotional connection.

Without meaning, we’re left connected to a metaphorical IV of sadness, a slow drip of low vibration into our bloodstream. We need to find a mission that moves us and inspires us. Simply doing mindless work for a paycheck will no longer suffice.

“We may lose our minds, only to find our souls.”

We are undergoing a collective karmic recalibration. Many of the Virgo South Node tendencies have been things we knew were there, but we were too busy to address. People will now be on a quest to find emotional connections to their physical ailments. Virgo is a powerful, efficient energy that we should learn to work with as we answer the call of the Pisces North Node.

As the Virgin Lady would say, pay attention to the details of your quest for spiritual growth, beautiful souls.