Today the trine Sun–Jupiter–Saturn, forming among the three Water signs, is a remarkable moment. The structure of the sky presents a triple connection between the three great principles of the diurnal sect: consciousness (Sun), expansion (Jupiter), and form (Saturn) within the three variants of Water, the element of dissolution and regression.
Sun in Scorpio (25°)
The Sun, diurnal and hot, finds itself in a nocturnal and moist environment. It is peregrine, without any dignity of its own, and under the rulership of Mars, which deprives it of clarity and envelops it in shadow, introspection, and purification. Also, the current Saturnian bound gives it a flavour of restraint and karma. Mars, its dispositor, cannot properly assist it, since it too is peregrine in Sagittarius, with no pitagoric aspect to the Sun. Solar consciousness is now burning like a submerged flame. There is within this an exercise of Spiritual endurance: will must sustain itself upon ground where it neither sees nor is seen.
Jupiter retrograde in Cancer (25°)
The benefic of the diurnal sect Jupiter is the point of strength in the trine. It is exalted and in its own bound, granting it authority. But the recent retrogradation turns it inward. Its backward motion suggests the digestion of old contents, the review of beliefs, and the reintegration of the past. Being ruled by the Moon – which today is balsamic and in tension (square) with Jupiter himself -, there is an echo of melancholy, a sort of emotional reflux: the soul desires to protect, but the tide draws back memories not yet purified.
Saturn retrograde in Pisces (25°)
The lord of structures and diurnal malefic Saturn stands in the Mutable Waters, peregrine, but in a martial bound. The retrogradation strengthens the inward and penitential nature of Saturn in Pisces. The trine with retrograde Jupiter makes expansion and contraction interlace, in a sort of respiratory oscillation: the sky breathes inward.
The perfect trine at 25° of the Water signs is a symphony of emotional cohesion and psychic interiorisation. This is the element of memory and the unconscious, and the fluent and unitary trine binds the three great functions of form, meaning, and light under a single regime: that of inner tides.
What renders the configuration even more intriguing is that all three planets belong to the diurnal sect. Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn are each of the day, but now find themselves immersed in the nocturnal element of Water. The rational, outward, and structuring powers of the diurnal sect are submerged within the lunar medium of reflection and dissolution.
But the apparent harmony of this trine conceals a structural weakness: all three are retrograde or peregrine, and none truly rules the other. What we have, then, is a triple mirror: each planet seeing itself in the other through water. The image is perfect but unsteady. This produces a sense of suspension, as though time itself moved in slow motion and certainties melted within the flux of emotion.
The sky shows an alchemical state of putrefactio, of digestion and slow transmutation. It is the dissolution of inner solids, including beliefs, identities, and desires.
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