Passage through troubled waters requires we have a strong boat, a psychic vessel that can ride the surges and withstand the worst of the storms. As it happens, Saturn’s passage into Pisces offers us insight into the kind of craft that might endure the turbulent spirit of the times.

This Venus retrograde in Capricorn invites turning our attention to the inner hearth, to assess how well our value-fires are burning and what fuel they need to be kindled anew. It suggests being at the altar of the goddess Hestia, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped as the living flame upon the hearth that burned day and night.