The Season of Unraveling: What the Waters Are Trying to Tell Us

Sagittarius before Sagittarius, the eternal archetype of the wanderer, the truth-seeker, the one who pulls the arrow of intuition toward a farther horizon.

I’ve been feeling like we’re in a deep descent right now, not in a doom kind of way, but in that honest underworld way where life asks you to go inward and really see what you’ve been holding.

This week especially has such a “going down to come back up” feeling. Mercury is moving back into Scorpio, we have a Scorpio new moon, and then the Sun shifts into Sagittarius. So it feels like we’re finishing a very intense chapter of Scorpio season just before the fire of Sag lights back up.

What’s wild is how many planets are sitting at the very end of their signs. Saturn and Neptune are closing out Pisces, Uranus is finishing Taurus, and the Sun, Moon, and Mercury are wrapping up Scorpio. The sky feels like a hallway between timelines, as if the universe is saying, “Something big is closing, something big is forming, but you are still in the middle.”

And this “middle” is not just about this week. It is part of a longer cycle that completes in early 2026, when Saturn and Neptune step together into Aries. That shift closes chapters that began around 2011 and 2023, and even further back. The theme running through all of this is dissolving illusion, telling the truth about where we have been numbing, pretending, or outsourcing our power.

We have been in a long season of spiritual awakening. Hearts opening, minds expanding, nervous systems stretched beyond old limits. With that has come beauty and also confusion, fantasy, false gurus, spiritual bypassing, and a lot of projection. Where there is spiritual power, there will always be some who want to feed on it. That is part of what is being revealed now.

The medicine of this time is discernment.

Who do we pedestal?

Who do we hand our power to?

Where do we secretly hope someone else will save us?

The old world was built around hierarchy and gatekeepers between us and God, us and truth, us and power. The world we are moving into is much more horizontal. It is power in the hands of everyday people, not just thrones and titles. You can feel it. Corruption surfacing, narratives cracking, people waking up one by one.

But waking up is not always gentle.

This is where the Scorpio part comes in. This week asks us to sit with our shadows, our attachment patterns, our control habits, the places where we still cling to old stories for safety. Mercury retrograding in Scorpio takes us into the subconscious, into the basement of the psyche. It is like the mind becomes a flashlight and a scalpel at the same time. We see the patterns more clearly and we are invited to gently dissect them.

The new moon in Scorpio turns that process up. It is one of the most emotional, watery moons of the year, forming a grand trine with Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter in water signs. So even as things feel intense, there is also a current of support, like being held in an invisible ocean. At the same time, this new moon stands opposite Uranus, the planet of shock and liberation. So there can be sudden realizations, emotional and physical earthquakes, disruptions that shake us out of what is stale or false.

It is not the universe punishing us. It is the universe saying,

“You cannot carry that old pattern into where you are going.”

Control, addiction to certainty, old coping strategies, ancestral contracts, the ways we have tried to feel safe by shrinking ourselves, all of that is up for review. It is not pretty, but it is holy.

And for me, this energy lands very personally in my chart. My Chiron is in Pisces, in the first house, right at the front door of who I am.

Chiron in Pisces in the first house is the wound of existing as a feeling, sensitive, porous being in a world that often does not know what to do with that level of depth. It is the wound of being “too much” and “not enough” at the same time. The wound of feeling like you are made of ocean while everyone else seems to be made of stone.

So when the sky fills with water and underworld transits like this, it presses directly on that Chiron point. Old memories surface. Old grief hums in the background. Old stories about being unprotected, unseen, or misunderstood rise to the surface. Times when my sensitivity felt like a liability instead of a gift come back to visit me.

But with these transits, I can feel how that Chiron wound is being re-written.

This descent is asking me to stop treating my sensitivity as a problem and to see it as the very instrument I came here to play. Pisces in the first house feels everything. It picks up the collective weather, the subtle shifts, the unsaid words, the hidden grief in other people’s eyes. For so long, that made me feel overwhelmed. Now, I am realizing that this same sensitivity is the doorway into my purpose.

So when the astrology speaks of emotional sovereignty, I hear it as an invitation for my Chiron. It is not just “heal your wounds” in some abstract sense. It is more like:

“Can you be the guardian of your own ocean, instead of apologizing for its tides?”

“Can you let your intuition lead, without needing everyone else to understand why?”

“Can you hold space for your own grief, instead of abandoning yourself to caretake everyone else’s comfort?”

This season is teaching me that my power is not in holding everything together or always being the strong one. My power is in allowing what is meant to dissolve to dissolve, and trusting that my heart can survive the letting go.

Chiron in Pisces in the first house is also about remembering that the parts of me that feel most broken are actually the keys to how I am meant to serve. When I tend to my wounds with compassion, I do not just heal myself. I soften the field around me. I make it safer for other people to be honest about their own pain.

That is part of my medicine in this life.

So as all this water energy swirls, as illusions crack, as old attachments loosen, I keep reminding myself:

I am not being emptied for no reason. I am being emptied to become a clearer vessel.

We are midwives and death doulas at the same time. We hold space for what is dying while making room for what is being born. We learn to let the past ripen us instead of harden us.

As the Sun moves into Sagittarius, some of the heaviness might lift, or at least feel more hopeful. But the emotional work continues. The year ends with us still swimming in these waters, still practicing emotional honesty, still learning how to stand in our truth without abandoning our hearts.

For me, with Chiron in Pisces in the first house, this whole chapter feels like a training in walking through the world as both ocean and flame. Soft, feeling, permeable, but no longer powerless.

It is teaching me that I do not need to close my heart to be safe. I just need to stand with myself inside it.

So if you are feeling exhausted, burned out, tender, cracked open, nostalgic, or strangely emotional right now, you are not off track. You are right on time. The sky is asking all of us to reclaim the pieces of ourselves we once dropped in order to survive.

You do not have to hold everything together. You just have to hold you.

And in that, something new is learning how to breathe.

☥