I never thought the scorpion would save me.

We're barely two months and change into 2026 and it feels like 30 years have passed, right?

I bring good news and bad news, depending on "where" you are experiencing it from: this is just the liftoff, the beginning, a reset prior to the real "action" that is yet to come.

We are still in Piscean waters, trying to dissolve dualities non-stop, closing the cycle and right on the verge of starting the new one—with the upcoming equinox).

Let's use a "corporate" example, at the level of the most important department in any company (whether they know it or not), which is Human Resources, also known as Talent & Culture (once they realized it’s not very "human" to be considered just a "resource").

Let's hand out a robust and highly detailed "welcome manual" with all the Know-How thoroughly laid out, let's hold several "system onboarding" sessions, let's post a photo of the women on the team with a canned quote to celebrate International Women's Day, etc... but let's keep investigating how AI is going to "affect" and change our Business Model...

Do they really believe that all of that, with everything going down, with what is already happening and what is coming immediately, is going to work for them?

Well NO, my strategist friends and leaders of those Talented and Cultured departments... unless they realize that AI is a "tool" (a magnificent one if used and integrated well) and only that, a tool, and that in certain sectors—especially those where Hospitality and Human Contact are important—they are neither going to attract true "talent" nor retain the talent they currently have... because that "Talent & Culture" is "waking up" and now needs something far more profound, serious, meaningful, and real than that whole illusion nobody believes anymore, and that whole facade that is practically useless.

Mercury is drowning (and retrograde on top of that) in the waters of Pisces, but every cloud has a silver lining. And on the 19th, the Moon is going to "copulate" with the Sun in a "new moon," also in the final degrees of Pisces... she hides from us, even though the Sun illuminates and empowers her... in the waters of sensitivity, of pausing in introspection, cleansing and stirring up "shadows," bringing out the inner child... a brutal "raw emotion" that I am already "suffering" ten days in advance... but there is a "scorpion" out there coming to my aid.

I said "dissolve dualities" earlier, and it's not a trivial thing... "equilibrium" is not something static, but oscillating, an oscillation between two opposites, reaching that beautiful balance in the central column.

Chokhmah, that "intuition" that copulates with Binah, that "rationality," and from them emerges Daat, that Knowledge... Chesed, that Mercy and Generosity that negotiates with Gevurah, that Rigor and knowing how to say "no," and they discharge into the center, into equilibrium, in Tiferet, Beauty, Love, your Inner (or higher) Self, what you truly "are" when no one is watching, not the ego you display outwardly, but your true Being, which might feel or think something and perhaps never say it to anyone, that inner child (among other things) whom you cannot deceive or betray.

From here on, it's self-referential. I'm sorry, but it's all I have—myself. Sun in Gemini, but in the early degrees. In the late degrees, there is a square with that New Moon in Pisces... Water and Air DO NOT get along well at all. A square, very UNCOMFORTABLE... in which "House"? In the "professional" one... Gemini, mental. Mind (Mercury) retrograding in Pisces... the King is naked.

Ascendant in the late degrees of Scorpio (thank goodness, we'll see that later) and early degrees of Sagittarius, also in a Square, but in the late degrees. Sagittarius: Fire and Water DON'T get along well either, super UNCOMFORTABLE. The "expansive, traveling philosopher" who loves to let his spark burn, drowning in the sensitivity of Piscean waters, forced to "reflect from the sensible," forced to "feel" and not to "reason," and unable to fall back on Mercury either.

Gemini, all mind, questions everything, wants to "know" everything, because it needs to "understand" to feel a minimum of "control." Sagittarius, the expansive philosopher who allies very well with Gemini. Thank goodness my Moon is also in Sagittarius, which is why I prefer philosophers with sensitivity and less the "analytical" ones, and why I like certain poets whom I consider philosophers. These two guys are in trouble, both squared by an unforgiving New Moon in Pisces, emotions running raw, telling them without mercy: boys, it's time to "feel," you can't look at everything from the mind, the air, and the fire... it's time to dive into the sensitive. I know you don't like water, but water cleanses, and I am Pisces, I am an "ocean" and not a "pond" like Scorpio might be (we'll talk about that later), and you shouldn't stop being yourselves, air and fire, because you are great, though you lack that "oscillation" between the right column (Chokhmah, Chesed, Intuition/Spark, Mercy/Generosity) and the left one (Binah, Gevurah, Rationality/Structure, Rigor/Restraint) to reach the center column, Daat and Tiferet (Knowledge, Soul, Blood of the System, Beauty/Love). The Moon and all her feminine and sensitive energies, and I and my closing oceanic waters, also from a place of sensitivity, will "compensate" you so you can make the "oscillation to equilibrium."

And what about Scorpio? Well, I have my Ascendant in its final degrees, Trining those final degrees of Pisces. Water and Water, ocean and pond. Depth and Intensity... they get along VERY well, and what's more, in a Trine (not a Square).

Scorpio DOES NOT need Mercury (the mind) or Gemini and Sagittarius, air and fire, mind, expansion, but also dispersion if there is no balance. Scorpio is INTENSE, deep, sensitive, romantic, internal... Scorpio doesn't "think," it only "feels" (and boy, does it ever!).

When I started studying my Birth Chart and discovered Scorpio, I got very "angry." This idiot is "holding me back"! Damn "intensity"! How wrong I was! Scorpio is a pain, yes, it can be a massive DRAMA QUEEN in its lower expression, very, very much so... too much "drama"... however, in this New Moon and, I very much fear, in everything that is yet to come in this 2026 (if I survive), it is Scorpio who will save my life, literally.

Dissolve dualities, remember?... here goes a powerful one: can you have an unstoppable torrent of creativity stemming from the most obtuse of "mental Confusions"? YES, definitely, YES, and what's more, it is an incredibly LUCID torrent of creativity.

Go back to the "corporate example" from the beginning. Try to read between the lines (for instance: is it really just a corporate example?)... and, in any case, and assuming I'm still alive, we will speak again in a few months, and you can tell me then if this "madman's madness" is indeed madness or lucidity.

Sal