When I started learning astrology with Sam Reynolds, he gave us an assignment to pick three planets and create a story or scene that embodied their archetypes. At the time, I was rereading Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and decided to look for the solar bodies in her words. I chose the luminaries, the Sun and the Moon, in addition to the planet Neptune.
I thought about the passage today because Neptune leaves the deep waters of Pisces and enters into the fires of Aries, where it will remain until 2039.1
“Through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road. In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes”2
Janie's vision, distorted by pollen, captures Neptune's essence perfectly. Neptune is often described as the fog planet because of the way it can hinder our perception by clouding reality. I don’t disagree at all, and while it does speak to the ways in which we can become consumed, it misses the way that Neptune tends to infiltrate. Like pollen. It coats your skin and fills your chest as soon as you walk outside. And by the time you feel it and recognize reality, you've already breathed it in.
[Which I didn’t know nothing about until I moved to Atlanta, mistakenly thinking that the thick yellow dust covering the city was the result of some little kids having too much fun with some yellow chalk. ]
In Pisces, Neptune finds comfort as its modern ruler. It’s hard to stop the spread of illusion and delusion. Moving into Aries, we get a glimpse of reality. But we still risk extremes. Neptune is a dissolver and Aries is a warrior. In their own way, both break down what is not ideal and transform it. What we are left with depends on who’s watching.
Anyhoo, in the video, I share my thoughts on the purpose of prediction through the perspective of Octavia Butler3, my personal blocks (which have been shifting with Neptune. I’m a Pisces rising), and some thoughts on Civil War and Neptune in Aries for the USA.
Video is a compilation from my instagram account Fifth House Bloom shared via stories January 25th, 2026. includes a photo taken by my mother of the snow in Saint Louis, MO and a link to “A Few Rules For Predicting the Future.” by Octavia Butler posted on commongood.com and cited below.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Amistad, 2006.
Octavia E. Butler, “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future,” Essence Magazine (May 2000): 165-166.
