Astrology Unbound with Evan Nathaniel Grim

The Reckoning: How Mercury and Venus Retrograde Are Unmasking Deception

• Evan Nathaniel Grim

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Neptune's departure from Pisces after 14 years, combined with Mercury and Venus retrograde in Pisces, is revealing truths and deceptions that have been hidden beneath the spiritual fog. Saturn's presence in this cosmic lineup provides a sobering dose of reality, calling on us to apply practicality to our dreams and honest accountability to our relationships.

• Mercury and Venus retrograde in Pisces are exposing lies and delusions in different life areas depending on your rising sign
• Without Neptune's fog, Saturn is helping establish realistic plans to actually manifest aspirations 
• The retrogrades are encouraging us to release attachments to outcomes and embrace endings as necessary for growth
• Neptune in Aries is discouraging victim mentalities and encouraging accountability rather than excuses
• Relationships may reveal energy vampires who have been draining you while avoiding accountability
• Mercury stations direct on April 7th, bringing pragmatic assessment of situations
• Venus stations direct on April 12th coinciding with the Libra Full Moon, bringing relationship clarity
• Wait until after April 12th to make major relationship or financial decisions

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Speaker 1:

Hey there, it's Evan Nathaniel Grimm, and welcome to the latest episode of Astrology Unbound, and today I'm going to talk about the ongoing retrogrades in the sign of Pisces and how the truth is being laid bare by the fact that Neptune is now out of Pisces. At the same time, and before I do that, definitely check out my Substack newsletter. This is where I go all in on horoscopes, manifestation guides, rituals and a lot more, including a weekly live show for the paid subscribers. And, by the way, paid subscribers get 30% off everything on my website, minus readings, but that includes courses and videos. And, speaking of videos, my 2025 horoscopes are still available and they're still relevant because there's still nine months left in the year, so download those. And also, if you're in Los Angeles, hopefully you got tickets to my theater show at the Hollywood Roosevelt. This is the site of the first Academy Awards, so it's truly an honor to be performing there as an astrologer. I'll be doing live audience readings. I'll be talking about Venus retrograde, how to get through it. There's going to be a meet and greet. The event just sold out before I started recording this, but hopefully we will be doing many more events like this in the future, in Los Angeles and in other cities. So thank you to those of you who got tickets. I will see you at the show on Friday, april 4th and for those of you who didn't get a ticket in time, again look forward to another one.

Speaker 1:

So let's tackle the first topic here. We have Mercury and Venus retrograde in Pisces now. So these retrogrades have been going on for a while. Venus has been retrograde for almost a month, mercury for about two weeks, but now they're in Pisces. They're back in Pisces and joining Saturn, joining the North Node, but Neptune at the same time was like I'm out of here. So Neptune left this Pisces party at the same time that Mercury and Venus joined and Neptune has really been calling the shots in Pisces party at the same time that Mercury and Venus joined and Neptune has really been calling the shots in Pisces for again 14 years now and that's been very powerful. It's been very illuminating for us spiritually. I know I've had many awakenings, honestly, since 2011, when Neptune actually really since 2012 for me, but Neptune in Pisces has had a very profound effect on me, on my outlook and my sort of attunement to the intuitive side and my creative side. It's also for everybody.

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I think Neptune in Pisces led to some amount of either deception or manipulative, either behavior in either direction. Neptune in Pisces definitely encourages us to transcend the ego, which again can be very giving and sacrificial and selfless, but it also really causes us to dissociate in a lot of ways and to dissociate sometimes from the truth. So Neptune is now in Aries. It will go back into Pisces eventually later this year, but only for like three months, so it's not really that much of an extended retrograde like we saw with, let's say, pluto and Capricorn. But now that Neptune has left the sign of Pisces, mercury and Venus retrograde are calling on all of us to reflect on how and where and by whom we've been deceived. And I say that because not only are they retrograde but they're conjunct.

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Saturn and Saturn is going to add a lot of realism to things and it's going to help us. You know, see things as they are. Saturn return we always think about the Saturn return as this moment of like sobering reality checks and you know, maturity, and so it can be kind of a rude awakening for people or a reckoning if you've been weaving together these lies, maybe telling lies to yourself, you know, for the last 14 years. Whatever the case, whether it's like you're dating someone who's lying, or you've been lying, or you've been deceiving yourself into thinking that a certain you know habit is good for you, or whatever, all kinds of revelations are going to come about during these retrogrades in Pisces. So examine right now your relationship to the truth in pretty much every major context, but start off by referring to the house of your chart that's actually ruled by Pisces, so that's the house where you're going to be looking backwards and trying to find the center again, trying to find some grounding, some groundedness and rationality in an area where you may have deceived yourself in certain ways over the past 14 years.

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So, like for Virgos Virgo Risings especially this is going to be focused on relationships. For Pisces, it's going to be focused on the self. Gemini, the focus will be on the career. Sag, on the home and property and family. Cancers, on your overall vision and philosophy and your travels. Capricorn, on more so, your general learning process, educational process, writing, conversations, communications.

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For Libras, it's going to be focused on health and health practices. For Aries, the focus will be on mental health. And then for Scorpios, you'll be focused on the scalability, longevity of, maybe, your creative projects. Also, you'll be reflecting on any deception you may have faced in the romantic department. For Tauruses, it's a lot about friends and networks and communities. So if a friend has been duping you or distorting the truth to you, you'll find that out. For Aquariuses, it's going to be about money, personal finances, possessions, and assessing your financial targets and the viability of your financial goals right now. And then, finally, for Leo's, it's about investments and finances and assets. And Leo's, you know you're really assessing, you know the, you know again, viability of investments you've made or partnerships you've agreed to, and so on.

Speaker 1:

So that was a really brief, bite-sized horoscope, but anyways, that's just to point out the fact that in these domains, generally over the past 14 years, you may have been opened up to something in that domain in a really creative or spiritual way or healing way. You may have healed something in that domain of life or even inspired others or inspired yourself. But now, without Neptune in the mix, now you have to really drive to the core of something and ask yourself if it's realistic to continue pursuing it in that way, or if the blueprint you have right now is actually working, or if you're seeing that situation clearly and everyone in the collective right now is dealing with like, maybe shattered delusions, shattered realities, and also again applying a bit more realism to their relationships, their thought patterns and thinking more practically. But I think you just had a mutable sign on your ascendant, meaning your rising sign was a mutable sign that would affect your angular houses, which are part of really the bedrock of who you are and your life, some sort of lies being exposed. Maybe between it could be anywhere in the political realm, in the healthcare realm especially the healthcare realm, though, because Pisces deals a lot with, like healthcare hospitals, and the South Node is in Virgo, so look to the healthcare agencies. Anyone who's high up in the healthcare space, whether as a CEO or as a health secretary, you know they may have some truths exposed about them.

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And also, with that conjunction of Saturn in Pisces, you're really establishing again like ideally, like a clear plan of action to actually make your dreams come true, because Pisces has a lot to do with inspiration and dreams and you know these aspirations, and so Saturn is really trying to help you here, I think. And if you're overwhelmed by all of that right now and you don't feel like you have any sense of a plan that you know, use these, this final part of these retrogrades to just kind of rest, relax, isolate I know I've been giving that advice for a long time but like it's okay to continue resting right now, it's okay to feel like like you don't want to get out of bed some days. You know, now we also have with Saturn, the North nodes, alignment here with Saturn and the time you take alone right now, the time you take to reflect, I think does serve your destiny positively and it helps you work out some residual karma and like balance it out in a certain area, because anytime you buy into the delusion, you're accumulating karma, you know. And anytime you lie to someone else, you're accumulating karma and whatnot. So you know, by breathing truth into a situation, whether it's you being more honest with yourself or someone being more honest with you, it's gonna help you really work out some karma so that you can just move on to the next phase of something, a better phase. And a lot of people might feel like there are many endings happening at once, because a lot of these retrogrades are happening at the final degrees of the zodiac, right, like 29 Pisces, 27 Pisces here. So a lot of retrogrades here are asking you how do you want to close out some cycles in your life and just embrace the unknown and kind of feel at peace in the dark. You know cause? I was just talking about this on my Substack channel, actually. But like I, you know, september of 2021, I was going through a lot of transitions at once, you know, losing friendships and moving across the country and changing my entire career path and losing a relationship, yeah, and just feeling like, you know, everything had just fallen apart in a way.

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But you know, those endings, the things that ended, were the very things that were hindering my progress. So I wrote in a journal entry that I'm basically embracing the unknown, I'm counting this as an ego death and you know, I had this sort of come what may attitude and I decided not to define myself at all. Like I'm not necessarily Evan or an astrologer or a musician. I became this vessel that was open to receiving, you know, the sort of guidance from the universe. And that journal dated September 19th 2021. That was literally the night before my first video went viral on TikTok. So or it was the night before my first viral video, so the night before my first viral video. So it was almost like when I gave up any attachment to outcomes. It's like that's when the outcomes were much more positive.

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So I think we're all learning how to detach in different ways right now, but also, you know, learning to be truthful with ourselves, and a lot of times we lie to ourselves because we're afraid of losing something. Like, oh, if I tell that person what's really going on, if I tell that person something about myself that is more shameful, or something that I've never told anyone, then I don't know if I'll be accepted or I don't know where it's going to go. But, at the same time, that truth will set you free. That's what this is all about Accepting the truth, accepting that it will set you free, accepting that it will help you move on to a better stage of your life or to align with better people or people who are more resonant with you. So don't be afraid of the truth, don't hide from the truth.

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And also, even if you're not feeling this way about relationships right now, like you feel like you see everybody really clearly apply this to your job, your career, your aspirations. So, like, if you want to be a full-time content creator, be honest with yourself. Like are you making? Are you meeting your benchmarks? Are you meeting expectations. Are you not hitting the revenue targets, whether it's in your content, creating career or your business or whatever you're doing? Like, just be honest and then recalibrate Because, I mean, it's okay, it's okay to not, it's okay to change, it's okay to like not hit the benchmark right away, it's okay to have to adapt, because maybe at the outset, when you were planning, you didn't see it clearly. Maybe you overshot, you know, you overestimated or you underestimated the risks of something. So, right now, get really clear in order to actually, ironically, increase the odds that you would actually live out this dream that feels just like a distant dream right now. So reality can only help you and truth can only help you at this time.

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So Neptune, you know, being in Aries now is going to, I think it's going to provide less of a buffer, you know, from accessing the truth, because Neptune in Aries is wanting, I think, to be bold, it's wanting to be more fiery, it's aspiring to that and to be independent and to be a trailblazer and a pioneer. Also, it's discouraging us from seeing ourselves as victims and it's almost discouraging ourselves from making excuses. So, like you know, if you are lying to somebody about something or vice versa, you know, anytime somebody makes a mistake, or they tell a lie, or they dodge the truth or something, they can make excuses right. They can say, oh well, I had to say that at that time, or I had to lie at that time, or I had to delay this thing. Whatever, I had to take this action because of this.

Speaker 1:

I mean, this is the time to hold yourself accountable for whatever it is and to realize that you can't hide behind an excuse anymore. You just have to be truthful, be brazen, be honest, and that truth is an antidote, it's a remedy for something and it's going to push away the people that don't resonate with you and call in the people that really do. And also, again, if your relationships are fine which for many of you they probably are then again apply this to something else in your life where you maybe haven't been truthful, like if you've been saying for years that you want to be a famous DJ. That's like have you bought the right equipment? Have you actually learned how to do it? If you want to be a famous musician, have you taken the steps? If you want to acquire a million dollar house in five years, have you done the work to plan that out financially. So a lot of people are getting realistic this week during these retrogrades, and in getting realistic, they're also opening these pathways to be more, you know again, bold and to do something that really helps them stand out, because they're actually putting the plans in place and, you know again, willing to. It's like by being honest with yourself and holding yourself accountable, you're basically saying that you're, you know, you're ready, you're ready to walk that path.

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So, you know, with Venus retrograde, it's very likely that a lot of you are dealing with some messy relationships at this time. You know relationships that are not entirely grounded in the truth, relationships that are again toxic, manipulative relationships, where maybe someone has been playing the victim and asking you to help them and saying that, oh, you know I, you know I need help because of this, and they've been asking you for help for years for the same reasons and you've just been like buying into it, like maybe someone's been manipulating you because they realize that you're willing to help them no matter what. So these retrogrades are a time where, you know, from that perspective, maybe you have to set a boundary or just assert yourself and say like I think it's your responsibility to fix this. There may be some people out there who are kind of like energy vampires to you. They've been draining you of all of your energy and asking you constantly for things, asking you for help, and playing this like woe is me card. So really just take a breather here. Take a moment to ask yourself are the people who I'm close with, are they taking advantage of me? Are they expecting me? Is my assistance actually helping them obviate the need to change? Is it helping them avoid accountability? So make sure that you are holding yourself accountable, but also, you know, setting that same standard for others. And I mean, it is Aries season after all. So like we are definitely being called to stand apart from others and stand on our own, on our own two feet and whatnot.

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And Mercury retrograde just to give you some timing here will end on April 7th and once that happens, it moves direct in a conjunction with Saturn. You're going to assess a situation very pragmatically and I think you're going to be able to cut off contact with like a charlatan, or cut off contact with someone who has been draining you, and you know, in other cases you'll be able to put those plans in place that will help you stitch together that amazing creative opportunity. And then Venus stations direct on April 12th and by that point, you're seeing relationships extremely clearly and with no BS, and others are going to see their finances very clearly and have a strong financial plan. I know that's tax season, so a lot of you are going to, yeah, maybe face kind of a convoluted tax season, like I talked about in my 2025 horoscopes, especially for Leo Risings. But you know you're setting some rules for yourself now, whether it's like with your financial habits, your spending habits, just general habits, your attitude and relationships. You're setting some ground rules and whatever ground rules and rules for life that you set by April 12th, they're going to be beacons for you. They're going to help guide you to greater and greater levels of success.

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And you know I'll talk about that Libra full moon on the next episode. But, like even that Libra full moon on April 12th, I mean that's about justice, that's about fairness and balance. So it's almost like justice will be served at that time and again, people who have been just pretending to be helpless or pretending like they can't take care of something, suddenly they're going to have to, and so you're going to be asking people in your life, whether they're business partners, romantic partners and so on, like you're going to be asking them to really step it up and fulfill their end of the bargain and to be really honest with you about what they can and can't do. So relationships that survive after that full moon are, I think, hermetically sealed almost. I mean you know there's always going to be challenges in some ways, but like they're going to be pretty resilient by that point and whether you end a relationship with someone or you sustain it, it's all going to be for the best. You know, because the North Node is right there and you know your financial decisions by mid-April are going to be, I think, pretty strong.

Speaker 1:

And with all of that in mind, you know if you're making a serious relationship choice or a financial decision, I would wait until you know about April 12th to feel fully confident in your decision, even whether it's with Mercury or Venus retrograde. I mean I would just wait until April 12th because by then Venus is also direct along with Mercury and there's a full moon on that day really at that exact time. I mean it's pretty remarkable actually, like Venus stations direct like minutes basically after this full moon is exact in Libra, so with Libra being ruled by Venus. So by April 12th, like you know, you are going to show up in relationships as a more clear-eyed individual and people are going to match that energy, and so that is great. I think that's great news and, with that full moon opposing Chiron, I think it can be healing. Although there will be some wounds and wounds brought up, I think you can heal the wounds and work through them and be strong with the sun being in Aries.

Speaker 1:

So that's the episode for tonight, or for today or this morning, whenever you're listening to it. I you know again, promise we will talk about the more fringe subjects I keep mentioning and referencing in the fear in the near future, but in the meantime, you know, I hope that these episodes are meaningful and valuable to you and again, if you're in LA and you got a ticket, I will see you at the show on Friday, really excited for that. And otherwise, definitely subscribe to the Substack and download the 2025 horoscopes and watch out for some astrology courses that are coming very soon. So thank you so much. I'm Evan Nathaniel Grimm and take care, thank you.