Ophiuchus 13 Astrology

03/14/2026

03/12/2026

Pisces - 12th house - Neptune Ruler - Element of Water

The start date varies from March 10 - 13 depending on what your set points are. For my software it's around the 12th/13th, but I can totally see it starting on the 10th as the Sun starts to hit the first stars of Pisces. Again, this is where we can soften our point of view to trust the energies instead of manmade time and dates.

The Spring Equinox was thought to be the last day of Pisces, and the beginning of Aries, but in our actual sky, we are nowhere near the end of the physical constellation of Pisces until around April 19th or 20th.

It is the energy of Pisces that starts swimming in on the 10th and is felt in full by the 13th and moves through March well into April.

Pisces the end and the beginning, the cycle of meeting oneself coming and going.

Pisces is about the mind, and hidden matters as our thinking isn't brought to light until we choose to say what we are thinking.

There is a dreaminess, a magical quality but this can take them into a fantasy world where illusions and darkness can overshadow the magic, until the fish swims yet again into the rays of light above.

This is a sign of Spirituality, Pisces can pursue the highest of spiritual growth, because they are adept and swimming to the deepest parts of the psyche.

The imagination knows no boundaries with this sign, and intuition is off the hook because of this.

This watery sign does need to proceed with caution as drugs and alcohol can sometimes mimic their energy and they can get lost in the illusion of connection mingling with poison.

Sensitivity can be found in every fiber of their being, and sometimes that sensitivity gets to be too much, and they will retreat into their minds to reset and recharge - often they need the space to find their own vastness and harness it back into this reality.

They can journey to the Void, sometimes getting lost there, but if they learn to harness its energy they will find the power of the Black Hole and become a powerhouse and an embodiment of all the signs in one.

Escapism and indecisiveness are a shadow side that plays with the void teetering on losing it all.

Other shadowy energies of this sign are feelings of helplessness, lies and deceit, thinking that their reality is really the reality of truth, when the illusion becomes all too real in their minds. They may lose faith, lose their dreams, and become hidden in a world that isn't ideal.

The empowered Pisces is a bit of both, the dream and the magic, the depths many are afraid to go to, but a place of comfort and music that sings to the stars from the depths of their soul.

As a Pisces myself, I know there is a philosopher in their hearts, and a mind as vast as the Universe itself, we only need to find the anchor of our soul in the depths of a watery world to bring the two together as one.

Happy Birthday my fellow Pisces!

Much Love, Brenda Ophiuchus 13 Astrology



PS - Please remember, we are ALL so much more than our Sun sign alone 😉

03/11/2026

💫 In 1977, three astronomers flew over the Indian Ocean to watch a star disappear behind Uranus. The star blinked before it should have. That wasn't supposed to happen. 👇🏻

On March 10, 1977, James Elliot, Edward Dunham, and Jessica Mink were aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a modified jet carrying a telescope, flying out of Perth, Australia. Their mission was straightforward. Uranus was about to pass in front of a distant star, and they wanted to study the planet's atmosphere by measuring how it dimmed the starlight.

But about 35 minutes before Uranus blocked the star, the light started flickering. Brief, sharp dips appeared in the signal. Then, after the star re-emerged on the other side of Uranus, the same dips appeared again in a mirror pattern. Something narrow, dark, and invisible was surrounding the planet on both sides.

They had accidentally discovered that Uranus has rings.

Until that night, Saturn was the only planet known to have a ring system. The idea that another planet might have rings was barely on anyone's radar. What made Uranus's rings even stranger was how dark they were, reflecting only about 2% of the light that hit them. They were practically invisible, nothing like Saturn's bright, icy spectacle.

The team initially identified five rings. By 1978, nine were confirmed. Voyager 2 found two more in 1986, and the Hubble Space Telescope added another pair in the early 2000s, bringing the total to 13.

The flight was so long that the team lost radio contact, and their colleagues back on the ground actually called in air rescue. Meanwhile, 40,000 feet above the Indian Ocean, three scientists were quietly rewriting what we knew about our solar system.

03/03/2026

The Roar of the Full Blood Moon Eclipse in Leo is conjunct the Karmic South Node, and it brings dark illumination to our collective past-life issues.

This is our past stepping onto the stage, for everyone to see.
~ Our emotions circling back to be faced.
~ Showing up to be felt.
~ Or boldly suppressed by the strong eclipse energies.

How this shows up depends on whether we have done the work up to this point.
If we have, we could be playing hide and seek. If not, we might simply be played.

The opposition to the Moon is the Sun in Aquarius conjunct North Node Dharma. This will stop us from seeing red long enough to find firm but flexible boundaries.

This is also where the action of Mars sharpens the showy emotions of Leo’s moon.


When we move through the time lapse of the Eclipse notice where your own moon placement is; how does it play with the emotional Moon in Leo?

Where is the Sun in your natal chart, and how does it manage the sudden and unexpected spotlight of Aquarius?

The Full Moon, especially in Eclipse mode, is not the time to set intentions. Instead take the time to notice the path that led to now.

Have you come full circle?

Is the circle now complete?

Rest by the fire and know that the time to bring the illuminated path of the eclipses will silently awaken you from your dream, or shake you awake from the nightmare; either way with all of the Pisces energy ahead we must prepare to dive off the deep end now.

Brenda ~ Soul Deep Life
Your Multidimensional Magician

BrendaLeeMartinez.com/astrology

03/01/2026

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02/25/2026

2/26/26 feels important, numerically and energetically.

Mercury retrograde begins inside the eclipse window in Pisces, yet its backward motion quickly carries it across Aquarius where it completes its retrograde path before stationing direct. Mercury will not return to Pisces until early April.

As Mercury moves through Aquarius it forms several notable conjunctions. After separating from Venus, it meets the Sun on 3/7.

A longer dance with Mars begins 3/9, perfects 3/14, and continues through Mercury’s direct station on March 20th.

I will do my best to talk more about it as it happens.

For now, Mercury retrograde will start in Pisces and he will not be there alone, he is there with Chiron, Lilith, Saturn/Neptune conjunct, and is in conjunction with Venus.

These energies swimming in Pisces would unjustly be seen as one single happening. It’s not just Mercury Retrograde in Pisces, it’s there within all Pisces energy.

Pisces is a large container and the planets within are the experience.

A helping of Mercury stationing retrograde is mixed with Venus as they land within Pisces, and this flavor is a combination of remembering the technical workings of desire and love, revisiting the memories of things we’ve valued and monetary gains we’ve had.

Neptune and Saturn enter the blend, meeting the immovable, untamed force of Lilith with a current that answers only to what lives deep within our own psyche.

Chiron adds another layer, with deep wounds, scabbed yet partially healed from time spent in the spiritual mind plane.

Here we encounter a resilience that wonders whether Mercury will revisit these places in memory or will it simply move abruptly into the wavelengths of uncertainty and unexpected Aquarius.

I think that answer sits within our own charts and the placements we face. Yes, it’s personal. Mercury is a personal planet. It’s why we feel it so viscerally.

March 3rd marks another threshold. Mercury Rx enters Aquarius as the Lunar Eclipse roars through Leo. (More on this as it happens for sure!)

When Mercury Rx enters Aquarius it starts a string of days in some form of conjunction with the Sun, the Sun conjunct the North Node and the NN in conjunction with Mars.

And again, it isn’t just Mercury Rx in Aquarius, there is always more to the story.

For now, as we swim doing the backstroke we might be mindful to remember to sometimes check on what we are blindly moving towards or splashing away from.

We will be smart to revisit the things we believe are valuable, those things that we treasure, as well as re-thinking and recalibrating the vibes we give off as we dream, get stuck in, bounce off of and wander through the dark and wounded corridors visited within the confines of our own energetic mind.

Swimming in the depths with electric eels not far away create the watery waves we move through as we swim deeper, or should we harness the power and rise?

It seems it’s not a matter of this or that, it’s an all encompassing both.

How to navigate that without getting electrocuted is the conundrum…

Maybe find a life raft and brush up on your swimming skills –

We’re heading to the deep end before we take flight.

Much Love,
Brenda ~ Soul Deep Life
Your Multidimensional Magician

02/21/2026

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02/20/2026

Deep mystical and hidden, mixed with structure, responsibility, and authority = Neptune, and Saturn’s exact conjunction in the Constellation of Pisces. (Remember we are looking at the actual sky, not the season)

The pair has been dancing about, but as they move closer the energy in their movement grows deeper and has more meaning.

The responsible stirrings of the spiritual realms are and have been an undertone, and that undertone is stirring within awareness as it moves through the awakened souls of those ready to face their imagined reality.

How will we become the responsible dreamer? And, as soon as “Responsible dreamer” crosses my mind and lips, I instantly think of Steve Jobs. If ever there were an example of how to use dreams in a structured way and make a living doing so, it would be him. With the energies of Pisces, Neptune, and Saturn we can tap into the magic that became a global phenomenon.

We are here to integrate and blend imagination around foundational reality, with a deep understanding that they are one in the same.

Karma is the ocean you remember.
Dharma is the shoreline you become.

This dynamic meeting in Karmic Pisces is using the ruler of Neptune to measure the bandwidth of Dharmic Saturn, bringing together an Ocean of karma that experiences the deepest depths, and watches as it meets a coastline of ever-changing boundaries. These boundaries are the accepting shores and jagged cliffs, calm sandy beaches, and rugged unforgiving waves as they hit solid rocks, meeting in crushing turmoil along treacherous land.

Will we allow our karmic past to meet our dharmic future with ease and grace, or will we crash into turmoil in an undercurrent of denial?

Saturn represents our bones, and Neptune represents fluids. The Ocean of Pisces can hold the body as it learns to float, morphing around structure where embodiment becomes the container. Yet a body can just as easily forget how to use buoyancy and be swallowed up in the waves, sinking to the depths of darkness.

Will we learn to embody, blend, and move with the tides or will we drown within the depths of karmic debt?
If karma is memory and dharma is expression, what memory am I expressing through my life?
What does maturity of spirit feel like inside my body?
What would it mean to live as someone who wastes nothing they have felt?

Collectively this conjunction often correlates with periods where compassion becomes something debated, regulated, funded, or structured.

And one of the quieter expressions of Saturn–Neptune is mass fatigue.
Neptune diffuses energy.
Saturn demands effort.
We might find the energies of burnout, compassion fatigue, or a simple desire to withdraw from overwhelming information and draining events.
There will be spiritual searching, and a collective questioning of productivity culture.
This is about civilization realizing that endless output without meaning is unsustainable.

Lastly, we have Lilith overshadowing this conjunction, and she in her dark wisdom knows that unless we face our fears, our insecurities, our delusions with a strong and present conviction we will be erased from the equation all together.

As a Piscean woman, myself, with Neptune in my 12th house, and Saturn in Pisces in the 4th house, I personally feel that I am swimming in the depths of Spirituality with a Job to do and I know this is the time to make my dreams a reality.

Where are your Pisces, Neptune, and Saturn placements? Those will help you understand the personal implications of this transit.

Soul Love,
Brenda ~ Soul Deep Life
Your Multidimensional Magician

02/18/2026

The Eclipse, the ring of fire, and the arrival of the Fire Horse.

We are collectively - through Aquarius - jumping this ring of fire and momentarily moving through the void.

This is where time stands still, the earth recalibrates, and as it does so will all it's creatures, including us.

Fire is cleansing.

Let this cleansing move through the collective.

Let it find us steady as the flames grow higher all around us, and let this cleanse bring us through a collective recalibration in way that serves us all.

Cleansing through fire and love, that also include the masses, might feel uncomfortable because that is what it's meant to do.

Don't stop, don't allow the flames to consume you.

Sit upright, hold the reins and use your navigational skills to lead you through to greener pastures.

Have you set your intentions? Are they made of stone? If not, you might want to get that in order before the fire starts.

Much Love,
Brenda ~ Soul Deep Life
Your Multidimensional Magician

www.BrendaLeeMartinez.com

02/15/2026

Happy Birthday Aquarius!

With the parade of planets that Aquarius is hosting, and about to host, the Sun moving here needs mentioning.

I look at the actual sky, and the Sun is just now moving into the constellation of Aquarius even though in Tropical Astrology, seasonal astrology, it has been there since January 20th...

Anyway, with the Sun moving into Aquarius, preparing for the Moon to join in, where Venus, the North Node and Mercury (who will be stationing retrograde soon) have been, he is stepping up onto the stage and announcing – what?

This is an announcement of pride, possibly our ego or our confidence, as it is tossed around like rag dolls in the energy of all that is Aquarius.

It is our desires, which we will publicly express, on stage, or social media, and we will likely find unexpected quirks if our boundaries aren't firmly in place.

The energies of Aquarius are flexible, inflexible, sudden, unexpected, they will include anyone and everyone, the masses and the Sun is fun, in the spotlight, showing, self-expression, confidence, lack of confidence, ego, pride, audience and children, or childlike.

The public eye will see, the public heart will feel, the public voice expressed. Where Responsibility or the lack there of, will be front and center on this stage, wounding or exaggerating its very pride.

How will we move through this, how will everything and everyone’s illumination play a role, and how will the eclipse that is coming ask us to navigate and be in the void of all of it?

Time will tell.

The Sun will shine – even if we can’t always see it.

The boundaries will either hold or break.

It’s almost time to ride the incoming Fire Horse, once it stops long enough for us to jump on and when we do, be sure to hold on tight, and get a firm grip on the reins!!

Happy Birthday Aquarius, it is going to be quite a party!

Much Love, Brenda
Your Multidimensional Magician

02/13/2026

The 13th sign was phased out of astrology around the roman era, and in recent years it has made a significant come back.

We went from the stages of the Moon - emotion feminine to the Sun - expression masculine, when in truth we need to honor both the yin and yang, the divine feminine and the divine masculine working in tandem to create balance.

I don't think that is a coincidence - It's time for the illusions of separation to fall away. Awakenings are happening at a faster pace and the energies of the planet are shifting.

We at Ophiuchus 13 Astrology fully embrace this number, and I embrace the astrology that includes the 13th sign.

Adding the 13th sign has helped our readings and clients in showing where their key to healing is, as it points to a place of Transcendence.

Of course the whole chart is needed to paint the bigger picture, but Ophiuchus (the 13th sign) is an anchor to reading the birth chart - for sure!

And just like Ophiuchus, Friday the 13th has had bad connotations wrapped around it for years, when in truth it is very sacred and lucky!

We hope you all have a very Happy Friday the 13th!!

Much Love
Brenda ~ Ophiuchus 13 Astrology

02/07/2026

Venus moves into Aquarius today - joining Mercury

She will be there until the 26th of February before she moves into Pisces.

During her stay in Aquarius we might find ourselves moving through a unique relationship with what we value, who we value and the desires all of that stirs up.

Venus in Aquarius is a love affair with the strange and unusual, enjoying and desiring the dopamine hits of sudden and unexpected thrills.

Venus is all about the senses and the sensual, Aquarius is wavelengths, the collective and sudden unexpected - Mix the two and we have our senses aroused by the electric air!

Mars is not far, so we are also looking at the divine masculine and feminine moving through this sensual dance with action and bravado.

Love is in the air, but so is action.

Soon the Moon and Sun will join the party...
For now, enjoy the ride! 🎢🎢
Much Love,
Brenda - Soul Deep Life
Your Multidimensional Magician