“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
~ Maya Angelou
In astrology, the fourth house represents endings but also new beginnings. Pisces on the fourth house cusp can suggest a convoluted start in life, where pain and suffering in the early home enrich the soul. But the endurance called for in the face of hardships exhausts and lowers expectation.
“Home is where one starts from.”
~ T.S. Eliot
Pisces is ruled by Neptune: The sign as well as the planet, correspond with dreams, fantasy, inspiration, and the ethereal. Grasping the delicate, celestial inklings of the universe, in the creaking of floorboards, or in those strange and weird muffled sounds that escape the basement at night, can be a Piscean thing. The imagination conjures up all sorts of stories, believing for example, that perhaps Hephaestus himself might be down there slaving away on a new winged helmet and sandals. Why not? Sounds like the perfect outfit for your next Super Bowl commercial. Why? Because Pisces can set about reimagining all that could and might be, stuff we gather and accumulate from the collective unconscious (Pisces).
Brad Pitt has Pisces on the fourth house cusp. He also has a real estate portfolio estimated to be worth $72 million, and
Cancer (HOME!) on the eighth house cusp. So, we anticipate that he might seek others who share an emotional resonance and connection with his deeply held sense of belonging, and together they might delve deeply into the idea of home transcending life, or perhaps pursuit of an elevated sense of fulfillment.
Rumor has it, however, that Pitt is having money issues related to one of the most contentious divorce settlements in Hollywood history. Agelina Jolie filed for divorce 9-years ago, claiming allegations of abuse. But we shouldn’t be surprised that the stars of Mr. and Mrs. Smith went after each other with such vengeance. The “Brangelina” affair began with Pluto transiting Pitt’s Sun, (2005) on the very set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2004). Divorce was filed when Pluto transited Mars (2016), which rules the 5th house of love given and children, but because Mars is square Jupiter in the natal chart, this means transiting Pluto was also square Jupiter (ruler of Pitt’s Ascendant, or self). [There are other measurements but this is not a delineation of the whole chart.]
Interestingly, Pluto tends to transform our lives the way a kiln transforms clay. Pitt’s sense of home and family, what he dreamed and hoped for, may have been unrealistic, leading him to disillusionment in matters of love; losing the dream?
But Jupiter in the fourth house promises a lavish household, abundance and a fortune that comes easy, without much effort. The home may be less dependent on the career than the career is dependent on stability at home. As far as we know, Pitt grew up in a stable household that enabled him to flourish. With Pisces on the fourth house cusp (Home), identification with and discovery of family roots is the key to an individual’s success; Pitt identified with his father’s work ethic. But the idyllic family and home he “aches” for seems to have been lost (Neptune), or is possibly an echo of some unknown suffering related to a story never told.
Brad Pitt’s “Huddle Up” message certainly conveyed a metaphor in keeping with Pisces on the fourth house cusp, and with Cancer on the eighth house cusp. A higher sense of fulfillment, unity, and hope for a nation, motivated vicariously perhaps by the hope of redemption for whatever personal family woes he has suffered.
“…all of us — the dreamers…and believers… achieve when we gather together, in that most American of formations… the huddle.”
The Pisces/Virgo eclipse series activates Pitt’s “parental axis” (I.C./M.C.), matters of career, home (real estate) and parents (his parents are now in their 80s) are highlighted. The ultimate symbolism, an eclipse presents a gain of shadow in which to understand the light temporarily lost and to plan our efficiency when it returns.
If the metaphor holds, then by huddling up we will find ways to support one another in the days and years ahead. We will embrace a larger sense of love, that we are one family, and begin to realize that “our dream home” is not a piece of real estate, because after all, a house is not a home! A home is the feeling that “I belong,” and that you belong, and that everyone belongs to same family…
HVA
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Hudson Valley Astrologer 
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