Neptune rules!
This month’s New Moon has a wonderful chart in that
the Sun and Moon are nestling between Chiron and Neptune right
at the beginning of Pisces, drawing our attention to the fact
that Neptune has arrived in his home sign. Here he is recognised,
strong and appreciated - the boundaries and definitions that
have limited imagined possibilities are dissolving, and those
that support more spiritual communing of souls are being strengthened
(Saturn in Libra trine that Pisces New Moon group).
Pisces is a water sign with no boundaries, representing
the collective unconscious, the emotional soup we share. Imagine
being deep within the ocean, no reference point to determine
whether you are moving or not, no sense of direction. To flow
along with the current is to experience perfect stillness
within a fluid medium. The possibility of peace is available
insofar as we can trust life’s flow.
Fear versus trust
With trust, we will be at peace. But any fear we produce
flows along with our current movement, attracting more general
fear as we go. We need to recognise where we are being influenced
by fear, and disengage from it whenever we are choosing where
we go and what we do. Fear is an emotional component of surviving
‘against odds’, an attitude of expecting attack
and loss: fear is a natural emotion given the animal in our
human condition and the power of the physical world, and it
doesn’t believe in spiritual power.
We also have the capacity to consider future possible outcomes,
sensible of what is real from our experience. We have no need
of fear to help us achieve in the physical world. This coming
month gives us the opportunity to combine the wisdom of experience
with trust in the spiritual ‘rightness’ of life
(Saturn trine Neptune). We might find we attract our heart’s
desire!
Your emotions, or someone else’s?
Sun and Moon drawing attention to Neptune are pointing up
our tendency to be wafted along in a cloud of emotion which
we don’t see because we tend to identify with it, losing
ourselves in our emotional reactions, becoming what we feel.
People with personal planets in water signs do this anyway
- but for anyone, the House containing Pisces in your birth
chart indicates in which area of your life you might identify
with how those matters are going, or with the people you meet
there. We tend to blame that area of life for how we feel,
and the mood might be coming from something entirely different.
This month, the steadying influence of other people will
play a part in waking us up to what we are unconsciously doing
(Saturn in Libra) and, as long as we value each other, there
may be much healing of past difficulties (Chiron in this Pisces
group). When we are paying attention to how we feel, we can
also sense how other people are feeling. The information is
always there but it needs to be noticed and understood, to
become useful knowledge.
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Fishing for emotions . . .
This chart encourages awareness of our emotional reactivity,
waking us through any activity we think about (Mercury opposite
Mars in Virgo): we may find ourselves worrying about a problem,
not knowing what to do about it; we may feel the pressure
of many things to be done, but too unfocused to do any of
them; dreaming about what we want, we may feel that doing
anything about it is doomed to failure; we may want such an
ideal result that we criticise every attempt towards it, or
feel that others will do the criticising, and so we don’t
even begin the necessary work. These are all possible feelings,
but not necessary.
We can always cut through our worries by helping another,
but this month make sure the help you give really is only
what you want to give (Mars quincunxed by Venus in Aries),
otherwise you’ll become frustrated and impatient with
the person you’re ‘helping’. However, you
may find that what you want to do actually does benefit others,
directly or by the way.
These are uncertain times - it feels like we’re treading
water, waiting for something to become clear. We may simply
feel despondent, defeated, not good enough - for no reason
we can find. So, dear people, if any of this arises for you,
remember that emotion is like a fluid that is always flowing,
and see if you can let the mood flow out again as easily as
it flowed in! Our thoughts and attitudes are like mental hooks
fishing for relevant emotions, and the delightful thing is
that that we can choose hooks that attract more positive and
useful emotions.
The thought I like to remember is that everything is spirit
in some form or another, and therefore everything is unfolding
spiritually regardless how it looks to my everyday self -
this is a very positive hook!
Solving Pisces problems
On a practical, world level, the state of the oceans and
all water on the planet may become a focus (Jupiter in Taurus
sextiling the Pisces bunch). Hopefully, the presence of Chiron
indicates amending some of the more disastrous things humanity
has contributed so far, but it does tend to be disasters that
bring such things to political attention. Chiron represents
healing that is attracted when the painful sensitivity of
a wound has become too much to bear - healing crises. All
this is part of the general climate of deep change we are
living through (Jupiter trines Pluto), so this New Moon suggests
that humanity’s relationship with Nature and the Earth
itself is recognised as of world importance.
On a personal level, the focus is the fluid state of your
body, your connection to the conscious life that formed it,
and how you relate yourself to your immediate surroundings
- perhaps it’s what that ‘stuff’ in your
home is representing for you, and how it affects your health.
If it can’t be purged yet - too much identification
with it - let it be re-arranged to allow more space or look
more harmonious, even perhaps to support your present activities
in new and surprising ways.
Traditionally, Pisces is not about focussing on separate
bits, it’s about inclusivity and oneness. This month,
Mercury, who represents movement and mental energy, is in
Pisces, so trying to hold one’s mind on what needs to
be done is very hard - but, an inclusive, or spiritual, focus
will allow inspirational thinking and truly workable solutions.
One name for the most totally inclusive, open and accepting
feeling we ever experience - is love. Pisces reminds us that
we are all swimming in, and made of, love itself - ultimately,
there is nothing to fear!
One more thought . . .
Perhaps this is the essence of Pisces: that whatever we
do in the world, it is life that is doing that through the
vibration of what we happen to be at the time. It means that
we can let go of trying to be someone special or achieve something
particular; it means we need simply to be who and what we
are as we unfold in accordance with the natural timing of
our growth in order to fulfil entirely our part in the perfect
flow of life.
I find that good to know . . .
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