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New Moon in Pisces - 21st February 2012  
 
 
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15 October
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21 April
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22 March
New Moon in Pisces -
21 February
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23 January
 
 

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.

 

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 . . .

 

Contemplation for this New Moon in Pisces

All you have to do is ask,
the world of spirit is no distance
and is always awake - consciousness itself.
All you have to do is wake up
and whatever you need is available.

What not to do
is think that you are on your own,
or that you need to make your life happen,
or try too hard to achieve an ideal
- ideals are guides, not goals,
they have no life to sustain you.

Relax the worry round your heart
and let love be there
to flow throughout your body and your space,
constantly accepting what is there
as just what is there
with compassion.
Love is the sea we live and move within -
relax and be
at peace.