Let me start by saying I hope yesterday’s Mars in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus square, and the lead up to the exact square, did not rattle your nerves or result in an injury. But if like me you have FIXED sign placements (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius) you will have been aware of it.
Reading Year Ahead/Solar Return charts for clients with the focus on their Aquarius and Pisces houses has been interesting. Of course, there is more to it than just reading for those houses because every SR chart must be read in conjunction with the birth chart but still, this concentration of energy has been revelatory.
Except for Jupiter and Uranus (and Chiron) all the other planets are in a train formation in the sign of the Water Bearer (Aquarius) and the sign of the Fishes (Pisces) so the world right now is mostly AIR and WATER which if you read my post on TRADITIONS & INITIATION is a combination that invites DISSOLUTION, one of the seven stages of Spiritual Alchemy.
I touched on the subject briefly in my previous post but I encourage you to read it again as tradition, ritual and initiation dominate the matrix at this time…
The I CHING hexagram that corresponds with this cosmic state is HEXAGRAM 49 - REVOLUTION/DISSOLUTION.
DISSOLVE
DISSOLVE the Self
DISSOLVE to find the solution
DISSOLVE to be the solution
To dissolve means to cause to disappear or disintegrate, to melt…Think of heating butter in a pan over low heat, watch it soften and transform into a delicious liquid. See the process in your mind’s eye…the need to dissolve those hard edges, the energetic calluses…
Softening, melting…
Today’s New Moon in Pisces is 20º 16’ Pisces.
Here is how Elias Lonsdale describes this degree in his book Inside Degrees.
PISCES 20
A perfect black cube sits alone in the desert.
Isolation. Uniqueness that becomes separative and self-referential. Exquisitely designed to be only a certain way and not any other way. Preserved against rust or corrosion. Maintaining standards, priorities, what seems to be the given. Yet something is wrong. It is true that all lies within and that turning yourself into what you are not is ultimately absurd. But you are not listening, not paying attention to the subtle clues. You are so intent upon self-consistency that you have tuned out far too much in the process. And this shall call forth lessons and hard experiences to crack you open again, and to give you a chance to discover afresh what can be when nothing is assumed and nobody has set anything up ahead of time.
Read that again and consider how rigidity born out of fear or pride keeps you isolated.
Take a look at that line up of planets in the New Moon chart. The tail end consists of Pluto and Mars and Venus in Fixed Sign Aquarius and Saturn, Moon, Sun and Neptune in Mutable Pisces. The planets in Pisces want to disperse, they want to dissolve but willpower comes from Mars and the urge to merge from Venus in Aquarius. For change to occur you have to surrender to the four planets in Pisces which will not happen because you WILL it to happen but through melting….surrender. Let Spirit move you.
Improve or modify a situation…
Neptune and Jupiter rule this New Moon. As the sign associated with idealism and our highest values, the New Moon wants to give birth to an ideal - a new vision, that is being pushed forward at this time because some part of you is disappointed by what you have managed & acquired (Taurus) thus far and/or you realize you have to take responsibility (Earth in Virgo. Earth is always opposite the Sun) and make certain improvements. Neptune is a shapeshifter so when looking at your Pisces house consider where you are now required to change shape.
Eros
This New Moon also points to EROS for wonder-working and magick. The best way to explain EROS is to share a story…
In 1917, Leoš Janáček the Czech composer, musical theorist and folklorist began his lifelong devotion to Kamila Stösslová, 38 years his junior. He conducted an obsessive and passionate correspondence with her, of nearly 730 letters. His devotion was not reciprocated but it served to inspire his works.
There are many, many other stories like this one of artists and their muses.
Eros is a quality of being that exists in that space between you and your beloved. It is a state that inspires and create masterworks and manifest wonders. Eros accompanies the 9 muses.
If you have planets within a 3º orb of 20º Pisces or any of the other MUTABLE signs (GEMINI, VIRGO, SAGITTARIUS) you can expect a fresh start (look at your PISCES house for clues).
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