new moon in pisces
let go.
Maybe our greatest resource is our belief that the Sun will rise tomorrow morning.
That is to say that the Earth will continue turning on its axis, creating the illusion of sunrise and sunset.
You can benefit from this process
(should you choose to.)
You could wake up at dawn every day
as a discipline
to contemplate how every sky is different.
That every cloud formation is as unique
as the composition
of your next breath.
Or. you could sleep in.
That’s fine, too.
Maybe you are more of a sunset dude.
Maybe the end of the day is your beginning
a prelude for fun or frets to come.
In the search for consistency
we meet trouble.
We may get scientific in our day-to-day practices and search for that perfect routine, that unreasonably uptight way of making coffee:
pyrex glass carafes
osmosis-purified water ONLY
and those beans, sourced from some farm somewhere with a freakishly consistent microclimate
sold at $40 for a 10oz bag.
“It’s the only one that tastes the same
every day,” you tell yourself.
and “Life is chaotic enough, so why not have that ONE consistent thing?”
But what if that search
stretches and infects the rest?
That perfect route to work
and leave at the same time.
anything not within your prescription is a threat
and your nervous system is on the fritz from that last email sent
or that nit-picking conversation in the back of your head about talking to the neighbor and their yappy dog or their grating garbage day habits.
WHY is it bothering you so much, you may ask yourself
And you may look out from your car, if you are lucky enough to have one, and see a girl on a bicycle, with flowers in her basket and you may glamorize the life you’ve made up for her in your head.
Maybe others have it easier than me
Maybe if I could try a little harder
I could be that free
And you are lying to yourself
as the girl on the bike has finally liberated herself from the storms of addiction
with 100 days under her belt
she is celebrating on her day off
by doing something that she always wanted to do,
so she borrowed a bike from a new friend from the rooms
and she dressed up
and combed her hair
and did the normal things that were so hard for her before.
And maybe when she passed you in her car she smiled
because,
for the first time,
she could.
This New Moon in Pisces is highlighted by the contact of Uranus in the sextile aspect to this lunation.
Mars in Aquarius forms a tight square to Uranus in Taurus, Pluto is sextile to Neptune and Mercury, newly ingressed into Aries. Additionally, some inconjunct aspects are at play (Venus to Neptune/Mercury).
For those newer to the interpretation of astrology, the relationship of planets to one another by angles is known as the formation of an aspect. This is visually communicated by the lines, similar to a spiderweb in the chart pictured above. The harmonics of the planets in their cycles is what shape the feeling and influence of a particular moment — what you’ll see in a personal astrology chart or the aspect connections in a relationship chart or a business chart or the chart of the moment, such as this one for the Pisces New Moon. If you are interested in learning more about aspects you can connect with me for astrological consult.
What is important to recognize here is the closer the aspect, the stronger the influence. I do not include any aspect that is broader than a 4-5 degree orb. The universe is vaaaaaaaaaaaaast. The planets are not hanging out within proximity and harmonics matter. How off-pitch do you want to be when interpreting a moment?
I ponder on why water is associated with emotion. Is it the changing, ebbing and flowing nature of our emotional self that is reflected in the changeable state of water? Solid or ice, hot, cold, vapor — how water is influenced by barriers, by toxins, by electricity, by outside stimulus.
Sounds a lot like us humans.
The Sun and Moon align to create a New Moon, the veiling of the moon’s light in the sky. The Dark Moon, the monthly cosmic reset adjusts itself on the regular, the energy of the season (in this case, Pisces) building into this moment or the release valve for the energies past. This stresses the importance of each lunation that it’s not the same Pisces New Moon every year; it is not the same Full Moon [fill in the opposite of the season] every year.
There are subtle and blunt differences and the beauty of astrology is in its revealing that nothing stays the same, but we get more familiar with the flavors of existence.
The Sun and Moon in Pisces offers the depth of this season, a dreamy, fluid, sleepy time of year. I think often of my partner in their description of that space in free diving right before you plunge: entering a state of relaxation and ease where you are both fully present and fully ungrasping. That state between sleep and awareness where you are jello relaxed and gripping to nothing.
We commoners on occassion enter this state of soft awareness, the place blurring the edges of consciousness. It may happen at the end of a particular lovely run or asana practice in yoga; it may happen on your meditation cushion, and it may happen after a particularly lovely orgasm. It could be when you are so practiced, so thoroughly connected that your presence and un-presence is simultaneous.
That to me is Pisces. Its a place you cannot grasp and you cannot force your way there. It has to be stumbled upon. It is a place that we can seek out and in seeking we are escaping and there can be generated a false sense of connection when we are fully disconnected. These two spaces are not the same.
Pisces is associated with addiction for a reason. And addiction is not the stereotype your mind goes to. Addiction can be subtle. It can be repetition. It can be habitual and our beautiful brain cells are susceptible to these perpetuated patterns of feeling good or feeling not good.
Addiction can look like this moment: gazing into a glass screen in your hand. It’s essentially the abyss. A crystal ball we look through to see into the lives of others, to escape our current circumstances, to manipulate or to obsess over the life of another through remote viewing.
We are all wizards now: our crystal balls of technology give us the power of connection or disconnection and it is up to us, and our brain cells, to navigate that territory with grace or a gorging mentality.
Addiction is the search for substances or situations that create comfort in us— and that includes the physiological ease in the withdraw and reapply cycle. Dopamine is probably our greatest foe at this time in addiction, and of course, the substances that our human bodies become so accustomed to — corn syrup or opioids alike.
As a recovering addict, I am very protective of those in active addiction or their recovery journey. You are not a bad person if you have an addiction disorder — it means you are human and it means that you are sensitive and beautiful and daring and fragile and so many things. But it also means you are under the influence. You are under a spell and with strong magic (or the science of manipulating substances from a pretty red flower into an opioid epidemic) there is a strong consequence.
As a Pisces Moon, I am very compassionate towards my fellow Pisceans and our delicate or fierce expressions.
And yes. Pisces is fierce af. Do not ever let anyone tell you otherwise.
Pisces as a mutable water season in astrology means it acts as a doorway — one of liminal space. Creativity exists in that energy realm. Spirituality. Shadow work. The place where we let go of all hope, where we abandon all hope in the service of self and collective creation.
No big deal, right?
This realm of Pisces is just that — someplace beyond the tangible but somehow infused into everything that we experience. So if you are feeling foggy, or sleepy, or need to take a nap before you finish reading the MOON MAILER, I get it. It means you are doing this Pisces season just right.
The contact of Uranus Taurus in sextile, considered an easy aspect, means there is a gentle nudge of energy, perhaps a warming, if you will. Rather than a bug-zapper shock as we’ve been experiencing, this gentle aspect may offer some pleasure or focus on pleasure and an emphasis on the POWER OR REST AND RECUPERATION.
We are bombarded with information. BOMBARDED. Everyday my brain is just FULL OF FLOATING DEBRIS. It is a minefield of mental asteroids. It is full of pictures of starving children and climate crisis and dead polar bears and homework due dates and aspirations and dreams and dinner plans. Its filled with systemic oppression and letters to write and people to call and connect with and stupid songs from childhood and all the political terrors of a third replica election cycle (during a relapse of Pluto into Capricorn, I might add).
I bet your head is full of this stuff too. And hopefully a couple of good memes. The best part of living in this time is memes. And communication. GLOBAL communication which is a burden and a blessing and has not fully formed the power of its potential.
What if Pluto in Aquarius sextiling Mercury in Aries is the sweet infusion we need for the next step in the revolution? What if every sweet transit, every challenging aspect is just a level up to the next part of reality unfolding?
It’s all metaphor, astrology. And it is happening, whether we are engaged in it or not.
If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, help is available. And if you don’t know where to start contact the National Drug Helpline at tel:1.844.289.0879
There is no one way to get sober, there is no right way or wrong way to get sober. For me, sobriety has been and remains the most important part of my spiritual journey. It was the master key that unlocked the door to myself and others, to service and compassion. If this was the sign you were looking for, please, take it. I promise it is worth it.
