Here in the northern hemisphere, we’re in the last solid month of winter. Fantasies of the pending Spring help to release us from these final bleak days. But something else is occurring. We’re being pulled, with equal force, by the undertow of our inner world. We must explore it.
The New Moon at 15° Pisces is a mysterious pull inward. You may not know the reason for it. It’s just important that you surrender. The universe has set things up just right for you to take a mental vacation from the outer world.
There are whole parts of who we are that’s hard to verbalize. The domain of Pisces (and the other water signs) help us to connect and understand these amorphous parts. Pisces is the archetype of the poet, the mystic, or the dreamer. It exists in the space detached from reality. It’s where you go when you meditate, dream, create, or simply tune-out.
The Pisces archetype also has a great capacity for connection. Whether that is to another person, god, the ancestors, an alternate universe, or muse.
Exploring your inner realm: New Moon conjunct Neptune
Neptune dissolves boundaries and covers everything in a layer of fog. The area of your chart where the New Moon lands will be deeply covered by this Neptunian fog. Another reason why you’re being pulled inward. The clarity you seek will only be found there.
Not all of us are attuned to our inner realm. Our material world has lots of options to distract us from exploring it. Even though you feel the intense pull, you may resist it. There are many healthy options that can guide us inward. Choose 1 or 2 of the following methods and really commit to incorporating them into your daily life.
- Music
- Dream exploration
- Creativity
- Meditation
- Healing
Working with fertile ground: New Moon sextiles Mars in Taurus and Saturn in Capricorn
Although the pull inward seems passive, do know that it’s working fertile ground. It is from what you find inside of you that will inform what you do in the outer world. The New Moon energy will bring the Piscian waters to the earthiness of Mars in Taurus and Saturn in Capricorn. What’s your dream for what you want to experience next? Really although yourself to delve deeply into that dream. Your will (Mars) and that discipline (Saturn) are in a good place to move your dream into the realm of reality. With small steps and a lot of patience, it will come to be.
The images of your inner knowing: Mercury retrograde in Pisces
Mercury is also lingering through Pisces, where it has a hard time communicating in its usual way. It has access to your subconscious, another name for your inner world. Mercury retrograde in Pisces is helping you to understand those hidden ego needs. The ones you resist because of the shame you feel for having them. This is important to get in touch with and lovingly embrace to avoid unnecessary suffering or martyrdom, the shadow side of Piscian energy.
What you discover will likely come to you through images, music, poetry, or feeling. Don’t expect neat logical messages but trust that a knowing is taking place. Mercury will be in Pisces until April 18th, so you’ll have weeks to play with this energy.
Enjoy the pull inward!
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