Pisces Power
March 4, 2005
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/mar4.html
Dear Readers:
I have always loved the way those two words sound together.
I think I first made them neighbors writing to one of the Fish I know from
swimming around the Internet, which can be a truly Pisces place: images and
illusions abound, one must sort out truth from lies on one's own, it's so large
you can't see it or even really think of it all, and the whole thing has the
feeling of a living dream. And it is permeated by a subtle psychic
communication that comes through with each web page, email and experience we
have. The 'feel' of the web is one of its most distinctive properties, and it's
different everyplace you go.
Beneath that dimension there is the Aquarian layer, which is
the fleeting realm of the technology itself: the computers that make up the
backbone and the network, and which evolve faster than we can think; and the
programmers who sit there till 3:30 am and iron out the code that makes it all
run, the geek-maniacs tearing apart servers running on pure coffee, and
hopefully putting them back together, and the sense of human inventiveness that
runs the whole show one layer down.
Beneath that is the Capricorn layer. That's the government
and corporate structure that holds up the technology layer; the foundation in
stone, be it the laws, regulations, buildings, business interests, and the
involvement of the numerous official agencies that we rarely see or hear about.
It's also our 'tangible sense of what this is and what it means'. This is an
extremely practical dimension that translates what is possible into what is so
-- and it is limited mainly by our concepts. A lot is lost in translation,
unless you are blessed with very strong, clear Capricorn energy that knows how
to put ideas into reality, and who borrows a lot from the neighboring signs and
has a sense that concepts are flexible.
If we go back yet another dimension, we come to the
Sagittarius layer, which is the world of ideas and their creation: for example,
the academic and scientific spheres from which this whole scenario emerged some
30 years ago. There was a vision; that vision was had by people who believed it
was possible, and began to make it real. I once saw an interview with the guy
who decided one day that there would be a little @ symbol in email, because it
was a convenient, intuitive way to link the user with the server. The
Sagittarius dimension, ever important in life, is the one where we open up the
field of possibilities. And there is still plenty of room for that on the
Internet.
These four signs represent what you could call the
transpersonal realm. That's a space, a kind of commons (which is an Internet
term as well) that we all share. The planets involved are Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune -- the 'gas giants'. These planets and their related signs
are so vast and large they are places that we all travel in every day, draw
information from, and experience in our minds (usually in less wholesome ways:
the effects of corporate media, for example). But there are a lot of
possibilities and if we can feel the processes working inside us as well as
outside, we can make a lot of room for the possibilities.
And we have, at this time in the year, are deep into the
final frontier of the zodiac, Pisces.
Pisces is the aspect of consciousness that moves through all
of created reality in a way that's much like a dream. Imagine having a dream in
which your Web browser could take you anywhere or show you anything; could
penetrate any boundary; could reveal the inner side of life, anywhere you
wanted to go, including within your own psyche. If Sagittarius comes up with
new ideas and new possibilities, Pisces (90 degrees away from Sagg) melts
through all which is in existence, and then new substances, possibilities and
combinations are created. Even the impossible is possible, such as that which
nobody has actually thought of.
A dream is a good example of this. It emerges seemingly from
nowhere. It feels as real as the keyboard under my hands now, sometimes even
overwhelmingly more real. It has a consistent logic, even if that logic is
troubling at times, or makes sense only to you, or makes sense that's
impossible to put into language.
The first thing we need to do with the Pisces aspect of our
chart is to feel that as a sane space, to learn to breathe underwater, and to
move in the deep element. You need to turn your body gently, you need to
balance weight and buoyancy, and move with care.
Then, there are those who reach this realm and set out to
express themselves. And because anything involving Pisces embraces all the
other signs, someone who is working a Pisces process (a filmmaker, musician,
photographer, theatre director or actor) can (if they want) work with or
manifest contact with all those other realms of which Pisces is in a
relationship. In other words, Pisces requires a lot of help manifesting what it
dreams, but often those dreams are so appealing that the help is there.
At the moment, we are approaching the Pisces New Moon.
That's in one week. And before we get there, the Moon is going to finish going
through Sagittarius on Friday, followed by Capricorn over the weekend, then
Aquarius and then Pisces -- taking us right through the transpersonal realm
into the last New Moon of the astrological year. The New Moon is March 10 at
10:10 am (in Europe), 9:10 am in
The Moon will join Venus, Uranus, Juno, and the Sun in that
sign -- making a fast series of conjunctions that will create quite a bit of
psychic, spiritual, psychedelic or mystical fireworks on the inner side of
life. Mercury is currently in Pisces, and is about to make its escape into
Aries prior to the New Moon, where it immediately enters the zone of the zodiac
where it will be retrograde for three weeks from March 20 through April 12. The
Sun then enters Aries, for the equinox and the beginning of the astrological
year.
During the Mercury retrograde phase is an eclipse of the
Sun, followed two weeks later by an eclipse of the Moon -- both of which I will
get into in detail next week. And coverage will be ongoing in Planet
Waves Weekly.
Make it a good one -- and hear are a few reflections on your
questions.
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