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Next Monday the Moon and Sun meet up for the Pisces New Moon at 3:51 pm EDT, bringing us into contact with what it means to love ourselves in a genuine, authentic and nurturing way. The sky right now is full of Pisces, and it will continue to be a very busy place in the sign of the fish over the New Moon.
This New Moon takes place conjunct Venus, which is exalted in Pisces. Isabel Hickey writes of Venus in Pisces, “Venus rules personal affection. … It is exalted in the sign Pisces because it has come to understand that only through love can we know the freedom of the spirit.”
From our position on Earth, the sky over a New Moon appears as a moonless night, like there is a black void where the Moon should be. New Moons are anything but empty events; rather they are fertile moments and openings, marked by the potential we feel before something forms or manifests. Think of that black void as space held open for us to step in and begin something new.
With the Pisces New Moon in an exact alignment with Venus we’re being invited to try out, as Hickey terms it, “love for love’s sake.” Something new is pushing to the surface from within us in the form of compassion and acceptance for ourselves and those around us.
This Pisces New Moon comes with some tension. Planets in both Sagittarius and Gemini are applying steady pressure in the form of square aspects to the Moon. This forms what is called a T-square because it looks like a ‘T’. Making the crossbar of the ‘T’ are Pholus and Ixion in Sagittarius opposing Black Moon Lilith and Ceres in Gemini. At the base of the ‘T’ in Pisces is the New Moon (the Sun and Moon) conjunct Venus.