{"id":54608,"date":"2012-03-19T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=54608"},"modified":"2012-03-19T00:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:08:21","slug":"before-the-equinox-there-is-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/before-the-equinox-there-is-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Equinox, There is Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we embark on the adventure of a new season, when the Sun ingresses Aries on Tuesday. This is followed by the Aries New Moon conjunct Uranus on Thursday; together these events are a fitting commencement to a season that moves at the pace of a good hockey game. Spring 2012 (autumn in the Southern Hemisphere) includes eclipses, the Venus transit of the Sun and the final approach to the Uranus-Pluto square.<\/p>\n

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Albert Bierstadt's "In the Mountains." <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before we get there, the Sun is in Pisces for a couple of more days. Mercury is currently retrograde (apparent backwards motion) in early Aries, and will soon be ingressing Pisces, where it will be between March 23 and April 16, extending some of the Pisces Sun energy by proxy from a planet very close to the Sun.<\/p>\n

Though they may not know it (or think of it that way), everyone likes the feeling of Pisces — whether it comes in the form of an erotic pleasure, visiting the seaside, film, music, photography, artwork, cannabis or a few drinks. Pisces in its most life-affirming expression is the sign of the finer things, most of which cannot be paid for — they are the result of human love. It takes more than paint to make a painting, and an open heart to appreciate the pleasure of the ocean.<\/p>\n

Mercury’s retrograde in Pisces (it arrives on Thursday) will carry the theme of what it’s like to think in a ‘Piscean way’ — which is a blend of intuition and logic, of an idea and its application — that makes all of these art forms, or modes of pleasure, possible. <\/p>\n

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Pisces goes deeper than this of course, but even in its most worldly forms, its energy always evokes an invitation to something beyond the world. We now have that something deeper with us for a while, in the form of Chiron and Neptune, both recently arrived in Pisces and at the start of long journeys there. This puts us in an era (not quite an age) of Pisces, which is a realm of deep water and deep feelings. Neptune adds a dimension of creativity and mysticism; Chiron adds healing focus, and focus on any level.<\/p>\n

Chiron adds a practical dimension to Pisces — what you might think of as a tool to gather the energy and put it to use. It’s an expression of the ability or the potential to use Pisces qualities without getting lost or addicted to them. And Chiron in Pisces offers a healing dimension where we need it the most. It’s true that many people feel lost at sea, and many others struggle spiritually; others are dealing with the toxic side of what Pisces is about, including escapism, deception, addiction and obsession with image.<\/p>\n

Healing is always a blend of method and miracle. Yet both are informed by the desire to have life be better. That of course does not end with healing — it begins there. Where we go is into a vision for ourselves. Visioning can be challenging because it involves ‘seeing’ what is ‘not there’. That is indeed the skill of an artist or composer, but as most of those people will tell you, sometimes they see what they’re about to create, and most of the time they feel their way there.<\/p>\n

The last degree of Pisces offers us an image, from the Sabian symbols that we introduced in Thursday’s post<\/a>. The symbol — the last for Pisces, and for the entire cycle of the zodiac — is: “A majestic rock formation resembling a face is idealized by a boy who takes it as his ideal of greatness, and as he grows up, begins to look like it.”<\/p>\n

This is a reminder that you can have some external help in finding, or even envisioning, your vision for yourself. While the people around you may be busy solving their ‘problems’ (or persistently making new ones, so they have something to solve) you can look to examples of what is possible. It is that vision that will get you beyond your problems. Remember that a vision is not something in its final form — it’s the nascent form, where you can experiment with what you want. It’s possible to see a vision of yourself in something that you may think is much greater than you are, and do that beautifully human thing of grow into whatever that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we embark on the adventure of a new season, when the Sun ingresses Aries on Tuesday. This is followed by the Aries New Moon conjunct Uranus on Thursday; together these events are a fitting commencement to a season that moves at the pace of a good hockey game. Spring 2012 (autumn in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}