Mercury Retrograde in Pisces “We do not see the world as it is we see the world as we are” - Anais Nin
This is an excellent time to review whether our our thinking and communication is being overly colored and distorted by our hopes, dreams, wishes, fantasies, projections, fears, feelings and beliefs. Are we seeing the world through rose colored glasses or through a glass darkly? Are we seeing what we want to see or conversely, consciously or unconsciously, blocking out what we don’t want to see?
At this time the faculty of creative imagination may come up with, or receive from ‘the beyond’, strange and wonderful phantasmagorical images that can be contemplated and reflected upon to yield fresh and original insights into the nature of self and the world, or alternatively worked and reworked into fluid artistic forms. The possibilities are endless and limitless .. #astrologybyvarij
New Moon Pisces exacts at 2:31 am Monday morning, Feb 24 AEDT. Chart is set for Byron Bay.
It’s quite a chart. Four planets in Pisces, Four planets in Capricorn, and all planets contained within a dynamic, reforming and innovative 120 degree trine between Mars in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus.
Pisces and Capricorn can complement each other well. Pisces is deep, sensitive, intuitive and empathetic whereas Capricorn is practical, strong, capable and determined. Pisces water softens and soothes the harsh tough pragmatism of Capricorn and brings out it’s more spiritual goat fish side and Capricorn provides backbone, clarity and focus to the vacillating indecisive tendencies of the two fishes. Working together a purposeful path of compassionate practical service opens up and brings the felt realization that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and that, as Jesus observed, it does not profit a man to gain the whole world at the cost of losing his soul.
Both signs have an ancient old soul feel about them and often end up shouldering more than their fare share of the burdens of pain, suffering and hardship that life inevitably brings. And whether out of loving kindness (Pisces) or a sense of duty, obligation and personal responsibility (Capricorn) both signs show up when the need arises to care for dependent, sick, or vulnerable children, aging parents, partners, friends and more generally those in need - even at the cost of their own needs and happiness.
Thankfully Venus, planet of love and pleasure, and wounded healer Chiron are transiting through fiery, self-motivated, self-starting, and sometimes just plain selfish Aries at this time to bring some much needed balance to the planetary mix.
Another noteworthy feature of this lunation is that the transiting North Node in Cancer is out there all on its own, emphasizing the need to tune into personal feelings and nurture a sense of home and belonging, both within self and in one’s family, community, country, and indeed the Earth itself, our very own home planet. Especially with the present and ongoing heavy duty Capricorn planetary stellium bringing so much pressure #astrologybyvarij
