Sabian for 5 Pisces: A church bazaar
Our New Moon in Pisces opens a fresh
chapter with a blank page on Feb 23 at 10:32 AM EST. Mercury
continues his retrograde and Mars remains out of bounds until the 3rd
of March. As the dark Moon released, a sense of restlessness may have
found us as Mars found Uranus by trine on Friday morning with the Sun
in Pisces making aspect to Uranus on the same night. But, there were
likely blockages encountered or personal challenges to overcome as
betwixt these surges of Uranus, Mars also made a square to Chiron in
Aries. We want to move and break free but in many ways we are
restricted and the sky we have in front of us doesn't really offer
much support toward launching new plans because of Mercury's
condition.
As the weekend progresses toward this
New Moon, Venus also finds Jupiter by square on Sunday just before
noon. So, the Moon rides in on a wave of restlessness that leads to a
wanting and yearning. Yet, here we sit. Almost as if we've been
pinned in current circumstance being forced to deal with the
discomfort we are in rather than allowed to move ahead. Which means,
there must be something we need to see here that will benefit us in
the long run to know before we get started.
The Sabian Symbols for this New Moon
allude to a time in which the weight of responsibility weighs heavily
upon us. The Moon answers to the 5th degree of Pisces, “A
Church Bazaar,” which is a symbol of inclusiveness and gathering
together. Neptune, the modern ruler of this lunation, travels to 18
Pisces: A gigantic tent. In comparison to the Moon's “all
inclusive” feel Neptune advises of a feeling of “all
encompassing.” This could mean shelter or perhaps something
protected or hidden by the tent. But, it's all under the same
umbrella. For our traditional ruler of the Moon, Jupiter, at 19
Capricorn: A child of about 5 with a huge shopping bag. Maturity
beyond one's years. Heavy responsibilities.
Mercury will maintain his retrograde
through the next two weeks. He turns direct on March 9 just a few
hours after our Full Moon in Virgo. We are literally stuck with his
shenanigans and call toward introspection until then. Since his
station direct coincides with the Full Moon, which falls under his
rule, I'd expect matters of communication and information to be quite
skewed. The Full Worm Moon in Virgo classifies as a “super” Moon.
And, following this lunation we will enter a time period of the Super
Full Moon's offset by Micro New Moon's as our luminaries draw in
proximity to Lilith in Aries which acts as a placeholder for the
Moon's apogee or furthest spot from us on her journey around the
Earth.
The Micro New Moons ahead (in Aries and
then Taurus) ask us to step forward small with specific, focused long
term goals as we set our intentions for the New Moon. While the Super
Full Moon's open the door wide for big purges, banishings, clearances
and releases. This style fits nicely with the fact that all our outer
planets are still in direct status. That is a condition that supports
starting or setting initiative toward long term or layered intentions
that we plan to work on even through the retrograde patterns of these
outer planets. So, even though we may feel “stuck in place” in a
lot of ways at this New Moon, we are encouraged to get to a place
where we can look beyond where it is we are.
Let me give you an example. I don't
think it's uncommon for folks to live hand to mouth. Or paycheck to
paycheck. In that, you struggle to make the dollars stretch to
accommodate the needs of your right now. You manage what you have in
that pay period the best you can in order to pay your debts and feed
yourself until the next pay period arrives. What happens when you are
in that type of mentality is that you kind of get trapped in the time
you are in. You are considering only 1 or 2 weeks at a time and since
you are focused on surviving the day the day, you never have a chance
to really focus on ways to change anything. We are not likely to look
to far ahead because we are always focused on that next pay period.
When actually, we do need to deal with the right now but we also kind
of need to find a way to look beyond that (as that entire cycle is
fatiguing, suffocating and disheartening) so we can put initiatives
in place to eventually change our circumstances and perhaps develop a
stronger sense of security. Again. Hard to do because we are trying
to figure out how to eat today...and that's fairly important. It's
very hard to plan or even think about the future when you are trying
to figure out how to meet your basic needs in the right now. And,
this is how we get trapped like rats on a wheel going to a job that
may be killing our spirits day in and day out because doing so keeps
us alive and the home fires burning for another two weeks. Yet, if we
are tired of the wheel and the race and the dissatisfaction and
discomfort being chained to it brings, looking beyond where we are is
exactly the way we figure our way out. There may be things you can do
today that offer promise in your future but may not alleviate your
immediate needs. Yet those future ambitions are hard to fathom and
sometimes painful to even consider when you are stuck in the needs of
the immediate. Yet this New Moon, as I've mentioned, comes with the
destabilization and wake up call of Uranus (Mars trine and Sun
sextile) and is followed by Venus' yearning. She is going to be quite
tempted, challenged and held to task as we move forward under this
Moon finding both Pluto (2/28) and Saturn (3/3) by square before she
exits Aries on March 4th.
Neptune at 18 Pisces: A big tent
What's interesting about her movement
into Taurus, is that right before she moves into the sign, Mercury
will find her by sextile as he is found at that time, still
retrograde, but in the sign of Aquarius. Mercury will be nearly
immobile at that time but what he lends to us from Aquarius is a very
pristine sense of clarity that in combination with Aries' initiative,
we will be able to catch a glimpse of how we can move ourselves
beyond where we are and start manifesting and securing resource as
she moves into Taurus.
I've led this in under the theme of
finances. But, what we are bound and restricted from having at this
New Moon can encompass all the Venusian themes from love, feelings of
self-worth or any type of resource...even time or physical energy.
So, what is going to be key at this lunation, is setting our sites on
the ways in which we ended up bound. Figuring out what it is that got
us here and contemplating how it is we can untangle ourselves. Until
then, we are tasked with enduring the situation of discomfort and
restriction we find ourselves in almost as if the Universe is holding
our heads so we are unable to look away from the ways in which we are
trapped. And, ironically, a lot of that entrapment is due to the ways
in which we think about things or perceive our own circumstances.
Even though we likely won't like it and it's uncomfortable, we can
use the remaining time of Mercury Rx to focus on these issues, accept
where it is we are and contemplate ways in which we can avoid the
same in our future. Through this we can eventually begin to shift our
perspective to a time beyond where we are and with the entanglement
figured out cast our intentions toward creating better circumstances
for ourselves. But, we cannot get to that point until we figure out
the predicament we find ourselves in at this New Moon and break the
wheel we are unwittingly chained to that keeps causing these
circumstances to repeat whether “these circumstances” revolve
around matters of love, personal satisfaction or money. Yet, this New
Moon provides us exactly the energy we need to do that with the
following Super Full Moon in Virgo allowing us to release the slurry
of mental blocks and personal entrapments that we may find on our way
to her.
Jupiter at 19 Capricorn: A girl of
about 5 with a huge shopping bag.
Our guide for this lunation is 8 of
Swords. This is the 3rd Sword card we've had as guide in a
series of two New Moons and one Full in the middle. A fact that has
hinted to us that this time period could be painful or difficult. For
the most part, as I've witnessed, it has been whether folks were
struggling financially or dealing with unsavory repetitive themes in
relationships. We shift from the Kingdom of Swords into more active
and forward moving energies under our Full Moon in Virgo and beyond,
but this last leg of the journey is going to hold us in place and
force us to contemplate where it is we feel bound or trapped.
As advice, the 8 of Swords suggests we
don't move. That we stay put. As if the conditions of the card are
giving us much choice. But, the figure on the card is blindfolded.
She cannot use her eyes to fathom her surroundings. She can, however,
engage her other senses to gather intel about where she is and
whether danger is still near. Tuning into her physical sense of touch
can advise her of environmental conditions. Is it cold? Can I feel
the wind blowing? This can tell her if she is outdoors or indoors.
Engaging her hearing can advise her if there is anyone around
standing guard and further still provide information about her
immediate environment. What do you hear? Note every little sound
around you and pay very close attention to any conversations you may
overhear as this can provide clues to how it is you ended up trapped
as well as provide information you may need to escape. Now, she's not
encouraged to use her voice here, really. Unless she were checking to
see if anyone was close enough to hear and respond to her or to
assess for a echo to help her fill in her whereabouts. So, as advice,
the 8 is a strong signal to keep your mouth shut about what it is you
discover and what it is you plan to do about it. I mean, not a great
idea for the chic to start shouting at this point saying, “I'm
doing X,Y, Z right now to figure out where I am and how I can
escape”...right? So, we too should shelter what it is we are
discovering and zip our lips in regard to how much information we
share with others about how we plan to get out of this mess.
Above and beyond all that, though, we
are dealing with fear. How it is we handle fear and our ability to
tolerate fear making or uncomfortable situations is going to
determine our ability to think logically about anything. Those fears
will need to be personally confronted and overcome before we are able
to move a muscle, most likely. I mean...somebody has obviously
kidnapped us. Tied us up and blindfolded us. Then, created a prison
to hold us out of swords which means, they could have used our own
words and thoughts against us to do it. So, we don't want to panic
and thrash about wildly in an attempt to escape until we've gathered
more information about our environment. We also don't want to run our
mouths and risk giving them more ammunition to use to pin us up,
right? Especially since we are likely to eventually discover that the
person who has tied us up and left us by the river...looks a whole
lot like the person we see staring back at us when we look in the
mirror.
I'm not the type to say that any bad
thing that happens to you in some form or another is all your fault.
That bad things are merely the result of bad karma or generations old
family curses or because you can't be sugary positive and optimistic
all the time. Bad things happen to good people all the time and there
is no logical reason to be had for it happening. But, I promise ya
one thing. No matter how trapped you feel or how scared you are,
there is ONE thing we may be able to control or at least influence.
Our own thoughts.
Our emotional and mental health along
with issues such as anxiety, depression, obsessive thought looping,
organic disease and phobias can take over our abilities to direct our
thinking in healthy ways. Mercury's Rx can even exacerbate these
things making them harder to treat while muddling the channels of
communication in a way that it is hard to even seek or ask for help.
But, the thing is, if you find yourself bound in that manner, you
still have a sign pointing you exactly where it is you need to start
in an effort to get untangled. Begin by making your health and needs
a priority.
Often in 8 of Swords scenarios it
serves us well to pause to identify core issues. Translated into real
life activity, this can equate to simply taking a minute and checking
in with yourself. Looking to see where you find feelings of being
bound or restricted. Where are the areas that are knotted and hurting
in your body, your mind, your soul? What do these areas need? What
can you do to support its healing?
From our own selves and our core
issues, we can then move to assess extended areas of our lives
seeking the same types of information. Where do I feel bound,
restricted and knotted up in my work? What does this situation need?
What can I do to support healing in this area?
Or,
Where do I feel bound, restricted and
knotted up in matters of family, home, my friends, my coworkers,
self-worth, self-expression, love...even dealings with enemies. Seek
out the knotted up hurting spaces at the core of whatever you are
dealing with. Resist the urge to criticize, judge or blame. Instead,
soften your blow. Look for the painful spot that is causing the
situation to be knotted. Ask it what it needs. Where it hurts and how
you can support its healing.
The sextile of Mercury to Venus (on
March 4) is an excellent source of energy to use toward seeking
professional help. It also supports bravely pioneering ways intended
to create better future circumstances for ourselves and our
communities. The time leading up to that aspect and the eventual
direct station of Mercury is excellent for research in regard to what
resources may be available or needed. It's time well spent surveying
the territory for opportunities. First, though, we are encouraged to
focus on our own knots and binds. Freeing ourselves first and working
outward from there.
A big thing for lots of folks is
unlearning tendencies led by denial or avoidance. We do want to
escape this predicament but pretending that it is not happening is
not going to make it go away. Being complacent in our prison and with
our captors doesn't equate to freedom. We are called to come to a
point of acceptance instead of avoidance or denial. Because it is
from a point of acceptance that we can then perceive of situation
dispassionately. We understand “it is what it is.”
I say dispassionately because passion
would have us panicking, fighting and struggling. Mars out of bounds
can have wild passions but in Capricorn? We are called to be
passion's master. If we do not know and control our urges, angers,
resentments, desires and understand our own motivations we are not in
control. If we are not at the helm, instead of using Mars' energy to
build in our lives, then Mars and all his issues controls us. When
really, what we need to do is seek intelligent (instead of violent or
aggressive) ways to free ourselves. Otherwise, not only are we bound
but we are also burning at the stake. Mars' nature is wild right now.
And, Chiron resides in the sign of Aries. Don't forget to allow space
to heal your angry, your resentful or other areas of Mars that may be
in need of healing. Know that wounded may present as anger with showings of fangs and claws to mask the hurting places and protect itself from further wounding. That doesn't mean these expressions are safe to stay around. There could be danger nearby. This just adds another layer to how the energies in this sky may show up.
Ciro Marchetti's Legacy of the Divine
Most versions of the 8 of Swords, as
mentioned, illustrate a woman bound by the sea, blindfolded and
surrounded by swords. If she lets only the adrenaline rule not
knowing her surroundings she could fall backward into the water and
drown since she is still tied up or worse yet slice herself open on
the nearby swords. This is not a time for flailing. It's a time for
gathering information about how we got here and how we can get out. I
think the “do not struggle” is best captured in Ciro Marchetti's
version of this card that shows someone trapped in a spider web. The
more you struggle and fight, the more tangled you become...the spider
kind of wants you to go that route. But, if you'd rather not be an
arachnid's lunch, maybe overcome this urge to fight and struggle and
endure the discomfort until you have enough information to figure
your way out safely. That approach to this New Moon fits nicely with
the guidance of the Magician that comes to us at the Full Moon in
Virgo. Gather the tools and information you need now and be ready to
use them to work your own kind of magic and wiggle your way free
under that Super Worm Full Moon.
Contributing aspects and those that
await us on our journey to the Full Moon (all times are EST until after 3/8 and then they are EDT)
Mars trine Uranus (2/21 at 4:10 AM)
Mars square Chiron (2/21 at 8:15 AM)
Sun sextile Uranus (2/22 at 9:13 AM)
Venus square Jupiter (2/23 at 11:59 AM)
Sun sextile Mars (2/24 at 9:06 PM)
Sun trine NN (2/25 at 8:32 AM)
Mars conjunct the SN (2/25 at 3:43 PM)
Mercury sextile Mars (2/26 at 00:56 AM)
Mercury trine NN #3 (2?26 at 12:40 PM)
Venus square Pluto (2/28 at 5:04 PM 24
aries/cap 14)
Mercury sextile Uranus #2 (2/28 at
10:13 PM)
FQM 3/2 at 2:58 PM 12 Cap/Pisces 42
Venus square Saturn (3/3 at 11:45 PM 28
aries/cap 45)
March 3 Mercury rx back into Aqua
March 4 Mercury rx in Aqua sextile
venus in Aries
March 4 at 10:07 PM Venus enters Taurus
March 8 Sun conjunct Neptune 8:23 AM 18
Pisces 24
March 8 Venus conjunct Uranus 4 Taurus
01 at 3:38 PM
March 9 Full Moon in Virgo (Super moon) at 1:48 PM at 19 Virgo/Pisces 37
Mercury turns direct 3/9 at 11:41 PM
Venus finds the NN by sextile on March
9 at 7:06 PM at 5 Taurus/Cancer 15
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