Washing Free

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The New Moon in Pisces always brings a potential healing to the collective feelings of humanity by dissolving our deceptive illusion of separateness. Pisces, like the rising and receding ocean tide, is that aspect in human consciousness re-shaping the forms we create by gently eroding our thoughts and feelings. The New Moon in Pisces foretells of a new beginning at the Equinox on March 20, as well as, of the birth of a new aspect of our unconscious motivation coming into conscious light. When we are under the influence of Pisces our compassion is as deep as the ocean and our imagination as boundless  as the intelligence of our Universe. For this reason, a Pisces New Moon often beckons our discontent with the limitations of the material world, and sensing as we do that an unnameable mystery  awaits we yearn to be free.

For those of us cut from a more prosaic cloth we can experience the  weightless and boundless movement of Pisces as an unwelcome unmooring of our well anchored life. While decidedly not a comfortable feeling for most of us the current celestial-line-up of planets suggests the cosmic theme of washing free with this New Moon strategically sandwiched between Jupiter, the archetype of expansion into the unknown, and Uranus, the archetype of emancipation through electrifying change. It seems certain that the cosmic stage has been set for us to take a quantum leap into the unknown, or at the very least to put our big toe into the oceanic  waters of the collective, and break free of self-imposed limitations.

Mercury and Uranus, one degree ahead of the New Moon, conjoined in Pisces guaranteeing an unexpected awakening of an illusive truth in life.  Mercury in Pisces is the dreamer in each of us and conjoined Uranus is saying that each of us is dreaming to the beat of a different drummer. This New Moon is not  about planting the seed of conformity, on the contrary, it appears to be awakening human diversity in spite of our Piscean distaste for difference. In the Northern Hemisphere this New Moon is the gateway to a new beginning at the Equinox and with it the opportunity for a fresh, new beginning by letting go of our old ways of perceiving reality. This coming year we can merge our individual dreams and begin to heal the rupture of humanity if we take a quantum leap in  consciousness and imagine world unity embracing human diversity.