Eternal Union

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This weekend, as the Moon moved from Aquarius into Pisces, I felt myself seduced by the melancholic musing of a symphony of ancestral Sirens looming wistfully upon the Moon glow sea luring me, with the tenderest playing of their silver harps, into the turbulent waters of my unconscious longing. Even as I write I feel the echoes of their musing prick at my heart made heavy with an indescribable losing of something  precious. When we are under the influence of Pisces we can become painfully aware of our isolation and separateness in life and feel our self drowning with an unfathomable longing for union. Our longing can take on phantom proportions, manifesting in restlessness and tremendous dissatisfaction, feeling that nothing in the material world can provide that which we are seeking. When this happens it is important to remind our self that we are being called upon by the wisdom of our ancestors to swim deeper into the water of the collective unconscious.

Every year at this time, the Moon shines full in Pisces, heralding the death of summer and the birth of fall. The Pisces full Moon is the last full Moon of summer bringing in it’s wake, a week later, the Autumnal Equinox celebrating a day and night in equal portion before the night slowly swallows a bigger bite of light each day finally culminating in the longest night of the year on Winter Solstice. Reflected in the face of the Pisces full Moon is the diminishing strength of our individuality, which having shone separate and bright now joins hands with the Sun so that the light of our consciousness can descend for renewal into the  rejuvenating waters of  our unconscious. Pisces is the last sign in the zodiac and embracing every other sign it is that aspect in our self intuitively knowing that the ending of every cycle, begun with the impulse “to become”, must bring dissolution of our separateness so that the core of our individuality can reunite with the source of our origin igniting anew our impulse “to be” once more. The corpus of Pisces embodies this eternal round of birthing, flowering, dying, and resurrecting irrefutably uniting our conscious experiencing with our unconscious experiencing of life. Not surprising that many astrologers who interpret astrology using a psychological lens see in the ancient symbol of Pisces, two fish entwined sharing a common umbilical cord, one swimming up toward conscious light the other content to swim in the depths of the unconscious, eternally connected one to the other.