Exalted Love

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Today, the planet Venus, our sweet Lady of Love who bestows grace on all our relationships, enters the deep waters of the zodiacal sign Pisces and we on earth become acutely aware of how sensitive we are to the feelings of others. The Pisces realm of our unconscious can reflect a distorted image of our feelings and this next month can be either a time for healing or a time for wounding. When we are under the influence of Pisces we are yearning for union with the source of our creation so our human separateness can feel more isolating than at other times, which can accentuate our need to be connected and exaggerate our sensitivity to the moods and feelings of others.

Last Sunday, The Sun and Uranus conjoined spotlighting a day to celebrate the unusual, the extraordinary, the unconventional aspects of ourselves. Anytime the Sun and Uranus make contact we can expect electricity to fly but when they conjoin in Pisces, as they did on Sunday, we are more apt to experience prickly shocks and sporadic connections stimulating an atmosphere of melancholic longing . When the Sun is in Pisces it is difficult celebrating our unique individuality because Pisces is longing for union. But the Sun is always striving for individual expression, even in the sign of Pisces, and coupled with the decisive support of Uranus we are given a cosmic wake up call alerting us that it was time to bathe in the light of our of separateness, honor our individuality, and celebrate our unique participation in the continuous flow of life.

But life and astrology are never that simple and depending on the planetary patterns in your natal chart the Sun and Uranus conjoining in Pisces may have stimulated a profound feeling of isolation and separateness. Luckily today we walk with Venus, our capacity for relating to ourselves and others, and for the coming month our sensitivity to feeling separate and isolated is placed under her care helping us heal old wounds. Venus is exalted in Pisces giving that aspect within ourselves an extraordinary power to heal if we allow our vulnerability to surface and bring eye to eye our longing for union and our longing for separation. This is not an easy task our conscious mind prefers to polarize our experiences into neatly packaged categories of this or that, and what I am suggesting, is that Venus in Pisces can expand our conscious awareness into a more inclusive experience of our feelings.

For the coming month we will be challenged to clearly define the boundaries we set in our relationship with others; this is not a time for ambiguous or distorted feelings. I am not advocating a month of shutting off our feelings, on the contrary, this time is best spent opening ourselves to the feelings of others without internalizing their feelings as our own, or clinging to their feelings at the sacrifice of our own. It seems a wondrous truth that our capacity to love opens exponentially when we separate our feelings from the feelings of others and allow ourselves to experience the exaltation of unconditioned love.