New Moon in Pisces:
Healing the Wounds of the Passing Piscean Age
Moon conjunct Sun @ 8:11am CDT on 3-17-18
It is raining here in Omaha as I am writing this…cleansing
in the abundance of the water element now and softening the ground as spring
approaches. As a spring-born
pluviophile, a good rain is an absolute blessing to me. Let the Piscean waters flow! This moon phase will build to fullness at the
end of this month, when we will experience the second blue moon of our
year. So this phase is much like a
continuation of the previous one that was full at the beginning of March…and we
are at the beginning of the Sap Moon (named for the time when maple sap is
flowing at the annual tapping of sugar maples).
At this New Moon, much is flowing out of us too…we are ‘tapping into’
the last degrees of the final sign of the zodiac (Pisces) through the
luminaries and Chiron…feeling and healing are abundant if we tap into this
energy. Chiron is conjunct this New Moon and has returned to the degree he
stationed retrograde in last July…which means we are at the final lessons of
the post-shadow of that previous retrograde period (that Chiron retrograde
period was from 7-1 through 12-5 last year).
On March 28th, Chiron moves out of that retrograde
post-shadow as he wraps up his teachings, for now, on Piscean healing. Then, on April 17th, Chiron moves
on into Aries. So Chiron is integral medicine right now for
us all, and continues to bring important lessons as we move into our Springtime
in the Northern Hemisphere.
As we are transitioning at this Turning of the Ages, Chiron
has much to teach us about what is calling to be healed from the Piscean
Age. Chiron in Pisces shows us the wound
of separation (from the Universe, from Spirit, from the Earth, from each other,
etc) as a core wound that has been prevalent in our era. This wound expresses through
us in many ways: powerlessness, victimization,
martyrdom, escapism (through drugs, alcohol, or other addictions), blaming and
shaming, extreme duality, fear of opening to others, fear of being hurt or
abandoned, lack of trust (in others or in a higher power), retreat into our
shells, extreme sensitivity (and often
hiding it in unhealthy ways), avoidance of spiritual or higher mind subjects (or,
conversely, getting lost there), or susceptibility to various forms of
enslavement or brain-washing. Looking
back over the last 2000 years or more, we can see the wound of separation we’ve
been trying to escape in these ways and more.
We’ve been on a long search for oneness, transcendent and omnipresent
love, for the meaning behind so many seemingly senseless injustices we humans
create. How can we trust anything? How can we feel connected when the world
seems to be falling apart, often by our own collective undoing? There is a paradox on this healing path that
we must accept and embrace so that we can move forward…we can only regain trust
by trusting and we can only feel love by loving. It is through each experience…mystical or
mundane, joyful or painful…that we return to wholeness, oneness, and
unity. We discover the gift within this
wound when we are able to acknowledge the blessings within the crises and the
fairness within the unfairness. And if enough
of us can collectively unwrap this gift for our world, a vast healing of
ancestral karma can occur.
This is the larger picture of Chiron moving through Pisces
for the past 7+ years (recalling lessons from the previous Chiron in Pisces
cycle between 1962-1968). Some of these
lessons are being illuminated more specifically by our current Sun-Moon
conjunction. Looking to the degrees that
are being highlighted now can give us a better understanding of the wisdom we
need now on this healing path.
The Sun and Moon meet in Pisces 27. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is “a
harvest moon illumines a clear autumnal sky”. And while autumn approaches in the Southern
Hemisphere, this symbol (at first) may seem out of place in our Northern
Hemisphere (as well as the reference to a full moon during a new moon). But beyond the season, we have all just come
out of a couple months where all planets were direct (which is almost like an ‘astrological
summertime’ where activity heightens and we’re busy working our various ‘fields’,
preparing for a harvest). The energy was
pushing us forward, even as winter was still upon us in the North, encouraging
us to set things in motion. So now, as
Jupiter has been retrograde since March 8th and Mercury is about to
station retrograde on the 22nd, we are beginning to reap what we
have sown (or failed to cultivate) in that time. This New Moon may bring blessings of
fulfillment for work well done…or feelings of lack for not quite getting there
before these energetic shifts (or both).
But either way, there is still work to do…and much of it is now about
going inward to illuminate anything we may have overlooked as we were speeding
along.
Chiron is now in Pisces 29, just a couple degrees ahead of
our luminaries. The Sabian Symbol here
is “light breaking into many colors as it passes through a prism”. This process is symbolic of our own process of differentiation
we go through in life. We are, before conceived, unified with source
light. We are brought to Earth through the womb of our mother (the
prism), and then shaped through that process into our individual expression (a
rainbow of different colors, expressing different angles of deviation).
We do not lose the source light, but we reflect it in many different
ways. Essentially, there is no real separation from the Universe…only one
of human perception. We go from unity to multi-unity…where we express our
Divine Spark in a multitude of ways. This is the lesson Chiron is reiterating
for us in the next couple weeks…on his second pass through this previous
retrograde degree. This is when it can
really sink in and allow more of us to understand that the illusion of
separation has been tearing us apart…but we are actually just varied
expressions of the source light that unites us.
We really are all one.
So as the focus upon woundedness, healing, and the gifts within the wounds is potent right now…allow yourself the freedom to explore what arises. Hiding from, or trying to escape, our wounds only prolongs the healing process we all must go through to come to wholeness. Painful as it can be, depending on where you are in your path, such shifts of energy are present as opportunities to heal ourselves in whatever way we most need at this time. And in healing ourselves, we are healing our world.
So as the focus upon woundedness, healing, and the gifts within the wounds is potent right now…allow yourself the freedom to explore what arises. Hiding from, or trying to escape, our wounds only prolongs the healing process we all must go through to come to wholeness. Painful as it can be, depending on where you are in your path, such shifts of energy are present as opportunities to heal ourselves in whatever way we most need at this time. And in healing ourselves, we are healing our world.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
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