I had a beautiful conversation with a client yesterday about loving the depths. 

 

 

We laughed about our Scorpio placements and I thought about the current season. How Scorpio is deep and dramatic, the high contrast of darkness where there was once light, the cold and shadowy depths of the emotional ocean. But Pisces is the place of transmutation where the bottom becomes the top. It is the mysterious nadir of the ravine in the ocean floor. It is the portal where the end becomes the beginning again. 

 

And perhaps that is what can be so unnerving about this potentially sleepy time of year. It is a season of distortion. 

 

 

There’s something bright around the corner. Although I can’t see the source just yet, light reflects on the walls announcing its imminent arrival and casts shadows I can’t quite make out. But I am an optimist. I am hopeful because I have the great privilege of waking up in the morning to a gray blue sky and the sounds of birds, to a life that I deem simple and resourced. And I say privilege not as an apology, but because I choose to believe that I have it. Privilege is relative, but it is a valuable asset! To some, what I have may not be much, in fact it may be less than many. And yet, when I practice gratitude for and belief in my privilege, I am empowered to share my energy and attention from an abundant mindset.

 

Since the Full Moon in Virgo, and its high vibrational frequency that had us clearing, organizing, and actively digesting, have you slept well?

I ask because I haven’t, and more than half of my clients are specifically remarking on poor sleep, themselves.

What work are we all doing in the dream world?

Perhaps there are deeper parts of our psyche that are preparing for this unfolding year. 

 

Pisces season churns the water, and some of us have had to ride a tempest. It may have felt like par for the course, a stretch where the current swirls and chucks your vessel side-to-side, or it may have derailed your course completely for a time.

 

It’s okay if the momentum of Aquarius season gets a little glommed up during Pisces. In fact some of the beauty of Pisces season is in the mud that gets stirred up when we do start moving; and what gets carried away with the current, and what rises to the surface like sweet cream. 

 

This season is a slippery one. Its siren song can lull us back into a dream with the softness of familiarity buffering the edges. We may want to pull the proverbial covers over our heads and not address the dawn with its newness. Change is happening constantly, continuously. Whether it’s in the direction of or into a form we wish for or not, mutation is a Cosmic principle to which we are bound in body and spirit. This season is a time for meditative observation, for softness of heart and seat. We have spent the last four years cultivating new values and honing new skills to navigate change individually and collectively. We can either sleepwalk our way through it, or wake into the dream and start building. 

 

 

Halfway through this liminal season we have come to the Pisces New Moon. The new moon is the start of the next lunation, the beginning of a new lunar cycle that will span the end of Pisces season and halfway into Aries. Attuning to the lunar cycles gives us a container of time with measurable increase and decrease, expansion and contraction which follows our own natural ebbs and flows of energy, attention, and emotion. In Human Design, lunar authority is how Reflector energy types make the most harmonious decisions. Giving ourselves 28 days to explore our options, to change a habit, or to start a new project gives us the time and space to really dig into our creativity as the moon waxes, and to refine our process with the waning. This is why I write a Moonsletter, because I find the cycles of the natural world around us to be more than sufficient measurements of growth, change and progress. The seasons are not isolated, but cumulative. Just as we see life bud, bloom, decay and return to nutrients that foster the next seed, so we also build upon our lives with each project, relationship, and experience. 

 

Tomorrow morning, the new moon will reach her zenith at 1:00am, and then we will begin a new cycle. A new moon in the sign of Pisces can be quiet and subtle, or she can feel heavy and smothering. And this moon has a close sextile with Uranus, which could be a refreshing emotional change or a sense of emotional independence from the collective weather. By which, I mean to say there’s the potential for spiritual bypassing, but also for the dynamic capability of holding two truths in equal dignity. Today until mid-next week, Mars squares Uranus which could cause some acting out, surprise ego-trips, and potential accidents. It’s aspects like this which remind us that transformation isn’t without its sticky spots, and to lean into the foundations we’ve already built (Jupiter sextile Saturn). Mercury sextile Pluto will help us along with clearer opinions, and an active desire for change. It’s okay to start small. Found yourself in a verbal conflict? Ask for a “do-over.” Missed a step in your new morning routine? Add it in at the end, or change the set-up so that it’s easier to remember next time. 

 

There’s something about this particular new moon that is quiet and unsuspecting. After an energetic late winter, she offers us the lullaby, an option of passivity in favor of what is familiar. We can resist the upcoming change with fear of what is unknown ahead, or we can instead choose to be awake and flexible and use the tools we have been honing for the last four years. We can instead begin living the dream.

 

In the Human Design calendar, the Moon and Sun will conjoin in Gate 22—Grace, the Gate of Openness. It is the energy of social grace and emotional sensitivity to the receptivity of one’s audience. It is a gate of listening with spirit to the potential for mutation in others and interactions. Hexagram 22 in the IChing teaches us that form is not separate from function, that the true purpose of expression is to fulfill one’s uniqueness. Grace is the natural state of harmony with Cosmic Unity. We can be open without draining ourselves of attention or energy. Sometimes it is better to eschew the formality and ornamental mechanics of ritual in order to simplify our communication to foster connection. There is a directness to Gate 22 that is not invasive or domineering. It is a compelling and fluid flexibility to context and container.