The Cosmic Story: Pisces Full
Moon 2018
A New Vision is Rising Up
Full Moons are the best times
to become aware of what’s really going on inside us. Their energy
stretches us to accept opposing ideas and desires, and if we can hold
the tension of opposites, we discover something new about ourselves
and the world.
The Full Moon in Virgo/Pisces
occurs on Sunday, August 26th at 4:56am PDT/ 7:56am EDT/
12:56pm GMT.
The Sabian symbol for the Sun
at 4* Virgo is: Black and white children play happily together.
It’s
time to overcome our cultural prejudices but it’s also time to
embrace those parts of ourselves which we don’t know about yet.
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 4* Pisces is: Heavy
car traffic on a narrow isthmus linking two seashore resorts. How
we link up our brains, our social networks and our visions are
important now. There’s a feeling that we have to unite what has
been separated.
This Pisces Full Moon is a
quiet, calm Full Moon. It’s a time to rest in the arms of the
watery womb of life, rocking gently on calm tidal flows. What a
relief after the craziness of the summer with its 6 retrograde
planets and 3 eclipses. Both Mercury (on the 19th) and
Mars (on the 27th) are resuming their direct motion, so go
slowly for a few more weeks until their energies get moving properly.
Take this last week of August
to relax and gather your energies. With the Sun’s move into Virgo,
we can leave behind Leo’s drama and settle down to integrate what
we’ve learned about ourselves this year. With all the chaos in the
outer world, have we found our silent, still center?
This year’s lessons involve
grounding in a new reality, a new understanding of what’s going on
in our world and perhaps our place in it. With Virgo, we’re asked
to master ourselves, to integrate all the parts of ourselves into a
coherent whole. We don’t have to be perfect. Just whole! That
includes integrating our shadows, our values, our creativity and our
heart’s hope. This is the time to do it, so with the coming of
Autumn (or Spring in the southern hemisphere) we can Be ourselves
in all our glory.
This Full Moon has the power
to ground in our new Being
with the grand Earth trine of the Virgo Sun, Saturn in
Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus. The Saturn/Uranus trine gives us a
good balance between being uniquely ourselves and an awake,
responsible person.
Taurus symbolizes our values
and our stewardship of the Earth. Uranus brings new realities that
demand that we bring new ideas into our society and into our lives.
We have new priorities now. It is no longer our purpose to give all
our energies to a job that only pays the bills or to ‘things’
that we consume and throw out.
The Virgo Sun integrates these
energies and gives us mastery over them. Virgo’s mission is to see
that we become ‘virginal’ – that we belong to ourselves.
This is a great time to let
go of old patriarchal rules about who we should be and how we should
act. It’s time to step outside of ‘regular’ time and step into
spiritual time.
The Pisces Moon asks us to
walk with Spirit as our most intimate companion and to use our
creative imagination to discover what has been awakened in us by all
the changes and challenges we’ve gone through this year. Pisces
symbolizes the great ocean of the collective unconscious, the
repository of all our experiences, both personally and collectively.
So this Full Moon might bring up old past live issues or gifts. What
has been rejected and dismissed by our collective beliefs are
demanding that we acknowledge their existence. What we do with that
knowledge is up to each of us.
The Pisces Moon forms a kite
aspect with the Virgo Sun’s earthy grand trine. A
Kite is a special astrological aspect that forms from a grand
trine (a planet in each sign of an element), a partial grand sextile
and a planet opposite one of the planets in the trine – this being
the Moon opposite the Sun. It is assocated with fate or destiny.
And it contains the energies of Venus, Jupiter and Neptune.
It’s time to live in the
fullness of love!
The ruling planets of this
Full Moon, Mercury/Virgo and Jupiter/Pisces, are squaring each other.
So in the midst of the calm, we are challenged to speak to the heart
of things. Let’s imagine good outcomes instead of delusional
conspiracy theories. Let’s choose our words and expand our
vocabularies. We are called to embrace what has been dark within us
and bring it into the light.
It’s important that we put
our creative thoughts into language that engenders original thinking
in ourselves and others. When we don’t put effort into creating
our original thoughts, then pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases,
come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in
not really thinking at all. We just get carried away in a collective
mind-dump. So use these energies to bring clarity to your thoughts
and wisdom to your actions.
What deep issues need to see
the light of day? With a Leo Mercury, we can shine a light on what
Jupiter has learned in its journey through Scorpio. Whatever dark
pain we hold inside, it’s time forgive ourselves and heal –
because Leo is generous and wants to express what’s best in
oneself. The Leo Solar eclipse was about embracing self-love.
We can’t love our
neighbors if we can’t love ourselves.
Neptune is also the ruler of
Pisces and it is in a beautiful trine to Jupiter, so both planets of
spirituality and imagination are working together to uplift our
vision and give us hope. They both form a partial grand sextile with
Pluto in Capricorn, urging us to ground in a deeper spiritual vision.
The world sorely needs some ‘true news’.
Pluto in Capricorn shows us
what needs to evolve to bring in a new cultural mindset. At this
Pisces Full Moon, Pluto challenges Venus in Libra to evolve her love,
her relationships and her wisdom. This square is a preview of Venus’
retrograde through Scorpio and Libra this October/November. In the
midst of the political and social chaos of lies and deception, we are
called to deepen our ability to love.
Psyche in the Underworld
As a mythologist, I believe
Venus and Pluto meet in the story of Psyche and Eros. We have to go
through our initiations to grow, and love’s initiations are the
most important ones. Big changes only come when our
passion and longing are so great that nothing else matters. To truly
change our world, can we long for our future and our children enough
to walk in love?
This year, we all have to learn a grownup love, a depth of love that encompasses self-love, romantic love, agape love and familial/tribal love. What would the world look like if we lived in love – if we really did it instead of saying we’ll do it. Can you allow Love to live through you? Can you live in that ‘in love’ state not for another person but for yourself and the world?
During Venus’ retrograde,
I’ll be writing about Psyche and Eros and the initiations we have
to go through to grow our souls in love.
Venus in Libra sextiles
Mercury in Leo, giving us the opportunity to think with our hearts
and perhaps create art that speaks to our souls. While Mercury
inconjuncts Neptune in Pisces, asking us to stretch our imaginations,
Venus is just a few degrees off from her own inconjunct to Neptune.
I’m going to push the usual limits of what makes an inconjunct (a
150* aspect) and conjure up the YOD that these three planets make.
A YOD is called the Finger
of God or the Sword in the Stone. It’s an aspect that has to
click into place to release its power. If we can open ourselves to
our heart’s wisdom, we can access our spiritual imagination and
receive the knowledge and wisdom that lies hidden in the collective
unconscious/ akashic records/ world soul.
Finally, we also have to
realize that we need to Do things differently; do things that fit our
Being.
That’s been the lesson of
Mars retrograde – we need a new masculine energy. And at this Full
Moon, we get to make sure it happens. Uranus squares/ challenges
Mars retrograde three times. This is as a giant wake-up call to
understand how we use masculine rationality, focus and action. Mars
squared Uranus as it entered Taurus in May, just as Pele woke up and
the volcano in Hawaii erupted. The second square was on August 1st,
right around the time when the volcano went quiet. The third and last
square of this series occurs on September 18 2018. We’ll have to
see what that brings us.
We need a strong masculine to
uphold and protect the transformative love of the divine feminine.
During this Pisces Full Moon,
go down to the water and let it wash you clean.
Blessing,
Cathy
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Copyright 2018 ~ Cathy
Pagano. All rights reserved.
The Lover is ever drunk with
love;
He is free,
He is mad,
He dances with ecstasy and
delight
Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about every little
thing,
But once we get drunk on that
love,
Whatever will be, will be.
When you
dance,
the
whole universe dances.
What
wonder@
I’ve
looked,
and
now I cannot look away.
Take
me, or do not take me,
both
are the same,
As
long as there is life in this body,
I
am here to serve you.
Love
came and it made me empty.
Love
came and it filled me with the Beloved.
It
became the blood in my veins,
It
became my arms and my legs,
It
became everything!
Now
all I have is a name,
the
rest belongs to the Beloved.
Rumi
(Two
Suns Rising ~ Jonathan Star ed.)
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