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Moon 'Scope: Pisces …the fairies, Who said the universe doesn’t have a sense of humor? It’s tax time. As many of us gather receipts and stare at columns of numbers, trickster Mercury will be retrograde (from March 19 to April 8). Beware of errors, signatures you forget to sign, envelopes you forget to stamp. Mercury’s retrograde means it’s dream time for your alert and very hard-working left brain. Your rational mind needs a little vacation. Everyone’s does. That’s why appointments will be missed, communications will misfire, and Mercury’s co-conspirators, machinery, will break down. As if that weren’t enough, we’re in the Pisces cycle. Who wants to think about business or duties? Cherry trees are in bloom. We’re stirred toward silks, poetry, movie marathons. We want to drift and dream. We want to ache with the beauty of the world. We can feel our hearts swell in compassion for the orphans in Kabul, for the Rwandan widow, worried how she will feed her three children. We care for both the unemployed shopkeeper and the tense soldier prowling Baghdad streets. We want to know that on this fragile spinning globe there is some grace, some power, guiding us, guiding them. Call it faith or hope; both belong to Pisces. The lilacs I thought had died last summer are budding now. The roses I forgot to prune in winter are returning. Even without my diligence, there is a power that remembers spring is coming. It fills every corner, even raising clusters of violets in my back yard. Venus, the goddess of pleasure is in Pisces now, exalted and conjunct the New Moon. The New Moon’s Sabian symbol agrees that we should turn ourselves towards pleasure: A table set for an evening meal. The best meals are those we eat in celebration, after a day that has gone well. But what if our days haven’t gone well? Can we stop our worrying, striving, and strategizing anyway? Can we simply enjoy what is here right now? Drop some dirt in a glass of water, stir it up, and you’ll get muddy water. But if the glass just sits, the dirt will settle and the water will clear. That’s the best prescription for this Pisces New Moon: sit. Your most important task is to come to stillness. Let any confusion or resentments settle. Don’t stir things up. I suggest this because button-pushing Pluto is squaring the Sun and Moon in the New Moon chart. No matter how dreamy you’d like things to be, there will be unpleasantness. Sure as there are fairies making everything right, there will be complainers making everything wrong. Pisces inspires our most saintly self; its shadow side inspires whining ("Poor me! Why me?") Remember that dinner table? Maybe the sesame chicken was a little too dry. Maybe the salad dressing was bottled instead of fresh. Or maybe your dinner date never showed up. Can you still hold your peace and joy? Recently I got together with girlfriends. We were complaining about our men. Theirs didn’t surprise them with flowers or spontaneous email love notes. My partner does this all the time. Did I tell my girlfriends—or him for that matter—how happy this makes me feel? Do I even feel it? Isn’t it easier to complain about all the things he doesn’t do! But this New Moon I resolve to focus my attention more wisely. I hope that you will too. Let’s settle into Pisces’ dreamy clarity. Turn our attention to the countless pleasures in our world. It might start as just pretending. We may have to artificially magnify the small joys and grind our disappointments down. But surely this is how we’ll become one with the fairies, flitting through the landscape, with contented smiles on our faces, making everything right. ©
2005 Dana Gerhardt, Drop into our Mooncircle for March 2005:
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