The New Moon of Pisces: Victim to Victor (KB)

According to the 12-month astrological calendar, Pisces is the last month of the zodiac and thus closes the total cycle. As Pisces is a mutable sign, people born in this time are naturally flexible and open to change. Intuitive, spiritual, sensitive, and creative, Pisceans make wonderful artists, musicians, and writers. They also have great leadership potential if they are willing to take on the responsibility (Moses was a Pisces, and so was George Washington). As with everything, Pisces contains both positive and negative elements. On the positive, Pisceans’ kindness and empathy allow them to cultivate great relationships. On the negative, they can easily take too much of other people’s energy onto themselves; they don’t know where their part ends and the other person’s begins. As a result, standing tall on their own two feet and learning to create proper boundaries are important things for Pisceans to learn. How will the energy of this month affect the rest of us who are not born under its sign? Well, first of all, this is a great month to manifest our desires. The current cosmic arrangement is there is a square between Neptune, which represents imagination, ideals, and dreams, and Saturn, which represents manifestation and Malchut (the physical world). The influence of these two energies combined can make this month a great time for us to make things happen, if we have a clear vision of what we want. Second, this month is a time to resist the desire to run away or hide from confrontation or difficulty, and instead to step up to the plate and decide that whatever life throws at us, we will use to propel ourselves forward on the spiritual path. There is a story in the Bible that tells of King David walking along the road and being confronted by a man who starts cursing him for no apparent reason. When David’s soldiers try to silence the man, David says, “No, leave him be. If he is cursing me, then I deserve to be cursed.” What King David understood is that when something happens in our life, our first thought must be: What did I do that set this in motion? What do I need to go back and correct? Perhaps someone comes to us—a stranger, a colleague, a family member, even a friend—and says something that’s not very nice. We feel caught off guard and upset. Maybe our boss blames us for something we didn’t do, or perhaps a good friend says something negative to somebody else about us and we find out. What is our usual first reaction in these instances? Is it anger? Do we say: How could they do this to me? Why did he say that to me? If it is, then we need to ask ourselves why we are angry, and then make room for the possibility that all of this is happening to give us a message or teach us a lesson. Pisces is represented by two fish swimming in opposite directions, signifying that how we choose to respond to situations can determine whether we experience heaven or hell. If we realize that we are capable of changing, that we are capable of taking on tomorrow with a different mindset, if we can realize that it isn’t “what he did to me,” but rather “what I can do to change so that what he did to me shouldn’t happen again,” then we can be the fish that is swimming in the right direction Remember - whatever makes us re-evaluate our ways and expand our consciousness doesn’t happen by accident: It’s specifically designed to help us accomplish our job here on earth.