New Moon in Pisces - Mutable Magic, Mutable Madness

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New Moon on 17th March 2018, 9:11 pm, Kuala Lumpur

Water is the most mysterious element in the Astrology. It is the repository and body of our collective soul and dreaming, also known as the collective unconscious. Here, our longings, our deep shimmering dreams, glimpses of divinity and madness swirl, ebb and flow into each other.

Pisces, a mutable Water sign, is both the last Water sign, and the last sign of the zodiac. Elusive has been a word long associated with the twin fishes. Like fragments of a vivid dream that we attempt to catch when we awake from slumber, Pisces does not wish to be caught, and held up to the scrutiny of our logical and rational minds. Like Water, it cannot be grasped, only contained.

It is this ability to be a container that we are encouraged to cultivate at this New Moon. Pisces is the ocean of chaos. Here we find encounters with our angels and demons, with divine ecstasy and illumination, illusion, addiction, glamour and madness. The dream that does not wish to be caught, but wants to come through, be experienced, contained and released into the world to take another form. This dream sequence and our daily life sequence are inextricably tied together, whether we know it or not, create and give birth to each other. Traditional Shamanic and dreaming cultures understood this. It is considered that our collective dream as a civilization and culture is sick. It is a propitious time to consider at this New Moon what we are collectively dreaming into being. How can we create a new dream, and a new reality, for ourselves, for all of us?

At this New Moon, The Sun and Moon together in the sign of Pisces is accompanied by the wise one, the asteroid Chiron, also known as ‘The Wounded Healer’. Chiron has been in the sign of Pisces since 2010, and he is now in the last degrees of Pisces, wrapping up his journey in the last sign before entering Aries in 2019.

Each of us has a unique Chiron placement which speaks to our human portion of felt wounding/inadequacy and pain. Through the portal of Chiron, we deepen as human beings. The glyph of Chiron is a unique one, in the shape of a key. The passage of life reveals to us suffering and pain. Through the process of learning how to heal, and deal with what is painful and challenging we develop greater compassion and knowledge of ourselves, for ourselves and for others around us. With Chiron in Pisces, the key offered is compassion, empathy and an ability to witness and contain the immensity of feeling and chaos. At this time, Chaos offers its blessings if we are able to sit with the seeming mess and complexity of it all. The waters of Pisces cleanses, renews and purifies, imbuing us with magic and faith.

May this New Moon reveal the multitudes of magic within you, and may you revel in Chaos.