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Inspired Astrology Newsletter: New Moon in Pisces
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This email is a gift to everyone who wants to explore how their spiritual purpose is revealed and manifest through the timing of astrology.
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New Moon in Pisces: why your ego is dishonest
The New Moon is on March 7 in Pisces. Also on March 7, Mars is opposing Pluto and the Sun will conjunct Uranus on March 8.
But that's not the whole story.
Mars is opposing Pluto.
This is the 3rd time due to Mars' Retrograde station this past fall and winter. This opposition started back on September 21, 2007 and occurred again while Mars was Retrograde on January 2. Mars and Pluto are opposing for the last time on this New Moon and will conjunct at the end of 2008. Whatever your ego projects onto others now can come back to you by the end of the year. Let's investigate, which is what Pluto loves to do!
Mars is in Cancer. Pluto is in Capricorn. Cancer seeks security; Capricorn seeks form. Security vs Structure. Mars is ego. Capricorn is form. Ego vs Form. 2 sides of the same situation: power relying on the ego for security. And in Cancer-Capricorn, the struggle for power is likely to be disguised, camouflaged, masked in what is socially acceptable. So it's a good time to see how we're doing, by consensus.
The ego, or your thinking mind, is both defensive and clever. One of its protective strategies is to blame whoever seems to be easy to overpower. We can also find something to blame in someone who we think may be better or more powerful, thereby "bringing them down to size". Pluto and Jupiter in status-conscious Capricorn make it feel natural to use money, power, and position as a measure of our worth-- to ourselves and to society. That keeps many of us stuck in not feeling good about ourselves. And to feel better about ourselves, the ego's strategy is to put others down with judgments and criticisms.
If (when) you're open to it, there are many people who will (unconsciously) download their resentment, anger, and frustration right onto you. And you can do it right back, without even realizing it. Self-doubt can keep you wide open to negative projections. Trying to overpower negativity doesn't work. The other person has their own beliefs and series of events that brought them to this moment-- most of which is unconscious. You cannot demand that they change or see life from your perspective. They may not even aware of what they're doing. It's default and it's not personal, even if it seem that way while Mars is in Cancer.
Unconsciously we believe that controlling, or overpowering others gives us a better self-image. But when blame doesn't change anything, the other person is still to blame. Taking it on or dishing it out keeps the pattern repeating. The New Moon in Pisces can help you to dissolve the control of the ego, which starts as awareness of your instant negative judgments. Even if you do maintain control, victory is achieved through force or manipulation, a big expense of energy. And maintaining it means continuing to exert your will OVER someone else, which is a constant energy leak.
Blame seems easy. After all, the other person is WRONG! Yet blame is ultimately self-defeating. And blame generates resentment. Blaming is an unconscious default-mode. We CAN become more self-aware. Self-reflection is just observing your thoughts that are NOT true or rational-- or really you -- as they happen-- and changing or improving them. Instead of thinking a mistake is the worst thing that could possibly happen, what if it's just a temporary delay, glitch, or diversion?
Blame backfires -- not because it's evil-- but because it's not honest. It's not an honest understanding. It's a "cop out" or excuse to blame someone who seems less-- or more-- powerful. So it starts (or continues) a pattern of blaming or being blamed. And since that's not really satisfying, or honest, it can escalate into toxic anger and acts of seemingly justified revenge.
Mars, representing EGO in the chart, opposing hidden-power Pluto shows how our ego defends and projects our shadow onto others, and creates power-play situations.
Did you consider that your gifts and intuition are hidden in that darkness, and that by projecting them on others, you are giving away your darkness-- and your gifts. So of course you start to feel resentful; you're giving away your gifts. Yet, the good news it is you who can take back the projection, and with it, your gifts and intuition.
The Sun, Moon, and Uranus in Pisces take us closer to our intuition and inspire our search for ideal perfection. Yet, there are no perfect people. Or ideal situations. And expecting others to be perfect magnifies the imperfections and can make us feel disappointed. As we notice more of what is wrong, we block our intuition and look for, and find, more of what is "wrong".
Jupiter and Pluto are in form-making Capricorn, helping us to see how our thoughts become forms that we believe in and live by. With Mars opposing form-making Capricorn in con-formist Cancer, your ego may think that conforming will keep you safe. Capricorn is about building, process, evolving. Resentment makes your process more dense, overgrown, and difficult to navigate. You can use the inability to be perfect as an excuse not to do much AND to condemn others who are never good enough. And as you project that negative thinking onto others, all you start to see is more negativity and mistakes. This is fine if you don't mind repeating the same patterns you keep saying you want to get past. Perhaps this seems safe and secure. And the future is too uncertain. Yet, there is also a long-term Saturn-Pluto trine, opening the way to release your resentment, and empower your process.
Less or more, when we get our identity from how much we have, we are unable to appreciate what we have. So we continue to put our energy into GETTING more. The constant pursuit of more, for security and status, allows little time to understand or appreciate what you receive-- or what you have to give since you are focused on getting more. And once you receive it, what you GET has little value, and may even make you more upset because, once again, it's not enough and you immediately need more.
Feeling pressured to get more or know more keeps you in a cycle of suspicion and acquisition. Looking at others with suspicion or judgment, the ego scores when it finds something that "should" have been done differently. Why is that a problem? Of course it's ok to let someone know they made an error. If you honestly stick to the facts. But as soon as you insert a negative judgment, the ego gains control and creates resentment, offense, jealousy. These vibrations are just energy, so they spread out. Spreading negativity, even in your own thoughts, keeps you feeling more divisive, angry, blaming, resentful. As the Sun conjuncts Uranus on this New Moon (with Uranus and Neptune in "mutual reception, or strongly influencing each other), what if you can drop the ego and be the change? Fizz! What if you could stop the auto-pilot search for what can be attacked? What if you can let others have their opinions, even about you, and let that be their belief, not yours? What if mistakes are just unconscious actions and not evil intentions? What if they're not even real, but imaginary projections? What if instead of projecting resentment you put your awareness into diffusing ego projections and didn't accept blame as doctrine.
The Pisces New Moon is idealistic and longs for perfection. Becoming disappointed when life lis not perfect keeps you from reaching beyond preset limits. If perceived failure is emotionally devastating, why would you want to put yourself through it? Yet, while focusing on flaws, you are also missing the joy of sharing your gifts. Pisces is the sign of spiritual evolution through feeling your compassion for the whole.
On this Pisces New Moon you can awaken your ideal spiritual awareness (which others can judge as evasive) and try to avoid negative projections -- even if they are intended to hurt you. The most powerful thing you can do is de-fuse the ego is to diffuse it.
While this Pisces Moon helps us feel subtle emotions that are interfering and causing pain and disappointment in our lives, it also suggests immediate personal and social change. The Sun and Moon are both approaching a conjunction to Uranus-- within hours for the Moon and on Saturday for the Sun. And they are getting a nice assist from big-hearted Jupiter, making a sextile to the Sun-Moon-Uranus in Pisces. And since Jupiter is the old ruler of Pisces, this makes the bond all the more personal and compelling. This is an EASY time to let go of your negativity. There has never been more encouragement, more cultural awareness to help us through the process of letting go of beliefs that aren't working.
The ruler of Pisces, Neptune, is receiving a conjunction from love-planet Venus (Thursday, March 6). And while this may not be the kind of love you can reach out and touch for sure, it is the kind of unconditional love that can awaken your intuition as it goes beyond boundaries, melts hearts, and lightens up the ego.
Be the blessing!
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