Feb 19 - Mar 19, 2016
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Disclaimer: the Sun sign is a much-celebrated yet oversimplified astrological element, usually given more significance than it deserves. Remember – you are a whole soup of planets!
The Aquarius cycle has been indescribably wonderful, but it’s only getting better from here. Pisces is comparatively passive and right brained. It’s hard to believe that we are already at the final stop on the zodiac wheel, bedding down in preparation for the springtime fires that will ravage the soul’s forests. If any spiritual/emotional work has been left undone, Pisces will not reveal her light in full splendor. When the ice beneath you begins to crack and drift, allow yourself to fall straight into the glacial melt - salvation awaits you in the frozen grit!
When I visualize the fishes chasing tails in the holy waters of eternity, I am simply inspired. Pisces puts us in a trance. She evokes vivid reveries, total surrender to the power of art and divine recognition of the human mind’s capacity for expanded consciousness. Flexible spine twisting in the river current, Pisces embodies many dimensions at once, lost in bliss, wave after wave of creative insight pouring forth.
Imbalanced Pisces makes us too susceptible, energetic membrane thinning to nonexistence. The challenge is to maintain our sensitivity as we rise with dignity from titanic depths, trident piercing the sky. The purpose of this cycle is to address the proverbial death of all things. Pisces wants us to get comfortable with intangibles: infinity, immortality, subconsciousness, transcendentalism.
It’s not that Pisces is irresponsible or careless, although she can be when imbalanced, but rather that she is constantly preparing for “the end” – who needs a solid routine when life could disintegrate at this very second? In a way, the Pisces cycle is one giant dismantling of all the structuring and organization that we established in the autumnal Virgo season. Pisces lives on the spur of every precious moment, disconnected from time and space. So we must find a balance: yes, live in the present, utterly consumed by the beauty of the Divine in all things, and yes, also make sure you’ve covered the finer details and prepared to live another day. Pisces swims freely in the waters of forever. Just remember to walk along the jeweled shoreline once in awhile to ground yourself.
The Pisces cycle aims to achieve the same end by one of two (or both) means: blossoming to new heights of awareness, accompanied by a constant feeling of ecstasy; or silently and masterfully identifying the internal struggles that make us feel the weakest and most vulnerable and then, using these, breaking us down so completely that we have no option but to turn to something greater than the Self, something majestic and omniscient. Day-to-day concerns often get left in the dust when it comes to this kind of self-work. Any emotional landscaping you do now will not be straightforward; imagine tumbling deep within an underwater whirlpool, clueless as to the direction of anything at all. Paradoxically, the more you can relax into the fishes’ snare, the faster you will be able to find the sunshine and ascend to the surface.
Notice that the nature of pain and suffering is in constant flux. Life continues inexorably and relentlessly like water flows downstream. This is all part of something bigger. Have patience, even when there appears to be no method to the madness. The progress you make will only be obvious at the end, as everything happens now internally, tucked away from normal sensory perception.
Allow fear to become curiosity as you trust-fall into a bottomless sea. Gather hesitation and nervousness into a giant ball and then melt, fuse, transform it. Swim towards change and endings at full speed, knowing that whatever happens now is designed with something inconceivable in mind. Listen for the voice that whispers, you’ll see. Water is inherently liberating: watch the eel squiggle through her coral lair. Flow anywhere you like, in the direction of all things beautiful. Unleash what lives in the privacy of the heart and mind. Birth your silent intensity into a world of noise and color.
Pisces is the tidal wave that destroys everything that no longer serves us; the rocking and splitting of the earth as she crumbles into light; the high pitch of impending implosion. We’re about to get wrapped up in the mighty arms of the soul’s inner ocean, safe, shielded by a diaphanous cocoon of lucid reality.
We’ve never had any control, only the illusion of such. Connect now – to anything – in preparation for metamorphosis. It’s time to remember where we’ve come from and why we’re here. Extraordinary passion and vision radiates a certain luminosity that requires no explanation, like one long delicious dream. Celebrate with Pisces Yoga.
Mantra: All is One