As winter wanes, the Moon and Sun join in the twentieth degree of mutable water sign Pisces on March 10 at 5:00 a.m. EST. Nestled between austere Saturn and mirage inducing Neptune, this new moon focuses on the disillusionment that precedes creation.
A collective dream state
Aqueous Pisces, like water, is impressionable. It takes on the form of its environment as liquid, solid or vapor. Saturn and Neptune’s presence unhinge our sense of faith where undefined paranoia has become a collective sedative. As in the Wizard of Oz, structures of power continue to peddle a synthetic utopia. Like Dorothy, we skip tirelessly through a field of inebriating poppies towards The Emerald City. A gently supportive aspect between the profusion of planets in Pisces and Jupiter in earthbound Taurus offers a bed to lay and rest upon while entering a collective dream state before the birth of spring.
Peace and understanding
This dream cuts the umbilical cord of dependency and addiction to a non-reality. It edges towards peace and understanding without appraisal. It is an auspicious new moon for questioning where we tend to be easily seduced by the carnival of culture, hollow infotainment, and chameleon-like politics. Notice where tempering the extremes of optimism and anguish have become an overwhelm frosted with numbing ennui.
A month to re-engage
This is a month to re-engage with devotional practices that offer sensual transcendence; revealing core passions apart from culture. It requires a quiet, humble and grounded centeredness involving hands-on engagement with the physical world.
Aries
You’re seeking unusual and eccentric company within social groups and intimate relationships. You may feel like a party or army of one at the moment. This is because Mars is in the final portion of Aquarius in your eleventh house of allies/desired outcomes. Your actions are led by more unpredictable and independent impulses with no end goal that either enchants or repels. As the Moon meets the Sun in Pisces in your 12th house of liminal places you’re unraveling issues surrounding matters of home and family that are coming with more cost than one can reasonably bear. This month consider what you are unwilling to suffer when topics of pleasure seeking, convenience and the idealism of what makes a home becomes a bewildering drain on your financial and emotional savings.
Taurus
When Venus met with Mars in Aquarius in your tenth house of career, you may have experienced a work meltdown. Perhaps you now feel at odds with the principles underpinning the best use of those talents. The new Moon in Pisces will take place between sobering Saturn and spellbinding Neptune in your eleventh house of friendship. There is a theme this month of needing to gracefully detach from dubious expectations. Look for career, colleagues, and/or friendships where you are no longer certain of their significance. Beware of the tendency to become entangled in false alliances or pursuing social situations contrary to your nature. Cultivate a healthy level of distance rather than being swept emotionally into relationships that are otherwise ill fated.
Gemini
The Moon joins the Sun in Pisces in your tenth house of purpose. The longing to merge your gifts with the appropriate illuminating voice may be a source of ambiguity. The Sun and Moon’s meeting between Saturn and Neptune spawn an infinity of possibility. This can feel at once mesmerizing and inspiring, which it should be, but also unnerving. Abstraction and its infinite outcomes has inherent limitations, reliant on the implementation of choice. Decisiveness can be mystifying for curious Geminis but as your guiding planet Mercury transits the early degrees of Aries in your eleventh house of aspirations, goals and desires embrace a level of arbitrary thinking this month. As Mercury approaches the amplifying conjunction of the lunar north node on March 18, fake it until you make it.
Cancer
You’ve taken off the rose colored glasses. Or the inclination to glamorize ideals outside of yourself to such precarious standards, destined to fall. As the new Moon in Pisces passes in your ninth house of wisdom, you’re anchoring your philosophic principles with the highly emotional quality of your personality which is prone to dam and flood under blind faith. This transcendental reboot involves the ongoing unveiling of a bona fide public image. But, also a personal worldview contrary to communities you once were a part of, willingly or by inheritance. The Moon and Sun are parting from an alleviating configuration with devoted Jupiter and galvanizing Uranus in earth sign Taurus where the growing pains felt during this time will reveal layers of unbroken truths upon draining your own swamp.
Leo
The Sun greets the Moon in Pisces in your eighth house of inheritance, fragility and surrender. This month you’ll be stabilizing the extremes of emotional, physical, and financial dependencies. These may be within personal relationships or through other contractual arrangements. Topics of the eighth house can feel adverse and out of sight. Or, they can feel humbling since they can highlight where we may have caused imbalances of sustainability in relationships. Beneficent Jupiter in Taurus in your tenth house of advancements guides themes of luck and yearning. This makes it appear effortless to have it your way in relationships for better or worse. As the new Moon separates from an amicable configuration with Jupiter you should have the good grace to know where the glare of entitlement obscures your ability to communicate the well intended fine print you’re establishing in commitments of exchange and shared resources.
Virgo
You may be on the cusp of signing an agreement with a new partnership, event, or employment opportunity. As the new Moon in Pisces occurs in your seventh house of relationships, you’re primed to float in an adaptable state of mind as you unpack the terms of a new opportunity that comes with understandable concern and unknowns. Mercury, your guiding planet is in the first degree of Aries. This is a place of determined action and foresight into an offer that may affect your visibility and trade offs. As Mercury applies to a persuasive configuration with Pluto in your sixth house of toil your powers of deliberation are uncompromising, ensuring you have considered deeply how this relationship will, or not benefit all involved.
Libra
The emotional effects of your career or calling may be going through a tidal change as
murky boundaries and circumstances among colleagues have created an elusive
environment. The Moon meets the Sun in Pisces in your sixth house of toil and stress
between a turbulent brew of Saturn and Neptune. Unstable leadership in the workplace
may be going through growing pains as well. As Venus, your planetary ruler transits the
last degrees of don't-take-it-personal Aquarius, your best approach at this time is some healthy detachment from the tendency to take on the role of reconciler. When Venus soon enters Pisces in your sixth house you should feel a restored sense of balance where
you’re able to refocus on the quiet strength you bring to your work.
Scorpio
The new Moon occurs in your fifth house where our senses are aroused by courtship, risk, and pleasure. In a portion of Pisces associated with passionate Mars, this is a vital month for basking in creatively sensual opportunities. These opportunities may involve your talents and matters close to the heart. This is a utopian focused new Moon. So it’s aware of limitations providing just enough grip to create a spark of unorthodox friction. When seeded with erotic fantasy it can be applied to pleasures of the intellect, material, or flesh. With your ruler Mars in the later degrees of Aquarius, there will be little desire to make sense of new pleasures you are seeking. With a supportive aspect involving Jupiter in your seventh house of relationships, trust that the risks you’re taking is a force that makes all fountains of pro and co-creation possible.
Sagittarius
You have been especially concerned with how to integrate a life of healthy work, play, and a feeling of belonging. Tracing the divide between a fruitful and pleasing personal life with variable resources has felt like a source of stress this year. Recently, as Mercury coursed Pisces, you may have experienced a final straw suffering further dissolution in the emotional tug and pull of merging a place to articulate your talents upon a sound foundation. The Moon joins the Sun in your fourth house of origins, or a place to bring matters of the heart and mind to rest. Consider remaining in close proximity to your chosen family in order for growing tender roots to discover osmosis again. Sometimes the wanderlust for change is vital and other times we need to remain in place long enough to realize the grass is not always greener elsewhere.
Capricorn
The new moon in Pisces will occur in your third house of relatives, the familiar and communication. The Moon, who guides your seventh house of debates in love and war, is comfortable in the third house. Here you’re sensing clearly what is on the minds of others. New Moons offer pause and deep insight. In your case, there’s a need to sort through illusory messages received from a relative, partner, or collaborator. Saturn and Neptune, co-present with the new moon in Pisces further challenge you to make sense of a fictitious reality stemming from a wounding in the area of home and family life. Uncertain where your thoughts and words may take you, your planetary guide Saturn here offers careful considerations that are objective yet discerning enough to reach the marrow of the situation.
Aquarius
This month will be a sobering time with the handling of material possessions and financial assets. The Moon will meet the Sun in your second house of sustenance. This will initiate a month where recent shakes on the home and work front have made peace of mind a more sensitive issue. Notice where embarrassment arises in the potential of fluctuating life circumstances beyond your control and the tendency to act as if there is nothing to worry about. No need for poker face. Rather, look your circumstances straight in the eye during this new moon with a forgiving embrace. Jupiter in your fourth house of stability, who guides your streams of livelihood, is in a supportive aspect this new Moon. Trust that at minimum a place to call home right now is no match for the ebb and flow of expendable goods.
Pisces
You’re focused this month on the susceptibility of your bodily senses. The new moon in your sign Pisces occurs in your first house of the mind and body where you register the influence of your immediate environments. This month may feel like you are being led by remote control. The Moon is symbolic of shadows and guides your sense of bodily pleasures. The Sun is symbolic of radiance and guides your awareness of service and dutifulness. As the Moon and Sun meet between contradictory Saturn and Neptune, making good sense of what brings you pleasure in your world right now may feel like mixing oil and water. There is a quite literal confluence of opposites here where determining your sense of satisfaction remains a slippery, shifting, and unamable feeling at this time.
Story and Imagery by Shane Powers, Enon Valley Astrology
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