Pisces Season
February 18 – March 20, 2023
Meditation On Your Capacity For Compassion
Your Capacity For Compassion
As the last sign in the zodiac wheel, Pisces indicates the final inward turn before the cycle renews. In response to the dry, futuristic intellect of Aquarius, mystical Pisces draws us into the boundless waters of the transcendent imagination. Immersing in these oceanic waters symbolizes connecting to inner flow and universal consciousness. An inevitable part of this process includes encountering the shared human experience of grief and suffering, which increases your capacity for compassion.
The Need For Intentional Retreat
Elusive Pisces finds its natural counterpart in the vast and mysterious ocean. The ocean harbors 99% of all living space on Earth, yet our knowledge of its unfathomable depths remains limited. This is an apt metaphor for the enigma of our own consciousness. In practice, Pisces alludes to the importance of retreating into these renewing depths from time to time. Only in stillness can you slow down enough to pay attention to the dreams and intuition that transcend ordinary consciousness. Often, seeking such refuge happens during unsettling changes, painful transitions, and loss, when life has simply become too much. In recognition of this, it is important to define the fine line between retreat and escapism. While retreat refers to intentional withdrawal into stillness for the purpose of restoration, escapism involves the habit of avoiding difficult emotions, usually with the help of the nearest numbing agent. For this reason, Pisces is also associated with addiction and self-destructiveness. To the contrary, embracing the need for intentional retreat invites full participation in life and cultivation of your capacity for compassion.
Pisces Season Overall
Overall, this Pisces season delivers lessons in empathy, as a primer to a longer study on the subject. When the Sun whispers into Pisces on February 18, its subtle entrance belies the dynamic nature of the season as a whole. At the Pisces New Moon February 20, create space to connect with your inner flow and contemplate universal consciousness. In the relatively quiet first third of the season, focus on adopting a calm and forgiving attitude. On March 2, the two brightest planets Venus and Jupiter form a lovely conjunction, visible in the evening sky near the western horizon. This symbolizes a whole new dimension in your most personal relationships, occurring in tandem with a spoken commitment to clearer communication.
Once we reach the Full Moon on March 7, Saturn enters Pisces, affirming a serious three-year study on the topics of empathy and flow. Although there may be some challenging tests ahead, there also promises to be a sense of stability in an area of your life that often feels subject to the changing of whims. Starting on March 11, the last third of the season packs a wallop, with key opportunities for standing your ground while also insisting on patient understanding as the way forward. Watch out for the desire to blame others, as this is a sure sign that you need to address some internal suffering of your own. Keeping things in context goes a long way to staying afloat. As the end of Pisces season nears, you may feel as if you’ve already galloped into fierce Aries territory. Using your gentle skill at the reins, slow the horse way down to find readily available grounding, flow, and tenderness.
Forecast For The Week Of February 18-27
Right out the Piscean sea gate, there exists an opportunity to experience the power of forgiveness in your relationships. Shortly thereafter on February 20, the New Moon in Pisces offers an impetus to take responsibility for learning empathy. Empathy is not an inherited trait, but rather a skill to learn and apply. Indeed, the New Moon paves the way for a longer three-year study in developing compassion for yourself and others. You may also find yourself questioning the difference between independence and selfishness. If an astute insight appears in your mind, sleep on it before bringing it up with anyone else, as a gift of an untrammeled line of communication opens on February 22. Done well, you can deliver difficult information in a way that awakens all parties, instead of creating conflict. Over the next couple days, take time to process and review what happened. The more you can bravely face your own shortcomings and suffering, the more you can extend understanding to others.
The Pisces New Moon
At the New Moon, use your Rising (or Sun) sign to understand what part of your life may supply a major new lesson about the development of empathy and understanding, over the course of the next three years. The importance of this work cannot be stressed enough, as each individual journey helps to lift the veil of suffering and ignorance that currently clouds our globe.
Aries: Your lessons in empathy illuminate the spiritual experience of developing compassion for your own suffering and extending it out to others.
Taurus: The lesson of true empathy comes to you from your experiences within your community groups.
Gemini: Your profession provides a key learning zone for the development of empathy, as you strive to adopt a kind and forgiving stance towards your colleagues,
Cancer: Your upcoming powerful lesson about empathy and understanding infuses your worldview with a profound wisdom to be shared with others.
Leo: Your lesson involves cultivating compassion for your own shadow material, so that you can set healthy boundaries with the difficult emotions of others kindly.
Virgo: A period of great learning about kindness for self and others emerges from your one-on-one relationships, especially in regard to your tendency to put others on pedestals.
Libra: Review the practices that keep you healthy and make sure they include some element of the flow state, as it provides understanding for the suffering of others.
Scorpio: Embrace this important opportunity to create some structure around your prodigious ability to give of yourself, allowing you empathize with others without sacrificing your own wellbeing.
Sagittarius: The powerful cultivation of empathy comes from your home life, which may be from your inner roots, special land, ancient ancestry or current family members.
Capricorn: Your special gift for talking about transcendent topics with ordinary, day-to-day people in your life leads you to a new level of empathy and understanding.
Aquarius: As the lesson of empathy occurs through your self-worth and financial situation, maximize self-compassion and incorporate it into your daily mantra.
Pisces: Your lesson in empathy occurs as your grapple with your identity, heralding a time to make self-compassion a daily staple and let it emanate to others.
