19.03.2020

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19 Mar

Every year in a row Pisces season schools us in the art of illusion and today is its last day. Deep waters distort our senses and pool our assumptions. The whirlpool of our emotions, particularly those feelings that will not submit to sense or reason, breach the surface of our lives and we find ourselves all at sea.

Whether you have been living in Neverland or under the protection of self serving governance that tells you it has your best interests in mind, the curtain has been drawn back. Our world is mired in a horrifying grand reveal that is cracking its stalwart structures. As it turns out, we are not islands. Humanity is an archipelago.

Whenever we are forced to see something we don't want to and tracking reluctantly to its inevitable conclusion, we are plunged into cognitive dissonance. Things don't add up and our world view quakes. From our core, the panic rises. The vexing shrinks our amygdala, the emotional processing centre of our brain, literally narrowing our mind. We are stuck in no mans land, between the rock we thought we knew and the hard place we are being dragged unwillingly towards.

All of a sudden those long held beliefs have become a binding that holds you fast, whose discomfort is choking. Maybe they aren't yours. Maybe they are a story to tell yourself, a broken record on repeat. The unbearable friction this causes is the fulcrum that tips you towards a new view. Hurtling into something else borne of what you have learned and the ripple effect of what you now cannot unsee.

The lightning has struck and the imprint of what was lit up sticks. The change is in progress. Your ability to peer through illusion is too a function of perception. Peering inward seriously damages your ignorance, expands your consciousness and thus your world view. It polishes your lens and blows the shit out of your snorkel.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote that the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Your ability to see it is actually inherent. But your willingness to do so is the kettle of fish that is Pisces season. Dive deep this next day darklings to unearth its treasure.