Pisces New Degrees

Art by Jake Baddeley

With our dark moon rudely disrupted yesterday by Urania's cataclysmic shift and Mercury's confounding retrograde, our little ol' new moon in Pisces has been somewhat obscured. She rose quietly overnight in a blue haze, her infant crescent not visible to mortal eyes but her rippling mood felt by many a heaving heart.

Pisces season plunges us into the emotional depths but it proffers all manner of delusion and distraction for those unwilling. You determine the direction your little fish will swim in. Its new moon is a standing invitation to dive beneath the masks we wear daily to unlock our greatest truths.

Of course it is one brave thing to get real with the world around us and throw playing it safe to the wind as we cry revolution. It takes quite another level of courage and grit to stop lying to ourselves, the greatest sabotage of all.

The new moon rose at exactly the spot Uncle Merc is belting backwards to hit at the conclusion of his rx. The same place a supercharged Neptune is perching on, fuelling a telepathic understanding of the significance of this shift that cannot yet be quantified or contained. We traverse this sodden ground through the lens of our past, present and future over the next month.

This cosmic cocktail breaks us through our delusions and drama, shaking only the morsels of truth from the stories we tell ourselves. Pandora's box opening can be confronting and exhausting and requires our stoic acceptance of harsh reality. Welcome to the true consequences and convictions of your life. Unvarnished and sans filter.

The integration of these often hard yards requires militant self care. Up the sleep and hydration. Do nothing except the absolutely compulsory. Schedule vast tracts of time for staring into space and crafting sense of what is now revealed.

Strange magic is afoot. Surrender to its shimmering power and trust its grand purpose in your life.


Words c. Kerrie Basha, 2019