I like to use the moment of a New Moon as a birth chart for the following month.

My comments are intended to point towards attitudes
that maximize our ease and growth during that month.
Don’t worry about understanding the astrology - just go for the drift.

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Pisces, the boundless . . .

Pisces is not easy to define, because any definition states shape and boundary, and Pisces is that aspect of life that knows no boundaries. It’s like being in the middle of the ocean, way below the surface waves, but nowhere near the sea-bed, nor any shore. There is no reference point that would indicate you are moving, so the Pisces experience can feel like being stuck. But the current has us in hand, and moves us where it will. The Pisces’ current affects us on many levels of human sensitivity: water itself, blood and lymph; what is commonly called the psychic world with all the glamour of unseen causes; the emotions that make us teary, like grief, or tears of joy (as opposed to firey passions); and the spiritual planes where our soul’s journey is assured and assisted. Whatever it is for you, this month focuses on that.

Depending what planets or Houses are connected with Pisces in your chart, this is where you will be open to emotion within yourself and around you, probably not knowing quite how much of it is yours. We tend to experience any difficulties here as confusion and uncertainty, and there’s a tendency to martyr ourself in that area of life. Pisces’ ruler is Neptune, whose position in your chart may indicate the place where you are intuitive, have gut feelings or clairvoyance, feel devotion to ideals of service, or express artistic creativity.

This Pisces New Moon - emotional freedom

Uranus spends seven years in each Zodiac sign, and is now in its last year of Pisces since entering in March 2003. The House(s) in your birth chart where you have Pisces, shows the area of life where you will have been feeling Uranus energy in recent years, a process of developing through ways you had not foreseen. Surprises, flashes of intuition, new ideas and realisations, losses and un-looked-for gains, are all likely within the activities and relationships that particular House relates to.

This is important now, because this New Moon conjuncts Uranus - meaning that this month, any changes that have been waiting in the wings to manifest, will be coming to your attention, needing to be acknowledged. Being in Pisces, these changes could be in your attitudes and responses to emotional situations that crop up. Religious and spiritual understanding may get updated.

Upbeat energy restored

From 7 March (Venus entered Aries), you may have become aware that you have put others before your own needs. This new attitude could create misunderstandings or clashes around ’selfishness’ (as Venus opposed Saturn and squared Pluto). Warmth, positivity and humour (Mars direct in Leo trining the New Moon) will ensure that the flow of communication is not stopped by what may have arisen. Personal wishes need to be incorporated, even if one can’t see at first how to do this. Without our human preferences we have no interface for relating to our world. The present Aquarian influence ensures that we learn to appreciate the preferences of others, as well as our own, recognising that we are not in a position to judge others’ life experience.

So the way to keep from arguments and upset will be humour and expression of friendship - kindness and respect, as always, work as a grounding for all relationships, and are emphasised this month (Mars in Leo in harmony with Saturn in Libra). Mars has just begun to move forwards again, so there will be much more energy available to achieve any desired or needed changes.

Tune in, and share what you get

With, We also have the opportunity to be fully aware of new ways that can be incorporated, and the changes we could make that would open up new possibilities (Mercury with the New Moon and Uranus). Meditation and contemplation around any problem issues may provide the conduit for new ideas, but they may just as easily come in while you’re reading a book or walking down the street. Last month, writing down your inspirations was as reminders for when they became relevant; this month, it will be valuable to sit and write as a way of opening the door for conscious inspiration to poor through. Initiating discussions would also help the flow of inspiration, but it is just as likely to bring a flow of stored emotional disclosures and reactions, which might be quite surprising!
This month we really could become aware of the Oneness working through all our differences, really see that basically we all want the same things - happiness, love, understanding, and to be effective in our movement towards achieving that. Within the arms of spirit (God/the Light/all that is forever the truth) there is no place where Love is not. When we don’t have that inner certainty, it is because we have pulled closed the door to it within ourselves. Uranus and Mercury on this New Moon in Pisces gives us the opportunity to open that door and feel, even if only for moments, the flood of joy that accompanies our merging with that all-encompassing Love.

True freedom

So let this be the month you open yourself on any level where you have felt stuck or trapped. Just relax and open to not knowing how things can sort themselves out. Be prepared to allow the stuff of life to flow away from you to make space for the next things to arrive. As far as you can manage, be without judgement, and without fear. But also be prepared to wait before acting on the new input - Uranus may bring and take away, but it doesn’t help us deal with the resulting situation! To use this influence, we need to maintain a measure of detachment from outcomes - and, to hold that attitude, a high level of trust is needed in the love of the spiritual current that is carrying us along.

True freedom is an inner state. Regardless of our personality pulling away from what it fears and towards what it desires, inner freedom is the ability to choose your action in the light of wisdom and service.

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Contemplation for this New Moon in Pisces

Be truly quiet for a while . . .

gentleness,
the sweet harmony of breath and heart beat.

You are all.
You are a doorway
through which infinity passes,
like a rushing wind
through the stillness of a breath-less day.
You are nothing but a breath of air
passing this way and that,
in and out.

You are the gathering forces
that create, in every cell,
complexities beyond imagining.
You are the sunlit space
revealing eddies of dust and smoke,
of words and emotions, swirling
in the draught of your every move.

Where is the single word
that could describe you?
If you have wings,
to where could you fly
where you are not already,
waiting to be discovered?

Love yourself -
be in wonder and amazement.
Open your heart,
that vessel of liquid light,
letting light spill over all you conceive.

Creation bows to the quiet one
holding truth lightly in their hand,
while the pulsing music of life is stilled,
and silence wraps this
. . . emptiness . . .
in peace.

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With love,

Margaret Koolman

www.soulastrology.com
margaret@soulastrology.com

Flat 3, 3 Whitehall
Stroud, GL5 1HA, UK
+44 (0) 1453-762937

Dear People:

A shorter version of this New Moon letter, with chart itself and the Contemplation, can be seen and heard - the quickest way in is to open my website www.soulastrology.com and click the green button which says ‘Margaret on youtube.com’.  Let me know if you have trouble finding it.

My visit to Scholes, Leeds, on 5 and 6 March, is getting closer.  I think the workshop is almost full now, but there are still some spaces for readings.  The person to contact is Gwen Hanson on 0113-2655810 or e-mail gwenhanson@talktalk.net.   The subject of the workshop is ‘SELF AND SERVICE’ and how these two can be compatible in your life.

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New Moon in Aquarius  -  13/14 February 2010

I like to use the moment of a New Moon as a birth chart for the following month.

My comments are intended to point towards attitudes

that maximise our ease and growth during that month.

Don’t worry about understanding the astrology - just go for the drift.

(If you wish to unsubscribe, please let me know.)

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Last month

Jupiter in Pisces seems to be emphasising what has been gathering in our unconscious space, emotionally and physically - many people are into clearing their homes of what has suddenly become an intolerable amount of ’stuff’ - clearing space for what you really want to be surrounded by.

In case you felt the last couple of weeks were particularly intense, I want to share with you Philip Sedgwick’s explanation and description of the last full Moon.  He wrote:  (in his GALASTRO newsletter)

This full moon is a perigee moon, meaning the Moon is full when at perigee - its closest proximity to Earth in its orbit. The moon reaches perigee every 27.55 days . . . and every now and again, the full moon and perigee coincide.  Last month the full moon appeared 14% wider and 30% brighter. This effect maximizes gravitational pressures between the moon and Earth while they stand in more or less direct alignment with the Sun. This commonly brings higher tides, stronger storms and more than the average zaniness from those who feel lunar effects most strongly.

This New Moon in Aquarius

This month is largely about bringing new inspirational solutions to extensive human suffering  (New Moon on Chiron/Neptune all at 25/26 Aquarius).  The world is watching the earthquake zone, and hopefully learning from the difficulties in helping supportively.  Let this be a practice run for whatever happens next, wherever on our Earth the need arises.  What is learnt in this situation will make future needs much more smoothly answered.

This is a time for the healing of any loss of faith in ourselves, in humanity as a species, or in the wonderful love of which all is a manifestation.  Any inspiration this month needs to be listened for in quiet moments, and carefully registered, because we may not immediately see its relevance to what’s going on.  (The New Moon itself doesn’t connect directly with the rest of the planetary pattern, and neither does its ruling planet, Uranus.)  In order to remember the received wisdom from dreams and meditations, we would do well to put them in note form on the wall, so they are there to inform us when the need arises.

Valentine’s Day!

This is an opportunity to feel and express that complete love and appreciation from the heart that does us all so much good.  It’s very appropriate that Venus should be in Pisces at this time, because Pisces allows loving relating to be unlimited, unconditional.  Wonderfully, this year, Venus meets Jupiter at this time (exact on 17 February) emphasising the emotions, and potentially expanding our hearts beyond recognition!   We could tap into loving everything, although that’s not easy to do.  A more accessible thing to do was shared with me by a very dear friend of mine in Hawaii.  He suggested that we can use Valentine’s Day to focus on anyone we love, not just the person you feel romantic about.  So choose someone you can stretch to loving unconditionally, family or friend, and let yourself really experience the feeling and the sharing.  As we are beginning with Valentine’s Day, we can play with this idea all month!

Let love in

This month, love (or, oddly, the drive for financial security!) becomes the reconciling force in all those situations where we are trying to accommodate, or orchestrate, changes.  We may find it easier to let go of cherished principles or possessions when faced with others’ needs being greater than our own, or, more selfishly, when we recognise at last that we will benefit from the extra space.  (Saturn squaring Pluto is suggesting that they have to go - Venus/Jupiter sextiling Pluto, and Mercury trining Saturn, all helps.)

Once we release the block of possessiveness, we can see how to help those in need.  Letting go and giving become joyful experiences.  After all, what we tend to cling onto keeps us separate from others; whereas sharing brings us close - we feel the touch of spirit in our relating (Mars in Leo sextiles Saturn, together pointing at Venus/Jupiter).

Wisdom from a detached point of view

From 10 February we’ve had the opportunity to step back from central issues, which is necessary to see what’s going on more clearly (Mercury into Aquarius).   So we will be more focused, and communicating better, about how we are handling these testing situations.  Potentially we are able to make more concerted efforts, and that’s when the joyful energy makes our service so much more effective.  (Mercury opposite Mars.)

Another thing:  most people have a tendency to criticise those in the front line - the leaders.  As long as their intentions are kind, respectful, humanitarian, we need to allow leaders to direct operations.  The Aquarian approach of everyone-being-equal-in-value can produce a sense that any leader is just being autocratic, whereas the true Aquarian way is to allow those with the widest vision to lead, while the rest of us assist them using our own abilities.  Let the able direct operations, and only confront them when their decisions fall short of humanitarian ideals.

This month (with Mercury trine Saturn) communication should be clear and competent, with potentially inspired ideas finding the way to manifest - as long as we don’t let negativity block the view.

And we will all be checking our decisions to make sure that our exuberant moments don’t endanger our health or well-being.  It is not unkind to yourself to resist eating an entire box of chocolates in one sitting; this is the kindness of appropriate discipline!

. . . just a thought

Wherever you have been feeling blocked, let every aspect of the situation float into your mind.  Accept each bit as what is, and bring it into your loving heart.  Without the push and pull of desire, fear and anger, all the pieces can fall into their correct relationship with each other.  Life will move things along.

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Contemplation for this New Moon in Aquarius

In the long run

there is nothing to fear.

But human experience tends to be of the moment by moment

content of awareness,

and you feel it like sand through the hour-glass

slipping out of your control.

Who are you when you grasp at the sand?

And who are you really?

Relax that ‘grip’ - your fearful hold on survival -

and feel the flow of life moving constantly

from spirit into everyday activity.

Be with the truth of each moment, accepting and open.

Watch the myriad ways life appears,

as the dance of light through dust motes and river beds -

and let your heart love it all.

With love,

Margaret Koolman

www.soulastrology.com
margaret@soulastrology.com

Flat 3, 3 Whitehall
Stroud, GL5 1HA, UK
+44 (0) 1453-762937