PISCES FULL MOON (SUPERMOON) - 31 August 2023
This is an incredibly potent Full Moon, in the very last
degree of the zodiac and closer to earth than any other Moon this year! As
such, it has the potential to have a greater impact on our mind, body, spirit
and emotions. Pisces is the culmination of all the other signs and can help us
to melt away anything that might be preventing us from developing a deeper
connection to the divine, trusting that we are being guided where we need to
go. It is important to pay attention to our dreams this week, as they could
bring healing and greater understanding. While this Full Moon can bring some
overwhelming emotions, it can also help us to connect with one another in the
spirit of compassion, kindness, acceptance and unconditional love. More
importantly, it can help us to find compassion and acceptance for ourselves.
The Sun is now in Virgo, which can help us to contemplate
what we might need to tweak in order to improve ourselves and our situations.
Virgo season has that “Back to School” feeling, when we often feel the urge to
develop new healthy routines so that we can feel better about ourselves. It is
an ideal time to break unhealthy, sabotaging habits and replace them with
healthy ones. Virgo is the part of us that can be quite critical of ourselves
and others, so it is important not to beat ourselves up about our shortcomings
and inadequacies, but rather to take the necessary practical steps to improve
the situation. This Pisces Moon can help us to find compassion and a greater
sense of acceptance for any shortcomings, reminding us that we are perfect in
our imperfection, or imperfectly perfect!
This Full Moon certainly has the potential to bring to
boiling point anything that has been building and simmering beneath the surface
since the Leo New moon on 16 August, especially as it’s a Supermoon. The Sun
and Moon are now in the healing axis, so this Moon could bring things up to be
healed with tenderness, forgiveness and compassion. Virgo does like to pick
things apart and analyse them, while this Pisces Moon could help us to find
true acceptance of ourselves and anyone we may be having issues with at the
moment. It is important to be aware that we can be our own worst enemy at
times, beating ourselves up for things that we could easily forgive in someone
else.
This Moon could be a good opportunity to resolve situations
that may seem unresolvable and to find true understanding of where we may be at
fault, as well as recognising the other person’s part in matters and
recognising their flawed humanity with love and a greater sense of acceptance.
None of us are perfect and we are all just doing the best we can with the tools
we have been given in life!
Saturn is sitting right next to the Moon and opposite the
Sun, helping us to see things as they really are, rather than as we would like
them to be. The Sun and Saturn directly opposed each other on Sunday 27 August,
which had the potential to make things feel a bit heavy and very “real”. Saturn
is still a player in this Moon, but at least the energy is on the wane.
However, Saturn does call for us to be a grown-up and to take responsibility
for our part in whatever we are experiencing at the moment, and can bring some
serious, realistic, sombre reflection on whatever we are facing.
It is important, however, to be kind to ourselves and not
allow ourselves to feel overwhelmed by fear, guilt or anxiety, which are the
more challenging manifestations of Saturn in Pisces. However, ultimately Saturn
in the last sign of the zodiac can help us to clear karma and move forward with
a lighter step. We are in a process of clearing the skeletons out of the
proverbial closet, sifting away anything that isn’t serving us so that we can
allow something more appropriate to take its place. Saturn in Pisces can bring endings,
and endings can of course bring up sorrow and grief. However, the path is
merely being cleared for a new chapter. When one door closes another opens.
Mercury is now well and truly retrograde in analytical,
modest, humble, helpful and critical Virgo. Whenever Mercury goes backwards, we
have a chance to go back over old ground and gain more understanding, or tweak
things, or contemplate how we might have done things differently. This is a
time for reflection, retrospection, reviewing, refining and revisiting. The
important thing to be aware of with Mercury in Virgo is that we can easily
analyse it all to death, picking it apart and leaving no stone unturned! It is
also very easy to beat ourselves up about how we could have done better,
focusing on our faults, inadequacies and imperfections. This can be helpful, to
a degree, because it is important to do the inner work and self-enquiry, and to
recognise the part we have played in whatever situation we now find ourselves
in, so long as it doesn’t tip over into self-flagellation!
However, there are some very helpful aspects to Mercury,
during this Moon, from Jupiter and Uranus. Jupiter trine Mercury can help us to
see the bigger picture and not sweat the small stuff, which is very useful
indeed during Virgo season! It also helps us to see things in a positive light,
igniting our faith and optimism, enabling us to connect to our gut instinct and
intuition. This aspect is exact on 4 September. The trine between Uranus and
Mercury can help bring insight, giving us a chance to step back a bit and see
things more objectively, from a different perspective. Uranus can bring
epiphanies, “ah” moments, realisations and the capacity to come up with
ingenious solutions. Sometimes it helps to detach, or step back a little so
that we can gain clarity. This aspect was closest to exact on 23 August but is
still very much in effect during this Moon.
Chiron the Wounded Healer is forming a more challenging
inconjunct aspect to Mercury, which is exact at the time of the Full Moon. We
could feel the urge to have some important conversations during this time that
are honest, forthright, helpful and healing. We may be told some things,
possibly going back over old ground, that are hard to hear, although ultimately
it will all be for our greatest good. Indeed, we may be the one who is saying
things that it is uncomfortable for the other person to hear. However, with the
Moon in sensitive, compassionate Pisces, we have a chance to bring some thorny
issues up in a gentle, loving, empathetic way, so that we are aware of each
other’s feelings and are able to truly connect and see past one another’s
walls.
Anyone with personal planets or angles around 19° of a sign
will feel the effect of Chiron and Mercury most acutely, especially those in Aries
and Virgo, as Chiron is in Aries and Mercury is in Virgo.
The Sabian symbol for this Moon, at 8° Pisces, is: “A girl
blowing a bugle”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “A call to participation in
the service of the race, as an evolutionary crisis approaches. This symbolic
picture presents another aspect of the emotional relationship between the
individual and the collectivity of human beings. It can also be related to the
old feminist movement or the present women’s liberation. In traditional symbolism
the woman refers more specifically to the biological and psychic aspect of
human life; she is seen primarily as the mother, and /or the intuitive or
“psychic” type of person. A new race of human beings may well be slowly
unfolding some of its potential of consciousness and fulfilment. The individual
who envisions this evolutionary development “sounds the call.” He or she is
both seer-herald and mutant. In that sense such a human being is both an
individual true to his original nature and a dedicated person – dedicated to
the future he or she holds in latency as does a seed in mutation. Tomorrow acts
through today; it SUMMONS men to the rebirth”.
This is a powerful symbol! We are certainly moving into a
new world, and this Moon could bring about some kind of clearing that helps us
to move forward with a cleaner slate. Maybe some remaining debris still needs
to be cleared away, talked about, dealt with and somehow purified. We are
called to do the inner work necessary, clearing the chi and recognising what is
good for us and what is simply no longer serving us. Virgo is very good at the
art of discernment, which is so very useful! The Virgo Sun and Mercury could
certainly help us to gain some clarity on what we need moving forward and what
we need to let go of. And this Pisces Moon can certainly help us to actually
let go, surrendering to a force larger than ourselves and allowing the flow of
the river to take us wherever we need to go. It’s time to dive in and trust the
current of life!
Much Love
Amy
xoxo
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