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New Moon in Pisces 23 February 2020: A Dawning Awareness

22 Saturday Feb 2020

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‘The Three Sisters from Policeman Creek, Canmore, Alberta, Canada. The Three Sisters are a trio of peaks. They are known individually as Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister.’ Photo By Jakub Fryš – Own work CC BY-SA 4.0

The New Moon occurs at 4 Pisces 28 on the 23rd at 7:31 AM PST, semi-square Venus and loosely semi-square Jupiter (placing the NM at the rough midpoint), sextile Uranus and Mars (again, the NM is caught between them), and in loose trine to the North Node point and loose sesquiquadrate to Zeus-Juno in Libra. A New Moon in Pisces can bring a new dream, a dawning awareness of some new facet of the life, of some burgeoning desire or ideal, or the birth of a vision, fantasy, or even deception that inspires, whether what we imagine is true or not.

In this instance we are offered a spark, a fresh idea, that arises from the difficulty in balancing relationships or the need to earn with the social whirl or with a multitude of opportunities. Our own willingness and initiative, and serendipitous events and ‘coincidences’, shape our life direction and put us in a quandary: do we bow to the needs of others, graciously making ourselves small in order to ‘get along’ (and so, we might imagine, earn their Love), or serve our own ambitions and in the process discover who among our companions supports us, who falls away?

The Sabian symbol for this New Moon is, ‘A Church Bazaar’. This is an event where like-minded (we might even say, spiritually attuned to one another) individuals who share a common belief framework about the ‘right’ way to live gather in order to share their handiwork, their creations, in a celebration of fellowship. Nothing wrong with that, right? Except how much do we experience, learn, or test our beliefs if we surround ourselves only with others who share an identical viewpoint to our own? This New Moon may incite a search for the wider world, as we seek the commonalities among, for instance, humankind, or those qualities we share with other sentient beings, rather than shrinking our world down to others who are more like us than not.

Aspects and Sabian combined suggest a need for new and broadening experience with others of the ‘not-like-us’ variety. It dawns on us that there’s more to the world than we suspected. Pisces wants us to dream, wants us to connect with the Collective, wants us to accept and to be accepted–and that last is probably, for anyone, a good place to start.

This is it for at least a couple of weeks. Have a wonderful and safe late winter–see you by spring!

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A Good Day To . . . 22 February 2020

21 Friday Feb 2020

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‘The Voice, Summer Night’ By Edvard Munch 1896, The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway {{PD}}

The 22nd is a Good Day To . . . to respect the unique inner voice we all have, the one that can save us at the last moment, steer us in the right direction, that can channel our most positive attributes into ‘statements’ of action and choice that can define for others (as well as for ourselves) who we are at core. See it as an opportunity to create the changes you want; what you value, what you love, automatically aligns you with your highest values, and so guides choice. The best part is that the inner voice, the wisdom, and our own originality combine to form tomorrow–so if you want to know what’s coming, take careful note of what you do, say, feel today.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

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A Good Day To . . . 21 February 2020

20 Thursday Feb 2020

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‘Watchers of the Stars’ Artist Unknown, 16th century {{PD}}

The 21st is a Good Day To . . . watch out!! Hurt (or even the equivalent of a guilty conscience) is propelling at least some of our choices or actions, and that makes for spontaneity, originality, and unique approaches, but also for accidents, rebellions, and erratic behavior. The more easily we can accept all facets of ourselves (the more open we are to the dimensionality of our Beingness, to what we might judge light and dark, good and bad, positive and negative)–that is, the less judgmental we can be about ourselves, the more likely we are to act in ways that are both empowered and in-line with our ideas of who we are at our best. A few pointers: facts matter, whether we like it or not, the social sphere does have an impact, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, and our strength comes from both acceptance of and understanding of our past, and what important ideas and experiences we’ve brought forward from it.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

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A Good Day To . . . 20 February 2020

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

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‘Dream’ By Joan Brull c1905 {{PD}}

The 20th is a Good Day To . . . take advantage of what you know, specifically to make dreams happen. Today features a lovely convergence of opportunity and creative essence; dream big, and view the social landscape in terms of ideals (and judge ‘the facts’ by those, too). Do that, and refuse to be moved to action or to choose based on the influence of all those things you want to deny or that enrage you; that is, don’t be destructively reactive out of avoidance. Do your best to respond out of positives, reaching for a goal, attention on what you want, not on what you don’t.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

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A Good Day To . . . 19 February 2020

18 Tuesday Feb 2020

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By Kgbo – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79438533

The 19th is a Good Day To . . . apply your most creative energies and inclinations to those areas in life where you hold absolute power. That may affect many, or may only be relevant to you as an individual, but in any case, the day calls for idealism and imagination actively and cleverly applied–and you’re more than up to it, just as long as you’re not looking specifically for the benefit or payoff to your creative efforts. Forget about what it might bring you, and indulge the dream in its most perfect, and perfectly creative, form; accompanying thinking is smart and practical, though of course, during the retrograde best applied to review and refining, rather than to new commitments.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

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A Good Day To . . . 18 February 2020

17 Monday Feb 2020

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Ramon Casas i Carbó ‘La Carga (The Charge) or Barcelona 1902’ though the picture was apparently done 1899-1900. {{PD}}

The 18th is a Good Day To . . . curb all impulses, because the inclination is to charge ahead, no holds barred, and that could result in poor expressions of power and unwise or impractical decisions that reverberate far into the future. What should we do? Be willing to think about how asserting ourselves will affect the road ahead, and as the Sun moves into Pisces, use our imaginations to see what could be, in an ideal world. Oh, and don’t do anything blatantly unhealthy–we’re too susceptible to out-sized impacts to the physical well-being, right now.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

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A Good Day To . . . 17 February 2020

16 Sunday Feb 2020

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By Azro Art Village, Morocco – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76674582

The 17th is a Good Day To . . . marry your effective power and real-world efforts to achieving ambition fulfillment and to addressing with the intuitive senses any ‘blind spot’ material that comes forward. The values and standards we believe we hold may be challenged by what’s actually wise or practical in the moment–and we need not to be so proud that we can’t bend to a smarter course. To prevent chafing, be flexible when the evidence suggests modification is needed, and really put your shoulder to the figurative grindstone–with the right attitude, mountains can be moved.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

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A Good Day To . . . 16 February 2020 Mercury Retrograde: Dreaming Backwards

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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‘Dreamers ‘ By Albert Joseph Moore c1865 {{PD}}

The 16th is a Good Day To . . . listen. There’s an undertone to events that sneaks up on us, a dull roar that’s easy to dismiss as just background noise. It starts with a handful of contra-parallels, opposition-toned energy duos that enter the arena but don’t necessarily engage directly with each other: Our love for something or someone, our finances, or our relationships themselves are at odds with our own successful empowerment; the messages we receive or our own thinking fails to correctly understand the value (or lack of it) in what’s happening; and we’re likely to be surprised either by ourselves and our reactions or by what receives scrutiny or ‘the spotlight’–and there’s a chance that light will shine directly on something unusual, unique, radical, or original that we’ve done or are pursuing. Can make for a confusing atmosphere, the kind that shakes our confidence in our own identity or beliefs just enough to make us hesitate–and when we do, we should try the recommended listening, as an internal stillness and receptivity will offer (or make the way clear for) what we need to know.

This isn’t helped by the late afternoon Pacific time retrograde of Mercury in Pisces. It kicks in at 12 Pisces 53, with the first aspect it makes a semi-square to Saturn, and the first aspect made to it a square from the Moon in Sagittarius and then a sextile from Pallas and semi-sextile from Venus (over the first two days of the retro, with the order not being especially important). I see the way the retro period starts as a kind of harbinger of what to expect through the cycle; the ‘birth’ of the retrograde, and so its meaning. This time we have the retro occurring in Water, asking us to re-consider how we feel, with that examination of feelings showing us what values and relationships are making the ‘hard edges’ and difficult circumstances in our world. We have the wisdom and practical orientation to address what we see; at the same time, a flood of emotion bolstered by the square from the Moon in Sag, which we might describe as ‘difficult knowledge’, compels us to ‘dream backward’, that is, to assess the current reality, especially the emotional reality, by reviewing what previous dreams and ideals were chosen, which discarded, and how this built things as they are now. Exercise the imagination in the first half of the cycle, and in the latter half, exorcise it, flushing out delusions, misinterpretations, and untenable fantasies that are standing in the way of what you really want.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

We’re finally moving, so I won’t be able to make daily posts as I won’t have access to my computer, but I’ll do my best to pop in when I can. Once we’re settled I’ll resume some sort of regular schedule–’til then, I’ll miss you all!

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A Good Day To . . . 15 February 2020

14 Friday Feb 2020

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‘Studio Lunch’ By Henry Siddons Mowbray c1900 {{PD}}

The 15th is a Good Day To . . . heal the Self through straight-out indulgence of the senses, and then take that sense of renewal and put it to work to expand what you know, to make beliefs into facts, to get the social sphere on your side, to learn–to enhance whatever means of successfully contacting and intermingling your Will with the world fits the bill. We may feel a bit rudderless, but it’s nothing to panic about–instead recognize that it’s a fairly effective way to keep your mind off matters you’d rather not deal with anyway–appropriate to drift and dream a bit, even as you enjoy the pleasures of living in a body, and experiment with reaching out and impressing yourself on your surroundings.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

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A Good Day To . . . 14 February 2020

13 Thursday Feb 2020

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By Stefan Krause, Germany – Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22857511

The 14th is a Good Day To . . . refuse to allow an unhealthy level of misdirected anger to torpedo relationships and/ or the ‘wise’ choice. The viewpoint is skewed in favor of knocking everyone and everything off balance, either out of a need to feel powerful (for that’s the cause of any disruptor who has no other goal than to disrupt!) or out of fear of what’s coming (because we think we may feel better if everything is out of whack and everybody unsure!) We do best to take a sober measure of the value of our relationships: do they support us? make our world better? offer love and positive interaction? And does the inflow and outflow of money make sense, considering where we want to go in life? Today take note, as what’s illuminated signals exactly what does and doesn’t work.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

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