Not only is it the “Harvest Moon” – the Full Moon that is closest to the transition into the autumn season. Exact as of 4:13a this morning, September 19th, this 2013 Full Moon in Pisces is also reflecting the Virgo Sun’s light back onto itself, bringing us into awareness of just how all of our work over the last few months is paying off…if it’s paying off in the first place.
With this Full Moon in Pisces being the Harvest Moon, it is a perfect time to notice the fruits of our labors since the Aries Sun cycle in late March/mid-April. How have “the seeds” we planted during the spring grown? If they have grown, what have they grown into? How are they affecting us now? Did we do the work we needed to do in order to nurture, protect, and support them to have an abundant harvest now?
If you have done the necessary work, congratulations! This Full Moon could very well make you aware of just how much work you’ve done and how much you’ve accomplished since the spring. Look at where you are now compared to where you were six months ago. How does it feel for you to have something to show for your work?
If you haven’t done the necessary work, your inclination right now may be to avoid or run away from the fact that you haven’t done the necessary work to nurture your seeds. That fact may bring you to your emotional desire to escape the realities of your life, and you may be creating dreams or fantasies that help you avoid the practical truths of the day-to-day situations and circumstances you are facing. This Full Moon reflects back to you what you haven’t taken care of in the day-to-day of your life, even though it’s become rather urgent to address.
A large part of this avoidance mechanism can be disguised as being of service to others. Pisces is so sensitive, selfless, and good-hearted that it is known to give its own security and well-being up for that of others.
Yet Pisces is also known for using its eager willingness to serve others as a way of being an escape artist. By keeping yourself busy with the business and wellness of others, you may think that you don’t have to deal with yourself and how you aren’t doing the work for yourself that you do for everyone else. Keep in mind that by avoiding your own work in the name of service to others, you may think that you’re getting away with your avoidance by playing saint to the sinners you get to “save” through your efforts.
However, neglecting your own dreams and goals doesn’t make you selfless – it makes you selfish! You are selfish because you aren’t doing what you need to do to sustain yourself. You cannot be there to support others if you’ve compromised your own health, wellness, and life functionality to “be there” for others. You’re selfish because you may not be supporting yourself and who you get to be in the world. If you aren’t being yourself in the world, those you “serve” aren’t able to connect with you in ways that fulfill both you and those who receive your service.
The 2013 Pisces Harvest Moon helps you recognize where you are trying to hide from your reality by using your beautiful and romantic reality-inspired fantasies of selfless service, which may actually show up as selfish service, martyrdom, and self-sacrifice. And if you choose to be awake and aware of what the Universe is telling you through synchronicity (or for some of you, coincidence), you may find some answers to exactly what is holding you back in any areas of your life in which you feel stuck or disappointed with your outcomes to date.
Use the light of this Full Harvest Moon in Pisces to seek and find the truth about the last six months of your life. See what the fruits of your labors are showing themselves to be. Also notice where your dreams and fantasies may be inspired by your avoidance of the reality you may not want to face. The power of the Harvest Moon will be felt most strongly through Friday, September 20th.
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~Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
