At 2:26a PDT on Monday, September 12, the Moon is Full in the sign of Pisces. With the Full Moon in Pisces opposite the Sun in Virgo, this is a time in which you awaken to the full emotional impact of your daily practices and activities. You can realize the influence of your emotions, beliefs, choices, and behaviors. You can come into awareness of how your everyday and ordinary can be powerfully extraordinary.
Your emotions are most often at the root of the choices in your life. They are also the result of choices we make in your life. There’s definitely a “which came first – the chicken or the egg?” principle at play here as you make choices to which you have an emotional response or reaction which may affect your next choice(s) at hand which, in turn, create(s) more emotional response.
The two points to be made are…
- The things that you do to have your life work each and every day actually have an emotional impact.
- Your emotions can impact your choices about and behaviors in regard to the matters and circumstances of your everyday life.
We often fail to recognize that if we are don’t feel good about who, what, when, where, or how we choose to spend our time and energy on and with, we have choices we can make to change those aspects of our lives. If we aren’t doing things in our lives that make our lives productive and practically functional, our emotional well-being can be compromised.
We may also find that when our emotional well-being is compromised or otherwise under duress, we are often less productive and practically functional. We may feel less motivated to take on the work or to apply the effort or to make the choices we need to make to create the experience of our lives that we crave.
Either way, there is a direct correlation between how we feel and the choices we make in our lives.
Here are some examples:
- A woman is so angry and upset about a matter that involves one of the children she has with her soon-to-be ex-husband that she publically posts a comment about it on Facebook which brings their recent marriage separation to light. With his high-profile position in his profession and in their community, her comment now brings what was a private matter into the public eye. Now they both have to deal with commentary and feedback and gossip from others that they may not have had to deal with (yet) had she not felt the need to lash-out emotionally.
- An employee speaks negatively of a client in a moment of frustration, only for word to get back to that client. That client is so upset with what they hear, they choose to dissolve their business relationship with the company. The business loses the account as result of one employee’s emotional vent.
- A child overhears her parents arguing over a matter that involves her, but that is not directly about her. However, she is so upset about what she hears, she decides to run away from home, blaming herself for their disagreement. Her disappearance terrifies her parents who find her after a few hours, but are shocked when they hear their daughter say that she left because it she believed it was her fault that they fighting with each other.
Pisces is a water sign, and an emotional energy. However, it is an emotional energy rooted in the principle of how we are all interconnected. It is the sign of philanthropy, spiritual or moral-ethical practice(s), and recognition of self as an extension of All-That-Is. The selflessness and compassion of Pisces is legendary in its healthy and positive expressions. However, in its unhealthy and unbalanced expressions, Pisces can play the victim or martyr in day-to-day matters, claiming its “willing” sacrifice of self for the good of the greater whole. Pisces energy is often where we experience regret, resentment and/or blame because we refuse to take ownership or responsibility of the choices we have made for our own lives or because we take responsibility or blame for others when it it not ours to take.
Virgo attends to the practical day-to-day of our lives. It’s what we tend to choose for ourselves and our lives so they are functional and purposeful on a rather mundane and routine level. Virgo represents the systems we put in place to provide for our daily existence and physical wellness.
Virgo is the tangible and practical practice, or the practice of life from the inside-out, serving and practicing from what is needed to attend to our everyday needs – it is self-love. Pisces is the emotional and spiritual practice of life from the outside-in, serving and practicing from what is needed to make sure everyone’s needs are attended to – it is selfless love.
This parallel and paradox is what makes the Full Moon in Pisces opposite Sun in Virgo so fascinating – this questions of 1) whether or not you take responsibility for who you choose to be in your life (how you choose to love and serve yourself) and 2) whether or not you choose to hold others accountable and responsible for their choices and their lives (how you choose to love and serve others).
These are profound considerations because many of us often take for granted that our emotions, choices, and actions have an impact not only on us, but on those around us. In fact, our choices may have an impact on people and matters that we don’t even imagine would be affected by our behavior or expressions. Whether or not we own up to the effects or results of those choices is paramount in this polarity, as our everyday lives and the lives of those around us can be forever altered in a single moment driven by emotion…and/or our emotional well-being can be forever affected by a single, seemingly unimportant choice in an everyday matter. Many times, people refuse to acknowledge the power of their choices and/or emotions. They deny or avoid the fact that their actions produce consequences, for better and worse. Yet they often give away their power by taking the blame for matters when they don’t need to, or by trying to deflect blame onto others when something is clearly their choice or behavior to be accountable for.
These considerations are also profound because our choices and behaviors reflect the degree of love and service we have for ourselves and others. The Virgo-Pisces axis is very much a matter of how we feel about and choose to serve ourselves, and as result, it is very telling in regard to how we really feel about and serve others around us.
You may find that you are very good about serving yourself, and not so great about being of service to others…or vice-versa. Or you may find that being good to and feeling good about yourself frees you up to be good to others, or that not being good to or feeling good about yourself has you be not good to or not feel good about serving others.
So during these next couple of days, I invite you to be aware of how your choices may affect not only you, but those around you. Recognize the impact of your emotions and choices on not only yourself, but the people around you. In turn, recognize the impact of others’ emotions and choices on you. Also recognize the reach of who you are and can be in the world simply by who you choose to be in your everyday activities and behaviors. Recognize how extraordinary your ordinary is.
Enjoy the week. Until next time…
~ Light, Love and Blessings,
Grace
