Pisces is about emotion, intuition, imagination, inspiration, compassion and empathy. Known as the great philanthropist of the Zodiac, Pisces can be so caught up in its dreamy idealism or sacrificial selflessness, it often forgets that it needs to be well and taken care of in order to be able to attend to the wellness and care of others.
It’s kind of like trying to give others water from an empty well – if you’re going to offer others water, you must remember that your well needs to have some water in it for you to offer.
That said, consider the water in the well to be intuition, emotion and unconditional love. For you to offer those qualities, you must have them for yourself first and foremost. And with these qualities, one usually evokes the others.
For example, with my own Moon in Pisces in the 7th house and four planetary influences in Scorpio, I am so intensely empathic that I tend to pick up on the emotions of others. For a long time, I’d often take others’ emotions on as my own. There would be times when I’d find myself happy or upset for no good reason…and I’d be so upset and angry with myself for acting or behaving a way that was sometimes completely irrelevant, inappropriate or out of proportion to the circumstances or situation at hand.
It took a lot of years for me to realize that the emotional responses belonged to someone around me. Once I was able to make that distinction, I was able to start forgiving myself for all the times I took others’ emotions and issues on as my own. And through the forgiveness, I was able to be more compassionate toward myself for the times when I ‘crossed over’. I was also able to appreciate and love the gift I had been given and love myself for finding healthy and positive ways to utilize them in service to others in ways that don’t drain or detriment me and my own life.
And now that I can recognize this ‘collapsing’ of myself with others, there are still some times where I’ll catch myself owning other people’s emotional energy. It’s funny because once I catch it, then it becomes rather interesting figuring out who the emotion(s) belong to. But most important, it expands my ability to have compassion for the people I am picking up on, and through that compassion I find the ability to experience love for them.
You are always intuitively drawn to what you need to heal, grow and/or move forward in your soul’s journey for this lifetime. If you are attracted to someone or something, it is for a reason that is MUCH bigger than you alone. In fact, it is likely that either you are meant to grow from the experience of that person or situation, or they are meant to grow or be purposely affected from the involvement with you.
Even if the experience is painful or not what we envisioned or hoped, we can still have gratitude and love the person(s) involved for giving us the opportunity to learn something about people, life and most of all, about ourselves.
Whether it is through your volunteer work, your donations of time or material resource or physical activity, your creative or artistic talents, your imaginative contributions or insights, your psychic abilities and intuitive insights, or your gift for being compassionate and loving to others – it ALL connects you to someone or something else which is connected to someone or something else…which is connected to someone or something else…
Eventually, the connections begin to double back…and when they do, that’s when it proves the point of this message: it’s ALL connected. Everyone and everything. It’s all connected in some way. Everything and everyone comes back to its source eventually.
The Sun entered Pisces on February 18th. When it did, it brought us all into a heightened awareness of our emotional and intuitive and empathic connections to all around us. This month is all about opportunities to experience these connections and to become aware of our connectivity to All-That-Is. This occurs both as we are able to make contributions to the lives and life journeys of others, and as we experience the contributions of others to our own.
The Sun joined Neptune (which entered Pisces – its natural sign association – on February 3rd) and Mercury (which entered Pisces on February 13th). The combination of these three influences make this Pisces 2012 cycle an especially dreamy and ethereal one. There is a LOT of feeling, intuition, and simple “knowing” that just cannot be explained in terms of tangible reality right now. There is also a great deal of dreaminess and fantasy at play right now, which can lead to some serious blurring of the distinctions between idealistic fantasy and practical reality.
The New Moon in Pisces that arrived on February 21st brought even more emotional and intuitive energy into this already spacey and dreamy period of time.
Think about and take note of what you started on or near the 21st, and pay attention to how it evolves over the next couple of weeks as we move toward the Full Moon in Virgo.
Also take this next few days to notice the synchronicity that is occurring in your life.
- Notice how someone you’re thinking about suddenly calls or sends you a message.
- Notice how the lyrics of a song you are hearing are just what you need to hear to help you understand something you’re going through or trying to figure out in your life.
- Notice how you keep running into the same person in different places…or how people from different aspects of your life are all coming together in one place.
- Or maybe even notice how there are people in your life who are connected that you had no idea or never imagined would be connected.
And through it all, most of all, be aware of how what we send out into the world comes back to us…eventually.
And if that’s the case, why don’t we make it a point to send out empathy, compassion, inspiration and Love?
I’d love to hear about the emotions and intuitions you are experiencing during this time, and I’d love to hear the amazing connections you notice or that are revealed to you in these next few days.
Thank you for reading and sharing. Until next time…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
