Pisces Season: Dive Into The Deep End

Pisces represents the collective unconscious, where the lessons and experiences of our lives integrate and merge. It’s where we connect with the divine and experience ourselves as part of the greater, unified oneness.  

As the first and last sign of the zodiac Pisces represents the cosmic swirl from which all things emerge from and return to.

To understand Pisces we must look at the dual nature of the Soul, which in Evolutionary Astrology is: to separate from one's original source and also return to it. The opposing desire to both be different, individual and shine our unique light but also to be accepted and belong to something greater than ourselves. 

Kaypacha likens the human soul to a wave reaching upwards and out separating from the greater ocean, then cresting and returning to itself. We long to be unique and different and yet belong to a group.

Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, we emerge from the cosmic oneness that is Pisces and set off on the great journey to share our original, creative self-expression with the world, learning, growing, and evolving our consciousness along the way.

By the time we return to Pisces, we have a lifetime of lessons, experiences and loose ends in need of tying up and integration. 

All the work from the past that we have put off or pushed away reveals itself here.

Imagine the proverbial rug that you keep sweeping the things you don't want to deal with under. By Pisces season there is a giant mound of to-do’s piled high under this rug that you keep tripping over. The necessary work becomes self-evident. The choice is to build your life around the obstruction or to take care of the mess.

This is the sign that rules the 12th house, the area of self undoing, meaning the area where we integrate our past or we unravel in a spectacular burning cloud of fire, or in other words, self-sabotage.

We either surrender ourselves to something greater or reach to our favorite vices to avoid the hard work.

Therefore, Pisces season is the time where we reflect on the past year, 5 years, 10 years, etc, and make an honest assessment about the areas where we get in our own way, our traumas and unconscious behaviours that need integration, and make choices about how to move forward. Or we don't. You can do the work in this lifetime or the next but eventually you will have to do the work.

Neptune is the planet associated with Pisces. Neptune represents the area in our charts where we connect to spirit, our collective ideals, and dreams or we descend into confusion, illusion and fantasy. Incidentally, Neptune is the higher octave of Venus, and Venus is exalted in Pisces, where her themes of love, beauty, equality and personal value extend to humanity or she gets lost in her own world of fantasy.

We must make our way beyond ourselves and relinquish the ideas and sense of control we cling to in order to evolve. This is why Neptune is represented by the hang man in Tarot its either where we surrender to something beyond ourselves which opens us up to new possibilities, ideas and wisdom or it can represent our actual ‘hang-ups’, the ideas and behaviors that tether us to the past and keep us from growing.

In Greek mythology Neptune was the God that ruled over the ocean, the actual primordial soup from which all life on earth sprang from. The ocean universally represents the subconscious mind, the vast unknown, the depths of which cannot be observed from above, or our conscious awareness.

This is relevant to the tarot card associated with Pisces,“The Moon”, which in the Rider-Smith-Waite deck features a lobster emerging from a body of water, let's just call it an ocean. The idea is that Lobsters dwell on the very bottom of the ocean, feeding on the literal sh*t of the creatures above it. Ergo, the Lobster represents the part of ourselves that is the most obscured and deep, hidden from our conscious awareness, that feeds on our guilt and shame. When the Moon card comes up in tarot, oftentimes it means a period where your deep-seeded shame and pain comes to the surface to be seen and healed, like a lobster arising from the depths.

This can be a deeply uncomfortable period of time, where outside events may trigger your most deep-seated issues, but it is at once a wonderful opportunity to integrate your past, to lighten your energetic load, and make space for a new round of lessons and adventures in Aries season. Whatever comes your way this season, approach with a sense of curiosity and excitement to explore and understand yourself better.

Pay close attention to your emotions. Whenever you feel uncomfortable, stressed, anxious, angry, sad, guilt, shame, etc, this is the little lobster showing itself to you, pointing to the areas of yourself in need of attention.