Ten Tips for When the Sun is in Pisces

Ten Tips for When the Sun is in Pisces
By Molly Hall, About.com

Tip 1

Pisces energy can inspire us to seek out "yin" places, which are uncrowded, watery, or dense with green (like a rain forest, garden, cave, swamp or marsh). Many of us live in places where yang dominates -- busy, crowded, bright lights, highways, shopping malls. Too much yang makes us irritable, tense, and destructive. A yin power spot restores negative ions which has a calming effect, and makes us more receptive to higher awareness.

In his book, Earth Energies: A Quest for the Hidden Power of the Planet, Hawaiian shaman Serge Kahili King says a power spot is relative and exists only in relationship to its surroundings. For example, the urban garden courtyard at your work place may be yin for you, because it's a respite from the busier setting of the office.

Some yin power spots, says King, are canyons, ravines, glens, bay windows, oases, shorelines, waterfalls, fountains and moving water. Quiet, remote areas with few people are yin. And, he writes, "structures like churches, meditations and medicine wheels are yin, too."

Try seeking out a yin spot this month, for balance and peace of mind. One of my favorites is a trail through a lush swamp wilderness that leads to a river. It's a place that's still very wild and natural. I always feel renewed after going there.

Tip 2

Daydream


This is a must-do, to flex your imaginative muscles. That way, it becomes the boundless creative resource it's meant to be. The solar light of Pisces puts us in an altered state, and the imagination is especially active now. You might daydream with a sketch pad in hand, or just watch the clouds go by. Despite how it looks, it's often active and productive.

Fantasy, imagining scenarios, and the like are the raw material for artists and innovators. Studies show that complex problems can be worked out by daydreaming, and it's often used by athletes to envision the goal being reached before an event. You may try creative visualization, which is imagining the very thing you'd like to bring into your life. I know one Pisces musician that does this every morning as part of his meditation. Be sure to evoke the emotional feelings that go with it, since that will make it more real.

Tip 3

Love Your Neighbor


Pisces carries within it the sense that we're all in this together. And at a time when more and more are struggling, it's a sentiment that can unite us in our communities. This means daring to break the mask of alienated, isolated anonymity, and reaching out.

It's time to quickly organize into small supportive networks of people that care about each other. It may seem simple and commonsensical, but sadly, many of us live cut off from those living around us. The month of Pisces is great for gatherings of total strangers, since for Pisces, "a stranger is a friend that you haven't met yet." Why not schedule a meet n' greet on your block or building, and exchange ideas about creating a web of community.

Tip 4

Talk With Animals


This month, we’re tuned in to subtle kinds of communicating, including communing with other species. It’s strange that we seem to want to make this an out-of-reach ability, with only a few special dog or horse whisperers. But if we’re willing to “hear” with our intuitive and/or instinctual self, we can all listen and respond to our animal friends.

Some animals, like dolphins, communicate through sound frequencies, which is brought up in the award-winning documentary, The Cove . In the movie, the original dolphin acting coach of “Flipper,” Ric O’Barry points out that we train these magnificent creatures using something akin to American Sign Language (a visual medium). It points to a kind of ignorance – a willful inability to understand – their natural form of communication through sound.

But there’s a hopeful surge of interest in going beyond our fixed notions, and trying to meet them being-to-being. As O’Barry says in the film, we’re moving into a new relationship to the environment, from exploitation to respect. It’s a great month to show respect to animals, and the patience to really get to know them. This means going past our own projections of what they’re thinking and feeling, to those exquisite moments of true sharing.

Tip 5

Imagine


This month is ideal for exploring your own inner creative landscapes. If you’re one of those who have strengthened your rational, left brain at the expense of the imaginal, right brain, try taking small steps back to creative health. You can start by making space for your own image factory within to crank up again. It’s a fact of life that we’re often overwhelmed overstimulated by other people’s words and images. Metaphysical teachers like Barbara Marciniak lament that we are being entertained to death. How can you reclaim your imaginative world?

#1 is by Killing your Television. When you watch television, you go into a trance state. The perceptual focus is narrowed down from the sweeping panorama around us, to a small hypnotizing square. At that point, you’re vulnerable to all kinds of programming. This is a month to be bold and courageous, and take control of your own programming. There is so much beauty in the world, but it’s up to us to reach for it.

It’s not an easy transition from being entranced and possibly mind-controlled, to being an awake, alert active creator of your own life. This frees you to fully utilize your creative imagination, for art-making and magically transforming your life.

Tip 6

Co-Create with Nature


With more getting into gardening as a way to be self-sufficient, it’s a great time to commune with nature spirits. This is a step beyond just talking to your plants, to deeply tuning into the nature spirits, so they’ll thrive. At the famous Findhorn Garden in Scotland, they’ve been experimenting with co-creating for decades now. This means tuning into a plant or flower’s overlighting nature spirit with group circles, prayer, etc. This is how they became world famous for growing 40-pound cabbages!

There’s a gardening style called permaculture that’s based on observing nature, and coming up with a holistic design. One of my teachers, Starhawk, holds workshops on permaculture, which is a melding of the practical and intuitive senses. It’s paying attention to which plants thrive together, as well as how to make the most of water runoff or compost.

The spirit of nature can also be your muse this month. Grab your camera and take pictures in the park. Or observe closely the patterns of a leaf. This month, we’re more attuned to Earth as a living library that can teach us so much.

Tip 7

Embrace the Cyclical

One way to make sense of the breakdown we're seeing around us is to reflect on the cyclical nature of life. There's a time to build-up, and a time to dismantle. A time to push into new ground, a time to fortify what you've got, and a time to scatter it all to the four winds. What's happening is a collapse of structures that have grown corrupted and limiting. It's a dying time, but only what needs to die, to make space for the new.

Pisces is a feminine sign, and women -- because of our body cycles -- have an instinctual awareness of this cyclical rhythm. We can attune to it by following the Moon phases, with its time to retreat, wind up and wind down. The labyrinth is symbolic of this journey to the center, and spiraling back out again. It's a great time to make your own labyrinth, or walk one in your area.

Tip 8

Seek/Create Sacred Space

.This is a month for integrating spirituality into your life. You might create an altar -- fireplace mantles are great for this -- where you keep your meaningful photos, totems, stones, intentions, etc. You might place a salt crystal lamp there to generate nourishing negative ions. Turn your bathing space into a refuge with candles and healing salts.

You may dedicate one area of your home for downtime where you keep all your top books, movies, images, music that elevates your spirit. Go to the places that have a nourishing resonance for you. Steer clear of places that deplete you.

Tip 9


Feel the Soulforce

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

.Is the real battle of our time a spiritual one? The apocalypse (unveiling) is showing us that there are masters of dark "occult" energies using their power to steer humanity. The Mayan shaman Carlos Barrios talked of this dark power as more organized, and thus more effective than the light. You can see this darkness in every aspect of our lives -- from the cultural romance with all things violent, irreverent and dark, to leaders that betray the public trust, to the wanton destruction of life through war and environmental degradation.

But there's an awakening happening, and part of that is people coming together to experiment with what Martin Luther King Jr. (Moon in Pisces) called soul force. He said, "Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force." In a profound example of this, the women of Liberia -- wearing white, the color of purity -- demanded peace in what seemed like a hopeless situation. Their actions were made into a movie called, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. The promo material speaks of the mysterious power of soul force, destribing the movie as, "A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverance of the women of Liberia."

The month of Pisces makes us more aware of how we're all connected through the heart. It's a great month to dream up ways to put this soul force into action, to bring more light to the world.

Moonie, after our little chat we just had, I founnd these tips to be very help-FULL and this last ONE even more so.

Bless it BE !! !!

Tip 10

Embrace Chaos


.We are living in chaotic times when major unsettling events seem to be happening at a faster rate. It's an act of faith to trust that the chaos of today, will lead to a more life-centered foundation in the future. We are being asked to let go of many of our familiar anchors. It's a sacrifice, and it's happening to all of us. Pisces is a sign of sacrifice, which has the true meaning, "to make sacred."

As we let go, we can struggle with uncertainty, lostness, a sense of having no traction. It's important to understand this as a natural stage of breakdown -- when the pieces are flying every which way. At this vulnerable point, you're wise to seek out spiritual resources to support your trust in the process. Everyone deals with chaos differently. You may want to dance your way through it!

cool, love that. But I guess I heard more of uranus transit causing problems.

Put on your DANCING SHOES my FRIEND !! !!

Two left- feeter here!