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Exercise Update: ‘Developing Your Archetypal Eye’.

If you have been trying out the exercises each month, I would, as always, be interested to hear of what you have discovered.

As we move into another zodiacal round I will be editing some of the original posts to keep them relevant. This will include removing the Archetypal Eye exercises so if you want to try them I suggest you save the instructions in last year’s post.

For me, during the sign of Pisces, I noticed increased awareness of artistic topics. One I can remember is a radio interview about painter Edvard Munch, of ‘The Scream’ fame. Piscean correspondences of extreme anxiety, fear, insanity and the soul are related to this work. I also watched the latest of a BBC documentary, ‘Seven Ages of Britain’, which focussed on the cauldron of creativity that is modern art.

The film ‘The Lightning Thief’ (left)was actually released on February 12th (with the Sun in Aquarius – related to lightning of course), but I came across it after the Sun had entered Pisces. This film, steeped in Greek mythology, reveals the main protagonist to be the sun of Poseidon (Neptune, ruler of Pisces) and the Neptunian glyph, the trident, is prominent throughout. The lightning that is in the title belongs to Zeus (Jupiter) and Jupiter is not only the co-ruler of Pisces but is currently placed in this sign. One could speculate that there are astrological truths reflected in the film’s plot (I won’t spoil it), which also involves Chiron, Ares (Mars) and Hades (Pluto).

I also spent a great deal of time researching the Global Consciousness Project. Pisces relates to macrocosmic themes of this nature.

The main feeling I got from this whole period, something mentioned in the Munch programme, was that art is the best way we have today of conveying spirituality to those who don’t currently accept a spiritual dimension to life.

Finally, on the last day before the Sun entered Aries there seemed to be an element of chaos in the air, almost as if the dramatic shift from the nebulousness of Pisces to the focussed concentration of Aries was too much for the cosmos to handle. Last year,if you remember, the shift was marked dramatically by the eruption of an underwater volcano in the South Pacific.

…And finally, one less pleasant correspondence (and an embarrassing admission), I picked up a fungal toenail infection. Both fungi and the feet are associated with Pisces.

And that’s it for the exercises. I certainly have become a better astrologer by applying them and I hope you found your own value in them.

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The Attributes of Pisces

Pisces’ day ruler is Neptune and its night ruler is Jupiter (van Wingerden, 2010). Neptune is the planet of refinement and dissolution, revelation and illusion, sleep and dreaming, including substances that induce both. Neptune was known to the Greeks as Poseidon, god of the sea, and so the element of water and its connection to artistic and spiritual inspiration, are Piscean concerns. Jupiter, the largest of the planets, injects a tendency to exaggeration, egotism and enhanced vision. Indolence is also a possibility where Jupiter is concerned and, combined with Neptune’s connection with the realm of sleep and dreams, it is easy to see where the stereotype of the unreliable, constantly late Piscean comes from.

Pisceans are not comfortably housed in the mundane world, seeking to either transcend it or escape it. The sigil of the sign depicts two connected fish and is often seen as representing these twin traits, one swimming upwards towards ‘the light’ with the other descending into illusion and the glamour of materialism. Another,more occult explanation is that the two fish represent the physical body and its ‘astral’ counterpart, connected by the oft-mentioned ‘silver cord’. However, Babylonian tradition relates the fish to the goddesses Anunitum and Simmah, in turn symbolising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Parker and Parker, 2001).

Pisces is a mutable sign. This translates as an extreme impressionability, especially to artistic and spiritual influences. This can account for both the artistic and mediumistic abilities often associated with the sign. It also explains why Pisceans can often become deeply affected by the moods and crises of those around them. Perhaps it is this that sometimes results in self-imposed isolation from the world. Neptune is also the great dissolving and eroding force of the Zodiac, whether that be the removal of the Berlin wall or the less physical erosion of the boundaries between public and private, real and imagined, that is such a feature of life in the 21st Century as the planet inches towards Pisces for the first time since the late 19th Century.

The polar opposite of Pisces is Virgo and this axis epitomizes the conflict between matter and spirit and points the way to its resolution. An overly Piscean nature may concentrate on the big picture to the exclusion of any practical considerations. Those who believe they can transcend physical laws or who make grand philanthropic plans without the means to enact them would probably have Pisces emphasised in their charts. These are the people who,in the words of visionary and former wilderness guide Jonathan Zap, might ‘mistake the map for the terrain’.

To continue the analogy, the extreme Virgoan is apt to identify too much with the terrain, ignoring the landmarks they need to orientate themselves to their goals and ending up lost and aimless. This is the type that will not see the wood for the trees and will get bogged down in superfluous detail.

To blend Virgo and Pisces perfectly enables simultaneously the spiritualisation of matter and the grounding of spirit. A person who solves this conundrum can both make grand plans and deal with the housekeeping. To Christians it may also be interesting to note that in Pisces and Virgo we have two of the most well-known symbols of that faith; the Christian fish and the earthly mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary.

Pisces is related to the principles of transcendence, faith, communion, humility, imagination, self-renunciation and love. It is the sign of the musician, the artist, the psychic. The negative side of these qualities include impracticality, over-emotionality, carelessness, confusion, gullibility and indecision.

Physiologically Pisces relates to the feet, substance abuse and (by reflex with Virgo), the intestines. Aquarius also relates to the sea, fluids, plastics, waterlilies, willow, lime, lettuce, fish, Portugal and Jerusalem.

Pisces is associated with soft sea-green, the stones moonstone and bloodstone and the metals platinum and tin.

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Do you have any personal experiences with any of the themes above, or with Astrology in general that you would like to share? If so, please leave a comment below.

References/Sources used (please use my bookstore if you want to order the books):

Parker, D. and Parker, J. (2001) ‘Parker’s astrology: New edition’, DK, London
Mayo, J. (1964) ‘Astrology’, Teach Yourself Books, London
van Wingerden, B. (2010), ‘The cosmic law of seven’, The Astrological Journal, 52:1, pp 42-43.

Image attributions

Lightning Thief image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license by Ttarasiuk
Neptune image released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany by the late Max Bauer
Jerusalem image is in the public domain

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Now on radio!

Finally, I am now on radio, once a month, here in the UK. The radio station is ‘Magic 999′,part of the ‘Rock FM’ group and I take calls for about 40 minutes from 0830 on Jude’s Breakfast Show. The show broadcasts to Lancashire but non-Lancastrians can listen online on www.magic999.co.uk. My next show is likely to be on Wednesday 14th Apr 2010, the morning after I will be present at the Magic 999 ‘Psychic Night’ (see website for details).

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