12th Solar Month - Pisces

Length: 29 days (Feb 19 - Mar 19)
Nominal: Pisceans
Symbol: A pair of fish
Element: Water
Quality: Mutable
Rulers (Dignities): Neptune (day) & Jupiter (night)
Detriments: Mercury (day) & Lilith (night)

Tropical or solar zodiac is basically the same every year and is aligned to the seasons. Sidereal zodiac shifts and is how the stars appear in the sky at a given moment. Your true sign is the sidereal one and may or may not match the tropical zodiac.

Mermaid Moon

Hathor's Day, Rekh Wer 5
Metonic Lunation 213
Mayan Tzolk'in - 17 Pax (White Rhythmic Wizard)
Dreamspell - Red Magnetic Dragon (1 Imix)

On the Mermaid Moon, we explore our internal fantasies. Could you dedicate a whole day to daydreaming? If not, perhaps dedicating it to reading fantasy novels would be a better thing. Escapist movies will work too. Ask yourself though: ...What pulls you back to the mundane world; what are your anchors there? Remember to eat and take care of physical needs. - Moon Phase Astrology by Raven Kaldera.

Waxing Crescent in sidereal Pisces

How I wish I could daydream all day! I'll probably read a book. I'm in the middle of several. Two of them are The Lost World and The Shining. I'm still trying to find The Mayan Codex as my library only has the 1st in the AntiChrist Trilogy.

Do you like the fantasy genre? What are your favorite movies or novels?

Poet's Moon

Ra's Day

Waxing Gibbous in sidereal Pisces

On the Poet's Moon, we read the poetry that moves us, especially aloud in a group so that a variety of people can hear it. If you write poetry yourself, this is a good time to do it...and a good time to work on figuring out how to best open yourself to the Voice of the Universe. - Moon Phase Astrology by Raven Kaldera.

I haven't written poetry in such a long time. Perhaps because I haven't been inspired to do so. During one of my church's Open Mic nights, I read Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou. Such a great poem! Another one of my favorite poems is love is thicker than forget by e. e. cummings. His poems are kind of weird and he makes use of formatting in strange ways.

One of the last poems I wrote was answered in kind by my husband. I won't reproduce them here because the content of both poems are very explicit. I told hubs that we should write and self-publish a poetry book together.

So I need to figure out what moves me, what inspires me. A clean house for sure. I cannot think in a mess.

Do you like to read or write poetry? If so, who is your favorite poet? Feel free to post your own poem in the comments.

Moon of Lost Souls

Hathor's Day
LuniSol - Moonth 8, Day 6
Metonic - Year 13, Lunation 205, Day 22
Dreamspell - Blue Self-Existing Night (4 Akbal) - Kin 43
Mayan Tzolk'in - 9 Cib (Yellow Solar Warrior) - Kin 256
Mayan Ha'ab - 19 Zec

3rd Quarter Moon in sidereal Pisces

The Moon of Lost Souls is a gray and hollow time. It is a time of seeing clearly the worst of the world, all the bad things that humanity does to itself, and empathizing with that pain even when it hurts. On this Moon, we stretch our pity and see how far we can go before our defense mechanisms kick in. We stare down into the Universal Sorry and see if it breaks us. - Moon Phase Astrology by Raven Kaldera.

I can't stand to hear about people abusing animals. I mean, I understand that everyone doesn't like pets but there is no reason to abuse them. Later this month, my dog Samus will get spayed. Although I wish I didn't have to submit her to that surgery, I understand why it is necessary. Rescues and humane shelters are overcrowded with unwanted pets.

There is no need for any human being to not have clean drinking water. Oh, I guess except for greed and monetary gain.

All this talk about the world ending - it won't happen by an act of a vindictive God. We humans are ruining the Earth ourselves, and She is rebelling. If the end of the world happens, it will be because we caused it by our lack of concern.

Marriage equality should be a non-issue. Just because certain religions forbid same-sex marriage doesn't mean that SSM should be forbid civilly or by the government.

What things make you wish you weren't a member of the human race?

Mystic's Moon

Ra's Day

Waxing crescent in sidereal Pisces

On the Mystic's Moon, we pray or meditate or go to a moving religious ritual or find some other way to experience All That Is. If this is something that is not part of your life, skip this Moon. - Moon Phase Astrology by Raven Kaldera.

1st quarter Uposatha

Ah, one of the times that my practices overlap. In some Buddhist practices, the phases of the moon are consider a sabbath of sorts. Today is the 1st quarter or half moon. Theme is balance. I like to do a tarot card spread with an even amount of cards.