This new moon is in Pisces, the last sign of the Zodiac. It's the phase where all streams return to the big ocean, and there's a realization of Oneness. Often, it's painted as soft and a push-over. But Pisces swims in deep waters, and when it's a major player, we're seeing just the part that's visible. The churning happens deep within, and requires a lot of solitude for this process to be nurtured as a source of strength.

It's an ideal new moon to find your own way of diving within. One way is meditation, but each of us is unique, and only you know what takes you to that place that's both private, but somehow linked up to higher planes. This is THE new moon to choose another path, and turn inward to find what you need to sustain you through hard times. Since Pisces is the natural artist, this diving inward is also a path to greater personal creativity, too. Your intentions may even merge the two with divinely inspired creative pursuits, as in Zen Drawing or Ritual Theatre.

The Sun-Moon alignment in Pisces is shocked and lit up by Uranus winding down it's long transit through the sign of mystics and unity. Since the big U is a generational planet, it's been creating surprising moments of heart Oneness. Uranus rules the Internet and wave currents, and has been an instant uniter of the globe. You can almost feel the global heart aching together, with suffering intensifying in our world. This awakens the empathy of Pisces, as well as intense emotions that can have their own momentum. Uranus is a key player now, and this new moon gives the Awakener a starring role, with these heart surges nudging us to evolve.

Will we step up to the challenge of creating a new world? Are we doing that with our thoughts and actions each day? We're living the plot line of a thriller, where there seem to be shadowy figures that prefer the masses to be cowering in fear and under control. The fear paralyzes us, and makes us forget we have power. This year, with Jupiter in Aquarius, the path to finding faith is joining together to re-create the world from new visions. It's not a hippy reach for some utopian ideal; we are at the crossroads, and now is the time.

Just gaze upon these planets in sparkly Aquarius -- Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Chiron, as well as the directional path marker, the North Node. The Aquarian way is the high road, since it sees from a lofty perspective, and sees that anything is possible. You might find yourself charting a new career path, based on a desire to be part of this transition. It gives weight to individual perceptions, so you trust what you know. And then, it draws you toward kindred spirits that share your vision. That's why it's an amazing time to mingle among groups that are actively living your values.

Lusty Venus in Aries is a social icebreaker, and is now in a supportive sextile to many of the Aquarius planets. It puts an urgent fire into the idea of finding your tribe. And it rushes ahead, with creating support networks, which is a very wise thing to do right now.

Another auspicious aspect is Pluto's sextile to planets in Pisces. This may help soften the many landings of this freefall, as Pluto in earth sign Capricorn seeks a solid grounding for the new. It frames the urgent debates about the global economy and natural resources, with the most vulnerable in mind. The Saturn-Uranus opposition is also still in play. With every outburst, catalytic act or release of Uranus, there's a balancing force that seeks to re-set the structure. It's revolution versus authority, and many are predicting more social unrest. But it's also finding workable, practical new structures that will meet the cry of the collective soul.

So this new moon is a portal to choosing love or fear. And with Aquarius and Pisces so plentiful, it's a love that encircles all of humanity. We are more powerful than we realize. What's cultivated within, is then reflected by the kind of world we live in. This new Moon is a chance to re-create the world, one that is a mirror of who we are, at our most compassionate, unique, colorful, visionary and hopeful.

The New Moon is a time of beginnings. You can set intentions or do a New Moon Ritual that grows with the lunar light and reaches fruition at the Full Moon.


• intense emotions
• picking up vibes from others
• feeling the oneness of all life
• yearning for Spirit
• soulful moments
• being drawn to the sublime, tender, loving expressions of art

New Moon in Pisces themes:
• Dealing with emotional and psychic chaos.
• Seeing aspects of your life dissolve, and be revealed as illusion.
• Seeing that you're an eternal being, having an experience.
• Wrapping up loose ends, resolving karma.
• Preparing for a spiritual rebirth.
• Forgiving your enemies.


It's a Good Time to:
• meditate
• let emotions drift on by like clouds
• imagine and create   
• take a long cleansing bath
• sit in the sauna/steamroom and tune in to spirit
• spend time near or by the ocean

The sabian symbol for 26 Pisces is:



Watching the very thin moon crescent appearing at sunset, different people realize the time has come.


This is a symbol of universal initiative as a basic dynamic in any personal scheme of things, and it reveals itself most simply in man’s instinctive and often blind outreach to the reality in which he participates. His action must be tentative until he achieves his own true self-discovery, but he makes a fine skill of his uncertainty and refuses to commit himself except as he encounters a full response to his deeper realization and ultimate motives. The keyword is diversifying. When positive, the degree is a thoroughgoing capitalization on life’s transitions and effective development of every emerging potentiality of self, and when negative, a completely disruptive vacillation.