It's Astro-Logical -- practical advice for conscious living -- Issue #6

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Has life kind of "stopped making sense?"

There's a lot of strange, contradictory energy around right now ... and it has everyone edgy. Do you have a lot of impressive projects in mind, a long list of ambitions and interests that really excite you? Are you looking forward to seeing them bloom?

But at the same time, has your energy just tanked? Are you tired all the time? Does the prospect of a nap usually win out over doing something creative on your goals? Are the movies in your mind assorted and jumbled? Do you rock back and forth between enthusiasm and depression ... enough that you're really annoyed with yourself?

Well, the patterns in the sky certainly describe exactly that kind of energy. We're dealing with the lingering effects of a late, late New Moon in Pisces ... and yet current conditions have four planets in Aries, including Mercury retrograde in the sign.

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More adjustments than usual

Every set of adjacent signs contradict one another, as if the one following has to compensate and neutralize the excesses of the one that came before. With every sign change, Life's pendulum swings, seeking balance. But the shift between Pisces, the end of Life's Creative Cycle and Aries, the Sign of New Beginnings, is especially stark. The sequence this year heightens the tension -- and may have you double-guessing yourself at every turn.

So, we need to talk about what's going on ... and look forward to the end of April / beginning of May when our footing on the path will be a little more steady. For now, go ahead and sketch out your visions and thoughts. Take some tentative steps. But realize that with Mercury retrograde (which we'll talk about soon!) you will change your mind -- maybe several times -- before settling on plans that please you.

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It's all part of the process

But don't skimp on the dreaming ... and visualizing. Those are important steps in the creative process. Meditate. Re-establish contact with your intuition if that has drifted a bit. Eat right. Rest when you need to. And if a nap -- or an early bedtime -- really call to you, don't fight the feeling. The most creative part of your mind works while you sleep. Works best then, actually. By turning the reins over to it for a while, you're actually doing yourself a favor. If you can afford the down-time, let it be.

Let's talk about what's happening one piece at a time. Even trying to absorb too much information is taxing now. You'll do better with small bites and tiny snacks instead of a banquet. This is true whether you're looking for dinner ... or something to nibble, or trying to make sense of the mixed messages Life is handing us all for a while. Little bits are easier to process ... physically, intellectually, emotionally. Work with this truth for now. Fighting it -- or trying to push through it -- will only wear you out faster. You don't need that. Srsly.

Forecast for the New Moon in Pisces
Let's talk about this side of the matter
What we're all going through ...

So, the New Moon in Pisces arrived last week ... the final step on the creative journey for this year, this latest segment of learning and development. And then a few days later, the Sun crossed over into Aries ... and with that, we all began the start of another trip around life's spiral.

The arrival of Spring -- with the entrance of The Sun into Aries every year -- is the real start of another cycle -- the beginning of a brand new year as far as the indicators from the Cosmos -- and our own psychology -- are concerned. All that hoopla around January 1 is just so much silliness ... yet it continues.

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What's significant about this?

Well, the New Moon in Pisces formed very, very late in the sign this year -- around 27°, basically cuddled up right on the cusp of Aries. Symbolically, this means something -- about what to expect in the coming weeks ... and where you are on this segment of life's journey.

New Moons forming early in the sign show the beginnings of cycles, new developments and opportunities, new projects and things just getting underway. New Moons near the middle of their signs shows ongoing development, continuing maturity, things "coming along" toward completion.

So -- obviously -- a New Moon that forms near the end of a sign show that a cycle of learning and growth is finishing up. Things are reaching an end. It's time to add final details, make last minute adjustments ... and prepare to move on. The closer the Lunation forms to the end of the sign ... the closer we are to the end of this growth cycle. Twenty-seven degrees is pretty darn close. There are only 30 degrees in a sign and one of them is 0. The sequence starts with 0 ... not 1.

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The New Moon in Pisces

With the New Moon in Pisces, attitudes soften into a calm, almost passive, acceptance that you are part of some greater plan ... and the more you align yourself there, the easier life gets for everyone -- you, your Higher Self, your family of Inner Selves ... and the Divine Source itself.

Pisces relinquishes much of the force and urgency that marked Aquarius and its agenda last month. A Zen-like approach of watching, waiting, thinking, envisioning ... and letting life have its own way undisturbed for a while ... brings marvelous possibilities of settling back and letting life surprise you with its own directions and desires.

If nothing else, Pisces encourages you to adopt the time-honored practice of learning to pause and listen. A jumbled mind needs time to clear, time to reflect, time to center itself and hear again the quiet whispers of Inner Voices -- all of whom have a lot of wisdom to dispense. Meditate once in a while -- if only to discover the joys of what I just described. The simple chance to just hear yourself think is unbelievably fine.

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But it's not just that simple

But there's lots of contradiction in this chart, too ... shown by the three (now four) planets clustered together in Aries -- the go-getter supreme of the Zodiac. Those Inner Selves are ready to rock ... and they too need your acknowledgment and cooperation. So consciously arranging periods of activity interlaced with periods of quiet and rest is your best strategy this month.

Revive the wonderful tradition of siesta -- something our neighbors south of the border use a lot. Half-a-day's work ... then a long leisurely lunch and nap ... another half-a-day's work ... then dinner, music, relaxation, entertainment, congenial company -- and sleep. Much, much better than running full out from dawn til dark ... maybe grabbing a sandwich somewhere in the middle -- and arriving both keyed-up and exhausted at the end. If you'd like to try this wisdom this month -- make it a gift to yourself.

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What is Pisces energy all about?

The energy of the New Moon in Pisces is not flashy -- or pushy in the conventional sense. Pisces itself is a quiet, gentle, private influence. Its work is subtle ... but oh-so-substantive. It is coaxing -- not coercive. It heals and inspires. It is contemplative and visionary, roaming more in the territory of imagination than out in the exhausting lanes of physical reality.

It often seems unsuited to the clash and clamor of the material world -- and yet without it, that same world lacks the vital spiritual bonds that literally hold everything together.

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So, what does this mean to you?

In Pisces, you undergo a lot of inner developments and revolutionary insights ... and make decisions about future plans that will be significant -- eventually. It's time to direct your energy inward as old conditions, ideas, views, situations, and intentions dissolve to make room for more appropriate (and definitely more vital) replacements. If you can do all this and live life at anything faster than a routine idle, you're a stronger soul than I am.

There is always plenty of work to do in Pisces, but all of it means being quiet and settling down long enough to listen to your inner voices, hold conferences with your Higher Self ... and decide what you all are going to do. This is what's on the agenda for the collective world. So, it's time to concentrate on that.

More soon. (I wish Steemit were better suited for the way I like to work.)

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Little by little, I'm doing a set of articles that talks about all the elements in your horoscope and what they have to say about you. If you "know something" about Astrology -- or know something about your chart placements, that will help you get more from this material.

If you don't ... well, this is one place you can learn. We all have to start somewhere ... because we aren't born knowing this stuff. Meanwhile, if you've never seen your horoscope ... and don't have a clue how to work with it, maybe it's time to find out. There are lots of "chart services" on the internet -- some of whom produce decent, readable charts "for free" and some are so awful and confusing that even I can't read them easily -- and I've worked with charts for decades.

One extremely user-friendly chart site is here: AstroLabe. I recommend them if you want a simple, easy-to-read chart. I think they even give a reasonable little interpretive reading of your horoscope as part of the package. You'll need to know your birth information -- day, month, year, time and geographical place. Without all that your chart will have limited accuracy.

Or, if you want to get serious and really talk about this, upvote this post and start a conversation in the comments section sometime in the next six days from the time of publication. We'll go from there depending on what you want to know.

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About the art in our visual essays ...

Although sometimes the background pictures in our visual essays support the topic and text, they don't always. Sometimes the connection is clear. Sometimes it's symbolic and subtle. Sometimes, there's no connection at all.

The scenes depict landscapes and natural features, buildings and wildlife. They were chosen because they show something lovely or interesting ... or simply because the photo appealed to me.

Our spectacular and remarkable planet is changing at astonishing speed. Rarely are these changes for the better. Few people seem to know ... or care ... or have the will and power to do anything about this. It may not be long before the world humans have known and lived in for centuries is forever lost. We certainly won't be able to make repairs as fast as we destroyed it.

So a few years ago I began collecting pictures of the way things were ... and still are for now, a record of the beauty we have while it is still ours to love and honor.

The photos here are part of that collection, with sincere thanks to the artists who saw these moments ... and with their cameras ... preserved them. All of us at Enchanted Spirit are profoundly grateful to them for their generosity and skill ... and for the added grace, depth and dimension their art brings to ours.

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