Sun in Pisces: Union
We come to the end of a cycle. Last March, we began in Aries, journeying with the Sun as it moved through each of the signs. What have we seen? What have we learned? Where do we go next?
Pisces completes the circle of experience, connecting ends and beginnings and linking all physical and metaphysical realms. As an archetype, Pisces moves us into divine union with all things human, emotional, spiritual, and beyond. It experiences everything as part of a great cosmic gesture, knowing that perceived differences are impossible in a shared universe. Seamless and selfless, Pisces is capable of tremendous sensitivity, empathy, and compassion as it diffuses all divisions. In Pisces’ view, we are all moving and breathing as an infinite and perfect whole, energetically merged beyond reason and logic.
As a mutable water sign, Pisces is most comfortable in the realms of oceanic emotion. It cannot be contained by structures of time, language, or reality, preferring to plunge into waves of pure energy, feeling, and intuition. Pisces swirls in dreams, wanderings, and fantasies, speaking in symbols and sensations. When submerged in its limitless subjectivity, Pisces can access immense powers of imagination, creativity, and spiritual surrender. Here, every moment is poetry. Here, every breath is a daydream.
Yet what makes Pisces boundless also makes it profoundly permeable. Pisces’ osmotic nature can absorb the energies and emotions that surround it, making them inseparable from its own. When it drowns in empathy, Pisces can become unable to disentangle itself from others, taking on all troubles and becoming mired in codependency. When it loses all sense of boundaries, Pisces can become confused and overwhelmed -- and in this state of energetic overload, it may seek escape into its dreamworld, refusing to recognize shared material realities. At its worst, Pisces can kumbaya its way through injustice, idealizing love and light as solutions to systemic struggles. Pisces’ challenge is to recognize that, although we are connected under the cosmos, we are not all one on earth -- for power differences embedded in race, class, gender, and other distinctions have created inequitable human experiences.
As we move through Pisces, and Pisces moves through us, how can we use the energy of this season? Pisces asks us for softness, spaciousness, and gentleness as we strive to create a more compassionate world. In Pisces season, we can be led by our hearts and our hopes, knowing that each of our words and actions cultivates a powerful shared continuum of transformation. In Pisces season, we can see our reflections in each other, because we are part of all things and all things are part of us. In Pisces season, we can unite in profound solidarity, with generosity and humility, from which we will be born again in the spring.