March 10, 2005

Metaversal Newfishmoonegg

The latest from Johannes Ayres...

THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFT
HYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM

PISCES NEW MOON
THURSDAY, MARCH 10th

Well, Your Name, have you come this far (to the end of the Lunar year) to spread intricate sadness with all possible combinations of dour gesticulations and complex facial contortions? Didn't think so. Is there any way Pisces could please you without resorting to the obvious? By the time we come to Pisces, no one ever knows what time it is, but all have the sense that it must be getting very, very late. Hey, we could rename skyscrapers cloudsnaggers. Punches could be thrown out of windows, showering spirits upon those living below the party line. Nightcaps could be dislodged an hour later on holidays, extending daylight for the revellers and looters. We've been and are everything. Identities and boundaries get very fuzzy at this stage, and they're supposed to. New Moon in Pisces reminds us that we are on an infinite journey, ever leaving, ever returning. Where have we been? And who are we? We are a raindrop. We are the ocean. As warm jets, we are ever slow here and glide lusciously, just overhead, spreading our Lightcraft's auralchemy over the topomorphic fields.

We are the particles and waves that blink in and out of existence. This is the enigma of Pisces. Paradox. Mysticism. Madness. The longing for Home and the realization that we never left. The glyph for Pisces, two fishes swimming in opposite directions, symbolizes the imperative to integrate two dimensions - the finite and the infinite. Neptune, which rules Pisces, was the mythic God of the Sea; he is associated with the swells of emotion and the vast mysteries of the collective unconscious. In the modern Western world, this is largely misunderstood territory. Chickadees have been known to fornicate with badgers here, for christsakes. We're trained to trust logic and reason, not dreams or feelings. We're rewarded for achieving material gain rather than developing our imagination or our compassion. It's no coincidence that those who struggle with addictions are often idealistic, artistic souls who have a strong connection to the twelfth sign, the 12th house, or its natural ruler, Neptune.

Eventually, we realize that spiritual longings cannot be sated by food, drugs, sex, or the right deodorant. So, what will satisfy our deepest desires? This New Moon calls us to remember our soul's yearnings. Why did we incarnate? What have we come to give? Each of us signed a prenatal contract, which can be delineated by the degrees of our natal planets and their accompanying spiritual principles. Everything seethes and churns in this region, but that's okay: it's all part of Pisces, and soon you won't notice it anyway as you enter into your own state of turbulescent grace. Whatever calls you from outside the curtain can wait. You're here now, and ready at last to open your eyes. When you do, you'll see that Time is a soft jagged wave moving through you and Space is a malleable domain sculpted by perception. Rest assured: the voluptuous terror you feel swiftly gives way to splendour. Suddenly you will re more awake than you've been since retiring from the womb. The secret phenomenological truth, encrypted against corruption at your birth but now transmitted lucidly across every synapse, is that the World is determined by imaginative volition. How much love can one being express?

Now that this has been revealed, your purpose is clear. You might as well get used to it: YOU ARE A GLORIOUS NEW REALITY! How much light can one craft carry? How much truth can one being speak?" Since this New Moon is at the 20th degree of Pisces, we might reflect on Gratitude - the deep understanding that life is a gift, not a burden or assignment." This contradicts much of our social and religious upbringing, which maintains that we have experienced a fall from Grace and must toil to be redeemed and released from the physical world. Even if we were not personally raised with this belief, it permeates our collective unconscious. At 24° Sagittarius, Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld and of unconscious realms, squares this New Moon, challenging us to investigate our most fundamental beliefs. Were we cast out of the Garden, or did we choose to come here as part of a grand Metaversal experiment? Are we born sinners, or are we Divinity playing hide and seek with itself? Is the primary purpose of life to discover what to do - or what to be? Sagittarius' domain is the territory of social, cultural, and religious conditioning; Pisces? terrain is that of spirituality and the direct perception of truth. What were we told to believe? And what do we know in our hearts?

This square nudges us to look deeper. Do not remove the special goggles just yet. What appears as blackness in this case is a visual field so rich in data you can't see the florist for the bees. So just surrender and take things [It's not necessary to write this down – it will happen to you again, in the same way] shaggy muzzle of a perfunctory dispatch nuzzles your crotch and growls at the same time you look out the window and realize its pane is really a liquid crystal display of something much nicer than what actually exists beyond the frame. There are two reasons for this. One is a secret and the other is a lie. Our Metaversal thunderbolt of revelation resembles a corkscrew in more ways than One.

The Sun and Moon trine Saturn in Cancer today, making it easier to notice synchronicities and recognize new patterns and pathways. Saturn? square to Jupiter in Libra, its opposition to Mars in Capricorn, and its square to the nodes advise us to resist conforming to what others believe or want us to believe.

The Sabian symbol for 20° Pisces is reassuring: "A table set for an evening meal; an indication that in the end and at the appointed time the individual's needs will be met among those to whom he is linked by a spiritual (or biological) web of energies."