2008.3.8雙魚新月－夏月之水

This year, the Pisces New Moon features a celestial contest to determine which jam-packed constellation will be most influential: transcendent, blissful Sun/Moon/Uranus in Pisces or Venus/Neptune/Mercury/Chiron/North Node in “wake up or else” Aquarius. 現在太陽/月亮/天王星落雙魚座,金星/海王星/水星/奇隆星/北交點落寶瓶座加速我們提昇的時間點

Add the hard-nosed intensity of Pluto and Jupiter in “show me reality” Capricorn, and the compassionate action of Mars in Cancer, and we’ve got ourselves a New Moon ripe for direct revelation of these most basic, yet paradoxically intertwined truths:

We are nothing and everything; full and empty. All dualistic existence is interconnected and sourced in that which abides beyond duality. We can actively awaken to this realization of essential connectedness through the relinquishment of hatred, fear, violence, and greed. This and each successive moment presents an opportunity to choose love and peace.

Can you feel the waves of peace building all around us? People are actually serious about accepting nothing less than peace; nothing less than radical change. Aquarius and Pisces are combining to foster unconditional love, total compassion, and absolute oneness. It is time to break down the walls of separation; walls built with hatred, suspicion, and ignorance. Humans are duty-bound by our awareness of suffering. It is time to lift the Neptunian/Piscean veil of denial from our eyes and see how we are all responsible for the continued violence, hatred and suffering in this world.

This is the New Moon to practice compassion and selflessness by radiating peace and calm through prayer and meditation. Pisces acknowledges our essential connectedness and realizes it through the practice of unconditional love and unwavering compassion. To help you practice, feel free to download my metta (lovingkindness) meditation recordings. Here is the link: www.lisadalemiller.com/metta.htm

So many times clients ask astrology or tarot to reveal their life path; 許多人藉由星象或是塔羅詢問個人生命的道途their true reason for being here. 他們真正在這裡的原因The answer is really the same for us all. 我們全部都是共同的原因We are all here to learn to love unconditionally, and to work for the collective enlightenment of all sentient beings, no matter how hard it may be or how long it may take.我們都是在學習無條件的愛,無論他有多困難或是需要花很久的時間,我們會集體開悟!

The Piscean journey is a homeward bound one; an evolutionary ending of sorts. Ultimately, Pisceans are embodied in order to embrace the letting go of self-identification through learning to love unconditionally. Those who can commit their lives to working for the upliftment of all other souls are our everyday Bodhisattvas. Pisces is Bodhisattva consciousness embodied in self-sacrifice. Pisces’ bottom line is to learn to love unconditionally, and to work for the collective enlightenment of all sentient beings; no matter how hard it may be or how long it may take. This is the New Moon to commit to growing up and out of selfishness and hatred. Transcendence comes in many forms, but the first step is accepting personal responsibility for the condition of your life and the lives of all other sentient beings.

This is the New Moon to look at what you cling to. We come here with nothing and we leave with nothing. Why then do we hold so tight to things that will not last? What can you give away? What can you share? The world needs your generosity, your caring, your compassion, and your love. Since Pisces rules direct experience of transcendence, this is a great New Moon to commit to a daily meditation practice. Think of it as a gift to set aside time each day to meditate and find the source of inner peace that resides within. This is the New Moon for spiritual awakening!

On this New Moon, use some of your ritual time to consider what destructive thoughts, emotions, and actions can be released. Pisces is the sign of endings: of letting go for good. Take a hard look at whatever pain you are holding on to; especially if it involves addiction of any kind. Neptune and Pisces rule confusion, denial, addiction, codependence and an inability to hold good emotional boundaries. This is the New Moon to commit to sobriety. Drugs and alcohol are an easy, but ultimately destructive, veil between you and reality. There is no easy way out of fear and problems. Having the courage to face difficult issues and find solutions can be done, but only with a clear mind. Use the following two weeks as the Moon waxes to full to seek out self-help groups like AA, NA, Smart Recovery or AL-A-NON/AL-A-TEEN/CODA for families of addicts. This goes for all addictions including food, abuse, overwork, and gambling.

Every emotion you have is sourced in your mind and mediated primarily through the production of neurotransmitters and enzymes in the brain. Thankfully, the human body is wired so we feel our emotions in the heart. But actually the quality of what we feel rests solely with how the brain’s synaptic and neuronal pathways are wired. The good news is the brain is plastic. So mindfully attending to the quality of our thoughts, feelings and interactions activates the medial pre-frontal cortex—the seat of compassion, empathy, morality, calm, and depth of intention—thereby rewiring the brain.

Therefore, this is the New Moon to look within and take care of your anger. If we waste our lives holding onto anger, resentment, and hatred, we will continue to create a world that reflects our own inner violence. The hatred and anger in our hearts is helping to feed the violence all over the world. So what can we do to stop the senseless killing we see all around us? We can all begin by acknowledging our anger and pain, taking it into our arms like a baby, wrapping it in compassion and letting love work its healing magic. Know that none of us are defined solely by our pain.

Find the true self in the compassionate heart and create the conditions for peace to grow within and without. Then look outside of yourself to your partner, your parents, your children, your friends, your co-workers, your supposed enemies. Look at their pain; acknowledge your part in causing them to suffer. Wrap them up like a baby with your compassion, allowing love to work its healing magic. Go to them; tell them how sorry you are. Realize that what is done to one is done to all, and create the conditions for peace to grow all around you.

Commit to changing your behavior. When you are faced with anger, acknowledge your suffering, but don’t act upon it. Look within and breathe, let your breath work its magic upon your anger, giving you time to form an appropriate response. When you do something that makes someone else angry, acknowledge your actions, apologize as quickly as possible, and make room to listen to the other person express how much they suffer. This is the language of selflessness. Give up the label of victim and embrace your own part in continued violence. It is the first step to becoming a peacemaker. If you fearlessly open your heart and let compassion be your guide, you will automatically become an active peacemaker. Love is the language of selflessness. If each of us would practice this language daily, violence would surely end.

With Venus/Neptune/Mercury/Chiron/North Node in Aquarius we each need to place ourselves on astrological high alert for disconnected behavior within and without. We must learn to mindfully practice loving, caring, and compassionate acts toward ourselves and each other. It is time to bring in the lost ones, the alienated ones and the tired ones with a hug, with a smile, and a gentle touch. This is the way of Pisces, the compassionate healer. These planets also call for a new global (Aquarian) vision of oneness based upon peaceful surrendering of egoic needs. This certainly applies to fundamentalist ideations of all stripes. Violence, grandiosity and hatred in the name of any god are a throwback to the reptilian part of the human brain that lives in fear. It is time we all say NO to the devolved Piscean illusion of god as savior and master, and YES to the evolved Piscean transcendent god within—the higher functioning pre-front lobe—that is calm, thoughtful, joyous and respectful.

The New Moon in Pisces is the time to recognize that boundaries and distinctions are not real. They are the work of Maya; the great illusion of duality. 月亮在雙魚座是讓我們認知所有的二元對立幻象所帶來的邊界及限制都不是真的Global healing and peace are not only possible, but can be a reality. What a night to enter powerful states of mind through meditation and trance, in order to heal the massive suffering on our planet. This is not some kind of magical thinking. This New Moon is our chance to begin doing at home what must be done globally.

Heal your life and you will make a great contribution toward healing this world.加速療癒這個世界 Open your heart, let compassion be your guide and become an active peacemaker. Don’t be afraid to do the work of loosening your attachment to self-identification. Love yourself by loving others. We are all in this together, and together we can do the impossible. Be inspired to be a beacon of peace and light for the world. Dive deeply into this powerfully transcendent New Moon cycle.

Blessings and much, much love to you all!