\New Moon in Pisces
February 27th 2025, 7:44 PM Eastern
9*40' Pisces: 27th Shape: CHILD
4° 17' 09'' Pisces – 17° 8' 34'' Pisces
Despite the fact that the Pisces eclipses have begun already, the previous one we received (September 17th 2024) was with the North Node still in Aries. February 27th’s New Moon in Pisces is not quite an eclipse, the next North Node Solar eclipse will be the following New Moon next Month (March 29th 2025), being the final eclipse in Aries, but with the North Node already in Pisces, and only a day before Neptune's much anticipated ingress. As this is a flip flop across the sign border which demarcates Vernal Equinox there are reverberations of the beginning happening before the end and the end extending beyond after the beginning has begun which echo into the larger outer planet ingresses, regresses and second ingresses of 2025—2026. Something swirly, whorly, sloppy and soupy being entirely appropriate for a period in which the North Node is tightly conjunct Neptune and both going to get some time in the upcoming weeks and months with Mercury, Saturn, Venus and the Sun. We have already begun our circumambulations around, mainly because we're blindfolded and even though we believe we're navigating straight as an arrow, humans tend to step a 66 foot circle when walking with no location indicators whatsoever. If that's the case we might as well shoot for sacred spiral path rather than spinning wheels stuck in the mud or returning to ruts.
There is no good way, in this climate, to get our ideas entirely straight, it’s more of a digestive process, but not necessarily all internal. Typically, biological digestion occurs on the inside, but with our current coherence of ideas tending to contemplating opposites simultaneously we consider multiple contrary versions of reality at once, layering these parallel stories until they fuse, losing track of the thread ends we no longer can tell where the first and last pages of the book went, the words have kind of reassembled into a phrase scramble that speaks of eras in inexplicable overlap, resulting in a world wide spread of digestion exhibiting globs of this and that drama all around each and every realm, personal as well as global, permeating our very sensitive mood flows and morphing the substance we’re immersed in which might call up ambiances from distant sequences ago and even foreshadow potential futures, but with no promises that any of these phantasmagoric forms will ever take permanent shape.
We’re compelled to splash into the depths, we want to deep dive into our dreams, but we’re T minus twenty something days until Spring, and there’s a feeling the bubble inflated by past momentums might burst and reveal altogether new and dazzling circumstances not far down the line. So the challenge is to sit zen in our contemplation of it all, disengage, be prepared to let go of all attachments, heighten our awareness and not get hypnotized and carried away by any tantalizing revelry that catches our attention in the meanwhile. It’s like we’re literally in a worldwide meditation attempt, digesting the world that was, and quieting our desires to act and do while we attempt to simply for the time being, be. Clear your mind, loosen your grip, relax your body, lean into flexibility, hydrate, calm, and observe what is.
I’ve noticed a lot of people have been pointing out, in one way or another, what makes something comedic, how comedy tends to not age well over time, what makes humor timeless, and how one cultivates a sense of humor at all. This is interesting for a time while Jupiter is in the sign of the ephemeral Juggler and trickster Gemini and ruling over a pile up of placements in Pisces, which I’ve always noticed has the full dramatic spectrum flowing through it, much like the laughing and crying theater masks or capacity of Shakespeare to imagine whole worlds. The moment culturally is obviously surreal and absurd. You may have heard people say they don’t want to watch it play out online anymore and want to live their own life and enjoy it. This certainly jives with what we’re seeing in the upcoming astrology. I’d venture to suggest we may see a notable movement or creative thrust in the arts, theater, music, cinema which encapsulates these factors: the blend of anger and confusion at what is the current world and the impulsive reaction to have a life of one’s own and find it rewarding. This may take the form of satire, even if indirect, an inclination for acerbic and absurdist comedy that is somehow also poignant critique as well as release valve for over boiled experience. I suspect those that remain on the virtue signaling wavelength will be aghast that anyone will be in some way trying to enjoy the moment and see it as essentially secularly satanic to make escape attempts into laughter. Accusations of who is hypnotized by what and how to militarize around that likely fills the vacuum when other climate concerns cease to be as pressing of an issue.
This New Moon is en-route to whatever these next steps in the spring may awaken to be. There is a definite theme throughout the 27th Shape of feasts, banquets, music and celebration; particularly in the context of a divine child being born, the celebration of new life, like an archetypal whole world baby shower. CHILD Shape is directly opposite KIDGOAT in the circle of 28, so the themes resound with what is new, emerging and growing in the world. On the other end we might be dealing with juvenile Dionysus and puberty or rites of passage, where on this end of the spectrum we are in the territory of Harpocrates. This is infant Horus, who’s finger before the mouth was interpreted as a sign of silence and keeping secrets traditionally, but more recently has been seen more naturally as the gesture of a hungry child asking to be given food. This notion jives with the Grimoirium Verum spirit Frutimier who “prepares feasts and banquets”, as well as the Rigvedic deity Pushan the “nourisher”. This Nakshatra speaks of journeys, leading to good pastures, abundant eating, propitiation with porridge and oatmeal as well as watery plants and flowers, fruits, and food that doesn’t require chewing. The Chinese Xiu discusses great speeches followed by grand concerts, arts, pomp and ceremony. The Fangshi is a musician deity with a bamboo flute, drawing an interesting parallel to the Picatrix which sees a “winged man with empty perforated vessel in hand and a bone”. The Chinese material also specifically mentions a child as well, in the context of having to leave the country, maybe blended with a reference to Dionysus’s raised in exile which KIDGOAT contains.
The Picatrix talisman is made by baking red earth. Baking still reminds me of preparing food, children making mud pies and playing house. Although, it is more likely the Picatrix author would tell you this was really just referencing making bricks. The purpose of this talisman is to bring injury to springs and uses Saturnian material, and Saturn is indeed copresent this current New Moon, so maybe we should heed the warning to be careful in what we bring about right now. The Chinese also speak of vipers (appropriate to Harpocrates iconography) and themes of manners, social convention, loyalty, chain of command, and moving slowly and methodically so snakes won’t strike. The Exu syncretized to the Verum’s Frutimier is Exu Tranca-Tudo, ‘all-locker, locks everything’, so there is perhaps a protocol, discipline or certain form in which to remember and respect when we step forth into these grand celebrations and feasts, perhaps as this is not the time to lose ourselves. We are just readying to arise out of winter, and although light is on the increase, dark still over weighs light and we don’t yet have any Qi to spare. This makes sense if the party is one where children are present; it may be quite a festive and heartfelt affair but can’t by nature be a destructive knock down drag out rager. This is not the water of heated passions. This water is ruled by Jupiter rather than Mars. Its expansive and invigorating, some tears may be shed, we eat and drink a little more than our fill but do not gorge or vomit.
The Nakshatra also speaks of shepherd themes, of prosperity and flocks not getting lost as well as brightness and pathways and the ability to find one's way. Similar to when one is personally having a Neptune transit, we may apply the advice collectively as the world itself is essentially now having a Neptune transit: Go to the party, partake in the festivities, become intoxicated, let the cares of the world melt away, allow for your perceptions to be widened, but do not lose yourself completely, do not identify with this temporary fantasy world and forget who you are and what is, and then when the event subsides and you are wandering (though not stumbling and falling drunk) off to rest allow for new life to emerge in you, and wake in the morning reborn to the world. In a sense this is like Odysseus knowing he must leave Calypso, or Jason resisting the songs of the Sirens near the rock of Scylla.
There is an invitation here to listen and see, to hear the musical, to see the way, to absorb the signs, to locomote and explore, to improvise, to feel things out and prepare to map a new world, to someday in the future have new memories of events that are yet to occur but inevitably will. Young children experience a kind of amnesia while they are developing the ability to orient themself in space. At around six years old they begin to have episodic and biographical memory as they are ready to navigate more sophisticatedly. If they are not allowed to explore thoroughly before then the hippocampus may not develop fully and many functions are effected, including full emotional range and the ability to project themselves imaginally into the future and problem solve. The amnesiac period, common in many animals when very young, may be a function to keep young from wandering too far away from nests and mothers. We are in a similar state right now. Take too deep a plunge and you may find yourself hopelessly lost, but if you neglect to explore you may not develop fully, and be unready for your future.
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