Powerful Full Moon in Pisces

The Moon entered Pisces at 5:52 a.m. Eastern US Daylight Savings Time. I hadn’t planned to write about the coming powerful Full Moon in Pisces, but a beautiful dream, client sessions, and so many synchronicities urged me to give everyone a heads up. As the Moon makes its way through this sign of dreams, mysticism and intuition, pay particular attention to dreams (awake, asleep and especially somewhere in between wakefulness and sleep).

In the early morning hours of Wednesday, September 11, I awoke from the most amazing dream. I wanted to go back to sleep, because I’ve been in a period of high strangeness, little sleep and major insights. I felt well rested and whole when I awoke, but I wanted to roll over, feel into the deliciousness of the dream and go right back to sleep. Instead, I received the persistent message to get up and record the dream in an email to a friend, but to send the email to myself instead of the friend so that I had the timestamp.

Odd instructions, right? And hey, if I’m not even sending the email to the person it’s addressed to, why can’t I just write it when I wake up in the morning. I would NOT forget this dream. It’s one of those dreams that stays with you — that you return to again and again. At least, that’s how it felt to me. I’ve had a few of those in my lifetime, and they continue to inspire a sense of awe and wonder whenever something triggers me to recall them.

I tried to ignore the message to get up, because I really wanted to sleep and just “be” in the dream. I rolled onto my side, but the message came stronger. The image of the dream played over and over in the background like a silent and holy soundtrack. Major synaesthesia (blending of senses — color of sound, vibrational harmony) pervaded my awareness, but that annoying voice overlay wouldn’t let me back into the silence: “Get up now. Record the dream. Email it to yourself.” Over and over like a nagging child pulling at the fringes of my brain. Arggh! Those Dream Guys never quit. Just write the damn thing so you can get some sleep. After five or ten minutes of this annoyance –still overlaid with the beauty and harmony of the dream scene, which kept replaying itself — I went to my office and dutifully sat in the dark, in front of my laptop.

Here’s what I wrote:

I’m here at 2:41 a.m. typing this intro paragraph and emailing this to myself, because it’s all about the timestamp. I awoke from a dream/vision. Deep black space, with a sort of turquoise illuminated nebula. I think that’s the word. There was what looked like a turquoise lightning strike — except much more fluid and graceful — aimed at the center of this somewhat pulsating turquoise light … it was a bit lighter in color than turquoise, somewhere between chrysocolla and blue calcite. The lightning-is strike hit the center of this nebula and then it almost looked like a jellyfish, or very fluid butterfly wings … or maybe like very slow motion nature films of a flower shooting its pollen into like a lily or something … but it’s still black deep space … and the color is this turquoise-is color for the lightning and the receiver.

The “wings” or jellyfish like balloon lift up like the butterfly wings in my shaman dream and then PULSE out whatever just got implanted in that spot. It appears to pulse out to the Universe. It’s that big, and this process continues. It’s very beautiful and silent, but the frequency’s like ethereal music just out of my hearing — actually, it’s silent, but I hear/feel/see the frequency and it has a signature. I realize this is your Chiron conjunct Jupiter right between my Pholus (butterfly effect) and Mars … that ongoing generator that runs all the time in me, but gets activated and pulses out. Basically, whatever’s been happening to your experience in that point, when it lines up with that same point in me, just naturally pulses out a HUGE amplification of that lightning strike. It looks like a pulse of light, but it’s kind of flapping butterfly wings and sending it out to the Universe.’’

“The lightning-is strike” was intended my me to read “lightning-ish strike,” but many of my typos tend to reveal deeper layers. “Is” is a verb, but IS is also the name of a powerful Rune. Here’s some information from Karl Hans Welz:

IS teaches you to find your true ego:  the ego that shines through the morass of the limitations with which you are identifying yourself.  IS is quite similar to the tarot card of the hermit, who has a staff that symbolizes his ego.  He had to be a hermit so that he could look at his ego from a perspective that is beyond the limitations of society.  The hermit, using IS, has renounced all distractions  so that he can find his true ego that he needs to be ONE with his inner Self.  Being ONE, he is then capable of enjoying life to its fullest, and serving society much more effectively than he ever could have done with the ego that society so skillfully has distorted.  Of course you can be a “hermit” in the middle of a city, surrounded by people with which you interact on a daily basis like any other human being.

The stanza of IS in the magical poem shows the way.  It says there clearly: 


A ninth one is mine: 


If danger is out in the sea 


To protect my good ship 


I conjure the wind on the billowing floods 


And I sing into slumber the sea.
This is a clear reference to the four elements that the hermit has to master so he or she can reach the goal of Oneness with the Higher Self (see the course in cosmic consciousness).  Being aware of the true ego is an important step toward this goal.

Without going into too much detail, because doing so would literally be an entire book — I stumbled upon this image right after getting the “instructions” to find and image and write this post. I never pay for images to post on my blog, but this stock photo was “the” image. No other would do! The colors are almost an exact match to what I saw, except this image looks head on to the explosion, whereas I was seeing it from the side.

My dream clearly showed the lightning-ish/lightning-IS strike going into the center, and then the wings/balloon pulling back and then whoooosh pulsing forward and out into the entire Universe. As I look at the image, though, I notice that the Pisces glyph looks kind of like a butterfly, which makes it even more perfect. Today, the Moon will cross over that exact 7 degrees 48 minutes to 10 degrees 10 minutes Pisces spot. I just checked, and as I type, the Moon’s at 5 degrees 26 minutes Pisces, so getting very close to my natal Pholus.

One description of Pholus is “small thing, BIG EFFECT.” Pholus supposedly “explodes whatever it touches,” creating explosively big changes like the butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane elsewhere. In my experience, the Pholus effect tends to trigger very, very good things, but I find that more on path someone is, the more that’s true. Not everyone has a major Pholus aspect in their chart. My Pholus happens to be very close to my 7th house natal Mars, though. Very long astrological story short, this combo acts as a constant generator of catalyzing change through relationships. It’s one of the things that makes me a powerful life coach, but it also affects friendships, “random” encounters and intimate relationships.

This aspect turns me into a nonstop catalyst, even if the other person’s chart has nothing to do with that spot. It’s just baked into who I am. If someone’s natal chart or whenever a planet crosses over that point, it creates massive ripple effects that continue to reveal them through time. Initially, it doesn’t seem like much, but looking back I realize wowzer! So, here I am sharing this blog post with no idea why, but I’m sure months, years or decades from now, it will reveal itself as highly significant.

What does the IS Rune have to do with this? I don’t know, but I do feel its importance. I also find it fascinating that the Moon will cross over Neptune in Pisces on its way to Full. They’ll be close enough to call a “conjunction,” which makes this Full Moon extra Piscean and extra Neptunian. Neptune rules Pisces, and the Moon, Neptune and Pisces amplify each other. In addition to beauty, Faerie, harmony, dreams, idealism and mysticism, imbalanced Neptune/Pisces influence addictions, distractions, illusions and delusions. I would suggest this is a time for inspiration, but not a time to expect clear rational guidance. Beware of trying to cram something very large into a tiny conceptual framework. Neptune expands, Pisces is boundary-less.

In the Tarot, the Moon card can indicate deception, but it also means “Stay on your path for safety.” Intuition will run exceptionally high right now, especially for anyone with planets in Pisces. If you have planets squaring (Gemini/Sagittarius) or opposing (Virgo) Pisces, this caution runs doubly high: if you try to nail down your intuition into the mental realm, or if you get too fundamentalist about the interpretation, you’re probably setting yourself up for disappointment and disillusionment (also Neptune/Pisces).

My best advice? Enjoy the beauty, harmony, inspiration and dreaminess of this time period. Pay attention to and record any dreams or visions, but don’t expect full clarity on them until the fullness of time. If you have tendencies towards alcoholism, be especially careful not to drink and drive or to make any major decisions while drunk. That’s good advice anyway, but especially over through Saturday. If any of the symbols, images or words in this post jumped out at you, ponder them, research them, journal about them … but don’t try to logic them out right now. In time, you’ll know. For now, just be.