A Deep Dive into the New Moon in Pisces

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we are going to take a look at this weekend's New Moon in the sign of Pisces. Tomorrow, I will be taking a look at Mercury's conjunction with Neptune, which is also coming over the weekend in the sign of Pisces, and we will be refreshing on the whole sign house placement of both the new moon and the Mercury-Neptune conjunction through the whole sign house horoscopes. So that will be tomorrow to cap off the week.

Today, I'm really excited to be talking about this new moon; I think there are a bunch of features that make this new moon really interesting. So we'll be looking at those, and then I will be turning my attention to synthesize themes. So we're going to look at sort of the galaxy brain details, and then we're going to talk about synthesizing themes coming off from those. That way, people who are interested in learning more about the technical analysis of a new moon can learn more.

It's really interesting stuff for those people who are kind of, you know, hobby students of astrology, but also people who just want the takeaways what to watch for wheeling that we'll make sure we include those as well. So, anyway, that is our goal for today.

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Okay, well, on that note, let us head over to the real-time clock, where we can take a look at this new moon. Here we have it. I'm going to point out some of the technical features of this new moon in Pisces, which is coming through early Sunday morning. This is Central time, about four in the morning, and you start seeing that conjunction pass through that Central time. So you know it's probably around five Eastern and two in the morning Pacific time in the USA.

But anyway, it comes through over the weekend. We're preparing ourselves for it now and tomorrow when we look at Mercury's conjunction with Neptune, which you will see if I just back this up by a day. You can see that Mercury's conjunction with Neptune comes through Friday, March 8, and tomorrow through Saturday, March 9, so we're talking about that tomorrow as well, as the new moon today.

So, what are the main features of this new moon that I think are worth paying attention to? It is not quite as Galaxy-brained as some of the last couple of new moons that were so strongly configured with aspects. There are some interesting aspects going on here. But here are the features of the new moon in Pisces that I think we ought to be paying attention to.

One is that this is a new moon in the domicile of Jupiter and the exultation of Venus that's Pisces for you. So feminine water sign is the home water, the feminine temple of Jupiter, and the exultation of Venus, so you get a kind of Venus Jupiter flavor from the sign of Pisces; it is a hopeful aspirational sign that seeks to wrestle light from the grips of darkness, which is why you often see the sign of Pisces associated with themes like redemption and faith and hope and magic and mysticism, usually with a sense of having to overcome some kind of struggle or wrestling match with one's own demons or with a feeling of being divinely dissatisfied with the way that things are going is a real romantic struggle in the sign of Pisces. It's very beautiful.

Anyway, we've talked. I've talked at length about the sign of Pisces in many other videos, so I'm not going to speak so much about Pisces per se, but Jupiter Venus. What's important about Jupiter Venus? Well, remember that what we have about one day after the new moon has Venus entering her exultation in Pisces, where she now has a mutual reception with Jupiter.

So, the domicile and exultation ruler of Pisces, Jupiter, and Venus. Venus will be entering the sign of Pisces, where she is exalted, very well dignified, and in Jupiter sign, whereas Jupiter will be in Taurus, which is Venus a sign. So you have Venus and Jupiter working together. Now. What have we been saying really for the past couple of moon cycles.

This is the year the early part of 2024 Is it is all about Venus, and it's all about Venus, vis a vie Jupiter and Uranus moving to a conjunction and Taurus by late April. Right now, we have a moon cycle that is amplifying and really driving home the importance of Venus and Jupiter.

What are they looking for? Beauty, flow, opulence, a sense of security and peace, ease and abundance. You think of all of the Venus-Jupiter combined words you know, coherence, elegance, grace, fertility, wealth, enjoyment, sensual satisfaction, but also in Taurus, especially a sense of the kind of a grounded sense of stability and ease combined.

So these two planets are working together now in a sextile with mutual reception in a cycle that begins in the home of Jupiter and Venus. Fantastic, what really nice themes to be driving the moon cycle. However, there are this isn't these are not the only theme, so there are going to be some little twists that we need to pay attention to. But the Pisces Taurus access is about starting to wrestle our way out of the darkness of zodiacal winter and this is symbolic. Don't be too literal about it because it really doesn't matter what hemisphere you're in.

We're wrestling our way out of the tumultuousness of the last sign of sadaqa winter into the spring signs were the major feature of spring in addition to a big Aries solar eclipse coming up on April 8 Is the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Venus ruled Taurus on April 20. So this cycle starting here in early to mid-March is ushering us into that dynamic spring energy that has been building for a while now, moving from a plane of ideals in Aquarius in the last cycle into a more sense of embodied preparation for this big moment of Jupiter and Uranus conjoining in late April.

Now, again, just kind of keeping that big story in mind is important when you're looking at the new moon cycle and what it brings. Let's try to qualify this a little bit more.

Number two, the number two thing on my list to watch for here is the new moon is in the bounds of Mars. So let's back this up just a little bit so we can see that new moon; you're going to see that the New Moon is just peeking into the 20th degree, which is the bound of Mars.

So it's just kind of peeking into the bound of Mars in late Pisces. Now, Mars is going to enter Pisces along with Venus later in the cycle. But what's really important to notice is at the time of this new moon, Mars is coming off less than half a degree off from a square to Uranus.

In fact, watch if we back this up how closely the exact x square of Uranus is to the new moon. So let's go back a day, and we're going to see that the Mars Uranus Square is forming on Saturday, March 9, and if we go forward by some hours, we're gonna see where we go. So we have the square coming off by a minute of one degree by about five in the evening, Saturday, March 9, that's Central Time, and you can see that at that point in time, the moon is within five degrees or so of the new moon.

So that's why I'm saying that one of the key features of this new moon is the just recently separated Mars, Uranus Square, while the New Moon is in the bound of Mars. So what does that mean? What does a bound mean? People have been sometimes asking me like, Could you say more about what bound rulers are? Sure. So here's a way of conceptualizing what a bound ruler is.

First of all, you have all 12 signs broken into five unequal divisions; every sign is 30 degrees from the 360-degree circle. So, 12 signs times 360. It's an idealized circle. We know the solar year is not exactly 360 days, but it's an ideal circle that was thought of as a kind of Platonic shape. So anyway, in the Zodiac, those 30 degrees segments of the Zodiac that we call the signs are broken into five unequal divisions; those divisions are each assigned like the first four degrees of this sign, the next seven degrees of the sign, the next three degrees like that, they are each assigned a planet that is said to be the bound or term or confine ruler of those degrees.

Now, what you're thinking about is something sort of Saturnian. Because one of the ways one of the things we know about the bounds is that they were often used in timing techniques that would tell you, the kind of nature when you're progressing a planet is sort of directing it through the bounds, you're thinking about how a planet moving through a sign symbolically over time, will have to conform, or will be somewhat limited in its expression, but the nature of the planet that rules the degrees it's going through.

So a bound ruler in the I don't know the easiest way that I've had to teach my students about, how do you think about it, think about it paradigmatically as a little bit like a Saturnian form of dignity, in that it suggests a kind of principle that the planet has to conform or shape itself to. I also once heard Robert Schmidt talk about it as the kind of you can think about it like the etiquette that one is beholden to, in, say, a tea ceremony when you enter somebody's house in Japan that the tea ceremony is such a big deal.

But something like that, it's a kind of an expectation or a conform, an expectation of conformity that you have to on a certain level, you're expected to conform to the codes, rules, expectations of the bound ruler. So, it has a way of shaping the way the planet expresses itself. Now, that doesn't override or become more important than the other forms of dignity the planet is participating in, but it helps tone it, helps shape it; it kind of sets a certain kind of limit around it.

Okay, so when you have a new moon cycle that is in the bounds of Mars, and Mars is just coming off from a square to Uranus. The cycle is toned by that kind of erratic, forceful, action-oriented revolutionary quality. That's what we're saying. Even though it's a cycle in Pisces, which, you know, is so romantic, so sensual, so watery, emotional, compassionate, otherworldly, get all those kinds of Piscean themes that we're all very familiar with, if you consume astrology, you know something about Pisces. But this is Piscean energy that has that kind of erratic, live wire Mars Uranus quality that the new moon cycle has to conform to it is being shaped by it. What does that mean?

I will tell you when we get to the synthesize themes, but it is important detail to pay attention to the last detail that is worth paying attention to is and by the way, one more thing I actually want to say one more thing about bound rulers. The other way that you can think about other interesting reasons that the bound rulers could be thought of as Saturnian is because the bound rulers do not include the Sun or the moon, whose natural opposite is Saturn.

So the exclusion of the Sun and the moon from the scheme of the bounds is notable, and I think one way of thinking about that is that the natural, the natural factor that sort of negates limits or opposes the lights is Saturn, and we have the Sun and moon you know, interestingly absent from the scheme In addition to the fact that it was used as this way of understanding qualities of time that are being measured out, I like to think about the bounds as sort of Saturnian.

That doesn't mean that they're rigid. But it does mean that planets in the bounds of another planet have to sort of conform somewhat or shape somewhat to the nature of that planet. But remember, the nature of the planet that it is conforming to will also be; you have to look at it in terms of where that planet is actually at. You don't know it's not. It doesn't happen in a vacuum. So, a new moon in the bounds of Mars, as Mars is square to Uranus, is a very specific kind of expectation, etiquette, or kind of set of boundaries that the new moon has to conform to. Hopefully, that makes sense.

So, anyway, the last one on my list is that Saturn is being reborn. So watch what happens to Saturn; as we just drag this moon cycle out a little bit, you're going to notice that Saturn is getting further away from the Sun. By the time the Sun enters Aries on March 20, not long at that's the spring equinox. So directly, the Sun will be about 18 degrees away from Saturn, it's about 15. On average, we start to see the planet appearing again from under the beams of the Sun, which will take place as a morning star. So, if you just rotate this a little bit, you're going to notice here that Saturn is rising above the ascendant, and the Sun is still below it.

So you'll be able to see Saturn as a morning star, and that usually is the thought of as Saturn being reborn. Remember, we just talked at length over the past couple of weeks about Saturn dying. Now Saturn is being reborn. What does that mean? What does it mean to have a useful or young Saturn? I like to think about it like, let's just say that you've gone through some kind of experience of initiation. Maybe the initiation involved death, or loss or grief, or hard work somehow, internally, psychologically; when you're done with that, though, isn't it amazing how you just feel like, ah, level 2.0, I've matured, I've grown up a little bit and now I'm sort of, I'm ready to get into the world with just some new insights and new abilities and new maturity and there's an eagerness to acclimate to the, to the world with the new skin you're living in, so to speak.

So anyway, Saturn is being reborn during the cycle, and I think that's a feature that's really important to pay attention to because a lot of what this cycle seems to be about is about the moving from an ideal sort of Venusian image that's continuing to shape and develop through the upcoming Jupiter Uranus conjunction and a kind of erratic or chaotic energy that is more entangling and forces us to really make sure that the ideal and the real are being worked together in this upcoming Jupiter Uranus breakthrough.

So I'm going to say more about that now through this little section of synthesize themes. If all of that was to Galaxy brain, then try these on Versailles synthesize themes with a new moon in Pisces; you are going to see romantic, sensual, dreamy, hopeful, and fluid themes becoming more important. Maybe that appears through that kind of nostalgic, romantic sense of dissatisfaction that causes some of us to feel restlessness within. Sometimes, that's going to be about wrestling with things that embody our sense of dissatisfaction.

Like for example, sometimes. I mean, this is just such a cliche, I hate to even say it, but like, sometimes you start drinking a little bit more, you start indulging a little bit more when you're feeling stuck, and you want to be in a better place. But there's maybe some impatience and restlessness, and you're not there yet, and so we start reaching for things that somehow embody the sense of frustration we have, and the entanglements that we're stuck in, and that's what you want to be really careful of in a Piscean moon cycle where you don't want to look for an escape. You can think of this as the last gestational phase before birth in the spring that comes through Aries.

You know, I think, for example, about how uncomfortable Ashley was at the very end of the pregnancy, was like, oh my god, get this thing out of me. You know, that sounds bad, but, but you get, but there's a sense of like I am there's something that's ready to be born, but I'm in this kind of churning and burning, and it's not quite there yet, and it's Pisces is kind of mid-wifing something, but it forces you to be in the entanglement and in that entanglement there's a lot of it's a beautiful place to be your sensitivity is tremendously heightened. There's hopefulness. There's an eagerness; there's a sense of something approaching that might be redeeming or uplifting or exciting or fulfilling in some way. But you're not quite there yet. You have to wrestle and churn and burn a little bit, too.

So, just can we hold that tension during this next moon cycle, as the moon cycle pushes us into eclipses into Aries season, you know, and into the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction at the end of April? So I think there's it's a little bit of a liminal space that Pisces points us to, and can we learn and listen in that liminal space because some of the most important final refining details and lessons occur in that space that will then truly help us to move into the period of breakthrough and sort of blast-off that's coming in the next cycle. I like the second theme of wrestling light from dark. This is a cycle with Mars Uranus.

Remember, Mars is the bound ruler, and Mars is squaring Uranus at the very outset of the new moon. So, I think about the struggle to free ourselves from something that has been limiting. The struggle to wrestle something of have to wrestle something out of the darkness. Now, the darkness could be wrestling something from unconscious into conscious understanding; it could be wrestling ourselves free from an undermining influence within ourselves or our environment. But you get this feeling and Pisces that Pisces has so much to do with the romantic and sort of chivalrous overcoming of darkness. I think so much in the tarot about the knight of cups with Pisces. It's kind of romantic crusading quality. But whatever it is, the wrestling of the light from the dark can be a part of this cycle ahead.

There is so much emphasis on Mars and Pisces, right? So much emphasis on Venus in pisces, Mercury Neptune at the outset of the cycle in Pisces. This is a space where it won't let us just like Aquarius, like remember Venus in Aquarius, Mars and Aquarius, Pluto and Aquarius, all these planets in Aquarius, that were squaring, you know Jupiter and Uranus and Taurus so much as so much of that is idealistic and it's about setting out the blueprints for the garden. I've been using that analogy a lot for that image. This is more complex.

This is about starting to wrestle with the actual earthly chaos and beauty and complexity and difficulties and the interplay of light and dark. That is the embodied world, and starting to really go, Oh, I'm trying to build this thing that's so beautiful in my mind's eye, but I'm trying to build it in a place that is, by its nature, complicated and relationally, sophisticated and complex, and I have to refine maybe what I'm looking at. That was actually number four on my list.

So we'll jump to that reconciling Venetian ideals with earthly entanglements. I know that you think of water and you don't think of Earth because we get too linear, but actually, Earth and water are both considered Yin. So they're both earthy. They're both earthly, which is what I mean when we have all of this Piscean energy sextile and the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction and coming out of very idealistic and abstract Aquarius. What we're talking about now is saying, Okay, this thing is, is coming into matter. It's ready to be born.

But now we have to work with labor contractions, we have to work through that kind of tumultuous and sometimes torture don't take me to the Akashic carwash for it, but yes, sometimes tortured middling space of Pisces, all the double-bodied signs are like that. They sort of take us through a transitional space from solid and the first 15 degrees, ancient astrologers said, to tropical or Cardinal in the next 15 degrees.

So we move from someplace relatively stable through destabilization and through the initiation of something new. That's what the double-bodied signs are moving us through this one very, Venusian, very Jupiterian, supporting the Jupiter-Uranus dynamic, but refining it by making us go through the complications of an ideal descending into the world. So just remember that this cycle is not here to kill your dream; it's here to make it possible. Right? It's here to actually birth it to go from it. Wouldn't it be nice to have kids to be like, I'm up all night with a kid, and it's beautiful and amazing. It's completely opening my heart.

Alright, number three, shocks in disturbances leading to greater emotional maturity or depth. I went from one to four back to three. Remember that Mars, and Uranus tones the cycle, and so the cycle is starting off with a sort of swift, action-oriented revolutionaries, maybe a little bit impulsive or impatient quality. It's a little abstract and ideal, and then everything gets watery.

So, like, you know, here's the idea: I'll just give you an image that comes to my mind right away if I'm in a car ride, and I'm like in dad mode, and the kids are there and everything and I'm trying to get to a space where everything is just like stable, and we're cruising along, and there's no like, fighting and screaming and roll the window down, turning the AC up, turn it down, you know, whatever, I need to snack, I need to pee, blah, blah, blah and if I just slam my fist down and get really angry at everyone who just stopped or whatever, you know, I tried to Dad mode it and just get crazy.

The thing is, is that then my five-year-old will definitely start to cry. Right? Not a good idea. Because then chaos ensues, she starts crying, the other one starts talking, and my wife looks at me like she's really pissed that I didn't choose a more mature way of expressing myself, and she's right; I resent her because she's right and now the chaos is just completely boiling over.

I've never had this happen. By the way, this has never ever happened. But you know what I mean? There, if you try to force things right now, from the level of what you think something ought to be like and you, you get gung ho about it, you know, it will lead to the complications of the world around you pushing back and saying, It's too impulsive, it's too idealistic. It's too white-knuckled, too controlling, and it's not taking into account the soupy mess of life, and if you don't reconcile yourself to that level, you're not really loving, and if you're not loving, you're not really enjoying, you know, compassion, forgiveness, grace, acceptance, surrender, these are such important Piscean themes that will be coming up in relation to the kind of strong intensity of Mars, Uranus.

So we're going to see the potential for sort of like shock waves and intense things that happen suddenly and demand change. Having to work together with a space that requires gentle, sensitive, emotionally mature relationally aware responses. That's a big part of the cycle ahead.

Then the fifth is the need for emotional resilience. On the other hand, this is a cycle in which changes are demanded and changes have to come up.
We can't be so precious, so sensitive, that you know, so, so easily triggered, in other words, that we can't be resilient, that we can't adapt, that we can't be flexible, that we can't shift or change, there is a tendency in the double-bodied water sign of Pisces to feel like you're falling apart, or you're the victim thing can get exaggerated now that there aren't real experiences of being like, you know, victimized, right, but we want to be careful of feeling like, oh, woe is me. You know, can we be emotionally resilient is the other side of the story with Mars-Uranus, Mars, going through Pisces, Mars-Uranus toning the cycle, etc. Things are going to come up that are not perfect, that are not ideal, or that force us to act quicker than we would like to, or that that may look or feel very different than what our emotional body needs, you know, it's sort of like Okay, let's go back to the car ride.

So let's say we're in the car ride, somewhere between not flipping out into a bad dad mode and, on the other hand, not catering to every single whim; we actually get there without getting there in 15 hours, for example, I have to use the bathroom, we cannot stop until we're on a tollway or something and it's going to be about 25 minutes, you're going to have to hold it for a little bit. You know, sometimes that happens, you know what I'm saying? I don't know I'm making this up. But there is a way in which sometimes we just have to be resilient and put up with something uncomfortable for the sake of reaching a higher goal, and that can be part of the cycle as well.

Anyway, these are just thoughts, and I hope that they will hit close enough to the mark that this will be have been a productive exploration of the New Moon in Pisces if you want to stick around today because once I sign off, I will be sharing with you an interview that I did with Ashley if you haven't seen it yet. I'll be running it at the end of my videos for a while and then as we run up to her program at the end of April, so stick around within for an interview that I did with Ashley on her program, plant spirit medicine, and what you might learn if you take her course, or that's it for today. I will see you guys again tomorrow. Bye