This New Moon cycle begins with the great luminaries joining Jupiter and Neptune in the sign of the two fish, Pisces. We are swimming in big water: the Water Bearer’s urn has created an ocean and these depths can be imagined as both literal oceans and as cosmic oceans—places of powerful origin. Many of our first stories tell us that all life arises from water, whether it’s single-celled animals emerging from saltwater, or divinity creating land by pushing back the oceans.
In this season of between-ness —between winter and spring, between cold and warmth—we will want to ride the currents forward towards heat and growth. And what currents! Jupiter is the symbol in mythology and astrology for expansion and creativity; Neptune in the western tradition is the ocean itself. The yang energy of solar light and the yin energy of lunar light, activation and reflection together, will find us full of feeling, perhaps overwhelmed (even joyously so) and eager to get on with new life, dreaming, surrendering, swaying to unconscious rhythms and melodies.
How will we ride this big tide?