RECENTLY, for the sake of my visiting apprenticeship students here in Okinawa, I’ve taken to rebranding the signs of the zodiac with names that more directly express their wound/gift predicament.
After months of dredging the depths of my psyche for soul-honoring soundbites, I’ve come up with 12 newfangled names that capture the enigmatic essence of each sign. This being Pisces season, it is my honor to introduce you to “AlphaWeep.”
The Essence of AlphaWeep
It’s impossible to describe who we are. What we can say is that our psyches are edgeless and interpenetrating. We are “resonators of frequencies” and no sign knows this better than AlphaWeep.
AlphaWeep was born with the mandate to feel the collective fallout of Self-forgetting– the normalized malaise and mean-spirited contraction of orphaned-ego-on-a-countdown. This endows them with high-caliber compassion and holy heartbreak.
The picture above presents a woman that some would call limp, defeated; bereft, perhaps, of any will to go on living due to being flattened by the collective suffering.
Others will see the inspiring symbol of a mind set free from compulsive “selfing.”
Take a look at the image again.
Which view best describes you?
There’s a fine line between ego-vacating transcendence and ego-friendly incandescence. AlphaWeep was born teetering on this tightrope.
Clearly, there a time for Aries will and there is a time for Pisces surrender and the genuinely meditative mind straddles doer-ship with boundless Being, striving for the optimal balance of both in each wildly fluctuating moment.
AlphaWeep (amused by this ridiculous assertion) moves in close to whisper:
Willful assertion and spacious flow are both acts of capitulation. Whichever we choose, we’re acquiescing to the momentum of past karma or yielding to here/now nudges from the divine hand. Surrender is all there is!
Oh thank God for AlphaWeep! She’s the part of us that knows what astrology really is:
An archetypal handbook to flowing with the Tao.
It takes a soft, seaweed kind of hubris to practice our backstroke on the river of “separate somebodies” as we ooze, lifetime after lifetime, into the ocean of Boundless Being. Perfecting this backstroke is AlphaWeep’s one and only way to make sense of this place.
Note for fridge: Security is the feeling of being well-used by a larger Will.
On to this month’s transits!
“Strategy Staging“
Most of March is opaque, bewildering, inscrutable. A good time to reflect, question and immerse ourselves in a absorbing creative project. Big decisions need to be made early in the month and should be done in such a way that they can be revised later.
We need to act then double back- especially once we enter the pre-Mercury Retrograde shadow period which starts on March 18th. Think of it as an intelligent honing-in process– rather than a defeat or a backslide. Life must go on.
Pisces tends to go into denial and “decide later.” In this way, they let fate decide. With Mercury and the Sun conjunct Saturn during the first week, this flaccid, dissociative approach spells trouble. Better to practice Strategy Staging: go ahead and decide, but pair your decision with specific alternate scenarios that go into effect down the line, if and when the situation changes.
On the 2nd and 3rd and 9th and 10th Uranus squares Venus and Mars, respectively. A change may be necessary in our relationships to achieve peace. Incorporate something visionary and/or out of the box into your relationship’s daily routine or expect restlessness and disruption. Build in more freedom and spontaneity. Announce a new collaboration. Stability is arrived at by doing something different.
March 10th New Moon in Pisces
A Synchronistic Dare
Here we have a four planet pile-up in Pisces conjunct Mercury in just-do-it Aries. Time for a Synchronistic Dare. Send out an invitation, then let the signs and symbols come back at you. The response (or lack thereof) should tell you if it’s meant to be. Aries fire has vision before rationale. Often, it stumbles on something viable. Trust it.
As the March 25th lunar eclipse draws closer, we may get a preview of what wants to “go dark:” an old habit, a home or way of life. The Saturn/Neptune conjunction may dredge up survival fear to test our commitment to this new vision. Note for fridge: “The universe is on my side.”
March 25th Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra
Taking refuge in the vision of our soul
Late March and the first half of April are powerful and chaotic. On top of the eclipses, Mercury retrograde in Aries starts in one week (April 1st). That makes this an “eclipse-o-grade.” Will we struggle to prematurely understand the changes, or will we use the impermanence to brighten the eternal awareness that we are?
Eclipses come in pairs. The most intense period of change takes place during the two weeks in between them which is called the “eclipse window:” March 25th to April 8th.
What wants to “go dark” in our life? Somewhere inside we already know. March wants us to release attachments and re-imagine our life before the eclipse window starts shaking our mental rafters to the ground. That way, we have something steady to hold onto and take refuge in.
Hunter Reynolds 2024
Planetary Transits for March 2024
March 1st- Sun conjunct Mars
March 3rd- Venus square Uranus-
Mar 3rd- Last Quarter Moon in Sagittarius’
Mar 9th- Mercury enters Aries
Mar 10th- New Moon in Pisces
Mar 11th- Venus enters Pisces
Mar 17th- First Quarter Moon in Gemini
Mar 19th- Sun enters Aries
Mar 22nd- Mars enters Pisces
Mar 25th- Full Moon LUNAR Eclipse in Libra
Apr 1st- Mercury Retrograde in Aries
Upcoming: April 1st Mercury Retrograde & April 8th Total Solar Eclipse
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