Moon into Pisces: The Cloud of Unknowing

Friday morning through Sunday morning
Eastern Time

Sweet Dreams by Godward

Friday, November 4
Moon enters Pisces 3:18am
Moon conjunct Chiron (Pisces) 4:35am
Moon square Mercury (Sagittarius) 8:02am
Moon square Venus (Sagittarius) 8:33am
Moon sextile Jupiter (Taurus) 11:56am
Moon sextile Pluto (Capricorn) 2:06pm

Saturday, November 5
Moon trine Sun (Scorpio) 4:05am
(begin void of course)
Moon square the Moon's Nodes (Gemini and Sag) 10:50am
Moon conjunct Ceres (Pisces) 11:45am
Venus (Sagittarius) inconjunct Jupiter (Taurus) 2:51pm
Mercury (Sagittarius) inconjunct Jupiter (Taurus) 5:12pm

Sunday, November 6
Moon inconjunct Saturn (Libra) 12:57am
time change: fall back one hour in the US 2:00am
Ceres (Pisces) turns direct 6:39am
Moon inconjunct Mars (Leo) 9:19am
Moon enters Aries 2:02pm
Moon conjunct Uranus Aries 4:15pm

In the early hours of Friday, the Moon enters Pisces, the ocean of dreams, visions and infinite connection. She first finds Chiron, the wounded healer, who offers the solace of deep understanding. In Pisces, the Moon expands, dissolves, diffuses, reaching out to all that is in compassionate understanding.

Friday morning, this diffused, floating Moon comes into square with Venus and Mercury in Sagittarius. These two, relations and mind, are on a quest to know, to work out the system, get everything clearly laid out, philosophically. The Pisces Moon wonders why, preferring experience to explanation, connection to concepts.

water flows into water

Friday afternoon, the Moon flows into transformative territory as she sextiles Jupiter in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn, who trine each other. This alchemical synthesis combines the groundedness of earth with the fluidity of water. The results might be muddy, yet this could be the very mud from which the sacred lotus emerges.

Early Saturday morning, the Sun and Moon reach their waxing trine. Scorpio and Pisces together allow us to feel our New Moon intentions flowing into something––a shape, a sound, an image. We're watching a negative develop in the bath, not quite sure of the result but patient as the bits and pieces arrange themselves. This is the Moon's last classical aspect in Pisces, opening a void of course that lasts through Sunday afternoon.

The Pisces Moon continues on her way, squaring the Nodes of the Moon and joining Ceres. This is a void time, contemplative and quiet, as questions emerge. What is our life path? Can we flow into it, rather than looking for a definitive map (which might not exist)? What can the Grain Mother teach us about the difference between kairos and chronos, sacred time and linear time?

Venus and Mercury forms inconjuncts to Jupiter Sunday afternoon, pushing for answers. Maybe Gaia knows and isn't telling. Or maybe Gaia is also part of a process of unfolding. Maybe she also is waiting to see how things turn out.

Sunday, still within the Moon's void of course time, she reaches an inconjunct angle of adjustment with Saturn in Libra. Kairos and Chronos meet again and don't see eye to eye. Where do we follow linear time, and where is the sacred round the true clock? Oddly enough, this is the time in the U.S. when we fall back an hour, adjusting our linear clocks to the season––or are we making an unnecessary legal and political adjustment? Either way, we enjoy the magical extra hour of sleep.

Sunday morning, energy begins to flow more energetically and directly. Chiron turns direct in Pisces, a time when we might begin to feel the results of healing work we've been patiently pursuing for months. The Moon reaches an inconjunct with Mars in Leo, a push to express ourselves, shine our light into the world.

Sunday afternoon, the void of course time ends with a bang as the Moon enters Aries and joins Uranus the Trickster Revolutionary. Time to move!

While the Moon swims through Pisces, we bathe in kairos, dissolve all bonds, and flow in universal connection. Born anew in Aries, we light up the sky. Another round begins.