New Moon In Pisces 2024
On March 10, 2024, the Moon meets with the Sun to form a conjunction at 20 degrees of Pisces, marking our Pisces New Moon. If you’re someone like me who feels everything intensely, you have already been acquainted with the energy that this new moon is ushering in. If not, let me tell you… It’s. Intense. Typically in these blog posts, I only discuss aspects of planets that connect with the lunar transit. For this post, I feel it’s important to include other astrological components that are contributing to this dense, powerful energy.
New Moons occur when the Moon sits between the Sun and the Earth, making the Moon completely dark to us. New Moons symbolize the beginning of a 28-day lunar cycle and offer us the opportunity to turn inward, prepare for new beginnings, and assess our unique potential for growth and transformation concerning the sign of the transit. The New Moon is in Pisces to start this new lunar cycle. Pisces, ruler of the 12th house of the zodiac, is a mutable water sign, characterized by adaptability, transcendence of duality, and unity. Symbolically, Pisces is depicted by two fish swimming in opposite directions - one representing the physical side of our nature (conscious), and the other representing the spiritual side (unconscious). This new moon asks us to dive deep into the depths of the psyche to find self-knowledge and integrate it with conscious awareness. We do this by freeing ourselves from hidden influences stored within - our wounds, our secrets, and our triggers. As the 12th house ruler, Pisces is also concerned with ‘hidden enemies’. Surprise surprise, the hidden enemy is yourself - your subconscious.
Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung introduced the world to a ‘Model of the Psyche’, where the psyche is composed of the conscious, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. With this model, Jung suggested that the psyche strives to maintain a balance between opposing conscious and unconscious qualities, while at the same time actively seeking its own development. This search for wholeness of the psyche is a process that Jung called ‘individuation’. This model can serve as a symbolic reference for the energy that this lunar transit is carrying.
The Sun and Moon conjunction is part of a stellium in the sign of Pisces and sits at the midpoint of Saturn (11 degrees Pisces) and Neptune (27 degrees Pisces). Neptune is the ruler of Pisces and represents dreams, illusions, fantasy, and hidden realms. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, represents structures, authority, boundaries, and discipline. The blended energies in this stellium provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between the earthly realm and the etheric realm, our yin and yan, our conscious and subconscious. This requires us to have the drive and discipline to be vulnerable and come face-to-face with our shadows. Once we can accept our shadows, they are no longer in control of us. They are no longer hidden and can be integrated into our conscious awareness. This is the process of individuation. Once you fully accept who you are, no one can tell you otherwise.
Mars in Aquarius is in a square aspect to Uranus in Taurus during this new moon, adding action-oriented energy into the mix. This is gifting you the opportunity to address your obstinacy - whatever you feel stubborn about is your barrier to accessing your subconscious. This can show up in the form of avoidance, ignorance, and in a more popular sense - triggers. Triggers show you what needs to be healed within. Triggers are not meant to be a ‘crutch’. They are not something to wear as a badge of honor, making others tiptoe around your fragility. They’re meant to be used as lessons to either assert boundaries or reframe your thought patterns so that you are no longer activated by certain events/beliefs. Triggers keep you stuck in one reality - the reality of the victim. This is ultimately what is keeping you from your freedom. Realize that, while you may have had horrible things happen to you, it is important to stop placing your sense of value on those events. SELF-worth does not include external validation. The validation you need is already within you. It IS you. You are already whole.
The New Moon is in a sextile aspect to Uranus in Taurus. Jupiter is also in the sign of Taurus, supporting the energies of this sextile from the Sun, Moon, and Uranus. If you are seeking fulfillment outside of yourself, you won’t find it. Jupiter and Uranus’ energy helps expand you in ways that fulfill an individual purpose. Life does not have a purpose, you have a purpose and you bring that purpose to life. This aspect is helping uncover ways to seek inspiration from within - to find your value, create something unique from that value, and then give that value to the world. You won’t ever find what makes you valuable from an external source. Intrinsic motivation is what drives inherent satisfaction.
With this New Moon reflect on these questions:
What is trapping you?
What is the toxicity that is living within?
Where do you want to experience more freedom?
How can you allow yourself to find value within, and release the need for external validation?
These energies are heavy. We are closing out the new moon cycle of the last astrological year. Think back to March 21, 2023 - the first new moon of the astrological year. Consider the past year of growth that you have experienced. Then, identify the steps you can take to achieve a sense of completion for that cycle. Growth is an ongoing, ever-evolving process. The end is only marked by your last breath in this earthly realm. In the meantime, focus on the journey. Experience the highs and the lows. The successes and the lessons. The lightness and the darkness.
Focus on integration of the whole.
Ground your soul, transcend your duality, and allow the energies to alchemize within you.
