Into the Deep with Pisces New Moon

“The Crone can represent precisely the kind of power women so desperately need today, and do not have: the power to force men to do what is right, for the benefit of future generations and of the earth itself….

As feminists have discovered, men may dislike angry female voices but they will listen to them... Men feared the judgmental eye of the wisewoman even when she was socially powerless. This, then, is the chink in the armor of patriarchal establishments....

When many women together say no and mean it, the whole structure can collapse.

...If the world’s women joined together to reinstate a full three-dimensional feminine divinity, with her own authentic theology, life on our planet might be quite different.”

Excerpts from The Crone, by Barbara G. Walker

This is what it takes to become women who refuses to kneel.

Before we can voice our collective NO and mean it, we’ve some inner work to do.

Women must discern the influence of inner patriarchy, which means healing the legacy of ancestral trauma.

Only then will we expand to contain and express our power. Only then can we remember what it was like to be women before patriarchy. Only then can the demonized goddess and the disowned feminine within become the multi-dimensional feminine divine that can save life on our planet.

We don’t have to wait to act. We can do the inner work and the outer activism simultaneously. We do have to give the inner space its own time. We must be willing to face what is hidden inside. For the love of our ancestors and our descendants, we must be willing to walk with our shadows.

The New Moon in Pisces gives us a window to pull back the veils of obedience imposed by patriarchy, and discern the divine feminine authority beneath them.

Eight planets plus the North Node occupy Pisces, with six points conjunct in the last third of the sign.

They tell us a story of how we heal.

Here are your instructions from the New Moon:

Listen to the communications from the ancestors about what they need you to do to heal ancestral trauma.
Examine and break the inherited patterns and rules so you can see your own path more clearly.
Allow your unseen helpers to show you the difference between illusion and truth.

All this work is happening behind the veil. You won’t be able to see this with your eyes, or reason it with your intellect. You will need your spirit eyes that see in the Dark.

How do you like to cultivate a slightly altered state, or light trance?

You can:
Take a walk in the dark. Activate your body with breath work and movement. Receive bodywork and massage. Journal with automatic writing. Meditate. Pay attention to your dreams. Descend into the watery depths of your unconscious.

You can access a waking lucid dream state.

You will see illumination in the depths. Mars just stationed direct in Cancer so his warrior fire and focus is fully available. Vesta in Scorpio shines her sacred fire on the secrets your ancestors bequeathed you.

Remember, fire and water make steam.

You are sensing in the dark, through the clouds of steam, to discern the truth.

In the Dark, you may meet Sedna, the Goddess of the Deep Ocean.

Sedna was betrayed and murdered by her father, whom she trusted to protect her. She sank to the bottom of the ocean to become the creator goddess of the Inuit people. Her severed fingers became the animals of the northern oceans that the people hunted for food.

At New Moon, Sedna is part of a gridlock between Juno, the Queen of Olympus, and Ceres, nourishing mother Earth. You may feel it is too painful in the deep places this moon shows you. Sedna may appear as a lonely and hurt child. Tend to her gently. Hug her, sing to her, tell a story. Listen to what she needs, and give it to her.

This week, Sedna promises a way through. Her energy flows to the first degrees of Aquarius, where the feminine power of your body and mind transform into the goddess, ready to speak collective truth. .

In Dark Goddess Tarot, Ellen Lorenzi-Prince says of Sedna: “Surrender to the depths....Drop superficial distractions. Devote your life where you feel great power at work.”

The hurt child is growing up – has grown up – to be a powerful woman who refuses to kneel.

She joins with other wise woman voices to say to patriarchy, NO. Not on my watch.

Blessed New Moon to you!