Venus is making her Evening Star appearance in Pisces now. She’s emerging from her underworld journey, from her meeting with the Sun (and Mars) in early January, to rise in her role as Queen of Heaven & Earth. As our Creative Feminine, the Evening Star phase of Venus calls us to a new way of being in our world. She’s informing our relationships (both intimate & social) and new frequencies of creative expression with soulful connection, with the Pisces gift of compassion, intimacy, unity.
With Mercury retrograde in Pisces & Mars just entering this numinous sign too, we are bathed in love’s blessings until mid-April. There’s a potent focus on opening, receiving & being love. This is mirrored in the Lunar Eclipse at 12 Virgo (Moon in Pisces) on 3 March too. The focus is both soulful and grounded in compassionate action.
Pisces is where we disappear into love. Dissolve as a separate sense of self, immersed in unity with life. Pisces represents the beingness of love. We enter this space in so many ways that you may not even realise. Fully enjoying a shower. Watching birds fly. Lying in the sunshine. Immersed in a creative activity. Moved by music. To be in this space consciously, to live from this, is an evolution
Being love; doing love; choosing love. This is the current focus.
When we let go consciously, we are the being of love. We become the bridge of humanness & soulfulness. We allow love to reveal, we bring love here. Not by doing; simply in opening to a deeper, truer state of beingness. In this, we may emerge from the Piscean ocean of consciousness as individuality yet we remain connected to that deep well of being. It’s a natural outpouring. We are a natural outpouring.
Can we ‘do’ love purposefully? Now there’s a pertinent question for reflection at this time. When we ‘do’ love, it may backfire on us. Agenda, trying, wanting to be seen in a certain light, feeling responsible or guilty, all these influence hat seems to be loving expression & action. It can be subtle, yet a distortion in the frequency reveals it, if we tune in. The truth is we cannot do love. We can choose it however.
Choosing love in relationship to our own experience is self-love. This means consciously choosing to be love when monkey mind is trying to work life out, when self-judgment appears, when life is tough. Consciously choosing love is to relax, let go, trust, allow. It’s awareness of what I’m giving energy to. It’s a ‘doing’ from choice – surrender into a deeper truth that holds our human wounds & imperfections in tenderness.
Choosing love in relationship to what is needed, or to other, allows selflessness to flow in expression or action. This is service. It’s a choice to express or act with love from love. This is the realm of Virgo, to recognise what’s needed & take care of it. It’s where discernment reveals the fine-tuning & purification of our habitual ways of doing, or trying to ‘do love’.
In choosing love, anything that covers love is transmuted.
From the choice to stay with what is absolutely real in this moment – perhaps ‘I don’t know’; or ‘I’m being…(whatever the contracted state is) without judgment. When we put radical self-honesty first, love reveals itself naturally. Not necessarily with immediate answers, but with openness & vulnerability from which soul’s wisdom may speak.
In being love we recognise that everything has its place, and its timing. Whilst we love the warmth of the sun but not the life-giving moisture of rain, we do not know love’s fullness.
Yet when we consciously recognise our likes, dislikes and conditional responses, & drop our attachments to them, love meets us in that. The discovery of what life really is opens to us. A true joy in life begins to arise. We begin to know love as the dissolution of our sense of separateness from the totality of life. Yet also as the arising impulse to move from love in service to life.
Right now, this Piscean focus asks us some real questions. Not in a rational sense but simply in curious reflection, In simply being with them.
‘What are the conditions I put on love?’ ‘Do these conditions truly serve me & my relationships?’ ‘Where might I stretch beyond what is comfortable but dead?’ This is a time to allow any questions or challenges to cook you. To open, allow & receive. When we rest in love, love opens. Because it’s always available. From there, life naturally evolves you.
