
Initiations
A weekly podcast that keeps you up to date on the astrological forces at play. Each week we are diving into the mythology, archetypes and initiations present in astrology with your host, astrologer Jules Ferrari.
Initiations
SONGS OF THE SIRENS: PISCES FULL MOON ECLIPSE
Here we are, from Monday - Thursday lunchtime (Aussie time) in the Full Moon period. What has been building and what will echo out after Monday's eclipse?
Notes on applying Virgo and walking between worlds, so to speak.
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Hi, welcome to this show. I have just been looking at the chart for tomorrow, and right now as I'm recording this, it's Sunday, the 7th of September in the morning, and the moon is currently at five degrees of Pisces. So. Sunday it's entered, it's here tomorrow. Uh, it's just after 4:00 AM in Sydney. On Monday is when the full Moon will be exact with in, in direct opposition to the sun at think 19 degrees of Virgo and Pisces. And I, you know, I've already recorded a podcast on. On this, and I just wanted to offer some insights, I guess, on what's coming up in my world and with clients and how I am playing Virgo season. It's funny to see. As well, this is just resonating out with my friends and people who have also studied and are practicing astrologers to notice how many of us are really getting back into, well, not getting back into, but putting energy towards health and the data, our own personal data, health data. So, for example, I had a session with. A new naturopath or for me a new naturopath, Steven, he's a ledge and also lives in the beautiful, beautiful mountains where I live. And we're gonna do a whole bunch of functional testing and this thrills me. I love, even though I can't obviously interpret this data at all. That's what I've hired him for, um, and his great expertise and advice. But to have that kind of data is just so incredible. Because I find that like a lot of us, and maybe this is wishy-washy ness, I can sometimes have a sense of things and. Go into almost like a fantasy or a story of what's happening within my body. But then every time I've had functional testing in the past, and you have the, I guess, facts in front of you, it's unbelievably clarifying and, and immediately obliterates, I almost wanna say like false emotion or the emotion that was tethered to a storyline or a fantasy that just wasn't based in reality. And I think we can be very intuitive people, or we are very intuitive people and still have the capacity to be. Diluted self diluted. I think I'm very aware of where that shows up in my chart and it's something that I just have to check within myself. It is also a great potential for creativity within my chart and part of using the data of our own. Natal child or birth chart is understanding these parts of our personality, where if we're not in command of them, which I would, I would refer to when I say command or when I say power as well, I mean like full conscious utilization. That is Powell. How? How can I be in full command of particular aspects of my or skills or abilities or aspects of my personality? And then what does it look like when it gets a little bit more slippery and it moves into its less conscious expression, and I've. Straddled. Both I've bungee jumped into to both extensively and I as a very experiential person, I've mapped the terrain of lot, lots of these parts of my personality. So I have a good measure of where I am with certain things. I think this is one of the prac, I had some brilliant clients yesterday and. One of them was saying like, what's, like how can I use this knowledge? And I love this question because it's not just about, Hey, this is who you are. Not at all. It's not meant to be a descriptive tool, although there can be something very validating in having, um, essentially a stranger reflect you back to you. But the practical application is these things that I've just mentioned, or it may be a particular archetype or planet or story like myth that resonates. And then you want to go into the inquiry of that. How? How am I playing out this archetype? You know, each of the planets, the signs have this. Really full healthy spectrum of expression. This isn't about type casting and keywords and the synopsis. It's filled with nuance. It's filled with gray, and there are to, to put it in a way that I, that I can simplify it. There are conscious and unconscious expressions. How did we get here? Who knows? So, yeah, something that I was reading this morning, I've been doing some really fun study into a particular aspect of astrology, which I'll, I'll speak about down the track. I'm wanting to use this particular framework in mentorship that I am. Filling out in my being at the moment, it takes me a long time to do things and I'm, I'm quite okay with that to bring these things out into the world as like a finished thing. And what I was reading about Pisces this morning is that this is one of our oldest signs. That we've been observing and in relationship with in the sky. There was caskets, not a casket, whatever the Egyptian version of a casket is from two and a half thousand years ago that had the two fishes on it. And it is this full moon. That we'll have tomorrow, the full moon in Pisces that we always have in Virgo season. That is when the waters of the Nile are at their highest, when they essentially flood the planes. Which is interesting because as we know, Pisces is a water sign. It's mutable. It's this capacity to take many forms and shapes as we see. Water doing all of the time. And it's interesting because we often associate water with, we often don't associate water with the hecticness of sea storms, tsunamis, those gigantic waves that you see, if you've ever somehow got into the algorithm of, boats in Deep Sea, which somehow I am on, I am a part of that algorithm because I think it's something I'm really scared of deep sea. I have absolutely no desire to be on a ship in the middle of nowhere. Absolutely zero. At all. It freaks me out. The force and the power, and I would say sentience of the ocean, Pisces being ocean water. The mutability of it has a very close relationship to our moon, which we understand now, like these gravitational pools. This toing and froing, this push and pull of water and moon and the tides, the in and out, the receding, the coming towards. In a Jungian sense, the ocean is referred or symbolizes the collective unconscious. And I want to, yeah, just contemplate this idea of the sirens they are expressed. In most cultures, there's some expression of the sirens. These beautiful luscious women or beings singing these magical songs in toning. These addictive pulls that make usually men go become derailed and usually drown. And if we think about this more in a mythological sense, there is this pull, this calling from. The inner self, what we could say is like this whisper of the soul. And if it's not met in a way that is grounded or healthy, these aren't great words. Then it can be all consuming. Pisces is deeply the 12th house Neptune, deeply related to mental illness and addiction as well as music, creativity in all of its forms, the poetics of the arts, the sublime, it is the realm of the mystic and the mystical. Everything beyond time and space, but it can envelop and pull people off their own axes if they aren't in a conscious relationship with themselves. And I think we've all probably been there. Love infatuation is a great place to start. And for any of you who have your Venus conjunct Neptune or in the 12th house or in Pisces, you know exactly what I mean. Or if you have Pisces or Neptune in your eighth house, you know exactly what I mean. Um, I think Pisces is also, uh, to, to bring in more of this Venusian energy. It is related. It's longing, it's deep longing. Something that I really uncovered within myself when I was a very devout religious being who was very close to renunciation at the tender age of 33. I realized this incredible longing for essentially God and this, this awareness of the separation. What I viewed as a separation between me and God. I now have a different sense of that completely, but within the vaders and via my teachers, I was able to access a lot of language for that. There's books on that. There's philosophies on this longing that we have for original home, let's say, quote unquote, which I don't think we are separate from here on Earth. And I think that's a big storyline that we have to be really aware of, and I think that that's related to this full moon in Pisces. With the south node here in Virgo, we are releasing this grip on the stretchiness of day-to-day busyness. This is what this thing is, this is what I have to do. I don't have any time. There is all this pressure. I'm trying to do X, Y, Z. It's really stressy. It just makes me wanna take a deep breath now and what we're. Remembering is infinity in the possibility of infinity in time, which is full present moment awareness. Transportation, visually, mentally, emotionally, energetically, psychically, spiritually, outside of. The walls of time and space and the tangible, we have been in relationship to these things and communicating these things since we arrived. This isn't new intel whatsoever. Um, yeah. So we're, we want, but when these guys are allies. We're able to hear that call of our siren self, and it doesn't mean that we're going to meet our death. It doesn't mean we are going to walk down a path that's so far from our own because we bought into a fantasy or we deluded ourselves about something or someone, or a situation. So deeply that we had no idea how off course we had gotten. Uh, one of the things that Steven, uh, my naturopath recommended I check out was quantum biology. And then I looked up, oh, I should have the names for you. I don't message me if you want the names of the people that I'm. Don't have the names of on Instagram and I'll write them to you. And he told me about these two people and this app, which I've downloaded, which shows light, it will measure the light according to where you are. U-V-A-U-V-B, vitamin D time, um, the best times to be in the sunlight. I'm a sun gaer. I love it. I've been. Having an on off relationship with it for 20 plus years there's nothing like looking at Sunrise Sun or looking at very early morning sun. That in itself is a transcendent experience, I think. And anyway, so part of what he's wanting me to do is just realign to this circadian rhythm. And so this weekend it's just been. Going out into the front yard with my beautiful olive trees and standing on the grass and saying, good day to the sun. So simple, so beneficial. This, I mean, the sun in, in itself, like the wildness of what it is. If you've ever looked up the sun. If you haven't, I recommend that you do. It's unbelievably wild. There's full on explosions of energy 24 7 taking place in this ball of light and energy, like the fact that it's that there is sun and that we're rotating around it along with all of these other beautiful planets and asteroids and asteroid belts is wild, but the power, it sounds obvious, the power that it holds. Is to witness that is transcendent. So if you wanna do something tomorrow morning this morning,'cause you'll be listening to this on Monday or any morning this week, if you wanna have a little transcendent experience that's completely free, then go and say hi to the sun and look at it. I and I, and only in that sort of first hour. Ish of it rising. I've just, I don't know all the data on this, so don't sue me. Okay. Don't do it in the middle of the day. So other things, Virgo things, the health data, the parasite cleanse, my mate, Holly, Holly as a party. Absolute legend. Also on the cleanse route, which I love. I bought a tent. I'm going camping this week with my son. It's a very, very good looking tent and I have very soft feather filled mattresses that I bought as well. It's camp life, but it's aesthetic camp life. It's and just getting so excited about. That and cultivating this sense of, okay, what will we eat? What utensils and tools do we need to take out in nature? And there's something about that for me that is so, fulfilling. It's like this, the getting to the, the crux of things. The crux of what is important and why not just in terms of. Let's say our inner world and this like grander y. Why do I do astrology? Why why do I do X, Y, Z? But I mean, in a intangible ways too. Like what is at the crux of a meal? What do I need? What gives me the best nutrition? What tools do I need to bring along with me to into the mountains to be able to cook this for my son? And I. I don't know. There's something that's just so delish about this. I've also really been articulating home life and my values with regards to home life. What do I want that to be? What is the life that I'm wanting to curate for my son and our life together for the next. You know, until he is, forever, hopefully. But you know, while he goes through this passage of five to 20 odd, he starts school next year. And so suddenly it's like these things are coming time or what life is gonna be for the coming years is, I'm ha I've, it's coming into focus a lot more. It's less liminal, more in focus. I'm gonna, there's gonna be these set amounts of school, holidays and time off. What do I want to do with that? I get to, luckily, as a very mutable being who has her own business, I will get to match my work and then take off all the time. It tees off, but. I want to curate a brilliant life for him. I want to take him to Greece, I wanna take him to Italy. I wanna take him to blah, blah, blah, blah. You know? So it's like starting to put these feelings in this again, Ian way, these feelings of what I want life for us to be like. And now they're sharply coming into focus. What do I need to. Even in a financial sense, what do I need to be providing and bringing in for us to be able to cultivate the life and the lifestyle that I see us having. Yeah, that's all I have to say today. Just take notice of what's coming up for you, obviously. What are these calls when has. When have the sirens engulfed you and how did you come back from that experience? Uh, in, in medical astrology, which I also just learned today, Pisces apparently governs the feet, which is amazing, right? As this, there's always these clever fail safes in this language, this system or modality. We need presence in our feet. This groundedness to be able to walk into PI and experiences to be able to walk between worlds. If you are not grounded and present in your body and you walk into these, you walk into your unconscious or you walk into these. Fantasies or delusions, then how are you gonna come back? When I used to have massages with one of my mates and teachers Sarah Hollands she's now in Spain, so I can't. I get these massages. They're just the best I've ever had.'cause she's also an incredible, incredibly gifted psychic and medium. So it's like you're having, you're having a massage while receiving all of this intel. It's like delicious on so many levels. Uh, but you know when, when I would see her, this would've been 2007 ish, maybe earlier, maybe a bit later. Always, we would start by like, okay. She would always be like, okay, I've gotta go find you. Where are you? And she would be holding my feet and she's like, you need to bring your consciousness to your feet. And I still do that and it's something that I always speak to my students and some of my clients about too.'cause even now as I do that, I can feel myself being more present just by bringing my consciousness to my feet. So in closing, you're in the full moon phase. We are here until, what is that Thursday arvo. So we're here for a lot of this week. Saturn is back here in Pisces now, so it's aiding us again. It moved back on the 1st of September, and it's gonna be here until, I think it's Valentine's Day next year. So we have this combination of the North node new higher expressions, the most conscious expressions of this sign. Allied with the Moon, our intuitive, emotional, private, inner world self satin. Structure form, devotion, discipline, time and space. There's this beautiful resonance here. This isn't about this is about, and this is what I'm learning from several of my teachers at the moment. We're cultivating a relationship. With self and consciousness, like full aliveness in the body, which has a clear relationship to our capacity to hear and see and feel with the subtle self. It's like the magic in the every day, like the feeling that I get from before I. Clocked on here to be outside looking at the raised garden veg that I made and flower garden, and to see all of that coming to life. I don't know. It's, that's just so much more that calls my name to me in a way that things that may have called my name at the beginning of the year just do not anymore. Again, part of. The magic of this year is what no longer holds a resonance or what. No longer the more that you're you come into yourself, the more that you are conscious, the more that you are able to be true to yourself because you have more data on what that actually is and what it looks like and what it means for you, and the actual application of bringing that into reality. And thus, very naturally what isn't in resonance just drops away and it just feels, yeah, so wholesome in a fun, sexy, non daggy, non granola way. Okay, bye. I meant for this to be 10 minutes. It's fucking 28, but there you go. Take care.