Pisces Full Moon

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Pisces Full Moon
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Why are we here?
The time of the full moon is a time of
celebration.
We celebrate the energy of the SUN.
The reason is that when the Moon is full it is
the furthest from the Sun, thus the Suns energy
is the strongest.
Thus we celebrate the energy of the Sun through
meditation and reflection.
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All is Energy!
For those of you who are not familiar with
esoteric philosophy or do not know it well I
will remind you that all is energy. Thus you
should simply relax and try to feel the energy
rather then concern yourself with understanding
everything.
During the lecture you can ask questions or make
comments. After the meditation you may also ask
questions.
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Pisces Presentation

• The Sign of Pisces
• Pisces and Christianity
• The Labour of Hercules in Pisces
• The Pisces Full Moon Chart
• - Short Break -
• Meditation

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The Sign of Pisces
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Which sign is the Sun in?

• The Sun is in Pisces.

And which sign is the Moon in?
The Moon is in Virgo.
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Why should you learn aboutPisces if you are not
one?
You may have another planet - or the Moon in
Pisces.
Even if you do not the Pisces energy will still
affect you - and, perhaps, as importantly those
around you.
If you are a Pisces you may not display all of
the characteristics of Pisces as you have other
planets and energies which also affect you.
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What mode isPisces associated with?
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adaptability
Mutable
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What do we know about theMutable mode?
concerned with changing things into something
else
emphasis is on adaptability
Pisces brings about the end of emotions through
dissolving into the oneness of all things.
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What element isPisces associated with?
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Water
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What do we know about Water?
Less Limited
More Limited
Feelings
Impressionable
Reflective
Emotions
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What about Water people?
Beliefs are based on feelings rather than on
reason, passion, or practicality.
Sensitive
Perceive life through their emotions
Water rises into the air and falls as rain,
nurturing the land.
Need close emotional relationships, and rarely
have superficial affairs.
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So what happens when we put the mode of mutable
together with the element of water?
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We get Pisces!

• Pisces is the 12th sign of the zodiac.
• Being the 12th sign it represents the final stage
  in the evolution of man and his place in the
  universe.
• In this sign is the desire to use all that has
  been learned and assimilated in order to gain
  perfection, of man as an individual and humanity
  as a whole.

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Pisceans readily adapt to change!
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Pisces Astrological Symbol

• Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in
  opposite directions. Pisceans often feel like
  they are being pulled in different directions,
  making it difficult to make concrete decisions.
  The symbol of the fish has been associated with
  followers of Jesus Christ.  

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Pisces Constellation
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Pisces Constellation
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Pisces Astrological Glyph
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• The glyph for Pisces can be seen as depicting two
  fish swimming in opposite directions. As well, it
  shows two crescents of receptivity pointing
  outwards, held together by the line of matter.
  The sign of Pisces is considered a receptive
  signone that is impressionable, spiritual, and
  open-minded. 

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The Pisces Myth
Typhon, Aphrodite, Eros
The Little Mermaid
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Typhon
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AphroditeandEros
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The Little Mermaid
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What is the Little Mermaid story?
In many fairy tales there is a peculiar and
enchanting figure, sometimes called an ondine or
melusine, sometimes called a mermaid
falls in love with a mortal man
Legend of the Swan Prince

• the union of a mortal with something from
  another level of reality
• the meeting is fraught with difficulties
• there are always conditions attached
• it usually ends in disaster or difficulty
• because of the ineptitude of the mortal

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How does this relate to Pisces?

• Pisces is the last sign, the completion of the
  cycle. 
• Every sign leaves its trace in Pisces there is
  not so much a particular Piscean dilemma as that
  Pisces embodies the human dilemma.
• In this last of the zodiacal signs is represented
  all of mans helplessness, his longings, his
  dreams, his needs, his powerlessness in the face
  of the universe, his delusions of grandeur, his
  longing for love, his sense of a mystery or a
  divine source which he strives for, yet cannot
  wholly reach without great sacrifice. 

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• You might say that in every Pisces, symbolized by
  the two fishes trying to swim in opposite
  directions yet bound together by a golden cord,
  there is this dilemma of the meeting of two
  dimensions.
• There is the ordinary mortal side, which is used
  to facts and realities of a tangible kind.
• And there is also that which inhabits the dark
  depths, and which occasionally flashes its tail
  above the water, catching the sunlight,
  entrancing the mortal on the shore.
• How this meeting is dealt with is the story of
  each Piscean life.

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• Some Pisceans simply follow the mermaid down,
  forgetting that human lungs cannot survive
  underwater. Here we have the derelicts of
  humanity, the lines of the junkies and the
  chronic alcoholics and the hopeless, the waster,
  the despairing, the abject.
• Or the escapism of Aphrodite and Eros.
• For other Pisceans, the fairy tale has a
  different ending.  It is here that we can see the
  genius of men such as Einsteinwhere the glimpse
  of other realms and of a universe barely
  comprehensible to the ordinary mind in its
  majesty and infinityis translated through the
  human brain, offering to the world a charting of
  the unknown waters.

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• Obviously, not every Piscean is an Einstein or a
  drunkard.
• But perhaps the task of every Piscean is to come
  to terms in some way with the transpersonal
  realm, and to have the courage to be its
  mouthpiece.
• Here we find the poets and musicians, the great
  actors and playwrights, the visionaries and
  mystics who attempt to bring to ordinary life a
  glimpse of something else. (Which you will note
  in our list of those born in Pisces.)
• This can be through a work of art, or it can
  exist in the humblest expressions of human love. 

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Well now mention some of the challenges to
Pisces. Remember though we are talking about the
energy of Pisces and there are many types of
energy.
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PisceanNon-Challenging Energies

• Sensitive
• Intuitive
• Adaptable
• Kind and Caring
• Helpful
• Imaginative
• Trusting
• Wise

• Creative
• Easy-going
• Romantic
• Even-tempered
• Multi-talented
• Friendly
• Compassionate
• Ultra popular

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Piscean Challenging Energies

• Gullible
• Temperamental
• Oblivious
• Spaced out
• Wily
• Vague
• Easily seduced
• Idle

• Overly Sensitive
• Indecisive
• Secretive
• Impractical
• Easily Led
• Absent minded
• Escapist
• Over-emotional

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Who are some Piceans

• Albert Einstein
• Michelangelo
• Dr. Seuss
• Elizabeth Taylor
• George Frideric Handel
• Alexander Graham Bell, Frederic Chopin, Sidney
  Poitier, Rob Lowe, Bruce Willis, Andrew Lloyd
  Weber, Sir Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Gloria
  Steinem, Eric Clapton, Al Gore, Jackie Chan,
  Eddie Murphy, Marlon Brando, Conan O'Brien, David
  Letterman, Russell Crowe, Hugh Hefner, Kareem
  Abdul-Jabbar, Ashley Judd, Al Green, Robert
  Downey Jr, Warren Beatty, Dennis Quaid.

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The Exoteric Ruler is Neptune
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Esoteric Ruler is Pluto
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Pisces - Rays 2 6
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Pisces and Christianity
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• Associations of the Christ story with
  astronomical factors abound. As the Bull and Ram
  had been worshipped during the preceding Ages of
  Taurus and Aries, the Fishes became the great
  mystical symbol. Christ was said to be a fisher
  of men
• Another Christian symbol, the sacrificed lamb,
  likely refers to the end of the prior age, Aries,
  just as the slaying of the Bull is believed to
  represent the end of the Age of Taurus.
• On the way to his Crucifixion, Christ made twelve
  stops, known as the Stations of the Cross,
  another allusion to the twelve Zodiacal signs.

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• Similarly the death of Christ, the Crucifixion,
  could contains a symbolic reference to the end of
  the Age of Pisces when the Age of Aquarius
  begins. Christs body was fixed to the Cross
  (Cruci-fixion) but astrologers know of something
  called the Fixed Cross. This is the group of
  four so-called fixed Zodiacal signs forming a
  cross within the circle of the Zodiac Taurus,
  Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. When the Vernal Point
  precesses into Aquarius, the four seasonal
  points, the two Equinoxes and two Solstices,
  themselves always forming a cross, will have
  moved into the fixed signs or Fixed Cross of the
  Zodiac from the mutable signs where they are now.

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• The Fish are one of its great symbols. Why?
• Firstly, there is the aspiration.
• Second to the aspiration is the urge towards
  self-sacrifice.
• Compassion and love of an impersonal, unbiased
  kind are also Piscean virtues extolled in this
  last era.  Love thy neighbour as thyself, turn
  the other cheek - these are Piscean aspirations. 
  Of course you have to remember that there's
  another fish to the pair, too.  But much of the
  history of religion in the last two thousand
  years has forgotten about that second fish.  It's
  locked down in the basement, and popularly
  referred to as the Devil. 

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The Labours of Hercules
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The Labour in Pisces

• There are several variations of the myth
  concerning the labor of Hercules in the sign
  Pisces. We are told that there was an island
  where lived a human monster with a body of three
  men united. He had a herd of red cattle, guarded
  by a shepherd and a two-headed dog. Hercules
  received orders (Pisces is the sign of obedience)
  to bring these cattle from the island, across
  land and water to the sacred city.

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Hercules completes his task

• Hercules sailed to the island in a golden cup and
  when he arrived there he climbed to the top of a
  mountain and spent the night in prayer.

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Hercules completes his task

• Then he killed the two-headed dog but he did not
  kill the shepherd.

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Hercules completes his task

• He also killed the owner of the red cattle.

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Hercules completes his task

• Here is the beautiful part of the story Hercules
  placed all of the cattle in the golden cup, in
  which he had sailed over to the island, took them
  to the Sacred City, and offered them in sacrifice
  to Athena, Goddess of Wisdom.

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What is the three-bodied man?
Hercules has had a vision of something he has to
do. He sees humanity owned by a monster, a
three-bodied man, the symbol of a human being
with mental, emotional and physical bodies
united. Now humanity, the human monster, is ready
for salvation and the real work of The World
Savior can begin as a whole with the group
concept underlying the work rather than
individual soul saving.
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What are the red cattle, shepherd two-headed
dog?
The two-headed dog representing the matter aspect
and the psychic nature. You see why Hercules
spared the shepherd. The mind can still be the
shepherd of the cattle but the two-headed dog,
the psychic-emotional nature and the matter
aspect, Hercules killed, which means that they
were deprived of any power.
The symbolism of the red cattle is plainly that
of the lower desires, desire being ever an
outstanding characteristic of humanity.
. They are guarded by a shepherd, which is the
mind.
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Transmitter of Light
If Jesus or Hercules, or you as a human being,
en rapport with his your soul, becomes a
transmitter of light to the sons of men, so we
can extend the concept and think of humanity as a
whole with all minds held steady in the light,
transmitting to lower kingdoms in nature that
spiritual energy which will raise them up into
heaven. That is the work of humanity. We are so
occupied with our own problems that we forget the
larger picture. It is to be noted again that the
keeper of the cattle, the form aspect, was also
killed but the shepherd and the cattle were
raised up in the golden cup.
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The Full Moon Chart

• Pisces Full Moon
• Sunday, February 28, 2010
• 438 PM GMT (1138 AM EST)

Aries Full Moon Sunday, March 28, 2010 1219 PM
GMT (719 AM EST) Pisces Full Moon
Meditation Monday, March 29, 2010 700 PM EST
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We can view this as the energy of water
feelings (Pisces) on the level of the
personality and earth organized and predictable
(Virgo) on the level of the emotions looking at
the elements. Both are mutable signs which are
associated with changing things into something
else. Thus this produces a personality blending
emotional sensitivity and intuitive understanding
with the Virgo traits of discrimination,
intellectuality and practicabilitygood mental
analysis, constructive criticism and common sense
decisions. There is a working together of the
intuitive and practical. One can make ones
intuition, feelings and impressions about things
useful in practical affairs.
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These individuals have generous natures, with
enormous capacity for enjoying life and wanting
the very best of everything. Whether or not they
pursue a formal education, their intellectual
curiosity compels them to want to know everything
and gives them a healthy respect for knowledge.
Negative associations of this conjunction lead in
opposite directions ruined health and finances
caused by constant overestimation and
overindulgence, or, miserable miserliness
inspired by exaggerated self- denial. On the
positive side these individuals are true
spiritual leaders, gifted actors, mimics,
inspired teachers, writers, and artists.
Moon opposite Jupiter indicates that though the
material abundance promised by the Moons
association with Jupiter may never appear or may
be wasted, these individuals probably have not
been deprived of the jolly sense of humor and
great intelligence which are also implied. To be
successful they are certain to have to overcome
some type of emotional exaggeration, either gross
overindulgence or its opposite extreme,
asceticism.
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Mercury conjunct Neptune indicates those who may
often fail to see the reality of situations even
to the point of completely exhausting others who
must deal with them on this basis. However, they
also may have remarkable farsightedness and
instinctual understanding of things that less
sensitive intellects cannot grasp. They are
likely to have great fondness for art, design,
music, and nature.
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Mars sextile Saturn indicates those with a good
sense of timing. They often know exactly when to
act, or in some cases, when not to act. They are
apt to receive opportunities to get ahead in
business, construction, real estate, management,
banking, or property management and development.
They are good at aggressively planning and
promoting their own interests as well as others.
Those with organizational skills are excellent
administrators, instructors and trainers.
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Why are we here tonight?
The time of the full moon there is a direct
alignment between the energy of the sign the sun
is in and the affairs of the sign the moon is in.
Sun Pisces total renunciation
Moon Virgo fulfills service intent
In our meditation this evening, let us visualize
a common goal for humanity. Groups of men and
women of goodwill bonding together to support
right-human values. Let us use our magical powers
of manifestation, and see this happen. Leaders
and ordinary people alike, afire with goodwill
and humanitarian vision, acting in concert for
the good of mankind as a whole.
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Seed Thought for Pisces

• I leave the Fathers home and turning back, I
  save.