Welcome to the Pisces New Moon, a lunar month to explore the liminal, the subtle, and the spiritual. Pisces brings us to the end of the zodiac wheel, a space that’s reserved for the non-manifested world. The new moon is exact on March 2, 2022 at 12:35 pm EST, 12 degrees Pisces. That’s 9:35 am Los Angeles, 5:35 pm London, 7:35 pm Johannesburg, 4:35 am Sydney on March 3, and 6:35 am Auckland.
New moons are new beginnings, a time when the page turns and we open a chapter lived through the archetypes of a sign. In Pisces, we’re in a lunar month lived through the lens of endings and release, compassion and empathy, spirituality and mysticism, art and music, rest and recuperation, loss and grief, hope and redemption.
There’s such a complexity to Pisces, a complexity that is often overlooked and undervalued in the sign. As the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces represents the end of a long journey as well as the symbolic end of our lives that returns our spirit home. It’s the undiscovered country, a vast expanse that lays beyond a physical world represented by eleven previous zodiac signs. Here we’re floating and swimming instead of walking.
The coming four weeks will invite us to go beyond our physical lives and to explore something deep within. Our spirituality and dreams take center stage. We realize what’s truly important, shedding the past as well as our ego in search of completion.
In all fairness, this is a beautiful new moon, one of the more kinder and generous lunations of 2022. For this we have Jupiter to thank, showing up right alongside the new moon like a kiss. In its home sign, Jupiter in Pisces brings strength to the new moon and touches on themes around faith, truth, and belief.
Jupiter in Pisces is the inner search for meaning. Not satisfied with the search for meaning in the world around us, the quest brings us inward over the coming four weeks. We’re in a quiet reflective mood. We may even be more sensitive than usual.
Although a bit wide, the new moon also activates Neptune in Pisces, an influence that reminds us that we’re all connected and that it’s a lunar month to remember our universality as well as our Soul Self. A sextile between the Sun and Uranus in Taurus also hints at unexpected aid as well as a quiet vision of new possibilities.
But like all planets, there’s a duality to Neptune. Jupiter, too. Look past illusions, however seductive. Don’t get caught up in blind faith or pipe dreams. Thankfully we have a hard conjunction between Mercury and Saturn in Aquarius to keep things real.
Lastly, this new moon picks up on the solar eclipse of December 4, 2021 at 12 degrees Sagittarius. Events of that time may come to a fruition or demand our attention. The coming four weeks may question what we believe in, bring a crisis of faith, but also help us to feel our way forward instead of relying solely on our intellect.