{"id":66569,"date":"2014-09-08T02:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2014-09-08T02:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T02:28:41","slug":"pisces-full-moon-zen-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=66569","title":{"rendered":"Pisces Full Moon: Zen Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"koi_by_weewill-d613rdi\"As a writer, I experience periodic blocks. I don\u2019t think creative blocks are exclusive to artists. People experience life blocks all the time, periods in your life\u00a0where despite your best efforts and intentions (or maybe because of them) the things you try to do just don\u2019t seem to get traction or go\u00a0anywhere. It\u2019s as if, as I described the downside of a Neptune transit to a client recently: God presses the pause button. Then patiently waits for you to figure out that you can\u2019t repeat the same thing you\u2019re doing and get different results. Since you don\u2019t have an answer, or know who or what to be yet, you might as well draw a picture, noodle around on\u00a0your ukulele, chant mantras and play at being Zen. Till one day you wake up to discover you\u2019re in a place of self-acceptance, you no longer have the same problems you once did… and you\u2019re actually enjoying your self.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amidst this productive, mentally-oriented\u00a0Virgo season we experience a reset button in the nonlinear, emotional, visionary Pisces Full Moon.<\/strong>\u00a0Pisces is the siren call to set your carefully laid plans aside, at least temporarily. To nurture the mystic, dreamer and poet in your self. Daydream. Go for a swim. Do yoga. Write poetry, paint a picture, play with your pets, read a novel, Pisces urges. Especially if you\u2019re feeling stuck, impatient, or feel the fire of God at your back, urging you to get a plan, get your life together, why not take a nap instead? Paint your toenails. Let go. There are certain times in life when doing exactly the opposite of what you think you should be doing actually works. That time is right now.<\/p>\n

Periodically abandoning your to-do list, your Sisyphean tasks,\u00a0and heading\u00a0for the nearest day spa may\u00a0sound counterproductive to productivity\u00a0but\u00a0science now\u00a0says the opposite. People who take naps are actually more productive and successful, and so are people who daydream, says Daniel Levitin, Neuroscientist, author of \u201cThe Organized Mind\u201d (who also says we\u00a0have become so bogged down with information, yet feel if we stop we’ll get left behind). “There\u2019s a reset button for sensory overload: daydreaming mode. Daydreaming mode is the reset button. It allows you to refresh and release those neural circuits that get all bound up when you\u2019re focused. It\u2019s good to focus on one thing, practice mindfulness, Zen mind etc.\u00a0but not for too long.<\/em>\u00a0You\u2019ve got to give your brain a break.\u201d If you don\u2019t, he adds, daydreaming actually hi-jacks your brain. For instance, if you\u2019ve ever had the experience of driving from point A to B, and having no recollection of the trip, or reading but not digesting the words, that\u2019s daydreaming mode hi-jacking your brain. You may think you\u2019re losing your mind, when in reality it\u2019s just the brain\u2019s way of saying: Don\u2019t push me. I need a\u00a0break.<\/p>\n

Granted, you can turn daydreaming into another\u00a0strategy, another key to efficiency, organisation,\u00a0more Virgo fodder for\u00a0your life. Consider this: in\u00a0America, we\u2019re programmed for productivity, pushing ahead, striving. We continually edit our life, adding new things in, eliminating others, striving to make our life more elegant, improved.\u00a0We work so hard.<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s nothing wrong with striving, but it does get in the way of having a nice aperitif while sitting on a picnic blanket on a moss green lawn gazing at the azure blue sky, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Pisces is a spiritual teacher, a master of disillusionment, reminding us that the happiness we experience\u00a0in the external world is\u00a0temporary and\u00a0will eventually disappoint.\u00a0Only harmony within our inner self can bring\u00a0us lasting peace.\u00a0This\u00a0Full Moon is the perfect time to bring your\u00a0inner world into a state of harmony.\u00a0<\/strong>How?\u00a0<\/strong>You might start by\u00a0taking\u00a0<\/strong>a cleansing Epsom salt bath. Retreat, even just for a few hours. Dance. Abandon your mind and its anxieties. Visit a\u00a0body of water. Drop into an experience of timelessness.\u00a0<\/strong>For zany, instructive help in shifting gears, and making joyful peace with life\u2019s hurdles and blocks, SARK has a fun\u00a0series of instructional books like\u00a0Eat Mangoes Naked,\u00a0<\/em>my favorite. Seek the feeling of limitlessness and joy that you have available to you at any time, inside.\u00a0\u00a0Then,\u00a0maybe, and probably long\u00a0after you’ve\u00a0let go of needing to know\u00a0all the answers,\u00a0you’ll create the right conditions for Pisces magic\u00a0to find you.<\/p>\n

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image source: Koi by weewill DeviantArt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a writer, I experience periodic blocks. I don\u2019t think creative blocks are exclusive to artists. People experience life blocks all the time, periods in your life\u00a0where despite your best efforts and intentions (or maybe because of them) the things you try to do just don\u2019t seem to get traction or go\u00a0anywhere. It\u2019s as if, […]<\/p>\n

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