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I sat at the feet of the venerable wise teacher Byron Katie last weekend at Spirit Rock, the meditation center down the road from where I live. She opened the class by saying, Raise your hand if you ate breakfast this morning. Hands went up. Then she asked,\u00a0Is it true? Where\u2019s your proof?<\/em>\u00a0Hundreds of us were now having breakfast\u00a0in our imagination.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I had the prickly sensation that all the enlightened beings that have passed through this space were now in this room, chuckling at the cosmic joke, with us.<\/span><\/p>\n It was a Piscean teaching moment. Katie has built her life\u2019s Work around teaching us to investigate the stories we tell our selves, through gentle and patient inquiry. To the Ego, doing\u00a0The Work<\/a>\u00a0is awfully similar to what Dorothy\u2019s dog did to the Wizard of Oz at that moment when Toto pulled back the curtain of the Great Oz only to reveal a scared little man. The Ego doesn\u2019t want to be found out; it holds onto whatever it can to feel safe. It\u2019s painful to see where you\u2019ve been caught up in a story, but the freedom of being liberated\u00a0into truth is much sweeter.<\/p>\n Virgo Jupiter is lining up to\u00a0oppose Pisces Neptune (thru mid-September), a\u00a0dreamy and confusing aspect that stimulates our hunger for something more, rouses our belief that all things are possible. A bit like a long-awaited sedative for the grinding Uranus-Pluto square years it\u2019s softening our hard edges, for some it\u2019s even helping to deliver some long awaited dreams.\u00a0But Jupiter-Neptune can also disillusion.\u00a0<\/strong>Earlier this week, news broke in the health community that some samples of fermented cod fish liver oil, long marketed as a near miraculous essential for health by the respected Weston A Price Foundation, were not fermented but rancid. It\u2019s not unusual for an oil to go rancid, and there\u2019s always a thin line between fermented and rotten. What is remarkable is how many \u201cbelievers\u201d there are, believers who either attribute their health to FCLO or, conversely, their disease, and how each side has a story in which they have wholeheartedly invested. Admittedly, I too felt let down by the Weston A Price Foundation – at first. Then\u00a0I systematically\u00a0analysed\u00a0<\/strong>the book-sized\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0and discovered it brought up more questions than definitive answers.<\/p>\n As Katie says:\u00a0Is it true? Where is your proof?<\/em>\u00a0And:\u00a0It\u2019s okay to not know…<\/em><\/p>\n Jupiter is in the classical sign of its detriment, Virgo. \u00a0Analysis, skepticism, focusing on what\u2019s wrong\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>restrain Jupiterian possibilities. Yet similar to\u00a0the relief I feel\u00a0to see pragmatic earth or Saturn placement amidst a client’s Neptune\/Jupiter heavy chart,\u00a0dubious\u00a0Virgo offers\u00a0a solid check and balance on flights of fancy or delusion we may be playing out in our minds.\u00a0<\/strong>For instance, practical, sane Virgo will typically put the kibosh on a relationship with\u00a0no real future in sight,\u00a0and sometimes that\u2019s a good thing. That said, this is an aspect made for dreamers\u00a0–for exploring what holds allure, for playing with fairy plum visions that charm and enchant (to see if your dreams hold water, however, you may want to wait for a nice solid Saturn aspect).<\/p>\n At this Pisces Full Moon, the portal to both enlightenment and confusion is open.\u00a0If you\u2019re not feeling a tad dreamily romantic -and- disillusioned you\u2019re probably not paying attention.\u00a0<\/strong>We\u00a0may\u00a0retreat\u00a0into our own better version of the world, we may\u00a0wake up from an\u00a0illusion, and likely\u00a0we\u2019ll experience both. Under Neptune in Pisces\u2019 illusory gaze we might be wary of jumping onto any bandwagon– be it miracle cod liver oil or a guru.<\/p>\n Where this lunation falls in your chart\u00a0you are ready to\u00a0make a\u00a0leap in awareness. To do so:\u00a0Sit at the feet of the Guru Pisces Moon, allow your self to drift on her gentle, tumbling waves,\u00a0receive vision and inspiration. Quiet\u00a0your ego.\u00a0Be receptive to an unveiling.\u00a0<\/strong>With Pisces, we lessen our chance of falling prey to confusion or delusion by taking some time outside of time, in a meditative quiet retreat space, or by the sea.\u00a0<\/strong>Our power now is in our open, questioning consciousness. Yet before deciding on\u00a0matters of practical importance, invite Virgo Sun’s eagle-eyed\u00a0attentiveness to the seaside picnic. After all, the root of the word gullible comes from\u00a0gull<\/em>– the seaside bird that steals your lunch while you\u2019re not looking.<\/p>\n I sat at the feet of the venerable wise teacher Byron Katie last weekend at Spirit Rock, the meditation center down the road from where I live. She opened the class by saying, Raise your hand if you ate breakfast this morning. Hands went up. 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