posted February 19, 2007 08:42 PM            

Guess it’s time to swim over to the lunar fishies’ gathering and get on the Aquatic Soul Train :-D

Pisces Moon in VIII here – one point of my Moon/Uranus/Mercury watery grand trine, and the apex of a Boomerang – Moon/Pluto/Neptune with Mars as the Boomerang planet, and the apex of a Moon/Pluto/Sun Yod. Moon opposes both Venus and Mars, and almost exactly quincunxes my Sun. I’d say the Moon is one of the most important planets in my chart, although Jupiter is my most-aspected planet, according to Pullen…..

I responded most to what castlegirl wrote – very close to fitting like a wet glove ;-D

I’m with Node on the FishMoon men That shared emotional depth and total-merging of Beings can take me places I seldom venture with anyone else….. but I don’t want to swim there forever – the man who has the stability (read: Fixed or Earth) to go with that depth is the guy who floats my boat Along with the emotional depth there **must** be a shared mental affinity too, to keep my Libra Sun shining in the House of Gemini…..

I had a lot of trouble with my Moon when I was young. I didn’t realize that everyone else on the planet did *not* feel things as deeply as I did, or ache with the same profound pains that I did when I saw misfortune, hurt or grief in another. I was TOO empathetic and it resulted in me spending a lot of time trying to drown and dull that sensitivity with alcohol and other substances. I wasn’t lucky enough to find a mentor who could teach me to cope with the signature ultrasensitivity and thin skin of many a Pisces Mooner. Age, however, eventually brings Wisdom, if you let it I learned to detach enough to protect my tender insides and still be sympathetic to the hordes of people who seem to come to Piscean-types with their problems. I also learned that the more I give, the more is renewed inside me – so I can give of myself freely, without being inhibited by a desire or expectation of return.

As for coping, it depends on whether the situation (or wound) requires me to be isolated, or to commune with other sympathetic souls. If alone, I recharge and renew with my kitties, books, and creative pursuits – and there must be music in my life every day. If I need solace or perspective from others, I talk to my closest friends, or come to places like this forum ;-) I would probably be happiest by the ocean, or high in some forested mountains with a river running through my property (*MUST* be close to H2O!!) – but I’ve known for awhile that this incarnation is to be spent in the trenches, rubbing shoulders with every form of negativity, and not all by my lonesome away from humanity soaking up cosmic knowledge ;-)

With all the growing pains my Moon has given me thru my life, I wouldn’t trade it for any other Moon sign….. I value the psychic element too highly, now that I know how to handle it better

posted February 20, 2007 01:09 AM            

I'm really only comfortable around intuitive, emotional people. My sensitivity is a constant presence. Just about everything is abrasive. When things are not abrasive, I am likely to be in love with them. I am creative. I am infinitely tender. Love is my religion. Love and Truth; but the first of these is Love; and the second is contained in the first.

I love Piscean women. Especially the Moon and Venus girls. Oh, I love them. I mean, I love women. And the Piscean woman is all woman. It can be frustrating, sometimes, though, when I want more than anything to pin her down and figure her out, instead of surrendering myself to her mystery. But its just my ego.

There is nothing like Neptunian love.

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'Would you know your Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. What did he show you? Love. Why did he show it? For love. Keep yourself therein and you shall know and understand more in the same. But you shall never know nor understand any other thing, forever.'
- Julian of Norwich

'My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love. When Christ said that man does not live by bread alone, he spoke of a hunger. This hunger was not the hunger of the body. It was not the hunger for bread. He spoke of a hunger that begins deep down in the very depths of our being. He spoke of a need as vital as breath. He spoke of our hunger for love.
Love is something you and i must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves.
With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.'
- Chief Dan George

'Judgment is the antithesis of understanding,
and hatred of evil is the craftiest and least well-known of vices,
so easily is it mistaken for love of good.'
- Heart-Shaped Cross

'What keeps most people from suffering very much is lack of imagination.... Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. It is they and only they who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor, above all, what they have sufferred in order to bestow their gifts upon it.'
- Marcel Proust

posted February 20, 2007 04:29 AM              

And as to how I cope with the sensitivities, I think experience helps built a thick skin to jibes and such like, but with the 3rd house moon, putting myself in the other's shoes to understand how they feel before I address them often makes me feel as though I hardly ever 'own' any of my emotion. That's why periods of solitude is so important for our house, I think.

posted February 20, 2007 06:51 AM              

Yes... I prefer to dwell in the dreamy magical side of life and am very much into the whole 'hoo ha' about love and loving. Over the years, I too slowly grew to learn to cope with my ultra-sensitive nature.. and to accept that ESP is the norm. The coincidences were just way too many..

My scorpio sun does save me from spiraling into the emotional depths.. but all in all,I love feeling..and just breathing in all the emotions that life offers. Yup, wouldnt trade my moon for anything. And being close to water/hearing the sound of water is bliss.

I have a taurus ascendant.. but I find that people who meet me only briefly often mistake me for a piscean sun... they feel I'm fragile and ultra-feminine.. (my scorpio sun amusingly says no way!!) Gentle and loving,yes..but fragile?!!

posted February 20, 2007 09:09 AM            

I think Zala's reply fit me very well. I wouldn't say that I find it difficult being receptive to every hurt or emotion that other people feel. However, I have a hard time being around people who have a tendency toward depression and dark moods because this of course, rubs off on me and sends me into a downward spiral as well. Happy, optimistic, idealistic folks seem to bring out the best in me.

I daydream WAAAAAY too much. Concentration does not come easily to me, and neither do details or organization. Part of that is my Sag mercury, but when you pair that with the Pisces moon it creates a cocktail for a very restless mind.

I firmly believe that a creative outlet of some sort is absolutely necessary for Pisces suns and moons. Writing has always worked best for me...diaries, short stories, sometimes screenplays...even if nothing ever comes of it. I'm trying to break into broadcasting right now, and commercial copywriting is something I'm looking forward to doing. A creativity oriented career is where I need to be...just took me 28 years to figure out that I'm not cut out for a monotonous office job, and never will be.

I have a tremendous appreciation for the arts - all mediums. I've always been a film buff, paintings, books, and of course music above all. I need music like water. It gets me through everything. Decorating is also a passion...something I often daydream about. What sculptures I could put here, what color to put there, etc. I love rare finds from exotic places too, like India, Thailand, Morocco, Peru, and Brazil.

As far as who or what rocks my boat?? I'd have to side with Zala on that one, as the fixed signs seem to bring the most stability and strength to my zany personality. I'm either incredibly attracted, or incredibly repelled by Pisces suns...can go either way. I like them better when they have a fixed moon. I'd have to agree with JG too...the Pisces suns I've known haven't been NEARLY as sensitive and compassionate as the moons.

posted February 20, 2007 09:57 AM              

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I also learned that the more I give, the more is renewed inside me – so I can give of myself freely, without being inhibited by a desire or expectation of return.

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jupitersgirl, do you get people calling you intimidating, too??

Spry

posted February 20, 2007 12:01 PM              

I have Pisces Sun
with a Pisces Moon
and a Taurus Venus
with a Libra asc

posted February 20, 2007 02:42 PM              

Airy-piscean, thank you for this wonderful thread, cause this is maybe the first time in my life (and I'm not THAT young, 32) that I really feel someone understands the emotions that I go through, cause he/she experiences them too.
I want to thank you so much for that.
You and all the people that shared the way they feeling Moon in Pisces.
You are wonderful

solar_third,

exactly, many times I'm feeling like I'm living somebody elses emotions, and through communication I tend to «flow into» another people's moods, so that it is hard for me to come back to who I really am.
Neptune «supports» that feeling of «lost in others» too.
That's why, like you, I need the time on my own, I need it a lot, and sometimes I have to fight for it as if I'm asking for diamonds or pearls lol…
Very hard..
But..we'll survive..I think that those feelings that many times made us feel hurt and lost, also are those that can make us the happiest people in the world.
Good luck with your novel! Fingers crossed!

Azalaksh

Yes, like you, I wouldn't change it for any other Moon, cause it gave me a blessing to be able to feel the beauty of a myriad of colourful layers of a feeling, and this immense sea in which I swim and which opens more and more each day, is worth every single tear that I shed.
Of course, I don't forget moments when my soul felt like a naked child out in the pouring rain, with no mum or dad anywhere near, and just on the mention of those feelings, I get shivers down my spine.
But that helped me to understand how all «despearate souls» in this world feel, and how undearneath thousand different faces we daily put on, there's a child/man/woman that desperately needs only one feeling – Love.
With years I also understood that I'm not able to help everyone to feel that feeling, and that I can't solve some deep-rooted problems some people have, but strangely, that shield made of experience which helps me to live my life normally, usually makes me so unhappy.
It's like, because I need to protect myself, I am being «somebody else».
Or I'm not being 100%.
Yes, however good I might be in that moment, I'm still not «me».
«Me» is sitting inside its cosy house, saying «no more going out in the rain, no more».
I must admit that my need to protect myself, in the same time helped me to «survive», but it also alienated me from some parts of myself which, somehow I feel, I don't know why, but I feel, are the most truthful and most beautiful depths of me.
I'll finish this long monologue lol with a very interesting example that I remembered from a psychology book that I once read and in which they tried to show vividly the difference between shizoprenic and neurotic, and in which I found that my soul is probably the neurotic one lol..

The schizophrenic thinks that 2+2=5, and he's happy about it.
The neurotic knows that 2+2=4, but he's somehow very unhappy about it cause he feels like something is missing there...

Love to all xxx

posted February 21, 2007 09:34 PM            

sorry it took so long for me to reply. i've shut myself off from the world since i started this thread. reading through all of these great posts gives me a very inspiring feeling. it is so great to know that other people understand what im going through.

posted February 21, 2007 11:56 PM              

Transits right now are going to affect us Lunar Fish differently, dpending on what house our moon falls in or and else those transit aspect.

Anyhow, I'm feeling isolated and weird too. I have a lot of pent-up energy that I'm having a hard time putting to good use. I feel like there's something that's supposeto being happening right now in my life, but it's not for some reason.

posted February 22, 2007 12:57 AM            

You Mooner's have emotionally got my attention!!! Some Emotionally Strong Energy " being " called out here!!!

Connecting It!!!

I Feel It!!!

Thanks Guys!!!

Sun Taurus
Moon Pisces 1st House
Ascendant Pisces
Sun Opposition Neptune
Neptune Sextile Pluto
Chiron Pisces
Neptune in VIII, 8
Saturn Pisces

posted February 22, 2007 11:47 AM              

Planet soul - I relate a lot to what you said. I grew up in a very negative, unhealthy home and am still dealing with it (espeically since I had to move back in with my family - a good opportunity to confront a few demons at least). I survived my childhood through daydreaming and other forms of escapism. I didn't have a very real grasp on things when I left home, and the fact I had little emotional support from my family meant I had little guidence. So I made a lot of bad choices in my 20's that only compounded the baggage that I had from my childhood.

I don't necessary fail to see others' shortcomming. I'm just overly inclined to ignore what I see if it's not what I want to see. LOL. I want to see the good in everyone. I don't want conflict, disagreement or ugliness. I have learned painfully what that can get a Pisces mooner, espiecially for a 7th house moon - a lot of fair-weather friends and otherwise sh*tty people in your life. I've learned to be more discriminating, because I respect myself more now. I'm a good friend to others, and I believe I deserve to have good friends.

I've also learned that it's OK if I'm not comfortable with someone. I don't have to ignore that feeling. I *shouldn't* ignore it. I guess being older and crankier helps - I don't suffer fools in that childish, naive way I did when I was younger.

Well, not as much. LOL. A real sly character can sometimes play me for a while, but I'm better at confronting people nowadays, so if someone's jerking my chain, I can put a stop to it.