New Moon in Pisces
Speak your intentions into the well of dreams and listen for the answer
In dreams, the walls that separate the possible and the impossible dissolve. We can heal in our dreams, we can find paths where we thought were dead ends.
Tonight is the New Moon in Pisces.
Pisces rules the realm of dreams. The place where our bodies, our ethics, our visions and aspirations, our myths and longings, and the longings of our ancestors entangle and merge like currents in the ocean.
The astrological seasons are invitations to step into the Otherworld — the source of all life. Pisces season asks us to cross into that realm through the gate of dreams.
For the past week, we here at Mystery Cult have been working on improving our sleep hygeine and entering into the dream world together. (If you’re lost, download this month’s Pisces Season Witch Guide here)
When we gaze into the well of our dreams, the Otherworld gazes back at us. It speaks to us. It has its own agency and intention. We communicate with the Spirit world through our dreams.
The images that show up in our dreams are messages from the Otherworld. Messages tailored specifically to us, creating through dream images and dream events a common tongue so that, if we practice, we can come to understand each other.
But dreaming this way is a skill. The difference between regular dreaming and dreaming as magic is the difference between spitting cherry pits and and gardening.
New Moons are the perfect time for practicing our dreaming as gardening skills.
New Moons are the lunar equivalent of soil, they are place-times to plant the seeds of our vision.
But they are not terra nullius, the latin term for empty land. Because, even in our dreams, there is no empty land. Land is full, teaming with life, with winds and cultures, with microbes and ghosts. This is also true of our dreams.
Your dream lands are already populated. They are populated with stories: your stories, ancestral stories, collective stories, images, objects, myths. These stories can tell you about the condition of the soil you want to plant in. These stories are guides.
When we enter the space of dreams, we enter the realm between the worlds. What happens between the worlds effects all worlds.
If we want to plant seeds in the realm between worlds, which will blossom in all worlds, in our lives, and in our futures, then it would be helpful for us to be skillful dream gardeners.
This is why we keep dream journals. Our dream journals become our Farmer’s Almanacs. We tend to the soil of our dreams, we note the weather, the animals, the seasons, and as we do this we become skillful growers of nourishment and medicine. For ourselves and our communities.
Today, in my New Moon offering to you, I’ve created a [10 minute] meditation for you to listen to as you’re falling asleep.
As you listen to it, pay attention to the images that come into your mind. Understand them as jewels you found in the soil of your consciousness as you were digging there to plant your seeds.
Below, I give you the dream guide meditation, and three strategies to work with the images that come to you, tonight on the New Moon, and throughout Pisces season.
This evening I invite you to drink your mugwort and speak your dream intentions, then listen for what the soil of your spirit wants to say to you.
Sending you love. Hope you enjoy.
Yours ever,
Amanda
