DivinationA divination practice
♓Pisces
19 February – 20 March · Water · Mutable · ruled by Jupiter
Reading for the current moment…
Every day
One reading per planetary day.
- SundaySun
- The Sun asks you to take up a definite amount of space today. Say what you want in the plural first person — I would like — rather than arranging the afternoon so that someone else suggests it.
- MondayMoon
- The Moon is high tide for you. Everything is felt at full volume, including other people's weather. Ask of each feeling whose it is before you agree to carry it.
- TuesdayMars
- Mars asks for a boundary, which is the one thing your element does not do naturally. One sentence, no apology, no explanation. You can be kind and still be unavailable.
- WednesdayMercury
- Mercury wants the impression turned into words. Write it down badly. The thing you know but cannot articulate has been rattling around for a fortnight and the bad version releases it.
- ThursdayJupiter
- Your ruling day, and the world is unusually generous. Ask for the help you have been quietly hoping someone would offer. On Thursdays they say yes.
- FridayVenus
- Venus and Pisces are old friends. Beauty is not decoration for you, it is nourishment. An hour of music, water or paint does more for the week than another hour of trying.
- SaturdaySaturn
- Saturn asks for an edge. One concrete thing, finished, with a beginning and an end you can point to. The formlessness is restful until Wednesday and then it becomes the problem.
Every week
One reading per quarter of the moon.
- New moonthe dark of the moon, the start of a cycle
- The dark moon is quiet water. Begin something you tell no one about. Your early ideas do not survive being described; they need a few weeks under the surface first.
- Waxing moonfirst quarter, the moon filling
- The build needs a container this quarter. Same time, same place, same small commitment. You are not undisciplined — you are unbounded, and a shape is all that is missing.
- Full moonthe moon at its brightest
- The full moon floods everything. You will feel more than the situation warrants and some of it will be accurate anyway. Write it down tonight, decide nothing until Thursday.
- Waning moonlast quarter, the moon emptying
- Let the mood go without diagnosing it. Not everything that passes through you needs to be understood before it is allowed to leave. This week it can simply leave.
Every month
One reading per solar month.
- January
- Capricorn season gives you the structure you cannot generate alone. Borrow it deliberately: a schedule, a deadline, a person expecting you. What you build in January is still standing in July.
- February
- Aquarius season is cool air over deep water, and it clears your head before your own season begins. Good month to see your own patterns from the outside without flinching.
- March
- Your season. Intuition, imagination and porousness all at maximum. Make something with it. Undirected, this month dissolves; aimed at one piece of work, it is the best of your year.
- April
- Aries season is loud and fast and rather bracing. Take one decisive action while the borrowed momentum lasts. You will not feel this decisive again until summer.
- May
- Taurus season is solid ground under your feet and you should stand on it. Money, food, sleep, the body. Attend to the material and the rest of you steadies considerably.
- June
- Gemini season squares you with noise and options. Fewer inputs, not more. Protect one quiet hour a day and the month becomes navigable.
- July
- Cancer season is your own element at its warmest. Family, memory, water, home. Something old and tender is available for repair if you approach it gently.
- August
- Leo season asks you to be visible and specific, neither of which is your default. Show one finished thing to one person whose opinion you actually want.
- September
- Virgo season sits opposite and asks for the detail. It will feel like being edited. Some of the editing is correct — take the two-thirds that improves the work and leave the tone behind.
- October
- Libra season is pleasant and balanced and slightly superficial for you. Use it for company rather than for depth; the depth is coming in November regardless.
- November
- Scorpio season is deep water and you are entirely at home. Whatever you have avoided looking at is approachable this month. It is smaller in the light than it was in the dark.
- December
- Sagittarius season shares your ruler and squares your element — expansive, scattered, warm. Say yes to the gathering and no to the fourth one. You know which is which by the third.
Written for this collection in the idiom of a modern astrological column. The other signs.