Sign of the Month: Pisces

SIGN of t he Month

Feb 19 - Mar 20

“I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong / I have judged and been judged / I have passed through birth and death, joy and sorrow, heaven and hell / And in the end I realized that I am in everything, and everything is in me.” – Hasrat Inayat Khan

Pisces By Varij Varidium

Pisces, twices: two fish swimming in opposite directions. One fish sacred, the other profane. One blissfully flowing with the river toward union with the ocean of life, the other struggling against the current, battling to survive in this harsh and unforgiving material world. One fish, blessed with faith, trust and gratitude, living in a world of magic and wonder, the other

The final sign in the cycle of the zodiac, Pisceans often find themselves asking “Is this all there is?” And answering their own question with, “If that’s all there is, then let’s keep dancing.” They may then, if they are that kind of fish, go onto the next line of the song, “Let’s bring out the booze, and have a ball.” They feel to the depths of their very soul, “there’s got to be more to life than this”. Channelling Pisces, let me continue. “Ah, woe is me. I must have been born under a bad sign.” Shakespeare was right. Life really is just “a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing”. Pass me another drink please. Suzuki Roshi said it even better: “Life is like setting sail on a boat we all know is someday going to sink”. What kind of God is running this show? God is dead! Long live God! One day I’m going to write a book and expose God for the sham he is. Ah yes, ‘tis anxious, fearful, barely staying afloat. One fish kind, loving and devoted; the other evasive, escapist, prone to go to water when the heat is on. One fish intuitive, compassionate and wise, a sympathetic soul to turn to in troubled times; the other confused, needy, addicted; a ‘would be-could be-should be’, a ‘wannabe’, unable or unwilling to take effective action to improve its lot in life. Pisces: Love, Sacred & Profane Human & Mystical

true, I do love to imbibe and wax lyrical. Wasn’t it Homer who said: “Wine can of the wits the wise beguile / Make the sages frolic and the serious smile.”

Better stop there, or it could be a long session, but I’m sure you get the drift. Before doing so, however, I simply must offer another take on the state of intoxication so beloved of Pisces:

“Taste God’s Love. A few sips of the precious wine of Love will thoroughly intoxicate you. Why leave the full glass untouched on the table while inquiring how the wine was produced or estimating how many gallons may exist in the intimate wine cellar? Do not become distracted by attempting to analyse Divine Mystery.” – Ramakrishna

How to define Pisces? Easier to catch a slippery fish with bare hands! Even the very idea of trying to define the sign is against its essential soul and spirit. Definition implies distinctness and clarity, whereas Pisces blends and merges, includes and unites and perceives hidden affinities existing beneath the surface play of individual differences. And values above all what we humans have in common, which at bottom, that we’re all in the same boat, we all know and experience that life is difficult, we all hurt and suffer, we’re all aware we’re Meye Baba

going to die and each and every one of us is therefore tasked with finding a way to live with that realisation and, in the end, when it all comes down to it, love is what it’s all about.

Piscean human love yearns above all for a soul connection; a connection that is felt to be so deep and so profound when in full flower, that it transcends the purely physical dimensions of time and space to bloom forever in a realm, not of this world. Nothing less than such a love it seems, can quiet the yearning that burns like an eternal flame in the deeply mystical Piscean heart.

The Piscean Indian Spiritual Master, Meher Baba, takes us further into the realms of mystical love in the following beautiful passage:

Albert Einstein

“The sojourn of the soul is a thrilling divine romance in which the lover, who in the beginning is conscious of nothing but emptiness, frustration, superficiality, and the gnawing claims of bondage gradually attains an increasingly fuller and freer expression of love. And ultimately, the lover disappears and merges in the divine Beloved to realize the unity of the lover and the Beloved in the supreme and eternal fact of God as infinite Love.”