Pisces: I am Spirit

Notes on faith, fantasy, and fanatacism

This is the last letter as part of our Creative Contemplation series—rituals and practices to help you harmonize with the season's energy and remember your connection to spirit, nature, and each other. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as I have writing them!✨💗🌿

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Hello.

I have a complicated relationship with the word surrender. The year I chose it as my mantra, my father unexpectedly passed away, months before I met my future husband and became unexpectedly pregnant with our son, Noah. The act of surrendering can be terrifying. But it can also be liberating.

Pisces season is here (February 18th- March 20th) and this mutable water sign is asking us to lean into the receptive, freeing potential that awaits when we surrender to forces bigger than ourselves. Pisces is ruled by Neptune and governs the 12th house— the area of our chart responsible for dreams, spirituality, subconscious desires, and the more hidden, ethereal aspects of life. It’s where we get to play with the tension between faith, fantasy, and fanaticism.

Pisces cautions us to carefully consider our devotions, lest they become addictions.

This year, the North Node is also in Pisces, from January 11th, 2025 until July 26th, 2026. The North Node is our collective destiny point—the themes and values we’re meant to focus on for the next year and a half. The New Moon in Pisces on February 27th is a great time to consider how to work with Piscean themes for the next 18 months.

How will you deepen your intuitive or visionary practices? What can you release as a form of harmful escapism? What areas of your life can widen their boundaries and borders or coalesce with others?

Our affirmation this month is, “I am Spirit.”

Months after my Dad passed away I went on a hike, hoping to feel his presence. “I need to know you’re still here,” I kept whispering, stepping over rocks and climbing higher, up the mountain. It was Spring and there were lots of small waterfalls everywhere, trickling near the path. I paused by one of them, noticing how the light from the sun made a little rainbow above one of the rocks, playing with the water molecules in the air. When a cloud passed, it disappeared but when the sun broke through again, it was there.

“As close as a rainbow,” I heard my Dad tell me.

Something I couldn’t always see but was always there. A trick of the light. A shift in perception.

That’s what Pisces season is reminding us. We are connected to Spirit and each other, even if we can’t always feel or see it.

Keep reading to learn how this season’s archetype, tarot cards, and creative inspiration can help you harmonize with Pisces energy.

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Archetype

In the Tarot, the Lovers card is about choices, duality, and seeking wholeness within before we can find it with another. It’s about the unity possible when we recognize and accept all aspects of ourselves, unconditionally. However, if we’re not grounded in self-love, we can so ardently seek love and validation in another being, cause, or experience, we risk obsession.

The Lover asks us to consider our actions. How are we demonstrating love to ourselves and others? Are we caught up in the thrill of infatuation? Have we lost our heart’s compass in devotion to the promise of an external savior?

Consider the demands of others who claim to cherish you, whether it's a lover, child, or boss. Are they reasonable requests? Can you fulfill them without causing harm to yourself or others? If not, perhaps you’ve entered martyr territory.

Creative Inspiration

Make ✂️

My husband and I aren’t religious (we grew up Hindu and Christian) but still want to teach our son to have faith in a higher power, or Universal Love.

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.” - Brené Brown

I wanted to create a tangible way as a family to practice accepting our human limitations and trusting Life to work things out when we can’t. Enter…The Let it Go box!

We plan to write down whatever worries, emotions, or hopes we have during the year that we’d like to “let go” and then have a little ceremony to burn them in the fire around the Winter Solstice.

TBH, I might need this box more than anyone right now but why not get the whole family involved? 😂💗(The box is an empty bulk coffee container from Costco with an opening on top. We’re decorating it with things cut out from magazines and might paint some of the sides later).

Listen 🎧

Martha Beck’s podcast episode, “Your Next Best Step” is a perfect example of embodying the realm of synchronicities, intuition, and interconnectedness. She talks about “liquid networks” as underground movements that reach a swelling point and join forces, as well as the “adjacent possibility”— ideas within the collective unconscious that bubble to the surface spontaneously when the timing is just right.

If you’d like some background music while driving in the car or envisioning a new world, listen to the Pisces New Moon playlist for all the vibes. 💗

Read 📖

In an increasingly conflicted world, one of my favorite lines from Rumi to meditate on is this, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

The rest of the poem continues:

When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.

-Rumi

Another favorite, contemporary healer and poet I love is

Dr. Jaiya John

. His latest poem, “Hold Each Other” reminds us, “Hold each other. Not like prisons hold
inmates. Like sunlight holds flowers.”

Hold Each Other

Tarot Reading

The Queen of Cups

This Queen is emotionally intelligent, mature, and knows her ability to give is directly tied to her capacity to receive. She embodies courageous vulnerability while maintaining her boundaries (noted as the circle of water around her). Fluid and adaptable, yet confident in what belongs and does not belong to her, she is the epitome of a strong back and soft heart.

The Moon

This card invites us to dream with the moon while warning us not to be lulled into hypnosis (like the moth drawn to the flame). It speaks of the discernment needed when sifting through our desires and attractions. Are we holding our faith steady while building an “adjacent possibility?” Or are we giving into fantasy and escapism, leaking our power and forgetting to act in the here and now?

The Star

I love this image of The Star card. Like a flower opening to the honeybee, we have to trust that our needs will be met—our dreams will grow, and the Universe is a co-conspirator and our best collaborator. This requires letting go of the how, when, who, and where. It’s not our job to dictate which flowers the bee visits next or how we’ll be cross-pollinated with inspiration and ideas. Our only assignment is to be the flower—remain true to our essence, be open, and trust the rest will be taken care of.

Notes from Nature

This month’s nature journaling theme is “Noticing the water.”

Here are a few prompts to play with in your nature journal.

• Notice the different types of water in your environment. Are there icicles, mist, frozen lakes, or waterways?

• Where does the water flow? Take yourself on a walk near a body of water (it could even be a puddle in your yard!) and notice how the water moves when an insect lands or the wind blows. How does it play with gravity? How does it maneuver around obstacles?

• Research the watersheds in your area. Where does your drinking water come from? What rivers, creeks, lakes, and other natural bodies of water are nearby? Are there man-made dams? Look at a map and see if you can trace the pathways sustaining life.

  

New Moon Blessing

May you be held in the undoing. May you feel free from past limitations and future expectations as you become permeable to Love. May you open while holding your center, feeling your way into connections that feed your soul and nourish your body. May you dissolve that which does not serve with ease and receive what’s life-giving with self-compassion. You are that which you desire and you deserve all of it.

All my love,
Mariah

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