Pisces Horoscope for May 2012

This is a big month, Pisces, an occasion for stretching yourself to transcend previous limitations in heart-felt curiosity concerning who and what you really are. Joni Mitchell?s 1960?s answer might be an appropriate one to latch onto as you navigate the potentially turbulent waters of this monthly cycle: stardust, golden, part of the original garden to which you are striving to return. In any case, communication is key. Only by reaching out to others, it seems, can you find your own place to stand. Partners provide contentious feedback but also partial solutions, causing you to make concrete choices, and allowing you ? through depth explorations that take you within yourself to the hidden heart of the matter ? to rise. It might be truly said that the way down and the way up are for you one and the same.

As the month begins, you are exploring the mystical basis of partnership and of circles of friends. Your sense of identity is morphing now and depends on finding a synthesis between the ever-present mystical side of life and more realistic ways of seeing your unfolding journey of discovery. Communication, either written or spoken, is a big part of what you are up to in the first half of this monthly cycle. Your links with society are in transition now and over the remainder of this pivotal year. Your idea of what factors abstracted from the surrounding social order are valuable and to be retained, and what discarded, form one important basis of your current arc of development. There is obviously something important that others bring to the picture, and you are suspecting that it could be a necessary ingredient. This perhaps revolutionary idea informs your transformation. It is useful to reflect that while every person is an island, and on his or her own, it is not until we clump up into larger continents that we can make a collective difference. Since individual progress serves to move the entire proceedings forward, one step at a time, and must be included also, your journey is all about embracing both poles of this idea. With your outreach to others emphasized, you could find yourself reflecting on the ways that this factor helps or hinders you in the evolutionary progress that you need to feel in your heart in order to be able to return your own gaze in the mirror with relative tranquility and contentment. At the time of the Full Moon of Saturday, May 5th, you are seeking to understand the full flowering of your original impulse. This is also a time when surprising events could throw you a curve ball as you reach for balance between self and other, and within your own process incorporate the point of view of helpful partners. With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, May 12th, your progress is challenged by revising and expanding your original concept. You are attempting to integrate wild fantasies of a more livable future into a big-picture vision of where you are headed with your life right now, and to bring a reasonable sense of limitation into the mix as a counter-weight. A fundamentally optimistic attitude prevails but with also the rumblings of hard-nosed realistic thinking acting as a counter to any wild excesses. You recognize that you have to see things in both ways. With the Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Sunday, May 20th, you are ideally reaching for a deeper integration as you continue to explore your evolving sense of identity. This is a time when family and tribe come more directly into your life as a potent adjunct to your own process. There is lots of energy at your disposal now for moving forward with the necessary growth of this time period. As you enter a new phase of your own inner process and your search for psychological security, you could also be making a significant change in your home environment, either actually or perhaps on a metaphorically symbolic level.