Pisces Horoscope for April 2013

This season represents a new dawning for you, Pisces. An exciting month of renewed energy for projects and for stabilization makes up for a shaky start to the year. You are seeking a toehold on reclaiming ownership of your life purpose. This follows upon a time of personal reassessment and of questioning family values as the psychological basis for your own feelings of security. You have taken in recent events, and emerged out the other side with a firmer grasp on your own internal wounding. You are coming to see this as, rather than a stigma, part of an important process of growth, the acknowledged result of poorly digested prior run-ins with figures out of early childhood. The enlightenment from this period that you are now passing through is you most important product. It comes slowly but inexorably and it is lasting.

As the month begins, you are still somewhat reeling from the powerful effects of the Full Moon from the middle of the last week of March, which took place in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. You are exploring issues of self and other, and also of your depths, instilling within yourself a new sense of identity, based on the deeply mystical investigations in which you are currently engaged.

The recent Full Moon and this month's subsequent configurations involve the heavy-weight planetary archetypes of Pluto, Uranus, Chiron and Saturn, in combination, symbolizing massive changes at deep levels of your being and including your societal connection and your plans for the future. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, occupies your identity sector and is in aspect with all three of these others, signaling that the changes and the growth that you are going through have had their difficult side emotionally. You are forced to cope with challenges to your former way of seeing things as you feel into your future, corresponding to your next stage.

Your co-ruler, Jupiter, residing in your sector of home and family, is prominently placed within this configuration also, and is located in your home and family sector, such that the very core of your being is invoked as you go through what could turn out to be quite a pivotal month, on the way to further and deeper changes as the year continues to unfold.

With Saturn in your sector of higher mind, you bring to this area of your life an almost scholarly approach, although you might tend to get stuck at times rather than letting go to take a more flowing approach. The experience of Saturn in the sector connected with beliefs and intellectual values has several stages. In one of these nothing seems good enough. In another, there is a determination to get to the bottom of the mystery, and replace vague and inchoate ideas with a more meaningful set of procedures and beliefs. There could also be a tendency toward dogmatism which results from a fixed structure of belief that is seen as unassailable, but in regard which there is usually a creeping form of doubt beneath the surface utterances.

As you go through one or more of these emotional highs and lows in connection with changes in perspective, you find that they are leading you forward into a very different future that the one that you thought planned, at the level of egoic personality. Although the little mind often has no real idea of where things are headed, you Higher Self knows more answers than it is telling.