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#157 PISCES JOURNEY

Dear Friends,

Sat Nam! I hope this newsletter validates all you loving Pisces. And I
hope it entices everyone else to activate their inner Pisces. We all
have Pisces somewhere in our soul blueprint. Pisces teaches us that we
are all one.

There are three lessons on the Pisces archetype available on Guru
Rattana On-line streaming video classes. These are about the
transition from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age. For Guru Rattana
On-line visit www.yogatech.com/grol.html Join my classes wherever you
are!

Blessings, Guru Rattana :+)

NEW MILLENNIUM BEING #157

THE PISCEAN JOURNEY

LIVING IN THE BIG POND

February 18, 2009

SKY EVENTS

The SUN enters PISCES February 18 at 4:47 AM PST (10:47 AM GMT)

The PISCES NEW MOON is February 24 at 5:35 PM PST (February 25 at 1:35 PM GMT)

The VIRGO FULL MOON is March 10 at 7:29 PM PST (March 11, 3:39 AM GMT)

VENUS goes retrograde March 6 at 9:17 AM PST (5:17 PM GMT).

Venus goes direct April 17 12:24 PM PDT (7:24 PM GMT).

SATURN is retrograde from December 31,2008 until May 16, 2009.

JUPITER entered Aquarius January 5 and remains in Aquarius until
January 17, 2010.

THE BIG POND

Pisces swims in the BIG pond - the universal God/Goddess pond of
oneness. Pisces' home territory is the Cosmos and the Infinite. Most
of us are accustomed to navigating our life in our little pond, as
defined by our human identity, our personal circumstances and the
physical world. We are unaware of realities that might exist beyond
the thoughts of our rational mind, the sensations of our physical
bodies and our earthly environment.

We don't stray beyond what we know for various reasons - (1) We are
content. (Or we think or hope we are.) We like the security and our
sense of mastery in our limited world. (2) We are afraid. We are
preoccupied with making our life work and are intimidated by the
unknown and what we can't control. Or (3) We aren't interested.
Anything beyond what we can know with our five senses does not compute
as a realistic or useful option to be explored.

But the Pisces archetype is different. Pisces isn't motivated by the
goal of obtaining security in known territory. Pisces feels at home in
the nebulous world of non-physical reality and the Divine Ocean.

The problem with our little pond is that underneath the trappings of
false security, we live in fear of the unknown. We feel alone and
abandoned. We suffer from the indefinable ennui of apparent separation
from Source/Spirit that haunts our psyche. Pisces holds the key to our
existential issues of separation, fear, abandonment, insecurity and
lack of faith and trust.

ORDER AND PERFECTION

In our small pond of physical reality, we strive for order and
perfection in order to feel secure. Our need to control dominates our
psyche. But our obsession with order and control create more
insecurity, anxiety and stress. Perfection eludes us. Order is
temporary at best. And trying to control everything is exhausting and
doesn't work!

Pisces offers the antidote to our need to control and be in charge.
But it is a slippery path into Pisces' big pond. We have to be willing
to give up our limited definition of reality. We have to surrender to
that which we can never really know. We have to trust what we cannot
measure, see, taste, touch or smell. We have to accept things the way
they are, without our personal evaluation and judgment. It is a
quantum leap into the big pond.

Quantum shifts all seem so daunting, unrealistic and unreal to our
limited rational mind, which does not have the faculties that allow it
to swim in the vast Pisces ocean. We try to take the life preservers
of ego, beliefs, concepts and rationalizations with us. However, the
only things that compute in the Pisces pond are faith, trust,
allowing, letting go and surrender. If we can muster an ounce of any
of the above, we have our ticket. We can begin to build our boat to
carry us into the sea of Infinite consciousness.

EXPERIENCE HAPPENS THROUGH RESONANCE

The Pisces archetype basically represents the Divine, God/Goddess, the
Infinite, the Universal force, and Oneness. If our mind and emotions
are unable to vibrate at this higher frequency, we will be unable to
relate to these concepts because they do not compute in our psyche.
Our normal reactions will be (1) to negate or deny ITS existence or
(2) to give lip service to the possibility of ITS existence, but lack
an authentic experience.

It is only through our visceral resonance, when the neutral channel of
our mind and heart are open, that we get in touch with the beauty,
order and perfection of the Infinite force that holds the universe
together and takes care of us. It is only when we have a relationship
with this non-physical presence that we can give up control, let go,
surrender and trust the power of Spirit that animates and directs our
lives. At lower frequencies, we are simply physiologically unable to
let go. Pisces awakens us to a quantum shift in our perception of
order and perfection. Divine Will, Divine Timing, Divine Order and
Divine Love catapult us out of our ego-driven control trips.

ATTUNING TO THE FREQUENCY

There is a stability as well as a flow to the higher order of the
universe. We have to connect with both to enter the vibe of this
expanded domain of existence. We can't think our way into the
God/Goddess space. We have to let go so we can be absorbed into its
embrace. As we synchronize with the frequency, we become conscious of
being included in a vast oneness and unity.

Pisces territory is elusive. Dreams, imagination, and fantasies don't
deliver us to the castle. They can make us feel good for a while. But
mind drugs only anesthetize us temporarily from the pain of separation
from the Divine. And random out-of-the-body peak experiences, which
require recover upon reentry, offer only sand castles that are washed
away by the tides of change.

To enter the Divine portal, we have to attune to its frequency. All
forms of resistance lower our frequency. We not only have to raise our
frequency, we have to understand and be aware of our resistance. At
every moment we stand at the portal of discovery. But at most moments,
we let our reality be confined to the web of daily routines, duties,
doubts, pragmatism and rational mind activities. The above are habits
of the mind that in effect resist connection to the all-pervading
Spirit that infuses every aspect of our physical being and life.

THREE MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Consider the possibility that our mind is in one of three states - (1)
thinking, (2) drifting and dreaming, or (3) aware and alert. (1) When
we are in thinking mode, we are evaluating, judging, calculating and
monitoring our activities and performance. (2) Most of the time we
live in the trance of dull routines. Our mind slips into a dreamy,
spaced-out state of out-of the body numbness. (3) We have to train
ourselves to be in aware, alert mode in our neutral channel.

Awareness is another channel that vibrates with Peace and Love. Our
mind is conscious of what is happening without thinking and judging.
This is the NOW, neutral channel, where our mind is awake and
available to what is happening in and around us. This channel of our
inner world is clear, peaceful and alert. It is not filled with
thinking and dreaming. This space exists beyond beliefs and thoughts.
Our aware space can become the structure within which we experience
what our sensory preceptors perceive.

TWO FISH SWIMMING TOGETHER

The Pisces archetype is represented by two fish, loosely tethered
together. Although they appear to be swimming in opposite directions,
they must swim together or they won't get anywhere. One fish swims
with Spirit. The other follows a secular path in the material plane.
They are always connected. The Pisces' fish teach us that Spirit and
physical reality are inexorably bound to each other.

Living in both dimensions of reality is challenging because both fish
can get lost in the dysfunctions of their respective domains. If our
Divine fish in lost is the clouds of fantasies, it is not going to be
very supportive in infusing Spirit into our earthly endeavors.
Disappearing into fantasy land is the nemesis of our Spirit fish that
doesn't know how to consciously connect with Infinite energies.

As the symbol of the two fish indicates, we need help from the
non-physical world - our guides, our soul and the Universe to navigate
our life. We block assistance if we are drugged on mental, emotional
and physical addictions. The role of our Spirit fish is to make our
personal Divine Connection conscious and real.

If our secular fish can't relax enough to allow itself to flow with
the Spirit fish, we feel bogged down by physical reality and stuck in
the quagmire of our earthly challenges.

DIVINE LOVE

As we learn to flow with our Spirit fish, we realize that the Divine
is not just an escape route or a big daddy delivering free lunches.
The Divine is Love. When our Spirit and earthly fish swim together,
the nature of our physical experience is transformed. As we engage in
activities that make the experience of higher love palpable to our
earthly vehicle, we experience the Divine presence. Kindness, service
and compassion help us cultivate an experience of higher, non-physical
love.

Our Pisces journey is about learning how to connect with and
continually strengthen our capacity to experience Divine Love. This is
the only antidote to depression, dissatisfaction, loneliness and deep
longing that can be characteristic of our immature inner Pisces.

Our deepest soul desire is to experience Divine Love in our mind and
emotional and physical bodies. Divine Love is not mushy, chemical
romantic love. Divine Love is alchemical and happens inside us without
an identifiable object. It delivers vitality, power, contentment,
nourishment and pure joy.

When we feel the arms of Divine Love embrace our life, we awaken to
the reality of unlimited possibilities - to the treasures that are
available to us if both our fish are willing and able to stay
authentically connected to the Infinite realm in physical reality. The
catch 22 is that we have to be BOTH WILLING and ABLE to enter our
higher mind and keep our spiritual fish active in our daily lives.

Nothing extraordinary is going to happen in our rational mind. When
our consciousness is limited to our thoughts, our spiritual fish is
blindly pulled along by our earthly fish. To become aware of Divine
love, our spiritual fish has to wake up, stay awake and actively
participate in our daily lives. It is the juice and love of our
spiritual fish that creates quantum shifts in our consciousness and
physical existence.

AWAKENING OUR SPIRITUAL FISH

What if to manifest your most cherished dreams, you had to awaken your
spiritual fish? Would you be willing to go for it? Most of us would
say YES! Accepting this as a good idea is a first step. Then our
honest work begins.

We have to identify why our spiritual fish is asleep and drugged. We
have to get in touch with how our spiritual fish is aimlessly pulled
around by our worldly fish. We need to take a personal inventory of
our addictions, habits, beliefs and negating thoughts that keep us
closed down, depressed, repressed and limited to our current reality.
All of the above are symptoms of an abused and repressed spiritual
fish.

Our spiritual fish makes it possible to swim in the ocean of Divine
Love. Divine Love is the power that makes it possible to create and to
allow transformation in our lives. To empower our spiritual fish, our
intent and determination must be directed to awakening and holding the
experience of the presence of Divine Love in our psyche.

SURRENDERING TO THE DIVINE

Our worldly fish sets physical goals and intentions. But what we wish
to create must be empowered by Spirit to manifest. Our spiritual fish
is our connection with Spirit. If our worldly fish is too overbearing,
our energy will be bound up in attachment to our goals. Obsessive
attachment distracts us from our connection with Spirit and weakens
our power to be supported by Spirit. Our worldly fish can be a
sabotaging trickster. Hidden in the shadows of our subconscious, we
hold on to our quest for earthly love, wealth and power.

However, these realizations are all part of our quest to awaken our
spiritual fish. As our spiritual fish becomes empowered, our
connection with Divine love gets stronger. We are more and more able
to let go of our need to try to control all the details of our lives.
Gradually we find ourselves releasing our attachment to our ideas of
what we think we want into the cosmic ocean. Letting go and trusting
that our soul and the Universe really do know best, is like dropping a
magic pebble into the sea. The ripples of our ability to trust a force
greater than our limited ego give the Universe permission to deliver
what is in our greatest good and highest destiny.

SOLIDIFYING OUR DIVINE CONNECTION

As we cultivate our Divine Connection, we must grab on to every hint
from the Universe that we are being supported. Acknowledgement is how
we build trust and faith. Gratitude is how we solidify our connection.
Our ability to allow establishes our willingness to receive divine
assistance.

The universe works through us in our acts of service and attitude of
kindness. We witness our alignment through synchronicity. Devotion and
gratitude evoke the Divine embrace.

Pisces territory is slippery and must always be balanced with Virgo's
grounding. We have to be able to transcend the control trips of our
mind and limited ego. But we also have to have a solid sense of
personal identity and groundedness in the physical world to be able to
merge and not get lost in the cosmic soup.

WAKE UP AND STAY AWAKE

So what is the magic formula to awaken our spiritual fish? There is no
one guaranteed technical formula. Pisces and mechanical formulas don't
swim in the same ocean. There are, however, plenty of effective
techniques that hone our physical vehicle so that we are able to
become conscious. We each must experiment and experience what wakes us
up and keeps us awake. Below are some general guidelines.

We have to train ourselves to become conscious.

There are no short cuts, free lunches or intermediaries.

Self initiation is required. We can't pay someone to do the work for us.

There is no faking it. Our experience has to be real for us.

There are no substitutes for the real thing.

Illusions, fantasies, wishful thinking and dogma aren't worth much.

Technical formulas aren't enough. We have to train ourselves to pay
attention to subtle energies.

Pay attention; do your daily training; and you will make progress.

We can't predict, control or explain our experiences of Divine love or
how to get there.

We make ourselves available through awareness and letting go.

Acknowledge and be grateful for your progress along the way.

Enjoy. There is always more.

PISCEAN NEW MOON, VIRGO FULL MOON, VENUS RETROGRADE

While the Sun is in Pisces we are supported in establishing our
connection with Divine love. We are invited to focus on establishing
our awareness of and relationship with the unknown and invisible light
and love of Spirit. The dimensions of reality beyond physical reality
can only be known through intuitive, sensitive awareness and
perception. Logic and reason only get in the way of our sacred
experience that is beyond words, beliefs, concepts and dogma.

At the PISCES NEW MOON February 24-25, the Sun, Moon and Uranus are in
Pisces. Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Chiron, North Node and Chiron are all
still in Aquarius. Our GROUNDING and GRINDING point is Saturn in
Virgo. We are forced to deal with our physical circumstances in very
practical ways. Our connection with the universal mind - Aquarius -
will uncover pathways through our problems.

Our Divine connection is offering us comforting support. If we are
receptive and awake, we can feel the hand of the Divine working for
and through us. Be available for ITS gifts. Pisces offers us spiritual
blessings that strengthen our faith, resolve and ability to live
uncompromisingly in our own truth.

At the VIRGO FULL MOON March 10-11, the celestial configuration is
much the same, except that the Moon joins Saturn in Virgo. The Moon in
Virgo increases the need for realism. If we can witness the order and
perfection of the Divine plan in our daily lives, we will be less
traumatized by the radical changes that are taking place at both
personal and planetary levels. Releasing resistance to the way things
are can deliver us to a state of peace.

VENUS goes RETROGRADE March 6 at 15 degrees Aries and will return
direct April 17 at 29 degrees Pisces. For about six weeks the cosmic
archetype of beauty, peace and equilibrium invites us to bring our
sense of self, relationships, finances and daily activities into
balance. During this time we may feel compelled to make adjustments in
our priorities and goals so that they help us achieve the quality of
our life that we desire.

Keep asking yourself - How can I embody Love? How can I serve Love?
The answers may simpler than we thought. Try - Relax and feel IT. And
be kind to yourself and others.

BECOME AWARE AND CONSCIOUS

Waking up our spiritual fish is our number one Pisces task. This
requires (1) activating our neutral mind, (2) distinguishing between
our neutral mind and our rational mind channels, (3) staying awaken
and not spacing out.

Our rational mind, spins a web of worries, to dos, evaluations and
judgments. It chases from one chore and activity to the next. It
doesn't take much awareness to discern that the activities of our
rational mind dominate our reality.

In our neutral channel, we are simply aware, awake and conscious. It
is only in our neutral channel that we can sit in the stillness, enjoy
the moment and be with our breath in our body. Our neutral channel
makes it possible to step away from the flurry of activities and
nagging of the rational mind. In our aware state, we simultaneously
transcend time and space and are present in time and space.

Our Piscean challenge is to stay awake and to not zone out into dreamy
illusions. When we are awake and vigilant, we make ourselves available
and receptive to higher knowledge, assistance and the deep emotional
comfort of Divine Love.

With practice all the above is possible. You will make quick progress,
if you practice the exercise below a few minutes every day.

KUNDALINI YOGA AND MEDITATION TO WAKE UP

Fortunately, every Kundalini yoga exercise and meditation is an
awakener! Everyone creates results. Below are a few that you may wish
to practice.

The 'Pineal Gland Kriya' on page 53 of Sexuality and Spirituality and
on page 48 of Introduction to Kundalini Yoga is a simple and effective
set to practice waking up and staying awake.

All the exercises with the arms out to the sides, up 60 degrees or
above the head awaken the neutral channel of the mind and open the
heart.

Do chair pose for 1-5 minutes and then immediately sit in easy pose
and pay attention. You go straight into the Divine zone.

The kriya 'To Remove Negativity' on page 102 of Relax and Renew is
easy and effective to open the neutral space.

The exercise for 'Emotional Balance' on page 90 of Relax and Renew
puts a break on the rational mind and awakens the neutral mind.

AWARENESS EXERCISE

Do any Kundalini yoga exercise or meditation for 1 minute and then sit
and be aware. When you drift off or start thinking, do another
exercise (or the same one) for another minute. Then again sit and be
aware of the space, silence or stillness inside your head.

Simply practice - 1 minute exercise, 1-2 minutes paying attention, 1
minute exercise, 1-2 minutes looking and listening inside your head
and heart. Between exercises, you can focus on your peaceful space,
your breath or be with the sensations inside your skin. You will
identify what experience pulls you inside, is pleasant to feel or
comforting to be absorbed in.

Do this for 5-30 minutes every day and you will make significant
progress. After a few days, you won't believe how easy it is to stay
present and aware in your neutral channel.

Once you can identify your neutral channel and shift into your neutral
space, begin to be aware that this experience is your Divine
connection and the peace and pleasure that you experience is Divine
Love.

REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES

Austin, Stephanie, 'Pisces New Moon,' and 'Virgo Full Moon,' The
Mountain Astrologer, Feb/Mar 2009, Issue #143, pages 106-7.

Gerhardt, Dana, 'Pisces' Labor: Capturing Unlimited Possibilities,'
The Mountain Astrologer, Feb/Mar 2009, Issue #143, pages 11-15.

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