Today at 12:14 pm EST we will have a New Moon in Pisces. As usual when it comes to a Moon cycle, I turn to Cafe Astrology, whose insight and analysis I find, well, insightful:

The New Moon in Pisces is a good time to commit to personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Fish. These include taking a leap of faith, accepting imperfections in ourselves and in others as a different kind of "perfection", starting a project that requires imagination and visualization skills, consciously putting time aside for peaceful and rejuvenating activities, and sharing a dream with another. With this potent Pisces energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives.

This month's New Moon is conjunct electric Uranus and sextile Jupiter. New commitments and resolutions made now need to be unusual, nontraditional, and certainly not monotonous. It's time to make some solid yet realistic plans, and to set the stage for reaping the rewards from our new beginnings, as little or big as they may be, in approximately two weeks' time after the Full Moon occurs.

Lots of useful information here. The energy of this New Moon, as with all New Moons, gives us tremendous support for making positive change and new starts. There is something that feels especially gentle, creative and loving about this Pisces Moon. In particular, I like this idea of seeing imperfections as "a different kind of perfection."

I have a ring made with a Peruvian opal, a stone that is usually seen as a smooth, milky blue. In my ring, the stone has a number of occlusions that appear as a line of black and orange spots of color. The artist who made the ring liked the way the occlusions added visual interest and actually set the stone using the occlusions as an intentional design element. Rather than choose another stone or have the occlusions cut out, she thought this imperfect stone was all the more beautiful because of the things that make it imperfect. I couldn't agree more.

In us, the quirky imperfections are the things that make us human, individual, and yes, even beautiful. Most of us are so critical of ourselves, so quick to find fault and pass judgment. And yes, sometimes we are critical of others, too. This New Moon offers us a wonderful opportunity to shift our perspective to allow us not only to accept imperfection but to celebrate it, to find a way to appreciate how the things that are not perfect make us, and life, more interesting.

Someone I used to work with always used the phrase "It's a feature, not a bug." It comes from the high tech world of software development but we can apply it to the low tech world of spiritual and personal development as a way to embrace this new perspective. If someone, including yourself, focuses on a perceived imperfection, just say, "It's a feature, not a bug."

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 9:49 AM