Pisces Lunar Cycle Ritual Guide

Welcome my Ghouls and Demons to the Pisces Cycle Ritual Guide! This guide was one of my most difficult ones to write out so far. I found it can be easy to get lost in the mirrors deep with in the void that is pisces. It is a beautiful dream state filled with possibilities of all you were and who you can become. During our Aquarius Cycle we were here to radically invoke change into our lives, our dream lives, and walk our walk on our way to get there. Pisces Cycle is about shattering the mirrors of your not self and initiating the ripple effect into the water to bind yourself, your soul, into the reality you have been begging for.

New Moon: For the New Moon this is the time to reflect on how Aquarius cycle looked like for you. What walks did you find yourself having to force yourself to take? Which ones were easiest for you to take? Write down all the characteristics of what your most perfect walk looked like during this cycle. I want you to remember that you do not need to be perfect at your walk, but write it out as if it was “perfect” for where you are at in your journey. This is where the power of Pisces dream magick with blossom. Surrender to the void and the dream realm. Let the visions free flow from you. Once you have completed your reflections. Mark down where you want to improve on your perfected walk. The dreamy energy may need some grounding. Utilize that passion grounding work from Capricorn season to bring a sense of Earth Reality into your dream story. Roll up your pieces of paper and place them inside a jar of dirt. It is winter, so I understand dirt may be annoying to find. Do your best to find some, an alternative would be soil from a plant, rocks from your landscape, rice/beans from your cabinet or maybe an entirely new substance that reminds you deeply of the earth. Whatever you bury your dream into, I simply request it provide your minds eye with the reference to buried earth. Keep the jar off to the side for now.

Next I suggest that you create a “voodoo” doll or poppet of yourself. This is where the beautiful fun of creative Pisces can flourish. There will be provided a multitude of options to do so that will align with each individuals expression. A more traditional approach would be to gather craft supplies to create a rag doll. I use any rags I have or can find at the store. In an “x” or stick figure form, glue/tape popsicle sticks together to create your “bones.” I tear multiple strips of rag and layer them over each other like a weaved blanket, alternating directions until I build a strong and stable center (head). I will place cotton, or other like material, and a mixture of herbs into the head. The herbs I choose will be based upon symbolic significance. Choose herbs that represent to you beauty, love, strength, powerful and all the characteristics of who your dream self and true self are. I shall use rose, rosemary, lavender, wormwood, st john’s wort and more to name a few. Next lay the layers of cloth over and around the cotton and herb ball you’ve set in the center. Place the popsicle sticks into the head center. Grab and pinch at the bottom and twist. Use any form of twist tie or string to hold into place. This is where you can get elaborate and attempt to stuff the arms, body and legs with the herbs and cotton as well using the tooth picks. Or, which is what I will be doing, you can wrap the remaining cloth pieces around the rest of the sticks and create a mummy like poppet. Draw on your face, add hair. I will be decorating my body with flowers and gems. You can get as crafty as you wish. I suggest creating this poppet to be as beautiful and creative as you dream and KNOW yourself to be. Use a cleansing smoke of your choice, mine will be Palo Santo, cleanse the poppet circling the smoke around the poppet in a counterclockwise or left direction. The intention here is almost as if you’re setting the clock backwards in time. Remember, you are working with the dreamy void that is Pisces, do not get lost, stay focused as you meditate your intentions into the poppet. Your focus is on resetting the clock, the world of time. A time that is not one of our own, but one we are forced to follow. Envision your timeline and all the details it entails for you. For me, it involves my career. I have the love of my life. I have a degree. I have the “American Dream” and yet I found myself miserable. I did all the “right” things according to society. However I was still miserable deep within. It wasn’t that I wasn’t good enough for the world. It’s that this world, this life wasn’t good enough for me. I found myself disgusted with all the qualities that others prided me on. They were reminders of all the times I sacrificed myself for money, love, attention, feeling secure and safe.. for survival. I am resetting the clock that is my timeline and alchemizing it into MY WORLD CLOCK. Say it with power. It is not egotistical to embrace yourself and your world. You are the center of your world. Remember that and hone in on it. You deserve all that you desire and to live deliciously. However that looks for you! Not some version of how others believe it to be for you. Surrender to your balance. The yin and yang. The masculine and feminine. Feel the kundalini energy rise from your tail bone and up to your crown. Call upon your ancestors deep from within. Command your readiness for your dream life. Your cycle breaking life. Your ancestral freedom. Focus in on that energy, filled with so much romanticized love for yourself, as you smoke cleanse your poppet. Now place your poppet on your altar. If you are comfortable, prick your finger and anoint with blood. Bind yourself to the poppet Your dream self, your true self. Bind yourself to the dirt jar and place a drop or two of blood into the dirt as well. If you do not wish to use blood, you can use wine, an anointing oil or other binding tool that feels best for you. Bow to your poppet(yourself). Honor her/him/nonbinary with love. Leave them to rest on your altar. Place the jar of dirt under your bed, near the placement of your pillow.

If a poppet isn’t in your calling to practice, I suggest drawing out yourself in the same way as the poppet would be crafted. Create an art piece of yourself in your medium and bestow it upon your altar instead with the same intentions as above. You can use any type of doll as a base as well. The possibilities are endless. Find what works for you and run with it. There are always going to be a variety of paths to take with your rituals. Find it and perfect it for yourself.

First Quarter: This first quarter is going to get a bit chaotic. Which a fighting Pisces will often do to win their battle. To start the ritual I suggest two mirrors. One of which you do not care to ever see or use again. I suggest purchasing inexpensive ones from the dollar tree. However, your choice on how significant price, size, or aesthetic mean to you. The first mirror you can write on if you desire, you can mark it up anyway you feel you need. You will be marking it up with all the negative, heavy, almost hateful qualities of yourself. Your not self. The self you hate being forced to play as. I will be taking a tool and scratching out carvings into the mirror. Using my emotions to dig into the mirror. I will envision all my pain, self loathing, conditioning etc into the mirror. Let yourself go and let yourself feel. Be insane. I envision Taylor Swift in the Blank Space music video. Let fucking loose. Next, use safety glasses, just be safe in all ways, and shatter the mirror. You are breaking that reflection. That reality will no longer exist. You have freed yourself from the haunted house of mirrors. Pick up the pieces, use gloves and be safe, however in delightful dark witch aesthetic, I find it beautiful to leave some more blood. However, always just a pinch, a little goes a long way with blood. Place the broken pieces into a bowl of water. Sprinkle salt into the water bowl. Add healing herbs and flowers. I love to use Jasmine in these situations. Add as many healing properties as you need. It can be incense, oils and more. You released the mirror, now it heal it. Don’t be afraid to break yourself down. You can always rebuild. This is where the Japanese gold pottery art style, Kintsugi can come into place. You will be rebuilding yourself and you will look different. Some pieces of you may remain the same. That does not mean you failed. It means you evolved. Our worst qualities do not need to be killed permanently. They need to be released and integrated. Be deconstructive to yourself. Embrace that deep love for yourself. Initially, this type of love is only a love I was able to connect to romantically with my spouse. I struggled with my self intimacy due to conditionings and traumas. I was constantly looking for the love and security in others instead of following through with actions that mirrored the foundations I needed to embody myself. However for visualization purposes, connect to that romantic love. That deep kundalini, sexual energy. For me, it starts with me relating to the deep love and strength my husband has demonstrated for me. Find a person you admire and love deeply, so deeply you truly feel like you will suffocate without them. Have that person in mind and hold onto them. Dream about the love you have for them and all the chaos, earth shattering moves you would make for them. The deepest love that creates an insanity within you. A love you would do anything and everything to maintain. A love that you would fight the larges dragon from the tallest tower to achieve. Now replace that persons face with your own. If you have the skill and desire you can clean the pieces of the mirror and glue it back together like a puzzle, utilizing the Kintsugi art style to rebuild your new mirror within your newest self, embodied with all the love life has to offer. Or you can use a new mirror. Decorate the mirror. Paint it pretty. Create a circle in the mirror weaved in beauty and power for yourself. Envision your love story as you gaze into the mirror. Envisioning yourself as the lover you are trying to rescue and romance. You are your own knight. Your own Shiva. I say this, because for me this realization hit full circle with the myth of Kali. Her destruction is necessary and rooted in places of love. However, that destruction can cause a path of chaos that is uncomfortable. Only until she realizes her terror causes her to step on (and kill in some myths) her beloved Shiva. Mirror this myth back into yourself. The masculine and feminine energies will only kill and torture each other in anguish when they are not balanced and in flow. Destroy with feminine rage that which you need to destroy until you find yourself hearing your intuition, your logic/reasoning, your masculine, your Shiva. He will lead you to your stopping place as to when enough is enough. To me this story isn’t a tragic tale of a woman who went off the rails and regrets her actions because it resulted in the death of the one she loves. It tells the tale of a woman, or feminine energy so fed up with the old, stagnant energy and in need of revitalizing herself. The tower card in tarot. Tear that tower down. The masculine will be there to support you when you’ve reached the foundation. That is why Shiva is under Kali’s foot. He is there to support her destruction, until it is time to be stopped. It is a balance of trust within yourself. That now can be mirrored into others. As you have walked this journey. It is necessary to understand that all souls are doing this for themselves according to their own path. Part of destroying the not self, includes destroying the parts of you that limit your true self. The negative emotions that we store deep within our abyss. Release them. Ripple the water. Generate the tides to break down that which contains you, that jails you. This will free you from any limitations you project onto others and provide you with a strength of leadership to guide others by becoming the myth yourself in real time.

With your new mirror, place it on your altar. Nothing from your past self can enter through this portal Anything negative that attempts to waver the self back into the conditioned not self will be returned to the sender. Or if the sender is yourself as you struggle to redirect, its okay! Those energies will be banished with the ritual you initiated. Acknowledge those feelings and release them. Do not bury the back down. This is an important reminder for the Full Moon.

Full Moon: For this full moon it is time to be vulnerable. It is time to open up and ground your healing into this realm. I suggest engaging in a group ritual if possible. Find trusted friends, a covenant, a spouse, or a pet friend. It doesn’t matter the who or what you talk to. It can be an imaginary friend, a stuffed toy from when you were a kid. Connect to a physical source in this world that you know yourself to always open up and talk to. For me, it is my husband or the voices in my head. I have a plethora of guides and ancestors I talk to daily. Call upon one of them to listen if needed, however ensure theres a talisman for you to physically connect to. I want you to be verbalize out loud to the person or object all your fears. What is continuing to hold you back from your dream life? We have learned this last year that all the actions we take against ourselves to survive is our largest blocker to our spirit and dream connection. What stories do you tell yourself in order for you to not initiate your dream life? What “logical” and “safe” justifications do you tell yourself to stop you from taking the leap into the void?

I will share a few examples from my own life. Currently for me, as I had stated above in the New Moon Ritual, my focus has been on career and money. I had taken way too long in taking the leap into the void. A leap, I KNEW, I knew deep within me to take. It was the loudest voice and strongest pull. The more I ignored it, the worse it became. I knew I needed to quit my job or take a stand against my job on a more radical level. I had tip toed around the steps needed to be taken. I kept believing I could somehow avoid the inevitable. Which was annoying as fuck for myself. I knew what I needed to do, but the fear of the unknown left me fawning. I cried out to the universe to make it happen that I couldn’t do it on my own. I begged for the disruptive change to avoid all accountability of taking that step myself. It was weak and vulnerable. But it was just what I needed. Not being ashamed to break down emotionally and admit my struggles and fears only led me to the strength to commit. As I write this ritual guide, I have called into work due to snowy weather. I expressed that if I am to return to work, there will need to be a team meeting or I will not be returning. I am still worried of the consequences. I fear the consequences of my actions and the destruction it will leave for others. I hold myself back being afraid of my power and my truth because I was belittled as a child by a family who could not grasp my leadership. I sacrificed myself for the greater good, filled with false virtue believing I was some how saving them by giving them all that I needed to give myself. My gift is in leading and cultivating a strong, open path for others to follow for themselves. “They” will always tell you to sacrifice yourself and your needs for the greater good. It mirrors itself in the media and history time and time again. That is how you become a slave to society, your community, your government, the machine man, this world. It takes courage and strength to not only climb your own mountain, but create your own world. I will always encourage doing what feels right for you, if you feel inspired to follow in my footsteps, I urge caution and preparation of strength. Trust yourself. You will be tested on whether you did the right thing or not. Redirect yourself to your gut instinct. You will be caught by the grace of God, however he looks to you.

For this ritual, it is all about expressing these fears. Ensure the person/people you express these fears to are willing to hold space for you. They are not there to logic and reason you out of your feelings. They are there as sound boards to respectfully listen to your truth and provide genuine support for your dreams. That is why you may find it best to generate your own sound board. The main emphasis here is to speak them with your voice. It needs to be spoken out loud. I cannot emphasize this enough. I have been able to do so with my husband. I expressed to him all my fears about myself, about him, this world. All that I do to hold me back. I can also talk with my newly fonded friend Rachel. She is a fellow Aquarius. She was truly able to provide me with the support I needed with my job. She currently works with me. She provided a balanced perspective on whether to take the leap or alternatives to generating a change. However what stood out the most to me, is I was able to express to her how I felt I was holding myself back because of all the people I love at this job and do not wish to hurt. She reassured me to do what I needed to do for my spirit and she would be there for whichever I chose to do. These are the soul connections you are seeking along your journey. You will know when this person or energy is present. Pour into the right cup at the right time. Quit pouring into the wrong cup at the right time. This ritual may be an experiment for some of you. You may realize who is a supportive and healing energy in your life and you may discover who isn’t. Either way, attend to the situation with love and courage for yourself.

I suggest closing this ritual by finding a calming activity to complete with your trusted partner/group or item. This will look very different for each of you. It can be creating a home cooked meal with intention or getting a tasty dessert at the bakery. It can be cuddling up on the couch with a nostalgic movie. Whatever the activity is, does not matter. It only matters that it makes you feel calm, loved, reassured and supported after being ripped open emotionally.

I engage in a very comforting routine. I will craft a homemade meal from scratch and alchemize all the emotions and hard work into the ingredients in order for the to cook and grow into a more delicious self. I watch a psychological thriller or horror movie with my husband and deeply connect to his grounding earth energy. We will always close out circles with a sex ritual. Igniting that deep kundalini energy into each other to integrate ourselves, our polarities and masculine/feminine energies as man and wife. This can be mirrored for yourself in your own context. Change my details with your own to create your story for yourself. You do not need direct representation to feel the connection of the energies being portrayed. Sex rites are a deep form of healing by connecting the body in one of it’s most vulnerable states with a trusted energy to project and release into the world with the empowered life energy that is the orgasm. Self stimulation can also be utilized with this ritual. Align and execute as you see fit.

Last Quarter: For the last quarter, I hope you find yourself comfortable with your new skin. As you emerge from the water transformed and new into your new timeline. It may feel a bit unsteady as you get your sea legs. It reminds me of Ariel the Mermaid walking on land for the first time. She emerged from the water and walked the earth to live a life of her dreams. How evolutionary ;)

This ritual may feel a bit more mundane or it may feel electrifying. Honor where you are. These are heavy energies and workings to complete for yourself. Ensure you are resting at this time as you need to. Assess your energy levels and then determine how abundant you will be for this ritual. For me? I find myself drained and tired with a need for productive leisure. Create something for yourself at this last quarter. For me, it will be a candle. For you maybe its a drawing, or a dance, or maybe it’s something a little more simple like a quick sachet to carry around. Make it creative, however in alignment with how you feel. Last quarters are like the final sigh of release. Take a deep breath with yourself. This creation will represent a reminder to yourself to always give yourself permission to travel freely in this life as your inner self, your true self, your spirit self.

A sachet is always a good reminder to carry around with you. You will find she will be “forgotten” or left when you no longer need her. Or you can place her in a scared space to never be forgotten again. The integration will be different for all involved. Find what suits you the most. Have the sachet be a color that reminds you of freedom, liberty, ABSOLUTION! Fill the sachet with herbs, flowers, trinkets and crystals that embody you and the freedom you have built to stand strong as yourself. Break the chains, shatter the cage. You are not in SeaWorld anymore. You are not the angry Orca killing your trainers out of rage, crying out for your freedom. You are Free Willy. You have a trusted, supportive love out there willing to assist you in returning to your open sea. Embody the joy, the liberation and peace that comes with swimming in a plethora of opportunities for yourself. Pour all of those representations into your sachet. Carry her around with you, place under your pillow or hang on your altar. Choose at which level you will need her and it’s okay if you adjust your need of her as time goes on. Keep her there until you feel as if the timeline has shifted and your new mirror has settled as the waves calm with the moon.

Final steps, remove the jar from under your bed. If possible take the jar to a water source. Throw the message in a bottle out to sea. If a water source is unavailable, dig a hole and bury the jar. Pour water over the jar and ground. Bury it as deep as you feel fit. Express gratitude for all that you have done for yourself. The ocean is a scary place with threats of survival. You are strategic. You are brave. You already know how to survive. You have been doing it all your life. It is now time to live. You are the dominant free force of the ocean. If in need of extra support, state your gratitude into your new mirror. Look into your own eyes, your soul and trust yourself to do so. Trust others to do so for themselves. Others are not for you to worry about. We have engraved into this world a knowing that we are enough as we are. We always will be.