{"id":945,"date":"2012-09-01T07:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T05:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T07:19:39","slug":"full-moon-in-pisces-august-31-2012-1658-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon in Pisces &#8212; August 31, 2012, 16:58 UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHark, now hear the sailors cry<br \/>\nSmell the sea and feel the sky<br \/>\nLet your soul and spirit fly into the mystic<\/p>\n<p>And when that fog horn blows<br \/>\nI will be coming home<br \/>\nAnd when that fog horn blows<br \/>\nI wanna hear it, I don&#8217;t have to fear it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8211; Van Morrison<\/p>\n<p>Today is singer-songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/van_morrison.jpg\">Van Morrison\u2019s birthday<\/a>. He was born on August 31, 1945, in Dublin, Northern Ireland. I\u2019ve been listening to the album <em>Moondance<\/em> since I was a teenager, and I never get tired of it. One of my favorites on this ageless album is the song \u201cInto the Mystic\u201d. Listen, and sense <a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012augfull.jpg\">the Pisces Full Moon<\/a> of today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6RHTb-WE4zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, although the listener is able to interpret the words in various ways. In fact, Van Morrison has said that the song has two sets of lyrics, and it was difficult for him to decide, which one he would send to the record company. Originally he titled the song as &#8216;Into the Misty&#8217;, but later thought that it had something of an ethereal feeling to it, so he called it &#8216;Into the Mystic&#8217;. Either way, the song could describe the current Full Moon in Pisces. Mist, mystics and spirituality, they all belong to the realm of Pisces and its ruler Neptune. Also Morrison\u2019s confusion sounds a lot like Neptune\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Full Moon in Pisces was in conjunction with Chiron and Neptune. We can think \u201cInto the Mystic\u201d lyrics as a metaphor for this aspect. The bonnie boat is the Moon floating on the waters of Pisces. The fog horn is Chiron, of course, raising awareness and guiding us safely home through the Neptunian mists. The homecoming spiritually speaking means finding one\u2019s true self. The voyage continues. \u201cI guess the song is just about being part of the universe,&#8221; Morrison has said.<\/p>\n<p>The album <a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/moondance_released.jpg\"><em>Moondance<\/em> was released<\/a> on Feb 28, 1970. At that time, too, the Moon was conjunct Neptune, as it is now. The Sun was in Pisces, opposite Van Morrison\u2019s Virgo Sun. He has natally a triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune. The transiting Chiron was opposing the triple conjunction and squaring his lunar nodes. <em>Moondance<\/em> established Morrison\u2019s career, and on several occasions the album has been listed as one of the greatest albums of all time.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Moondance<\/em> was recorded in August-November 1969 and released in February 1970, six months after the first lunar landing. Last week Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, passed away. He was my hero when I was a young girl. Like millions of people worldwide, I was watching the event on TV and witnessing his famous first steps. When I look at the Full Moon this weekend, I\u2019ll be thinking of Neil Armstrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home And when that fog horn blows I wanna hear it, I don&#8217;t have to fear it\u201d &#8211; Van Morrison Today is singer-songwriter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[22,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}