Decan Walk – Pisces I
Here we are finally at the end of Pisces I. This is the Part II update with personal observations on how the decan manifested for yours truly. (See the prior Pisces decan I Part I post for the correspondences.)
For me this has been a pretty low-energy period of time, which makes sense for the Eight of Cups, known as the Lord of Indolence, or Abandoned Success. I have been struggling with motivation, or lack thereof. Or maybe it isn’t lack of motivation exactly, as there is a lot I want to do. It is more like a lack of enough energy to go around for all the things that need it.
Besides this being called Indolence or Abandoned Success, the decan is ruled by Saturn. Saturn does reward discipline and effort, but is also a heavy and limiting factor at times. But this decan is interesting also because of the Pisces I decan image: A man with two bodies, but joining their hands. It has gotten me thinking about the link between our physical body and mental body, and how our mind influences our level of physical energy while simultaneously, our physical body influences our mental state and level of mental energy. The Eights are Mercury (mind) influenced, while the decan ruler Saturn is structure, which could be our physical structure. I’ve really been noticing what takes energy, what gives energy, and the balance between them in mind and body, which can be very hard to regulate, leading to Indolence.
It is also the dance between Jupiter, classical ruler of Pisces, and Saturn, ruler of the decan. One famously gives, one takes away.
That this is Pisces also brings in the major arcana of Pisces, The Moon card.
Note the solar disk carried by the scarab. It’s clearly a brain (letter Qoph, meaning “back of head” is perhaps cognate.) Here is a closer look:
excerpt from Scions of 777:
“The solar disk the scarab rolls here is revealed to be the two halves of the brain. One half controls the conscious, logical functions, while the other oversees the creative, imaginative, and intuitive. The deep groove between them, the cerebral fissure, separates them, yet allows for crossover as the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice-versa. It is another fitting symbol for the duality of the two fishes of Pisces.”
This connective area known as “the cerebral fissure” connecting the right and left halves of the brain, which control the left and right side of the body, also reminds me of the connection in the Telos Eight of Cups image for Pisces I. The figure’s two bodies, joined by the left and right hand.
“A man with two bodies, but joining their hand.” Two bodies, one soul?
