Blain Bovee - Sabian Symbol Specialist

Pisces 4: Heavy traffic on a narrow isthmus

"Heavy traffic on a narrow isthmus" 4 Pisces

 

This symbol is illuminated 12:41 AM EST Feb 22 (5:41 AM GMT, Feb 22)

 

 

Theme: Bottle neck

 

Inspiration: Narrowing focus intensifies the goal or object of concern, with the added bonus of somehow creating a more vast, rich and playful background.

 

Today: High sensitivity marks the day.

 

You may feel you are flowing at your intuitive best. Which usually means you have no idea in advance of where you are going and how you are to get there.

 

Therefore, let the fun runner enter your world, your mind and awareness. At day's end, it is highly likely that bizarre stories of how things worked out will abound.

 

The meditators note for the day goes like this: concentrated focus is only broad diffused background focus, gathered and organized around a narrow point.

 

Also, when addressing problems that seem impossible to fix, consider finding the way anyway. Take a time-out, step back and cast a playful intuition that the answer will come at just the right time.

 

Pisces 3: A petrified forest

"A petrified forest" 3 Pisces

 

This symbol is illuminated 12:52 AM EST Feb 21 (5:52 AM GMT, Feb 21)

 

 

Theme: Echo

 

Inspiration: Silence echoes deep within your psyche, whispers "Yes, yes".

 

Today: Practical matters can be managed with fair success today, however be alert to special quality of each and every affair.

 

Even the all-too-ordinary can seem to ring such that reverberations open a deeper space within. It is like walking into a huge forest wilderness of petrified trees. Silence seems to echo.

 

This suggests that there is more at play with everything… car repair, purchasing tickets, shopping for the perfect coconut butter… as if kind and light spirits charge what is mundane with charm and tone.

 

The New Moon approaches. Good time to set an open field under the cover of a luminous dome, into the core of your desires. In that space, seeds can grow as if hands of light manage their flow.

 

Pisces 2: A squirrel hiding from hunters

"A squirrel hiding from hunters" 2 Pisces

 

This symbol is illuminated 1:05 AM EST Feb 20 (6:05 AM GMT, Feb 20)

 

 

Theme: Moving target

 

Inspiration: In a squirrel's world, everything is a hunter.

 

Today: Quickness is not on your usual list of Piscean traits, yet here the squirrel jumps and runs with agility and alert speed.

 

Use quick and alert sensibilities to make sudden changes in plans or directions today. It may come as a sudden inspiration and when it does, it is sure to be a brilliant way to improve the situation and meet the expectations of most, if not all.

 

If something important is not coming into resolution today, be patient. Hold it like a moving target for the time being. Lack of clear direction can actually be a blessing in the wilderness. It bides the time, yet allows for serendipitous discovery.

 

Remember, every journey into the unknown begins with directions that make no sense… "Follow the path to its end, then turn left"

 

This is followed by searching, alert and erratic, like a man driving who refuses to stop to ask directions in a strange town.

 

Then, one enters a clearing… and the story really begins

 

Pisces 1: A public market

"A public market" 1 Pisces

 

This symbol is illuminated 1:17 AM EST Feb 19 (6:17 AM GMT, Feb 19)

 

 

Theme: Kaleidoscope Collective

 

Inspiration: Exploring an unknown wilderness begins with sending runners ahead to clear the way.

 

Today: The Piscean journey is kicked off, not with a bang, but with water in your eyes.

 

Imagine a kaleidoscope looking glass with liquid elements blurring the lens.  Imagine a window wet with rain, a camera lens distorted by fog and damp. These familiar images pertain to the grander journey into the Piscean wilderness.

 

The day's energies are such that giving advance notice helps everything. Think of sending word ahead so that potential hosts can talk and plan for your arrival. 

 

Good day to seek a second opinion or feel out another's perspective on a matter at hand. 

 

No need to rush nor quarrel: every so-called problem is not such a big deal; every pedal to the metal insistence meets traffic delays.

 

Arjuna asked, "How do I get to the far beyond?".

 

Krishna replied, "You are there already. See yourself there, then enjoy the journey"

 

Aquarius 29: Butterfly emerging from a chrysalis

"Butterfly emerging from a chrysalis" 29 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 1:44 AM EST Feb 17 (6:44 AM GMT, Feb 17)

 

 

Theme: Wiggle room

 

Inspiration: There is more room to move than you might perceive. Trust in the natural process from which something new and beautiful will emerge.

 

Today: Often one feels bound up and in a tight space. It is a way of perceiving that can easily fall into belief that things are impossible.

 

The day's energies are already underway and set for a sense of freedom, a new start of significance and a natural unfolding dynamic. 

 

Therefore, trust in that dynamic. It feels better to do so. When you are aligned with the natural process and with who you really are, the results are even more smooth and beautiful.

 

The image for the day to carry with you as you wander is that of a golden flower blooming. See it as a high speed movie as if the blooming, the emerging, happens in moments rather than over a period of days.

 

Call it "The Secret of the Golden Flower".

 

Aquarius 28: A tree felled and sawed

"A tree felled and sawed" 28 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 1:58 AM EST Feb 16 (6:58 AM GMT, Feb 16)

 

 

Theme: Fell

 

Inspiration: When sawing up firewood, sawdust is sure to cling everywhere.

 

Today: If you have ever sawed up firewood, you will know that the dust finds its way into all your clothes, down your boots, under your shirt, in your eyes and nose. 

 

What is important about this lies in the way light almost imperceptible matter can cling and stick onto you.

 

In the worst case scenarios, the sticky stuff can knock you down, keep you down that ways a fell poison would. However, toxic matters can easily be folded into inspired knowing. 

 

Conversations today can heal, or harm: make your choice. Picking up on subliminal messages is highly likely… words spoken may seem to mean that, but their saying means this.

 

Also considered to be an 'Astrologers degree', Aquarius 28 brings potential awareness of grander schemes for understanding all things. 

 

Words, thoughts and intentions carry creative potency. Like a homeopathic dose of just the right word, intention or substance, a healing response is thereby triggered.

 

Aquarius 27: An ancient pottery bowl filled with violets

"An ancient pottery bowl filled with violets" 27 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 2:13 AM EST Feb 15 (7:13 AM GMT, Feb 15)

 

 

Theme: Pin cushion sky

 

Inspiration: Millions of pin-points of starry lights illumine violet hues of dawn's early eye.

 

Today: Delicate matters adorn the mindful wayfarer's sky. 

 

One look to the heavens invokes awe-filled hush… singing, "Thou art so great; I am so small".

 

It is common to feel a sense of being all alone like but one tiny flower in the cosmic earthenware bowl. But, of course, you are not alone. 

 

Use this awareness to find the greatest things in the tiniest of matters. It is as if within the great dome of your awareness, every little spark of life matters. In this space, one can re-enchant, re-create the deepest of desire with far-reaching conviction.

 

Not a great day to become all profound and philosophically ponderous, but poetically… how wondrous the violet  pin-cushion sky lifts thy gaze.

 

Lover's abade to greet the dawn, "Just a Closer Walk With Thee".

 

Aquarius 26: A hydrometer

"A hydrometer" 26 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 2:28 AM EST Feb 14 (7:28 AM GMT, Feb 14)

 

 

Theme: Defying gravity

 

Inspiration: Good news travels vast.

 

Today: There is something in the air…

 

A hydrometer is an instrument of measurement for assessing relative density. For example, one substance, alcohol, may be suspended in another, your favourite bottle of plunk.

 

In personal experience, the assessing instrument is awareness. We all know when a heavy atmosphere has been entered, just as we know immediately when a bright positive mood room surrounds. Therefore, have a joyful time delicately weighing the air, the mood, the suspended lightness of magical energies.

 

Even more exciting is the very real likelihood of shifting vibrational quality of your experience. For example, imagine having been in a funk… not enough money, low energy, a sticky stream of disappointments. Today, one can quietly… sweetly… shift everything.

 

Imagine being under water and looking up to the illumining solar shafts energizing zillions of tiny bits of life material in the ocean. Each and everyone of those tiny bits carries enough power to explode the heaviest sludge into a motion of quick silver fireworks. 

 

Also a good day to check your body PH level

 

Aquarius 25: A butterfly with the right wing more perfectly formed

"A butterfly with the right wing more perfectly formed" 25 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 2:43 AM EST Feb 13 (7:43 AM GMT, Feb 13)

 

 

Theme: Balance

 

Inspiration: In human life, balance is really imbalance carried forward in a flow oscillating between two points near to perfectly balanced.

 

Today: Walking is actually controlled falling… left, right, left right… harnessed motion near to, but not quite ever a perfect still point of balance.

 

Enthusiasm is high today, with potential many acts of good fortune… efforts that reward successfully.

 

The is a need to be deep and in control, but also to be different, unique. Minor imperfections may be an issue. For example, if one feels less than appreciated for highly individual qualities and characteristics. Or, one may be not inclined to recognize others because of perceived minor imperfections.

 

However, the day is much more likely to manifest blessings for being almost perfect. That is a good thing because 'perfection' and being human are paths that never intersect… or if they do, ever so briefly.

 

Aquarius 24: A man turning his back on his passions and teaching from his experience

"A man turning his back on his passions and teaching from experience" 24 Aquarius

 

This symbol is illuminated 2:59 AM EST Feb 12 (7:59 AM GMT, Feb 12)

 

 

Theme: The turn

 

Inspiration: Yoga means to yoke life energies such that the body supple may turn.

 

Today: The sage nickname for this Sabian symbol the yoga degree.

 

Imagine assuming careful postures, poses… asanas… from which one mindfully and gently turns the spine. Consider the perspective of gathering and directing physical energy for higher purposes… hence 'turning one's back on passions'.

 

Good day to channel energies for higher purposes. Good day to rise above base emotional confusion and desire.

 

Also, a great day for the re-enchantment of intentions and deep personal affinities.