Pisces Virtues and Vices

by Nicolette Beard on March 1, 2010

in Esoteric Astrology, Striving

The month of Pisces extends from Feb­ru­ary 20th to March 19th. Dur­ing this time, and par­tic­u­larly at the full moon, energy radi­at­ing from this con­stel­la­tion is avail­able to stim­u­late either our higher or lower nature.

The choice is ours.

Our vices express them­selves if we’re iden­ti­fied with our per­son­al­ity: pride, ambi­tion, cold­ness, indif­fer­ence, self­ish­ness, jeal­ous love, over depen­dence on others.

If we make no effort to raise our con­scious­ness to the Soul level, the incom­ing energy stim­u­lates these weeds.

If we respond to the incom­ing energy, how­ever, virtues appear in our life to cre­atively express this energy for the bet­ter­ment of mankind.

Pisces Virtues

  • Courage
  • Fear­less­ness
  • Patience
  • Endurance
  • Faith­ful­ness
  • Seren­ity
  • Sin­cer­ity
  • Clar­ity
  • Devo­tion
  • Ten­der­ness
  • Single-mindedness
  • Intu­ition

We think that to serve, we must phys­i­cally give of our­selves. But it is through these spir­i­tual virtues that we radi­ate beauty to oth­ers, trans­form­ing them in the process.

Med­i­tat­ing on these virtues and fus­ing the lower with the higher will help you grow spir­i­tu­ally. When you do this year after year, your true Self will emerge giv­ing you an avenue for true sac­ri­fi­cial service.

Source: Sym­phony of the Zodiac, pp. 319–320.

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Self-Talk: Are Your Thoughts Killing You?

by Nicolette Beard on February 9, 2010

in Broadening of Consciousness

It may come as a sur­prise to you to learn that I read self help books. Some­times, when I’m pre­oc­cu­pied with a per­sonal or fam­ily cri­sis, I revisit a few favorites.

My hus­band recently shared with me a book writ­ten in 1987 called Feel the Fear and Do It Any­way, by Susan Jef­fers, Ph.D. In look­ing back, I real­ize that I read dozens of self-help books in the 80s that still hold valu­able lessons today.

Jef­fers shares a “positive-negative think­ing” exer­cise she learned from Jack Can­field, he of the Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, at one of his Self-Esteem Sem­i­nars. I don’t know if he still con­ducts those sem­i­nars, but if any­one wants to fol­low an exam­ple of pos­i­tiv­ity and deter­mi­na­tion, I encour­age you to revisit Jack’s story.

She invites a work­shop attendee to hold her arms out at her side and to resist the down­ward pres­sure from Jef­fers’ out­stretched hand. She is unable to push the arm down.

Then she asks the vol­un­teer to close her eyes and repeat ten times, “I am a weak and unwor­thy per­son” and to really feel that state­ment. When she extends her arm once again and attempts to resist the down­ward pres­sure, Jef­fers imme­di­ately pushes the arm down. It’s as though all the strength has left the person’s arm.

Con­versely, when she asks the woman to repeat, “I am a strong and wor­thy per­son,” the extended arm will not budge.

This is a stun­ning exam­ple of the power of our words. When we indulge in neg­a­tive self-talk, we are weak­en­ing our inner core, literally.

I’m famil­iar with kine­si­ol­ogy, the sci­ence of the inter­re­la­tion­ship between phys­i­o­log­i­cal processes and move­ment. I’ve used it to test whether a cer­tain vit­a­min or herb would be ben­e­fi­cial, but it never occurred to me to use it as a demon­stra­tion of the power of thought!

What kind of inter­nal dia­logue is going on with you?

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