Here’s a recording of a poem to use at the Moon’s monthly conjunction with Neptune while it’s in Pisces. It’s a useful reminder that this isn’t exactly an easy conjunction — it’s overloaded with dreams and visions that are not always grounded in reality, but sail in deliberate fashion toward hoped-for islands that are often little more than mirages.
Moon Conjunct Neptune in Pisces
Hail, bright Lady, expressing new vision,
discerning new forms in the clotting blood:
though what you want holds truth in derision,
there’s enough fluid to call it a flood
in what you create and choose to support.
You set in motion all manner of tales,
fanciful and rarely grounded in fact,
but many grab hold of the first report,
set their course quickly and fill all the sails,
and answer critique with snarling retort.
Moon makes quick work of cold calculation,
stocks the cargo hold and raises anchor
to sail abroad, to some foreign station —
gets no insurance, consults no banker,
and leaves in the dark with the turning tide.
Has anyone confirmed there’s more than rumor
sustaining this fabled treasure abroad?
She fears ridicule and dares not confide.
Secrecy grows, like cancerous tumor…
and conspiracy has a taste, like fraud.
Lady Moon, guide me through perilous shoals,
the reefs and rocks of fraudulent ideals.
Potentials often burn like glowing coals;
too many sandbars look like honest deals.
Many’s the bezzleª that rewards the fraud;
Ponzi and Madoff planned faithful ventures
(or so it’s claimed, though the claim is fishy).
There’s many dreams the crowd will applaud,
but not all dreams survive Scylla’s dentures —
for the world is more toothy than wishy.
On the one hand, I’ve already written a poem for the Moon’s monthly conjunction with Neptune in Pisces. On the other, maybe having more material for these conjunctions would be helpful on a monthly basis.
The conjunction perfects on 21 August 2024 at 5:53 pm EDT. For US East Coasters, this is in the third house of primary schooling, siblings, local travel, neighbors, and regular written projects (like an astrological poetry blog, perhaps?); it’s also associated with private religious observances carried out at home, and classes taken under the supervision of the teacher. The conjunction takes place in the Jupiter-ruled sign of Pisces, in the decan of Mars (The Cup of Blood), the Term of Saturn, the dodek belonging to Aries, and single degree belonging to Mars.
The Moon will be waning at this point in her cycle, and in the Twenty-Eighth Mansion, The Belly of the Fish. Together, this placement and Neptune together point to an overly rushed job at the end of a project by someone whose skills are not yet up to the task they’ve given themselves. In connection with the Mars indicators, it’s worth being more cautious with sharp tools, and not trying to rush home carpentry jobs or hobbyist endeavors of various kinds.
ª A bezzle is a term coined by the American economist John Kenneth Galbraith — meaning a long-term pattern of bad-faith dealing in which one or more partners in a contractual arrangement believe they’ve gained quite a bit of wealth, while another partner to the compact is swindling them. The word is a contraction of embezzlement. Allegedly, Bernie Madoff and Charles Ponzi are examples of such swindlers, and a Ponzi scheme is one in which a fund manager uses the deposits of new investors to pay dazzling returns to earlier investors, in order to convince the early investors to recruit new investors to the scheme.
