Pisces II: The Inky Void Between Stars
Mutable water: the void, dark energy, wishes
Atmosphere: The Inky Void Between Stars
Sign: Pisces
Plant: Linden
Planet: Jupiter + the Moon
Dates: 1 - 10 March
Tarot: 9 of Cups
But while the lights of the stars and galaxies of the cosmic web stand out, those structures only serve to set the boundaries of the true masters of the cosmos: the empty regions between them. First discovered in the early 1980s, these cosmic voids dominate the volume of the universe. In other words, most of our universe is completely, totally empty.
The voids are our key to understanding dark energy. Their growth over cosmic time, their shapes, their numbers, and all their properties tell us about the strength and history of dark energy.
Pisces II is the penultimate decan of the zodiacal year. It has the expansive nature of Jupiter and the intuitive, secretive, fathomless nature of the Moon.
I see Pisces II as a place where secrets live, never fully revealed, but used as a breadcrumb trail to ever deeper insights and knowledge.
But it is possible to fall too deep into this part of Pisces and to struggle to come back.
Kira Ryberg sees this placement as representing:
the search for enlightenment, the quest for connection with the divine and a deep sense of knowing. The abundance that comes from this face is thus a mixture of the material and spiritual.
– Kira Ryberg, 36 Decans Guidebook
That connection with the divine might feel like a comfort or a challenge in the same way that the void itself might feel different at different times.
Stephen Forrest writes about the generative quality of the void in Pisces – the space where the creativity emerges.
As the Fishes unleash their creative powers, the outer world recedes from center stage. The next line of the poem, the next note of the sonata, the next image in the painting–all arise in the mind, not in the objective realm. They direct attention away from physical reality toward awareness itself.
– Stephen Forrest, The Inner Sky
The Inky Void Between Stars is the place where the fathomless nature of the moon and the expansive nature of Jupiter come together to hold deep secrets, hidden knowledge, and divine connection.