Hudson Valley Astrologer

“Down here so laughable and small, hardly a quiver in the dirt.”

~ David Gray

Pisces is LOVE.

The last sign of the zodiac assimilates and contains all of the previous signs, together, within One sign.

“As above, so below,” but also “as within, so without.”

The astrological literature describes Pisces as the martyr, of course, or the long and suffering sacrificial lambs and marshmallows of the zodiac, prone to luxuriating in the sensual. Perhaps the private purposes divined by the personality is somehow kept hidden, and elusive. But this sensitivity and receptivity, a need, if you will, is to apply energy in a poetic way, an approach that displaces tenacity and attack in ways that makes externalization difficult.

Life is a struggle! That’s for sure!! However, what obstructs and constrains us from expressing LOVE are the conceits and arrogance we wrap ourselves in, preventing us from sharing, our affections frozen, as in the last verse Gray sings: “On winter trees the fruit of rain, is hanging trembling in the branches. Like a thousand diamond buds.” Waiting! Biding our time here for all the emotions we feel to bring meaning to us, to deliver some epiphany or revelation, some profound meaning of it all.

Carl Sagan put it this way:

“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known”

~ Carl Sagan

Gray’s perspective toward the end of “Ain’t No Love” mirrors Sagan’s point of view, that the vastness and magnificence of life in a way echoes the view of an all-embracing unity of Earth and the Cosmos. This view does not suggest a surrender that is passive, but to the contrary suggests an active participation in the transformative process of self-discovery, and surrender to that process.

Perhaps true surrender, let’s call it the Pisces in all of us, involves letting go of ego-driven desires and aligning ourselves with the integral truth of our existence. Surrender, then, allows the higher consciousness to work through us, leading to spiritual growth and transformation.

Seeing that I barely have a toehold in this process, the first sentence of my biography remains unwritten, much less the rest of the book. I share this song because David Gray touched me with the heart of his argument. In making the case so eloquently, that the Divine hand of LOVE is not in fact “guiding me” he in truth seems to make a case for the inverse, stating his anguish with such melancholy and hauntingly beautiful poetry in the realization that the insignificant ego self (“hardly a quiver in the dirt”) is nothing without love.

HVA

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