Dreams come true: a creative toolkit for Pisces season
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Hi little coven, and happy Pisces season.
To contemplate Piscean energy is to soak in the specific quality of sunlight on old film. It’s dreamy, magical, confidently present while startlingly ethereal.
My covetous Taurean heart has always harbored a sharp little mixture of jealousy of and adoration for Piscean-born creatives. The sign’s dreamy, mysterious, emotive nature lends itself to creative work in a way I’ve sometimes struggled to elicit, with my bullish tendency to dig my heels into what I believe a creative project should be, versus the Piscean talent for allowing an endeavor to become whatever it naturally is.
Consider Piet Mondrian, the Piscean artist known to defer to his horoscope. While he’s known for his straight lines and primary colours, he excelled in impressionist work in his early days. Modrian was deeply guided by his spirituality into new, unexpected directions in his art, and I imagine that it was his Piscean penchant for exploring and sampling styles that led him to his legacy.
Other prolific Piscean painters include Michelangelo and Renoir - artists whose work have become to stuff of legend. Looking at their masterpieces feels like a dream, and their legacy undoubtedly informs how we think about the dream of creative success and longevity today.
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For contemporary inspiration, we can look to Piscean music icons like Kurt Cobain and Chappell Roan — artists who combine sensitivity and vision, emotional depth and aesthetic expression, otherworldly points of view and cultural staying power, strong senses of personal identity and the power to evolve and test the boundaries of their skills and medium.
But you don’t need to be a born Pisces to infuse the sign’s unique power into your creative process.
Let’s talk about two archetypes that you can learn from this Pisces season: the classic twin fish symbol that represents Pisces in the Zodiac, and the Moon tarot birth card.
The dreamlike, romantic quality is essential here: the Tarot’s moonlight softens the wild scene it illuminates, and in myth, the Piscean fish are linked to the Greek deities of Love, Aphrodite and her son Eros.
Alongside dreaminess, two other shared themes emerge from these Piscean archetypes: escape and transformation.
In Greek myth, to escape the murderous monster, Typhon, Aphrodite and Eros become fish, or are rescued by two fish — versions vary, in the same way that the narratives of our dreams grow slippery and ethereal between our fingers as we surface into the waking world.
In The Moon, a crustacean escapes the depths of the sea to follow a path we’ve seen in past cards (Temperance and Death) while two wolves watch on beneath the moon. The implicit reference to lycanthropy nods at transformation, wildness, and on the flipside, the same monstrous represented by Typhon in the Greek myth.
None of us, these Piscean archetypes promise, is doomed to be stuck where we are. We have the power, the magic, the imagination to reinvent ourselves, to be made new. To take the dreams we escape into and transform them into reality. To flow into fresh ways of being ourselves.
In your creative life this season, challenge yourself to live more dreamily. To indulge your imagination. To romanticise your relationship with your creativity in imaginative, emotive, ways. To dive into becoming. To allow your dreams to come true by granting yourself permission to flow into your potential — no matter how strange it might feel to change.
Creative Prompts for Pisces Season
Use the following prompts as jumping-off points for your own creative exploration of Capricorn season. These aren’t homework — try what feels good or interesting to you, and know you have my permission to ignore the rest.
Journal about the Piscean fish and the Moon tarot card.
How do these images make you feel?
What memories, desires, and questions, do they bring up for you?
What similarities and differences do you notice between them?
Recreate the Moon card with watercolours
Ritualise the process - reflect on how infusing your art with water allows you to meditate on the themes that emerge from Pisces and the Moon
Keep a dream journal
Make note of the most strange, interesting, and or pleasurable qualities of your dreams, and consider how you can manifest them through art
Reflect on how your creativity flows with the phases of the moon this month.
Track the moon’s phases and record your creative experiences, review what patterns emerge
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