7 Ways To Explore Your Spiritual Side With The Year's Only Pisces New Moon

So, you've given your closets and drawers the style-blogger treatment. Now, how about your psyche? As the 12th and final sign of the zodiac, Pisces energy can hold a lot of baggage, and not just the physical kind.

Since Pisces rules the subconscious, the 2021 Pisces new moon beams your attention inward. Your thoughts have a big part in shaping your reality, which, in turn, directs your outlook on life. Thus, it makes sense to give your mind an internal audit from time to time. The goal is to make sure all that "monkey chatter" isn't bringing you down!

Regular meditation breaks can help you tune in to those shadowy corners of your mind. (Try our guided meditation for Pisces season!)

Then, try giving each disempowering thought a positive reframe. For example, "I am committed to learning about money management so I can create abundance in my life." Or, "I will find the right support for my dreams."

What if you regarded everything you do—from preparing your breakfast to composing an email—as a work of art? Imagine what kind of honor, dignity, and divinity you could bring to every waking moment. You would exist in a true state of grace. Here's a 2021 Pisces new moon idea: Experiment with this idea for two weeks and see how your experience of life begins to shift.

Need a nudge? Let artist extraordinaire Michelangelo, a Pisces born March 6, 1475, inspire you. He spent four years painting the awe-inspiring ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. During his lifetime, Michelangelo was known as Il Divino ("the divine one"). How very Piscean since the veil between the earthly and the divine is thinned by Pisces' esoteric influence.

Ever notice that when you're bored, an hour feels like a lifetime, but when you're "in the zone," it flies by way too quickly? The 2021 Pisces new moon prompts us to shift into quantum thinking, where time is more elastic than fixed—and can be bent at our will.

Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity turned our concept of reality on its head, was a Pisces, born March 14, 1879. (And it's interesting to note that the late, great theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking—a Capricorn—died on Einstein's birthday, which is also Pi Day).

The Pisces new moon encourages us to question linear concepts like distance and time—just as Einstein, Hawking, and even Galileo had done. One of our favorite (and most digestible) books on the quantum realm is Joe Dispenza's Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How To Lose Your Mind and Create a New One.

Mermaid Pisces rules the oceans and seas, and this new moon spotlights the need to protect and share our planet's aquatic resources.

Coral reefs, which are home to more than 25% of marine life, are dying off at an alarming rate. Water temperatures are rising because of industrialization, and our oceans are becoming more polluted by plastic waste.

As the final sign of the zodiac, Piscean energy is often equated with a metaphorical death. It's why so many people born under this sign are "old souls" with a strong connection to the other side. Pisces is also associated with reincarnation and the afterlife.

This zodiac sign is the most empathetic of them all, but when does compassion veer into codependence? Figuring out where you begin and another person ends can be a bit challenging—but try! This new moon may serve as a wake-up call that you've been making too many sacrifices to your self-care in the name of "being there" for a loved one.

Wanting to be in control is part of the human condition. Pisces is the star sign of surrender and release. Under the spell of this intuitive energy, try handing the metaphorical reins to the universe (or God, the divine...however you see it) every now and again.

The mysterious and unseen force may have a better plan than the one your mortal mind can concoct. If things take a U-turn or veer off onto an unchartered path, try not to freak out. Instead, say, "Hmmm...I wonder what I'm to learn from this change of events?"