Regardless of whether you're a male or female, the very first love of your life was your mother (or if mom was absent, then another mother figure in your environment). The Moon symbolizes the unconscious, instincts, and what you need to feel nurtured in your life. The Moon is the "place" where we go for comfort when scared.... and we tend to unconsciously nurture ourselves in much the same way our mothers nurtured and cared for us when we were very young children.

With the Moon in Pisces, you feel and experience your own emotions deeply. You also tend to empathize rather deeply with and intuitively (sometimes almost psychically) "pick up on" the emotions of the people around you. As a very young child you may have pictured your mother as a caring, sensitive individual who experienced difficulty in setting her own emotional boundaries with other people. As an adult, you may feel a continuing strong empathy with your mother (or other alternative mother figure), and it would therefore be helpful to your own emotional growth and sense of emotional stability if you learn how to form your own emotional boundaries.

Under stress? During those times when you're an emotional "shape-shifter, " you may feel an instinctual urge to blend in with and disappear into your environment by reflecting back the behavior of your environment. This is called emotional camouflage. You figure if you manage to blend in well enough, then they can't see you anymore. Remember when you were a kid and Mom asked you: "Would you jump off a cliff just because everyone did?" Because of your tendency toward a lack of clear emotional boundaries, you may at times feel the strong need to withdraw and seek out seclusion. Other times, you will feel the safest when with a close, trusted friend with whom to two of you can mutually share your deepest emotions, fantasies, and dreams. Warning! You have a wee bit of a strong tendency to draw in and attract emotionally lost people who need (and/or use and abuse) your extraordinary sense of emotional understanding, care, and empathy. Please remember, you can't save the entire world.

Tips for relieving day to day stress? Meditation, listening to relaxing music, escaping into a nice, warm bubble bathtub for an hour or so, volunteering at the local homeless shelter, aligning oneself with the cosmos, joining an encounter group or a spiritual book reading club. Dream vacation? Where else? Escape to the ocean for a little deep sea fishing and/or scuba diving. Or maybe, just hang out at the beach. If you're a Pisces Moon with spiritual inclinations, then you might prefer signing up for a tour group traveling through India and hosted by a really cool, spiritual swami.

That reminds me of what the swami told the hot-dog vendor: “Make me one with everything.�?/FONT>