NEW MOON IN PISCES
PART 1 # Asa’s Apocalyptic Pisces themed DREAM
Natal Jupiter in Gemini in the 12th HOUSE.
illustration by Zach Whitridge
SATURDAY, FEB 22nd, 2025, Ermoupolis, Greece.
Asa is my oldest son. He is 12. For the astrologers and astrology lovers, he’s a Virgo Sun, Leo Moon, Cancer Rising. I have permission from Asa to share these details and permission from Asa to share his dream.
Asa has Jupiter in Gemini in the 12th house. Jupiter is the joyful, rotund planet of expansion. Where Jupiter shows up in its healthy expression is where abundance, generosity, philosophy, expansion, and wisdom can grow.
Gemini is an air sign, and among other attributes, carries information like a neurotransmitter for a community. Just as the wind carries music notes through an open window or the aroma of cooking, just as the postman delivers letters or the town crier spreads news, Gemini transmits knowledge like a carrier pigeon.
In fact, Gemini and birds are interlinked. In many cultures, birds are understood as intermediaries between humans and other worlds, as spiritual messengers. Think of the dove, the raven, the eagle, or the hummingbird. Gemini is like the bird that carries the message. Many Geminis find they have a way of understanding messages not only from the human world but also from other worlds and other beings, such as birds. I’d be curious to know how many Gemini heavy charts enjoy birdwatching?!
The 12th house is the house of Spirit, the imagination, dreams, the subconscious, unknown realms, or as my friend and astrologer Holly Noel describes it, “the Temple of the exiled and the extraordinary”. It is the last house in the wheel, like the last breath we take in the world. It has a bit of a mystery quality, which can lead to a feeling of being slightly disorientated or unearthed for 12th house natives, but in parallel, it provides a rich soil for profound thought and creation. It is the house with one foot in another world. It’s also many other things, but for where I’m going here, I will emphasise the quality of spirit and dreams as one aspect of the 12th house.
Put these pieces together, and an expression of the Jupiter, Gemini, and 12th house combination is a gift for vivid, abundant dreams with an ability for receiving and interpreting messages.
I take Asa’s dreams very seriously. He dreams heavily most nights and has tremendous memory recall. In 2019, I studied dream work with Toko-pa Turner and kept prolific dream diaries, which in turn encouraged me to ask my children to remember and speak their dreams during breakfast. When my boys have us attentively listening to their nightscape musings, it gives them validity. It also gives them a more varied world from which to draw meaning; a night world and a day world, the conscious and the subconscious.
Our dream weavers bring us many numinous experiences and messages when we are open to receive them. I exchanged dreams with my dear friend Ayesha Ophelia for years. We wouldn’t project our ideas onto each other’s dreams but instead ask reflective, probing questions. The right dialogue with another person provides incredible insight into the waking life, and it's possible to come to a level of profound understanding concerning a relationship, a path to take, decisions to be made, or what shadow/trauma might be holding us back from something.
I want to share a transcript of Asa’s dream from Feb 22, 2025, 4 days before a Pisces New Moon. You can hear Pisces themes (as we are Pisces heavy right now) and Pluto in Aquarius themes. It feels apocalyptic. It also feels relevant to my lens as a resident of the United States and an island dweller.
I also must prelude this by saying that Asa has a relatively sheltered life. He isn’t exposed to any type of news, conversations, accidental screen viewing (I hope!), or social media.
Please draw from this what you wish.
“There were a lot of people and they were all in this big town and there was a dam that was bubbling over and flooding out and the water was rising. The water kept coming and there were loads of coastguard people and police officers, fire trucks and ambulances. Cars were driving around, and trucks driving around in chaos. A big flatbed truck with concrete blocks was coming over [towards me]. Workers were unloading big blocks of concrete into the dam and onto the shore so the flood couldn’t come up. The people were helping other people. This commander guy came in with a tap. Then he tapped the water with his hand and a little submarine popped up on top of the water upside down. He hopped on and swivelled it the right way up. Then, once he was in there, I became him.
Inside the submarine, I could see two men, someone from WWI and another guy. This other guy was weird; he was trying to eat a cracker floating around on the water, but just with his big mouth. But the cracker was following the mass of people on the water. So this guy, trying to eat the cracker, kept biting the people with his big mouth, and he kept eating the people by accident. The people needed the army, so they called the army because of this guy. Me, the commander guy, decided I needed to go home. The submarine then popped and turned into a big blue bubble, with an eye popping out the top and fins. It turned out it was a sea creature volunteering to be a submarine. But the commander character got to safety through an air pocket. They went to shore to watch a sea shell concert whilst some other people came along to fix the submarine. It [the band] was glowing coral and clams playing music.” ASA WHITRIDGE