The 12 Days of Aries: Healing the Inner Child Day 12 - Pisces

"The cry we hear from deep in our hearts comes from the wounded child within. Healing this inner child’s pain will transform negative emotions."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The month of Aries is the start of the lunar new year. It is called in Hebrew “Rosh Chodashim,” the head of all months. As the seed of the year and the DNA of all the coming months, it affords us the opportunity to plant seeds with our consciousness to do deep inner work that will soften our journey and smooth our path to change.

The first 12 days of Aries are especially important as they each correspond to one of the 12 months of the coming year. The sixteenth century Kabbalist Rav Isaac Luria explains that the spiritual work we do on these 12 days influences what we will experience in the corresponding months to come.

To guide you through a process of internal transformation, I am going to overlay two modalities, Kabbalistic astrology and the inner child archetype, to assist us to do profound work of healing from within.

My hope is that with the knowledge of the cosmic opportunity ahead of us these next 12 days, a gift given to us by the great Kabbalists, together with an exploration of our inner self, we can begin embracing our child so that we can move to our spiritual growth and maturity.

Looking forward to taking this journey with you.

The 12 Days of Aries: Day 12, Pisces

Welcome to Day 12 of the 12 Days of Aries, which begins at sundown on Tuesday, April 19 and ends at sundown on Wednesday, April 20.

Pisces is a mutable water sign. Mutable signs carry the energy change, flexibility and movement, and water signs have the gift of feelings and sensitivity. It is no wonder therefore that Pisces is represented by two fish swimming just below the surface, tapped into the unconscious world of dreams and imagination. That is where they Pisces live—just below the surface…they are some of the most creative, sensitive, and artistic people in the world.

The Pisces Inner Child Archetype feels things so intensely that it finds it easier to hide from reality than to face it. Full of emotion and fear, it looks for comfort in addictions and other means of escape because the reality of life is just too much. The Pisces Inner Child archetype is the like a little fish hiding under a rock. It can feel the pain of others as a way surveying the surrounding waters for protection from danger.

We all have a bit of this Pisces Inner Child Archetype within. Perhaps we avoid certain people or situations that we know we need to deal with. Or maybe we find ourselves going to some sort of physical substance for comfort or refuge. Whatever the case may me, when we can identify this inner child archetype in ourselves, we can begin to heal it. By identifying what this child is avoiding, we can get a better understanding of what we need to do in this world and how to go about doing it.

Consciousness for the Day: Before you reach outside of yourself—to food, drink, or whatever it is that you fancy--stop and ask yourself if it is truly what your soul desires or just what your inner child wants to feel good now. Find two areas of your life where you feel victimized and take a concrete step to take responsibility for your own fulfillment. Feel your own joy and other people's joy.

Most importantly, be gentle with yourself and your inner child. You are work in progress and a child of God who loves you. Healing comes from positively acknowledging and taking responsibility for what we need to change, not from beating ourselves up.