Captain of My Soul

Out the Closet by Deborah Singletary (tableau circa 1995)

New Moon | March 18, 2026 | 28 Pisces 7’

“Don’t go changing trying to please me.

You never let me down before,

Don’t imagine you’re too familiar

And I don’t see you anymore.

I would not leave you in times of trouble

We never could have come this far.

I took the good times,

I’ll take the bad times

I’ll take you just the way you are.” – Billy Joel

 Imagine your deeper, better, higher, inner self singing this to you. It sings through your blood and vibration. Imagine the song was written to you through Billy Joel in the expectation that you might hear and believe who you are—believe—instead of shrinking away from your grandeur.

Two days later after the New Moon, the Sun enters Aries, beginning the Spring Equinox. Day and night are equal and you begin again. You spring forward, sprouting and blooming, growing and releasing the perfume of your essential self. Feel the spirit. Feel the movement of energy stirring and washing through you to cleanse you of toxic ideas you have about yourself, giving you the feeling of being washed and whole. Two days later enters the Spring Equinox. Day and night are equal and you begin again. You spring forward, sprouting and blooming, growing and releasing the perfume of your essential self.

Pisces rules the spirit world—the unseen world that drives the plans of the architect. Aries represents the architect, as well as the author and producer. Do you feel it in your blood and body? In Tarot, Pisces is assigned to Key 18, “The Moon.” Pisces is the corporeal or bodily intelligence. Pisces locates the body’s innate capacity to know, interpret, and respond to the world through sensation, movement, intuition, and embodied awareness. It’s the intelligence that lives in the flesh, not just the mind. This Corporeal Intelligence is your guidance system. You feel it. You are one with it. Pisces is opposite Virgo, the sign of health and so is part of the physical and emotional components of healthy living.

I am the captain of my ship. Repeat after me. I am the captain of my ship. Even if you speak it weakly, this is the truth. With five planets in Aries, this is your chance, your opportunity. You are getting booster shots of inspiration. Begin again. Just do it. Be it. Don’t throw away your shot.

Begin again is your command. Don’t blame others who you deem barriers. Get over the barrier. Or don’t, however, you are the one it happens through. This boost won’t last always. The planets will start to roll into Taurus, and you will start to feel the momentum to sustain and hold that which you begin consciously during this time that you feel the impulse. Can you make order out of the “chaos” that was Pisces? You are the Architect. You are the framer of your own reality. A frame is a simple structure. My favorite frame is, “Things are always working out for me.” I say that, and things unfold in a way that rewards my faith. This means that I meet the obstacles that I conjure consciously or unconsciously. I put a spell on those obstacles. “Everything is always working out for me” I say. For those who like to talk to the devil, say, “Get behind me Satan.” Or you might say “No matter what it looks like, I am moving forward.” When you lead with conscious awareness that there is a sustaining source that opens doors. Help arrives. A way is made. A path unfolds. 

And yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me Unafraid.

—Invictus, William Henley

Practicum

Choose a framework or motto that expresses the life you intend. Write it down and put it up. This framework will inform your actions. Begin again by seeing what you choose to be. Choose again and again. If you falter, seek balance through your framework.