Surreal new Moon in Pisces morning, where the sky is dark and it's raining up a storm. One of our cats jumped out the window in the wee hours and is now nowhere in sight. We moved a few days ago, so kitty is braving the elements on his new frontier. Kitty liberated himself (Uranus), but is now without known markers in the vast unfamiliar landscape. A similar adventure awaits those who surrender to this new Moon.

The other day, I saw a documentary about amnesia called Unknown White Male. A movie that asks that viewers, "Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are." In this true story, old ties and activities meant nothing, unless there was some felt resonance in the present. This new Moon offers such an invitation. What would happen if you let go of everything that's no longer humming with life, but just a carry-over from the past? Who would you be and what would you do? Today's new Moon (Exact at 12:14 pm EST) gives us a glimpse of that soul essence, stripped of its ego dressing, its fixed notions about life.

Nice cosmic weather to lollygag and tune into this most "spiritual" of new Moons. As Stephanie Austin writes, we're in the midst of a huge paradigm shift, too. There's so much that's dark and forboding about our future, and a more hopeful vision seems like just a longed-for dream. This new Moon invites each of us to embrace the dream as real, and surrender to the personal changes that it requires. As my pestered-by-Saturn Virgo husband left for work, he kept asking, "Where's my rainbow?" He's Hungarian and meant "umbrella," but his creative English seemed symbolic somehow. What lies beyond the illusions we've created as a society, and as the narrative for our own lives? It's a new Moon to believe that there could be rainbows and other beautiful sights in the midst of darkness.