Tarotscopes for the Full Moon in Pisces
By: Dominique Matti
Tags: Spirituality, Tarot, Pisces, Astrology, Self

Tarotscopes for the Full Moon in Pisces

Insights for deep-sea diving into our hearts

Photos: Dominique Matti

I once read that we’ve only explored 5% of the ocean. The other 95% is uncharted territory — the vast majority of its horrors and delights exist beyond the reach of our gaze. I sometimes feel like my heart is like that, too. Like even when I’m afforded what I think is full access, that thing that feels like a flood is only a small drop in the bucket of my feeling potential. Or like when what I think is one feeling is really 1,000 feelings stacked on top of each other. Like nostalgia for the future, hope for the past, denial of the present. We are lucky every time we get a little more intel on our hearts. Every time we turn a forbidden corner, or get the keys to an unmarked door. Every time we dip our toes in waters that feel at once foreign and like the most familiar thing in the world.

Tonight’s Full Moon in Pisces offers us that. The revelation of more of our hearts. If you’re like me, if your heart is a place that you are sometimes afraid to occupy, don’t worry. Your heart is showing itself to you in that fear. The cards for this Full Moon are about exploring what it means to open, honor, protect, and tend to our hearts, our spirits, our immaterial selves.

You can read the tarotscopes for your Sun, Moon, and Rising sign. These messages won’t apply to everyone every time. I trust that the messages are always meant for someone, that one person is important enough, and that eventually yours will find you.

The stunning deck I’m using here is Dust II Onyx, created by Courtney Alexander. You may notice that some of the names on the cards differ from the typical titles. For reference, the blades correlate to swords, the gourds correlate to cups, the staffs correlate to wands, and the coins correlate to pentacles. Mama matches the Queen. Papa, the King. Lil’, the Page. Young, the Knight. All the numbered Major Arcana cards carry similar energy to the correlating numbered card from the Rider-Waite. If you see a card listed in parentheses, it means it flew out of the deck for you while I was shuffling, so it carries a lot of importance. Enjoy!

Aries: Strength x Young Gourd x Papa Blade x 2 of Blades

Are you afraid of your own heart? Do you feel threatened by how big it is, how wild and devoted and powerful it is? How unpredictable? Are you afraid of its uncertainty — are you afraid of its certainty, too? When you are grounded in an awareness of the depth of your heart’s roaring waters, do you worry that it might take you under — that you could drown there? It’s only natural. The New Moon in Virgo worked to reveal your heart to you, and the Full Moon in Pisces leaves you sorting out just what to do with it. How to engage it. If you can trust it. Can you trust it? Maybe you’re not really sure. Maybe something is knocking on the door of your heart and before your heart can get there your mind rushes to answer.

Your mind is accustomed to handling your heart’s business — after all, you spent so much time seeing it as this small, fragile thing that needed to be tucked away and guarded. But now you’ve come to find out it’s gigantic, courageous, devoted — it’s a warrior’s heart, the kind that isn’t going to sit quietly if your mind doesn’t let it take the lead when it’s meant to. Your heart and your mind have got to learn how to occupy the same space, now — and that space is you. If you’ve been confused about which instinct to follow — instead of seeing them as two things in tension, how can you see them as two supportive parts of the same whole? Your mind has had more of an opportunity to refine its skills, so how can it now be of service to your heart? What mental mechanisms and systems can you put in place that empower your heart? What mental mechanisms and systems need to go?

This full moon, your heart is offering itself up to you as your best and most formidable fighter — will you trust that its strength is your own strength and welcome it to your team?

Affirmation: I am empowered by my ability to feel things deeply.

Taurus: 7 of Blades x 4 of Staffs, 3 of Gourds (Ace of Gourds)

What if it was okay? What if it was all to the same end? What if there’s an offering in staying and an offering in leaving? An offering in undying devotion to your communities and an offering in stealing away in the night for your own personal good? An offering in diving in deeper and an offering in detaching? Truly: What if it was okay? What if you didn’t have to be punished, or isolated, or excommunicated for it? What if it didn’t make you bad, or unacceptable, or broken? What if there were people out there who knew why you needed to go and would always welcome you back? Who wouldn’t condemn, or worse, forget you?

If you’re feeling guilty, or scared, or ashamed, or confused, or avoidant, or flighty, or nothing at all — if you’re not feeling any of the things you think you should feel under your circumstances — if you feel like running away from what you think you should be running toward — forgive yourself. We all acknowledge how hard it is to experience a lack of belonging — but it’s also worth acknowledging how incredibly challenging it is for some of us to get it after going without it. It requires a set of skills many of us struggle with: trust, vulnerability, boundaries, communication, commitment, courage. Allowing ourselves a sense of belonging calls on us to face our fears of rejection. Our fears of abandonment. Our fears of loss. Over and over and over again. It’s really hard work, and it’s natural to need a break from time to time. Some of us have to leave once in a while in order to withstand the overwhelm we feel when we stay. Leaving can look like all kinds of things: dissociation, avoidance, booking a ticket, taking a sabbatical, isolating ourselves, emotionally divesting.

This Pisces Full Moon, forgive yourself for the desire to be a stranger — for the periodic pull you feel toward unbelonging. For being tired of the emotional and spiritual work of connecting — for needing that specific kind of rest. It’s all a part of figuring out how to have what your heart wants. Still, you do yourself a favor when you tell the people who love you what you need. Their acceptance might more readily afford you your own.

Affirmation: It is a gesture of commitment to my collectives when I honor my individual needs.

Gemini: 6 of Staffs x 9 of Coins x 2 of Coins

It’s about time you told yourself how proud of you you are. Look at you! Look around you! Look what you did! Look what you made for you! It’s easy (and by easy I also mean difficult) to get caught up in seeing yourself or your life as an endless series of problems that need resolving, to lose any sense of your own cumulative growth or the forward trajectory you’ve set into motion and kept at. When there’s always something to work on, you tend to find yourself always working on something — never really relaxing into the rewards of the work you’ve already done. If somebody along the way made you feel like you were a problem, like who you are is an issue, like you yourself are a flaw or a fluke — you may feel like you owe it to the world to not rest until you’ve fixed yourself. To not ease into being proud of yourself until there’s nothing about you you’re not proud of.



We all have problems, and we can all make problems for ourselves and others, but none of us are problems. You have just as much of a duty to love and enjoy and appreciate yourself as you do to resolve the things that unsettle you about yourself. You are not a problem. Your life is not a problem. You are not a problem. You are not a problem. You are your own solution, coming to your rescue, over and over! Thank god for you! Thank you for you!

This Pisces Full Moon, some of your successes may be in the spotlight — but the most important element is that you gift yourself your own recognition, your own admiration, your own praise, your own gratitude, your own acknowledgement of yourself. Let yourself enjoy yourself — enjoy what you’ve worked for, enjoy what comes naturally to you. You are the only one who can give you permission to be pleased with your efforts. Do that. Because you’ve earned it.

Affirmation: My pride in myself facilitates my growth faster than my condemnation.

Cancer: 5 of Coins x 10 of Blades x Queen Mother

When bad things happen, when lightning strikes, when catastrophe consumes us, when we are in crisis, when we feel alone, betrayed, abandoned, at a loss: if nothing else, we are afforded an opportunity to welcome ourselves into our own arms. You need care right now, generous amounts of it, and it’s about time you give yourself some of your own. This world can be senseless and jarring and cruel. There are entire eras of our lives that feel like wandering around in the dark. The only light we get in those times is the light we lend to each other. The grace, the kindness. The mercy. Have mercy on yourself. Give yourself your kindness. If something has happened, whatever has happened — if nothing has happened but it still feels like a shadow is looming over your life — hold yourself. Mother yourself. Make space for yourself. Shelter yourself. Give yourself sanctuary.



Some of you are suffering emotionally because the things you don’t have — the life you haven’t been afforded — are causing you to question whether it’s because you don’t deserve it. Some of you are suffering emotionally because the abundance you’ve been praying for has arrived and now you’re questioning whether you deserve it. As difficult as it is, you’re being challenged to divorce your sense of self-worth from your external circumstances. Release the notion that your value is in any way connected to what you are granted or denied. If you couldn’t look at your child self and say, “This child doesn’t deserve what they need,” then don’t say that to yourself now. You are worth what you need because you are here. Not having what you need — that’s not your burden to bear alone. That’s a collective problem.

This Pisces Full Moon, release any shame you may be feeling about reaching out for reinforcements from the people who love you and want you to have what you need. You deserve it. You deserve it. Say it until it sounds true.

Affirmation: I deserve to be handled with my own care.

Leo: 5 of Blades x Ace of Blades x Suspension x Four of Blades

If you’ve been feeling on edge, hypervigilant, testy, contrarian, angry, defensive, like fighting — it’s time to take all that warrior energy and channel it into finding peace. What you need more than to be on the frontlines of your own struggle is to step away from it, to seek higher ground. To refuse to engage it for a moment. What are you fighting for if not to have no one to fight? How can you give that reality to yourself, if only for the time you need to recharge?



It’s obviously easier said than done. Rest, after all, requires a sense of safety — something that doesn’t come easily to many of us. In order to drop your sword, you have to feel certain that whatever or whoever you feel threatened by will do the same. You have to be sure that everything you’re holding up and beating back won’t crash down or swarm you, surround you, swallow you up. The problem is, it’s already kind of doing that to you now. What consumes your mind colors your reality.

Is it possible that through the fatigue of an endless fight, and through the noise of the screeching alarms going off in your body, you’ve been struggling to discern who your enemies actually are? That you’ve started to feel like everyone is an enemy? Is it possible your enemies have retreated, or been drastically reduced in number, and you’re stuck swinging your sword into the void from muscle memory, on a trauma loop? The only way to be sure is to be still. To stop, survey the battleground. To suspend your efforts long enough to get a clear look at what’s happening around you. If you need to find a makeshift place of shelter in order to do this, then do that. From there, clarity will come.



When you are accustomed to having to struggle to forge your own solutions, it’s natural to believe and fear that solutions don’t ever come without struggle. This Pisces Full Moon, allow the warrior in you to challenge that fear. Make space for clarity to come to you.

Affirmation: Rest enables me to be deliberate in the actions I take.

Virgo: 9 of Gourds x Ace of Gourds x 3 of Blades x 4 of Wands

Sometimes, when we are granted something we’ve been deprived of for a really long time, we expect to feel relief — but we find ourselves grieving instead. We begin to mourn for all those moments we went without. It’s only within the safety of being provided for that we feel secure enough to allow ourselves access to our own pain. If you are hurting because finally having something is reminding you of just how hard it was not to have it — if being loved is making you realize the extent to which someone did not love you, if feeling safe is causing you to acknowledge just how abused you were, if being tended to is making you come to terms with the neglect you experienced, if belonging is summoning the sting of those years of isolation: It’s okay. You’re not wrong, or ungrateful, or doomed. This emotional awareness is a gift you’re entrusting to yourself. What may feel irrational or unstable is a sign that for now, your circumstances are stable enough to hold you if you need to come apart a little bit — to let it out.



Use this opportunity to begin to dissolve some of the things you’ve been telling yourself about what has happened to you in the past. If your ability to get through certain situations meant convincing yourself that you were unlovable, or not good enough, or that you needed too much, or that what you desired was impossible, or that you deserved whatever awful treatment someone gave you, or that that was the best you could expect — this emotional lucidity is your chance to construct new beliefs now.

This Pisces Full Moon, doors that have been sealed shut are swinging wide open in your heart — you’re getting tours of old abandoned corridors. Give thanks to yourself for that, for giving you more of you. What can you give to yourself in return?

Affirmation: Finally, I am safe enough to feel my own heartache.

Libra: Young Staff x 9 of Gourds x The Moor

What makes you happy? What resonates most with your spirit? What makes you feel content, fulfilled, satisfied? What do you want? What lights you up? Not what you think should. What does? What gets your heart pounding with desire? What are you passionate about? What sets you into motion? What puts you at ease? What do you find to be worth fighting for? What’s important to you, to your convictions? What have you been taught to want that doesn’t quite align with what feels true for you? What do you find yourself increasingly itching to break away from? If you don’t have an answer to these questions, this Full Moon in Pisces is giving you permission to find out. Permission to learn and define the needs of your spirit and to act in accordance with what might meet them. It’s time to attune yourself to your own internal compass — to move beyond the borders drawn out for you and create a path you’re eager to walk.



If you’ve lost your sense of what pleases you in all that devoted consideration of what pleases others, pay close attention to the signals in your body. When are you buzzing? When do your insides drop in a good way? When does your face get hot with desire? What makes you laugh until you feel light? Who or what puts your energy back into you instead of taking it away? What places do you leave feeling more alive than when you came? If you don’t have those places or people, how can you more effectively seek them out? And if you do already have them, how can you prioritize making more time for them?

This Pisces Full Moon, focus on the generative qualities of joy, passion, fulfillment, vigor, lust for life. Decide you deserve to know what that looks like on you.

Affirmation: Everyone is better off when I tend to my spirit.

Scorpio: Lil’ Blade x 4 of Gourds x Young Staff

If you’ve been struggling to connect to the essence of what makes you feel connected to everything, your pathway back into the world is your own excitement. That may feel hard to access right now. You may be feeling stagnant or stuck, like your possibilities are limited, and that feeling doesn’t serve your spirit well at all. But you already know that. So what do you do? Now is the time to experiment. Play. Shake things up. The best thing you can do to get out of this loop is to do one unconventional, unhabitual, or out of the ordinary thing a day. Deconstruct your routine (to whatever extent still affords you your sense of wellbeing). Infuse your life with a sense of adventure through the cumulative impact of a hundred small innovative gestures. Go to a different coffee shop, one in another neighborhood. Try a new method of divination, if you’re into that. Be open to discovering a new gift. If your tendency is to isolate or to brave it alone, reach out to somebody who makes you laugh, who makes you come alive a little. Commit to creating something. Flirt. Go out on a limb, put yourself out there. Find out what feels good and what doesn’t. What refreshes you and what drains you.



At first, it might feel like repeatedly sparking a lighter that doesn’t have a lot of juice left. But when you inevitably get a small flame, use it to light something that can sustain a larger flame — a candle’s wick. Dip something into that flame and use that to light another. And another. Now you’ve got enough glow to illuminate the room you’ve been occupying. Now you can see the opportunities for nourishment you couldn’t quite see in the dark — the art supplies you thought were lost, that story you started to write and put down, the phone number scrawled on the back of a napkin of the person you clicked with, but never called.



This Pisces Full Moon, be deliberate about getting back in the spirit of yourself. Your spirit will be equally persistent in making its way back to you.

Affirmation: I am at my most responsible when I take my need for play seriously.

Sagittarius: 9 of Blades x Temptation x Mama Staff

As liberated, fiery, innovative, assertive, and independent as you are — this Full Moon might find you feeling guilty about your desires. You might want somebody who challenges your ethics. You might crave control in situations where you know honoring everyone’s autonomy is best. You might feel tempted to succumb to your temper when you’ve been working to keep it in check. While you don’t have to give in to what you want (particularly if it violates your moral compass), you should definitely give yourself some grace for wanting it. You are not a bad person for your desires. You can witness these desires without punishing yourself for having them.



Your desires have something to offer you beyond whatever the thing itself is. They can teach you more about you, about the specifics of what your soul is hungry for. You can get creative about other ways to feed that hunger, ways to meet the desire beneath the desire. Maybe you want to give in to your temper because you want someone to bear witness to the depth of your feeling. How can you get that done without lashing out? Maybe you want control because you’re afraid that if you don’t take charge, you won’t be accounted for. How can you make sure you’re accounted for without discounting anybody else? Maybe you want somebody who is unavailable to you because you want someone to make themselves available to you — to feel like you are worth being made available for. How can you affirm that need without the risk of affirming the opposite?



This Pisces Full Moon, let your desires teach you about your fears, let your fears teach you about your desires, and let both inform you about what feels good and right and true for you. Let the behaviors that don’t sit well with you point you in the direction of your guiding principles and convictions.

Affirmation: My desires bring me closer to myself.

Capricorn: 6 of Gourds x The Chief x Lil’ Coin

If an old idea or hobby or passion project from your youth comes back to visit you this Full Moon, welcome it in. What did you love to do with your time when you were first learning how to move through the material world, how to bring things out of your head and into your environment? Did you write stories alone in your room at night? Did you make potions and poultices with plants? Did you dance? Did you cook? Did you give it up? Did you write it off as something silly, inconsequential, meaningless?

It’s time to toy around with notion of taking this thing seriously, now — of taking your own enjoyment of a thing seriously. To pick it up and play with it again. To experiment. To relearn the value of doing something because you love to do it, to make space for that, to figure out how to integrate it as a supportive structure in your life, to work it into who you’ve become. Do this because you take yourself seriously enough to let yourself determine your own notions of value. Because you care enough about who you are to prioritize what makes you feel like what you’re doing is meaningful. Decide that loving it is enough of a reason, and that feeling good in your body, in your sense of your self, in your purpose is enough of a reason. Those authorities or powers that ruled over your life back then — the ones that dictated what was and was not important enough to invest in — they’re not in charge anymore. You are.

Use this Full Moon in Pisces to release the rules you’re upholding about what is allowed to matter to you. And then turn toward what does.



Affirmation: I get to decide what is worth it.

Aquarius: 9 of Coins x 8 of Blades x The Universe

You’re standing right at the precipice of all that there is, of a sense of limitlessness, of a wide open world, of your own wholeness and infinite potential. If you take one more step, you’ll have taken a step into your highest self. But it’s like you’re standing in super glue. Like you’re caught in the quicksand of your own mind. Like you’re staring at infinity on the other side of a thick piece of plexiglass. You’re struggling to break through. Maybe you’re afraid to let yourself have it. Maybe you’re afraid you’ll lose it if you get it. Maybe you’re afraid that who you are on this side can’t live up to who you are on the other side of this threshold that’s practically begging you to cross it. You can. Know that there is no better person to live up to your role here than you.



This Pisces Full Moon, release any outdated or self-limiting beliefs you’ve retained about what is possible for you. About the kind of life you can lead, about the kind of person you can be, about what’s out there for you, about who’s out there for you. About how much love you can hold or have or give. About how much of an impact you can make on the world. About how much pleasure you’re allowed to experience in relation to how much work you’ve done. We occupy an unknowable universe. What we witness is a shred of what is. This can be genuinely terrifying. It can conjure the feeling that there are horrors we can’t even imagine. But why can’t it also be profoundly and deeply hopeful? Why can’t it also mean that there are things out there that the universe has in store for you that are better than anything you could possibly dream up?



Surrender to believing that the “anything” in “anything can happen” means anything. For worse — sure, that’s possible. But for better, too. Can you allow yourself to feel that? To be unlimited?

Affirmation: I trust that there is something better for me than the best thing I can think of.

Pisces: Five of Staffs x Mama Blade x 3 of Gourds (5 of Blades)

The Full Moon in your sign may have you moving through some heavy emotional territory. You’re feeling a lot of things at once, many of them are in tension with each other. Your job at this time is to figure out which feelings belong to you, which ones don’t, and who they do belong to. This is a detangling energy, and if it comes through conflict, let the conflict catalyze beneficial change. It’s time to un-merge from someone or something. Your empathy skills tend to be unrivaled, your intuition is strong, and your ability to tap into the emotional space of the people around you often occurs unintentionally. But this Full Moon demands that you move from a place of intention, lest you completely lose sight of where others end and you begin.



Set firm boundaries around what you will and will not carry for the people around you. Set firm boundaries around what is and is not other people’s place to carry for you. It’s time to dive into the sea that surrounds you and come back up with a stronger sense of your own emotional needs. Reserve the largest portion of your mercy for yourself, and commune with the people in your life that grant you the most mercy. It’s a great time to hone your gifts, and one of the best ways to do that is to put protections in place for them.

This Full Moon, hold on to yourself. Focus on developing a clear sense of yourself. The opportunities to acquiesce to the intentions others set for you will be plentiful — but devote yourself to your own truth at this time. There are people out there who will not only honor that, but will appreciate and support it too. They’re ready to bask in the glory of who you are, and not who they need you to be.

Affirmation: I can hold space for others without becoming the space that holds them.