Friends old and new, thanks for visiting us today for the 3nd edition of the Free Your Hair HOROSCOPE honoring the Pisces.
I offer this series to all as an ever-changing and morphing guide for Hair-Centered Radical Self Care, Ritual and Beauty in honor and tribute to each sign as they enter into their place in the Sun Rotation.
With this Hairoscope, we hope to inspire each sign of the zodiac to take some extra time on their birthday month to really love on and care for themselves. Every month, we will pull a card to share from The Moon Deck to inspire your monthly self-care ritual. With the sage advice of The Moon Deck, we will adapt our monthly mantras to bless and honor our own hair. We invite you to share these monthly Hairoscopes with your friends who are of that month’s astrological sign and help them take some time for self love!
For this series, I worked with artist Madison McClain to create our women of the horoscope, and with intuitive writer and healer Aarona Ganesan, co-creator of The Moon Deck, which is the Tarot Deck I use daily to inspire my own personal self-care rituals.
This month, we honor the Pisces
Moon Deck Ritual:
(Words and Rituals adapted from the Moon Deck Guidebook, changed slightly to speak specifically to our hair.)
Hair Brush Mantra:
We are often more resourceful than we think with abundant support all around us. No matter how big or small, it is empowering to have a circle of like-minded people in our life who are supportive, loving, and active in the world.
Whether you have a strong community of you are craving community, this card has appeared to connect you to the power of your community and your ability to call it in.
‘My Community is supportive, loving, and active in the world ‘
Take 5 minutes today to brush this mantra into your hair, repeating it to yourself with every stroke. Be in a comfortable, calm place without distraction. Close your eyes and breath, centering your body as you brush. If you are not a regular hair brusher, here is why we think you should try it, and here is where to get yourself a beautiful hair brush to work into your hair care ritual. If you are more of the combing type, consider a wooden wide toothed comb or your own fingers for a relaxing scalp massage.
Braid Circle
This is a wonderful way to call your community together for an evening of self care and intention setting. It will bring you all closer and help everyone feel more supported in life.
-Invite several friends over for an evening of braiding and brushing each other’s hair.
-Ask everyone to bring their favorite brush or comb, hair oils and essential oils.
-Brew some tea or prepare drink fixings. Ask friends to bring snacks.
-Prepare a good playlist
-Spread a blanket out on the floor, and throw some pillows around for easy lounging. Light candles, and consider smudging the room with sage or incense to prepare a fresh space and banish any stagnant energy from the space.
-Once everyone is comfortably gathered on the floor with tea and snacks, take a quiet moment to ask everyone to set an intention for the evening. Folks can share if they want, or keep it to themselves.
-Spend several hours brushing, braiding and styling each other’s hair. See where the night takes you. Be open to conversations getting deeper as your build trust by the loving touch of your community on your crown.
Optional:
*Use this opportunity to choose a few topics to discuss, and plan some ways to take action together to better your community.
* When you are all done brushing, gather all the fallen hair from each brush, roll them into a ball and take it outside. Take a candle flame to it. Reflect on what you are ready to let go of in life. These hairs can represent what you are collectively ready to leave behind. Watch it burn. Make it so.
Hair Advice:
Pisces, you certainly do know how to slip between worlds and access dimensions that many of us don’t even know exist. This is why other’s call you sensitive. I choose to reframe it as a vastly endless and beautiful palate of color that paints the world that you live in, when most of us are stuck in ROYGBIV life. You are receptive to everything. You let it all in, and my advice to you this month is to remember the importance of building your armor to protect yourself when you need to. There is so much happening in the world, and it is very important that you stay on your center point, so maintain strength and perspective. This month, braid your hair. Imagine that you are integrating your own strength with the protection of the universe and the armor of your community to hold you. You are safe, you are loved, you are strong.
Moon Phases in Pisces:
The New Moon and Full Moon are the most potent times for setting new intentions for healthy habits and relationships and creating rituals that are potent in their action. I highly recommend this months Braid Circle be done around both the 25-26th of February to observe the New Moon, setting an intention of what you are ready to let go of in your life/in your hair/in your relationship to yourself in physical and spiritual form, and around March 12-13th to observe the Full Moon, setting intention for what you are ready to bring in to your life. What do you want to manifest? Now is the time.
And how do you set an intention? for those who haven’t practiced it……Speak a little prayer to yourself. Honor it with the ritual of calling your community together for an evening. Hold the prayer in your heart as you practice self love. Make it so!
Please check out The Moon Deck for more musings. Pisces babes, may we suggest you get your own deck as a birthday gift to yourself and make a vow to love yourself and your hair more in this coming year.
What would you like to see woven into our monthly Hairoscope? I would love to hear your feedback! We are excited to watch this series grow and change with your input.
xo, HTHG and The Moon Deck
