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Pisces 7: The Fog Below the Sun

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Pisces 7: The Fog Below the Sun

Charubel's image for this degree is a layered sky: an extensive plain on which a dense fog hangs, but the fog is low and there is sunshine above. The two conditions coexist rather than one displacing the other, since the fog is genuinely dense, obscuring whatever moves across the plain at ground level, while the sun above it is equally genuine, shining unobstructed just past the point where the mist thins into open air. Anyone standing inside the fog cannot see the sun directly, and anyone reasoning only from what the ground shows would conclude the whole sky is grey, yet the picture insists both facts hold at once, confusion below and clarity above, separated only by altitude rather than by contradiction.

Read at the seventh degree of Pisces the image offers real comfort without denying the difficulty it comforts, refusing the sign's occasional temptation to pretend the fog is not really there while equally refusing the opposite error of assuming that because the ground is fogged the entire sky must be. What the picture asks for is not the dispelling of the fog by wishing but a change of vantage, since a climb of even modest height, a hill, a tower, a rise in the land, would carry a traveller up out of the mist into the sunshine that was never actually absent, only unreached from where he stood. The shadow readings are despair that assumes the fog is total, and false cheer that denies the fog exists on the plain at all. On a natal Neptune or afflicted Moon this degree's counsel is practical: seek the rise in the land, and trust the sun that the ground fog cannot actually extinguish.

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