This week is all about Pisces, so effectively a time for deep diving into the subconscious and intuitive realms. In fact, Mercury retrograde might force us deep — whether we like it or not. Still, in the other big news this week, Uranus re-enters Taurus, which means our intuitive knowledge may be needed to figure out how to weather a coming earthquake.

Tip: If you know which house Pisces is in your own chart, you can get a hint as to how this will manifest. For me, it’s about creativity (5th house), so I expect Mercury retrograde to force me to mine my own intuition about the role that creativity plays in my life.

This is one of those weeks that you could adapt into a running multi-part ritual from Sunday through Thursday. The overarching goal would be a deep dive into your intuition as relates to an area of your life (that Pisces house of yours would be perfect). The ritual would have the following elements:

Love yourself

Destroy your blocks

Make a plan

Call on the ancestors

Launch a strategy for success

Sunday, 3 March — For Love

In my Lunation Rite, this day is designated for self love and therefore has a connection to the Sun. As the week lends itself to intuitive exploration, this would be a good time to set the intention that regardless of what you discover, you are worthy of love and that you love yourself. Hour 8 is joyous for everything. Consider the Orphic hymn to Adonis.

Monday, 4 March — For destruction

The Sun and Moon are both in Pisces and so this day lends itself to intuitive or psychic journeying. Hour 7, for going on a journey, would be perfect. What kind of journey you take depends on the house where the deep water of Pisces lie in your chart. What should your goal be? Well, the lunar day suggests you look at what blocks or shadows you will need to destroy in order to move forward.

Tuesday, 5 March — Mercury Retrograde in Pisces (Lunar Day 30)

Today Mercury goes retrograde in detrimental Pisces. It looks to be a kind of rough retrograde, but again, your own Pisces house placement may help you figure out how it will impact you personally. This is definitely a time for stepping back and looking within.

This is also the 30th lunar day, which doesn’t happen every month. The Hygromanteia, the source of my list of lunar days, doesn’t include a 30th day, but other systems do. Lunarium describes lunar day 30 as a highly auspicious day. I’ve been thinking for months about how to handle lunar day 30 in my own tracking (and for you in these posts). It was the Lunation Rite that gave me the idea. If you work the Lunation Rite, the last day is for destroying the old you ahead of the new moon. And of course every new moon day is for winning and luck. So I’ve decided that lunar day 30 is for planning and pausing — for deciding who and what you want to be and do next.

Besides how could Circle Thrice not have a day designated for planning? So today would be a perfect day for stepping back and thinking about how Mercury retrograde may impact you and what intuitive knowledge you can gain to help you. Hour 9 is good for everything, but hour 2, for “taking loot” could be interestingly interpreted as “stealing knowledge from the underworld. As Mercury heads to the deep regions, perhaps you could ask him to bring you back needed information to help you.

Wednesday, 6 March — For winning in gambling, for luck

Another new moon (and another chance to kick off the Lunation Rite!). The Sun and Moon are both in Pisces, but in addition, Uranus moves back into Taurus. I’d like to quote Austin Coppock on the import of this ingress:

On the day of Mercury, and Mercury Retrograde at that, I’d considering this a time for magic on how to bring luck and knowledge from the underworld back to your practical life. Consider an ancestor working to have the dead, already escorted by Mercury to the underworld, send luck and wisdom back to your everyday life. Hour 8 is for “asking for aid” and, where I’m at in the world, is just after the Retrograde point.

Thursday, 7 March — For gain and winning at chess

One of the more powerful magical days this year, the sun and moon are both in Jupiter-loving Pisces on a Jupiter day dedicated to gain and winning. Not to mention our ongoing Jupiter in Sagittarius beneficence. If you worked all the previous days this week as written, this would be a day for taking the intuitive knowledge, tentative plan, and luck of the ancestors to help you be successful in chaotic times. Winning at chess implies a strategic element to this (if you haven’t gotten your copy of the Agile Magic Manifesto, you should — it’s free and completely applicable here). Hour 10 is great for everything as is hour 13 (for success).