This week the Sun, Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune are all in Pisces. This Saturday and Sunday (March 10 and 11) the moon is in Scorpio. That means that during the week four to five planets out of ten are in water signs. That’s a lot of water.

Water element has various forms.

In Cancer, it is the water of second chakra emotions. This means, emotions that are personal, and fundamental such as love, hatred, jealousy, hurt, frustration, joy, and anger. Cancers are here to teach us to work with these emotions.

In Scorpio, water takes the form of depth, intensity, psychology, and intuition. On the emotional level, Scorpio deals mostly with fears and pain. It is here to teach us how to transform these emotions into healing and empowerment.

In Pisces, water wears the form of sensitivity.

We all have five senses through which we perceive the world. Some of us have the sixth sense of intuition.

But some of us are Pisceans in nature. We have a seventh sense. It’s like being covered with microscopic antennas.

These antennas perceive energies and vibes of everyone and everything around us. We perceive the tiniest particles in the air, whether it’s pollution or forest freshness. We perceive various entities that no one else can sense.   

As for emotions, Pisceans are here to teach us about fourth chakra emotions. These are the emotions of compassion and love for all living beings.

Heightened sensitivity hasn’t been appreciated in the last centuries. Sensitivity has been considered irrational at best, or mental illness at worst.

I admit that I have a hard time with woo-woo. There are many things out there that I just don’t buy. But I also have my own experience with psychic forces.

I’ve always had a strong connection with my dreams. I’ve remembered my dreams in detail and have shared them with my friends since early childhood.  

When I turned twelve, I started having a repeating dream in which I saw my mother dying in her bed. Six years later, my vision came true. It was so scary that it made me stop dreaming for a few years.

It was not my only dream or vision that came true.

When I first met my teacher, Debra Silverman, we talked about my longing for a loving relationship. “You are already in a relationship”, she told me. At that time, I already met my husband, but I still didn’t know he would become my husband.

My Pisces son once told us that he came from a world with no molecules. He met my mother there, but she did not have a name, as no one had a name in that place. At a certain point he entered a water pool and was teleported into this world.

On the recent full moon, after I put my son to sleep, I sensed my late grandma Tova in the room with us. Both my grandma and my son were born on the Jewish holiday of Purim, which is always on the Virgo full moon.

In the past, people with high sensitivity and psychic powers were called witches and were burn on the stake.

Luckily today we are more open to accept these sensitivities and see them as power. But we still have a long way to go. 

There are some unpleasant aspects to sensitivity.

One is that you feel the pain and suffering of everyone. While fiery people fight for justice and stay optimistic, you might feel like you are drowning in a sea of sorrow.

You might envision things that you don’t want to envision, or sense things you do not want to sense.

You tend to be an energetic sponge. You take on other people’s pain and suffering. You carry it for them, and it adds an emotional burden.

Without the right guidance, you might get confused. Was my grandma really present in the room, or did I imagine it?

We live in a concrete world. Show me the money. Don’t talk to me about energies and visions. Don’t tell me you see dead people. That’s ridiculous.

So we shut down. And when we do, we lose a great deal of our power.

Maybe if I knew how to use my powers as a child, I could have saved my mother. I could have warned her and made sure she goes to see the doctor when there was still time to heal.

When my son tells me stories about his past lives, about his life as a soul without a body, or about ghosts he encounters, I encourage him to tell me more. I believe every word he says.

The key to being healthily sensitive is to accept that what you sense might be true.

Some things can be verified. If you sense some weird vibes from a friend, talk with her about it, don’t be afraid to ask. Find concrete evidence.

If you have a future vision, write it down and keep it in a safe place. If your vision comes true, you can prove that you envisioned it. It will make it easier for you to identify other visions when they happen.

If you have a strong connection with your dreams, learn how to work with them. I work on many of my issues through my dreams. If you have questions about it, feel free to write me.

Accept that being sensitive does come with a share of melancholy. Yesterday, as the moon entered Scorpio, I was washed by a wave of sadness. I did not run away from it. I felt it. I went to a yoga class and processed it through movement. I knew that this sadness was a part of my gift.

The most important thing is to use your sensitivity to direct others and help them thrive.

With that, be careful not to assume that you know too much. Ask questions to see if what you sense resonate with them.

Use your gift cautiously by restricting yourself to only sharing things that can empower others.