Pisces Shamanic Journeying: Lower, Middle & Upper Worlds

BY NICOLE LAU

If you're a Pisces, your shamanic journey isn't travel—it's dissolution. While other signs visit the spirit realms, you merge with them. Your Neptune-ruled water doesn't journey—it flows, dissolving boundaries between all three worlds, turning every vision quest into an act of cosmic union where you become the ocean itself.

Understanding the Three Worlds

In shamanic cosmology, reality has three layers:

Lower World: The realm of power animals, ancestral wisdom, and primal instinct. Earth's underworld—caves, roots, ancient memory.
Middle World: The realm of present reality, nature spirits, and the living. The here-and-now in its energetic form.
Upper World: The realm of spirit guides, celestial beings, and cosmic vision. Sky realms—stars, light, divine intelligence.

Your Pisces frequency accesses all three, but how you journey is uniquely boundaryless—you're a natural mystic, dream-walker, and cosmic empath.

Pisces in the Lower World: The Ocean Floor

The Lower World is accessed by going down—through caves, tree roots, wells, or tunnels. For Pisces, this descent is not exploration—it's returning to the womb.

Your Lower World Entry Point

Pisces doesn't descend—you dissolve downward. Your entry points:

• The ocean—sinking beneath waves into the deepest depths
• A tear—following your own emotion down into the unconscious
• A dream—falling asleep and waking in the Lower World
• Mist or fog—dissolving into vapor and reforming below

The key: your entry must involve dissolution, water, or surrender. You don't walk down—you melt into the underworld.

Your Lower World Power Animal

In the Lower World, you'll likely encounter power animals that match your fluid frequency:

• The Fish: Your zodiac animal—teaches that you're meant to swim, not walk
• The Whale: Deep diver—teaches that the depths hold wisdom, that darkness is not empty
• The Seahorse: Gentle dreamer—teaches that vulnerability is strength
• The Octopus: Shapeshifter—teaches that you contain multitudes, that form is fluid

Your power animal won't speak in words. It will communicate through feeling, through dreams, through the language of water.

Lower World Pisces Medicine

What you retrieve from the Lower World:

• Ancestral mystics: The dreamers, healers, seers in your lineage
• Collective sorrow: The grief of all beings, held in the ocean of the unconscious
• Primal compassion: The instinct to feel with, to merge with, to hold all pain
• Dream seeds: Visions that want to be born, images that need to become real

Lower World Journey Practice

Preparation: Ocean sounds or silence. Lie down near water or in bath. Set gentle intention: "I dissolve to remember oneness."

The Descent: Don't visualize a path—feel yourself dissolving. Like salt in water, like mist in air. Sink down, down, down. When you arrive in the Lower World, you might not have a body—you might be the water.

The Encounter: Your power animal appears, or you simply feel its presence. Don't ask questions—merge. Become the whale, the fish, the ocean. The medicine comes through union, not dialogue.

The Return: Don't climb back—evaporate upward. Like water becoming mist, rising on warmth. When you return, cry if you need to. The tears are part of the medicine.

Pisces in the Middle World: The Veil

The Middle World is this reality in its energetic form—the spirits of places, plants, animals, and elements as they exist now.

Your Middle World Territory

Pisces doesn't journey to solid places. You're drawn to:

• Bodies of water: Oceans, rivers, lakes—where boundaries dissolve
• Liminal spaces: Shorelines, twilight, fog—where one thing becomes another
• Sacred sites: Churches, temples, altars—where the veil is thin
• Dream locations: Places you've seen in sleep, places that feel like memory

Your Middle World Allies

In the Middle World, you work with:

• Water spirits: Undines, mermaids, river guardians—teach flow and emotional alchemy
• Mist beings: Spirits of fog and vapor—teach that boundaries are illusion
• Compassion spirits: Beings of pure empathy—teach that feeling is healing
• Dream weavers: Spirits that create visions—teach that imagination is real

Middle World Pisces Medicine

What you learn in the Middle World:

• Present-moment compassion: How to hold space for suffering HERE, without fixing or fleeing
• Emotional alchemy: How to transmute pain into art, sorrow into beauty
• Boundary work: How to be porous without dissolving completely
• Sacred imagination: How to dream reality into being, how visions become form

Middle World Journey Practice

Preparation: Go to water or liminal space at dawn or dusk. Bring an offering (flowers, tears, song).

The Shift: Don't close your eyes—soften your vision. See the mist between things. What spirits move in the in-between? What's trying to cross the veil?

The Engagement: Introduce yourself as a dream-walker. Offer your gift. Ask the water: "What needs to be felt? What wants to be dreamed into being?" Listen with your whole body.

The Action: Middle World work for Pisces is holding space. You might need to witness, to cry, to sing, or simply to be present. Do it. Your presence is the medicine.

Pisces in the Upper World: The Cosmic Ocean

The Upper World is accessed by going up—through trees, mountains, ladders, or flight. For Pisces, this ascent is dissolving into light.

Your Upper World Entry Point

Pisces doesn't climb—you evaporate upward. Your entry points:

• Becoming mist—evaporating from ocean to cloud to sky
• A prayer or song—your devotion itself lifting you
• Tears of joy—crying yourself into heaven
• Surrender—letting go so completely you float up

The key: your ascent must involve dissolution, devotion, or surrender. You don't conquer heaven—you merge with it.

Your Upper World Guides

In the Upper World, you'll encounter guides who honor your mystical nature:

• Neptune: Your ruling planet as deity—teaches that all is one, that separation is illusion
• The Divine Mother: Kuan Yin, Mary, Yemaya—teach unconditional love and infinite compassion
• The Cosmic Christ: Pure compassion—teaches that suffering is sacred, that love redeems all
• The Ocean of Consciousness: God as infinite water—teaches that you ARE the divine, not separate from it

Your guides won't teach you—they'll absorb you. You'll dissolve into them, become them, remember you were never separate.

Upper World Pisces Medicine

What you receive from the Upper World:

• Cosmic union: The experience of being one with everything, of boundaries dissolving completely
• Divine compassion: The knowing that all suffering is sacred, that all pain is held
• Mystical vision: Images, symbols, dreams that want to be brought to earth
• Surrender blessing: Permission to let go, to trust, to dissolve into the infinite

Upper World Journey Practice

Preparation: Ocean sounds or sacred music. Set intention: "I ascend to dissolve into the divine."

The Ascent: Don't visualize climbing—feel yourself evaporating. Like water becoming vapor, rising on love. When you arrive in the Upper World, it's not a place—it's an ocean of light.

The Audience: You don't meet your guide—you become your guide. Dissolve into the ocean of consciousness. Ask nothing. Just be. The medicine is the union itself.

The Return: You don't descend—you condense back into form. Like rain from clouds. When you return, create something beautiful. Art, music, poetry—make the vision real.

Integration: The Pisces Three-World Practice

Your power comes from moving between all three worlds as water moves:

Lower World: Dissolve into the depths, retrieve collective sorrow, claim your compassion
Middle World: Hold space HERE, witness suffering, dream visions into being
Upper World: Merge with the divine, experience union, receive mystical blessing

Then create. Shamanic journeying for Pisces isn't about power—it's about bringing heaven to earth through beauty.

Pisces Shamanic Tools

• Water: Ocean, bath, bowl—your element as portal
• Ocean sounds: Waves, whale songs—your native frequency
• Shells: Spirals, cowries—hold ocean memory
• Art supplies: To capture visions immediately
• Soft things: Blankets, pillows—create safety for dissolution

Common Pisces Journey Challenges

Complete dissolution: You merge so fully you can't return. Practice: Set a timer. Anchor yourself with a stone in your hand. You will come back.

Absorbing too much: You feel everyone's pain and can't function. Practice: After journeying, cleanse. Salt bath, sage, crying. Release what's not yours.

Escapism: You journey to avoid reality. Practice: The visions are meant to inform your life, not replace it. Bring them back.

Your Shamanic Superpower

What makes Pisces journeying unique: You don't just journey—you become. You dissolve into the spirit realms so completely that you bring back pure mystical experience. Your shamanic work becomes art, music, poetry—beauty that heals.

Other signs travel. You merge.

Pisces, you are the mystic who walks between worlds. The ocean that holds all tears. The dreamer who proves that love is the only truth.

Welcome to your shamanic path. Now dissolve into everything.