Aquarius New Moon!
Have you been hosting an internal tug of war where half of you wants to fly free and the other half feels stuck on a giant piece of flypaper?
And yet, do you also feel like you’re on the verge of something REALLY BIG?
Welcome to the Six Planets—including a new moon—in Aquarius Show!
Right now, a celestial tag team is marching through the sign of the Water Bearer: the Sun and moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. This is stirring up strong desires to break free of all old restraints, to break new ground and step into a future that aligns with your highest values.
Perhaps the piece de resistance (keep that word in mind for later) is Thursday afternoon’s new moon at 23º Aquarius, which exactly aligns with the Sun (the definition of a new moon), at 2:06 pm ET, an event that happens but once a year.
Worth noting: Today also brings the double-your-fun conjunction of the “great benefics” Venus & Jupiter, a lucky day regardless of where Aquarius falls in your chart.
And while all that should be more than enough visionary starpower to blast out of any gravitational field, many would-be cosmonauts are finding their wings clipped.
Which makes sense, if you consider the dual nature of Aquarius and its two very different rulers, conservative, cautious Saturn and do-it-anyway Uranus.
Also consider that a counterbalance to all that giddy-up Aquarian energy is Mars and Uranus (and currently Black Moon Lilith) pacing through Taurus, the slow-moving, methodical earth sign that fancies change as much as Aquarius relishes waiting in line.
Next Wednesday, February 17, Aquarius’ two rulers will spin into the first of their three challenging squaring angles, which will set up a clashing pattern of active energy versus resistance (there’s that word!) for most of 2021.
Saturn is the ancient ruler of both Aquarius and its preceding sign, Capricorn, and Saturn’s job description includes keeping time, creating structure, slowly building toward its goals, and holding down the fort. Think archetypal Dad figure.
Uranus, on the other hand, is rebellious, disruptive and forward-thinking. It’s the shaggy-haired teenager—or maybe the curious two-year-old whose favorite word is Why? Uranus would rather test the system than take no for an answer. It's what gives Aquarius its edge.
These two energies are coiled together inside of Aquarius, and they’re going mano-a-mano all year, which will continue to play out on global and national stages but also, on some level, inside every one of us.
This is why, in one reading after another, people aren’t just asking about job changes or romance. (Sure, we’re talking about that, but not just that.) Day in and day out, this is what I’m hearing: “I know something really big is right around the corner, but I don’t know what it is or how to get there.”
New moons, like today’s, are moments for planting seeds of intention for the coming lunation. It’s a dark sky—perfect for turning inward, and then to keep going. What’s beyond the you that’s doing the reflecting? Can you glimpse the soul that’s really guiding this journey?
When you’re poking around in there, ask that soul a question, but don’t try to force or even imagine the answer. Just ask this question and see what comes up: What big, beautiful, bodacious dream is ready to emerge from my heart and soul and gray-matter stew?
The Aquarius new moon is special because it heralds the Lunar New Year, another new beginning, so it's kind of a double whammy. This year is the Metal Ox (humorous aside: which Auto-correct changed to Metallica). People born in 1960 are having their “totem return”: 12 signs times 5 elements means your birth animal/element is returning. This is very auspicious! Metal Ox energy feels Taurean: slow, steady, steadfast, determined.
All this begs the question, How can you find a way to blend these push-pull, stop-go energies within yourself to activate enough to ignite that dream into reality yet regulate your speed and passion so you don’t flame out or leave yourself vulnerable to inevitable resistance?
That is your cosmic challenge activity for the rest of the year: Find the cords that still need to be cut and the flame that’s waiting to be sparked. Find ‘em, then cut ‘em and spark it!
