Insights for Aquarius

January 19:

Sun enters Aquarius: 3:00 PM EST
Aquarius is on our mind; What with our child-like anticipation, thanks to the 5th Dimension and its rather lopsided view of the Age of Aquarius (1969) as well as Pluto’s recent entrance into Aquarius. ‘Are we there yet?’ Let’s hope not…
Pluto, dark lord of the unseen, guardian of all that is repressed, denied and suppressed and therefore includes the obsessed, is not about ‘harmony and understanding’ nor ‘sympathy and trust’. Although it is by doing Pluto’s work that we can ultimately achieve those states of being.
Pluto will be in Aquarius until 2043. The Sun, in any given year is only in Aquarius for one month. There is work to be done. First off, we need to take a good look at the shadow of Aquarius. We need to understand and accept that Aquarius is about knowledge as well as the networks that carry and dispense knowledge. Aquarius is a symbol of humanity as well as humanity’s ability to manipulate and control networks, social and otherwise. Aquarius is the sign of A.I. which seems to embody both the shadow and light of Aquarius.
Last, not least, is the seeming puzzlement of how this sign of humanity can be about billionaires and oligarchs ruling the world? A vestige of Capricorn, you say? Actually, Aquarius is one of the so-called money signs. It represents investment strategies which make people rich and therefore powerful. It is through networks of information, speculation and manipulation of resources that power is amassed. And of course Aquarius is also about geniuses who create things they cannot control or manage.
As we come to an understanding of the ominous shadow of bright idealism and so-called positive thinking we might consider that the Age of Aquarius could be something less than a golden age for humanity. Pluto hates denial. The more willing we are to see the entirety of an archetypal energy, the more likely we are to encourage its better nature: the better side of Aquarian power includes and is distributed to All. We have only just begun.
This year as the Sun travels through Aquarius it will conjunct Pluto, trine Jupiter, sextile Chiron, conjunct Mercury, square Uranus and, of course be the ‘other half’ of the New and Full Moons.
Read all about it below.

Mercury sextile Venus and Saturn (also today)
Look around (if you live in the northern hemisphere) at nature sleeping winter’s sleep, waiting, dreaming, and hibernating till spring. Consider, amaranth as the true hero of The Mighty Red.

January 21
Mercury square Chiron
Sun conjunct Pluto
Is the Sun shedding light on the shadowy power of Pluto or is Pluto dragging the Sun into the underworld as it looks for mercy?
Here we are in Aquarius anxious to avoid destruction of the humanitarian promise. Pay some mind to the networks that hold your life in place. Do they empower or overpower? What choices do you actually have to empower your ideals?

January 23   
Mars sextile Uranus
Mercury opposite Mars and trine Uranus
We are bits of metal pulled by a magnet of ideas and conversations. Normalizing a world that is upside down, inside out and backwards won’t calm the storms of chaos. Yes, we were born to these times. How we give expression to that is, at least partially, a choice.

January 25
Venus trine Mars  
Desire and devotion are meant to uplift and expand our human capacity to appreciate beauty, feel compassion, and honor the soul. To do these things we need to feel our inner life. It takes courage to get out of the way of our judgments and let the waters flow. When we do, we gain the ability to calm a raging river of desire and passion. Here we find still water, deep and reflective. How we contain and direct our feelings matters.

January 26 
Mercury sextile Neptune
Venus sextile Uranus
Attention matters so much that large companies base their bottom line on their ability to grab yours. What if you aimed it at someone or something you truly love and value? Your attention is yours to do with as you choose. Today is good for feeding your soul with beauty: the sky on a cold, crisp morning or night, snow falling, even a dreary unseasonal rain and the stark lines of leafless trees or perhaps the gift of ever-greens. Attend to the beauty, wherever you find it.

January 27
Mercury enters Aquarius  
Aquarius is the middle sign of the winter season in the north. Things are happening underground, life begins to quicken like a babe in the womb. At least that’s the template. Anything can and does happen as the climate shifts and becomes more unpredictable and extreme. Even so, Aquarius pulls us toward our plans for the future prompting us to create blueprints and models for the world to come. What kinds of thoughts are stirring in that mind of yours? What kind of scaffolding will they create as they plan and anticipate the days and months to come?

January 29
New Moon: 09* Aquarius: 07:35 AM EST
Mercury conjunct Pluto
A new world requires a new paradigm: A new blueprint. What noble ideals inspire you to a New Age?   Stored in the archive of the collected works of humankind are ideas that can help us meet the future, the one we want for children and other living things.

January 30
Uranus Stationary direct
Sun trine Jupiter    
We are in the habit of looking to the future. It is only human… whether you’re celebrating the first New Moon of 2025 (Year of the Snake) or simply the turning of the month, the best expectations and intentions come from a mind that is aware enough to know that it is thinking.

February 1
Venus conjunct Neptune
Longing is one of the ways the soul speaks to and through us. Listen and learn. How is it that love and beauty are kin to longing? Resisting the urge to be drowned by feeling opens the way to bliss. Might as well follow it.

February 3
Mercury trine Jupiter
Mars square Chiron
Enthusiasm for a better life belies the unique and precise effects of trauma. We are inspired and frightened by forces we can and cannot see. A better world might have a better chance of coming into being if we found a way for our individual wounds to connect us to one another.

February 4  
Venus enters Aries
Jupiter stationary direct
We lean into the future. Partly we just want to get through the present. But, if that present is always and only what’s happening, how about change in the Here and Now? Shift happens and will continue to happen. Jupiter will have finished its stay in Gemini before it changes direction again. Time to consider how you have and have not resisted the whirl of information going on around and within us. Where do you intend to focus and attune your attention for the next few months? What supports your choice to do this?
Venus in Aries heads toward her next retrograde period in March/April, reminding us that one-at-a-time eventually leads to what seems like all-at-once. Each of our concerns as individuals feeds a critical mass of action.

February 7
Venus sextile Pluto    
It’s nobody’s mystery any more that overreaction to a person or situation happens because of something we can’t deal with in ourselves. Knowing this makes us strong if and when it happens. Ignoring this little truth, makes us ineffectual.

February 8
Sun sextile Chiron
Mercury sextile Chiron
Knowledge and information are not the same. Much is lost when we don’t focus long enough on one thing to understand it fully. Today our focus on the experience of others (which might be quite different than our own) goes a long way toward the getting of wisdom. This might be those you hold near and dear or perhaps people you don’t know and never met; people who use food banks or wait in line for health care or justice.

February 9
Sun conjunct Mercury
Mars trine Saturn
Much good comes from letting people finish their sentences before you even think about a response. It’s the same with our environment. When we receive it without judgment we notice more. Suddenly we can tell what need watering, who needs to eat, what might require some fixing and how we might care.

February 10 & 11
Mercury square Uranus
Sun square Uranus
The world is a jumble of knowledges. What we think we know is challenged by what IS. It’s like stubbing your toe on an immutable rock. No argument. No blame. Just the shock of something you didn’t see rising up to meet you.

February 12
Full Moon: 24* Leo: 08:53 AM EST
That which is broken continues to break open in aid of the enormity of new ideas popping up like grass through cracks in cement. Let there be light on all that needs change as we continue to make the perilous journey toward a new age.

February 14
Mercury enters Pisces  
During in the age of Pisces we were forced to accept God in the sky: A singularity of judgment, a man on a cloud-throne, his children sacrifices to war, greed and domination. Go figure. On account of such things some of us learned a lot about compassion. Consider what might come about as this God (and so much else besides) changes to reflect a New Age? Will God become a Machine? Or perhaps an expression of the inclusion of all living things? How do we dream this into being? Today is for love. A perfect time for such conjecture.

These insights, are meant as contemplations. Astrology is a kind of sky writing which invites the muse. No two perceptions are exactly the same but any of us can find insight through the images if we look. These are mine, happily offered for you to reshape and fashion into something of your own. Follow the links, where you find them for further musings on the planetary aspects.