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Feb 2024: Unexpected Surprises

Karena

There is a New Moon every month, and of course February is no exception. By itself, a New Moon is not a rare or exceptional event. However, our New Moon this month on February 9th is a little different.

The New Moon in Aquarius

First, it is a New Moon in Aquarius. Because of this, we have already been Aquarian energy emerging with Pluto newly in Aquarius. Some of the earthy feel of Pluto being in Capricorn for the past 18 years has been replaced by the airy energy of Pluto in Aquarius. So there is already the sense of being moving from solid Earth to slightly unmoored and adrift in Air. Pluto in Aquarius definitely doesn’t have its proverbial feet on the ground the way Pluto in Capricorn does!

The Uranus square

In addition to this New Moon piling on to the existing rise in Aquarius energy, this New Moon squares Uranus in Taurus within a degree. This means that both the Sun and Moon (which are conjoined during a New Moon) will be 90 degrees away from Uranus during this New Moon.

The square, or 90 degree angle, is an interesting one in astrology. It represents the friction between two different energies and the need to integrate them rather than embracing one and rejecting the other. During this New Moon, the Sun and Moon in Aquarius will be pushing us to develop new habits and relationships around our connection to society, technology, and community. With the Sun and Moon being the most personal “planets” in our charts, this will be a highly motivated drive from deep within our Souls. If you know what house this New Moon in Aquarius will fall in your birth chart, you will have a sense of where this energy may be manifesting for you in particular. How do we show up in a community and work toward whatever social justice we most believe in? How do we support our community? What authentic part of ourselves do we bring to group settings vs one-on-one interactions?

Balancing energies

As this New Moon in Aquarius causes us to examine the ways we show up in our communities, Uranus in Taurus squaring this energy brings a sense of rebellion in a material way. Maybe people expect us to show up in a particular way and embody a certain role. Maybe we are viewed as “the funny one”, “the helpful one”, or other archetypes that are starting to feel one-dimensional and like too-small clothes that no longer fit given the ways we have grown. Uranus will ask us to throw off the expectations of these communities that no longer resonate with us and go galloping off into the sunset unhindered.

As humans, we tend to gravitate toward extremes – in this case doubling down on one energy and ignoring the other energy. It would be easy for us to ignore the “too small clothes” feeling from Uranus in Taurus and just show up the way others (or even ourselves) expect us to show up. It might be equally easy to abandon particular communities entirely because they don’t feel like they “fit” us anymore.

But what does it look like if, instead of choosing one extreme or the other, we work to redefine the perception of ourselves in existing groups in a way that matches the authentic way we view ourselves? What if, rather than starting over in new groups and communities, we do the work of maintaining our existing relationships but working to redefine them? What does that look like?

A call to action

This is what the Aquarius New Moon squaring Uranus in Taurus asks us to do. Determine what is important to us societally and the way we want to show up. And then do the work to show up that way even if it’s different than the way we have shown up in the past. In a way, it really is about discarding clothes that no longer fit and replacing them with newer, better fitting clothes. There is work required to discover the new metaphorical clothing sizes that fit the new authentic you, but that work is part of your Soul growth and allows you to show up intentionally in your groups and communities and contribute in the way that best resonates with your Soul. If you have been feeling the itch of ill-fitting roles in society, this New Moon provides an immense opportunity to redefine the way you show up to the world.

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Full Moon in Aquarius – A Time to Break Down…. Something?

Karena

Full Moons themselves are not rare events; we get them once a month. However, the Full Moon on August 11th is shaping up to be an extremely intense Full Moon.

As the Moon in Aquarius is opposing the Sun in Leo (this opposition is what creates a Full Moon), the Moon is also conjoining Saturn, which moved into Aquarius in December 2020. In addition, both the Sun and the Moon are squaring the North Node/Uranus conjunction in Taurus. This creates a big “T” shape in the sky, with the Sun at one end, the Moon and Saturn opposite to it at the other end, and Uranus and the North Moon Node at the bottom of the “T”. This is a lot of co-mingled energy! In a nutshell, the Sun and Moon are colliding with the intense Saturn/Uranus energy of the past year and a half while the North Node also happens to be on top of Uranus. With all of these planets and points involved, there is likely to be nothing straightforward about the energy of this Full Moon.

In general, Saturn squaring Uranus brings us themes of the push-and-pull between the familiarity of the established structure of things and the desire to break free of old habits and tear everything down and start over. We have all been feeling this push-and-pull collectively as a global society and personally as individuals since Saturn and Uranus first started forming this square as Saturn entered Aquarius on Dec 17th, 2020. That is a long time to feel such strong competing energies! Normally this aspect would come and go over the period of six months or so, but because of the unique ways that the Saturn and Uranus retrograde motions have stacked up during this square, we have been experiencing waxing and waning of this same square for over a year and a half, with the final almost exact square happening in early October 2022, giving us an exhausting cycle of vacillating between the desire to tear down existing structures and the desire to find comfort and a sense of safety in the familiarity of existing structures.

One very interesting aspect of Saturn/Uranus squares is that there is absolutely no ethics or morality attached to either the stability and structure of Saturn or to the rebellion and desire to tear things down of Uranus. For all of us individuals, and for us collectively as a society, some structures are important for a healthy life and a healthy society. However, it is equally true that some structures are holding us back personally and collectively and should be challenged and torn down. The eternal question that Saturn/Uranus aspects ask us is: Which structures will we benefit from tearing down and which structures will we benefit from strengthening? The answer to this question is never easy, and with an extensive year and a half during which we have all been wrestling with this question, it is exhausting to think about wrestling with this even more.

However, the energy of the Sun and Moon moving in to co-mingle their energy with this existing square will force us to confront the polarities of this energy in a new way. One thing that will feel startlingly different about the way the Full Moon activates these energies is that both Uranus and Saturn are outer planets that take many years to cycle the entire Zodiac. They are not personal planets; they are generational. However, the Sun and the Moon are our most personal planets. If you are born within a seven year period of someone else, you both probably have Uranus in the same sign. However, if you are born even just a day earlier or later than another person, it is likely you both have the Moon in a different sign.

This Full Moon will feel personal. Whereas some of our struggles over the past year and half may have had the spotlight focused more on the societal or cultural elements, this Full Moon will be shining the spolight directly on your life and on the structures you have erected to help yourself feel safe and protected and in a familiar and comfortable space. But, just like we are seeing some societal structures crumbling over the past few years to be replaced with hopefully better structures, this Full Moon will help us realize that there are structures in our lives that need a complete reinvention as well. The trick will be ensuring we tear down the correct structures; what will actually benefit from a complete overhaul?

What is even trickier is that even if we choose to break down the structures and relationships in our lives that actually are the ones that are holding us back, in the immediate aftermath of breaking them down, we may be left with a feeling of profound loss. It may not have been helpful to our soul’s development, but it was familiar and easy and known. Now we will be left with only unknowns.

The Unknown is generally a terrifying state for us as humans. Even if things are not great as they are, we can allow ourselves to slip into the numbness of routine. But when presented with the Unknown, it becomes almost impossible to ignore the questions at the back of our minds and to escape to a relative sense of safety; by far the best way to handle the Unknown is by passing through them, sitting with them, and allowing ourselves to feel the discomfort and take the time we need to think about the new structures we want to build in our lives. That is an incredibly scary proposition.

However, there are some really encouraging things about this particular Full Moon in Aquarius that will help us. Aquarius is a sign that is focused on social good, on helping others, and on bettering our communities, and this gives us a secret to coping through this time. If we can focus on providing help and support to others, it will paradoxically help lighten our load. This would be a wonderful time to engage in volunteer work, spend some time in a conversation with those you know need it, or even spend some time gardening and giving plants the nourishment they need. Recognizing that we are part of the larger, interconnected universe can help us feel intense relief in doing anything that boosts the energy and vibration of other co-dwellers on this planet. However, be careful not to use volunteer work as a way to hide from your own thoughts and inner work; new structures still need to be built in each of our lives. But focusing on supporting others can give us the strength to turn our will toward our own inner work as well.

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