Moon-light
In this section, I spend more time diving into the cosmic tonality of this rare moon and what it might manifest on your way across the next two to four weeks.
On Feb 1st at 5:45 GMT the New Moon in Aquarius will be conjunct Saturn and square Uranus… again.
In Aquarius, this new moon traditionally invites us to reflect on how we fit within the society, on the ideas and ideals we share with our friends or the communities we are part of, on the dreams and hopes we contribute to shape within the unconscious collective.
Of course, the stakes are higher this time because it pits the hard societal planet of our ego structures with the first outer planet of our individuation.
This New Moon comes within a series and thus a process started in 2021 and still unfolding. We are growing familiar with the challenges, might still be dealing with its physical and emotional pain but are about to emerge on the other side of it.
Aquarius, and Uranus its ruler, come with AWAKENINGS – the moment a new information enters our awareness and changes forever the way we look at things, very often liberating ourselves from the ignorance we were stuck into.
This New Moon comes with a very strong potential of positive change, assuming we acknowledge what needs to change, what is no longer sustainable and must evolve.
This potential currently expresses itself through the urge we all share to be free of the dark Saturnian energy we’ve all bathed in since 2020. Most have now also realized that trying to escape it is purely illusory, as new tests quickly show up. In fact, the only way to tap into this enormous potential of liberation is to also embrace the Saturnian essence of learning new skills, coping with our responsibilities, our karma, and improving ourselves through work and discipline.
To truly make the most of this dark night, you might be well advised to invite the necessary awakenings as well as the support system you need to gracefully walk the thin line of change between order and chaos, efforts and liberation.
This might well entail to grow awareness on the real motivation behind your biggest decisions and the power of your everyday choices.
The New Moon is closely square Uranus. Many of our plans and hopes have been derailed by sudden events and unexpected twists and turns that occurred since the beginning of the Venus retrograde back in mid-December.
The Venus retrograde is now over, which should bring sighs of relief among the majority. In its conjunctions with Pluto the retrograde has taken us on an emotional rollercoaster, testing ailing relationships, straining our finances, challenging our self-worth, further isolating us or getting us to confront the void left by the absence of satisfaction of our deep need for love. One thing is sure, right now love seems to require a lot of efforts. Our vision or belief of love, self-worth, security (especially financial), work have likely been questioned, challenging our values, what and who we value, how we want to be loved and love. There are all the chances that we find ourselves in front of thick walls, either ours or shared ones feeling extremely restrictive and heavy.
From there, we will either find the inner strength to selflessly commit to the necessary efforts or simply break away.
The difficulty right now is that there are no perfect solutions.
We are now used to this; we’ve dealt with this challenge for more than a year. We have now understood that there is no easy escape possible, that the path of pure rebellion is just as doomed or illusory as the path of complete resistance to change. Liberating ourselves will require that we deal with the consequences of this newly gained independence, just like dealing with the responsibilities of our commitments might liberate us from past restrictions. The period of restrictions we have just experienced might have disconnected us or reconnected us from our heart so that we realize the importance of listening to our heart for making the necessary decisions. As we got tested under pressure, we also got to realize our own boundaries, and the need to establish healthy ones, to respect ours and make sure that others do too.
Yes, everything might look complicated, but is it really and does it have to be?
We have just moved into a new 18-month period under the presidency of Taurus and we might want to carefully listen to his guidance if we want to avoid the emotional karmic test that its polarity will lay on our path.
This New Moon is conjunct Saturn, so the invitation is clearly to embrace our responsibilities and the hard work necessary to see them completed, see the beauty of this test and do our best to simplify.
Saturn never tests us for the sake of it, his aim is to help us improve, gain practical skills which will help us become better social partners, build the foundations of our future successes but also sometimes remind us of our physical limits and punish us for our mistakes so that we can stop and learn.
On January 24, Mars entered Capricorn, so this lunation comes with a double stellium or cluster of planets, one in Capricorn (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Pluto, Juno) and one in Aquarius (Sun, Moon, Saturn).
We get to experience at almost full strength the two sides of Saturn, the darker more material and pessimistic one of Capricorn and the lighter more mental and optimistic one of Aquarius.
Saturn is here to help us the minute we stop focusing on his darker side. He first wants us to structure and order our intentions in a grounded fashion. He invites us to hold back and delay gratification, especially when it comes to our ideals and future goals. To recognize our limitations and instead of seeing these as flaws and faults in our nature, to rather, accept ourselves as merely human and to love ourselves through these qualities. He also wants us to painstakingly work through our insecurities for this might well be what will give us confidence in the months to come.
It further asks us to do our due diligence in reviewing and transforming our thoughts to be positive and insightful. Deep conversations with those closest to you and clear divine messages are likely to assist in focusing your energy into one specific task and to help you tackle it efficiently. Consciously laying down bricks of a foundation during a time we can act more slowly, carefully monitor the build, before we enter a more rapid pace in the upcoming months.
Luckily, Mars brings its fire to help us deal with the hard work and discipline required even if Mercury still retro currently gets us to procrastinate a lot and still cloud our brain of its confusion. Mars is strong in this sign and will gradually help us deal with the obstacles and work charge through his added focus, will power and determination.
Mars is also about to catch upon Venus, they had first met mid-July but Venus escaped, now that she backtracked, they will soon have the opportunity to start dancing together for almost 3 weeks around the next full moon in Leo, fueling in a lot of excitement, passion and playfulness to help us deal further with our responsibilities.
Both will form harmonious aspects with Uranus and Jupiter over the coming days, supporting us in our efforts to change and grow.
If Capricorn comes with the energy of hard work, the burden of responsibilities, the rigor of discipline, the limits of authorities, it also comes with the promise of past and proven success. We are familiar with the Capricorn energy, the pandemic started under its rulership, the first virus mutation too, a year later. This year, the Capricorn season kicked off very early with the Venus retrograde, so it feels incredibly long and slow. We might only see the end of it when both Mars and Venus finally move out of this sign on March 6.
Aquarius on the other hand comes with the energy of new solutions, the breakthroughs and genius of science and technology, the changes required by social progress and justice, the freedom of liberation and awakenings, the advancements of democracy, better processes, and communication.
So this is the time to think big picture, big dreams, innovations and lay down the pragmatic steps we envision to fulfilling them.
The obstacles we experience for many months aren’t saying no as such. They are inviting us to acknowledge where it no longer works, what could be done differently and to make better choices for the future.
Changes are never easy, they are unsettling, they are taking us away from the comfort of certainty of what we have today to propel us into the uncertainty of what could be tomorrow, they come with big decisions. And behind each big decision is a choice between love and fear.
A lot of our past decisions have been done with fear, even if we may have a hard time to see it as such as clearly as that. Those decisions, when motivated by fear, have somehow taken us away from our true path, taken something away from us when we denied an essential part of ourselves, and rationalized it with the need of the hour of the material situations we felt stuck into. The part of ourselves we very often ended up sacrificing has many names such as self-love, self-esteem, self-respect and hides behind many faces such as fear of scarcity, of abandonment, of failure, of performing… This is what the Venus retrograde recently came to remind us of and shake.
Some of us might still resist the change by fear or in order to maintain the known, the status quo. For those the universe will bring the necessary change under the guise of unforeseen events, sudden accidents or revelations, unexpected shifts. If this is happening to you, find comfort in the fact that even if you do not realize it immediately, those events come to liberate you and bring you back on your highest destiny. So instead of resisting them (which is pointless and would only delay the necessary outcome) flexibly adjust and go with the flow. Although this is seldom what we do (and I speak from experience). Resisting it only increases the shock of the liberation.
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This wind of change started to blow last summer, six months ago, when we first experienced a first New Moon in Leo also square Uranus but opposite Saturn. This New Moon started what I then labelled a Cycle of Change but could have branded Cycle of Revolution or Liberation and would take us up to March.
For the first square In Leo, we were invited to reconnect with our heart and the child within and, to find our unique voice and talents and walk fearlessly for what was about to come, as hiding would no longer be an option.
We then experienced the opposition around November 4th for the New Moon in Scorpio. The trials became more concrete and with them, our emotional challenges, directly testing our relationships and finances, our attachments. We entered the dark night of this cycle, inviting us to face our shadows, our fears and triggering our urge to escape, to liberate ourselves from the restrictions we intimately felt.
This New Moon in Aquarius comes to play the penultimate chapter of this cycle of change, it is inviting us to understand the role we want to play in the future within the collective, how we can support others to build their dreams, how we can encourage others to embrace their hopes, how through our everyday decisions we can contribute to shaping our tomorrows, and how we can help to improve the lives of those around us in need of hand, a heart or a smile.
As we start realizing the impact of our state of consciousness on our everyday choices over the next three months, a new future will emerge.
Since many will resist and struggle to understand what is happening, the world might feel further polarized. I hope that you will realize the impact you can have in sharing your positivity and faith in better tomorrows with your circle of friends and community, in showing them that there are other ways, in explaining them the other choices they have and supporting them on this scarier path.
On April 30, the Solar Eclipse in Taurus will be conjunct Uranus. The change and liberation will get very real, impacting our material realities for years to come. We will likely notice it within the collective. The changes might not be immediately individually remarkable, but the Uranus North Node conjunction of July 31 will likely precipitate this and the following eclipses this fall in October November completely cement it.
Aquarius reminds us that we are worthy just for being, existing.
That one of the first sources of our value is in being different from others and consequently bringing a unique piece of code to the greater whole.
That the very difference we bring is what is exactly necessary and that there is no need to see that validated by anybody else, we just simply need to make the most out of the beautiful piece of tech a human being is. In radical self-acceptance.
That your friends are around because they see value in being around and that this is enough in itself and we should be grateful for it, forgive them and ourselves for ever doubting it and express it.
That if you have friends, it is because you appreciate their difference, respect their values, see their potential and are ready to do whatever it takes to support them into becoming better versions of themselves.
Living on this planet comes with a shared responsibility. Every living being on this planet comes with a unique role to play in our greater ecosystem.
We had forgotten that. We may have grown oblivious to it. Some still pretend it is a myth. But we can no longer ignore it. Nobody can hide anymore.
We are all here with a greater purpose in mind. Our souls know it. We just need to remember it. Bring back the pieces of soul we lost on the way. And help each other walk home.
This new moon is also the third one at 12 degrees of a sign in a row of four, clearly highlighting that the energy will soon rapidly progress, but that we still have to contend with its difficulties for another four to six weeks. We won’t have much time to marinate in these decisions like we do now, but we also need to realize that the awakenings we experience, the breakthrough we trigger, the awareness we gain on our behavioral patterns are incredibly important for the future we will not only dream, support and build but also attract.
May the light of wisdom and awakenings shine on your path to evolution
With compassion
G
