Aquarius New Moon Letter

In this issue:

New Moon in Aquarius: January 29, 2025 (public)

Horary Question: Is there energy for love this year? (subscribers only)

Tutorial: How to Track Your Planetary Cycles (subscribers only)

“To be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” E. E. CUMMINGS

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to keep my mind really focused on my creative projects these days. Like the energies of this new moon, it's incredibly difficult to express all of the feelings that have been swirling around inside me. I will be turning 50 in the next few weeks so it's not all that surprising that I’m starting to feel out of touch with the zeitgeist, but the malaise that has recently set in is bigger than that. I'm an Aquarius Sun, Mercury, so I recognize this "belonging vs. rebelling" cycle keenly. It is one I visit frequently. But Saturn is visiting my natal Venus so the feeling of separation is more pronounced.

I'm especially disappointed that the MAGA movement seems to be seeping deeper into the larger collective. I feel like the emperor with no clothes pointing at the very real fire burning all around me and exclaiming "WTF is everyone doing"? These are my manic moments, anyway. Astrologer and cultural commentator, Frederick Woodruff, suggests we should lean into this moment. He compares this time as akin to a picaresque narrative, which is about turning everyone and everything upside down. In short, we are being shook up on purpose, Uranus style.

This new moon is once again ruled by Saturn (the traditional ruler of Aquarius), but topped with a slice of Uranus energy (the modern ruler of Aquarius). As far as traditional vs. modern rulers go, think about it like this: we need to create order, form, rituals to sustain life for the long term.  However, the very creations that sustain us can paradoxically become rigid and rote, calcifying into structures that ultimately stifle the very life they were meant to support. So Uranus comes in to shake us out of these patterns, to shock us into the realization that these old forms are no longer working for us. Uranus helps us objectify and upgrade the worn out Saturnian limits that may be holding us back. Aquarius as an archetype represents movement between those two energies.

In her book, Moon Phase Astrology, Raven Kaldera calls this the “Father’s Son Moon”:

“Just as the Taurus Moon is about moving toward and away from Nature, the Cancer Moon is about moving toward and away from Family, and the Pisces Moon is about moving toward and away from reality, the Aquarius Moon does that dance with society. One can’t start with rebellion; one has to absorb the thesis fully before one can act on the antithesis. This is why the Father’s Son, the starting point of the Aquarius New Moon, is happy and content—even desperate—to remain the Father’s Son.”

Does this theme sound familiar? Where are you in the cycle of belonging vs. rebelling?

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