Today's New Moon marks the beginning of the Year of the Water Tiger and the Chinese Lunar New Year! Kung Xi Fat Choi! The Water Tiger is considered an auspicious sign but one associated with extremes, and with change and prosperity, aggression and protection, confidence and leadership, and under its influence, those who courageously embrace new opportunities, manage their tempers and make compromises with others are said to benefit most.
Today's Aquarius New Moon echoes this energy in some interesting ways. It initiates the most dynamic and inspired period of 2022, however, with the Moon at 12 Aquarius conjunct its ruler Saturn, planet of gravity, responsibility and the material realm at 15 degrees, it’s a slower and more serious beginning. It could feel a little heavy. New Moons are always powerful times to seed intentions but today’s lunation is particularly geared towards longer term goals and especially those that benefit community and that take an innovative approach to addressing existing challenges in order to realise freedoms that were previously considered pipe dreams. The New Moon’s proximity to Saturn suggests that the dream is indeed realistic but it also reinforces the fact that it will take maturity, discipline and plenty of hard work to bring it to fruition. And some of that hard work may involve cultivating clarity and reminding ourselves that we are indeed worthy and do have what it takes to make the true vision manifest. With the New Moon also tightly squaring Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius and planet of revolution, revelation and innovation, at 10 degrees of Taurus, which reactivates the year-long Saturn-Uranus square of 2021, we’re likely to be reminded of old tensions - imposed limitations that provoke rebellion as well as heavy feelings that inspire serious reflection and liberating insights and intuitions that allow us to perceive something luminous beyond the parameters of the status quo.
Venus, planet of harmony, relationships and abundance, has been retrograde since December 20, triggering reversals, relationship flashbacks and cathartic emotional scenarios. She finally stationed direct on January 29 and will retrace her steps through the same territory until March 2 but the lessons we’ve learned about the things we value most in this period bring new insight and understanding to these dynamics. As Venus simultaneously trines Uranus on this New Moon, there’s an opportunity to free ourselves from ancestral narratives and patterns that no longer serve us. When Venus conjoins Pluto for the final time, along with an exalted Mars on March 3, we may experience a powerfully transformative rebirth in relation to these storylines.
On Friday February 4 Mercury too stations direct at 24 Capricorn. Saturn is cazimi the Sun at 15 degrees of Aquarius and an exalted Mars in Capricorn makes a superior sextile to Jupiter in its rulership of Pisces at 7 degrees. The shift in energy should feel palpable. Nonetheless, Mercury’s influence is intensified when it stations so take it slow and steady, bringing extra mindfulness to thinking and communications. For the most part however, these energies are likely to be experienced as a reinvigorating commitment to our own power and a powerful drive to step up and take responsibility for our aspirations in a considered way. This increase in determination, stamina, courage, optimism, drive and self-discipline will be powerfully directed into project work now and any activities that build towards a collective vision, especially one in which individuals feel empowered to contribute to the whole through the maturing expression of their own unique gifts.
From Friday until the end of April these increased levels of energy, motivation and commitment will allow us to get the necessary structures and processes in place to begin giving form to the vision. All planets will be moving forward with a tangible feeling of momentum, which builds to a social and creative crescendo in April. This inspiring window of time contains, unsurprisingly, some equally challenging dynamics so it’s worth remembering at the outset that their purpose is to act as grist for the mill and/or grit in the pearl shell in the forging of something collectively nourishing and uniquely beautiful.
Wishing you all a very Happy Lunar New Year my lovely friends. May the Year of the Water Tiger bring you courage, prosperity and inspiring change
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