Welcome to the Aquarius New Moon. As the penultimate sign of the zodiac, we’ve reached a part of the sky that speaks to live on a larger level. Aquarius is the sign of community, society, and humanity. It speaks of belonging as much as it does a lack of belonging. It’s also science and technology, systems and networks. The new moon is exact on February 11, 2021 at 2:06 pm EST, 23 degrees Aquarius. That’s 11:06 am Los Angeles, 7:06 pm London, 10:06 pm Johannesburg, 6:06 am Sydney, 8:06 am Auckland.
New moons are new beginnings, a time for us to turn the page and begin to explore another chapter, one lived and expressed through the sign that the new moon falls in. What’s unusual about this new moon is that there are six planets in Aquarius, which is to say that most of the planets in the sky right now are bunched up in one section.
If the zodiac helps us to tell time, then it’s as if the hand on the clock is pointing towards a specific hour, the Aquarius Hour. With Saturn in the mix of planets, it’s a serious hour, one that builds upon the new ideas and new lessons that opened up when Saturn entered Aquarius on December 17, 2020.
Aquarius is saying we need new systems, new technologies, new ways of connecting and socializing. We need to find order and balance again. We need to vision something that may be radically different, something that may even be a bit futuristic. Saturn says, how do we make this real? Concrete?
The thing about this new moon, apart from its rare lineup of planets, is that it brings forward two parallel stories — stories that began in 2018, 2019. Something new opened up then. For some of us, it may have been the start of a total reinvention. But astrology is about time and it takes time for things to integrate, build, and find their place. Enter this new moon.
How will you resolve the conflict, tension, or competing needs of a new part of your life versus an old part of your life? Do you make a leap of faith? Do you push forward? Do you try to do both at once but suffer for it? Or do you build a new way of being?
We may need to make a big reinvention or have a breakthrough in the coming days and weeks. Stay tuned. In the meantime, vision a new future, one that may be very different from what you are living now. And create a plan on how to start to make it happen, even if you don’t know all the steps.
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