Welcome to the Aquarius New Moon. We turn our attention to the greater whole. For that, Aquarius is our friends and community, it’s society and humanity. It’s also the systems and networks that run our lives. The new moon is exact on February 1, 2022 at 12:46 am EST, 12 degrees. That’s 9:45 pm Los Angeles (on January 31), 5:45 am London, 7:45 am Johannesburg, 4:45 pm Sydney, and 6:45 pm Auckland.
New moons are new beginnings, a time when we turn a page in our astrological calendar and live life through the next sign’s archetypes and experiences. As the second to last sign of the zodiac, an Aquarius Season as well as its new moon means that we’re increasingly dealing with life on an interpersonal level.
Aquarius can feel so distant at times. It’s life on a data and numbers level. It’s hard facts and a sharp intellectual eye that is needed to make sense of things. It’s politics and ideology. It’s science and technology, too.
Quietly built into Aquarius’s framework is a need for balance, equity, and justice. And so an Aquarius New Moon is a reminder that life has to be in balance, the systems and networks that our lives run on have to be equitable. Our friendships and connections have to have a sense of justice.
I think that’s something that’s been a driver in our experiences since 2020, ever since Saturn arrived home to Aquarius. Saturn, the cosmic auditor, has been getting us to go through all our friendships and, sometimes rather coldly, end relationships that aren’t just. On a larger level, we’ve been more aware in the last year plus of what’s no longer in balance and not working.
But Saturn also strengthens what’s working and the coming four weeks after the Aquarius New Moon is an invitation to continue to build new friendships and solidify existing ones. It’s a request to prioritize community and to reach out to allies.
Keep in mind that that this new moon is significant for two reasons. One, it marks the midpoint of the eclipses, activating the energy of the Lunar Nodes, recently in Taurus-Scorpio. This means that we’re not only echoing back to November’s lunar eclipse and the events around that time, but we’re getting a preview of events to come in April-May with the next eclipses in Taurus-Scorpio.
Like Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio are fixed signs and represent the things in our lives that need to remain a constant. But that’s the thing, nothing is a constant right now. Everything has to shift.
Which brings me to the second reason that this new moon is significant. It activates the energies of Saturn square Uranus, two planets that played a starring role in the astrology of 2021. As you may remember, last year was a year where we felt like we were pulled between two spaces, two lives. And, so, February will pull at us once more, taking the seeds of our experiences of last year, and put them in motion.
There’s also “get real” energy with this new moon. With its conjunction to Saturn in Aquarius, we have to be prepared to take a step up in our lives over the next four weeks. But also be prepared to look at or make decisions or recalibrations if something is not working.
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