New Moon in Aquarius: Answer the Call

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New Moon in Aquarius
February 10, 2013 –– 2:20 am EST

Overnight Saturday, the New Moon in Aquarius arrives.

Herald of Spring, beginning to the new year for the Chinese and the Tibetan people, the year of the Water Snake ... a magical doorway!

Each New Moon invites us to set intentions and make wishes, and in Aquarius, we're called into a new vision. The new year brings rebirth, a theme sounding loudly with this New Moon.

Sun and Moon meet at 21 Aquarius, in a very tight square to the Nodes of the Moon, the karmic pathway in the chart. Squares to the Nodes can be read as a challenge, or a missed step, on our life path. At this New Moon, we're checking in:

Are we feeling clear on where we're headed? If not, this is a wonderful New Moon to ask for clarity.

If our vision is clear, but commitment is lacking, set intentions to follow through, to take the steps we know we need to take.

The Nodes of the Moon mark places where eclipses occur, and the Solar Eclipse back on November 13, 2012, fell at 21 Scorpio, where the North Node still resides. There may be a special resonance between this New Moon and whatever emerged for you back in mid November.

Look in your birth chart to see where this New Moon falls. The house of the New Moon indicated the area of life in which renewed visions and clarity can be expected––or where they will be welcome. What planets or points do you have around 21 degrees? These will be touched, and also drawn into the influence of this New Moon.

For me, this New Moon is complex. Appearing in my 6th house very close to the 7th, the Sun and Moon will conjunct my Descendant, oppose my Ascendant-Pluto-Moon conjunction, square my Midheaven, trine my Mercury-Neptune conjunction, inconjunct my Uranus-Jupiter conjunction, and sextile Eris. Someone's got their finger on my reset button!

If this New Moon makes complicated aspects to your chart too, fall back on asking for clear sight, straightforward guidance, and the long view.

Aquarius is masculine and yang, fixed Air, stubborn, committed, objective, far-seeing. So it's interesting this is the year of the Water Snake, feminine and chthonic.

Goddess energy is strong with this New Moon: Venus, also in Aquarius, squares Saturn in Scorpio, an archetypal challenge of masculine and feminine.

The asteroid goddesses create a series of intricate patterns around Saturn as well: There are three yods forming. Ceres is at the apex of a yod with the North Node and Juno at the base; Vesta is at the apex of another with Saturn and Venus at the base; and Saturn is at the apex of the third with Vesta and Pallas Athena at the base.

Yods, also called fingers of God or fingers of fate, emphasize places where energy is concentrated and something is happening. One area of polarization in the world today focuses on the role of women and girls––our health, our freedom of action and freedom from violence, our education.

Authoritarian forces (one role Saturn can play) try to keep women down, but again and again, women rise up. Perhaps this New Moon will bring a re-envisioning of men and women, boys and girls, living together in equality, compassion and Aquarian freedom. This, too, is something we can wish for.

Remember to wait until after the New Moon arrives to make wishes and set intentions. Until then, we continue in the waning cycle of release and preparation. I will be wishing for clarity, as I think I'll need it just to understand all the messages this Moon will bring me!

Remember too to allow the Moon leeway to do as she will. The New Moon arrives in darkness, and it can take time to see the new shoots emerge. Wish, intend, breathe, let go. A new day dawns.