The Second Aquarius New Moon

Wednesday afternoon's New Moon, taking place in the sign of Aquarius for the second time in the very same 30-day period, in the last degree and even the last minute of a degree of Aquarius – only a few minutes of the clock away from the Sun's entrance into sensitive Pisces – brings up an interesting conundrum for astrologers. Is the thirty-day lunar cycle that follows an Aquarian cycle, in keeping with the emblem of its beginning impulse, or an essentially Piscean one? The answer is that it is a little of both. While the Aquarian nature of this lunation is unmistakable, even considering the scant few arc-seconds of its separation from the Neptune-ruled Water sign, there is a huge Pisces component to the cycle that follows, through the next four weeks or more, leading up to the Solar Eclipse and New Moon of March 20th. Additionally, with Mercury yet remaining in its "shadow" period, and with Neptune greatly emphasized in this configuration, we have in any case a sensitive and an introspective period ahead of us through at least the next two weeks of this cycle.

We thus have the logical brilliance of Aquarius at our mental fingertips while also the sweetly sensitive energy of Pisces whispers in our ears, as we sum up the attitudes and understandings that have emerged out of the relative chaos of a Mercury-retrograde lunation cycle that is only now ending. There is also an incredibly strong impulse to remain ourselves at all costs, no matter what the heavens and our fellow humans might be able to fling at us. This is because the positive and expansive energy of Jupiter in Leo is standing tall on the other side of the Zodiac from the Sun and all the other planets, drifting backward slowly through the sign, and now at the focal point of a yod formation from Pluto and Chiron. These important planetary archetypes make nearly exact inconjunct aspects to Jupiter, as he additionally trines Uranus, putting more flames to the fire of the rapidly approaching Uranus-Pluto collision, now three quarters of a degree away from the perfection of their square, due by the middle of next month.

What might you therefore do to prepare for this historical moment, the final of seven exact hits between revolutionary Uranus and transformative Pluto this decade, as you revel in your Self-hood? Hopefully it will not be your more selfish nature, spelled with a little 's', that comes to the fore. This is the year that we all might recognize as the time for the grand gesture, putting our collective shoulder to the wheel in a way that might actually save the planet, and as well help to birth the global culture that is emerging in this 21st Century. While this decision of an instant could feel amazing, the totally right thing to do (and you will know that moment when it comes) this act, or even the attempt, represents your own salvation as an individual as well.

There is quite a bit of Neptune in this current New Moon patterning, as even further emphasized by a close semi-square aspect between Neptune and Eris, the new planet beyond Pluto. The Eris archetype seems to represent making a stand in support of one's own internal notion of soul purpose. We therefore have a time before us when we are likely to dream big for what we may yet accomplish, even in the face of the problems of this extremely difficult era in which we find ourselves. We might be reminded of the words attributed to Goethe from the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century:

Whatever you can do or
dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power
And magic in it...