New Moon in Aquarius

Changes occur in financial matters and activities related to shared resources, budgets, loans, taxes, insurance, wills, or investments. Shift in sexual desire or activity. May face a fear, recover from loss, or deal with emergency or crisis.

February 9, 2024| 2:58 pm (PST) | Keyword: Heralding

The Moon is moving speedily through the sign of Aquarius and quickly bringing matters into being. Unexpected events occur abruptly and out of the blue suggesting that plans are likely to be altered, and flexibility is required because of disruptions or unusual circumstances that interfere with the agenda. Some of these situations may tie to new ideas, scientific interests, and technology stimulated by the desire to increase personal funds and enter ventures that may prove financially rewarding. For others, the goal may be to offer benefit to large organizations, act as a public servant, or devote yourself to a large and popular cause. At the center of events is likely to be someone with strong Aquarius (sun, moon, or rising sign) supported by those with significant Cancer placements.

Additionally, your social life will intensify through greater involvement in committees, associations, forming new friendships and acquaintances. Some of these affiliations may be connected to the professional arena and your role as a spokesperson. The influence stimulates excellent ability in mental organization, public relations and coordination of group, organizational and political activities that involves active participation and cooperation with the public in some way.

The need to experience others on a deep emotional level can provoke interest in psychology and increased perception about the subtle psychological motivations behind the actions of others. As you become more attuned to your own emotional needs, you’ll also begin to recognize influences in others, especially if someone in your immediate circle needs counseling or therapy. You may develop insights in relation to a formal study of psychology or through simply associating with persons who are disturbed on some level. This can be in the capacity of your role as a professional therapist, counselor or astrologer just beginning a practice.

Through emotional encounters you’ll begin to understand emotional power struggles and manipulation and realize how these manifest through your interactions. It may be that situations create a dependency issue or tension connected with a mate or someone close. In the extreme, conditions lead to confrontation, a break in a relationship or open enemies could become a source of conflict. Issues that tend to complicate relationships include ambivalence, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, jealousy, guilt, unexplained anger, helplessness and unconscious feelings that undermine conscious actions. Intense encounters place you in a tenuous position requiring tact and diplomacy, particularly if you are counseling professionally or feel responsibility toward others. If so, you’ll come to rely on a growing and greater intuitive and psychic awareness that informs your approach.

A surge of energy powered by a stellium in the house of partnership stimulates sensitivities to the reactions of other people and communication plays a major role. It’s possible that relationships–love affairs, business partners, coworkers and even those with whom you’ve had conflict, will tend to improve with an emphasis on one relationship in particular.

A Venus/Mars link up brings the impulse to love…or other passionate impulses you may wish to act on. Positive changes in existing relationships may include engagement, marriage, or the forming of other significant alliances. For some, it’s possible to meet a new individual who’ll play a prominent role, prompts some soul-searching or will force very powerful changes in your life.

However, if the planetary duo of love and desire makes negative aspects to points in your chart, a lack of discretion, an impulsive love affair, or a new person could create serious problems for you. A compulsion toward the new can compel you to throw away your current lifestyle in search of something more exciting. It’s best to choose companions carefully as emotions are easily aroused that might provoke jealous acts of violence. In a struggle for dominance you might allow a relationship to suppress your identity, fail to stand up for your own rights or choose to placate your partner, rather than relating as an equal. But problematic alliances demand that you clarify issues and negotiation or counseling may be necessary to improve or restore your relationship. This is favorable period for trying to make peace, even with those who’ve been hostile or unreceptive to previous overtures.

Collaboration with another person may allow you to initiate or complete a project or joint endeavor. Someone may act as the catalyst for encouraging you to accomplish a task you might not ordinarily pursue on your own. Fortunate conditions bring an easy flow of opportunity related to career, social status or your reputation and advancement can materialize without a lot of effort on your part. This might be a new field of interest which allows you to easily transition into a new career. If you’ve been unhappy, this is an excellent time to change jobs. In some cases, you may be released from a difficult employment situation that hasn’t been fulfilling.

But the advice to choose wisely also applies to business partnerships and new enterprises. Those who don’t have your best interests in mind can create detrimental circumstances or you could take missteps that compromise your business ethics. If you assume you know everything, you could suddenly find yourself on the losing end of a situation. A lack of watchfulness in protecting your gains from the greed of others could make you the victim of deceit or treachery. Perhaps you feel the need to maintain a relationship with superiors that doesn’t serve your best interests in the long run or you’re placed in a position where uncomfortable concessions are asked of you. If involved in any dispute concerning personal or business matters, it may require lengthy negotiations before an agreement can be reached. These disputes may range from minor irritation and general dislike to legal battles, personal vendettas, sexual harassment or aggression. You’ll need to learn to disengage from these types of struggles to bring about positive resolutions.

The energy can also drive you to be overly possessive about property, especially if the desire is to have greater control over something jointly shared. Financial concerns and activities involving shared resources, budgets, loans, taxes, insurance, wills or investments are focal issues. You or your partner may fight over how to handle money, pay the bills, and debts may go up or down. If you share funds, the amount of money you receive will change either positively or negatively. You might also worry about securing financial backing or borrowing money.

In some cases, it’s your own choices that link to valid circumstances that result in a decrease of personal resources. More generally, you’re devoting time to financial planning and investment with a desire to pay off debts. If need be, this is an excellent time to consult or seek the advice of a professional or authority in your field or problem area. It may be in your best interest to allow this person to handle certain matters for you while you oversee the decisions being made.

Regardless of the circumstance, situations carry the potential for battle in the areas of sex, money and morals or a struggle where each individual is trying to meet certain goals. The opportunity to empower yourself in some way underscores the need to avoid allowing others to dominate your thoughts with their opinions or advice. If you do, it’s a clear indication of a lack of self-belief or conviction in your own mental competence. The reality is that you can be lied to during this period and information you receive may not be accurate or helpful, especially if you fail to take responsibility to evaluate information. You should remain the ultimate decision-maker even when given credible counsel.

The message is to never put yourself in the hands of others when your own well-being is concerned and to avoid things and circumstances you do not understand because this is a time when a relationship, activity or professional endeavor you’re currently involved in may specifically contradict what you once thought to be true.

Your beliefs will be tested until you come to conclusions that are more consistent with reality. In the interim, inconsistencies that fuel your awareness of conflict will arise in everyday situations. You’ll become acutely aware of whether others practice the principles and beliefs they espouse to as well as how those philosophies and beliefs may differ from yours. This process allows you to decipher what is true for your own life path and highlights where you could be intolerant or critical of the beliefs of others because of prejudices, intolerance and beliefs that are not based on fact.

The keyword for this cycle is heralding which suggests important announcements and significant signs that something is about to happen. This is particularly true for those who’ve acted with purpose to eradicate injustice and to advocate for others while suffering from constraints, oppression, limitation, pain, ridicule and opposition. Despite the doubters and naysayers, the trees thought to be barren planted by these individuals will indeed bear fruit. This period emphasizes faith, hope and mindfulness in the seeds you’re currently planting. It’s discernment that brings success and the awareness that you’re operating on divine time rather than the dictates of man and the external world. Have patience and allow matters to unfold when they’re ready while you tap into a source greater than yourself.

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