Waking Up to Truth // New Moon Aquarius 2020
new moon in aquarius // 4*21’ of aquarius // january 24, 2020 1:41pm pst
This time calls for a radical ending of energies that no longer need to be. Cycle upon cycle coming to completion to birth new cycles within new cycles. This is nature. This is the nature of time. This is the nature of this time. It’s in the pressure point between ending and new beginning that things are most likely to come up. For months the spring has been loading and holding. The strength of our structures have been tested. The pressure has been building and building and building. What can’t withstand the mounting pressure is dissolving as we come to see more clearly what is not holding up or moving us forward. This point, just before launch and just before the spring unloads, is exactly where we are right now.
There’s a call for transformation. There’s energy knocking on the door wanting to come in for change. Structures are being unearthed and deeply rooted belief systems put to sleep. It’s uncomfortable. For some, it’s intense. This is our transition from Capricorn into Aquarius: when we’ve been pinched by form and bound by the system for long enough that we’re restless and we’re ready for more space and more possibility. We see what needs to be built, but we need space to build it. We’re ready to rebel against what we know to reach it.
The Aquarius archetype is both incredibly simple and astoundingly complex. It is both the force that fragments and the force that unifies. And somewhere within the simple complexity is clarity - our ability to access it and our ability to take action from it.
Aquarius is space.
The space of possibility.
The space of infinite potential.
Getting there often feels like a breakdown.
It feels like radical change.
It feels like letting go and holding on and letting go again.
It’s rapid, it’s electric, it’s unsteady, it’s reactive.
The silence that comes when you hold your breath.
The stillness that comes when the pressure is high.
That’s it, right now, the void of Aquarius.
There are moments in life that we look back on as defining a new era in our lives. Moments that show us what we’re made of and made for. There are moments that make us realize why it has all been perfect - the timing, the missteps, the heartbreaks. These are moments that call us in and up and through and they’re meant to shift us in ways that are nuanced and deep and re-orienting.They’re meant to call us together.
This moon calls in clarity. This moon calls on connection. This moon calls for liberation and it breathes life and space into places and spaces that guide us to a deeper sense of truth. May it be so!
radical rule-breaking.
As with any New Moon cycle, old dynamics come to the surface to be able to see them so that you can create new change. This cycle is particularly revolutionary.
This is energy of radical endings.
The force of a lightning strike.
Life-altering, instant change.
The consciousness of infinite possibility.
Uranus, ruling planet of Aquarius forms a close square with this New Moon. Squares build character. When aligned and used consciously, squares strengthen our understanding of ourselves, our needs and our values. Tension is squeezed in just the right way that can see more clear our challenges and make more clear our obstacles.
This moon’s square with Uranus is guiding us to break the rules of what we thought was right so that we can see that there is infinite possibility and infinite potentials.
When working together with the Sun and Moon, Uranus is bolstered and unexpected shifts can happen to bring through what you’ve been desiring and mapping. This event opens us to a decade of electrically charged change. There’s potential and opportunity to liberate and break through what is old and known, and open to new possibilities, new dimensions, and new ways of being.
So if this moment feels like a breakdown, could it also be the initial stages of a breakthrough?
This isn’t energy to stake into the ground, it is energy for lift-off. Using your energy to seek clarity will get you further than using it to lay bricks.
world-view preview.
In March, Saturn moves into Aquarius (until July 1) and we’ll keep exploring these ideals of freedom and time and community and ourselves and how they could all possibly work together to create a reality that works for more people… because it’s hard to escape the current sense that what we’ve constructed as reality isn’t working for most people.
An aspect of self we’ll be visiting deeply through this month and through this year is our relationship to the nervous system. Our ability to withstand and expand ourselves within the pressures of the times. Our relationship to excitement and anxiety and stability. If Aquarius is space, then we’ll need to explore how we hold that space, which takes working with containment. It is the point where our nervous system and consciousness exist and the dialogue between the two and every other system at play. It is breath and breathing beyond oppressive dynamics - ours or others - to discover more of who we are.
How do you experience your current reality from the perspective of your breath?
How do you tune into intuition and the messages of your body?
Restlessness. Jitters. Excitement. Numbness. Indecisiveness. Overwhelm.
If these experiences reveal themselves through the weekend, consider them all opportunities to learn the language of your nervous system.
The potential that exists in this dialogue is freedom and it arrives when we’re open and soft and steady. It comes when we ask for clarity and get present to it. When we know indecisiveness as a disconnection from the nervous system, we’re aptly able to arrive back home. When we recognize restlessness as a call for freedom, we can care for ourselves and tend to our needs more quickly and compassionately. Our responsibility lies in our ability to respond to the circumstances from the perspective of presence and the knowing that there’s a bigger picture at play.
The breath is essential here - it is the system of the body that can transform the state of all other systems. It weaves all parts of ourselves together. It connects us all. No longer can we see ourselves - bodies, health, communities, circumstances - as fragmented. Aquarius is inter-connected. This is our future.
The most expansive and transformative tool I have for my nervous system and for my life is yoga nidra. I live by this practice. This month’s Aquarius Astro Nidra by Jana Roemer is my daily practice. Make it yours too!
a reason to care.
We’re learning to give home to the vastness of who we are. We’re seeing ourselves as more than just humans that wake up and work and go home and do it again tomorrow. The grind and the hustle have become words used to describe a world that requires us to work painstakingly hard to survive and to sacrifice a simple sense of joy in order to pay the rent. We are more than our paychecks and what we spend them on. We have more discernment than the soundbites suggest. We know that life has little meaning without community and connection and a purpose to organize around.
Ultimately, it’s comes to choice. We can say yes to growth and progress and caring and paying attention. Or, we can say yes to staying stagnant and unfilfilled. Both are uncomfortable. Both have hard truths. But only one of these has the potential to create a revolution. Only one of these has the potential to bring peace and simplicity and change.
What if this month was the month that you stepped outside of yourself and from an objective 10,000 foot view you asked yourself the hard deep truth: what is it I care about? What am I screaming to change? What are my perspectives & what is it that I know will make a difference?
And as you expand 10,000 more feet now, ask yourself: is what I care about related to climate and inquality and are my actions making a difference to allieviate and support either?
You see, the nature of Aquarius gifts us a 30,000 foot view of what we need to center on. From this high up, things become more simple.
Climate and inquality are pressing, and relevant and interconnected and almost all of the current issues we face as a world can be distilled into these two. Addressing them is not easy, but when we see it as two interconnected challenges, it becomes simple to organize and simple to focus.
It wakes us up to what is not working so that we can gather and assemble and forge ahead together. It’s an act of rebellion when we realize that the powers at hand and structures that hold us exist when we’re separate and it’s a radical act of love we dissolve the illusion together with benevolence because it’s necessary and its needed and its now.
My friend, let’s do what is not easy and let’s slow down and pay attention and care. Let us be a neighbor and a friend and a lover and a steward - to ourselves and for ourselves and for each other and for our world.
With love ~ julien elizabeth
Aquarius New Moon Messages
If you know your rising sign or ascendant, I suggest you read it as your intention below. You can also read your sun and moon sign. These are meant to be taken in as insight and inquiry. There are so many factors that give your life the life that it is, so take these notes as food for thought and take from it what feels right for you right now. If you aren’t sure of your ascendent, or have a curiosity to go deeper, schedule a natal chart reading and we’ll decode it all together.
Aries - I am supported.
Many months of focus on your career has you itching for an adventure with your people and this is the month to take the call to heart and get out there. Socialize. Let loose. Spend some time with the friends and groups that stretch you beyond your comfort zone. It’s there that you’ll get the clarity and insight you might be seeking to find in your work.
Always remember: your perspective is important. Add your fire into the conversation and see what sort of ideas come to life.
Inquiries:
What social causes fire you up?
What can you do with friends that gets you out of work mode and into play?
Taurus - I am aligned with my work.
What a gift it is to find the work that feels aligned with who you are. Things open up. Big leaps are easy. Actions that once felt scary come naturally. You’re showing up in ways a former version of you couldn’t fathom. It’s possible to love the work you do and it’s also absolutely OK to decide you want to do something entirely different!
This month is waking you up to the work you want to do in the world… as if you weren’t waking up to enough already! Whether you’re already doing this work or its manifestation seems far off, any step towards a way of working that feels authentic is progress. Be flexible. Be open. Be ready. This is not a month of holding back and hiding!
Inquiries:
Does the work you’re doing feel authentic?
Is it time to change it up or double down?
Gemini - I am inspired.
You might be feeling yourself ready for adventure, Gemini, with the pressure of day-to-day life eating at your time and your spirit. Have faith! It’s all a reminder to keep investing in yourself - keep learning, keep growing, keep it fresh. Satisfy your wanderlust with a day trip or a new class so that your comfort zone doesn’t get too cozy and stagnant.
Inquiries:
What action can you take to allieviate what feels stagnant?
What keeps you inspired?
Cancer - I release the patterns that hold me back.
Unexpected things can be exactly what you need to shift course and remember what’s important and how valuable you are. Things may be feeling cramped after the growth you went through last year. A cracked shell isn’t a bad thing and could be just what you need to make more space in your life for more of you and everything that you love.
This month wants you to go deep - into desire, into connection, into the shadowy parts of yourself that are ready to see the light. You’re clearing the cobwebs. This time can be exciting or scary depending on your perspective. In either case, it’s going to shift some big pieces for you that I think you’ll appreciate later.
Inquiries:
What am I learning from my most intimate relationships?
What am I willing to let go of in order to move forward towards what I desire?
Leo - I welcome valuable relationships into my life.
This new moon is the perfect moment to begin something fresh. This week brings with it radical new ideas related to work and partnership and what exactly you’re ready to commit to.
Aquarius season wants to wake you up to the partner dynamics you play into and whether they’re bringing you the relationships that see your light and feel your love.
Inquiries:
What qualities do you value in a partner?
Is there a relationship pattern that you’re ready to revolutionize?
Virgo - I am healed.
You’re no stranger to the realm of self-improvement, Virgo, and know ntimately that the routines you keep are key to your life flow. This is a month of fine tuning and reworking the tasks that you tend to and the ways you live and love on Earth. Investments you make in revitalizing your health this month will pay off big time so be willing to change it up.
Inquiries:
Are there shifts in your routines necessary to expand you to the next level?
Is it time to rework your work/life balance?
What would it be like if you take radical responsibility for your health and habits?
Libra - I make time to play.
You’ve been spending quite a bit of time tuning up your home life and you’ve been doing such good work creating a home that feels safe and good and cozy.
This month might be calling you out - it’s time to put on some sparkle and step out the front door.
Shape it up and get spicy - your love life and creative side are asking for a revolution.
Inquiries:
How can you nurture your creative side?
How can you get a little bit more flirty?
Scorpio - I am safe.
Ram Dass taught that we are all walking each other home. That might be a bit of what this month teaches you, Scorpio. In your quest for home, or a plaec to land that feels like it, you may find moments that feel unsteady and moments that feel uncertain.
Ultimately, as you move through this season, you’ll have a more clear vision of how you’re meant to feel in your safest spaces and you’ll have a deeper understanding of the who in the community you trust to have the extra key. It’s a special gift to be your friend, Scorpio. The ones who know it are your family and they’ll understand it might be an inner journey for you right now.
Inquiries:
How can you create a cozier h ome for yourself this month?
What do you cherish or appreciate about your family or what you’ve learned from them?
Sagittarius - My voice is valuable.
Has anyone ever told you that' you’re full of good ideas and revolutionary thoughts, Sag? Have you ever felt called to shift your lifestyle to be more aligned with your beliefs? Are there parts and pieces of you rtruth you’re holding back from expressing?
This Aquarius season is calling on you to share your fire: your thoughts, ideas, words and ways are ready to be expressed and it might just change your life.
Speak up to change it up.
Inquiries:
What are you ready to express to the world?
What truths do you see as necessary to be known for collective evolution?
Capricorn - I am abundant.
You’ve survived a revolution of self and now everything’s different and thank goodness it’s so because look at who you are now - the same of course, but also, more true and more real and more ready.
It might be just the perfect time to think bigger. To try your hand at something new and to remember what you’ve always known: you’re worth a billion bucks, babe. Claim it. Own it. Live it!
Inquiries:
What do you value?
What do you love?
What are you ready to do to make the life that you see for yourself grounded and real and yours?
Aquarius - I am seen.
It may have been tough to rest last month but I hope it delivered to you moments of depth and an emergence of clarity. Because here we are, now and here, with a fresh start calling you out of your cocoon and out into the world. This month is for you and your wild ideas and radical ways.
If there was ever a good time to let yourself step into the world without apologiy it is now. So spend some time, give yourself the space and let yourself be free to rebel or revolt or reinvent. It’s time. We see you!
Inquiries:
What am I supposed to be bringing to life in this life?
What makes me unique?
Pisces - I give myself permission to rest.
Next month is about you. This month is about rest. Really, it goes like that. The hardest work is often the work it takes to tune out the noise and tune into the power that exists within and beneath it all. You have full permission to slip into the deep-end this season, Pisces. Float around in your subconscious and reconnect with the dreamer within you that knows so imply: the love that will come to life through you in this life can actually create a revolution.
Inquiries:
How can you love yourself so deeply this month?
Who are the different parts of me? As in, the dreamer, the queen, the king, the child, etc. How can I spend time with these parts and listen to their needs?
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