2010 Aquarius New Moon

by Stephanie Azaria

February 13/14, 2010
25 Aquarius 17
9:53 PM EST / 6:53pm PST/ 2:53 AM GMT (2/14/10)

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February’s New Moon in Aquarius is a Valentine’s greeting from the cosmos. It brings a truer atmosphere of romance than the day usually delivers and wraps us in an uplifting love that is more gratifying and heart-warming than any store-bought expression. Whether that love arrives in the context of a couple or in a more diffused format doesn’t affect the impact it has on our beings and on the ensuing month. This New Moon infuses our hearts and minds with the compassion and healing the skies have been beaming down for nearly a year — and allows us to merge with the greater whole of all existence while remaining individual and unique.

It sounds too good to be true. Yet these traits really are the higher potential of the energies surrounding this New Moon. (There are lower ones, too — deception, illusion, confusion — but they do not have to be your experience.) The Sun and the Moon are closing in on the Neptune/Chiron conjunction, which merges the most pure, intangible Higher Love with the raw physicality of our human forms. The presence of Neptune alone would be enough to suffuse this event with romance and sweet nothings, but he’s got help. Chiron is traditionally seen as the wounded healer, but his travels in the past year have taken on the additional aspect of helping us embrace and move past our wounds and settle into acceptance of our physical bodies. His union with Neptune brings a soothing balm and real-life workability to the whole romance arena, a welcome development in light of the ongoing relationship restructuring we’ve been undergoing. The goddess of love has a hand in this atmosphere, too. Venus, the lower octave of Neptune, activated this point when she met Neptune and Chiron earlier in the week. She has now moved into Neptune’s territory, and the conjunction she just left still bears her touch.

The romantic flavor that she and Neptune are beaming down is not the dreamy version of love favored by movie scripts and preadolescent girls. It is an experience that is rooted and playing out in the tangible world, not some fantasy life – generating the level of awe and wonder at the pure magic of existence that comes over you at the sight of a newborn infant, or a glorious sunset that shoots a cloud-filled sky through with pinks, oranges and blues. This level of ecstasy is available to us now, in our interpersonal dealings, in our relationships with our selves and in our connections to our artistic inspiration and higher guidance. The gift of this New Moon is the outgrowth of the bridge that was built last year between our spiritual and physical existences. They are no longer two separate areas of life that we move between, but one continuous flow of being. Love in the here and now is an expression of the divine, and any of our relationships, regardless of their structure, can be filled with a soothing soul-level grace.

The love goes both ways – to yourself and outward to others. Accepting yourself leads to accepting others, and also to their accepting you. There’s no need to posture or present yourself as anything other than who you truly are, in the hopes that your posturing will be more pleasing or desirable to that special person. The quality of love in this New Moon frees you to be your truth, your whole truth and nothing but your truth. This liberating element comes from Uranus, who influences this New Moon in several ways. He is in a growth aspect to the New Moon, the aspect in which he is still traveling in tandem with Neptune and Chiron, as they have for almost a year. As the ruler of Aquarius, Uranus is the ruler of the New Moon, as well as the last planet that the Sun and the Moon contact before they meet each other. Uranus is also in mutual reception with Neptune (meaning that each is in the other’s home sign), which makes this New Moon vibrate with their seemingly incongruous mix of unconventional perspectives, personal freedom, empathy and dissolution of boundaries. Love, whether romantic or not, does not require giving up our individuality. We can – and, actually, are to — remain our unique, intact selves as we mingle with the rest of the sea of humanity.

The cosmic lovers Venus and Mars are involved in activity that leads back to this theme. They are as a pair in an adjustment aspect, putting us at a crossroads that requires a choice. Venus and Pluto, the two planets of desire (and money), are forming a Finger of God aspect that points to Mars, the planet of action. Mars and Saturn, the embodiments of our masculine will and our respect for structure, point to Mercury, the planet of communication. (Mars opposes Mercury, while Saturn trines him.) Action and communication – this is not a time to play cards close to your chest; this is a time to speak your heart boldly and with commitment. And speak in a way that breaks previous patterns, because Uranus rules both Mars (because he is ruled by the Sun, which is ruled by Uranus) and Mercury. Not to mention speak in a way that taps into transcendent grace and divine love and inspiration, because Uranus’ ruler is Neptune, who is standing with the Sun and the Moon, and who is ruled by Uranus – sending our action and communication into the watery, electric loop of Uranian individuality and genius and Neptunian interconnectedness and innate knowing.

How do you fashion New Moon goals out of this wondrous crazy quilt? Resolve to love yourself. Express your love to others. And take concrete action that grounds and solidifies your words. Many of us have been through quite a rattling and unnerving stretch in relationships in the last month. This New Moon hands us a balm for our hearts. Apply it generously — and share.

Here is Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the New Moon at 26 Aquarius, reprinted with her kind permission from her book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition:
A GARAGE MAN TESTING A CAR’S BATTERY WITH A HYDROMETER

Commentary: ‘A Garage Man Testing a Car’s Battery With a Hydrometer’ is an image of a mechanic ‘Testing’ the running efficiency of a ‘Car’. He’s checking to see if any mechanical problems or repairs are needed. Most specifically, he’s checking the water in the ‘Car’s Battery’ in order to ensure that things will run well. A ‘Hydrometer’ is capable of measuring many things; alcohol, salt, sugar; anything that may be held or suspended in water.

Oracle: This Symbol reflects the need for a mechanical approach to the issue at hand or the calling in of a “mechanically minded” person. There is a need to take a more objective or inventive view that is relative to modern society. Performing necessary checks and balances to ensure the smooth running of our lives is part of the everyday maintenance of society, our appliances and ourselves. The ‘Garage Man’ could be ‘Testing the Battery’ because there is a problem he needs to analyze or he could be performing routine preventative maintenance. Certainly it is better to keep an eye on things before they go wrong. Figuring out any malfunctions so that life can proceed in a smoother, more efficient manner will help keep everything running smoothly. Perhaps there’s a need for someone of authority, someone removed from your situation, to give some assistance, repairs or feedback. An interesting aspect of the ‘Car’s Battery’ is that the water (the emotional element) when combined with the positive and negative elements of the battery is a self-empowering system. In this situation, it is the level of water or the emotional dependability of the situation that is being measured because that is what is important. Ideally, water that is used in a ‘Car’s Battery’ should be pure. You may need to use some type of gauge on the health of your emotional reactions. This Symbol can reflect the need to keep an eye on the mechanics of the body and to be careful of dehydration or not drinking enough water.

Keywords: Testing the earthly vehicle for its roadworthiness. Situations that have “boiled-over”, bringing all to a stop. Breakdowns and the need for repair. Checking water levels. Anticipating future problems. The need for good batteries. Cars being serviced. Oil, petrol and grease. Check ups and tune-ups. Bringing forward movement to a halt.

The Caution: Causing distress by constantly analyzing people or situations. Bad breath or dry skin. Not taking time for repairs or tune-ups. Running on empty.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic. Andrew Jackson

It is a good idea to shop around before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don’t be shy. After all, you’re paying for it. Dave Barry

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. Friedrich von Schiller

We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it. George Gurdjieff

*The excerpts from Lynda Hill’s book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition, © Lynda Hill 2002, have been reprinted by permission of the author.