New Moon in Aquarius | Feb 2022
New Moon at 12 Aquarius
1 February 2022
12:45AM EST
New Moon in Aquarius +Lunar New Year
Welcome to this new moon – it’s time to get free, my wild visionary kin! Lots to share with you this month, as usual. The biggest themes are as such: it’s time to further break free from what has been in order to step into a whole new story. All planets are about to be direct, meaning we might catch a wave of forward momentum in the coming months. The US Pluto return hits exact on President’s Day (you can’t make this stuff up), time for an underworld initiation of nation-proportions. Out with the tired old patriarchy and in with our animistic return to the web of life.
Mars and Venus are about to sky dance together. This is a WONDERFUL time to put your energy and attention on the waltz (or booty-shake) of the feminine and masculine within yourself. This is called Inner Union work in the Jungian world. We look at this dance in a particular archetypal way through the lens of Shamanic Astrology, which I’d love to share with you.
I’m offering a special kind of reading this month, to help people do this deeper inner masculine and feminine marriage work within. I hope you’ll register for one, this is really deep and rich work, perfectly suited for this season! REGISTER HERE. Read to the bottom for all the cool happenings in my corner of the wilds.
SKY SIGNATURES ON THIS NEW MOON
Saturn conjunct new moon; Uranus square new moon
As you might recall, the series of three Saturn-Uranus squares were a hallmark of the 2021 astrology. While they are past their set of three exact squares, they remain in a close orb for the rest of the year, coming into a last exact square on 4 October 2022.
All that said, this new moon in Aquarius (which we could read in one light as an opportunity for people to rise in the name of humanitarian causes) is triggering that longer playing dynamic between the forces of “freedom” and the forces of “control” on this planet, in our collective, and in our psyches. This is a freedom moon. But as Martin Luther King Jr said: “"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
We can certainly see how this is playing out on the global stage right now. But I also invite you to consider how it is playing within your own inner landscape. What forces of freedom are arising in you? What do they need in order to shake free of those oppressive, heavy forces within?
Venus conjunct Vesta
Vesta is the asteroid of the virgin, she who is whole unto herself. Venus, just recently risen as a morning star, and who just recently stationed direct, is meeting with this asteroid high priestess embodiment of focus, commitment and devotion. She does so just before her long dance with Mars, the masculine in a creation, this month and next.
BECOMING NEW WITH YOUR INNER AQUARIAN
As I say every month, this is a lunar opportunity to spend the next four weeks renewing your relationship to your inner Aquarian archetype. A masculine air sign in the Self-Exploration modality (fixed), Aquarius is the archetype of radical revolutionary and unexpected change.
Aquarius is about liberation—our ability to detach from what we perceive to the extent that it allows us to see the higher perspective and gain insight, overview and vision from this place.
Aquarius seeks to experience greater states of freedom, living in a way that is outside of the rules of any forces which seek to control, limit, and restrict the human experience.
In its highest expression, Aquarius is original, innovative, futuristic, altruistic, tolerant, quirky, collectively minded, and truly brilliant. Outside of healthy expression, Aquarius can be:
· being overly detached, checked out, fragmented, isolated or disconnected
· over-active, overstimulated, impulsive to point of anxiety or nervous tension
· hyper-rational, insensitive and uncaring
· anarchist/ rebel without a cause
· light polarizing + spiritual bypassing
· distrusting of the physical and emotional realms of life
Take a pause and consider how you relate to these Aquarius themes in your life right now, and how you might embody more of the highest expression of this archetype in your life.
What original, quirky creation wants to express through you, in service of your liberation?
CHANDRA SYMBOL FOR THIS LUNATION
AQUARIUS 13
A lidless granite sarcophagus. It is empty.
There is nothing to go back to.
The past has become a phantom.
You are propelled forward into the great unknown.
But it is so easy to become somewhat desperate and out of context.
So much depends upon how you interpret the fact that you are strictly on your own without a personal history or heritage to fall back upon.
Is this real opportunity or a strange fate? It is very hard to tell the difference, as it all becomes ambiguous, paradoxical, very mixed.
Where do you go from here?
No easy answers anywhere.
Perhaps the only thing to do is to acknowledge and move with this radical opening and to put no interpretations on it, assuming nothing at all.
For if you can welcome multidimensionality with truly open arms, it might well turn out that the future was never supposed to be like the past.
And that becoming so free does provide an open access channel for what needs to happen – to come through a jump ahead of the last moment, synchronized with evolution beautifully.
February 2022 Astrology
Mercury Direct: February 3
Mercury, our planetary embodiment of the messenger and the mental realms, stations direct on 3 February. This marks the beginning of a three-month period where all the planets will be direct. We may catch a wave of forward momentum here in these coming late winter/early spring months. This is certainly an energetic transition from the inner planet retrogrades and Pluto overtones of January.
Mercury-Pluto conjunction #3: Feb 11
Mercury will meet up with Pluto, the planet of transformation and empowerment, for the third time on February 11, completing its task of transforming our thoughts, beliefs, perceptions and communications in such a way as to empower us.
Venus-Mars conjunction: Feb 14
Y’all, the planetary embodiments of the masculine and feminine are joining together on Valentine’s Day, the romantic in me swoooons. These two are staying close for weeks, meeting up again and again at exact conjunction and remaining within a one-degree orb until mid-March. This is the joining of the masculine and feminine in all creation and within ourselves.
There has never been a better time to do sacred inner union work. What’s extra sauce in this dance is that Vesta will be travelling close with this pair. She is the asteroid of wholeness and devotion. I’ll say it again, there has never been a better time to do sacred inner union work.
I’ve got an upcoming, in-person workshop upcoming in mid-February here in Asheville, North Carolina. If you are local, please register and join us for this one, details below.
Full Moon in Leo: Feb 16
This full moon will feature a conjunction of Mars, Venus and the star Vega, which I spoke of in January’s report.
The Chandra symbol for this full moon is:
A broken sword.
Consecration to a higher power.Giving-over personal will--the marvel of root change.
Coming to the end of your own path, and just beginning the greater way.
The heart must open.
The infinite must be born inside.
The destiny-necessity is there--so much karmic backlog.
So many ways to be right and to be wrong.
The realization in the very midst that there is nobody listening to the old tale and everybody is awaiting somebody else to come through.
A profound and utter doorway into a great unknown.
What has been is finished. What shall be is so very different.
And what is now is a question and a prayer and a destiny that must find its redemption.
Yeah, sit with that one a minute.
Sun into Pisces: Feb 18
The Sun moves from Aquarius into Pisces on February 18, where he will soon come to illuminate both Jupiter and Neptune in March (5th and 12th, respectively).
US Pluto Return, exact: Feb 21 (on President’s Day, you can’t make this stuff up!)
I talk more about the US Pluto return here.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MY LITTLE CORNER OF THE WILDS
READING SPECIAL: FEBRUARY + MARCH ONLY
This month, in honor of Mars + Venus’s sky dance, I’ll be offering personalized 60-minute “Inner Union/Sacred Marriage” readings. In this reading, we’ll zoom in on the inner marriage work of uniting your own personal inner masculine and feminine archetypal forces within, based on the Shamanic Astrology Paradigm teachings and Jungian anima/animus concepts. Session price: $144
WORKSHOP
"Sacred Self Astrology Workshop" hosted by Burning Sage Yoga
Asheville, NC | 15 February 2022 @5pm
How do we tap into the inner union of the masculine and feminine within ourselves? Shamanic astrology offers a unique lens into this process by looking at the natal placement of the Moon, Mars, and Venus. This workshop is for anyone looking to gain greater insight into their personal path toward archetypal inner wholeness. Bring a mat & a blanket. Indoors - masks may be required depending on mandate. $45 with code EARLYBIRD (through Feb 10) $50 General Admission.
EXPO EVENT
SOUL EXPO
Charlotte, NC | 30 April 2022
The mission of the SOUL Expo is to create a safe and welcoming community event where attendees can engage with and experience a wide variety of consciousness expanding products, presentations and modalities.
I'll be offering astrology sessions + a presentation at the Expo. Get tickets here.
WILD GRACE retreat
Asheville, NC | 11-15 August 2022
Mark your calendars, I'll be hosting a nature and soul immersion retreat here in the wondrous wilds of Southern Appalachia this summer. This retreat will include soul practices in nature, sound healing, embodied movement, creative expression, and more. Registration will open soon, make sure you’re on my mailing list (you can sign up below) to be the first to know!