I personally have little use for the Gregorian calendar system. I use it because I need to use it in the world, because most of the world (that I interact with) understands time divided into weeks, months and years. But, the more I “embody” astrology, the more I orient around celestial time. My job doesn’t fit into weeks and weekends, it fits into solar cycles and lunar rhythms. And honestly, that’s just fine with me. It creates some chaos schedule-wise here and there, but no more than the average self-employed content creator who can’t put her work down on a Saturday. I feel better when my rhythm is held by the Sun and the Moon.

So, this leads me to say, that (IMO) Aquarius Season is actually the beginning of the new year! Happy new year!! (East Asian folks know what’s up… Aquarius Season holds the beginning of the Lunar New Year - this year that day is January 25, the day after the Aquarius New Moon.) Jewish folks might be in agreement too, the holiday Tu b’ Shevat, the new year of the trees, (which marks the season in which the earliest-blooming trees emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle) begins the evening of the 9th of February.)

The reason though, that I’m feeling this way this year has to do with the cycle we’re coming out of. As you know, last month Capricorn Season brought two eclipses and the culmination of the Saturn/Pluto conjunction. The astrological energy that we entered into 2020 with was closing, retracting energy. Death energy. But Aquarius Season starts a shift. A change is coming.

This season offers a preview of the upcoming transit of Saturn in Aquarius (begins March 21 this year, culminates in March 2023) and the far-reaching societal restructuring that transit will bring. As we move into Aquarius Season, we’re well aware of what is old, outdated and needs to change. We’re pressed between a rock and a hard place globally, environmentally, politically… For many of us personally, this means we’re also increasingly aware of the precipice we stand upon. Our lives will change, significantly and soon. If we want to survive and thrive (yes we can!) we need to reorganize our economies and consumer habits, we need to reshape rules and laws, we need to replenish and restore what has been depleted, we need resurrect many of our values that have been lost and imagine into the values that will support our future.

Aquarius’ energy embodies this intensity. It is a snapping point, an ah-ha! moment, a revolution and a gathering of forces. Aquarius is a symbol for the sensation of pressurizing necessity. It’s a time when the old rules fail and new rules haven’t been formed yet. Aquarius Season invites us into the chaos of change. With Mercury’s retrograde in Pisces beginning and ingresses of Venus and Mars into determined, action-oriented signs, this is a season that calls for contemplation AND action, for review AND revolt, for sensitivity AND tenacity. This is a season that pushes us to stand up and stand out. To embrace our differences and revel in our connections.

Ponder Aquarius with me in this month’s Embodied Astrology episode, Freedom From the Known (thanks to Krishnamurti and Richard Tarnas for the name) and endless gratitude and a deep bow to Dr. Martin Luther King who graces the beginning of Aquarius Season this year in remembrance of his birthday and who was a true icon of the Aquarian vision of equality and freedom for all.

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These horoscopes are sign-specific for the month ahead of AQUARIUS Season (January 20 - February 18, 2020.) Check your sun sign to understand more about your inherent nature and ego, your rising sign to understand more about what's going on in your life right now, and your moon sign to understand more about your relationships and emotional landscape. Horoscopes are poetic pieces of mystical suggestion. Take what works and leave the rest. Use the affirmations as questions, metaphors, and reminders.

ARIES
Your future is a collaboration between yourself and the rest of the world.
Don’t underestimate either one.
You have immense power and creative gifts.
The world needs your power and your gifts.
Meditate on the sweet spot of mutual appreciation and joyful exchange.
Listen to the Aries horoscope for Aquarius Season here

TAURUS
It takes guts to be different and courage to stand out.
Right now, you have no choice but to deviate from the status quo.
So embrace your difference, elevate it, enjoy it.
Make breaks with past constructs that keep you tied up and tangled.
Dream into your future freedom and current liberation.
Listen to the Taurus horoscope for Aquarius Season here

GEMINI
Your truth elevates your spirit.
Your spirit elevates truth in the world.
Do not hide yourself, shortchange yourself or try to squeeze yourself into boxes for anyone else.
The only thing you owe anyone at all (including yourself) is your TRUTH.
Listen to the Gemini horoscope for Aquarius Season here

CANCER
Doing things a new and different way takes patience.
Sometimes you’ll slip and slide back into habit.
Don’t be dissuaded. Maintain your focus.
It’s time for you to take up more space.
This will be uncomfortable, often.
And, entirely worth it.
Listen to the Cancer horoscope for Aquarius Season here

LEO
Lighten up. Let it go.
Ask yourself and answer honestly, “does it really matter?”
If you’re fixated and obsessed, it’s a clue. There is a simpler way.
Trust your intuition and connect to greater guidance.
You don’t have to do it all alone.
Listen to the Leo horoscope for Aquarius Season here

VIRGO
Shape your present life with your future goals in mind.
Create sustainable practices and pleasurable rhythms.
Give yourself a container for experiencing freedom, every day.
Relationships need and deserve some, but not all, of your time and attention.
How can you make space for what you know is important?
And, how can you hold space for what is currently unknown?
Listen to the Virgo horoscope for Aquarius Season here

LIBRA
Trust your strength and power. Affirm your competence. Know your stability.
And then, fly.
Remember, freedom is what you’ve been working for.
Listen to the Libra horoscope for Aquarius Season here

SCORPIO
You’re ready to relate with the world in a wildly different way.
It begins with your willingness to let go of control.
It requires your ability to soften your focus and relax.
Use your attention wisely.Listen to the Scorpio horoscope for Aquarius Season here

SAGITTARIUS
When seemingly suddenly, what used to matter no longer does,
a vast space appears and orientation shifts.
Meditate on the sensation of your mind opening.
Your reorientation is a remembering of what was always most important.
Listen to the Sagittarius horoscope for Aquarius Season here

CAPRICORN
If you don’t value you, don’t expect anyone else to.
Your self-love is essential and the key to your present healing.
Respect and honor who you are and what you’re made of.
Every inch. Every aspect.
Listen to the Capricorn horoscope for Aquarius Season here

AQUARIUS
Freedom from the known could be your motto and priority now.
If it’s familiar, keep looking.
If it’s different, strange, unpredictable… stay for a while.
Listen to the Aquarius horoscope for Aquarius Season here

PISCES
Reduce the noise, still the distractions.
Go inward. Reflect. Sense.
A new chapter is beginning and you are changing.
Who are you now and what do you most deeply desire to become?
Listen to the Pisces horoscope for Aquarius Season here