Venus enters Aquarius this Friday, falling into the laps of Pluto and Mars in the process. Expect the intensity to rise as she does so. This is passionate and compelling weather. Meanwhile, Chiron makes an exact conjunction to the True Node of the Moon. This is important, for whatever is taking place in the weeks preceding and after this conjunction is helping to set the stage for the Solar Eclipse on April 8th.

We welcome in the Chinese New Year with year of the Wood Dragon, and the Aquarius New Moon. Reckless, powerful, changeable, and perhaps even a little rebellious. What passions are you wanting to make manifest? How might you be the change that you would like to see in the world?

This week is in preparation for the Super New Moon on February 9th. You might already feel the impatience and the restlessness arising. This is because the New Moon next week could give us something of a glimpse into April’s Jupiter/Uranus conjunction. In the mean time Mercury enters Aquarius and joins Pluto in the first degree. Be prepared to be illuminated.

For the past 5 months that Uranus has been in its retrograde phase we were acclimating ourselves to a new order. Either we were adjusting to changes that were occurring, or we were preparing ourselves for the changes that we knew were well nigh due, and would be facing in 2024. But in some way our lives have been evolving and preparing, and situating us in such a way that we would be ready for whatever new reality will be emerging this year. 

After making an exact conjunction to Pluto in the last degree, the very last minute of Capricorn, the Sun then escorts Pluto into the sign of Aquarius. Except for a few brief months later this year, Pluto will remain in Aquarius for the next 20 years. A new era is dawning.

Pluto is in the very last degree and minute of Capricorn this week, as it is being positioned to make its grand entrance into Aquarius on the 20th. In the mean time, the Jupiter/Saturn sextile is receiving a lot of assistance from strategic and practical planets transiting Capricorn, to lay the foundation for some sort of road map for the future. Clarity returns to allow us to do so. 

There is still an air of uncertainty hanging over the proceedings as we begin this week. Mercury makes the last of its squares to unfathomable Neptune on Monday. But be prepared for when the fog lifts and greater clarity resumes with the New Moon in Capricorn on January 11th. Get out your planners. With the New Moon in Capricorn, we’ll finally be able to plot our course. 

This year, Jupiter, the planet of grand expectations will station direct by New Year’s Eve, ending its retrograde phase. LIkewise, Mercury will station direct on New Year’s Day, also ending its retrograde phase. Together they aim to turn our attention away from the past and what once was, and towards the future and what will be. To read more about these stations, and their transits, click below.

On Tuesday we have the Full Moon just one day after Christmas. Traditionally a very emotional Moon, the Christmas Moon may help to shed some clarity on a situation in our lives. And this is despite the feeling that we can’t even see our hand in front of our face, nor see a way forward through the fog of our lives.

In Winter time, as we are having here in the Northern Hemisphere, the potential of life still lies dormant within the earth, waiting for the return of the light to invigorate it once again. So too, in our own lives it is meant to be a time of rest and contemplation. This is our own version of hibernation and withdrawal, where we seek our own potential within. To read more about the Capricorn (Winter) Solstice, click below.