Tomorrowland
After I first visited Disneyland in 1967, Tomorrowland was essentially the most thrilling space of the park. Standing in line exterior Monsanto’s Journey By Inside House, we watched with a contact of hysteria as what regarded like actual individuals had been shrunk to miniatures. The Carousel of Progress spun us by means of the newest in trendy family home equipment, unknown on our Midwestern farm. We gleefully boarded the modern Monorail, and the Autobahn gave six-year-olds our first style of driving (although it gave no intimation of the epic L.A. site visitors jams in our future).
Aquarius is the signal of Tomorrowland, a fantastical and modern future the place almost something appears doable. Place Mercury in Aquarius (Jan. 27, 2025, 6:53 pm PST by means of Feb. 14), and also you’ll spy entrepreneurs in excited dialog over lunch, madly scribbling concepts on the again of a serviette. You’ll catch astrologers excitedly plugging asteroids into their charts, and engineers doodling fascinating devices and gizmos on their desk blotters. And someplace, you’ll be able to ensure that science fiction writers are at their laptops, banging out their visions of the longer term with renewed zest.
By definition, the longer term is a spot that we by no means fairly attain; however it’s essential to maintain transferring in its route. And Aquarius makes the method of getting there altogether thrilling.
The Exhilaration of Laborious Truths
I suppose we’ve all had the expertise of claiming some issues that we later want we might take again. Alternatively, they could have been issues that had wanted saying for a really very long time.
Mercury makes a conjunction to Pluto this week (Jan. 28, 2025, 11:52 pm PST). Mercury is ordinarily the king of realizing say issues in a intelligent manner, to keep away from being nailed right down to a selected opinion or perspective. However when Mercury connects with Pluto, there’s no room for small discuss, pretense, or equivocation. We are saying precisely what we imply and let the chips fall the place they could.
We are able to inform ourselves that it’s higher to know the place we stand, and that telling the reality is at all times the very best coverage. And there are moments once we really feel exhilarated as arduous fact after arduous fact hits the pavement and shatters. But when we’re trustworthy – and in any case, that’s what that is all about – the reality additionally hurts. And typically, it hurts as a lot to inform it because it does to listen to it.
Ephemeral
This Aquarius New Moon (Jan. 29, 2025, 4:36 am PST, 9º51’ Aquarius) is in a large conjunction with ominous Pluto and a more in-depth trine to extra lucky Jupiter.
For many of my life, Aquarius has been a overseas land to me. I used to be born with a number of planets in its reverse signal, Leo. However as I get older, I can extra simply find Aquarius on my inside panorama: the bracing snap of dry, frigid air, the glint of an ice skate’s blade hovering over a frozen lake, and a pleasant, distant wave to fellow skaters. I acknowledge it within the sudden, violent protest that lets free in me once I really feel partitions closing in, and within the itchiness that comes from having gone too lengthy with out time alone. There’s something arduous and indifferent on this signal, and Pluto, the planet of arduous actuality, has no drawback discovering a cushty place to perch right here. However Aquarius is unruly and wild and delightful, too.
This New Moon trine Jupiter in Gemini opens the doorways to a future stuffed with journey, if solely of the thoughts and creativeness. The New Moon diploma is on the Sabian image 10 Aquarius: A reputation that proves ephemeral. Some look down on Gemini for its love of novelty and selection, however typically, we have to let our imaginations free and play with ephemeral pursuits – the random course at a neighborhood school, a novel that’s stuffed with fanciful concepts however a bit gentle on actual substance. Whereas Jupiter is in Gemini, gentle pursuits like these are like giving our minds a time without work from the gymnasium so its muscle tissue can relaxation.
Whoosh
Uranus, retrograde since September 1, 2024, stations to show direct this week (Jan. 30, 2025, 8:22 am PST) at 23º15′ Taurus. I’ve come to count on a whoosh of power when the outer planets change route. Feeling unsettled and rebellious with out trigger are hallmarks of a Uranus station, together with an irrational impulse to do one thing that may’t be undone. There are moments in life when that’s simply what’s wanted.
However just a few days both aspect of this station, extremity and overreaction are within the air, so proceed with warning. Uranus will wish to shake us free from methods we maintain ourselves again from pleasure and prosperity, however that not often comes with out penalties.
Wind at Your Again
Whereas the Solar is transferring by means of an indication every month, it describes the actions or strategy that may gentle us up. Whereas it’s in Aquarius, we’ll get that energetic enhance from spending time with buddies, organizations, and making desires and plans for the longer term. And because the Solar in Aquarius meets Jupiter in Gemini in a flowing trine facet (Jan. 30, 2025, 2:59 pm PST), we’ll discover our reward in a life that isn’t solely socially wealthy, however which completely helps us within the Large Image pursuits represented by Jupiter in Gemini – studying, writing, instructing, talking, journey. Even for these with the Solar, Moon, Ascendant, or different key factors within the beginning chart in Leo (which is dominated by the Solar), this week, the wind is really at your again.
What Love Makes use of to Manifest
In my earlier incarnation as a singer, I loved my time onstage, singing for an viewers, greater than every other a part of my life. It wasn’t applause I used to be on the lookout for; it was the sensation of being related with a roomful of individuals in a pleasurable alternate of emotion, as if I had been merely the conduit for the music I used to be singing.
That’s the sensation, I feel, as Venus conjoins Neptune (Feb. 1, 2025, 8:33 am PST, 27º59’ Pisces) on the stunning Sabian image 28 Pisces: A fertile backyard beneath the Full Moon: as if we’re simply the factor that love makes use of to manifest. Embrace any second round Feb. 1 when you end up feeling “within the move,” fortunately engaged in doing one thing you’re keen on for the sheer ecstasy of it, and since it in some way dissolves the boundaries between you and another person.
Dance Companions
Within the present dance between the Lunar Nodes, the best strikes and the very best companions are fast, gentle, and improvisational. This week, as Venus conjoins the Moon’s North Node in Pisces (Feb. 1, 2025, 1:42 pm PST), cherish the individuals in your life who make you snigger, and most significantly, make you’re feeling cherished. They’re the dreamers, the artists, the paranormal – and they’re those who’re dancing you towards the appropriate route.
That is the primary of three conjunctions Venus will make with the North Node over the following few months. The opposite two are on April 1 (whereas Venus is retrograde) and April 23. Somebody you meet now might flip up once more round these dates, and presumably find yourself sticking round for the lengthy haul.
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