Aquarius New Moon: Take The Bird’s Eye View

by Susan DeRyder | Jan 25, 2025 |

 

 

This New Moon carries quite the Aquarian line up with Sun and Moon conjunct at 09°51″, Mercury at 02°17″ and Pluto at 01°58″. Aquarius, in the TOTAMS paradigm, is associated with the more celestial view of things where “all is well” and “everything is unfolding just as it should”. Aquarius invites us to take the bird’s eye view and see the bigger picture. With this in mind, we could be more able to vision for the future and welcome change.

 

 

The Underworld Aspect

 

All of this being said, we have to take into consideration the underworld aspect to this Moon. Mercury (in the Sagittarius overstory) just came within 10° of the Sun on Saturday and is now out of sight in the underworld (on the other side of the Sun). This phase of Mercury’s journey is referred to as the psychopomp phase.

Meanwhile, Pluto is less than 1° away, adding a whole other layer of underworld quality. The question here is, can we integrate and hold space for both the celestial view as well as the underworld perspective? Or perhaps if this is activating your chart personally, you may be navigating experiences which leave you with one foot in each world. Anyone with planets at or within 5-10 degrees of 09°51″ Aquarius, Leo, Taurus or Scorpio may find this Moon will impact them more personally.

Fear not! The Mercury psychopomp is here to guide us through the underworld. And with a Sagittarius overstory, perhaps we will have the capacity to see in a new way, the origins of which are rooted in your deepest truths. And, the point here is that we do have to go there. As we navigate this type of landscape, especially with Pluto around, we must be ready for the shadow to be revealed. The sooner we can say yes to this, the easier it will be to proceed onward.

There is always so much potential around a New Moon point and I feel any opportunity for visioning and dreaming a new world into being is worth participating in. In this dreaming we must deal with the shadow along the way, and not let it fester and grow in the way it has in times past, which has thus brought us to where we are now. Let us clean up our mess as we go. Let us not hide from the stuff we are afraid to look at. Let us start now. In many ways, this New Moon feels like a mini teaching on the next 20 years of Pluto in Aquarius!

 

Venus

 

Venus, now in the last 2 months of the Leo overstory, is spending these final days at the 6th gate / Third Eye Chakra in another celestial line up, this time in Pisces.

Having conjoined with Saturn on January 18, she now makes her way to conjunct with Neptune and the North Node on February 1, the day she enters the 7th gate / Crown Chakra. Venus is already tightly conjunct Neptune and the North Node on the day of the New Moon. Could this offer the divine feminine (Venus) an opportunity to receive a vision (Neptune), or to see through the keyhole (North Node) for how to carry the transmissions and teachings she is receiving forward? With the New Moon so close to Venus’s 7th gate and the conjunction standing strong throughout, we may feel the potency of this New Moon last right through the weekend.

 

Imbolc Cross-Quarter Point

 

Imbolc or Imbolg, also called Saint Brigid’s Day, is one of the four Gaelic seasonal cross quarter festivals, along with: Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain. Its traditional date is February 1, about halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Astrological Imbolc, the exact midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, lands on February 4 this year when the Sun reaches 15° Aquarius.

All in all, the landscape of the Aquarius New Moon that leads us into a hopeful cross quarter looks like one of digging deep, opening our hearts and visioning clearly while remembering our interconnectedness with all beings. May we make the very most of this time as we begin our very slow emergence from the Winter cave.

 

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