https://graycrawford.net/2024/02/08/new-moon-in-aquarius-4/
#NewMoon in #Aquarius
GRAY #ASTROLOGY
..."The Aquarius New Moon on 9 February 2024 not only heralds the Year of the Wood Dragon, but also fittingly possesses a jolting burst of invigorating astrological aspects that will support courageous action, innovative reinvention, inspiring ideas, and moving at greater speed in pursuit of goals. While 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology, in tropical astrology the union of Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus in April will possess a similar quality of breakthroughs and exciting opportunities. The New Moon in Aquarius will jumpstart the inventive and liberating meaning of Jupiter and Uranus, as the Aquarius Moon will be moving in between Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus, the exaltation of the Moon. The Aquarius Moon will be separating from a stimulating square with Jupiter and applying to a galvanizing square aspect with Uranus, creating an electrifying atmosphere for the lunation that will require making space for the lightning strikes of Zeus and his grandfather Ouranos. Listen closely to your dreams and the omens of your daily journeys, opening with reception to the sudden messages that can spark important new ideas to develop or changes in direction that need to be considered.
Making the lunation even more potent is the presence of Pluto in Aquarius. The Aquarius New Moon is the first lunation to share the same sign as Pluto in Aquarius since 1798, and combined with Mercury in Aquarius having recently formed a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius on 4 February, the Aquarius New Moon will initiate important new storylines and relationships that will be part of the long story arc of Pluto in Aquarius that will be playing out during the next twenty years. Pluto in Aquarius has consistently brought radical changes in leadership, power dynamics, and worldviews within global events, possessing a decentering force that has at times overturned longstanding conceptions of consensus reality. There have been numerous storylines in current events and technological invention foreshadowing some of the larger changes that will take shape, but we are obviously at too early of a stage to know where Pluto in Aquarius is clearly leading. For now take note of what you sense is beginning to change with a willingness for experimentation, leaning into the aspects that bring inspiring sources of new life, interest, and invention.
The major reason to focus on the forward momentum of exciting goals is that all of the planets are moving direct. Since Uranus stationed direct soon after the recent Full Moon in Leo, all of the planets will continue to maintain forward momentum until the beginning of April when Mercury will station retrograde. Fittingly, paying attention to the swift motion of Mercury during the darkness of the Aquarius New Moon will be key. Mercury is presently moving at its fastest speed having disappeared into its invisible solar phase en route to its superior conjunction with the Sun that will take place on 28 February. As the lunar cycle waxes into the Full Moon in Mercury's domicile of Virgo on 24 February, Mercury will thread a needle in between Jupiter and Uranus. Mercury will form a catalytic square aspect with Jupiter on 10 February followed by another square with Uranus on 16 February. The week of Mercury bridging Jupiter and Uranus will be a source of mental seeds that can eventually grow into towering works of imagination. "...
