Aquarius 2006

The Aquarius new moon, on Sunday, January 29, is the peak of alignment in awareness. Everything old has been stripped away, and the pressure of winter forces us into the center of our place amidst the pattern of creation. Distilled to our essence, it's the seed germination turning point. From here begins the process of purity's emergence.

This year it is intensified amidst a historic four-way elemental tension, charging us from all sides between grounding in passion (Saturn in Leo), creativity in magnetism (Jupiter in Scorpio), action in fertility (Mars in Taurus) and dreams in awareness (Neptune, with sun and moon, in Aquarius).

Love is at the end of an internalizing period (Venus retrograde). At the quarter moon, February 4-6, more tension breaks between spring fever and dreamy creativity. The full moon on Sunday, the 12th, is the powerful release of new life forged from primal nature at the new moon's peak of visionary awareness. The Year of the Dog has begun.