Wednesday 2/2/11--Aquarius new moon

The Aquarius new moon, midwinter in the north (Chinese new year). Peak alignment with our essence, isolated in awareness amidst the pattern of life's interrelationship. It can bring separation and distance, but it's purification under pressure, forcing us into our separate centers, true to our essential nature, key to making lasting connections based in core alignment and mutual development. This is the seed germination turning point, completing a time of distillation solid with our essence, beginning a process of emergence toward a new spring of flowering manifestation.

This year it is especially strong, activated into expression, guided by mentality about where love and harmony really come from. In a new era of deep transformation, with healing and dreams completing their meeting in visionary awareness, we are ready to cast off tension and control and demand the freedom and interdependence essential for healthy humanity. By spring, a break-out of revolutionary creative expression will leave behind all that no longer serves us, ushering in a new day of more sustaining forms. It could bring upheaval, but it will lead to a healthier world.

(Sun, Moon and Mars meet in Aquarius, trine Saturn in Libra. Pluto in Capricorn, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius. On April 3, Sun, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus meet in Aries.)

According to the Mayan Calendar, March 9 begins the final acceleration of the energy wave that has driven the evolutionary development of life on this planet going back to the big bang. It is hard to know what this energy intensification will bring, but it is surely monumental. On October 28, when, according to the traditional count, the process is complete, all nine levels of emerging organization (cellular, mammalian, familial, tribal, regional, national, planetary, galactic and universal) will be fulfilled, and we will move into a world of possibility beyond our imagining. As always, let's give in to nature, endure what it puts us through, and see where it leads.