Today is the New Moon in Aquarius (exact at 4:39 pm EST; you can view the full chart here). This New Moon is happening in the context of Mercury ingressing Pisces (tomorrow) Venus stationing direct in Capricorn (also tomorrow) and retrograde Jupiter opposing Pluto (exact tomorrow, but has been in effect for a while).
All of these factors combine to impart a sense of impending rapid transitions.
Beginning with today, Eric has described today’s New Moon as “a friendly event with a ‘let’s get together’ theme.”
He continues, “This is a beautiful chart for participation in any kind of group or collective experience while expressing your individuality,” adding, “You’re unlikely to be invited to step out, however — you will need to push the issue and see what happens. If you cannot be yourself, you don’t belong there — wherever ‘there’ is.”
Yet the Aquarius New Moon will be followed very closely by Venus stationing, and Venus retrogrades tend to be on the subtle side (compared with, say, Mercury retrogrades). So while the New Moon is about individuality within group participation, tomorrow’s Venus station may warrant some conscious stillness and introspection.
Venus has taken us on a six-week exploration of our values and resources, and of the past — including in the form of old friends and lovers reappearing; the influence of your family on your patterns of relating; your family’s influence on how you feel about love, relating and sex.