Saturday Mercury and the Sun arrived in Aquarius, the 11th sign of the zodiac. Aquarius is not a water sign despite beginning with the root ‘aqua’; it is an air sign, depicted by one who carries a jug of water, or who measures the depth of the Nile, or sometimes by the goddess Nut (Nuit).
The Sun and Mercury passing through this sign for the next few weeks will open up the space to consider what it’s about. [Read the sign description of Aquarius here.] I used to think of Aquarius as the sign of ‘all of us here’. It’s the sign of groups, which are subsections of the whole, and once I figured that out I started treating Aquarius as ‘some of us here’.
Whether we’re talking about the caste system, cliquish people or all former members of The Rockettes, society tends to divide itself into exclusive groups and subgroups. A lot is accomplished through these groups and many problems are created. Mentalities and philosophies are perpetuated and strengthened, and some last long past their useful time because some small group of people somewhere thinks they should.
Aquarius accesses a layer of psychic architecture where patterns crystallize, and these patterns are developed into living archetypes as more people focus on them. This sign and the kind of power that it represents are inherently neutral; they respond to whatever they’re infused with. It really is a matter of create what you want or what you can, though Aquarius in part helps explain why, if possible, you want several people getting their minds together to create something.