Sun enters Aquarius shortly after 11 am EST this coming Friday. Where the actual Sun is present, there is light and day. The same truth applies symbolically. You can thus expect that the solar ingress to a new sign will coincide with events that bring new themes to light. In the case of Aquarius, those themes would entail how you think of yourself in relation to the rest of humanity, because Aquarius is where the individual contacts the collective. The process begins today, while Sun is still in Capricorn, with the remembrance of a special human being. The pattern will continue to develop through this week as your consciousness of crumbling cultural constructs eventually yields to your own sense of personal connection.
Today is a holiday in the United States, a day set aside in the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is now nearly 50 years since the Reverend Doctor King re-consecrated the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. with the greatest speech of the 20th Century. His oratory sought to inspire and persuade an entire nation to support a dream. His vision was to make “the riches of freedom and the security of justice” equally available to Americans of African descent. Half a century later we find ourselves in a situation where that dream is not only still withheld from ethnic minorities in America, but also denied to 99 percent of the people in the world. In the year just past, the 99 percent have become conscious of that shameful condition, placing us on the threshold an entirely new relationship between the individual and the collective.
These last days of Sun in Capricorn are illuminating an end to the old relationship between individual and collective. Through no choice of our own, more and more of us are denied entry to meaningful participation in the legal, political and economic systems of the world. Increasingly, the defining principle of human connectivity has become the degree to which nearly all of us are being exploited, mined, and extracted as a source of wealth for the very few. We now identify with each other less often through common allegiance and service to existing power structures. Instead, we more often find a mutual interest in a quest for alternatives. That connection has recently opened to a new level as the 99 percent have compensated for losing the means of production by utilizing enhanced means of communication. It is upon that subject this year’s solar ingress to Aquarius will shed its light.