By Len Wallick
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see”
— from “A Course In Miracles”
Overnight tomorrow, for most of those reading this, the luminaries conjoin to exact the Aquarius New Moon. Almost exactly 24 hours later, the Sun reaches the mid-point of Aquarius. Conjunct both these events to the degree will be the planet Mars. That will be the subject of our blog today.
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Here it is the first day of the second month of our year 2011. The initialization of any month has taken on the implication of a new beginning or threshold. Rent and bills are due at about this time and many the budget or deadline takes this date into account. This year, as if to once again emphasize the theme of transition and continuum, astrology is synchronizing as well and more than usual.
The Gregorian calendar commonly in use during our era does not often correspond to astrological events. The notable exception would be the cardinal points of tropical astrology, the solstices and equinoxes which fall on more or less the same day every year. Indeed it was the intent of Pope Gregory XIII to keep the secular calendar and religious events synchronized with the seasons, using the power of his office to reform the Julian method of tracking the passage of time used for over fifteen hundred years.
It thus stands to reason that another threshold event would correspond very closely with the first week of February every year. That would be the halfway point between the Capricorn solstice and the Vernal Equinox.