{"id":73543,"date":"2014-01-20T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=73543"},"modified":"2014-01-19T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T04:29:58","slug":"sun-in-aquarius-looking-ahead-through-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-in-aquarius-looking-ahead-through-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun in Aquarius; looking ahead through the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun ingressed Aquarius at 10:51 pm EST last night. What exactly does the Sun in Aquarius mean? We can start with its ruling planets for clues.<\/p>\n

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Fort Sumner Park, Portland, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturn is the traditional ruler, which Aquarius shares with Capricorn. Along with Aquarius’ status as a “fixed” sign (as opposed to cardinal or mutable), Saturn is part of what gives people born under this sign their tendency to crystallize their beliefs and ideas, and it gives innovations made under a strong Aquarius signature their staying power.<\/p>\n

A prime example is the Internet, which grew from academic novelty to household necessity during the time that Uranus was in Aquarius — and Uranus is the modern ruler of Aquarius.<\/p>\n

Uranus is the spark, the experiment, the “Hey, what if\u2026?” Uranus is also part of what gives Aquarius its stamp of individuality even though it’s the sign of groups. After all, a group is really made up of individuals — although modern society often makes that hard to discern, favoring herd mentality and conformity over true interchange between fully individuated people.<\/p>\n

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To quote Eric, “Aquarius people are the discriminating embracers of innovation that works.” That’s great as far as getting things moving in the right direction; but after a certain point, what was once an innovation can become fixed, static, institutionalized — and resistant to change. Such is the case of such fixed systems as political structures and religion; once entrenched, they can be hard to get rid of. The same goes for marketing which, like politics and religion, seeks to co-opt individual identity for the sake of group conformity.<\/p>\n

Even so, Eric has also written that, “In its highest state, Aquarius is about a meeting of individuals who recognize themselves as such. It is driven by social responsibility and a devotion to service. Aquarius has a natural sense of humanity and as such is deeply humanitarian.”<\/p>\n

That is the ideal you can hold as your template for the next month, beginning today. You can also begin orienting yourself around a couple other astrological markers this week. <\/p>\n

For one, Mercury enters its ‘echo’ or ‘shadow’ phase Wednesday. This is the span of time during which Mercury ‘previews’ the territory through which it will be retrograde in coming weeks. As it does so, it can relays ‘echoes from the future’; that is, messages that will come through again in some form when it retrogrades and then travels direct again through the same stretch of zodiac. Mercury will station retrograde Feb. 6 through Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

In addition, Chiron is building to a conjunction with Juno in Pisces, and Mercury is moving into a square with Saturn; both aspects will be exact Saturday but are in effect now. We’ll be exploring both aspects more thoroughly as the week progresses. For now, consider the possibility that Chiron is lending its focusing power to any questions about relationship expectations or jealousy that got a little fogged over by Neptune; Mercury-Saturn lends great mental discipline, but beware of narrow-mindedness or a lack of vision.<\/p>\n

Stay oriented on the humanitarian, innovative consciousness offered by the Sun in Aquarius, and don’t be afraid to admit when it’s time for a pattern to change.<\/p>\n

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