EVOLVING DOOR ASTROLOGY NEWSLETTER

Update for February 13, 2009

New Moon in AQUARIUS
This is a BUSY New Moon in more ways than one! For starters, the New Moon in Aquarius marks the Chinese New Year as we enter the Year of the Metal Tiger. Check out the Low-Down on the Far-Out for some good links to information about Metal Tigers!

In addition, this New Moon also coincides with Valentine's Day, which is either the next day or the same day, depending on where you're located. The Sun is conjunct Neptune and Venus is conjunct Jupiter – what better transits could there be for the Day of Love? :-) The only thing to watch for is that the Sun is also conjunct Chiron, which could either bring an opportunity for healing old wounds or might bring up some old unresolved feelings.

The New Moon itself is in an extremely tight conjunction with Chiron and Neptune, all within less than a degree. If you're leaning a bit too far into either Chiron or Neptune, the other can help you find balance. Neptune can raise the spirits of a discouraged Chiron, and Chiron can bring healing through acceptance of reality to a spaced out Neptune. The sign of Aquarius, where the New Moon occurs, is enigmatic at the best of times without Neptune's or Chiron's help!

What makes this New Moon even more intriguing are the aspect patterns that link the remainder of the planets. There is a Double Yod Key figure, consisting of two interlocking Yods joined together by the Saturn-Pluto square. This is an unusually challenging aspect configuration that demands you master (or at least deal with) the conflict of the square in order to utilize the philosophical nature of the Yods, as well as calming the frustrating dilemma of the Yods.

One of those Yods is also a Focused Yod Kite (a.k.a Boomerang) aspect pattern. It points to retrograde Mars and "boomerangs" back to Mercury, suggesting that a careful awareness of what motivates you, keeps you moving and/or what blocks you from moving forward will help you through the current Mars retrograde. It could also bring up issues about wanting to act as an individual versus needing to plug your head into the "hive mind" of the greater community.http://www.evolvingdoor.ca/lowdown/current/lowdowncurrent.htm

Forecast for February 2010 (All times EST)

by Global Psychics Psychic
Astrologer Phil Reckard
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These forecasts are shifting from a Solar focus to a Lunar/monthly emphasis. The "Sun in Aquarius" for instance will be replaced by forecasts for February, March, and so on. This will be more helpful for folks who ritualize New Moons (new beginnings) and connect them to the Full Moons (completion), which each calendar page for 2010 allows in its proper sequence, a benefit that 2009's calendar did not.

For example, January's New Moon/Solar eclipse on the 15th sees its completion on January 30 at the Leo Full Moon within the same month (for a welcome change). That Solar eclipse featured Venus in the same degree as the Sun and Moon, a rare triple conjunction not seen since 1923. In this case, the magickal Sabian* image of "A nature spirit dancing in the iridescent mist of a waterfall," could be seen as too much lightness and fluff, incomplete and perhaps contradictory to recent events and shifting dynamics, without the sense of completion that a Full Moon can offer.

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