The Cosmic Story: Aquarius New Moon, January 21, 2023
The Aquarius New Moon occurs today, Saturday January 21, 2023 at 12:53 pm PST/ 3:53pm EST/ 8:53 pm GMT at 01*32’ Aquarius. It is a SuperMoon, meaning that the Moon is very close to the Earth, so we’ll feel its tides moving strongly through us.
This is the same degree of the conjunction of the social planets Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius on December 21, 2020. That conjunction shifted society’s concerns from the material plane (for over 200 years in earth signs) to about 200 years in the social air signs. This shift in our collective attention is echoed in this Aquarius New Moon, which offers another preview of the upcoming transit of Pluto through Aquarius which occurs from 2025-2044. More on this in future newsletters.
The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 2* Aquarius is: An unexpected thunderstorm. Since thunderstorms are intense, there’s something about this symbol which warns us to be prepared for something that could either be devastating or exciting. With Aquarian ruler Uranus, the planet of sudden change, about to turn direct tomorrow, expect the unexpected.
The Sabian symbol for Uranus turning direct at 15* Taurus is: Head covered with a rakish silk hat, muffled against the cold, a man braves a storm. Once again, expect the unexpected! But be prepared, with the right tools and most important with the right attitude. Don’t be afraid to go with the flow. And have fun!
The Gene Key for this degree is # 60: The Cracking of the Vessel. Another symbol of a change that breaks something already established.
This Gene Key deals with the laws and limitations that govern the world of matter. At the lowest common denominator, it is a set of rigid rules that bind and trap us, whether externally or internally. (an example: in the show 1923, the Irish nuns and priests in charge of the Native children have horrific rules and nasty attitudes and beliefs.)
The 60th shadow is Rigidity which leads to Dissolution – Death. It is the rigidity of patriarchy in our times. All structures must go at some point. But when those structures refuse to die out, we suffer from hopelessness. (For a great movie about this, watch Everything, Everywhere All At Once). Isn’t this what we have going on now, with fascists and dictators wanting to keep their power over the people. We are up against this Shadow and we must go through it to get to the promise of Aquarian freedom on the other side.
The question is: what kind of structure do we want to live in. One of limitations, of rigidity? This is what fearful people choose. Or do we choose chaos? This is what dictators use. It seems part of the world has chosen this.
But there is always a third way – what Jung called the Transcendent Function. What if we let a more organic structure shape what we become? What if corporation weren’t people and not only the rich had power? What if work wasn’t as important as a fulfilled life? We probably don’t need most of the things we buy and do. Corporations need us tied up and unbalanced to perpetuate their system. We can bring it down by building a new system along side it. Perhaps when Saturn goes into Pisces on March 7, 2023, we’ll begin to let a structure form organically from within, like crystals in a saline solution.
The gift of the 60th Gene Key is Realism or the common sense of Magic! This is the balance between youthfulness and wisdom, idealism and structure. For our visions to manifest, they need to begin with the basics. The foundational one is structure – forms that will channel the energy of change without dissipating it.
This is where a knowledge of the archetypes can help you shape this realism once you throw off your patriarchal structures. Working consciously with the archetypal energies is exactly what Jung meant when he said that during the Aquarian Age, the archetypes will become consciousness – these are the waters flowing out of the Water Bearer’s jar.
The blessing/Siddhi of the 60th Gene Key is Divine Justice. Or the Merkaba – the chariot of Light which is our living Spirit. While most of us won’t achieve the Siddhi of this Gene Key, we can embrace the realism of magical common sense to get us through the chaos of our times and into a new reality that is waiting for us to birth it.
2023 is the year to enter the chaos of the times consciously (be of the world but not in it) and begin to imagine how we can help create a better future for ourselves and our communities – knowing we have that larger community to help, support and encourage us.
Early 2023 will see us finishing up old business from 2022. By March, the energies will shift into a more gentle, hopeful radiance. Like this year’s Chinese Year of the Rabbit, the fierceness of the past year of the Tiger will give way to a time of reflection, peace, empathy and grounding.
And let that peace and contentment begin in your body. Isn’t it time to stop punishing our bodies for not being ‘perfect’ and start listening to what our body has to say for itself. The Body Knows! It knows what it needs. After the pandemic’s disruption and shutdowns, the body needs to stretch and move and re-balance. Our ego’s job is to listen to its needs.
This New Moon in Aquarius is conjunct Pluto at the last few degrees of Capricorn, bringing forward a new vision for the future as our patriarchal social systems go through their final breakdown. Pluto will travel back and forth over the last degrees of Capricorn and the first degrees of Aquarius during 2023-2024 before entering and staying in Aquarius from 2025-2044. Last time Pluto was in Aquarius was during the years after the American Revolutionary war when our founders wrote the Constitution. Maybe it’s time to revisit our Constitution and clarify what a living democracy looks like. Nothing is once and for all. Something living is always evolving, and if corporations can be ‘declared’ living beings, then it’s obvious that something as precious as our Constitution must be ‘living’. And therefore evolving.
At this New Moon, Venus is coming up to conjunct Saturn in Aquarius on Sunday January 22, 2023. Venus wants to make sure that Saturn integrates her values into his ideas of social justice.
The Sabian symbol for Saturn and Venus at 25* Aquarius is: A butterfly with the right wing more perfectly formed. What a perfect image of this conjunction, taking the feeling values of Venus and integrating it into our social consciousness. And making it beautiful.
Jupiter in Aries forms a nice sextile to both the New Moon and to Mars in Gemini, which just stationed direct January 12, 2023. Jupiter in Mars’ sign of Aries brings a nice balance of fire to the airy trine between Mars and the New Moon. This fiery inspiration and dynamism brings passion and energy into whatever new visions have been brewing in us.
But it’s still not time to rush ahead with our ideas and plans. Mercury in Capricorn, which just turned direct on January 18, 2023, makes an inconjunct to Mars in Mercury-ruled Gemini and squares Jupiter in Aries. Our ideas need to settle down before we can really begin to articulate them. Just let things percolate until Spring Equinox.
Entrance
Whoever you are: in the evening step out
of your room, where you know everything;
yours is the last house before the far-off:
whoever you are.
With your eyes, which in their weariness
barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold,
you lift very slowly one black tree
and place it against the sky: slender, alone.
And you made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence.
And as your will seizes on its meaning,
tenderly your eyes let go. . . .
Rainer Maria Rilke
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This year is a time of transition, a change in the cosmic energy radiance that will help us catch our breaths and get into our bodies to meet our destinies. Each year we choose how we engage in our life, either by wasting those months in unconscious behaviors or by growing our awareness by consciously dealing with our life. And happily, each new turn of the Wheel gives us a new chance at growth and evolution.
Sometimes, some years, our destinies sleep and dream. And then suddenly, our destiny wakes up and hands us the thread of our lives to do something with. When we live our life in harmony with all of nature – including the planets – we learn to know and understand those rhythms, to be patient with our Being so we know when our Doing is necessary. Sometimes we just have to take care of the business in front of us. Sometimes we have to reach for the stars. Our cosmic call will come when we’re needed. Our job is to prepare ourselves for it by living wisely.
I am offering a discount of 25% on solar return/annual perfection readings for your birthday to help you develop a blueprint for the year ahead.
Each birthday begins a new cycle of life for us, and these readings will be focused on how your energies are in play for the year and what direction they’re pointing you in. A little objective direction in the chaos is always helpful.
I’m working with an old/new technique called Annual Perfections which can predict where your energy will be focused for the year. It points to the aspect of life that will concern you and how your energies will support or distract from it.
Beginning with those of you who are Capricorns, Aquarians and Pisceans, my $140 reading will be $105.
If you want a reading, please email me at info@cathypagano.com to set up an appointment. I’ll need your birth data: date, time, place.
Birthdays from
December 21, 2022 to January 20,2023 – Capricorns
January 20, 2023 to February 18, 2023 – Aquarians
February 18, 2023 to March 20, 2023 – Pisceans
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