A Meditation for the Aquarius New Moon and Aquarius Six-Planet Stellium of February 2021

We are not just our Sun signs. We contain multitudes – and that extends to the Zodiac. We are all the signs. We are especially the signs bursting at the seams with planets.

The February 2021 Aquarius stellium is six planets strong. There we find the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, newcomer Venus, and very recently, the New Moon.

An astrologer on Twitter – I sadly can’t remember who, someone tell me – noted strong resonances between events and themes of their 2017 life and now.

I have Aquarius rising in my chart. It’s a key placement, and a massive moment, to be an Aquarian person in the age of Aquarius. In the week of the six-planet Aquarius stellium, I got a lot of that throwback-to-2017 energy.

I got booked for a nude model photo shoot, and it went really well. 2017 was the year I really leaned into life as a nude photo model.

I reconnected with a dear friend I hadn’t seen in a year, in a way that I haven’t since 2017. 

I might be doing rope art again.

I’m performing on a stage again.

Saturn rules Aquarius. Saturn is about hard-won wisdom. The patterns we repeat that block us until we grow through them and outgrow them.

Saturn in Aquarius is a homecoming. Saturn in Aquarius reins in the risk of excessive dreaming, especially when deep foundations are not yet in place. Today, 11th Feb in unceded Kulin Nation, Melbourne, Chiron in Aries (ruled by Mars in Taurus) sextiles this Aquarian Saturn. I find that this tells me I need to work on rethinking and healing my relationship with words, as my natal Chiron is in Gemini. To create space in my words for other people’s words – without diminishing my contributions or their offers. To use my words to create space for mending relationships that have been marked by pain. Mercury retrograde in Aquarius calls me to take all the time it takes to discern what’s worth making space for. What’s worth doing is worth slowing down for.

Creating space: what an Air Sign thing to do.

Having this stellium at the start of the year can make it easy to feel overly ambitious. New year, new start. This new job, this new business, this new house, this new love.

This stellium in a Saturn-ruled sign asks: how truly new are these “new beginnings”? “I’ll move on to a new job” begs the question of “what are we moving from?” and also “is there a chance I’m getting more of the same, it’s just packaged differently?” Not saying don’t do it! Please leave a toxic job, I beg you! But how many times have I found myself swearing something would be different, only to find myself in the same existential frustration a few months later?

The genius of Aquarius knows that insanity is mindless repetition that leaves you working up a sweat, fantasising about being a medallist, only to find you’ve been running in place.

Psychoanalysts know that the past never leaves us. And also, that the past doesn’t have to condemn us.

Stuck is not the only option.

You can be with the same person you’ve loved these past 17 years and still be bringing the power of Aquarian honesty into the ways your love continues to break patterns and find itself stronger, deeper, more playful, more passionate, than during the honeymoon energies of your first few weeks together.

You can be working in the same industry but bringing new energy through your commitment to self-discipline and self-mastery, through listening and learning from diverse resources, staying humble and caring, instead of chasing flash, accolades, false status and LinkedIn swagger.

You can be working in the same industry and elevate it through your presence. Making your difference visible, Showing that being different (be it ethnicity, gender, disability, age, etc) is fucking awesome. They think you’re a charity case – show them you’re a boss. This starts with you though. Jupiter in Aquarius calls you to faith. Do you believe you’re the boss? Do you believe, on a mitochondrial level, that you really got this?

A variation on this theme: It can be tempting, at this time, to believe that you can have it all – especially if you have strong Aquarian placements or aspects. I’ve found my mind feeling faster than the speed of light these days.

I remind myself I’ll never have all the time to do everything I want to do, exactly as I’d like to. Life is the fine art of prioritising. Negotiating. Discerning. Committing. And then trusting the universe.

No matter how stifling things have felt, especially in the past year, we all can put ourselves through the discomfort of truly growing, and find wiser, kinder, fairer ways of loving ourselves, and making lasting changes in a world that needs lasting changes.

Let’s navigate this Aquarian energy together. Book a birth chart reading with me here.