New Moon in Aquarius

The moon's birthing journey in Saturn's icy realm, Aquarius, is like exploring an underground cave deep in the wintertime. It's not one that you accidentally stumble upon. It's a trip that you meticulously research and plan. Maybe you’re compelled by the harrowing overwhelm of too-much-ness of everything. So instead of the usual aimlessness, you turn your focus on preparing for something like a cave exploration, just to feel like you have a sense of direction for once. Nothing about this is casual or easy. And that’s the point.

New Moon at 9° Aquarius on January 29, 2025, at 4:35 am PT

The New Moon in Aquarius highlights the gift and the curse of being different. Difference is a gift because contrast provides tension and excitement. Some enjoyable experiences require the heat of friction. Difference is a curse because it can be isolating. It spotlights how you don’t belong. How lonely it feels.

Before the Moon joins an exiled Sun, it first meets with a conjoined Mercury and Pluto. This is where the purposeful and well-thought-out underground journey starts. Mercury and Pluto bring an intensity of focus, to the point of obsession. The sense of difference feels visceral and can compel you towards materializing this experience so it can be ultimately useful. Mercury loves to unpack and make sense of things. Pluto intensifies whatever it touches. Together, they can help you understand what is causing the infection so you can find a cure.

The life-giving luminaries (Sun and Moon) coming together signals a new start. The new beginning is set to bloom and blossom for the next half a year. And as it culminates into its full expression in the next six months, it wraps up and falls away for the final six months thereafter, closing the year-long cycle.

I made you a tarot spread for this New Moon in Aquarius:

What is your Aquarius House according to your Rising Sign:

Aquarius Rising: 1st House

Pisces Rising: 12th House

Aries Rising: 11th House

Taurus Rising: 10th House

Gemini Rising: 9th House

Cancer Rising: 8th House

Leo Rising: 7th House

Virgo Rising: 6th House

Libra Rising: 5th House

Scorpio Rising: 4th House

Sagittarius Rising: 3rd House

Capricorn Rising: 2nd House

My tarot spread is meant to guide you in welcoming this new change that’s probably already here. Tarot for me has always been a grounding ritual that helps me get out of my tendency to intellectualize the astrology. Conversing with the tarot oracle feels like dipping my head into a body of water where I can see through portals, another dimension, another shape of reality (Big Star Energy). Go ahead and try it to welcome this New Moon in Aquarius! To welcome a timeline, no matter how dreadful, is a ritual of intention. A way to root down your presence. A way to say, you are here and you will move through this unfolding time. Tag me on @charmastrology (IG) if you want to share your cards.

After the New Moon completes, they make their way towards an exiled Jupiter in Gemini. From one exiled planet (Sun in Aquarius) to another (Jupiter in Gemini), they revel in their difference and distance from home. In so many ways, part of the gift of being different, of being farthest from home, is you meet other beings who are also finding their way through belonging after being separated from where they come from.

I hope this New Moon reminds you that the disconnection you’ve experienced is a choice you can recreate. Nothing can change the history of your exile but you can forge new experiences that bring your soul back towards belonging, towards togetherness. This will always be the antidote against the festering wounds that are abundant in our current timeline (not just current tbh, from time immemorial!).

Resist the colonial version and glamour of individuality. When the problems of our world feel insurmountable, to think you are alone in this is the goal of the colonizer. To think that you alone must fix the world’s problems is a colonizer mindset. This way of existing breeds hopelessness and isolation. The medicine we need is in belonging, in being together - this New Moon is a reminder of this. Violent apocalypses unfold simultaneously, eternally. Administering the medicines to heal through the apocalypses also happens simultaneously, perpetually. We need multiple types of medicine to heal, the same way that there are many birds in the sky and trees in the forest. Think of timelines as not just now but in scales of generations, hundreds and thousands of years from now. Keep returning to hope and belonging, despite your exile. Happy New Moon!

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