Aquarius! Aquarius!

If you are familiar with the song Aquarius: Let The Sun Shine In by the Fifth Dimension from 1969 you know the Age of Aquarius was envisioned as an idyllic time when the sun would shine and all would be right with the world. I was fourteen years old the first time I heard it and it's been playing on my inner stereo for the past few weeks. The jury is still out on the state of the world during the Age of Aquarius; I'm not sure it has been decided yet exactly when the Age of Aquarius began.

This year the Sun entered visionary, future-oriented Aquarius on January 20th and joined six other planets already there, including the planetoid Chiron, which has been back in Aquarius for the past year, for the first time in its fifty-year cycle since 1960. The slow moving planet of spirituality and illusion, Neptune, has been in Aquarius since the late 1990s.

Aquarius rules astrology and is the sign on of my natal Ascendant and my Chiron. When the Sun left my 12th house, which is the house of the subconscious and of undoing and crossed the degree of my Ascendant I began my personal New Year. With the Sun now in my 1st house of emerging, new beginnings, fresh starts and physical action I notice my energy shifting as it does each year at this time as if dawn had finally arrived after a long, long dark night.

Everyone has a personal New Year's Day when the Sun dawns on the Ascendant in their natal chart. Knowing this information about your natural timing cycle is one key to working with your personal energy cycles and the fine art of good timing.

The Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Chiron and Venus currently rubbing shoulders and sparking fresh ideas and ways of seeing things, with an Aquarian twist, makes this is a great time for starting something new, especially if it involves something is ruled by Aquarius: computers, innovation, invention, genius, the unexpected, humanitarians, technology, electricity, groups, friends, goals, aspirations.

Aquarius is the sign that rules wishes, making this a perfect time to think outside the box and aim high with your intentions and plans for the weeks and months ahead. As it said on a t-shirt I once saw, "Don't let the sky limit you."