All About Aquarius: Astrology for the Week of February 1st, 2021

​First, things first, just this weekend, Mercury has stationed retrograde, beginning it's review of the Aquarian degrees it has passed over since January 16th.  It will station direct on February 20th. ​

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Mercury RX Reminders: 

• Communications will be slowed down now as we go through this time of review with Mercury going back to find something it may have lost or missed along its recent path. 
• Mercury rules the mind and messages.  Aquarius is about reform, innovation, liberation, and the future - Aquarius has a connection with technology so watch out for tech devices getting lost, broken, or somehow malfunctioning. 
• Both Mercury and Aquarius are associated with the element of air which is words, thoughts, ideas, logic, and reason. One of the main signatures of 2021 is the energy of Aquarius. 
• Although we are in Aquarius season now, with sun and Mercury in the sign together and Venus close behind, Saturn and Jupiter both beginning their transits of the sign back on December 21st with a conjunction at zero degrees, and then Saturn making three squares from Aquarius to Uranus in Taurus over the course of this year really imprint this year with Aquarian vibes. Mercury is the mind, and so having its first retrograde of 2021 here is actually helping us get to understand this energy better, and this is a good thing.

Important Mercury RX Dates: 

• Mercury will be cazimi (conjunct the sun, also known as "in the heart of the sun"), on February 8th.  This is the part of the retrograde when our planet is said to be "sitting in the throne room of the king," meaning it is getting a "special audience" with the sun, light of consciousness. This is our "aha moment" of the retrograde. 
• Mercury will square Mars on February 10th, which can bring confrontation, arguments, or words that cut, but at the same time its aligning with the north and south node of the moon (in Gemini and Sagittarius, respectively) so there's an element of fate/destiny and this is supportive.  Just watch the temper while Mars is involved, especially with Mercury in reverse. 
• After that, Mercury retrograde has quite the sweet run up through Valentine's Day, meeting up with Venus (!) on the 13th and then Jupiter on the 14th, the two planets known for bringing blessings.  
• Mercury will station direct on February 20th.

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And, that's right, if Mercury retrograde will be making a conjunction with Venus for Valentine's Day, that means Venus must be moving into Aquarius.  This week kicks off with Venus leaving Capricorn and entering Aquarius to join the sun, Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter, on Monday, February 1st, and with the moon in Libra, Venus' sign, that will be giving Monday and Tuesday really strong Venus vibes!  (Details in the daily notes of the Know to Flow weekly forecast - to subscribe click here.) 

Venus is one of the two benefics (planets that bring blessings), along with Jupiter.  Wherever Venus goes, pleasure and beauty follow.  (That means whatever house Aquarius rules in your chart is where Venus is going to be bringing her gifts until February 25th when she enters Pisces.)  Venus in astrology represents love and money.  This is the planet of relationship, values, and self-worth.  When Venus is in Aquarius, that means it will be expressing through the energy of that sign.  Aquarius is an air sign, and known for logic, detachment, and it's aversion to the status-quo.  This means we might favor the unusual, eccentric, and weird now over romantic.  Intellectual connections will be the thing now in all of our relationships.  Ideas and innovation rule, and we might need more freedom, spontaneity, and fresh air in all things love and money oriented. 

The other thing this week is on Thursday the 4th, when we arrive at the last quarter moon, our halfway point between the full moon and coming new moon, and the second choice point of the lunar cycle known as a "crisis in consciousness."  This is when we decide what ideas and beliefs we won't be carrying forward based on whatever illumination and realization the full moon a week ago has brought.

We will spend the next week releasing and clearing based on this decision as we prepare for the coming new moon.  (And that coming new moon IS the Aquarius new moon, and with this year being a year strong in Aquarius energy, that's a very important one for this year, so the clearing process over this week and next is key.)

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Taken from the Know to Flow Weekly Forecast for Consciously Creating Life, Vol. 95, Week of February 1st, 2021.  Subsctribe at kaseyford.com/newsletter.

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