New Moon in Aquarius
By Molly Hall, About.com
The New Moon in Aquarius is on Saturday, February 13th at 9:51 pm EST. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time is 2:51 am on February 14th). When the Moon is new in Aquarius the Sun is also in Aquarius .
This New Moon is considered auspicious as a doorway to finer cosmic vibes. It's Lunar Imbolc, the first New Moon after Imbolc (February 2). It's time to make wishes based on your highest ideals.
In the Hindu tradition, this New Moon, in the month of Phalguna, is welcomed the night before with Maha Shirvrati, the Great Night of Shiva. Special prayers are said to Shiva, the lord of destruction. It's to commemorate Shiva's cosmic dance that slays apathy, ego-based, and evil thinking. The dance removes the veils of ignorance, so we can connect with the divine.
The New Moon is a time of beginnings. You can set intentions or do a New Moon Ritual that grows with the lunar light and reaches fruition at the Full Moon.
What's in the Air:
•brainstorming innovations
•emotional detachment, but with egalitarian attitude
•global networking for causes, social change
•virtual meditations for peace
•awareness of interconnectivity
•making decisions for the Whole
•glamour and futurism
•shocks to the status quo
•united communities
•Power to the People!
•ahead-of-its-time thinking
•Thoughts are Things.
New Moon in Aquarius themes:
•Upgrade the quality of your thoughts.
•Hit the reset button of your mind.
•Rising above polarizing left/right paradigms.
•divination: divining the future.
•Connecting with like minds, as part of "evolutionary" family.
•Letting go of negative influences on your mind.
•Freeing yourself from mind control.
•Being your own guru, authority, wise one.
•Contributing to the collective visioning process.
It's a Good Time to:
•show appreciation to your colleagues
•join an association, union, club, group or party circuit
•develop a privacy barrier in your virtual life
•meditation, pray, do yoga or any other focused moving art
•fish around your imagination for a genius idea
•break out of your mental boxes
•Shake up your routine, to see life from new angles
•make friends with someone eccentric
•let your own freak flag fly
•join with those creating the future you want to see
•be a visionary
•be a revolutionary
•be free