Aquarius season is delivered
within hours of a total lunar eclipse in Leo. Yes, we are in the throes of
another eclipse season! This eclipse marks the close of a year and a half
of eclipses on the Leo-Aquarius axis. It’s been a year and a half of exploring
our authority and heart-felt creativity in concert with our responsibility to
our communities and our ability to take one for the team. In our personal lives
and on the world stage issues of recognition and ego were pit against humble
service and our dedication to tradition was challenged by our need to innovate.
This last eclipse wraps up these issues and lessons and asks, “how’s all that
working for you?”
Wherever you are with it, and
however it landed for you, it’s time to move on. Here’s a poem I wrote at the Aquarius
eclipse a couple of years ago. I think it’s just as valid for our current
eclipse.
Your
Horoscope for The Partial Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius, August 2017
This full moon is where you find
your line
break. Your page
break. Where you break
with something, someone, somewhere,
some
idea from your past
inspired by a picture
you can’t get out
of your head.
You’ll know where needs
breaking.
It’s the place that pinches.
It’s the place that bulges and rips
your stitches.
This picture
that’s big
in all the ways
you cannot be
until it breaks
you.
Aquarius is a challenge to embody because it
likes being out of body. It’s hard to bring it into the now because it likes
the future. It’s about breaking with the material world and everything we think
we know.
It’s about going beyond.
Aquarius is also about circulation and the continual
need to swap out the old for the new. Nowhere is this more evident than the
circulatory system: the movement of blood and oxygen to the many organizations
and “communities” in the body.
The star of circulatory system is the heart but
the for the heart to be of any use it needs to work with a complex system of arteries,
vessels, and way stations: most importantly the calves. Commonly referred to as
the second heart, the system of muscles, veins, and valves in the calf and foot
work together to push deoxygenated blood back up to the heart and lungs.
And what joint do you think is responsible for
the calf muscle’s ability to pump? Depending on the flexibility and stability
of the (humble) ANKLE JOINT we can more or less successfully “talk back” to the
heart with our lower leg muscles.
Aquarius wants to show us how the seemingly
small or insignificant IS important to the whole. It wants us to know that the
health of an entire organism (or group or country) is dependent on everyone
doing their unique part.
It’s no coincidence that Leo rules the heart,
which is Aquarius’ axial counterpart. Literally and metaphorically speaking, if
the heart (the star, the king) and the rest of the body (the masses, the
workers) aren’t talking to each other we’re dead. You can refresh your memory
about Leo here.
Join Margherita Tisato and I as we prep for Aquarius
season by circulating our own unique genius throughout our entire bodies…and
beyond.
Body Astrology Aquarius takes place at Juniper
at 7PM, Wednesday January 23rd. Please sign up before the 23rd
to reserve your spot. We are no longer taking walk-ins.
EMBODIED Aquarius
Body
parts: ankles,
calves, shins, and circulatory system
Key
words:
The Group: the community, society, populace, humanity,
democracy, egalitarian, collective, friends, dissemination, universal,
fellowship, colleagues, allies, comrades, cooperatives, organizations, members,
circulation
The Dissenter: the rebel, the revolutionary, the
progressive, dismantle, the original, unique, unusual, non-traditional,
eccentric, freedom, liberation, radicalism, alien, unconventional, disruption,
breaking up, distinctive, upheaval, deviant
The Ideal: awakening, ideas, perspective, genius,
brilliance, experimental, scientific, reform, non-personal, detached, invention,
innovation, paradigms, vision, prototype, utopian, breaking through, the aha moment,
epiphany, unorthodox, higher mind
The Future:
new, prescient, electric, technological, advancement, potential,
harbinger, ahead of its time, pre-cognitive, extrasensory, science-fiction,
predictive, divinatory, extra-terrestrial, seminal, frontrunner, game changer,
tide turner, breaking with the past, unprecedented, ground breaking, novel,
avant garde, the vanguard, unpredictable, change
Polarity: Yang. Energy that moves
outward for the purpose of breaking the constraints of time and the material
world.
Modality/Element: Fixed Air. In the northern
hemisphere this is the dead of winter. This energy stabilizes and concentrates
the mental and immaterial realm.
Ruled
by:
Saturn and Uranus. The symbol is the water bearer. Traditionally, a human
pouring water from a vessel.
Embodied
explorations:
Stretch, strengthen, and
massage your calves and shins. I really enjoy deep squats for checking in with
openness in the lower leg.
Open and stabilize the ankle
joint. I enjoy balance exercises to reveal where the ankles might be unstable.
Feel how the leg muscles
quickly increase heart rate and respiration and practice bringing the heart
rate back down through breathing and softening.
Cardio!
Hot baths or saunas. Feel the
heart pumping blood throughout the body and under the skin.
Self massage tools like foam
rollers, massage balls or dry brushing to stimulate blood flow.
Identify all the things you
have in common with the various people in your communities and also note what
makes you unique. How can you use your unique abilities for the good of the
group?
Explore impulses that
encourage experimentation or deviate from the traditional or the expected. How
well do you deal with surprise?
When you’re in a creative
process, how clearly and with how much detail can you envision what you’d like
to create? Can you put those details into words, sounds, movements, feelings or
images?
How easy or difficult is it
for you to connect with your intuition? Do you feel as if you have other ways
of obtaining knowledge outside of your 5 senses? Improvisation games, tarot
card practice, astrology exploration and automatic writing are all great ways
to tap into other ways of knowing.