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Aquarius New Moon: February 13-14, 2010

Planting the People’s Vision of the Future

The Aquarius New Moon occurs on February 13, 2010 at 6:51pm Pacific/9:51pm Eastern, and February 14 at 2:51 am GMT.

A new Moon is a beginning time, a time to plant symbolic seeds that will grow in the coming moon cycle. Aquarius is the sign of the zodiac which represents the Collective Mind, group consciousness and archetypal patterns, such as the Liberator or the Genius, as well as the guiding ideals of the group mind, such as Freedom and Individuality.

Aquarius is a fixed air sign and so it releases energy focused on a fixed purpose. “Aquarius releases the energy of Capricorn and represents civilization expanding or reforming itself through its inventors, seers and revolutionaries.” (D. Rudhyar, Pulse of Life). It represents archetypal ideals, such as Justice, Peace, Courage, Love, etc.

The New Moon in Aquarius is the energetic time of year to plant seeds of ideas and ideals that will benefit all of us in the future. This year this is a vitally important activity. This new Moon falls near America’s Aquarian Moon, which represents the People and their needs. What values do we want to live by? What virtues need renewing? What new ideas come out of naming those qualities that you feel represent the best in humanity? How can we evolve our cultural institutions to meeting our changing vision?

This Aquarius New Moon is conjoined Chiron and Neptune. Last year 3 planets came together in Aquarius around this degree, opening us to: Chiron, healing energy; Jupiter, the enlarging vision; and Neptune, the Creative Imagination. Neptune stays in a sign for 14 years, and during that time, it initiates a new collective ideal of the highest good that's related to the sign it's in. Jupiter expands this ideal and makes it a guiding principle for us, while Chiron heals the old wounds that keep us from believing in the possibilities of a better future. These planets combined to ignite visions of a better, healed future that might finally incorporate the ideals of our Founding Fathers and Mothers. The cosmic clock is ticking – it’s time for humanity to take a leap in consciousness.

This New Moon marks the beginning of the process of dispersion of these new healing visions into the collective mind. Our feeling of unity is growing; many of us know that we are all in this together - humans, Earth, animals, oceans, atmosphere. (Take a look at the documentary – The Cove. www.takepart.com/TheCove).

Uranus, one of the rulers of Aquarius, is at 25*Pisces: After drastic reforms, a purified clergy officiates anew. This is one of the symbols which influences this New Moon. The symbol stands for a rededication to spiritual ideals and the dissolution of ego-desires in service to others, as well as the ‘purifying’ of social corruption.

The other ruler of Aquarius is Saturn, now at 4* Libra: Pilgrims gather around a campfire in silent communion. This symbol which also influences the New Moon, clearly calls the pilgrims of the world to gather in silent communion (see the Aquarian Experiment below).

So during this new Aquarian cycle, we can plant the seeds of a new, compassionate vision of world unity if we rededicate ourselves to spiritual principles and gather together in harmony and communion.

Both Venus and Jupiter are in Pisces, inspiring us with faith, hope and universal love. Hopefully these planets will keep us actively aware of the plight of Haiti so we continue to open our hearts in response to the needs of others. We obviously need this lesson before we can achieve any kind of world peace and unity. Compassion for our fellow ‘beings’ – human or otherwise - and for the Earth.

Mars at 5*Leo and Saturn at 4* Libra form a Yod, or Finger of God, with Venus/Jupiter. This configuration demands a change in perspective. With Venus and Jupiter at the focal point, it activates a desire to adopt another world view which puts us in alignment with our spiritual nature and allows us to connect with others.

Both Neptune and Chiron are at 27*Aquarius: Violets and forget-me-nots in an old, earthen bowl. This beautiful symbol shows us what is possible when we let the Feminine Spirit contain us. It signifies being faithful to a unified new perspective on life and the expression of our inner, spiritual nature.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 26* Aquarius is: A mechanic testing the charge of a car battery. I love how mundane this image is. Yet it implies a skill and an understanding of how energy works. How will you use your energy to make-over the world? Why not join us in our Aquarian Experiment and work on your skill at Imagining?

The Aquarian Experiment: The World Garden

Taking all the symbols from this New Moon and weaving their images together into a cosmic story, I came up with an experiment that seems to fit the energies this month.

I invite all of you to participate in an experiment of the Imagination. What will happen if many people focus on planting a Garden in the Imaginal world over a period of time? What kind of connections will be made? Will this kind of connection give rise to mental telepathy or other forms of psychic knowing? It will be an exercise in building your imaginative muscles. It takes repetition and focus.

So why create something in the Imaginal world? Henry Corbin called this plane the ‘mundus imaginalis’ which is just “as real as the world of the senses and of the intellect. This world requires its own faculty of perception, namely imaginative power.”

The Imagination has been stunted, both by the insistence that it's 'only fantasy' and by our modern media.

Imagination also plays an important part in your subjective life, as it gives mobility to your beliefs. It is one of the motivating agencies that helps transform your beliefs into physical experience. It is vital therefore that you understand the interrelationship between ideas and imagination. In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of your mind. The proper use of imagination can then propel ideas in the directions you desire.⁸

^{Jane Roberts, Seth}

I do not know what bounds may be placed on the power of the imagination. It can heal the body, reveal the secrets of divine truth, transform the personality, incarnate God, and open up worlds of infinite diversity and potential.

Jeffrey Raff, Jung and the Alchemical

The imagination is, therefore, not a source of deception and delusion, but a capacity to sense what you do not know, to intuit what you cannot understand, to be more than you can know.

William Irwin Thompson, Gaia, A Way of Knowing

Our Creative Imagination is an organ of perception that each of us can use to energetically unite in a common purpose. If we can do it energetically, we can manifest it in the world. Whether you think of this experiment as a spiritual virtual reality exercise, creating an Aquarian Mindfield or engaging in a group magical visualization, please consider joining us.

This is an experiment – I don’t know how it will turn out. We already know that group meditations work. This experiment requires a sustained effort on our parts. We’re going to imagine planting and then growing a garden, only we’re all going to the same Garden.

After the initial meditation on New Moon Day, we have to go back daily and keep imagining our private gardens until we build them into a solid thought-form in the Imaginal world. That means employing our senses in the vision if possible. Since all our gardens will be part of a communal World Garden, we should be able to share our energies and eventually maybe even communicate with each other. The time you spend meditating and recording your visions will tell you how well your garden is doing.

So if you’re IN, please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldgarden/ where you’ll find instructions on the message board on how to participate, a meditation to use to get to the Garden and why I established this Yahoo group to facilitate sharing on this ‘plane’.

If anyone is interested in helping us bless and ward the World Garden on Friday, February 12^th, before the New Moon, please look for the post titled: Blessing the Garden.

The thing I love about this experiment is that each of us gets to bring our own visions for the future into a shared space, and it will be the combination of many people’s visions that creates the possibility of a new world vision, not an imposed vision.

If people want to come into the Garden after we’ve started this experiment on February 13^th, please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldgarden/and join our group. The instructions will be there.

Bright Blessings,

Cathy Pagano, M.A.