The Aquar­ius Full Moon jux­ta­pos­es the ener­gies of Aquar­ius from the Sun that are reflect­ed in Leo by the Moon. The align­ment pos­es this issue: how do you rec­on­cile your need to be inde­pen­dent and free, with your need to be respect­ed and appre­ci­at­ed? If you over-empha­size how free or dif­fer­ent you are, then your life becomes mean­ing­ful only to you; but if you too much fol­low the dic­tates of what brings approval from oth­ers, then you end up being untrue to yourself.

When faced with an oppo­si­tion and a choice, your chal­lenge is real­ly NOT to choose but to take the path of syn­the­sis. The answer here is to hon­or and express your true, unique self while you enjoy the com­pan­ion­ship of those who respect you for that. The noble, spir­i­tu­al path is always the “mid­dle road” of integration.

The Venus/Saturn align­ment lays down a chal­lenge and choice about your self-worth, val­ues, and love. Venus Square Sat­urn reminds you that it is time again to re-exam­ine your self-worth in order to under­stand a choice you must make about values.

In order to have a prop­er rela­tion­ship with any­thing or any­one, you must have a way to con­sid­er what that rela­tion­ship is worth to you. By re-assess­ing your val­ues, by dis­cern­ing what is of mean­ing­ful val­ue with­in your­self, or what you find wor­thy, by doing that you are able to cor­rect­ly assess what val­ue there is for you in that relationship.

So, although it might appear as if you are fac­ing a choice and chal­lenge in your finan­cial life, or in your rela­tion­ship life, the real chal­lenge is to be found with­in: do you under­stand your worth, do you val­ue your­self tru­ly? Do you love your­self unconditionally?

To the extent that you do, to that same extent you have the means to form mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships with the life around you. The chal­lenge now is to re-exam­ine your self-worth, val­ues and love of self by fac­ing square­ly with­in your­self what is right and true and should be re-affirmed, and what might need to be ques­tioned or eliminated.

The con­tent of the chal­lenge this time is between Venus in Capri­corn fac­ing the chal­lenge posed by Sat­urn in Libra. Venus is speak­ing from the voice of tra­di­tion, of time test­ed val­ues and the prac­ti­cal­i­ty of main­tain­ing the sta­tus quo. But Sat­urn in Libra is remind­ing Venus that just because some­thing has last­ed, or has “sta­tus”, or “works”, does not make it true, wor­thy or lov­ing. Sat­urn in Libra asserts the prin­ci­ple that a tru­ly lov­ing rela­tion­ship is based upon a mutu­al under­stand­ing, a dynam­ic equi­lib­ri­um and bal­anc­ing of shared val­ues, and a fun­da­men­tal sense of fair­ness that is found­ed upon an open, con­scious agreement.

Look with­in so as to chal­lenge and ques­tion your assump­tions of what makes you wor­thy, and by doing that you can elim­i­nate those “false” val­ues which lead to less self-love. Look out­ward and exam­ine your rela­tion­ships, in the light of this re-affirmed love of self, and make cer­tain that you do your part to make those rela­tion­ships wor­thy and lov­ing too. 

The Sun rep­re­sents the total poten­tial of your being in this life, your life poten­tial. Nep­tune rules dreams, visions and imag­i­na­tion; it is your capac­i­ty for illu­mi­na­tion. The align­ment of the Sun and Nep­tune reminds you that it is always pos­si­ble to imag­ine what you wish to be, to dream or re-dream your life… and then make it so.

Nep­tune rules your per­cep­tion of your­self and the world around you. You have a vision of what you are and what you face. But it is lim­it­ed by your assump­tions and con­scious­ness of what is real for you. Your real­i­ty, your uni­verse, is always cir­cum­scribed by what you per­ceive. You may share many of these per­cep­tions with oth­ers and your real­i­ty over­laps with theirs.

The align­ment of the Sun (Self) with Nep­tune (Illu­mi­na­tion) allows you to per­ceive the truth that there are mul­ti­ple real­i­ties in and around you. You actu­al­ly live in one uni­verse with­in a “mul­ti­verse”. You have the oppor­tu­ni­ty now to let go of a less­er, more lim­it­ed sense of your­self, at least for a moment or two, and dis­cov­er a more com­plete you with­in a more inte­grat­ed real­i­ty. Now you have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dis­solve, let go, dream great dreams, and move into a new space of self-realization.

This should be famil­iar to you; you do this all the time… when you are sleep­ing. Now, bring that won­drous expe­ri­ence into this wak­ing world so that your dreams can become sub­stan­ti­at­ed. It is con­fus­ing at first, but that is the path to a more com­plete understanding

Remem­ber, the path of spir­i­tu­al illu­mi­na­tion leads from Cer­tain­ty to the dawn­ing of Doubt to a time of Con­fu­sion so that you may final­ly come to Dis­il­lu­sion­ment. It is then, when you have dropped your for­mer assump­tions and cer­tain­ty, that Spir­it will enter in and bring to you Illumination.

If you are cer­tain then you are not pay­ing atten­tion; if you are ques­tion­ing then you are prepar­ing the way; and when you are Faith-Full then you are ful­ly present and know that you can cre­ate what­ev­er you imagine.…and so you shall.

Dream on!

Your mind is steady; your thoughts are ground­ed. Solu­tions to prob­lems that have elud­ed you are avail­able now. You will make a good impres­sion with those that count. Fresh insight com­bined with an author­i­ta­tive foun­da­tion leads to success.

With Mer­cury in Aquar­ius your mind is recep­tive to social ideals, visions of the future and inge­nu­ity; while Sat­urn in Libra pro­vides poise, sta­mi­na and social sen­si­bil­i­ty. Their com­bi­na­tion means you can­not but impress oth­ers… and yourself.

When the stars align, your ideals become the real­i­ty you have always dreamed for. Dream, think…create.     

Div­ing deeply into val­ues is called for today. Supe­ri­or insight about the true nature of love is avail­able to you when you move beyond appear­ances and dis­cov­er what is most heart­felt in rela­tion­ship. With Venus rul­ing val­ues, and Plu­to rul­ing the will-pow­er, this align­ment is all about love and control.

When you val­ue your­self, when you tru­ly love your­self, then and only then do you have the capac­i­ty for self-con­trol. And it is that cen­ter­ing of will that makes it pos­si­ble for you to give your­self will­ing­ly to anoth­er. You can take that step into the space of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, the space that is the meet­ing ground of two hearts, because you have found the love with­in and the will to make a choice.

But the greater mys­tery here is that is only through rela­tion­ship, only when you come togeth­er with anoth­er, can you pen­e­trate beyond the illu­sion­ary self and dis­cov­er your truer self. Because in order to come togeth­er, when we meet one anoth­er in that cru­cible that is rela­tion­ship, we each must sac­ri­fice and sur­ren­der the less­er val­ues between us. We affirm to one anoth­er what we tru­ly share; we re-dis­cov­er and strength­en our greater val­ues which form the true song and sub­stance of our love.

The mys­tery of Venus and Plu­to is that by join­ing with anoth­er more deeply, you end up com­ing clos­er to your own true self. You sur­ren­der your less­er self so that you may meet your high­er self, who is revealed to you by the smile in your lover’s eyes.

So, today, go deep and give your­self to love and find your­self and your love in one another.

Anoth­er very busy day.…Sun and Mars both trine Sat­urn, while Venus Squares Jupiter.

The Sun aligned with Sat­urn denotes an oppor­tu­ni­ty where we find our poten­tial (Sun) and our real­i­ty (Sat­urn) to be in per­fect sync. You shine when you ful­fill your respon­si­bil­i­ties with such capa­bil­i­ty and style! You are com­fort­able in your own author­i­ty. You faced a choice about inner ful­fill­ment and out­er respon­si­bil­i­ty in ear­ly Jan­u­ary; now every­thing has fall­en into place and you know where you stand and what you should do.

Mars trine Sat­urn indi­cates strong, steady progress is being made now. At the end of Decem­ber there was a big chal­lenge as you faced how to go for­ward as you encoun­tered out­ward blocks or inner doubts. Now, the stars are aligned and you move for­ward steadi­ly with enthu­si­asm, pur­pose, dri­ve and deter­mi­na­tion. You have the ener­gy and expe­ri­ence to get the job done. Suc­cess is at hand.

Lat­er in the day, Venus aligns with Jupiter and warns you to be care­ful. You may indulge your­self or give too much of your­self; Remem­ber too much is Too Much! Mod­er­a­tion is beau­ti­ful; less is real­ly more becoming.

Social­ly, Venus in Capri­corn says you must fol­low the prop­er rules, stan­dards and forms with one anoth­er and so main­tain tra­di­tion (and secu­ri­ty); while Jupiter in Aries says it’s a New Day and you must be free to be your­self!  Respon­si­bil­i­ty or Free­dom?  Why, both of course! Respon­si­bil­i­ty is renewed when we dis­cov­er one anoth­er in new forms; Free­dom is pre­served when we hon­or what has always been true.