Witness To Our Value

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February gives birth to our awakening in a deeper appreciation of our value. The Sun illuminating our individuality and Venus weighing what we value are in the sign of Aquarius, the water bearer and great awakener. Together, the Sun and Venus are pointing a celestial finger to originality and innovation as the keys to unlocking our appreciation of our value and guiding us in using our personal resources to achieve our goals. The Sun in Aquarius is challenging each of us to become more conscious of our individual contribution to humanity. Venus in Aquarius is  encouraging  each of us to appreciate our value and the  unique gift our individual life is contributing to humanity. Human consciousness, including our personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, embodies every thought, feeling, and action of humankind, and as such, our every thought, feeling, and action  is contained within. Whether we are enriching, polluting, or something between, our individual contribution to life continually gives form to humanity and the experience of being human.

From February 1 -10 Venus and Saturn are in mutual exchange, which means that Venus is in Aquarius the sign that Saturn rules and Saturn is in Libra the sign that Venus rules.  This exchange is focusing our attention on the scaffolding supporting our values and the structures defining our personal and professional relationships. Saturn in Libra is helping us use our personal resources to contribute something of lasting value in the world and Venus in Aquarius is adding freshness to our relating with others making us more receptive than usual to the unusual and unexpected in our relationships. Venus, goddess of love, holds a celestial mirror reflecting our self-worth and with the crystal clarity of Aquarius Venus’ mirror is showing us as we truly are.

When we are under the influence of the bright face of Aquarius our minds are open and spacious, our thoughts free of the  limitations imposed by our past, and our gaze looks toward the future. The shadow face of Aquarius is our intellectual rigidity and mental hording of knowledge in our attempt to secure what we own and what has value to us. This month we can break free from the mental obstructions that isolate, segregate, even denigrate  our true value. Whether it be naively thinking that everyone thinks as we do, or belligerent resistance  to the ideas of others demanding that they think the same as we do, the goal this month is to  give wings to our mind, flight to our imagination, daring to our thinking, and escape the gilded bars of our mental cage.

On February 27 our imagination will be at its peak when Mercury and Neptune conjoin in Aquarius showering  our originality and innovation with inspiration. Our creativity is rebelling against the authority of tradition and our imagination against rigid definition. This month we will realize something about ourself that may enhance our resources in some unexpected way.  At the same time, as Venus approaches a conjunction with Uranus in Pisces we may need to be weary of trying to define a relationship in our life that might benefit from an unstructured, organic flowing of form and substance.

From February 1-4 Saturn and Pluto continue their intense warfare as Saturn’s preserving, securing, and restricting battles Pluto’s eliminating, destroying, and transforming traditional structures in our life. This is not an easy transit to manage without challenge to  our authority, which is just as well, considering that February is helping us break free from our inner authority  condemning  our self-worth and achievements in life.

Mars in Leo is retrograde throughout the month and sharing a sextile with Saturn on the 13, 14 and 15 suggests a possible creative resolution to a past action that created isolation and separation to a significant relationship. We may have to wait until Mars stations direct on March 10 before taking corrective action but we can use the time before in contemplation and preparation. Mars stations retrograde every two years giving us the opportunity to re-discover our past actions to better understand how we manifest our desires and handle conflict in our life.  Mars Rx in Leo suggests a rediscovery of what our past actions have created, a reckoning of what our creative potential can actualize, and our realization that in every action we take we are witness to our self-value.