The Moon is in mind jolting Aquarius all day, and meets with Neptune, the planet that's the keeper of our collective dreams. The Moon and Neptune conjunction may bring on a spacey mood, just right for getting lost in transcendent thoughts. Aquarius is the air sign that takes the jumproom to other realities, and often appears in its own world. This fleeting pair up takes us up, like in a hot air balloon, and we get distance on what's going on below. Neptune is the dissolving planet, making it a day of shattering old thought patterns, and dreaming new dreams. It makes us alert to other ways of seeing, and this sets us up for evolutionary steps forward.
Aquarius is a sign focused on humanity, and it often plucks ideas from the leading edge of what's possible. I've heard astrologers like Ellias Lonsdale say that Neptune in Aquarius makes our minds more permeable. It makes sense, because Neptune reminds us that we're living in a shared illusion, beyond which is we're all part of the same cosmic source. But in the mash up, there is the danger of mass delusions taking hold. We are extremely vulnerable to giving in to collective fears. On the other hand, with Neptune in Aquarius, we're waking up to the box or matrix that keeps us cut off from our divine power. And new visions that are taking hold shoot around the circuitry quickly, they "go viral" and spread to everyone in the human family.
So it's a Aquarius Moonday to consider our thoughts, and what we're broadcasting around. What folks are waking up to, is being shared in a kind of telepathic way, beyond the five senses. This was studied with the 100th Monkey effect, where monkeys learned a new skill, which was then picked up by other monkey communities across great distances. I find this hopeful, because it means that the quality of our thoughts has an effect on the greater whole.
In this article, John Hogue writes about the theory of critical mass, that says it only takes a small percentage to change the entire society. He writes that "The forewarned end of the world may not see civilization go up in a thermonuclear holocaust at century's end. There may be another kind of atomic explosion - of human consciousness - in which the smallest mass of a fissionable material that will sustain a chain reaction is not uranium but 'Uranian.' (Surprise! Uranus the ruler of the Aquarian Age is back. Blow the doors of your prison of limitations and seek your freedom from the known.)"
It's a day for a true brainstorm where you invite flashes of genius to come out of the blue. Aquarius optimism comes in to remind us that there may be a surprise ending to all the chaos we're seeing. And that humanity itself and its impulse to be free may be the Uranian wildcard that saves the day.
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