AQUARIUS NEW MOON - chinese new year: goat - 18TH FEB

visions & metamorphosis 

NEW MOON IN AQUARIUS: CRYSTAL, HERBS & OILS

Aquarius crystals to meditate & massage your body with: 

• Aquamarine
• Garnet
• Hematite
• Amethyst

Aquarius herbs/fruit to have as herbal tea or add into recipes:

• Fennel
• Rosemary
• Valerian

Aquarius oils to massage your body or use in an old burner as incense: 

• Rose
• Ylang ylang
• Lavender
• Orange

For more information on these crystals check the Natta Jain "Crystals" page.

“Gung Hay Fat Choy!” - Happy New Year! 

Chinese New Year Eve always falls on the night of the New Moon in Aquarius. The Chinese Lunar Zodiac sign for this year is the Wood Goat. 

This is the end of a 12 year cycle that started in 2003-2004. Have a think about what that period of time personally symbolizes to you. 

In general for all signs; this year’s Wood Goat energy is represented by harmony, steady growth, change & renewal. Their is a desire to get back to basics & create a more creative, calm & nurturing atmosphere. You might find you are being called on to extend sympathy & kindness to others. 

Finding harmony & peace in our day to day lives should be top of the agenda. Rather than moving forward in massive leaps & bounds or taking high risks, the focus instead is on slow steady progress. This year is more so about contemplating & taking a rest after last years hectic Horse year. 

For a more detailed account of how the Goat year plays out for you, you’ll need to look up your specific Chinese Astrology sign.

New Moon in Aquarius

The energy of a New or Full Moon lasts over three days, the day before, the actual day on the transit & the day after.  

This months new moon is rather unusual, for starters it a “super new moon”, which indicates that the energy is highly intensified. This super new moon is the closest new moon to the earth during 2015, suggesting that the New Moon energy is at it’s annual peak tonight. The New Moon is always a great time to plant new seeds of intent & with the extra energy this months in Aquarius, which rules healing, hopes, dreams & wishes, tonight is the time to wish & wish big.

Secondly, this months New Moon falls on the last & most critical degree of Aquarius, within a few minutes of the New Moon both the Moon & the Sun move into Pisces. Giving this months New Moon a very transformative energy, it’s the culmination & completion of one stage & the beginning of a fresh new dawn.

We could see this shift as; Visions of clarity (Aquarius) moving into, dissolution that leads to metamorphosis (Pisces).

Uranus who rules Aquarius & Neptune who rules Pisces are both transpersonal planets, they encourage us to look at the bigger picture with compassion. This is a time where we can have great flashes of inspiration, creative breakthroughs & gain self-empowerment by seeing through illusions, almost like waking from a long dream. False faiths are dissolved, as we are greeted by a demystified present consciousness.

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