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Welcome to Aquarius season, where time seems to move more quickly and consciousness seems to expand. Here we will be taken beyond what we know and what we see and invited to fine-tune our awareness to unprecedented spaces. The weeks ahead are all about innovation, revolution, and free-thinking humanitarian progression.
When Does Aquarius Season Start?
On January 19, 2025, the Sun shifts from the grounded, practical, and devoted Earth sign of Capricorn into the world of Aquarius. Here it will remain until February 18, 2025.
What Can Aquarius Season Teach You?
It is with this shift from Capricorn to Aquarius that we move from a zodiac of convention, tradition, and discipline to one of radical change, cosmic inspiration, and futuristic thinking.
Astrology rests on the foundational notion that movement taking place within our cosmos cannot be separated from the movement happening within us—both individually and collectively. It is when we shift into the realm of Aquarius that we search for the mechanics, logic, and possibility behind this even as we hold objective truth. Aquarius is where science meets spirituality. It is where logic and patterns can be found within wisdom and knowing, the very same wisdom and knowing that esoterics have been intuiting and sharing for millennia.
Aquarius takes us beyond the individual self and into higher consciousness. It is the water bearer, pouring forth libations for the collective. Yet according to mythology, it is not water that it is pouring but consciousness. Aquarius season invites us to explore the paradox that the more we become rooted in our individuality, the more we are of service to the collective. The more we contribute to the evolution and growth of humanity, the more we find our sense of self.
Aquarius is an archetype that cannot be understood only from the mind. It is revolutionary, innovative, and completely out of the norm of what is accepted, as if it originated elsewhere. It stretches us. It requires that we take a leap into a new way of seeing things, including the notion that we can attune to universal intelligence and become a conduit of insights and guidance from beyond. It asks us to consider that the neuroscientific theory of the brain as a receiver and transmitter of consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence and not something belonging only to mystics.
Throughout these next few weeks, we are invited to attune to something higher as it weaves its way through our existence. It is where we are invited to approach things from an entirely different vantage and outside-of-the-box perspective to open our minds and become a receiver, much like a radio. New ideas, truths, perspectives, and information await our awareness. Here is where we are attuning to the new and becoming somewhat of a bridge for the future to enter the present.
What Aquarius Season Means for You
This season, offer yourself the permission to do things completely differently. Test and explore a new way of being and living your life. Offer yourself the permission to move outside what society has decided is normal and expected. Begin peering into the possibilities of what is entering into your awareness and your life through spaces such as meditation, journaling, and anything that engages your mind to reach beyond the individual self.
Aquarius season is an expansion of the mind, if you so allow. The kind of expansion that ripples into a fundamental shift in how you perceive yourself and your life, in how you approach and create your goals and dreams, and in your relationship to the vast and mysterious, yet perhaps still logical, life.
By looking at your rising sign, you are shown the astrological house that the Sun is bringing life force to and the areas of life that want to surface.
Aries Rising
To be radically oneself is to be a gift to the collective that we live in, and to offer ourselves to the growth and wellbeing of humanity is to find, become, and radiate more of who we are. We cannot be separated from the collective body of individuals who live within the same moment of time and space as us. We cannot live outside of those who surround us.
Aquarius season invites you to explore how you desire to be of service to your community. It offers new ideas and visions for enriching and influential pathways of contribution and purpose. It does so in a way that feeds into your individual sense of self, joy, and fulfillment, just as it feeds into the well-being and growth of the collective.
Taurus Rising
Aquarius season is like a doorway for you. A doorway that reveals new information, possibilities, ideas, and purpose-filled desires. A doorway that has the potential to shift your direction, whether completely or perhaps just slightly.
For you, Taurus, this doorway sits within the realm of your career and legacy, the long-term building of your visions, contributions, and sense of purpose. Aquarius season invites a long, slow breath out and a surrender to change. In order for evolution and growth to meet you, so must change. Ground into your body and your breath. Trust in something beyond you. What desires to shift within these newfound spaces?
Gemini Rising
Aquarius season invites you to play both within and beyond the mind, Gemini. It asks you to explore your understanding of truth, wisdom, information, and meaning, whether you’re guided to find this within quantum mechanics, intuition, philosophy, neuroscience, religion, the eyes of a child, the cycles of nature, or spaces completely elsewhere.
As the Sun shifts through Aquarius, it heralds an expansion of the mind, if you so desire, and the opening and deepening of your beliefs and perspective of this life you find ourself in—and your place in and relationship with it.
Cancer Rising
How does it feel to be in your body, Cancer? To feel the waves of emotion, insight, and information that move through you? To be a conduit of the unconscious, of the divine, of higher consciousness?
Aquarius season highlights the paradoxical knowing that the more you regulate your nervous system to feel safe and connected to your tangible self, the more you reach into deeply transformative rebirth. It’s a season of inner transformation, found through expression and movement of the body, shadow and dream work, and exploring and allowing new perspectives and ideas. The more you access your intuition, the more you will understand that which exists beyond your tangible reality.
Leo Rising
Aquarius season brings shifts to the way you relate to others, Leo. To your relationships, your partnerships, the way you collaborate and connect with the people around you. It brings awakening and change to the way in which you give and receive love as well as the way you allow others into the vulnerable spaces of your life.
And it is a season where you can find new insights, perspectives, truths, and growth by looking through the eyes of someone else and their experiences, through opening yourself to different ways of seeing and being in the world, through vulnerability and love, and through simply witnessing the wonder and magic inherent in another.
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Virgo Rising
Aquarius season invites a shift in the way you move through your days, Virgo. A shift in the way that you tend to your body, your mind, and your soul through ritual, habit, and routine. It invites more space, exploration, and expansion into your life and yourself. It is your accumulated devotion, your consistent actions, and your repeated ways of being in the world that not only make you who you are but also create the space for deep growth and becoming. These profoundly transformational shifts may be found in alternative or new practices or approaches to health, wellness, and even work.
Libra Rising
It’s a season to play in the realms of your creativity, Libra. To express yourself in ways you’ve never done before. To create art— whatever art may mean to you—in a way that is free from the expected, outside of the norm, entirely in your own way. It’s a season to play, and allow play to open yourself to new possibilities, perspectives, ideas and thought forms.
As the Sun shifts through Aquarius, it is your invitation to touch the core of who you are and express that magic in the world, whether through movement, sound, fashion, painting, writing, loving, or any of the vast and unlimited modes of self expression available to you.
Scorpio Rising
Aquarius season invites inner exploration, Scorpio. An exploration into the psychology of who you are, the foundations that make you, you, and the roots of your metaphoric tree upon which the health and growth of your branches depend. It is an inner exploration that simultaneously invites awakening and expansion. As if coming home to ourselves is how we come home to something beyond ourselves, something of a more divine and evolutionary nature, a space filled with insight into ourselves and the inner workings of the universe. As if it is within us that all truth, growth, ideas, and evolution awaits.
Sagittarius Rising
Aquarius season is all about expansion of consciousness. It speaks to your higher mind where all information, ideas, truth, and knowledge sits, Sagittarius. And this season, it asks the analytical left side of your brain and your connection to wisdom and higher knowing and logic to indulge your more intuitive right side of the brain. Your beliefs and subjective truths about the workings of existence can be expanded upon, whether through schools, books, courses, studies, conversations, or any spaces that allow for the dissemination of information—learning it, processing it, sharing it, and allowing it to shift who you are and the way you perceive the world.
Capricorn Rising
It’s a season of growth and change in the way you relate to your self-worth. These weeks invite you to ground into the truth that you are worthy and valuable simply because you are uniquely you. What do you value in yourself? How do you wish to continue building who you are, both to yourself and to the world? Are there skills that are calling your name? Goals that feel both expansive and as if they were a pathway into more of who you are? Traits that you desire to develop? Narratives that you wish to free yourself from?
Aquarius Rising
What does it feel like to hold more light in your body? To experience more life force in your body, mind, and aura? As the Aquarian Sun shifts through your first house of self, it is what can only be described and felt as an energetic upgrade to your entire system.
It’s a season of changes to the ways you perceive, approach, think, feel, understand, and engage with life. As more light enters, allow space for new ideas, alternative perspectives, and radical changes that call your name. Attune your energy to what wishes to flow through you.
Pisces Rising
Aquarius season is highly supportive of everything it means to be you. As the Sun lingers in Aquarius these next few weeks, step into the realm of the sacred, swim within the possibilities of higher truths and esoteric knowing, and receive your guidance from a completely Piscean place—dreams, intuition, the cosmos, and whispers of life itself.
It’s a mystical season for you, one that may invite you to devote more time and space to exploring these more less tangible realms. Consider meditation, dreamwork, journaling, hypnosis, and attuning your consciousness to potential futures and the collective evolution.
This article has been updated. Originally published January 18, 2024.
