Moving Beyond Trauma

New Moon Aquarius 20 deg 40 min 2/09/24 5:58 pm

The Backdrop

Pluto Aquarius

Aquarius is the process of decentralizing from the limitations that have confined us. These limitations are felt emotionally, mentally, and spiritually and can bleed into physical manifestations. Aquarius is also associated with the individuation process, electricity, and progress. 

Uranus rules the sign Aquarius, which represents the higher mind. Thought processes that are associated with the Source of all things. As the higher mind, it is related to long-term memory, including memory handed down through past lives and DNA, so ancestral memory.

As such, Aquarius and Uranus can point to trauma, a shocking event that catapults us into a different reality. It is a rapidly occurring situation that does not allow us to process mentally. It triggers the fight-or-flight mechanisms. If the trauma never gets processed emotionally, it lingers as unprocessed trauma. Then, it repeatedly flares up as triggers and plays out in our relationships.

Pluto in Aquarius can be about confronting, merging with, and transmuting the unprocessed trauma we have experienced on a personal and collective level. It will be a twenty-year process and will heal lifetimes of individual and collective trauma. It can also be a confrontation and acceleration beyond the limitations we are experiencing. Progress and innovation are the results of this energy.

The polarity point of Pluto is Leo. Leo represents our true purpose, joy, love, and the heart. As we break free from the confines of our dissolving societal structure, the Universe asks us to come from our hearts. Here, the intention is to find our true purpose.

We are at the beginning. 

Pluto in Aquarius conjunct Mercury in Aquarius

Moving beyond trauma and limitations requires a change in thinking patterns as well as how we communicate with others. Perhaps you had a shocking experience that allowed you to see life from another perspective.

Mercury in Aquarius relates to communication and thoughts associated with the higher mind. It can show up as quick flashes of "aha" moments that give us sudden realizations. When conjunct with Pluto in Aquarius, confronting our unprocessed trauma and transmuting how we perceive our reality. It is a new phase conjunction, so expect an unexpected shift in consciousness that helps us change how we think and communicate with others.

Pluto square Jupiter in Taurus

We are applying toward the energy of breaking free from our confines with our beliefs about survival. Jupiter in Taurus can also relate to a more natural way of surviving and meeting our needs. It is a first-quarter square, a crisis in action. It requires us to make different choices.

Pluto sextile Neptune Pisces

In Pisces, Neptune refers to the decay of meaning that occurs as the connection with the physical world exhibits senescence. It supports breaking away from the confines of the decaying societal structure.

Venus and Mars in Capricorn are in a balsamic conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius. 

Venus in Capricorn refers to learning to relate to ourselves in an emotionally nurturing way. It looks like acknowledging our feelings and allowing ourselves to express them.

We may carry some past conditioning that didn't allow us to show our emotions in a healthy way. We tend to hold our feelings in until they burst out when triggered by our unhealed trauma. By allowing ourselves to feel our emotions, learning to nurture ourselves in this way is taking responsibility to reparent ourselves in a nurturing way.

Venus is in a closing phase to Mars in Capricorn. Mars in Capricorn refers to the act of strengthening ourselves through emotional maturity. As we relate to ourselves in a nurturing way, we complete the process of emotional growth and resilience. It is the final piece to our actioning of Pluto in Capricorn until it returns again near the end of the year.  

Mars and Venus are in a closing phase to Pluto in Aquarius, signifying that closing these cycles is necessary to break free from our limitations.

Venus squaring the Nodes

When we have a planet squaring the nodal axis, it focuses on the integration of the planet squaring the nodes. In this case, learning to nurture our emotions healthily requires integration between the energies of relying on others to do this for us and stepping into a new cycle of doing this for ourselves. 

Ruler of the SN square the Nodes

This configuration points to an integration of something that needs resolving. Venus. We must begin to care for and nurture our emotional maturity. In the past, we have placed this responsibility outside ourselves, limiting our emotional growth. Ultimately, it is our responsibility to see that we meet our emotional needs and learn a healthy way of expression. The suppression of emotions leads to eruptions in the future due to the lack of processing them.

New Moon in Aquarius

We are beginning a new cycle of bringing light and purpose to our identity. In the sign of Aquarius, we are individuating and accelerating beyond what has been. The energy is ripe to step into our true purpose. We may be locked into an expression of ourselves that we have grown weary of, or it is linked to someone else's idea of our purpose. Do you have a special gift or purpose that would give you joy? Maybe you've been told it was silly or that you couldn't be successful. This New Moon delivers the energy to step into that new role. It's a time to explore the purpose that comes from the heart. That which gives us joy!

Lunation sextile NN Chiron conjunct Aries

The NN/Chiron conjunction refers to our healing and the future sense of self and inner security as we step into our Aries' spontaneity. We are designed to follow our curiosity and explore who we are by having many experiences that alert us to what we like and don't like. This helps us to find our unique purpose.

The New Moon in Aries encourages us to break free from the societal confines to begin the individuation process. It is an energy helping us head toward the NN in Aries. You may feel the pull to do something spontaneous during and after this New Moon. It will guide you to learn something new and special about yourself.

Lunation trine SN Libra

The SN is having us reflect on how we have related to the world and others outside of ourselves. We must break free from the past to move forward and evolve our sense of self. It is what this Lunation is asking us to do. The trine to the SN is in a flow state with the Moon, allowing the movement to happen easily. The evolution between the SN and the NN is through the Moon sign. This Lunation of breaking free is pointing the way. 

Lunation square Uranus Taurus

Uranus in Taurus is resuming the forward motion of breaking us free from worn-out survival methods, self-worth, and personal values. Uranus rules Aquarius and sports the same energy. 

The Sun in Aquarius asks us to break free from emotional limitations or fears that keep us in a place where we are unhappy and unfulfilled to find our true purpose and joy. Uranus is in a 1st quarter square, a crisis in action. It is where we make different choices to achieve different results. There is tension felt. The tension is due to the growth that occurs from breaking free from something stagnant yet feeding us.

The square between the Moon and Uranus is a last-quarter square. It is a crisis in consciousness square and refers to where our personal beliefs and truths begin to diverge from the norm. There is also tension here when we start to act upon our beliefs. We may fear being rejected by our friends and family. Working on this shift is a step closer to individuation.

SN in Libra trine Mercury Aquarius

Mercury in Aquarius asks us to individuate our thoughts, and how we communicate our ideas to break free from the old, worn-out patterns of thought, we have become accustomed to. As Venus helps us resolve our emotional maturity, and Pluto encourages us to move toward our hearts as a guidepost, this creates a nice flow for us to change our thinking patterns. It will help make changes in our relationships.

SN Libra opposition Chiron

The way we collectively have related to others in the past, where we have suppressed our own needs or sense of self to maintain a relationship or to be polite, is integrating the wound that we all carry that keeps us fearful from acting on our individual desires and needs. We want both ends of this spectrum but must incorporate them to achieve balance.

SN inconjunct Uranus (full gibbous)

The collective self-suppression that we have been conditioned by is in a blind spot configuration to breaking free from worn-out survival methods, self-worth, and personal values. This blind spot is creating situations of crisis in our relationships. It requires an adjustment through confrontation in our outer world. We are standing up for ourselves.

NN Chiron conjunction sextile Lunation

The NN and Chiron point the way to future emotional security and healing. In alignment, they are the same energy. It is about stepping into a position to align with our true purpose. We may not know what that is, and it may require us to try new things. We will know when it feels right. Pure joy! 

The sextile is a supportive energy. The New Moon in Aquarius asks us to begin a new cycle in breaking out of the mold that has confined us, to begin the cycle of becoming an individual and following inner guidance.

What Does it All Mean?

It means: Full speed ahead! Pluto in Aquarius is bringing rapid change. We are all in the midst of experiencing the shift. It is a shift from the old paradigm to a new one. Part of this journey requires us to move beyond past trauma and to heal our emotional bodies so that we can be whole functioning beings to usher in this new energy. 

What is being outlined is a breaking free from the old self. Our societal norms condition us to be polite, put our needs second, and suppress unpleasant emotions. The result is a suppression of the true self that has unprocessed trauma surrounding it. 

This New Moon is resetting a cycle. It is an opportunity to break free from the conditioning, to take charge of emotional trauma. It requires self-nurture of our emotions, a change in thought patterns and beliefs, and to head toward what makes you happy.

Stepping out as this new version of self may feel uncomfortable at first. The more opportunities we take to do it, the easier it will become. If you are still determining the direction to take, let Joy and authenticity be your barometer.