Jupiter joins the Sun and Venus in Gemini, stimulating our interactions and the rapid movement of news and conversation, just before the Sun and Venus conjunct at 14 Gemini, a time for reset and new beginnings of creative projects.

Celtic festival, Beltane, (also known as one of the 4 Cross Quarter fire festivals) honors this Taurus time of year, taking place on May 1st, midway between Spring equinox and Summer Solstice. On May 13 the Sun conjuncts Uranus, and on May 18 the Sun conjuncts Jupiter. This movement of the Sun between Uranus and Jupiter is called, “carrying the light”.

We are in the Pisces time of year, in the waters of collective feeling, and the great imagination of this earth, when the boundaries between you and me, between this and that, are porous. The last sign of the zodiac carries all the unresolved issues of the past 11 signs.

“Discernment, Refinement” are the keywords as the full Moon reflects the Sun’s light, traveling through Pisces. Now we balance between depths of feeling with attentiveness to particular details. This Virgo energy is helpful in sorting through feelings, our intuition, and dreams…

Under the New Moon in Aquarius we can tune into our gifts and intentions for the year and month ahead. Aquarius energy brings in inspiration and visionary possibilities. It highlights our social connections, and those connections provide the ground and interaction for renewing our communities, whether local or global.

The Celts celebrated Feb 1-2 as one of their cross quarter fire festivals, known as Imbolc, honoring this midway passage between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, as a recognition of fertility and the coming of spring.

Humanity is in an alchemical vessel of being cooked into transformation. The intensity between the old and the new ways increases, as we are polarized between the past and future, in this change of the ages. Aquarius is the fertile field in which we now find ourselves. What will our ideas and perspectives create for us?