Pluto in Aquarius – Fiesta Estrellas

Good morning everyone,

This upcoming full moon in Cancer–January 3rd, depending on where you view from–is known as the Wolf moon, a time when the wolf’s howl is heard strikingly clearly amidst the silent, stark, and snowy winter landscape, maybe even with a ricochet (but not if you are in the Southern Hemisphere!).

It’s the first full moon of the Gregorian, solar calendar year. For this reason it usually gets emphasis; despite my title that de-emphasizes “bigness,” it is still appropriate. I will elaborate on my “tone-down” later. But before that, another contrasting amplifier to my “tone down” is that it’s another Super Moon.

A Super Moon is astronomically defined when the full moon takes place at the same time that the moon is closest to Earth during its (elliptical) orbit, also called perigee. This phenomenon causes the moon to look larger. This will be the 4th consecutive super moon since October.

What makes this particular Cancer full moon unique astrologically is that it is comes at a time when the Sun is sandwiched between Mars and Venus— all in close conjunction. Mercury is also forming a square aspect to Saturn. It’s this Mercury square Saturn aspect and its energy that endures because it carries on for a few brief days. It helps us remove what is no longer serving. The full moon is close to Jupiter, but not close enough (not with a tight enough orb) for it to have a significant influence on energy/meaning.

Since a full moon is astrologically “Sun opposite Moon” and the Sun is sandwiched in between transiting Mars and Venus in Capricorn, this full moon is opposite Venus and Mars. Cancer and Capricorn are the duality and the two-sides of the same coin. The opposition aspect brings clarity, objectivity, and sometimes ‘balancing’ tension. It’s a dynamic balance, not fixed. Cancer relates to inner world, home, and family; while Capricorn relates to the public, business, and reputation/status. Capricorn pursues outside “world” action, while Cancer pursues inner beingness and creation.

The call to balance the Masculine and Feminine response, action and receptivity, matters here. Since the moon culminates in Cancer, it values what is protective and requires tenderness. Often times this is the small. The small can be the unborn, the “just born,” and the creative urge for new life that wants to be born.

A Cancer full moon is a good closure for the festive holiday season which often involves family and home dynamics. Over the years, cultural interpretations for how to celebrate the new year have shifted in favor of widening into multi-cultural dynamics. Many celebrate the new year with the lunar calendar and consider the beginning of the year as the second new moon after the Winter Solstice on @December 21–the typical calendar in Asia. In recent years I’ve been hearing more and more people treat the Lunar New Year as a 2.0 version, or a “do over.” Gosh, take your pick.

I like this.

Basically it gives people a soft landing for a New Year. There’s not got to be a lot of haste around the start. In this day and age when living is like cramming for constant performance exams and everyone is eager to live “their best lives” all in this one, the pressure to live life “well” is a bit absurd, considering a good life also requires the balance of some rest and relaxation.

So, back to my title.

This morning I thought about how rare it actually is to have real success in most any endeavor, especially the most important endeavor: life. You could use the sperm and egg metaphor, which I will down below. Keep in mind that phenomena of healing is also a very delicate and tender process that requires not only quite a bit of willpower, but also a big dose of the wisdom of “allowing.” The body knows the way, it just needs to be supported. Back to my analogy.

It takes something like 300+ million sperm to fertilize an egg. Despite natural aberrations, it’s usually just the one sperm that fertilizes the egg. That means that all those other 299+ million are “wasted,” or shall I say they do have purpose but not in the endgame. They are part of the process. Only a few dozens actually contact the egg and work to weaken the outer layer or zona pellucida. But each one did play a role—just not the star role.

Nature works with probability and not necessarily with efficiency. The work is done by large numbers but what actually fertilizes is the one. See? The small one, or the bigness of the many… everything matters but focus is selective.

Similarly, look at planting seeds to create a plant. Hundreds to millions of seeds planted produce 1 plant. That is less than 1% of seeds make a mature plant.

So when we sit with this first lunation of 2026 (what we actually use to time the writing of the calendar, and therefore this solar calendar sets into motion the machinery of our global and societal systems), think about how many choices you’ve made in your long lifespan, the people you’ve canceled or who have canceled you, the failed attempts at tending to your own gardens, your own body and health, the creative projects that lay fallow; but not so fast: be very encouraged.

There is a small but abiding few values, adherent lifestyle passions, choices, creative developments, and long term close friendships that survive from year to year.

This is the precious few that I want you to focus on in this New Year, 2026. You might want to run out charging against the wind like a fire horse (wait for it…), but let’s first get our gear on, temper ourselves, and balance all our tendencies to charge or be lazy, size up our inner world one aspect of us against another while we prepare for this onset of 2026. This brand-spanking-New Year. What will be our energy into to help it survive?

Take the time you need, rest, and nourish that inner world with this Cancer Full Moon, see what wants to truly live and carry on with you in 2026.

With love and appreciation,

Happy New Year, 2026

Ka 💗

P.S. That whole slogan “Go big or go home” came out of the Pluto in Capricorn years. We are now in the age of Aquarius. Pluto settled into Aquarius on November 19, 2024. So 2025 was its first full year in Aquarius— it will be in Aquarius until 2044. It’s time to take our power back from systems and corporations. It’s time to be an individual in full. It’s a long term trend.

Hello! This is a post for your astrological reflections in an expanded way. For this full moon in Taurus, Jupiter is opposing Mercury, and the thoughts and communications are stirring.

What I don’t have to tell you (the title): Things are changing in pronounced and dramatic ways!

Since before the U.S. election I was thinking about all the major transits taking place in the next couple of years, and I knew that whatever the outcome, it was sure to demonstrate a pronounced reflection of these cosmic on-going changes. This is a deep overhaul.

I’ve been watching astrology for too long (just my life) to see this as a coincidence. I do remain a skeptic astrologer; it’s part of the fun. I always look for the positive and while that makes me biased (I tend to keep the beliefs that are most suitable to my integrity as a speaker coming from my inner authority and authenticity).

While I could ‘just’ write about today’s full moon, a discussion really merits the context of the changes in the next few years. The two biggest changes are Pluto is going for its full time stay in Aquarius, starting on Nov 19, 2024, to January 19, 2044; the other profound change is Neptune ingress into Aries, but I’ll get to that later.

So, as you see this full moon today is merely an “usher” to these bigger and more profound changes. The full moon in Taurus shows the moon conjoining Uranus (the ruler of Aquarius) and surprise! Uranus is associated with all the surprises and disruptions to the norm! This is also living itself out before your very eyes.

Important segue as I share a little bit of my “as I write this…”

…an unusually beautiful sunrise emerged, followed by some light rain, and a rainbow. 🌈 The pictures are included.

The rain was unexpected (and the combo with sun, so pretty, unexpected).

Last week we discovered (and this week) we had to repipe our house. The 87 year old iron pipes were in pieces, had several breaks and leaks and there was root encroachment.

There were times when they dug under the house and the smell of dirt felt lively and enriching to my nose, inside my house, the soil and subterranean influence from underground was being refreshed and turned over anew. Brand new piping was fabricated to supply our vital waterways into our house.

The piping situation was unexpected! (Uranus)

With Pluto we will find ourselves digging deep for transformation around the subjects of the future, our ideals as a collective human species, and the role of technology in how we integrate with the planet. Are we indeed, nature? I would say, yes. My Taoist influences direct me to the nature of my own existence as both mundane and transcendent. I am an animal for the most part. I am not separate from nature. I’ll be tapping into more of my feral ways in the days to come, I’m sure. Hint: Aries is gonna be big soon. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and the spring into action head-first archetype. Aries is a bit feral.

The next big profound shifts are due in 2025, then quickly followed by and leading up to 2026, where Aries will be discussed more.

Whether we liked the outcome or not of the U.S. elections, the changes are going to be profound (Pluto). We will be digging into our humanity as individuals and as a collective (Aries and Aquarius), excavating our inner and outer resources for survival and for meaning and purpose. It will be a time for grit.

Now for the sentinel change that is Neptune. (yes, I am making a metaphor of our Transpersonal planets as sentinels. They are watchers and ushers.) They lead the changes we will be taking on. How we deal with the changes, though, is up to us.

On March 30, 2025, Neptune will be crossing into Aries. This domain is the home of fire. The reason this is much a big deal is the themes are lasting. Neptune will be in Aries until March 23, 2039.

If that wasn’t enough to showcase the movements of the heavens being a bit dramatic, to say the least, then you would be not surprised to learn that Saturn will conjunct Neptune in Aries on February 20, 2026. Still, if this wasn’t enough to knock your socks off, then it’s important to know that this exact conjunction will take place at 0 degree of Aries. The beginning of all beginnings. Pluto will still be in the early degrees of Aquarius at 4 degrees and the two signs get along. They are aren’t known to be especially inviting though (we will have a nice Jupiter in Cancer transit for that lasting 1 year). The planet of structure, discipline and achievement, delays and traditions (Saturn) will be fusing with Neptune, planet of dissolution, imagination, vision, spirituality and the other worldly. Neptune is all about illusions and art/artifice and Saturn is all about “reality.” It seems like the ultimate “choose your reality, wisely” pair. Let’s go to work on those dreams or bust the illusions and delusions.

Neptune is posing for you with a wink from this full moon today because, it’s in its domicile of Pisces, meanwhile sextile to Pluto.

Pluto is also saluting 🫡 with this full moon as it “prepares” a tour of duty in Aquarius. Pluto is trine to the Uranus/Moon combo which is an agreeable energetic flow.

Mercury in Sagittarius continues to oppose Jupiter. There’s a lot of mental reflection and communication around beliefs and broadcasting on a large scale. Obviously the polls were off in the election run up. There’s much dissatisfaction with a great portion of the electorate, despite that the “people have spoken.” I think the majority are still in shock. That’s how I read this. Shock.

Fact or fiction with all the things we are processing as a collective, the astrology is clear. It’s not a perfect discreet language but the symbols and the themes are fairly consistent. How we choose to act and where we choose to act out remaining power is all about our individual abilities and capacities. Will we rise to these challenges?

As the future has a lot of Aquarius and Aries in it, the spark of life is going to be challenged but not vanquished. Your spark is not small, nor gentle and fragile, your spark is one with humanity. You are many.

How will you carry on in these days of immense change and instability? As you can see, Uranus has been transiting Taurus (the guardian of stability), and we have had so many changes ushered in to break that stability and beg us to look at our values and resources in the face of these disruptions.

The future will belong to the individual (Aries) AND the collective (Aquarius). How will we embrace new values and comforts (Taurus). This full moon in Taurus is a time for assessment but it still might be too soon for the stir-up is still really yet to begin.

I wish you all well as we navigate the questions and answers that arise. May you be healthy. May you be whole. May you survive. ✊🏼

With deepest respect for you and your journey through the cosmos on spaceship Earth! Ka 💗