Starcodes February 12, 2020 Heather Roan Robbins

Valentine’s Day can be an excuse to hold ourselves up to an ideal of cuddly pink heart scenarios and perfect understanding, judge our life thereby and find it wanting. Aquarius wants us to think so much bigger than that. The Sun, retrograde Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn are all now in philosophical Aquarius an, instead of that comparison, want us to contemplate big questions around compassion, collective purpose, responsibility. What is love?

Aquarius can help us explore agape -empathic universal love- unconditional love of our family- help us come to love ourselves and let that spill over into love of all sentient beings. To drop into our hearts and let our hearts become those shining beacons which can reach out and touch the far corners of the world. Use that heart chakra.

While looking out into the cosmos and ecosystem, don’t forget those nearby. This line-up in Aquarius can leave us emotionally far-sighted — focused on world events and longing for more contact out there in the community, but let’s not forget to notice what the people near us actually need.

Our more subtle feelings may be quite perceptive while our ordinary lines of communication get challenged. Mercury retrograde has been a real trickster this pass, and zoom has given it a perfectly place to play its tricks and keep us laughing.