Starcodes February 2, 2024 Heather Roan Robbins

Aquarius is not all “Age of Aquarius -harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding” as the song once said, though that is a wonderful goal and an expression of his higher notes. Aquarius points towards group dynamics, how we are influenced by changing collective attitudes and how we can influence that zeitgeist. It symbolizes what happens in crowds, whether big league football games or distraught people under assault or massing over borders. For the next few decades Pluto in Aquarius demands we ask how we can work together to tackle the real problems of our time, and deal with climate change, starvation, overcrowding, all problems created by the prolific human species.

Mercury symbolizes how we think and talk. It leaves industrious Capricorn- where it’s been for the last month -and joined the Sun and Pluto in Aquarius on Sunday and brings our mind to the work. This week somewhere, in the background of our lives, questions will come about our place in group, whether that group is our family, our community, a Facebook group, or role in world politics. Look for headlines around immigration versus land ownership, the rights of one people over another, and deep questions about how we take care of one another.

Venus and Mars are both in Capricorn for the week, which can help us put art into our work and work into art. It can help us love our work, or want to, and…