How Much Aquarius is Too Much Aquarius and Other Stuff

New Moon Ramblings

Faerieland Photo Taken by Jon Wilk in the River Bottom Today

I slept ‘til 10:30 today, and I am blaming it on the upcoming super new moon in Aquarius while the sun is in Aquarius and Pluto is in Aquarius and Mercury is in Aquarius, and come on already Age of Aquarius! This is a lot of Aquarian energy, even for this Aquarius.

This life, it is exhausting at times. I think for me personally right now, it’s the major move. Touching every single thing you own is overwhelming. When you move every couple of years the piles do not tend to grow. It’s been fifteen years since we’ve packed up and hit the road, and as much of a thrower-outer/giver-away/and even seller of the outdated wardrobe as I can be, I still have accumulated too much stuff.

I don’t even want to talk about the musician I live with and all of his cords, boxes and boxes of cords. I mean, how many cords does one man need?

We are taking no furniture with us when we leave other than the desk Jon built for himself to accommodate his keyboard/computer/speakers/studio setup. The futon I bought when I turned 30 and has come with us on every move along with the bed we bought twenty-one years ago when we first moved into the apartment on Oakley Avenue will not be returning there with us.

This is very new moon in Aquarius energy. Clean slate it, and then don’t be in a hurry to fill it in again. (This is where I tend to struggle, I don’t like empty spaces and have no patience for organic evolution). Every other time we’ve moved I’ve had us unpacked and organized within a couple of days. This one can not be this way. We’re moving into the unknown, and most of our things will remain boxed for a while as we test the waters of Chicago with a stop in New Mexico along the way. (At least this is the plan for now, who the heck knows what will actually unfold as things can change in an instant, and we’ve still got more than two and a half months to go).

My greatest concern is for the dogs, Zoey, Teddy, and Sookie, and their happiness. They are used to adventures in the river bottom and canyons for hours on end multiple times a week. Asking them to become city dogs after a life in small-town/rural California gives me some anxiety. To be honest, asking Jon and myself to go back to being city people after twenty years of small-town/rural life in California gives me some anxiety as well. We’re going to have to bring this piece of Faerieland back with us, and then find it there as well. I did first consciously connect with The Faeries almost thirty years ago while in my little Chicago, Bucktown apartment. I’m remembering the feel of those faeries as I type this. They are fun and powerful and helped me out of some jams my younger self got me into.

I used to think that I’d never leave the city. I loved it as a performer and was rarely at home, out late almost every night, fueled by its energy and the people it housed. I’ve become a homebody here in California, still a night owl, but now roaming the internet from the comforts of my chair. I realized at some point yesterday that it had been three days since I had left the house.

I am so curious as to who I will be on the road ahead. I currently have no idea. Okay, this is not completely true, I have flashes of ideas and some senses of some things, but the picture is still very incomplete. I was telling Jon the other day that I usually know what’s going to happen when we make a big move, and this time, I don’t. I just don’t. Even what I think I know, the options that seem available to us, I can feel there are more and others just waiting to be found. This is forcing me to be very in the moment, it’s the only place I feel safe right now.

I guess I’ll have to do just as I said above, continue to clean slate it and not be in a hurry to fill it in, not an easy task for this control freak from the bossy bigmouth planet a.k.a. one with Sun in Aquarius. If you know, you know, and boy do we know, everything, all of the time, until we don’t, and then the fuckups can be huge when we still try to pretend that we do.

The moon will be new in Aquarius exactly at 2:59pm Pacific Time today, and it will be super, as in closer to the Earth than usual, like the super full moons are. The Lunar New Year is tomorrow, February 10th, as we enter the Year of the Wood Dragon.

It’s another New Year point! So if you don’t like the way this year has gone for you, well start anew!

My intentions for this Super New Moon in Aquarius/Lunar New Year are centered on the feeling state/vibrations of what it is I’d like to experience as opposed to painting physical pictures. Freedom is always number one on this list, with support coming in as a strong second, same for Jon. No matter how much we can argue at times, our foundational values are almost always exactly aligned.

What are your intentions for this new moon?

P.S. I am sending this out without Jon editing it as he usually does since he is at the river bottom with the pack at the moment. He contributes to every piece I write, and I am grateful for his support.

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