an ode to Aquarius season ♒️

⌇ love letter to my astro friends

Hello friends!!

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The Asian Astrologer 🪐

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So as most of you might know, Aquarius season is right around the corner.

I wrote in my Astrology of 2024 series that the Sun shares a kiss with Mr Pluto in Capricorn before sashaying forth into Aquarius on 21 January ⚡️, Pluto following soon after. We are soon to have an abundance of Fixed Air in our skies, so let’s unpack that a little.

Aquarius is the sign of the rebel. There is just something about being ruled by Uranus (its modern ruler) that makes Aquarius want to dance to the beat of their own drum, traditions and niceties be damned. 🥁

As an Air sign, they are cerebral — often to a fault, using logic and detachment to debate, dissect, and analyze.

But as the ‘water bearer’, they are also strangely emotional 🌀 — “holding all the water in the world” before being released in Pisces.

Aquarius is rebellious because they hold a vision for the future most of us cannot even begin to imagine. And you need to be willing to stand apart from the crowd in order to lead it.

The karmic responsibility Aquarius bears is to be the one that shakes up the status quo enough to let the rest of us know it’s OK to do things differently. ⚡️

But because of this, there is a deep wound that many Aquarius placements carry — that they are “too weird” to be loved, “too strange” to be understood, and they need to suppress their eccentricities in order to ‘fit in’.

Yet, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

The true cornerstone of Aquarius’s magic is COMMUNITY. ♒️

Aquarius is associated with the 11th house of society, networks, the Internet, and yes, community. It is the House of Blessings because we know that belonging is precursory to so much of what gives us joy on Earth. Yet, often what we most long for is the depth of connection that can only be found when a group of weirdos who are weird in all the same ways come together.

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Over the weekend, a lifelong dream came true:

I finally met some of my online Astrology friends in person.

I didn’t plan for it. It just happened.

💖 (Fun fact: Aquarius rules metaphysical things, like Astrology!)

My friend

Kaitlyn Ramsay

was in town. She is a fellow astrologer from Canada whom is now based in Thailand, just a stone’s throw away from me in Malaysia. We’ve been online friends since my Level 3 weekend last June, and I was excited to finally get to see her in person.

A day before Kaitlyn was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur, I did a natal chart reading for a woman named Krissy who — surprise, surprise — was also from North America, but happened to be remote working in KL.

Ding ding ding ding.

My Cancer rising couldn’t help it.

I immediately organized a gathering for everyone to meet each other.

And what unfolded was so quietly profound, that I’m still sitting here days later, thinking about it.