New Moon in Aquarius Horoscopes

Where do you need to take your energy back? ⚡

Just like that, we’ve arrived at the first New Moon of 2025. It might not feel like the most inspiring time to set intentions — it’s still astrological winter, millions of Americans brace for federal aid cuts and program rollbacks, the list goes on — so if you feel like a deflated balloon man at a car dealership, we’ve got the receipts to justify it.

With Mars still retrograding like he’s racing a snail (and losing), we deserve a participation trophy for the bare minimum. But how do we balance that with the feeling that the world needs us now more than ever? The gift of showing up can only be given after you’ve taken your energy back from the places where it does not belong.

Aquarius is the reminder that nothing is a greater drain on your life force than trying to be someone you’re not. Consider the singularity of your fingerprint, the rhythm of your heartbeat, the anomaly of your irises, and tell me again that part of you was not born to be different from the jump.

In the birth chart, we locate this part by finding the house of Aquarius (and any placements you have there). This is where you have a karmic agreement to stand apart from the crowd. Where you couldn’t be a copycat, duplicate-cookie-cutter-rule-follower if a million bucks was on the line. The house of Aquarius in your chart might be where acceptance and ritualistic comforts are guaranteed to others, but you must reject them in the name of being a trailblazer.

Ways to work with the house of the Aquarius New Moon (specifically 9°):

Aquarius in the first house is a lifelong vow of nonconformity. You may feel alien at times, but this New Moon is an annual reminder to claim the magic of being an outsider, the liberation of the outcast, and walk a path that’s truly your own. What skin are you shedding? What new version of self are you trying on for size? As your authenticity blazes brighter and brighter, the world around you expands to house it all, and it’s time for you to go on a shopping spree for the soul to replace anything you’ve outgrown. What is changing internally and environmentally for you in the first half of the calendar year?

Aquarius in the second house is a reminder that security does not look the same for you as it does for everyone else. From how you earn money, to the habits that ground you, to the stabilizing forces in your life… The paradox of squaring house energy in fixed signs means the moment new building blocks cement into place, is the heartbeat before you pick up a sledgehammer. That’s because you are not here to accept security at face value. Under this New Moon, I invite you to ask, how does the ground beneath me become more sturdy with each step I take of my own?

Aquarius in the third house is a national anthem for rebels and soothsayers alike to let their voices be what sets them apart. If they don’t understand you, they aren’t your people. In the same way that only dogs can hear a dog whistle, the frequency of your truth will be heard by the right people. What story is stuck in my throat? What story can only I tell? When does my voice crack and throat tighten? Sing life into those moments and make that an aim of the next six months.

Aquarius in the fourth house is a mark of the childhood black sheep. Either your family unit existed outside the status quo, or you are the singular odd one out, with the karmic responsibility of showing everyone else that a different way of being is possible. It’s easy to ask in youth, why me? In the house of home, you pay rent to Uranus, and the cost is a new question: if not me, who will change this story? How does your model for home and personal life continue to evolve this year?

Aquarius in the fifth house is the reluctant star — get over it! The movement organizer, begrudging hero. You can’t hide behind the scenes, but you also can’t make it completely about yourself. This is a conundrum of a sign beholden to living inside its opposite! What are you here to champion, as a result of taking up space? Service and visibility go hand-in-hand. Set an intention to embrace whichever spaces and spotlights you are intent on resisting. They’ll find you, regardless.

Aquarius sixth housers, y’all do not desire a day-to-day schedule that looks like everybody else’s! It feels like larping or cosplay to put on a blazer and walk into a monotone office. A cubicle? Forget about it. You are responsible for designing your dream life, and that means liberating from the labels and expectations of routine productivity — come up with your own flow. What intentions can you set to continue freeing yourself from the rat race over the next six months?

Aquarius in the seventh house may lament the fixings of traditional relationships, but secretly crave belonging. I need you to trust that refusal to settle and a persistent belief in the existence of a true equal is what creates the conditions for belonging. You must maintain a singular identity in your relationships that cannot be squashed by or smelted into the other. Use this New Moon to examine the paradox of freedom and belonging in your relationships, and the axis where your relationships land.

Aquarius in the eighth house signed up to do intimacy differently in this lifetime, so depending on the day you find them, could be the most lonely or erotic of truths. Lonely, because you’ve known since you were a child that people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves. Erotic, because even within platonic joinings with people who mirror your spirit, you find an intimacy that evades capture by words. What is the depth you are committed to existing at in your own life? Let these New Moon intentions call in your fellow deep-sea divers.

Aquarius in the ninth house simultaneously hates school and wants all the wisdom between our known world and the next. You reject the idea that wisdom can be taught through a textbook, and crave the experience of acquiring it for yourself. This makes you the best or worst student depending on the day. Use this New Moon to identify the longitude and latitude of your big picture vision for the next six months — particularly, the rulebook you’ll need to throw out the window in order to get there.

Aquarius in the tenth house may reject modern authority while attracting responsibility and those who seek their brilliance. Others may turn to you for leadership, while all you desire is to be the singular authority over your own destiny. Here’s the thing: you may delay your own success with the insistence to reinvent the wheel. Trailblazers don’t shout “hey, over here!”, they just go. If you softened into solutions that are already available, how could you streamline your success over the next six months?

Aquarius eleventh housers teeter between abject loner and effortlessly cool, isolated behind a moat of their own making or received with a parade of praise. How is it possible there is a gallery of copycats inspired by your sheer presence, and a feeling of emptiness in a crowded room? On any given day, people use you as a blueprint or cautionary tale. Where does that leave you? Create the room you want to be in. “Build it and they will come.“ In the next six months, how can you be the architect?

Aquarius in the twelfth house may tend to reject and reinvent pathways to spirit. You spot the charlatans, spiritual influencers peddling magic solutions, “Buddha babies“ who went through a spiritual awakening yesterday and have a discount code for a micro-dosing, and goshdarnit, you’re tired. It can be easy to doubt if you’re the real deal. I’m asking you to continue defining spirituality on your own terms, and cut through the noise more deeply in the next six months to make it your own.

I’d love to hear in the comments what part of your life you’re imbuing with a little more lightning and a lot more faith in your own magic.

A few updates from me: readings are back open after a wonderful extended holiday to be with family, get my hands dirty in the garden, and get back into my body. (If you’re looking for regular accountability or support through a big transit or change, I’m now offering bundles to pick up where we left off and go deeper each time.)

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To the moon and back (pun intended),
Ocean