Astrology of Tarot
Aquarius Season
The Star & The Fool
The Sun enters Aquarius on January 19, drawing our individuality and independence out into the light of day. Aquarius urges us to challenge the status quo and examine where we are sticking to it to our own detriment. The planetary ruler of Aquarius is Uranus, the planet of liberation and breaking from tradition. The Tarot cards associated with Aquarius and Uranus are The Star and The Fool respectively. Their teachings in combination inform our focus during Aquarius season.
In The Star, we find the source of the Aquarian drive to break from societal norms. It’s not that the dominant culture is too slow to change, it’s that Aquarius is all too aware that what we think of as “standard” is a minor insignificant blip in the expanse of history. In a sense, Aquarius is not marching to the beat of their own drum, it just looks that way because they’re the only one attuned to the steady beat of the ancient and eternal promised by The Star.
On the other hand, The Fool teams up with Uranus to break from tradition not through awareness of the endless stretch of time, but by collapsing the infinite expanse into the present moment. Here, we see how free we can be by detaching from sorrow for the past and anxiety about the future. When we bring our consciousness into the present we can renew ourselves, our motivations, our identities with each step, trusting the Universe will place whatever ground under our feet we need at that time.
The Star and The Fool together can be seen to negate the very existence of time. The Star speaks of eternal, of an unbroken lineage of creation and nurturing unfolding today as it always has, while The Fool invites us to be present in only this specific moment right now, free from chains to the past or future. While these concepts may seem to be opposites, they are essentially teaching us the same thing - time is not relevant. We do not need to worry about its passing because we are one with eternity and because we only ever exist in this single present moment.
The Star and The Fool bring us to the same place through different routes, urging us to find freedom in hope and joy, to recognize their constant presence in our world, their ceaseless offering of comfort through every horror the world can confront us with. Through these cards seen together, we learn that our existence is not linear, but layered, and we have the power to navigate the stratum. This navigation is not promised to be easy. It can take considerable training and practice, but it is within our power as spiritual beings existing in this human experience.
I invite you to join me in inviting the wisdom of The Star and The Fool into your life. Let hope be not an indulgence of the naive, but a trophy of the wise, and let radical presence bring joy. This is the personal freedom cherished by Aquarius.