Age of Aquarius

And the Art of Astrology

FIRE DRAGON.

I was born on a full moon, on Albert Einstein’s birthday, and in the year of the fire dragon. I come from a maternal lineage of dragons. My mother was born in the year of the dragon and her mother my Grandma Sheila was born in the year of the dragon. We were each born in New York. My mother and her mother were born under the star sign Aquarius. I would have been Aquarius too but I was born three weeks later so I’m a Pisces.

DANCING FISH.

I remember the first time my mother told me about astrology. I was auditioning for a ballet class and we were sitting in the waiting room to see if I was accepted. She took out a small book of zodiac signs and read to me. She told me I was born under the sign of two fish tied together swimming in opposite directions - it’s like a dance, and the sign of Pisces is ruled by the feet, so a person born under the sign of Pisces will make a very good dancer. I thought this was the most wondrous thing that a book that didn’t know me could have information about me. So that was my introduction to astrology.

THE NEW AGE.

In 1993 I had just turned eighteen years old and the first birthday present I received was my star chart. There was a woman in the East Village who drew up my chart and printed out her interpretation. By 1996 I was sitting in bookstores all around the city surrounded by every book I could find on the subject of astrology, natal charts, planetary effects, and the influences of the stars. I read different astrologers’ perspectives, learned the ancient symbology, the history, the old versus the New Age take on things. And eventually developed my own interpretations using all of this information.

GREEK & ROMAN ASTROLOGY.

The history was so fascinating. By the first century BC, astrology was held in high regard in the early Greek and Roman worlds. They used it to receive deep insights into nature, politics, and personal relationships. But then when it came time to decide which lessons should be taught in the school system, astronomy or astrology, astronomy won the fight as it was more predictable and consistent.

DRAWING CHARTS.

In 2000 I started drawing up star charts for myself, my friends, my family. I took the information I learned from books and the rest I learned from real life observations and experiences. When I’d meet someone who happened to know the time they were born I could draw a basic star chart for them right there with a pen and paper. Taking their date of birth, and looking up their star placements in an ephemeris, I could begin to read their charts. It would be an imperfect and incomplete star chart because calculating and measuring the exact degrees of the houses and the stars and their aspects (the varying angles to each other) is more complicated, more mathematical. But I could see some basic details.

WRITING HOROSCOPES.

In 2002, I was asked to write up monthly horoscopes for a publication called Go magazine. I called it “Goddess Astrology.” I also made horoscopes for Meow Mix - the only all girl venue in the East Village at the time. I wrote horoscopes for a burlesque party called Le Rouge Coquette - a performance art party in the luxurious downstairs lounge of a Moroccan restaurant called Azza on East 55th Street in Manhattan. In order to write these astrological insights, I would draw up little star charts for each zodiac sign and use the transiting stars to see the energies of the month for each sign. This was exciting because I was able to use numerology and astrology to give actual predictions.

ASTROLOGY EVENTS.

I began doing readings for friends at parties and events. At this time I was working in TV, at BBC, then at HBO, and going to the Kabbalah Center (which also utilized astrology as a spiritual tool). So I had quite a few people in my life who were interested. My friend Niki, who was originally from New Orleans, created a benefit event for Hurricane Katrina at the bar she worked at on the Upper East Side. She asked me to do astrology and palm readings for the benefit one afternoon. It was the Nola Re-Arts Program for kids and teenagers. Every opportunity to read became an opportunity to see the interconnectedness of all people. The similarities would always outshine the differences so it was easy to see humanity as a collective spiritual body through astrology.

READING RELATIONSHIPS.

One way I sought to understand the delicate intricacies of relationships at that time was through combining star charts - composite, sinistry, and other relationship-star charts for myself and for my friends who were coupled. And when my friends started having babies I would make a starchart for their newborns, write up a little interpretation, and roll it up into a scroll for them.

In my own personal star chart I have Venus in Aquarius, which I undoubtedly inherited from my Aquarian dragon mother and grandmother. Venus is how we are in relationships and I found that this placement gave me the ability to step outside myself and see the bigger picture with others. On one hand that kind of objectivity gives me the ability to put myself in other people’s shoes and not put my feelings above another’s feelings. The sign of Aquarius cares about the unit, the relationship, the partnership as a whole, to strengthen the bond through solidarity - each uplifting the other. But with all partnerships it takes two sides, so the Aquarius energy may learn the hard way sometimes that the other party is not on the same wavelength to create a win-win situation.

PLUTO IN AQUARIUS.

So astrologically speaking, 2024 started a major shift for humanity as a whole. Not only did it kick off with a move into the Chinese New Year of the Dragon, but we also had celestial entity, Pluto, shift into the sign of Aquarius where it will hold court for the next twenty years. Pluto embodies massive and deep and long lasting transformations. Aquarius symbolizes freedom and individuality. It is grassroots. It is the visionary, the artist, the one that marches by the beat of its own drummer.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

The last time we had Pluto in Aquarius was about two hundred years ago. The American Revolution began in 1775. The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. And just like it did this year, Pluto went into Aquarius in 1778 for twenty years, building and formulating the Enlightenment Period like a light switch for humanity to focus on freedom, independence, and reclaiming sovereignty. I see the whole ‘Declaration’ as very much Aquarius. It is an energy of creating that delicate balance of support and solidarity with our brothers and sisters while not intruding upon their rights to be free and sovereign individuals.

HISTORY REPEATING.

Like the restrictions that came right before with the Pluto in Aquarius two-hundred years ago, this time we can look at the 2020 restrictions and lockdowns and draconian measures taken against children and the elderly in the name of public safety and protection during Covid. As Dr. Fauci mentioned in an interview at that time, “you have to do something that’s rather draconian. And sometimes when you do draconian things it does have deleterious consequences on the economy, on the school children. You know that.” So, with the upcoming Global Government in-the-making, and with the WHO (World Health Organization) promising to clamp down on personal liberties in the name of public safety during the upcoming pandemics, the revolutionary and rebellious Aquarius energy is now poised to strip off the blindfold of the justice system. In other words, where we remain blind to the inner workings of a governing system that is understood by very few, Aquarius gives us the opportunity to expand and see the big picture.

DECLARATION OF FREEDOM.

There will definitely be a new Declaration of Freedom over the next two decades. And that freedom is not only felt across the world but on the personal individual level as well. Breaking free from our own old outworn behaviors and patterns that no longer serve our highest good, there will be more personal revolutions within us, a rebellion of structures in our individual lives that we can break free from.

THE NORTH STAR UNDER GOD.

An interesting thing that I used to say about myself when I was in my early twenties was that I knew that the best time of my life was going to be when I’m in my fifties and sixties. And although I’m not quite there yet, I can’t help but notice how it correlates with the two decades that Pluto will be in freedom-loving Aquarius.

That said, the more important thing is that I know nothing on my own. Anything I know is through the power and grace of the Holy Spirit of the Most High. It will always be that way. Although I can see how astrology is useful as a tool for deeper insights, it should always be put in its place. I feel the same about all tools - whether it be astrology, numerology, mathematics, or dreams, or art therapy, or Greek mythology and Roman archetypes, tarot symbology, philosophy, psychology, politics, medicine, and any and all sciences. All things in this physical world are inferior under the power of God. Nothing we do has any merit on its own. There is no power in any thing. Astrology is more like an instrument we can use while sitting in the middle of the dark vast ocean - we can use a compass to help us navigate - but ultimately that won’t take us home. It won’t take us to safety, or love, or peace. All things happen solely and “souly” through the grace of God. Amen.

I love you!!!!

Käla

March 9th, 2024