It’s Aquarius Moon time –time to nurture your inner radical. If you think of rioters, hippies and uni-bombers when you think of radicals, you may be surprised to learn the etymology of the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, which means root. Radical literally means “forming the root” or “going to the origin, essence”. Uranus/Aquarius reminds us that radical acts are only those that form and strengthen our essence, origin, truth.

Our political climate is certainly giving us the opportunity to form the root. The women’s march that positively overshadowed the inauguration was started by one woman in Hawaii. The power of one person to start a movement is very Uranus in Aries, where change belongs to the individual who makes self-honest choices and takes courageous action.

Yet Aquarius/Uranus holds an uneasy tension with the social fabric of our lives. Because collective stability relies upon a level of group conformity and agreement, authentic root-forming acts are always disruptive and threatening to the social order. Ideally, the wild, authentic soul doesn’t ask permission about getting radical. It doesn’t say, “but, hey… Is my soul’s truth okay with you? Ya sure, babe?” Unless, like me, you’ve got Uranus in Libra on your Ascendant, or you’re Venus ruled. Then it gets a bit trickier.

For a long time, I tried to make a core Truth more palatable, nicer, more pleasant for my partner. Sure, I’d express my Truth. “I detest mashed potatoes,” I’d say. Yet they stayed on my plate, though I didn’t eat them. When I was around certain company maybe I’d even take a few bites of potato, to be polite. Around others I could insult the potato openly (for the record, I have nothing against potatoes). I could unhappily complain, but I didn’t step into my Divine Self and speak from that place. I kept gilding the hard edges of my Truth, making it soft and pliable till it was no longer recognizable. Which, of course, changed absolutely nothing. Truth simmering on the back burner, I grew sour and bitchy. I was becoming more and more misaligned, more compromised. I knew I needed to get those potatoes off my plate, forever, but I also knew that once this was out of my mouth, I couldn’t back down … and that was terrifying.

Then it came out. Like a force of nature made more powerful for having been repressed for so long. “These potatoes cannot stay on my plate one minute longer!, ” I said to the most important person in the world, the one I didn’t want to lose, who had the choice to say he wanted to be with someone who wanted mashed potatoes. My Truth sounded an awful lot like an ultimatum, normally ill-advised for any partnership. But I said it. It was a radical moment, chaotic, and as inconvenient as death. And it was liberating. I released months, maybe years, of feeling oppressed.

Radical times call for a return to our root essence. Political, personal, or both, these are pressing questions: Where are you ready to return to your root self-essence, core truth? Where are you in danger of being your own worst oppressor, not making waves? In your birth chart, the area this New Moon falls answers this, as well as the placement of natal and transiting Uranus. Here, getting radical means you will need to make waves. Freedom is promised, but only if you do the thing you’ve avoided doing – being inconvenient, “selfish”, shaking things up. Truth will ask you to: stop catering to others’ insecurities, compromising your self, to examine your relationship agreements -explicit and implied.

To creatively work with this New Moon, set your ego-mind aside for a moment. Go into meditation. Feel the freedom, clarity and detachment of air. Ask for the Absolute Truth of a situation or person. Then listen. Really listen. The answer may surprise you. You may sugar coat it, but the voice of Absolute Truth will not be sugar-coated. It will be freeing. Act on that voice of your essence. Form the root.

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