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21 January – 17 February

ZODIAC DEGREES: Brigantia – 10 degrees Aquarius

RULING PLANET: Uranus

ARCHETYPAL GODS: Greek: Uranus; Egyptian: Neter; Celtic: Celi, Brigantia

STARS: Cassiopeia, Aquarius

IN CELTIC ASTROLOGY the second sign of the lunar zodiac is the Rowan Tree and its ruling planet is Uranus. The fiery breath of the Green Dragon associated with the Rowan Tree was said to ignite the magical process of germination attributed to Brigantia, a powerful goddess who represented the new Moon. On the first of February, a fire festival was celebrated and named in her honour to mark the first day of spring. It was a time when a glimmer of new light in the sky was often accompanied by flashes of lightning or sky omens. The druids believed that this strange new light was Celi, an invisible sky god, whose mythology closely resembles the Greek god Uranus. The Rowan sign is located in the zodiac degrees of Aquarius, which is also ruled by Uranus.

The following astrological interpretation is based on the Celtic Moon sign with reference to the corresponding Sun sign in the zodiac degrees of Aquarius. Because the lunar zodiac has thirteen signs it creates an overlapping system of degrees and, though they exist within the same 360 degrees of the Sun zodiac, it forms a shadow zodiac, which provides a unique source of astrological interpretation. It also takes into account the influential polarity signs and the hidden potential associated with the festival of Brigantia as observed by the druids.