Kumbh Sankranti 2025: The Sun entering Aquarius
Today, February 12th 2025 at exactly 17:10 Paris time, Surya (Sun) enters into Kumbh (Aquarius) sign of the zodiac.
Kumbh Sankranti is for me a special time of year as my Lagna (Ascendant) is Kumbh and these past 2.5 years, my ascendant lord Saturn has therefore been transiting my first house. And I can say that the "me" before summer 2022 and the me of today have not too much in common - it was quite a transformational transit.
What's special for the past three years is that every transit of the Sun through the sign of Aquarius has been a particularly difficult one, as it also brought about a conjunction of two major celestial ennemies: the Sun and Saturn are not well together.
People born between the 11th of February and the 14th of March had probably particularly difficult day during this month between 2023 and 2025.
The Sun is the emperor, it's the absolute ruler and enforcer of a strict hierarchy. In the vedic tradition, Shani (Saturn) is a bastard son of the sun god Surya, and he rejects his father. Saturn is the big democrat of the sky, someone who wants that the rules apply to all and someone who does not recognise any hierarchy, especially not one that is not well merited through hard work and suffering: the birth lottery should not exist according to Saturn.
Also on the level of the five Bhutas (Pancha Bhuta), both are very different. While the Sun is hot and fiery, Saturn is the master of the element air, but in Saturn's case it's a cold and slow moving air. Talking of the ayurvedic doshas, Sun is fiery pitta and Saturn is vata.
The conjunction between Sun and Saturn happens annually, so it's obviously not the end of the world, but it's never an easy time. Especially versus the end of the transit, arount March 11, when the conjunction is at its strongest, the sun burns (combusts) Saturn and weakens him, all the while Saturn is in his own sign and dignity, so very strong.
Add the eclipses (lunar then solar) around that time and we're in for even mor turbulent times, also on the world and political scene (would you believe....).
In my personal case, the sun entering my ascendant sign at this time of year has another strong significance: on February 20th I start a new planetary sub-period. After nearly three years of a sub-period of Venus, a short but probably intense sub-period of the Sun will succeed, between then and the end of December.
While my main period of Mercury stays the same, my natal sun has some very important significations around my health and longevity, my inner transformation, my progress in the world of the occult, but also - looking at some of my divisional charts - for my ability to find and keep a job and to earn money, ultimately to get rid of very old and oppressing debt.
So my hopes are high for 2025: I do a lot of vedic (mantra and other) practices around the Sun, among others, and will re-inforce them now.
For those interested in Vedic Astrology or "Jyôtish", hit me up if you want to book a consultation. They are not free but I am reguarly told that they are powerful and transformative to my clients.
And if you want to learn more about the vedic conception of the Sun, I can recommend a short but insightful book that covers the major aspects of the Sun God Surya in vedic tradition, mythology, astrology and yoga.
Sarva Mangalam!
