After five weeks and a general malaise, January is behind us, and the transient, brilliant month of February lies ahead.
On Feb. 4, Jupiter — our planet of luck, levity, growth and gains — will go direct in Gemini after a four-month retrograde. In Gemini, Jupiter encourages curiosity and duplicity, high art and lowly gossip, illumination and inundation.
Now that the planet is moving directly, we’ll be higher in a position to integrate the teachings of its retrograde and hopefully emerge with newfound reverence for the facility of language and the way our words can function as each cure and curse.
On the identical day, Venus — our planet of wealth, value and wanting — climbs out of the bath EDM trance of Pisces and is vitalized by the hellfire and primal passions of Aries. That shift encourages each getting it on and getting your way, a welcome respite from the inertia of the past few weeks.
A full snow moon in Leo on Feb. 12 is a summons to let your freak flag fly — and your bleeding heart sit right in your sleeve.
On Feb. 18, the sun slides from air to water, fixed to flexible once we move from space alien Aquarius to martyr/nihilist Care Bear Pisces.
Ride the wave, not the undertow, folks.
On Feb. 23, Mars — our planet of will and war, motion and ambition — will turn direct in Cancer and, good gods, not a moment too soon.
If the brand new yr has to this point felt more like slow motion than positive progress, fear not; Mars’ direct motion can be a much-needed boost. Every thing will still hurt, because Cancer, but it would feel less hopeless, especially when the planet moves into the regal bonfire of the vanities sign of Leo in early spring.
The month draws to a detailed with a recent moon in Pisces on Feb. 27. This moon brings with it heightened intuition, sensitivity and creativity. Do collaging, foot soaks, salt caves, uncomfortable eye contact, past-life regressions and painting in the dead of night. Avoid crowds, confessions, triggering siblings and clinical environments.
Good luck on the market, folks; read on to learn the way February will challenge and charm your zodiac sign. Read in your sun and rising sign.
Aquarius season highlights your eleventh house of community, Aries, and it’s possible you’ll feel called to attach and collaborate, but keep in mind that relating to bonds, depth bests bulk.
When Venus enters your sign on the fourth, you would possibly find that friendship fans the fires of something hotter. You never struggle to be direct about your desires, and now, greater than ever, your clarity can support your carnality.
Get it while you may, folks, because when the sun moves into Pisces, it’s essential suture the sort of wounds that require a gentle hand, a fearless heart and the sanctity of solitude.
Ahoy, Taurus! Come Feb. 4, Venus, your ruling planet, will take up residence in Aries and produce a blowtorch to your twelfth house of dreams and delusions, endings and enemies, a summons to retreat to plan a radical path forward.
To coax your imagination out of the box — or pasture, because it were — and into the ether of possibility, I give you the sage wisdom of Sir Cecil Beaton: “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that can assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the strange.”
Welcome to February, you trickster/charmers, spinner of yarns and tellers of tales.
The sun and Mercury within the cult leader climes of Aquarius highlight your ninth house of broadened horizons and spiritual homework this month, Gemini.
The ninth home is home to journeys of all kinds, and along with your ruling planet within the sign of the idealistic weirdo, you’re encouraged to hunt the strange and the corporate of strangers. As Mercury is the planet of exchange and Aquarius the sign of community, it’s value noting that the medieval definition of share is “to enjoy or suffer (something) with others, to every take a portion.”
Whether it’s deep pain or glad tidings, let it’s shared with those that can show you how to carry it and show you how to carry on.
Hibernate to dominate, Cancer.
With the sun shining in the dead of night attic of your eighth house of sex, death, and regeneration and Mars — the planet of motion retrograding in your sign — the time is nigh to take a knee, a nap, and possibly a bubble bath.
It shouldn’t be a lot that you need to stop making an effort, but you need to let yourself off the hook of needing to speed up. This particular mix of star soup is a summons to decelerate and go in — two directives that may’t be resolved with the urge to get ahead or run away.
Aquarius season shines a flood light in your seventh house of partnership, Leo.
Aquarius is the sign of radical independence, and Leo bears the mark, or mane, of the doomed romantic. This month calls you to query how you may feel secure and free, connected but sovereign in and thru your closest connections.
Keep in mind that autonomy can and will support intimacy and vice-versa.
On and around the total moon in your sign on Feb. 12, play your cards close and watch out what you reveal about yourself and to whom. Consider attending to know people and letting them know you as more of a strip tease than a glory hole.
Howdy, Virgo! The sun in space cowboy Aquarius highlights your sixth house of rituals and day by day devotion.
When you’re on the market reflecting on how you need to feel within the hours, days, weeks, months and years to come back, may I humbly suggest you add more flexibility to your routine?
Without the space for surprise and a mind trained toward delight, the proverbial magic has a harder time breaking through to you.
Keep it loose but purposeful, and also you’re certain to beckon the unexpected.
The total moon in Leo on the twelfth hits hard and claws out in your twelfth house of the unconscious mind. Make time to meditate, but don’t force profundity or be precious about location.
Because the late, great filmmaker and lunar Virgo David Lynch maintained, “You don’t need a special place to meditate. You may transcend anywhere on the planet. The unified field is here, and there, and in every single place.”
The sun in Aquarius activates the carnival lights in your fifth house of delight, play, creation and consummation, Libra.
Keep in mind that creativity runs the gamut from procreation to pie-baking, changing a thought pattern to changing your outfit.
Within the “let freedom ring” spirit of Aquarius, I challenge you to create something recent every single day to please yourself. Add sprinkles, use a recent word, paint a wall, buy a sex toy, make a picnic for one, or write yourself a lipstick love letter in your front door.
Within the season of Valentine’s, do all things for you, from you.
Let’s talk concerning the ties that bind and the apron strings that suffocate, Scorpio.
Between the sun in Aquarius highlighting your fourth house of home and ancestry and Mars — your ancient ruler spending the majority of the month retrograding in nostalgia as masochism, care-as-control Cancer — you’ve little doubt got a watch on the past and a tether to its pains.
I spoke to a trauma therapist this week who told me the important thing to survival is to recollect slightly than relive difficult memories. Yet, the important thing to vitality is to totally embody fleeting moments of joy. I hope your pains feel like a distant echo and your jubilation as visceral as a brass band playing in your blood.
With the water bearer ruling the sky, your focus, or goal, falls on communication and exchange, language and learning, Sagittarius.
As American luminary June Jordan tells us, “To inform the reality is to change into beautiful, to start to like yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.”
In this fashion, and under these stars, you may change into, by merit of the words you speak, not only a communicator of truth but a facilitator of change.
Initially of the month, Venus moves into the hellfire and hotpants sign of Aries, throwing a match in your fourth house of home, Capricorn.
This might mean it’s time to revitalize your living space, play host to your chosen family, make a daring declaration of desire, or lean into the pleasure of being warm and still within the place you call home.
On the identical day, drunk-on-luck planet Jupiter goes direct in Gemini in your sixth house of rituals and routines. There, Jupiter asks you to present instructional language to your dreams and a gentle voice to your needs and nonnegotiables.
In her illustrated children’s book for anger management, “Anger is a Storm,” Lauren Martin writes, “Setting a boundary means protecting your joy and well-being by telling someone to stop harmful behavior. Practice setting a boundary, try saying: ‘I can’t allow you to X. I would like Y.’”
You’re well versed on the “can’t allow you to,” Capricorn, less so with the “I would like.” No time like the current to practice.
Completely satisfied return of the sun to you, Aquarius! The sun will shine in your sign, where it would be joined by Pluto and Mercury for a lot of the month.
All of this energy is concentrated in your first house of self, identity and perception. This holy trinity of expression (Mercury), trajectory (sun) and regeneration (Pluto) suggests that now’s the hour for rebranding and rebirthing.
Consider how the ways you express passion and hold power can light the match of possibility for others.
The total moon within the lion heart of Leo prompts your seventh house of partnerships. It will possibly be easier so that you can disengage than stand and deliver, but this lunation calls for absolute honesty.
Remember, vagueness is its own sort of cruelty — and lukewarm can, in reality, be ice cold.
The sun in Aquarius highlights your twelfth house of endings and intuition, Pisces, making the primary few weeks of February a advantageous time to commune along with your respected dead and cut ties with the living that make life a bore or a trouble.
You reside with most of your faculties adrift within the land of dreams, but now, greater than ever, the messages you receive from beyond the veil and the land of nod can come through with astounding clarity and the facility to change into the bedrock on which you construct.
Astrology 101: Your guide to the star
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, popular culture, and private experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
After five weeks and a general malaise, January is behind us, and the transient, brilliant month of February lies ahead.
On Feb. 4, Jupiter — our planet of luck, levity, growth and gains — will go direct in Gemini after a four-month retrograde. In Gemini, Jupiter encourages curiosity and duplicity, high art and lowly gossip, illumination and inundation.
Now that the planet is moving directly, we’ll be higher in a position to integrate the teachings of its retrograde and hopefully emerge with newfound reverence for the facility of language and the way our words can function as each cure and curse.
On the identical day, Venus — our planet of wealth, value and wanting — climbs out of the bath EDM trance of Pisces and is vitalized by the hellfire and primal passions of Aries. That shift encourages each getting it on and getting your way, a welcome respite from the inertia of the past few weeks.
A full snow moon in Leo on Feb. 12 is a summons to let your freak flag fly — and your bleeding heart sit right in your sleeve.
On Feb. 18, the sun slides from air to water, fixed to flexible once we move from space alien Aquarius to martyr/nihilist Care Bear Pisces.
Ride the wave, not the undertow, folks.
On Feb. 23, Mars — our planet of will and war, motion and ambition — will turn direct in Cancer and, good gods, not a moment too soon.
If the brand new yr has to this point felt more like slow motion than positive progress, fear not; Mars’ direct motion can be a much-needed boost. Every thing will still hurt, because Cancer, but it would feel less hopeless, especially when the planet moves into the regal bonfire of the vanities sign of Leo in early spring.
The month draws to a detailed with a recent moon in Pisces on Feb. 27. This moon brings with it heightened intuition, sensitivity and creativity. Do collaging, foot soaks, salt caves, uncomfortable eye contact, past-life regressions and painting in the dead of night. Avoid crowds, confessions, triggering siblings and clinical environments.
Good luck on the market, folks; read on to learn the way February will challenge and charm your zodiac sign. Read in your sun and rising sign.
Aquarius season highlights your eleventh house of community, Aries, and it’s possible you’ll feel called to attach and collaborate, but keep in mind that relating to bonds, depth bests bulk.
When Venus enters your sign on the fourth, you would possibly find that friendship fans the fires of something hotter. You never struggle to be direct about your desires, and now, greater than ever, your clarity can support your carnality.
Get it while you may, folks, because when the sun moves into Pisces, it’s essential suture the sort of wounds that require a gentle hand, a fearless heart and the sanctity of solitude.
Ahoy, Taurus! Come Feb. 4, Venus, your ruling planet, will take up residence in Aries and produce a blowtorch to your twelfth house of dreams and delusions, endings and enemies, a summons to retreat to plan a radical path forward.
To coax your imagination out of the box — or pasture, because it were — and into the ether of possibility, I give you the sage wisdom of Sir Cecil Beaton: “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that can assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the strange.”
Welcome to February, you trickster/charmers, spinner of yarns and tellers of tales.
The sun and Mercury within the cult leader climes of Aquarius highlight your ninth house of broadened horizons and spiritual homework this month, Gemini.
The ninth home is home to journeys of all kinds, and along with your ruling planet within the sign of the idealistic weirdo, you’re encouraged to hunt the strange and the corporate of strangers. As Mercury is the planet of exchange and Aquarius the sign of community, it’s value noting that the medieval definition of share is “to enjoy or suffer (something) with others, to every take a portion.”
Whether it’s deep pain or glad tidings, let it’s shared with those that can show you how to carry it and show you how to carry on.
Hibernate to dominate, Cancer.
With the sun shining in the dead of night attic of your eighth house of sex, death, and regeneration and Mars — the planet of motion retrograding in your sign — the time is nigh to take a knee, a nap, and possibly a bubble bath.
It shouldn’t be a lot that you need to stop making an effort, but you need to let yourself off the hook of needing to speed up. This particular mix of star soup is a summons to decelerate and go in — two directives that may’t be resolved with the urge to get ahead or run away.
Aquarius season shines a flood light in your seventh house of partnership, Leo.
Aquarius is the sign of radical independence, and Leo bears the mark, or mane, of the doomed romantic. This month calls you to query how you may feel secure and free, connected but sovereign in and thru your closest connections.
Keep in mind that autonomy can and will support intimacy and vice-versa.
On and around the total moon in your sign on Feb. 12, play your cards close and watch out what you reveal about yourself and to whom. Consider attending to know people and letting them know you as more of a strip tease than a glory hole.
Howdy, Virgo! The sun in space cowboy Aquarius highlights your sixth house of rituals and day by day devotion.
When you’re on the market reflecting on how you need to feel within the hours, days, weeks, months and years to come back, may I humbly suggest you add more flexibility to your routine?
Without the space for surprise and a mind trained toward delight, the proverbial magic has a harder time breaking through to you.
Keep it loose but purposeful, and also you’re certain to beckon the unexpected.
The total moon in Leo on the twelfth hits hard and claws out in your twelfth house of the unconscious mind. Make time to meditate, but don’t force profundity or be precious about location.
Because the late, great filmmaker and lunar Virgo David Lynch maintained, “You don’t need a special place to meditate. You may transcend anywhere on the planet. The unified field is here, and there, and in every single place.”
The sun in Aquarius activates the carnival lights in your fifth house of delight, play, creation and consummation, Libra.
Keep in mind that creativity runs the gamut from procreation to pie-baking, changing a thought pattern to changing your outfit.
Within the “let freedom ring” spirit of Aquarius, I challenge you to create something recent every single day to please yourself. Add sprinkles, use a recent word, paint a wall, buy a sex toy, make a picnic for one, or write yourself a lipstick love letter in your front door.
Within the season of Valentine’s, do all things for you, from you.
Let’s talk concerning the ties that bind and the apron strings that suffocate, Scorpio.
Between the sun in Aquarius highlighting your fourth house of home and ancestry and Mars — your ancient ruler spending the majority of the month retrograding in nostalgia as masochism, care-as-control Cancer — you’ve little doubt got a watch on the past and a tether to its pains.
I spoke to a trauma therapist this week who told me the important thing to survival is to recollect slightly than relive difficult memories. Yet, the important thing to vitality is to totally embody fleeting moments of joy. I hope your pains feel like a distant echo and your jubilation as visceral as a brass band playing in your blood.
With the water bearer ruling the sky, your focus, or goal, falls on communication and exchange, language and learning, Sagittarius.
As American luminary June Jordan tells us, “To inform the reality is to change into beautiful, to start to like yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.”
In this fashion, and under these stars, you may change into, by merit of the words you speak, not only a communicator of truth but a facilitator of change.
Initially of the month, Venus moves into the hellfire and hotpants sign of Aries, throwing a match in your fourth house of home, Capricorn.
This might mean it’s time to revitalize your living space, play host to your chosen family, make a daring declaration of desire, or lean into the pleasure of being warm and still within the place you call home.
On the identical day, drunk-on-luck planet Jupiter goes direct in Gemini in your sixth house of rituals and routines. There, Jupiter asks you to present instructional language to your dreams and a gentle voice to your needs and nonnegotiables.
In her illustrated children’s book for anger management, “Anger is a Storm,” Lauren Martin writes, “Setting a boundary means protecting your joy and well-being by telling someone to stop harmful behavior. Practice setting a boundary, try saying: ‘I can’t allow you to X. I would like Y.’”
You’re well versed on the “can’t allow you to,” Capricorn, less so with the “I would like.” No time like the current to practice.
Completely satisfied return of the sun to you, Aquarius! The sun will shine in your sign, where it would be joined by Pluto and Mercury for a lot of the month.
All of this energy is concentrated in your first house of self, identity and perception. This holy trinity of expression (Mercury), trajectory (sun) and regeneration (Pluto) suggests that now’s the hour for rebranding and rebirthing.
Consider how the ways you express passion and hold power can light the match of possibility for others.
The total moon within the lion heart of Leo prompts your seventh house of partnerships. It will possibly be easier so that you can disengage than stand and deliver, but this lunation calls for absolute honesty.
Remember, vagueness is its own sort of cruelty — and lukewarm can, in reality, be ice cold.
The sun in Aquarius highlights your twelfth house of endings and intuition, Pisces, making the primary few weeks of February a advantageous time to commune along with your respected dead and cut ties with the living that make life a bore or a trouble.
You reside with most of your faculties adrift within the land of dreams, but now, greater than ever, the messages you receive from beyond the veil and the land of nod can come through with astounding clarity and the facility to change into the bedrock on which you construct.
Astrology 101: Your guide to the star
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, popular culture, and private experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
