Stargazing—Week of February 17th through February 23rd, 2020
Ambitious Mars moves into hard-working Capricorn Sunday morning for six weeks.This is a build for the future combination and rewards are available for hard work and long-term planning. Mercury turns retrograde in Pisces on the 16th until March 9, so allow room for adjustment as plans change.
There’s an energy shift on February 18th when the Sun moves into the emotional sign of Pisces through March 20th. This fish lives exclusively under water, meaning it can drown in emotions. The Cancer Crab and Scorpion can also live on land. Remember, Pisces is a duel sign and has two different sides. Many Pisces are tender-hearted Souls with artistic and musical talents along with a romantic and compassionate nature. However, the other side is fiercely trying to escape reality through addictions, compulsion, and dependencies. As you pass through these energies you could reflect a bit of both sides. The extreme sensitivity and emotions may make things a bit more difficult.
As an interesting coincidence, the Moon moves into Capricorn on Tuesday and Wednesday as the Sun moves into Pisces. Use all this Pisces-Capricorn energy to open to a higher vision that can come down to earth for mundane use in your life. This is a perfect to meditate and manifest a dream into a reality.
Keep a close watch on your health this next month because all of these emotional ups and downs can weaken an already delicate immune system.
Thursday and Friday are good days to step out of your regular routine. Get together with friends and try something new, be it a new restaurant or activity. The Aquarius moon is great for exploring new groups and innovative ideas. Sparks can fly on Friday, February 21st when Mars in Capricorn trines Uranus. There’s a lot of uncontrolled physical energy available and if you can channel it, this weekend is an excellent time to make something unique happen.
The Moon moves into Pisces on Saturday, just before it is new on the 23rd. Watch a good movie or listen to music on a quiet Saturday.
The big day this week is Sunday the 23rd, with the New Moon in Pisces. This New Moon nearly alignes with communications planet Mercury retrograde. Give yourself some sacred space to “feel” if your path needs to be adjusted, and what that might look like.
The February New Moon is the darkest and calmest point this month, holding all the right stuff for making any type of new beginning, The Pisces New Moon has a double blasé of Pisces energy and offers you a once-a-year chance to meditate, use your inner vision, inspiration, and compassion to release old habits, addictions, or dependencies and begin a new routine that will benefit your health and spiritual path.
Pisces is associated with intuitive abilities, so it needs the time and inner space to allow the vision to come to you, That can be difficult with the outer world pushing you with too many things to do. However, take the time.
There is an abundance of planets in action and adapting signs, so expect to be constantly shifting while on the move. Love and money Venus is challenging you to move much faster on a new path, while Jupiter is urging cautious expansion. It is important to open to new possibilities now, but that doesn’t mean you should immediately drop that which is working for you in the here and now.
As you can tell, there is a bit of a balancing act as you go beyond the veils of the material world into the other realms, and must still deal with it. Persevere because you’re building your personal stairway to the stars!
Beginning late afternoon on Thursday the 13th, the moon moves into emotionally intense Scorpio through Saturday morning, including Valentine’s Day. Be prepared for conversations that can take you to deep and potentially vulnerable levels. Not to worry as there are happy lunar aspects all day on the 14th to go along with Scorpio’s desire to keep it very real. Scorpio has a well-developed B.S. detector –and knows when you’re dishing out malarkey, so tell the truth even if it is something others don’t want to hear. (but always be kind).
Mercury retrogrades in Pisces on the 16th. After his challenging retrograde in Scorpio in November of 2019, we may feel some anxiety over his backpedaling in another Water sign. During the next three weeks, it’s important to take an intuitive approach to matters. Logic may fail and reason may hide unreasonable assumptions, but our internal compasses will be more on target. Of course, intuition can fail as well as reason, so the advice for this time -- is to go slowly. Get lost in the caverns of your inner vision, and take some time off from pressing forward.
Although Mercury can inspire you to live your dreams, it can also help you to be a convincing liar and perhaps abuse drugs and alcohol. This planet turns retrograde in Pisces on February 16th and then will go back into Aquarius before the cycle ends on March 9th.
The big, bright Full Moon in Leo late Saturday night, Feb. 8th is strongly illuminated by the opposing Aquarius Sun, providing us the best time of the year to bring leadership issues to a head as well as personal, creative projects and/or anything to do with children to a successful and positive conclusion.
The month ends with the moon in its quiet void-of-course phase until it moves into Taurus on Sunday afternoon, February 2nd.
Thursday morning is a better time when loving Venus makes a gentle harmony to generous Jupiter. Where a person may tell you “no,” regarding some idea on Wednesday, they are more likely to say “yes,” on Thursday. It’s time for us to step out of our comfort zone and the energy builds toward Friday’s New Moon. As the Chinese New Year approaches, make this week the best time of your year by breaking away from the old and creating the new. This is the New Year of the Rat and brings with a continual moveable feast of planet aspects throughout 2020.
The New Moon is on Friday, January 24th. This is an excellent New Moon to reach out to old friends as well as exploring new groups, friends and organizations. Although it’s not the most beloved of animals, the Rat can “eat” its way through anything, has fabulous, sharp instincts, and sharp wittedness. The Rat is ranked first in the Chinese Zodiac for its strong spirit, awareness, shrewdness, flexibility, and vitality.
Strategic planner Pallas is making a harmonious trine to revolutionary Uranus, so make a plan to bring that revolution into your life without completely disrupting it. Perhaps a friend or family member is moving in. At the same time, Venus is aligned with Neptune, making this a great time for intuition, compassion and romance and is exact on the 27th. However, this combination can get lost in fantasy and illusion, so pay attention to what is real and what is illusion. This begins the Chinese Year of the Rat, an industrious year ahead.
Thursday things are social under a Libra moon. Idea planet Mercury moves into inventive Aquarius from January 16th to February 3rd. The mind is super-sensitive with Mercury in Aquarius and thoughts are moving through you quickly and communications between brilliant to off center as well as bizarre. This is great for sharing your ideas and opening up to new groups, friends, and organizations. Deep emotions are present over the weekend under a secretive and private Scorpio moon.
