Japanese engraving on wood. 19th century
Key February Phenomena: All planets are direct in motion this month and through March indicating that, in general, life moves along more easily. Mercury and Mars enter Aquarius and instantly meet Pluto/Aquarius, demanding attention! 2024 is a Leap Year, so February has 29 days! What will you do with your extra day?
Quote of Note: “When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.” — Confucius
**A note about aspects. The following list gives you the day the aspect is mathematically exact, but effects are often felt a day before or a day after. With very strong aspects, such as Stations or Eclipses, we may see events several days before exactitude and later when other planets re-trigger those marker degrees. Aspects affect you personally the most if they connect closely to planets or points in your chart. Contact your astrologer for personal interpretations.
1. 2/2/24 – A day with 2 aspects:
-- Mercury in cardinal, earth Capricorn sextile Neptune in mutable, water Pisces @ 25deg. – Tough conversations benefit from and inform the emotional repercussions of decisions. As you organize your thoughts and ideas and create a structure for your plans, inspiration sneaks in.
-- A Fourth Quarter Moon 13 Scorpio @ 6:18PM EST. – Strong emotions are packed into this Last Quarter. We are reminded of the considerations of New Moon 20 Capricorn (1/11/24) to organize yourself and your goals. This Last Quarter adds passion, perhaps obsessiveness and instinctiveness for your analysis of complex themes. There’s juice and determination to make something concrete happen.
2. 2/5/24 – A day with 2 major aspects:
-- Mercury enters fixed, air Aquarius (until 2/23/24). – Mercury is exalted in this sign – meaning that the planet and the sign complement each other. Mercury is comfortable in an air sign because it rules Gemini, another air sign. Mercury is rational, detached, and logical, not emotional in this sign. Create a bright new future with this three-week transit using creative intuition to activate the original “one of a kind” human that you are.
-- Mercury/Aquarius conjunct Pluto/Aquarius @ 0deg. – Mercury gets its marching orders immediately from Pluto, meaning that conversations and communication will be tinged with deep or entrenched ideology, which is the downside of fixed air or fixed ideas. Watch out for this in the news. If there’s too much insistence that something is true, you’ll want to consider the source and verify. It’s far too easy to get fixated on an idea that seems correct and true but may in fact be flawed. Pluto/Aquarius asks us to research the deep emotional taproots of the ideas we support.
3. 2/7/24 – A day with 2 key aspects:
-- Venus/Capricorn trine Uranus/Taurus @ 19deg. – Take advantage of this aspect that offers joy in accomplishment. Work may be more satisfying if you feel you’re contributing to progress and a greater good – something that benefits humanity, that solves tough issues in innovative ways. This is at best an energy of altruism – working diligently and taking the high road. Relationships seek stimulation and the excitement of new discoveries.
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