Astrology for Feb 15 - Feb 27

 

 

Disseminating

February 16, 2025

6:08am PST           

     

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing your strengths in relationships?  How do you find balance?  How are you sharing it?  How do you share your ability to sit across from another person and ‘get them’?  How do they respond?   How are groups and friends supporting you in your relationships?

 

 

Special focus:

Feb 18:  Sun enters Pisces

Feb 20:  Mercury square Jupiter.  Thinking, conversations that are too big and perhaps not even factual are problematic.  Try not to fall for it or participate in it.  

 

 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

Feb 20, 2025

9:32 am PST 

   

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

What actions are you taking bridge you to something that is ‘foreign’?  How are you acting on your opinions and your philosophies?  How are friends or groups informing you about your opinions?  

 

Special focus 

 

Feb 23: Mercury trine Mars.  Thoughts beget actions.  Actions are aligned with thinking.  Everything is moving fast.  

Feb 23:  Mars stations direct at 17 Cancer 00 (see separate post) 

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

February 24, 2025 

6:05am PST  

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing your greed?  How are you releasing any snobbery that is buried in an insecurity?  How are you releasing any negativity you have around the concept of ambitious?  How are friends and groups supporting you in this release? 

 

Special focus:

Feb 25:  Mercury conjunct Saturn.  Straight thinking, no fluff.  Focused, laser and productive. 

 

Feb 25: Venus conjunct Saturn.  If love is problematic, the universe will send a message to begin trimming or releasing.  Diets on love, money, beauty and creativity.   Love and money and values become serious. 

 

 

Pisces New Moon February 27 at 4:44pm PST  9 Pisces 40

Leo Full Moon. February 12, 5:53am PST

 

Leo.  Illumination Book of Hours.  Italian. 1475. Pierpont Morgan Library. 

Feb 12, 2025

Full Moon – Leo

5:53am PST

24 Leo 06    

 

The Leo full moon is an opportunity for us to lean into our talents, creativity, strength and perhaps our inner hero/heroine.   We give ourselves permission for a victory lap.   The Leo moon is for tapping self-esteem through an awareness of others.   Of course, every sign has its stumbling blocks and for Leo, the Achilles heel is the ego. 

By the way, there is a difference between self-esteem and ego.    

 

People with low esteem can have high ego.   People with low ego have high self-esteem.  I saw this a lot in my career in the entertainment business.   Many a time, I watched, the super talented, award-winning performer walk into a room with zero fuss.  Polite, ready to do the job of working with others and doing it with a quiet confidence.   Then the other performer, perhaps also a big ‘star’ but whatever is going on inside them is not translated into self-esteem, instead it is all about ego. Sucking up the oxygen with ‘look at me’ comments, physicality and just plain, pulling focus.  All, high ego.  Of course, those patterns are not limited to Hollywood.  It is everywhere.  The truck stop, the bowling alley, the corporate board retreat.   Ego versus self-esteem is in every circle where there are humans.    However, we can find self-esteem and separate it from ego during the Leo full moon.  

 

On the full moon the Sun in Aquarius reminds Leo, ‘We will honor your talents but leave your ego at the door”.    And by the same measure the Moon in Leo reminds Aquarius, “Groups are important but if you think I’m just signing into a cult with group think you are out of your mind.”   Somewhere in the middle we find the answer.  That is the gift of the Leo full moon.    

 

On the full moon chart, Mercury is conjunction the sun (exact 2/9) so our thoughts are going about a million miles an hour.  Our brains are making a lot of connections, and we could observe things that we have not seen before or connecting them in ways that are novel.  Our thinking may have a bit of time travel in them as we could pull out big thoughts from our past or maybe our future.   

 

The big tension in the full moon is the Moon, Sun with Mercury and all three forming a T square with Uranus.   We should anticipate breakthroughs that may manifest as breakdowns.  In the mundane world, we may see money and things that we rely upon being solid cracking in unexpected ways.   During this Leo full moon it could beckon a response.  Perhaps a group heroic response. 

 

On the personal level, being small and hiding in the crowd, could eat at some of us.  If we have been ignoring our talents or hiding in groups, we may feel compelled to step out and into the light.   This could be in the workplace, the school, the church, again wherever we gather with others.    Given Pluto’s placement in Aquarius any full moon impulse to break out and help others, could be an important part to the new 20-year journey of Pluto.  

 

Like all lunar phases, the full moon is a three-day phase however these tensions are a wider span of days.  This tension will begin to get riled up on the 9^th when Mercury squares Uranus, then the 10^th when the Sun squares Uranus and finally on the 12^thabout an hour before the full moon the Moon squares Uranus.   The unwind will probably take through to disseminating phase on the 16^th.   

 

While the drama may unfold there is an opportunity for healing.  The moon’s monthly trine with Chiron is on the 11^th is an extra boost of ‘I got this” which should help soothe any insecurities.    

 

Also, remember Leo is where we are long on love, romance, loyalty, strength, fun, play and games.  And yep, drama.  So even in the middle of whatever is going on, find the joy.  You can do it. 

Mars Stations Direct. February 23.

 

Photo: Kevin M. Gill 

Mars Station Direct 

 

Feb 23, 2025

5:59pm PST

17 Cancer 00

 

Sept 4:        Mars enter Cancer 

Oct 4:          Mars enters shadow (17 Cancer 01)

Nov 3 :        Mars enters Leo  

Dec 6:         Mars station retrograde (6 Leo 10)

Feb 23 :      Mars station direct (17 Cancer 01)

Apr 18 :      Mars re-enters Leo

May 2:        Mars exits shadow (6 Leo 10) 

June 7:       Mars enters Virgo 

 

We have been in a Mars retrograde since December 6.   The shadow started October 4.  When Mars is in a sign it is usually for six weeks but when it is retrograde it is extended to six months.    Finally on Feb 23, Mars will straighten out and fly right and I suspect we will all feel better for it.   

 

Since October, Mars has been ping-ponging between Cancer and Leo.   The station occurs at 17 Cancer.   Mars is in its fall when it is in Cancer.  The warrior planet just can’t find its normal bearing in watering Cancer.  Less of its weapons are available to Mars.    However, feelings are pronounced especially around family, and it will get into squabbles to protect family and home.   The crab pinchers will be sharp and extra pinchy until Mars leaves Cancer and re-enters Leo on April 18.    Once Mars returns to Leo it will be more comfortable and ready to face outward for bold action.  We will cover that later in spring.   

 

On a personal level for those of you with planets between 17 and 29 Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn you are no doubt feeling the need to harness your energy and do work that your emotions are telling you that must be done.  Even if it is scary or overwhelming you could be feeling a ‘must do’.  Be measured if you can and always check your interior compass to make sure you are doing the move that feels right and is not too excessive.   

 

Going forward Mars will have the following planetary aspects through to the end of the shadow:

 

2/23          Mercury trine Mars (17 Pisces/Cancer)

3/8            Sun trine Mars (17 Pisces/Cancer)

3/26          Mars square Chiron (22 Cancer/Aries)

4/4            Mars sextile Uranus (24 Cancer/Taurus) 

4/4            Mars trine Saturn (24 Cancer/Pisces)

4/4            Venus trine Mars (25 Pisces/Cancer)

4/11          Mars trine N Node (27Cancer/Pisces)

4/19          Mars trine Neptune (0 Leo/Aquarius 

4/20          Sun square Mars (1 Taurus/Leo) 

4/26          Mars opposite Pluto (3 Leo/Aquarius) 

5/3            Mars quincunx Jupiter (6 Leo/21 Gemini)

 

I’ve highlighted two aspects with Mars that I have on my radar.  

 

Mars trine Neptune is interesting because Neptune will be in the fresh new sign of Aries.  Aries is fiery, independent, desirous of going forward in whatever it wants, and Neptune is dreamy, artistic, intuitive, long on a humanitarian love and fantasy prone.   The last time Neptune began its journey in Aries was on April 13, 1861, the day after the American Civil War began.  Gulp. But also kind of perfect.   Who was steeped in illusion for the launch of that war?   What happened to humanity during and at the end?   (and then there is the fact we were a slave nation).

 

It is unclear what will be going on March 30 when Neptune enters Aries this time.    It will be something, for sure, by the time we get to Mars trine we’ll have the flavor of this new era which lasts until 2039.   The Mars trine Neptune in April could be a helpful prodding.  Perhaps some big drama filled with all kinds of theatrics that might be helpful.    

 

The other aspect on our radar is of course the third and final Mars opposition Pluto.   We are not in a subtle era in astrology.  The information spinning out from the planets seems to be on brand.  Big time.  There is a lot about the first two hits of Mars and Pluto that speaks to the USA election.   What will be revealed at the April 26^th date?   

 

Nov 3:       Mars oppose Pluto (29 Cap 46)  #1

Jan 3 :       Mars oppose Pluto (1 Aq 08)  #2

Apr 26 :     Mars oppose Pluto ( 3 AQ 48) #3

 

Lots to watch with our warrior planet Mars.   Lots-o-Actions.   

Astrology landscape for Feb 8 - Feb 14

 

Gibbous Moon

February 8, 2025  

12:31 pm PST     

 

 

Gibbous:

We refine our information.  We pick and choose, we discriminate, and we organize to be ‘Virgo’ like.  We sort through details.  Have we missed something?  How are we sifting through the information?  Go back and make sure something hasn’t been neglected.  Refine our actions.   How are we perfecting our goals? 

 

Special focus How are you refining your feelings?   How are you refining your emotions, so they guide you and work for you?  How are you refining your ability to sort through feelings that are wounded and maybe no longer helpful?   How are friends and groups supporting you in this process?   

 

Focus on:  

 

Feb 9: Mercury conjunct Sun. What are we learning from groups?  What are we learning about our friendships?  How are we all fitting together? 

Feb 9: Mars trine Saturn.   Hard work and discipline for goals is easy to tap today.   Make it work for you.  

Feb 10: Mercury square Uranus.  Beware of the provocateurs.  Caution should be taken if anyone’s conversation is trying to go big and possibly tosses out the baby with the bathwater.   

Feb 11: Sun Square Uranus.   Energies about breakthroughs can appear as breakdowns.   Resources and stability feels rocked.  

 

 

  

Feb 12 , 2025

Full Moon – Leo

5:53am  PST

24 Leo 06    

 

 

Full Moon:  We make the needed adjustments on the things we planted. Usually, emotions are up and running and for those people who perhaps did not utilize the new moon and the rest of the waxing moon, this is when emotions can get the better of us. There can often be a big emotional break, for no other reason than to get back on track.   Some partnership will offer up some balance.  The moon is bright and full and there is no room for shadows, what is reflecting on you?  

 

Focus on:   How do we tap our voice? How do we tap our drama?  How can we use the power of theater to help others?   What do our groups tell us that is not in synch with our power or big voice?  Is there a need for a new group?  Or how our friends and groups supporting our vision?  How can we all be heroes?  

 

(Fuller post to come)

Special focus 

Feb 14:  Mercury enters Pisces.   A cycle of gentle and fuzzy and creative thinking and conversations.  

 

Astrology Landscape: January 29 - Feb 3

 

We are in the new and crescent phase of the Aquarius lunar month which launched on January 29.   

 

This focus:    How are connecting to others?  How are you finding your groups?  How are you and your friends able to support each other?  Have you outgrown each other?  Is there a new friendship in the offing?   What communities are you tapping?   

 

Special note:

 

Jan 30: Uranus stations direct (See separate) 

Jan 30: Sun trine Jupiter.  Big joy, fun.  New innovative thinking and friends is inspiring.  New energy that strengthens our uniqueness. 

Feb 1: Venus conjunct Neptune  - Love that is fuzzy & inspiring and connects  to humanity. 

Feb 1: Venus conjunct North Node -love, values finding connections to humanity.   

 

Crescent Moon Phase

February 1, 2025

2:20pm  

 

 

Focus on: What are you learning about your faith?  What focus can you bring that leans into existential or woo-woo nature?    How is your spirituality?  What are you learning?  What are you learning about the significance of prayer or meditation or getting quiet? How are friends and groups offering information that speaks to spirituality?   

 

 

Special Focus

Feb 3: Mercury trine Jupiter.  Thoughts that feel fresh and unique and are helpful and open doors. 

Feb 3: Mars square Chiron.  Being out there for self, carving a new way feels resisted by the needs of family.   Is there space to do both?  

Feb 4: Jupiter station direct (see above)

Jupiter Stations Direct. February 4: Here we go --Again!!

 

Jupiter Station Direct

Feb 4, 2025

1:40am PST 

11 Gemini 16

 

Mar 23      Jupiter exits shadow (21 Gemini 20) 

Jun 9:        Jupiter enters Cancer 

 

 

It takes one year for Jupiter to transit a sign.  While there is a lot of opportunities and gifts with the planet Jupiter, we should all get down on our knees and be grateful that Jupiter is ONLY in a sign for one year.   It is so dang large, and the gravity pull of Jupiter is so huge that it can be exhausting especially in some signs more than others.  

 

An argument that the Jupiter in Gemini transit is one of those exhausting transits.   Jupiter is in its detriment in Gemini meaning that the nature of Jupiter and the nature of Gemini are complicated.   Gemini likes to bop around, pick up a piece of data then drop it, go futz with something else, then pick up a new piece of data and wonder if it had anything to do with the other data, then get bored and move on.  You get the point.   Jupiter, the planet associated with big thinking, big philosophy, big opinion is overwhelmed by the rapid-fire data during its Gemini period.  It has trouble finding up from down.  Not a comfortable place for Jupiter. 

 

Fortunately, in Wednesday's (1/29) New Moon chart there is a fruitful aspect between the Sun, Moon and Jupiter.  This suggests some opportunities to be gleaned around the new moon and during the lunar 29-day month.   Doors could open, connections could be made, a fresh new group of peple can appear who are helpful.    Jupiter stations direct in the Crescent Phase of the moon which is when we gather information which is kind of perfect for exhausted Jupiter who will no doubt use its gravity to find some semblance of a thoughtful narrative that it could have missed in the last few months.   Media, especially more traditional, may have some big moves especially with Uranus stationing direct just a few days earlier.   

 

On a personal level, siblings and neighbors could be more active in our lives. Communication that was dormant in some area may get a fresh start.  Stories could come to us at lightning speed.   As always avoid gossip.    For those folks with planets between 11 and 29 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sag and Pisces, if you are feeling overwhelmed, please unplug.   Go get lost in a movie or streamer.  

 

One other note, on August 19, (17 Gemini/Pisces) we had the first of three rounds of Jupiter square Saturn.   Jupiter wants to spread out and get bigger while Saturn seeks constriction.     Our second round of this aspect was on December 24 (14 Gemini/Pisces) and the final aspect will be on June 15 (1 Cancer/Aries).   On that date it will be a different expression of emotions and family versus break through independence.   More to come. 

 

Uranus --Stations Direct - January 30, 2025 --- Here We Go!

 

Uranus Station Direct 

January 30, 2025

23 Taurus 15

8:22am PST 

 

May 17: Uranus leaves shadow 27 Taurus 15

 

Double downing in the prepare-for- weirdness- &- innovativeness is Aquarius’s modern ruling planet, Uranus who stations direct 24 hours after the launch of new moon.   Have you ever been in a room and maybe down the hall someone opens a door and even though you are 20 feet away that breeze swishes over you?  Well, this New Moon is minding its business, setting a tone for the 29-day lunar cycle when who should open the door and swoosh in?  Uranus, Aquarius’s landlord.  

Mr. Weird, Ms Eccentric, lets-be-different-Uranus will be mixing it up.   For these 29 days, those who expect the unexpected will be wise.   

 

Uranus spends five months retrograde each year and this retrograde started September 1.  Then On July 7, after seven years of transiting through Taurus, Uranus will move into Gemini.   Between now and July 7 there will be something akin to a dress rehearsal for the world as we figure out what we still need from Uranus in Taurus.   Taurus is a food sign, a construction sign, it manufactures, and it is our currency. Uranus still has work to do in terms of new technology that impacts food.   Construction.  Money.  Buildings, etc.   Uranus wants to make it all ‘new’ and if something is broken, Uranus will no doubt create attention, albeit weird focus.  But for all of Uranus dynamic and disruptive energy it does not do it in a vacuum.  If there is an issue or has been an issue that NO one has been dealing with, that is when Uranus gets our attention.  Even if it feels out of the blue there is probably a theme of ‘broken’ that has not been addressed.   

 

It is interesting that ever since Pluto dipped into Aquarius last year and now has returned for good and Uranus is in the last ten degrees of Taurus, the bird flu has wrecked the egg and poultry business.   Innovation is clearly needed.   Let’s see what additional problems Uranus finds in Agri Business for the next six months and then what innovation can present itself when the planet moves into curious, smart, fresh Gemini.    

 

On a personal level those folks with planets in late degrees (23 to 29 degrees)  of  Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius,  you should try and  remember that swoosh of wind.  Uranus could be telling you there are some changes you may need to make between now and July 7 and again late in the year and beginning of 2026.   

 

Aquarius New Moon January 29, 2025 at 4:34 am PST.

 

Aquarius New Moon 

 

February 29, 2025 

4:34am

9 Aquarius 51

The 29 days of the Aquarius lunar month are a doozey.  Lots going on.  

Here is a snippet from my report, the link to the whole report is at the end of the snippet.  

Aquarius

 

Aquarius speaks to friendships and the groups of people where we like to hang.   Aquarius is the sign of the water bearer, but it is not a water sign.  It is an air sign and is therefore long on mentality and communication.   In ancient times, people (water carriers) went to the well or town spicket or oasis that served the community.   Obviously, water is vital for life.  But on another level the water carrier had an additional perspective.   At the well, people talked to one another and learned news.   A king died, that family moved, crops are good, crops are bad, people are getting sick at a nearby town, information at the water source had its own vitality and the water bearer was often the one to hear it and take it back to family or community.  Sharing and talking and strategizing is an important component to Aquarius.    

 

During Aquarius we lean into our own inner connectedness.  Where do we go for vitality?  What do we bring to friendships?  What do we glean from friends?   Obviously in our modern era, a lot of Aquarius is tapping social media.   What groups do we choose to put our energy?   However, while we do seek and lean into connectedness in Aquarius, we also have our radar up if we are being trapped by herd thinking.   Our unique vision must be tapped and processed during Aquarius.   We may be handed a group thought that sounds good in spirit but if it is off in practice we may seek to find another group to hear what they say about the practice.    Our brain switch is very much ON during Aquarius. 

 

This New Moon Aquarius chart has Sun and Moon at 9 Aquarius with Mercury at 2 Aquarius and Pluto at 1 Aquarius.  For the next 20 years Pluto will at times be a factor in the New Moon charts.  In this case it is a wide conjunction to the sun and moon, but it is tight orb with Mercury which was exact about five hours before the new moon.  This is a potent aspect for the New Moon and 29-day lunar month could have a theme of intense conversations about breakdowns and breakthroughs in the news or we may be experiencing on some level with our friends and groups.  God help any of us when we walk into ‘red tape’ but at least during Aquarius lunar month we may reach out to our group(s) and get an unusual solution.     At first blush getting others feedback can speak to insecurity about one’s own opinion but in Aquarius it is not necessarily questioning self but more of a ‘this is so weird, what do you think?’  energy.   Lots of discussions to be had this cycle. 

Go HERE for whole report.  Lots going on this cycle that you will want to tap.     

Astrology for Jan 20-28

 

Disseminating

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing your ability to refine?  How are you sharing your ability to sort?  How are you sharing your ability to master your daily schedule?   Are your appointments in alignment with your purpose?  

 

 

Special focus:

Jan 21: Mercury square Chiron.  The power of independence feels difficult.  Thinking and communication is hard.    Take a beat.  

Jan 21:  Sun conjunction Pluto.  (see separate post) 

 

 

 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

January 21, 2025

12:30pm PST 

   

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

What actions are you taking that impact your shared finances?   What actions are you taking that touch your inner strength?   How are you finding your inner mettle?   How are your harnessing your emotions?    

 

Special focus 

 

Jan 23:  Mars sextile Uranus.  Fun, creativity, emotions have breakthroughs.   

Jan 23: Mercury oppose Mars.   Thoughts and conversations feel stressed.  Our emotions feel stretched like a tight rubber band.  Breathe.  

Jan 23: Mercury trine Uranus.   Thoughts are creativity. Conversation has breakthroughs.    

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

January 25, 2025 

21 Sagittarius 09 PST  

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing your strident opinions that no longer serve you?  How are you releasing righteousness?  How are your releasing too much enthusiasm?   How are you releasing any inner ‘peter pan’?   

 

 

Special focus:

 

Jan 25:  Venus trine Mars.  Love and actions are in sync.  Creativity, home, memories, spirituality, faith, humanity.  It is all a love thing. 

Jan 26 : Mercury sextile Neptune.  Joyful thoughts, creative thinking, conversations that are uplifting.  

Jan 26 : Venus sextile Uranus.  Creativity that is unusual is helpful and supports matters close to the heart.  

Jan 26 : Mercury sextile North Node.  Spirit and faith are in sync with conversations and thoughts.   

Jan 27: Mercury enters Aquarius. Bold, dynamic and unusual thinking are pronounced. 

Jan 28: Venus enters shadow 24 Pisces 37 (see above) 

Jan 28: Mercury conjunction Pluto.  Explosive thoughts and communication.  Breakdowns or breakthroughs?