Astrology Landscape: Feb 24 - March 2

 

First Quarter Moon 

February 24, 2026

4:27am 

 

 

 

First quarter: We do more actions based on the information that we just received.  Or we feel our instincts guide us on something.  We pursue again. What hurdles have popped up involving the seeds you planted on new moon?    We make another call, or we see someone. We mail something.  We stir the pot again.  This can be a time when we realize that the goals, we planted on new need more action from us, perhaps actions that involve breaking away.   Are there people who say they have our best interest in heart but fear us growing away from them?  Maybe we need to get help from others not the usual suspects.  Some independence may need to be exerted.   

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that benefit by clear communication?   How are you walking your talk?   How are your actions with groups of like-minded changing as you get fresh facts?   What updates need to be incorporated into actions? 

 

Planetary Notes:

 

 

2/25:  Mercury retrograde (22 Pisces 33) (See separate post) 

2/27:  Sun conjunction North Node (8 PI) Oceans and seas can be in the news. Humanitarian causes are noted.   Kindness excels.   

2/27: Mars square Uranus (27 TA) (See Separate post)

 

 

  

 

Gibbous Moon

February 27, 2026

2:34PM 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? 

 

Focus on:

How are you refining your emotions?  How do your emotions connect to your groups and friends?   How does all this need refining?  How do you sort through your feelings as you process friends and groups? 

 

Planetary Notes:  

 

2/27: Venus conjunction Mercury (22 PI) Conversation and thinking about the power of love.  Seek and find that what is mentally soothing.   

3/2: Mars enters Pisces  

 

Mercury Retrograde: Feb 25 - March 20

 

Image: Roman Oleh Astrology

Mercury Retrograde

Feb 25, 2026
10:48pm PST
(22 Pisces 33)

2/11: Mercury shadow begins
2/25: Mercury stations Retrograde (22 Pisces 33)
3/20: Mercury stations Direct (8 Pisces 29)
4/9: Mercury shadow ends

All Mercury retrogrades in 2026 take place in emotional water signs. Mercury rules communication and thinking. It can be expressive but not emotional, even when discussing things that are sad, mad, or happy. Those emotions are filtered through the brain.

The last wall to wall Mercury retrograde in Pisces was March of 2019 between 16 and 29 degrees. If you remember what was happening in your life then, you may see similar themes surface during this cycle.

Mercury in Pisces brings fogginess, dreaminess, creativity, metaphysics, humanitarian concerns, art, and compassion. During a retrograde, those themes can take on a tone of martyrdom or struggle. Fears can rise and a sense of “wtf” or “why bother?” can surface. Periods of heaviness can permeate this transit.

There may be a mitigating factor. Pisces is ruled by Neptune, who has Saturn on its butt. Saturn is a disciplined worker and may be influencing Neptune as both deal with Aries. Saturn rules time and timing, and he may be telling Neptune, “Hey dude, there is no time for complaining during this Mercury retrograde. Ain’t no time for pity parties.”

During any Mercury retrograde we should double check everything before we hit SEND. Given this is Pisces. Given Neptune is getting jacked by Saturn. Given this is happening in an Aquarius lunar month that began with a solar eclipse. Double check anything sent or signed. Check any meme, news, or photo for accuracy before sharing. The AI factor is in play. False players who want to create chaos could be loud this retrograde. Use this time to fine tune intuition. If you uncover a lie or artificial video or image, take a victory lap for trusting your gut. In Aquarius, friends let friends know when they are being duped.

The gift of this retrograde is that the best way to navigate it is to slow down. The whole-body benefits when we slow down. Think about your ancestors a hundred years ago. Their lives were slower than our 24-hour days. It was not easier, but the stimulation they received in one day was far less than what we experience in 2026. We benefit when we unplug and take our time. Saturn, the timekeeper in Aries, pushes us to be measured even in fast moving situations. Slow the brain. Be conscious of what you are doing. This practice will benefit us long after the retrograde ends.

Mars & Uranus Final Square: Feb 27, 2026

 Mars

July 15, 2024    Mars conjunction Uranus  (26 TAU)

June 15, 2025   Mars square Uranus  (28 TAU)

Nov 4, 2025       Mars oppose Uranus (0 GEM

Feb 27, 2026     Mars square Uranus (27 TAU)

July 4, 2026      Mars conjunction Uranus ( 3 GEM)

 

 

On February 27, we have the final square of Mars to Uranus in a series that started July 15, 2024.  Mars the warrior and Uranus the rebel is an explosive combination.  Within days of the Mars/Uranus conjunction a shooter opened fire at a Trump campaign in Butler PA.  The ICE raids began in the run up of the first Mars/Uranus square in June 2025 followed by mass protests.   In November 2025 Uranus was in Gemini and Mars in Sag.  Uranus is known for tossing the table, this date connected to off-year election and a Blue Wave in VA and NJ and including a historic race in NYC with the election of first Muslim mayor.  The Sagittarius Gemini factor was at play with the endless news cycles covering this race and the religious factor plus it was one of the highest turn out in decades.   This July, at 3 Gemini will be a fresh conjunction starting the new Mars/Uranus series.     

 

In the meantime, we have this final square with Uranus in Taurus.   Based on the previous hits, this aspect will probably not be quiet.  It could be loud.  It could be reckless.  It packs a lot of brute force.  Take note of news reports filled with stories of aggression and bully tactics.   It’s a thing.  

Over the weekend the brute force by the Mexican government and the cartels in Puerto Vallarta certainly spoke to this aspect.  Watch the news for more tension.    The influence lasts about a week. 

 

The Astrology and The Alien Factor

 

Over the past few years, astrologers writing about the mid 2020s have mentioned what some call the alien factor.

I poke around in UFO or UAP discussions but I would not be confused with being an expert.  Gawd no. But in an astrology meeting I attended, even I brought it up. I said, I do not know a lot about alien material, but with Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, and their relationship to Saturn and Neptune, everything is on the table. Everything. Including UFOs.

Pluto in Aquarius speaks to collective systems, technology, hidden power, and structural change. Uranus in Gemini speaks to information, media, communication, and revelation. Saturn and Neptune together blur lines between structure and myth, reality and projection. When these planets interact, the culture shifts. What was once fringe moves into public discourse.

So….As we approached the Aquarius New Moon & Equipse, President Obama stated that aliens are real. He did not reject the question. He engaged it.

One week later, Donald Trump was also discussing UFOs and aliens in public.

Whatever one’s political view, the timing stands out. What does it mean when two presidents speak about extraterrestrials within days of each other?

In Trump’s case, some may see it as a strategy to redirect attention from other controversies. In Obama’s case, there are longstanding connections to the topic. His former chief of staff John Podesta has spoken about UFO disclosure for years. Obama’s production company is developing a film about Betty and Barney Hill, whose account in the early 1960s became one of the most well-known abduction stories in American culture.

Within UFO circles there has been talk that Trump wants to be remembered as the ‘disclosure president.’ If that is true, Obama stepping into the conversation in a talk show setting where he could have dismissed the topic adds another layer.

Is this coincidence. Is it competition. Is it cultural timing. Is it disclosure in stages.

The answer is not clear.

What is clear is that Pluto in Aquarius exposes systems. Uranus in Gemini disrupts information channels. Saturn and Neptune force confrontation with belief and illusion. Under this sky, narratives that once lived at the margins enter mainstream space.

Will there be official disclosure next week. Maybe. Maybe not.

The astrology supports the possibility of surprise around information, technology, and collective belief.

We are in a period where the boundaries of what can be spoken are shifting.

In that kind of sky, even aliens enter the conversation.

Astrology for Feb 17 - Feb 22

 

February 17, 2026

4:01am (PST) 

28 AQ 49

 

 

The 8 lunar phases

 

The 29-day lunar month is divided into eight phases.   Each phase has its own energy and expression and lasts three days.  I break down the phases for each month, and I also lay out the astrological aspects that are unfolding during that phase (most of which I provide background on in my report above).    Because the moon moves so quickly, I do not provide the lunar aspects unless we are in an extra charged period. For daily moon aspects I suggest going to Café Astrology and search ‘this week in astrology’.   I also recommend Honeycomb Collective for your own personal astro almanac.  Not too expensive and you will be using it all year.  

 

 

Aquarius New Moon

 

February 17, 2026

4:01am PST

(28 AQ 49)

 

New moon: Plant seeds, make calls, activate, start projects.   Activate something that will ideally lead you to more results.  This is the phase where INTENT is critical.  Even if the results are not immediate, the intent is there.  You may not have all the answers or road map, but you should put out your Intent.   This new moon is an eclipse.  

 

This focus:    Who are your groups?  Who are your friends?  Are they in alignment with how you tick?   What abstract thing are you working on that has importance to you?  Who can you connect with and work on it together?   What is important to your community?  

 

Planetary notes:

 

2/17: Venus conjunction North Node.  (8 PI)  Find love of humanity.  Choosing kindness brings rewards.  

2/18: Sun enters Pisces

2/20: Saturn conjunct Neptune (00 AR 45)  

 

  

 

Crescent Moon Phase

February 20,2026

5:57 PM PST    

 

 

Crescent:  We will receive information, we will research a bit more, perhaps get feedback on stuff that we planted on new.  Perhaps get some information that will help down the road on a seed we planted a while ago.  We can collect some data now.  Even if you think you are not getting information, stop, and re-look at everything.  Who called you?  Even the silliest things when they come up during Crescent are noteworthy.  A parking ticket.  An argument with a spouse?  A refund check from the phone company?  No matter how mundane it arrives, consider it as message.  How can this information help you?

 

Focus on: What are we learning about self-agency?  How are we being informed about our inner warrior?   What information are we gathering where we are both independent but have a connection with like-minded groups?    

 

Planetary notes: 

 

2/22: Mars sextile Chiron (23 AR) Fresh ideas that are helpful for new endeavors and new self-agency.  

2/22: Venus trine Jupiter (15 CA).  Joy, love, values get pumped up.  Cozy and mystical inform philosophy and beliefs.  

Feb 17 - Solar Eclipse - (28 Aquarius 49)

 

This New Moon is an Eclipse!

 

 

In my astro report for the Aquarius New Moon & 29-day lunar cycle I lay out the new moon chart details such as the final Sun/Moon square to Uranus in Taurus.  It is not a subtle aspect but then we appear to NOT be doing subtle in 2026.       I encourage you to read the whole report HERE.  

 

Having said that there is the added steroid to this Aquarius new moon at 28 degrees of Aquarius, it is an annular (ring-of-fire) eclipse.   We are now beginning a two-year process of Leo and Aquarius eclipse seasons where we access our own uniqueness, weirdness, abstract thinking, while also leaving our egos at the door and coming together with like-minded for joint efforts.   However, we must take care not to fall into group thought.   This will be challenging especially because eclipses     bring something super big to get our attention.   Like a theater production and the lights turn on and off announcing it is time to focus on the stage.   That’s an eclipse.   The sun is put in shadow, and we all turn to see what we see on the stage.   

 

Drilling down into the history of the 28 degrees Aquarius eclipses, there have been four since the 17^th century.

 

Feb 17, 1654

Feb 17, 1692

Feb 17, 1711

Feb 16, 1922

 

I will spare you an international history lesson because no one has time for it.  But in a nutshell, the Aquarius eclipses in 1654, 1711 and 1922 speak to citizens fatigued by wars.   There were major treaties in 1654 and 1922 signed around the eclipses.  In 1711 empires like Britain and Spain were asserting power but locals were talking to each other through pamphlets, news and face to face in groups.  Can you feel the air and the abstractness?   It was also becoming clear to those folks that even if the battles were ending, what caused the wars was not being addressed.  

 

The 28-degree Aquarius eclipse that had long ramifications is Feb 17, 1692.   If you live in New England, you may have a beat on that date but for the rest of us, it connects to Salem Massachusetts and the month that innocent people were accused of being witches.  Rumor, hysteria, group thought ruled that eclipse and history has proven it was NOT the most productive use of an Aquarius eclipse.  I can’t help but shudder at the thought if those tweaked ‘puritans’ had cell phones and TikTok accounts.   The damage of group thought could have spread far beyond Salem.    Let’s all agree not to do that at this eclipse.  

 

Obviously, each of those 28-degree Aquarius eclipses had other astro landscape different from what we are experiencing now.   Ruling planet Uranus in Taurus for all its crankiness in this new moon chart does bring something different to our eclipse story.  In those earlier dates Uranus was either in a mutable or a fire sign so the disconnect was around ideology, ideas, belief or war.   With Taurus our focus is land, money, food, housing and values.    The eclipse may highlight societal cracks where we live, values and what or how we get our food.     The solar eclipse is followed by the lunar eclipse at the Virgo full moon on March 3, which also has a practical tone and food/harvest component so we may get more information then.   This Aquarius eclipse will have a companion total solar eclipse on August 12 in the sign Leo which by that time will feel like ten lightyears away.  We will be the same planet, Earth, but different universe.   There is a lot going on between now and then. 

Saturn Neptune Conjunction - Feb 20. It is a big one

 

Saturn & Neptune Conjunction 

 

Feb 20, 2026

8:53am PST

00 Aries 45 

 

I don’t think I can say much about this aspect that I haven’t already said in previous write ups.  This has been on astrologers’ radar for many years.    

 

Saturn and Neptune get together roughly every 36 years and usually there are couple exact dates.  Going back a two hundred years the dates are:

1989 (CAP)

1952-1953) (LIB)

1917-1918 (LEO)

 

1881-1883 (TAU)

1846 (AQ)

1809-1810 (SAG)

 

In the case of our 2026 conjunction, it is only one exact hit.  Obviously, this is not about that one date, it is an influence that carries a punch and ripples out.  There are many astrologers who have gone long on the history but no one more than Chris Brennan & Nick Degan Best who recently gave a master class  Saturn/Neptune in world history.   If you want a good background watch their video.  You can fly from LA to Dublin and listen to them the whole way, it is that long.   But more to the point you can grab the time stamps and pick and choose which event you want more data.  

 

For a shorthand (which I have covered over the last year) 1989 is the fall of Berlin Wall and collapse of USSR.   In 1953 Senator Joe McCarthy “Red” USA scare #2 and witch hunt (there’s that theme again).  1917 was the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and Red Scare #1 in USA.  In 1846 the Discovery of Neptune along with the Irish potato famine and Lenin’s writing of the Communist Manifesto.   In 1809 Spanish empire started to crumble thanks to Simon Bolivar in Venezuela (curious how that theme is up again) and it was peak war powering by Napoleon who was trying to design a new Europe that was long on France.   That did not work out so well for Napoleon or Communism.   

 

What does this all mean for our 2026 Saturn Neptune?  Only a fool would say with exactitude.  One, it is Neptune who is foggy and fuzzy and all that is seeing is not necessarily to be believed.  Two, our Saturn Neptune conjunction is at Zero Aries which is the very beginning of the zodiac.  This has only happened once (that we can calculate) and that was 4700 BC. Unless we are switching back to hunters and gatherers, I’m not sure what that era has in common with us now.  

 

However, we can say that something is going to dissolve and break down, and something will be building up.   Will it be based on illusions and grandeurs in certain people’s heads?   Maybe.   Will it be an ideal that people want to join and make a reality?  Maybe.   Will it be so secretive we have no idea what is happening?     Back to Chris Brennan for another (short) video, Yes.  Will it feel fiery?  Yes.  Will it tap independence and new beginnings?   Yes.   As it ripples out, we will see the themes, and we will be able to tie them back to this Saturn conjunct Neptune at Zero Aries.    

 

I think for us humans living through this Saturn/Neptune conjunction we should look at the house that contains ZERO Aries for some important clues.   I will go personal.   I was an adult in only one previous Saturn and Neptune conjunction and that was 1989.  The conjunction was in my 10^th house of career near my natal Mercury in Capricorn.    My job had started in 1981 with one company, and I had pivoted to freelancing and worked steady for the next nine years.   I took a break to try something different in the mid80s but then returned to my old job since the money was better.   In 1989 I started to feel very dissatisfied. The job did not line up with my creative desires, it was loaded with stress, and I could feel a wall coming into view.   I wanted to write.    A seed got planted with the conjunction so close to my Mercury.  By the time Saturn moved into Aquarius I left the job and was only focused on writing.   My trust as a freelancer gave me the confidence to get out there, along with my work colleagues and community who were kind enough to help me. Did it happen right away?  No.   But did something get planted?  Yes. Neptune worked with Saturn and got me where I needed to go.  I encourage everyone to look at zero Aries in your chart and see if something emerges this year that gets you ‘going.’ When it manifests, is hard to tell but I would trust that something is germinating.   Give it a beat and see how it plays out.  

 

In the meantime, god speed to all of us as we ride this new Saturn/Neptune Zero Aries era.