Sunday, February 22, 2026

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.

Sunday, February 15, 2026

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 CafĂ© 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 17th 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. 

Saturday, February 14, 2026

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 10th 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.  

 

Saturn in Aries. We. Are. Here.





Saturn in Aries

Feb 13, 2026
4:11pm PST

May 24, 2025 Saturn enters Aries
July 12, 2025 Saturn retrograde (1° AR 56)
Sept 1, 2025 Saturn re-enters Pisces
Nov 27, 2025 Saturn stations direct (25° PI 09)
Feb 13, 2026 Saturn re-enters Aries
Feb 20, 2026 Saturn conjunct Neptune (00° Aries 45)


On February 13, Saturn re-enters Aries. Saturn dipped into Aries last year between May and September, so we’ve already had a preview. But now it is officially here for the long haul, staying put until 2028.

Saturn is not exactly on his best game in Aries. Or maybe better said, it is not his most comfortable arena. Saturn is disciplined. The timekeeper. The long-view strategist. Aries is hot. Immediate. Impatient.

Aries rushes. Saturn is patient. Aries hates delays. Saturn hates wasted time. They both want results, they just disagree on pacing. Big time disagree.

Fiery Aries has new projects, new missions, new mountains. Saturn says,"show me the plan."

Aries taps the inner warrior. Saturn is the inner CEO.

Can you feel the conundrum?

The classic analogy is one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake. I’ve been in those cabs.  They are the worst.

And yet Saturn in hot Aries may be exactly what the zodiac doctor ordered. Fire follows Water. Action follows emotion.

Whatever has been percolating during Saturn’s two-and-a-half-year tour through Pisces, all the processing, dissolving, forgiving, drifting, dreaming, now wants form. Now Saturn wants structure. Now Saturn wants movement.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It signals beginnings. Not theoretical actual ones.

The last time Saturn moved through Aries was April 7, 1996 through June 9, 1998 and then October 25, 1998 through February 28, 1999.

What was happening in your life then?

How did responsibility show up? Were you forced to make swift, definitive decisions? How were you claiming self-agency? What era were you closing?

Themes from that time may echo now, not identical but a similarity. 

Some questions to consider during Saturn in Aries:

What work do you need to do to claim more independence?
Where are you wasting time?
What new endeavor needs a structured plan?
What emotional debris from the last two and a half years needs to be left behind?
Where are new paths opening?
How can discipline sharpen desire?
Where do you need to be a serious soldier?
What wisdom can older voices offer?
How are you maturing into fresh authority?
When is pause the actual power?

During Saturn in Pisces you may have been swimming in emotion, kindness, compassion, creative overflow, existential fog, humanitarian awareness. Now with Saturn in Aries those emotions do not disappear. They move into your bloods and beat through your heart felt action.  

At first the shift may feel different. Sharper. More direct.

Trust the difference.

And of course, because astrologers including me have been talking about it for years, Saturn does not get a clean entrance. On February 20 it immediately conjoins Neptune at zero Aries.

So no, we are not abandoning art, compassion, or ideals. Neptune is still in the room. But now the fog meets fire. And fire tends to move.

Swift action plans may emerge. Some ideal dissolves. Some new structure forms. Something ends. Something begins. Welcome to Saturn in Aries. 


Friday, February 13, 2026

Aquarius Solar Eclipse: Seen by Penguins --Felt by Everyone! Feb 17, 2026

Images from CNN



Feb 17, 2026 - 4:01am PST

Solar Eclipse  (28 AQ 49) 


Friends, 

February is being very February 2026.  Which is to say, loud.  Very loud.  

Why have a simple Aquarius New Moon when you can have instead a ring-of-fire eclipse?  And while we're at it, let's throw in a tight square to Uranus just to keep things spicy.  And let's sprinkle in a Saturn-Neptune conjunction at zero Aries for thrills and spills.  

Yessiree.  That's what we're doing.  

And because we apparently like momentum, Mercury retrograde begins February 25, followed by Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 3.    

Sure.  Let's do that. 

Read my whole article HERE   






Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Astrology for Feb 9 - Feb 16

 



Last Quarter Moon Phase

Feb 9, 2025

7:48am 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 are clearing-the-pipes?  What actions are you taking that rely on you cleaning (figurative or literal) house?   How are you cutting to go forward?   How are you finding power by being definitive and living by that decision? 

 

 

Planetary Notes: 

 

2/10: Venus enters Pisces 

2/11: Sun sextile Chiron.   Thoughtfulness around friends and groups creates healing and a new appreciation of self agency.  Independence can find support among allies.  

2/11: Mercury conjunct North Node   (9 PI) Thinking and communication that leans into humanitarian, artistic and spiritual is inspiring.  

2/11: Mercury shadow (8 PI 29) keep your eyes out for themes that may come up now, come back again and then one more time between now and April 9 when it leaves its shadow.  

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Balsamic Moon Phase

 

February 13, 2026 

7:32am PDY 

 

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

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing ambition?  How are your releasing appearances first?  How are you releasing cynicism?  How are you releasing ‘cold’?

 

 

Planetary Notes:

 

2/13: Saturn enters Aries where it will be until April 2028 

 

2/15: Sun square Uranus (27 TA) 

What does it mean to innovate and push back on the status quo?  How can the old be refreshen?   Hurdles may be revealed.  

 

2/16: Mercury trine Jupiter.  Thoughts of kindness, humanity, family, home and cozy excel.  

 

2/16: Mercury conjunct North Node (8 PI) thinking that connects to feelings of kindness and humanitarian can be inspiring.  

 

 next up

 

Aquarius New Moon & Eclipse February 17 (28 AQ 49) at 4:01am PST

 

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