Astrological Insights for Feb 1st - 15th, 2024

How Is Your Power Aligned?

February has arrived, and so has my astrological weather forecast for the next two weeks. There are opportunities to connect more to your creativity, aesthetic senses, and transformations in your mental processing and how you take action in your life.

Feb 1st - 3rd
Mercury Sextile Neptune

February begins with Mercury and Neptune in a positive sextile aspect to each other in the sky,  opening up greater bandwidth for your mental psychic senses from the 1st through the 3rd. You may find yourself picking up more subtle, unspoken words in conversations with others and feeling influenced by the energies of people around you.

Mercury connects with your mental activities, and Neptune’s movements describe how we dissolve boundaries, creating greater connections with all the realms of oneness beyond the physical world. We all have a part of ourselves that senses beyond the concrete, tangible realities, some have greater ease accessing this terrain than others. With this planetary combo in a stimulating and positive sextile aspect to each other, the 1st-3rd, this intuitive, psychic sensing level of processing becomes more available through your thoughts.

This is also a good opportunity to make time for creative space to allow yourself to be receptive to the think tank of ideas available to be downloaded into your mind's central processing center. You may feel more connected to receiving helpful thoughts and ideas that can come to you more easily if you take a moment, quiet your mind, and allow thoughts to emerge. You may get sparks of inspiration that help you along your day. You may also have more insight into other people’s thoughts and feelings at this time.

One important thing to note is that this planetary duo can make it more challenging for your mind to be task-oriented and structured. You may think you’re off to do one thing and get inspired to do something different than you thought. Therefore, it’s possible that your inclination to orient around your to-do’s during the 1st - 3rd can be less orderly. I recommend allowing more of a flow in your day, and perhaps you may get them done anyway, just not in the way you thought. ​

Feb 5th - 7th
Mercury conjunct Pluto 
    
From the 5th through the 7th, Mercury joins Pluto in the same degree and sign of Aquarius. Your conversations and your thought processes can be more intense with others. Pluto’s orbit shows how things are moving from the underworld into your consciousness, where you can work with them from a place of more awareness. These are supportive days to dive deep into your thoughts and communication (Mercury). It can be a powerful time to work with, learn, and explore transformative ideas, techniques, and ways of thinking. It’s a good time for deep processing. The caveat is that Pluto's potency and depth can give rise to increased gravity and powerful thoughts and, thus, a potential for conflict. 

Pluto’s connection with Mercury can bring more power to your words and voice, which could be helpful or not so helpful, depending on how you approach it. If you have to give a presentation, you’ll have everyone’s attention. If you need to resolve a conflict, doing so could be more intense (effective or destructive) from the 5th to the 7th. One approach is to stay focused on gleaning the depths of your thought process, see what mental transformations you come to on your own, and then have those conflict resolution conversations after the 7th. You may get to a place that feels like you had a death and birth process around how you’re processing the situation. Old thought patterns may need to go so new ones can emerge. 

Trying to resolve the issue while still in your own process may not give you the clarity you need to speak from your highest truths. Simply put, if the shadows get triggered, conflicts can become more ego-centered and less heart-centered when Pluto and Mercury are conjunct with each other
​during the 5th -7th. 

It’s a powerful time to think, learn, process, and communicate with depth and potency.

FYI - as you read further down, Feb 12th-15th might also not be good days to resolve conflicts as Mars comes in to join Pluto. See further below.

Feb 7th - 10th
Venus Trine Uranus 
Mars Sextile Neptune 

During the 7th - 10th, Venus and Uranus are in a flowy Trine with each other, along with Mars and Neptune in a positive Sextile. These are supportive days for creative endeavors and tapping into your inner artists. Venus and Uranus combos can connect you to your unique way of creating beauty around you. If you want a more creative aesthetic in your home, workspace, wardrobe, etc…., this would be a time to tune in and see what wants to emerge from you. 

Along with this flowy opening to your creativity, Mars and Neptune are in a Sextile aspect on the same days. Your inner action-oriented Mars draws you towards more activities that feed your soul. Mars motivates us to go after what we want, and Neptune has you asking: What does my soul want? And, forget about everything on my list, I want to have this time to play and be creative. 

Overall, the 7th through the 10th are not the best days to try and be productive in activities that require you to check out of your spontaneous creative process, but are great days to let some creativity flow! 

February 12th - 15th
Mars conjunct Pluto 

February 12th- 15th brings a shift to your movement and flow from the previous days as Mars and Pluto join up with a conjunction in Aquarius. This pairing signifies your inner drives intensifying towards going after what you want. Mars/Pluto combinations connect you more strongly with your will, increasing your motivation to get things done. 

You may not feel those creative vibes moving inside you with the same visionary inspiration that was in the air during the Venus/Uranus and Mars/Neptune transits (described above). However, if you were enchanted by visions of motivating and enlivened ideas coming through you during that time, 
here’s GO TIME! 

The 12-15th brings a powerful time to move on taking action to launch those ideas. Again, Mars moves with your will to take action; Pluto brings deep power and drives up from the subterranean unconscious - together, the two create a brew of raw power. 


It’s crucial that such urges being acted upon come from a place of good alignment! 

The Mars/Pluto influence can also help you become more aware of unconscious ego drives and help you discern what’s motivating you to take specific actions. Your inner Mars, as mentioned above, gets you pumped for action. Pluto can feel like lava from the depths . . .  powerful urges coming through you. This energy can be creative or destructive (or something in between), depending on where it comes from and how it is directed. 

Pluto's powers can make you more aware of responses that are operating from your subconscious. It’s essential to be clear. Whether you are responding to another person or life circumstances, your urges can be strong during the 12th - 15th, and sometimes they come from old habitual patterns of responding that can perpetuate difficult situations. The more you become conscious of what’s motivating you in your actions, the more Pluto’s irrepressible power and the weight of the requirement to move forward with something can help you to awaken and transform lingering stuck patterns into new and healthier ones for yourself to create different outcomes.  

If you have any conflicts to work out during the 12th - 15th, it would be helpful to approach them from the aforementioned “awaken and transform” place versus getting stuck in ego responses. If you feel overheated about a situation, I recommend noticing what’s coming up for you to and see what you can work out inside yourself, and waiting until after the 15th to have those conversations.

The 12th - 15th is is a great time to initiate action. It’s good to be clear in your alignment, and if you're internally conflicted about the powerful energy moving through you, it’s good to connect with trusted allies to get support on truing your alignment. Kindness is a good guide.  

If your alignment feels cool and clear, this is a very potent time to act. The world is stirring up. Do good things. Make community. Your actions count. Lead with love and unity. Find your people; find your voice.

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