#AstroProTips
*Please note that I only write about the major aspects of the week
Monday, February 22nd
Full moon in Virgo at 10:20 AM PST
Thursday, February 25th
Mercury in Aquarius sextile Saturn in Sagittarius 12:06 AM PST
Friday, February 26th
Mercury in Aquarius sextile Uranus in Aries
Sunday, February 28th
Sun conjoin Neptune in Pisces
The week opens up with a full moon in Virgo. I wrote a piece on it that you can read here. It is the last moon that we will have before we move into eclipse season. It’s a pretty simple moon, standing on its own and mostly away from other, more difficult, astrological themes. It is sitting in the same sign as Jupiter which means that it will highlight the effect that Jupiter has had on the part of our chart that contains Virgo since August 2016.
The rest of the week unfolds with more sextiles, a theme that has filled the second half of February. Last week they were from Venus in Aquarius to Saturn and Uranus. This week they are from Mercury in Aquarius to the same planets. Sextiles are mild but helpful. These ones speak to being able to integrate smaller, yet still liberating, innovations into our lives. It’s time for little bits of work to get done, before the larger strokes of March move us about.
The week closes with a healing, feeling, sensitizing and possibly distracting, derailing or deluded conjunction between the sun and Neptune in Pisces. Neptune doesn’t care for facts. Instead this planet’s influence may have us feeling that fiction tends to illuminate the truth with a greater accuracy. Just because something didn’t actually happen, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. This sun/Neptune conjunction opens us up to slippery slopes of gullibility and guileless gateways that will tend to increase through March.
We can use the combination of the week’s opening and closing act to find a balance between the work and the vision, the image and the reality and the effort it takes to make inspiration’s insight a reality.
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Aries & Aries Rising
Monday’s full moon illuminates the work projects, work relationships and all the healthy/unhealthy habits that you began in the last 6 months. Which good intentions ended up having a not so great impact? Which work projects are coming to completion? What can you find a natural release of and what still needs a little finicky finessing?
Sometimes we need to remember to leave well enough alone. Sometimes we have to learn the differences between last touches and turning a masterpiece into a mess. Sometimes we need to learn how to love all the ways in which imperfections add incalculable depth.
Those of you that feel particularly attuned to the process of preparing for your next birthday will feel this week’s astrology deeply. There is a softening that could be occurring in you, but it’s not necessarily visible to those around you. There’s an emerging sensitivity. An inspired imagery of what could be. There may be an understanding of something beyond you, bigger than you and deeply ingrained in you that wants some room to roam within you. You may feel that something is being washed away, a hard outer shell dissolving, an unfurling of old self-sabotaging tendencies. This might feel like a relief or like a loss, or both. Find the balance between what you are letting go of and what you are cultivating.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
Gush. Tell yourself how you feel. About it. About them. About this business of love that you are in.
Confess your best. Lay your heart out and accept its contents. Go to the temple of your temptresses and lay flowers at their feet. Be skillful in the ways you court. Know the rules so that you can break them without getting caught. Know the moves that will get you the attention that you deserve and that deserves you back.
You don’t want to attract just any old suitor.
Attract the ones that want to grow, the ones that want to learn and the ones that will be conscientious with the inner workings of your wonder.
Be discerning. Monday’s full moon isn’t asking you to amass all the attention that you can divert your way. It’s asking you to honor the needs of your specific system and find what or whom fits with it. Look back on the last 6 months. What consciousness awareness has developed in you in regards to what and whom you love? What have you learned about your own personal law of attraction? What have you learned about your creativity, your children and what you tend to reproduce? Use what happens this week as clues as to what strategies, whether conscious or unconscious, bring you the results that resonate in all the right ways and which ones strike a chord the no longer sings sweetly to you.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
What role did you play in your family of origin that serves you well now? What roles, even if they were extremely painful at the time, forced you to develop skills that now are central to your success? What roles do you still feel trapped in, forced to find you way out of? What new or current roles have you reshaping the way you frame home, family and your foundation?
Monday’s full moon finds its home at yours. It highlights the lessons that you have been learning here for the last 6 months. It reframes the way that you are approaching the issues associated with your personal life. It wants to help you heal the wounds that still wake you at night. About your parents, your family, and your foundation. About your career, your place in the world, and your relationship to your potential. It shows the work needed and the talents inherent. It shows the healing that has happened and how far you’ve come in it all. It puts into perspective the efforts you’ve made to help yourself find home.
The week also offers you a chance to be seen with a certain sheen. There could be an image of you or what you do that is projected out into the world. Something that helps you gain attention and traction for the efforts that you’ve made and the strides that still need to be taken. Heal your professional self-image. Refuse to compare yourself with anyone else in the working world. You have absolute permission to make up a career that has never been heard of before and that may never be done again. Believe me when I say this. The world is waiting with baited breath for the thing that you do in the way that only you can do it.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
You may notice a generosity. Gifts given through you, to you Gifts that catch your attention and ask you to tune into a more delicate frequency. Little pieces of information that help to anchor a broader shift in your life and your perspective of it. You may notice that the conversations you have open you up to floodgates of details long forgotten. Details desiring integration. Details that won’t be denied. Details that are home to potent grand plans.
Signs, premonitions and omens want to offer you assistance if you have the ability to attune yourself to receiving them. If you have the desire to know. If you answer the call when it comes. If you keep your mind open, Monday’s full moon has stories a plenty for your inspiration and your future planning.
Step back and take note of all that has grown in your life. What has your willingness to speak up, state your intentions and be a part of the conversation brought you in return? Step back and take note of what the cost has been. Is it worth the reward? What kind of initiation has putting yourself out there been? What have you learned about security and the stifling nature of playing it safe? Step back and see if your message needs an edit, a reframe or if you’ve worked it in a way that feels as ready as it’ll ever be. Balance between inspiration and integrating the facts. Balance your need to go beyond the realm of what you’ve known and your need to perfect what you’ve already learned. Balance discernment with encouragement and appreciate all that you have cultivated in and through all your communications.
Leo & Leo Rising
Monday’s full moon highlights the aspects of your work life that’s proliferating profits. Not everything will be worth the effort. Not every bright idea is meant to grow into an empire. Not every ball can stay up in the air indefinitely.
Eventually all the big plans drop down into a reality where they need to be made manifest or are used to illustrate what we were not able to get going or did not, in the end, want or need to.
What do you philosophically feel is now possible that wasn’t in your previous paradigm? What have the last 6 months taught you about the nature of growing yourself into the professional you want to be. How have these efforts positively effected your self-worth? Take the notion of dollars out of the deal and let’s just strip it down to this question: What skills do you posses that you have come to appreciate most? How has your own ability to value them increased your belief in them? How has appreciating this part of yourself allowed you to learn more about what you are actually capable of doing?
Virgo & Virgo Rising
Monday’s full moon is all yours. You can expect to experience the accumulation of recent successes. You will most likely notice the effects of your efforts. You will probably be noticed for all the seeds you’ve sown for your own self-determination in the past 6 months.
Take a look. What kind of spotlight spies you. Do you like what about you is being illuminated? Are you being noticed for what you want to work on more? Are you able to appreciate the part of yourself that is showing up? Are there ways that you can take what you’ve accomplished and now work on refining and distributing your message?
Notice who is around you, helping to cross pollinate and fertilize your full bloom. Notice who is working with you. Notice who helps to potentialize your vision. Notice who helps to bring your work out to the parts of the world where it will find new homes. Notice who has the vision to take your version of your work and find new ways to spin it. Notice also, who’s full of dreamy delusions and can’t really make much happen besides pretty poetics and flights of fancy. The next month is full of very interesting partnership options. You need them. They need you. But make sure your go-tos can get you where you want to, and need to, go.
Libra & Libra Rising
You’ve got something to tend to behind the scenes. Something that’s calling you to take a break, indulge in the moment and pay attention to what’s in front of you. Get present. Get interested in your imagination. Get your inspiration game going strong.
There is much that could distract you right now. There is much for you to be lost in. There are a million ways to piss away the day.
But we aren’t talking about wasting time. We are talking about exploring it. Space in, not out. Let yourself have a break, but really have it. Turn off the background noise. Turn off the static. Tune in to yourself.
Have fun. Play with pleasure. Be in love. Take time to create. But also see what communications come your way that help you to innovate your relationship to joy.
It’s not over there. Far away. Far from view. Far from you.
It’s here. Beside you. In you. Around you. You have the right to be happy. You have the right to take a moment to feel that happy. You have a right to share that happy. Do so with the ones that are willing to receive it and reflect it.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
Monday’s full moon magnifies the folks that feel you. The folks that support you. The folks that share your hopes. And dreams. And schemes for the future. Monday’s moon wants you to call people. Gather with them. Celebrate them. Thank them. See them. Reflect on the growth that has transpired with them, because of them, in connection with them.
This growth began about 6 months back. Who’s flooded your life with opportunity since then? What new communities, organizations and affiliations have had a significant impact on you? In what ways has your vision for your own future been impacted by those you roll with?
This week also carries with it the power to inspire great acts of creativity, acts of compassionate self-expression and a highly-sensitized aesthetic. It also has the ability to bring great feelings for others. They may be love feelings. They may be lust feelings. They may be deluded and derailing feelings. Check your facts when you are dealing with other humans. There is every reason to expect a weekend infused with heart-opening happenings. But there is also a need to slow down any assumption-making about the feelings such happenings have us making.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
These days if you’re too cute they’ll eat you up, chew you down to mush and call what they spit out, theirs. These days money wins over all. Humanity. Creativity. Common Sense. These days corporations line the streets of communities and we are told what to desire. What to think. What to love.
These days we know the world is on fire. We see it and read it and live it all day long. Many days we might feel too overwhelmed to make sense of what’s next. What to do. Where to focus our energy. Where to put our talent. What we’ll want to let our life’s blood flow to.
These days it’s really important to stay in the day. To look ahead with an innovative lens, but to stay firmly rooted in the now. Monday’s full moon makes a scene in your 10th house of career. You get noticed for what you do. You get to feel the fertilization of your public role. You get to notice the cumulative effects of the work you’ve put in and the way it’s taking shape out there, on its own, like a free bird. This Monday’s moon shows you options about the part you play in creating the world anew. We can’t do everything, but we can do something. And some things. Really well.
Notice what kind of sanctuary your work creates for others. What kind of peace, love and justice can be made through you, with you and in you? What small, what detailed, what precise practice can you participate in that breaks you from the bonds of a corporate culture that sees profits over people? What kind of small acts might have a big, beautiful impact? What impact is your work having on your world that you want to keep distributing and who is there to help you proliferate the message?
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Monday’s full moon helps you see how much philosophical ground you’ve covered. The past six months have planted you squarely in front of some larger life lessons, ones that have opened up your world. Moved you around it. Spread your message to many that had not heard you and gotten you interested in being on the open road.
Monday’s full moon speaks to you about what you want to teach. What you want to learn. Where you want to go.
Monday’s full moon makes it easier to see the financial potential of what you are pondering. You’ve got some financial master sessions and good money lessons coming your way mid-week. Take notes. It might help you travel to the spots that you need to go to next. It might help to stimulate insight about new ways to work your bank account. It might help you feel like you can do something now that you never knew that you could do.
That’s part of the lessons that you are learning now. You’ve got more going for you than you may know. Be open to advice and tips about your talents and how to work with them in ways that help you feel whole.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Monday’s full moon makes real the efforts that you’ve made towards collaborating with others in the past 6 months. Whatever faith in your projects that you have been able to experience will be magnified. Whatever partnerships really want to play will be brought to light. Whichever have staying power will be easily visible.
Witness them.
Monday’s full moon also makes real the fears you might have that up until now have laid dormant. Monday’s full moon brings recognition to all the progress you’ve made in dealing with the demons that haunt you.
The problem is never that we have things in our life that we fear. The problems we bump up against have to do with not quite knowing how to deal.
The secret is to feel.
Without judgement. Without pause. Without shame. Just letting ourselves acknowledge what is happening within us is enough to heal us.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
As the sun anchors itself in your sign, the full moon comes into view. Standing right in front of you this Monday morning, this moon is highlighting all of the hopeful and hopeless partners in your life.
Since last August, your 7th house of intimate partnerships has been a hotspot of growth and learning how to discern who is a hopeful hottie and who is not. This full moon is also incredibly important for all of those that you have intimate connections (romantic and business) with and all of the lessons learned about how you can come to understand more about yourself through partnership.
Learning about intimacy is no small affair.
Relating can feel like a magical act as it requires that we be in many places at once. We are with ourselves and others. We dip in and out. We find the spaces in-between. We learn about ourselves by standing in the shoes of another. We learn about ourselves by offering others our shoes to try on for size. We heal when we can see, if only for a fraction of a moment, that we can be connected to one another and that that connection is a testament to all we have healed, all we will heal and all that we thought we never would heal.
This week brings you many opportunities to see yourself. Imagine all you are growing yourself into becoming. Take serious your visions for yourself and make the proper touchups and additions to the canvas of your new year.