We enter February with Venus direct and an explosive new moon in Aquarius.
“Oh, Did I make You Cry?” “Love is Telephone” “Love is Touch” - drawings from Shigeko Kubota
After this forty day period of Venus’ own introspection has transpired, reflections reveal how we desire and seek love. We have yearned but could not grasp this comfort and harmony fully, like a dessert display item placed behind plexiglass. Walking through the murky fog, unable to plot out the landscape, we ourselves are kidnapped by intense desires and fears. In this space of high stimulation and engaged sensory responses, how have you engaged with the pain of this frustrated longing and confused encounters?
When the momentum of desire is dissected, can you see what you desire as what it truly is? Or are you wanting because to desire is to avoid the wound?
What has been coming to the surface in boils and bruises since the end of the December by mid-February seeks words to make it all make sense. Mercury turns direct on February 4th and conjoins Pluto, the depository of mucky feeling, on the 11th.
After that, we spend the second half of the month moving into a new arena. This one is steamy and sexy, as the planets rev up to fight, tussle, bite, and play.
Venus is waking up slowly out of its slumber, acclimating to the bright light of the day. Mars, eager at this rare opportunity, taps Venus on its shoulder on February 16th, and saunters ahead, just a flirtatious inch ahead.
Mars, until early March, dangles itself in front of Venus and smiles a big dumb smile. Try to get me, it teases.
There is an inherent eroticism to wanting something unstable. Something not guaranteed. Witness the part of you that wants to chase, to let your breath grow short in pursuit. Or is the part of you that hides more active, the part that twinkles in fragments, pockets of allusion? Can you play with these energies and flip between them with ease? The back-and-forth, unstable place of eros can be embraced and enjoyed, when the wound is dressed. Take the time to reflect on what’s transpired.
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Horoscopes
read for your rising signs please!
Aries:
Frustration and blockages around career and authority begin to dissolve, and the path opens for you to play out the tactics you’ve been plotting in your head. You’re not only called to keep chasing after your dreams, but also to witness how you are both pursuer and pursuant. As you pull your dreams back and glimpse at its face, you see a version of yourself you invented long ago.
Taurus:
Your public self has been reshaping itself for a while, and the Leo Full Moon brings some of that underground to coalesce with the private self. Friendship serves as a confirmation and validation of the new skins you’ve been trying on.
Additionally, these past few weeks, you’ve been experiencing some frustration towards your ideas, beliefs, and relationships to institutions. You are invited to dig even deeper now and follow the thread of your more challenging questions.
Gemini:
You’ve been dealing with dark contracts, power struggles, and the fear of losing control in your intimate encounters and dances with death. This month you are brought in even deeper, although from a more empowered state. Embracing your own authority will support the drastic shifts in your mental health and rewrite stories of generational inheritance.
Cancer:
You’ve been afraid of being too tangled in relationships and yet your heart was already in it. Now you’re pulled to set things into motion, whether into acceleration or into breakdown. New ways of doing friendship and building community are invigorated by how you’re embracing emotionality and spirituality in your belief system.
Leo:
Your relationships have been the ground for some sobering reality checks. This full moon in your 1st house allows the self-view to match how you’ve been acting.
You’ve also been so deep in the grind since the end of last year and it’s been getting exhausting. Whether it’s a sense of misalignment in health, body, or your labor, now’s the time to make some steps and take the bold changes you need.
Watch for possible opportunities to support a transformation in your career with the collaboration and financial support from others.
Virgo:
Things have been shifting around in romance, as you witness your desires mutate and stagnate and shapeshift again. This month, you get extra permission to chase after pleasure and creative visions that make you heart beat wild.
Pay attention to the people coming into your life because they can be a key in igniting beliefs and new visions of the world.
Libra:
Home, housing, family, these themes has been a place of deep contention for a long time now, basically since 2017, if not for a lot of the last twelve years! This month, you are more empowered to make some changes or set some things into motion in this realm. Watch where conflict pools and where your fight comes alive.
Scorpio:
There’s a private self that has been getting chiseled with struggle and discipline, and the full moon in Leo brings an opportunity for your public face to reveal how these shifts in your interiority has brought you to a new terrain.
There’s also burst of energy currently, urging you to devote time to writing, speaking, and various communications. And this time is especially romantic and creative. Embrace this part of life and it will support surprising changes and transformations in your relationships.
Sagittarius:
With this Venus retrograde, your finances, material possessions, and tangible skills have been under reflection. You move things around, seek to build up your own resources and skills, and plot a future where you feel supported and growing.
A burst of energy comes to help you enact plans and cut any deadweight off.
Capricorn:
Your self-image has been molting, and looking at your reflection, you may have felt a general sense of unease or confusion. If you’ve been wanting to burst out and make some changes, now is the time to embrace your body as home and funnel your frustration into constructive energies of care.
The slow-burn revolution going on in your sexual, romantic, and creative pursuits supports the newfound forms of poetry populating your mind and communications.
Aquarius:
During this full moon, the reality of your relationships emerges. As they show their true skins in the light, you have the chance to reflect on how you yourself have changed as well. Bask in the progress you have made.
Your mental health and solitude have been gurgling, revealing corpses and hacked up body parts from wayward nightmares. Now is the time to play your own hide-and-seek with these images and scare them back.
If you’re thinking of moving soon or changing things up with your family, you are supported in this decision with a flow of resources coming your way.
Pisces:
In the world of your friendships and communities, you’ve had some glimpses at dark secrets, power struggles, and the consequences of trauma. You are now entering a period of finding yourself in a more empowered role to affect change in this arena, possibly by snipping away frayed and sticky webs.
Additionally, watch how you may make new explorations and experimentations in your writing and communicating, and how this is supported by the way you are embodying the possibility of life!
