Welcome to February 2024!
The leap month of February 2024 opens on February 1, 2024 with the festival of Imbolc!
The festival of Fire and Light symbolizes the Transition from Winter to Spring.
The cosmic promise of the coming Spring is emphasized by the conjunction of the waning Moon in Libra with the fixed bright star Spica!
The shortest month of the year carries a powerful and inspiring Aquarius energy of social innovation, tolerance, independence and creative self-expression.
With zero retrograde planets, it’s full speed ahead.
In the first three weeks of February 2024, the Sun and Mercury travel through Aquarius.
The energy of the Sun and Mercury gives an extra mental push to express opinions and ideas loud and clear.
Pluto in Aquarius activates a collective desire to rebel against everything in our lives that suppresses our growth as individuals and as a society.
Pluto in Aquarius has a major influence on the situation in the Middle East and the US.
Since the end of January 2024, our planetary wild card Uranus, astrological ruler of Aquarius, has awakened again. Uranus is in Taurus, which is a Fixed sign. On the barricades…
This could lead to large-scale demonstrations and strikes that will disrupt daily life.
With the great planetary pressure in Aquarius, the New Moon on February 9, 2024, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto in Aquarius, it is inevitable that February 2024 will have a major impact on society.
On a global scale, there will be unrest and chaos, war, increased seismic activity and sudden, unexpected and shocking events involving public figures and revolutionary developments in health care and our monetary system, electrical emergencies, warlike rhetoric and escalation of military conflict and economic instability.
February 2024 will therefore mark social and technological developments.
Artificial Intelligence will have a major impact on our society and employment.
Not everything will happen quickly, rather gradually and in phases.
The call for social, humanitarian and economic change will become louder.
Supported by the North Node in Aries, we may feel a strong need to leave a job, situation or relationship that limits us for who we really are.
The New Moon at 20º41 in Aquarius on February 9, 2024 encourages us to unite with our authentic selves.
This New Moon squares Uranus in Taurus which can be rebellious, impulsive, but also innovative. Everything that fascinates us, everything new and innovative has an enormous attraction for us.
Read more about this New Moon and its influence on all zodiac signs under NEWS on this website.
The Chinese Year of the Dragon begins on February 10, 2024, the year of economic growth and major technological and cultural developments.
Due to the influence of Mercury in Aquarius square Jupiter in Taurus, new facts come to light and we are asked to make choices.
From February 10 to 15, 2024, comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), discovered in 2023, will be visible in the southwest after sunset in the Northern Hemisphere.
Carnival will start again on February 11, 2024. For a short while, rules, worries and grief will be forgotten behind a mask of cheerfulness.
On February 11, 2024, the North Node and asteroid Chiron in Aries will be exactly aligned.
The conjunction of Chiron with the North Node in Aries creates a powerful healing energy for the world in the second half of February 2024. It can also bring about an increased shift in consciousness, allowing collective traumas from the past to be healed. This alignment could indicate a humanitarian disaster that brings the world together for the common good, like a major fund raising event.
On February 13, 2024, the waxing crescent Moon in Aries at 16º will form a conjunction with the North Node and Chiron in Aries, making it a very difficult day for Israel and Netanyahu.
Mars, the planet of energy and drive, travels from February 14, 2024 to March 22, 2024
by the freedom-loving air sign Aquarius.
Mars forms a conjunction with Pluto on Valentine’s Day at 0º Aquarius and with this masculine conjunction the situation in the Middle East can escalate and there is no chance of peace for the time being. Valentine’s Day 2024 could be a tense day of reshuffling for all of us. It will be a real impetus for change in our individual lives and as a collective.
With the conjunction of Venus and Mars in the air sign Aquarius in the second half of February 2024, we should expect the unexpected. This energy gives a strong independent energy of wanting to be free and unbound in all forms of relationships.
The partnership of Mars and Venus in the Fixed Air Sign Aquarius allows us to look at things logically, but is also tenacious and unyielding, wanting desires to be freely pursued.
On February 20, 2024, the Sun will cross into Pisces, Neptune’s kingdom.
The Sun in Pisces takes us to the first day of Spring, the Spring Equinox of March 21, 2024.
On February 23, 2024, the nearly Full Moon in Leo forms a conjunction with the royal fixed star Regulus and this solemn astrological conjunction heralds the early beginning of Spring.
However, the conjunction of the Sun, Mercury and Saturn in Pisces on February 23, 2024, could further escalate the conflict in the Middle East.
From February 24, 2024 to March 20, 2024, Mercury will travel through Pisces.
Objective Mercury is ‘in detriment’ in Pisces, so Mercury doesn’t feel at home in the elusive water kingdom of Pisces.
Due to Mercury in Pisces we are inclined to reason everything less logically.
Thinking, feeling and acting are inextricably linked. Every thought determines the feeling and the resulting action, including the positive or negative result of those thoughts.
Mercury also symbolizes collective ideas, so when many people express the same ideas, that ideas become a collective belief within that group and manifest as a reality.
Social media have an important influence on our society and have become indispensable in shaping collective ideas.
Information, whether correct or incorrect, can be heard, judged and emphasized by thousands or millions of people. Situations and conditions in the world are actually the result of collective manifested thoughts and beliefs.
Buddha once said, “Everything we are is the result of what we thought.”
On February 24, 2024 there will be a Full Moon at 5º23 in the earth sign Virgo.
The Full Snow Moon symbolizes the pure germination power of nature that is so strong invisible under its breathtaking blanket of cold.
The Full Moon in Virgo is opposite Saturn in Pisces, so it is about responsibility for actions and the (karmic) need to have control over a situation.
Read more about this Full Moon and its influence on all zodiac signs under NEWS on this website!
February 24, the day of the Full Moon, marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a crisis that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and far-reaching global consequences.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, more than ten million Ukrainians have been driven from their homes, the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
On February 27, 2024, Mars in Aquarius squares Jupiter in Taurus and that aspect further increases the tension. With this impulsive aspect, we are more likely to act rashly and cross boundaries. There is a risk of overestimating yourself or wanting too much at once. We want to continue with this future-oriented aspect, within the new reality of boundaries and structure.
The world is on the eve of one of the most tumultuous years in recent history.
Worsening climate conditions and geopolitical tension especially between the sleeping giant China and the US, the world may see a confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War.
Even though February 2024 is an intense roller coaster, we can still count on the planetary patch of the North Node in Aries with the wounded healer Chiron in Aries.
This planetary conjunction is a source of spiritual healing and promise of energetic recovery until May 15, 2024, where liberation and personal growth come first.
Wishing you all an inspiring February,
Marlies Goovers
