February 2026: Where the Heart Remembers and a New Cycle Begins

One thing that characterises me is nostalgia. It’s probably something I’ve inherited, as my parents have always been nostalgic, looking to the past and wondering. Yet in doing so, I’ve found it allows me to identify patterns in life.

As the month begins, I’m filled with great nostalgia. How life, or rather the years, fly by while the days feel longer and longer. Then you blink, or sneeze, and your youngest is ready for Kindergarten. It is bittersweet, and even more symbolic for me. On the day my Missy Leo starts school, it will be eleven years to the day since my father passed away from a stroke, under a Leo Full Moon. The very same Full Moon. Three years after his death, we brought my son, Master Aquarius, home from hospital as a newborn, again under that same Full Moon.

And on February 2nd, the month opens with a Full Moon in Leo once more. It opens February with emotion and courage. For some, it’s a roar of the heart. For others, it’s the whisper of lineage, where love lives in new forms and opens our eyes to what is possible in the world. We are in a Universal Year 1, so even in the second month of the year, this Full Moon shows us what is possible. We see what we need to do to be our authentic selves as the Moon opposes Vesta, yet we are invited to take action and nurture ourselves in the ways we truly want. We may feel called to take time out to heal, so we can embrace the year ahead with renewed zest for life, as Ceres in Aries forms a trine to the Full Moon.

As we move toward the middle of the month, Mercury on the 7th and Venus on the 10th both move into Pisces. Softer words are spoken as love dissolves its edges. This is Venus’s most devotional placement, where compassion, imagination, and forgiveness blend into the purest form of connection.

Here, love becomes poetry. It’s the glance that says more than words, the dream that carries an echo of the divine. Yet the shadow side is escapism, idealising others, or losing yourself in fantasy. Balance this transit by remembering that love is not only a feeling, it is a spiritual practice. Let Venus in Pisces remind you to love with boundaries, and to dream without disappearing.

February is gentle in its first half, offering us a pause, a chance to rest. Yet as the second half arrives, we can feel something new beginning to stir.

Saturn moves into Aries on February 14th, and the collective heartbeat changes tempo. Discipline meets daring, bringing a spark that rebuilds worlds.

For nearly three years, Saturn in Pisces has asked us to soften, release, and feel. Now the lesson turns toward self-actualisation through courage. Saturn in Aries will test the ego and refine leadership. It is a teacher of autonomy, not arrogance, of initiative that is accountable rather than impulsive. You may feel both inspired and pressured to act, but this is no time for reckless fire. Instead, imagine the sacred warrior, steady, present, and ethical.

Over the next few years, Saturn will teach us how to lead ourselves.

This brings us to the first eclipse season of the year, marked by an annual Solar Eclipse in Aquarius. This eclipse squares Uranus, stirring restlessness and awakening. What is outdated will crack open, yet what is aligned will endure.

Happy Birthday to our Pisceans as the Sun enters Pisces on the 21st, showing us a softer edge of endings and our connection to the Universe, as the new synodic cycle of Saturn conjunct Neptune unfolds. There will, of course, be much written by esteemed colleagues about what this means on a collective level. I want to draw your attention to what this can mean personally. Look to where zero degrees Aries falls in your chart. This is where a new cycle for the rest of your life is beginning. There is no going back.

Life has taught me that once we cross the threshold of an astrological cycle and cannot return, in hindsight we realise we never truly wanted to go back. This synodic cycle will show us where we can be authentic and real, where we finally see things as they truly are, and where we can take bold steps forward that until now felt impossible because we simply could not see clearly. The waters become clearer. Poseidon, Neptune, cannot make them murky. His father Cronus, Saturn, will not allow it.

The relationship between these two deities was rarely harmonious. Cronus could be tyrannical, and his son Poseidon ultimately overthrew him to claim his place as a major Olympian god ruling the oceans. Neptune will similarly show us where we can defy authority to claim our true place in the world. Saturn will show us where we can tame our ideas, ground our visions, and capture our dreams so we can truly claim that place.

February brings an interesting start to the year and to a new cycle in our lives. As you read this, I will have personally entered the official school phase of our family’s life. And I cannot wait to watch our children bloom under the influence of these gods and stars.

See you next month!

Astrological blessings,

Georgina xxx