Aquarius

AQUARIUS

Celebrate yourself

Radical honesty leads to radical liberation

Ideas are grounded in reality

Opulent, electrifying and expressive, the full Moon in Leo and your 7^th shines its light back in your direction on the 1^st. It asks if you are being seen, appreciated, celebrated and receiving the attention you deserve? If your birthday falls around the start of the month, there’s no better moon under which to schedule those celebrations.

Are you still waiting for approval and/or permission to turn up as you, Aquarius? Do you fear the withdrawal of love or support if you do? With five planets in your sign as the month begins – Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, you’re being asked to serve the most authentic version of you yet. With the upcoming eclipse in your sign (17^th), do look to who or what may make you feel that you can’t show up as yourself – for yourself. The full Moon trines Ceres in your 3^rd – the sector of your chart where this month’s biggest and most impactful change takes place. This is all about what you say about yourself. And whether or not you are allowing others to edit or dictate that.

You are coming to the point where you realise you don’t need anyone’s permission but your own – and neither should you need it. So any relationships which make you feel you have to adapt to fit others’ expectations of who you should be may not survive the series of tight squares between the planets in your sign, the eclipse, and ruler Uranus now direct once more in Taurus and your 4^th. This is your homecoming, Aquarius. As well as one of the most powerful relaunches of your personal message, brand and ideas you have ever experienced.

Uranus direct (4^th) marks the endgame when it comes to changes around your home, living arrangements, lifestyle, property matters, shifting family dynamics, homeland security and belonging. Any further changes which occur between now and Uranus making its permanent exit from Taurus in April, are intended to liberate you from anything which does not provide true security. Or which now keeps you stuck and no longer allows room for growth. Any unexpected moves or shifts you now have to contend with between now and then, are likely to be final.

The squares will also see you faced with moments when you have to honestly confront mismatches between who you are and what ‘home’ and belonging truly means to you. Feeling ‘at home’ includes the level of acceptance we receive from others, feeling we ‘fit’ into that role or lifepath and people who ‘get’ us. Most importantly – those who do not seek to change us, but accept us, just the way we are.

Mercury is the first planet to leave your 1^st house on the 6^th. Venus 10^th, and the Sun moves on the 19^th. As this is your house of self-worth and relationships that are ‘assets’ to you, this process may continue on into March. Especially as Mercury retrogrades in here later this month (26^th). You will come from a place of value above all else. Including valuing yourself more. Take it you will reassess how those connections reflect this over the coming weeks and the Mercury retrograde. The squares crack open what is false – or makes you feel you have to be false. Radical you is freed by radical honesty. Who adds the real value and offers you freedom to be you surges forward.

Before this occurs, ancient ruler Saturn moves from Pisces and your 2^nd and into Aries and your 3^rd on the 14^th. Keep in mind during this pivotal and extremely long cycle, that the old rules still apply. Especially with Saturn who is strictly old school! Saturn behaves very differently in your sign than it does in its other ruling sign of Capricorn. That’s the key difference. It takes on a different flavour. It is about ‘knowing thyself’ and self-mastery in your sign. Once in your 3^rd, it is about keeping your word and standing by what you say and your ideas. As well as lasting commitments and delivering on those promises.

It’s been almost 30 years since Saturn last took up a long term position in this house. 163 years since Neptune’s last visit. It’s not just those of you who were under 18 last time Saturn arrived that are looking at a defining moment around how you think, your ideas and how you communicate – but all of you. None of us have ever experienced a meeting between Saturn and Neptune in Aries before. And certainly not at the most powerfully resetting degree in astrology – 0^o Aries. The first degree of the 360^o zodiac wheel. A powerful point of birth, inception and new beginnings. Which is where the two planets merge on the 20^th.

An idea emerges and coalesces combining clarity and imaginative intent. It’s one thing to have a dream or a vision. Another to do the work to bring it into reality. You can now combine inspiration and a long term plan to draw something over that threshold of possibilities and ground it in the real world. Dreaming and believing collide with intention. This isn’t spin. It’s creative determination.

A key belief may shift and change. Your thought processes are more structured, but your mind is more open than ever. News could arrive around this time which shifts anything from your outlook, to your work, projects and plans, to that personal message as this meeting occurs just three days after the new Moon and the eclipse in your sign. So, it is still under the eclipse influence when it happens.

Although the Saturn/Neptune meeting affects each and everyone of us collectively, from a personal perspective, the most important astral event of the month for you is the new Moon and eclipse of the 17^th. It marks the end of an old way of how you see, believe or think about yourself. With the eclipse creating a portal via which the new ‘you’ emerges. Its secret is in its capacity to hand you a complete personal reset. This may have been building in the background for quite some time. The square to Uranus marks the point where the pressure needs to be released. You have to be true to yourself. You won’t be able to carry on with any further pretence. This not only marks the start of a brand new lunar cycle for you (see your New Moon and Eclipse in Aquarius forecast for more), but under it, you’ll liberate yourself from expectations which no longer fit. Especially those imposed on your by others.

Lastly, those future proof constant values which say more about who you are than anything else. Intensely validating moments around these occur with the meetings between the North Node and Mercury (12^th), Venus (17^th) and the Sun (27^th). You will be reviewing financial and personal commitments during the Mercury retrograde (from the 26^th). While deciding just what direction you send those precious resources in – including time, money and love, for your future. This could even involve pulling them back from something you have been heavily invested in. But you now see no longer pays you the same in return. Something may show you just how worthwhile your investment has been on the 28^th when retro Mercury meets Venus. I could say it has matured with interest. Your best investment going forward is always going to be you and your ideas.

In a nutshell: Feeling we can show up as ourselves – authentic and unfiltered, and be accepted for who we are, is essential to all our relationships. A powerful eclipse in your sign brings a personal moment or recalibration and self-acceptance. Show up for yourself – others show up for you.

1 Feb 2026 Full Moon in Leo (7^th)

1 Feb 2026 Full Moon in Leo trine Ceres in Aries (7^th to 3^rd)

2 Feb 2026 Full Moon in Leo opposition Venus in Aquarius (7^th to 1^st)

4 Feb 2026 Uranus stationary direct in Taurus (4^th)

5 Feb 2026 Mercury in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (1^st to 4^th)

6 Feb 2026 Mercury enters Pisces (2^nd)

8 Feb 2026 Venus in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (1^st to 4^th)

10 Feb 2026 Venus enters Pisces (2^nd)

12 Feb 2026 Mercury conjunct North Node in Pisces (2^nd)

12 Feb 2026 Mercury retroshadow begins in Pisces (2^nd)

14 Feb 2026 Saturn re-enters Aries (3^rd)

16 Feb 2026 Sun in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (1^st to 4^th)

16 Feb 2026 Mercury in Pisces trine Jupiter in Cancer (2^nd to 6^th)

17 Feb 2026 Venus conjunct North Node in Pisces (2^nd)

17 Feb 2026 New Moon in Aquarius – Annular Solar Eclipse (1^st) Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse

17 Feb 2026 New Moon and Annular Solar Eclipse in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (1^st to 4^th)

18 Feb 2026 Sun enters Pisces (2^nd)

20 Feb 2026 Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Aries (3^rd)

22 Feb 2026 Venus in Pisces trine Jupiter in Cancer (2^nd to 6^th)

26 Feb 2026 Mercury stationary retrograde in Pisces (2^nd)

27 Feb 2026 Sun conjunct North Node in Pisces (2^nd)

27 Feb 2026 Mars in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (1^st to 4^th)

28 Feb 2026 Retrograde Mercury and Venus conjunct in Pisces (2^nd)