Horoscopes for February 2025

Adam Elenbaas

Hey, everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [ https://nightlightastrology.com/ ], and today I will be joined by my friends and colleagues, Alex and Dana, to break down your horoscopes for the month of February. It is a month in which we will see the grand finale of Mars in Cancer slowing down, finally turning direct, kind of completing its work with us on a level, especially when Mars, or any planet, after a long retrograde stations and turns direct, you can really feel a shift of momentum. So we're going to be exploring that in your horoscopes for February. And as always, before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe we're seeing if we can't get all the way to 80,000 subscribers on the channel by the spring equinox. We're getting about closer to halfway there now, so that's kind of exciting. But anyway, it's free to subscribe. It really helps us grow our channel and community. We appreciate it. You can find transcripts of any of these daily talks on the website, which is Nightlight astrology.com, when you are there, remember that our our seasonal Speaker Series, which is free, is now taking place, so you can check out a couple of talks coming up from stormy grace and Timothy Desmond on lunar phases and love and near death experiences in astrology that's coming up this weekend. So be sure to check that out. And then seasonal, the monthly webinars that I do, excuse me, are also posted for February, March and April. February's webinar is going to be on Venus Retrogrades and learning more about their meaning. This is going to be a really nice one, considering that we have a big Venus retrograde in March. So anyway, those are the things coming up at Nightlight, and that is it. So on that note, let me welcome back, Alex and Dana. Hey guys. Hey, happy New Year. Guys. Yeah, long time. No, see, it's good to be Yeah, it's good to be back. And I'm curious to know we had a couple of big transits in the month of January. The ones that come to my mind right away are the sun Pluto conjunction, which took place right around the inauguration. It felt like a fitting symbol for a transition of power. There were oppositions between the sun and Mars that act as the kind of midway point of the Mars cycle. We had looked at some of those things in the monthly overview for for January, I'm wondering, you know, how did you guys do with those trends? What were some of your highlights for January?

 

Dana Solana

I will just say this without saying too much, someone close to me has their moon at 28 cancer, which is very close to where that that Mars Pluto opposition was happening, and I felt it there was some combat, there was some combat, there was some, like, repressed shit coming up. And

 

Adam Elenbaas

it was pretty textbook. Yeah, it was amazing how that Mars Retrograde hit Pluto backed into cancer, and all of a sudden, LA was on fire. That was like that was, that was such a powerful showing of the Mars Pluto opposition from a fire sign into its fall in cancer, where it wreaks havoc on a massive residential community, right, where homes are being burned down. I mean, you don't think of Mars in a water sign as bringing fire, but coming off from a fire sign in an opposition to Pluto and then backing into cancer. It was so the symbolism was so devastating and obviously fitting. But, I mean, that was one of the big things I really observed, just in the collective too, yeah,

 

Alex Amorosi

yeah, yeah. That's, like, that's one of those symbols like you watch an astrology and you hope that's not what's going to happen. You know, it's like, you're like you could, you could see that coming, especially with Mars. And there was a Mars Retrograde in Aries. I remember when my friend there were northern fires in California too. And my friend is lives in San Francisco, and he sent me a picture. It looks, literally, looks like they were living on Mars, because the sky was so red. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, you know this this month, knock on wood, has actually been pretty empowering for me. Learning to work with Mars Retrograde has been a really interesting thing to meditate on, to work with clients on, because it's I've been learning how to ask for help, how not to do everything on my own, how to and I've been kind of describing this in my year ahead readings with clients of like, how to do a Keto instead of karate, you know, because, like, in karate, there's sort of, you know, or in some martial arts, there's a forward motion, aggression to the movement. I don't, I don't know, I don't know a lot about karate. So if it's not, but, like, it's the defensive thing, but there's more of, like, an aggressive forward motion, right? I think Mars Retrograde, more like, how do you use energy? Well, how do you get efficient about the use your energy? Where are you leaking energy? And especially with this, this retrograde having begun in in Leo, I think, Where is your your pride gotten in the way of being more efficient with what you're doing and how you're not wasting energy? So it's it's been interesting. I'm going to knock on several pieces of wood as I say that. Yeah. But so far now, yeah, it's feeling like that.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, it was funny. The the full moon of the Mars cycle I talked about on the channel as the sun's opposition to Mars, right? The Synodic Cycle kind of begins when they conjoin. Their full moon is when they oppose. And that opposition was remarkably empowering for me personally, made some choices about key relationships in my life that were more like on the level of peers, like other peers in my life, I'll say, and some some key relationships where I realized, oh, it's not a personal thing. It's just a I'm on a different path. I'm going in a different direction. And how to do that without burning bridges and with, like, how do you make a kind of shift and do so as peacefully as you can, rather than getting into a power struggle? That was a really like, I feel like I leveled up somehow in life, a little bit through that opposition, it was, it was a personally very empowering. I agree with what Alex said. And I noticed that one of the things that was also like, super unexpected, we talked a little bit in the overview for January about The Venus Uranus Square. And it might have come through in early January, or maybe even late December. It was Venus and Aquarius squaring, Uranus and Taurus. And I had been stuck on my a chapter in my book. It was kind of like, I just, it's like, in you know that you're in the middle of a creative piece, and all of a sudden you go, I don't know where it wants to go next. And it everything had been flowing, and then that transit came, and it was like, boom, oh, I now I know. And I I got unblocked creatively, and ended up finishing the new chapter in my book very quickly. And then it took, you know, weeks of editing and stuff like that. But the that was another surprising transit that I wasn't, and I wasn't fully expecting that to be so powerful. And interestingly, well, that was happening for me. Ashley was she went to a painting class being a square Uranus, and she started painting like very magically and unexpectedly in an image of the Black Madonna, which came from, I believe it was like Italy or something. It was like, anyway, so if you've ever seen the paintings of the Black Madonna, it's a really beautiful icon. And interestingly, my chapter was about an African American woman in high school who lived with my family and had this iconic statue of the Black Madonna on her shelf. And I was writing about this, and Ashley was painting the Black Madonna at the same time, and we weren't aware of it until all of a sudden, we were, isn't that crazy?

 

Alex Amorosi

Yeah, it's in the field of your home, you guys, yeah. It's

 

Adam Elenbaas

like, oh my God, that's crazy. All of a second. What is that? She was, it's Black Madonna. And I was like, get out. I was like, she's in my chapter right now. It's like, anyway. So that was pretty cool. So some magic. Venus also in Pisces. I have to say, always love when Venus is in Pisces. Just a little extra magic and romance in the air. I don't know,

 

Alex Amorosi

shimmer on everything. You know? Yeah, glitter on it. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

absolutely. Well, we're gonna get into the astrology of February, and we're we have a very specific way of doing horoscopes on the channel. If you're new, there's a lot of people who are new. Recently, this may be some people's first time seeing our horoscopes. What we like to do is we like to look at what is probably the loudest, most important transit of the month, sometimes maybe two of them. And we like to focus on that for all 12 signs. And so this month, what we are looking at is the very significant transition that Mars is going through. So at the beginning of February, Mars is at the 20th degree of cancer, and we're going to watch Mars reach down to about 17 degrees, which means the whole month of February, it's only moving three degrees, very slow Mars now. And when Mars slows down like this, it's important, because while it's still retrograde and slowing, it's, you can almost imagine, it's like a car coming around a corner, and then when it comes around the corner, it's going to be going in direct motion. It's kind of a weird way of thinking about it. It's not a perfect, like visual analogy, but you can almost think of like, this backward movement where it's like, it's like backing up and slowing down and putting on the brakes, and then it's going to start driving forward again. I find that those last critical degrees of a retrograde when the planet's moving very slow are crucial because. There are last lessons learned, major insights and events that will sort of bring things to a point of resolution or culmination within the lessons of the retrograde cycle. And then it's time to implement, it's time to integrate. It's time to move forward. We are going to see that the station is about February 23 that station and then direct motion will then have Mars sitting at that 17th degree for quite some time. I mean, it's all the way until March 9, and if you go backward, let's take a look at it right. So it's right here. It's about February 11 to march 9 that's sitting on the exact same degree. That's almost a full month when a planet like Mars does that, there can be breakdowns and turnarounds. There can be kind of culminating lessons and revisions, and then implementations all sort of taking place, and a lot of things that have been in the works will finish, and then it's almost like you're ready to begin implementing changes that have come about in the process. What else do you guys want to add to the kind of culminating experience of Mars this month that I maybe I haven't said yet?

 

Alex Amorosi

I think that there's, um, I agree with you, Adam, that there's, there's sort of a point of a climax or an apex to this kind of redirect motion, um, and it may feel a little bit like you haven't been able to take active motion, or you've had to sort of learn how to, you know, kind of flow with the current, and go, you know, surrender to the current, and then it's a little bit like the power gets turned back on, and there's a lot of forward momentum or things that need to suddenly be done. And that pacing is really important with that, because it can sometimes feel like you just got a power surge, but you don't know exactly what to do with all that power. Again, I think it's interesting. I think the moon is actually opposing Mars while it's exactly, while it's turning direct. So there's a mutual receptor, there's, well, there's the opposition by reception, by exaltation, um, Mars's exaltation is in Capricorn, um, and the moon Mars is in the moon sign. There's something to me here about, you know, a little bit of the the the depths of Capricorn we don't talk about a lot, sort of the chaotic wild, of desiring to sort of just be free of like the the constraints of this safe little life, but also a sense of wanting to rebuild, maybe from that, a sense of safety or order or surrounding or protection that feels more in line with wherever we're going for the next half of the year, like I've been saying for I've been really thinking a lot about this year. The first half of this year is the domain of Mars, up until June, at least, and then I think we get a little bit more Jupiter in the mix. But this might be where we're starting to see is what is Mars really trying to speak about, and so together in these next couple months. Yeah, love

 

Dana Solana

that. I agree with both of you. I'll tell you what I've been thinking about with this. So I one time and couples counseling, I saw this lady, and she was doing this thing of like, when I would be speaking, she would notice a change in my tone and go, what's that? What's that I feel like, that's what Mars Retrograde and cancer is like. It's that thing of like, what's that thing that's bothering you? What's that frustration? Like, let's, let's get at the root of it. And it is frustrating. At least my personal experience of it is, it has been kind of frustrating with Mars Retrograde. I think that's sort of part of the experience of Mars Retrograde, but Mars Retrograde and cancer is like, what's bugging me, like, what's getting to me, what's, what's, what's the obstacle. I noticed that Mars is stationing direct in a trine to Mercury, and will very soon after trine Saturn. So there's a lot going on in Pisces around this time. I like that as this shift to this tone shift, that more stationing direct is, is bringing that we are able to kind of, hopefully somewhat quickly do something productive with it, like we're able to kind of give language to it. We're able to create some kind of new structures. Because whatever that, what is that? What is that? There's some answer now to whatever that thing is. So if you've been feeling stuck, frustrated, etc, we're coming to the turning point now,

 

Adam Elenbaas

yeah, I think another way that it's just Oops. Okay, here we go. Let me just shift my view here a little bit, yeah. And I think another thing is, after we go through a period of time where frustrations are focused, maybe in one area of life. For a lot of us, that may be the case with the Mars Retrograde, where it's kind of like a few things or one sort of area. Especially my house, will be looking at this today. And when the last pieces of this are happening, there's, it's sort of like I'm either going to transform or I'm gonna, I'm gonna start to just, I'm gonna, I'm gonna combust and start on fire. And that's kind of how it can feel in my experience with the last degrees of a Mars Retrograde. It's those exact moments of perseverance and kind of holding the tension of whatever is most frustrating that can really alchemize and, you know, bring about some substantive changes in our lives. I would think that this has to do with things like the body, home, family, you know, women, domestic life, parenting, all Cancerian things, nurturance, self care, needs, emotionality, all of those kinds of topics, but then apply those to the unique House position. So that's what we're going to do next. We're going to take this through all of the houses. One thing I want to remind everybody of is, while Mars isn't getting off from that 17th degree until March 9, it is not getting out of cancer until April 18. So even

 

Alex Amorosi

plenty of time to integrate this, friends, that's right, the

 

Adam Elenbaas

direct motion for I think a lot of people will be a relief, and you will notice a significant shift this month, but then there's this kind of integrating process that takes place all the way until April 18. I can't think of the last time that we had such a long retrograde in a debilitated sign, in a sign that has its own unique archetypal tensions. You know, Mars and Gemini, I don't remember being as emotionally intense, and that's because of the dignity, right? So that was our last Mars Retrograde. Anyhow, are you guys ready? Ready? Yeah, all right, let's do it. I'm going to start us off with Cardinal signs this time, and we will start with Aries. And let me back this up so that we get I'm going to put the date of this right around the station direct. So here we got February 23 as our moment of stationing. Direct, all right, so for Aries, you can listen to this for your sun or rising sign. I will briefly say this until I die. I recommend listening to your rising sign, because all horoscopes, sun, moon or rising are all made in the exact same way. You put the whole sign of whatever sign you're reading for on the ascendant, and you read the transits by whole sign house location in that chart, same exact thing for sun, moon or rising. The only way that will actually correlate with your birth chart is if you choose rising and you look at the whole sign house version of your birth chart. I'm a Hellenistic astrologer, so everything's in whole sign for me in natal astrology, a lot of people who listen to this are too, which is why I recommend your rising sign as the one to listen to, because you're going to get the actual transiting location in your birth chart. You can also listen to your sun or moon, but unless your sun or moon are actually in the same sign as your rising sign, you're looking at a completely different symbolic divinatory chart that's not tethered to your birth chart. So that's why I recommend the rising sign for those of you who track transits, it will follow along with that practice. And I think a lot of people on this channel do so, because every single month, there are at least 30 people that ask me why I recommend rising signs, and I explain it every single month. But here we are. I will die

 

Alex Amorosi

an image of you on the battlefield Adams. It's

 

Adam Elenbaas

just because people don't understand how horoscopes are made. They don't understand that like Aries, sun, moon or rising is the exact same horoscope in terms of how it's how the information is is read, so the only way that that gets to your birth chart is if it's your rising sun. Okay, so on that note, let's get into Wait. Did we go Pisces last time to Aries? Or did we go Aries?

 

Alex Amorosi

We went Pisces. We better start with Aries, because it's Mars, I think.

 

Adam Elenbaas

So yeah, we're gonna do it that way. So Aries rising all of you rams out there, airy Sun arising. This is a process that's been taking place in the fourth house I've been looking carefully in the Master Class series that I am hosting this year, that I'm teaching this year, I should say, at the ancient Vedic views of the houses in the philosophy that was associated with them, and the fourth house is a Moksha house. And moksha, among a few other things, etymologically, means liberation or freedom. The fourth house is an interesting place because it really represents the private or interior life of the soul, the part that's not visible. Bull to other people. Think about the way that your personality manifests visibly. That's your first house. Think about how your personality and your soul exists more privately, more secretively or more intimately around people like family members or the people that live in a home with you, or that occupy a more private interior, intimate space in your life. That's the fourth house when I think about this, because Mars is your ruling planet as an Aries, can't help but wonder, in what ways are you refining, revising, reflecting upon your inner life? Is it easy to express yourself among family members, or what are the inner dimensions of your emotions, your thoughts and feelings that are more private, and do you have some ability to bring those forth into the world? We all have a need to take what's inside and bring it out. Not everything inside needs to be brought out, but we aren't going to be happy either if we don't find a way to liberate or release or free what's what's inside, outwardly, expressively, creatively, intimately, sometimes in work, sometimes in love, but we need to find a way of bringing that part of ourselves out. And I think there's a lot of deep work that Aries have been doing around this subject now, in a more mundane way I could look at this and think about changes around home family, maybe stressors around parents or family karma, and also, you know, things to the physical, things that are taking place with regard to the physical environment, even something as mundane as getting a new water softener. You could see with with Mars in the fourth so thinking about the domestic side of life, but also the interiority that inner space and what are you learning about yourself in the more private element of your life? And it's important because Aries are always some of the most outward people. You know, some some people that were just like what you see is what you get. It's so refreshing to be around Aryans, because there's just no hiding anything. But there are secret dimensions to you, and I'm wondering how you're tapping into those right now as an Aries,

 

Unknown Speaker

that was good. Adam, thanks.

 

Alex Amorosi

Um, I, you know, one thing I've been thinking a lot about, the smartest retrograde, whatever house it's in is, you know, do you feel safe and strong in the ability to defend and push back and be powerful inside of yourself? And I'm wondering, you know, with Mars Retrograde cancer in the fourth house in a water sign, if there's a place where, like you've you've been working on some ways of fortifying your emotional world, of knowing that you're stronger inside of yourself, that you may think that you have, you know, sometimes I notice with Aries, sometimes it's relentless forward motion. It's relentless just the next thing, the next thing. And sometimes I think that can, because there's a sensitive place in here that doesn't feel as protected as it could. And so there's a feeling with Mars turning directive, like, maybe, maybe just discovering, like, I'm really strong, I'm okay. This my home, my body or my My home is safe. And I think that that actually allows for great forward motion and progress. But it's not as exhausting. It's you're not as, you know, trying as hard. You don't have to try so hard and move, you know, fight so much. I think there's something wrapped up in that sort of power and knowing one is safe kind of thing.

 

Dana Solana

Yeah, we were talking about, and I think this was the last time we spoke, but just the emphasis on home, and even with the fires we were talking about Mars Retrograde kind of pointing to home, maybe not feeling safe, right? And I think that's especially true for Aries risings, obviously, because we're in your fourth house. I think about the whole Mars Retrograde cycle up to this point maybe being about realizing where you need to cut cords in, whether that's like your actual physical home, like, what do I need to change about my home to make it feel more safe and comforting? Or, as Adam was saying, your interior world, what am I doing? Or how am I being? What? How am I existing in a way that doesn't feel safe and comforting and nurturing and really taking? It's kind of a weird word to use from Mars, but it does come to mind. Like, taking. Like taking responsibility for yourself and what you need, and that maybe this is a turning point where you can say, and I can't help but think about the emphasis on, you know, the 12th house. I know we're talking about Mars, but it is trining stuff going on in your 12th house. Maybe you're realizing where you've kind of gotten in your own way, you know, of accessing that safety and that comfort. So that's what I'm thinking about. Yeah, love it.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Good stuff there for you. Aries out there, let's go on to Taurus. Dana is going to take the fixed signs today, and then we'll chime in when she's finished. Okay,

 

Dana Solana

third house, we're thinking about the daily. Things we do, the coming and going, the environment. So what about the day to day has been feeling limited, limiting, misaligned, frustrating, your frustrations. And this is true for everybody at all times, not just Taurus risings, not just during Mars Retrograde, when you're frustrated by something that is a clue for you to think about it more. I think there's a tendency, at least for me and tell me if you don't agree. But when something's frustrating, I want to get rid of it. But what we need to do is actually figure out why is that frustrating? And I think for Taurus risings definitely if there's stuff coming in that's just like these, these little annoyances, like there might be something more there to unpack. There might be something more to learn about. Why is that frustrating? What what is really annoying to me about that and why that can teach you something about what you need. So that's what I would look for. I think that when we are coming to the 23rd with the station direct you're ready to do something about it. So it might be something that you're not really there's some reticence in changing. Like, oh, that seems annoying. Like something as simple as, I want to wake up earlier, you know, because I need more time to myself. Well, that seems like it's going to be really annoying. And like, I don't really want to do that, but then you get the energy to do it, and you're like, oh, actually feel a lot better when I have time to myself in the morning. A simple example, but I think that there's some some restructuring of the daily things that can really help you feel more empowered, and that at the station direct, you're going to know what those things are, and you're going to have the courage and the willingness to try to do those things.

 

Alex Amorosi

I love that Dana, I love, you know, I think that this feeling of one of the ways I've been thinking about Mars in this retrograde is like when it's a tailor is re sewing pants, and they have that knife that they rip down the seam with, and they sort of tear open the seam so that they can re sew it another way, which I think is Jupiter coming into cancer later this year, but we'll get there when we get there. But there's a sense here, I would say, like, you're the everyday is so what surrounds us is so familiar. We don't question it. We don't often think about it. And what Mars comes into a house like this, it's a little bit, like that knife coming in, and you're like, oh, it's like taking down the set and The Truman Show or something, and seeing that, it's like it was a reality show, as opposed to like, oh, wow, I don't have to have this set around me all the time. This isn't, maybe I want to surround myself with something else. Maybe this is kind of being stripped away for a reason. And yeah, I think as Mars turns direct, there's a I agree with you, Dana, like, there's you want to take action on it. It's, I think the Retrogrades are often when we're sort of, oh, this is what's going on the sets coming down the there's actually a camera crew here, instead of, you know, kitchen, or whatever it is. Then we are like, Oh, but I want to do I can do something different now. I can make a change in a positive direction around this, especially in regards to cancer and things like kind of emotional safety and nurturance and feeling, maybe even a sense of privacy in your in your environment you know around you, I think, which is very important for water science to have.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I was looking at this house through the Vedic lens as I was prepping one of my master classes recently, and what I was really like stunned to find is that this is a house that is associated with competitiveness. And I thought, Well, why, you know. And so I listened to a bunch of talks, read quite a few texts as I was prepping for all the houses I was doing this. But one of the things that I found really interesting is it this? Because the third, as we know, is Caden coming out of the fourth by primary motion and being drawn toward the east from out of the fourth, it was thought of in relation to the east, being thought of as self expression. That's pretty universal in ancient astrology and the West is otherness or relationality. The top is visible, the bottom is invisible. So Mars is coming out of the realm of the invisible, orienting toward the east, the place of self. And so it was thought of as a place in which you have to self actualize through your mind, speech, emotions, and there's a way in which you have to express yourself in this house in order to individuate that there's a form of self expression that is sort of combative, because it's like I have to learn how to bring something out from within me in a more private or invisible sphere, and I have to do it in a world in which I have to defend my right to be here and for my inner thoughts and things to matter and to you know, so there's a way in which there's like a drive to express and communicate your inner life in the third house, and it's also associated with like combativeness, verbally and mentally. And I thought, well, that's really interesting. And among other things that it's associated with. But so anyway, one of the things that I was thinking about was, you know, for Tauruses, who are generally like, and I'm a Taurus rising so I can't say that I'm a perfect example of this, but a lot of Taurus risings are people who really value peace, that being agreeable and being someone who you feel stable and kind of at ease around, is something a lot of Tauruses bring naturally, or are very conscious of, of bringing. And so I look at this and I go, What? What is it about the inner life that could be hard to express, or where you feel frustrated because you can't express something, or you can't say something, or you feel like what you say could be emotionally edgy or subversive and maybe not make people feel safe, or people feel at ease, and yet you can't go on denying something within yourself that needs to be articulated or spoken, or a need that needs to be expressed. So I wonder about that for Tauruses right now, like, what are the what are the inner things you're trying to articulate, the needs, feelings, thoughts, parts of you that are seeking individuation, but also having to work through something regressive or something that you're afraid of? So that's my I'll just add that into whatever everyone else has already said, which I also thought was really great.

 

Alex Amorosi

That's a really cool way of thinking about the third house.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Adam, yeah, there's more.

 

Alex Amorosi

Like, well, the third house is the thing where we put everything we don't know what's put in. It's

 

Adam Elenbaas

so nebulous, right? Yeah, it really, yeah, it is a nebulous house. And yeah, there's, I'm, one of the things I love doing is like, you know, this year for me, has really been about building bridges between these philosophical dimensions of the houses and the ancient Hellenistic views on the houses. You know, this house is the third is associated with comma, which is has to do with pleasure and desire. And there's something about this house in particular that is associated with being able to actualize your emotions with the people closest to you or most immediately every day, and being able to feel a degree of emotional satisfaction in your everyday environment because of the ease with which you're able to articulate your individuality. That's really fascinating. I never thought about it like that. And there's some really interesting connections there with the moon too, given that the moon was rejoiced in this house. But before I digress too much. Let's go on to Gemini Gemini rising, Alex is going to take the

 

Alex Amorosi

mutable signs. Okay, so Geminis, we've got, I'm going to take the sort of mundane ones on this one first. So Mars, attorneys direct in your second house. If there have been conflicts or challenges around money, especially emotional conflicts around money. Money can often be a very emotional, sometimes the most emotional subject. If there have been family conflicts or discussions around money, this might be a time where either those those are coming to a head, and some kind of turnaround is coming, if it's not just the day of this retrograde, you know, it could be a week on either side, even when Mars starts to get a little more forward motion in March. But I think on a deeper level too, you know, I often think of the second house as a place of worth and value in general, and how you sort of prop yourself up the second, you know, the succeeding house to the first house. This is the house that's sort of propping up yourself your identity. And you know, Geminis, and I know, because I'm going to marry a Gemini really pride themselves on information and their ability to collect information and facts and data. And what's interesting is that a Geminis are supported by emotion. Their value and their worth is very emotional. And there might be something here where you're discovering that you can, you can rely on an intuitive inner forward motion of a forward motion of emotion or intuition, and gain a lot of value and worth from that, and that it can be really helpful in sort of propping up this amazing data storage, information net that is usually going on in a Geminis mind, and that there might be something too around, like a classic, I hate to be cliche, but like knowing your value, really knowing your value and your worth exerting, as though, as Mars turns around being like, wow, as Mars was retrograde, I discovered I have shied away from conflicts because I don't believe I'm worth it or I'm not valuable enough. I haven't said what I really need to say, around really resourcing myself and having what my needs are, my needs, my emotional needs, really met, so that I can feel supported as a person. As Mars moves forward, you know, towards going into April, there might be some time where you really start to assert that more and and speak to your emotional needs that are that are propping up your sense of self. So that's what I'm thinking. For that one,

 

Dana Solana

I personally don't think that's cliche at all. I mean, maybe whatever, like the words themselves, but I think that idea is so relevant and important, especially in this context. You made me think about fear like I think fear is something that we're all contending with, with Mars Retrograde and for Gemini risings. Is it the fear that your worth is dependent on what you have in some way, and I don't necessarily mean money, although maybe, but like, you know, whatever it is for you, we've all got our own. I hate to say it like this, but like programming around what makes us worthy, and maybe this Mars Retrograde has helped you sift through that a little bit, or it's presented you with situations where you don't have that anymore, and now that fear of like, okay, well, what does that mean about me? What does that say about me? And maybe now you're able to learn it doesn't have to mean anything. I get to decide what my value is. I get to decide what my worth is, and that's where maybe the that turning point and some empowerment from this can come as you're freed from that. So I thought that was beautiful. Alex,

 

Alex Amorosi

thank you. And preach, get up, and

 

Adam Elenbaas

I think about Mars, in Mars, in cancer in the second house, as competition around needs and resources, like, for example, there's nothing worse than feeling like other people are jealous of you or are trying to somehow take things from you, or that there's competition if you're happy, there might be a chance of Mars in Cancer in the second house that a family member is giving you a hard time just because you're happy. If you're resourced like, if you are doing well financially, you could find that other family members are trying to make you feel bad. There could be, in other words, a way in which whatever you have that represents something that's yours. There are, there's antagonizing that's, you know, an antagonism that's coming toward you from someone else, I would think about family because of the sign of cancer, but it could be anyone that you're close to. It could be that there are things that are draining your resources, emotionally or financially, that you're having to sort of endure, and it could also be that you have to look very carefully at what the people that you depend on, that you rely on, that act you know, as resources in your life are there? You know, we need people for for various reasons that people prop us up in the second as much as money does sometimes. So I the second house is associated with things like our attorneys or our counselors and Vedic Astrology. It's even associated with your family insofar as they provide for you. So What? What? Who or what do you rely on? And is there any kind of conflict that's taking place with people you rely on? Those are things that come to my mind and then trying to work those things out, work work those tensions out, and maybe find some healing, or if certain relationships need to be cut off. That could be a very Mars Retrograde like theme in the second as well. I can't help you. You can't help me. Or this is some kind of CO dependent situation that I can't be in any longer. Those are some of the things that come to my mind as well. But I also like the idea of what you guys were saying too, just about looking at your own needs and values and being able to stand up for them. Let's move along to cancer. Now we have cancer rising. I've got the rising or I've got the cardinal signs. So let's go to cancer in the first house. This is a really interesting retrograde in that you think about things that without which I would not be me. This is the meaning of dharma. It's like the fire can't be fire unless it's hot and light, right? It has to have heat and light for it to be fire. It has to be fluid and wet for it to be water? Well, there's some things that make you who you are without which you wouldn't be you. What's interesting to me is a Mars Retrograde in the first house, for any sign, but I'll add on some Cancerian dimensions in a moment. In a moment, could represent things that are being taken away, cut out. This piece is no longer me. It was me, but it's no longer me, or I am now realizing that unless I express something that maybe I've been holding back from expressing, or finding difficulty in expressing, I will not be me. So I could see it as like the. For example, I think I might have given this example with you guys last time. But, you know, we've, I've had clients with mastectomies or hysterectomies while Mars has been in cancer in their first house. Am I still me if part of my biological material is gone, is gone that I've identified with as being a woman. For example, my breasts are gone. Or, you know, yeah, I've had a hysterectomy like now, I have to redefine who I am without things that I have been identified with that could be a big part of this process, even hormonal changes like perimenopause, or menopause, which I believe kind of comes sequentially. If I understand how that, I probably don't understand it works, but yeah, I think perimenopause can come first and then menopause comes later. But either way, those processes start to shift the hormones in the body, and that is a big part of I've identified like, if you are a woman, you've identified with having cycles and you start not having them, or they're irregular, or whatever, am I me any longer? Is my if my hormones are different? Am I me? You know, so a transition of identity that might be triggering and or might be also asking you to bring forth things that haven't been easy to bring forth. There could be something very empowering about this. This is me, and I have to express it now. I can't hold it back or be scared of it. On the other hand, there's things being sort of taken from me, and I have to retain or develop a deeper sense of who I am that's no longer about this thing that's been taken away, that I thought, without which I wouldn't be me. Those kinds of things are on my mind with Mars and cancer in the first house. What do you guys

 

Dana Solana

think go for it? Dana, okay, well, yes, I will. Okay. I'm thinking about feeling directionless, essentially the the arrow of Mars, when Mars is retrograde, it's it's unclear where are we going. And it might be because of the loss that Adam was talking about, the things that were sort of like the bumpers that were kind of helping you stay on the path have fallen away, or they've changed. So there's something about definitely, with the first house, there's something about you that feels different, whether that's a felt experience, whether that's your health, whether that's your appearance, whether it could be anything. But there's something in your life that has changed, probably that is changing the way you think about yourself or the way you self identify. It's it's forcing you to kind of reconsider who you are, like, what is it that makes me me deep, and so that directionless feeling that Mars Retrograde can give you like it might be rooted in that for cancer risings, and just like we were saying earlier, you know, that's very frustrating, and it can be very disorienting as well, but ultimately, very helpful. Because, like, what is life but change, right? Like, we're it's inevitable that things are going to change, not that that makes it any easier, but, gosh, I'm thinking about, like, sand in the oyster. Is it an oyster or a clam that makes the pearl? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't live by the ocean, but that's Mars Retrograde for me, like it's, there's, there's something rubbing up against us. And I think for cancer, risings that could, that could really be provoking and uncomfortable, because it's about the very nature of who you are and how you see yourself. But on the other side of this is a lot of clarity about what really matters to you.

 

Alex Amorosi

100% I love that. Dana, you know, there's one of the the word I often think of for cancer is care. In a lot of ways, the care they're caring, they care, there's, there's a lot of things involved with care. And I think it's sometimes recognizing, you know, like the feeling of anger or defense or aggression can suddenly feel like, but that's not caring. That's not nice. But there's some need sometimes to just assert, like caring for yourself. Or, you know, I will never forget seeing the baby bear in California in May. And think we all froze because we're like, we know what's near that baby bear, there's a protective mom is right there, like in the bushes. So we, like, kind of backed away very slowly from that. And I was thinking, that's the care, the nurturance, the way that she's sort of nurturing her young and I think sometimes it can feel like I'm kind of feeding off what you guys are saying about identity here. And am I? Me, is that, you know when you assert for yourself, when you set a boundary, when you set up a defense, or say like, no, that's not okay. That doesn't make you any less caring. It doesn't make you any less of who you are. It's an additional I think that's one of the reasons Mars sometimes has a hard time in cancer, is that it's it's a very unfamiliar flavor to cancer in a lot of ways, but it's sometimes. Necessary component to sort of showing that outward protective, you know, Mama Bear type energy is sometimes about that

 

Adam Elenbaas

nice, yeah, we wish you well all cancers, yeah, alright, let's go on to Leo rising and or Leo sun sign. So we'll pass it on to Dana. Okay, here

 

Dana Solana

we go. You have Mars Retrograde in the 12th the first thing that came to mind for me is Mars Retrograde being a moment of realizing where you might get in your own way, where you might be the obstacle in the source of frustration, okay? And the station direct is like, Aha, this is what's happening. Here's what I want to do about it. I literally, I'm sorry, but I wrote a moment where you're tired of your own bullshit. It may not be that intense for you. You know it may not be, but

 

Alex Amorosi

or it might, or it might as a Leo rising it might be, I don't know.

 

Dana Solana

So it's a real moment of clarity, I think, for Leo risings. And I think that this could be a moment of boundary setting. I'm thinking again about the connection with mercury and Saturn and Pisces in the eighth house, that maybe you're realizing sort of what Alex was just saying about cancer risings, that this is what I'm willing to share, and this is what I'm not willing to share. This is where I can't do what I've been doing anymore, because it's it's not helping anybody. I need to help myself, and this is how I'm going to do it. And it's probably not going to feel very comfortable, but I can no longer sit in the discomfort of whatever this is, so I'm going for it. Yeah,

 

Alex Amorosi

yes to all of that, maybe experiencing one to all of that, um, in my own way. But, you know, I think that, um, this is really interesting Dana, because I actually texted with Adam about this a little bit. I actually, for the first time ever, hired a coach to do some serious training and nutrition work, because it's just little things. I'm like, I need to get out under control. But my pride always got in the way, because I'm like, Well, I'm a yoga teacher, and I know the body, so I should just be able to figure this out myself. Oh, yeah, it's not working for like, all these years. Oh, that's weird. And now it's working because I just, you know, got out of my own bullshit, you know. And stop saying, like, get out of your pride. And, you know, that's the thing, I think, for us as Leo, is oftentimes, is this sense of pride, of like, I don't want to ask for help, or I don't want to look weak, or I don't want to look like I don't know something, but the best thing you can do sometimes is just kind of let down those walls and say, I don't know how to do this, and I'm not. It's not working. And, you know, working through all of those places where exactly what you're saying, Dana, you're getting out of your way, where you didn't realize you were the one in the way. You really didn't realize it. It always seemed like it was something else that's like, oh, it's been me the whole time in my own way. And I think that, you know, the other thing I think that happens with Leos a lot, and you're dead right about this, is we forget sometimes with how much Leos are sensitive to approval and wanting approval, and wanting people to like them and be seen and noticed and admired, and sometimes setting the boundary is hard for Leo's because it's like, but they won't approve of me, or they won't like me, or an image I've created of myself will be taken down in some way. But this retrograde, you know, for me, at least, I don't know how other Leo rises have been feeling has been like, but this isn't what I want to do, or I don't want to share this much. Or there's parts of myself that really do need to be private and not secret, but private. That is just mine. And setting those boundaries can feel scary because it's like, well, what do people think? What will people you know, of me? And so that's been, I think this is a moment of definite turnaround of like, I'm implementing this now. It might be uncomfortable, it might feel frustrating, but I'm going to implement these ideas now and really see more forward motion

 

Adam Elenbaas

with it nice. Yeah, I think a lot about the the 12th house as a place where there can be humbling experiences, like, it's kind of like how I would summarize some of what you were talking about, where there's like a degree, there's so much healing and so much insight and grace and beauty that comes out of the 12th house, but it's kind of requires taking us into a space where we feel like we're not in control, or we have to surrender something, and then if we do, there's often this paradoxical empowerment. Oh, I mean, I'm supposed to have my hand on the steering wheel of life, but I'm in a vessel, and there's wind and there's weather, and so much is really out of my control and coming into contact with things that feel paired, you know, disempowering and then weirdly empowering when you kind of surrender, um. Um, is a I think that's a big part of the 12th house. And so I could see those kinds of experiences being very valuable for Leo's, but some people will be going through pretty intense versions of that compared to others, you know. So like you said, it really varies, probably from person to person, but I think there's an opportunity here for a degree of surrender, especially when you feel like you're failing at something or you're not doing not doing something, you can't get something right. And there's some level of like, okay, well, I'm just gonna set this problem down and, yeah, ask for help or let go of you know, just okay, I fail fine. I give up. And then weirdly, like, remembering a song lyric 10 minutes after you've tried to remember it, but can't it comes back, and suddenly you know exactly what to do. And there's this empowerment that comes.

 

Alex Amorosi

Yeah, agreed.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Good one for Leo's. Let's move on to Libra. Or excuse me, um, Virgo Libra for Dana will come soon. So Virgo, Alex is going to start us off with Virgo, where Mars is in the 11th

 

Alex Amorosi

you know, I think this is really interesting because, you know, again, if we looked at some of the mundane signatures of the 11th house we might be seeing, or a view on who you really get along with in your friend group or your friend group or your professional networks, the type of people you really want to be around. There might be some conflicts. There might be the series of emails that goes back and forth with this, with this type of signature, again, with cancer, it's often kind of an emotional charge, and it kind of hits at the base level, you know, emotional space while that's going on. But you know, it also could be a point to where, you know, again, in this way, I've been thinking about Mars, retrograding cancer. Of, do I feel strong and resourced and safe inside of myself? So I feel like my castle in myself is strong. Um, it might actually help you, you know, take some risks. Of, you know, one of the hardest things for Virgos, and I know from every Saturn and Virgo is taking risks and being seen as less than perfect, and, you know, not getting every i dotted and every T crossed, it might actually be a place where you're taking a few emotional risks within your network that really pay off. And you know around this time that it's like, you know, I can take some action, I can make some assertion, I can stand out here, um, and that could really have some good that might have some some positive effects that you can, you know, what's that line I think I heard? I can't remember it was, but I can't remember who said it. I heard say it, but I think it's a pretty common saying of it's better to ask forgiveness and permission. That's kind of how I see this going here is just like, you know, it's okay to take an action and then you can repair things. Later on, you can go back and things up if you need to. But there's something here about not needing the sort of protective approval of an outside group or the protective approval of something else, and saying, like, I'm just gonna, I need to take an action for myself within this or take a leadership responsibility that might show you have you have a lot more power than you might have originally thought.

 

Dana Solana

Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think about the potential for passive aggressiveness with Mars in Cancer, you know, and how maybe this Mars Retrograde has been about sort of contending with, what do I do with these feelings of, maybe like, I just disagree with what's happening in the group. Do I speak about it? Do I not? Do I leave like, how do I deal with this? And I would imagine, I don't know a ton of Virgo risings, but I would imagine that that might be hard, like, it's hard to speak up maybe in a group and be like, I think we should be doing it this way, or you let it boil up until you blurt out something like, you know that you're super upset, and now it's it's come out in a way that you didn't really want. So I think the station direct is a good time to just reflect on, like, Where have I felt out of alignment in the group, and what do I need to do about that? Is it something that I need to speak up and out about? And yes, you can share your thoughts and your feelings and your ideas about what needs to happen, and it's going to be okay, because the worst case scenario is the group, whatever it is, is not going to agree with you. And guess what, you didn't agree with them either. So you can part ways and be okay, right? So I think it's empowering no matter what, but confronting, probably because you're going to need to speak up, or maybe you haven't felt comfortable doing that before.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I'll add to this one of the Indian designations that I've been studying, because that's kind of a fun thing to throw into the mix. I think, of course, this is one of the comma houses, like three and seven. So it has to do with desires. And like a simple like you think of the Kama Sutra. You think about the sutra that is the Sutra of bliss. So what? Like? Where? Do we seek happiness and we seek it differently in the 11th, seventh and third houses, which are also places where we seek that happiness socially with other people. So they're all social houses, and they're all houses that have to do with our desires. And in the 11th and Hellenistic astrology was called the House of wishes, hopes, aspirations, desires. One thing that I could see right now for Virgos would be a feeling of being limited or or blocked or frustrated in the pursuit of your aspirations, wishes, hopes, dreams, desires. I could see this being a period of time in which there are things coming up in the family that just make it difficult to feel happy, that that there's things coming up in the family that make you feel as though you can't pursue your dreams and wishes because grandma's sick or you're taking care of your mom. I could see this also as a period of time in which there are there's a sort of unhealthy, emotional, almost like regressive quality, where the things that you wish and hope for are needy or selfish and have to be really looked at and let go of like, what are the shadows of my aspirations, wishes, hopes, and some of them might be immature, and It might be time to let go of them. I doubt it for most of you, you know, but that could be the case, and it's like it happens to all of us. Sometimes we go, you know, what nice as that might be, that might not be the most important thing in life to hope and wish for there. Maybe there's a more mature version of my aspirations that can sort of be uploaded at this time, but also just the potential for conflict relative to wishes and aspirations, that there's conflict in groups or conflict among peers or colleagues or within networks or social circles that make it, makes it feel as though your dreams and aspirations are at odds with others, and working those things out and really taking this time to study, refine and reflect upon your aspirations and desires and who are the best people, or what are the best dreams to have that there's maybe a really nice opportunity to learn more about those things right now. Okay, well, we're on to Dana's sign where we get to now. Watch her face light up. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. Listen to

 

Dana Solana

this. My ascendant ruler Venus is at 17 Pisces, so I'm, I'm eager to hear what y'all think about this one. Okay,

 

Adam Elenbaas

yeah, well, I'm taking this one and starting us off here. So, um, I think, you know, I could imagine, for Librans that the feeling of being somewhat flustered or frustrated with your job or in the workplace could be a real theme. What kind of emotional drama or intensity is taking place in your work environment, what kinds of needs that you have versus those that exist for the company or for your boss, or whatever are in conflict, or maybe hopefully some dialog. So I think one of the ways that I would see this playing out would be in terms of conflicts, frustrations, tensions within the workplace. That's the most basic level. But there's also tensions that come up that are specific to cancer, that come to my mind, for example, how good does something need to feel in order for me to keep doing it, nothing's ever going to feel good all of the time. And so because of that we might trick ourselves into continuing to do things that really aren't good for us, that drain us somehow. On the other hand, we may be the kind of person, and I doubt all of you out there are like this, but some of us may job hop because we can't live and compromise with work just sucking like sometimes work is just going to suck, and there's no perfect place, and you got to get over it and just develop some resilience and staying power. Some people might that might be a hard lesson for Mars Retrograde in the 10th The other thing that comes to my mind has to do with the the means to an end. Like, what are we doing right now? Maybe we've been doing and are reflecting upon because we've only been doing it to get somewhere else, and maybe we're hitting a kind of a bottoming out emotionally with our ability to do something that we only feel is good to get us to something else. I could see those all being all. Important themes, and then maybe conflicts between things like family and work. What's the intersection between family duties, parental duties, and that sphere of our life, and how is it intersecting with our work life? At the moment,

 

Alex Amorosi

you know, I love that Adam, and I think one of the things Libra, Virgo and Libra, both have this in common, is they're very sensitive to consequence. They're very, they're very good at, very adept at, sort of sussing out, if I do this, this is the consequence. This is the they're very, very aware of that in a lot of ways, and I think, slightly different nuances, but in a general sense. And I'm wondering about, like, you know, sometimes I think, for Libra, is the ability to self assert and speak of my own will. It's like, I know I'm calculating consequence in my mind as that happens. I'm calculating that if I save this, there's a calculation that it will hit the ear and then the scale is out of balance. I got to rebalance. Et cetera, et cetera. I'm wondering if, especially in the sphere of your career, there's a need to maybe rock the boat a little bit to really, like, say, like, you know, I'm calculating here, and I might, I might be offering no, there might be a consequence to this, but I'm sort of rocking the boat a little bit because I can't, for my own sense of expression and taking the feeling of stiflingness off myself. I have to say something that asserts for me. And you know, these are my needs. This is what I need for comfort and care and nurture. And you know, sometimes being aware that there might be, there might be a pushback, or maybe, maybe there isn't. Because sometimes being sensitive to consequence doesn't always know exactly what the consequence is, but I feel like there's something here about which can often be hard. I think for any of the Venus strong, strong venous signs, is the sense of self assertion is sometimes necessary, and it's, you know, it's okay to also not have a complete map of how the the flow of consequence will will unfold. From that, it might just be about sort of taking, you know, sometimes you feel like you have that cork right here on your throat where it's just like, I'm not saying something, but once you say it, it's like the energy moves, or once you say do it, or once you there's something around that, that kind of idea for me with this,

 

Dana Solana

I think, you know from one as one person, not the spokesperson for all Libra risings, both, both of you, deeply resonates, I think, a lot about, for anyone, for all of us, Mars Retrograde being like a depletion of energy. So in your career, if you're a Libra rising like, where are you feeling like I just cannot do this anymore. And it may not be the job as a whole. It might be like it was for me last week, not tolerating someone trying to derail a meeting and just speaking up in the group about it, when I normally would never do something like that. And so it could be minor things. It doesn't this doesn't necessarily mean you're like, I can't do this job anymore, though it could. I think what Alex was saying about and you didn't use these words, but what I heard was like, let yourself play a little bit. Like you don't have to have it all figured out, and you probably don't right now. Like, that's, I think part of the function of this Mars Retrograde is, like, wherever you were going. It was maybe a little too calculated. It was maybe like, not that aligned. Like, do you even want to do that? Because if you're feeling depleted energetically, maybe not like, let's think about what really is fueling you to go in this direction, which I think about as a 10th house thing too, is like, Where am I headed? Where am I going? Where do I want to be? So I think that with the station direct, there's a there's more fuel, because maybe there's more openness and there's more like, Fuck it, we're going to try this kind of energy, right? I love that.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Nice. Let's move along to Scorpio. Dana is going to take us in, into the ninth house with Mars in Cancer, changing directions in the ninth this month. I

 

Dana Solana

love this for Scorpio risings with Mars in the ninth house, think about what beliefs just don't feel true to me anymore. What can I no longer reasonably put my faith into now, that journey of like being disillusioned sucks. It's not fun, right? And it can, like we were saying with cancer risings, it can feel extremely disorienting for your like, basic operating like this is how the world works to kind of get reconfigured and reset. And it may not be that deep, but I could imagine that some of the things that you really believed in and like put your faith into, you've kind of had to rethink over this Mars Retrograde. Right? And I think that Mars has been needling you to explore what really feels true for you. So with this station direct and, you know, the other thing I love about this, actually, is that it's trining in the ninth house, trine to your first house, right? So this does feel like metamorphic, I think, for Scorpio horizons, because what you believe totally affects the way you move through your life, affects what you believe about yourself, like it's the foundation of everything. In some ways, getting a little, I don't know, I just have a lot to say about this, but I think that this is a very powerful moment for Scorpio risings, where you can really recalibrate, like, how you move through the world, because you're no longer clinging on to something that you don't actually believe in, or you've realized or have learned through experience. I can't put my faith in this anymore, so I'm going to put my faith in something else. It's very freeing and very empowering.

 

Alex Amorosi

Oh, again, going to church. Dana, going to church. I wholeheartedly agree. I think, you know, for Scorpios, I think they, they labor under a sort of stereotype of their control, right? They're always in control. Needs to be in control. But why? It's because they're exquisitely sensitive underneath that there's a very sensitive spark in Scorpios that they're trying, often, to protect it within themselves. And I think that there's something I just I love what you said so much. I'm not going to say even very much about it, because I agree wholeheartedly. I think it's great way of looking at it. If you can realize, for the people you really build trust with as a Scorpio rising is that's important, a sense of loyalty, a sense of emotional bonding, where you are you're it's rock solid that if you can in those situations or around those people, let go of some of the control. Just let go and trust that somebody else can hold the ball, somebody else can can put the bellows on that fire for a while. It doesn't have to be you, and that you can use that as a sort of platform to support the shift in your belief system. You know, I I'm more and more seeing, especially the work I've been doing lately, how fundamental belief systems are, not only to who we believe we are, but to the direction of our lives, and the feeling of feeling sort of centered and safe. And so if you can really just like, if you can have some stable places where you feel like as your identity and your belief systems are both under transformation, because this is your Ascended ruler that's retrograde and turning direct. There might be a point where, if you can relax back, a whole new system comes in that you had never considered before, that you, like you said, Dana, is much more you. And in not to beat yourself up about it, because I think we all get I don't think that the diversions that life takes us on, or when we sometimes get pulled on a path or a belief system we didn't know wasn't us is always bad, because it helps clarify who we are. Even more so just a little bit of trust and loyalty in the places that you know you can get it from might help to serve as a stabilizing force during this time too.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, I look at this house and I wonder about what, what kinds of ideological or philosophical challenges are coming up right now for for Scorpios, for example, what ideas do you find most challenging, most emotionally provoking right now, it's important those, those triggering thoughts, ideas and feelings that come along with them are the, I think, the ground for A lot of spiritual growth for Scorpios right now. Um, conflict with teachers, conflict within educational settings, the the relation between family and beliefs, or family and educational settings, when you feel like you have to advocate for your kid in a school setting, for example, or when your kid's getting in trouble, when there are, when there's also when there are opportunities for each of us to look at. What do I want to call it? Let's, let's just call it hypocrisy. Where are where are we living with double standards? Right, where we say one thing but do another? Mars in the ninth is a really good one for helping us grow wiser and to develop a deeper and more clear sense of our our morality or our moral compass and the the ninth house Mars can bring up challenges that clarify our own morality, our own sense of virtue or or like our moral compass, challenges can come up with other people that also clarify our life. Philosophy or our spirituality, and also some of these challenges may be coming from within. You know, where are we stubborn? Where are we hot headed? Where are we fanatical? Where do we go over the top? Where do we get self righteous or hypocritical? The ninth house in Vedic Astrology is associated with the the Dharma that comes like there's a part of self discovery that has to happen through studying the nature of truth with a capital T, like reality itself, divinity itself, things like astrology, philosophy, spirituality, religion, those kinds of studies that help us grow wiser. And when we grow wiser, we become more illumine from within, and then more of our essential nature can come out. I could look at this in a few different ways, but when I think about the challenges of Mars and cancer finishing up in this house, I think what's preventing you from growing wiser and stronger and more illuminated from within who or what within you or within your environment, or within your family, or what settings are the right settings for you to grow more? Um, grow in wisdom. Now I'll just

 

Unknown Speaker

put them. Applause. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

all right.

 

Alex Amorosi

Retrograde today, it's like, yeah, man, cool.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Well, it doesn't get any more interesting than a Mars in Cancer in the eighth for Sagittarians. So Alex, tell us what you think. All

 

Alex Amorosi

right. Well, so if we look at, you know, one of the things we get with Sagittarius on this surface is, you know, the buoyant, bountiful house of Jupiter, excited and, you know, exploring, exploring beyond the horizon. Um, it gets lost sometimes that there's a very deep, sometimes rather dark emotional underbelly to Sagittarius. Um, and in the eighth house, you know, I'm thinking about things that bonds, or emotional bonds, particularly from the past, probably from the home. It could be from other places that have become so tight that they're stifling, or that they're continuing to pull you back into a space where, you know you're wanting to sort of be the, you know, the centaur, enjoying the universe, but you get pulled into this sort of space of almost feeling, um, frozen or restrained in some way, and not feeling like you're able to break free from it. I'm wondering about Mars as the surgeon scalpel coming along here is being a place where you don't have to have your optimistic sag hat on. You can. You can take that off for a moment and really look at the the deep roots of where some, some tough stuff may have come from that is restraining or holding you in some way, what you got or didn't get, that's a lot of the eighth house, for me, is about exchange, what you received and didn't receive, what you need to receive that you didn't get, what you need to grieve sometimes that you didn't get or you weren't able to give. It could be the flip side too. You know, sometimes it's like, where did we not give enough? Or where were we selfish? Or where were we, you know, like, so preoccupied with the our opinions, which we thought were facts, as Sagittarians, that, you know, we kind of went overboard and didn't give enough, you know, but I think that there's a real need with cancer being the eighth house for Sagittarius risings, there's a real underground need for that sense of like emotional safety, stability, But without the restraint, without the hold, without the feeling of being stifled by it or restrained from the past. And you know, with cancer, it's just very easy to go to the home or early life something around that, that's what I get for that

 

Dana Solana

you've got me thinking a little bit here about codependency, in the sense that, like my feelings are my own, or like, can anyone really make you feel any type of way? And like, I personally struggle with that concept honestly, because, yeah, someone can piss me off. You know, however, like I am ultimately responsible for my own feelings, I wonder, like, what this Mars Retrograde for sadges has taught you about, like, emotional boundaries, essentially, is what I'm getting at. What Alex was saying that the ways in which you're entangled with other people and how you maybe want to, just like, clean up your side of the street, so to speak, we can be in relationship with people. We can give of ourselves, and we can also decide when it's healthy to extricate and not maybe point fingers or project. I just think this Mars Retrograde has been a function to help you clear up what. Mind what's ours, especially when it comes to like, who should take responsibility in a situation and responsibility for your feelings? And I really think too, that with the station direct, there's going to be a lot of like, when you said, Alex, the very first thing you said about the dark side, I think there's a lot of clarity about where that comes from with the station direct. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

agreed. You were just bringing up the things that are owed to others, or that others owe us, the kind of entanglements there. And I think about Mars in Cancer and the shift of direction as potentially cutting some complicated cords Mars cuts. The bonds of the eighth house are often very mysterious and complex karmically. So whether that's an emotional contact that's being cut or severed or that is a financial arrangement, a contract, unhealthy family dynamics, emotional patterns, even patterns within ourselves, that that that feature something outside of ourselves, that we are stuck on or obsessed with. I could see some of those things being like, just cut done debts and exchanges with other people that are fueled by emotional manipulation or coercion could be carefully looked at for Sagittarians right now. How much am I sacrificing to maintain something even though it is painful or emotionally manipulative or even abusive, I would look at some of those things also. I think there's something here about facing various fears and anxieties and like having a strong like for fire signs. Fire signs are very passionate, but not always as good. I mean, obviously depends on your chart, but it not always fire. Doesn't know how necessarily to demonstrate the vulnerability of emotion, you know? And so there's a passion that's fiery, but there's not always a skill when it comes to handling deep, vulnerable feelings that you can't control or Marshal and direct with your willpower. And I wonder, for sadges Right now, what you feel is uncontrollable, or what you feel is somehow out of your hands that you you as it feels very vulnerable and it's hard to look at, but if you do, you're going to grow wiser. I think that's what the eighth house provides us with. Like look at this. Look at the fears, look at the anxieties, especially around deeper, vulnerable emotional things, and you may find that you are stronger emotionally and just as strong as you are fiery, so to speak. Mm, hmm. All righty, let's go on to Capricorns. Capricorn. You Capricorn? Sun or rising you have Mars in the seventh house. Um, excuse me, one of the things that is obvious about the seventh house is the topic of marriage. But something that's not as obvious about the seventh house that I want to bring up is the that it is the setting place, and it is the place of therefore, uh, endings. It was associated with death, like the death card in Taro. That doesn't need to be literal. It can be, often it figurative or metaphorical. But I wonder, for Capricorns right now, what you are reaching finality with, like, what is reaching a space of conclusion? Many Capricorns will find that this transit, at some point has gone over the degree of your descendant in the seventh house, which is the actual setting point of the western horizon, especially for people with this 17 degree area of the descendants, like right around there in particular, but in general, I just wonder about things that are ending. And are they painful emotionally? Are they Is there a temptation to regress because we want to try to hold on to something whose end has come? Doesn't have to be a relationship, it could be anything in the seventh house ending. Is there a way in which we are resisting the inevitable? Or, on the other hand, does it feel like, Ah, I'm ready to let go of something, maybe a source of conflict or trouble, or something that has represented a regressive need or tendency within yourself or within relationships. It could also be that this sense of completion or closure is on a difficult chapter. You know, the frustrations, the difficulties. Of Mars and cancer are somehow resolving themselves, and there's something that's coming to a close that feel you're feeling good about, like we're moving on. Maybe there's some healing in a relationship taking place, or maybe spouse is getting a job after being laid off for a while, and you can feel that a chapter is coming to a close, a chapter that has maybe represented a period of hardship. So those are some of the things that come to my mind. But I'm gonna leave, I'm sure that Alex and Dana will say a bit more about relationships as well. Well,

 

Dana Solana

you know, I always I say this, I feel like every time we talk, but I always think about the seventh house as a mirror that, you know, and the whole chart can act like this, where it's something around you. It is how the energy is manifesting, and then it helps you kind of understand something. But I think that's especially true with the seventh house, where there might be like that emotionally regressive tendency, which I feel like makes so much sense, that might actually be in someone in your periphery. It may be in a partner, it may be in a friend. It may be in someone that you just happened to, someone you share your office with, right? But it helps you understand something about you. So I would be paying attention Well, first of all, I would be reflecting. Since Mars has been in cancer, since Mars has been retrograde, what have you been learning about the me and the we like, what, what? Where are we not saying what we need? I feel like that's a thing that Capricorn risings can can always be thinking about a little bit more is like, how can we maybe be a little more forthright in our needs? What have I been learning about emotional intelligence, about vulnerability through maybe other people not demonstrating that. And how do I want to kind of learn lessons based on, like, what's happening in the periphery and in my closest relationships?

 

Alex Amorosi

I love that. I love that. I think, you know, one of the things I think, for Capricorns, that can be important. And again, this is situation I may not be for every Capricorn is that, you know, the the sense of achievement and responsibility and competence that Capricorns often bring to things doesn't always guarantee success. It doesn't always mean that something is going to work out, or, you know, or work out the way you want it to. And sometimes that's a good thing. I think that there can be, you know, with Mars Retrograde, there can be a real whether it's relationships or just the ending of anything, of anything, as Adam was talking about, you know, with the on the western horizon here on the chart, there's something about a little bit of taking the hands off the wheel and and realizing, like There are some things that just need to play out. There are some things that need to end. There are some things that need to end their form. There are some things that need to be severed. There are some, you know, some, maybe it's, it could even be with, like your I like that term regressive. Like, sometimes we go back to our early life to try to understand something that happened through our relationships. Kind of a classic thing that comes up in psychotherapy. A lot, right? And we through our partners or the people we've been choosing, we're sort of trying to work something out that happened to us as kids there. I could see something here too, of just kind of severing, like I don't have to keep going back to that. I don't have to keep going back to that place where I didn't get what I needed. And there's could be a serious transfer if there, if this is something that needs to happen, a serious transformation how you even approach relationship. Because when you really bring that into your sphere and you get the support around it, it's amazing what changes. And it doesn't always have to be about your your sort of hard work and determination to make everything happen. Sometimes it's about like, these are things that I'm going to let go. They didn't happen, and I can't make them have had happened or have have made them happen. And now I can, kind of I free myself from the bonds of it in some way.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Nice. Yeah, solid advice for Capricorns. We'll move on to Aquarius, and Dana is going to take the wheel here with Mars in the sixth we

 

Dana Solana

keep, this is so random, but we keep using the phrase take the wheel. And I just keep thinking, Jesus, take the wheel like that. Is that where we're at right now with Mars? I don't know why that's clapping in my head,

 

Adam Elenbaas

but I came up with it because I kept thinking about, we're looking at the ascendant. And it was called the, you know, the helm, the steering wheel like so I, I was, I guess I was playing with that sort of unconsciously.

 

Dana Solana

I love it. I love it. Okay, Aquarians, we're in your sixth house. The question that came to mind for me is, what have you been realizing you're no longer willing to sacrifice for I wonder about since Mars Retrograde, the things that you've had to just kind of suck up and do, and what that's agitating for you, where maybe it wasn't before it was something you could just do. You could just kind of, for example, I have a friend who's an Aquarius rising, and this is just a specific example of. Might generally be happening for you. She's got a new job, so her day to day work has changed, right? Well, she's now having to work with a bunch of higher ups and what she's described as like CEO babies, and she's had to really kind of deal with some frustration around her new responsibilities. And while it's been great, it's been a raise. There's been, she's kind of realized, like, here are some things that I really don't want to do, right? So I think that as we approach the station direct, it's a good time to ask, like, you know, what's not worth my energy? Like, what can I really just kind of let go and not have to, you know, sacrifice my peace and well being for it's about being honest about how you feel for sure, which I think can be hard if you have you know, err on the ascendant. I think we tend to look at things rationally, or we attempt to. We can sort of zoom out and objectify things, and that can be a real asset in this moment, we sort of need to tap into more of the well, what am I really feeling about this? Because we want to feel good in our lives, and sometimes we have to sacrifice, and it may be a moment of that too. For Aquarians like this, is a moment where I just have to sacrifice and I have to trust and find some faith in the fact that something good is going to come on the other side of this. But it is regardless of where you're at on that spectrum. It is a time where you want to really try to get clear on how you're feeling, so that you can, you can just be present for it, just knowing the nature of the sixth house, right? Like it can feel really hard, so don't make it harder by ignoring how you feel.

 

Alex Amorosi

Good advice. Love that I I'm going to go with a little more one of the modern interpretations of the sixth house, kind of the everyday of your life, you know, is, has there been agitation in the emotional experience of your everyday life? Just like routines that have gotten thrown off or or things that you're normally used to doing that have had some kind of, you know, wrench thrown into the wrench thrown into the car, the wheel, the gear wrench thrown into the gear wrench thrown into the gear. There we, I knew he would come to me, um, and that, you know, those things just can be changing around. I think the sixth house can sometimes manifest like that. It's but I think, you know, I love Dana, what you're saying about the there's something to me here about cancer being the sixth house for Aquarius. Aquarius risings that sometimes the sacrifice and you, you want to, you know, discern is, is it too much sacrifice, or do we need to, you know, do I need to give a little bit more on this is to put down the systematic intellectualization of something for a moment and just go into the gut level, human primal needs of what's being asked for in a certain situation. For me, what's you know that sometimes, I think one thing we with our rising signs, we can become so obsessed with who we are and the way we see the world, but sometimes the sacrifices, like, for a minute, I'm just going to put that down, and we're going to understand that in whatever's coming up, whatever challenge, often, with the success kind of challenges coming up around this. I need to go down into like the basics of like, nurture, care, emotional safety, feeling, you know, it could be even something of sometimes, air signs, LCS, the owner relationship, the they'll very logically state when there's a conflict. This is this logical state. This is why this is happening. It's happening because this and it is. It's, you're actually putting that together, but going down and saying, Well, someone might feel or you might feel threatened. You know you might feel your body, you know your your body, your emotions, or something doesn't feel right inside of you on a felt level, or that something's not being attuned to on an emotional level. And for a minute, just taking, you know, sort of taking the helmet off of the of the experience of the, you know, the thought, VR, so to speak. And just saying, like I'm going to see into the emotional sphere of this, which can be uncomfortable, but also could be very rewarding on the other side of it,

 

Adam Elenbaas

I think also about this being, I'm going to throw the kind of medieval, disturbing version of the sixth house in here, where it's a place of enemies, and it's a place of potential conflict with enemies. Enemies is a relative term, obviously, but I mean, someone could be an enemy for a day the next day are friends. But I look at this right now for Aquarians as a time where there could be some, some really consequential, emotionally weighty conflicts happening. Those conflicts can also come up in the body as sickness or disease or learning things that are difficult, that you now have to cope with, or find therapeutic outlets for. And also, there are certain conflicts in life that are sort of destined, and they're not only destined to happen once, but sometimes to recur the same kind of conflict with different people. And. I wonder about recurrences of conflicts and the opportunity they provide us to learn. Because we go, Oh, I get into these kinds of struggles a lot. Apparently. You know, for example, a Mars Retrograde in the six could be someone saying, I'm breaking up in a relationship again because of the same old conflict I've gotten into with three other girlfriends or boyfriends. So I wonder right now, what meaningful conflicts, frustrations, challenges with health are really there to provide an opportunity for insight and growth and healing, ultimately, so doing that work, making the sacrifice to grow and learn along the lines of frustrations, conflict, sicknesses, setbacks, I think that's probably for a number of Aquarians going to be really important. The other thing that I would add, just to kind of reiterate a bit of what Alex and Dana were saying, is that what's worth it and what isn't worth it, you know what's what sacrifices are worth it. Where is your effort worth the while. And also for Aquarians, the emotional dimension of your work, you know, what do you what do you pour your emotions into? And what are you devoted to? And there's a devotional element that is not always immediately accessible. For air signs, just like fire signs, they're just a different so, just different quality. So can you pair the ideas that are most important to you with a sensitivity and an emotional investment in what you're doing? Those kinds of things come to my mind as well. All right, here we are. Here we are. Pisces, you'll get to be first next time. Don't worry. I'm just kidding. Okay, so, Pisces, we're so excited that we're here for you now. Pisces, that's right, it

 

Alex Amorosi

was funny too, because, like, Pisces and Aries are so highlighted this year too. You know, Jupiter and Mars are so highlighted this year in different ways. Love it, alright, so I've got Pisces. Yeah, it's alright. So here's some basic things that might be thinking. It might tantrum season might be coming to an end with, if your kids, with your kids, kids of any age, it could, you know, that could be, that could be something that's happening where, you know, dust ups around children, or in relationships with children. That's definitely a fifth house thing, you know. I think also for Pisces to the clarify, the clarification of, you know, and this may be a little bit of going back into your history and looking at like the clarification of what you want that fills up your creative, pleasurable, emotional tank. And it's very easy, I think, for all the mutable signs, for Pisces, particularly, to become so merged without intending to with another, or with what someone else needs, or with the desire of another or some or, you know, even even Venus and Pisces, sometimes you can see as strong as she is, you can see that she's sort of coveted and pulled, and sometimes it's easy to give into that Mars and cancer in the fifth house might be saying it's time for you to stand up emotionally, or exactly what Phil really fills your cup, what what is pleasurable for you to do artistically, what is what do you need? In terms of your intimate needs. What do you really need? Or, as opposed to, like, you know, kind of like, well, people like this, and I like this, and you know, what do I really need? And it could also be about, um, it may be a search, you know, if there are, there are dust UPS happening around your kids, or surrounding kids with your kids, it may be about going back into your emotional past. This could be a very, you know, an aspect of looking at the psychotherapeutic process, of saying, like, Well, where did that pattern come from? Working with it on someone, of, like, where was I similar? Or was there something similar to me that happened to me? I think it's an, it's a very, you know, for such exquisitely sensitive signs as the water signs, Mars can feel a little bit aggressive in these spaces, but it can also, if you're willing to sort of take the Met the bitter medicine. You know, a lot of times the medicine, it a lot of times there's old resentments or old, um, festering, you know, vexations under the surface that haven't been addressed because I haven't said what I really want. And, you know, I was always saying, it's interesting that, you know, Chinese medicine, you know, the cure for that kind of vexation is the bitter taste, you know, the clearing of the liver and the stagnation that is the bitter taste. And there's something like this may be hard to see, it may be hard to approach. It may feel a little bitter, but it clears this sort of underlying resentment of not having said this is what I need to feel pleasurably and creatively fulfilled, which we all need in our own way as humans.

 

Dana Solana

You have me thinking about confronting the fear of rejection here, which may be maybe too specific, but I think you're absolutely right about the need to express yourself regardless. Sense of how other people feel about it, because there is this just the borders between what you feel and what other feel. Others feel as a Pisces rising are very fluid, and it can be really hard, I think, when you have a dominance of water to distinguish what's mine, what's somebody else's. When it comes to feelings, and when I think about self expression as a Pisces rising and Mars being here retrograde, it's like, yeah, where am I not? Where am I not expressing myself? Where am I? And even, like, what's fun for me, you know what? What is actually what I want to do with my free time I even think about, and this might be a little bit of like, projecting my own experience, but like, you know, realizing, for example, that drinking is not fun for you anymore, or, like, the things that used to be fun are no longer and what does that mean about me? What does that say about me? So I think it is about navigating. Like, can I can I stand up for myself? Can I be who I want to be? Can I say what I want to say? Can I express myself the way I want to express myself, because I want to, not because I'm looking for other people to say, good job. And then also, like, what do I want to do? Just because I want to do it.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I look at this in the fifth house, and I'm sorry, guys, I had to pee so bad that I thought I was going to blow up. So I just had to briefly excuse myself. Sorry. Redoing

 

Alex Amorosi

the PB dance

 

Adam Elenbaas

Exactly. So when I think about the fifth house, Mars and cancer. I do think about the topics of children in pregnancy, maybe as a featured topic right now for Pisceans, parenting, raising children, the needs of children, the challenge of parenting and being a emotional director like you're helping kids develop emotional intelligence, teaching them emotions are okay, but here's how we we try to handle emotions, you know, all of that kind of stuff, and then dealing with your own having to do the two things at once. I could see this being transit for a lot of Pisceans out there, who are parents, that is truly challenging you to grow in your capacity as a parent, stretch emotionally dealing with kids that have sicknesses or learning challenges or developmental disabilities or whatever the case might be, pregnancies and the way that a pregnancy wears on you. There's periods of sickness, there's periods of lethargy and weightiness. There's glow periods, and then there's, you know, like, I'd get this thing out of me. I'm ready to have a kid. I could see there being, you know, a process of just adapting to being pregnant for the first time for some Pisceans out there. So I'm thinking about family, children, parenting in the fifth with this one. But also, you know, as a place of expression, creative expression connected to dharma. How do you express anger? Like or like? How do you you could also say, how does one express themselves more assertively? Doesn't even need to be angry, necessarily, but that's not an easy thing to do for Pisceans, who are very again, sensitive, often very gentle, compassionate. So how do I channel emotional and maybe more intense emotional energy outwardly? And that is not an easy thing to figure out, but it doesn't help to repress things either. So just a few thoughts there to add in well, went through the whole Zodiac. We did it. Did it again. We proved that we can do things

 

Dana Solana

even when Mars is retrograde.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I know, I know this has been let me tell everybody how you can get in touch Alex amorosi.com if you want to book a reading with Alex, he will, he will be your cosmic captain, and he'll take you for a space ride into your birth chart. He'll take the wheel. He'll take the wheel. Instagram is Alex Amorosi healing, where you can follow Alex for regular astrological content there as well. And then where's Dana? Here we go. Dana, you can find on self help which.com you can book a reading and check out all that she is up to. And then on Instagram, it is also self help which, and you will find wonderful astrological content on the regular there as well. So we will be back next month for what is going to be a barn burner of a month we have Venus and Mercury retrograding in Aries, a solar eclipse in Aries and Neptune entering Aries, all in a month of March. So next month. Uh, we'll take you there. And guess what? Mars in Cancer will rule all of that stuff in Aries. So fun times. All

 

Alex Amorosi

Mars, all the time. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

yeah, for real. It'll be so interesting when Jupiter finally gets into cancer and Mars is like, Oh, I'm done.

 

Alex Amorosi

Jupiter's like, what has been happening here?

 

Adam Elenbaas

A big hug, oh my gosh. Well, thank you guys for listening. We appreciate you, and we will see you again next month. Bye, everybody. Bye.