The Astrology of February 2025

Adam Elenbaas

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/], and today I'm going to be joined by my colleagues and friends, Alexandra and Whitney, to break down all of the astrology of February for you guys. We have a bunch of transits that we're going to be looking at. I think probably one of the big highlights we'll talk about will be Mars turning direct this month after its long retrograde in Cancer. But there's still a lot of action to come with Mars this month too, some other interesting things happening that we'll take a look at today. So that is our agenda.

 

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You can find transcripts of any of these daily talks on the website as well, which is Nightlight Astrology.com. On the website, you are going to find a Live Events tab, and under that Live Events tab, you will see that there are a new series of webinars that are posted. My webinar for this upcoming month of February is on Venus Retrogrades. We're going to be looking at the meaning of Venus Retrogrades in preparation for Venus's retrograde in March. So that'll be a fun monthly webinar coming up here in February. I'll be promoting that more starting next week.

 

So on that note, I'm very glad to have Alexandra and Whitney back. Hey guys, hey, we're back. How was January for you guys? How's the new year been so far?

 

Adam Elenbaas

Off to a start? You know, that Sun conjunct Pluto moment around the inauguration was vivid. Wow, so heavy, yeah, yeah. It was intense. That was a really intense time. I mean, for me, there was stuff going on personally that was pretty wild. And then to see that, and of course, the Mars Retrograde right at the same time—I had Mars Retrograde on my natal sun, while the sun conjoined Pluto on my South Node. Yeah, wow. Smoking. It was intense.

 

Alexandra Blair

Intense. It's been hard, but on the bright side, I mean, it's been really beautiful star gazing. You've been able to see a lot. And I feel like most of my clients and most of my friends have been having kind of one of those mixed bag Mars Retrogrades, which I'll take—some good and some annoying, some inflammation, but some good stuff too.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I agree. Yeah, totally. One thing that happened as Mars has been retrograde—we shared about doing blood work. We were talking about looking at your hormonal numbers and all that kind of stuff. I don't remember, it was a couple of moon cycles or a couple of months ago we were talking about it, and I did my next round—I do them like every three or four months. And so on this one, after making some shifts in my diet, I fixed some numbers in that. So I was like, it's so cool to see where holistic changes in your lifestyle, as simple as diet, can shift those numbers around into the places that you really want them to be. So that was a really positive Mars Retrograde, because it was part of the training shift that I started talking about that happened at the outset. So that's pretty cool.

 

Alexandra Blair

You shared a picture of some sauerkraut, and I literally went to the store and got sauerkraut. My mouth was watering. I was like, I needed the sauerkraut.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Oh yeah. Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

 

Whitney Kranz

I love the good things for the gut, yeah.

 

Adam Elenbaas

In our house, we have something called the Stinky Club, and it's the Stinky Food Club. It's like sardines, or sauerkraut, or kimchi, or all sorts of stuff that we have introduced our girls to, and surprisingly, they like it because we framed it as, "Do you want to be in the Stinky Food Club with us?" Because Ashley and I, we got them to eat some oysters. We went out for dinner a couple of weeks ago, and we got some oysters, and they actually ate one. I was really surprised they didn't particularly like it, because I think the texture is a little weird. Yeah, but anyway, Stinky Food Club for sure. So cute, yeah?

 

Well, I want to let everybody know that our usual recording schedule is a little tighter. We had a few things that came up for us as a team that caused us to have to shift our recording schedule, and so we're a little pressed for time today. We have a hard stop today. So on that note, rather than shoot the breeze a little bit more about the month of January, which we often do and it's really fun to do, and it's really fun to also hear from you and all of your stories, we're going to do a little bit of an abbreviated recap of January today. We're going to dive right into some of our grab stories, which you all shared through the use of the hashtag #grabbed, or sending us your stories at grabbed@nightlightastrology.com. You can use that anytime. Tell us the name of the transit. Tell us your story. Keep it really concise, and we will feature it in one of these episodes. But we're going to share a few of them today and then dive right in. Alexandra is going to share the stories today that we aggregated.

 

Alexandra Blair

Sure, yeah, starting with Venus-Saturn conjunction. The Saturn-Venus conjunction happened in my third house, and I realize I've come to depend on TikTok as a source of community and expression since the pandemic. I'm naturally sort of a hermit, introvert, mystical type, so I don't get out all that much, and having TikTok go dark last night struck a really deep chord in my soul. I felt a sadness I couldn't totally explain, other than realizing I was losing this very Venusian resource and source of community. I don't have an opinion on the reason it's been banned, but it's been a profound sacrifice for many Americans. Nonetheless, obviously, TikTok has been reinstated since then. But I found that to be an interesting Venus-Saturn conjunction story.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That is amazing. What an amazing showing in the collective of a Venus-Saturn conjunction, where this medium, this social medium, which is thoroughly Venusian—anything involving relationships, friendships, social connections, can be thought of as Venusian—hit Saturn, and all of a sudden it's no more. It was very temporary, of course, but...

 

Alexandra Blair

Yeah, yeah. And that Venus-Saturn conjunction plays out. I mean, it's going to happen twice more with that Venus retrograde. So I have a feeling that story isn't quite finished.

 

Whitney Kranz

Well, I thought it was interesting too. I think Chris Brennan shared, and correct me if I'm wrong, that with the Venus cycle, it was basically eight years to the day that Vine shut down. And I don't know if you all remember Vine from back in the day, but just crazy correlations.

 

Alexandra Blair

And then eight years prior, he had connected it to sort of the decline and demise of MySpace as well. So...

 

Adam Elenbaas

That's fascinating, yeah. And I know—was that the Nick Dagan Best episode that they just did?

 

Alexandra Blair

I think Nick Dagan Best is always on there for the Venus Retrogrades, but he put it out actually as an Instagram post with info. That's where I saw it.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I know that they were either about to do one, or they just did one. And I—long story short—I mean, it's been years, but Nick gave several talks on Venus and Mars Retrogrades for the students at Nightlight. This was back right before the pandemic. We need to have him back at some point. He teaches really great classes on those retrograde cycles. Yeah, yeah. I know that you've heard it here first, so I'll make sure I tell Saffron, who organizes them now, but I'll tell her, let's get Nick back.

 

Whitney Kranz

Okay, mine just gets a word out to him. Yeah, okay, go ahead, Alexandra.

 

Alexandra Blair

My next story is about the Sun-Pluto conjunction. This person is a Cancer rising, so Aquarius is in their eighth house, opposing their natal Saturn at 1 Leo. So that was kind of a big deal. In the morning of the Pluto-Sun conjunction, just as the sun was entering Aquarius, I was driving to work, and I suddenly had a realization in great detail of how I could bring all of my various passions together into a program designed to anchor individuals in an ecology of care, fostering mutual thriving through embodied practices, connection, and personal and collective growth. Never before have I been able to see how my work and my experiences in psychology, trauma healing, somatics, community building, justice, and spirituality could be integrated into something accessible to larger numbers of people. I really don't experience this often, but it felt sort of like an epiphany or an illumination of something that was gestating, perhaps Pluto's first clarity of what the path may involve for me during Pluto in Aquarius.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Wow, beautiful.

 

Alexandra Blair

Yeah, about that—on the YouTube channel, when I did a talk on Sun-Pluto, I talked about how a common characteristic of Sun-Pluto conjunctions, or any Sun-Pluto transit, including to your natal chart, is a feeling of the transformation of your sense of life purpose, or a regeneration of it, if it's felt kind of dead or something, yeah, especially...

 

Alexandra Blair

If there's a client practice involved, having that come through the eighth house, and to be thinking about how you relate to others and what you owe them and what they owe you, and how it all ties in together. Yeah, good. So we have two Mars in Cancer stories. This one is so Mars in Cancer retrograde. I have the Moon in Cancer in the 10th house, Libra rising, and this might be the transit that ultimately encourages a change of career. But for now, it's simply testing my ability to transmute anger and empathy. I work as a live-in nanny with a kid whose son is in Scorpio, and every day it feels like we are waging this sensitivity war. This morning, the only thing that could help him regulate was vigorously blowing up balloons. So he blew up this enormous balloon and struggled to leave the house without hiding it. He put it in this low cabinet so his brother would definitely find it. So I said I would later move it to somewhere safer. On our walk to the bus stop, I couldn't help but cry. I felt so defeated. Nannies and caregivers are supposed to have this image of togetherness, but I just couldn't do it anymore. I paused and I squatted, and I said to him, "My heart hurts today. I want so much to have a sweet morning with you, and this is really so hard." And with genuineness, he really replied to me and said, "Okay, I'll try." Once he went to school, I tried to do the helpful thing, and just as I moved the balloon to a higher shelf, it popped.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Oh, no, good deed goes...

 

Unknown Speaker

God, yeah, no more than Cancer.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Oh, my goodness, I feel...

 

Whitney Kranz

Like I've been popping lots of balloons in my 12th house. Yeah, bad spirit is right.

 

Alexandra Blair

All right. This last one's also a Libra rising with the Mars Retrograde in the Cancer 10th house. And this person was also talking about the Mars-Venus trine that was happening because their natal Venus is in Pisces, trining their 10th house. And this transit happened close to their MC. So they say, "I have recently had a very unexpected reversal in direction in my career and living situation that hit me hard and fast, but has been extremely welcome changes at all levels of me and my family's life. Most of all, I will finally get to become the teacher I've been wanting to become, and hopefully become a good leader and example. The company I'm working for asked me to revise and redraft many of their procedures related to the department I am going to start managing very soon. When I first looked things over, I saw how much work in writing would need to be done, and I knew this was going to take months to make the needed adjustments. Well, I remembered I kept all of my own intellectual property from seven to eight years ago on a random hard drive in my desk. It's about one gigabyte total of original documents, experiments, protocols, quality programs, all related to this new particular niche. These were things I wrote while bored as a researcher for when I had my own department to run. I found the drive and opened it up, and to my great surprise and joy, I had written everything I would need years ago. It is all still totally relevant. Not only this, but all my references are intact. All I need to do is reformat everything to fit their technical style. Thank you, past me, for seemingly writing all of this stuff in vain eight years ago. Now, it's paid off." And this person also has natal Mars in Capricorn, which I feel is very relevant to what is being discussed here.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That is phenomenal. It's like you anticipated and precognized the future need, did the work in advance, prepped your future self for its elevation to a new role. I mean, that's just really cool. Yeah, that's a memorable—that's a, there's a lot of memorable grab stories of the past couple of years. That is a very good one, yeah? And...

 

Alexandra Blair

That's like a sweet Mars Retrograde story, yeah.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That's a good one. We...

 

Whitney Kranz

Gotta have a little bit on both sides, even if they're overwhelmingly...

 

Adam Elenbaas

Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought that it was really interesting that... Okay, so I'm going to keep this as anonymous as possible, but someone I know through—well, I'll give an example. It would be someone like the person who cuts your hair. It's not someone you know, but it's someone you visit for a service, right? This is someone in my life like that, who's—I've looked at their chart for fun before, like, really casually, and I've never said much about it, and I noticed that they were going to have the Mars Retrograde going over a very sensitive point in Cancer while pregnant. And I was like, "Ooh," like I was worried. I didn't say a word, right? Because it's not my business, and who knows, it could mean a million things, yes, so, I mean, you just don't know. And so I was like, "Okay, well..." I ended up finding out that this person prematurely went into labor. So they had, what do they call it, preemie? Yeah, is that what it's called, the preemie? Premium, yeah, so premature. That's what it means. Okay, sorry. I was like, what does it mean? Yeah, so premature, so and then it was in the NICU. I think that's what they call it, yeah, for like a while, and I believe they're just now going home, but everything's okay. That's great. But I was like, "Yeah, so..." My worst fear was that they would lose the pregnancy, you know, right? Yeah. Well, there was something that was a little bit difficult, like very unexpected, but it ended up being okay, and that's why you just have to be careful of assuming the worst with anything in astrology, because you just don't know. You really don't. And some stories end up, I don't know, like, I have no doubt that this is the kind of person for whom this experience was probably a heart-opening and very deepening experience. You know? Yeah, it's like Dave Chappelle said—I heard him say this one time, I don't remember where I heard him say this, but he said, "You know, it's not that I having kids is not that there's more love in my life. It's that there's a bigger—there's more capacity to love in my life." And I just think that when I've seen over the years that when women go through something really difficult during pregnancy or delivery or something like that, there's a trauma that might have to be healed, but there's also often a deepening of the experience of mothering itself that blooms out of the experiences—the capacity to mother grows when you go through hard stuff. And that's kind of a using that as a metaphor for what we've all been going through with Mars in Cancer, regardless if you literally have kids or not, there's some deepening capacity to love or nurture ourselves or something like that that seems to be growing in all of this.

 

Alexandra Blair

Yeah, and you're talking about the very delicate balance that a lot of astrologers have to hold, which is that there can be such a thing as an event that is subjectively unpleasant or that we would wish not to have. But most of the time, when I speak with clients about events like that, and friends and in my own life, I'm so defensive about it. If you asked me if I would change it, it's like, "No, that was the experience I lived. I'm not saying I would change it. Maybe I wouldn't choose it in the future, going forward, but that's my life, and that's the experience I had, and there's a real defensiveness about that too."

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Very well said. So on that note, because we do have Mars in Cancer turning direct this month and a lot of other interesting things happening, this will be sort of the month in which we conclude the retrograde portion of Mars's show. So, but we'll get there. Let's start at the beginning of the month, this opening part of February, which we have called "Benefic Beginnings." I'm going to put it up on the screen here so that we can take a look at it, starting on February 1, with a very, very lovely Venus-Neptune conjunction.

 

Alexandra Blair

At the degree of Venus's exaltation even, ooh.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That's right. Good point. I didn't even think of that. That's a great point. Yeah. And the North Node is there as well. It has the North Node, if you use the mean node system of measurement, which is what I personally use, has just entered the sign of Pisces, coming out of Aries. So our eclipses are starting to change, and we have this meeting of Venus and Neptune on Venus's exaltation degree with the North Node. Okay, I don't have my exaltation degrees memorized—27...

 

Alexandra Blair

For Venus, so...

 

Adam Elenbaas

It's a degree off, but close enough. Okay, I...

 

Alexandra Blair

Think the actual conjunction does happen at 27, but, oh, you're right.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, because it's like, it's yeah, I'm over the minutes, yeah, and that's fine.

 

Whitney Kranz

Now we're just splitting hairs with, why don't you...

 

Alexandra Blair

Kick this off? This has been written all over it. Well, I...

 

Whitney Kranz

Mean, I know, I know that it's Adam's favorite transit, but I am happy to lead us in because, boy, Venus-Neptune, the North Node all together. This is just a transit of good vibes, like nothing that I can see bad about this. But you know, there's maybe a little quality of rose-colored glasses that we have here, and maybe I've got those on already, but I am just—and I must say as well that this is also my Venus return and my nodal return. So I'm also happy, hoping for, like, just real extra goodness, right? Maximize the romance, maximize the good vibes. I think this is a great way to start the month—hence "Benefic Beginnings."

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, I did it. Everyone will have seen in yesterday's talk, because we have Thursday, Friday for monthly overview and horoscopes for February. I actually gave this a little bit of attention, since it's a transit coming over the weekend. Yeah, in yesterday's video, and the, you know, one of the things that I said about this is it's always my favorite date night. We always—either consciously or sometimes unconsciously—have had the best date nights, and often you'll plan a date night like Venus-Neptune. Let's go do something fun, or let's go—like going to see a movie, going out to dinner. It's not going to be like a normal movie that you see when Venus is conjoined Neptune, it's always something like, really otherworldly. You end up watching—I think there was a Venus—oh, the...

 

Alexandra Blair

Shape of Water. Remember that movie? Yes. Neptune.

 

Adam Elenbaas

It is Venus-Neptune. I saw The Way of Water, the Avatar, the second one, where it was all water, yeah, and it was really fun and super watery. And I was like, "Gosh, this is Venus." And I'm almost positive it was a Venus-Neptune aspect on that one too. But I just feel like these are the Venus-Neptune contexts. When Venus is exalted in Pisces, they have this kind of imaginative, romantic—they amplify those themes of romance and imagination, and it can just get swept up in it, but it's quick enough where you know you don't usually get lost. Now, I would say that, like, if you have Neptune transiting your natal Venus in your birth chart, that's a different story, because it's going to last—it's going to last like a year and a half, and there's a pretty good chance you're going to get swept up in something that you're going to come out of a fog, right? But this one's so quick because of it being a mundane transit, that I feel like it's hard to really lose yourself. And it's especially with Venus being so well dignified. It tends to come through in very creative, romantic, sensual, imaginative ways. I mean, one thing I would warn everybody of the rose-colored glasses thing is like, you know, I would steer clear of getting intensely intoxicated during this transit because then you have an opportunity to take something way further than it should go, or you won't see things as clearly. But I think that if you're practicing moderation, it's really hard to get completely swept off into illusion with a transit that moves this quickly—that at the very least, the illusion will have been like a day or two, you know?

 

Whitney Kranz

Well, and that's a good point, because with the North Node here, and that conjunction actually happens, I think, exactly the next day. But I mean, again, splitting hairs—like, it's a good reminder to stay grounded, because I think with the North Node there, there may be this excess of longing, or what are we dreaming for, right? And so, yeah, maybe there is with Neptune there the chance to get a little bit swept away. But you know what the ancient astrologers say—good with a good one, and so I'm just going with that.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Right, North Node is good with a good one, bad with a bad one. That means it just tends to amplify or augment whatever it touches—like it's a bit like Jupiter, in that sense, where Jupiter can inflate and make something excessive in sometimes problematic ways. But yeah, this one to me—if you think of Rahu as well in Indian astrology, the idea with Rahu is that there will be unfulfilled desires that Rahu sort of presses the button of, and with Venus-Neptune and the North Node together, these are maybe some pretty intense emotional fantasies that are also representative of dreams, desires, wishes, hopes, aspirations, and that could flood through and remain a very compelling force for a while, because Venus is going to retrograde back into this position, and there may be introduced something right now that becomes really significant in the next couple of months, actually. So maybe I take back a little, just a little bit of the idea that you—there's no like long-lasting effect here because of that. But what I mean is that I think it would be really unlikely that you would wake up married to someone in Vegas? Yeah, I just like that level of people getting freaked out by just getting totally swept away, like I wouldn't worry about it on that level.

 

Alexandra Blair

I think your point about movies is so spot on. Some of what I've really been thinking about for Neptune-Saturn is like how stories and images in the broader sense and archetypes can be used to create feeling in your own body. And so watching those aspirational, longing, yearning type films or reading those kinds of stories to help yourself, let your heart surge a little bit here—I can think of worse ways to find a highlight in a Mars Retrograde. And to your point, Adam, there is something very interesting happening with some of the faster-moving planets this year. For Venus, the story is one of hand-holding across the threshold into Aries for both Saturn and Neptune, because she brings Neptune in and then she retrogrades back to sort of tease Saturn, and even in when the conjunction happens, actually, in February of next year, she'll be in late Pisces about to head over to meet that conjunction as well. So Venus and Saturn and Neptune are sort of all telling the same story, especially with her retrograde happening there in Aries.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Let me show people what that looks like, because that was really nicely put. And I just want to highlight this. So if we take this through, and I think you know what, watch this here. So I'm going to go—if we look at this is early March, you're going to see that at Venus stations right here, and is turning retrograde by March 3. So it's just a couple of days, and let me adjust this slightly, and then Venus retrogrades. Mercury catches up to Venus, crosses Venus, stations, and retrogrades. So then you get the two planets retrograding together. They—the sun then enters Aries, Venus then retrogrades into Pisces, Mercury then retrogrades into Pisces. They're all hanging out. They all cross right over the face of Neptune. This is what Alexandra was just explaining. And then Neptune crosses into Aries. What's interesting about that is the day before Neptune crosses into Aries on March 29, we also have a solar eclipse in Aries, and then Neptune—it's like, there's this major ritual happening in the temple of Aries, and the next day, house guest Neptune arrives. It's like, wow. That's a really striking chain of events—Venus retrograde, Mercury retrograde, a solar eclipse, and then Neptune enters. And then, if you take this forward a little bit further, I mean, this is something else. Eventually, Mercury will re-enter, of course, they both kind of cross back into Saturn's territory as well. Then Neptune—then Venus kind of crosses over Saturn by the end of April, and then by the end of May, Saturn's in Aries as well. So it, and that's fascinating, because if you take this forward just a little bit, by the time that Saturn enters Aries, right, Venus is still there. So yeah, Venus is really, you're right. That's a really brilliant way of putting it, that Venus is sort of hand-holding both of those planets across the threshold through its retrograde. That's that. That is why next month, when we do our breakdown for horoscopes and month ahead, it marches like huge...

 

Alexandra Blair

No hard outs on March. Yeah, we're gonna need to...

 

Whitney Kranz

Book two hours.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Every single—but every single person's whole sign house of Aries in your birth chart is having like a major trance dance party for the month of—mine is a whole thing happening in March with Aries. That whole sign house varies. So anyway, okay, let's—I have I digress here, but that was good to show. I wanted to show everyone what Alexandra was just talking about, because that was such a nice summary. But then it helps, I think, to see it. Definitely does. Let's go back to the beginning of February. Whoops, I went into January. I...

 

Alexandra Blair

Think we're at February 3, where we have, you know, Venus conjuring the North Node, Venus, then she pushes off into Aries, and Mercury is trining Jupiter.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yes. So what do you guys think? This is nice because the next thing that's happening—I'm just going to include this here, and we're going to talk about both of them. The next day, Jupiter turns direct. This is, of course, happening right after the sun has just trined Jupiter, which is the signal we know in the synodic cycle, that means that Jupiter is changing directions. So that trine from the sun and then the subsequent trine from Mercury to Jupiter as it's changing directions, signals something important is happening with that trine. That's more than just a usual trine because of Jupiter's shift. Would you guys agree with that?

 

Whitney Kranz

Absolutely, 100%. And I mean, ever the student, right? One of the things when I was prepping this, I was like, "What is the significance behind the station, and how does the station affect Jupiter in this scenario?" Because yes, of course, let's delineate Mercury in Aquarius trine Jupiter in Gemini. And there's lots of information, and maybe too much information, maybe a little bit arrogant, right? But I'm interested that the timing of this is really happening during the station, and I'm wondering if there's another layer to that. Yeah, yeah. I think...

 

Alexandra Blair

It ties back into the fact that Jupiter has been building this momentum in Gemini, and it stationed retrograde around 21 Gemini, and then we had that full moon in December at 23, which was just outside the bounds of where Jupiter had achieved. And so I do think there is kind of something significant happening here with Jupiter building momentum, moving into the last and next phase of the Jupiter-Saturn square across the cardinal signs. Like, it really feels like Jupiter is going to be building momentum again. That's a...

 

Adam Elenbaas

Nice way of putting it. I—one of the things that I notice here is, if you go back to what was it? It was about October 10, October 9 that Jupiter turned retrograde. It was right around there that, if you look at the development taking place in the whole sign house of Gemini in your chart from October to right now, you may notice that a period of delays or setbacks or reversals, revisions, a process of refinement, is completing, and when that—when it completes itself, it's almost like, "Okay. And now we move, we move forward into some new territory again," although—although many people will talk about Jupiter in direct motion going back over the degrees that it went through in its retrograde, I don't think that that means that there won't be completely new material coming in, yeah, from Jupiter's forward movement. Sometimes people think, "Oh, it doesn't—nothing truly new happens until it gets past the degree it stationed retrograde at." I've never seen that as a thing. It's as though, when Jupiter turns direct, whatever it went back through now it's ready for something new, or any planet turning direct, in other words...

 

Alexandra Blair

But Jupiter especially, yeah, yeah.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Exactly. This is so expansive, and Jupiter is so life-bringing. I mean, it was the traditional planet associated with sperm and with the—it was exalted in the sign of Cancer, the gateway of mankind. It's a—it was a traditional planet of fertility. And I think that it's the retrogradation is almost like a period of things being like—it's not usual for Jupiter to be signifying things that are falling apart, right? Or for things to be delayed. Jupiter is like sunshine and rain in the spring. It's very life-giving and abundant. And I feel like Jupiter direct, we really do feel the momentum starting to come back in an area of your life.

 

Whitney Kranz

Yeah, I like that. That makes perfect sense. And Mercury kind of hitting that makes us feel like that's part of the catalyst for moving forward, right? Like, what are the lessons that we have learned about—Adam, you said expansiveness, or taking up space, right, in Gemini, or what are we ready to make bigger, announce in our lives? I—that's okay, great. I love it.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I like that. Mercury is Jupiter's host as well. So it's as though Jupiter is being resourced with something that can now flip the script and like, you know, like, Jupiter in Gemini now has some vital information, constructive, useful technology, some data points, or some ideas, or some understanding that Jupiter goes, "Oh, okay, great. I've been thinking about that. I've been working on that, or I've been waiting for that, and now there's a clear path forward." So I could even see it as just constructive agreements being made in business relationships or a period of—I talked about this, just made the YouTube video this morning for this one next week, when I'm talking about this in next Monday's video, and I was like, "You know, there's a point when you're putting a puzzle together. All of the pieces that seem individual are really hard to find and fit together. We do this with our kids, and once you get enough pieces, then all of a sudden the last 40 pieces are super easy to find and put together, right? Because, so I talked about that as this point in putting a puzzle together, where enough is there that you start feeling like the whole thing starts emerging really rapidly." Yes, and I feel like that's kind of an image that works for this trine. Beautiful.

 

Whitney Kranz

We're picking up steam.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, yeah. Well, let's go into our next section of the month, which we have called "Flashes Forward." This is going to be something that we see as a period a little bit round, more like around the middle of the month or the early third of the month, around starting on the ninth with Mercury's cazimi. I'm going to let Alexandra tell us about this subcategory, "Flashes Forward." Why have we titled this "Flashes Forward"? Yeah...

 

Alexandra Blair

Yeah. So on the ninth, we have Mars trining Saturn, and we have a Mercury cazimi. Now, I think this is pretty interesting, and I feel like your audience, you will appreciate the journal fodder, if nothing else, but we have this Sun conjunct Mercury at 20 degrees Aquarius on February 9. The New Moon on January 29, 2025, is at 9 degrees Aquarius. In the coming years, we will have only two eclipses in Leo. There are two total solar eclipses. They happen at 9 and 20 degrees Leo. So there's just something kind of curious here. And the effect, I think, is going to be deeply subtle and easily missed, of course, but it's almost like pulling back and reading a newspaper from the end of your arm, because you don't want to put on your reader glasses. There are really things that we can learn through the lens of the opposition. So I think this is kind of interesting, because it's touching this degree of the Aquarius-Leo axis that's going to be lit up in the next two years by these total solar eclipses in the sun's domicile of Leo. I think this is kind of like a cool cosmic opportunity to create, like, some kind of journal entry, or some kind of—I was imagining, like, a collage of headlines about your life, something Aquarian that you can read back or look back at in the next couple of years. But whatever it is, whatever is feeling kind of authentic to you, some things to think about. You know, across that Leo-Aquarius axis are like your unique gifts, your solar expression, your relationship to solar expression, which is like individuality and leadership, or places that you shine and places that you are generous, and the Aquarius part of this, which is going to be lit up by, you know, Pluto for the next 20 years. Can you think about your role in the collective and how you share those gifts that you have? What are ways that you are kind of punished for being different, or ways that you mold in to fit with others? Are there places where you feel like an outsider versus where you simply feel eccentric, or where you kind of have this more permissible sense of other? So for me, this is kind of like the flashing forward there, and it's complimented by this Mars trining Saturn, that is flashing us forward to September of this year, where we're going to have—it's like, actually, technically,

in October to November we have a Grand Water Trine as planets come through Scorpio. So there's both these, like little touches of whatever's going on in this mid month part that I think kind of connect in specific ways to what's coming. Yeah,

 

Whitney Kranz

so interesting. I love how you really wove that together. Alexandra and you know, the mercury cazimi, Mars trine Saturn on the same day are all kind of leading up to the full moon moment. You illustrated that so beautifully. The only other thing I really want to touch on is that really this Mars, Saturn Trine, we're going to be feeling it in some way basically all month, because of how slowly these planets are moving. And so, yep, um, that I mean, and remember, these are our malefics, right? But they are in a helpful aspect. So there's some part about February that feels a little bit hard, not as hard as January. I think we're a little bit better than January, but we're learning a lesson here that feels a little bit uncomfortable, but that is really ultimately helpful, and I couldn't help but think about my own experiences with Mars, retrograding in cancer right now and then, pulling in Saturn and the concept of Kronos, right? And time. And I wonder if there's something here about the fear of losing time as we move forward with goals that we're looking toward, you know, and you can tie that into the Leo Full Moon as well. But we're not quite there yet. So that's I'm really interested in this, in this Mars trine Saturn that we'll be feeling throughout the month.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I think the most constructive thing I can say about Mars and Saturn when they get together and do something positive together, right? Because there's lots of ways you can think about Mars, Saturn coming together, and it's sort of like a pressure cooker, or like some difficulties you can imagine with these two planets. But the thing that they do together well is they bring maturity and action together, so that you have this kind of wisdom, and a wisdom and a maturity, a discipline and a focus, and that can concentrate and direct the will and our actions in very effective, very thoughtful ways. So when I think about these two planets coming together to solve a problem, I like it, because there's a certain amount of restraint that Saturn brings to Mars, and there's a certain amount of action that Mars may bring to the recalcitrance of Saturn. And so there's like the two, especially in a Trine, can really reflect some kind of mature effort or a mature use of action and willpower. I like their ability to work under pressure together always like Mars Saturn is I heard Jen zart one time say that Mars Saturn is like a pressure cooker, that you have a deadline, and Mars Saturn comes up. And you're just working within constraints and working under the pressure of necessity Saturn, but effectively, and it with a little bit of speed and urgency. It some people who I've noticed, people who have Mars Saturn, often thrive in any combination of their chart, like heart aspects or Trine or something close, that they'll thrive under pressure, they'll do, they'll be the ER nurse, or they'll be the surgeon, you know, performing emergency surgeries. Or they'll, they'll have some ability to do well in intense, confined spaces. So I like this combination and a Trine, to be able to effectively address something that's a little intense, but to have the wherewithal to do it, the other thing that comes to my mind is with Mars Retrograde, it's sometimes uncomfortable to feel like, Oh, I've graduated from this or that problem in my life, only to realize that you haven't. And this could be something where we feel limited by the same old, same old, and it's really frustrating. And yet the Trine suggests to me that there's a reason that we're being brought back into something that we might feel limited by. It's there's an insight. There's it's going to be different this time. There's going to be a different outcome, even though the problem might seem like the same problem, or the conundrum or pressure or circumstances of stress may look or feel the same coming back through a retrograde but there's a different, more mature way of handling things this time, and I like the mercury cazimi At the heart of the sun as perhaps providing a spark of insight. Mercury cazimis Are they often represent super inventive moments where problem solving or insights or epiphanies are pronounced. And so I like this as a potential moment to have insight into something difficult and to know what to do.

 

Alexandra Blair

You know Adam, you are reading personally for Patrick mahomes On Super Bowl, Sunday. Right now he has his Saturn in Pisces, and he has a cancer moon, most likely. And Jalen Hurts actually has Mars in Cancer and Jupiter in Pisces and an Aquarius, early Aquarius moon. So this is, this is quite ambiguous for those two right here. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

that's an inch. I didn't know that. That's really fascinating. I personally am such a lover of novelty, I cannot stand that I am being forced to watch the same Super Bowl again. Well, it's

 

Alexandra Blair

exactly what you just described. Like, verbatim, go back and watch this because you were like, it's the same problem we thought we graduated from this. We have to come back to it. It's different. Now there may be a different outcome. Now, like you just verbatim read the Super Bowl Exactly.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That is so funny. I wasn't even thinking about that. But, yeah, but isn't it interesting that this, I mean, this would be if the Eagles managed to win and it wasn't the same old outcome, that would be something. However, the three peat and making NFL history is an interesting way of looking at it, too. So, yeah, I don't know that's fascinating. I'm glad you

 

Alexandra Blair

brought that dig into

 

Whitney Kranz

that the cazimi and the full moon are square Uranus as well. So anything could happen here?

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, we have let me back this up so we can take a look at that full moon. This is a full moon in leo and the full moon in leo. Let me get it back to 24 degrees here. Full moon in leo will be taking place early in the morning on Wednesday, February 12. So this is what Alexandra was alluding to when she talked about eventual eclipses. These are a ways off, and in case people got a little confused, 2627 you see these are just entering Virgo and Pisces. So we've, yeah, it's not going to be until 2026 into seven, as Alexandra just said, that we that we see the nodes in Leo and Aquarius. But the point is really solid, which is that the some of these full moons you said, the point you made was

 

Alexandra Blair

full moon is also happening at 24 Leo, and there's a lunar eclipse at 24 Aquarius. So there's stuff hanging off the degrees of this Aquarius Leo axis that is like that subtle foreshadowing. And I feel like most people it's just life that flies by. But I feel like your audience keeps journals in a way that they might just put a little note in there and come back to it.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yes, put a little note as to what's happening around this full moon, because there may be some connective tissue with those eclipses, right? Yeah, yeah. Good point. The full moon in leo, to me, is a nice it's a nice kind of It's a moment, especially because the ruler is the sun in Aquarius, where there's tensions. The easiest tensions I would watch for, the things that I think will be most obvious, I should say, are going to be the personal versus collective tensions. You know, the leonic. Part of us, we might think of as the part that is special and unique as a snowflake, I think of the Aquarius part as our recognition that we're the snowflake that's part of a snowfall, that we have a collective identity and role and sphere of life, in addition to the fulfillment and development of an interpersonal heart space or something like that. So those tensions could be more pronounced in terms of where you feel you need to place attention personally, and what kinds of tensions or involvements or commitments you have collectively. What do you guys think?

 

Whitney Kranz

Well said, Adam, you know, a full moon in leo is going to bring up themes, leonine, themes, bravery, courage, strength, and maybe some brand new ideals too. I think we've talked about the Leo Aquarius access and the moon is reflecting back the light of the sun, right? It's reflecting back experiences and insights of the sun and the mercury cazimi that we just went through. And so I could definitely see some of those, like very lofty Aquarian vision, sort of driving this bravery and courageousness,

 

Adam Elenbaas

yeah, yeah,

 

Alexandra Blair

yeah. I think this kicks up some of the themes from the sort of next few the transits that happen after the next couple days. But essentially, we have a little bit of parallel storylines happening across the water. Signs, verse, you know, this, this Aquarian stuff. And now with the moon and Leo, I think there you said the word snowflake. And I was like, Oh, that's so interesting. When you think about the way that Aquarius, an Aquarius, hive mind, treats an individual, it's like a snowflake, and there's something negative about that, or like that. We're challenging about that. I do find that, like all of the stuff going on through Aquarius right now is just interesting things that I'm kind of keeping track of and paying attention to, in terms of how Pluto, you know, will evolve across Aquarius and this moon will give us some important clues too. Yeah,

 

Adam Elenbaas

just because we have a hard stop today, I'm going to keep us rolling along here. After looking at that full moon in leo, we're going into the last part of the month, which we have called lunar links and Alexandra. Why don't you explain to us this very creative title, but it is super interesting to see what's happening here in these last days of the month?

 

Alexandra Blair

Yes, I can do it. So essentially, we have, starting with the around the 20th. We have mercury squaring Jupiter and a couple other things unfold. We have Mars stationing direct on the 23rd Mercury is trining Mars. And so basically there's also a Mercury Saturn conjunction. And I'm just kind of running through these trans then I'll kind of contextualize them. So we have mercury Saturn in Pisces, trining Mars in Cancer. And then separately, we have a moon Pluto conjunction that comes as the moon comes into Aquarius, that is sex tiling and trining the benefics.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Okay, let's go back through this one at a time, because I just got lost. So probably a lot of other people may Okay, had so let's go slowly, starting on the 20th, Mercury squares. Jupiter, yep. And let me just draw this out. We'll just go through it super slow. So Mercury here on a whip. I need to go back a few days here. Let's go back to the 20th. So on the 20th, Mercury will square. Jupiter, yeah. This is the first transit of this part of the month that we're looking at. And then after this, Mercury will Trine Mars. Now that Trine will take place on the 23rd that Trine connects mercury to Mars, who is stationing at this time to turn direct on the same day, yeah. And now, one of the things we're the reason we're calling this lunar links, is because the moon, as the ruler of Mars, who is turning retrograde, is involved with a whole bunch of aspects and a change of direction. So there's a lot that the moon actually does during this period. A lot of what the moon is doing is going to be really important because of the importance of Mars turning direct in the moon sign. Then we see Mercury conjunct Saturn, and that takes place on the 25th whoops, go back. Here's the 25th and this day Alexandra was saying, Moon conjunct Pluto, yeah, and granted. Now Mars is barely just moving direct, so this is really still in the process of Mars turning direct in the moon sign. So what Alexandra wants everybody to pay attention to just a simple summary. Is from February 20 through the end of the month, as Mars is turning direct. There's a bunch of aspects to Mars and the Moon ruling that Mars turning direct is going through quite a few things herself. Is that a good summary?

 

Alexandra Blair

Beautiful. Thank you, Adam for making sense of my mush. No,

 

Adam Elenbaas

you. You're genius that I just need to make sure. That took me a second to be like, wait, wait, okay, yeah, no,

 

Alexandra Blair

yeah, that's exactly right. And the moon Pluto stuff, it's sextile in Venus and trining Jupiter. So the reason yes of lunar links is like, we've got the moon and the benefics doing something over here, and then over here we have mercury, Saturn and Mars doing their own other thing, and they are linked and connected by the moon. There

 

Adam Elenbaas

we go. Yeah, that is really fascinating. These little patterns become so important. So just reiterating that these two planets here are trining Mars, who's turning direct, and they are linked up through the fact that we have the moon. They're trining Mars and the Moon sign, while the moon is hitting all of these major aspects in one day, conjunction of Pluto sextile to Venus trine to Jupiter. That's quite a day. It really is quite a well. It's a quite a period of time called lunar links.

 

Alexandra Blair

Yeah, exactly. No. It seems so crazy and chaotic, but it really like it was reminding me of such a archetypal story that we can see in so many different pieces of media like it was reminding me of there's that book The Unbearable Lightness of Being or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The one that was like really loud for me was the movie Interstellar where the main character, Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, is on this, like deeply intellectual journey in this other planet. And 23 years goes by, and he sits back down in that chair and he watches all of these emotional messages from his family that's like so far away. It's he's doing this aloof mission that's changing the circumstances, and he's playing with Fortune and the rules of time, but it's really actually setting up this distance and this forced removal from his relationship with his children, and he watches them over the course of 23 years of video messages like, get married, have children pass away. And so it feels like there's this, this disparity between the aloof Air sign stuff that's happening with the benefics and the moon Pluto versus this watery Mars, Saturn, Mercury thing that's being told too.

 

Adam Elenbaas

That is a really interesting I love the way you put that. That, yeah, the water, the wateriness is around this period of time is, is really pronounced. You have Mercury in pisces, just by the way, moving into Evening Star position, so becoming visible, making a facial appearance in water, connecting with a trine to Mars Retrograde in cancer. That's changing directions. And then Mercury conjoins Saturn. And then we get a new moon in Pisces on the 27th as well. So it really is this super watery period. But then at the same time, Jupiter's turning direct, and you do have this little interlude that's super, super airy, especially when the moon is in Aquarius during those days, which would be just to speed this up again, this is February, 25 and 26th in particular, maybe even into early morning the 27th and then our New Moon is on in Pisces on the 27th ruled by Jupiter in an Air sign. Um, so yeah, that, that contrast between air and water, that's really a nice thing to think about for this last part of the month.

 

Whitney Kranz

I think it's also really fascinating that well, we we spoke about the mercury Jupiter Trine earlier in the month, but how that mercury, at that point, kind of gave Jupiter a little bit of gas to get going on its mission forward, right? And we're kind of seeing a similar thing happen here with mercury trining Mars, as Mars moves Direct. And so I think there's just something really positive here about how, how we move forward with our lessons. You know? It's like, yeah. We're giving it gas, guys, let's go pile up and Pisces.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Something that just occurred to me, Whitney, while you were talking, is that one of the Signet or one of the designations that were given to planets in water signs, they were said to be mute in ancient astrology. And that word actually the translation of it, English convention, the word mute, but that Greek, from what I've understood, is meant something like quiet, shy, secretive, hidden, somewhat mysterious. So water signs had this classification. What I find really interesting is mercury, when it makes that trine to Jupiter, turning direct as its host is invisible and it's going through the cazimi, it's going through rebirth, and now it's appearing in contact with that Jupiter, as it is contacting that Jupiter, I should say, as it appears, coming into the Evening Star position. I wonder if there isn't something signified earlier in the month when Jupiter goes direct and Mercury trine Jupiter, that would February, 3 or fourth, that then reveals itself around this time, that there's you know, that you start seeing. It's almost as though we have the information, and now whatever we've done with that will be made known. And I wonder if it will be difficult to speak that truth, because

 

Alexandra Blair

that's like, so interesting. Because when I was like, thinking about this, I was thinking about the Joni Mitchell album Blue, and how Bob Dylan was obsessed with that album and then wrote the song tangled up in blue. And so it kind of was a response, but not a response. And it has that, like, Jupiter mercury, mutual reception of, like, it's incoherent, but it's productive incoherence, and it's this illusion That's totally what you were describing. Yeah, really interesting. Oh,

 

Adam Elenbaas

I love that. It, you know, there's, there's a bunch of examples of that in music. Like, I think of Joni Mitchell's response to Neil Young. He, I think he wrote the song sugar mountain, and then she wrote the circle game in response, or maybe it was the other way around. But anyway, that kind of call and response thing that's really fascinating, given the mutual reception. I hadn't thought about it that way. That's a really good idea. The other thing that comes to my mind is like, when Mercury appears as the Evening Star, Mercury will be moving right into the conjunction with Saturn. Mercury's in its fall, but has the mutual reception with Jupiter. Their last contact was this Trine through the and then the cazimi. It just makes me feel like something is going to come forth that may not be easy to say or announce or speak, or it's like the messenger is appearing with something that it might be sort of like when you when you have to let someone down, but you're really excited about where you're going, you know, like, yeah, I don't know how that that makes sense or not. Sometimes you have plans in life, and you realize, like, I'm really excited about this, but I know someone's going to be disciplined. Going to be disappointed because I'm not going to be able to do this thing with

 

Whitney Kranz

them anymore, or something like that. It makes absolute sense. That's what I'm thinking about with mercury conjoining Saturn as well. It's like, Are there endings here that lead to our beginnings, to our new moon moment that's coming up here in a second, right? Yeah. I mean,

 

Adam Elenbaas

it makes sense. Mercury's trining Mars as Mars is changing directions. Mercury also hit Jupiter as Jupiter was changing directions. That's an interesting correlation. And then Mercury conjoins Saturn on the 25th and then almost, you know, instantly after that, two days later, we have the new moon in Pisces. So yeah, whatever is, whatever's coming forth there is really fascinating, because it's also happening around the culmination of Neptune, the North Node with Neptune. It's like real, real, dreamy, watery stuff happening at Mars, turning direct in water. Sign, too fascinating. It's

 

Whitney Kranz

like we've come full circle back to our watery, dreamy, watery nature that we've been dealing with,

 

Adam Elenbaas

right? And like some of the things that I could see coming out of so much water and the change of Mars would be things that are emotionally resolving themselves, somehow, things that aren't easy to deal with emotionally, but it's like, there's a, there's a good, right, mature way to do something, and it you have to get honest, or you have to get real, or you have to let something go, or something like that.

 

Alexandra Blair

You know, my friend a very talented astrologer, Sarah posh, she was, we were thinking together about what's going on for Pisces slice of life. And she was like, you know, when you finish a level of a video game, you move on to a harder level, and you've succeeded and you've won, and it doesn't get easier for it, and you're happy for it. And I think there's a little bit of that quality to what's going on in Pisces

 

Adam Elenbaas

that. That's really interesting. I I love there's so so there's a type of video game that I got into during the pandemic. Was like, I was, you know, obviously all of us were kind of cooped up, so I was like, I'd go, gone back to playing some video games for the first time in many, many years. And I started playing these games called souls, like Dark Souls. Heard of them before.

 

Unknown Speaker

So brutal.

 

Adam Elenbaas

They they are ridiculously hard. Like, first of all, they're very, very hard. And I'm not someone who does well, like failing at video games, like I will just keep playing until I get good enough to overcome the difficulty. These really pushed my sanity limits in terms of how difficult they were. But then what was funny was that you get done with a game and it's like, oh yeah. Now, now you enter new game, plus where you play the exact same game, but all of the enemies get even more difficult and and I just and all of a sudden I realized there's, like, there are people who do this through six, seven levels of progressively playing the same game harder and harder. And I just about lost my mind playing the first level of the entire game, you know. So anyway, that's really funny, because I feel like that's, it's a really, really good analogy, that when you finish a video game, you're, you know, the next level gets harder, and somehow you feel like you've, you're excited because you've earned that next level of difficulty. That's, that's what got me through, that those Souls games,

 

Whitney Kranz

right? And this is our, like, new initiation, but it's Pisces, so it comes with a dose of optimism. And, you know, I'm here for that. Yeah, I like this one too. I think, I think this one could be very powerful in ritual too, because it is so much about feeling into our big dreams and visions for the future. And I don't want to sleep on the fact that mercury is also exactly sex tiling Uranus at this moment too. So there could be a level of spontaneity here, or at least just sort of like excitement that brings us forward.

 

Adam Elenbaas

I like to think about Pisces as a sign that is wrestling the light from the darkness, because it's a transitional sign that's moving us into into the East, into areas where the light is now more than the dark on the light half of the solar year. It's like this kind of redemptive wrestling of light from from darkness feels especially poignant as two heavy planets are getting ready to leave Pisces and enter Aries, this conflagration of water, it feels like a transitional space the end of the month. It's not a we've had lots of pile ups in Pisces since Neptune's been and Saturn's been and this is a little different, because this is they're both going to they're both going to enter Aries shortly March is like a very intense explosion of that initiatory energy of Aries, and the transitional space that Pisces brings us through is therefore, I think probably going to be a little bit more potent at the end of this month. Yeah,

 

Alexandra Blair

whatever your business is with Saturn and Neptune and Pisces, this is the time to be thinking about how to wrap that up.

 

Adam Elenbaas

Yeah, yeah. It will go out with some feelings of things that still have to be dealt with. With the North Node going over it, though, there'll be a feeling of like some kind of push that that comes through really strong. It's interesting. Anyway, we are at our hard stopping point. So I want to make sure that I tell you how you can get in touch with these wonderful astrologers. So Alexandra, you can find at nine lives astrology.com where you can book a reading with her and check out everything that she is up to, which I highly recommend doing, especially if you want to get a good read on the Venus retrograde, all these movements into Aries, the eclipse is coming up. Book a reading with Alexandra. You won't regret it. Instagram Nine Lives astrology, if you want to follow she does some live streams with other astrologers and all sorts of good stuff that you can follow on Instagram. And then for Whitney, it is Astro arcana.com you can book a reading with Whitney and check out what's happening for you this spring and summer, and she will be more than ready to dive in with you, looking at all these big transits that we have coming up. So check that out, both wonderful options for readings and then Instagram for Whitney is Astro dot Arcana, dot astrology, so you can follow her there, and she has been making wonderful content on the regular, and I've really been enjoying what you've been doing on Instagram lately, Whitney, so good on you.

 

Whitney Kranz

Thank you. I promise to share a lot. Lots of stories around this astrology, mine and yours. I mean, not yours, like the audience. Yes,

 

Adam Elenbaas

totally well. And by the way, this coming month, if you've got stories to share, we'd love to feature some of them on these episodes. So use the hashtag, grab. Tell us the transit. Tell us your story. Be concise, or email us the story if you prefer. Grabbed at Nightlight astrology.com, just don't share anything you don't share anything you don't mind us reading out loud on our video here. So alright, that is it for this month. You all have a absolutely fantastic month of February. We will be breaking down transits day by day, week by week, as the month goes on, and we'll be back in March to tell you all about the good things coming. Then take it easy. Everybody. Happy February.