The Solar Eclipse in Aquarius on February 17 arrives during an extraordinary week of astrology that signals large-scale historical transition. Just three days later, on February 20, Saturn and Neptune unite at 0°45’ Aries. Saturn–Neptune cycles dissolve realities. Illusions are exposed. Institutions lose moral authority. Financial bubbles burst. Political corruption surfaces. Cultural myths unravel. While authority figures attempt to control or manipulate reality through propaganda and inquisitions, there can also be a great awakening out of experiences of disillusionment. The crises of corruption occurring now, that consistently occur when Saturn and Neptune come together, often precede systemic upheaval. As we witness global orders destabilize and legitimacy erode, it can be difficult to see the broader arc of history. Yet past periods like this later came to be understood as thresholds into new eras. Out of breakdown can come renaissance and a rebirth in creativity, philosophy, spirituality, and collective imagination.This eclipse, ruled by Saturn and square Uranus, suggests volatility in world events. Uranian influence can correlate with shocks, technological breakthroughs, unexpected disruptions, and heightened nervous tension. Grounding the body and regulating the nervous system will be important.Since the Aquarius Solar Eclipse aligns with the North Node of the Moon, there will be amplified potential for new desires and directions to take visible shape. Eclipses obscure solar light, symbolizing unconscious material temporarily overtaking conscious clarity. This can bring revelations and confrontations with buried patterns. Consider how to align your emerging material desires with ways to better the world or form networks of support and inspiration with others. We will be in a portal of change between the Solar Eclipse in Aquarius and the Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, with the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in between. There are much larger scales of time being activated with the changes than the smaller scale of time we will be living through. Years from now, this week may be remembered as part of a larger turning point. The essential question is what we choose to build and choose to create with our participation. Timestamps:00:00 Influence of the Saturn and Neptune conjunction on the eclipse12:30 Solar Eclipse in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus15:47 Influence of the North Node of the Moon on the eclipse21:20 Solar Eclipse in the third decan of Aquarius28:01 Book a consultation / Join my PatreonBook an astrology consultation with Gray:https://app.acuityscheduling.com/sche...Join Gray's Patreon: / graycrawford

The Full Moon in Leo on February 1, 2026 marks our entrance into a dramatic month of astrology that will coincide with great historical changes. The Leo Full Moon will illuminate the alignment between your present path, creative processes, and vocational calling with your authentic values and desires. Combined with the recent ingress of Neptune into Aries, the Leo Full Moon is a call to act boldly with courage as part of participating in the great changes what will be rippling across the world.

The Leo Full Moon is a potent activation of Uranus, as Uranus is intensified due to stationing direct on February 3 and the Leo Moon is applying toward a catalyzing square aspect with Uranus. Uranus will continue to be a dominant astrological force of breakthrough change in the week following the lunation, as Mercury will form a square aspect with Uranus on February 5 followed by Venus forming a square aspect with Uranus on February 8.

Uranus can bring unexpected disruptions yet also coincide with revelatory insights that open up new vistas of awareness and innovative directions. Listen closely to discern how to best come into relationship with the liberating force of Uranus under the light of the Leo Full Moon.

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Aerin Fogel joined me to discuss the dramatic astrology for the month of February 2026. The month of February possesses some of the most powerful astrology we have witnessed for many years, as it features Saturn entering Aries on February 13, a Solar Eclipse in Aquarius on February 17, and the Saturn and Neptune conjunction in the first degree of Aries on February 20.

Uranus is also a huge influence for the entire month, as there is a Full Moon in Leo on February 1 activating Uranus at the same time that Uranus stations direct for the final time in Taurus on February 3. Mercury then forms a catalytic square aspect with Uranus on February 5 followed by Venus forming a square aspect with Uranus on February 8. Additionally, the Aquarius Solar Eclipse on February 17 is in a disruptive square aspect with Uranus. The month also ends with an explosive square aspect between Mars in Aquarius with Uranus in Taurus on February 27.

While Saturn entering Aries on February 13 is the big astrological headline for mid-February, there is also the significant ingresses of Mercury into Pisces on February 6 followed by Venus entering Pisces on February 10, with Mercury forming a flowing trine aspect with Jupiter in Cancer on February 16 followed by Venus forming a creatively generative trine aspect with Jupiter on February 22. We talk about the creative remediation brought by Mercury and Venus in Pisces in trine with Jupiter in Cancer during the volatile astrology of the month. The combination of Mercury and Venus in Pisces will bring opportunities for quiet moments of joy, pleasure and creative exploration amidst the tectonic shifting of large scale storylines brought by the eclipse combined with the Saturn and Neptune conjunction.

After talking about the meaning of Saturn entering Aries, the Aquarius Solar Eclipse, and the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune from February 13 through February 20, we discuss the additional meaning of Mercury stationing retrograde on February 26 with Venus in Pisces applying to a conjunction with Mercury.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:37 Saturn and Neptune conjunction themes for February

07:04 1989 Saturn and Neptune conjunction themes

13:51 1952 - 1953 Saturn and Neptune conjunction themes

16:04 2026 Saturn and Neptune in Aries themes

21:28 Overview of February 2026 Astrology

31:39 February 1 - 3, Leo Full Moon & Uranus stationing direct

45:00 Mercury & Venus in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

49:17 Mercury & Venus enter Pisces & trine Jupiter in Cancer

59:03 February 13 - Saturn enters Aries

01:19:05 February 17 - Solar Eclipse in Aquarius

01:25:37 February 20 - Saturn Neptune conjunction in Aries

01:30:42 February 26 - Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces

01:35:06 February 27 - Mars in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

01:38:13 February 28 - Venus conjunct Mercury retrograde in Pisces

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Pluto is calling from the depths this week. It’s time to listen to messages from the darkness within, subconscious and subterranean realms, making offerings to guardians of the underworld threshold, as Pluto will deliver major messages and revelations regarding our experiences of the Pluto in Aquarius transit. Pay attention to not only what is dying, decaying, and undergoing purification, but also the new life force and desires emerging from within. Pluto can facilitate coming to terms with the essential purpose and path to dedicate and devote yourself to in the year ahead.

From January 19 - 27, 2026 there is a major initiation with Pluto, as Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and Mars will all form conjunctions with Pluto in Aquarius. In addition to the personal rebirth experiences that Pluto will be initiating for each of us, collectively Pluto will also be initiating us into the entrance of Neptune into Aries on January 26. Neptune is entering the fiery home of Mars where the oceanic planet will remain until 2039, with Mars applying to a conjunction with Pluto that will become exact the next day on January 27.

The regenerative conjunction of Mercury with the Sun in Aquarius on January 21, followed by Mercury uniting with Pluto on January 22 will be an especially potent time for attuning to messages from Pluto. Whatever ways you are experiencing processes of death and rebirth, Pluto will put you in touch with the essential elements and values to tend and cultivate that will be intrinsic to your creative direction and greater empowerment.

The New Moon in Capricorn on January 18, 2026 is a potent opportunity to find your center and not only set intentions for the year ahead, but also formulate and follow through on dedicated plans of action aligned with your values and core purpose. We are in the middle of rapid events reshaping the order of global dynamics at breakneck speed, and due to numerous astrological factors involved in the lunar cycle ahead, we can only expect that the speed of change will only increase. This is in part due to Neptune entering Aries on January 26 and Saturn entering Aries on February 13 as they approach their conjunction in the first degree of Aries on February 20, 2026.

As a result, it will be imperative to come to terms with how desires and long-term visions have been reshaped by the dramatic triple conjunction of Venus, Mars, and the Sun (January 6 - 9), and gather the courage, dedication, and will power required to reshape your reality in alignment with what you truly want to create with your work and protect within your community as the pace of change accelerates.

The New Moon in the third decan of Capricorn is separating from a harmonious sextile with Saturn in Pisces and a trine with Uranus in Taurus while applying closely to an imaginative sextile aspect with Neptune in Pisces as well as toward a conjunction with Venus and Pluto in Aquarius. At the same time, Mercury combined with Mars in Capricorn adds intellectual fuel and firepower to whatever you set your mind toward creating.

Timestamps

00:00 New Moon in Capricorn on January 18, 2026

09:50 New Moon in the third decan of Capricorn

13:48 Venus conjunct Pluto in Aquarius on January 19, 2026

16:15 Venus conjunct Pluto and Vesta in Aquarius

17:42 Pan’s guidance to Psyche for Eros devotion

20:34 Mercury conjunct the Sun and Pluto in Aquarius on January 21

22:40 Story of Mercury and Mars from October 20, 2025 to April 20, 2026

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I'm joined by astrologer Pallas K. Augustine to discuss the meaning of the triple alignment of Venus, Mars, and the Sun in Capricorn during the week of January 6 - 9, 2026. Venus formed a conjunction with the Sun on January 6, followed by Venus and Mars beginning a new cycle on January 7, and then Mars forming a conjunction with the Sun on January 9, with Venus and Mars within one degree of one another and the Sun across all three conjunctions.

It's a powerful week to contemplate your inner values and align your actions in the world with them as we enter the dramatic astrology of 2026. The Venus cycle, the Mars cycle, and the Venus and Mars cycle will all be key players within the astrological alignments of 2026 that will give shape to the year.

We discuss the importance of relating with astrological cycles, specifically the meaning of the Venus cycle, the Mars cycle, and the Venus and Mars cycle. We discuss the process of purification, regeneration, rebirth and renewal that occurs when Venus and Mars approach their conjunctions with the Sun, form their exact conjunctions, separate away from the Sun, and then return to visibility in the sky.

We also talk about the two conjunctions Venus forms with the Sun in her cycle (the superior and inferior conjunction) and the meaning of the January 6 conjunction being her superior conjunction in Capricorn.

We also talk the meaning of the Venus and Mars cycle, and conclude by going through a list of dates of the key aspects and phases of the Venus and Mars cycle beginning with their conjunction in Capricorn on January 7, 2026 and extending through their next conjunction in the final degree of Sagittarius on November 24, 2027.

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Demetra George and Jason Holley join me to discuss the meaning of Ceres in astrology. Demetra George's book "Asteroid Goddesses" has been the most influential source text on the meaning of Ceres in astrology. Jason Holley has given a number of talks and webinars on Ceres over the years, and he has also been co-facilitating a course with me on Ceres, Chiron and Mercury in recent months.

This is an episode I previously released on my YouTube channel in July 2025 that I am now releasing on my podcast.

Demetra and Jason both share personal experiences and stories in relation to Ceres. We also enter into a more broad discussion about how to bring mythological stories and meaning into your astrological practice, and how sharing mythic stories during astrological consultations can open new understanding and realization.

Demetra has also led many pilgrimages to sacred sites in Greece over the years, and Jason was on one of her tours in 2011. Last year Jason and I also led a pilgrimage to sacred sites in Greece and felt how we were in her lineage of leading groups there to experience the gods in their homeland. We share personal experiences of being at the sites of the mysteries of Ceres/Demeter in Eleusis (Elefsina) and Arcadia. We also talk about the differences between Demeter's mysteries in Eleusis and Arcadia, and the different versions of her story in Eleusis and Arcadia.

The depth of Ceres and the profound meaning she brings to our experience of life is more important than ever in these collective times we are living through full of immense change. I hope this discussion opens your mind and awareness to the significant meaning Ceres possesses and transmits in astrology.

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The Full Moon in Cancer on 3 January 2026 is ideal for the cultivation of self awareness and gathering insights from the shifting of inner tides in order to formulate goals and plans of action for the year ahead. The Moon is at home in her watery domicile of Cancer moving toward a conjunction with Jupiter located in his exaltation of Cancer.

The cardinal nature of Cancer signifies that the lunation will correlate with initiating new movements of change within currents of fast moving events. The inwardly directed and watery nature of Cancer will accentuate the capacity for the Moon and Jupiter to reveal whatever frameworks, structures, and bonds have been dissolving, with the presence of Jupiter being especially helpful for flexibly adapting longterm vision to reconcile and mediate whatever difficulties and obstacles we are facing.

Yet the lunation is not only about significations of Jupiter such as understanding, reverence, prosperity, generosity, justice, fellowship, and release from bondage – it’s also about the process of death, rebirth, and the liminal process of purification that brings us across the threshold to new life. This is due to the fact that although the Full Moon is moving toward a conjunction with Jupiter, the Cancer Moon is most directly separating from an opposition with Venus and applying to an opposition with Mars, giving central importance to the meaning of Venus and Mars in Capricorn simultaneously ending cycles with one another and the Sun.

Due to Venus and Mars being at the end of their cycles, there will be a necessary confrontation with what is ending, what is dying, and what is being released from the past no longer to return. Yet the tension between the Moon and Jupiter in Cancer with Venus, Mars, Mercury, and the Sun in Capricorn will also activate curiosity regarding how the release of past patterns will nurture and feed the new life and creative directions that will emerge in 2026.

The astrology of 2026 is extraordinarily dramatic, and the speed of change brought by the year will accelerate toward the end of January. Since the astrology suggests incredibly rapid changes and shifting global power dynamics within the first couple months of the new year, taking the time in the first couple weeks of January to clarify the internal and external changes that have been occurring in your personal life will be of the utmost importance.

Adding additional depth to the Cancer Full Moon will be the powerful influence from Chiron in Aries who has an intensified presence due to stationing direct. Chiron will station direct at 22º35’ Aries on January 2, one day before the Full Moon in Cancer, with the Full Moon applying to an activating square aspect with Chiron.

Timestamps

00:00 Full Moon in Cancer on January 3, 2026

14:08 Full Moon in the second decan of Cancer

17:23 Venus conjunct Sun in Capricorn on January 6

18:33 Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn on January 7

19:08 Mars conjunct Sun in Capricorn on January 9

20:50 Sun in Capricorn opposite Jupiter in Cancer on January 10

22:29 Chiron stations direct in Aries on January 2

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