Henry Seltzer ~ The Profound Self-Exploration Of February Astrology [1]
The Astrology of February features Mars [2], Venus [2], Mercury [2], Saturn [2], Chiron [2] and Neptune [2], together with a Pisces [3] line-up of planets that takes place in coordination with the February 9th Aquarius [3] New Moon [4]. All month, from the evening of February 1st on, Mars [2] is in the very interesting and mystical sign of Pisces [3], where there is definitely a softer and more subtle approach to his feisty and normally outer-directed energy. It’s as though that energy were turned inside and tuned to distant dimensions – more appropriate to poetry and music than to the active and assertive nature bordering on aggression that is normally associated with the fiery Red Planet.
Mercury joins Mars [2] in Pisces [3] around the time of the New Moon [4], and closely conjoins Chiron [2] as it does so, making a tight triple conjunction, which is additionally within orb of conjunction with Neptune [2] in the early degrees of the sign. Saturn [2] is stationing in the mid-month time frame, in trine with these three planets, and in bi-quintile to revolutionary Uranus [2], to which the stodgy and conservative energy is antithetical. Revolution is in the air, as it has been for these last few years, and there is also a considerable conservative backlash that is becoming even more intense as this second climactic year in a row – 2013 – gets underway.