Cosmic Currents: February & March 2026
Pisces season is upon us—a time of intuition, compassion, and dreamlike reflection. After Aquarius's clear-eyed focus on progress and ideas, Pisces dissolves boundaries and softens the pace. Every Pisces season is one of surrender, imagination, and emotional connection. But this year, this energy is amplified. Like the knobs in This Is Spinal Tap, this year we go up to 11.
1984 Film This Is Spinal Tap
In the coming months, astrologically speaking, we enter a period of understanding what guitarist Nigel Tufnel in the movie really means when he demonstrates a guitar amplifier with volume knobs marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
On February 19, 2026 Sun enters Pisces
Already there hanging out is the North Node, Venus, Mercury, and the moon, creating a stellium of planets influenced by Pisces' watery, intuitive energies. The North Node sits at 8° Pisces, pointing toward our collective evolution, while Mars has entered Pisces at 0°, dissolving its usual sharpness into something more fluid and transcendent.
Mars in Pisces
Invites you to act with feeling, not force. This is not the battlefield. It's the ocean. The warrior becomes the mystic (similar energy happening with Neptune over in Aries, but more on that later). You may find yourself moved by emotion, art, or a vision that cannot be explained. This astrological influence supports healing, imagination, music, and acts of quiet bravery. The challenge lies in the diffusion of energy—feeling everything and doing nothing, escaping into fantasy, or becoming overwhelmed by what remains unspoken. But when grounded, this placement brings courage of a different kind—he courage to feel deeply, to love without defense, to act without clarity but with faith.
Robin Hood
With the character Robin Hood—at least how he is understood today after countless adaptations—the same outlaw hands that could steal by violence are, instead, used to redress wrongs and relieve suffering. This is a very warrior-becomes-mystic situation where he and his Merrymen act from compassion and a felt sense of justice rather than pure aggression.
Venus in Pisces
Dissolves barriers between self and other. Compassion grows. Imagination flows. This season is for soft hearts, poetic gestures, and a longing to merge with something greater than yourself. You may feel more emotionally open, idealistic, or connected to beauty in its most ephemeral forms—art, music, nature, prayer. Venus in Pisces does not analyze love. She swims in it. There is vulnerability here, and also deep magic. When love becomes an offering, beauty becomes a prayer, and the heart becomes the ocean.
Venus & Pisces
Venus revels in Pisces as she has been folded into the star myth related to the constellation.
"Pisces (Fishes). Diognetus Erythraeus says that once Venus [Aphrodite] and her son Cupid [Eros] came in Syria to the river Euphrates. There Typhon [Typhoeus\, of whom we have already spoken, suddenly appeared. Venus [Aphrodite] and her son threw themselves into the river and there changed their forms to fishes, and by so doing this escaped danger. So afterwards the Syrians, who are adjacent to these regions, stopped eating fish, fearing to catch them lest with like reason they seem either to oppose the protection of the gods, or to entrap the gods themselves."
Pseudo‑Hyginus, Astronomica 2.30, trans. Mary Grant, in The Myths of Hyginus (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1960), online at Theoi Classical Texts Library and ToposText.
Image: Venus in pisces, a portion of a 16th-century fresco
Mercury in Pisces
Makes thinking intuitive and language full of feels and imagination. This is not a season for bullet points. It is a time for metaphor, emotion, and inner vision. Communication softens. Thought dissolves into feeling. You may find it harder to focus on details, but easier to grasp the mood, the tone, and the truth behind the words. Imagination runs deep. Dreams speak louder. Music, art, and symbols become languages in their own right. Let this be a season of listening to the invisible. Write with heart. Speak in images. Let silence teach you.
Sleeping Beauty (ATU 410)
In folktales type ATU 410, more commonly known as The Sleeping Beauty tales (these aren’t your Disney Princess version either), the sleeping maiden herself is in a Mercury-in-Pisces like state. Her silence and stillness are the communication, saying “this is a time for inner vision, not outer action.” This season is especially akin to the stories where the entire castle is put to sleep with the maiden. Where there is no choice but to surrender to the inner workings of the mind while life outside continues to move as it will. Upon “waking up” (when Mercury enters Aries), we will hopefully have a new perspective that allows us to initiate action on what messages we allowed ourselves to receive while in this “inner vision” state.
Image: "The Rose Bower" from the "Legend of Briar Rose" second series, c. 1885-1890), by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. 49 x 98.3 in. Buscot Park, Oxfordshire
Meanwhile, on February 20, 2026 Saturn & Neptune Conjunct in Aries
Saturn spends about two and a half years in each sign, shaping the collective through themes of structure, responsibility, and maturity. When Saturn enters Aries, it brings discipline to the self, form to the initiative, and the weight of consequence to action. Aries wants to move fast, to lead, to begin, but Saturn slows the impulse just enough to ask, what are you building with this fire?
This transit may push for a maturation of identity. We are all asked to examine how we assert ourselves, how we handle anger, and whether our independence is grounded or reactive. Saturn in Aries teaches that true courage is not just impulse. Rather it is sustained, accountable action. This is a time when we can learn to carry our ambitions with integrity and temper your instincts with intention. The challenge is to learn to cope with frustration, delay, or a feeling of being unable to move freely.
On a personal level this may feel like a call to dig down and take that goal you have and temper the urge to run after it expending all our energy in trying to 'make it happen' and instead build through discipline and internal structures.
Saturn in Aries reminds you that freedom without responsibility is fleeting, but when rooted in discipline, it becomes a force that can move mountains.
On a collective level, we will likely see more clashes as the anger and impulse to act (Aries) meets the boundaries and restrictions of the external structures holding onto perceived authority with dear life (Saturn influence).
This will be a time to be aware of any feelings of gloom at this time. We may feel that many areas of our personal lives have failed, as we face the internal struggle of needing structure and wanting to blaze ahead, but through this transit we have an opportunity to incorporate a larger and more selfless view moving forward. Waiting to respond over choosing to reach may prove very useful during this time.
Aragorn’s Character Arc
Like Saturn and Neptune’s transits, the metaphor of Aragorn’s arc in The Lord of the Rings takes time, happening over the course of the series, rather than in one installment. His arc is about taking up structure and responsibility (Saturn) in full awareness of the prophecy as the long fore-told king whose return fulfills ancient songs, dreams, and lineage (Neptune).
Under the Neptunian influence, the Fellowship’s faith in an invisible, higher good keeps them moving when logic says all is lost.
Saturn’s influence and his traditional fall in Aries is seen as Aragorn learns to accept the burden of rule despite his resistance to the responsibility. In the end though, he becomes the architect of a long, sober new cycle for the collective, not just a personal hero.
February 26: Mercury Goes Retrograde
Mercury's retrograde motion invites us to review, reflect, and reconsider. This is a time for inner work and reassessment rather than launching new initiatives. Which may feel frustrating on top of the Saturn in Aries transit.
Because all the other shit wasn’t enough for this show…
I’m not going to spend a whole lotta time diving into this. With the flood of memes and other articles that will be written about this, most of us know why Mercury Rx sucks. Unless your natal Mercury was in retrograde. You might feel like everything’s normal and totally fine while the rest of us cancel all appointments and decide to binge watch t movies until it’s over.
Rather than stress it, check out this Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide by Tracy’s Total Wellness. It’s a very Saturn-in-Aries move to go ahead and prepare as best you can ♥︎
March 3: Full Moon in Virgo & Total Lunar Eclipse & Opposite Pisces Stellium
The Full Worm Moon reaches its peak on the morning of Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 6:38 A.M. ET. This year's March Full Moon is especially notable because it coincides with a total lunar eclipse—a rare event that will cause the Moon to slowly darken and turn a coppery red.
As the Moon journeys through practical and precise Virgo, it is time to roll up your sleeves and get things in order. This is not the moment for drama or distraction—which may feel difficult with so much happening in Pisces at the same time.
Virgo energy thrives on clarity, structure, and purpose. La Lune here casts her light on the details, making this a prime time for tending to chores, decluttering your space, reorganising cupboards, clearing files, and streamlining systems. Which may feel like a distraction from productively creating, but it's likely to make Saturn in Aries happy.
Tasks that once felt tedious may now bring a quiet sense of satisfaction. There is a rhythm to productivity under this Moon, where checking things off your to-do list feels almost therapeutic. It is also an excellent time for attending to your physical health—refining your diet, booking appointments, reviewing your routines—and for doing a mental stocktake. Decisions made now can support your well-being in tangible, long-term ways.
You may also find this a good time to finalize paperwork, edit content, or revisit something that needs improvement rather than reinvention. Virgo is all about refinement, not reinvention—and under this Moon, less is more when it is well cared for.
This too shall pass…
The profundity of the cosmic currents here in the beginning of 2026 lies in the mashups and overlap. Though these planetary placements have exact dates and times marking their peaks, their energetic influence extends far beyond those precise moments. The shifts unfold gradually, creating layers of tension and flow. You may experience subtle fluctuations across days or weeks as solar, lunar, mercurial, venusian, and martian energies weave through your life. How strongly you feel these shifts—and in which areas of your life they manifest—depends largely on your personal natal chart and the placements of your luminaries and personal planets.
Eclipses too have their own motion. Their energy builds, reaches a crescendo at the moment of totality, and then gradually wanes.
If you are a highly sensitive person and find yourself deeply impacted during these times, you may find support in this article: Eclipse Hangovers for HSPs and Empaths.
The Invitation
Pisces teaches that not all growth is visible. Sometimes, the most significant transformations happen in silence, in trust, in letting go. Pisces season reminds you that the end of one cycle is the beginning of another. Let yourself drift a little. Feel what is ready to dissolve, and what wants to be imagined next.
As we move through these transits, we are invited to balance surrender (Pisces) with fastidiousness (Virgo), gut-instinct intuition (Aries) with discipline and patience (Saturn). This is a time to listen deep, act with integrity, and trust that the invisible work you do now will shape the visible world to come.
