February 10th – 16th

Monday, the Moon remains in protective, nurturing Cancer until 12:01pm EST. With this Moon placement, we are more sensitive to what people say, and our feelings are thus more easily hurt — so be kind to yourself and others.

Self-care is key until 12:01pm EST! Emotional safety is also important to us; we like connecting to the familiar and enjoy nurturing ourselves and others — home and family call to us, for instance.

Monday at 8:49am EST, we enter a Moon VoC that lasts for a little over 3 hours, until 12:01pm EST. Use this intuitive time to be in a state of “flow” and emotional connection to others; spiritual and creative endeavors are favored now.

As always with a Moon VoC, as best as you can, don’t start anything brand-new, stick to routine things, or simply go with the flow. You may also want to plan Monday morning until the early afternoon ahead of time.

Monday at 12:01pm EST, the Moon moves into fun and attention-loving Leo, where it will journey until Wednesday evening. We may lack objectivity and struggle with backing down or compromising. We all love to be admired — or at the very least acknowledged — for our greatness …

So hand out some compliments—let people know how proud you are of them and how much you love them. In this, and in all things, come from the heart. Be honest and authentic as best you can.

Fun, games, and romance are also big parts of this energy. You might also enjoy spending time with little ones.

If there are no “outer children” around, how about getting in touch with your “inner child” — it’s easier for the next two-and-a-half days.

What are you most grateful for today? What would be heaps and heaps of fun? What would be so much fun, you let out a tiny squeak just thinking of it?

This Moon placement also starts the build-up towards the Full Moon (exact on Wednesday morning). Feel free to watch my Full Moon video or read my article on the subject here (if you haven’t seen or read it yet).

Monday afternoon, a challenging Mercury/Uranus aspect becomes exact at 2:28pm EST. We started to feel this aspect build from Saturday evening (Feb. 8th) on; it will remain strong until Wednesday morning (Feb.12th).

This aspect creates tension in our lives; we may feel anxious or stressed by a situation involving financial stability, group affiliations, or long-term visions.

We’ll likely want to think outside the box and amend a life situation or vision that no longer fits. Again, we are being called to play a bigger game and may feel overwhelmed by what it all means.

Our minds may prefer things to be ideal — cool and calm, detached and rational — but at the same time, we feel a great desire for progress and even breakthroughs around our finances or our physical experience of life.

The tension between these two desires could leave us feeling irritable, mainly because we also tend to take things quite personally right now; the best way to manage this is to channel some of that nervous, irritable energy into constructive pursuits.

Since there’s a tendency right now to challenge established thought or play devil’s advocate, it also helps to get in touch with our inner truth. Use your breath to turn any fear into excitement — and let yourself visualize a bigger dream.

Expect the unexpected, and plan on disruption, revelation, and breakthroughs — during this transit, the best mind is an open mind. As best as you can, go with the flow, staying open to the new and unexpectedly different. Could you allow whatever is happening to stimulate new approaches?

As you can perhaps imagine, this is not a time to make major decisions, especially if they are hasty. You can think of this as “reorganizing” time for the mind, like moving your furniture around. If you feel yourself resisting the reshuffle, do your best to relax — and maybe even sit back and enjoy the show.

And as always, if all else fails, take it one moment at a time… Rather than jumping to conclusions, get grounded in the here and now — bringing awareness to your breath (or body) is a good way to do this.

Do you have your Ascendant, Career Point (or any personal planets) in 20-26 degrees of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, or Scorpio? If so, you will be more affected by this aspect. This is also true for those of us who have our Ascendant or Sun-sign in Gemini, Virgo, or Aquarius (Mercury is the ruler of Gemini and Virgo, and Uranus rules Aquarius).