The month starts out on an important professional note for you, thanks to the full moon in Leo (18 degrees) on February 7, and will bring a career matter to a culmination. If you have been interviewing for a new position, this full moon will bring you the answer within four days of this date. Let’s think good thoughts – let’s hope the answer is YES! If you are creative and pitching an idea, you will likely get word back about whether the idea is approved and funded. This particular project would give you with the prefect platform to show off your work!
If you have been doing a major, high profile assignment over the course of weeks or months, this full moon would likely bring it to its logical conclusion. The fact that this ending is happening at the full moon in your tenth house of fame tells me that this project will work as a jewel in your crown and that you can trade against it in the future – you’ve established yourself on a new level.
There will be another great career day to watch, February 28, when your ruler, Pluto, will have conversations with the Sun on your behalf. It’s a powerful day – you’ll be on top of your game – use it to your advantage!
Saturn – now in Libra in a mild part of your chart (twelfth house) – has been edging closer to Scorpio. Saturn takes 29 years to revolve around the Sun and has made a long journey through Libra, now within one-half degree of Scorpio. On February 7 (coincidentally, the same day as the full moon), Saturn will turn around and back off and retreat deeper into Libra for a brief look back. Under normal circumstances, Saturn would have gone straight into Scorpio, but with this retrograde that won’t happen until October 4. (Saturn will retrograde until June 25, but then on that day will move forward in Libra before this planet moves into Scorpio on October 4.) Saturn will stay in your sign until September 2015.
Saturn’s hallmark is a time of planning for the future and learning at least one new skill that you weren’t sure you were ready to do. For example, you may assume you are not ready to get married and start a family, but when Saturn comes by, suddenly you feel a need to be settled and the long-term benefits of commitment and children start to look mighty good. You may move to a distant city, buy a house or condo, or go back to the university for an advanced degree – what you do will add shape to your life.
When Saturn moves into your own sign, it will mark the start of a major new cycle of maturity and growth. Whatever you choose to commit to will be something that cannot be easily undone later, which is the reason you are drawn to the challenge in the first place – it will have the power to help set up part of the foundation of your life. Saturn only visits us two or three times in a lifetime, so these are major marker points in life.
If you were born on October 23-28, Saturn is quite close to your Sun now, and even though Saturn is not technically in your sign yet, it is within one-half tiny degree, so you will feel his presence. Your first order of business should be to take steps to take good care of your health. The same advice would hold if you have any planets in Scorpio at 0 to 5 degrees. Give your teeth and bones special care, and have tests related to your reproductive organs (mammograms and Pap smears for women, prostrate exams for men).
Admittedly, Saturn is a stern teacher, so he is not popular, but honestly, I find him to be quite helpful. I started Astrology Zone when I had Saturn right on my Sun, as you will have eventually within the coming three years. Everything I have ever done that I am proud of happened when Saturn was visiting me. (I feel Saturn opposed to the Sun, as Taurus will have in October 2012 through September 2015, the harder aspect. With Saturn conjunct the Sun, you choose your goal to work on. With Saturn opposed to the Sun, as Taurus will have – and you had fourteen years ago – Saturn chooses for you.)
We are more than just a Sun sign, so it would be good to know your rising sign and about the other planets in your chart. Once you know your rising sign, you can read for that sign as well as your Sun sign each month here. If you are only reading for the Sun sign, you don’t have the whole picture (and if you are only reading for your rising sign, the same is true.) This way, if there is something going on that is very helpful in another part of your chart, you will know it and it may even soften the other parts of life. In astrology we always have to DO something to unlock the good, but at least you will have the whole picture and can make those decisions!
To know your rising sign, you need to have your precise time of birth. Try to get your original birth certificate, handwritten by the nurse at the time you were born. (In the US, we have the original “vault copy” of a birth certificate, and a computer version that you get at the Driver’s Motor Vehicle bureau. The DMV version is not helpful – you need the original birth certificate because the less expensive computer copy ($5.00) does not have the time of birth on it. Once you have your time of birth, you can have me write a whole book about your chart.
If you simply can’t get your time of birth, you can still order your chart, and I will default to Sunrise, which will put your Sun on the ascendant or rising sign. At the very least, you will know where many other planets are located in your chart (but without the time of birth, the rising sign may not be known.) Just order the yellow-purplish blue cover (Adult Natal Chart, as opposed to the version I write for little babies) found at http://www.astrologyzone.com
Directing our attention back to this month’s aspects, as said, Saturn will begin to retrograde on February 7, and because Saturn rules your third, contractual house, if you are negotiating a deal that is not yet finished, you may hit a snag in weeks to come. If so, you will need to patiently talk through the points that need to be discussed and make changes to the clauses that need to be rewritten. Depending on the complexity of the deal, discussions could go on for months – Saturn won’t turn direct until June 25 – but taking your time will work in your favor. Go with the flow of the universe, and you’ll be in perfect sync.
As a Scorpio, you like to see quick progress, but ever since Mars went retrograde on January 23 and will stay that way until April 13, your progress will be slow. Mars is considered the high-energy planet that can give any venture proper lift off. When Mars is retrograde, you find projects will sputter, clients are indecisive, and life becomes a bit off kilter. Mars rules your sixth house of work, so you may find a key project is delayed, or that the project needs to be tweaked to new specifications.
Mars may RULE your house of assignments, but Mars is currently VISITING your eleventh house of friendship and groups, so while this Red Planet retrogrades, you may feel a bit more motivated to see old friends to catch up. Good idea! Scorpio is a very private sign, and the last thing you like to do is to go to parties and or have social dinners with friends. Some Scorpios are shy, which is why they shun parties, but others simply view the whole socializing process as a waste of time. The universe doesn’t want you to stay home, dear Scorpio – not now. You can go back to your cozy cave later this year, in July, but for now, make a special effort to connect with old friends, and after mid-April, to make new friends. This year you will achieve powerful personal growth by opening yourself up to others’ ideas and influences.
Now let’s turn to thoughts of love! I have SO much to tell you, dear Scorpio! Soon you will see that the universe is speaking clearly – it is time to think about your personal life and find true love!
First, from February 1 to 6, Venus will be in Pisces, a perfect place for you. The weekend of February 4-5 should be lots of fun, so be out and about, trying your luck to meet someone special.
On February 9, when Venus and Uranus meet in Aries, in your house of work, you might notice a new co-worker or supplier who catches your eye and causes surprising tingles down your spine. The first glance could be surprisingly electric, so look your best!
Then, for many people in the world, Valentine’s Day is February 14, and lucky you, you seem perfectly positioned to enjoy this day to the fullest. Thanks to a communication of Mercury and Neptune on February 12, and between Mercury and Jupiter two days later, there is PLENTY of good vibes swirling around (when you included the tolerances of plus or minus two days – just in time to make Valentine’s Day a touching day.
Still, I feel that as the month progresses, your love life is about to get MUCH better! I love the new moon of February 21 for you – one of the most important of the year for your romantic life – and I also ADORE the weekend of February 25-26 for out of this world romantic experiences. I am getting ahead of myself here, as I have to tell you something else first, so you can put all the pieces of the puzzle together. Here goes – stay with me!
There is a big change happening in the sky on February 3 that is quite exciting. Neptune is moving into Pisces for a fourteen-year stay then, and from then on, you will host Neptune in your house of true love (fifth house). Neptune is the planet of dreams, inspiration, creativity, intuition, and imagination. It is also what we call the “higher octave” of Venus, taking the love that Venus sparks to a whole new level of deep and abiding love, where you love someone so much you are willing to make sacrifices to benefit your beloved. Neptune is happy in Pisces because Neptune RULES Pisces, so Neptune will express his most lyrical, graceful, loving side in this sign.
I would say that hosting Neptune in the fifth house has to be one of the best places in a chart to have this glittering planet, so you are indeed the lucky one! In water sign Pisces, Neptune will relate perfectly to your water sign Scorpio Sun, and work to bring back your belief in forever-ever love. It will take time for Neptune to start to show his influence, but you will notice that in time, you will want to forge a deep, spiritual bond with your partner that extends far beyond the physical. A purely physical relationship would never be enough for you with Neptune in the fifth house.
The fifth house is also the house of pregnancy, and the care of children too, and you will find an enduring inspiration from your children, no matter what their ages. Neptune brings a softening effect, and drops a veil over all of reality. It has been said that when you have Neptune in the fifth house, you don’t see love or children clearly, but you idealize them – that must be why I enjoy being a mother so much. I was born with Neptune in the fifth house, as you will have in the coming fourteen years. (You, like me, might have been born with this placement too, depending on your rising sign.) I freely admit I think my children are the best children on the planet, and they inspire me to no end. I love having Neptune in my fifth house! I can think of no better place to have Neptune.
If you have been disappointed in love in the past, Neptune will help you to bring back your faith in love. This planet of sea will heighten your feelings for someone you love now, or for someone you will meet in the future. Neptune is setting up residence to stay fourteen years – you have time!
The fifth house also rules your creativity, so you can see how powerfully Neptune will work over the coming years to bring out the best in your artistic visions and expressions. If you work with ideas, concepts, or creative projects, Neptune’s arrival may seem like a miracle. If you don’t work in a creative field, you may still take up a creative pastime that you become serious about and that gives you much pleasure. In time, you will likely start to show talents you never knew you possessed.
The new moon of February 21 in Pisces (3 degrees) will also light your fifth house of true love, making it the most important romantic new moon of the year for you. This new moon is as close to ideal as you can get. It will conjoin Neptune, and so it will bring forward all the inspired, romantic qualities I have discussed so far. This new moon will also reach out to Jupiter in the house of marriage, suggesting to me that many Scorpios will decide to get engaged this month. (This is exciting! I am so happy to write this!)
Saturn will be perfectly positioned to Neptune at the new moon of February 21, so Saturn will lend his gifts of clear vision, practicality, and longevity. Also, Pluto will be helpful too, so you may make a plan or a promise or sign a contract, or you may travel with your sweetheart / spouse to a place you find over-the-moon beautiful and romantic. I am so happy to have all this to tell you! If you are already wed, Neptune will help to bring back the love and excitement that daily life may have dulled over time.
With four highly fertile planets in your fifth house of pregnancy and birth, you have the single best month of the year to try for conception or, if you are pregnant (or your partner is) and near term, to welcome a baby into your family. Of course, not everyone desires children, so if that describes you (or even if you DO want children) you can also see a side benefit of having an outstanding creative project begin this month.
If you already have children, you are likely to see some very exciting developments in regard to at least one of them. You may be making special plans for one child (most likely the oldest one) or taking your children somewhere special this month. A vacation taken with your children would be incredible fun. Alternatively, you may see one of your children score a victory that makes you very proud, or see a talent emerge in your child you never know she / he had and that you’ll want to help that child develop. When I say “child” you must know by now that I mean a child of any age, tiny or out of college and working.
There’s even more happiness at month’s end. The most fantastic weekend of the month will happen over February 25-26 when Jupiter signals the Sun. All the romance and happiness that the new moon and that Neptune promises should come to fruition over this glorious weekend.
If you are a Scorpio born early in your sign, say, with a birthday that falls October 23-28, you will have a double dip of romance from this glorious new moon February 21 and in the days that follow. You may also benefit if you have any planets from 0 to 8 degrees.
Before I go, let’s talk about your home. Some Scorpios need to move, so if that describes you, you have a chance to do that early in the month, as the new moon of January 23 was to open a door on possible spaces that you would like. You’d have to jump on your plan early, as the new moon is currently losing light. In the first week, you can also make repairs, renovate, or buy a piece of new furniture, confident you’ll love the changes you make. Next month Mercury will retrograde from March 12 to April 4, so you won’t want to be making massive decisions about a space or about buying furniture or electronics then. Do so now!
Besides February 1-7, also have a look at February 9, when Venus will conjoin Uranus. Uranus rules your solar fourth house of home, so you may see the perfect purchase on that date!
Earlier I spoke about the monumental move of Neptune out of Aquarius to Pisces on February 3 (great news for you!) but since you and I are speaking about housing now, I want to make the point that with Neptune out of your house of home, you won’t have problems with water or flooding in regard to your home anymore. You may be saying to yourself, “What problems, Susan?” Ah, maybe because of some unique qualities of your natal chart, you didn’t notice the long-term problems with water in your home, but many Scorpios did. If you know what I am talking about you are going to LOVE having Father Neptune out of your home! No more water problems at home!
