February 2011
It is a hopeful time of year, the days are becoming noticeably longer, the new year is just a toddler, we are able to see a little clearer and gain some distance from the rapid expansions and contractions of the recent holiday season. So much fresh perspective available; it is the way of Aquarius (January 20 to February 18) to crystallize the very winter air around us so that sharpness of vision fosters clarity of consciousness.
Love and Happiness Themes
Venus provides the clues for this month’s horoscopes.
Her passage through earthy, productive, authoritative Capricorn sets the pattern for the following predictive projections through each Sun sign.
By the end of this first week, the Goddess of Love and Beauty starts prioritizing and taking concrete steps to ensure that her pleasures are enduring, if possible, and grade ‘A’ experiences, regardless.
Lovely Aphrodite must undergo a once-a-year “dark passage” in the second week of February, 11th – 13th. This is usually harrowing and mysterious, a fated engagement with the energies of the shadowy, dark god Pluto, requiring all of the Graceful Goddess’s poise. On the agenda: purification of desires, and purging of less-productive means like jealousy, envy and laziness. The winning tactics in this encounter with Evolutionary Necessity include sweet surrender, vulnerability to trust, and opening to the process of healing wounds and traumas from the past.
This intense, brief, soul-searching phase hones desires, aligns motives with the Soul (or sub-conscious), enables moments of joy to float bubble-like through experience, and balances non-possessiveness with unguarded passion.
In an interesting twist of fate, this occurs just prior to Valentine’s Day – making this a very rich time for fulfillment, love, and pleasures of the heart, mind and body.
Love and Happines in February 2011
Sign-by-Sign Forecast
Aries – Your prescription for love and happiness in February, consists of:
one part “dressing for success”,
one part “smiling for others”
one part “grace and poise while receiving positive attention and praise”.
Venus, in the sign of Capricorn, striding confidently and impressively through your house of status and reputation, adds a little gold glow to your public and professional image,
Happiness comes from rewards and recognition.
If you are Big Daddy or Big Mommy in any area to people young or old, you will feel the love by giving it to those you deem worthy to receive.
Taurus –Your love and happiness, Taurus, comes while you are assembled for teaching or learning; worshiping or preaching; perhaps even publishing, broadcasting or receiving the transmissions.
Whether the flirter or the flirtee, behind the podium or looking love-struck at who is behind it, the joys of February for the Taurus tribe come interpolated with gifts of wisdom, good judgement, sage advice, spiritual guidance or awesome experiences while traveling.
You feel the grounded confidence to know your limits but also your worth, and can move freely beyond previous fears and insecurities into more expansive delights, to embrace opportunities for your spirit to soar once again,
Gemini – Yours is the most potentially x-rated horoscope forecast for this month, Multi-faceted One. So, maximize the pleasure and avoid possible mood-kills and deal-breakers.
Three suggestions:
Keep fairness and reciprocity in perspective as you conduct your transactions.
Pledge to tell the truth.
Your passion and intensity are magnified this month. Be gentle.
In whatever form the happiness comes, the issue of integrity lies at the heart of your transactions with others as a make-or-break scale of measure for the ultimate success of your interactions.
Cancer – The trials and joys of February are occurring in your arena of partnerships, consultants, advisors, close friends, mates and marriage.
The small-group and one-on-one activities will be providing half of what is required for Crabby types to experience transformative love and happiness.
The other half of the equation is you. Come out, come out, wherever you are. The best in store for you this month, Cancerian, requires moving into tender, intimate space, or at least out into the open.
Teamwork, sharing, hashing-out agreements, mediating conflicts and renewing vows are auspicious activities, especially during the last two weeks of the month.
If you are contentedly single, fear not, Crab, make the most of Venus’s influence to get the fairest rates, best deals and “yes’s” in interpersonal negotiations of all sorts.
Venus throws some of her magic ‘sparkle dust’ on potential friends and lovers this month, making them instantly noticeable.
Leo – This mid-winter period brings you Venusian favors that should help you improve basic, but essential elements of your life.
If you have been fighting cold bugs, or feeling stressed and overworked from the pace and demands of your daily existence, you will get some welcome relief, or help where it is needed.
If you are too proud to accept help, or give another person the chance to be the giver, you may fail the only test that could prevent you from receiving the gifts accorded you now. People want to love and care for you this month!
Your diet and heath regimen ought to be paying off in obvious and pleasing ways.
Virgo – If you are feeling way over-due for your allotment of fun and games, play, frolic, romance and creative reverie, the clouds are not only parting, you may be surprised and somewhat unprepared for the charged intensity of positive attention coming your way this month.
A startling transformation occurs which paves the way for reconciliation or an end to conflict – expect resolution or termination of some trouble that has been dampening your capacity to feel joy.
This month is all about adding a very valuable, even precious and delightful ingredient, to your recipe for success and fulfillment.
Libra – Home is where the heart is, at least for lucky Libras this month.
Support is on the way! You should now be able to enhance, beautify, and otherwise find some peace-of-mind, finally! – within the confines of your private, personal home-zone.
Maybe your house will finally sell, or the loan gets approved for the residence or car you have been trying to manifest.
Perhaps an uprooting involving your work and/or residence, or the elimination of some once-needed item or individual is at the completion stage? Concrete, material improvements and better conditions should result from the transit of Venus though the ‘home and hearth’ arena.
Make sure to ‘make room’ in your life to relax and enjoy friends, family, or just plain peace-and-quiet, so you can just let it all go, and just naturally be.
Scorpio – Attitude adjustment time, dear Scorpion!
“You will catch more flies with honey, than with vinegar.”
Simplistically put, our attitude colors our expectations and interpretations of experience. You are involved in a long-term attitude renovation phase.
This month you get to find out how positive words and skillful communication can magically clear your path and open doors
If all else fails, just use the magic words, “Please” and “Thank you”. Merely the intentional use of these potent ‘spells’ during this month will work wonders for the Scorpio Tribe.
Sagittarius – “Show me the money!” What does money do for you, mean for you, and what priority and role does money have in your life currently, Sag?
You Archers might find that both your self-esteem and your capacity to magnetize value into your life are strangely, mutually enhanced and improved.
Pleasure chemicals in the body will work like medicine and make you a magnet for more bliss and more happiness in a fabulous feedback loop all month, dear Sag. So laugh, play, create.
Use this Venusian formula to enhance your life throughout February: appreciate fully what you have, and heartily enjoy the earthly fruits of your labors, past and present.
Capricorn –You are a lucky duck this month, Cappy-corn. Venus plugs into the charisma outlet in your persona. The golden glow in your aura, Venus’s gift, brings irresistible attractiveness directly to your personality, your presentation and your style.
Spending a little extra time at the vanity mirror, or with your friendly neighborhood stylist, pays dividends when you most need it, and/or least expect it, Capricorn.
The ultimate lesson is not about how you turn heads, win friends or influence people with your charms this month, Sea-goat. The ultimate lesson for you is about self-love this Valentine’s season. Of enduring value: your capacity to gracefully accept and honor yourself, your true beauty and your actual, human nature, glorious and warty all at once.
Aquarius –You alone of all the signs will get the least mediated, most free and boundless contact with archetypal Venus during February.
This Venusian visitation should manifest in your dreams, your ideals, your longing for whatever image-of-perfection lies in the heart of your soul.
Revealed, (most likely, indeed, through your dreams or cat-naps) is a guiding, transcendent, splendid, undeniable, utterly inspiring vision of pure beauty.
Turn your attention to your imagination for inspiration and then Beautify your own life and world.
Pisces –Siren-like and beckoning, inviting and enticing, Venus wants to rope you into some socializing and group dynamics this month, Pisces.
This month’s Venus is seducing you into engaging in collective endeavors and experimenting a bit with your time and address book. The theme of meeting together need not have romantic overtones.
You are going to have winning ways and better-than-average experiences in parties of more-than-two for Valentine’s month.
The gang has need of your creative spontaneity, so show up and show off!
What would Venus be without Pluto! Seems like Pluto really brings out the shadow side of love and giving. Doesn’t Capricorn also bring out that “vertical” nature of either being above or bellow, when it comes to Venusian themes and interactions in relationships? Which sign is Venus exalted in?
Hi Lea, Thanks for posting your insights and questions. You say it well when you mention the “vertical” theme of Capricorn, which of course plays into the theme of “power dynamics” that are often an issue when Venus and Pluto make connections. Traditionally, Venus is said to be ‘exalted’ in the mutable water sign, Pisces. What do think of that?
In the water, there is no up or down, just swimming round and round, going with the flow, etc. All the themes of Love that they write songs about; drowning in love, bubbling over, heart splashing in ecstasy,… I’m sure I could think of more. Seems like in Pisces, Venus really could loose it’s self centeredness or agenda she may have in Capricorn and let the expansiveness and psychic nature of Pisces take her away!