Your February 2024 horoscope is finally here. It feels fair to say that January had no chill, but in an energizing here-to-support-you-in-achieving-your-goals kind of way. There’s nothing casual about February either—this month is for the inquisitive thinkers, the detectives, the people who fixate on a curiosity and don’t let go until they’ve become thoroughly acquainted with the mystery. As a stellium of planets marches through Aquarius this month and makes a series of conjunctions to Pluto, the seed of a new fascination or obsession is watered and encouraged. There might be a niche interest or cultural lore that grabs your attention and sends you down a rabbit hole of discovery. Maybe there’s a passion project you’ve been putting off forever, and February is when you finally get to romance your vision. Yes, of course you should travel to every potentially relevant destination to conduct “field research.” That’s not to say you won’t get to relax if you have a vacation planned this month, but it does suggest you might not get, nor want, to turn your brain off.
In general, Aquarius Season is a time to nerd out or become unreachable. And you can accomplish both by holing up off the grid with a pile of your favorite books, or by turning on your OOO message and heading out on an archaeological tour of the historical sites that have captivated your interest. As Venus conjoins Mars on the 22nd, there is a sense that we’re simultaneously lit up by our passions, and also annoyed at the other tourists who don’t know how to act right. The week or so leading up to this moment can also trigger compulsive behavior and a desire for instant gratification. Word to the wise: don’t be that person!
Mercury enters Pisces on the 23rd and will be heavily afflicted throughout its entire time there (through March 9th). Though this isn’t a retrograde, it might feel like one with Mercury in the sign of its fall, combust the Sun, and making conjunctions to Saturn and Neptune. In plain English, this two-week period could present more challenges than usual for travel, communication, and electronics. The vibe is a waterlogged one, so try not to drop your phone in the pool while you’re Facetiming your mom from the hotel, and don’t assume your GPS won’t get weird on you when you’re already late for a flight. This isn’t ideal astro weather for submitting your taxes or getting your point across clearly, and if you’re winging it in a foreign country where you can’t speak the language, expect to feel especially flustered by communication mishaps. Maybe find the humor in them instead? Ideally, let go of the need for things to make linear sense and pay attention to how much you can intuit from nonverbal cues.
Read on for your complete February 2024 horoscope.
Astrologer's note: Below we refer to your signs as “rising” signs, also known as your ascendant sign. Horoscopes are more accurate when read this way—using your birth time and location, you can quickly find your rising sign online (it takes less than 30 seconds).
Aries Rising
Three’s a crowd, but four is a party. As February gets going, the heat turns up in your social life. What remains to be seen is whether you feel invigorated by the groups you roll with, or whether all the drama and infighting is getting to your head.
Could it be that it’s a little bit of both? Passionate people who are working towards a similar goal often disagree over tactics. The truth is that you’re about to start really waking up to how much power there is in community, but there may be some reckoning that needs to happen first, if not an accountability process. With Mars entering your 11th house of groups on February 13 and running into a conjunction with Pluto the next day, you may feel called to step up in some way, confront someone’s abuse of power, or get involved in an ambitious team effort by mid-month. Don’t be surprised if some old insecurities come up in the process—Chiron and the North Node are spending a good part of the month conjunct in Aries, and you might feel like you’re having a crisis of confidence as you figure out your place in things.
Hopefully no one’s acting up on the group vacation. Ideally, there’s no actual drama, and you’re just pantomiming the theatrics for sport during a murder mystery dinner party. You may even be coming full circle with last summer’s creative process, especially as Venus and Mars conjoin on the 22nd. Are the songs you remixed over the summer now getting their first audience reception? Are you finally finding your crowd after reevaluating the kinds of things you prefer to do in your free time? Even if your IRL friends don’t enjoy traveling the way you do, there are groups and tours you can join without them—and the best part is you’ll probably make even more friends that way.
Taurus Rising
Call it personal growth, an old dog learning new tricks, or a total revolution of your life path, but you’ve been on a roll these past couple of years. Though this big, dynamic wave will continue to crest through the first half of 2024, February is an inflection point, and things are about to get interesting in your professional life. Interesting good, or interesting messy? Time will tell, but don’t be surprised if it’s a little of both. It seems like you’re finally in the right place to pursue something you’re passionate about, but passion can invite controversy, and you might become a lightning rod for something brewing in the collective, or seen by some as polarizing for the things you represent.
Even if it’s not that deep, expect excitement, and maybe some friction, to bubble over at work this month, particularly between you and your higher ups. If you feel anything less than supported in pursuing your pet project, you might be fired up enough to agitate over it. Mid-month may feel especially charged for you—Venus enters your 10th house of career and visibility on February 16 and then runs into confronting conjunctions with Pluto on the 17th and Mars on the 22nd. You can’t control how other people react, or how they perceive you—but at the very least, try not to be afraid of your own power in this situation.
Some support for your plans arrives soon after, with Venus squaring Jupiter in Taurus on the 24th, plus a full moon in Virgo bringing things to fruition around your creative pursuits and hobbies. Even if you’ve been learning to implement better boundaries with people or be pickier about who you associate with, how has pruning the weeds paradoxically allowed your garden to flourish, or allowed you to get more fulfillment out of life—and the places it takes you? The right team, or travel partners, can make the dream happen, so whether this is about a project getting green-lighted, or a travel goal finally getting checked off, make sure you surround yourself with the right people.
Gemini Rising
February is shaping up to be a bit of a magic carpet ride for you, but it’ll probably be one that takes you high and low along the full spectrum of the human experience. Mercury darts into your 9th house of learning, travel, and spirituality on the 5th, and as the month rolls on a collection of planets will assemble here, making for a potentially busy travel season—and almost definitely an intensely educational one.
This journey begins with you diving down a rabbit hole of some kind. On the 5th, Mercury immediately runs into a conjunction with Pluto and goes into detective mode, or on some sort of fact-finding mission. Even if you don’t physically go anywhere this month, you will probably go to many places in your mind as you explore a topic that’s close to your heart. If you’re on the road, expect to feel your passions stirring, for better or for worse. You might feel lit up with inspiration and simultaneously agitated over some of the things you’re seeing. Perhaps you’ll be wading into some discourse with strong opinions, or you’ll leave your trip feeling newly inspired to tackle climate justice. Maybe it’s not that deep, but you’ll still need to watch out for scammers trying to hustle you. Either way, you’re going on a trip, and it won’t be boring.
As much as you’ll feel energized by what you learn and experience this month, you might initially struggle to translate this into something other people can easily grasp. After Mercury enters Pisces on the 23rd, you will be more focused on integrating these teachings into your professional life, working on your messaging, or putting your thoughts out into the world. For the most part, you may struggle with making it all make sense or organizing things in a way that’s logical, but there will be a brief moment of clarity on February 28 that will show you the divine order in the chaos.
Cancer Rising
If you’ve got outstanding debts to settle, belongings to divvy up, or entanglements of any kind that haven’t been straightforward to get out of, February is a month that may just clear the air, but not without raising the heat a little first.
There’s a new moon in Aquarius squaring Uranus on February 9, which suggests that you might have an opportunity to free yourself from some sort of financial arrangement that isn’t working for you anymore, or at the very least, air out some emotional baggage that was preventing you from moving on. But you know what they say (or do you?): the moment you try to cut that cord or sever your attachment to someone is the moment they start blowing up your phone again. The moment you try to banish a pattern for good is the moment you get a last extinction gasp. There’s a big, contentious-looking pileup of planets convening in your 8th house this month, and you might feel the intensity of this love-hate dynamic as it’s on its way out. Don’t hide from these feelings or try to oversimplify them—let them be the big messy contradiction that they are.
Is it too soon to take a trip somewhere to aid in the healing process? You might actually benefit from putting some space between you and whatever all that was, even if it’s just for a long weekend out of town. The Sun enters Pisces on the 18th, so you’re basically right on schedule for your annual travel season anyway. Even if Saturn’s presence there makes it more difficult to make a clean getaway, you might really benefit from the opportunity to turn your brain off for a bit, or at least get lost in unfamiliar surroundings (but that part might actually be a little too on the nose for the two weeks Mercury spends in Pisces, between February 23 and March 9, so yes, spend extra for the good GPS in your rental car).
Leo Rising
The heat is about to turn up in your relationship dynamics, making this year’s Valentine’s Day a more memorable one than most. But will it sizzle in a fun way, or will one of you create a big scene over dessert? Whichever way the wind blows, the main topic this month is how you tango with others, and how you navigate the highs and lows together. This may implicate your lovers and your nemeses, your business partners and your competitors. Passions will burn brightly, in both the best and worst ways. The point of all this isn’t just to stir the pot for the sake of drama (even if you low key kind of enjoy it), but to test your ability to still show up as your best self when things feel highly charged, and even triggering. The Aquarius New Moon on February 9 is as good an opportunity as any to push the reset button before things intensify later in the month, and to free yourself from habitual dynamics that have grown stale.
On the 18th, the Sun enters Pisces, initiating you into your annual vulnerability season. What is it about this time of year that makes you dwell on what you’ve lost, agitate over what’s still to come, and become waterlogged with the additional weight of everyone else’s emotions? It’s not easy being an open-hearted person, especially when you have a tendency to feel other people’s feelings for them. There’s a triple conjunction of Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun on the 28th that may illuminate all the places where you’re overgiving (or leaking, so to speak), and also aid you in creating better boundaries.
If you’re traveling this month, you might be more distracted by what’s going on between you and your counterpart to really pay attention to what the tour guide is saying, but being in unfamiliar surroundings may also present you with opportunities for healing that you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. Be open to the medicine of the local flora, fauna, and people, and to changing the way you normally respond to things.
Virgo Rising
Something tells me that even if you’re lucky enough to be on vacation this February, work will somehow come with you on the trip. Hopefully it’s work you’re energized and excited by, and not fires you need to keep putting out over Zoom with a shaky internet connection. You may be working on a passion project you’re fired up about, or you may be simply mired in some sort of workplace drama that you can’t tear yourself away from. It might be that one problem client demanding extra revisions, or a mutiny among your team. How you deal is how you deal, but it’s important that you don’t let your health and sleep fall by the wayside. Easier said than done, of course, but try to treat your self-care with as much urgency as you treat your deadlines this month.
In general, February 5 might be a good day for asking questions, and the 10th might bring you to the answers and solutions. Try to concentrate your productivity needs in the first part of the month, because after Mercury enters Pisces on the 23rd, things get a little blurry for the next two weeks. There might be a greater need to clarify things with your significant others, or maybe just to wrangle that client to commit to a new agreement in writing. This transit is better for nonverbal listening than it is for having things make logical sense, so for the most part, don’t expect communication to flow smoothly. If there is a day to seek crystal-clear clarity, it’s the 28th, during the triple conjunction of Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun.
The full moon in Virgo closes out the month on the 24th, offering you an opportunity to celebrate, or at least acknowledge, all of your recent growth. Will there be cake at the office rewarding you for managing that crisis well? Perhaps a sweet opportunity coming down the pipeline to travel for work? There may well be some sort of reward at the end of the tunnel, so enjoy the spoils.
Libra Rising
Is it love, or is it limerence? Don’t blame yourself if you confuse the two, because romantic obsession is designed to hit all the right buttons in your brain, and besides, it feels so good when you’re in it. As a stellium of planets convenes in your fifth house of romance and creative self-expression this February, you’re in pretty good shape to have a memorable fling on vacation, torture yourself over a crush, or to turn up the heat on an existing relationship in the honeymoon suite.
Whether you’re single and haven’t felt inspired by anyone in months, paired up and going through the motions, or missing your own creative spark, this might actually be the perfect opportunity to reignite a pilot light that you’ve sorely been missing. However, consider that the word “passion” literally comes from a root word that means “to suffer.” It’s deadening not to feel it, but it can be difficult to remain emotionally regulated when you do. Whether your creative medium is a painting, a dance, an unhinged bar crawl, or the poetry of yearning, your senses will be fully engaged, and the theme is that pleasure often contains an element of pain.
If you’re able to come up for air at all this month, you might be able to see, from a bird’s eye view, whether you’re succumbing to unhealthy patterns or whether you’re on fire in a different way. Mid-month especially is when a lot of this intensifies and/or reveals something to you. Between February 16 and 19, Venus enters Aquarius and immediately conjoins Pluto, and there’s a Chiron/North Node conjunction in your seventh house of relationships. The good news is that you may finally be able to see your wounding or patterning around love in a way that lets the medicine in. It will probably be futile to resist the undertow, so if you’re going on the ride anyway, try not to cling to a specific outcome. This is ultimately more about reclaiming your own aliveness than it is about any specific person or thing.
Scorpio Rising
Even if you don’t have an ancestral pilgrimage planned for February, you might soon be consumed with unpacking a mystery entangled in your roots. Or maybe you’ll just be dealing with a lot of intense feelings and big tempers housed under one roof. As a stellium of planets gathers in your fouth house of home and lineage this month, the desire to know your past intensifies, and the dynamics between your family members or housemates becomes extra charged. Maybe it’s because all is not at peace in your kingdom that you turn to your ancestors for guidance? Most of us are just acting out patterns that are much, much older than us, and if you’re starting to get curious about the way things are going with your closest of kin, that’s a good sign, because it means you’re that much closer to untangling the root of the issue.
If you’re traveling this month, you might find yourself a bit obsessed with the history of the place you’re in, or you might find that it’s not that easy to tear yourself away from home. That could be as literal as needing to be on the phone with family members every night or as figurative as seeing aspects of your own historical roots reflected in every war memorial.
On the 13th and 14th, Mars enters Aquarius and immediately conjoins Pluto. Notice what feels triggering, and stay a couple feet above it all so you can see compulsive tendencies for what they are. Closer to the 22nd, when Venus meets Mars, you might be fighting, making up, and starting to understand exactly what you need out of a partnership in order to preserve the aspects of your family history you love, and kill the patterns you’d like to put to rest.
Sagittarius Rising
Remember that thing you needed to get off your chest last month? Letting it out has probably emboldened you to keep stirring the pot, because it looks like you’ll be wading deeper into the discourse in February. Whether this means publishing something controversial on your Substack or getting into it IRL with your friends over coffee, there are all kinds of impassioned exchanges happening for you this month, and these conversations will give you life and unsettle you all at once.
If there’s a moment that opens this can of worms, it’s probably on February 5, when Mercury enters Aquarius and immediately runs into a conjunction with Pluto. Someone might casually drop a bomb in the middle of a voice note, you might read something that sends your mental gears spinning, or you yourself might decide to disclose something you’ve struggled to even name up until now. The intensity only cranks up from there.
February may also be a busy month for you in general. Work deadlines, appointments, and dinner dates around town are crowding your calendar, and though the vibe is a bit hectic, you might kind of enjoy the sensation of being in motion. If nothing else, you might be making up for lost time spent jaunting all over the world and not getting to know your own neighborhood. If there are day or weekend trips you’ve been meaning to take, this would be the month to get totally sucked into the local lore of a nearby outpost.
On February 24, the full moon in Virgo (and the Venus/Jupiter square) present you with a sweet work opportunity, or recognition for something you’ve been toiling over recently. You might feel the need to meet this moment with humility, but don’t downplay how much you’ve succeeded at. You really did that.
Capricorn Rising
If your New Year’s resolution was to budget better, let’s just say there’s always next month for a do-over. For better or for worse, you might rack up a pretty sizable tab on your credit card in February, but hopefully it’s for something you’re really excited to buy, or for experiences that will live in your memory forever.
More than likely, you’ll be spending for pleasure, but that doesn’t mean the resulting hangover won’t bring pain. As a stellium of planets intensifies in your second house of assets and resources and squares Jupiter in your fifth house of recreation this month, your normally responsible tendencies are no match for the temptations of hedonism. There’s also a Virgo Full Moon taking place in your ninth house of travel on February 24, so it would definitely fit the symbolism if you’re living large on vacation or booking an upcoming trip. Either that, or childcare and runaway tuition costs are eating a hole in your wallet.
As you’re not spending too far beyond your means, try not to guilt yourself over it later if you’re enjoying yourself. But if you find yourself shopping compulsively or coveting every artisan-made textile you meet at the souvenir shops, it could be worth checking in with yourself to see what’s really going on behind all of that. Is it that you’ve been feeling deprived? All work and no play can do that. Are you feeling pressured to keep up with the Joneses? Maybe on your next trip, you’ll band together with friends who are on a similar budget. Is retail therapy your way of dealing with something that might need real therapy, and time, to heal? Listen, sometimes a new outfit really does help, but faking it until you make it might also hide the real work to be done.
If there is a moment in the month to draw some boundaries or set some limits, it’s during the triple conjunction of Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun on the 28th. Make a list and check it twice, and be extra intentional with the language you use.
Aquarius Rising
Sure, it normally takes you about a month to really get going in the new year. But this year’s Aquarius season takes you from 0 to 100 pretty quickly as you light up with inspiration, motivation, desire, and a storm of contradictions that invite you deeper into your own self-discovery.
February’s astrology features a congregation of planets in Aquarius that will move you, unsettle you, and make you seem kind of intense to the people around you. In fact, this influence might do all kinds of things except bore you. As the people say, new year, new you, and this is an invitation to dig beneath the personal tropes you’ve formed your identity around. Are you the person you describe in your Instagram bio, the person your friends describe you as, or a third, secret thing? On February 9, the Aquarius New Moon squaring Uranus gives you carte blanche to disrupt your personal narrative and write a different story for yourself. If you’re traveling for your birthday, see if being in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by people who know nothing about you, gives you the freedom to embody something that you’ve never fully owned until now.
Mid-month, your intensity, and your magnetism, increases. Between February 13 and 22, Mars and Venus enter your rising sign and close in on one another, paying their respects to Pluto along the way. You might find yourself on fire with ambitious dreams, feeling lustful for life, and more willing to adorn yourself in bold statement jewelry you never thought you’d be able to pull off. It might seem as though everyone else wants a piece of your attention too, and you might be fielding offers left and right (for work, for clients, for dates, you name it).
This is a big revival of your personal mojo that you’ll probably enjoy, but it also comes with a moderate chance of “acting like a jerk.” It might just be that you’re finally feeling untapped reserves of anger you’ve kept stuffed down, or that some of your shyness evaporates and takes your filter along with it. Don’t overthink it, and give yourself some grace if you slip up.
Pisces Rising
You might look like the surface of a still lake, but internally, there’s a whole soap opera going on inside your head this month. Maybe you’re fighting with others in your imagination and letting yourself have the conversations you’re not having in real life. Maybe you’re newly aware of a trap door in your psyche, and you’re tunneling all the way down that rabbit hole. Maybe you’re having it out with people you suspect might be your frenemies, but finding that ultimately, you’re mostly shadowboxing with yourself.
There are certain fears and anxieties you haven’t yet figured out how to name, but you get a little bit closer to understanding between February 5 and 10, when Mercury enters your twelfth house and links up with Pluto and Jupiter. Journaling can certainly help you make sense of it all. The churning intensifies mid-month, as Mars and Venus get involved. You might be burning with some sort of secret desire that doesn’t really feel allowed, or dealing with complicated feelings of alienation. Sometimes these types of twelfth house experiences can have to do with the not-so-shiny aspects of traveling through foreign lands—the ones where you feel out of place, disempowered, and stateless, or lacking official status. Fortunately, you do have an opportunity to learn something important, wrap your head around things, or come out of this moody period with ideas for your next undertakings. If nothing else, let this inspire a killer blog post.
On February 18, the Sun enters Pisces and lights you up from within, or at least brings you back to center. This is a celebration of you and a chance to honor your hopes and dreams, but it might take on a slightly more somber tone this year. Maybe you’re feeling the need to reckon with yourself in some way, or set better boundaries. The triple conjunction of Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun on February 28 might give you an opportunity to do just that, or to use language to name something you’ve found impossible to express.
Enjoyed your February 2024 horoscope? Look back on January to see how things lined up.