YOUR FEBRUARY HOROSCOPE FOR VIRGO
February will be a more active, productive month than you experienced in January. Venus was retrograde all month, having started to retrograde on December 19 and finally going direct on January 29. This alone is good news—Venus rules beauty, fun, and love—and all these areas were languishing, but Venus will begin to ramp up her energy to her former strength now. This is fortunate, for Venus is regulating her speed in time for Valentine’s Day. Your outlook for love will be spectacular, and I will give you those details a little later in your report.
Last month, your progress may have slowed for another reason. Your ruling planet Mercury went retrograde on January 14, not to go direct until February 3. You will feel a surge of energy once Mercury is regulated, almost instantly, and the pace will pick up noticeably. No more delays or calls to the IT people to fix your department’s computer or other equipment that breaks down. Mercury retrograded in your work-a-day assignment sector, the place where most of the delays likely took place. All that is over once you get to February 3. You can now sign contracts and start life again.
The new moon of February 1 in Aquarius, 12 degrees, could bring an important, weighty assignment that may lead you down a new path. Aquarius is a futuristic sign, so the project may involve the digital world, science, medicine, gaming, or automotive—all things innovative.
A new moon sets up a trend that is not just for a day, but one that extends for weeks and months ahead, and the universe will hand you the white envelope to tell you what’s in store. If you work for a company, you won’t have to change jobs to get this new project. If you are self-employed, the assignment could come in the form of a new client.
Uranus will be at hard angle to the Sun and new moon, so you might have an unexpected obstacle that you will have to untangle. Your ninth house is involved, so the problem may have to do with a foreign relationship or overseas job. For example, you may have a shipment that gets stuck in customs, and you will need to find a way to have it released. Or instead, a supply chain problem may cause havoc behind the scenes, and you might have to scramble to find a solution to satisfy a throng of customers. Some sort of unanticipated problem is likely to come up, but it’s hard to guess what it could be—Uranus always brings something you wouldn’t have imagined possible.
In addition to Uranus’ hard angle to the Sun and new moon, Saturn is conjunct to both as well, and that is a weighty influence. This suggests there will be lots to learn, and an older, experienced, high-level person will be looking over your shoulder continually to teach you the ropes in a new area. You’ve hosted Saturn in this, your sixth house assignment sector, for a little over a year so far, and you have one year to go. (After that, you won’t host Saturn in this part of your chart for 28 years, not until 2050.) What is entirely different now is that Saturn is conjunct February’s new moon and the Sun, which will add attention to Saturn’s presence.
Saturn is the natural ruler of your fifth house (Capricorn), so you may be asked to work on a highly creative project and to make a large contribution to its style. You will need to add structure to the overall process (due to Capricorn’s influence) and integrate new elements into the project (that’s the new moon in Aquarius speaking). It’s good to tackle hard assignments—that’s how you make a name for yourself, dear Virgo. That’s the best way to be able to stand apart from the crowd.
You and I have been talking about work assignments because your sixth house is so lit up. The sixth house also rules the steps you take to keep yourself healthy, and this is usually a favorite interest of yours. As a Virgo, you tend to be careful about what you eat and getting plenty of exercise. If any sign knows how to tenderly care for their body, it’s you. You teach the rest of the signs how it’s done.
Now, however, with Saturn pressing on you in your sixth house of work and health during the coming year, and especially this month, you need to be careful not to overdo it. Virgo works hard and accomplishes more in a week than almost any sign can do in a month. Sometimes your sense of time drops away, and you have no idea how long you’ve been working. That’s when you go into overdrive.
Compounding things, when Saturn is traveling through the sixth house, as you have, it is hard to hire full-time or part-time workers to help carry some of the load, and if you find the people you want, their salary and benefits demands may not fit into the company’s budget. That could mean you will be called on to do double the work. The situation won’t improve until Saturn leaves to go to Pisces next year on March 7, 2023.
To deal with this, if you do need to hire people part-time or full-time, ask everyone you know to recommend the right person. Save résumés that are sent to you, and keep a file that you can peruse when you need to hire. Of course, many online job sites can help too, and it starts with listing what you need as well as what you are willing to provide the candidate. New York State, for example, has a new law going into effect this month that requires employers to include the salary range in their job posts. (It’s an effort to end salary inequality, although this rule, so new, it is being challenged by some groups because the pay is contingent on experience, skill, education, attitude, ability to fit into the team, and more.)
When you’re finished reading your report, look at this article that Neil Patel wrote for Inc. magazine: “When, How, and How Often to Take a Break,” with the subheading: “Taking breaks will help you increase productivity and avoid burnout. This is how you do it.” Although experts vary, most agree, you should take regular breaks. Neil Patel writes about a study done on this topic: “DeskTime tracked their 40,000 users, and found that a 17-minute break every 52 minutes was the sweet spot for productivity.” This conclusion, at the core, is based on the natural ultradian rhythms in the human body. It’s interesting. (Ultradian rhythms are cycles of less than 24 hours.)
Now let’s move on to the full moon in Leo, 28 degrees, to appear on February 16, which will also emphasize your health and well-being. The place in your chart that will be lit up is your solar twelfth house, an area of enormous creativity, for it will send stimulation to your subconscious where a great deal of creativity lies. The caveat is that you must work by yourself, alone in solitude without distractions, if you are to achieve the most impressive results. The peacefulness of working alone may appeal to you.
This is also the primary part of the chart that rules psychology, so now would be the perfect time to consult a licensed therapist to gain a different perspective on anything that may be weighing on your mind.