You can start to recognize and repair your relationship with authority.

Recently, I picked up a copy of The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté from my local library and gave it a read. Maté said something in his book that I think is very relevant to Saturn moving out of Pisces and coming into Aries for the final time. He said that cultures who have their priorities in order make space for kids to play with other kids under adult guidance.

Maté writes that kids who look for their primary attachment in other kids do so as a coping mechanism. Their parents are busy working. They get sent to school. They’re queer and they have to seek out other queer kids online. When kids are alienated from loving adults, when they don’t get the affirmation that they need from an authority figure who they trust enough to accept validation from, they end up trying to seek the validation that they need from their peers. However, kids can’t provide helpful validation to other kids because they have the same level of emotional maturity. Maté goes on to write that seeking out validation from our peers instead of trusted elders can keep us immature. This coping strategy gives us someone to connect to but it also makes us more competitive and interpersonally defensive.

Consider these words from Trump 2025 National Security Strategy: “President Trump’s foreign policy is pragmatic without being “pragmatist,” realistic without being “realist,” principled without being “idealistic,” muscular without being “hawkish,” and restrained without being “dovish.” It is not grounded in traditional, political ideology” (italics my own).

When someone tells you that they are being pragmatic without being pragmatic, that they are being realistic without being realistic, when they play these kinds of word games with you, you can be sure of one thing: they are lying. It’s like the riddle with the two sphinxes guarding two doors. One can lie and one can tell the truth. The only thing that you can be sure of is that you are being lied to.

What Trump is doing is he is inventing an apolitical aesthetic that acts political but doesn’t truly function as politics. This aesthetic is a lie but it is so obviously a lie that some people seem to think that they are in on a joke. Trump’s invention of a roguish, rebellious, but apolitical aesthetic looks like a joke but it isn’t one. It merely has the appearance of one because it is a lie told in plain view.

Most fascist movements are aesthetic movements because they are designed to build political apathy and a lack of interest in real people. Our current fascism movement pretends to be anti-authoritarian but it is highly authoritarian. It appropriates punk aesthetics without caring about people. It takes on the aesthetic of satire but isn’t funny because it’s not critiquing power but appropriating it.

Saturn’s time in Aries can largely be thought of as a crisis in authority. I think that most people who have Saturn in Aries know this—it’s very hard to find an authority figure who you can trust enough to learn from. And, yet, we need teachers. Teaching isn’t simply the inheritance of knowledge but a process of nurture that helps us imagine that more is possible.

I know that a lot of us don’t love the concept of authority. We don’t trust it. For many of us, authority figures have existed primarily to dismiss our lives or to manage our rebellions. For many of us, we have sought to repair our confused sense of inner authority by creatively nourishing languages of peer reciprocity. For many of us, we don’t trust the politics of our parents' generation and we don’t have the words to that era of globalization in a way that matters now. But many of us also wanted to be taught. We wanted to know what the older generation did for our movements and how they responded to the ongoing issues that we face too. We wanted someone to be there for us to teach us our history, to ground us in political ideology.

We need external validation not just from everyone and anyone but from people who can teach us. And we have to be willing to grow into our authority for those who are younger than us so that we can validate and affirm them. We have to recognize our maturity instead of constantly fetishizing the appearance of naivete and youth.

When emotionally available teachers aren’t available, validation from our peers is the next best thing. But we need to be aware our societies are designed to encourage intergenerational alienation and peer-to-peer competition. We need to be aware that seeking out validation from our peers speaks to a very deep grief around not being affirmed and protected by older and wiser people.

I highly doubt that Saturn in Aries, being a crisis of authority, will bring about some startling wise authority figure who all of us trust. That’s just not the current time. In fact, that’s pretty much the opposite of what Saturn in Aries expresses. During Saturn in Aries, we face an absence of trustworthy authority and we have to meet our moment from where we are at. Yes, cultivate those networks of peer support but understand that your peers can only give you part of what you need. You will need to develop a sense of inner authority by studying your context and your history. You will need to remember that your parents aren’t the only gatekeepers to your culture and that you must open your own gate.

Saturn transits to Aries on February 14th, 2026. The solar eclipse in Aquarius just three days later looks to Saturn for guidance. But Saturn is undergoing its own crisis. In that crisis you can make your own history. You can start to recognize and repair your relationship with authority.

Aquarius February 2026 Horoscope

You actually get to decide how close you are to someone based on what you know to be true about them, what you know to be true about yourself, and you hold to be uncertain.

Intimacy isn’t something that you have to perform for other people. It’s not something that you can give to other people without accepting anything back. Being overly giving or oversharing will not earn you greater closeness when you, your body, has not accepted that closeness yet. You really gotta just get to know people over time and let people know you.

No one gets to tell you what you get to say or what you don’t say. Someone might wish that they could hear something in their own head come out of their mouth but that is their wish. People don’t get to put words in your mouth because you use your words to clarify your mind, not to lecture to other people or make declarations about what you stand for. You will write about what you write about in your own way, doing so in a manner that helps you understand something better. This process is deeply personal.

No amount of saying what other people wish you would say, no amount of using the right words or expressing docile opinions, will earn you intimacy or cohesion. At some point, your mind—not just your food or your culture but your political perspective—assimilated and you still remember that painful process. You have the pieces of what it broke in you. In February, you are getting to know who you are close to and who hasn’t earned that closeness yet. Remember that you are not here to be close to everybody, that you are not here to use the words that everybody else is using.

Questions for Aquarius for February 2026:
What is the writing that you do just for yourself like?
What helps you commit deeper to that process of self inquiry?
What remains real about your political perspective whether you share about it or not?

Pisces February 2026 Horoscope

No one gets to tell you how much food you need to eat because no one can tell you how hungry you are. However, that doesn’t mean that you don’t learn to eat from other people. You learn so much about eating and absorbing nutrients and allowing yourself to be resourced by the people around you. You learn how to cook, you build your gut bacteria based on all of the plants and animals who live around you, and you have kept something about your digestive history inside of you from your past.

When you were growing up, what did your authority figures teach you about how much was enough and how to ask for more? Who taught you how to say no when what you were offered became too much or when you were offered something that you didn’t need? I wonder how those lessons about resourcing impact the way you think about your needs today and how you absorb support.

As you get older, I wonder how you model asking for more or something different to younger people. I wonder what reminds you of your expertise in knowing how much you need. You know something that you can teach people about how to accept help. You have learned something about how to trust food.

Your authority about your needs helps you accept, metabolize, and digest resources. You know when you’re hungry. You are clear enough about what your hunger means to not see this hunger as a threat. You have learned that you don’t need to meet your hungers with urgency or in secrecy. You are allowed to eat with dignity.

Questions for Pisces for February 2026:
Who taught you how much is enough and how to ask for more?
Who taught you how to say no to too much or how to ask for something else?
What helps your body absorb nutrition?

Aries February 2026 Horoscope

So—you’re not invincible. This fact of nature is very important to remember. When you get hurt, whether that be from falling on the sidewalk or from a fight with a friend, you need time to heal. You’re not supposed to be just up for anything and you’re definitely not supposed to be running around trying to help everyone with everything. You do not exist to fix everyone’s problems because you are an imperfect and fallible human being just like the rest of us.

Starting from February and onwards, you’re going to be getting to know and loving the hell out of your own limitations. Wow! Isn’t it nice to be able to say, “You know what? This dynamic isn’t right for me” or “This isn’t the right time for me”? To say things like “I don’t have time right now but I can make time later”?

Isn’t it nice to notice when you need to heal, to actually take time to eat food and stretch and take care of your body? To notice that your body isn’t infinitely resilient but that it accepts care? Isn’t it nice to set boundaries with yourself around email, around texting, and to not be available when you can’t be? Isn’t it incredible to not react to everything that is urgent but to build your own sense of pace and goals?

You’re not Clark Gable. You can take your own feelings seriously and have a personal preference or two. You have a very specific personality and you’re not for everybody. You are more effective and impactful when you are intentional. Think about everything that has remained true about yourself since you were born. This is your core self and what you must nurture.

Questions for Aries for February 2026:
What do you currently have time for?
What do you currently not have time for?
What are you saying yes to and what are you saying no to?

Taurus February 2026 Horoscope

Your task in February is very rewarding but also immensely difficult. Your task is to spend time with your inner loneliness. To do this, you will have to take notice of everything that you are connected to—not just living humans but every single part of your world. You will also have to take credit for what you have already done and to trust the decisions that you made for yourself in the past.

Embrace listlessness. You don’t have to be useful all the time. In fact, your listlessness will teach you a lot about how you can survive.

Starting from February, you might feel as though you have entered a period of withdrawal from your own ambitions. If you have any workaholic tendencies, then you will start to examine what your everyday urgency helps you cover up. A lot of us use ambition to cover up loneliness. Loneliness is a difficult emotion but a real one. It can tell you about what is lacking in your life. Only by feeling our loneliness and allowing it to teach us about ourselves can we come to recognize what remains denied.

You’re going to start to feel less motivated to go out and pretend to enjoy what you don’t actually enjoy. You’re not going to want to strive for what feels fake or go out to social engagements that don’t feel engaging. That means that you’re going to have a little more time to yourself than what you’re used to. You’re going to have time to do something more unexpected.

Questions for Taurus for February 2026:
Who are you when you are not being useful?
What do you enjoy for no reason?
What are you no longer interested in pretending to enjoy?

Gemini February 2026 Horoscope

You should be entering the month of February with the strong intuition that you’re not supposed to be friends with everyone. You’re not friends with someone simply because you know the same people or because you happen to share the same interests. You’re friends with people who you choose to practice friendship with. This practice of friendship is a way of relationship making that teaches you how to make the future possible.

You also don’t know all of your friends yet. Some of your friends exist in the future. You will meet them when you meet them when you go through the things that show you who your friends are.

No one gets to tell you who you like and who you don’t like. You’re allowed to just not like some people but you’re also allowed to treat the people who you dislike with respect and dignity. Your preferences don’t get to make your decisions for you. Your methodology of community making doesn’t rely solely on your likes and dislikes. You are also not obligated to get closer with someone just because you’re trying to like them more. Resist that Gemini urge to follow someone who has been cruel to you around. You’re not here to try and prove that you can be friends with everyone under the sun. There’s a difference between being friendly and being friends.

You are allowed to be discerning about who your friends are. Your discernment comes out of a deeply personal history about who has got your back. Your discernment also doesn’t call the shots in your life—you do. You’re allowed to get to know people who you don’t normally talk to. Surprise yourself.

Questions for Gemini for February 2026:
What is currently changing in your friendships?
Who are you getting closer to?
Who are you getting distance from?

Cancer February 2026 Horoscope

February gives you greater ambition. I want you to get serious about what you want to accomplish. This isn’t the time to use your ambition to fuel fantasies. This is the time to measure your capacity and make a plan. You can get a whole lot done if you take things step by step. You can also miss out on a whole lot if you try to do it all at once.

I want you to start with a day—not the next ten years or five years but with a day. How much can you commit to your larger purpose in just a single day? You still have to eat and sleep. You still have to work and take care of your home. But you can make an hour or two. If you can’t, then you can make a half hour possible from reorganizing the things in your life or just fifteen minutes. When you find this time in your day, stick to it.

You might not know what you’re doing for those fifteen minutes or those two hours. But you will pause for that time and you will do something that helps you figure it out.

Once you have committed to how much time you can write or draw or what you can organize in just a single day, then start to think about a season. Think about how much impact you can make, how much you can change as a person, in a single season. If you nurture your days, then you will start to find goals that make sense to you. You will start to believe in your impact and that something is possible.

Your ambition isn’t about earning a certificate or a medal. Your ambition may not be clear to you until you give yourself time. If the idea of a larger purpose is overwhelming to you, start with a day. Keep it as simple as possible.

Questions for Cancer for February 2026:
Can you make some time to give to a larger purpose everyday?
How much time can you make and commit to?
What starts to clarify about your ambition when you make this time?

Leo February 2026 Horoscope

In February, I want you to think about what you would like to learn. I’m serious about this. When I bring up the issue of education with people in readings, I sometimes get a big groan. Ugh! We don’t want to be in school. It takes way too much time, it’s way too expensive, and the lessons are only focused on how to enter the economy.

But that’s why you gotta take your education seriously! It’s not a given in our society. I want you to think about all of the fears and desires that the idea of intellectual authority brings up in you and to go and study the things that those fears and desires make you want to learn. I believe in your intelligence. What would make you more comfortable expressing it, sharing your opinions, and teaching?

The reason why education is usually challenging for most of us to wrap our minds around is because the idea of education brings up feelings about our potential. Education challenges us to believe that more is possible for us, that we can do more. Education challenges us to think that we might be important enough to pause and become knowledgeable about something that we care about.

In about two years, you’ll go through a larger transition that has to do with your life and your goals. In the meantime, invest in your education. You don’t have to go to school or to finish that degree that you started but put aside. You can start fresh, seeking out books or walks or trips or teachers that make sense to you. Your task is to take your intellectual authority seriously.

Questions for Leo for February 2026:
What do you want to learn?
What are you kind of afraid of learning?
What fears and desires come up when you explore your intellectual authority?

Virgo 2026 February Horoscope

Much of February will have you thinking about how you might cut the cord on attachments which are no longer meaningful to you. To do this, you have to take your feelings of inner rebellion seriously.

Relationships aren’t supposed to last forever. Every relationship is shorter than your actual lifespan because you are more than just what you mean to other people. That means that you are not expected to keep doing something just because you have been doing it. Every responsibility that you pick up has to come from choice. You’re not obligated to keep providing services that you already know how to provide because you’re allowed to learn something new.

Those inner feelings of rebellion or even resentment will tell you a lot about the expectations that you’re no longer wanting to meet. You might be able to meet those expectations because you’re already good at the skills involved but you’re still growing and maturing as a person. When you are properly challenged, when you are interested in what people expect from you, you have energy.

Commitment is more difficult when you are bored. Make sure that you’re being challenged adequately, that you’re not just completing rote tasks or busywork, but that you are actually interested in what you are doing. Hey, if you have to break a couple of promises that people are used to you keeping? That’s okay. Your motivation to keep going is also important.

Questions for Virgo for February 2026:
What expectations have you grown bored of?
What roles are you sick of playing?
What promises are you no longer interested in keeping?

Libra February 2026 Horoscope

It’s time to show authority in your relationships. To do this, you must do something that challenges many Libras. You must assume that you will be forgiven by the people who matter the most, that no one who counts will be trying to blame you or think the worst of you. You must trust that the people who love you try their hardest to see you in the best light every single day.

You can get away with a lot more than you think you can. You don’t have to speak in a roundabout way. You don’t have to oscillate on decisions that seem just way too risky to make. You get to make those decisions, even decisions that impact other people or make people annoyed with you, because guess what? People will just tell you if they get mad and then you can figure it out from there. There is no need to anticipate another person’s anger for them.

Partnership isn’t something that is done to you. You get to make decisions about your relationships. When you make your desires known, that’s when you’re at your most sexiest. Relationships aren’t about proving yourself and hoping that you will be chosen. Relationships are about choosing the people who have your back.

I’ll say one more thing. The people who challenge you to feel more confident inhabiting authority aren’t going to be the people who just follow what you say and go with the flow. The people who challenge you to find your inner authority will be the people who argue with you. Not in a nasty way but in an engaging way. They care about what you think. They’re not disengaged but trying to figure you out because they know that one makes decisions not because they have come to know everything that will happen but because they’re trying to figure things out.

Questions for Libra for February 2026:
What happens in your body when you piss someone off?
Is there anyone who you are comfortable pissing off?
How do you want to make more decisions in those relationships where you are free to argue?

Scorpio February 2026 Horoscope

No one can tell you how much you can work because no one is living in your body for you. You feel your own fatigue. You understand when you are not at your limit, when you are almost at your limit, and when you have hit your limit. No one can tell you how much you are allowed to work. You understand that your work, not just your paid work but your real work, has a purpose and you get to make your practice out of that cyclical balance between optimism and fatigue.

Remember that you don’t have to work until you’ve hit your limit. You can stop before you get there because you don’t just need rest when you are exhausted. You need a rhythm of rest and activity that you can trust and rely on. You don’t need to hit your absolute limit to earn your right to rest.

I wonder how you are modelling that rhythm between rest and work, between usefulness and daring to not be useful, for the people around you who are younger than you. By working when you do, you are showing younger people what it means to survive. You are showing them how to pay attention to themselves.

I also wonder what you wished was modelled for you by your caregivers around work and rest. How much did your parents work and how did they rest? Your grandparents? I wonder what you were taught about work, about whether you learned to see it as ambition or service or something else entirely. I also wonder how much those lessons you internalized about labor show up in your body when you head to work, when you leave work, and when you take time off.

Questions for Scorpio for February 2026:
What comes up for you when you leave tasks undone at the end of the day?
What comes up for you when you take time off?
What helps you recognize your own fatigue and limitations at work?

Sagittarius February 2026 Horoscope

Your joy isn’t something that you perform for other people to spectate on. Your joy, a part of your conscience, is your deepest intuition about what is right. You feel joy when you choose what is right for you and also when you do the right thing. Your joy exists when you share it with other people because someone else’s opinion about what should make you happy or unhappy will not change what you know to be true. Your joy also exists when you keep it private because not everything needs to be spoken to exist.

The joy that you seek does need to be nourished. This isn’t a talent or a feeling. It’s a skill. Joy isn’t something that you receive. It’s something that you learned to build. You learned how to make joy from somewhere, not just from your immediate caretakers but from your society. You learned how to tell right from wrong and what it means to nurture your goodness.

And your joy has nothing to do with what you think should be right or what you think should be done. It has everything to do with what you are doing. Your joy does not demand risk or urgency. You have learned how to use your discernment to protect your joy.

This February, as Saturn sits itself in Aries fully, I want you to remember all of the old teachers who taught you how to build joy. Did you have a safe adult who showed you how to seek out fun? I want you to think about how the truth of your pleasure models love and dignity for those who look up for you. As an adult, how are you showing kids how to seek out fun in safe ways?

Questions for Sagittarius for February 2026:
What is something fun that you always wanted to do but never got around to trying?
What is holding you back?
What do your answers to the two above questions tell you about your relationship to pleasur

Capricorn February 2026 Horoscope

In February, I want you to think long and hard about how you seek out security. Authority is actually something that helps you feel secure.

You are allowed to make decisions about your home. Home isn’t something that is done to you or made for you. Homemaking, just like placemaking, is about accepting the history of your body in a place and seeing what is most sacred. In February, you might be dealing with some family obligations or changes in your home environment. Stay true to you. Other people’s needs and expectations are not a threat to your way of life.

The best way of staying true to your inner authority when you are at home is to let the people who you live with be themselves. You must also be yourself at home. Home isn’t just something that you have to constantly adapt to based on everyone else’s rules and routines and needs. It’s not the place where you have to be on your very best behavior at all times. It’s the place where you find your truth completely by accident.

You must remember that security is not the same as emotional control. You must cherish all of the survival strategies that helped you live as you grew up in your family of origin. You must cherish your anger, that most chaotic emotion which is hot and never cold, because anger is the emotion that tells you when you desire more connection.

Think about security. Try to figure out how you can build security in a way that gives you more freedom. Resist the urge to lock yourself into a series of decisions based on what feels urgent today. You are a lot more flexible than your fear thinks you are.

Questions for Capricorn for February 2026:
How are you planning for the future?
What is nourishing your sense of security right now?
How do you regulate yourself everyday?