Astro Daily: February 16, 2024

Venus arrives in Aquarius, joining up with Mars and Pluto, a powerhouse lineup that invokes an energy that wants to overhaul and transform our relationships, even if it’s our relationship with ourselves. There’s a push to start something by first clearing a path.

Sometimes new beginnings are created from the rubble and ash of the old. This is, of course, a bold statement, however Mars and Venus are conjunct Pluto, also newly arrived in Aquarius.

You’ve been hearing me say this over the past few weeks. We’re in a new era, one that may not be immediately evident, but the seeds are there. Pluto is like a forge, bending and reshaping things as we go. It’s up to us to look for the clues and hints that something is changing.

Tomorrow, Venus makes an exact conjunction to Pluto, a test of relationships, a deeper if not darker look at what we love and what we value. Venus and Pluto together can be magnetic and seductive. But it can also give us the psychic fuel to discover our own personal power and self worth.

Venus is the last of the personal planets to meet up with Pluto, something that brings this new era into the personal, into our daily lives. This follows Mercury conjunct Pluto on February 5 and Mars conjunct Pluto on February 14.

In other news, Mercury makes a square to Uranus today, an aspect that can bring flashes of new awareness, an ability to think differently, or make radically new choices. With the Moon in Gemini this weekend, there may be a fast paced energy that wants to move, explore, and create.

If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for February 17-19, 2024.