Horoscope Principles for the week of February 2, 2026
I had a dream last week that involved visiting my family, who had a dog that was just completely reliable, stable, and reassuring. While I was sitting with my family, I looked outside and realized someone had put the room we were in on a semi truck and were driving us away. When we got where we were going, I was annoyed because all of our things were in a warehouse mixed with other people’s things, and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find the dog.
When I went to the warehouse, though, the dog was right there, looking reassuring, and wearing a fancy collar. He was not worried at all. There was a woman who was throwing people’s possessions away, some of them mine, and I started singing a song to her about how much I hated her. In the dream, the song I was singing was a TikTok jingle, and she sang the last line back to me because we both hated each other.
I say this in part because I encourage TikTok jinglers to create a song I can sing when I hate people. I would be forever grateful.
In part, I say this because this week is one that invites us to change our minds and relationships. It brings shifts and invites us to acknowledge the very real, life altering, and harmful instability so many of us are experiencing who are being deported, sent to concentration camps, or attacked by federal agents. In my dream, I had the privilege of being unattached to stability and being present with the dog I cared about. And, still, I hated the person disrupting and disrespecting my life.
In my dream, there was nothing shameful or violent about my hatred. It was normal and natural. And I knew I could be flexible with change.
Photo by Liam McGarry on Unsplash (capturing a dog that looks almost exactly like the dog in my dream)
For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:
Mercury in Aquarius sextiles Chiron in Aries on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 4:32pm Pacific. Then, Venus in Aquarius sextiles Chrion on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 2:23pm Pacific. These bring some healing and kindness to the spaces where our woundings have been very triggered over the past couple of months, especially around communication and relationships.
Uranus stations direct at 27 degrees Taurus on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 6:33pm Pacific. Then, Mercury squares Uranus on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 4:13am. Finally, Venus squares Uranus on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at 1:48am. Uranus is associated with social change, queerness (only ever used here as a compliment), and instability. Uranus is coming to the end of its time in Taurus, where the most rooted, grounded, stable areas of your life have experienced earthquakes since 2018. Mercury and Venus are both in Aquarius which is also a fixed sign and can be rigid in pursuit of innovation. Mercury asks you to allow your mind to change, rather than engaging in endless mental debate. Venus asks you to feel beyond the expectations of what you’ve been taught it means to be in relationship. Uranus goes into Gemini in April this year, and so this is the last of the Mercury and Venus squares to visit this space in your chart for the rest of your life. Make the most of allowing change in these fixed spaces of your chart.
Mercury goes into Pisces on Friday, February 6, 2026, at 2:48pm Pacific. After some high-speed thinking, this slows our thinking and communication way down and can create confusion. Later this month, Mercury will go retrograde in Pisces, which brings even more communication and travel snafus. Mercury in Pisces is connected to the intent and the collective unconscious connection behind communication, not the specifics. It’s an uncomfy space for Mercury, but if we are willing to allow misunderstandings, give ourselves second chances, and trust our understanding of the deeper meaning behind communications, we can flow with the transit instead of drowning in it.
These are the principles to consider for each rising sign in the week of February 2, 2026 (visit astro.com to find your rising sign, and if you don’t know your birth time, it is fine to use your sun sign, but maybe check out the horoscope for signs that might be your rising because one might resonate with you):
Aries Rising: It is not necessarily selfish to have standards and know what you like, but it is selfish to hoard in service of scarcity. In your social life you may be drawn to weirdos and creatives, which causes some tension with your stable, and maybe even traditional, standards around what you value. Just remember that this is not an either or. There is room for weirdness and stability. You can be a fancy punk if that is right for you. And, also, consider the impact your values have on the people around you. Tolerating others is not the same as supporting them. Taking risks to fit in does not actually create more stability.
Taurus Rising: Being a completely new person is different than knowing how to communicate who you are now. You are a different person than you were in 2018, but that does not necessarily mean you know how to express who that new person is publicly or that your relationships have caught up with your changes. Your relationships and communications in your public life are in tension with who you have become this week. Use that tension to serve your ongoing evolution rather than to stifle it. You know what you are saying, even if other people haven’t caught up yet.
Gemini Rising: Beliefs are the thoughts we think all the time. Church is the safety ritual that brings us back to our bodies. Prayer is an ideal we hold in our hearts for a better future. Your ideals, beliefs, and philosophical systems are causing some tension with the rigid ways you unconsciously find comfort. But, that tension is an invitation for you to find comfort that is more reliable. It is not a threat. The way we find comfort as a child does not always serve us as we get older, which means we can be open to more reliable comforts, not that we need to be anxious all the time. If you could invent a new comfort for your unconscious brain, what would it be?
Cancer Rising: There is inherent instability in seeking stability; inherent attachment in the concept of non-attachment. You have a fixedness in how you see the comfort of your social groups and your expectations of your partners, and there is tension this week between those two areas of your life. This tension is an opportunity to consider a new version of what true stability is in your social groups. There is more comfort available in allowing the new than clinging to the old standards that did not work.
Leo Rising: The Nuremberg Defense describes the defense, “I was just following orders.” In the Nuremberg trials after WWII, the courts held that each soldier was responsible for the harms they caused and that they could not use this defense. Accountability means you are responsible for actions you did take, whether or not you thought they were right at the time, but you are not responsible for actions you did not take. Career is a place where stability is important to you, and partnerships are a place where you gravitate toward somewhat hierarchical standards. Both of these spaces are going through dramatic change in your life right now and those changes are in tension. Relationships and communication do not need to be bad in order for change and accountability to be necessary.
Virgo Rising: If you are willing to change your mind when you hear an idea that is better than yours, you are never wrong. Your belief systems and ideals are coming to the end of a major renovation, and this is experiencing tension from your health and daily habits. You gravitate toward comfort and stability in the area of your ideals, and you are going through chaos, activity, and major change in your health, daily life, or habits. This can lead to feeling like everything you’ve relied on is wrong, which is not the case. Just because you need to open your ideals to something better does not mean that what you believed before was wrong.
Libra Rising: Do it weird, do it queer, do it new, do it you. Sorry I had to rhyme there, but it was necessary [for the children!]. How you communicate and build relationships around what you’ve created are in tension with other people’s values or the resources you get from your partnerships this week. And, that is meant to help you build something more stable, more comforting, and more unique to who you are. The instability and change related to your partners’ resources and other peoples values exist regardless of your creative projects. Be you and let the dust settle as it will. You’ll find stability again after this passes and stifling your creativity will not create stability.
Scorpio Rising: Chosen family and chosen partnerships provide more stability and comfort often than obligation family and partnerships in part because of their flexibility. You are wrapping up a time of major changes related to your partnerships and accomplices and starting a time of major changes related to family. These are areas of your life where you likely hate change, and so I’m sorry about this. And also, tilling ground allows plants to grow. Wind blows out smog. If the changes related to home and family are triggering your partnership changes, that can feel like a lot. If you allow the changes, you will grow into a new version of yourself; if you struggle against them, it exhausts you but does not prevent their impact.
Sagittarius Rising: It’s time to start wearing gas masks if you go protest. Your health and daily routine are a place in your life where you tend to be stable and solid, and this has gone through major changes and instability since 2018. The changes in your local community right now, including protests and counter protests, will likely trigger this instability in your health and daily routine. Be safe, and also express yourself (in ways that contribute to the safety of the community)!
Capricorn Rising: Michelangelo is said to have explained about his sculptures, “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” You have been going through a chiseling process related to your children or creative projects since 2018, and this week initiates a final round of edits that may come in the form of communications around money, values relationships, and beauty. If your children or creative projects feel at odds with your values, remember that they get to tell you who they are. If your values are too rigid, it harms you, but it does not change them.
Aquarius Rising: As the great Madonna said, “Don’t go for second best baby … express yourself.” Who you are is inherently both open-minded and hierarchical, changeable and certain, and also you are beginning a major revolution of who you are, just as you are wrapping up a major time of change in your home and family life. Part of you idealizes innovation and the urge to express your changes may be strong right now, which is worthwhile. This may trigger some of the tension around instability in your family and home life this week, though. That isn’t bad. It is just a sign that these fixed areas of your life are ready to bring a new version of comfort and stability. Going back to the outdated version is not an option anyway.
Pisces Rising: Ignoring something does not make it go away. You have hidden parts of you, or shadow parts, that are innovative, open-minded, change oriented, and have a strong sense of what is cool and uncool. You have likely felt more and more pressure to express this side of yourself, and it may surprise even you. Writing down your thoughts, needs, and opinions can give expression to this side of yourself that the universe is compelling you to look at. This may trigger some tension related to the changes and instability in your local community or with your siblings over the past 9 years, but that is no reason to silence yourself. Those changes are happening no matter what.
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