Horoscope Principles for the week of February 9, 2026

This week, continuing the energies of last week and even the recent months, tests how we handle chaos.

When we struggle against chaos, it creates more chaos. Then, chaos acts like an undertow, sucking us under the waves because of our struggle.

The fifth Hermetic principle, the principle of rhythm, says that everything ebbs and flows, and chaos is no different. This week tests when we release control and when we struggle. What results do you get with each?

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus goes into Pisces on February 10, 2026, at 2:18am Pacific. This brings some healing and beauty to an area of life where Saturn and Neptune have been breaking down institutions.

• Mercury in Pisces goes into its pre-shadow on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 2:12pm Pacific. Mercury goes retrograde usually two or three times a year, and this is a time when physically, if you astronomically look at the sky, it looks like Mercury is going backwards. The pre-shadow marks the point that Mercury will return to when it goes retrograde. What happens now may indicate issues that will come up once Mercury goes retrograde, but we’re also experiencing disruptions related to Uranus, so there’s a lot of blame to go around.

• The Sun in Aquarius follows the path that Mercury and Venus took last week, sextiling Chiron in Aries on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 5:46pm, and then squaring Uranus in Taurus on Sunday, February 15, at 9:01pm Pacific. The sextile to Chiron offers some healing energy to a space where you’ve felt wounded, but sometimes offers of healing themselves can be triggering. The square to Uranus causes overall disruption, tension, and instability.

• Saturn goes into Aries on Friday, February 13, 2026, at 4:11pm Pacific, getting ready to conjoin Neptune on Friday, February 20. This tests what is real and not real. What spiritual truths are more real than the material world? What that we perceive with our five senses is more important than spirituality? This conjunction is at the first degree of the zodiac, breaking down old institutions and, hopefully, allowing something new to download.

• Pluto continues in Aquarius, and Jupiter continues in Cancer.

These are the principles to consider for each rising sign in the week of February 9, 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: Superheroes only need to exist in a world where we center harm and violence. While you may, like me, be someone who loves superheroes, this week think about what you love about them. If you could create an ideal world, what would the coolest version of you look like? Would that world include violence if it did not have to? This week your social groups are at odds with your changing and evolving values. The boundaries of who you are are shifting. Rewrite your future as the story of a superhero in a world without violence.

Taurus Rising: Integrity means that the parts of who you are come together to make a whole. This week how you show up in your public life is in tension with the changes you’ve experienced around your overall identity since 2018. While your social groups get some much needed healing, you are moving into a phase where your engagement with spirituality and the unconscious experience tangible consequences. Consequences are not inherently bad or good. They just are the tangible results of our actions, including our unconscious thinking.

Gemini Rising: Fast thinking is no better than slow thinking. Chaos is no better or worse than stability. These are just ways of being. You may be someone who prefers quick, witty banter and action, but because your chart is ruled by Mercury, the next couple of months asks you to slow down and even examine what it would be like to value your dreams as much as your reality. Don’t lose the thread on the real world, but examine what mistakes and misunderstandings bring up for you. You are entering a period where you will need to make decisions about what you tolerate in your friend and social groups. Dreaming about an ideal life and making friends with mishap might be a way to start that process.

Cancer Rising: Every person has the capacity for psychic perception, but not every person wants it. You are in a time period that asks you whether you want to limit your understanding to your five senses, or if you want to trust intuitive and psychic abilities beyond your five senses. If you hesitate to use your perceptive abilities out of fear, just remember that you are sovereign in the space you occupy. Seriously study energetic boundaries and personal sovereignty. If you lean in to the invitation to trust your intuition and perception, just remember to validate the information you get spiritually with the material world to the extent you can. If you call in an object, does it come? If you get information about a person, can they confirm it? Trust and verify.

Leo Rising: Institutional betrayal is a term coined by Dr. Jennifer Freyd to describe the experience of reporting harm to an institution and having the institution respond by victim blaming. You are entering a season where the higher education or spiritual institutions you belong to are crumbling, and it is hard to know what you can trust in terms of your ideals. The instability and changes you have faced in your career and public-facing life since 2018 continues to be activated this week. If you lean into the expansion you are having related to your unconscious and spirituality, there are gifts and beauty available there.

Virgo Rising: Good communication requires curiosity and openness, not perfection. You have been experiencing confusion and the breakdown of boundaries in your partnerships for the past couple of years, and that is changing. This week offers some healing related to that, and also avoid the tendency to be overly optimistic in your communications. If you’re not sure you understand someone else, ask the extra questions. Write things down if you’re not sure. This area will clear up after a couple of months, but until then, go slow to go fast.

Libra Rising: You can have nice things. This week your creative projects may be in tension with your partners’ resources, or how you think about and enjoy sex may be in tension with instability in how your partner or partners handle sex. That period of instability will start to pass after February. If it feels confusing to know what is real and not real in your partnerships, look to the external results. You are visited this week by some beauty and sweetness in your daily life. Even if other spaces of your life feel chaotic, it is okay to appreciate what is beautiful and sweet.

Scorpio Rising: This may sound like bullshit to you, but it is through giving up control that we find the spaces we can truly influence. There is tension between your home and family life and the changes you’ve been going through in your partnerships. Much of that may feel chaotic and out of your control. The tighter you cling to rigid rules and expectations, the more likely things are to break. If you can ease up and lean into some dreaming around creative projects and beauty, you might be able to find spaces of influence.

Sagittarius Rising: Paintings never look like our imagination; books never quite capture the dream of the author; movies are a shallow reflection of the stories that inspire them. And, yet, these are some of the greatest sources of beauty and joy we have in the world. You are entering a phase where boundaries are torn down in the area of your creative life and reality becomes unclear. If you are using AI in your creative projects, research the consequences of that choice first, not just to the environment but also to your ownership of your projects.

Capricorn Rising: Good boundaries create healthy relationships. If you have been compromising your boundaries at home or idealizing your home life, you are about to enter a phase of life where you experience the consequences of that. Your money and values continue to be in tension with your creative projects and children this month. But, if you see some beauty and peace in your local community, enjoy it.

Aquarius Rising: Sometimes transformation is not changing from one thing to another, but uncovering something that was already there. The transformation you are going through and how you show up in your everyday life is in tension with the changes that have happened in your home and family. This may feel like you are the trigger of chaos or like you are the victim of it, but really this process is uncovering something about who you are and have the potential to be.

Pisces Rising: A budget is meant to be a structure that supports your most thriving financial success, not a prison for your money. Likewise understanding your personal values is meant to be a way to put language around the beliefs you hold most deeply. You are entering a time that asks you to hold ideals and boundaries around your money and values. This requires being able to dream and also being able to pay attention to the practical reality of those dreams. If people are drawn to you this week, take it as a sign you are on the right track and release any self-sabotaging thoughts.

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