01/31/2026
The February 1st Leo ♌️ New Moon arrives in a world that feels unsettled, loud, and hard to digest. There’s a collective wake moving through; things being revealed, systems shifting, nerves stretched thin. Many of us can feel it without fully articulating it, and how each person meets that reality will look different. This moment asks for presence more than conclusions.
Leo carries a tender edge here. It wants warmth, truth, and creative life force, but when overwhelmed, it can slip into reactivity, defensiveness, or the need to prove itself. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars sitting in opposition in Aquarius offer vision and detachment, yet in their collective shadow it can feel cold, rigid, or disconnected from the heart. With these energies facing one another, we’re standing at a crossroads. Choices are being asked for—not all of them obvious, and not all of them comfortable.
The Moon’s inconjunction with the North Nodes underscores this tension. Old habits of control, over-correction, and managing outcomes are losing their usefulness, while a quieter pull toward trust, compassion, and inner guidance asks to be honored. Even when the outer world feels anything but calm, Jupiter in Cancer inconjunct Aquarius amplifies emotion and sensitivity, reminding us that nourishment matters more than urgency right now.
In the background, long-term changes initiated by the minor grand trine of Uranus, Pluto, Neptune and Saturn continue to rearrange the landscape; And Neptune newly in Aries clouds the picture as forces beyond our personal lives and emotions move forward. Pretending otherwise can create more strain. The work here isn’t to collapse into fear or bypass what’s real, but to stay present with discernment.
Now you’re invited to come back to what steadies your heart without hardening it. To choose expression over explosion. To let creativity be a place of regulation rather than performance. This is about finding your center within the turbulence, so your next steps are conscious instead of reactive.
Not every answer needs to arrive now.
But the direction you choose to face does matter.🙏🫶
Eric
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