On February (horoscope in reverse)
Skeptics might say that using astrology to review what’s already happened allows for a certain kind of confirmation bias. But I think astrology is often best used for reflection. As someone guilty of perpetually digging through my own archives in search of a through line, I insist that sometimes the thing we need to move forward is buried somewhere in the past. If we’re strategic, we can find it. What’s more healing than the familiar burst you get from finding a two year old grocery list under the refrigerator or a poignant poem penned in fifth grade buried in a box at your parents’ house or a journal entry from 2015 that articulates more about your current situation than any thoughts currently running through your brain. It’s called finding yourself, baby! Returning to who you are! I’m not saying it’s good to live in nostalgia (as someone who’s also been guilty of that) but if we know what we’re looking for, the past really can be a wonderful place to visit.
What follows is a retrospective horoscope, the first in a series looking back on each month. Think of this like a TV recap but for your life through the language of astrology. Connect the dates like touchstones on a path. Check the rearview before moving forward.
February 1 -7
You stay soft get eaten / only natural to harden up
Before February’s party even got started, on January 31st, the Sun squared off with Uranus setting up the week and the month as a period of instability. Listen: I’m usually riding a float at the Uranus pride parade but that Promethean fire-starter impulse was really testing me this month. Maybe he was testing you too. Like, I love a