Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.

MON: Mercury sextile Eris, Sun semisquare Eris

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VENUS & JUPITER: Venus and Jupiter, known respectively as the Lesser and Greater Benefics, conjoin for their annual rendezvous on Wednesday, March 1. In keeping with the positive perceptions we usually have of these two planets, we expect their conjunction to increase our capacity to express ~ and our desire to experience ~ love, beauty, and creativity. With the alignment occurring in proactive Aries, there can be a sense of having a fresh start in these areas, and it may, indeed, be an opportune time to begin a relationship, take on a new artistic endeavor, or perhaps invest financially.

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SUN, FEB 19: New Moon in Pisces, 11:05 p.m. PST

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PISCES NEW MOON: A new lunar cycle begins late tonight, at 11:05 p.m. PST (Sunday, February 19), when the Moon and the Sun align at 01°22´ Pisces. The sign of the Fishes is noted for being mystical, creative, and spiritual; the lunar month that begins with a Pisces New Moon offers us these qualities, to be consciously incorporated into our everyday lives.

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MON: No major aspects are exact today

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SOLAR ACTIVITY: Solar Cycle 25 is heating up! The Sun has become very active this past week, erupting with more than twenty-six M-class (moderate) solar flares in the past five days alone. It also erupted with a powerful X-class (strong) flare yesterday, and has released four more M-class flares already this morning (February 12).

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MON: Mercury sextile Neptune, Mercury square Eris, Venus semisquare Pluto

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ONWARD & UPWARD: Now that Uranus has stationed direct, all the primary planets used in astrology are currently moving forward. Symbolically, the setting is right for us to likewise be taking steps into new territory, individually and collectively. The only technicalities are that Mars and Mercury are in their "post-retrograde shadow" zones, when they are still retracing steps originally taken before they stationed retrograde. While this places a "Caution: Proceed with Care" sign beside the road, it doesn't mean we need to come to a stop. Astrological wisdom simply advises us to continue to be very observant and to take our time with decisions and actions.

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MON: No major aspects are exact today

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FULL MOON: The  lack of major planetary events this week – and the current easing of  solar flare activity – are more than made up for by the power and  complexity of the Full Moon that occurs next Sunday. On February 5, at  10:28 a.m. PST, the Moon will be at 16 °40´ Leo, opposite the Sun at the  same degree of Aquarius. While all Full Moons represent a climax of  energies and a time when emotions and reactions are heightened, this  lunation is significant because the Sun and Moon are in hard aspect to  Uranus in Taurus. This creates an astrological configuration called a  "fixed T-square."

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MON: Mercury semisquare Saturn

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COMET ZTF: A  "new" comet was discovered in March 2022, nicknamed "Comet ZTF" in  honor of the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory  in California. The comet is unusual in that it has a bright green color,  and because of its very large orbit around the Sun. It has been  "inbound" toward planet Earth for the past 53,000 years, will be closest  to Earth on February 1, and then will head out to continue its great  adventure into the unknown.

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MON: Retrograde Mercury quincunx Mars

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MERCURY AT STATION: The  planet Mercury is completing its three weeks of backward motion this  week, and will station direct on January 18 at 5:11 a.m. PST. This has  been an especially complicated Mercury-retrograde phase since it  coincided with Mars being retrograde in Gemini. The nervous energy has  been quite high, and memories from the recent and the long-ago past have  surfaced on a daily basis, giving us the opportunity to review and  reflect. The mind has seemed to turn inward even more than usual,  sometimes tumbling over itself in an effort to make sense of life  events.

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MON: Venus semisquare Neptune, Venus trine Mars

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MARS AT STATION: The planet Mars reaches the end of its retrograde period this week. Mars first went retrograde on October 30, and since then has been moving backward through the middle degrees of Gemini. During these many weeks, we have been learning a lot about how we use our vital energies, perhaps experiencing an increase in irritations, frustrations, and even anger when things haven't gone exactly according to plan (Gemini). We may also have found ourselves exceptionally impatient when agendas, communications, or travels have been delayed or interrupted. And a blatant manifestation of retrograde Mars in Gemini — verbal disagreements that stymie progress — have certainly been in the news headlines.

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MON: Sun square Chiron, Venus enters Aquarius

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CROSSING THE THRESHOLD: Another  year has come full circle and we are now crossing the threshold of a  new calendar year. Based on the planetary activity that is in store,  2023 promises to be memorable, for each of us individually and for our  global community.

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Written and Narrated and by Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

If  left to whim, we will mostly be driven by our biases and we have lots  of them. One that most of us have is an optimism bias. Some estimates  are that roughly 70-80% of people have this bias. There is a pessimism  bias as well. While I am convinced that it is much better to be  optimistic than pessimistic, we must be aware of the downside to both  biases.

A pessimism bias is primarily driven by fear and that was  predominant in our early evolution. But gradually, this pessimism bias  was replaced by optimism as our lives improved. This idea of progress is  perhaps best captured by the concept of "one step forward and two steps  back".

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