Transits, Patterns, and the Collective Unconscious
The first Full Moon of February 2026 arrives at 13° Leo, and it lands like a spotlight in a crowded room.
On one side of the sky, the Moon in Leo: singular, warm, demanding to be seen. On the other, a staggering concentration in Aquarius. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto, all clustered within 20 degrees of the same sign. Five planets pulling in the direction of the collective. The personal heart opposes all of that, and something has to give.
This week feels like:
The theme is authenticity under pressure. Your heart knows something the room doesn’t want to hear yet. The tension between your own voice and the volume of the crowd is the whole week.
Numerologically, February 2026 is a Universal Month 3: creativity, self-expression, and the voice. That lines up directly with what Leo is asking for here. The number and the Moon are both saying the same thing: say it.
Every Full Moon is an opposition. The Moon reflects the Sun’s light from the opposite sign. But this one pulls against not just the Sun, but an entire Aquarian assembly. Five planets in Aquarius means the collective is loud right now. Group identities, ideologies, systems and networks, all amplified. The Moon in Leo cuts through with the only question that matters: What do I actually feel? What’s mine?
Mercury at 21° and Venus at 19° Aquarius sit in the same stellium the Moon opposes, adding a mental and relational charge to the collective side of the equation. What you think and who you want are both pulling away from what you feel. As the Moon continues through Leo in the hours after the exact opposition, it tightens into a trine with Chiron at 23° Aries. There’s a wound here that wants to speak, and the Full Moon gives it a voice. Honest self-expression, even when it’s raw, even when it shakes, is the medicine. You don’t have to be healed to be heard.
Mars conjunct Pluto in early Aquarius (orb 4°) adds an undertow of intensity to the collective side of this opposition. Power dynamics within groups. The pressure to conform, to perform, to merge with something larger than yourself. The Moon in Leo doesn’t merge. It radiates.
Full Moons don’t arrive from nowhere. They’re the culmination of a cycle that began at the New Moon in the same sign, roughly six months earlier.
The Leo New Moon landed on July 24, 2025 at 2° Leo. And it wasn’t gentle. The Sun and Moon were exactly opposite Pluto in Aquarius, within half a degree. That’s about as tight as an opposition gets. Whatever you were planting in late July 2025, it had a Plutonian edge. Something had to be confronted, surrendered, or burned down before the new thing could take root. Mercury was also retrograde in Leo at that New Moon, which means the seed was reflective. Maybe you weren’t fully ready to act on it yet. Maybe you were still reworking something in your mind, circling back to an older version of yourself to figure out what still belonged and what didn’t.
Saturn and Neptune were already conjunct in early Aries at that time, within a quarter of a degree. The same background transit that’s been reshaping 2025 and 2026 was active at the seeding. This Leo cycle isn’t separate from the larger structural shift. It’s nested inside it.
So this Full Moon in February 2026 is asking: what grew? Since late July, what did you commit to when it actually cost you something? What did Pluto force you to be honest about? The Full Moon illuminates the harvest. Not just what you planted, but what survived the confrontation with power, the rethinking, six months of quiet pressure doing its work.
If something comes to completion now, or if something needs to be released, it probably has roots in that window. Late July, early August 2025. Go back there in your memory. Feel what was alive in you. That’s the thread this Full Moon is pulling.
This Full Moon lands while Saturn at 28° Pisces closes in on its conjunction with Neptune at 0° Aries. That conjunction is the defining transit of 2026. Old structures meeting old dreams, reaching their final synthesis before both planets cross into Aries and begin something new. The background hum of this lunation is endings that have been ending for years.
Saturn sextile Uranus (1.3° orb) and Uranus sextile Neptune (2.7° orb) create a rare cooperative geometry among the outer planets. The ground is shifting, but it’s shifting in a direction. There’s a hinge here, and this Full Moon illuminates what the hinge is swinging away from. What does the heart still need to say before the door closes?
The house where Leo falls in your chart shows where this Full Moon asks you to stop hiding and start declaring. Read for your rising sign. If you don’t know yours, find your rising sign with our free calculator. Your Sun sign will give you a general sense.
Aries rising. 5th house. Creativity, romance, joy. Something you’ve been making, or someone you’ve been falling for, reaches a peak. The Aquarius opposition from your 11th house says the group has opinions. Create anyway.
Taurus rising. 4th house. Home, emotional foundation. A family matter or living situation comes to fullness. The 10th house Aquarius stellium puts career pressure on your domestic life. You can’t serve both at the same intensity. Choose the one that needs you tonight.
Gemini rising. 3rd house. Communication, the way you move through your immediate world. Something you’ve been meaning to say arrives at the surface. The 9th house Aquarius crowd pulls toward big-picture narratives. Forget the big picture for a second. Say it simply.
Cancer rising. 2nd house. Money, resources, what you actually value. Not in theory, in practice. The 8th house Aquarius pile-up stirs shared finances, debts, psychological entanglements. Separate what’s yours from what you owe.
Leo rising. 1st house. This is yours. Identity, body, the face you show the world. The 7th house Aquarius opposition means partnerships are the pressure point. You can’t be yourself and also be who they need you to be. The Full Moon says be yourself. It’s not negotiable right now.
Virgo rising. 12th house. The unconscious, solitude, what you do when nobody’s watching. A quiet, potent lunation for you, illuminating dreams, fears, the places you retreat to. The 6th house Aquarius energy demands productivity. Let the dreamlife speak first.
Libra rising. 11th house. Community, friendships, the groups you belong to. A social situation reaches clarity. The 5th house Aquarius stellium brings creative friction; your self-expression challenges the group’s norms. Real communities can hold that tension.
Scorpio rising. 10th house. Career, reputation, authority. Something you’ve been building becomes visible. The 4th house Aquarius concentration says your private foundations are in flux. The public recognition is real, and so is the restructuring underneath it.
Sagittarius rising. 9th house. Beliefs, higher learning, publishing. A philosophical chapter reaches fullness. The 3rd house Aquarius crowd complicates your communications. Too many signals. Trust the one that rings true in your body, not just your mind.
Capricorn rising. 8th house. Shared resources, intimacy, transformation. Something hidden comes into the light. The 2nd house Aquarius stellium puts pressure on your own values. Look at what you’ve been avoiding in the financial or psychological depths. The Full Moon won’t let you look away.
Aquarius rising. 7th house. Partnerships. The Full Moon in your opposite sign makes this deeply personal. A partner, client, collaborator demands your attention. With five planets in your 1st house, you’ve been focused inward. Someone else needs to be seen right now.
Pisces rising. 6th house. Health, daily work, routines. The Full Moon illuminates the gap between your ideals and your daily reality. The 12th house Aquarius stellium stirs your unconscious. The body is where integration happens. Pay attention to what it’s telling you.
Full Moons are for completion, release, honest seeing. But before you rush to release anything, take a breath. Feel where this one lands in your body. Not conceptually. Physically. Where does the tension sit? Chest, throat, jaw, gut? That’s information. The body holds the story before the mind has language for it.
Leo carries the archetype of the heart center. Not the sentimental heart of greeting cards, but the deep heart, the one connected to your sense of creative authority, your will to exist as yourself in a world that constantly asks you to be something else. When this part of you is met by the pressure of five planets in the sign of the collective, the body responds. Notice what it’s doing.
The Chiron trine gives permission to be imperfect about it. You don’t need to perform wholeness. You don’t need to arrive at some polished version of self-expression. What’s being asked is more honest than that. Just: what’s true for you right now? Not what you wish were true. Not what used to be true. Right now.
The Pluto opposition that seeded this cycle in July 2025 was about confrontation with something bigger than you. Power structures, group dynamics, the ways we lose ourselves inside systems we thought we chose. This Full Moon is the moment you get to say what you found on the other side of that confrontation. Maybe what you found is that you’re different now. Maybe it’s that you were always this, and you just couldn’t say it out loud.
The Aquarius stellium will still be there tomorrow. The systems, the collective pressure, none of it disappears. But the Full Moon opens a window where the individual voice matters more than the chorus.
Use it.
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