Posted on January 29, 2026 by Henry Seltzer of ASTROGRAPH.COM
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Sunday’s Full Moon in Leo on Sunday, the 1st of February, at 2:08 PM PST, takes place at 13° Leo opposed to the Aquarius Sun in the same degree. This is another in the series of intense lunations that we have been seeing lately, with outer planets again emphasized. The Sun is accompanied by no fewer than four other planets in Aquarius: Venus and Mars on either side, with Mercury conjunct Venus and Pluto before Mars in early Aquarius, at 3 °. In this Full Moon configuration, Pluto is sextile Neptune, now at 0° Aries, and trine Uranus, as well as being closely contra-parallel to expansionist Jupiter. These other two 20th century outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, are emphasized along with Pluto, making for a mystical, transformational, and revelatory stew to continue the intensity of these fractious times we are currently living through. All these recent lunations have been pretty wild in this way, as we are seeing in the power struggles and resulting angst all around us, in the collective culture and very likely in our own individual lives as well.
There are other declinational aspects present in this energetic Full Moon, the gateway to February. This lunation is also the gateway to the late Aquarius New Moon and Solar Eclipse of February 17th, which is another doozy, to use the technical term, with all three outer planets once more highlighted. Most prominently, now, we find Mars in contra-parallel with Uranus, exact to the very minute of a degree. This echoes the Mars–Mercury–Uranus configuration in the Capricorn New Moon from mid-January and implies continuing proclivities for strange synchronicities and unexpected events, as well as intuitional knowledge being able to inform our understanding of where we collectively are heading. Another way to put this is that not everything happens at conscious levels of our interior psyche; instead, we must stay open to what comes to us from the deeper places inside us, such as our own unique understanding of right and wrong, a part of natural law that we each hold dear.
In this Full Moon as well, the positions of Mars and Venus, on opposite sides of the Aquarius Sun, in each case about six degrees away, are quite interesting, because the Full Moon Sun is at their mid-point. This recalls the masculine and feminine energies applying to all types of close partnerships, gay or straight, the push and the pull of force and attraction, the rational logic that analyzes versus the softer aesthetic of gestalt oriented holistic thinking. The Sun and Moon in their opposition also speak to this dichotomy, and the ultimate balance of their coming together. This pattern does seem to indicate that relationships of all kinds, whether one-on-one or as group dynamics, are also emphasized now and in the coming month.
Neptune has, by the time of this Full Moon, recovered its former position of 0° of Aries, and remains closely conjunct Saturn at 28° Pisces, with Saturn powerfully configured with Sun and Moon in this Full Moon, by semi-square and sesquiquadrate, so that Saturn–Neptune is highlighted. Their conjunction – with Neptune right on the Aries Point – and featured in this Full Moon, is very important, signaling a potential conflict between warring ideologies, as we have been witnessing, along with a thirst for the actual and practical truth of the matter, apart from idealistic fantasies or deliberate gaslighting. One keyword, also, for the strong combination of Saturn with Neptune is “deception unmasked.”
Getting to the truth of things is vitally important now, plus having the courage to act upon what we have been enabled to more deeply understand. Mars is prominent and so is Eris, which is quintile Sun, parallel Neptune, and conjunct Chiron, the Wounded Healer. Eris herself may be characterized as Feminine Warrior in support of soul intention. That is, soul intention as we can come to it, within our own individual depths. I have been able to demonstrate the evidence for this significant archetype in my book, The Tenth Planet, which has been well-received. This deep inner warrior being so strongly present with Neptune in this Full Moon is an indication that we must, in these extremely intense opening weeks and months of the 2026 year, be willing to take a determined stand for what we most profoundly believe from the standpoint of these subtle interior layers of our psyche. Thus, even as we witness the seemingly powerful tides of politics or circumstance thrusting us toward an unimaginable future not of our choosing, we still have agency. As the Tao Te Ching is able to express it, “we have our yes, and we have our no.” In the contest between the love of power versus the power of love, we can make our choice.
The Chinese ideogram for crisis is also, along with danger, a representation of opportunity. In these entirely consequential times, may we remember this simple idea and proceed to act upon it. May we recognize, along with the suffering, and the danger, the chance to let our own quiet power additionally show, to fly our own separate flag in concert with that of like-minded others. It could be said, in this, that in our unique individuality lies therefore also our greatest strength, and, as we can come to it, what might turn out to be our deepest truth and our ultimate salvation.
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