Libra Horoscope for February 2016

Your changes are underway, Libra, and in some manner gaining momentum. This has been an old story for you, as the many months of the Pluto-Uranus square have rolled by, indicating major change. By this current month, there is greater consciousness surrounding what you are truly up to. A new internally derived mission of progress is tugging at you in this post-Mercury-retrograde time period, and as the stream clears heading into mid-month. You are taking everything that you have learned about yourself in the previous month and year, and applying this fresh understanding to more fully unleash your own creativity, in alignment with your deepest soul intention. This month in particular you are transforming at the core, in your family connections and your partnerships also, and in the recognition that this metamorphosis and growth in awareness is purposeful on the part of your Higher Self.

As the month begins, you are finding new meaning in concepts of home and family that were advanced during the course of the previous month. This was a time when Mercury, in retrograde motion, and in the retrograde shadow that follows its station to direct motion, was traveling through the root sector of your chart. This was true for the final week of January, when also Venus, your ruler, was in this same sector. This implies that you have been looking more closely into the family constellation that it some ways contains you. This is to include deeper implications and fundamental motivation, as well as your family of origin, and the issues stemming from an earlier time. All are significant parts of you, at profound and barely conscious levels. One way to view the task of life is that you make these deeper factors within yourself more consciously available to your mentality. This is a near-perfect symbolic match with Mercury in retrograde conjunct Pluto, and your ruler, in this fundamental sector of your chart.

The second week of the month is different in its quality from the first one, because you have, in the timing of Monday's Aquarius New Moon, come through the greatest intensity of the Venus-Pluto conjunction. What is launched upon these cosmic tides is a new mandate for intentional growth. This takes into account information from partners, and from your inner intuitional understanding, in order to enlarge your own perspective. The week that follows, in February's second half, again represents a further shift, as Venus enters the sign of Aquarius, corresponding to your creativity sector. You could easily find that your creative juices are more easily flowing, and are more fully geared to your inner workings as well as to more effective communication with peers and with partners. Important others in your life are instrumental to your transformation now, both inspiring and aiding you in your journey toward greater wholeness.