Thursday, FEBRUARY 18

The Sun enters Pisces today, and it will stay in the sign until March 20th. During this cycle, altruistic feelings guide us. We are less motivated to take action than we are to feel, imagine, and dream. A “what will be, will be” attitude reigns, and a sense of universal correlations leads the way.

Pisces rules empathy, selfless love, devotion, and wisdom. Its shadow side involves self-pity, a feeling of being victimized by life, passivity, and avoidance.

The Moon spends the day in steady, sensual Taurus. It forms a square to Venus and aligns with Mars this evening, tapping into the energy of an upcoming Venus-Mars square. We can feel fired up, but our needs and desires tend to clash.

With a Venus-Chiron semi-square today, we’re inclined to focus on differences rather than similarities in our relationships, which works only if we make a concerted effort to learn from the differences.