Aries Monthly Horoscope
Monthly Horoscope: Predictions for Aries
The following are monthly horoscopes for Aries, typically available on the last day of the previous month. Cafe Astrology divides its monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here (you’ll need a birth time for an accurate Ascendant sign).
What are the dates/months for Aries? You have an Aries Sun sign if you were born from approximately March 21st to April 20th. However, the start and end dates vary from year to year, so if you were born around the start or end date of a sign, be sure to check your sign here: What is my Sun Sign? – Calculator for a definitive answer.
See also This Month in Astrology.
This Month’s Aries Horoscope
Aries Monthly Horoscope February 2026
Aries Monthly Horoscope
February 2026 Horoscope: Predictions for Aries
We divide our monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here or the Cafe Astrology Ascendant Calculator tool.
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| Aries born April 11 to 20 |
Overview for this Month: Aries (All)
February 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
Improvements or changes are in the works for your social life, hopes, dreams, or community involvement this month, dear Aries. February is powerful for payoffs from recent career or business efforts, networking, and connecting with friends. It's a more sociable phase, and taking some educated risks can expand your world now.
People are receiving you well, and possibly speaking highly of you as well. This is a month for making some bold moves, but not for pushing an idea or project that’s not ready to launch. February is a sociable month for you – one in which being part of a team brings you the most success. Share your time, ideas, and expertise now.
The Full Moon on the 1st awakens you to your feelings for someone or a current creative project. This can be an exciting time for love, creativity, and fertility. Emotions can be overflowing as you explore your feelings and affections. Two days later, Uranus turns direct, further opening up your social life and moving a financial matter ahead.
You’re in a great position to expand your social contacts or improve a particular friendship. Partnering with a friend is possible in some cases. You’re in high spirits, and you may feel more connected than usual. A lively agenda is in store for you--you're in demand. New beginnings on the social front are possible. You may be taking the lead on a special project or for a cause that’s important to you. It’s a fine time for joining groups or making associations that interest you.
Networking efforts pay off, people are pleased with your work or contributions, and your inner confidence comes shining through. Relationships with friends and associates assume more importance in your life, although ups and downs may be involved. Money, values, and romantic tensions can be issues since planets in your social sector sometimes clash with Uranus in your solar second house.
You can be happily busy with new projects and the pursuit of pet projects or happiness goals. You may get quite fired up about issues close to your heart this month, with Mars transiting your solar eleventh house all month. Your feelings about (and relationships with) friends can also be more intense.
From the 10th onward, although friends continue to seek you out, romantic relationships can become confusing or complicated. Some of these complications are interesting and even enjoyable! Lending an ear can be the key to smoothing over differences. Something might surface, such as an unusual coincidence, that brings some joy to your life. Putting your trust in someone can feel refreshing. The benefits and comforts of home, family, and possibly even some level of solitude are prominent now.
The Solar Eclipse on the 17th is the first of a set of eclipses that runs through January 2028, which pulls up themes revolving around friendships, group connections, long-term goals, romance, and creativity. It can be a prompt to delegate tasks, collaborate, or start something brand new. The change is likely to be empowering, even if you resist it a little at first! With eclipses, sometimes we have to let go of something before we fully embrace moving on. This eclipse can push you forward courageously with new initiatives or in your social life. You’re willing to put in the effort to make a friendship work. You’ll be reworking your platonic and romantic connections over the coming two years, and this is the first cosmic push to make changes!
Still, one of the biggest headlines this month is Saturn’s move into your sign for a stay of over two years. The cosmos demands that you mature in some manner – that you meet responsibilities and get organized in some life departments. Saturn's transit of Aries is a time for more attention to detail and special efforts to maintain and improve health and personal affairs. During this important cycle, you’re learning which habits and attitudes work for you and which should be left behind.
This month, it's a powerful time to work on lifestyle improvements. You can be motivated to work toward a dream related to your initiative, wellness, confidence, or personal plans. You are receiving attention--people tend to see you in new ways, or they see different sides of your personality. It’s a time to work more diligently on personal plans and efforts to improve health and wellness. Challenges tend to light a fire under you to make improvements. Take advantage of an opportunity to bring a new perspective to a problem.
From the 18th, life is a little quieter as you find more time to slip into the background to enjoy private moments and times for rest and reflection. New opportunities can emerge that turn your attention behind the scenes.
The day after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, on the 18th. While goals that involve networking, connecting with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project/activity, and nurturing goodwill are in the spotlight, you're also entering a period of winding down.
There is certainly a theme of networking and the support of friends this month, but also a lighter underlying theme of introspection, preparation, and attention to physical and emotional needs as February advances. You begin to enjoy more time away from demanding or competitive situations. You are starting a period best used for emotional renewal, tying up loose ends, and laying low. The need for time out is real, and it makes sense to listen to your body’s signals.
Mercury’s retrograde from the 26th on suggests a need to look back, reflect, and reconsider certain plans before moving forward with them. There are lessons and possibly a few gems involved with this backtracking. Finding a healthy balance between doing and resting is within reach.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Aries (Born March 21 to 31)
AND Aries Ascendant from 0 to 10 degrees Aries:
February 2026 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 18th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.
You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.
From February 18th forward:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on February 17th:
Because new information that could change our perspective can reveal itself after an eclipse, it's better to avoid major decision-making the week before and after this event. It's a time to observe and wait and see.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a fresh path toward happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you.
Ultimately, you may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. This new awareness might initially result from being in the dark about a matter. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 10th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From the 10th forward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 6th:
Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.
Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.
From the 6th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mercury is retrograde from February 26th to March 20th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to privacy matters. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. You might unwittingly reveal something that you'd prefer to keep private. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating about your inner world now; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
Improvements or changes are in the works for your social life, hopes, dreams, or community involvement this month, dear Aries. February is powerful for payoffs from recent career or business efforts, networking, and connecting with friends. It's a more sociable phase, and taking some educated risks can expand your world now.
People are receiving you well, and possibly speaking highly of you as well. This is a month for making some bold moves, but not for pushing an idea or project that’s not ready to launch. February is a sociable month for you – one in which being part of a team brings you the most success. Share your time, ideas, and expertise now.
The Full Moon on the 1st awakens you to your feelings for someone or a current creative project. This can be an exciting time for love, creativity, and fertility. Emotions can be overflowing as you explore your feelings and affections. Two days later, Uranus turns direct, further opening up your social life and moving a financial matter ahead.
You’re in a great position to expand your social contacts or improve a particular friendship. Partnering with a friend is possible in some cases. You’re in high spirits, and you may feel more connected than usual. A lively agenda is in store for you--you're in demand. New beginnings on the social front are possible. You may be taking the lead on a special project or for a cause that’s important to you. It’s a fine time for joining groups or making associations that interest you.
Networking efforts pay off, people are pleased with your work or contributions, and your inner confidence comes shining through. Relationships with friends and associates assume more importance in your life, although ups and downs may be involved. Money, values, and romantic tensions can be issues since planets in your social sector sometimes clash with Uranus in your solar second house.
You can be happily busy with new projects and the pursuit of pet projects or happiness goals. You may get quite fired up about issues close to your heart this month, with Mars transiting your solar eleventh house all month. Your feelings about (and relationships with) friends can also be more intense.
From the 10th onward, although friends continue to seek you out, romantic relationships can become confusing or complicated. Some of these complications are interesting and even enjoyable! Lending an ear can be the key to smoothing over differences. Something might surface, such as an unusual coincidence, that brings some joy to your life. Putting your trust in someone can feel refreshing. The benefits and comforts of home, family, and possibly even some level of solitude are prominent now.
The Solar Eclipse on the 17th is the first of a set of eclipses that runs through January 2028, which pulls up themes revolving around friendships, group connections, long-term goals, romance, and creativity. It can be a prompt to delegate tasks, collaborate, or start something brand new. The change is likely to be empowering, even if you resist it a little at first! With eclipses, sometimes we have to let go of something before we fully embrace moving on. This eclipse can push you forward courageously with new initiatives or in your social life. You’re willing to put in the effort to make a friendship work. You’ll be reworking your platonic and romantic connections over the coming two years, and this is the first cosmic push to make changes!
Still, one of the biggest headlines this month is Saturn’s move into your sign for a stay of over two years. The cosmos demands that you mature in some manner – that you meet responsibilities and get organized in some life departments. Saturn's transit of Aries is a time for more attention to detail and special efforts to maintain and improve health and personal affairs. During this important cycle, you’re learning which habits and attitudes work for you and which should be left behind.
This month, it's a powerful time to work on lifestyle improvements. You can be motivated to work toward a dream related to your initiative, wellness, confidence, or personal plans. You are receiving attention--people tend to see you in new ways, or they see different sides of your personality. It’s a time to work more diligently on personal plans and efforts to improve health and wellness. Challenges tend to light a fire under you to make improvements. Take advantage of an opportunity to bring a new perspective to a problem.
From the 18th, life is a little quieter as you find more time to slip into the background to enjoy private moments and times for rest and reflection. New opportunities can emerge that turn your attention behind the scenes.
The day after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, on the 18th. While goals that involve networking, connecting with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project/activity, and nurturing goodwill are in the spotlight, you're also entering a period of winding down.
There is certainly a theme of networking and the support of friends this month, but also a lighter underlying theme of introspection, preparation, and attention to physical and emotional needs as February advances. You begin to enjoy more time away from demanding or competitive situations. You are starting a period best used for emotional renewal, tying up loose ends, and laying low. The need for time out is real, and it makes sense to listen to your body’s signals.
Mercury’s retrograde from the 26th on suggests a need to look back, reflect, and reconsider certain plans before moving forward with them. There are lessons and possibly a few gems involved with this backtracking. Finding a healthy balance between doing and resting is within reach.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2026.
See also detailed 2026 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 1 to 10)
AND Aries Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aries:
February 2026 Aries Career, & General Trends
February 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on February 17th:
Because new information that could change our perspective can reveal itself after an eclipse, it's better to avoid major decision-making the week before and after this event. It's a time to observe and wait and see.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a fresh path toward happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you.
Ultimately, you may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. This new awareness might initially result from being in the dark about a matter. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 18th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From February 18th onward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 12th:
Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.
Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.
From the 12th onward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mercury is retrograde from February 26th to March 20th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to privacy matters. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. You might unwittingly reveal something that you'd prefer to keep private. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating about your inner world now; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 4th:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
From February 5th onward:
Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.
As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).
Overview Horoscope:
February 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
Improvements or changes are in the works for your social life, hopes, dreams, or community involvement this month, dear Aries. February is powerful for payoffs from recent career or business efforts, networking, and connecting with friends. It's a more sociable phase, and taking some educated risks can expand your world now.
People are receiving you well, and possibly speaking highly of you as well. This is a month for making some bold moves, but not for pushing an idea or project that’s not ready to launch. February is a sociable month for you – one in which being part of a team brings you the most success. Share your time, ideas, and expertise now.
The Full Moon on the 1st awakens you to your feelings for someone or a current creative project. This can be an exciting time for love, creativity, and fertility. Emotions can be overflowing as you explore your feelings and affections. Two days later, Uranus turns direct, further opening up your social life and moving a financial matter ahead.
You’re in a great position to expand your social contacts or improve a particular friendship. Partnering with a friend is possible in some cases. You’re in high spirits, and you may feel more connected than usual. A lively agenda is in store for you--you're in demand. New beginnings on the social front are possible. You may be taking the lead on a special project or for a cause that’s important to you. It’s a fine time for joining groups or making associations that interest you.
Networking efforts pay off, people are pleased with your work or contributions, and your inner confidence comes shining through. Relationships with friends and associates assume more importance in your life, although ups and downs may be involved. Money, values, and romantic tensions can be issues since planets in your social sector sometimes clash with Uranus in your solar second house.
You can be happily busy with new projects and the pursuit of pet projects or happiness goals. You may get quite fired up about issues close to your heart this month, with Mars transiting your solar eleventh house all month. Your feelings about (and relationships with) friends can also be more intense.
From the 10th onward, although friends continue to seek you out, romantic relationships can become confusing or complicated. Some of these complications are interesting and even enjoyable! Lending an ear can be the key to smoothing over differences. Something might surface, such as an unusual coincidence, that brings some joy to your life. Putting your trust in someone can feel refreshing. The benefits and comforts of home, family, and possibly even some level of solitude are prominent now.
The Solar Eclipse on the 17th is the first of a set of eclipses that runs through January 2028, which pulls up themes revolving around friendships, group connections, long-term goals, romance, and creativity. It can be a prompt to delegate tasks, collaborate, or start something brand new. The change is likely to be empowering, even if you resist it a little at first! With eclipses, sometimes we have to let go of something before we fully embrace moving on. This eclipse can push you forward courageously with new initiatives or in your social life. You’re willing to put in the effort to make a friendship work. You’ll be reworking your platonic and romantic connections over the coming two years, and this is the first cosmic push to make changes!
Still, one of the biggest headlines this month is Saturn’s move into your sign for a stay of over two years. The cosmos demands that you mature in some manner – that you meet responsibilities and get organized in some life departments. Saturn's transit of Aries is a time for more attention to detail and special efforts to maintain and improve health and personal affairs. During this important cycle, you’re learning which habits and attitudes work for you and which should be left behind.
This month, it's a powerful time to work on lifestyle improvements. You can be motivated to work toward a dream related to your initiative, wellness, confidence, or personal plans. You are receiving attention--people tend to see you in new ways, or they see different sides of your personality. It’s a time to work more diligently on personal plans and efforts to improve health and wellness. Challenges tend to light a fire under you to make improvements. Take advantage of an opportunity to bring a new perspective to a problem.
From the 18th, life is a little quieter as you find more time to slip into the background to enjoy private moments and times for rest and reflection. New opportunities can emerge that turn your attention behind the scenes.
The day after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, on the 18th. While goals that involve networking, connecting with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project/activity, and nurturing goodwill are in the spotlight, you're also entering a period of winding down.
There is certainly a theme of networking and the support of friends this month, but also a lighter underlying theme of introspection, preparation, and attention to physical and emotional needs as February advances. You begin to enjoy more time away from demanding or competitive situations. You are starting a period best used for emotional renewal, tying up loose ends, and laying low. The need for time out is real, and it makes sense to listen to your body’s signals.
Mercury’s retrograde from the 26th on suggests a need to look back, reflect, and reconsider certain plans before moving forward with them. There are lessons and possibly a few gems involved with this backtracking. Finding a healthy balance between doing and resting is within reach.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2026.
See also detailed 2026 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 11 to 20)
AND Aries Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aries:
February 2026 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 8th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From February 8th forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on February 17th:
Because new information that could change our perspective can reveal itself after an eclipse, it's better to avoid major decision-making the week before and after this event. It's a time to observe and wait and see.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar eleventh house, suggesting that a new approach to friendships or new friendships altogether, a fresh path toward happiness and fulfillment, new associations or affiliations, or plenty of social activity are in store for you.
Ultimately, you may see the light in a friendship, realizing its importance in general, as well as the importance of acceptance and camaraderie. This new awareness might initially result from being in the dark about a matter. Circumstances may be such that you bring a new spirit of friendship into a romance or other connection in the next months. This can be invigorating.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 2nd:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From February 2nd to the 25th:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
From February 26th onward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From the 1st to the 20th:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From the 20th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mercury is retrograde from February 26th to March 20th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications in general and job or health-related communications because Mercury rules these areas of your life. There can be delays or rethinking with these matters.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to privacy matters. You may find that you are less able to rely on your intuition. Perhaps you're picking up the wrong cues or reading too much into situations. Whatever the case may be, for the time being, you may not feel that your intuition is serving you well. Be as non-judgmental as you can, but do keep an eye out for deceptiveness and falseness in others. You might unwittingly reveal something that you'd prefer to keep private. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating about your inner world now; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until February 17th:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
From February 18th onward:
Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.
As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).
Overview Horoscope:
February 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
Improvements or changes are in the works for your social life, hopes, dreams, or community involvement this month, dear Aries. February is powerful for payoffs from recent career or business efforts, networking, and connecting with friends. It's a more sociable phase, and taking some educated risks can expand your world now.
People are receiving you well, and possibly speaking highly of you as well. This is a month for making some bold moves, but not for pushing an idea or project that’s not ready to launch. February is a sociable month for you – one in which being part of a team brings you the most success. Share your time, ideas, and expertise now.
The Full Moon on the 1st awakens you to your feelings for someone or a current creative project. This can be an exciting time for love, creativity, and fertility. Emotions can be overflowing as you explore your feelings and affections. Two days later, Uranus turns direct, further opening up your social life and moving a financial matter ahead.
You’re in a great position to expand your social contacts or improve a particular friendship. Partnering with a friend is possible in some cases. You’re in high spirits, and you may feel more connected than usual. A lively agenda is in store for you--you're in demand. New beginnings on the social front are possible. You may be taking the lead on a special project or for a cause that’s important to you. It’s a fine time for joining groups or making associations that interest you.
Networking efforts pay off, people are pleased with your work or contributions, and your inner confidence comes shining through. Relationships with friends and associates assume more importance in your life, although ups and downs may be involved. Money, values, and romantic tensions can be issues since planets in your social sector sometimes clash with Uranus in your solar second house.
You can be happily busy with new projects and the pursuit of pet projects or happiness goals. You may get quite fired up about issues close to your heart this month, with Mars transiting your solar eleventh house all month. Your feelings about (and relationships with) friends can also be more intense.
From the 10th onward, although friends continue to seek you out, romantic relationships can become confusing or complicated. Some of these complications are interesting and even enjoyable! Lending an ear can be the key to smoothing over differences. Something might surface, such as an unusual coincidence, that brings some joy to your life. Putting your trust in someone can feel refreshing. The benefits and comforts of home, family, and possibly even some level of solitude are prominent now.
The Solar Eclipse on the 17th is the first of a set of eclipses that runs through January 2028, which pulls up themes revolving around friendships, group connections, long-term goals, romance, and creativity. It can be a prompt to delegate tasks, collaborate, or start something brand new. The change is likely to be empowering, even if you resist it a little at first! With eclipses, sometimes we have to let go of something before we fully embrace moving on. This eclipse can push you forward courageously with new initiatives or in your social life. You’re willing to put in the effort to make a friendship work. You’ll be reworking your platonic and romantic connections over the coming two years, and this is the first cosmic push to make changes!
Still, one of the biggest headlines this month is Saturn’s move into your sign for a stay of over two years. The cosmos demands that you mature in some manner – that you meet responsibilities and get organized in some life departments. Saturn's transit of Aries is a time for more attention to detail and special efforts to maintain and improve health and personal affairs. During this important cycle, you’re learning which habits and attitudes work for you and which should be left behind.
This month, it's a powerful time to work on lifestyle improvements. You can be motivated to work toward a dream related to your initiative, wellness, confidence, or personal plans. You are receiving attention--people tend to see you in new ways, or they see different sides of your personality. It’s a time to work more diligently on personal plans and efforts to improve health and wellness. Challenges tend to light a fire under you to make improvements. Take advantage of an opportunity to bring a new perspective to a problem.
From the 18th, life is a little quieter as you find more time to slip into the background to enjoy private moments and times for rest and reflection. New opportunities can emerge that turn your attention behind the scenes.
The day after the Solar Eclipse, the Sun moves into your privacy sector, on the 18th. While goals that involve networking, connecting with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project/activity, and nurturing goodwill are in the spotlight, you're also entering a period of winding down.
There is certainly a theme of networking and the support of friends this month, but also a lighter underlying theme of introspection, preparation, and attention to physical and emotional needs as February advances. You begin to enjoy more time away from demanding or competitive situations. You are starting a period best used for emotional renewal, tying up loose ends, and laying low. The need for time out is real, and it makes sense to listen to your body’s signals.
Mercury’s retrograde from the 26th on suggests a need to look back, reflect, and reconsider certain plans before moving forward with them. There are lessons and possibly a few gems involved with this backtracking. Finding a healthy balance between doing and resting is within reach.
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