Weekly Horoscope, February 22-28, 2026:

This week, the cosmos brings themes that seem opposing yet are quite complementary. Surrender and choice. Knowing and remembering. Realignment and empowerment. With our first Mercury retrograde of the year, Mars square Uranus, as well as the Sun, North Node, Mercury and Venus coming together in conjunctions, there is a sense of reviewing, releasing, and challenging yourself and your previously held beliefs. Your weekly horoscope for February 22-28, 2026, explains what to keep in your awareness as you navigate these supportive alignments and turn away from some long-held ideas and patterns.

Weekly Horoscope, February 22-28, 2026, Preview

February 25 | Mercury retrograde in Pisces
February 27 | Mars square Uranus; Sun conjunct North Node
February 28 | Mercury retrograde conjunct Venus

Mercury Retrograde in Pisces

This week brings our initial Mercury retrograde of the year in our final sign of the zodiac. The planet’s seemingly backward spin begins on February 25 or 26, 2026, depending on where you find yourself in the world.

Mercury rules the mind. But it doesn’t rule only our logical and linear mind. Mercury extends into the space of intuition and dreams, inspiration and story, the unconscious and whatever is beneath the surface feeding our everyday thinking and analyzing, planning and communicating. While the planet is in Pisces, it is this more mystical realm that it concerns itself with.

This retrograde takes a gentler approach than the usual technology breakdowns and schedule delays typically attributed with Mercury. It brings a sense of acceptance for the purpose of releasing what is no longer ours, including whatever sits like debris in our minds and stifles our openness to thoughts, imagination, possibility, and ideas. It is a review of the psychic build up both conscious and unconscious keeping us from trust, empathy, fluidity, and dreaming. And it is a return to the dreams that we left behind as it asks, do they actually belong to the past?

Mars Square Uranus

This week, Mars in Aquarius enters a dance with Uranus in Taurus, forming a square with it on February 27, 2026.

In astrology, Mars is movement, action, assertion, and desire whereas Uranus is change, inspiration, awakening, and liberation. As they connect in a square aspect, any fears that have stifled our forward movement are challenged, including the patterns we have outgrown and the internal resistance to change.

Although a square holds innate tension, the purpose of this tension is forward movement and transcendence. It is high energy, expression, and pressure to make a decision. More specifically, it asks us to choose what is most real, empowering, and liberating. What isn’t truthful or aligned doesn’t survive this kind of cosmic dance. That’s its purpose.

Sun Conjunct North Node

As the Sun navigates the mystical waters of Pisces for the next few weeks, it conjuncts the North Node on February 27, 2026.

The Sun is the self in astrology. The North Node is evolution. The Sun is our becoming. The North Node is soulful direction, purpose, and destiny. Here we meet an invitation of surrender—the kind that allows more of our own truth into our bodies and days. The kind that opens us to a vaster understanding of ourselves, whether we call that soul, higher self, intuition, purpose, or something else. The kind that allows us to surrender to what is already calling us.

Although the square between Mars and Uranus on the same day holds the tension of disruption, the conjunction between the Sun and North Node holds the power of direction, purpose, and awareness of what no longer resonates.

Mercury Retrograde Conjunct Venus

The Sun is in Pisces, Mercury retrograde is in Pisces, Venus and the North Node is in Pisces. With these alignments, our subtle knowing feels more palpable. Our intuition speaks louder. And, as Mercury retrograde conjuncts Venus in Pisces on February 28, 2026, our hearts inform our minds.

This conjunction is a thread connecting feeling with thinking. Dreamy, nostalgic, healing, and sentimental. An invitation of release, forgiveness, compassion, and feeling. It is a review of the stories we have guarded our hearts with, the narratives that we have let dim and hide our love.

Under this connection, unresolved conversations, longings never expressed, chapters wanting to be closed, and truths ready to be claimed rise to the surface so that we may observe them from who we now are. Ideas around self-worth, beauty, love, and desire linger so they may become current. And creativity, inspiration, insight and healing stand before us welcoming us into their arms.

 

Weekly Horoscope, February 22-28, 2026 

In its own way, the week and its transits ask for softness as well as courage. Courage to question any of your old ways of being, thinking, seeing, and identifying that have held you for too long. Courage to meet what no longer aligns. Courage to listen to your knowing of your truest self as you open yourself in ways that you previously kept closed off. And courage to challenge the patterned responses that flare in response to fear and sit with them until they unravel. Your weekly horoscope explains more of the ways you’re challenging authority. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

Much movement has been happening within your body and mind. This inwardly focused week now asks for surrender and review. Surrender to the way you are evolving and the guidance speaking from within. Review of what exists within you and is ready for release. Think old identities, patterns, visions for your future, and whatever no longer resonates.

Taurus Rising

When your ideas are locked in place, you can’t always see what exists beyond them. This week asks you to expand your perception and question your existing narratives. What arises with this new space as you look toward your future and explore what is possible and aligned for you?

Gemini Rising 

Your existing ideas of authority, success, and legacy are up for review this week. There is an expanded understanding of what these mean to you. Inner knowing drawing you toward your purpose. Forgotten creativity wanting to be heard and seen. And a release of narratives that were never yours.

Cancer Rising

Life is overflowing with meaning and so are you. This week draws you inward and asks you to make more space for that meaning. Review the teachings, dogma, and cosmologies that were inherited and unquestioned. Listening for your own beliefs and let them take up space as you release what no longer aligns. It’s a week of trust, courage, and liberation.

Leo Rising

You’re being asked to turn inward into your underground of conscious and unconscious fears, reactions, and patterns. Into your same underground of strength, courage, creativity, trust in yourself, and soul’s knowing. It wants liberation and it wants reconnection with your emotions.

Virgo Rising

There’s a continued whisper of guidance around softening your heart this week. If old responses arise, soften. If fear arises, soften. If hurts present, soften. Wherever you have closed yourself off, soften. Where the mind speaks too loudly, soften. And where love is offered, soften.

Libra Rising

Can you slow down, let yourself slowly exhale, and reorient from within? The rhythm of your body is changing and asking to be honored.  Consider your everyday movements, the speed at which you operate, and the habits that you choose to engage. The heart wants to be heard, emotions want to be expressed. Allow space for that.

Scorpio Rising

Longing is a worthy source of guidance as is anything that brings you alive and softens your fears of unworthiness. This week holds all that keeps you hidden, disconnects you from play, and stifles your creativity so that you may hold it all in your heart and heal what is ready for it.

Sagittarius Rising

What happens when you draw more into yourself, visiting your inner child and the material inherited in your formative years? The days ahead support you in making more space for inhabiting more of who you now are and clearing what no longer aligns. It also invites new ways of seeing and moving toward your desires.

Capricorn Rising

This week holds a deep review of the mind. It’s an invitation to simply yet powerfully be present with all that is no longer truthful or present with who you now so these can be cleared away. These days help you quiet expression, question habitual thoughts, and reframe perceived unworthiness.

Aquarius Rising

Quiet the mind and feel into the body. Let the week be less about rational thoughts and more about the requests of your physical self. Where are you ready to feel worthy? Where can you trust your emotions? Where you are ready to inhabit more of your creativity and surrender old patterns of control?

Pisces Rising

You are fluid, expansive, and constantly shifting. Your weekly horoscope is a reminder of this. If your sense of self has felt stagnant, what wants to shift? If your identities have gone unquestioned, are they still relevant? If old stories of what life should look like still guide you, what expressions have been surfacing within you?