Week of February 23

Well... the cosmos is being extra this week. 🌀✨ Mercury is going retrograde (do not send the snarky text), the Sun is snuggling up to the North Node in Pisces (soul glow-up energy), and Mars is picking a tiny (not so tiny) fight with Uranus (don’t quit your job just yet). It’s dreamy, it’s electric, it’s slightly unhinged, a little unhinged is kind of fun. Stay hydrated, trust your intuition, and maybe don’t send that email without rereading it twice.

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Coco Pellissier
February 23, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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This Week in Transits (biggies)

February 25th, 2026, Mercury stations retrograde at 8:48 pm CT (Pisces)
💻 Comms are getting fuzzy.

February 27th, 2026, The Sun conjoins the North Node (Pisces)
* see conjoins definition below
🍄 Is the Self yearning to merge with a mystical experience as the soul stretches towards a wholeness?

February 27th, 2026, Mars (in Aquarius) squares Uranus (in Taurus)
🆘 This is action energy. The Great Awakener (Uranus) is initiating change and/or challenge in the Collective. Let’s be mature and demure about this work and innovate without self-sabotage.

This Week’s Transit Vibes IRL

Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces

The Rules for a good ☿ Retrograde

  • Dreamin’ at night? Write it down

  • Allow extra time for everything

  • Double and triple-check your communications

  • Finish that art project you’ve been working on.

  • The nervous system is porous at this time— protect yo’ self

  • Practice radical kindness

    • Mercury in Pisces distorts tone easily.
      Clarity is kinder than imagination.

    • Instead of assuming rejection,
      you assume nervous system overwhelm.

The Sun conjoins the North Node in Pisces
conjoins is when two planets are sitting very close together in the sky, blending their energies and acting as one.

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"I was born with an open wound, and colors pouring from it. Don't call me brave or a martyr; I'm just a woman who learned to love even in the midst of pain. I am a brush, I am a scream, I am broken flesh and a burning spirit. I paint myself because I am the only thing I know with fury, with tenderness. And if anyone doesn't like it, don't look at me, because I didn't come to fit in, I came to be." Frida Kahlo

Journal prompts for this conjunction

  • Where in my life can be softer?

  • Where have I allowed myself to trust my intuition fully? What happened? Can I do this again?

Mars (in Aquarius) squares Uranus (in Taurus)
This isn’t easy energy. A square is friction. Mentally, we want to go, leap, do, say the thing; but physically, the body wants comfy and softness and feeling grounded. These two feel like opposites. In real life, this could look like:

Quitting something impulsively.
Breaking up suddenly.
Tech Issues
Financial volatility.
Unexpected conflict.
A strong need for autonomy.
Finally saying something that’s been bottled up.

At a Collective View 
Market instability
Political unrest
Tech or infrastructure upsets
Climate or earth-related surprises

How do we move through this time? Be mindful, practice some self-compassion. Make sure you are working with and leaning on your boundaries. Drink water, hug your pets. The real medicine here is how might you/we courageously innovate without burning anything down.

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