This week's astrological forecast emphasizes navigating complex emotional and psychological landscapes, particularly during eclipse season and a significant Saturn-Neptune conjunction, urging listeners to cultivate empathy, self-awareness, and intentional action amidst potential overwhelm and moral quandaries.
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Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your
host, Jessica Linato. I'm an astrologer,
psychic medium, and animal communicator.
And I'm going to give you your weekly
horoscope and no [ __ ] mystical
advice for living your very best life.
Welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. This
week, we're going to be looking at the
astrology of February 22nd through the
28th of 2026.
And there's I don't know a lot to talk
about. Am I right? It's eclipse season,
right? We have another eclipse at the
start of March, but we are in big
eclipse emotions still. And whatever it
is that got unlodged or just activated
emotionally, personally,
psychologically, spiritually inside of
you and in our collective conditions at
the first eclipse, it's still
percolating. It's still developing. It's
it's working its way through your system
and it's working its way through the
collective. That's kind of how eclipses
function. And then at the same time, as
you know, Saturn and Neptune are sitting
on top of each other, right? It was
exact last week on the 20th, and it's
very much an active transit. I want to
really simplify this transit for you
because I know that astrology can get
complicated and and hard to really
apply. So, let me say this. This transit
provokes moral quandries,
situations that feel absolutely impossible.
impossible.
It kicks up feelings of overwhelm and
burden and anxieties that directly
impact your day-to-day life. Now, think
about it for just a second. like you you
know as I say the words moral quandries
and impossible situations and and
anxieties you kind of have a sense of
how that impacts you like how you
experience those things how it plays out
in your life there's another aspect of
Neptune and Saturn of course which is
Neptune is fervent spiritual convictions
and Saturn is you know punishment and
reward it's the way we organize
societies and groups of people So
anyways, you're thinking about how it
affects you. Maybe you're thinking about
how it affects the people you know and
the people close to you. But pause for a
moment to consider applying the same
awareness of what this transit is
activating inside of you and the people
you know and care about. And apply it to
people who believe that their god is the
only god. And everyone who believes
something different spiritually or
religiously than they do is going to
hell and deserves it.
And of course, this requires that you
imagine that hell is a place and it is
the worst of all the places and it is
forever and ever. Imagine you were going
through this this moral quandry uh
challenge to what you believe and to
your sense of meaning in the world that
Saturn Neptune conjunction kicks up and
you believe that certain races are
superior to others or certain kinds of
people are deserving of dignity and uh
self-determination in other people
because of their physical health or
their mental health because of their
gender, their race, their religion, uh
their class.
Those people don't deserve
self-determination. Those people need to
be told how to live and what to do. And
if there's punishment, that's that is as
it is. Imagine that. Those are your convictions.
convictions.
And you were going through this Saturn
Neptune conjunction.
It is really valuable to use astrology
as a form of self-help and using it to
cultivate self-awareness.
But what people don't use it for as
frequently and I think is like one of
the best uses of astrology is to use it
to contextually understand people who
are radically different from you and
even people who would wish you harm or
wish harm to others.
You and I are going to process our
anxieties, our search for meaning, our
search for stability and security in
different ways. And we're also going to
do it in different ways from each other
at different times of our lives. Like
some times of our lives, you and me
might do the same thing. We might do
something really similar or at different
times, we might really go off in other
directions. But it is valuable to understand
understand
people's motivations when we are at
cross purposes with them, when we are
engaged in social movements for change,
right? When we are trying to navigate
through community and connection for the
welfare and well-being of others as well
as for our own selves, it's valuable to
understand that we are all going through
this Saturn Neptune conjunction. We are
all experiencing the emotional
activation of the eclipse season and the
subsequent six-month period that it will
play out during right until the next
eclipses occur. your struggle, your
evolution, your growth, your successes,
they're uniquely yours, right? You are
your own universe. Your feelings, your
thoughts, your experiences are
completely independent and exclusive to
you. They are unique to you.
And also at the same time
your struggles, your successes, how you
engage, how you evolve or don't, your
empathy, your humanity, these things
meaningfully impact the world
energetically and like materially. when
you struggle and you know this transit
kicks up struggle. Eclipse season tends
to kick up struggle because big emotions
are hard to process for most of us
because most of us have really big ways
of evading or avoiding or smooshing or
deflecting our feelings when you struggle.
struggle.
when I struggle when we struggle right
like when we all struggle under this
influence the the remediation is meant
to be the same reach for your humanity
reach for empathy that's Neptune and
organize your actions
your your engagement in the world of
Saturn in other words in in like the
shared reality we all live in organize
your actions and your plans in ways that
reflect your humanity and empathy.
Resist the urge to be punishing or
carceral because Saturn can go there.
And when Saturn which is all about you
know hierarchies and rules that require
enforcement. When Saturn and Neptune who
is like belief disconnected from reality
and devotion
when they come together it can be really
messy and it can be really transformative.
transformative.
So again I want to keep it simple for
you. Reach for your humanity. reach for
empathy and make sure that your actions
and plans reflect that in a material
sense. And while I'm trying to make
things simple, I'm going to give you a TLDDR
TLDDR
for this week's horoscope. Okay? So,
before I get into breaking down all the
transits, uh, let me just give you like
a couple keywords. I will say I'm like
50/50 about how much I like giving you
keywords because I think when we reduce
astrology or anything that is, you know,
nuanced and can really help with our
mental and emotional health, when we
reduce it to keywords, it gets really [ __ ]
[ __ ]
I don't know, less less valuable. And
also, I understand TLDDR because like
we're busy. Things things are real. So
heads up on the 22nd, trust that you are
capable and do something that reflects
your values and or what or who you love.
On the 25th, hold your tongue and
listen. Okay, listen. This is very
important. Listen. on the 27th.
Be adaptable and expect the unexpected
because things could get a little explosive.
explosive.
Now, let's get into the details of this
week's forecast. So, the first exact
transit of this week occurs on Sunday,
February the 22nd. We've got a Mars
sexile to Chiron that's exact at 8:13
a.m. Pacific time. Now Mars will be at
23 degrees of Aquarius and 46 minutes
and it's sexileing Chiron at the same
degrees of Aries. Okay, th this is a
lovely transit actually. This is a
really nice transit. What it does is it
creates motivation and engagement around
things that require some measure of
bravery from you. So that might be
around practicing embodiment like taking
care of your body and engaging with your
body. It might mean something around
your sexuality and like your
relationship to the physicality of sex
or chemistry with someone or how you
experience chemistry. This transit can
kick up your courage in general. So, if
there's some [ __ ] you want to do, if
there's some [ __ ] that you feel like
excited about, passionate about, but you
haven't gotten your going, this transit
provides some like it's sparkle. It's
energy and motivation. There are no
negatives to this transit. So, yay. And
it's overlapping with a Venus trine to
Jupiter. Venus will be at 15° of Pisces
in 31 minutes forming an exact trine to
Jupiter at 15° of Cancer uh and 31
minutes. So this is another [ __ ]
lovely lovely transit. It kicks up
optimism and because it can make you
feel optimistic but not just you, right?
Like you're feeling optimistic and I'm
feeling optimistic. So everybody's kind
of vibing outside of scarcity issues
because of this. It creates quote
unquote luck. What happens is when I
engage with an open heart and lead with
kindness and and happiness and all that
kind of stuff and then you're doing the
same thing, we're more likely to get
along. So the luck that this transit
often brings is the luck that emerges
from uh proceeding with an open yes at
the center of your thinking instead of
the but what ifs which are always there.
But Venus trying to Jupiter is a transit
that connects you with your values and
what you love. And it creates flow and
ease in embodying or relating to those
things, whether they're, you know,
principles or people or even if this is
related to your finances, like spending
money on something that you care about.
Um although there'll be a caveat to that
in a couple days. or if it's navigating
your resources and kind of making
choices that feel expansive and are
investing in again your values. But more
than anything, Venus trying to Jupiter
is chill. It brings chill. Like it makes
you feel a little hedonistic, very cozy.
you can end up like endlessly scrolling
or like watching too much TV or doing
something that's a little bit passive
and a little bit pleasurable because of
the overlap with that Mars sex tile to
Chiron. We have motivation to connect.
So, especially if you have been dealing
with relationship issues where you're
not quite sure how to connect with other
people, these two transits are a great
assist. So, take the assist. It's a
sports metaphor which I don't understand
on a sports context but it works uh just
in like regular dayto-day. Okay. Now
that brings us to the next exact transit
of the week and it's Mercury retrograde.
So on February 25th, which is Wednesday,
Mercury will go retrograde at exactly
10:48 p.m. Pacific time. So if you're
much further east than I am speaking in
Pacific time, then it will start on the
26th. Now this Mercury retrograde is in
Pisces. It goes retrograde at 22 degrees
of Pisces and 33 minutes and it will
stay retrograde until March 20th. So
basically March is Mercury retrograde
month. Kind of a a bummer. So I'm going
to pull up the chart of that in a
second, but let's just do quick
refresher. Mercury retrograde is a
normal function of Mercury, right? It
goes retrograde a couple times a year.
It is not the end of the world. It is
not an emotional transit, although it
can kick up emotions. It is a mental
transit because Mercury is your mind.
Mercury is your ideas, your plans, not
in a saturnian like big picture way, but
your plans for like your week or your
travel plans or like you know your
day-to-day [ __ ] Mercury is also your
attitudes. It's how you verbally
communicate or how you like write. Any
kind of communication of language is
Mercury and also how you listen. Which
is why in my little TLDDR I was like
this is the day to to listen. Listen
because when Mercury moves retrograde
appears to be moving backwards, we are
meant to honor the rule of re. We're
meant to reflect. We're meant to
reassess. We're meant to recalibrate.
And because of that, things start to
kind of get [ __ ] up, right? So,
communications get funky. Honestly, like
the evidence of you not listening or you
being careless can come out more
frequently. This is like the time where
I'm always like, "God, did that draft
get stuck in my inbox?" I expect there
to be a misunderstanding around plans
made at work or personally. It's just
like kind of normal conduct for Mercury
retrograde. And then also, of course,
uh, Mercury retrograde is a time where
you're not really supposed to make major
decisions. It's not a great time for
signing contracts. It's not a great time
for launching projects or making plans
if you can avoid them. Now, of course,
you have to [ __ ] make plans, right?
Like, I'm making plans to like meet my
friend for dinner or whatever. But there
tends to be like not every bit of
information is clear, misunderstandings,
that kind of [ __ ] with Mercury
retrograde. Listen, if you got to take a
job, take a job. If you got to sign a
contract, sign a contract. But do it
with the wisdom of an astrology nerd.
And the wisdom of an astrology nerd is
you triple check the contract. You
reiterate with the person you're
communicating with. I'm just
understanding that we're meeting on the,
you know, western corner of Fifth and
Maine as opposed to whatever other
corner. Like you just double check. You
just communicate with more care. You
just uh kind of roll with the punches
when the punches come, right? But let me
pull up the chart of this Mercury
retrograde and we can talk about it a
little more in depth. And if you are not
watching the video version of this
episode, you can catch it on the free
section of my Patreon on YouTube. It's
also available on Spotify and I believe
it's going to be coming to Apple soon.
So that's exciting. Anyways, let's pull
So, we're looking at the Mercury
retrograde chart. And just as a quick
reminder, I've cast it for a city, but
it doesn't matter even if you live in
that city. We're not paying attention to
the houses. We're just looking at the
aspects. And this Mercury retrograde
happens with, you know, the sun, the
north node, Venus, Mercury all in
Pisces. So, we know we're going to have
a little bit of a wavy, sensey Mercury
retrograde. What this means in like
plain English is that your sense
impressions are important. Your
intuition and uh your ability to tap
into nuance and maybe even what's not
being said is important,
but those things are not facts. And you
don't want to allow your ability to
intuit it or to
vibe to override your basic need for
plain communication. Like it's cool to
ask the tarot what your friend really
meant when they said what they said, but
it's cooler to just like ask them. So we
want to remember that during this
Mercury retrograde. Mercury is sitting
pretty closely to Venus, which is
lovely. It indicates that this
retrograde is a good time for reflecting
on your values, for reflecting on your
personal connections. So, we're talking
about like your dates, your crushes,
your relationship to like your love life
in general, and the friends that you
like love. Venus is not just romance.
Venus is love. And so, Mercury
retrograde conjoined Venus is a good
time to reflect on those things. And you
might find that dynamics emerge in your
relationships or in regards to your
values in ways that really merit
reflection. So reflect. But the thing I
want to take a real moment to name is
that in this chart Saturn and Neptune
are of course conjoined. They're not in
exactitude, but they're conjoined. And
they are really tightly squared to the
moon at almost one degree of cancer. And
so this larger theme of what we're going
through that is kicking up um impossible
situations and moral quandries and
anxieties and and kind of like burdened
overwhelmed feelings. The moon square is
making that so much more emo like so
much more emo. And that's true for you
and that's true for your bestie and
that's true for your boss and that's
true for uh the people in the government
and and the people on the streets and
like it's true everywhere. It's not just
true in your city or your country. It's
it's what's up. And so the room for messiness
messiness
it's big. It's a lot of room. There's a
lot of room for messiness. Resist the
urge to create security and stability.
where there is meant to be questions and introspection.
introspection.
Mercury retrograde is not the time where
you're supposed to get the answer. I
find that frustrating. I love the
answer. You know what I mean? Like it's
I'm a fan of knowing what time it is and
what I'm supposed to do and what's going
to happen, but like we don't have
security and stability during a Mercury
retrograde. That's not the assignment.
And in particular, this one is going to
kick up really big emotions. And those
big emotions are around things that are
outside of your control, that are
outside of your ability to completely
figure out at this time or to sort
through at this time. So, this very emotional
emotional
Mercury retrograde is happening
throughout all of Pisces season, right?
So, Mercury goes direct on the day that
the sun moves into Aries on the spring
equinox. This whole Mercury retrograde
is Mercury in Pisces retrograde. So,
this is a great time to reflect on your
mental health. And within that, if
you're talking to me, if you're if
you're talking to me, talking about your
mental health in the context of Mercury
in Pisces is very much talking about
boundaries. How are you navigating your
boundaries? Whether that's with, I don't
know, social media, uh, around the needs
of your health, however you want to
apply that, in your relationships, in
your relationship to yourself,
how are you navigating boundaries? I
will never stop talking about the
importance of boundaries. But this
Mercury retrograde I is really all about
you reflecting on how you are
identifying your boundaries, holding
your boundaries, maintaining your
boundaries, uh respecting your
boundaries, expressing your boundaries,
all that kind of good stuff. And again,
this could be happening on any number of
levels, but it's something to reflect on
because that's the assignment. And that
brings us to the last exact transits of
this week. On Friday, February the 27th,
we've got two exact transits. Mercury is
exactly conjunct to Venus at 9:35 p.m.
Pacific time. And then in the morning at
8:21 a.m., Mars is exactly square to
Uranus. Mercury conjunction to Venus is
a very chill transit. It kicks up the
desire to connect with others and kind
of some flow around that. So you may
just run into people connect with people
in a way that is lovely. It might also
start you with the questioning around
your relationships or your values in
this Mercury retrograde cycle because of
course Mercury goes retrograde on
Wednesday and then on Friday it's
meeting up with Venus in exactitude. So
we know that this is like a big part of
the Mercury retrograde story. what that
will mean for you may be like super
unclear until you have some serious
retrospect so that you can look back at
it right the damn roller okay but that
Mars square to Uranus that's something
worth talking about here because Mars
square to Uranus is disruptive and
explosive and unpredictable
Mars is as we know punch punch bang bang
and Uranus is explosions It's technology.
technology.
It's the power of the individual and the
power of community. Isn't that
interesting that Uranus governs both uh
individuality like the drive to be true
to yourself as as a as a person,
eccentricities, stepping outside of the
norm, and at the same time it governs community.
community.
To me, this really speaks, I know this
is a little bit of a tangent, but to me,
this really speaks to how when
communities are not just each of us
being a cookie cutter of each other, but
we are a kind of group of individuals
meeting each other with acceptance and
and care and respect with interest and
engagement. Uh, our communities are
stronger because diverse communities
full of whole people are a beautiful
thing. [ __ ] Uranus, am I right? But
okay, back to Mars square. Uranus, Mars
square to Uranus transit can activate
impulsiveness, defensiveness,
reactiveness because Uranus is like
electricity to Mars, which is the ego
and entitlement and motivation and
passion and your damn body, your
meatsuit, right? And so for some people,
depending on your nature, depending on
your circumstances, this may make you
feel really enraged, really frustrated,
really blocked or stmied. For other
people, it might make you feel
motivated, like all of a sudden things
[ __ ] come together, and you're making
connections and you're like finding the
energy and the will to do a thing. It
can kind of go either way. You could
experience a little bit of both.
Honestly, I think a lot of us experience
a little bit of both with this transit.
The thing you want to make sure of is
that you're not being so reactive or
impulsive that you're only really
considering yourself because Uranus is
related to the individual. And Mars is
the ego which is super individualistic.
You may act in ways that are just not
considerate, just not at all
considerate. If you have that tendency,
if you find yourself behaving in that
way, just be like, "Oh [ __ ] it's a
transit. Okay, I'm gonna adapt. Maybe
you need to make a little bit of a
repair, but then you're gonna adapt.
That's the work of this transit. It is
to act. It is to engage. It is to find
courage and and do something right. But
also to notice where the line between
freedom and empowerment is versus
entitlement and selfishness. And
sometimes it's a fine line, sometimes
it's a it's not a fine line, right?
Depends. It depends in terms of movement
work. Um, this transit can be really
explosive in any direction. You know, it
can signify violence and in particular
violence on the street. It can signify
major progress uh kind of unexpected
where things come together. But progress
by whose standards is always the
question? When I say progress, I know
what I think progress is. Maybe you and
I agree, maybe we don't. Maybe you agree
about some things and then you know me
and someone else, we're going to
completely disagree on everything.
That's the thing about progress. Who's
progress? By whose standards?
This transit doesn't guarantee anything?
This is not energy that can be repressed
without negative consequences. So those
negative consequences might be that you
try to like shove down how you feel
about your partner when they pissed you
off this morning and then you end up
acting out against like your totally
innocent co-orker or somebody in
traffic, right? So what you want to do
is recognize how you're feeling and be
as intentional and conscious as you can
be about how you're engaging with your
feelings. It's not always appropriate or
possible to like find a healthy outlet
for frustration or anger or
defensiveness or whatever the [ __ ] else
comes up for you around this transit.
But being a good steward to your own
energy is your job. You don't have to be
perfect. You don't have to find the
solution all the time, but steward your
energy intentionally. And luckily,
Uranus provides the innovation and the
motivation you need to maybe try
something new or just be open to doing
something differently than you've done
it before. This can be a really fun
transit. Actually, as long as you feel
safe, it's a good time for
experimentation. Theoretically,
Mars square, Uranus, things happen fast.
And so in that way you again you really
want to make sure you feel safe if
you're like playing and you know you get
to try something new that's great as
long as you feel like you can slow
things down or stop them whenever you
need because we all know consent is
queen. Okay so Mars square Uranus uh if
you do have like all of a sudden a new
crush on somebody who's like not your
type let it let it ride for 72 hours
before you do anything about it. This is
definitely a transit where you can all
of a sudden be vibing with someone and
then the transit passes and you're like,
"What? Why, you know, or it could be
exciting and awesome, but either way,
proceed with caution, with care, and uh
in a healthy way, keeping in mind we're
still doing healthy boundaries. We're
we're still navigating with empathy and
accountability that Neptune Saturn, but
now with Mars squared to Uranus, things
are cooking. And you know, we're going
to be feeling this transit for a little
minute. So don't forget that your body,
your meat suit is a part of this transit.
transit.
So how you engage with your body, how
you listen to your body, where you
notice your feelings inside your body,
they're all really relevant. And because
Uranus is the nervous system and Mars is
so physical, do what you need to do in
order to navigate and manage your
nervous system uh in ways that are
helpful to you. And that, my sweet,
sweet friends, is your forecast for this
week. I'm going to run through the
transits one more time, but before I do,
I just want to say like over on my
Patreon, we're having a very in-depth
conversation about ghosting.
um which is not something I planned on,
but it organically came up out of
conversations we were having about love
and connection and stuff like that. It's
really kind of like a cool conversation
if you ask me because what we're doing
is we're unpacking how to navigate
accountability and communication and
boundaries and real relationship [ __ ]
So, if that feels uh you know
interesting to you, come come on and
join us over there for that
conversation. And if you are already a
patron, I just want to say thanks. I
love it over there and uh love the work
that we get to do together. Okay, so as
promised, on the 22nd, Mars is exactly
sexile to Chiron and Venus is exactly
trying to Jupiter. On the 25th, Mercury
goes retrograde where it will stay until
March 20th. And then finally on uh
Friday the 27th of February, Mars is
squared to Uranus and Mercury meets up
with Venus and this is Mercury
retrograde of course. Then on the 1st of
March, just like the first of every
month, I drop a bonus episode of Ghost
of a Podcast where I break down the
astrology of the month ahead. And
because we are in eclipse season and
Mercury retrograde, there's like a lot
to talk about there. So if you want to
hear that bonus episode, you can get it
a couple different ways. You can become
a member on my Patreon at the kittens
level or you can go to Patreon and
purchase it as a oneoff or you can
purchase it on multiple different
podcasting platforms. So you can listen
to it in any number of ways should you
have the hankering. Anyways, I thank you
so much for joining me here on Ghost of
a Podcast and I hope you use the
resources that I share and everything
you do with astrology in general as a
way to help you to become more
emotionally present and accountable so
that you can show up for yourself, the
people in your life, and the community
at large in sustainable, empathetic, and
aligned ways.
All right, I'll talk to you in just a
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