Notes from the threshold : February 2026 by Gina Kelly

Hey other humans on Planet Earth, Gregorian calendar year of 2026.

Hi. How are we holding up. You okay? Yeah. Same.

We can probably agree on one thing. This is overwhelming. Wild, with a capital W. And the overwhelm is not a personal failure. It’s a sane response to scale. We are living inside events that exceed individual agency.

Violence, rupture, resistance, grief, and uprising are not just happening “out there.” They are moving through our nervous systems. Sometimes through our phones. Sometimes in real time. Either way, they move through us.

What’s fracturing isn’t only political order or physical safety. It’s a shared orientation. The sense that we once agreed, even loosely, on what goodness or truth pointed toward. Some we love are with us. Others are not. Faith here isn’t religious. It’s relational. And it’s splitting into islands.

The dominant weather of this time is awe. Not inspiration. Not fear alone. Awe. Something vast, impersonal, and uncontrollable. Bigger than any one mind can hold. That’s why this passage feels like being on a ship edging into the outer bands of a hurricane.

Raise your hand if you’re in a state of concealed hyper stress.
Mine is up. High.
We’re with each other in this.

Astrology, as I offer it, is not intended as prediction, but as a language for magnitude. An old human tool for translating what exceeds individual scale. Myth born from observation. Pattern as orientation. A way to stay present without pretending we are in control.

As Saturn and Neptune converge on the Aries Point, reality itself is being re-initiated under pressure. This is an event that has not yet occurred in written human history…so…no pattern recognition is exactly available for quotation. Structures dissolve at 29 Pisces. Authority destabilizes. And whatever happens next? It happens without a map.

Influences this month:

Saturn enters Aries: Feb 13
Binary friction and discipline for the inner warrior

Solar Eclipse in Aquarius: Feb 17
Unexpected friction with a side of romance and beauty

Saturn / Neptune Conjunction 0 Aries: Feb 20
Deep tuning fork shift uniting what we need to face and what is fueling our vision, for better or worse, and the first degree, the degree of manifestation and birth, in the zodiac.

Mercury RX in Pisces: Feb 26
Retracing the image of what we’re leaving behind, last check for what’s important, before moving ahead.

Read on for your rising, sun, and moon, and North Node (really good idea, trust me):

Aries:

Shit. This is going to feel really personal. With Saturn in your sign at the same time that Neptune arrives for a longer stay, you will watch some of your life and foundation slip away like a sandcastle in a surprising high tide. This isn’t meant to harm you. This is meant for your ultimate liberation…and you will find yourself struggling against limitation with fight in your eyes.

Please find a place to put this energy with discipline. Start boxing. Start playing chess seriously. Find a way to explore the simultaneous erosion and restriction that can ultimately refine the raw power you have always known as your birthright. It will happen whether you agree or not.

Taurus:

Everything that has been eating at you is everything that has been liberating you. Your life in the last 7 years went from boxed in to outside of the box. Relish the fact that despite resisting everything and having it happen anyway, you are still alive and even maybe, you are all the more free for the struggle.

You found strength you didn’t know you had and flexibility that redefined your relationship to yourself. Now, you will feel the dislocation of much around you, but you will have the ingenuity to figure it out, and you will have the confidence to remember that this is the truth.

Gemini:

Hold steady? Naw. Shake it up, shake it off, and shake it down. Nothing is worth skipping right now. The energies that are setting up to redefine the future path of humanity have your liberation in mind.

Reconstructing the old paradigm is under your management, but the management is not a form of control. In true Gemini form, it is absolute discovery through the process of reinventing everything that involves communication. Big job, yes. But think on this…the last 2 decades have been dedicated to giant collective “voices” we lovingly called hive mind, identifying social media as an operative space. Now, major entities claim “ownership.”

Gemini, master of the riddle, magician and trickster sage, it is through your diversification that hive mind will find a new multiplicity. And your freedom depends on that.

Cancer:

It is still a time of softening together, no matter what the outside world seems to think. The tainted authorities, the regimes of singular humans holding a calloused and darkly laced grip on the human family, are here and running a certain kind of show.

But your inner knowledge, your intuition, your fountain of connection between yourself and the world? That is a power that is led by the distillation of gentleness with firmness, of 1000 voices singing “It’s not too late to join us” to the men too calloused to know grace’s touch. And that’s the truth underlying it all…it’s not too late.

Your remaining months, from now until July, will remind you just how not too late it is. For anything. So take your cup down to the well of human spirit and fill up, Cancer, my girl, and walk with your chalice full. This is still your time, and your choice is what makes it all possible for you. Choose according to you.

Leo:

This is going to be a hard threshold, but if I know one thing about you, it’s that you are deeply brave, even when, and especially if, you are afraid. What is coming is a complex kind of duality for you.

This spring, let yourself remember that even when the first line fails, even when your own idea thwarts or disguises itself from you, that there is something greater working in this moment through us all…including you. And when you let go, the alignment arises.

From now until July, mourn or grieve what you need…and then celebrate the rest. Dip into the warmth of your own spirit and remember that you are one of the people too. You belong here, and next year, much will be revealed about exactly how and exactly when.

Two years from now, you’ll look back and wonder what timeline you jumped to. I can already answer. You jumped directly into yours. Take heart. Your destiny is shifting, but it is anything but lost.

Virgo:

The last two years have taken your insides and laid them out on the lab table for rigorous observation and categorization. It’s been a process. Your power slipped, was turned into ocean mist, and the relationships around you seemed to define every circumstance, sometimes without noticing you hanging in the balance.

You arrived in the process nervous and have shifted to a silence that allows you to mourn what you haven’t been able to speak.

This is maybe the most harsh of truths you have learned: words can fail. Order can punish. Systems can devour. In the aftermath, you’ve been sweeping up debris. Now that it’s almost clean, what would you like to do with the restart?

Since this is internal and relational, begin by thanking yourself for your willingness and patience. You deserve your self-love, more than anything that can be earned. Incorporate this into the foundation of your new practice now.

Libra:

What does it mean to truly let another way lead, fail, and flounder? What does it mean to truly witness something unrefined and raw take shape? What does it mean to reject what does not follow form or social grace? What does it mean to release expectations in favor of witnessing? Are you capable of this?

If you aren’t now, you will be in two years, given the lessons you are about to earn. Beyond this first and more obvious course in how to harness what is raw for true benefit, you will also learn that raw and primal is a form of necessity. You will learn that bite is sometimes more true than balance.

It may hurt, but it might free you from a perfection you never really wanted for yourself. Once you permit yourself to see through the lens of your inner animal, real refinement begins.

Scorpio:

You are currently sitting, quietly, in the most prime position to expand your sense of possibility. Opportunities to explore beyond the signals of your nervous system have been abundant, giving you some new landscape, inner and outer, to explore.

What quiet vistas have you grown to appreciate? How can you embody what they offer now?

Something is becoming possible that wasn’t possible before, and while it will take a good amount of self-care, hard work, and pure resilience to accomplish, for now, breathing and relaxation are keys.

You are better off remembering that what you soak up while being receptive is in service to your overall journey, even if work is waiting just around the corner. You will be working to purify and define your relationship to yourself and self-care. Softening is an important ingredient.

Sagittarius:

Home will get more clear and stable in the coming months, after something critical becomes honestly addressed. What have you taken on in the last two years? It was also refined, so take heart in knowing that you are close to a true end of the matter.

Hope is funneling through different and exciting veins, and yet it can be difficult to relate to the great expanse of life through restriction.

So much growth is accomplished through friction. You are currently facing obstacles that will remind you this is true for you too. Being knowledgeable and in a state of self-trust is not enough.

Friction, through conflict, brings you into contact with your inconsistencies and blind spots. And if you feel you don’t have them, thank conflict for showing you where you do.

Ask yourself how you choose to respond now. Will you self-isolate, dig in your heels, control the process, or harness energies you don’t yet understand? Or will you do something more radical with friction…and allow, listen, and receive?

Capricorn:

You have survived a myriad of challenges. Pluto, for almost two decades, has been haunting your sign. Now, as relationship tools grant you the healing and nurture a stint of never-ending work can make anyone thirsty for, you are also setting up to redefine your core and foundation.

As you step across the threshold later this month, take careful notice of the new landscape. There is heat. Friction that will feel black and white or even impossibly binary at times.

Either/or dynamics aren’t going to be won through the language of demand or control, but through the development of communal dialects that make nuance where strong-arm rule used to reign.

Watch your own version of this and interrupt it when it appears by using your most important tool: your breath.

You will be more powerful internally when you remember the world is never something you can directly control. That breath will remind you that your Self, capital S, is where joy, truth, and mastery now live.

Aquarius:

Holy Hannah, friend. I know you like to keep it weird, but this kind of weird is going to be a lot, even for you. A powerful thrust of decay, deterioration, underlying rot, and seduction is permeating the degrees of your sign.

An eclipse will introduce you to your role shortly enough. Remember this: the power to witness and name what others would hide is a form of deep empowerment.

You, the one who engineers the return of water and life force back to the people, the one who invents so power is shared rather than lorded over, are holding that torch now. This is something we all thank you for, and something you will not endure without massive transformation.

You are tasked with walking on coals, entering the underworld, releasing everything you thought up until now, to retrieve what was buried and avoided. Why you? Because one must dive deep to retrieve the gold.

Your gift is finding the way no one else imagined, denied, or believed possible, and doing so for everyone’s benefit.

Pisces:

Are you okay? The density of critical endings is in the air. You have worked hard up until this moment, and you may not know why or for whom. The task was often insurmountable, and yet, despite all odds, look at you now.

Do you feel a new path fogging ahead, inviting you along? Ask yourself: what life is new, rearranged, stripped down to essentials, and yet complete in its revision? You are almost ready for the journey.

The next month offers respite from the most challenging circumstances, and by summer’s end, you will have put to rest what is long overdue for burial.

Make whatever choice you need to move fully on. This is liberating news, and it comes with simple but clear directives.

First…what will you do now?
Make a new choice.
And how will you find it?
Alignment.