Speed. The study of planetary transits and the symbolisms they express suggests that one of the most relevant themes of the February 2024 horoscope will be speed. It’s likely that today’s world will appear very slow, due to the innovations of technology and information that will fuse physical and intellectual territories in the blink of an eye. The thrill of speed is enthralling and exhilarating for those that thirst for novelty and hope for change, but not all of the Zodiac appreciate a fast pace. One could play at listing the fastest and slowest signs of the Zodiac, with those rankings that fit nicely into the checkboxes of social media algorithms, but once we declare that Aries, Aquarius, Gemini, Leo and Sagittarius are among the fastest, we’d risk forgetting that Cancer is the fastest to run with imagination, that a Virgo is the fastest to fix things or that Pisces is the fastest to disappear, while a Leo can be incredibly slow to change their mind. Libra Richard Meier (Oct. 12, 1934, 6:30 a.m., Newark NJ), claims that “architecture is not fast.” Within his birth chart, the points of greatest speed — Mars in Leo and Uranus in Aries — are in opposition to Saturn and Jupiter, respectively, matching the instinct for action with a brake to reason and evaluate opportunities before launching out into the world.
February 2024 Horoscope: Aries
The quick planet quadratures from Capricorn are gradually melting away. In the wake of compressed aggressive charges that have made you overly defiant or incredibly tame, there now arises a sense of liberation — an urge to soar and a need to accelerate. The light turns green for heated, gritty, direct confrontations to resume your role as a charismatic and influential leader. “Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Taurus
It doesn’t behoove you to remain frozen in place, even when contemplating the logic of healthy and established habits for the mind and body. A space of surprise, a spark of variation, a measured aptitude for improvisation can integrate well into your daily routine, before the unexpected event comes to wake you up from outside. Mercury, Venus and Mars from Aquarius demand a change of state and attitude: from solid to liquid — even better gaseous. “Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Gemini
You are the first to respond to the call of speed. Attracted like moths to lights in the night, or like a lizard to the morning sun. The world around us is constantly vibrating, and many of you are finally finding your own frequency of wellbeing, embracing more secure and dynamic relationships, and professional commitments balanced with moments of pleasure. Among those born in the second and third decades, the urgency of important choices, of work, both professional and personal, creeps in. Richard Meier provides you with a direction: “The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Cancer
The January freeze of planets — harsh, lapidary and silent — has almost infected you. You’ve distanced yourselves from the world, from a certain world, and you don’t mind; there’s enough imagination to follow it from a distance and just enough information to not lose the plot. If something changes, has changed or will change, in the world, in you, in your family, or in your circle, there will always remain a series of unchanging certainties — a core from which to start again. “Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Leo
There are times when it’s better to empty than to fill. Remove objects, cut words, restrain efforts and tame momentum. Slow down. Of course you dislike limitations, because they draw away enthusiasm, because they drain away the color. Yet out of that silent, white void that falls on your head like a February snow, wonderful reflections can arise — moments that have even more color, more nuance, more love. “I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Virgo
Brain speed, reasoning speed. Practical, organizational speed. Restorative, critical speed, to intervene and perfect that which is out of place. As long as prudence is preserved. You can accelerate in the direction of your dreams and some latent desires for drastic change, following the voice of the planets moving in Aquarius, though without adhering to the idea of a risky plunge into the unexpected. Saturn looms, for those born in the second decade, as a demand for balance between static routine and the urgency of a new adventure.
February 2024 Horoscope: Libra
You never complain, never too much. Others kick, cry and rant for much less. You don’t. Not to conceal a feeling, not out of emotional deficiency, and not out of respect for a social form. You don’t take heed of rudeness, selfishness, prevarication or an inability to listen to others, because you’ve understood what matters in life, the place you occupy in the world, the good fortune to exist for that which you’re grateful every day. “When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives.” R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Scorpio
The guarantee of a space for interpretation, and thus for putting yourself back in the game, changing cards or truths never fully revealed, has been sustained by the fast planets, even when Jupiter tries to take the masks off your silences. In view of the fast and progressive quadratures from the planets in Aquarius, it pays to pull the strings of many sentimental and work situations still hanging in the balance, before they lose their place and meaning in your mind. “The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.” – R. Meier
February 2024 Horoscope: Sagittarius
There’s nothing in the universe faster than light. Sextiles from Mars, Venus, and Mercury take care of the heavy lifting and physical and practical obstacles that have slowed you down until now. If you are and feel faster, responsive, snappy and clear-headed, it’s because your light is returning, that gleam in your eyes circling the world in an instant, both inside and out, encompassing everything with simple and inescapable truth. Hold your intuitions and visions firmly in your memory — and in a notebook. They’ll serve second and third decades well for some moments of hesitation and bewilderment.
February 2024 Horoscope: Capricorn
It’s a sky that confirms, in case it’s needed, the quality of your performance, the certainty of your being a physical and psychic reference for many, the and tangibility of your achievements. You’ve never lost sight of the origin, the prime formula that underlies every achievement: sacrifice, skill and determination. And so a new idea is ready to be shaped by your hands, a feeling of the past sees the light of a new present. “I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.” R. Meier.
February 2024 Horoscope: Aquarius
The time of waiting, which you’ve no doubt deceived through creative exercises and seasoned with passing levity to distract you from a pressing sense of impatience, comes to an end. Although you know how to move deftly through the maze of relational and bureaucratic blockades, amid rigid mentalities and selfish pettiness, constantly standing there at the edge of a solution is unnerving. The road is clearing and you’re finally beginning to catch a glimpse of the face, job position, or place in the world that can crown and give meaning to this long journey.
February 2024 Horoscope: Pisces
The world gets complicated, but you simplify. People fill themselves with words, but you choose silence. Languages and sounds become uniform, but you seek oneness. And you may feel misunderstood at times, but never far from the authentic center of existence, from a space of pure light. It’s from this privileged vantage point that you observe your loves and surroundings, catching even the slightest hint of injustice and suffering — ready to rush to the rescue. “To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.”