weekly astrology forecast | february 16th to 22nd, 2026 - eclipse shocks, fated shifts, our brave new, brand-new world begins, plus a nancy guthrie location horary chart

Here is the week we have all been waiting for. What does this mean? WE DON'T KNOW. 

For Nancy Guthrie I would expect a GROUND-BREAKING discovery this week and for all of us BIG SHIFTS and fated movement. 

MONDAY - Sun square Uranus, Mercury trine Jupiter

TUESDAY - New Moon SOLAR ECLIPSE in Aquarius, Chinese New Year, Venus conjunct North Node

WEDNESDAY - Sun enters Pisces

FRIDAY - SATURN CONJUNCT NEPTUNE at 0-degree Aries (with Heracles/Hercules) with Mars at 22 Aquarius with Chariklo

SUNDAY - Mars sextile Chiron, Venus trine Jupiter

Let's unpack the week.

MONDAY - Sun/Uranus is a JOLT to the ego/to certainty. 

(Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping happened at the Leo Full Moon with that Aquarius stellium and everything landing in Aquarius and answering to Uranus. Now the Sun - the light, authority, son/like-a-son/someone's son, Nancy via the Moon in those charts, the 911 chart final landing point is Leo, ruled by the Sun - is finishing up in Aquarius and about to be met by the Moon tomorrow which closes out the Leo Full Moon cycle, so today and tomorrow would be the time most expected to have some kind of breakthrough/ending - the Eclipse might twist times with this, but this is the week most likely for big news/Nancy to be brought home.)

Breakdowns, breakups, BREAKTHROUGHS. 

Taurean changes - that may not be comfortable (ie our resources, money, values, physical selves) push us toward a NEW PURPOSE. 

Collectively this might be about sudden social realignments, a light on group fractures, personal "I just can't do this anymore/be this anymore!!" kind of moments. Mercury's smooth trine to Jupiter SOFTENS THE JOLT. Mercury is in Pisces now and walking repeating degrees, so whatever these words are they are - part of a PROCESS we will be returning to/working through over the next few weeks. 

Conversations can be expansive/compassionate/healing/imaginative. So, we get a kind of LIGHTNING STRIKE - and this could have already happened because Eclipse times work backward and forward AND we have had multiple other personal planets get this same jolt - and then we get the comforting words/plans, some familial feeling words that help something fall into place. Keep in mind though life has designed this month to CHANGE THINGS. 

The Mercury/Jupiter also speaks of ancestral memory waking up, subtle health signals that we have previously dismissed, emotions that never got language, intuitive suspicions finally spoken out loud. Jupiter lets us see the LARGER story, so we NOTICE. 

TUESDAY - this is the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius, happening as billions of Chinese people celebrate the New Years (this is a HUGE energetic shift whoever you are) and Venus (the Aqua New Moon is answering to Uranus who is answering to Venus) meets the North Node of Fate. THE FATE TRAIN IS PULLING INTO THE STATION FOLKS - we are very clearly stepping into something new. The future is reaching its hand back to meet us. 

Expect a BIG post.

WEDNESDAY - the Sun enters Pisces. NOW WE FEEL IT. NOW WE ABSORB IT. 

NOW WE GRIEVE WHAT HAS CHANGED 

(and yes, some of this is likely playing out through the story of a little Aquarian lady in Arizona named Nancy Guthrie, but also in other collective stories and in our own lives, too).

Water sign times are ideal energies (and we have A LOT OF PISCES now) to create, make art/music, dance, release, forgive (this is the time to let go of irritation/resentment festering in fixed air Aquarius). We want to exhale when we can now. Get into water. I have known a lot of Pisces people and notice Pisces are particularly proud of their Sun signs. I have never known a Pisces who would rather be anything else. Maybe it's because they are the last sign, I don't know, but Pisces really seem to like being Pisces. 

This time of year, when the Sun moves into Pisces, we all start burning Pisces fuel, feel a little bit of what it's like to be a Pisces - we get more sensitive, more intuitive, more imaginative/artistic, more spiritual/connected, hopefully more compassionate. Events conspire to support this. Sometimes we get less focused, lazier, lose our boundaries - keep this in mind. Often, we need more rest, to take a break. It's like we all get a taste of a 12th house Sun for a while and need to find ways to rejuvenate (we are also more likely to have childhood memories pop up to deal with and past life memories, if you resonate with that, any addictions/escapist tendencies can get our attention now, too). Of course, we still have our natal (and progressed Sun signs) running the show, but we get a little high-octane Pisces magic in our tank, too. 

Given what is coming on Friday - this is like kind of walking into the mist of a tectonic shift. 

FRIDAY - for the first time in something like 7000 years at the Aries point - beginning of creation - Saturn meets Neptune. We talked about this HERE and HERE and HERE and a million other places but nowhere quite decisively because how can I be decisive about -

the God of 3D meeting the God of 5D at the beginning of everything.  

What is this going to look like? No one knows. Will we feel it today? No one knows. They have been exact within degree for a few days and close enough to smell each other's toothpaste for months. Will this 'exact to the second thing' matter. We can't precisely know this either because here we are in the Eclipse spin-cycle at the same time! 

Belief systems will be restructured. Authority will dissolve and be rebuilt. We can all see this is already happening.

This is SATURN - reality, 3D, structure, law, boundaries. Neptune - nonreality, 5D, faith, dissolution, illusion. ARIES - identity, passion, initiation, assertion. 

Mars, the ruler of Aries is at 22 degrees Aquarius - a collective power-point/peak. Technology, groups, collective goals, genius, eccentricity, electricity. He sits with Chariklo (conjunct 2020's BIG time runs out energy and our 2021 temporary restart and now back here for the real deal beginning). I wrote quite a bit about Chariklo here HERE - she was discovered the last time Saturn was in Aries back in February 1997, almost to the day of this conjunction! At that time, she formed a six-pointed star/hexagram with Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto (this was actually the day my mother died). The Saturn/Neptune conjunction is happening exactly conjunct asteroid Herakles/Hercules - something here about re-writing our collective "hero" story? The mythic laborer. The one who must perform impossible tasks to atone or prove strength. This is our collective storyline of 'heroic burden' or maybe destructive 'overreach' framed as heroism. Probably both. We will talk more about this, this week and as we move through this. 

SUNDAY - Mars/Chiron, Venus/Jupiter - here is the blessing and integration (I am wondering if there will be some kind of celebration of Nancy Guthrie this day). 

Mars and Chiron are actions that heal and having the courage to address wounds. This may be more productive than dramatic. Venus/Jupiter brings relief and a SOFTENING. Goodwill. Financial and relationship fresh starts and openings. Venus/Jupiter, both benefics together (!), is the best energy in astrology, and we have the blessing of this to close out this cray-cray week.

So, if this were a week I could briefly summarize, AND IT ISN'T, it would be a week that looks like -SHOCK (Sun/Uranus). Destiny alignment (Venus/North Node - values, women, beauty, finances, resources. Ideological reset (Aquarius eclipse - post to follow). Emotional diffusion, compassion circulation (Sun into Pisces). UNPRECEDENTED structural collapse/rebuild (Saturn/Neptune at 0 Aries. Constructive healing and fresh-start blessings (Mars/Chiron, Venus/Jupiter). 

Everyone I know, in some area of life, is LIT. Whoa mama.

Back with that Eclipse post!

xo all

I have been asked multiple times for Nancy Guthrie location astrology. Traditional horary - including the methods of William Lilly in Christian Astrology - was used for lost objects and sometimes missing persons, so we will try this. Let's stay disciplined and technical. Astrology is symbolic - there are things it cannot do. On February 13, 2026, at 6:24PM - I tossed a horary chart with the question "Where is Nancy?".

(I am pulling this over from my Word doc which sometimes mucks with the font sizes in hard to fix ways, hopefully this is all readable)

Step 1 - Radicality of the Chart - 6° Virgo rising. Lilly considered 0 - 3° too early and 27 - 30° too late, so 6° is acceptable. The chart is radical enough to judge.

Step 2 - Significator of the Victim - in missing-person horary Lilly often uses - 1st house ruler as the person asked about, Moon as co-significator, 7th house ruler as “the person taken” in some abduction cases, 4th house as ground/end/place. We have - Mercury in Pisces (7th house), Moon 14° Capricorn (5th house), Jupiter in opposition to Moon, Saturn in Pisces (7th)

Step 3 - Condition of the Victim’s Significators - Mercury in Pisces (7th), Mercury in Pisces is in detriment and fall. That shows confusion, weakness, lack of agency. Placed in the 7th - in the power or space of "the other", in someone else’s domain, not autonomous

Moon 14° Capricorn (5th house) - Moon in Capricorn - detriment, so yes, again weakened condition. In Lilly, a debilitated Moon can show - distress, confinement, physical weakness, fear, loss. 5th house placement -traditionally signifies places of pleasure, restaurants, parks, areas associated with recreation, sometimes children. But Capricorn modifies this and represents cold, dry, elevated, stony, barren. A place elevated or exposed, possibly near structured building, not lush, not hidden in vegetation, hard ground.

Step 4: Dispositor of the Moon, Moon in Capricorn and ruled by Saturn. Saturn in Pisces (7th) - cold, damp, near water, secluded, confining, possibly near drains, wells, water features, marshy ground. Saturn ruling the Moon suggests: the Moon (victim condition) answers to Saturn (restriction).

Again - symbolic, not literal coordinates.

Directional indications - Virgo rising, so South by West (per Lilly). Moon in Capricorn says South. But this is archetypal directionality and may not be actionable search instruction. You can see this would not likely be useful to anyone searching .... the 911 call chart with its 4th house/end of the matter (using Lilly and this is not my specialty) would be - a place near water or domestic origin (Cancer) but physically elevated or visible (Moon in Leo), possibly associated with leisure or gathering or children (5th) and ultimately exposed publicly (Sun in Aquarius 10th).