by Vaness Henry

Reminders for navigating the Playing Field of Life this season, whether you're Caves, Markets, Kitchens, Mountains, Valleys or Shores

Based on the position of the stars out there, how might you best hold yourself on Earth at this moment? Read more to orient and navigate the Playing Field of Life this season, according to what you resonate to.

Reveal a Truer Self

This is a month of orientation— to your ideas, your voice, your people, and the peculiar way you contribute to the world.

Let your body sit in that weird spot if it wants to. You are magnetic now! What is meant for you can find you quickly, sometimes suddenly.

Alignments and shifts happen — not because you chase them, but because you are standing in the right current.

As Aquarius season unfolds, you may begin to feel the flow and force of your connections across the Playing Field of Life. Conversations, encounters, and opportunities are not random this month — they are part of a larger bridge, ushering us through a profound cosmic reset.

As the Year of the Fire Horse truly kicks into motion, several long-term energies begin to turn. We are stepping into terrain that very few living people have ever known how to navigate.

Neptune — planet of dreams, illusions, spirituality, and escape — enters fiery Aries for the first time in over a century. This marks the beginning of a slow-burning initiation into spiritual uprising, identity redefinition, and courage-driven belief systems. This storyline will continue unfolding through 2039, shaping not just personal lives, but the evolution of our collective narrative.

The coming years carry a pulsating tone. Something deep within the collective body is pressing upward and outward — seeking expression, mutation, and evolution.

You may feel it as a new internal rhythm. A steady heartbeat. Something persistent, unmistakable, and alive.

Wherever you sit within your communities, you may feel new heat around how you express yourself. A quiet pressure — or a sudden surge — to take a stand, speak up, or hold ground in service of an idea or truth that feels larger than you.

Not performative. Not forced. But deeply held.

This passion doesn’t arrive in a vacuum. The Playing Field itself is calling it forth. A version of you — one you may not fully recognize yet — could begin to emerge. You haven’t lived inside this kind of energy before, and it may ask for more courage, clarity, and presence than you’re used to offering.

And just before we spill into Pisces season, a New Moon Solar Eclipse on February 17 marks a significant karmic reset, officially launching us into the Year of the Fire Horse. Eclipses rarely ask for action; they ask for release, trust, and awareness.

Something is being cleared so something else can finally take off.

This month invites you to practice the art of the Aquarian Water-Bearer: to stay connected without becoming flooded, to remain expressive without betraying yourself, and to honour your weirdness as a genuine contribution rather than something to edit or soften.

What if we accepted that the world is stranger than we were taught to believe — and that we are stranger, too?

Perhaps the work now is not to normalize ourselves, but to expand our imaginations enough to let more of that strangeness in. In doing so, we participate in collective evolution — trusting that each of us is tending our own corner of the strange, the sacred, and the unknown.


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Caves Enviroscope

Remember: safety in the body precedes clarity in the mind. With so much mental, ideological, and collective stimulation in the air, your nervous system is your compass.

How are you taking care of your mind this month, and what rituals make you feel mentally clear? The more secure and grounded you feel physically, the easier it becomes to think clearly and discern which ideas are actually yours to carry forward.

Notice when you’re overwhelmed, anxious, or stressed. Bow. Adjust. Adapt.

This is a powerful season for quiet testing. New concepts, perspectives, or creative directions may be arriving — but they don’t need immediate exposure. This is the time to think BIG.

Where can you try things out in contained environments? How can you practice with trusted clients, private conversations, or low-stakes spaces that allow you to experiment without overexposure?

You may be connecting with or working with more people than usual.

As Uranus moves direct and the eclipse approaches, resist the pressure to prematurely share or define something you’re doing. Let your ideas and conversations gestate, and trust your body to move you through its natural process.

Let your body signal when something feels stable enough to bring outward.

Markets Enviroscope

For Markets people, Aquarius Season activates the intersection of ideas, communication, and value exchange. You may notice shifts in how you articulate WHAT you do — or in how others respond to your voice or ideas.

Conversations around money, messaging, and contribution may evolve quickly, especially as long-term Aries energy begins to reshape identity and self-assertion.

You are at risk for burnout or pushing too hard somewhere. When your body starts to squeak back in protest, trust that you will be more abundant if you listen.

Bow. Adjust. Adapt.

This is a season to observe how your ideas circulate. Which expressions gain traction? Which are feeling outdated? Uranus turning direct can bring clarity around stalled offers or confusing feedback, but it may also reveal that something needs to be communicated differently rather than totally abandoned.

Notice the places where you feel misunderstood by key people in your network or community.

Pay attention to how conversations change when you speak from your authentic perspective — even if it feels unconventional. Aquarius rewards originality, especially when it’s rooted in lived experience rather than performance.

Kitchens Enviroscope

Aquarius Season stirs the social waters for Kitchens people!

You may find yourself navigating multiple communities, conversations, or collaborative spaces, each with its own hot topics, tensions, and debates. This can feel activating — but it’s also deeply generative for you.

Rather than avoiding intensity, this season invites you to choose where to engage wholeheartedly. Which discussions feel alive? Which collaborations challenge you in meaningful ways? Permit yourself to step fully into the mess when it feels aligned — and just as much permission to step back when it doesn’t.

Radically listening to your body is what you’re experimenting with this month!

These interactions are part of a larger identity shift unfolding now.

The eclipse at the end of Aquarius Season suggests a subtle course correction rather than a dramatic reinvention. Be open to the alchemy!!! Trust that engaging honestly — even imperfectly — is actually helping you recalibrate your path in ways that will make so much sense later. Remember to bow, adjust, and adapt.

Mountains Enviroscope

Perhaps you’re seeing the world — or yourself — from a new vantage point. A new identity, possibility, or way of being may have presented itself not as a concrete plan, but as a felt sense or glimpse of what could be.

Aquarius Season brings opportunities quickly, sometimes too quickly.

Ideas may pass through your field at high speed, making discernment essential. Rather than chasing every option and galloping into the horizon at a moment’s notice, lean into your authority and personal values.

What’s actually necessary for you? Not everything that passes through the field is for you, but understanding what YOU require is also essential.

Notice which possibilities feel like expansion rather than obligation. This is your key differentiator this month, and it’s something that may come up more to ensure you’re paying attention.

Not everything that appears around you needs to be acted on. This is a season for watching, sensing, and choosing deliberately. The right opportunities will resonate not just mentally, but emotionally and energetically as well.

This month, it pays to be on your perch, patiently paying attention to all that you see, noticing who’s rushing, running, galloping and soaring. This will inform you later, so don’t miss the information in the now. Depending what you see, remember to bow, adjust, and adapt.

Valleys Enviroscope

Valleys people are especially sensitive to the energetic currents of this month, as you’re the most attuned environmentally. At least… You have the potential to be.

With collective momentum accelerating, you may feel charged simply by proximity — to people, information, or emotional environments. This makes honest self-assessment crucial.

Sometimes it’s challenging to self-assess when you’re constantly plugged into something.

Certain relationships or information streams may need to be taken in smaller doses right now. Notice your patterns around over-connection and burnout.

This isn’t about withdrawal — it’s about pacing. It’s essential you PACE yourself! Your capacity may fluctuate more than usual as long-term transits begin activating the collective nervous system, which you’re inherently plugged into.

Intentional discharge becomes crucial. How can you be ritualistic about it? Build in practices that help you release excess stimulation, whether through movement, solitude, sound, or nature. Staying regulated allows you to remain a clear conduit rather than an overwhelmed one.

You will get overwhelmed this month, so how can you lovingly prepare to ground and hold your future self based on all that you’re learning about yourself? How can you bow, adjust, and adapt? This act is deeply considerate of your personal systems and the larger ones you’re connected to. It makes the low moments cushier rather than hard.

Shores Enviroscope

Shores people are walking a cool threshold this Aquarius season. A new idea, conversation, or perspective may be forming — not fully defined, but undeniably present.

You’re gathering information through exchange: through who you speak with, what opportunities arise, and what resonates moment to moment.

Your connections matter deeply now. Who you collaborate with, who you listen to, and who you create distance from will shape the reality you’re building. These choices may change from day to day, and that’s okay. Aquarius teaches flexibility without self-abandonment.

Have fun shaping your new reality, and don’t trip up on who/what is or isn’t in the picture. Don’t force something/others to be in the picture if they don’t fit.

Stay present with what’s emerging and let it unfold in a natural timing. Respond in real time. Give yourself permission to evolve as new information arrives. This season is part of a longer shift toward values and priorities that may look very different from what once mattered to you — and that difference is intentional.

You may not see every shift taking place, but things that mattered before just might not matter to you anymore. The Playing Field has changed.

Bow. Adjust. Adapt.