How Sprite Rotation Works

From another conversation How can I rotate a Sprite to face particular x,y coordinates? - #4 by prisoner849

I found that the only way to rotate a sprite is to rotate its texture, which is fine. However in my situation I’m trying to rotate a spritesheet texture which causes all sorts of issues with aspect ratio.

So in a nutshell I was looking for a way to rotate the Sprite or its group (on one axis is fine) but not the texture it self. Which from what I gather it is not possible?