The 2026 Transits
The major planetary movements shaping the year - ingresses, retrogrades, eclipses and lunations, with the dates that actually matter. Read the sky like a calendar.
January 2026
Neptune re-enters Aries
Neptune settles back into Aries for the long haul - until 2038. The collective dream shifts from dissolving the old to imagining a braver, more individual one.
February 2026
Saturn enters Aries
Saturn begins a two-year tour of Aries. Where you've been waiting for permission, Saturn asks you to become your own authority and start.
Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
A New Moon eclipse at 28° Aquarius resets your relationship to community, the future and the group you belong to. Eclipse seeds grow fast.
Saturn conjunct Neptune at 0° Aries
The headline transit of 2026. Structure meets dream at the very first degree of the zodiac, starting a 36-year cycle. The question: is the dream true, and will you build it?
Read the full guideMercury stations retrograde in Pisces
The first Mercury retrograde of 2026 runs entirely through dreamy Pisces, reversing from 23 degrees back to 8. Facts blur and plans dissolve mid-sentence, so confirm the details twice and let the poetry wait. Runs until March 20.
March 2026
Lunar Eclipse in Virgo
A Full Moon eclipse at 12° Virgo brings a culmination around work, health and the daily systems that hold your life together. Something completes.
Mercury stations direct in Pisces
Mercury turns forward at 8 degrees of Pisces just as the Sun crosses into Aries for the equinox. The fog of the year's first retrograde lifts and 2026 finally feels like it starts moving.
May 2026
Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius
Pluto turns inward at 5° Aquarius until October 15. The deep rewiring of power and identity moves underground for review.
Read the full guideJune 2026
Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer
Mercury turns back at 26° Cancer. Feelings get loud, words get slippery and old conversations resurface. Anything tender or family-shaped is hardest to say cleanly now. Runs until July 23.
Read the full guideJupiter enters Leo
Jupiter changes signs for the first time in a year and stays in Leo for the next thirteen months. Wherever Leo lives in your chart is about to get bigger, bolder and more visible.
Read the full guideJuly 2026
Neptune stations retrograde in Aries
Neptune turns inward, asking you to check the dream against reality. The fog you've been moving through starts to clear from the inside.
Read the full guideNew Moon in Cancer
A New Moon at 22° Cancer lands mid–Mercury retrograde, so set intentions softly. Plant seeds around home, family and emotional safety, then let them sit.
Read the full guideSun enters Leo - Leo Season
The Sun joins Jupiter in Leo and the lights come on. The most radiant, expressive season of the year, supercharged this year by Jupiter's presence.
Mercury stations direct in Cancer
Mercury turns forward at 16° Cancer and the fog around communication lifts. What you've been reconsidering for three weeks finally finds its words.
Read the full guideSaturn stations retrograde in Aries
Saturn turns back at 14° Aries until December. The new structures you've been building get pressure-tested - keep only what's load-bearing.
Read the full guideFull Moon in Aquarius
The Buck Moon at 6° Aquarius closes the month by showing you where your future needs more room to breathe. A wide-angle view after a feeling-heavy month.
Read the full guideAugust 2026
Venus enters Libra
Venus comes home to Libra, one of the signs it rules. Love, beauty and the art of fair, graceful connection get easier for a few weeks. A soft, harmonising note just before eclipse season peaks.
Read the full guideSolar Eclipse in Leo
A New Moon eclipse at 20° Leo, right where Jupiter is expanding. A bold, fated reset around self-expression, creativity and being seen.
Read the full guideSun enters Virgo - Virgo Season
The Sun leaves bold Leo for practical Virgo. Attention turns from being seen to being useful: health, work, routine and the small daily systems that quietly hold a life together.
Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
A Full Moon eclipse at 4° Pisces brings an emotional, spiritual culmination. Something you've carried quietly is ready to be released.
Read the full guideSeptember 2026
New Moon in Virgo
A New Moon at 18° Virgo, the first clean lunation after eclipse season. A grounded, practical reset for your health, your work and the daily habits that make everything else run.
Read the full guideSun enters Libra - Libra Season & Equinox
The Sun crosses into Libra at the autumn equinox, the year's balance point of light and dark. Focus shifts to relationship, fairness and the art of meeting other people halfway.
Full Moon in Aries
The Harvest Moon at 3° Aries falls close to Neptune, a vivid culmination about your own independence. Reap what you have grown, then be honest about the dream you have been testing against reality.
Read the full guideOctober 2026
Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio
Venus turns back at 8° Scorpio and later slips into Libra. Six weeks to revisit what - and who - you truly value. Not the time to redo your whole look or restart a relationship on impulse.
Read the full guideNew Moon in Libra
A New Moon at 17° Libra opens a fresh chapter in relationship and balance. It lands a week into Venus retrograde, so set intentions about partnership gently and expect to revise them.
Read the full guidePluto stations direct in Aquarius
Pluto turns forward and the deep power shift you've been processing internally starts moving outward again.
Read the full guideSun enters Scorpio - Scorpio Season
Scorpio season begins. The light turns inward and intense, favouring honesty, depth and everything you have been avoiding looking at directly.
Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio
The autumn Mercury retrograde begins at 21° Scorpio. Buried truths and old obsessions resurface for one more look. Runs alongside Venus retrograde - a deeply reflective season.
Read the full guideVenus retrogrades back into Libra
Retrograde Venus slips back into Libra, its own sign, softening the review from Scorpio's depths toward fairness, beauty and the art of relating.
Read the full guideFull Moon in Taurus
A Full Moon at 3° Taurus brings a matter of money, comfort or self-worth to a head. Taurus asks what actually makes you feel secure, not what merely looks like security.
Read the full guideNovember 2026
New Moon in Scorpio
A New Moon at 17° Scorpio, the deepest reset of the year. Plant intentions around intimacy, shared resources and the truth you have been circling for months.
Read the full guideMercury & Venus turn direct
Within a day of each other, Mercury (5° Scorpio) and Venus turn forward. The long autumn review ends - you know what you value and what you mean.
Read the full guideSun enters Sagittarius - Sagittarius Season
Sagittarius season lifts the mood after Scorpio's depths. The horizon widens toward travel, meaning and the search for something bigger than the daily grind.
Full Moon in Gemini
A Full Moon at 2° Gemini brings a conversation, a piece of writing or a decision to its culmination. Say the thing you have been drafting in your head.
Read the full guideMars enters Virgo
Mars enters Virgo and drive turns precise. Energy pours into work, health and fixing what is broken, though the shadow is criticism sharpened into a weapon.
December 2026
Venus re-enters Scorpio
Venus returns to Scorpio, this time moving forward. What the autumn retrograde reviewed in love and money now gets to move ahead with its eyes open.
Mercury enters Sagittarius
Mercury enters Sagittarius and the mind goes wide. Big-picture thinking and blunt honesty replace the careful digging of the autumn.
New Moon in Sagittarius
A New Moon at 17° Sagittarius opens the year's last fresh start. Plant a seed around belief, travel or the future you actually want to walk toward.
Read the full guideSaturn stations direct in Aries
Saturn turns forward at 8° Aries. The structures that survived the retrograde review are yours to build on for real now.
Read the full guideJupiter stations retrograde in Leo
Jupiter turns back at 27° Leo to close the year, asking you to grow the Leo theme inward before the next outward push in spring 2027.
Read the full guideSun enters Capricorn - Winter Solstice
The solstice. Capricorn season begins on the year's shortest day, turning attention to structure, ambition and what you intend to build next.
Read the full guideFull Moon in Cancer
A Full Moon at 2° Cancer lights up home and family right at the holidays. Feelings run close to the surface and something about belonging comes to a head.
Read the full guideMercury enters Capricorn
Mercury enters Capricorn and thinking turns practical and long-range, ideal for setting the plan that carries you into the new year.
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