If 2025 was a year of change, then 2026 is the year when all the pieces will finally not just fall into place but lock in. We have never seen all the major planets in the solar system, some of them in one place for decades all move out of one area of your chart and into the next and while some of them had a change of mind and returned to where they began last year, by the end of April, all that will have changed. The one planet who is now locked into place is Pluto, who is not only in his second full year in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking, but is here now until 2044. This is something that Uranus’ return to your communication sector on 26th April, where he will stay until 2033 will lock into.
Venus is due to spend a lot of time in your relationship sector this year, moving through from 7th August to 10th September, before retrograding back in again from 25th October to 4th December. Each time spending time with Pluto and Uranus, making this a big year on the communication, social and relationship fronts. However, Uranus doesn’t start the year in your communication sector and instead, back in your income sector, where until leaving last July, he had been since 2019. With the year getting off to an empowered start on the career front and Uranus not leaving until 26th April, this bodes well for a lucrative start to the year as well. This is in the centre of what could be the most lucrative months of 2026, which starts with Venus’ return on 31st March and end with Mars’ departure on 29th June.
Meanwhile, having spent some time in Aries last year before retrograding back out Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will return on 27th January, where he will remain until 2039 and Saturn on 14th February, who until leaving in April 2028 will not only take you into a powerful new three decades long Saturn cycle, but will give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn Neptune’s dreams into reality. The other big move this year is Jupiter, who will spend the first half of the year promoting growth and expansion on the home, family and/or property fronts, before leaving your home and family sector on 29th June and returning to Leo to begin your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things playful and creative in over a decade.
Love
The stars are dialling up a big year on the romantic front, though you might not know it at first. To begin with, it is business as usual, which means there is rarely, if ever any planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts in the first half of the year, with just the Moon’s monthly visits offering a chance to check in. It is the Moon’s second visit to your romantic sector in 2026 that will have a lot more potency, due to the Full Moon that will create on 2nd February. However, while the Sun’s return to your romantic sector on 23rd July is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, by then everything will have changed.
It will begin over a month earlier, when on 13th June Venus, the planet of love will make an early return, kicking off what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026. It is on Venus’ watch that on 30th June Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion will return to your romantic sector and not leaving again until July 2027, to begin your luckiest year for love and your biggest year for matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade. Helping to get this lucky year for love off the ground will be having Venus here until 10th July, the Sun from 23rd July to 23rd August and Mercury from 10th August to 25th August.
Even Mars, who spent several months in your romantic sector between November 2024 and June 2025 will be back, returning from 28th November to 26th November. Even then, a retrograde turn in January 2027 will see him retrograde back in for a second time next year and while Jupiter is still here. The whole second half of 2026 will remain romantically charged and this is when you will also find the most active months of the year on the relationship front. This will kick off Venus, the planet of love’s return to your relationship sector from 7th August to 10th September, with Mercury, the planet of communication returning from 11th September to 1st October and the Sun from 23rd September to 23rd October. That should end all planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, but Venus will retrograde back in for a do over from 25th October to 4th December.
Money
While as you move into the New Year things are steady and locked into position on both sides of the financial fence, this belies the changes that took place in the closing weeks of 2025. After six years, Uranus had left and ended all planetary activity on the income front in July, only to retrograde back in four months later, right in the heart of the most active months of the year on the other side of the financial fence, the side where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have. This saw both sides of the financial fence compete for your attention, right up to the moment Mercury left your financial sector in December. While you move into the new year with no planetary activity in your financial sector and there will be none until later in the year, with a chance to begin 2026 with a smart head for money and read on money matters.
Meanwhile, this has left the path clear for the income side of the financial fence, where having retrograded back for six months, Uranus is in the pursuit of the past, second chances and untapped income potential, while working to leave you with a clear sense of where the money is and of your priorities. Uranus won’t turn direct until 5th February, which is when the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected will start getting ready to leave again on 26th April, this time not returning again for another eight decades. Before that can happen Venus, the planet of money will return from 31st March to 24th April, with a chance to work with Uranus to make these some of the most potentially lucrative weeks of the year.
During this time, with the laws of attraction and synchronicity both in effect, these really could be some of the most lucrative weeks of the year. By the end of April both will be gone, but with the Sun returning from 20th April to 21st May, Mercury from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars from 19th May to 29th June, there will be plenty of time to exploit all available income potential. Meanwhile, it is in the second half of the year that the focus will shift to the other side of the financial fence, starting with Venus’ return from 10th September to 25th October. Because Venus will retrograde back out, she will return for a do over from 4th December 2026 to 7th January 2027 and with the Sun and Mercury moving through while she’s gone, with a chance to first update your financial desires, hopes and aspirations and then return to help turn them into reality.
Business
As is usually the case, it is the early and latter weeks of each year that are going to be the most active on the career front and it is the second half of the year when the planets will return to your work sector each year. While this year is no exception with Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos visiting both this year, then with a lot more energy. Mars will begin the year in your career sector and while he will leave on 23rd January, not before spending six weeks firing up your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit. With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of January in your career sector, for most of that time while the solar spotlight is on your career and professional situation, matters and options.
You also begin the year with Venus and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your career sector. Until leaving on 18th January, Venus will be working to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction, while Juno is playing a longer game. Like Venus, Mercury who will return from 2nd January to 21st January, is not hanging around and instead will give you just enough time to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open. When Mars leaves on 23rd January, this should end all planetary activity on the career front until the Sun and Mercury return in December but instead, Juno is here until 29th March and even then, will retrograde back in again from 12th August to 24th October.
As the queen of commitment, Juno can help set your professional resolutions in the early weeks of the year, help you stick to them and return just as the most active months of the year on the job front will be kicking off. This will start with Venus’ return to your work sector from 10th July to 7th August, with a short gap until the Sun returns from 23rd August to 23rd September. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your work and job situation, matters and options, with Mercury moving through from 25th August to 11th September, with a chance to work smarter, with your head in the game and your feet on the ground. This will end all planetary activity on the job front but not for the year, with Mars returning on 26th November for a standalone visit from 26th November 2026 to 22nd February 2027, powering things up on the job front for months.
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