While 2026 is another year of big change, in every case this is in order to complete what began last year, locking the slower outer planets into a position they will maintain for years to come. Pluto was the first planet to complete that process, with the planet of change and transformation successfully completing his transition into your work sector in November 2024, where he will remain until 2044. However, professionally that transition is still underway, for while Uranus returned to your career sector last July for the first time in 77 years, he retrograded back out four months later. Uranus begins 2026 where he began 2025, back in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, where he had been since 2019. This coincided with Pluto’s final years in a playful and creative part of your chart, which is why they are used to working together.
Uranus begins the year still in retrograde motion, but a direct turn on 5th February will see him turn around and start heading back out again, something that on 26th April will see him return to your career sector, where he will remain until 2033. This locks into place a new partnership between Pluto and Uranus, one forged over many years on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence, but now centred on the job and career fronts. Pluto and Uranus will not only spend much of the next two years closely aligned, but so too will the planets returning to your income, work and career sectors this year. Capitalising on this is the extra time that Venus will spend in your income sector this year, with the period from 7th August to 4th December some of the most lucrative of the year and some of the best across the income, work and career fronts.
Meanwhile, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter are changing and then reforming a similar partnership. Jupiter will begin the year in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking, putting him in partnership with Neptune and Saturn, who will begin the year in your relationship sector. While Neptune, who first returned in 2012 will leave on 27th January and Saturn, who first returned in March 2023 on 14th February, since Jupiter returned in June 2025, they have been working in tandem, getting the year off to a powerful start when it comes to friendship and relationship building. This will see Saturn and Neptune shift their focus onto money matters, something that will put Jupiter back into harmony with them when he returns to a nostalgic and reflective but also intuitive and imaginative part of your chart on 30th June to begin the wind down of your current 12-year Jupiter cycle of expansion.
Love
The stars are dialling up an important year on both the romantic and relationship fronts, though in a way that could be seen as one era coming to an end while another is opening up. The era that is coming to an end is on the relationship front with Saturn and Neptune both leaving your relationship sector, but unlike last year, not coming back. Neptune, who returned to your relationship sector in 2012, left at the end of March 2025, only to retrograde back in later in the year while Saturn, who had been here since March 2023, left at the end of May, only to retrograde back in a few months later as well. 2026 begins with both still here, but back in direct motion and getting ready to leave, starting with Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams on 27th January.
With Neptune not returning again for another 150 years, it is Saturn’s resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes that can help you cement the dream until he too leaves on 14th February, Valentine’s Day. This is before the Sun’s return on 19th February, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships but with Venus, the planet of love’s return from 10th February to 6th March getting her here in time. Venus is the last planet to make contact with Saturn until he returns again in three decades and the one that can capture his resolve to keep doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn Neptune’s dreams into reality.
With the Sun not leaving until 21st March and Mercury, the planet of communication returning on 7th February for what should be a 14 to 15 day chance to get the communication lines open instead turning retrograde and not leaving until 15th April, this will extend Neptune and Saturn’s legacy and especially with Mars returning for the first time in two years from 3rd March to 10th April. Meanwhile, it is while this is playing out that thanks to starting the year with the Sun, Venus, Mars and even the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your romantic sector, the year will get off to a romantically charged start. With Venus, the planet of love leaving on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January and Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos leaving on 23rd January, this needs to be a priority from the start.
Money
As you move into the New Year, on both sides of the financial fence it will be business as usual, though with a lot of history and momentum from last year to draw on. While there will be no planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence until the second half of the year and even then, it is the other side of the financial fence that is going to be the more dominant this year Venus, the planet of money will be doing her best to make up for that. There will be signs of what is to come when Venus returns to your income sector from 7th August to 10th August to begin what she will always be working to make the most lucrative weeks of any year. The clues are in the amount of time Venus will spend here, for instead of just 24 days when the laws of attraction are in effect, she is here for over a month.
There is only one explanation for that, which is that Venus will be slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn that will see her return from 25th October to 4th December. Venus will be both the first planet to return to your income sector this year and the last to leave and with the Sun and Mercury moving through between her two visits, this will make the whole period from Venus’ return on 7th October to her departure on 4th December the most lucrative months of year, with help throughout that time from Pluto in your work sector and Uranus in your career sector. Meanwhile, while the other side of the financial fence will have powered up by then, with Neptune in retrograde motion in your financial sector from 7th July to 13th December and Saturn from 27th July to 11th December, while money matters are in review mode.
By the time you move into 2026 Neptune and Saturn have yet to return, but that will change when Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returns on 27th January to spend the next 13 years here and Saturn on 14th February, when until he leaves in April 2028 they will work as a team, giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to take your financial power back. Meanwhile, there will be a chance to take a more proactive approach to money matters now, rather than focus on the big picture, when from Venus’ return to your financial sector on 6th March to Mars’ departure on 19th May, they not only move through but the Sun and Mercury as well.
Business
This is one year that will start out slow or at least with business as usual for a few weeks to get your bearings before things start to become a lot busier on the job front, before moving up a notch in April when things start to move on the career front. This isn’t a case of each taking turns, for while on the career front you will have a chance to build on from the action on the job front in the early part of the year, things there will only dial back and not go off the boil. With Pluto, the planet of change and transformation in just the second full year of a 20-year transit through your work sector, that is not going to happen. However, what will get the year off to a busy start on the job front is the return of the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars to your work sector, all within the space of five days.
It begins with Venus’ return on 18th January, something that will bring the laws of attraction into effect, followed by the Sun’s return on 20th January, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your work situation, job matters and options. It is a day later that Mercury will return on 21st January with a chance to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open. However, it will be Mars’ return on 23rd January that will be the game changer. Until leaving on 3rd March, Mars’ first visit in two years will be a chance to fire up your work passions, fighting and competitive spirit, while kicking off what can be the busiest months of any year.
While Pluto will stay on, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment’s return from 29th March to 12th August and again from 24th October to 15th January 2027, will help you set and stick to your resolutions. Meanwhile, having spent seven months in your career sector last year laying down foundations, Uranus will not only return on 26th April to spend the next six years here, but for the rest of this year and the early part of next year will be closely aligned with Pluto in your work sector. Uranus’ return comes two days after Venus returns to your career sector on 24th April, kicking off the most active months of the year on the career front, where it will once again be Mars, who when he leaves on 11th August will bring this chapter home before handing the keys to Uranus, who will take it from here.
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