The Astrology Podcast

Transcript of Episode 516, titled:

2026 Year Ahead Horoscopes for Each Rising Sign

With Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim

Episode originally released on December 23, 2025

Original episode URL:

https://theastrologypodcast.com/2025/12/23/2026-horoscopes/

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Transcription released February 11th, 2025

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[ARIES HOROSCOPE]

CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Aries for the entire year of 2026. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for our horoscopes this year. 

LEISA SCHAIM: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. So for our horoscopes, we would recommend focusing on your rising sign if you know your birth time. But if you don’t, you can also look at the one for your Sun sign. So we’re gonna focus on a big picture overview of the major trends and themes this year, so let’s go ahead and just jump right into it right from the start. 

So here is the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll end up by the end of the year. But for the purpose of your rising sign of Aries, we’re gonna focus on these transits in particular and how they’re moving through different houses or sectors of your birth chart. And we’re gonna focus with the first transit that happens right at the beginning of the year, which is that Saturn and Neptune both move into the sign of Aries, which is your rising sign, and then move into a conjunction in your first house. 

So here’s a diagram that shows the significations of the houses that you can refer to later, and here is this Saturn transit of Saturn going into Aries where it dipped in for the first time last year in the middle of 2025, but now it’s going back into Aries and it’s gonna stay there for the next couple of years all the way through 2028, whereas Neptune is doing the same thing but it’s gonna last all the way until 2039. So that’s the beginning of a major long-term transit in that sign. And it’s gonna start off with kind of a bang by having Saturn and Neptune conjoin right at zero degrees of Aries on February 20th. So those are some of the major energies that are gonna dominate the initial part of the year starting the first couple of months, yeah? 

LS: Yeah, definitely. So up to this point, especially the last few years, there’s been a lot of focus on behind-the-scenes energy for you, potentially some losses and just kind of retiring away. But now the energy is coming to your first house of self, identity, appearance, body, sometimes health. And Saturn and Neptune together sometimes structures can kind of dissolve that were there previously, but it can be a time to like, make a new dream come into form, into reality, whereas old dreams can be kind of ending at this point. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s definitely good news with having Saturn and Neptune depart from your 12th house, which can be an area where sometimes we deal with issues with people we don’t get along with in our life can tend to be more prominent, as well as sometimes issues surrounding mental health. So that period is like, moving into the past, and now we’re moving into this new period, especially with Saturn going through your first house over the next couple of years, where the focus is more on the body as well as the mind. And sometimes people can start working on their body more during this period and doing things to restructure things like their diet, their exercise regime, or sometimes either even like, health-related things can just become more of the focus over the next couple of years. 

LS: Right. And with Neptune, it’s a much slower transit, but with Saturn conjoining Neptune there, there can be kind of like a slow dissolving of who you thought you were in the past and then, you know, sort of concretizing new senses of who you are, which can sound kind of broad, but it’s super important to everything else that you do in your life. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. So this transit – Neptune goes into Aries in January, and then Saturn goes into Aries in February, so it’s basically lasting for the entire rest of the year. And the first part of it is gonna be the most intense, because when Saturn-Neptune come together, it’s gonna complete what I’ve been calling the reality distortion field that’s become really intense over the past two to three years ever since Saturn moved into Pisces in March of 2023. And there’s gonna be some tensions between telling what’s real and what’s not real, and this is gonna come into particular focus when it comes to your personality, your physical appearance, and things related to your body. So I think that’s gonna be the trick during the course of this transit is trying to balance the more realistic things of sometimes being self-critical and looking at things critically that we’d like to improve with respect to our body and our appearance versus the other hand having a more idealized take on things that tends to be sometimes more aspirational in terms of wanting to manifest certain things in the future and finding some sort of balance between those two. And it might be kind of tricky while Saturn and Neptune are exactly conjoined, because the tendency to be more divorced from reality is gonna be more prominent. But as those two move apart, I think we’re gonna be able to start coping with some of that energy a little bit better and things will become a little bit clearer. 

LS: Right. So you can have some energy of like, what optimistically or idealistically you want to be in the world, and then the Saturn part of it is like, “What of that can you make real?” Which will only be probably a portion of it. It’s also one of the health houses, so it’s not the case that health things will come up for everyone, but if they do during the course of this transit, it’s a good time to get like, second opinions because of that aforementioned reality versus distortion piece. 

CB: All right. So that’s the first major transit of the year, especially in the January-February timeframe that just represents such a distinct phase. And the other major transit that happens in the following couple of months is our first eclipse season, which takes place in February and March of 2026 where we’re gonna have a solar eclipse in the sign of Aquarius in the middle of February and then a lunar eclipse in the sign of Virgo on March 3rd. And these eclipses are important because Aquarius is your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, and the 6th house – Virgo is your 6th house – of work and health and things related to that area. 

So with eclipses, we always expect them to be major endings and major beginnings happening in those two areas of your life. So with respect to 11th house things, that’s with respect to like, friends and groups. Sometimes you’ll see some friendships ending at this point and you’ll see other new friendships beginning, but sometimes these new beginnings will happen subtly and you won’t realize at first how significant of a new beginning that is. I think that’s one of the major themes with eclipses, yeah? 

LS: Yeah. Definitely. Beginnings and endings of chapters of your life with respect to those topics. And it’s kind of an exclamation point as well on the longer Pluto transit that started a couple years ago and really got into full force in 2025 with respect to friends and groups for you, which is like, a much more gradual, long-term death and rebirth energy. And it’ll depend on the specifics of your chart as to when that intensifies. But Aquarius eclipses, which are just starting – this is gonna be the first of several – will kind of put a little exclamation mark at those points with regard to that longer term process. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. So major beginnings and endings with friends and groups is part of that eclipse, and it’s part of a new series of eclipses over the next couple of years. But then also we’re seeing the continuation of an eclipse series from last year in Virgo, which is major beginnings and major endings in your 6th house of work and health. So this may be echoing some of the themes that we’ve already been seeing with Saturn moving into your first house over the past year where there’s a greater focus on the body and the physical constitution for some reason, and sometimes that can be addressing health issues before they come up. Sometimes it can be addressing issues after they come up. Sometimes people take a more proactive approach to their health during this time, like starting to go to the gym, let’s say, for the first time if that’s not something you already do, or starting some other major diet or exercise regime can be really important when you’re having 6th house activations like this to sort of get ahead of health things. 

Another major area, though, that can come up is just beginnings and endings when it comes to your work and comes to workplace situations, like either ending one job or perhaps getting a new one. 

LS: Yeah, that’s happened a lot that I’ve seen in people’s charts when there’s eclipses in the 6th is like, new jobs, ending of jobs. It can also be things around people you work with or people who you hire to do any work for you, even one-off; it doesn’t have to be regular employees. Although if you have employees, they also go in the 6th house. And then things involving pets or other animals can come up as well, so it can be like, you suddenly decide to get a new cat or something like that is a 6th house topic. 

CB: Absolutely. Yeah. All right, so that’s eclipse season one in February and March. And then we move on next to in April, the planet Uranus enters the sign of Gemini where it’s gonna stay for the next six or seven years, and that’s moving from your 2nd house of finances into your 3rd house of communication, short-distance travel, neighbors, and extended relatives. So this is some major unexpected changes and shakeups, but also it can be a time of liberation and greater freedom in this area of your life which can really be a quite positive thing. 

LS: Right. So with Uranus going through your 2nd house of personal income and finances for the past almost seven years, many people with Aries rising will have had a lot of shakeups and unexpected changes, but also innovations, around how you make money. Oftentimes when people have Uranus going through there, it’s like, times of freelance jobs or piecemeal work or yeah, things of that nature. It can also be a time of integrating more technology to how you make a living. And so I’m mentioning that because Uranus will still be there for the first third of the year through April, and in particular in February, there will be one last accentuation of that energy in that area of your life, because Uranus will do one last station where it looks like it’s slowing down to change direction and temporarily sits in one spot longer than usual in February. And then a bunch of inner planets make squares to that placement all month. So February is kind of the last hurrah for that innovation energy in your 2nd house of income. 

And then it moves into the 3rd house where usually when Uranus goes into the 3rd house, people are a lot more suddenly communicative. That’s like, people being more online, on social media, things of that nature. They can also innovate around how they communicate. I know that you have some examples of that, right? 

CB: Yeah. I started doing the – I started podcasting when Uranus went into my 3rd house like, really closely. 

LS: Exactly. And that’s both innovating how you communicate to others, but also bringing in that additional technology piece and also technological innovations. So that can be a greater part of your life with Uranus going into your 3rd. It can also relate to just stuff going on in your siblings’ lives if you have siblings or extended relatives. Sometimes when a planet goes into a house that refers to other people in your life, it’s not always things that you’re doing in your own life; sometimes it’s something that’s happening with those people. And so your siblings could suddenly do surprising things. They could suddenly change their life in a major way – things of that nature. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. It can also be major changes in your neighborhood or your local city environment sometimes. Sometimes they’re ones, though, that are unexpected or disruptive, but it can also be quite an exciting time where there’s some sort of excitement or greater sense of movement and things developing rapidly than usual in your local environment outside of your immediate residence and home. So interesting stuff there. 

LS: And this is one of the transits that we got a little preview of in 2025. So especially in the second half of 2025, you will have gotten a little taste of what that is like in your 3rd house. 

CB: Right. But now it’s going in there for good for most of the rest of this decade until the early 2030s. 

Okay, so let’s move on because now we’re starting to get into June when the next major shift is that Jupiter moves from the sign of Cancer – from your 4th whole sign house of home and living situation and family – and Jupiter’s gonna move from that area in the first half of the year to the sign of Leo in the second half of the year, which is your 5th house of children, of the sign of hobbies and games as well as sex and sexuality and the place of what brings you joy and pleasure in life in general, which can be actually a very positive and quite good transit for just like, having a good time in the entire second half of this year. And then that’ll be a year-long transit starting in June. 

LS: Right. So the first half of the year, we’ll still have Jupiter in Cancer, which started in the summer of 2025. So this is the second half of that transit. So bringing expansiveness and greater ease potentially and abundance around home, family, things involving your parents, private life, and then it moves into your 5th house with those topics you mentioned. For Aries rising, especially in the second half of the year, there’ll be a lot of activation which we’ll mention a couple other pieces of soon with regard to the 5th house. So expansiveness around children – so some people could actually have children at this time or conceive children. But creative work is really expansive here, and just yeah, enjoying yourself more than usual. And I think this is actually really nice for Aries rising in particular, because you’ve had such long transits that are more heavy in your 12th house, so you kind of had this like, reclusive energy of dealing with stuff behind the scenes. And now this is a much more forthright, like, positive, warm expansive energy. 

CB: Yeah, especially for those born during the day with day charts. If your birth chart is a day chart with the Sun in the top half of the chart, you’re gonna experience this Jupiter transit as the most positive one this year where it’s moving from home and family sector to the like, fun and games sector of your life. And sometimes this can be a good time to take up a new hobby or to experiment with just bringing like, joy and pleasure and enjoyment into your life more. And for some of you, it’s gonna be starting a new hobby or starting to do something else which really fills you with a greater sense of joy for about a year basically as long as this transit is lasting for about a year, which is overall pretty positive. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. I like the looks of that one. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. 

So speaking of the Jupiter transit, around this time there’s a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer just before Jupiter moves into Leo, and that’s one of the more auspicious alignments that happens this year. And you and I just released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates in 2026 and basically selected two auspicious electional charts and dates for each of the next 12 months. And this area around June was one of the more positive areas of the year because you have this really auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction around that time. So for example, I mentioned like, that’s a great chart, for example, for getting married, and I think I heard already that – I mentioned in passing in the report that I thought Taylor Swift might get married around that time. And then we saw in the tabloids recently that was announced that she may actually get married on June 13th. So that was one of the things we did in this report was just try to identify some of those best times in the year for people to take actions. 

LS: Right. So basically anything you wanna start or any important actions you wanna take during the year, electional charts are good for finding the most auspicious time periods to do those for the best possible results, the best chances of success, basically. So we picked out two for every single month of next year and some bonus charts. We actually made it a little bigger this year than usual, so there’s lots of charts to choose from. 

CB: Yeah. So it also includes a monthly forecast for each month that goes into greater detail as well as what dates to avoid, because sometimes electional astrology is just as much about what dates you should avoid doing things on versus just figuring out what dates are the best ones. 

So our report includes video, audio, and written report. There’s over 28 charts plus tutorials. You can use it for business, for your love life or for major events – like starting major things. And we’re doing a launch sale for this month only until January where it’s just 49.95, and then the price is gonna go up to 65 dollars at the beginning of next year. So you can get the report at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that takes us into the second half of the year, and the next major thing that comes up that we need to talk about is we get our second eclipse season from August until early September coming up. And this is important because this eclipse season is gonna shift signs, and it’s gonna take place in Leo and Pisces, which is your 5th house of fun and games and hobbies and children and other things like that, but also your 12th house, which is the house that has more to do with people you don’t get along with in your life as well as sometimes issues related to mental health and just taking care of yourself in terms of that and on that level. 

LS: Right. So this is gonna be the first Leo eclipse of that series. We got the first Aquarius in spring; now we have the first Leo. And so that’s just, again, important beginnings and endings with regard to those 5th house topics we were talking about – children, pleasure, creative output, hobbies, et cetera – things that bring you joy. And so that’s what I was mentioning about how there’s gonna be an accentuation in this area a few times for Aries rising this year. So that can be a great time to start new hobbies, to start new creative projects, to kind of get your – if you have creative work, to get that out there into the world, sort of having a brighter light shining on it, and so forth. And then the 12th house eclipse, it’s the last one in Pisces. We’ve had a bunch in Pisces; we’ve had Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. You’ve had a lot of accentuation of that 12th house of seclusion. So this fortunately is the last little one, so this is kind of the endcap of all of that 12th house energy for you. So yeah, and after this, it will just move on. 

CB: Yeah, that’s awesome. I think the 5th house eclipse is emphasizing the Jupiter transit, and so for some people, that’s absolutely gonna be things involving children, like having children I could see could be a thing having, you know, eclipses taking place there plus Jupiter going into that sign could be a good thing for children. There will be some stuff that’ll come up later in the year that we’ll see in early the following year with the Mars retrograde there that’s a little bit more tricky. But at least during this timeframe, that could be good for topics related to children or related to sex and sexuality and other things like that. Some major new beginnings in that area as well as major endings. 

With the 12th house one, I’m glad you mentioned that that was the – this is the final eclipse that’s taking place in Pisces, because it really does end a long sequence going back to at least 2023, not just with eclipses but with Saturn going through there. So I think this is gonna be things coming full circle and bringing to completion a series of major beginnings and endings and a series of major changes that have happened with respect to either especially mental health issues that people have been dealing with and sort of bringing some close to some of the lessons that you learned from that and some of the growth that you’ve had over the past few years. But also in terms of people that you don’t get along with in your life and in some instances perhaps learning to stand up for yourself and learning how to deal with people that are either that you don’t get along with or just outright enemies in your life and having some final moment with that in order to bring that chapter to completion and then move on either from that conflict or move on from that relationship in general. 

LS: Right, for sure. And also, you know, that movement out of the 12th house this year for Aries rising and into first house and 5th house things, which are much more outward into the world – this is kind of like, one last little look at what you’ve been dealing with kind of behind the scenes. And so if you have felt more secluded – I know I’ve talked with some Aries rising people who’ve had a lot of that going on – if you feel a little bit of accentuation around that theme again during this time and you get worried, like, “Oh no, I thought I was done with this,” this really will be the last spotlight on that area. And then you really will be moving more out into the world for a good long while. 

CB: Yeah, I like that. One last hurrah of introspection before we have a lot of outward movement this year as everything moves into fire signs and out of the watery signs and yeah, gets a lot more interesting and a lot more exciting. 

So that is the eclipse season. It’s mainly in August, but it kind of like, bleeds over a little bit into early September. The next major thing that we need to talk about is the Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra that happens in October through November of this year especially; it’s really centered on that, because that’s when Venus will slow down and start moving backwards from our vantage point in the sky. And that’s gonna be taking place in your 8th house of shared resources as well as your 7th house of relationships. So that’s a pretty important transit that’s gonna dominate two completely different sectors of the chart having to do with relationships and the role of other people in your life that we haven’t necessarily seen activated up to this point in this year. 

LS: So Venus retrogrades in general have you revisiting connections, and especially with Aries rising for it being in the 8th and 7th houses this year, it’ll be revisiting your shared resources, things that connect you materially or financially with other people, especially because then it goes back into your 7th house which is partnership – either personal or business. So for some people, they could be reworking like, a business partnership and going, you know, “What’s mine? What’s yours? Is our relationship fair? Is our, you know, financial distribution fair?” Things of that nature. And you know, similarly, that can go on in personal relationships as well. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. Like shared resources and other people’s money and tying together relationships, and it may actually tie together those two areas of your life. So I saw one recently of a celebrity that was working on a prenuptial agreement, and so that would actually be something that would be funny in terms of working out something like that of how do you connect shared resources and your partner’s money with just the partnership and the idea of being in a partnership or even a marriage with another person. As you said, this – because it’s a retrograde, retrogrades often have a backwards-looking component. So there can be things from the past especially relationships or financial agreements that were made in the past that come up for review again at this time in your life for some reason. Sometimes that can literally be in this instance relationships from the past coming back into your life in the present for some reason to revisit them, either in some instances to like, restart an old relationship with an old flame, or in other instances it can just be looking back and remembering good parts of a relationship even if you don’t necessarily wanna go back there and stay there. 

LS: Yeah, definitely. With Venus retrogrades in general, people often talk about old relationships popping back up, but it’s gonna be especially the case if it’s going through your 7th house as it will be for Aries rising this year. And yeah, the first part of it, as it’s actually retrograde, much better time for revisiting what did happen or what has happened and then once it goes direct, it’s more about implementing a new revisited agreements. 

CB: Right. For sure. 

LS: But you can never revisit it first before you, you know, implement what you wanna do going forward. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. The last thing is just because the 8th house can also deal with mortality. It can be a good time to focus on those things and connecting it with relationships. It could be like, you know, working out a will for you and your partner, for example. And that – especially for those of you with night charts, this is actually gonna be the most positive transit of the year, the activation of these two sectors. So if you were born at night, I think this is actually a transit to look forward to where some really good things could come out of it, especially in the relationship sector of your life. 

LS: Yeah, definitely. 

Yeah, and as you said, connecting those two – like, wills, life insurance. I think about actually of some people will be like, maybe having children with those 5th house activations. People often think about getting life insurance when they either buy property or having kids, and that’s where the Jupiter transits are happening in your life this year for Aries rising is expanding your home and living situation and expanding around the children or creativity area. So yeah. 

CB: Yeah. And the last thing is if you want some insight about what this Venus retrograde is gonna be about in October and November, just think back in eight-year increments, because this Venus retrograde repeats in the same part of our – every eight years roughly around the same part of the year. So eight years ago would be October through November of, what, 2018 was the last time this Venus retrograde happened. And if there was any 7th or 8th house things that came up at that time, that could give you a clue about how this transit could activate your chart in some ways. Or if you think back eight years before that, that’s October-November of 2010, and so on and so forth. So sometimes you can look back into the past in order to predict the future. 

LS: Right. For sure. 

CB: All right. So our last major transit now to get to the very end of the year is in the last quarter of the year basically, this Mars retrograde transit starts building up. And Mars doesn’t actually go retrograde until the beginning of January, but Mars has already entered into the two signs that it’s gonna go retrograde in, which are Leo and Virgo, starting in September through December. And this is connecting your 5th house of children and fun and games and pleasure and enjoyment and your 6th house of work and health. So it’s important to start paying attention to this transit just because it’s setting up some major themes in the last quarter of the year basically that are gonna become even more prominent and more of the focus in early 2027. 

LS: Right, definitely. And so you’re gonna start to get some inklings as we go through the fall of 2026 of what may need reworking. Mars retrograde is often about reworking something in a certain area of your life. And so going through those two houses, you don’t really need to do anything per se with it, I don’t think, so far. It’s more about if you know about it ahead of time, you can pay attention to what is coming up in those two areas of your life between September and December. And those are the areas in which you will then start reworking some of that material, some of those topics in your life, in the beginning of 2027. 

CB: Right. For sure. So in terms of a Mars retrograde, sometimes it can bring up tension or conflicts or strife. In this instance, connecting your 5th house of let’s say children and your 6th house of health, so there could be some sort of challenge there that arises in terms of that. It can also be a challenge in terms of let’s say there can be romantic things that come up in the 5th house, and then the 6th house can be work things. So you kind of want to be careful if those two areas were like, mixed in your life in some way during this time; it could bring some challenges or some tricky situations. But in the positive side of things, because sometimes it can be more positive – especially for those of you with night charts – then it can be just putting an extra amount of work and energy and focus into those two areas of your life for an extended period of time since this transit is gonna last for something like eight or nine months that it’s gonna be hanging out in these two signs of your chart. So working more with children, for example, maybe you start taking your child to work, or they start becoming involved in your workplace more often, for example. It could be a more constructive scenario for that transit. 

LS: Right. For sure. And in addition to the reworking theme, Mars will already – I mean, in addition to it staying there for eight or nine months in total between 2026 and 2027, even in the fall of 2026, Mars will be slowing down to approach that retrograde. And so it’s already going to be spending a longer time in those two areas even before the retrograde starts. So yeah, it’s gonna be just a lot of extra attention on those two areas. 

CB: Yeah. I know somebody who had a Venus retrograde in the 5th and 6th last year, and they had some health issues but then their adult child like, moved back in with them to take care of them, so it sort of brought them closer together. So sometimes it can be an interesting overlaps like that between two houses when you have a planet retrograding between those two houses of the chart. So pay attention to potential crossovers between those two areas that can work out in different ways. 

All right, well, that’s already the final transit I wanted to talk about for 2026, because we’re already like, getting into – it’s dragging us into the astrology of 2027 already. And I think —

LS: Right. 

CB: — that’s probably good then for this year ahead horoscope for Aries for 2026. 

So as we said, these are your transits, your major transits, for 2026. For help planning, get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which like I said is only on sale for the month of December until the beginning of January for 49.95. You can get it at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. If you wanna learn our approach to astrology, you can sign up for my Hellenistic astrology course at TheAstrologySchool.com. But otherwise, good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[TAURUS HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and we’re gonna be doing your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Taurus for the entire year of 2026. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. So for our horoscopes, we recommend looking at them from the perspective of your rising sign if you know your birth time. But you can also look at them from the perspective of your Sun sign if you don’t know your birth time. We’re gonna give kind of a big picture overview of the major trends and transits and themes over the next year, so let’s go ahead and just jump right into it. 

All right. So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll get by the end of the year. And these are the major transits that we’re gonna focus on over the course of 2026. So right away at the very start of the year in the first couple of months, the major transits are the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that takes place in February, and both of those planets moving from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries, which is moving from your 11th house of friends and groups to your 12th house, which covers things like seclusion, sometimes people you don’t get along with, as well as sometimes focusing more on internal things like mental health, right? 

LS: Yeah, definitely. So it’s a really interesting movement any time transits go from the 11th to the 12th, because the 11th is so social. So especially for the past few years while Saturn’s been in the 11th for you and even longer back since 2011, since Neptune’s been there, there’s been a lot of focus on your community, social alliances and networks, groups, friends. And now you’re moving more into a secluded, behind-the-scenes area, at least with regard to these two transits. So the 12th house, you might experience sort of an unexpected shift from being used to being really out there and more like, connected, but moving more into a time of potentially more contemplative focus, behind the scenes as I said. You could be dealing more with people you don’t get along with than usual. But yeah, it’s a quieter time, at least with regard to two of the transits. 

CB: Yeah. So it’s ending up – it’s finishing a period of restructuring your friends and groups and social life that’s been happening since March of 2023 as Saturn’s been going through your 11th house of friends and groups, and that restructuring phase is pretty much over as of this year. And now we’re moving into more of an internal restructuring phase, especially to the extent that the 11th house transit over the past few years has been about restructuring things with respect to your allies, the 12th house transit can sometimes be about restructuring things and putting up better boundaries when it comes to people that you don’t get along with or people that are outright enemies or that try to undermine you in your life in different ways. And sometimes putting up better boundaries can be like, learning how to stand up for yourself more, for example, if there’s people that are pushing your boundaries or doing things that aren’t okay in your life, and learning how to address that situation better head-on. 

LS: It can also be a time where if you have a contemplative practice, you need to restructure that. There’s something that is like, old and kind of worn out, but you need to approach that in a different way or you need to approach mental health focus in a different way than you have before. Because the thing with Saturn and Neptune together, especially with the exact conjunction, is old structures can dissolve in preparation for envisioning and making real new structures. And so that’s the area of life with those several topics where you’re going to be doing that. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. And that’s gonna peak especially in February when we have that exact Saturn-Neptune conjunction take place, because that’s gonna be the height of what I’ve been calling over the past couple of years the reality distortion field really coming into focus at that time and coming into full intensity. And for you, that may be dealing with things in terms of distinguishing between what’s real and what’s not when it comes to enemies or people that you don’t get along with in your life. But it can also be with respect to ways in which sometimes we can be our own worst enemy or in which we can undermine ourself, especially if we’re not clear about who we are and where our actions are coming from. And you may struggle with that a little bit at the beginning of this transit, because it’s gonna be a little hard to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not, and you might wanna be careful about becoming overly attached to ideas that might not be as grounded in reality. But as the year progresses and that conjunction moves further away over the next few months, I think that’s gonna get less and less intense so that you should start to get better clarity about some of those things. 

LS: It can also just be a time where you need more downtime. You need more rest. Because the 12th house is time spent away and it’s, again, that contrast with the 11th versus the 12th – you’ve been used to putting a lot of energy and work into the area of community lately or friends or groups you belong to. But it’s time to pull back a little bit and oftentimes there’s a need to rebalance how much you, yeah, how much downtime you give yourself. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. So that’s happening in January and February especially, and then our next major thing I wanted to talk about is the first eclipse season which takes place starting in February and going through into March. So we’re gonna have an eclipse in Aquarius first in February, and then an eclipse in Virgo in March, and this is happening in your 10th house of career and your 5th house of children and fun and games and hobbies and sex and sexuality. So with eclipses, we usually see major beginnings and major endings happening in those two areas of your life, and that will be the focus of that first eclipse season this year in February and March. 

LS: So that first eclipse in Aquarius in your 10th house of career and public reputation is actually the first in that series. So this’ll be the first time that that happens for you. So there can be sudden new developments, new beginnings or new endings with regard to career, with regard to work that you do. If you have supervisors at work, it can also relate to like, bosses coming or going. But yeah, in general, it’s like, how you show up in public will be the arena for that first beginnings and endings chapter. 

CB: Yeah. So sometimes that could be like, ending one job and starting another, or sometimes ending one career chapter of your life and then starting a new chapter, even if it’s within the same job. So sometimes that can happen in terms of like, promotions or like you said, maybe a boss changeover taking place and different things like that. But having this real sense that there’s a major beginning and a major ending that’s taken place. And since that’s the start of a new series of eclipses in Aquarius, that’s gonna play out over the course of the next year or two rather than be something that happens all at once. 

LS: Right. And there is also an extended Pluto transit going in that house as well, but that’s very, very long and drawn out for about 18 more years. But you’ll see that accentuation of some of those themes of death and rebirth when the eclipses actually trigger that house more acutely. 

CB: Sure. And then we’re also having an eclipse in Virgo in your 5th whole sign house, which is major beginnings and endings when it comes to especially the topic of children if you have children, or in some instances with an eclipse in the 5th house, it can be people having children, and that can be the major beginning that happens there. In other instances, if you already have children, there can be some sort of ending that happens there, which can be something as simple as like, one of your children reaching an important new stage and turning point in life. Like, for example, graduating high school or something like that that represents an ending as well as a new beginning. But that’s one of the major areas with respect to children. It can also relate to things like fun and games and hobbies. So having a major eclipse take place there, a major new beginning could be taking up a new hobby or finding some new way to start something in your life that brings in themes of fun and enjoyment and pleasure and makes your life worth living even more so than it already was. 

LS: Yeah. So it can be just a change-up of like, what brings you pleasure. You know? So yeah, that can be, as you said, changes around children but also changes around hobbies you do, sports you play, things you do for fun. Sexuality also goes in the 5th house; dating can go there as well. 

CB: Yeah, dating. That’s a really important one. There could be important things in your dating life taking place with this transit, especially with more casual relationships. 

Yeah, so that’s the 5th house thing. And this is part of an ongoing series, because this eclipse series started already was happening in 2025, and we’ve got one more Virgo eclipse that goes through into early 2027. So this is sort of like, the middle point in a series of events that’s been unfolding that we’re now in the center point in at this stage. 

LS: Right. Yeah, and with the eclipse series, it’s not the case that something will change with each and every eclipse there, but you can say reliably for sure within at least that series of eclipses. So if something hasn’t shifted for you yet in that area, this can be times where that’s more likely. 

CB: Absolutely. All right, so let’s move on. Our next major transit is that Uranus is finally gonna be departing from the sign of Taurus, from your rising sign, in April, and it’s gonna be moving into the sign of Gemini for good, which is moving into – it’s moving out of your first house of mind and body and self where it’s been making some radical changes over the course of the past at least seven years since 2018, 2019. And now Uranus is moving into your 2nd house of money and finances and possessions where it’s gonna take some of that exciting, fast-paced, like, liberating energy that you’ve been experiencing in the house of self over most of the past decade and it’s gonna start applying that to your finances. 

LS: So there’ll be one last accentuation in February in particular. So Uranus will still be in Taurus for the first four months of the year until April. In February in particular, Uranus stations for the last time in Taurus, and then inner planets go on to square that all month. So there will be one kind of last hurrah around the changes you’ve been experiencing around your identity, your sense of self, or practices surrounding your body or health. Your sense of who you are has been changing a lot over the last seven years. And then after that, it will move into the 2nd house of personal income and finances. So you’ll bring that innovative energy into the house of money. So how you make a living can change, bringing potentially greater involvement with technology, especially if you do, say, remote work, that can be part of it. Oftentimes, people want to innovate with how they make a living when it goes into their 2nd house and it’s a process of either, yeah, just trying to make it possible to be more independent sometimes in how you make a living. 

CB: Yeah. Seeking greater independence and freedom with regard to income and possessions and things like that is often a major, major theme. We got a little bit of a preview of that last year when Uranus first moved into Gemini in July, but then it retrograded back out. But now it’s moving into that sector of the chart for good until the early 2030s. So this is part of a long-term transit, and you wanna pay attention to when a long-term transit begins if there’s any significant changes that start happening early on, like, starting from April forward, because sometimes that can be a sign of a much bigger change that happens over the course of the rest of this decade. But seeking greater freedom, sometimes that can mean moving more in the direction of self-employment in some instances can be one way that that works out with Uranus going in the 2nd house. It can also involve leveraging technologies, especially new and innovative technologies, in order to increase your income or to create multiple income streams can be another theme as well. 

LS: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So it’ll be a process; it won’t be like, a once-and-done thing. But yeah. If you haven’t already in 2025, especially the second half of 2025, you will definitely start to see that theme emerge more and more as you go on with 2026. 

CB: Absolutely. All right, so let’s move onto our next major transit, which is that the planet Jupiter’s gonna spend the first half of the year in Cancer, which is in your 3rd house of siblings, communication, and short-distance travel. And then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into the sign of Leo, which is your 4th house of home and living situation and parents and private life. So this is gonna be a major transit that divides basically like, the first half of the year versus the second half of the year. 

LS: So Jupiter went into Cancer in the summer of 2025, so it’s already been there half a year. Then the first half of 2026, it will still go through Cancer. So your 3rd house, it’s bringing expansiveness, potentially like, abundance, greater positivity around 3rd house topics. So that can be how you communicate or what you use to communicate with. It can be things involving your siblings or cousins, other extended relatives. Neighbors or immediate neighborhood is definitely a 3rd house topic. And sometimes education – so teaching, learning, speaking, writing, et cetera. There’s still expansiveness going on for the first half of the year there. 

CB: Yeah. So having Jupiter go through the 3rd house, this is gonna be some of the most positive transits of the year for those that were born with day charts – Jupiter going from the 3rd to the 4th house in your chart. And something simple with like, a positive benefic transit through the 3rd house like this could be something as simple as like, learning a new language and like, expanding your ability to communicate. Or finding new avenues to communicate in your life, whether through writing, whether through public speaking. It could be something like starting to write a blog or a journal or doing a podcast or something like that. But basically taking advantage of a period in your life where the potential for growth through communication is heightened above other times in your life could be great to really take advantage of this for the first six months of 2026. 

LS: Definitely. And then Jupiter for the second half of the year will go into Leo, which is your 4th house, which involves home, family, things involving parents potentially or ancestry, living situation, and your private life. So it’s interesting, because it’s Leo, which is more of like, a warm kind of outward energy, but it’s in the 4th house of home and your private life. So that can be things like expanding literally where you live; it can be expanding things around just greater involvement with your family, greater time spent around your family, whether immediate family or extended family. But it’s an interesting trine. You know, Jupiter in Leo, once it goes in there, it trines Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and those are both in private areas of your chart. So even though it’s this like, kind of warm, expansive energy with Jupiter in Leo, it’s still kind of in the area of the chart that not everyone sees. Right? 

CB: Yeah. I think it’s more of the private life as opposed to the 10th house, which is more of the public life. But the main thing is the family focus and orientation. Both of like, the 3rd house transit at the first half of the year, which is like, siblings, neighbors, extended relatives, but then in the second half of the year it’s especially like your parents and your immediate home and living situation. So one thing that’s good for transits like this is that it can just be a period in which you get along with some of your most immediate family members better, or if you’ve had any sort of challenging relationship or tensions with especially like, parents in recent times, it can be a good time to smooth things over and to improve the bonds of those relationships. 

Similarly, when you have a benefic transit like this in the 4th house, it can also be about just improving things at home, just because you’re gonna be going through a good period for home and living situation. So it can be moving into a new place where you get really lucky. It can be doing home improvement projects at home, or even doing some sort of expansion of something in your home and living situation. But it’s a good idea to take advantage of this positive energy because, you know, sometimes things can be more problematic or it can run into issues at home, but other times it can be more positive. And this is definitely bringing some positive energy there in the second half of the year. 

LS: Absolutely. Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. All right, so speaking of that, though, around this time in the middle of the year around June, we notice there’s this really auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction that’s taking place in Cancer because we recently completed our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and we tried to identify the most fortunate dates in 2026 for taking actions and doing different things based on the principles of electional astrology. 

So in this report, we pick out the two best dates we can find and electional charts for every month of 2026, and this includes a video, an audio and written report where we go through and give a more detailed forecast of each month. But we help to guide you through if you need to do things during different months what days you should gravitate towards doing them versus which dates are better to avoid. 

LS: Yeah. So anytime you need to take important actions or start new projects, new life events that you want to go well, this’ll give you a better start in terms of the best possible results if you use these dates and times to start those actions. So we have two for each month – we’ve expanded it a bit this year – and even some bonus charts beyond that. So really helpful for planning your year ahead. 

CB: Absolutely. So there’s 28 charts plus tutorials. You can use them for business, for love or other major life events. And we’re doing a launch sale for just the first month where it’s only 49.95 until the beginning of January, and then the price is gonna go up to the regular price of 65 dollars. So you can find out more or get the report at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that brings us to the second half of the year once we’re finished talking about that Jupiter transit where starting in August into early September we get into our second eclipse season of major beginnings and major endings. And this set of eclipses takes place in Leo and Pisces in August, and it bleeds over a little bit into early September. But this is happening in the 4th house of home and living situation as well as the 11th house of friends and groups. 

LS: Right. So and this is the first eclipse in Leo. We’re moving into the Aquarius-Leo series; we had the first Aquarius one in the spring, and now the first Leo one in your 4th house of home and family. And so you’ve already got Jupiter transiting there in the second half of the year, bringing greater expansiveness to those topics. But then the eclipses kind of bookend little chapters of your life sometimes important beginnings and endings occur around eclipses in a certain area of your chart. So that will be the case for you for that same sector of your chart that we were talking about with the Jupiter transit through Leo – so home, family, parents, ancestry, private life, living situation. So it’s not only a time to bring greater expansiveness or positivity to those areas, to those topics, but also potentially like, important changes happening within that time period. 

CB: Yeah. So this really makes it clear that Leo in the 4th house of home and living situation and family and parents and private life is gonna be the major focus of this year, I think, because we just keep seeing this area of the chart come up over and over again, and we’ll see it in one more transit at the end of the year as well. So major beginnings and major endings when it comes to your home and living situation as well as your parents and what’s happening in their life as well as your relationship with your parents is the focus of this first eclipse in August. And then the second eclipse is 11th house focused with friends and groups and alliances, and this is sort of completing a process of eclipses that’s been taking place there for the past couple of years indicating major beginnings and major endings with friends and groups, and this is gonna be the final one that sort of brings things full circle in probably ending some ways in which you’ve been doing social things over the past couple of years, but also opening up a whole new chapter of your life then after this point that should be pretty good. 

LS: Yeah, this is the endcap in that area for you, not only because it’s the last eclipse in Pisces after several of them, but it’s also the tail end of that Saturn-Neptune transit that ends in the beginning of the year. There’s been a lot of focus there on that friends and groups area for you, and so this will be the last little endcap to that focus. And then there really won’t be nearly as much focus in that area after this point. 

CB: Yeah. I think it’s good, because Saturn not being there now will just alleviate some of the heaviness surrounding friends and groups that’s been there for the past few years, and now we just are sort of giving yourself a fresh start when it comes to maybe making new friends, going out and exploring new social environments and other things like that. 

Yeah. So that’s the eclipse season; that’s our second eclipse season – August through early September. And then that takes us into the Venus retrograde that’s gonna happen in Scorpio and Libra especially in October and November where it’s gonna be retrograding from your 7th house of relationships to your 6th house of work and health matters. So that’s gonna be a significant transit taking place around the third quarter and early into the 4th quarter of the year. 

LS: So Venus retrogrades in those areas can have you revisiting your connections with partners, whether personal partnership like a marriage partner or business partners even – they both go in the 7th house – and just reworking, revisiting what are our agreements, what are our dynamics. Sometimes kind of snafus can come up in those interpersonal areas to sort of rework after Venus goes direct. And then it goes into your 6th house after that, which can be people who do any work for you or coworkers, and also things like your health, your workplace, and pets or other animals. So connections in those… The Venus retrograde can connect those two topics in the retrograde series, or they can be separate things that you revisit in succession. 

CB: So I think you’re saying this would be a good time to get married to your pets is what I’m hearing! A connection between the —

LS: It’s a – yeah. It’s a good time to revisit your strong, one-on-one connections with your animals. 

CB: Okay. And the bonds that tie you together. 

LS: Yes. 

CB: Yeah. I mean, this is a classic Venus retrograde. Because it’s happening in the 7th house for Taurus risings, that’s a classic like, revisiting relationships from the past. So in some instances, it’s gonna be actual people or romantic or business relationships from your past coming back into the present. Sometimes that may give you the opportunity to restart an old relationship, let’s say with an old flame. In some instances, that can work and go perfectly well, and this can be the time in your life when that happens. In other instances, it can be more subtle where it’s just like, people from your past coming back into the present and remembering some of the good things about those things in the past, but not necessarily deciding to do that again, but instead just having a reminder for some reason of things or people from your past. 

So that’s the 7th house piece of this, but then there’s also the 6th house piece, which can be connecting things with work and health. So sometimes maybe it could be like, workplace things or let’s say a workplace relationship from the past or something like that that comes back into the present and needing to review some of those connections before moving forward into the future. 

LS: Yeah. And sometimes it is people literally coming back from the past in those areas. And at other times, it’s just revisiting how you’re connected, what your connection is like, with people in those areas, and maybe there’s things that need to be renegotiated, which is a very kind of common Venus retrograde dynamic. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. So – or even like, let’s say taking care – somebody from a relationship from the past comes back into your life because of a health issue and you need to take care of them or something like that could be a scenario of a Venus retrograde from the 7th to the 6th. Or you know, for some people, for people with night charts, I think this is gonna be the most positive transit of the year basically for those that were born at night. But for those that are born at day, you could get some of the more tricky sides of the Venus retrograde where sometimes there can be issues that arise with relationships, and in those scenarios, it could be more of a situation where for example if there was like, a workplace relationship, that could be more tricky or problematic during this time. So you might wanna be more cautious about that. 

LS: For sure. 

CB: Yeah. All right. So that’s the Venus retrograde in October and November. And then moving forward, our last major transit of the year is one that’s starting to build in the entire last quarter of the year where Mars starts slowing down as it’s moving through Leo and Virgo from September through December, and it’s getting ready to station retrograde in Virgo, which it’s not gonna do until the beginning of January of 2027. But I wanna mention it here because it’s already building up to that, and it’s starting an extended stay through two sectors or two houses of your chart during that last few months of the year, which is your 4th house of home and living situation and parents and your 5th house of children and hobbies and fun and game and sex and sexuality, so that Mars is just gonna be kind of like, camping out in that sector of your chart for the last four months of the year. 

LS: Yeah, which means Mars is – even though it’s not gonna be actually retrograde until the beginning of 2027 – it’s already slowing down. So it’s already spending longer in those two areas of your life than normal. And it’s also getting ready to retrograde, meaning you’re getting a preview during the last quarter of 2026 of what you will need to rework. In some cases, there can be greater conflicts or problems that come up in those areas of life, and at other times, it’s just you’re gonna spend a lot of effort in these areas for some reason. I can see, for instance, some scenarios for some Taurus rising people where with the Jupiter transit in the 4th house of home and family and the first eclipse there and Mars getting ready to retrograde there, you know, some people will be getting ready to move. And that’s like, an extra effortful thing around the 4th house, right? Like, that’s kind of a common scenario that that could look like. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. So you know, with Mars transits, it’s tricky because there can sometimes be tension or conflict that come up. Since this is connecting the 4th house and the 5th house for those with children, it could be some sort of tensions in terms of your children and your home life. So perhaps there’s like a, you know, question or a tension in terms of like, a child who’s now an adult but maybe is still living at home and maybe some tensions over them still living at home with you. Or maybe because it’s a retrograde, sometimes that can bring people from your past back into your life, so it could be a child who like, moves back in with you as an adult maybe later due to some sort of issues that they’re dealing with at this time. But it’s that theme of sometimes tensions, but also something coming back from the past or something coming back that you have to review in the present from something you’ve experienced previously. So for example, Mars retrogrades happen in the same spot about every 15 years, so this Mars retrograde would have occurred 15 years ago, which would have been, what? Like, 2011 or something like that? 

LS: 2011, yeah. 

CB: Yeah. There would have been some similar themes. So you can think back to that time for a potential preview of some of the topics that might arise in your life at this time. 

LS: And something nice that we do have going on is that Jupiter’s gonna be there at the same time, which is definitely not always the case with a Mars retrograde cycle. So there’s gonna be something really positive counterbalancing that Mars transit. 

CB: Yeah. It’s like, we have all of the positive stuff that was happening with Jupiter going through Cancer in the 4th house of home and living situation and parents early in the year and positive expansion; then we had major beginnings and major endings there with the Leo eclipse that was taking place in August. But now this Mars energy, at the very least in its most constructive form – especially for those of you with night charts – is gonna make you put a lot more energy and a lot more work into this area of your life where maybe you’re taking on new responsibilities or taking on a new project that’s just causing you to have to expend an extended amount of energy in that area. So something maybe connecting your 4th house could be like, a project at home where you’re doing like, a major redesign or renovation or something like that that you’re actually physically involved in putting more manual labor in than usual. 

LS: Could be. Or even if you’re not doing the physical work yourself, it could be just that work is going to be done on your house at this time. You have to know that anything you do start at this time is just gonna take longer than usual, though, and that’s a really common thing with Mars going retrograde is like, having to rework some parts of it. And that part is not gonna happen until the next year, but it’s like, just kind of plan for that – that whatever you’re starting at this time will be an extended project of whatever you’re putting your effort towards. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. And some of that will start becoming clear towards the end of the year, because this is just the initial preview of that energy building up here from September to December. But then it’s gonna become much more of the focus starting in January of 2027. But that’s starting to take us into next year, so we should probably not go too far into like, the following year’s forecast yet, right? 

LS: Yeah, I think we don’t need to do the two- to three-year forecast. Just 2026!

CB: Okay, awesome. Well, I think that’s our last major transit of this year then in terms of this horoscope for Taurus for 2026. So those are your major transits. Like we said, for help planning the year, get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale for like, 23 percent off, but only until January. And you can get that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

If you wanna learn more about our approach to astrology that we use here for horoscopes, check out my Hellenistic astrology course at TheAstrologySchool.com. But otherwise, good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[GEMINI HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and you’re listening to The Astrology Podcast and today Leisa Schaim is joining me, and we’re gonna be looking at your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Gemini for the entire year of 2026. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: All right. So for our approach, we would recommend watching the horoscope that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time, although you can also watch the one that matches your Sun sign if you don’t know your birth time. So we’re gonna give the big picture overview of the major trends and transits and themes this next year, so let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows the movement of the planets this year, and these are the main points that we’re gonna be focusing on over the course of 2026 in terms of the major slower moving transits. 

So the first we’ll focus on is the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s gonna take place in February, especially because starting in January, Neptune’s gonna move into the sign of Aries, and then Saturn in February is gonna move into the sign of Aries, and both of those planets are gonna be staying there for quite a while moving from your 10th house of career into your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. 

LS: So there’s been a lot of attention you’ve been paying to career and public reputation for the last few years in particular, and now that attention is moving more towards friends, social alliances, social networks, and generally your just larger social sphere. So it can be a time where you’re kind of struggling to discern between reality and things that aren’t real, because those are the principles of Saturn and Neptune respectively, and they’re cohabiting in that house. It can also be a time when structures that you formerly had around community, around friends, around social networks start to dissolve. But that can be an opportunity to rebuild new structures or kind of make new dreams more concrete, especially as Saturn goes through there for the next few years. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. And the good news with Saturn and Neptune leaving your 10th house is that there’s probably been some challenges that have come up over the past three years ever since Saturn went into your 10th house of career starting in March of 2023, as well as some ambiguities and some nebulousness in the area of career and what your overall life direction should be ever since 2011 when Neptune first went into the sign of Pisces. So on the one hand, the departure of both of those planets in the first two months of 2026 should be an alleviation, both of some of the heavy, somewhat oppressive energy of Saturn going through your 10th house in the past three years, but also the nebulous energy of Neptune basically. So you should have a sudden sense of greater clarity and direction and purpose that really starts to open up after the first two months of 2026, which is great. The challenging thing is, then, that that energy kind of moves into your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, so there may be some setbacks or some restructuring that you need to do when it comes to friends and groups. Sometimes there can be some friendships that leave your life during this time over the course of the next two to three years, or you may have to start putting in better boundaries when it comes to some of your friends if you feel like some of your boundaries are being pushed in different ways that don’t feel good to you, and you find yourself having to stand up for yourself more. 

LS: For sure. That can definitely happen on the level of individual friendships. And then you can also be kind of on the flipside having some new idealism around the social sphere; that can even involve social activism, for instance, for some people. And then the Saturn piece will be how to make that real, how to put your ideals into lived reality, either around community or around social action. 

CB: Absolutely, yeah. Like, having a shared community built up around certain ideals or political or religious or spiritual values or philosophical values could be a really good part of this transit. The only tricky side is that with Saturn and Neptune exactly conjoining in February, there’s something about that that creates a sort of reality distortion field where there may be a greater sense of not being able to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not, or what’s true versus what’s false, that’s gonna really peak at this time around February. So you’re gonna wanna be very careful if you are getting involved with new groups or new friends; you may not be able to see things as they truly are. But some of that’s gonna dissipate a little bit as that conjunction starts to move away after February. 

LS: And if you think back to July in particular of 2025, that is when Saturn and Neptune were previously in Aries and got the closest to conjoining. So that may give you a little bit of a preview of the kinds of things that this may be about for you. 

CB: Absolutely. All right, so let’s move onto our next thing, which starts in February but goes through to March, which is our first eclipse season takes place, which represents a period of major beginnings and major endings in the zodiac signs of Aquarius and then Virgo, which is your 9th house of belief and travel and education and your 4th house of home and living situation and parents and family. So this is gonna be an area of major beginnings and major endings during this time in February and March. 

LS: Right. So this Aquarius eclipse will be the first actual one in Aquarius. So that brings new beginnings and endings to the area of the 9th house, so your belief systems, which can include your religious orientation, sort of philosophies you hold about life. It can involve things that are more concrete like higher education, long-distance travel or things or people at a distance, even if you personally do not travel. But it could be a time of opening up greater travel opportunities for you or just generally the theme is kind of like, bigger picture energies, greater exploratory energies, and newness or endings surrounding how you view the world – worldviews. 

CB: Yeah. So this can be a great time to start a new area of study, to start a new educational program when you’re having an eclipse in your 9th house. Sometimes it can represent coming to the end of a journey that you’ve already been on in terms of an educational program, which can sometimes indicate like, graduating from a program or completing something that’s setting you up as a springboard for going onto some other career or other educational pursuit. So that’s great. It can also be – so that’s the 9th house component on the one hand, but also more broadly it has to do with major beginnings and endings when it comes to your beliefs and what you think about the world and how you view the world, and sometimes that can be starting on a new journey in terms of a political philosophy or a religious philosophy or other things like that that can significantly alter your direction in life because you start subtly noticing that you’re taking on different views and beliefs than what you had up to this point. But instead of it being a singular event, it’s probably gonna be a sequence of events that plays out over the course of the next year or so as you have other eclipses happening in Aquarius. 

LS: Right. And then the other eclipse is gonna be in Virgo, which is your 4th house of home, family, living situation, private life. Can be ancestry or things from the past, history. So this one is already in process; we had a couple in Virgo in 2025, and there will be one more in early 2027. So this is a series of beginnings and endings with regard to your home and living situation in particular probably. For some people, that can be you either already moved or you’re going to move house, move your living situation. It could also be renovations in your home, things that need to be fixed you suddenly undertake. And for other people, it can be more intangible, like beginnings and endings surrounding your sense of where you come from, because that’s a 4th house topic – whether that’s ancestry, whether that’s things involving your larger family, your extended family. So yeah, that’ll be the other eclipse. 

CB: Yeah. So that’ll relate to your home and living situation especially and some major beginnings or major endings in terms of that, which could be like, you know, having a lease come up, for example, in one place so that you have to leave one living situation but then also by necessity that means you’re gonna land somewhere else and start a new beginning there. In other instances, it can have to do with your parents if your parents are still in your life and some major new beginnings and endings, either with respect to events that are happening in their life if there’s something really important happening with them that represents an ending and a beginning in their life. But it can also represent an ending and beginning in terms of your relationship with them and sort of ending one chapter of your relationship with them and starting a new one for some reason, especially if there’s anything going on there recently that sort of necessitates reassessing things and sort of starting over again. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So that’s our eclipse season from February to March. Then we go into our next transit that begins in April, which is that the planet Uranus is finishing a very long-term transit in the sign of Taurus, and it’s moving into the sign of Gemini starting in April, which is your rising sign and your first whole sign house. So Uranus is departing from a long, seven-year or so transit through your 12th house, which is the place of solitude. It can also be a place that has to do with enemies or sometimes with challenges that come up in our life, and it’s sort of ending a period of some unexpected disruptions that have been happening in that area for a number of years. And now Uranus is going into our first house, which is the place of self, the place of our body and physical appearance, but also our mind and our outlook in some sense as well. So this is one of the most exciting transits, having Uranus going through your rising sign, because it can represent themes of radical change and liberation and a greater drive for freedom, self-individuation, and just getting a better sense for who you are and what you want out of life over the course of the next seven years that this transit is gonna take place. 

LS: Yeah. It can definitely be a period of experimentation more than any other Uranus transiting through any other house of the chart, because the first house is the house of self – so you, who you think you are, your body, your mind. And so Uranus transiting through the first house for you can be a time of experimenting with new ways of being in the world, new senses of who you could be in the world, and I like that especially in combination with, as you were saying, Chris, Neptune leaving the 10th house. Because the 10th house can be, you know, a little bit – Neptune going through the 10th can be a little bit confusing for where you feel like your life path is going. And so I like that combo of Neptune early in the year leaving the 10th house, and then Uranus going in April into the first house because it’s almost like you get for some reason a new opportunity to start innovating with your sense of self. And it can feel really liberating. 

CB: Yeah. That makes sense. So there’s like, a sense of greater or removal of a lack of clarity from the career sector and the overall life direction sector, while at the same time there’s some sort of process that began last July when Uranus first dipped into Gemini of starting to have some like, radical insights into yourself and like, what you want out of life, as well as a deep urge to actualize those things. And you know, we’re just finishing up with the Taurus rising people who we just did the previous horoscope for, just finishing up their seven-year transit of Uranus through the 4th, and it was really wild watching a lot of them starting at the beginning of the transit. I know at least two of them that just immediately decided to pick up everything where they had lived for most of their life and just move to a completely different side of the country, but it was a side of the country that they had always wanted to live in and to sort of like, live out their dreams of living on their own terms and living life for themself. And whatever that took, even though it was somewhat disruptive for relationships or home life or career things, having this deep, internal sense that they finally needed to do what felt best to them and felt the most authentic that came from within themselves. 

LS: Yeah, and it’s a transit that can look a little bit selfish, but it’s a time where you should be kind of appropriately self-focused. Like, it’s a time where you’re supposed to be like, “No, what do I want?” You know? And maybe more than at other times in your life. 

CB: Yeah. And sometimes that can lead you to make radical changes to your body, to your appearance, for example, and sometimes that can create tensions because then Uranus is opposing your 7th house sector. So sometimes there’s a tension balancing like, this new sense of you and who you’re becoming that may be radically different than how you looked or your sense of self before. And sometimes that can create tensions with relationships, but ultimately, it’s usually for the best because it’s about getting a deeper sense of who you are and what you want out of life. So that’s a great transit. 

LS: Yeah. I think it’s an exciting transit for people, and it won’t happen all at once, and so that’s part of the experimental quality because it is a seven-year transit that’s only a little bit underway so far from the second half of 2025. And so it’s like, you are refinding or finding a new who you – your own sense of self and who you wanna be in the world, but it will be happening through a series of kind of sudden, unexpected changes, sometimes even unexpected to yourself, maybe. But it’s because it requires that experimental quality to get to like, you know, the ending point. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. 

All right, so let’s move onto our next major transit, which is that Jupiter is gonna spend the entire first half of the year in the sign of Cancer, which is your 2nd house of money and finances and possessions, which is a positive transit. But then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into Leo, which is your 3rd house of communication, short-distance travel, extended relatives but also siblings and neighbors. So it’s sort of a positive transit in the first half of the year in the financial sector of your chart, then a positive transit in the second half of the year in the communication and sort of neighborhood sector of your chart. 

LS: So Jupiter going through your 2nd house can be a more expansive time than usual for literally just for money, for your personal income and finances; it can be a time where you earn more money than usual or, if you are in a situation where you can ask for a raise, that’s a great time to do that, because it’s a time where you’re more likely to pull in more money – especially if you were born during the day with the Sun above the Ascendant/Descendant axis, that will be especially the case, where it’s sort of more moderated for night chart people. It can also be a time where you can more positively focus your attention on how you make a living or how you manage your own finances. You can bring more positive attention towards that area in a way that can be lasting even after the transit moves on. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. So good financial stuff in terms of growth and development that started in the second half of 2025 continues through the first half of 2026. And then in the second half of the year with that Jupiter transit in the 3rd house, it can be a good time to take up a new language or start learning how to communicate better in different ways – like, maybe through writing more or speaking or, you know, doing a YouTube channel or a podcast or something like that. But the 3rd house also represents things like siblings and extended family and neighbors. So if there’s been any issues with that up to this point recently, it can be a good time to smooth over relationships in that area of your life, and I think this is gonna be a major focus of this year because we do see a lot of activity in Leo from this point forward starting in late June but carrying through to late this year with some other transits as well as early 2027. 

LS. Yeah. So it can bring more positive contact or positive interactions with siblings or cousins or other extended relatives. Could be a good time, you know, for family reunions, things like that, because it involves that extended family piece. Really good time for positivity around your neighbors or immediate neighborhood, so it could be a good time to like, get more involved in your neighborhood for some reason. There can be… Yeah, those are the main things. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. Like, neighborhood stuff and just like, developing more connections with those in your local community or your city or your neighborhood in general. Like, sometimes neighbors play a not-very-important role in some parts of our life, and other times, neighbors actually play a much more significant role. And I think this is one of those years we’ll see neighbors come up over and over again in different contexts starting with this transit and going into others. 

All right. So that’s the Jupiter transit, and the tail end of that Jupiter transit in Cancer in June coincides with there’s a very auspicious-looking Venus-Jupiter conjunction that takes place earlier in June. And we noticed this because we actually just released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and we picked out the most fortunate dates of 2026 and put those all together in a sort of package, in a report, for people to use in order to go through and schedule things in the coming year. 

LS: Yeah. So we have at least two charts per month and sometimes more where if you wanna start take important actions or start an important life project – it can be, you know, getting married or starting a new position, starting a business, things of that nature – you want the results to go as well as possible, and electional astrology will help you do that. So we’ve already picked out the best dates and times for you to do those things. 

CB: Definitely. So in the report, we go through each of the next 12 months; we give an overview of the astrological weather and tell you what the two best dates are to use. But we also tell you what dates to avoid, because sometimes electional astrology is just as much looking out for the more difficult alignments as it is for trying to focus on the good ones. 

So the report includes 28 auspicious charts plus tutorials. It includes an audio, video, and written report, and you can use it for business things, for your love life or any sort of major life events that you need to do next year in 2026. So we’re launching it with a sale for just the first month where it’s just 49.95, but then that price is gonna go up in January to 65 dollars, so definitely get it soon if you’re thinking about getting the report. And you can get it at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that takes us into the second half of the year where our next major transit is we get our second eclipse season, which starts in Leo and Pisces, centered on August is when the eclipses take place. But then the actual eclipse season will bleed a little bit into early September as well. And that’s taking place in your 3rd house of communication and your 10th house of career. 

LS: So that 3rd house eclipse, the Leo eclipse, is the first one that will happen in that sign, and it’s the same area that we were talking about with Jupiter transiting through Leo in the second half of the year in that 3rd house arena. And so things involving your neighborhoods or immediate neighborhood or siblings, extended relatives, communication, how you communicate – those are all up for sort of a beginning or an ending with regard to at least one of those topics. And I should have thrown in cars, because cars come up a lot in the 3rd house because short-distance travel or your immediate neighborhood is a 3rd house topic, and so how you get around your immediate neighborhood is also modes of transportation, so sometimes with eclipses in the 3rd house, someone can suddenly like, get a new car or bicycle, even, or things of that nature. Like, changing your mode of transportation. 

CB: Yeah. Or sometimes there can be something that necessitates that, like a car dies or something, and therefore you have to get a new car and that can be like, a big turning point event in terms of travel during the course of the year. Similarly, with an eclipse taking place in the 10th, this represents a major ending but also a major beginning when it comes to career matters. And I think this is putting a final turning point on the Saturn transit, the Neptune transit, we talked about earlier that departed from your 10th house and kind of like, freed up and alleviated the career sector. And here with this eclipse taking place in Pisces, the final eclipse in August, it’s one last major ending and one last major beginning when it comes to your career and your overall life direction. So that’s probably bringing to a close some series or sequence of events that’s been happening in the career sector, especially over the past few years, and then setting the foundation for one last major beginning, which could be like, starting a new job or starting out in a new career direction, which sometimes with eclipses, it seems subtle at first and it may be easy to overlook how you’re actually starting something at that time that’s super significant in the long-term and will grow into something really elaborate. But at the time, when you’re just planting the seeds for that at an eclipse, you know, when you plant a seed, it’s pushed under the ground at first so you don’t realize it’s gonna grow into this whole huge plant later on. And that may be what takes place around this time here in August. 

LS: Definitely. And for those of you for whom career is not a big piece of your life for whatever reason, or you’re retired, it can also be changes around how you’re publicly known. So public reputation is like, a shorthand for like, how do people know you publicly who are not like, personal friends or family members, right? And so it can be a public role of some sort that you’re beginning or ending at that time as well, whether it’s paid or not. 

CB: Absolutely, yeah. So good things happening there, and a continuation of the 3rd house things. So we’ll come back to that here in just a minute. So let’s move on to our next transit, which is in this area of the year, especially in October and November, there’s a Venus retrograde that’s gonna take place in the signs of Scorpio and Libra, which is your 6th house of work and health, and then Venus retrogrades back into your 5th house of children, of hobbies and fun and pleasures, and also the house of sex and sexuality and sometimes romantic things like dating. So this is gonna be a significant Venus retrograde that’s really occupying October and November. 

LS: So it can be revisiting your connections with either people who used to do any work for you – that’s even if you hire someone one-off, that goes in the 6th house. It can be revisiting people you used to work with, because coworkers also go in the 6th house. It’s an interesting kind of overlap or almost overlap with that last eclipse in your 10th house of career, because this is then another work house, so Venus retrograde being revisiting your work situations or things involving your health or pets or other animals. Then it will go back into your 5th house, and so revisiting either things involving your children if you have children, creative projects or hobbies, things you do for fun, yeah. And then it can be, you know, people coming back from those spheres or life or coming up into greater contact with you for some reason. But it can also be reworking how you connect with those people or things in your life. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. And Venus retrogrades have this backwards-looking orientation where sometimes it’s about looking back into the past in those areas, and other times, as you said, it’s about people from the past coming back into our life for some reason. And sometimes that reason can be significant, because there can be relationships that come back from the past that we resume at this time, whether it’s a relationship or a connection with let’s say a coworker or somebody you worked with in the past. Other times because this is happening in the 5th house, it could also be a romantic connection that’s coming back from the past. And sometimes that can be significant in the sense of actually resuming a relationship from the past that becomes significant again at this time, and other times, it can be just looking back and reflecting on the past even if you decide not to actually resume something. But just the idea that it has more of a backwards-looking orientation, and that sometimes it’s bringing up specific things from the last time that Venus went retrograde in this sector of the chart, which would have been eight years ago, which would take us back to October-November of 2018, I believe, right? 

LS: Yes. Yeah, so 2018 was the last time – eight years prior – when Venus went retrograde in the same signs. So it can be connected to things that happened back at that time. You know, Venus retrograde can also be a time, since it’s not moving forward, where there can be snafus around like, your social dynamics with people, and that can be specific to those areas for you during this time. So with your coworkers, there can be like, a little bit of a grinding in the gears of how you smoothly relate or how you relate with your children if you have children, or people you’re dating. But for the purpose, it’s kind of like, making you rethink, “How do I want to do this going forward” with those people. 

CB: Yeah. In the Venus retrograde last year, I saw a lot of ways in which the two house topics were connected between the 5th and the 6th. So for example, there was one person that was having some health issues where it brought up the 6th house placement, but then as a result of those health issues, their adult child moved back in with them and started living with them again to help them through that health issue. So there was like, the return of somebody – of a child – from the past, basically, connecting those two house topics. 

Another one – because the 5th house has to do with romance and sometimes like, dating or sex and sexuality, and the 6th house has to do with work, there could be some connection there between like, the workplace and some sort of romance or something from the past. For the night chart people, this might be something that’s more positive and presents in a more constructive fashion where it could be like, a good relationship or a good encounter. For others, it could be – if it’s a day chart, it could be a little bit more tricky where there could be some snafus or things that don’t go quite as smoothly or as well as one might hope so that you might want to be a little bit more cautious or a little bit more careful about blurring the lines between those two things. 

LS: For sure. 

CB: All right. So yeah, that’s the Venus retrograde in October and November, and now we move onto our final transit, which is that Mars starts entering its shadow period towards the end of the year because Mars is getting ready to go retrograde in Virgo and Leo. And it’s not gonna actually go retrograde until January, but I wanted to mention it here because Mars moves into, starting in September through December, the two signs that it’s gonna go retrograde in in Leo and Virgo early in 2027 starting in this entire last sort of chunk of the year. 

So this Mars retrograde’s gonna happen in your 3rd house of siblings, communication, short-distance travel, and neighbors, and it’s also gonna retrograde in your 4th house of home and living situation and parents. So somehow, it’s gonna potentially connect those two areas of your life, and we’re gonna see the build-up to that in the last four months of 2026. 

LS: So Mars getting ready to go retrograde means that it’s moving more slowly as it goes through that last quarter of the year. So it’ll be spending more time in your 3rd and 4th houses respectively. And so it’s a time when you’re gonna put – and then after, of course, when it actually goes retrograde in 2027, it’ll be there for even longer than usual. So it’s gonna be a time when you’re putting more effort or for some reason attention into those areas of life. So for some reason, you could be putting more focus on how you communicate or, like you said earlier, maybe learning a new language or learning new technological ways to communicate. It’s overlapping with that Jupiter transit in Leo, which is kind of nice, because the Jupiter transit is a really positive transit. For day chart people, the Mars transit going through the 3rd and 4th could bring up more conflict with either siblings or extended relatives or neighbors. And then going into your 4th house, home, family, parents. But it can also just be a time where you’re putting more effort into those areas for some reason; you’re working on a project or something involving those topics that’s gonna take a while to come to fruition. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. With Mars retrogrades, they can be a little bit more tricky, and there can be a little bit more tensions in these areas compared to Venus retrogrades. So you do wanna be careful, because there could be some tensions that arise, especially for those of you with day charts where Mars transits tend to be a little bit more tense and a little bit more prone to conflicts. There could be some tensions that connect together the topic of siblings and extended relatives with the topic of parents or the topic of home and living situation. So you could see some sort of like, conflict between like, your siblings and your parents or your siblings and your living situation, or different combinations like that of those two topics because usually when a retrograde crosses two signs, it will connect the topics between those two adjacent houses. Another one could be like, there’s a challenge that arises with respect to your ability to travel, like, with your car or your vehicle, that then impacts your home and living situation or something like that. Different sort of symbolic combinations. 

LS: Yeah. I bet for a lot of Gemini rising people, it will be like, neighbors and living situation, just because that’s an easy combo of the 3rd and 4th houses.

CB: Yeah. And it’s like, there’s so much good stuff earlier this year with Jupiter transiting through there, that we know that there’s a lot of growth and expansion going on. And then there’s also some major beginnings and major endings from that eclipse that takes place in Leo in August, but then there’s some additional component here where either you’re putting in a lot of additional and extra energy and like, work hours and focus on this area later in the year, or there’s some sort of tension that arises that makes things not as smooth as it was earlier in the year, like in June and July, for example, when it was just Jupiter transiting through that sector of the chart. It can also be about like, tension with communication and just needing to be careful how you communicate with people as well, because having a Mars transit through the 3rd house could be sometimes getting into more like, verbal altercations or saying something in the heat of the moment that maybe you regret later on.

LS: Definitely. And it’s interesting to think about, you know, the day chart versus night chart people with that Jupiter-Mars combo going through the 3rd and 4th – or the 3rd in particular for this year – because if you’re born during the day, you’ll kind of get the most tensions from that Mars transit but also the best bounty from and expansion and abundance from the Jupiter transit. Whereas for night chart people, it’ll be a little more moderated on both ends. So you’ll have less of the conflict, probably – more of the just putting in a lot of work in that area. But also less kind of like, of the positive extremes. So it’s kind of like, more of a narrow band, I feel like, for the night chart people. 

CB: Yeah, that’s true. The night chart people, it’ll be more constructive in the Leo sector of the chart – the 3rd house sector – when Mars goes retrograde there. And the Venus retrograde will be more positive, but for the day chart people, you’re gonna have extremes of some of the most positive and some of the most challenging things happening in the 3rd house this year. But no matter what, for all the Gemini risings, it does seem like the 3rd house of communication, siblings, neighbors, and short-distance travel is a major recurring focus throughout this year and going into 2027. 

LS: Right. And especially in the second half of the year. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. 

LS: Yeah. 

CB: All right. Well, I think that’s it for transits. Anything else to say for this year? 

LS: No, I think that’s it! Good luck with your year. We look forward to hearing how your year went. 

CB: Yeah. All right, so those are your major transits for 2026. Like I said, if you need help planning different dates next year, then check out our 2026 Electional Astrology Report; it’s on sale for 49.95, but only until January. So you can get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

If you’d like to learn more about our approach to astrology, then I teach a course called my Hellenistic Astrology Course for reading birth charts, and you can find that at TheAstrologySchool.com. But otherwise, good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[CANCER HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and we’re gonna be looking at your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Cancer for the entire year of 2026. So hey, Leisa; thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: All right, so we recommend watching the horoscope that matches your rising sign primarily for our forecast if you know your birth time. Although if you don’t, then you can look at the one for your Sun sign. 

So we’re gonna focus on giving a big picture overview of the major transits and themes that you’re gonna encounter over the course of the next year. So let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows the movements of the planets through the year, and here are the major transits that we’re gonna be focusing on during the course of this forecast. The very first one is that Neptune and Saturn are both gonna move into Aries early on this year, and then they’re gonna form a conjunction in the sign of Aries in the month of February. So this is a transit where both of these planets are moving from your 9th house of education and beliefs and travel, and they’re moving into your 10th house of career where they’re gonna stay for quite a while because these are slower moving outer planet transits, right? 

LS: Right. Yeah, so they both dipped in for part of the year in 2025, and they got as close to conjunct as they were going to be in July. So if you think back to July, that’ll give you a sense of that preview of what’s coming up in 2026 for you. So they’re both going to be transiting your 10th house of career and public reputation – how people see you publicly, any public roles, professional life, and so forth. And with the combination of Neptune and Saturn there, there can initially be some dissolving of structures that had previously been in place in your professional life. But that also can open you up to a time of reimagining and putting into reality things that you have dreamed of for your professional life. 

CB: Absolutely. Yeah, so the departure of Neptune from your 9th house is gonna bring some clarity because it’s gonna remove some ambiguity and some nebulousness from the area of beliefs and your thoughts and education and things like that in probably a good way that feels like an alleviation of some heaviness in that area. But then it’s gonna move some of that a little bit to your 10th house. So on the one hand, you’re gonna need to do some restructuring when it comes to your career and your overall life direction. There are sometimes some difficulties or setbacks or surmountable obstacles that come up in terms of our career during this time where it can be one of those situations where one door closes but then it ends up opening another as a result of that. And there’s also just gonna be some ambiguity because Saturn and Neptune has this reality distortion field when they come into a conjunction, and that energy’s really gonna peak around February for you, which may make it difficult to tell the difference between what’s real versus what’s not. Or in a career context, what’s practical to do versus what you wanna do in terms of your ideals and your beliefs. And that’s gonna peak around February, but then it’s gonna dissipate a little bit after that, which will hopefully bring a little bit more clarity for the rest of the year. 

LS: Yeah. You’re basically blending the energies of like, imagination or dreams, aspirations, idealism, and reality, concrete, what you can make real of those dreams. 

CB: Definitely. All right, so that’s our first major transit of the year. Then the next one that comes up right on the heels of that is we enter our first eclipse season starting in February and going through into March where there’s gonna be first an eclipse in February in the sign of Aquarius in your 8th house, and then there’s gonna be an eclipse in Virgo starting in March in your 3rd whole sign house, which is the place of siblings, neighbors, short-distance travel, and communication. 

So this is interesting, because the Aquarius eclipse is gonna be the first in a start of a new series of eclipses bouncing back and forth this year between your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money and your 2nd house later in the year of personal finances and possessions. So it’s gonna start to shift the focus of having major beginnings and major endings when it comes to the financial sector of your chart over the course of 2026. 

LS: So this first one in Aquarius is gonna be in the 8th house, so that’s involving shared resources, shared finances, other people’s money or your partner’s income if you are partnered. Also other financial topics that aren’t direct income like taxes, loans, debt, and so forth. And then the final one is mortality-related things, so especially the financial pieces of that – so estate planning like wills, inheritance, and so forth. So when the eclipses start happening in those financial sectors, there’ll be beginnings and endings around those topics, and at the point of the Aquarius one early in the year, that’ll be on those shared resources side. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. And the Virgo eclipse in your 3rd house of communication is actually a continuation of a series of eclipses that was already happening last year in 2025 of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to communication and how you speak into the world, but also people in your life such as siblings if you have any, extended family and relatives, as well as neighbors and your city around you in general – everything outside of your immediate home and living situation. There can be some major beginnings and major endings in that area. For example, either in terms of things going on in your sibling’s life if you have any or in terms of your relationship with your siblings entering into some sort of new chapter with one chapter closing and then opening up a new one around the time of this eclipse. 

LS: Yeah. There can also be beginnings and endings around short-distance travel – i.e., like, how you get around. So oftentimes, people will get a new car, or their car will break down, and they need a new one. That can come up during 3rd house eclipses pretty commonly. 

CB: Right. Definitely. 

All right, so that’s the eclipse season that wraps up in March. The next major transit we move into is Uranus is gonna move into Gemini starting in April, and it’s gonna stay there for the next six or seven years. So this is a major transit because Uranus is departing from your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances where it’s been transiting since 2018 and 2019, causing some unexpected shakeups and innovations when it comes to friends and groups. And now Uranus is moving into a house that has to do more with seclusion, sometimes our relationship with people that we don’t get along with as well in our life, as well as our relationship with more internal processes that have to do with isolation and self-contemplation, which can include working on improving our mental health and things like that and finding new and innovative ways to do that sort of inner world. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, and with any Uranus transit as it’s going through those house topics that you just mentioned, it does it via experimentation or suddenness. So you can have sort of sudden epiphanies while you’re in contemplative mode or you can have sudden realizations around how to better approach your mental health or how to best approach dealing with people you don’t get along with and that sort of thing. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. So sometimes there can be unexpected disruptions that come up when it comes to people in your life that you don’t get along with, or even people who are enemies or work against you in some way. But ultimately, the purpose of the transit is to gain greater freedom and liberation when it comes to some of those people. And in some ways, that can be really positive things in terms of pushing back against the limitations of people who attempt to undermine you in different ways, including even if that can be extended in some instances to yourself, where sometimes we have certain behaviors that can undermine ourselves unintentionally. And sometimes the biggest surprise you can have from a Uranus transit there can be suddenly realizing the ways in which we’re limiting or undermining ourself and figuring out new and innovative ways to change that. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, that’s a really good point. So this a long-term transit; it’s a seven-year transit approximately. We’ve only got a little dip of it in the second half of 2025. So this isn’t all gonna happen at once; it’ll be at different points in an ongoing way. 

CB: Definitely. All right, so let’s move onto our next transit, which is Jupiter’s gonna spend the first half of the year in the sign of Cancer, which is your first house and your rising sign of self, mind, and body. But then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna transit into the sign of Leo, which is your 2nd house of money, finances, and possessions. So Jupiter transits are usually about growth and expansion and opportunities. Especially if you were born with a day chart, this will tend to be a very positive transit in the first half of the year for expanding your sense of self. Sometimes it can be a period of improving your health or your body or your physical appearance. But in the second half of the year, it really shifts towards expanding things from a financial perspective and having some potential windfalls or good opportunities to increase your income. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, Jupiter going through your first house can expand your sense of self. It can also make you more generous or more laid back temporarily than you usually are. And it’s just sort of a positive overall transit for you. And then as it goes into your 2nd house, yeah, it can expand your income; it can be a good time to ask for a raise if you’re in a position to do that. And it can expand like, your financial acuity. So working on financial management in new ways can pay off well for you, even after the transit is over. 

CB: Definitely. So that’s one of the most positive transits of the year, especially for the day chart people. And it’s actually gonna peak in June because there’s gonna be a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the sign of Cancer in your rising sign in June that looks extremely auspicious and very positive. 

So we came across that transit because we actually just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and we looked at the best dates to launch new ventures and undertakings next year using the principles of electional astrology, and we completed a full report that we just released for sale on our website if you wanna learn some of those dates for accomplishing things next year. 

LS: Yeah. So basically, taking important actions or starting new ventures at the dates and times that we give will give you the best possible results or the best chances of success for the things that you’re launching at that time. And so we provided at least two charts for every month, and sometimes some bonus charts. So you can use them for lots of different topics in your life – love life, business, et cetera. 

CB: Definitely. So we give a forecast for each month that’s very detailed as well, and we also tell you not just what dates to do things but also what dates to avoid because sometimes that’s just as important when it comes to electional astrology is knowing that there’s gonna be like, a Mercury retrograde or there’s gonna be a hard Mars aspect or what have you. So we have over 28 auspicious charts plus tutorials as part of our report, which includes a video, audio, and written version of the report. And you can use it for business, love life, or pretty much any major life event next year. 

So we’re running a sale on it for the first month where it’s just 49.95, but only until January, and then the regular price will go up to 65 dollars. So you can get that now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so let’s get into the second half of the year where our next major transit is the second eclipse season takes place in August and early September where there’s gonna be an eclipse in Leo and then another eclipse in Pisces. And this is taking place in your 2nd house of finances again bringing up the financial sector of the chart, as well as your 9th house of religion, beliefs, and foreign travel. 

LS: Yeah, so this’ll be the first eclipse in Leo that we’ve had. So that’ll bring beginnings and endings with regard to 2nd house topics – so personal income and finances again. So it’s a really nice overlap where we have Jupiter already transiting your house of those topics bringing expansive energy compared to usual. And then this will add another little wild card of some sort of beginning or ending with regard to either the way you make a living – that could be literally a new job. That could be a raise. That could be a new idea about how to make money down the road. Any of those sorts of things. 

CB: Yeah. So major beginnings and major endings for financial matters. Sometimes this can be a new chapter at work, and sometimes it could be like, a disruption at work or a disruption to your income where there’s something that has to end at that time. But then each ending can be an opportunity for a new beginning. So there may be one door that closes but another that opens in terms of whether it’s a work thing or whether it’s just your financial outlook in general. And what’s important about it is to pay attention to things that start or that you begin around this time, because sometimes around eclipses, we lay the seeds for things that will grow and develop in the future, but they start out very subtly and very in small increments at first so that we don’t always realize the significance of the new beginning that starts under an eclipse until years later. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, especially since this is gonna be the first one in that series. And then we have the other eclipse in your 9th house, and that’s kind of a bookend – like, an endpoint of all the activity that’s been going on with regard to belief systems or higher education or long-distance travel, things of that nature, because you’ve had Saturn and Neptune transiting there for quite a while. Saturn for the last few years, and we’ve – this is basically the last eclipse in a series of Pisces eclipses in that same area for you. So there’s some sort of endcap going on of like, the last major beginning or ending with regard to one of those topics or one or more of those topics. 

CB: Yeah. There’s been some major changes when it comes to your beliefs, your education, and your outlook on the world over the past few years, especially since Saturn was transiting through that sign since March of 2023. And that entire process of whatever changes and restructuring you’ve been going through with respect to your beliefs and your knowledge and wisdom about the world is coming to some sort of completion at this point where you end one chapter and then you begin the next chapter from here on out since that’s the last eclipse that will take place in that series. So it’s a great one to bring something to completion. Like, some people I’m sure will like, graduate or finish some form of education or some educational program that they’ve been doing for a while, while others will finish one but then start the other for maybe like, the final push into completing their education or their knowledge of some specific area of activity. 

LS: Yeah. 

CB: All right, so that’s eclipse season two. The next major thing that happens is a Venus retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra from October through November that’s gonna take place in your 5th house of children and hobbies and games back into your 4th house of home and family and living situation and parents. So this is a significant Venus retrograde that’s gonna take place during this time. 

LS: So a Venus retrograde can bring up people coming back into your life more than usual. It can also be just reworking your connections. In this case, it would be things involving 5th house topics like your children if you have children or things involving creative pursuits or hobbies that you do, especially artistic pursuits I would say with Venus, and then going back into your 4th house, it’s home, family, parents or ancestry, where you come from, private life. So there’s some sort of reworking, especially interpersonal connections, along those two topics. 

CB: Yeah. So sometimes it can be people from your past come back into the present. Since this is a Venus retrograde in your 5th house, that could be a romantic thing, like some sort of romantic connection from the past comes back into the present and you have a question of whether to resume having some sort of romantic connection with somebody versus whether it’s just a reminder but something that you choose not to get back together with. Sometimes because it’s crossing two houses, it will connect and overlap the topic of those two houses. So it could be like, a romantic person that comes back into your life from the past that you then end up living with again for a period of time during the retrograde, for example, since it’s going back into your 4th house of home and living situation. 

In other instances, it could connect the topics of children, which is the 5th house, and parents, which is the 4th house. So maybe some sort of thing involving the relationship between your children if you have any and your parents or other combinations like that. 

LS: Or children and living situations – either theirs or yours or combined. 

CB: Yeah, exactly. So for the people born at night, this is gonna be a more positive transit in these two areas, whereas for people born during the day, you might see some of the more challenging things come up with this for a period of time or just have it be notable but not that significant. But for the night chart people, I think this is gonna be the most positive transit of the year. 

LS: Yeah. 

CB: All right, so that’s the Venus retrograde. That brings us to our final transit of the year, which is Mars towards the end of 2026 starts heading into a Mars retrograde period that isn’t gonna begin fully until January. But we get the buildup to that between September and December when Mars starts moving through the signs of Leo and Virgo, which are the two signs that it’s gonna go retrograde in in early 2027. And as a result of that, Mars is gonna spend an extended amount of time in your 2nd house of finances and your 3rd house of communication over the next several months starting in September through December, and then intensifying in early 2027. 

LS: Yeah, so you can see there’s a lot of activity going on in your 2nd house of personal income and finances, especially in the second half of the year. So we have the Jupiter transit, which is expansive. We have the eclipse, which is beginnings and endings. And now we have Mars getting ready to retrograde there. So it’s already slowing down in the last quarter of 2026 even though it doesn’t retrograde until January of 2027, but it’s already slowing down so it’s already spending longer time in the area of income and personal finances and possessions, and then in the 3rd house of siblings and extended relatives, your neighbors or immediate neighborhood and communications. And yeah, so there’s some sort of like, longer term effort you’re gonna be putting into those topics for some reason or another that will extend into the first half of 2027, but begins now. So you can see if you pay attention during the last quarter of the year what’s starting to come up in these areas of life for you, and those will be the areas where you’re gonna put a lot more effort than usual for some reason into those topics and can be an area where you start to put effort into those topics in the last quarter of this year, and then you’ll need to rework some of it, and then finish it up in 2027. 

CB: Right. That makes sense. Like, something that you think is finished but then it comes back and you have to return to it early in 2027. And for some people, as you said, for especially like, the night chart people, this is probably gonna be more constructive and it could be something linking 2nd house topics of finances with 3rd house topics like siblings. Like, perhaps you work on a project with a sibling or a relative or a neighbor in order to that’s financially related to make more money, and you end up having to expend a lot of energy to that. But it ends up being a productive thing, especially for the night chart people. For the day chart people, I think there’s a potential for this to be a little bit more challenging where earlier in the year, we had the really positive Jupiter transit in the 2nd house, which is still ongoing at this point and indicating growth and positive things regarding finances, but the Mars transit brings a potential for more challenging things which could be acting too boldly or taking risks and potentially having a setback at this time. It could also mean like, having a loss or especially if you’re not careful or if you’re involved with an unscrupulous character, there could be somebody that causes issues for you financially at this time, especially in connection with your 3rd house of siblings, neighbors, or extended relatives. 

LS: Yeah. Or it could even be something like you start a new business venture, freelance thing or whatnot, but then you incur like, unexpected expenses before it evens out later on. 

CB: Right. Or the 3rd house is also like, short-distance travel, so it could be like, your car breaks down and then it costs you a lot to get it repaired or something like that because it goes back into the 2nd house of finances. Another thing to be careful about with Mars transits in the 3rd house is that sometimes we can communicate more brusquely or be a little bit more quick to anger than usual, so you wanna be careful about your communication style and make sure you don’t say anything in the heat of the moment that you could regret later, especially because it could then impact you financially when it goes back into your 2nd house. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. So those are the main transits, I think, for this year, yeah? 

LS: Yeah. I think that’s pretty much the big picture overview for you. 

CB: Okay, brilliant. Well, that’s it for this forecast then for 2027. So thanks a lot for watching — 

LS: 2026. 

CB: You know, 2026, 2027 – we got a little bit into 2027! But — 

LS: Fair! 

CB: — as we said, if you want to – if you need any help planning things next year and you want those auspicious dates, then check out our 2026 Electional Astrology Report. The launch sale lasts until January for 49.95; then it goes up to 65 dollars. So get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. And if you’d like to learn more about our approach to astrology and how we do astrology, check out my Hellenistic Astrology Course for reading birth charts at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right, that’s it. Good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year. 

[LEO HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Leo for the entire year of 2026. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. Hey Leisa – thanks for joining me for our horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: All right, so for our horoscopes, we would recommend watching the one that matches your rising sign, because that’s gonna give you the best forecast if you know your birth time. If you don’t know your birth time, then you can also watch the one that matches your Sun sign. And we’re gonna give kind of a big picture overview of the major transits and themes coming up over the course of the next year. So let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows the movements of the planets throughout the course of the year, and here’s the major transits we’re gonna be focusing on over the course of 2026. So the first one is that Saturn and Neptune at the very beginning of the year in January and February are gonna move from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries, which is moving from your 8th house of shared resources to your 9th house of beliefs, education, and travel. 

LS: Right. So you’ve had these long transits going on in the 8th house. So Saturn and Neptune there, especially Saturn since March 2023, has required a lot of work around shared resources, shared finances, potentially things involving your partner’s income if you have a partner, taxes, loans, debts, or mortality-related things like wills or inheritance. But now it’s moving into the 9th house, so there’s gonna be a lot more focus now on work around higher education, long-distance travel, belief systems in particular like religion or philosophy – astrology also goes there – basically how you understand the world. 

CB: Yeah. So this is good in the one sense because there may have been some setbacks or some nebulousness surrounding shared resources and financial matters that’s gonna be alleviated by the end of this transit or by this transit ending at the beginning of the year, especially going back to like, March of 2023 when Saturn first went into Pisces and into your 8th house of shared resources. So now this energy is shifting to the 9th house and it’s gonna put the focus much more on your beliefs and your education and the accumulation of wisdom. And it’s a little tricky at the start, because Saturn conjoining Neptune in February is gonna create what I call a reality distortion field that’s sort of been building up over the past few years, but it’s gonna culminate at the beginning of 2026 with this conjunction. And that could be a little bit tricky for you, because as it’s bringing the focus into the 9th house of beliefs and wisdom and learning, you may need to be careful if you start to learn new things or if you start to take on new political beliefs, because you may have some challenges telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not real, or between what’s true versus what’s false because of this conjunction becoming some prominent in the very beginning of 2026. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, it’s the time where you wanna be careful of like, cultish type behavior around religion or philosophy, which can go in any sphere of religion or philosophy, really. It’s also a time when your previous structures around how you see the world, your belief systems, your worldviews, can start to dissolve and there can be a gradual process of reformulating what exactly you do believe. 

CB: Yeah. So sometimes there can be some setbacks when it comes to Saturn transits in the 9th house and Saturn might close one day when it comes to some educational route that you’ve been taking up to this point, or in terms of some belief system that you’ve had up to this point. But when it closes one day, it’ll eventually open another, and sometimes in the long run, those surmountable difficulties can be really good for us if we stick with things. So and on top of that, I think some of the reality distortion will drop off a little bit after February once that conjunction between those two planets starts to move into the past. So that’s our first major transit of 2026. 

Starting in February, we also get to our second major transit, which is eclipse season one, which is taking place in Aquarius and Virgo between February and March, which is in your 7th house of relationships and your 2nd house of finances. 

LS: Yeah, so this’ll be the first eclipse in Aquarius in the Aquarius-Leo series, and we’ll get the second part later in the year. But the first eclipse in your 7th house of partnership and one-on-one interaction, so there can be beginnings and endings with regard to personal partnership, business partnership, if you do client work that can also go there, any major one-on-one interactions. It can change how you – it can be, you know, if you’re not partnered, there can be someone showing up that you’re interested in being partnered with. It can change also just relationship dynamics if you are partnered, or it can be something new happening or something ending in your partner’s life. 

CB: Yeah. So major beginnings and major endings when it comes to relationships starting with this first eclipse. But it’s gonna be opening up a series of major beginnings and endings in that sector of your life over the course of the next year or two as we see at least eclipses taking place in Aquarius. And you know, those does not have to be bad, necessarily. I’ve had major relationships start under like, an eclipse in my 7th house. I believe I met somebody at some point during an eclipse, if you recall! 

LS: You may have. I don’t really know, but. 

CB: There’s like, a legendary tweet about that from like, 2008 or something from — 

LS: Yeah. You were like, “Enjoying my eclipse in the 7th house!”

CB: Right, exactly. So major beginnings. Sometimes major endings also, whether it’s end of a relationship, sometimes it can be the end of a chapter in a relationship as well. So it doesn’t mean the end of a relationship per se, even though it can. 

The other important thing is the other eclipse taking place in Virgo in your 2nd house and how that’s sort of part of a series of eclipses that have been taking place there of major beginnings and endings in terms of your personal finances. And sometimes that can end a chapter with respect to let’s say a job, but it can also open up a new chapter with respect to trying to increase your income as well at the same time. So look for opportunities, especially for new beginnings where you could set a new foundation to improve your financial status around the time of that eclipse. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. It can be a time of, you know, ending one job and starting another or just new ideas percolating all of a sudden about future ways where you can make a living. 

CB: Yeah, exactly. 

All right, so let’s move onto our third major transit of this year, which is gonna be Uranus departing from Taurus where it’s been for seven or eight years since 2018, 2019, and moving into the sign of Gemini for good starting in April. And this is gonna be a transit where it’s moving from your 10th house of career, and it’s going into your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. 

So on the one hand, it’s ending a transit that’s happened for seven years that’s caused or at least coincided with probably a major shakeup in terms of your career and your overall life direction in the 10th house, and now it’s leading to some unexpected changes and innovations in seeking freedom in the sphere of friends and groups and alliances. 

LS: Yeah. So for the first third of the year through April, it’ll still be in your 10th house of career, and there’ll be a little bit of a last hurrah in February as Uranus stations for the last time in Taurus, and then the inner planets and even the eclipse all square it by degree throughout the rest of February. So whatever you’ve been innovating around your career, your professional life, how you’re known publicly, there will be a last little burst of that in February, and then as of April, it goes into your 11th house of friends, groups, the larger social sphere, social networks, social alliances, all of those things. And that can bring sort of unexpected changes with regard to friends. Sometimes it’s the case that Uranus goes through your 11th and your friends start acting, you know, sort of abruptly oddly, or things like that. It can just represent them or what’s going on in their lives where your friends have sudden changes in their lives. But it can also definitely be major changes around how you want to interact with community. It can be like, either sudden sort of additions or departures from community efforts. You know, groups, boards, whatever. Those sorts of things. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. And there was a preview of this transit that already started last year in July of 2025 when Uranus first moved into Gemini for a few months. But then it retrograded back out into Taurus, and now it’s coming back for good, and it’s gonna be transiting through this sector of your chart until like, 2033. So this is a long-term transit, and there will be some unexpected disruptions and upsets when it comes to friends and groups during this time potentially. But also the urge for having and seeking freedom and liberation when it comes to your friends and groups, and in some ways, that should be exhilarating in terms of finding friends and groups and likeminded people that are more authentically connected with what your true beliefs and desires are in life, which is ultimately a good thing. 

LS: Definitely. Also if you’re inclined towards this, it’s a great transit for social activism. Right? Because Uranus is very excitable and wants to do things that are potentially revolutionizing things, and it’s going through your community sector, so it can be a great time to work in like, social action groups. 

CB: Right. Like, we’ve been watching that documentary on the Revolutionary War and all of these guys that were like, forming these little groups and stuff for the American Revolution at that time when Uranus was in Gemini and must have had a similar transit like this happening, I bet. 

LS: Right. Probably. 

CB: Yeah. All right, so let’s move onto our next transit, which is Jupiter is moving from Cancer in the first half of this year, which is your 12th house, and Jupiter’s gonna move into Leo starting in late June for the entire second half of 2026, and that’s moving into your first house of mind, body, and self, which is your rising sign, of course.

LS: So Jupiter was already in Cancer for the second half of 2025, and up through the next six months in 2026. And that expands things around like, things that are positive that come out of being in solitude. So it can also be really good for mental health; it can be good for recognizing ways in which you have blind spots and like, not having those blind spots anymore. It’s basically really positive for subconscious things. It can also be positive surrounding dealing with enemies – like, people you don’t get along with, a.k.a. Like, you know, thinking up better ways to orient yourself around those things. But in particular, the biggest thing I usually see with Jupiter transiting the 12th house is just really positive things that come out of doing things on your own in seclusion, which can be working on a project which necessitates you working alone for a while, that kind of thing. 

CB: Yeah. So there’s some times in our life where we feel a lot more social, and Jupiter for example in previous years was transiting through the 11th house, which is more like, growth in friends and groups. But Jupiter here is having benefits by delving into internal matters. So for example, it can be a good time to focus on mental health things such as, you know, like, starting to see a therapist or other things like that that is like, self-work that you do either alone or with somebody that’s helping you to dive into some of those internal depths. And that’s sort of like, the first half of the year, and that’s a trend that already started in the second half of 2025 when Jupiter first moved into Cancer. But we really see that culminate in an important way in the first half of 2026. 

But that Jupiter transit, once it goes from your 12th house to your first house starting in late June for the entirety of the second half of 2026, is really gonna feel like coming out of that period of internal work and becoming more extroverted again and reinventing yourself. Sometimes it can be good for like, a makeover or changing something about your body or your physical appearance as well as an increased period of potentially of good health, for example, when Jupiter’s transiting through your rising sign. 

LS: It’s really great for things that require attention on you. So and that can be anything, right? Like, it gives you more kind of personal power for a little while, I think. And so – and I also think about if there were things that you were working on behind the scenes, that can be bringing that out into the light of the public when Jupiter moves from your 12th house to your first house. So but yeah, definitely more of a contrast. The first half of the year is much more internal and then the second half of the year is very – it’s much more warm; it’s much more extroverted. And particularly for you, because that’s going into your first house – Jupiter in Leo. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. 

So around this time around June, before Jupiter leaves Cancer, it’s gonna have a conjunction with Venus which is really auspicious, which is something that we noticed when we were working on our 2026 Electional Astrology Report which we just finished and released where we go through the next year and we pick out and highlight the best dates for doing things next year, giving you a handy guide basically to fortunate dates in 2026. 

LS: Yeah. So this is for anything you want to – either important actions you wanna take or important projects you wanna start. It can be around your love life, business, home, anything basically that’s important to you. And what you do is start them or take those actions at those selected dates and times for better prospects of successful results. 

CB: So we go through each of the next 12 months and we give you a forecast of each month and tell you what the best dates are, but we also tell you what dates to avoid doing things, because electional astrology sometimes is just as much about what dates you should avoid if there’s like, a Mercury retrograde or a hard Mars aspect, as it is knowing which days to do things. So we have 28 auspicious charts plus tutorials in the report. It includes a video version, an audio version, as well as a written report. And you can use it for business, love, or pretty much any major life event in your life over the course of the next year to accomplish major things. 

So the report was just launched, and it’s on sale, but just for the first month for 49.95, but only until the beginning of January when the price will go up to 65 dollars. So you can get the report now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so let’s move into the second half of the year where we get our second eclipse season, which is actually happening in Leo and Pisces in August and going into early September. So this is important, of course, because Leo is your rising sign and your first house of body and self. And Pisces is your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money. 

LS: Right. So that first eclipse is gonna be the very first one in that Leo series, and that just kind of reiterates a lot of things we were talking about with the Jupiter transit in your first house of self, body, and mind in the second half of 2026. So eclipses will bring important beginnings and endings with regard to the topics they’re touching. So in this case, it can be a new beginning or an ending with regard to bodily habits, exercise routines, even appearance-related things. But also just your sense of self, which again is broad, but you bring to the rest of your entire life. So it can be really important turning point with regard to how you view yourself or how you present yourself. 

CB: Yeah. And I think part of what this is is earlier the year in February, we saw the first eclipse in Aquarius, which is in the 7th house of relationships for Leo rising people. So sometimes that’s like, starting a new relationship and then suddenly putting a lot of focus on that relationship and a lot of time and energy towards a new relationship, or sometimes a new chapter in an existing relationship. But then when you get the second eclipse in the first house six months later, this is suddenly needing to balance things out, because maybe you’ve been putting a lot of time and energy into relationships earlier in the year but suddenly you feel the need later in the year to rebalance things and put more time into yourself and figuring out who you are and what you need and what’s important to you. 

LS: Yeah. That happens a lot with the eclipses across the first and seventh or anything really impacting the first and/or seventh houses. You know, anytime you have one impacted, it automatically impacts the other one. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. And that’s gonna be a theme that’s gonna be continuing into 2027, because this eclipse series is just getting started in 2026, so this is like, the opening sequence of events that’s then gonna unfold over the course of the next year or two. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So that’s eclipse season two. Then we get into the third quarter of the year and we get a Venus retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra in October and November especially. And this is happening in your 4th house of home and living situation and parents and your 3rd house of communication, short-distance travel and siblings, neighbors, and extended relatives.

LS: So anytime we have a Venus retrograde, there can be either or people coming back from the past that you’re not as – that you haven’t been communicating with as closely for a while, or just reworking interpersonal dynamics with the people in those areas or the things in those areas. So with a Venus retrograde starting in the 4th house, it can be reworking dynamics with your parents if your parents are still around, or ancestry in general. Reworking things around the home or living situation. And then connecting it back to the 3rd house, which is siblings or other extended relatives, while that has other topics in the 3rd house like communications and short-distance travel, neighbors, your immediate neighborhood and so forth, this one pretty easily can be connecting family for you, right? Because they are family relationships going on in the 4th house and the 3rd house, which is where the Venus retrograde is happening for you in both of those houses. 

CB: Yeah, definitely family things. And Venus retrogrades always have this backwards-looking orientation where it can either be about people from your past coming back into the present, so that could be like, family things but it can also be like, neighbors or friends that you grew up with like, going back to and revisiting the place that you grew up with and therefore reconnecting also with your old neighborhood or people that were in your neighborhood or extended family around that area. Venus retrogrades can also connect us back to events that happened in eight year increments. So the last time this same Venus retrograde happened was eight years earlier, which would have been October-November of 2018, for example, or eight years before that, which would be October and November of 2010. And sometimes events that occurred during those previous eras can come back in some significant way into the present if not in an exact repetition sometimes in just some sort of archetypal or formal similarity, because it’s again activating your 4th house of living situation, home, and parents, and your 3rd house of communication, neighborhood, siblings, and travel. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. So this is more of a looking backward and revisiting in the first part of it while Venus is retrograde. And then the second phase of that will be, you know, taking that and going forward with, you know, whether that was just like, a nice memory to revisit and now you go forward again in those areas of life, or whether it’s like, reworking sibling relationships and then deciding how you wanna move forward together with better communication dynamics or things of that nature. 

CB: Yeah. Or sometimes like, there can be a crossover between the 3rd and the 4th house of like, reconciling your parents and your siblings or parents and other extended relatives or things like that, or sometimes connecting your home and living situation with siblings. Like, maybe there’s a sibling that has to move in with you or an extended relative that has to move in with you for a period of time so that you’re sort of going back in time in a sense of experiencing what that relationship was like for some reason for better or worse. 

For those of you with night charts, this is actually probably gonna be one of your most – if not the most – positive transit that will take place this year, whereas for the day chart people it was the Jupiter transit earlier in the year that started in June going into your rising sign that was probably the most positive transit. But the Venus people – or night people – often experience the Venus retrogrades as being more positive than almost any other transit. 

LS: Yeah. Especially after it turns and then goes forward again, because there is still sometimes a working out of things during the retrograde itself. 

CB: Yeah, and a bringing up the past and bringing up people from the past especially. But you know, there’s different scenarios for like, somebody comes back from your past and sometimes that can be really good things. Other times it can be a little bit more challenging of a thing. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So that brings us to our final major transit of the year, which is Mars entering its shadow in the signs of Leo and Virgo from September through December, because it’s preparing to go retrograde in those two signs starting in January of 2027. But it already starts the buildup to that retrograde in Leo and Virgo in September through December, which is gonna take place in your first house of self and your 2nd house of finances. 

LS: So this is gonna be a very extended Mars transit. Usually Mars transits through a sign in about six weeks, and between the two signs it’s gonna take us all the way through the spring of 2027. So it’ll last quite a while. So meaning you’re gonna be putting a lot of effort for some reason or tension towards these topics. So the first house being the first house of self, it can be a health thing, it can be bodily practices, health habits – like, improving those. It can be – it depends on, you know, again with the day and night distinction, the night chart people it’ll probably be a little bit more moderated and more constructive where the Mars retrograde periods just tend to be like, a period of extended effort in that area, whereas the day chart people – on the one hand, you’re gonna get a great Jupiter transit through the first house, which is more positive for day chart people. But you’ll kind of get more extremes rather than more moderated because you have the best extreme with the Jupiter transit and then potentially more challenge with the Mars transit there, which can be things involving health; it can also just be a time where you’re getting into a little bit more conflict, you’re feeling a little bit more heated and things of that nature. But on the whole, for everyone, it’ll be time where you’re gonna be putting a lot more effort or attention into those two topics. And I can see for some people, this would be relevant for everyone necessarily, but for some people, it’s like working on self-presentation that is connected with how you make a living. Like, if you work for yourself in particular, that matters, although I can see it still mattering even if you have a regular nine-to-five. 

CB: Yeah, especially for the night chart people I think it’s just gonna be working really hard to make more money and sometimes centering yourself in terms of that where your personality, your appearance, and your sense of selfhood is more important towards expanding some of your financial aspirations than at other times in your life and that you’ll find that you have the capacity for more work and for harder work during this time, but that it’ll be to good effect. Like, you’ll be able to accomplish a lot during this time. And I think that’s just gonna go together with some of the Jupiter transits and the eclipses and other stuff that are happening around the same time this year. 

For the day chart people, there will be the potential for a little bit more challenging things because Mars transits through the first house can make you a little bit more irritable, a little bit more bombastic and prone towards getting into fights and arguments. So especially if you started a new relationship earlier in the year with the eclipse in Aquarius in your 7th house, you’re gonna wanna be careful going into this Mars retrograde transit that in feeling a little bit more forthright and having the ability to express yourself more directly that you don’t accidentally create conflict and discord and tension in your relationships by being more authentic and expressing yourself more directly. At the same time, you also wanna be careful about that transit just in terms of the potential for sometimes if you spout off and start an argument with somebody or create some sort of tension or conflict that it could lead to some challenging things in terms of your financial situation since Mars will also be retrograde in the 2nd house of finances. But as long as you’re careful and exercise caution and restraint during that Mars retrograde transit, you should be able to get the best things out of it because Jupiter will be there at the same time. 

All right. I think that’s it. That’s the last major transit I wanted to mention this year for the horoscope for Leo and Leo rising for 2026. So those are your major transits for 2026. So as we said, if you want help planning out your year next year then get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale only until January for 49.95, then it goes up to 65 dollars after that. You can get it at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. If you wanna learn more about our approach to reading birth charts, then you can check out my Hellenistic Astrology Course which is available at TheAstrologySchool.com. But otherwise, good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

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CB: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for Virgo and Virgo rising for the entire year of 2026. Hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: All right. So we would recommend watching the horoscope that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time because the forecast will be more specialized for you if you do so. Although if you don’t know your birth time, you can also watch the one for your Sun sign. So we’re gonna give kind of a big picture overview of the major transits this year to give you an idea of what’s coming up over the course of 2026. So let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll end up by the end of the year. And these are the major transits that we wanna focus on for 2026. So the first one is that Saturn and Neptune depart from Pisces where they’ve been transiting for years and they move into the sign of Aries in January and February of this year, and then they form a conjunction in February. So this is moving from your 7th house of relationships to your 8th house of shared resources.

LS: Yeah. So you’ve been especially for the lsat few years since March 2023 when Saturn moved into Pisces in kind of a season of life where there’s been a heavier energy with regard to partnership, either with regard to your dynamics with your partner if you do have a partner, or with regard to what’s going on in your partner’s life, or just general one-on-one interactions have been a little bit heavier to deal with. But that’s moving on now, and those are moving into your 8th house, which involves shared resources, shared finances, other people’s money, other financial topics like taxes, loans, debts, and mortality-related things like wills and inheritance. 

CB: Yeah. So I think this is actually really good news to start the year off of, because Saturn departing from your 7th house is going to bring some alleviation of some setbacks and some heaviness that you’ve been experiencing in that department since at least March of 2023 when Saturn first moved into Pisces, whereas Neptune departing from your 7th house is gonna lift the veil in terms of some nebulousness and other things like that that have been in the sphere of relationships all the way going back to 2011 when Neptune first went into your 7th house of relationships. So the biggest thing at the beginning of the year is just feeling the alleviation of that, but then having that energy move into your 8th house of other people’s money, shared resources, and other things like that – which on the one hand could bring some setbacks or some restructuring or challenges when it comes to financial matters starting this year, although you would have already got a preview of what that’s about last year when Saturn first moved into Aries I think starting in like, June, right? 

LS: Yeah, at the end of May. So basically June, July, August. And that actually peaked especially in July, because Saturn and Neptune stationed pretty close together in Aries. So you will have gotten some sense of what that exact conjunction will be about as of last July. 

CB: Yeah. So in February especially I would be careful because when Saturn and Neptune exactly conjoin, I think that’s gonna be the peak of what I’ve been describing recently as this sort of like, reality distortion field that Saturn and Neptune are creating when they come together where sometimes it’s really hard to tell what’s real versus what’s not, or what’s true versus what’s false. And for you because this is happening in the financial sector of your chart, I would just be really careful about financial agreements especially around this time, because you may not have the ability to tell the difference between what’s true versus what’s false or what’s real versus what’s not. But that energy will start to dissipate somewhat once you get past February. So if you can hold off a little bit past that time, it might be a good idea in terms of financial agreements. 

LS: Definitely. I agree. And for some people, you know, Saturn going through the 8th house will also have to do with as far as the longer transit will have to do with kind of depth psychological work that can sometimes be – Saturn going through the 8th can be like, facing your fears. It can also be around mortality-related things, like some people do like, death doula training when Saturn’s going through the 8th, for example. So there can be really constructive ways to work with this house. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. 

So that’s our first major transit of the year. Then the next one is that eclipse season starts from February through March, and this is gonna be an eclipse in Aquarius in February followed by an eclipse in Virgo in March, and this is happening in your 6th house of work and health as well as your first house of self, mind, and body. 

So for me, eclipses are always about major beginnings and major endings, and this set of eclipses seems to be especially in the health sector of your chart, focusing on health and bodily matters and just what it takes to take good care of yourself and keep your health in good working condition. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, the first and 6th are both health houses, although they can involve other topics as well. So definitely it can be a time to get things checked out if anything, you know, sort of niggling concern arises. It’s like, check it out versus just wait and see. It’s also a time where you can do more proactive health habit things, like starting a new health routines, new exercise routines, new nutritional routines and that sort of thing to take better care of your body. 

Eclipses in the 6th can also be about things involving pets if you have any and also about your workplace. So either coworkers or people who do any work for you, and also just your job. And I’m anticipating another transit that’s coming up when I say that, but it can also be changes with regard to your workplace. 

CB: Yeah. So sometimes like, ending one job and starting another or ending one chapter in a current job and beginning a new chapter – like, getting a promotion, for example, could be coinciding with an eclipse in the 6th house like that Aquarius one. And this will be the beginning of a new series of eclipses in Aquarius over the course of the next year or two, so it’s probably part of an ongoing process rather than something that happens all at once. 

LS: Definitely. And with the eclipse in the first, especially – I mean, we’ve already had a couple in 2025, so it’s not a new one, but it’s still going to be the first eclipse as Saturn and Neptune are leaving your 7th house of partnership. And so I think there can be a renewed focus on yourself with the eclipse in the first. If you’ve had to put a lot of attention on partnership issues because of Saturn-Neptune being in Pisces for so long, this will be a renewed focus or beginning or ending with regard to like, your sense of self or “who am I apart from my partner” or that kind of thing. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. All right, so moving on, our next major transit is that the planet Uranus is going to go – it’s gonna leave Taurus and move into Gemini starting in April, and this is a move from your 9th house of religion and philosophy and beliefs, and it’s going into your 10th house of career. So over the course of this Uranus transit since 2018 or 2019 when Uranus was going through your 9th house, there may have been a lot of unexpected changes and new and exciting and innovative things and disruptive things that you’ve been learning and growing in terms of your beliefs and your outlook on life. But now that transit is coming to a close, and you’re gonna take a lot of those new things and new beliefs and new outlook, and you’re gonna start applying them to your 10th house of career and overall life direction in what should be a major shake-up but a very good and essentially liberating one in terms of your career and life direction. 

LS: Yeah. And in terms of that Uranus transit through your 9th house that is coming to a close, there will be one last kind of last hurrah in February as Uranus stations there for the last time in your 9th house in Taurus. And then a bunch of inner planets square that all month. So there will be like, a little like, you know, capping off in an exciting way of that transit. But then it moves into your 10th house of career and public reputation, and that’s a time usually where people do a lot of innovating with regard to professional work in terms of either the field that they’re in sometimes they change. They go into like, a new line of work. It can be wanting to work for yourself and starting to move in that direction and innovate and be more self-sufficient with regard to your profession. And that’s kind of what I was thinking about when I said, you know, the eclipse in the 6th house was – you know, there’s a little bit of a crossover there in terms of changes with regard to work. 

CB: Yeah, that makes sense. Because especially when you start having Uranus going through your 10th house, you’re gonna have much more of an internal drive for freedom and liberation when it comes to wanting to be in charge of the direction that you’re going, career-wise and just in terms of your overall life direction. So if there’s some career or a boss or another superior that you feel like has been holding you back or stopping you from living your authentic self, especially career-wise, then you’re probably gonna get increasingly agitated and wanting to push back against that and strike out in your own direction as this transit begins. And then this is a long-term transit that’s gonna last through 2033, so it’s gonna be a process over the course of most of the next decade. 

LS: Yeah. Definitely. So this is just the start of it, and there can be especially with Uranus transits in terms of change in profession, it can be a process of experimentation. Because Uranus is like, doing things suddenly or doing things unexpectedly, so you can kind of have sudden epiphanies of like, what if I did this with regard to work? you know? And then maybe you try that, and then you’re like, “Well, half of that worked, but half of it didn’t. What can I try next?” You know, it’s that kind of process over the next seven years. 

CB: Yeah. And sometimes there can be unexpected disruptions that come out of left field unexpectedly that throw kind of a roadblock in our way or knock us off course that we weren’t anticipating or that were things that came out of nowhere that weren’t on the plan. Where it’s like, there’s something that didn’t go according to plan, but sometimes that’s necessary in order to push us in the correct direction or in the direction that we’re supposed to be headed. So sometimes when that happens, the best thing you can do is just try to be as flexible as possible. Try to think on your feet. And try to adapt to whatever the changing circumstances are. And if you can do that and maintain that flexibility, then you should have the ability to navigate towards some of the most successful outcomes. 

LS: Yeah. It can be a really exciting time. Like, possibly the most exciting of your life in terms of innovations around your professional life. 

CB: Definitely. All right, so that takes us to the next major transit this year, which is that the planet Jupiter is gonna spend the first half of the year in the sign of Cancer, which is your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. And then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into Leo, which is your 12th house of seclusion. So it’s interesting, because we start out the year with the first half with the more social transit of like, expanding your friend groups, being very social and having success as a result of alliances and friends. But then in the second half of the year, we move into a more introspective time of the year where suddenly you’re having more success by doing internal deep dives into yourself and into things like mental health. 

LS: Yeah. So Jupiter went in mid-year in 2025 into Cancer into your 11th house, so it’s the second half of that transit in the first half of 2026. So expansion around time spent with friends, expansion around groups that you belong to, around social activism, around things just generally in the social sphere around community. But yeah, then as you said, halfway through the year, it then shifts into a much more internal space where you can either have success because you are working on a project behind the scenes or you’re working on something that necessitates you working alone for a while. Or it can be more contemplative. Like, it’s easily a time where you have a lot more internal reflection or a meditation practice can be really successful at this time. Trying new things with regard to, yeah, your internal spaces is definitely the second half of the year. 

CB: Yeah. So sometimes when you have a really positive internal transit like that, it can be a good time to like, start to see a therapist for example and do some internal explorations that way in terms of dealing with some of those things that arise where sometimes the 12th house can be like, people we don’t get along with in our life. And so a 12th house transit could be finding ways to reconcile or make peace with those people that we don’t get along with, whereas sometimes when we have a transit like that that’s more internal, we can start to identify instances where we’re sort of like, our worst enemy or where we’ve undermined ourself. And then finding ways to fix that so that it doesn’t continue to happen in the future. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s that Jupiter transit that’s taking place in the second half of the year. And then that’s gonna continue on into the first half of 2027. And one really nice thing about that transit is before Jupiter goes into Leo in late June, there’s gonna be a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that’s very auspicious earlier in June in your 11th house of friends and groups that I think would be a great final like, party or blowout with friends or something like that before you go into that more contemplative part of the year. And this Venus-Jupiter conjunction is something we noticed because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates in the entirety of next year for people to use in planning for when they wanna plan major things in their life over the course of the next 12 months.

LS: Yeah. So basically, important actions you wanna take or new projects you wanna start. It can involve anything, like your love life or business or home – basically anything you want to turn out well. You can use these dates and times to begin that action for better possibilities of successful results. 

CB: Right. So we’ve got 28 different auspicious electional charts and dates next year, along with tutorials. And the report includes a video report as well as an audio version, plus an extensive written report as a PDF that comes with it. 

So we’re doing a launch sale where you can get it for 49.95, but only this month and then the price is gonna go up to 65 dollars at the beginning of January. So if you’d like to get the report, you can get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that brings us to the second half of the year where our next major transit is the second eclipse season happens in August and early September where there’s gonna be an eclipse in Leo and then an eclipse in Pisces. And this is happening in your 12th house of mental health and seclusion as well as your 7th house of relationships. 

LS: So this’ll be the first Leo eclipse in that series. We already got the first Aquarius one in the opposite sign earlier in the year; now this is the first Leo one. So eclipses in the 12th house can bring beginnings and endings with regard to some of the topics we were already just discussing with Jupiter going through your 12th house in the second half of the year, so things involving seclusion, mental health, contemplativeness, yeah. Basically behind the scenes work. There can be like, a beginning or ending with regard to any of those topics. And then interestingly, that Pisces eclipse is gonna be the very last endcap of all that Pisces action in your 7th house of partnership and one-on-one interactions. So we’ve already had a series of Pisces eclipses there; we’ve also had the Saturn-Neptune transiting there for the last few years especially, and so this will be like, the last sort of endcap of a beginning or an ending with regard to personal or business partnership. 

CB: Yeah. And this 12th house eclipse I think harkens back to the 6th house eclipse that happened earlier this year during the first eclipse season. Because the first eclipse was about more like, physical health, whereas the 12th house eclipse happening in August and early September is more like, mental health. So there’s something about the relationship between mind and body that’s coming up at this time that’s part of the focus of this year, and where sometimes you need to take care of your body, because if you don’t sometimes that can impact your mental health in terms of your mind and also vice versa – that sometimes if you don’t take care of your mental health, then it can have a negative impact on your physical health. 

LS: For sure. And there can be crossovers between those two houses as any two opposing houses often have some topics in common. So you can have mental health things come up in the 6th house; you can have physical things coming up in the 12th house. But there will be attention being paid to both of those topics either way with that new eclipse series across your 6th and 12th. 

CB: Yeah. And then with the second eclipse happening in your 7th house of relationships, this is nice because even though we’ve had some eclipses there over the past year or two, Saturn was transiting through there since 2023. But now that Saturn is gone, and we have the alleviation of the heaviness of that, this is not only ending that period so that you’re closing that chapter of relationships for good with this eclipse, but you’re also opening a new one. And there’s a potential for new relationships to start at this time with this eclipse in your 7th house of relationships, or for you to start a new chapter in a current relationship if you’re already in one. 

LS: It’s definitely gonna feel a lot lighter going forward at this point with regard to partnership than it has for the last few years. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s great. Sometimes it’s not about the thing that’s starting or that’s being emphasized in your chart, but sometimes it’s just as much about like, the something moving out of a certain sector of your chart and having the – not the negation of that, but having a lack of that happening anymore. 

LS: The alleviation in that area. 

CB: Yeah. That’s the word! All right, so that takes us to our next transit, which is that there’s a Venus retrograde transit in October and November that’s happening in Scorpio and Libra, and this is happening in your 3rd house of communication and your 2nd house of finances. So for some people, this is gonna be a very positive transit, especially if you have a night chart where Venus transits will tend to be some of the most positive ones for you. So this could stand out as really good things happening in the sphere of communication, siblings, your neighbors or neighborhood as well as your 2nd house of money and finances, which could be like, a financial windfall of some sort. 

LS: Right. So Venus retrograding through your 3rd can be things like having siblings or extended relatives that you haven’t seen in a while come back into your life more closely. And I like that it’s going into your 2nd house; it’s an interesting, again, crossover with the eclipse in the 6th house and the Uranus transit starting in earnest in your 10th house. There can be something really positive here with regard to personal finances and how you make a living. So there can be a revisiting or a reworking on that. But there can also be something really positive going forward in that area after the retrograde finishes. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. But with all Venus retrograde transits, they’re often backwards-looking. So either there’s something about reflecting on the past or sometimes there’s literally people from your past that come back into the present. And especially because the same Venus retrograde repeats every eight years during the same part of the year, it’s good to think back to eight years earlier which would be October and November of 2018. There could be some scenarios that happen during that time that could be relevant again today during this Venus retrograde transit, or even eight years before that, which would have been October-November of 2010. 

LS: Yeah. So some of those themes can repeat. If you remember back to what was happening around that time, it can give you clues ahead of time. But yeah. So revisiting things with regard to like, either old ways of making a living or old personal connections that were, you know, integral to how you made a living – i.e., like, people you used to work with maybe – that kind of thing. 

CB: Yeah. And since it’s connecting – since Venus is crossing the 3rd house and the 2nd house, oftentimes I’ve noticed in recent retrogrades how it will connect or cross over those topics. So some crossovers we could kind of think of could be things like connecting events with your siblings and money. So that could be, on the one hand, like, a positive thing – like maybe you start working with your siblings and you somehow make more money together doing some sort of shared project. Let’s say a negative scenario could be like, a sibling hits you up for money and you loan it to them and it creates like, a tricky situation or something like that. That’s gonna vary depending on if you have a night chart, you’ll probably see more positive outcomes. If you have a day chart, it could be a little bit more problematic. It could also be a crossover between like, making more money in terms of your neighbors or your neighborhood, or even in terms of like, the 3rd house as short-distance travel like driving. So I could see a scenario where, you know, somebody starts driving to deliver things for like, Lyft or Uber or something and then suddenly it increases their finances because of the connection with the 2nd house. 

LS: Yeah. That was gonna be my example too. Or like, DoorDash or something. 

CB: Right. 

LS: But yeah – things involving, yeah, those two topics together. 

CB: Yeah. So travel and finances. But just brainstorm some of those possible connections and also look at your past and those eight-year increments and you may get a preview of some of the things that may come up this time. 

LS: I was gonna say also communications and income, because that can be really widely applicable. Like, how you communicate or using your communication skills to like, make more money or get a new job or something. 

CB: Yeah, totally. And improving your communication skills, taking them to the next level could increase your income at this time, especially if you make an active effort to do that. 

LS: Right. 

CB: Yeah. All right. So that brings us to our final transit, which is that Mars is slowing down towards the end of the year and getting ready to go retrograde. And it’s not actually gonna station retrograde until early January of 2027, but already Mars has entered its shadow and it’s moved into the two signs that it’s gonna go retrograde in starting from September through December of 2026. 

So this retrograde’s gonna take place in Leo and Virgo, which is your 12th house of seclusion and sometimes people you don’t get along with and then it’s gonna retrograde back into your first house of mind, body, and self. So Mars retrogrades can be kind of tricky, because sometimes when a Mars retrograde happens in our 12th house, it can bring up relationships with people in our life that we don’t get along with very well and sometimes bring things to a head in terms of needing to address and confront and even like, stand up for ourselves in some instances if there’s somebody that’s kind of like, pushing your buttons or that’s pushing your boundaries in ways that are not good. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. That can definitely be a theme for some people when that transit happens. But other times, it can be, you know, like we were talking about with the Jupiter transit through your 12th house and the eclipse there, there can be an extended period of time here of internal work. Like, literally working on yourself, working on your subconscious, working on your perhaps misdirected internal reactions to things in a way that becomes more constructive once you kind of, you know, dig a little bit into the behind-the-scenes of your own mind. And again, similar to the Jupiter transit, there can also be a time – especially I’d say if it’s a night chart, if you have a night chart – it can be an extended period of time of working on things alone solo. Like, working behind the scenes on a project that’s gonna take a while can be a thing. Health things can also sometimes come up when it’s crossing the 12th and the first house, because those can both be health houses. 

CB: Yeah, that’s true. And sometimes again reemphasizing that mind-body connection between physical health, which is more first house, versus mental health, which is more 12th house, although the 12th can also sometimes deal with like, more chronic issues that you have to deal with over an extended period. And sometimes when a Mars retrograde happens, there can be like, an issue that comes up that seems like it’ll be a small thing at first, but if you don’t address it sort of head-on, it can get dragged out into a longer term thing. So it’s a good idea to focus on things and not let things go during this time so that they don’t snowball. 

LS: You know, because the 12th house can involve your subconscious, and especially if you have a day chart but even if you have a night chart, sometimes Mars transiting especially taking a longer time to transit your 12th house, you can feel more internally irritable for reasons you’re not aware of. And then all the more so when it moves into your first house. So that’s something to be aware of, just like, you may have an inclination to react more irritably to things during this time. And it’s a good thing to try to be consciously aware of and like, mitigate. 

CB: Yeah. Because especially when Mars is like, retrograde in your first house, you can feel like, having more energy, having more fire inside of you, and also having more of a disposition of feeling direct with people and just starting to be more blunt and having the feeling of speaking your mind more often, which for some people that’s gonna be a good thing. It’s gonna be constructive, especially I think for the night chart people. But one of the things you wanna be careful about, especially with the day chart people, is that you don’t overdo it and like, become too forthright or start spouting off to people or doing things that cause divisiveness or division in your life, because it could push people away or even in some instances turn people against you if you say things, you know, that are hurtful. So that’s a issue that you wanna pay attention to is just to be a little bit careful with that transit. 

LS: Definitely. And one more thing I thought of when you said the energy piece is, you know, sometimes when Mars goes into the first and especially if you have a night chart it can be a constructive time to be more active physically. And you might, like, be inclined to start a new exercise routine or things of that nature more vigorously than usual. But don’t get discouraged, like, once it – you know, this is getting a little ahead of ourselves; it gets into 2027. But there’s gonna be an interplay between that going into your first but then retrograding back into your 12th. And so it doesn’t mean that it was like, the wrong time to do that. There’s just gonna be an interplay between having that extra energy and then getting back more into that secluded mode, and then maybe reworking your ideas about going forward in a constructive way. And again, that gets into 2027, but it’s starting during the last quarter of 2026. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. All right, well I’m gonna stop — 

LS: We just keep going; we’ll get into 2028 and… 

CB: No, I am gonna stop you right there. That is as far as we’re gonna go. So that is our horoscope. I think that’s all the transits for 2026. We gotta stop at this point, otherwise we’re gonna start predicting 2027, and then we’re gonna be here all night. Right? 

LS: Yes. Yeah, I think so. 

CB: Okay. So those are your major transits for 2026. So as we said, if you need help planning and picking out lucky dates next year, get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale for 49.95, but only until January. So get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report before the price goes up. 

If you wanna learn more about our approach to astrology and how we predict things based on birth charts, check out my Hellenistic Astrology Course at TheAstrologySchool.com. But otherwise, that’s it for this report. So good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[LIBRA HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey Libra. This is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. I’m Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast. And we’re gonna look at the entire year’s forecast for the next 12 months over the course of this video. 

So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: So this is gonna be fun. We’re going to look at this primarily from the perspective of your rising sign. So if your rising sign is Libra, then this is gonna be the best horoscope for you; if you know your birth time, try to look up the horoscope that matches your rising sign. Otherwise, if you don’t know your birth time, then it’s okay to look at Libra if this is your Sun sign. 

All right. So we’re gonna do a big picture overview, and let’s just jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll end up by the end of the year. And these are the primary things we’re gonna focus on that we’ve identified as the big transits during the course of 2026. 

So the very first one is that Saturn and Neptune are departing from the zodiac sign of Pisces and they’re moving into Aries between January and February. And both of them are gonna stay there for a number of years. And this is moving from your 6th house of work and health, and they’re moving into your 7th house of relationships and partnership. 

LS: Yeah. So this really should be an alleviation of your 6th house topics. For instance, a lot of people I know who have Libra rising have talked about having like, nebulous or hard-to-diagnose health issues during this transit of the last few years since March of 2023 when Saturn went into Pisces. It could have also affected things involving your coworkers or people you hire to do any work for you as well as pets. And so this will be an alleviation of those issues; these will be moving into your 7th house of partnership, either personal or business partnership, and one-on-one interactions. So this will bring a greater focus on working in that area, having to put more effort into partnership or one-on-one interactions. It may also bring some nebulousness to this area, and we actually had Saturn and Neptune go into Aries in 2025. They got the closest to exactly conjunct in July of 2025. So that should maybe give you a sense if you think back to what was going on for you at that time, maybe give you a sense of how that will be going forward here in your 7th house, especially around February because that’s when they do the exact conjunction by degree. 

CB: Right. Yeah. And so moving out of a period – because Saturn went into your 6th house way back in March of 2023, and Neptune went into your 6th house back in 2011 or something like that like, 15 years ago. So these have been really long-term transits in the health sector of your chart. And especially the one with Saturn over the past few years has probably coincided with some obstacles or surmountable difficulties or setbacks, potentially even hardships, when it comes to health matters or matters pertaining to your workplace. So the good news is that by after the first couple months of this year, we see an alleviation of some of those issues with Saturn and Neptune moving out of there. 

So the area that starts getting a lot of focus though is your 7th house of relationships, which usually implies that there’s some significant restructuring that needs to take place when it comes to relationships in your life over the course of the next two to three years as Saturn is transiting through the sign of Aries. And like Leisa said, you did get a little preview of it last year when Saturn dipped into Aries for a few months. But now it’s gonna get really serious. 

So for those of you that are in relationships, sometimes there can be entering a patch – like, sometimes a little challenging patch – where maybe there’s something going on in your partner’s life where they’re struggling with some stuff, and then that’s something that impacts you in some way. In other instances, it can just be about setting better boundaries or setting better goals as a couple and entering into a new chapter of your life where as a couple you’re more serious about things. 

For those of you that are not in relationships, sometimes Saturn transits through the 7th house can either be a period where relationships are a little bit more tricky or you decide not to focus on them as much. Or in other instances, it can just be that you have like, a really serious relationship or a person that represents the archetype of Saturn – like, let’s say like a Capricorn or an Aquarius or somebody with Saturn prominent in their chart that comes into your life and plays that role at this time. So that’s not necessarily a bad thing and could be a good thing. But the last thing that is kind of challenging is just that in February, Saturn and Neptune exactly form a conjunction, and my keyword for this lately has been that it’s been like, this reality distortion field in whatever part of the chart that’s hitting. So one of the things you wanna be careful about at this time, especially in February, is just make sure you’re approaching things with clear eyes, because you may not be seeing people or situations or especially relationships clearly, and may have a hard time telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not, or what’s true versus what’s false. So that will start to dissipate a little bit after February, but just pay attention to it especially around that time period. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. For some people, especially at the time of the exact conjunction but to some extent while they’re copresent in general in your 7th house of relationships, it can be a time of structures that were previously there kind of dissolving. That won’t be the case for everyone, but it can be the case for some people. It can also be a time where you just have to try to balance realism and idealism in relationships, kind of like you were saying – especially if you’re meeting new people, although it can apply as well to existing relationships. Sometimes you meet someone, and you’re like, “Are they too good to be true?” And you might have a period of time, even this whole transit with Saturn and Neptune both there, where you’re trying to kind of feel out like, what’s realistic and what’s rose-colored glasses with regard to relationships. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. So that’s the first major transit that’s happening, especially around February, but it’s really setting up a longer term thing that’s gonna last for a number of years. 

So let’s move on to our next transit in 2026, which is that eclipse season starts in February through March. And this is our first eclipse season which is taking place in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your 5th house of children and fun and games and hobbies, and your 12th house of internal exploration, sometimes mental health, and sometimes dealing with people that you don’t get along with very well. So this is the first eclipse series that we’re gonna see in Aquarius where eclipses are just starting to take place in that sign and the opposing sign, Leo, which will happen later this year. 

LS: Yeah. It’s really interesting, actually – the overlap in timing here between the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in your 7th house of partnership and that first eclipse in Aquarius in your 5th house, because romance or dating – sexuality – those can all be 5th house topics even though it can also be other things like children, creativity if you do creative work, like creative output, hobbies, things you do for fun, et cetera. But I can see there easily being an overlap for some people, anyway, with those both coinciding in February with that first eclipse there in your 5th house. So that can bring beginnings and endings wherever the eclipses happen, and so there can be like, an important beginning or ending with regard to romance or children or your hobbies at this time. It can be actually like, a new romantic partner, or it can just be like, a new chapter in an existing relationship. 

CB: Yeah. That’s a great point that this first eclipse in Aquarius is bringing a period of major beginnings but also major endings when it comes to one of the areas is romance and sex and sexuality and dating, and that could be coinciding with the Saturn transit going into the 7th house at the same time. There could be some relationship that’s like, cooling off during this time or even coming to an end that you decide to call it quits. But it’ll probably be one of those, like, you know, closing one door results in opening another door, because that’s the thing about eclipses is even when they indicate endings, they also start a new beginning for you in that area of your life or open a new chapter. 

So this could also be significant with respect to the topic of children, which is a major 5th house topic. Some people may have children around this time as eclipses start happening in your 5th house over the course of the next two years – not just in 2026, but 2027. And for those of you that already have children, sometimes it can be about children reaching an important new milestone or entering a new chapter of their life – like, graduating from high school or college or something like that. 

LS: Definitely. And then with the other eclipse in your 12th house, that’s a series that’s already been going between Pisces and Virgo, which are your 6th and 12th houses. So eclipses in the 12th house can be times of greater seclusion, whether proactively or otherwise. So sometimes it’s a time where you feel like you need to kind of take time by yourself and have more contemplative time. Sometimes it’s a time of dealing with mental health concerns or just being more proactive about your mental health. The 12th house can also bring in physical health, especially since you’ve already had those eclipses in process between your 6th and 12th. So for some people, it can be like, new health issues or flareups of existing health issues that cause you to spend more time alone for a period of time. But this one is not new; this is something that you’ve already been dealing with. And sometimes it’s also dealing with people who you don’t get along with, as you said, Chris, earlier – so, a.k.a., enemies or just for whatever reason you don’t mesh well with these people. So that can be something that comes up at this time. What am I missing? 

CB: Yeah. Just 12th house stuff when eclipses are happening that this is the middle part of an ongoing sequence that we already saw happening last year of in some instances it can be dealing with people in your life that you don’t get along with or who work against you in some way or who undermine you and finding a new beginning when it comes to that. Like, sometimes cutting certain people out of your life and like, ending some relationships if you feel like it’s undermining you and no longer serving you well. Or in other instances, if it’s something that you can’t remove from your life, setting a new foundation so that your boundaries are clear and you are not putting up with anything that’s unnecessary or that you don’t have to be putting up with. 

Sometimes this can also be important for doing mental health work when eclipses are happening in the 12th house and taking care of your mind. Sometimes doing therapy or other sort of internal explorations like that in order to also make sure that mentally you’re not becoming your own worst enemy or doing any sort of behaviors that are undermining yourself. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. And since it’s kind of a behind-the-scenes house, there can also be things that come up that you weren’t aware of that were behind the scenes from your perspective – like, secrets. Not always, though. Sometimes it’s just a time where you yourself are working more behind the scenes for a period of time rather than like, out front. 

CB: Right. All right, so that’s our first eclipse season that’s happening in February and March. And then the next major transit is that in April, the planet Uranus is finally departing from the sign of Taurus which it’s been transiting through since like, 2018, 2019, and Uranus is now moving into the sign of Gemini, which is moving from your 8th house of shared resources and mortality and other people’s money to your 9th house of religion and philosophy and beliefs and travel and education. So this is actually a very exciting transit where Uranus is moving from kind of a tricky, challenging house to one of the more positive houses that’s all about exploration and learning and expanding your horizons. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. You’ve been dealing with potentially unexpected shakeups or, you know, sudden changes with regard to the 8th house topics for a good while now since 2018, so those things like, if you have shared resources with people or other people’s money that affect you, your partner’s income if you have a partner could have been going through some shakeups at different times over that past while, or mortality-related issues could have come up. Other people’s crises I’ve heard as like, a tagline for the 8th house, and I’ve actually definitely experienced that personally as a signification. 

But so as of April, it’s moving into the 9th house, and so this is – I would agree – a really exciting transit, and by and large a more positive transit. It’s sort of, it’s calling you to experiment, to be experimental and expand your horizons with regard to either higher education, long-distance travel, publishing could come up for some people – that’s a 9th house thing – and yeah, just belief systems. Like, definitely being more exploratory about your belief systems, that can include religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, astrology goes in there – if you’re listening to this, you’re probably interested in astrology, so that’s another thing you could be experimenting with getting more involved with over the next while – and even political beliefs can go there. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. But the core of it is just having radical changes in this area of your life in terms of expanding your horizons and seeking a greater sense of freedom and liberation when it comes to some of these things. 

So for some people, that can be exploring things very physically, like traveling to a different country and interacting with cultures that are different from the one you grew up with, and in that way having some unexpected surprises and learning some things that kind of like, awaken you at some core level just as a result of moving around the world and being exposed to new things. So sometimes it happens physically or literally like that. Other times, the explorations can be happening mentally or more in terms of the mind and in terms of education and learning. The 9th house is the place where we find college education but also all sorts of other educational pursuits. And one of the things that often happens when we have major transits going through our 9th house is that our beliefs about the world start changing pretty radically, especially with Uranus and especially in ways that might shock or surprise both people around us, but also ourselves where we might suddenly find ourselves being attracted to a philosophy or a belief that’s so radically different than what we’ve believed up to this point that it almost seems like a sort of revolution or a complete break with the past. 

So that’s very exciting, because usually that’s a good thing and usually it’s like, a positive thing. You’ll just have to be careful, because your tendency will be to move really fast, and sometimes it can be hard for other people in your life to keep up with you if you’re having such radical changes or going through such a transformative period over a relatively short span of time. 

LS: Definitely. While the 9th house isn’t one of like, the primary houses in terms of one’s sense of self, it can be really connected. You know, the 9th house makes a trine to the first house, and your belief systems color very in large part, like, who you are, who you present yourself to be, who you feel you are internally. So yeah, this is the area that’s gonna be going through a lot of major change over the next seven years. It won’t happen all at once, but yeah. In terms of potentially being exposed to other people, either at a distance from other countries or other belief systems that change your ways of viewing things or just going to college if that’s age appropriate and that changing your views on things, but yeah. It should be a much more positive transit than the 8th house in terms of just containing more neutral positive topics versus the more challenging ones you’ve been dealing with for quite a while. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. And this is a long-term transit that will last through the early 2030s, so you’re gonna have plenty of time to really settle into it. There would have been a preview last year around July when Uranus first went into that sign for just a few months before going back into Taurus, but now in 2026 starting in April we are fully into that new era for the better part of the next decade. 

All right. So that’s that transit. The next one I wanted to talk about, we jump to June where in the first half of this year – in the first half of 2026 – the planet Jupiter, the planet of growth and optimism and expansion, is gonna be moving through your 10th house of career as it goes through the sign of Cancer. But then in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into the sign of Leo, which is your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, and Jupiter’s gonna spend the next year moving through that sign and helping that process of like, growth and expansion in the topic and domain of friends. So this creates a really distinct division, essentially, between two halves of the year with Jupiter in your 10th house of career in the first half and Jupiter in your 11th house of friends in the second half. 

LS: Yeah. I really like that Jupiter transit for you in the 10th house of career and public reputation for the first half of the year. I like it in particular in concert with Saturn and Neptune leaving your 6th house, because that’s also a work house even though the 10th house is more like, career writ large. But having that alleviation from your 6th house that’s been going on for the last few years, and then having this really nice, expansive energy in your 10th house of career for the first half of the year I think will be a really nice contrast for you. So that can be expansions with regard to the kind of work you’re doing; it can be taking on new work projects. It can be being seen more widely or more publicly, if that’s important to the type of work that you do, because the 10th house is the most visible part of the chart. So if there’s anything with regard to your work where it’s a positive thing for you to be visible, which is true for like, most people, then this is gonna be a great transit for you for the first half of the year to take advantage of. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. And especially for the people that were born during the day, if you have a day chart, this Jupiter transit in your 10th house and then 11th house is gonna be experienced as the most positive transit this year where you’re just gonna be expecting or experiencing luck and good fortune, first in the sphere of career opportunities and the potential for things like promotion or getting a new job or having a sudden windfall when it comes to your career and reputation. And then having that shift in the second half of the year to starting to make more friends, starting to have your social life be much more prominent for you in very tangible ways, especially if it wasn’t very much recently. And even things like social media can sometimes fall under the domain of the 11th house. So it could be about like, gaining more friends or gaining more followers when it comes to social media and whatever different social media sites you use, for example. Like, I know somebody who made a post that went viral once, and then they made like, tons of new friends in their career field when they were having a positive transit like this in their 11th house. 

So that’s some of the energy that that brings, and this transit’s actually setting us up for two other transits that are gonna start happening in the second half of the year that are gonna be activating your 11th house of friends and groups as well. So I have a feeling that this is gonna be the major area of focus, especially in the second half of 2026 going into 2027, is the area of friends and groups.

LS: Definitely. And that can be personal friends; that can be followers, as you said. It can also be professional groups or networking with Jupiter going through the first half of the year in your 10th house of career and then into your 11th. It can be like, helpful friends or colleagues. They don’t have to be connected, but they can be. But yes, the 11th house of friends and groups is gonna be a definite hotspot for you in the second half of 2026. 

CB: Right. For sure. 

So this brings up just before Jupiter leaves Cancer and leaves your 10th house, there’s gonna be this really auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction that’s gonna take place in Cancer in June, which should be really good for you in terms of your career. And this is one of the things that we found because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we go through and we highlight the most fortunate dates next year, especially for taking actions and trying to accomplish things in different areas of your life with different electional astrology charts for each month of 2026. 

LS: Yeah. So basically, any important actions you wanna take or new projects you wanna start, whether it’s your love life, business, home, et cetera. If you do it under a good electional chart using the best dates and times we found, that will give you better chances of overall success in what you’re starting. 

CB: Right. For sure. So the report contains a monthly forecast for each month, and 28 auspicious dates and electional charts to use throughout the year, including coverage of telling you what dates to avoid. Because sometimes knowing when to do things is just as much about knowing the dates that are really good as it is knowing the dates that are really bad where you should probably avoid trying to do major things like starting a business, getting married, or going on a major trip or something like that. 

So the report includes a video version, an audio version, as well as an extensive written report as a PDF. And right now we’re doing a launch sale where it’s just 49.95 for the first month, but then the price will go up in January to 65 dollars. So if you wanna get the report, you can get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, that takes us into the second half of the year where the next thing that comes up is we get our second eclipse season, which takes place in the signs of Leo and Pisces from August through early September. And this is happening again in your 11th house of friends – another activation of your friends sector – and your 6th house of work and health. 

LS: Yeah. So this Leo eclipse is gonna be the first one in that series that we’ve had. So that brings important beginnings and endings or important beginning and ending chapters at the very least to the sector of friends, colleagues, social networks, social alliances, and the larger social sphere. So it can be a time when you suddenly have new experiences with regard to groups. Maybe you join new groups, either personal or professional. It can be a time when something important and new is happening with a friend of yours or conversely it can be like, an ending of a friendship at this time, although not always. But the important thing is it just brings beginnings and endings to this sector. So that’s gonna be the first one. 

And then the second one – and you can see it’s overlapping with that Jupiter transit which is nice and expansive there, so there should be more positive energy going on because of that overlap. 

CB: Yeah. So we have an eclipse happening in your 11th house, and this is emphasizing, like Leisa just said, the Jupiter transit. But now it’s bringing a much more heavy weightiness to some of those transits, because eclipses always represent major endings and major beginnings. So it’s possible that this is bringing in another energy where there could be some friends or friend groups that have kind of like, run their course and come to a logical conclusion where either you could see a friend no longer being in your life for some reason – like, if somebody moved away, for example – or you yourself could realize that you’ve outgrown a friendship or a friend group and decide to end that relationship at that time. So that’s part of the process though where we have some really positive transits of Jupiter indicating growth and expansion, but we also have these weighty eclipses indicating beginnings and endings. So paying attention to if there’s some things that have run their course might be important around the time of this eclipse in August, as well as if there’s any new opportunities where you’ll probably start a friendship around this time, which may not seem important at first because eclipses usually don’t when they happen. But then in retrospect, it’ll turn out that you made a friend that ended up being very important in your life that happened around the time of that eclipse. 

LS: Definitely. 

And then the other eclipse is gonna be the Pisces eclipse, which happens in your 6th house. And this is really an endcap to all the activity that’s been going on in your 6th house of health and work for the last several years. So we’ve had Saturn and Neptune there. You’ve had a series of eclipses, and this is the very last activation of that house. So there can be some important beginning or ending with regard to one of those topics as kind of the last hurrah of major shifts in that area. So there can be like, some sort of closure with regard to a health issue. There can be an ending of a job, a beginning of a new job – things of that nature. 

CB: Yeah. Whatever it is, since this is the last eclipse in Pisces, it’s the end of a sequence of events that’s been playing out over the past few years, especially since March of 2023 when Saturn first went into Pisces and it’s trying to bring some closure and some final ending to that sector of your life, whether it’s a health thing or whether it’s a work-related thing. But then also setting you up with a foundation and a launching point for a new beginning at the same time. So take advantage of that. Try to institute some new and like, positive health things or try to take things in a new direction; use it to set a new foundation at work, and you should be in good shape with that eclipse. 

All right. So that takes us onto the next major transit, which is after eclipse season, we go into October and November, where Venus goes retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra, which is your 2nd house of finances and your first house of body, appearance, and self. So this Venus retrograde’s very significant because it’s happening partially in your rising sign, and it’s connecting together that financial sector with that tangible body, appearance, self sector, so it’s gonna make this particular Venus retrograde probably most important for you since it’s your rising sign compared to any of the other rising signs. 

LS: Right. So Venus retrogrades can be a time where we revisit, rethink the areas that it’s going retrograde in. So it’ll first go retrograde in your 2nd house of income and personal finance. So that can be rethinking how you make a living. It can be rethinking sources of income. It can be some sort of snafus with regard to like, say you maybe you work on your own and you have certain clients that drop out of the picture or something during this time. Usually the retrograde is the reworking part, and then when it goes direct, things get more smoothed out going forward. This can be also reworking like, how you manage your finances or having a greater focus on managing your finances well or new ways of doing so. And then when it retrogrades through your first house, that is big, as Chris said, that’s big for you. So that can be your sense of self; that can be how you present yourself, especially with a Venus transit in the first house, because that’s often about sort of how you pleasingly present yourself in ways that are, you know, important for your life. So that can be reworking your appearance, things about your body, health habits, and anything like that. And I can see how for some people, connecting the two – it could be like, reworking how you present yourself in ways that are helpful for you going forward for how you make a living. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. I commonly see people do makeovers when they have a Venus retrograde going through their rising sign. And I think especially for the people with night charts, this is gonna be the most positive transit of the year, and some of those makeovers are actually gonna work out pretty well. There may be some initial bumpiness because there’ll be like, a pre-retrograde shadow where you might make some changes initially. Then it’ll retrograde back into that later on, and you may have to go back and like, tinker with things and revise things to perfect it. But ultimately, especially for the night people, it’s gonna be a positive one. 

For some of the day chart people, it might be a little bit more tricky. But I like your point about, since this is connecting the 2nd house and the first house, usually there’s an overlap in those topics. So for some people, it may be something about changing your appearance in some way that ends up impacting your income in some significant and essentially positive way. So looking for opportunities like that to take advantage of might be a really good idea. 

LS: I should say with Venus retrogrades that impact things like your appearance, it’s usually a good idea to like, think about the changes you might want to make during the retrograde and then implement them when it goes direct, after it goes direct. That’s generally – because you can change your mind with regard to what you wanna do. What changes you wanna make. And some of those —

CB: Right. 

LS: — you can fix or tweak, but some of them you can’t. Like, if you cut all your hair off and then you’re like, “Oops, I don’t like that at all?” Like, it’s usually a better idea to like, think about the changes and then implement them going forward after it’s direct. 

CB: Yeah. I mean, you can try, but sometimes the impulse to make the change like, early in the retrograde is there and is strong, and it’s like, sometimes it’s part of the learning process is to just like, do it when the feeling arises. And then yeah, sometimes it’s not gonna be great at first, but you may have learning something or there may be some piece of it that you do like, so that like, once the retrograde goes direct and then moves through that sign the last time, you sort of iron out some of the kinks or what have you. But it’s always tricky to know early in the retrograde whether to make that major radical change or not. And for some people, it may be… Because Venus retrogrades are always backwards-looking, and sometimes it can bring people or situations back from the past. But for you, it might be like, revisiting something from your own past. Like, going back and revisiting a style from the past maybe that you experimented with previously – especially in eight-year increments where if you look back, this same Venus retrograde has repeated every eight years in Scorpio and Libra around the same time of the year. So for example, the last time this one happened was October-November of 2018, or the time before that was October-November of 2010. So I would really recommend going back and looking at those time periods for some clues about how this particular retrograde might be important for you, because there you might find some important ways in which things changed for you notably as Venus was retrograde at those times that actually will speak to some archetypal similarities of the upcoming period. 

LS: For sure. Yeah. And you know, we were talking a lot about personal makeovers, which can sound a little superficial, but I can think of examples actually I’ve known of people who like, got a promotion at work and then had to really consciously revise their wardrobe to sort of present themselves as the supervisor at that point. You know? Even if that wasn’t like, their usual style before that. And so that can be the kind of thing that links the 2nd and first and why those would even be linked at all. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. I mean, yeah, there’s all sorts of ways about how we present ourselves, but also how we think of our self. And because the first house is self, it can be sometimes surprisingly minor things about how we present ourselves or speak or represent ourselves to the world that make a major impact on our sense of self confidence and self-worth. And this can be a really great transit in that context in terms of finding ways to just feel better about who we are and being in our body. And speaking of being in the body, I mean, even having a first house transit like Venus retrograde in the first can sometimes be good for the night chart people of addressing any bodily or other health issues that have arisen recently. Like, for example, with one of those eclipses that just happened in the 6th house right before that, sometimes that can help to smooth things over as a subsequent transit. 

LS: Yeah, definitely. That’s a great point. 

CB: All right. Well, we could talk about Venus retrograde all day. Like I said, this is gonna be your most positive transit this year, particularly for the people with night charts, whereas the people with day charts, it was that Jupiter transit in the 11th that was most positive. 

But that actually brings us to our next and our final transit, which is that Mars late in the year is preparing to go retrograde in the signs of Leo and Virgo, which is your 11th house of friends and your 12th house of people you don’t get along with or with enemies. And this is an important transit because Mars doesn’t actually station retrograde and start moving backwards from our perspective in the sky until January. But starting in late September, it already goes into Leo, which is one of the signs it will retrograde back to and then it switches to Virgo. So it’s gonna be spending an inordinate amount of time in those two signs of the zodiac over the course of the next like, nine months. And we get a real buildup and like, starting point of that here from late September through December of 2026. 

LS: Yeah. So definitely. Mars is gonna spend way longer than usual in those two areas of your chart, so that can be something where if you pay attention as the transit gets going in September through December, you’ll get a preview of what the retrograde will be about. You can kind of see signs of what’s coming up for you in those areas. So for you, that’s gonna be the 11th house again of friends and groups, and then it’s gonna be the 12th house of people you don’t get along with or behind-the-scenes activity. 

CB: So this is like, the third transit that we’ve seen this year that’s activating your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. So for some reason, your 11th house of friends is just like, super much the focus this year. And this transit, I will say, is gonna be a little bit problematic because the other ones have been somewhat positive, especially the Jupiter transit through Leo in your 11th house is like, growth and expansion of friends. Mars can sometimes bring some tensions, some conflict, or sometimes in extreme instances even some strife or some separations of friends, especially for those of you with day charts. So you’re gonna want to be a little bit more careful during this time, because sometimes if there’s… If you act thoughtlessly or you say something in the moment that maybe is not very nice but that you don’t think is gonna be a big deal, sometimes it can create a bigger rift in your friend groups or with a specific friend than you might anticipate at first. And it can turn into something that’ll be more long-lasting in terms of a conflict. So you’ll need to exercise greater restraint when it comes to friends once this transit begins, starting especially in September. 

LS: Definitely. You do wanna be careful about those things. And at the same time, this can be a time where there’s just some natural falling out with a friend or a friend group given that Mars is going to be going back and forth between your 11th house of friends and your 12th house of people who you don’t get along with or, you know, it can be a time where you have to be careful as like, who are allies and who are not, and that can be a little tricky when Mars is going back and forth between the 11th and the 12th. 

Now that is gonna be much more of an issue for day chart people, or at least more of a potential issue for day chart people. It won’t happen for everyone like that exactly, but for other people it’s just gonna be a time where you’re working and doing a lot of putting a lot of effort into your friend group for whatever reason. You could be working on social activism even, and that’s an 11th house thing. But then it goes into your 12th house, and it’s gonna be a time where you suddenly pull back and wanna work more alone behind the scenes. And so there’s gonna be a little bit of a push-pull interplay between those two areas. But if you do pay attention in the last quarter of the year, you’ll see the things that are starting to come up that you’ll need to revisit in the first part of 2027. 

CB: Yeah. I like that part about Mars connecting the 11th house and the 12th house, because we saw in some of the retrogrades last year a lot of times where the retrograde would connect the house topics. And certainly the 11th house is traditionally in ancient astrology associated with friends, and the 12th house in ancient astrology is associated with enemies. So you have to be a little bit careful, like I was saying earlier, not to create a conflict in your life at this time where you turn a friend into an enemy. And that’s one of the more extreme sort of like, dangerous potentials to pay attention to at that time. Even if it’s not something that you do deliberately, because it can also be something that just arises spontaneously where you find these categories either getting blurred or somebody being moved essentially from one category into another. And that can be kind of tricky and kind of problematic to deal with. 

LS: For sure. But you know, aside from that manifestation, it’s really just gonna be that you’re gonna be putting a lot of effort into the friends and the social area for a while, and then once it goes into Virgo towards the very end of the year, you’re gonna be moving more towards solitude for a bit of time. 

CB: Yeah. So it’s alternating between periods of like, extreme socialness versus periods of wanting to retire and pull back and have greater isolation and maybe even focusing on yourself and focusing on internal and like, psychological matters more, which was kind of foreshadowed by that eclipse earlier this year, that last Virgo eclipse that took place in March which was in the 12th house and was more reflective and contemplative like that where you’re doing some of that inner work. And here we see a little bit of a return to that sometimes with the Mars retrograde happening in Virgo. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: Yeah. But that is already taking us into 2027, because like I said, that retrograde doesn’t fully begin until January of 2027, but we’re just getting like, the buildup and the preview of it in the last quarter of 2026. 

But I think we should probably stop there, otherwise we’re gonna – this has been our longest one – horoscope – so far. We’ve recorded for over 40 minutes. So Libra got all the details this year. 

LS: Yeah! Yeah. You got our top of the morning recording. 

CB: Right. First one of the recording before we’re like, six more horoscopes in and it’s just like, five minutes long. 

LS: Yeah! Exactly. 

CB: All right. Well, in that case, those are your major transits for 2026, Libra. So thanks for watching. Like I said earlier, for help planning out dates next year, definitely get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale right now for 49.95, but only this month until January where the price is gonna jump to 65 dollars. So you can get it now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

Otherwise, if you wanna learn more about our approach to astrology and reading birth charts, you can sign up for my Hellenistic Astrology Course at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right, that’s it! So good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[SCORPIO HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey Scorpio. This is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and we’re gonna give you a big picture overview of the year ahead. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: So big picture themes, major transits – let’s jump right into it and not waste any time. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year. And here’s a slide with the major transits that we’re gonna be talking about and some of the dates over the course of 2026. 

So the first major transit we get into right at the top of the year is that Saturn and Neptune both depart from Pisces where they’ve been transiting for years, and they’re gonna move into the sign of Aries in January and February, which is moving from your 5th house of children and love and romance and sexuality and hobbies, and it’s moving into your 6th house of work and health. So this is a major shift in terms of these two outer planets departing from one sector of your chart where they’ve been for a while and moving into a new one. 

LS: Yeah. So this should bring alleviation of some pressures over some extra work you’ve had to put into 5th house topics. So for some people I know with Scorpio rising, they’ve had to put a lot of extra work into things involving their children; their children needed extra support, extra help during this time. For other people, their love life had kind of constraints around it, or some nebulousness with Neptune there as well. But definitely with Saturn there, it’s usually not as much of a lighthearted time. And so those are alleviating now as they move out of your 5th house into your 6th house. So that’s the good news with regard to the absence of those transits lightening up whatever you’ve been dealing with for the last few years there since March 2023 when Saturn went into Pisces. 

CB: Yeah, for sure, which is great. Especially like, 5th house topics can especially be children, the topic of children. So if there’s been any challenges or struggles or setbacks with the topic of children for you over the past three years since Saturn went into that sign in March of 2023, that should see some alleviation. 

This is also one of the romantic sectors of the chart, so if there’s been any issues involving love or romance or sex and sexuality over the past few years, then that should also see an alleviation of that topic as well as with Neptune transiting there for most of the past decade since like, 2011, Neptune brings a certain nebulousness and ambiguity to that area. So for some people, this may have coincided with some like, situationships where you’re not really sure what something is. And I think with Neptune departing from the 5th house, that should also clear some of the fog or the smoke from that area and make things a little bit clearer than they have been over let’s say the past several years especially. 

LS: Definitely. So now those two planets, Saturn and Neptune, are moving into Aries and to your 6th house of work and health, coworkers or people you hire to help with anything, as well as pets and other animals. So we have had a preview of those transits. Already in the second half of 2025, Saturn and Neptune were both in there for a little bit, and especially peaking in July. So if you think back to what was going on in July for you, especially with regard to those topics – one or more of those topics – that’s when they got the closest to exact with regard to their conjunction in your 6th house. So they’re going to go exact finally in February there. So this can mean, for some people, there can be structures that are sort of dissolving in one of those topics in your life. For other people, you can start to have some idealism around like, the work you wanna do or how you wanna go about work. And you have to blend it with that Saturn quality of making that real. This can also be for health topics a time where there can be nebulous health concerns that come up; I know with a lot of the Libra rising people who just had those transits finish or are finishing them now, sometimes people had things where they needed like, a second opinion or there were just hard to diagnose health topics or health issues. So that can be something that comes up during this time. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. Just with Saturn going into the 6th house of health, sometimes there can be some challenges or setbacks that arise when it comes to health matters or having to institute a greater degree of structure and responsibility to that area than at other times in your life. So it can be a really good time to get serious about health issues, either to address current things that arise or in order to sort of warn against or make it so that other things don’t arise in the future if you take better care of yourself and become more responsible in that area now. The only tricky part is just in February especially when Saturn and Neptune form that exact conjunction in your 6th house, I’ve been calling that the reality distortion field, and I think that’s gonna really peak in February at that exact conjunction. So it may be kind of hard for you to really tell the difference between what’s real versus what’s not or what’s true versus what’s false, and a greater sort of tendency to be a bit confused in that area when it comes to health matters at that time. But luckily that conjunction will start to move away after February and things should start to become a little bit more clear after that point. And while I emphasize health things, this could also apply to work things since the 6th house is also the place of work. And so sometimes there can be issues that arise in your workplace. Some of those can be kind of nebulous and they can coincide with setbacks. But ultimately, it can also just be a period of hard work and having to push through things and gaining greater responsibility especially in that area.

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So that’s our first major transit of the year. So let’s go to the next major transit, which is that starting in February and going through into March, we get our first eclipse season when there’s gonna be eclipses taking place in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your 4th house of home, living situation, and parents, and your 11th house of friends, groups, and alliances. So eclipses represent major beginnings and major endings in these two areas of your life, and let’s focus a little bit on the first one – the 4th house one – first, because that one’s taking place in the house that represents your private life, right? 

LS: Right. So the first eclipse in Aquarius will be the first in that series of the Aquarius-Leo eclipse series. And that happens in your 4th house of home, family, living situation, private life; it can have to do with your parents or even ancestry beyond your parents or things having to do with the past or hidden things. So any of those topics can have beginnings or endings coinciding with this eclipse, and it’s kind of also punctuating this much longer and slower Pluto transit through your 4th house that first dipped in in 2023 and then really got going as of the end of 2024. So that’s a long, long transit. It doesn’t move signs until 18 more years, so that’s not something that happens all at once. It depends on your specific chart factors as to when that peaks. But this eclipse could set off those same topics that have started this sort of long, slow, death and rebirth quality that Pluto has when it goes through a house. And so there can be some changes happening with regard to things involving your parents if your parents are still around, so either needing to help your parents more or something changing with regard to your relationship with your parents or just something happening in their lives. It can also easily coincide with a change of living situation. So like, where you’re making your home, either your actual apartment or house, or it can be a geographical move – like, where do I wanna be in the world? 

CB: Yeah. So I commonly see people move when it comes to eclipses taking place in the 4th house, because let’s say somebody’s lease comes up or there’s some reason that they have to move, so that represents a major ending in terms of living in one place, but also needing to move to a new one that once you settle represents a new beginning. 

So these eclipses are gonna be taking place over the course of the next year or two in Aquarius, so it’s gonna be the start of an ongoing series of events or a sequence of events rather than just a singular thing. But it’s important to think about it in terms of your living situation and then also in terms of things happening either in the lives of your parents or in terms of your relationship with your parents in general reaching the end of one chapter and then starting a new chapter. 

So that’s interesting sort of opening there that starts taking place. And then the other part of this is the eclipse happening in your 11th house in the sign of Virgo. And this is pretty important, because this is one of the early transits this year happening in the 11th, and there’ll be one other one with the Mars retrograde. But this one is part of a series that’s been happening now for more than a year where it was representing major beginnings and endings with friends and alliances. So there may be some friendships that have run their course and come to an end at this time, whereas there may be other friendships that start out small when you meet somebody new or you start getting into a new social group, and it seems insignificant at first. But then it’ll turn out in retrospect that that ended up creating a lifelong friendship or a friendship that was much more important than you initially thought when you first met, perhaps even around the time of the eclipse. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, and this can also be beginnings and endings with regard to groups that you belong to, organizations, boards, that kind of thing. So joining or leaving groups at this time. And even things like social media – you could like, begin or end a particular social media platform, you know, activity there. As well as social action groups would also go in the 11th house. So this is something, as you just said, is something that’s been ongoing; it’s not the first eclipse there. But usually with the eclipse series, it’s not the case that something will necessarily happen that’s really momentous at each and every eclipse, but you can reliably say that at least within that series of eclipses in that house, there will be some sort of important beginning or ending. And so that is that social area for you. 

CB: Right. Yeah. For sure. All right, so that takes us into our next major transit, which happens starting in April, which is the planet Uranus completes its long, seven-year transit through the sign of Taurus, which it started way back in 2018 and 2019, which was moving through your 7th house of relationships and coinciding probably with some unexpected shakeups and innovations in that specific area of your life. And now Uranus is moving into the sign of Gemini starting in April where it’s moving into your 8th house of shared resources, other people’s money, as well as topics of mortality can sometimes come up when it comes to Uranus in the 8th house. So this is a significant shift, because this shift is ending one seven-year transit through one sector of your chart and beginning a seven-year transit through this new sector of your chart. 

LS: Yeah. So we’re finishing up that transit in the 7th house; there will be a little punctuation in February, a kind of a last hurrah, as Uranus stations for the last time in Taurus in your sector of partnership, and then a bunch of inner planets keep activating that by square all month. So there’ll be kind of like a last hurrah of, you know, the unexpected changes potentially that have been happening with regard to partnership for the last seven years. And then it moves into your 8th house where you can have sudden shifts or experimentation with regard to shared resources, shared finances. That can be things like money that you share with a partner if you have a partner, whether personal or business, but it can also be like, you know, partnering more broadly for business reasons and sharing profits from something like that. It can be suddenly getting into like, what do I wanna do with estate planning, like, for the first time in your life, and writing a will all of a sudden or things of that nature. It can be sudden inheritances, if that becomes appropriate any time in the next seven years. But it is an experimental time. So especially your partner’s money could change, because this is an area where it is something where some of those topics you can work on proactively yourself, but other times it will come from outside of you, like with partner’s money or money you share with a partner. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. Definitely like, unexpected disruptions in the partner’s – if you have a partner – their financial situation, which could be a good thing, could be a bad thing, it could be a sudden thing that disrupts their financial income which then directly or indirectly impacts you. In other instances, it can be something positive – like, there’s a positive unexpected change where suddenly they’re having much greater income or something like that, or Uranus can also represent technology. So it can be the use of technology and leveraging new technologies in order to increase your shared income together. So all of those could be really good manifestations of that, but that’s a long-term transit that’s gonna be happening and playing out all the way through like, 2032 and 2033. So this is – we got an initial preview of it last year when Uranus first moved into Gemini in July for a few months. But then it retrograded out, and now it’s back again for the greater part of the next decade. So it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out. 

That takes us to our next major transit, which is that the planet Jupiter’s gonna spend the first six months of the year transiting through the sign of Cancer, which is your 9th house of education, travel, and beliefs. And then starting in late June, Jupiter is going to move into the sign of Leo for the entire second half of 2026 going into the first half of 2027. So this is a year-long transit that’s gonna go into your 10th house of career, public reputation, and overall life direction and is generally a very positive and optimistic transit for career matters, especially if you have a day chart. 

LS: Yeah. So the Jupiter transit through Cancer that will be there for the first half of 2026 actually started in the summer of 2025. So we’re doing the second half of that transit in the first half of 2026. And it’s a time where you could already be having greater travel opportunities, just traveling around more frequently or to places you’ve never been before. It could be times of greater study and sort of positive expansiveness around like, studying new things or teaching new things. And then as it goes into – it can also be a time of greater exploration of your belief systems or other people’s belief systems, so religion, philosophy, astrology goes in the 9th house as well, political beliefs can go there as well. And then when it moves into the 10th house, as you said, it’s a really positive transit normally for career and how you’re known publicly and greater public visibility, I would say, especially in Leo, right? It’s like, a nice extroverted fire sign. So it’s a really good time to be kind of like, shining your light professionally, getting professional recognition. So definitely take those opportunities if professional opportunities arise, especially for doing things in public, like speaking in public or things where people will see you. It’s kind of the best time in like, I mean, other timing techniques aside, but transit-wise, it’s one of the best times in like, a 12-year cycle for those topics. And it will be more positive for day chart people, but it can still be good and expansive for night chart people as well. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. And sometimes the connection is the first half of the year, because Jupiter transiting through the 9th house can be about broadening your horizons educationally, it can be like, getting some additional training or learning something new which then in the second half of the year you can directly apply to your work and your career in order to get a promotion or in order to somehow expand what you’re doing in terms of your work and your reputation and overall life direction. So take advantage of opportunities in the first half of the year for education so that you can then get some better opportunities career-wise in the second half of the year. Or alternatively, the first half of the year could also be good for travel with Jupiter going through your 9th house where the 9th house represents travel to different countries or exposure to cultures and belief systems that are different to what you grew up with or what your baseline is. So it can just be a great time for that sort of exploration of the mind as well as the body. 

All right, so speaking of that, though, right before Jupiter leaves Cancer, there’s this very auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction that takes place in the sign of Cancer in your 9th whole sign house. And that actually could be really good for taking a trip or traveling or doing some sort of educational program. And we actually saw this conjunction and we first spotted it because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through the entire year of 2026 and we identified the most fortunate dates over the course of the next 12 months and told people which dates to use in order to launch new ventures and undertakings using the principles of electional astrology.

LS: Yeah. So basically if you use these dates and times that we’ve already selected for you to start new ventures, whether that’s in your love life, or business, or home, or what have you, or take important actions that you know you need to do during 2026, this will give you the best chances of fortunate outcomes, the best chances of successful results, basically, in what you’re trying to do. 

CB: Yeah. So the report is a video report that also comes with an audio version as well as an extensive written PDF report. And we go through a monthly forecast of each month telling you what the best parts of the month are to do things, but also what some of the worst dates are and what dates you should avoid doing things, because sometimes doing electional astrology is just as much about what to avoid as it is what dates to gravitate towards using.

So there’s over 28 dates and 28 auspicious charts plus tutorials on how to use them, and you can apply them for business, love, or pretty much any major life event that you wanna do next year. So the report’s on sale for the first month for 49.95, but then the price is gonna jump up to 65 dollars starting in January. So get the report now at that discount at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, that takes us into the second half of the year where our next major transit is that our second eclipse season begins in August and trails through a little bit into the early part of September where we’re gonna have an eclipse in the sign of Leo, and then another eclipse in the sign of Pisces. And this represents your 10th house, which is Leo again coming up, and your 5th house of children and hobbies and fun and games and things like that. So this first one, then, the eclipse in Leo, is going to reemphasize some of those 10th house career themes that we were just talking about with the Jupiter transit in the second half of the year. But in this context, it’s gonna bring in an additional element of weightiness and of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to career matters around the time of this eclipse in August. 

LS: Right. So this is gonna be the first one in the Leo sign, the first one in your 10th house, as we had the first one in Aquarius earlier in the year. So this is the other end of that. So important beginnings and endings with regard to career, public reputation, how you’re publicly known – whether that’s for paid things or unpaid things. And I really like that this is overlapping with that Jupiter transit in the second half of the year in your 10th house as well, because it kind of, you know, there’s always more factors to take into account with your full birth chart, of course, but it kind of helps it lean more positive. So even if you have, say, like, an ending of one job or something, there’s a new opportunity that you can grab that will be an even better for you or something like that. It can also be, as you were talking about with some of the other eclipses, planting the seeds of something that you don’t see flower immediately, but it’s like, an important beginning point that you can look back to later and say, oh, that was actually a really important start for my career. 

CB: Yeah. For sure. And sometimes that can be a door closing on one career. Like, there could be an ending of some career or the ending of a job, but then that forces you in a new direction where you get a new job or it takes you in a new path career-wise. Or in some instances, it’s just the ending of one chapter in a certain career and then moving into a new chapter within your chosen career field. 

Part of this is that the nodes are shifting signs this year into Leo and Aquarius, so this is gonna start putting the focus more on that axis of the 4th house of home and living situation and the 10th house of career. And usually, these are sort of separate areas of our life that are just completely different because one is like, public life and the other is private life. But for some reason, those two areas are gonna start to become intertwined in different ways over the course of the next year or two. And sometimes that can be things like, there’s a situation where you have to move and that affects your job or your career, or vice versa where there’s some sort of change in terms of your career that it then also impacts your home and living situation. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. So that’s just starting up at this point. And then after that, we have the last eclipse in Pisces. So this is gonna be kind of an endcap to all of the activity that you’ve been having in the 5th house of children, creativity, things you do for pleasure. And I really like that on the one hand, it’s just kind of like, an endcap of like, you know, coming to closure of all of that extra work you’ve had to do in that area or the constraint that you’ve had in that area. But I like that this last eclipse there happens after Saturn and Neptune leave that area for you, because then there’s the potential kind of for like, that last little ending or beginning in that area to be a little bit more lighter. You know, to be without the constraint that was there for several years. 

CB: Yeah, absolutely. It’s nice having that freed up and then having this eclipse take place to represent the end of that chapter and then fully moving into a new one, which can be a new one with respect to the topic of children, with respect to the topic of sex and sexuality and romance, but also in terms of the topic of like, fun and games and hobbies and those things you do for recreation that bring a greater sense of job and pleasure into your life. That would be a great thing to focus on in terms of this eclipse in the 5th house in Pisces later in August and earlier in September. 

So that’s eclipse season two, so that takes us now into the last few months of the year where in October and November, our next major transit is that Venus goes retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra, which is your first house of self and mind and body, and then Venus retrogrades back into your 12th house which is the house that can represent internal things like mental health. It can also represent people that you don’t get along with or even enemies or people that work against you. So these topics are coming up in a significant way through this Venus retrograde between October through November. 

LS: Right. So Venus retrograde in your first house can have you reevaluating kind of how you present yourself or your own sense of self in general, internally or how you express it outwardly. And typically, the first part of the retrograde cycle is the revisiting where you’re just rethinking like, how do you do this. You know, how do I present myself, which is intimately tied with how you see yourself as a person. And then it retrogrades back into your 12th house, and your 12th house is a more hidden area. It can have to do with maybe rethinking how you do relationships and maybe thinking about how like, subconscious things of your own may be skewing how you interact with other people in relationships or more generally. It can also be a time where your relationships – old relationships – can come back, and sometimes when it’s going through your 12th house, it can be something where like, an old relationship comes back and you’re kind of trying to keep it secret for a while or talking to them privately but not really like, publicly. There’s been some examples in the past I’ve seen where people had like, a secret wedding or something. Like, they eloped when Venus went into their 12th house, because they didn’t want the public attention on it. So that can be a thing for some people, certainly not everyone. But yeah. It’s gonna be connecting potentially those two areas of your life. And then once it goes back forward, you can kind of like, implement what you’ve been mulling over during that time. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. And for Venus retrogrades in the first house, like, that’s a common makeover transit where sometimes people change something about their body or their physical appearance. Sometimes it can be a throwback thing of going back to an old style or experimenting with something new. Sometimes it’s a little bit more tricky towards the early part of the retrograde; there can be more experimentation. But usually by the end of the retrograde, you’ve worked things out and gotten it down better. This one’s kind of funny, because with the Venus retrograde in the first house and then it goes – which is like, the makeover transit – but it goes back in the 12th house of enemies. And it would be funny if – I bet some of the scenarios is gonna be like, somebody does just like, a fantastic makeover, but it creates tension or enemies because people are jealous or something like that. It creates – sparks jealousy with somebody that then tries to undermine them. 

LS: Or attention from people you don’t want attention for, potentially. 

CB: Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. 12th house often it can be people you do not want attention from or people that have issues. But you know, I think it also it crosses the mind-body thing as well, because the 12th house is often can be so much about personal mental health. And sometimes how changing sometimes our outward appearance or something about how we present our self to the world can sometimes also reflect internal changes that are going on within us. And I think with this Venus retrograde in particular, that connection is gonna be all the more prominent and obvious how those two things can be interconnected sometimes. And for people with night charts, I think this is actually gonna be a very positive transit. It might be experienced, actually, as one of the most notable and positive transits of the year just because night chart people tend to react to Venus retrogrades much more positively than day chart people, whereas the day chart people are gonna be experiencing that Jupiter in Leo transit in the 10th house as more constructive and positive in the career sector. 

LS: Yeah. I can see that. 

CB: All right. So that is that. And then that brings us to our last major transit of the year, which is that Mars starts slowing down towards the end of the year. And from late September through December, it’s getting ready to go retrograde in the signs of Leo and Virgo, which is your 10th house of career and your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. And Mars doesn’t actually station retrograde until the beginning of January of 2027, but by the time we get to late 2026, Mars has entered into the two signs that it’s gonna go retrograde in, and therefore it’s gonna spend a lot of time in those two signs. Like, usually Mars transits are quick; they’re just like, six weeks, like a month or like six weeks or something like that when Mars zooms through a sign. But here we’re gonna have Mars camping out in the same two signs for something like nine months over the course of late 2026 through early 2027, which is gonna be bringing some tensions and potential conflict to the area especially of career and then secondarily to friends and groups. And that, especially for some of the day chart people, could be a little bit more tough energy to deal with at this time that gets layered on top of some of the more positive transits in the career sector from earlier this year. 

LS: Right. So with Mars going through your 10th and 11th houses for a very long time from both the last quarter of 2026 and then well into the spring of 2027, you’re gonna be putting a lot more work and effort and energy towards career, especially in the first part of it, and towards friends, groups, the larger social sphere, and potentially things that link the two. So maybe a work project that’s done in conjunction with other people, with a group, with an organization. Things of that nature. 

Now for night chart people, it’s gonna be a little bit more qualitatively neutral. Like, usually Mars transits for night chart people are just you’re putting a lot of energy into that area. It’s still going to be slowing down already in the last quarter of 2026, so you’re gonna be spending more time there and you’re gonna get a sense of the things that are gonna crop up that you’re gonna need to rework during the retrograde when it starts in January. But for the last quarter of 2026, it’s just you’re putting a lot of energy there, and it’s like, a medium to longer term work project that involves other people. 

Now for day chart people, as you were saying, there can be a little bit more conflict, a little bit more disagreement amongst people around the realm of career. Definitely if you have a boss, like, for work, be careful about how you interact with your boss during this time, because there can definitely be more conflict there potentially. And then also with the realm of like, the social sphere, there can be more conflict. But conversely, you’re also gonna have the best of it, because you’re gonna have Jupiter simultaneously transiting there for the second half of the year in the career area, at least. And so you’ll have like, kind of the more qualitative extremes there of like, more potential for conflict in the area, but also more potential for positive results and success. 

CB: Yeah. I could see that for sure. Under the last Mars retrograde, we saw a lot of instances where because it crossed over two signs and two whole sign houses in people’s charts, it would often connect those topics together in this weird and interesting way. So here, we’re talking about it connecting topics with the 10th house of career and the 11th house of friends. So this could be like, you working together with friends on some sort of career project and maybe pouring in a lot of energy towards that for an extended period of time – like, an extended and sustained period of energy expenditure which involves you and a friend or a group of people working on a shared career project. But you wanna be a little careful, especially the day chart people, just because sometimes when you mix like, friends and work, there can be tensions that arise unexpectedly or there can be conflicts that arise as a result of that. So definitely be careful blending those two areas and be careful that you do so very not just deliberately, but with great restraint at this time just because the potential of there being more problematic sides to that could be greater than usual just with Mars going retrograde in your 11th house and the potential for severing or separation from friends of with friends as a potential outcome. 

LS: Definitely. And whatever you’re starting or working on at this time, just know that it’s gonna take longer than you’re probably expecting, because that’s the nature of Mars retrogrades. We’re just getting the direct part for the last quarter of 2026, but then it will go retrograde and so whatever you’re working on at this time is gonna require some sort of redoing or reworking, at least in part. So it’s kind of helpful, I think, to know that ahead of time just to have like, reasonable expectations going forward. 

CB: Yeah. Although the good news is that with Jupiter transiting there, it has the potential to be more successful than at other times, and with eclipses starting to take place in your 10th house, it has the potential to be more weighty and more impactful in terms of your long-term career and overall life direction that you might be starting something really momentous at this time. So even if it comes with some issues or takes longer than you might hope, it seems like there’s something really important happening for you in the career sector, so it’s good to follow up on, you know, achieving some major aspirations this year. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: Cool. All right. I think that’s the last major transit for 2026, yeah? 

LS: Yeah, I think so. 

CB: Awesome. Well, those are your transits, Scorpio, for 2026. So like we said, for help – if you need help planning things or picking good dates to launch things next year, get our Electional Astrology Report for 2026, which is on sale just this month for 49.95, but the price will jump to 65 dollars in January, which is still a steal, honestly. But you can get that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

And then if you wanna learn more about our approach to reading birth charts and doing astrology, you can sign up for my Hellenistic Astrology Course at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right, that’s it. So good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[SAGITTARIUS HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey Sagittarius. This is your year ahead horoscope for the entire year of 2026. So joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim; I’m Chris Brennan from The Astrology Podcast, and we’re gonna look at the entire year ahead and look at the major transits coming up over the next 12 months. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. We have been doing these – we have a lot of stuff to talk about, so why don’t we just go ahead and jump right into it. So our horoscopes are primarily for those that have Sagittarius rising; we recommend looking at the one that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time. Although if you don’t know your birth time, then you can also look at the one that matches your Sun sign. So let’s jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they will end up by the end of the year. And there are the major transits we’re gonna be talking about for those watching the video version with some of the dates involved. So the first major transit that takes place in 2026 is that the planets Saturn and Neptune, which are slow-moving outer planets, are finally departing from the sign of Pisces, which is your 4th house of home and living situation and parents, and they’re gonna move into Aries starting in January and February, which is your 5th house of children, hobbies, fun and games, and sex and sexuality. So this is a major shift that takes place right at the beginning of the year. 

LS: Yeah. So this is gonna really alleviate some kind of potentially hard work, constraint, or nebulousness that’s been going on in your home sector, especially since March 2023 since Saturn moved in there. And with Neptune transiting your 4th house ever since 2011, there can be some sort of nebulousness around like, “Where is home,” or some feelings of uncertainty about home life. And the really good thing about these two moving out of that sector is that now your home and living situation area, as well as things having to do with your parents, just home base, foundations for your life, are gonna be a lot more clear, especially with Neptune leaving there. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. So there may have been some obstacles that came up in terms of your home and living situation, especially since March of 2023 when Saturn first moved into your 4th house. But some of that is gonna be cleared up, as well as potentially some issues in terms of your parents or your family that was also coming up since that time, which will start to dissipate as Saturn moves out of that sign. So that’s pretty good news. 

So Saturn and Neptune are moving into your 5th house, though, which for those of you that have children, sometimes this can bring on greater responsibility when it comes to children and some issues can arise at this time that require greater responsibility. So for some people, that could become things like, you know, becoming parents and dealing with some of the greater responsibility or some of the issues in terms of energy expenditure and other things like that and how to maintain good health while also having that huge energy expenditure. 

LS: Definitely. It can also be a time when, if you already have children, whether they’re young children or older, that can be a time when they need more support from you or more help. It can also be a time where there’s greater seriousness around your love life. So it tends to be a time where romance-wise, it’s not as lighthearted. It’s not to say that there can’t be romance, but there can be greater seriousness or constraint around it. You can be taking it more seriously. You do wanna be careful, especially around February when Saturn and Neptune exactly conjoin there in your 5th house, around romance in particular, I would say. There can be a need to separate like, what’s real from what’s fantasy or what’s rose-colored glasses from what’s actually happening in a romantic situation. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. I’ve been calling it the reality distortion field peaking with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s been building up over the past few years, but it really hits its most intense in February. And it’s gonna be hard to tell the difference between what’s real versus what’s not, which has been happening in the technology sphere with AI-generated video and things like that. But this is also impacting each of us personally in different areas of our life, and for some reason, it’s hitting the like, children, romance, sex and sexuality sector, so definitely thinking about that in terms of sometimes not being able to tell the difference between what’s true versus what’s false. And so sometimes if there’s something that might like, seem too good to be true in this time, there’s a good chance that it might be. So it might be important to avoid making super important decisions until that conjunction has started to move away after February, at which point some things might start to become a little bit clearer. 

LS: Right. And one additional note, especially if you’re someone who does any sort of creative work, this can be really put to good use for creative projects because artistry can be one of the more positive Neptunian significations. And so it can be a time where you’re like, putting new efforts or new longer term efforts towards a creative project and making it real.

CB: Right. Yeah. And you mentioned the sex and sexuality piece, and I think that’s important because sometimes when Saturn goes through your 5th house, it can just be a period in which you’re putting less emphasis on that area of your life for some reason, or you’re feeling like, less interest in that area for some reason, or maybe there are some issues that arise that cause you to slow down more in that area compared to other times in your life. And sometimes that’s what a Saturn transit’s about. And there was a preview of this transit already last year because Saturn went into Aries and into your 5th house starting in June, I think, of 2025 for several months before it retrograded out and went back into Pisces in September. So if you can think back to some of the things that started to arise during that time around the middle portion of last year of 2025, that should give you a little bit of a preview or idea of what’s coming up with this longer term transit with Saturn going in there starting in January and February. 

So that is our first major transit of the year for 2026. So let’s move onto our second one, which is the first eclipse season takes place from February through March, and this one’s happening in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your 3rd house of communication, short-distance travel, and extended relatives including siblings, and your 10th house of career, reputation, and overall life direction. 

LS: Yeah. So this is gonna be the first Aquarius eclipse in that series of Aquarius-Leo eclipses. So the first one happening in your 3rd house, which can bring important beginnings and endings with regard to things surrounding your siblings, whether that’s your connection with your siblings or something happening that’s an important beginning or ending in their lives. Similarly with extended relatives, cousins, et cetera. There can be beginnings and endings with regard to neighbors or your immediate neighborhood, and you could get either more or less involved in your neighborhood for some reason. It can also be a time of important beginnings or endings with regard to communication. So you could start like, a new podcast; you could start communicating differently; you could start learning a new language; you could start writing something. Books are a good 3rd house topic. Yeah. So just important beginnings and endings with regard to any of those topics. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. And some of this may accelerate some changes and transformations that have been happening in this area since 2022 and 2023 when Pluto first moved into Aquarius since we’re now having this eclipse take place there and magnify some of that, and bringing this weightier element of major beginnings and major endings to that sector of your life. The primary way that the 3rd house affects all of us, as Leisa said, is just through communication, so that’s the primary one to think about in terms of how you communicate and whether there’s some new start or new beginning to communication that starts around the time of this eclipse that will turn out to be more important than it might seem at first because this eclipse is the first in a series of them that’s gonna be bouncing back and forth between your 3rd house of communication and your 9th house of education and learning and wisdom. So it’s gonna be part of this ongoing dialogue between learning new things and expanding your horizons in terms of your beliefs and your education, but then also learning how to communicate those things that you’ve learned that are new things and how to sometimes you learn things best by like, learning how to teach them to somebody else. So that’s part of the dynamic here with this first eclipse. 

LS: Definitely. And I also just wanna throw in transportation, because it’s a common thing that comes up in the 3rd house. With eclipses there, there can be beginnings or endings with regard to how you get around in your short-distance travel – i.e., cars come up a lot, but it can be any sort of mode of transportation that’s like, a sudden change. 

CB: Yeah. Sometimes an eclipse in the 3rd house could be like, a mode of transportation coming to an end, like a car stops working or something like that, and you have to get a new one. So then it represents a major ending and major beginning when it comes to that idea of transportation. 

So that’s the 3rd house part, but the other part of this is that 10th house eclipse happening in the career sector of your chart, which is also representing major beginnings and major endings in terms of your overall life direction. And sometimes this can be things like ending work with a certain career or a certain job so that you can then start a new one, or sometimes like, having a door closed in terms of your path and where you thought your career was headed, but then as a result of that being pushed in a new direction that ends up being fruitful in terms of opening up a new career path for you at this time. 

LS: Definitely. And we’re in the middle of that eclipse series, so there have been a couple more in 2025 previous to this, and there will be one more in early 2027. So this is something that’s already underway, some changes happening with regard to your career, professional life, how you’re publicly known. It can also be – when it’s not a change to your actual career direction or role, sometimes supervisors can come or leave, because that’s also a 10th house topic. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. All right, so that’s our second thing. Let’s move into our next major transit, which is that the planet Gemini is wrapping up a seven-year-long transit through the sign — 

LS: Uranus. 

CB: You know, Gemini, Taurus, whatever. 

LS: Planets! 

CB: Planet Uranus is wrapping up a long-term transit through the sign of Taurus that began in 2018 and 2019, which was going through your 6th house of work and health. And starting in April, Uranus is gonna move into the sign of Gemini, which is your 7th house of relationships. 

So this is a major, major shift, because Uranus represents sudden, sometimes unexpected changes. It also represents liberation and an internal drive for freedom and doing things in a way that’s new and different and exciting. And this energy is being imported into your 7th house of relationships and partnership where it’s manifesting at this time and where it’s opening up a new chapter that’s gonna last through most of the rest of this decade. 

LS: Definitely. So the first four months of the year, Uranus will be at the tail end of Taurus, and in February there will be kind of a last hurrah with regard to that transit in your area of work and health just because Uranus will station, and then a bunch of inner planets will activate that all month. But then it moves into your 7th house of partnership, which can be personal or business partnership, and that’s a seven-year transit that can be particularly exciting with regard to relationships. Romantic relationships in particular can suddenly start or suddenly end, or there can be this little stop-go, erratic quality to it. But it can be a time where you’re more open to meeting all different kinds of people, like, very quickly, suddenly, like, there’s no real reserve around it. It kind of speeds up the process. 

CB: Yeah. So if you’re single, then sometimes you can attract a relationship or get into a relationship with somebody who’s different – like, radically different – than anyone you’ve ever been in a relationship with and who might surprise you in terms of being something that you normally wouldn’t be into, but all of a sudden you find out that you are. Alternatively, if you’re already in a significant relationship, then sometimes there can be unexpected changes that are happening with your partner where they’re going through something that’s changing them radically in a way that’s different and unexpected, but where they’re trying to be more authentic to themself. And sometimes in that process, you have to negotiate that as a couple and decide if that’s something that you wanna stick around for or whether the changes they are going through are too radical for you so that you end up having to go your own way. 

LS: Right. And Uranus transits through the 7th are also really well-known for needing to give more space to your partner or to whatever they’re going through – sometimes literal geographical space, sometimes it’s just like, more psychological space for them to be doing their individuating thing that they’re doing. But some sort of greater space is usually called for during this time, and it usually goes better if you’re already in a relationship if you can kind of allow for that. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. And there was already a preview of this transit last year starting in July of 2025 when Uranus first moved into Gemini for a few months before it retrograded back out and went back into Taurus. So think back to that middle part of the year from July forward, and you should have gotten like, a little bit of preview of what was going on with the relationship sector of your life and some of the changes that that would have foreshadowed at that time. But starting in April, we’re just like, in that all the way until 2032 and 2033, which is how long it’s gonna take before Uranus completes that transit and departs from Gemini. 

All right, so let’s move onto our next major transit, which is that the planet Jupiter – the planet of growth and optimism – is going to spend the first six months of the year moving through the sign of Cancer, which is your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money. But then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into the sign of Leo for the entire second half of the year, which is your 9th house of education, philosophy, beliefs, and travel. And this is one of the better transits this year, and one of the ones that’s more distinctive because it basically divides the first half of the year versus the second half of the year. 

LS: Right. So with Jupiter transiting in your 8th house, that’s a transit that started in the middle of 2025, and so we’re getting the second half of that transit in the first half of 2026. So it’s a time of greater expansion with regard to anything where you share resources or finances with another person, whether that’s a personal relationship or a business partnership. It’s a time where you can expand that, you know, those shared resources. It can be a time where you gain some sort of money from other people, whether that’s something like grants, scholarships, inheritance, things of that nature. There can also be expansion in the other financial topics like having to do more around taxes, loans, or debt – whether that’s restructuring that or something. And then yeah, it’s interesting for some people – I know this won’t be for everyone, but for some people with it going through the 8th house and then the 9th house, that could be like, money for school. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. Like, getting a loan or something like that. That would make sense. Yeah, especially for the people that were born during the day with a day chart, the potential for this for being some sort of like, financial windfall or growth that comes about as a result of another person or another entity outside of you would be a common manifestation of this transit. 

But moving into the second half of it, the Jupiter in the 9th house can be really good for travel, and either expanding your horizons physically by traveling to a different country or a place you haven’t visited before, and being exposed to new cultures and new customs that are different from what you grew up with. Or sometimes Jupiter transits through the 9th house can be like, travel through the mind through going back to school and getting into a new education program, getting really interested in something that suddenly fascinates you that you decide to throw yourself into and learn a lot about. And sometimes this can be preparatory, because this is a year-long transit of Jupiter through your 9th house starting in the second half of 2026 going into the second half of 2027. And sometimes whatever you learn during that year-long transit you can end up applying to career matters the year later when Jupiter starts going through your 10th house of career, starting in mid-2027. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah, and I think this will feel like, a lot more sense of freedom for Sagittarius rising people, because you’re having Saturn leave your 4th house. You know, usually people with strong Sagittarian factors in their chart like the feeling of freedom, like the opportunity to move about, to expand their horizons, not to be kind of like, stuck or constrained. And you know, so Saturn’s leaving your 4th house of home where you’re not having to put so much effort into like, that grounding area of your life, your foundations, and now you get to expand in the 9th house, which has some affinity with the sign of Sagittarius even though they’re not the same. You get to expand your horizons in whichever ways you’d like in terms of either physical travel, as you said, or mental explorations, expanding your belief systems, learning about new ways of seeing the world. It’s kind of like, a very optimistic expansive feeling. 

CB: Yeah. And this is really gonna be the area of your life that has the most activity in the second half of the year, because this is actually the first of three transits that are happening in your 9th house. So I think this idea of expanding your mind and expanding your horizons and traveling, either literally or metaphorically, is gonna dominate the second half of 2026 all the way into 2027. 

So speaking of the Jupiter transits, a really nice one that we saw that is happening in June just before Jupiter moves out of Cancer is the planet Venus is gonna come up and form a very auspicious conjunction with Jupiter in Cancer just before Jupiter leaves that sign. And that’s the one that’s happening in the 8th house, so that could be for some people, like, the trigger of the financial windfall thing we were talking about earlier with the 8th house. But we actually noticed this because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and highlighted the best dates that are the most fortunate in 2026 using the principles of electional astrology. 

LS: Yeah. So basically any important actions you wanna take in 2026, new projects you wanna start, whether it’s things around your love life, business, home, or what have you, if you use these dates and times that we’ve already selected to start those things, it’ll have better odds of successful results. 

CB: Yeah. And in the report, we go through each of the next 12 months and we give a forecast of the general astrological weather, but we also tell you not just what dates to start things, but also what dates to avoid, because sometimes with electional astrology it’s just as important to know which dates are bad dates for doing things as it is knowing which dates are good dates for doing things. 

So the report includes a video as well as an audio and written version of the report that’s very extensive and detailed. There’s 28 auspicious electional dates to choose from, including tutorials on how to use those charts. And you can use them for business, love, or pretty much any major life event next year. 

So the report’s on sale for a launch sale for 49.95, but only for the first month. And then the price is gonna go up in January to 65 dollars. So you should get the report now while it’s still on sale at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that takes us into the second half of the year. Let’s get back to the transits where the next one we wanted to talk about is the second eclipse season begins and takes place in the month of August, and trails over a little bit into early September where there’s gonna be an eclipse in the sign of Leo, which is your 9th house again, and then another eclipse that happens two weeks after that in the sign of Pisces, which is your 4th house of home and living situation. 

LS: Yeah. So that first one is the very first eclipse in the Leo series, and that’ll happen in your 9th house of greater exploration, of body or mind, whether that’s physical exploration or mental exploration as we were just talking about. It’s the same area where that Jupiter transit is for the second half of the year. 

So this brings an important beginning or ending with regard to one or more of those topics. It’s gonna be really an area of concentration for you in the second half of 2026, because we’ve got the Jupiter transit, the eclipse there, and then we’ll have another transit we’ll talk about in a bit. So it’s something where you’re gonna be putting a lot of focus on that area, whether that’s beginning or ending going to school for something, that could be universities, beginning or ending some sort of travel that you’re planning, beginning or ending some serious study – even if it’s informal and on your own. Yeah, so those sorts of topics. 

CB: Yeah. So this eclipse in Leo brings a weightiness to the Jupiter transit we were talking about there earlier about growth and expansion about expanding your horizons. Having eclipses start taking place in the same sign means that this isn’t just like, growth and expansion and having luck and good fortune in that area in this year, but you start doing something that’s important for your overall life direction, and that’s gonna be much more important in terms of wrapping something up and ending something in this area, such as ending an educational program where for example some people graduate at this time. But it’s also laying a new foundation in this area that’s going to affect not just your overall life direction, but also your core and fundamental beliefs and outlook about the world, which can include your religion, your philosophy, and other things of that nature about who you think you are and what you think you’re doing here – or what you think we’re all doing here and what this is all about. This eclipse will really start bringing that into focus, and it ties back into the earlier eclipse that I mentioned from earlier this year that takes place in your 3rd house in the February-March timeframe, because there’s gonna be this back and forth motion between you learning new things and expanding your horizons, but also having to find new ways to communicate those things you’ve learned in order to express this new outlook that you’re starting to develop. And that’s really gonna start to come into focus with this eclipse happening in August in your 9th house. 

LS: And then the next eclipse will be the last Pisces eclipse in a series of eclipses that’s already been happening for quite a while. And this will be kind of a point of closure potentially at least for a lot of people with that 4th house of home and family area, because you’ve had that Saturn transit for the last few years there. Neptune transiting, both of those are leaving. And then this series of prior eclipses in that same area. So there’ll be some sort of concluding point and sort of one last important beginning or ending with regard to home, family, things with parents or ancestry, and it’s kind of interesting thinking about that interplaying with the 9th house eclipse so close together. Because I – at least for some people, I get a feeling of like, okay, things are settled at home, and now I can go explore more. 

CB: Yeah, that makes sense. I do like how this is the first one after Saturn and Neptune have departed from that area and have freed up some of the heaviness that we’ve been experiencing with Saturn transiting the 4th house of home and parents since 2023, and now all of a sudden we have a final eclipse in order to bring to conclusion and put some sort of final ending on this sequence of events that’s been developing in that area for three years now in our life. So for some of you, that’s gonna be a ending when it comes to a living situation setup in terms of like, maybe you’ve been living in some place for a period of time, but that starts to wind down, and you have to move to a new place. So it’s like, you know, putting an ending on that in terms of saying goodbye to the current living situation and looking back and reflecting on it. But then also picking out and being very deliberate about moving to a new place. And sometimes when you do something like that, it can seem like a minor thing at first when you move to a new location, and maybe you’re thinking that it’s just like, temporary or something. But then sometimes when you do things like that on an eclipse, it turns out that that was actually a huge move and a huge turning point in your life when you look back in retrospect at that many years later.

LS: Definitely. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s also relevant in terms of parents, in terms of some sort of ending and new beginning when it comes to something happening in their life or something in terms of your relationship with them. So that’ll be interesting and important to pay attention to as well. 

All right. So that’s eclipse season. The next transit I wanted to talk about is the Venus retrograde that takes place in the signs of Scorpio and Libra in October and November where Venus is gonna go retrograde in your 12th house and then it’s gonna retrograde back into your 11th house of friends and groups. 

So this is a little bit tricky, because it’s connecting two areas of your chart that are very different where the 12th house tends to represent like, on the one hand, enemies and people that you don’t get along with in your life, but then it crosses over and Venus goes into your 11th house, which is the place of friends and groups. So somehow, it’s connecting these two topics of enemies and friends in ways that don’t usually cross over, but for some reason, it’s forming some sort of connection here in your life at this time. 

LS: Yeah. So for some people, that can be like, revisiting and trying to provide eventual greater clarity of like, who is actually a friend and who is not. Sometimes that can happen when there’s a retrograde connection between the 12th and 11th houses. For other people, the initial Venus retrograde through the 12th house can be a time where you’re secluding yourself more; you may be having social moments behind the scenes but not really outwardly otherwise. You’re not like, socializing in big groups, and then all of a sudden when Venus retrogrades back into your 11th, you do revisit connections with either old friends that you haven’t heard from for a while for whatever reason pop back up; sometimes that can happen with Venus retrograding through your 11th house of groups and friends. Or you can reconnect with organizations that you’ve been involved with in the past. It can be just a time – any time especially when Venus retrogrades through some sort of social house, which the 11th house is for you, it’s a time of reevaluating not only old relationships that can come up with friends or groups, but also reevaluating how you connect with your friends or reevaluating the friendships that you do have in your life and trying to decide, you know, do things need to change, or are they good? That’s a typical Venus retrograde evaluation. 

CB: Yeah. I like that. And this can actually be quite positive, especially for those of you with night charts, this might actually be one of the most positive transits of the year. And because it’s a retrograde, Venus retrogrades always have this backwards-looking orientation where you’re looking back to situations and oftentimes people from the past that come back into your life into the present. And to get a preview of this transit, you can actually think back eight years earlier because Venus retrogrades repeat in the same spot in the zodiac and in our birth charts every eight years around the same time of the year. So for example, eight years ago would have been October and November of 2018 when Venus was again retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, or eight years before that, which would have been in 2010, for example. So think back to that area and sometimes that’ll clue you in on some of the major changes and some of the situations that might come up again and arise when it comes to these topics in your life. 

All right. So let’s transition into talking about the last transit of the year, which is gonna be this Mars retrograde that’s building up and entering into its shadow period starting in the last few months of the year starting in late September.

So this is gonna be a Mars retrograde in the signs of Leo and Virgo, and the retrograde doesn’t actually start until January of 2027 when Mars stations retrograde in Virgo, but Mars has already entered into those two signs that it’s going to go retrograde in by late September. And as a result of that, Mars is gonna be spending a lot of time in those two signs, and in two specific houses of your chart, which is the 9th house of education and travel and philosophy and beliefs, and the 10th house of career and reputation and overall life direction. 

LS: Right. So this is gonna be the same overlapping area that the Jupiter transit goes through in the second half of the year and the Leo eclipse happens in that both of which we mentioned. So this is obviously gonna be a really clear area of focus for you in the second half of 2026, and it’s already slowing down in the last quarter of 2026 and so spending longer. Even in that first bit, it’s spending two months instead of six weeks, for instance, in that 9th house and so forth. So it’s already slowing down and taking more time in those areas of your life. And what that means is you’re going to be putting a lot more energy or effort for some reason into the 9th house of either higher education or long-distance travel, exploring other cultures, or other belief systems or just putting more work into, say, if you do astrology, like, your astrology work. And then it’s going to go into your 10th house of career and public reputation. And one of the things you can do with that transit is notice the things that are coming up for you during that time, because some of it will need to be reworked and take a little longer than you’re potentially expecting because of that impending retrograde in the beginning of 2027. So you can kind of get clues as it goes forward as to, you know, what is potentially going to need more work going forward. 

But it can be a great time to put a lot of energy or effort into study that goes towards your career or teaching that is intertwined with your career or just learning new skills that you can apply to your career. It can also, though, be a time of greater tensions or conflict when it comes to those areas of life. 

CB: Yeah. So we saw during the last Mars retrograde last year a lot of times where there was this connection between the two houses that the Mars went between where it would connect those house topics. So here some of the connections are like, a connection between travel and work, for example, or a connection between education and training versus work, or even between like, your beliefs versus your workplace and your bosses or superior. And therein could be some of the tension is on the one hand, especially for people with night charts this’ll probably just be a more constructive transit of sustained energy and working very hard in this area of your life, especially career-wise, but for people with night charts – or sorry, for people with day charts, it could be a little bit more problematic because it could be something where it’s connecting those two areas in a way that creates strife or tension or difficulties. So for example, the 9th house can be about your religious beliefs, but also about your political beliefs as well. So there could be some sort of conflict in the workplace that arises as a result of your beliefs at some fundamental level and some issue in terms of blurring the boundary between those two areas, creating difficulties or setbacks for some reason. 

LS: Yeah. That’s a potential for sure. And more so for the day chart people, as you said, but then conversely, the day chart people will also have Jupiter transiting the 9th house as well for the second half of the year. So you’ll get a little bit more of the extreme. So like, more problems cropping up, but also greater positive results happening at the same time for some reason. Whereas for the night chart people with that transit, it’s a little bit more moderated in both directions towards the middle. 

CB: Yeah, that’s a good point. So this is the house that we’re just focusing on all year, and even though it could be a challenging transit that comes up, we also have that really positive transit happening simultaneously as well as the eclipse that happened in August which is showing that there’s very weighty things that are happening that are impacting the overall life direction, even though it’s happening within the context of the 9th house of travel and beliefs and education and things like that. 

So again, this is a transit that really is most intense actually in the first part of 2027, but there’s just some build up to it that’s happening here that I think is gonna be important to pay attention to, because sometimes we can initiate things that don’t seem super important at first or like they should last for very long, but then all of a sudden during a retrograde, they just get dragged out and end up taking much longer than we expect. 

LS: Yeah. That’s a pretty classic way that Mars retrogrades play out. So whatever you’re starting during the last quarter of 2026 or putting a lot of energy towards, just know that it will take a little bit longer than you’re potentially anticipating. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. 

All right, I think that’s the last transit we wanted to talk about today in terms of your forecast for 2026. So those are your major transits. Like we said, if you need help planning important things and dates next year, then you can get our Electional Astrology Report for 2026. The launch sale is just 49.95, but only this month until January, and then it goes up to 65 dollars. So you can get that now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

And otherwise, if you wanna learn more about our approach to astrology and how we read birth charts, you can check out my Hellenistic Astrology Course which is available at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right. Good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

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CB: Hey Capricorn. This is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa – thanks for doing horoscopes with me this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. So we would recommend looking at the horoscope that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time. Although if you don’t know your birth time, then you can also look at the one that matches your Sun sign. So we’re gonna focus on giving a big picture overview of some of the major transits this year. And why don’t we just go ahead and jump right into it.

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year. And here’s the major transits we’re gonna be talking about this year, starting with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction which is gonna move from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries starting in January and February right at the top of the year. And this is moving from your 3rd house into your 4th house, which is a major shift in terms of slower moving outer planets. 

LS: Yeah. So this will alleviate some of the constraint or harder work you may have felt for the last few years in particular around 3rd house topics such as things involving siblings, cousins or other extended relatives. It could have been you had a sibling that was having a harder time than usual, or you just had more constraint or strain in your relationship with them during this time. That’ll be letting up some. Things involving your neighbors or immediate neighborhood, if you’ve had any trouble with that, or just communications in general if you’ve found it like, more laborious to feel like, you know, it’s taking more effort to get across what you’re trying to communicate or for some reason, some constraint around feeling like you can communicate easily. All of that’s gonna be moving on, which is a really good piece of news, and it’s moving into a different area. So there’ll be a lot less strain around those topics, and Saturn and Neptune are moving into – oh, I should say also there will be less nebulousness around those topics, too, because that’s been a big piece of those planets being copresent in your 3rd house. 

So they’re moving into your 4th house of home, family, parents, living situation, ancestry, where you come from, and things from the past. And so especially when Saturn and Neptune come together exactly in February, there can be a sense of some structures dissolving that were previously there, and it can also be a time of reimagining what home base is for you. So where do you wanna live ideally, whether that’s your specific apartment or house, or whether that’s where in the world do you wanna be living? Where does home base feel like for you? 

CB: Yeah, definitely. And sometimes that can bring up some challenges or surmountable difficulties in terms of your home and living situation if you start running into issues or you realize that a certain living situation is untenable and sort of forces you to move into a different one. So that’s one potential in terms of this transit with Saturn going into your 4th house. It can also, though, represent things happening in the lives of your parents or something in terms of your relationship with your parents reaching an important turning point and maybe being a little bit rockier or a little bit more distant than normal, which itself can be part of an ongoing process of renegotiating the boundaries between the two of you. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. So it’s a longer term transit. Saturn’ll be there for about two and a half years, and Neptune for much longer. So it’s not something you have to figure out immediately, but you will feel a little bit of accentuation around this in February, and it will harken back to when Saturn and Neptune got the closest that they already got in Aries, which was the second half of 2025 and especially in July. In July, they came together within less than a degree. So there should be something similar going on in that area of life for you come February. 

CB: Yeah. So I’ve been calling it over the past year like, the peak of the reality distortion field when Saturn and Neptune come together in a conjunction. In this instance, it’s happening in your 4th house of home and living situation and parents, and part of the trickiness there is it may be hard to tell the difference between what’s real versus what’s not real, or what’s true versus what’s not true. And so it might be really important especially around February when this conjunction is going exact to be careful in terms of making final decisions at this time, because you may not have a clear picture really of what’s going on. But that will start to improve after February as Saturn and Neptune start to move apart. The only – one of the caveats with that is I did a research project a year ago on Saturn-Neptune conjunctions, and I did see people doing important things in history on Saturn-Neptune conjunctions setting up religious communities or philosophical communities and like, specific living situations and things like that. And while I’m not necessarily like, recommending you should set up a cult, like, I’m just saying… If there’s some way that there’s a constructive manifestation of setting up a community situation and bringing into concrete form a living situation that’s connected with your ideals, your beliefs, or your religion or spirituality, I could easily see that as being a manifestation of this transit.

LS: Definitely. Like, starting an intentional community type of situation. I should also add, even though it sounds random but very literal, that Neptune transits through the 4th house are notorious for water issues in the home. And especially with Saturn and Neptune coming together, it’s just a good thing to pay attention to your literal foundations and water issues surrounding that. I’m not saying that will happen for everyone, but it happens often enough that I’m mentioning it. 

CB: Right. Definitely. 

All right, so that’s our first transit of the year. Moving on, our next transit is eclipse season – the first eclipse season starts in February and March, and this is gonna be taking place in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your 2nd house of finances and your 9th house of travel and education and beliefs. So this signals a period of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to these topics. 

LS: Yeah. So the first eclipse is gonna be in Aquarius, which is the first in that series. It’ll be the first one we have in the Aquarius-Leo series. And that’ll bring beginnings and endings or at least mini chapter beginnings and endings with regard to your personal income and finances, whether that’s the source of how you make a living being like, ending one job and starting a new job. Or it can be starting the seeds of like, future ways you could make a living that are different than how you are now. It can also be beginnings and endings with regard to how you manage your finances and learning more about the financial world and getting more savvy around that – any of those types of topics. 

CB: Yeah. This is gonna be the first transit of several transits we’re gonna see activating the financial sector of your chart this year, starting with this first eclipse in Aquarius in your 2nd house of finances and money and possessions representing some endings but also some new beginnings with respect to those topics. And then later in the year, we’re gonna see how that has an interplay with the role that other people’s money has in your life, which includes things like partner’s finances but also taxes, loans, and debts and other things like that as well. 

So that’s the starting point of this, and then the second part of this is the eclipse that takes place in Virgo which represents major beginnings and major endings with respect to your beliefs and with respect to your outlook on the world especially, which is primarily what the 9th house relates to. So this could be sometimes the ending can be like, completing a course of study or graduating from an educational program. Other times the new beginning can be starting to learn a new like, philosophy or starting a new educational course, or starting even to get into a new religion or something like that at this time. And this is part of an ongoing series of eclipses that started last year. So whatever is happening with this, this is probably the continuation of something that already began earlier rather than something completely new. But I would pay attention to that idea of major endings and major beginnings. 

LS: Yeah. We’re kind of in the middle of that eclipse – or we’re sort of towards the end, but there’s gonna be one more. So you’ve had two in that same area of life in 2025, and there’ll be this one, and then one more in early 2027. So it will be an area of life that you’ve already had some changes around, but eclipses can bring new beginnings and endings and new chapters, even if you’ve already had some of that going on. So that can be the beginning or ending of an involvement with a university, for instance, or a course of study. It can be if you’re looking into publishing, that’s not gonna be relevant for everyone, but that’s also a 9th house topic. Could be some sort of like, planting the seeds of some sort of publishing project. Or just, yes, getting more involved or less involved in a religion or a philosophy or even political beliefs changing. 

CB: Yeah. It can also just be about travel. Like, a lot of 9th house activities or activations can just be about taking a major trip to a new country or perhaps if you’ve already moved or settled in a new country, the process of adapting to that and getting used to your new environment and the different cultural things and other things like that. 

So we’ll come back to the 9th house, because there’s one more transit later in the year that’s gonna be relevant to that as well. 

So the next major transit I wanted to talk about first, though, is that the planet Uranus is gonna depart from the sign of Taurus where it’s been since 2018 and 2019, and in April, it’s gonna move into the sign of Gemini for good for the next six or seven years. So this is moving from your 5th house of children, of romantic matters, of hobbies and games and fun and pleasures, and Uranus is moving into your 6th house of work and health for a significant transit that will occupy most of the next decade. 

LS: Yeah. So you may have had a lot of changes, potentially unexpected changes, around 5th house topics since 2018 since Uranus went into Taurus and into your 5th house. So that can be changes with regard to the decision whether to have children, like maybe you thought you weren’t gonna have children and now you have children at the end of the transit, or changes in your children’s lives if they’re older and you have children. Also changes in just things you do for pleasure or what you consider to be fun and rewarding to do with your free time – hobbies, et cetera. It can be changes in sexuality. And there’s gonna be one last little hurrah around that in February, one accentuation, before the transit is up. In February, Uranus stations for the last time in Taurus in your 5th house, and then inner planets trigger that all month. Then it goes into your 6th house until 2033, and that’s gonna bring new changes and innovation around your work and health. Pets also go in the 6th house. So oftentimes when Uranus transits the 6th house, people have a new or renewed drive for independence with regard to their work. They want either greater independence in the terms of their work – like, doing more remote work, for instance, work at home, or they wanna work towards self-employment. That’s pretty common. It’s not that it’ll all happen at once, but you’ll have this feeling of kind of like, new drive for independence in the area of work in particular. And that should have started up a little bit last year in 2025 in the second half of 2025 as Uranus dipped into Gemini, but now it’s gonna be there for a good long while. 

CB: Yeah. There can also be unexpected disruptions in terms of your work, especially involving technology, either that’s like, disruptive in your work or that you’re having to learn in order to leverage. This transit reminds me a lot of how like, AI’s getting integrated into everything and how it’s starting to impact different career fields and different jobs. And especially for the Capricorn rising people, I could see that being part of this story here as Uranus is moving into Gemini and moving into the 6th house of work. And sometimes that being disruptive and like, not experienced as a good thing that comes out of nowhere and makes everything different very rapidly and very radically compared to what it was before, but in other instances, there’s gonna be people that learn how to – as long as they’re like, flexible and stay on their feet – like, how to leverage new technologies to stay ahead of the game. So that may be part of the trick there in terms of figuring that out. 

And of course, 6th house transits can also relate to health matters. So it’s a good time to pay attention to health things. Sometimes there can be like, weird or unexpected health things that come up that are hard to figure out because they’re kind of like, different or wacky or some way that’s like, hard to pin down. But again, sometimes things like using technology in order to figure that out and in order to get greater insight into that can be part of what a Uranus transit’s about. 

LS: Yeah. It can also be just new approaches that you’re taking to your health. So whether that’s just as simple as like, a new exercise routine or new nutritional kind of approaches to things – you realize that you need to eat better, clean up your diet – that kind of thing. It can also, though, be because Uranus is one of the significations is sort of unconventional, you can be getting into like, more unconventional approaches or alternative approaches to health maintenance. 

CB: Right. Yeah, that makes sense. 

All right, so that’s setting up a long-term transit that’s gonna play out all the way through like, 2032 or 2033. This is just the initial stages of it; there was that preview last July over the next few months in the middle of 2025, but yeah, lots of long-term changes to pay attention to here starting in April. 

The next transit we wanted to move on to talk about is that the planet Jupiter is gonna spend the first six months of 2026 transiting through the sign of Cancer, but then starting in late June it’s gonna move into the sign of Leo for the rest of the year. So this is moving from your 7th house of relationships and indicating growth and expansion and good things, eventually potentially luck or new relationships, in the first half of the year. And then Jupiter’s moving into the financial sector of your chart about shared resources, other people’s money, inheritance, and other things like that that should represent some positive financial things happening in the second half of the year. 

LS: So Jupiter transiting your 7th house is gonna be the second half of that transit that started in the middle of 2025. So we have the second half of that transit in the first half of 2026. And it’s a time where, if you’re already in a relationship, it tends to be a time of greater positivity, greater warmth, greater emotional sensitivity with it being Cancer in particular. Sometimes people get into situations where they have, they meet new people that are particularly generous to them or particularly positive one-on-one interactions can happen at this time. And then it’s gonna move into your 8th house – oh, I should say also just positive things can be happening for your partner as well if you are partnered during this time. 

CB: Like your partner has some sort of positive thing that happens in their life, like a promotion or something like that or they get lucky at work and then that leads to like, a financial windfall that comes through them. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. So with it moving into the 8th house, like you just said, that can easily be one possible manifestation of that where something positive’s happening with the partner, and then that contributes to the partner’s income going up and your shared resources, your shared finances going up. Jupiter going through the 8th can also be a good time if you are looking for financial help with things, like applying for grants, loans, scholarships – those are all 8th house things, and those are more likely to come to you with a Jupiter transit through there, although that’s more true for day chart people – if you’re born with the Sun above the Ascendant-Descendant axis. It can go that way for night chart people, too; it’s just a little bit more moderated. 

CB: Yeah. I definitely think this Jupiter transit in these two houses is gonna be the most positive transit this year for the people who were born during the day, whereas the Venus retrograde that we’ll talk about in a bit will be the more positive one for people born at night. So good stuff to pay attention to there. 

The 8th house Jupiter transits can also sometimes be like, an inheritance or unexpected financial windfall that comes through things of that nature. 

LS: Just other people’s money, collective resources. 

CB: Sometimes also like, investing can be an 8th house thing as well. So that could be a good area of exploration also. 

LS: Definitely. Especially with the eclipses we’re gonna talk about. 

CB: Totally. All right. So one of the things about that is just before Jupiter changes signs and leaves Cancer, there’s this really auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction that takes place in Cancer this year, which is actually gonna happen in your 7th house of relationships. So that could be really positive in terms of an important relationship turning point taking place at this time in June, basically, the June timeframe, especially early June. And we actually noticed this because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates during the course of the entirety of 2026 and then packaged them together as a report that people can use in order to plan things over the course of the next year.

LS: Yeah. So basically any important actions you know you need or want to take in 2026 or important projects you wanna start, whether that’s around your love life, or business, or home, or what have you. If you use these dates and times that we’ve picked out for you that are the best possible times to start things, you’re gonna have better odds of successful results. 

CB: Yeah. So in the report, we have 28 different dates that we’ve picked out as well as electional charts that go with those and different tutorials. And we go through each of the next 12 months and we give kind of a forecast, a detailed forecast, of the astrological weather each month and tell you not just which dates to use, but also which dates to avoid, because sometimes electional astrology is just as much about knowing that there’s gonna be a Mercury retrograde that starts on this date and not to start something new during that time or what have you, than it is like, gravitating towards the best dates. 

So the report includes a video version, an audio version, as well as an extensive PDF write-up of the written report itself. And you can use it for business, love, or pretty much any major life events next year. 

So we are doing a launch sale for just the first month where it’s 49.95, but only until January, and then the price is gonna go up to 65 dollars for the rest of 2026. So you can get the report right now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that takes us into the second half of the year in terms of our transit analysis where the next major thing that happens is we get our second eclipse season taking place in August into early September. And this is gonna be a pair of eclipses that take place in the signs of Leo and Pisces, which is gonna be your 8th house of shared resources and your 3rd house of communication and short-distance travel. 

LS: Right. So that first Leo eclipse is going to be the first one in that series kind of combined with the first Aquarius eclipse we were talking about earlier in the year. So this is the same area of life where Jupiter’s gonna be transiting the second half of the year, bringing more beneficial energies to the area of shared resources, shared finances, other people’s money, taxes, loans, debts, potentially investment. And then the eclipse is going to punctuate that with an important beginning or ending or possibly both in at least one of those topics. So that can be part of the Jupiter transit in terms of like, your partner suddenly gets a raise, and that happens around the eclipse time. That can be a new interest in investment and a new involvement in that and like, using the stock market for instance. And you can also be a time where, like I was saying earlier, applying for like, grants or scholarships – really good time to do that – or loans. Yeah. 

CB: Yeah. So having an eclipse happening in your 8th house in addition to the Jupiter transit, you know, the Jupiter transit is sort of a generic lucky growth expansion type transit in this financial sector. But having eclipses start to take place here brings an additional weightiness to it that the events that are happening here are important and impactful in terms of your overall life direction. And even though they might seem not super significant at first, in some instances they’re gonna be the start of things that are major and the planting of seeds that are gonna grow into these huge trees and like, orchards in your life in the future. 

So that’s especially taking place with respect to like, financial matters and shared resources like some major shifts happening, for example, in a partner’s life or with respect to their finances or with respect to the topic of other people’s money in general. It also brings in some of those themes having to do with like, mortality, which can sometimes be more prominent at this time with eclipses in the 8th house. But it’s part of this ongoing series that we’re gonna see play out not just in 2026 but into 2027, because the eclipses are gonna keep bouncing back and forth between your 2nd house of your personal finances and possessions and your 8th house of other people’s money and shared resources. So you’re gonna be seeking balance and going back and forth between those two areas and going to extremes between them, but eventually trying to find a way to level out and sort of meet in the middle. 

LS: Yeah. And there can just be kind of a series of changes with respect to both your personal income and finances and how you share your income and finances with other people. 

CB: Yeah. And how your income impacts other people or how other people in your life, how their income impacts your personal resources in very tangible ways. And sometimes focusing more on let’s say your moneymaking abilities in one period, like when the 2nd house eclipses are taking place, for example, earlier in the year in February, March, versus other time focusing more on your partner’s income and finances during other parts of the year. 

So that’s one possibility. The other thing about this eclipse, though, is it’s not just the 8th house eclipse; it’s also a 3rd house eclipse. So that’s significant in terms of communication, in terms of short-distance travel, and in terms of siblings, neighbors, and extended family and relatives of having major beginnings and major endings there. So one example of that in terms of communication but also let’s say short-distance travel is sometimes when an eclipse happens in the 3rd house, you can have like, a vehicle that reaches the end of its life cycle and like, breaks down or something, so that you realize you need to get a new vehicle or a new car at that time, sort of fulfilling that symbolism of a major ending as well as a major beginning. 

LS: Yeah. At other times, it could be the beginning or ending of an important writing project; that’s also 3rd house. Or the beginning or ending of something happening in your sibling’s life or your relationship with your sibling. And I like that this is the last eclipse in Pisces in that area after Saturn and Neptune have left that house for you. And so there may be some easing up of whatever that change is, that last important beginning or ending in that area for you; it happens without those heavier energies, without that nebulous energy there.

CB: Yeah, that’s great. I really like that. And it is kind of tied in with that Virgo eclipse that happened earlier in the year in the 9th house, which is the place of beliefs. So there may be something about shifts in terms of your belief systems over the past year or two and learning how to communicate that with people in terms of how you have to change the way you communicate to better adapt to what you believe and how that may be part of the learning process and there may be a learning curve to that at this time. But since this is the final eclipse in Pisces, you sort of finally get the hang of it by this time. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So I think that’s good for eclipse season two. Next we move onto the Venus retrograde transit that’s gonna happen in Scorpio and Libra in the October-November timeframe where Venus is gonna go retrograde in your 11th house of friendship and it’s gonna back up into your 10th house of career, which could indicate some overlap happening between those two separate areas of your life where suddenly friends and groups and alliances are becoming more important in terms of your career and your overall life direction compared to other times in your life. 

LS: Yeah. So Venus retrogrades pretty commonly bring back people from the past, and happening in your 11th house initially of friends, groups, and social networks, that can easily just be old friends coming back into contact with you, coming back into your life for some reason. It can be either just for a moment, or for longer. It can be revisiting your friendships or internally revisiting your friendships or social networks and how they, you know, are or are not working for you at the present time. And then yes, as you said, linking it with your career and public reputation. For at least some people, that can be sort of revisiting the connections between your social networks or large groups of people or organizations of people or just individual friendships or colleagues and your career. So pretty commonly for many people, at least, they have like, professional colleagues and that’s an 11th house topic, and that can be one way that that can overlap with your 10th house of career. But yeah, it’s a revisiting process of those important relationships and connections and themes. 

CB: Yeah. For sure. And to get a preview of what this transit’s gonna be about, it repeats almost exactly every eight years. So the last time Venus was retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, this happened in October and November of 2018. So you can think back to that time and think about especially whether there were any overlaps between friends and career or just topics coming up in terms of friends and career at that time that could be relevant again today. Or you can even go back further than that, like eight years earlier to October-November of 2010, and that was again another Venus retrograde in the same signs. So sometimes it can directly link events that occurred during those previous periods can somehow come up again in the present. 

LS: And sometimes those two houses are connected in the retrograde, and at other times, you might find, for instance, for some people, Venus was retrograding in the 11th house initially and it’s a time where you wanna reconnect with old friends or just reconnect with people in your social networks in your community that you have kind of not been keeping up with lately. But then it moves back into your 10th house, and then you’re like, oh, I actually need to focus on work right now for a while. And then it’ll go back forward again through your house of career and then eventually back direct through your 11th house of friends and groups. So there can be a little bit of an interplay where at different points you are wanting to reconnect socially but then realizing you need to put more attention to your career, and then vice versa going forward. 

CB: Yeah. I think for people with night charts, this is gonna be probably the most positive transit of the year, though, because it’s gonna be experienced as like, good things happening in those areas, and sometimes there can be positive relationships from our past – like, friendships or career relationships – that come back into the present and become relevant again suddenly that actually push us forward and help us accomplish new things that we wouldn’t have been able to accomplish otherwise. So it’ll be like, a windfall in some sense. 

For other people, especially the day chart people, this transit might not be as important and sometimes those relationships can come back from the past but then not necessarily be that significant or groundbreaking, and the point is just to remind you of the past and to bring a brief period of reflection, basically. 

LS: Right. 

CB: All right. So that’s the Venus retrograde transit. So the final transit we need to talk about is the Mars retrograde transit that’s building up by the end of 2026. And Mars does not go retrograde until early January of 2027, however, it’s already slowing down by the last quarter of this year. From about late September forward, Mars starts going through the two signs that it’s gonna station retrograde in, which are Leo and Virgo. So this is gonna be a retrograde in your 8th house of shared resources, again bringing up that house once again, and your 9th house of travel and education and beliefs. 

LS: Yeah. So it’s going to be a time where you’re spending much more effort and energy for a prolonged period than usual; Mars transits usually last just six weeks through one sign, and we’re gonna be dealing with this Mars transit through your 8th and 9th house well into the spring of 2027. So initially, that’s gonna be that same area we’ve been talking about that has a lot of attention in the second half of 2026 for you where the Jupiter transit’s happening the second half of the year and the eclipse is happening as well. So there’s gonna be some energy or effort you’re putting for some reason towards the area of either shared resources, other people’s money, taxes, loans, debts – you may need to clear up some things around those areas. For day chart people, this is going to bring more of a bifurcation of like, potentially more conflict or problems but also the extremes of positivity as well with both Mars and Jupiter going through Leo. Whereas for night chart people, it’s gonna be a time where there’s just more extended effort or energy put towards that with fewer extremes in either direction. 

CB: Yeah. But this is like, the third transit already we’ve seen this year in your 8th house of shared resources. So for some reason, this area of shared resources and other people’s money keeps coming up over and over again this year at different points, but especially in the second half of the year. In this context, it’s a little bit more challenging because there is a potential for some strife or separations or obstacles and setbacks that take place in that context at this time where maybe earlier when you were having just the Jupiter transit or just the eclipse that was taking place in August and September, you were like, rapidly expanding in terms of shared resources at that time and encountering good luck and were being essentially unopposed. But then with this Mars transit, things slow down and things – you run into a little bit more obstacles and difficulties in that area, both in the area of shared resources but also in the area that pertains to travel, education, beliefs, and other things like that. I would be a little careful with this transit for like, legal issues involving taxes, debts, inheritance, or other people’s money just because the 9th house connecting to the 8th house can sometimes connect the government or legal topics and running into obstacles there. 

LS: Right. This could also easily bring up, if it’s relevant to your stage of life, student loans connecting both the area of loans, taxes, debt, et cetera, and higher education. And I know that’s a topic that’s important for a lot of people these days. 

It also can be a time – I’m thinking of the eclipses happening in your 2nd and 8th houses, which are both finances houses but also your source of income in the 2nd house. Together with Uranus transiting your 6th, I can see for some people there may need to be some like, juggling or renegotiation of like, your work situation which affects your own income, which then affects how you and your partner, if you have a partner, blend your finances. And there could be some conflict around that, say, if you’re having a changing work situation that changes your own income and you need to rely more on other people’s, you know, your shared resources. But with Mars going through your 8th as well, it can also be like, your partner’s suddenly having issues with their income or their money. 

CB: Right. For sure. Or the 9th house is a travel house, so it could be like, a trip that ends up being more expensive or where there’s greater expenditures than expended where it’s connecting the 9th and 8th houses. 

LS: Right. 

CB: Yeah. So this is a transit that’s really just getting started in late 2026 and doesn’t really fully intensify and become the most acute until early 2027. But I would just recommend paying attention to some of the things that start to develop in late September forward just because they could be events and circumstances that seem like they should come and go and not be that significant at first, but then for some reason you end up returning back to them over the course of like, eight or nine months and having to return to and do over certain things or revisits certain things during the course of that retrograde in the first half of 2027. 

LS: Yeah. Mars retrograde periods are – it’s always a time where you’re spending more time than you initially think you need to on a certain project or area of your life. And so if you pay attention during the last quarter of 2026, you can kind of get some clues as to what types of things you may need to redo or put more work into in the beginning of 2027. 

CB: Yeah. Definitely. 

All right, I think that’s it. That’s the last major transit for 2026, yeah? 

LS: Yeah. I think that’s it! 

CB: Awesome. Cool. Well, those are your major transits, Capricorn, for 2026, so thanks for watching. Again, if you need help planning or looking for good dates to start things next year, check out our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which again is only on sale for this month until January, and then it goes up to 65 dollars. But you can get it on sale now for 49.95 at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

Otherwise, if you wanna learn more about our approach to reading charts and to astrology and reading birth charts in particular, check out my Hellenistic Astrology Course at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right. Good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

[AQUARIUS HOROSCOPE]

CB: Hey Aquarius. This is your rising sign horoscope for the entire year of 2026. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and I am Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast, and we’re gonna be looking at the entire year ahead over the next 12 months and seeing what the transits look like for you this year. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me for doing horoscopes this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. So we’re gonna do a big picture overview, and like I said, we would recommend watching the horoscope that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time. Although if you don’t know your birth time, then you can look at the one that matches your Sun sign. And we’re gonna give big picture overview themes this year, so let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year. And here’s the major transits we’re gonna focus on, starting with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s gonna take place in February where right before that happens, Saturn and Neptune are both gonna move into the sign of Aries and depart from and end their long transits through the sign of Pisces that they’ve been going through for many years now. 

So this is gonna represent a shift of those two slow-moving outer planets from your 2nd house of finances into your 3rd house of communication, short-distance travel, siblings, and neighbors. So pretty big shift early in the year. 

LS: So Saturn entered Pisces and your 2nd house of personal income and finances in March 2023. So it’s been there for the last few years, along with Neptune for much longer. And so this is ending a phase in the beginning of this year where there might have been either greater constraint on your personal income or finances or you might have had to focus more on your finances for some reason. Or it might have been a time where you had even greater expenses going out and that you had to spend more money on. There might have also been more nebulousness around something financial during that time. So all of that energy’s moving out of your personal financial sector. So that’s really good news for a lot of people, I think, in terms of that area of life coming back more to neutrality. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. And having the alleviation of some of the challenges and obstacles and difficulties regarding finances that have been much more prominent, especially since March of 2023. 

LS: Right. So those transits are now moving into your 3rd house. So for some people, that’ll be a time when there may be either greater attention or support needing to be paid to siblings or cousins or other extended relatives. You may have some sort of strain or distance in your relationship at this time, or that person in your life may be going through a harder time than usual for some reason. It can also be a time where you’re putting greater focus and work towards communication skills. So either like, learning a new language or how you communicate, whether in speaking or writing you’re putting more intentional work into. It can be also a time where you’re putting more attention to that area because you’re trying to create a body of communication like a book or like a new podcast or something like that where you’re trying to create something new that you’ve only imagined up to this point around communications. 

CB: Yeah. And sometimes a Saturn transit in the 3rd house can bring greater sense of distance and even coldness in terms of your relationships with some of the 3rd house people, which can be like, siblings. Like, maybe for some reason you’re feeling a little bit more distance with your siblings than normal, or other extended relatives who are otherwise playing an important role in your life, which can include grandparents or aunts and uncles. It can even be extended to neighbors and people that live in your neighborhood who you are otherwise usually on friendly terms with, but for some reason there’s some challenges and obstacles and difficulty and coldness that arises during this time. And one of the things that’s gonna be tricky about that is especially around February, when the Saturn and Neptune conjunction comes together and goes exact, that’s this really nebulous energy that I’ve been calling the reality distortion field which can make it hard to tell the difference between what’s real versus what’s not, or what’s true versus what’s false, which for all of us, we’ve been experiencing in like, let’s say the area of technology by seeing things like the artificially generated video, for example, as an example of that that’s been getting better and better as this conjunction’s been forming over the past three years. But it’s also affecting each of us in very personal ways sometimes, and for you because it’s falling into your 3rd house of those relationships related to siblings and neighbors and other things like that, there may be some nebulousness surrounding why there’s distance between you and some of these people that’s suddenly arising at this time. And I think it’s gonna be really important to avoid making strong decisions around February regarding that, because you may not have a clear picture of what’s actually going on, and it could lead you to making mistakes if your perception of reality isn’t as clear as you might think it is at this time. But that will start to dissipate after February as that conjunction starts to move away. 

LS: Yeah, there can be some confusion in your connections with those people we were mentioning in that area of your life, especially in February, but to an extent even beyond that there can be some sort of nebulousness where they feel – to you, they feel hard to pin down or you don’t really understand what’s going on with them. There’s some lack of clarity going on. So yeah, so definitely be careful of that especially in February. Let’s see, what have we not mentioned about that? Is that all? 

CB: I would just add that sometimes there can be issues with short-distance travel. Like, your car could run into issues or break down for unclear reasons. You could be like, having to go back to the mechanic a few times and them having trouble diagnosing the problem. There can also be issues or things that inhibit your ability to communicate for some reason. But again, that make it so that your communication is not just inhibited through Saturn but also a little bit more nebulous and not clear that’s like, impinging your ability to communicate as clearly as you would like, or even to communicate at all. So that’s just kind of some of the archetypal energy, but again that’s gonna peak around February and then hopefully dissipate after that. 

So that’s our first major transit of the year. Then we move into our next major transit, which is that our first eclipse season starts in February and March with a pair of eclipses that take place in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your first house of mind and body and self and your 8th house of shared resources. 

LS: Yeah. And this first Aquarius eclipse, it’s gonna be the first in the series of Aquarius-Leo eclipses that we’re starting this year. And so an eclipse in your first house can bring important beginnings and endings with regard to anything involving your sense of self, whether that’s your inner sense of self, how you present yourself in the world. It can also be things involving your appearance as part of that, whether that’s hairstyle or clothing. It can also be how you take care of your body or health issues coming up, either paying attention to health either proactively or reactively or both. But it’s generally just a time where it’s good to, you know, at some points in time, it’s good to pay more attention or you have to pay more attention to certain relationships in your life. But at other times, there can be things that trigger rebalancing and going back to paying more attention to yourself and what do I want as an individual and that sort of thing. So that’s the kind of eclipse that’s happening with that first one in Aquarius. 

CB: Yeah. And it’s really hard to nail down what that means ahead of time in terms of when you tell somebody there’s gonna be changes to their sense of self that’s gonna impact their relationships. But it’s gonna play out this year starting with this first eclipse in Aquarius where you’re gonna be starting to focus more closely on yourself and figuring out who you are in terms of your identity and what you want in life. And then six months later, we’re gonna have an eclipse that takes place in Leo in your 7th house of relationships, and then all of a sudden, the question of relationships is gonna become more of a dominant focus for you. And so this is opening up a series of eclipses in 2026 going into 2027 that’s gonna be you teeter-tottering back and forth between sometimes focusing more on yourself and your own identity and other times focusing on your relationships more, and going to extremes but then eventually trying to find a balance between those two. 

LS: Right. And then the next eclipse is going to be in Virgo, which is in your 8th house, and that’s already in process, that eclipse series of Virgo-Pisces. So we’ve have two eclipses there already in 2025, and there’ll be another one in early 2027. So this is not a new area for you in terms of the themes, but it’ll involve things like shared resources, other people’s money, partner’s income, things involving taxes, loans, debt, or sometimes expenses can kind of go either in 2nd or 8th. Insurance also can go in the 8th house, so dealing with insurance for some reason. So there can be an important beginning or ending with regard to one of those topics, one or more of those topics in your life. It can be a time where there’s a change in how you allocate your shared resources if you have a partner, either personal or business partner. It can be a time where there’s changes going on in your partner’s ability to make an income; maybe they’re changing jobs, like a job is ending or they got a new job, and that causes you to sort of reevaluate how you’re spending shared income or sort of allocating that. 

CB: Yeah. So this is the continuation of a series of eclipses that’s just activating the financial sector of your chart, and we’ll see one of them happening here that has to do with shared resources and other people’s money becoming more prominent for some reason. And then six months later, we’ll see one that hits that focuses more on your personal finances and some major beginnings and major endings when it comes to your own capacity for making an income and building financial resources in your life.

So that’s our second major transit this year. The third one I wanted to get into next is that the planet Uranus starting in April is gonna complete a very long transit through the sign of Taurus where it’s been since 2018 and 2019. And it’s gonna move into the sign of Gemini for the next seven years, which is a movement from your 4th house of home and living situation and parents into your 5th house of children, creativity, romance, sex and sexuality, and also hobbies and fun and pleasures, basically, beginning a long-term transit activating that sector of your life.

LS: So Uranus has been in your sector of home, family, parents since 2018. There could have been a lot of changes with regard to either your home life, like where you live or how you structure your home. There could be changes that were happening – kind of like, radical changes – in your parents’ lives or something about your ancestry is a sudden revelation. So that is almost through. There will be one last little accentuation of that in February of 2026 when Uranus stations for the last time there in Taurus in your 4th house of home and family, and there’ll be inner planets that activate that all month. Then it will move into your 5th house of things involving children, sexuality, things you do for fun in general like hobbies, games, sports. And so there can be changes with regard to if you have children, they can be going through a lot of changes during this time – sometimes it’ll be like, sudden or erratic. They can be kind of branching out in new ways that you didn’t expect their lives to go in that direction and they’re suddenly like, “Hey, I’ve just completely changed my career path!” Or things like that if they’re older children, for example. It can be also a time where you change your attitude surrounding having children if you weren’t sure yet. And also just like, innovating around how you have fun, which could involve technology in certain ways. Yeah. So lots of different options. 

CB: Yeah. And with children, Uranus tends to bring this drive for freedom and rebelliousness. So if you have younger children, they may go through like, a phase of greater rebelliousness or acting out or doing things more independently, and sometimes that can be kind of surprising or disruptive or upsetting. Other times, like you were saying, it’s like, if you don’t have children or if you’re a person that never planned on having children, sometimes having a Uranus transit through the 5th house can bring unexpected children coming out of nowhere, or something surprising about the topic of children that you hadn’t anticipated. 

The 5th house, though, is also the house of like, romance and sex and sexuality. And sometimes Uranus transits through the 5th house can be radical changes when it comes to your sexuality or sexual orientation or things like that that you don’t anticipate or don’t expect, where there may be… Maybe you’ve always done things a certain way or had certain interests, but all of a sudden you see your interests and the things that bring you pleasure in life changing and that there’s this sense of newness sometimes imported by like, a new person or a new romantic interest who you hadn’t had in your life before that enlivens it with this greater sense of freedom and innovation and broadens your horizons but does so in a way that’s quite unexpected. So that’s one of the more positive sides of the transit. And then the final side is that that can also come through hobbies and finding new things that bring you joy and pleasure in life that are, you know, in terms of like, playing games or finding modes of self-expression or hobbies or things like that that maybe you wouldn’t have considered doing before, but that you just suddenly get really into and find that it brings this new level of excitement to your life that makes it more worth living. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. And speaking of the romance and sexuality piece, I just wanted to add that Uranus transiting your 5th can have a lot of overlap with Uranus transiting the 7th of partnership where it can bring new or different people that you’re dating. People that were different than you’ve dated before, have a different background, sometimes age differences, things like that. It’s a very experimental type of energy that comes to your romantic and dating life where you’re like, you also sometimes feel like, you know, you don’t have to commit to something for the long haul to be, well, I don’t know if this could work out, but let’s try and see. 

CB: Yeah. And it’s also one that’s hard for you to anticipate, though, because it often is the thing that you either least expect or that you maybe previously couldn’t have expected yourself going in that direction. But then all of a sudden, you do. 

So this is a long-term transit. We got a preview of it last year starting in July when Uranus first dipped into Gemini for a few months, but then it retrograded out. But this year starting in April, it’s gonna fully move into Gemini and it’s gonna stay there until like, 2032 or 2033. So this is a long-term period of changes, but it’s really important to start paying attention to some of the ones that happen early in the transit, because sometimes it can be signs of longer term changes that will dominate most of the next decade.

All right. So that’s that transit. Moving onto the next one, the first half of the year, the planet Jupiter of growth and expansion and optimism is gonna be transiting through the sign of Cancer, which is your 6th house of work and health and indicating some positive developments in that sector of your life. But then starting in late June, Jupiter’s gonna move into the sign of Leo for the next year, and that’s into your 7th house of relationships and partnership for the entire second half of 2026. So that transit kind of divides the year into two halves, like a first half and a second half. 

LS: Definitely. And Jupiter went into Cancer in the middle of 2025, so this is the second half of that transit through your 6th house. So Jupiter transiting your 6th house can bring greater positivity and greater growth and optimism around your work or health spheres; it can be things like you have better relationships with your coworkers during this time, or if you need to hire someone to help you with work, whether that’s an actual employee or someone that does freelance work for you, or even things like hiring like, a person that cuts your hair or things like that, that can also fall in the 6th house. It’s a better time to find like, good relationships around those types of things. Good working relationships. And it can also be a better time to improve your health in some way, so whether that’s a time where your health is just better naturally or it’s a time when you find things, whether that’s nutritional things or exercise things or what have you, you find approaches to health that help you improve your health during this time. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. That’s gonna be really good opportunities in the first half of the year. And then in the second half, this is the first transit of three, actually, that keep pointing us in your life towards some major in this instance positive changes when it comes to relationships. Because Jupiter going into your 7th house is just traditionally one of those transits that’s represented as a year-long period in which you’re having good fortune in the sector of relationships. So if you don’t have any relationship, sometimes this can bring somebody into your life, which can be kind of new and exciting and optimistic. It can bring a greater sense of optimism to your life that maybe you hadn’t had up until this point. 

There can also be some positive partnerships, which can be non-romantic, just in terms of working one-on-one with another person and having that be a successful partnership for some reason. 

LS: Definitely. Or if you are partnered, this can be a time where there’s just greater positivity and warmth in your relationship than at other times, greater expansive feelings. Also times when something more positive than usual is going on with your partner for them, so whether that’s like, unrelated to you, but that can be something good happening for your partner that then brings greater positivity to your relationship with each other. Yeah. So that’s gonna be happening for the second half of 2026. And we’re gonna have a bunch of other things going on in that area of life. So especially in the second half of the year, there’s gonna be a lot of attention paid towards the area of partnership. I should also say if you do anything that involves client work, that can also be a good time for greater positivity and greater growth in that area. 

CB: Yeah, for sure, especially like, consulting and things like that. 

So before we move on from this transit, one last thing that happens just before Jupiter leaves Cancer is that there’s this very auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction that takes place earlier in June in the sign of Cancer which will probably be really positive for things related to work and things related to health for you as a little temporary transit at the very beginning of that and the tail end of Jupiter in Cancer. So we noticed that because we were just researching and we just released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates in 2026 using the principles of electional astrology.

LS: Any important actions you need or want to take in 2026 or important projects you wanna start, whether that’s around your love life, business, home, or what have you, if you use these dates and times that we’ve selected for you already to start those things, you’ll have better odds of success. 

CB: Yeah. So we’ve picked out at least 28 auspicious electional charts and dates for doing things next year, which can be used for business, your love life, or any major life events. And we have in each month and overview and forecast of the astrological weather that month and tell you not just the best dates to do things, but also the dates to avoid, because sometimes electional astrology is just as much about knowing which dates to avoid and like, that there’s a Mercury retrograde starting on this date or what have you, than it is on picking out the best dates to do things. 

So our report comes with a video report, an audio version of the same report, and then also an extensive written report as a PDF. And you can get it right now for 49.95 because we’re running a launch sale where it’s discounted 23 percent, but only this month, because then in January the price is gonna go up to 65 dollars. So get the report now at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so let’s move into talking about the transits in the second half of 2026 for Aquarius rising where the next one is we get into our second eclipse season, which happens in Leo and Pisces in August through early September. And this is a set of eclipses that’s taking place in your 7th house of relationships as well as your 2nd house of money and possessions and personal finances.

LS: Right. So this Leo eclipse will be the first one that we experience, and that’ll be bringing beginnings and endings or new chapters or closing off old chapters in the area of personal partnership or business partnership or other important one-on-one interactions. So for some people, that can be the beginning of a new relationship that starts when there’s an eclipse in your 7th house of partnership. At other times, there can be an ending of a relationship at that time, or an ending of a chapter somehow – like, an ending of an era – in your partnership for some reason. It can also be an important event going on, an important happening with regard to your partner just like the Jupiter transit. I do like that the Jupiter transit is happening at the same time, because it kind of makes things lean more positively, especially for day chart people. If you were born with the Sun above the Ascendant-Descendant axis, then this is more likely to be a time of greater positivity and change with regard to relationships. 

CB: Yeah. So this eclipse happening in August adds on top of the Jupiter transit that already moved in there in June to your 7th house of relationships, but it brings this additional sense of weightiness that it’s not just like, a positive, optimistic Jupiter transit in your 7th house, but there’s something really weighty and important that starts happening in the sphere of relationships and in the sphere of partnership for you at this point. And it’s gonna be part of an ongoing series and sequence of events that’s gonna play out over the course of the next year. So that can be, like I said, I always say the keyword of “major beginnings and major endings” when it comes to relationships. So sometimes it can represent a relationship reaching the end of its life cycle and coming to an end, or other times it can represent a new relationship opening up and starting at this time that ends up becoming much more significant than you thought it would at first. So that’s significant. 

And then the other eclipse in your 2nd house is filling in the other side of that financial sector that opened up six months earlier when we had the eclipse that was in the 8th house of other people’s money and shared resources. Now all of a sudden, the focus is becoming on your personal finances and some major beginnings and major endings happening there in terms of your ability to make an income.

LS: Yeah. And this’ll be the last one after a lot of activation of that area in your life for the last few years. We’ve had Saturn and Neptune there, and we’ve had a series of eclipses already in Pisces. So this’ll be the last one, potentially bringing some closure to all of that activation of the last few years, or one last important beginning or ending with regard to personal income and finances. 

CB: Yeah. And that’s really good just because now that Saturn is out of there, Saturn was probably holding things back or causing some greater setbacks and obstacles and difficulties in the financial sector, but now this final eclipse is kind of bringing all of that to completion so that you can start a new chapter when it comes to that area of your life. 

All right. So that’s eclipse season; it wraps up in early September. The next major transit we wanna talk about is the Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Libra that takes place in October and November, which is starting in your 10th house of career and then it’s retrograding back into your 9th house of education, beliefs, and travel. 

LS: Yeah. So Venus retrogrades in general can bring people back from the past. That can be people that you used to work with or somehow connected with your career. It can also be a time where you’re revisiting your thoughts about how you’re going about your career. So that’s retrograding first in your 10th house and then into your 9th house. And the 9th house involves study, education, long-distance travel potentially, cross-cultural experiences, or belief systems. So the Venus retrograde may connect those two areas for some people with Aquarius rising where for some people, you might be reenvisioning, “Do I need more education in order to move forward with my career path,” for instance. That could easily connect those two areas of life for you. At other times or for other people, it could be revisioning like, “Do I wanna do more teaching? Do I wanna do more publishing with regard to my career?” That can be another way where you’re revisioning those things. And you can also just be reconnecting with helpful people or people from the past in those areas of life. 

CB: Yeah. It could also be taking an important trip for work since the 9th house is the place of travel and the 10th place is related to your career. And what’s important about this is you can actually get a preview of what this transit’s gonna be about and how it’s gonna activate that sector of your chart, because this transit repeats almost exactly every eight years. So if you think back to eight years earlier in October and November of 2018, that was the last time Venus went retrograde in the same sector of your chart. Or eight years before that would have been October and November of 2010. And sometimes there can be these echoes or repetitions through our life when the same transit hits the same part of our chart, and then all of a sudden we have this career sector and this education-belief-travel sector being activated at the same time. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: Yeah. So that’s pretty good. It’ll be particularly positive for those with night charts, I think. If you have a night chart, that’ll probably be experienced as a really positive transit for career and education or travel or beliefs. If you have a day chart, it might not be as significant to write home about. But in each instance, it will have this backwards-looking orientation of either reflecting on the past or sometimes people from the past coming back into the present. 

So speaking of retrogrades, that brings us to our last major transit we wanted to talk about for this year, which is that planet Mars by the last quarter of 2026 is slowing down and getting ready to go retrograde itself in the signs of Leo and Virgo. And this transit doesn’t fully get going because Mars doesn’t actually station retrograde in Virgo until the beginning of January 2027. But already starting in September through December, Mars is slowing down and it’s moving through the two signs that it will go retrograde in. And as a result of that, it’s building up and creating this set of circumstances and scenarios that’s gonna play out over a nine month period in the sectors of your chart which are the 7th house of relationships and partnership as well as the 8th house of shared resources. So for some reason, it’s creating some linkages between those two areas of your life, and it’s getting ready for a long-term sequence of events that will play out from late 2026 into early 2027. 

LS: So Mars retrogrades – retrograde cycles, rather – they always start with you’re starting out and you’re putting some extra energy or effort into that area of life or areas of life as the case may be here with two different houses. But then you’re gonna have to rework it going forward a few months into the future. And so looking at the last quarter of 2026, it can kind of give you some clues as to what’s gonna need to be reworked a little bit or redone in early 2027 in these areas. So for some people, if you have like, a business partnership, for instance, this can be a time where you’re on the one hand putting more energy or effort into working together, but also it can be a time where greater conflict or problems can come up in that working relationship, especially when it connects to how you share your resources, how you share profits, and that sort of thing if that’s relevant to you. 

For other people, it’s gonna be a personal relationship where they may be on the one hand, you’re putting more energy or effort into this partnership, but there can be greater conflicts that come up at this time compared to other times in your relationship. It can be also a time when there’s greater problems coming up for your partner if you are partnered. 

CB: Yeah. So this is the third transit already we’ve seen this year that’s happening in the 7th house of relationships, so it’s showing that there’s this continual focus on relationships that continues not just in 2026 but goes through into 2027. But with this transit, it kind of shows that everything is not just like, rainbows and puppy dogs and things like that with the Jupiter transit that started in June. But instead, we’ve got some tensions that are starting to arise in the sphere of relationships at this time where there could be some strife or some obstacles or some difficulties that start to come up. And it’s happening in the relationship sector, but it’s also connecting it to the sector of the chart that represents your partner’s finances or other people’s money. So you need to exercise additional or extra caution during this time period, especially if you have a day chart because there could be some disputes with a partner, whether business or romantic, over financial matters at this time. It could also connect things in terms of like, an inheritance, issues related to mortality, issues related to taxes or debts. Like, in some instances, finding out that a partner has like, a bunch of debts from the past that the two of you didn’t know about or something like that. Because since it’s a retrograde, sometimes it does have a backwards-looking orientation where there’s something from the past that comes back up into the present. 

LS: Right. For sure. And as you’re – you know, if you do have conflicts or problems that come up more than usual during this time, you do – like you were just saying – want to be kind of careful or exercise some restraint around not adding to the potential conflict, but also knowing that whatever you’re working out at this time will take a little bit longer. If you think you’ve kind of like, figured out what you need to do, you may need to rework that in early 2027. And so that’s what’s really nice about knowing about that ahead of time is you can kind of get clues as to like, what’s going to come up going forward. 

CB: Yeah. And also to exercise restraint just because sometimes early in a Mars retrograde, we can get into a conflict with somebody or have a fight that normally would be just like, a little fight that happens and then goes away and gets better the next day. But sometimes under retrogrades, like, a little fire can turn into a whole forest fire if you let things get out of hand and if you don’t think about it and exercise restraint ahead of time. So be careful what you say, especially in partnership and relationships during this time, and especially in like, business relationships or partnerships as well, because that could be kind of tricky. 

LS: For sure. So for day chart people, you will have this silver lining, right, where you do have the Jupiter is bringing greater extremes of positivity to that area at the same time. So that’ll help out still, even though Mars is potent as well, and Mars will bring greater problems for day chart people. So you have a little bit more of both the extremes of positivity and potential conflict, whereas for night chart people if you have these two transits simultaneously, it’s a little bit more moderated where you’re having some benefits, but not quite as positive as the day chart people in the area of relationships. And then you’re mostly just putting a lot of extra effort or energy into that area with the Mars transit. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. That’s a great point that it’s like, the day chart ones, it’s like, the best transit and one of the most challenging transits happening simultaneously. And they’re roughly happening at the same time for almost a year, too, because it’s like, Jupiter and Mars are there in the 7th house in the second half of 2026, and then both of them are still doing a lot of that through the first half of 2027 where it will also continue to get eclipses that will move even more firmly into the first house axis of self and the 7th house axis of relationships. So it seems like some major stuff with relationships is on the horizon for Aquarius rising in 2026 and 2027. But that’s starting to take us into – see, we’re already, the gravitational pull of us thinking about 2027 is already pulling us towards doing a horoscope for these guys for 2027. So maybe we need to pull ourselves back. 

LS: Yeah, I think that’s it for 2026. We can get to 2027 in about 12 months! 

CB: Okay. That sounds good. We will check in again then in that case. 

So that’s it then, Aquarius rising! Those are your major transits for 2026. So again, as we said, for help planning things next year, check out our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale just this month for 49.95, but only until January, and then the price is gonna jump up to 65 dollars. So you can get that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

And otherwise, if you wanna learn more about our approach to astrology and how we read birth charts, you can sign up for my Hellenistic Astrology Course at TheAstrologySchool.com. 

All right, that’s it. So good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year! 

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CB: Hey Pisces. This is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim, and I’m Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast, and we’re gonna give you an entire year ahead forecast for the next 12 months. So hey, Leisa – thanks for joining me and doing horoscopes with me this year. 

LS: Hey Chris. Glad to be here. 

CB: Yeah. So for our horoscopes, we would recommend looking at them from the perspective of your rising sign if you know your birth time. Although if you don’t know your birth time, then you can also look at your Sun sign. So this is gonna be just a big picture overview of the major trends and themes and transits this year, so let’s go ahead and jump right into it. 

So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year. And here are some of the major transits we’re gonna start talking about over the course of this forecast, beginning with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s gonna take place in February, because this is important in marking the start of a long-term transit where both Saturn and Neptune are gonna depart from their long transits through the sign of Pisces and move into the sign of Aries starting in January and February. So this is really important, of course, because Pisces is your first house of mind, body, and self that Saturn and Neptune are gonna be departing from. And then it’s gonna move into Aries, which is your 2nd house of money, finances, possessions, and personal resources. So major shift right at the top of the year, yeah? 

LS: Yeah, definitely. And especially for Pisces rising. So Saturn and Neptune leaving your first house should probably be really good news for you overall, because it tends to be a heavier feeling time when Saturn is transiting your first house. You may have done kind of more work on restructuring your sense of self or just having heavier responsibilities on you. But with Neptune there, there’s also a sense of nebulousness surrounding who you are; sometimes there can also be kind of energy leakages where it’s not the highest energy time with Saturn and Neptune going through your first house physically speaking. Or there could have even been nebulous health things that came up from time to time. 

So the good news is that both of those are leaving your first house of self, and they are now going to move into your 2nd house of personal income and finances. And they’re gonna make an exact conjunction there in the 2nd house in February. So what that means for you – a few things. One of the things that it can mean is that there were structures that you have in place for your personal income and finances that are dissolving at this time, but there can also be for other people – or for the same people – a time when you’re kind of dreaming new dreams about how you can make a living or different things you can do to make a living, sources of income, and how you can make that real. So you’re gonna be blending the reality principle of Saturn with the sort of dreams and imagination of Neptune. 

CB: Yeah. So one the one hand, this is a little bit tricky because it’s great that we have the alleviation of some of the body and health transits that especially Saturn represented since March of 2023 when it went into your first house and feeling like, a weight is sort of lifted off your shoulders at this time ending such a heavy transit like that that’s lasted for three years. But on the other hand, having Saturn going into your 2nd house can be more of a time of some challenges arising when it comes to your finances and sometimes like, an obstacle or a surmountable difficulty coming up that you have to overcome. The issue, though, is that with this conjunction going exact in February, this is the peak of what I call the reality distortion field where it’s become increasingly difficult over the past few years as this conjunction has moved together to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not, or between what’s true versus what’s false. And we’ve all seen that with like, the advent of AI-generated video that’s really ramped up over the past few years as this conjunction grows closer, which is being sort of perfected right now. But it’s also hitting each of us in terms of our personal life in certain sectors of the chart and certain areas of our life. And for you, it’s really peaking here when it comes to the area of money and finances so that there may be some ambiguity about how to get out of this period of surmountable difficulties with finances that starts to arrive and what the best way is forward. And you wanna be really careful in February, because you may not have a clear picture of what exactly is going on, and should probably avoid making major financial decisions around that time. But the good news is that after February, that conjunction will start to dissipate, so hopefully the intensity of that sort of reality distortion field will recede a little bit into the background after that time. 

LS: Definitely. And we got a preview of this already. So in the second half of 2025, in particular in July when Saturn and Neptune were both in Aries but also got the closest they got to exactly conjunct in July, it was less than a degree apart. So if you think back to what was going on for you in that area of life in July, in personal income and finances, you may get a sense of what to expect around February. 

CB: Absolutely. And by the end of this transit, because the Saturn transit’ll last like, what, two more years through 2028, you’ll end up having created new structures in your life in terms of making money and setting up a positive financial foundation and taking that area of your life perhaps more seriously than you have up to that point. But by the end of the transit, that should be a constructive thing in terms of putting those new structures in place to create a more solid foundation for the future. So I like the sound of that. 

So that’s our first major transit of this year. Now we move into the next one, which is the first eclipse season takes place from February through March. And this first eclipse season happens in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your 12th house and your 7th house. So those are kind of an interesting set of houses to have as part of the focus, because the 12th house activation is tied in with a new series of eclipses where this year, you’re gonna have eclipses starting in your 12th house, and then six months later in your 6th house. And that’s kind of the health axis of your chart where the 12th house usually tends to deal more with mental health, whereas the 6th house has more to do with physical health. So there’s something about health that becomes more of the focus this year in some major beginnings and major endings when it comes to that area of your life.

LS: So let’s just think about the first one. The first eclipse is in Aquarius in your 12th house, so that can bring up health things. It can bring up a greater focus on mental health; it can also bring up things having to do with enemies, a.k.a., people you don’t get along with or kind of who work against you in some way, even intentionally or unintentionally. So it can bring up something around that that you have to deal with. But sometimes and for some other people, it can just be a time where you have a sudden beginning or ending with regard to contemplative action. So like, beginning a meditation practice is a great constructive 12th house eclipse thing. Just time spent more behind the scenes. You know, even just like, working alone behind the scenes can also be a 12th house thing. So there can be different things that come up, although health may become a greater part of it as we get to the other eclipse. 

CB: Yeah. And it’s interesting, those 12th house themes of seclusion that can come up with the first eclipse in Aquarius, because then of course the second eclipse in Virgo is in the 7th house of relationships and one-on-one interactions with other people and partnership. So there’s some sort of almost tension there or some sort of interaction between one thing pulling you more towards seclusion and internal explorations of mental health and things like that, versus the other eclipse that’s focusing more on relationships. But the first eclipse is kind of a new energy because it’s the beginning of a new eclipse series, whereas the second eclipse in Virgo we’ve had – this is like, the middle point of a series of eclipses that started in Virgo in 2025, and carry through into 2027. So this represents major beginnings and major endings for relationships where sometimes if you’re in a relationship, you can have a relationship that reaches the end point in terms of the end of its life cycle if you decide that relationship is no longer what you want in your life and you can have the end of one relationship and the beginning of another. If you’re single, sometimes it can be about starting a new relationship and entering into like, a new important era of your life in terms of one-on-one relationships with people. So that can be kind of exciting. But it brings a weightiness to that area of your life where relationships are more dominant for some reason. 

LS: Definitely. And that’s typically how they’re experienced in like, personal, romantic relationships, but there can also be important beginnings and endings with regard to working one-on-one with another person, whether that’s like, a business partnership or even if you do client work – that can be an important time of beginnings and endings around that for you. 

CB: Definitely. All right, so that’s the first eclipse season. So moving on, the next major transit is that the planet Uranus has spent the past seven years or so in the sign of Taurus going through your 3rd house of communication all the way back since like, 2018 and 2019. And it’s finally finishing up through that sign, and it’s moving into the sign of Gemini starting in April, which is moving into your 4th house of home and living situation and parents. 

So this is a major shift, because Uranus spends about seven years in each sign. And so a large part of it is wrapping up and figuring out the final lessons of what you were learning as Uranus was going through the 3rd house. And the 3rd house can relate to siblings and your relationship with them if you have any. It can relate to extended family like cousins, aunts, uncles, or even grandparents. But also it can relate to your neighborhood and your local environment outside of your house, as well as how you get around that neighborhood such as your car or however you sort of like, get around your city basically. 

LS: Definitely. So that transit is almost through. We’ll just have one last intensification of that in February when Uranus stations for the last time in Taurus, and then a bunch of inner planets activate that all month. And then it moves into your 4th house of home and family, living situation, things having to do with parents or ancestry, things from the past. Uranus transits through the 4th house are really classic for moving, right? So the energy of Uranus is like, sudden change, unexpected change, wanting to break free of something that’s felt stagnant for a while, or just wanting new experimentation. And so that energy is coming to the area of your home and your living situation. So a really common thing that comes up is people suddenly moving. Maybe you weren’t even thinking about moving like, six months prior, for instance, and then all of a sudden you’re like, “I need to go. I need to go somewhere else!” Right? 

CB: Right. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That was what I did with that transit through my 4th house years ago at the beginning of the Taurus transit was just like, “We’re moving.” And then moved like, the next month. And so sudden, unexpected, rapid change, but also a greater sense of a need for freedom and liberation in that part of your life so that if there’s something that’s been holding you back in terms of your living situation, you’ll have a sudden desire to suddenly change it very radically and very quickly, which can be very exciting in some instances. 

LS: Definitely. And I’m thinking about that interplay of Saturn leaving your first house, which can be more of like, a serious vibe, more of a heavy vibe, and that’s leaving an angular house of your chart, especially the first house of your sense of self. And then Uranus suddenly coming into an angular part of your chart, meaning it’s just more active. And it’s like, there’s some reason for which you’re suddenly feeling like you can be more spontaneous, especially in the area of your home and living situation. 

This can also relate to – if your parents are still around, they could be making sudden or unexpected changes in their lives. That’s something that can commonly happen, too, because when Uranus goes through any part of your chart that it refers to other people in your life, it can also be like, representing stuff that’s going on for them.

CB: Yeah. So sometimes they can have a sudden urge for greater freedom and liberation, and sometimes that can be a little bit weird or awkward because they can start acting as like, rebellious teenagers regardless of their age or can start making changes very rapidly, sometimes because they have this urge to be more authentic towards what they – who they are and what they’ve always wanted to achieve and accomplish. And sometimes that can be a little surprising or unsettling from your vantage point, but ultimately usually it’s for the best. 

LS: Right. It just kind of shakes up your foundations, your feelings of like, where you come from or the people that came before you, but can bring a really breath of fresh air as well to the same area. 

CB: Yeah. Absolutely. But during the course of that, because it’s transiting your 4th house, if you have planets in like, the first house, it can be impacting your sense of self. It can be squaring your 7th house planets if you have any, like your Descendant, which can be impacting relationships. And of course it can oppose your 10th house planets, which can impact career. And it’s just some of the ways that our home and living situation and private life and changes there can have ripple effects throughout the rest of our chart and the rest of our life. 

LS: Definitely. 

CB: All right. So that’s that transit. Moving onto the next one, the next one I wanted to talk about is Jupiter and its transits this year where it’s gonna spend the first half of the year in the sign of Cancer, which is your 5th house, but then starting in late June it’s gonna move into the sign of Leo, which is your 6th house. So the 5th house is like, the house of children, fun and games and enjoyment, but also romantic affairs, sex and sexuality, and also hobbies. So the first half of the year is like, growth and expansion with respect to some of those topics with Jupiter in that sign. Then the second half of the year is Jupiter moving into your 6th house, which is the house that pertains to work and to health. 

LS: So the Jupiter transit through Cancer is an extension of the transit that started in the middle of 2025 and then lasts ‘til the middle of 2026. So typically when Jupiter transits your 5th house, it’s just a great time for having more fun, right? Like, and especially – again, I keep coming back to, you know, Saturn’s leaving your first house. You’re alleviating some sort of serious vibe that’s been on you for a few years. And Jupiter transiting through your 5th house is just expansion of things that you do for pleasure. So it can also be, for some people it’s a time for having children, because Jupiter is expanding that signification of the 5th house. But it can also just be like, a time of, you know, you’re treating yourself to like, “I wanna have fun in life.” It doesn’t have to be always so serious. And I think that’s a great time to do so for the first half of 2026. 

CB: Yeah, that’s a really great point. I’m glad you said that. So sometimes that can be like, getting into new hobbies or finding new things that bring fun and enjoyment into your life and make life even more worth living just through the enjoyment that you find in having a hobby or having something that you’re really into doing, which can also include like, sports and games and creative outlets as well. Jupiter transit through the 5th house can be a very creative time where you sort of express yourself and find things within yourself that you’re able to put out there into the world in concrete form. 

LS: Definitely. If you do any sort of creative work at all, you know, whether professionally or just for fun, it can be like, more of a prolific time of greater creative output. 

CB: Yeah. So Jupiter going into your 6th house, though, in the second half of the year is putting more of the focus on health and work and trying to bring some positive things to that area of your life in terms of sometimes it can be like, improving health matters or getting ahold of health matters and trying to find ways that you can improve them. 

Other times, it’s helping to improve things in the workplace. So sometimes that can be like, a promotion. Other times, if there’s people that you work with or especially people that work for you if you find yourself in some sort of managerial role, you can find yourself having good relationships with people at work in a way that makes you feel a little bit more optimistic or positive about the workplace in some ways. 

LS: Definitely. Yeah. It’s definitely a better time for positive working relationships and if you need to, you know, hire someone even one-off to help you with something, either work-related or even things that are unrelated to work like cutting your hair, you need to a person to do that, it can be a great time for new, positive relationships to come into that area.

CB: Definitely. And we’ll come back to the 6th house because this is actually the first of three different transits hitting the 6th house this year, showing that this is gonna be a really important sector of your chart over the next 12 months. 

All right. So one last thing about this point is before Jupiter leaves Cancer, in June, there’s this very auspicious-looking Venus-Jupiter conjunction that takes place towards the beginning of that month, which will happen in your 5th house of children, romance, and creativity and could represent a very positive event with respect to those topics right at the beginning of June when those two planets form that conjunction. 

And we actually found this because we just finished researching and released our 2026 Electional Astrology Report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates in 2026 based on the principles of electional astrology. 

LS: Right. So basically the principle of electional astrology is you pick out the best dates and times to start new ventures or take important actions, and it’ll give you better odds of successful results. So that’s what we’ve done for you is pick out all the best dates and times in the entire year of 2026. 

CB: Yeah. So we’ve got 28 auspicious charts and dates along with tutorials about how to use them and adapt them to your city. And one of the things we did is we went through each of the next 12 months and we gave you a forecast of the astrological weather for each month, telling you not just the good days to do things, but also some of the bad days to really avoid starting major things or taking actions. Because sometimes electional astrology is just as much about knowing what days to avoid as it is knowing what days to gravitate towards doing things. So you can get this report, and it’s a video report that comes with an audio version as well as a detailed written report as a PDF. And you can use it for business, love, or pretty much any major life event next year. 

So the report’s on sale, but only for the first month for 49.95, but then the price is gonna go up to 65 dollars starting in January. So you can get the report now at the sale price at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

All right, so that takes us into the second half of the year. Let’s take a look at the transits coming up in the second half of 2026 where the next one is we get our second eclipse season when a pair of eclipses in Leo and Pisces take place in August into early September. 

So this is happening in your 6th house of work and health as well as your first house of mind, body, and appearance. 

LS: So the first one in Leo is the very first one in the Leo series. We had the Aquarius piece earlier in the year, and now there’s the Leo eclipse. And so that’s putting extra attention on that same area we were just talking about where you’re having the Jupiter transit through the 6th house of work and health in the whole second half of 2026. And now an eclipse comes to the same area, and it’s gonna bring important beginnings or endings or both to that area of life. So that can be ending one job and starting a new job, because of the workplace piece of the 6th house. It can be beginning or ending like, a health routine – like, you start going to the gym for the first time in years, for instance. It can be that kind of thing. It can be beginning a new relationship with like, a health professional that helps you with your health. Those sorts of things can come about with the eclipse there. 

CB: Yeah. So this really adds some weightiness to this area of health and work that weren’t there by just looking at the Jupiter transit that starts in June, which is more like, positive growth and optimism and things like that. But when eclipses start happening in the 6th house, it indicates something more long ranging is starting to take place and is starting to formulate in your life at this time. And it’s happening on this whole health axis where the eclipse six months earlier in March and February was in the mental health axis, whereas this one’s taking place in the physical health axis, and I think part of this is just really emphasizing the connection between mind and body and how sometimes you need to take good care of your mental health, because it can have an impact on your physical health, and vice versa – that it’s important to take care of your physical health because it can have an impact on your mental health. And those are some of the themes that really come into focus by the time of this eclipse in August. 

LS: And then the following eclipse in late August is gonna be the last one in Pisces, and it is basically a time of bringing to conclusion a bunch of important activity that’s been happening in your first house of self. So Saturn and Neptune have been there; Saturn for the last few years. We’ve also had a whole series of eclipses in Pisces in the first house. So this is gonna be the very last one. So basically, the very last time of an important beginning or ending or both with regard to your sense of identity, something about body, appearance, how you present yourself, how you think of yourself, and things of that nature. So it can also bring some sort of closure to all the work that you’ve been doing during the past few years there. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. And just the back and forth that you’ve had in terms of eclipses in your 7th house opening up major beginnings and major endings for relationships, but then this eclipse happening in the first house of self and you sometimes needing to focus more on who you are and what your identity is and who you are outside of relationships. So you may have been swinging between extremes over the course of the past couple of years of eclipses in this axis of your chart, but this final one puts the final touch on whatever the evolution has been in terms of finding out more about who you are and what you need to live a happy life with this final eclipse in Pisces in your rising sign in August and early September. 

All right. So that’s the eclipse season. So moving on. The next major transit is there’s gonna be a Venus retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra in October and November. And this is taking place in your 9th house of education and travel and beliefs, going back into your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money. 

LS: So this can be a time of reenvisioning or revisiting things around those two house topics. You could be – I could see for some people, for instance, with Pisces rising, you could be revisiting an idea of going back to school. Like, if you had left school or something, or decided not to go to school at a certain point earlier in life. You could be reenvisioning that idea and especially exploring “How do I finance that?” Right? With Venus going backwards through the area of higher education and then going retrograde as well through the 8th house, which can have to do with grants, scholarships, loans, as well as things like taxes, other people’s money, et cetera. But that can be one way that those two houses could be connected during that retrograde. 

CB: Yeah, definitely. Another way is like, since it’s Venus, it could involve taking a long distance trip and getting the financial assistance to do so somehow, or taking a trip and then having some sort of financial windfall come as a result of that. I’m thinking especially for the people with night charts that this is gonna be experienced as more of a positive transit, since night chart people tend to react to Venus transits and especially Venus retrogrades as being more beneficial, basically, in terms of life events. But whatever it is, you can think back to eight years earlier because this same Venus retrograde transit happened way back in November and October of 2018 the last time that Venus went retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, or even eight years before that in October and November of 2010. And sometimes there can be events or circumstances that occurred back during those previous retrogrades or sometimes even people that come back into the present and become relevant again for some reason because Venus retrogrades have this backwards-looking orientation. 

LS: For sure. Yeah, and speaking of people, it could bring back, for instance, people you know at a distance like, who live in other countries. That’s a pretty easy possibility with Venus retrograding through the 9th house. It could also be people you used to be connected with in like, a religious community or something like that with the 9th house of belief systems. Yeah. So and typically, you’re sort of going back to the past or reviewing or rethinking things around those topics during the retrograde, and then once it goes forward, you’re kind of moving into the future having revisioned those things. 

CB: Yeah, for sure. And sometimes it’s connecting the place of belief and like, religion with the 8th place, which can have to do with mortality. It can be about like, revisiting and thinking about your views on that topic, on the topic of mortality, and what you connect with or what your personal philosophy is surrounding that and different things related to it. So it’ll be good to think about some of those things during that time, because that’s kind of an interesting combination in terms of the 9th house and the 8th house. 

LS: Right. Yeah, definitely. 

CB: All right. So the final transit we need to talk about besides the Venus retrograde transit later the year, there’s also a Mars retrograde transit that begins to build up towards the end of 2026. And then Mars doesn’t actually station retrograde until January of 2027, but it’s already entered its pre-retrograde shadow and the two signs that it’s gonna retrograde in, which are Leo and Virgo, by late September through December of 2026. So this is important, because this is gonna be a Mars retrograde in your 6th house of work and health, as well as your 7th house of relationships and partnership.

LS: Yeah. So typically during the build up to a Mars retrograde station, you’re starting to put more energy and effort and attention into a certain area or areas of your life. So you’re gonna be doing that in the 6th house of work and health, and the 7th house of partnership. But as you go, you’ll start to get clues as to the things you’re gonna need to rework or redo once Mars goes retrograde in early 2027. So that’s a nice thing about knowing that that’s coming up is you can pay attention during the last quarter of the year and see what you might think is gonna just take a little while; it’s gonna be a small project – usually gets stretched out a little bit, because of that Mars retrograde. So it’s just important to know that that’s gonna take an extra length of time in terms of your energy and attention in those areas. 

So with Mars going through your 6th house, that can be on the one hand, you know, it’s overlapping a lot with the Jupiter transit there and with the first eclipse in Leo there in your 6th house. So you can be putting a lot of attention and energy, for instance, into a new job. That could be one area of life where you’re doing that. It could also be that you’re really trying to focus on working on your health, and so you’re putting a lot of energy and attention – that can easily be time when you’re like, getting more vigorous exercise, for instance. That’s pretty common with like, Mars through the first or the 6th. 

So that’s one way that can go. And especially if you have a night chart, it’s gonna be tending to be more constructive and also more moderated between the Mars and the Jupiter transits there. So Mars will just tend to be greater energy expenditure and vigorous effort in that area, whereas Jupiter won’t be quite as positive in terms of its expansive qualities compared to if you have a day chart. But it will still be somewhat positive. Whereas if you have a day chart, you’re gonna get more the extremes of on the one hand, Jupiter’s bringing really good things to that area of life for work or health and then to relationships. But then Mars is gonna bring more potential for conflict or potential for problems coming up – injuries, for instance, can happen with Mars through the 6th in a day chart. 

CB: Yeah. For sure. Well, this being the third transit this year that’s really pointing us towards major things happening in the 6th house of work as well as health shows us this is gonna be a major focus this year. And the other two transits, especially the Jupiter transit was more positive, and that’s still gonna be there counterbalancing the Mars transit. But the Mars transit shows us that it’s not all gonna be super easy, and there may be some obstacles that arise in this area during the second part of 2026 and especially the early part of 2027. 

So there may be a connection between partnership and health. We focused especially on the health and work factor here, but since this Mars retrograde actually begins in the 7th house, sometimes that can indicate some strife or separation or difficulties that arise in the context of partnership, especially if you’re in an existing relationship at this point. Or you could just go through a rough patch with a partner where they’re more irritable, or the two of you are getting in more fights than usual. 

LS: For sure. It can also connect those two where your partner is having a rough patch of health, for instance, and it’s not really about your health. But it could be connecting those two topics with your partner. 

CB: Yeah. So the good thing, though, is the fact that Jupiter is transiting through the 6th house this year is really gonna help counterbalance things, and then the following year it will go into the 7th house to help smooth things out. And we really saw last year during the Mars retrograde in Leo and Cancer how the Mars retrograde even sometimes when it would set up some issues or there would be some difficulties that arose, when Jupiter came in then later subsequently it really helped to smooth things out and to fix anything that got ruffled or broken during that time. So that’ll be a good follow-up that’s coming in the future. 

LS: Absolutely. That’s definitely something to look forward to, although that does get us into 2027. 

CB: Yeah. I can already feel the gravitational weight of 2027 pulling us towards that and like, starting to make us issue predictions already for 2027 even though we’re supposed to stick to 2026. So maybe we have to exercise some restraint ourselves and call it a day. 

LS: Yeah, I think so.

CB: All right. Awesome. Well, thanks for joining me for this forecast, Leisa, and thanks everyone for watching. Those are your major transits for 2026. So for help, as we said, planning auspicious dates next year, you can get our 2026 Electional Astrology Report, which is on sale only in the next month for 49.95, but then the price goes up to 65 dollars in January, which is still a steal, actually. And you can get it at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2026Report. 

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All right. Good luck in 2026, and we’ll see you again next year!