While on paper there is the same amount of change that there was last year, this is nothing new and instead, the planets are finishing what they began last year. The one planet that has already finished this is Pluto, who after an attempt in 2023 and again in 2024, finally returned to your career sector in November 2024, where he will stay until 2044. Pluto was here last year, when for the first time in 77 years Uranus returned to your income sector, only to retrograde back out and back into Taurus four months later, where he begins the year. However, after a direct turn on 5th February, Uranus, the third of the three outer planets on the move, will return to your income sector on 26th April, where he will stay until May 2033.
This is right in the heart of what could be the most lucrative months of 2026, which will run from Venus, the planet of money’s return on 6th March to Mars’ departure on 19th May. As each planet returns, including Uranus, they will all form a friendly aspect to Pluto in your career sector as they return. That will be the case when the faster planets return to begin the most active months of the year on the job front, which will kick off with Venus’ return on 7th August and end with her departure on 4th December. In that time, Venus will leave but retrograde back in for a do over, with the Sun and Mercury moving through in between to keep her seat warm. As each returns, they will spend their early days at a friendly aspect to Uranus and Pluto, setting the scene for what will be a good year across the income, work and career fronts.
Meanwhile, other major planets on the move this year are Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. While for Jupiter this is a given, ending his 12 month focus on all aspects of communication on 29th June, before returning to spend the next 13 months in your home and family sector, kicking off your biggest year for growth and expansion on the home, family and/or property fronts in over a decade. As for Saturn and Neptune, who just over six weeks into the year will have left your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking, where in Neptune’s case he has been since 2012 and Saturn since March 2023 and will have returned to a nostalgic and reflective but also intuitive and imaginative part of your chart. On the one hand, this brings you to the end of your current three-decade long Saturn cycle, with a chance to start preparing for his return to Taurus in 2028. On the other hand, this is where Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams is going to call home for the next 13 years.
Love
While this isn’t a big or a game changing year on the romantic or the relationship fronts, the stars are making the second half of the year especially good for both. Until then, it is the Moon’s monthly visits that will continue to keep you connected while offering a chance to check in. The most important of those visits will be the Moon’s return to your romantic sector that will result in a total lunar eclipse on 4th March and to your relationship sector and the Full Moon this will create on 2nd May. In between the two Venus, the planet of love will move through Taurus from 31st March to 24th April, doing what she can to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations moving into your new solar year.
By this point, the love and relationship gods are still fairly quiet and will be until Venus becomes the first planet to move through your romantic sector in 2026, when she moves through from 10th July to 7th August to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026. As always, the Sun will move through, putting the solar spotlight on matters of the heart from 23rd August to 23rd September and Mercury will return to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page from 25th August to 11th September. The Sun’s departure will bring all planetary activity on the romantic front for the year to an end, but not for the year with Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returning from 26th November 2026 to 22nd February 2027.
Meanwhile, it will be Venus who once again is leading the way when she returns to begin the first planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, from 10th September to 25th October. Normally moving through in just 24 days, that’s a period of over six weeks and that means that something is up. That something is a retrograde turn on 3rd October that will see Venus retrograde back out, only to return again from 4th December 2026 to 7th January 2027, with a second chance to work her magic. Even Mercury, who will normally spend just 14 to 15 days here, will turn retrograde on 24th October, something that will keep the planet of communication here from 1st October to 6th December.
Money
While Mercury will begin the year in your financial sector, the side of the financial fence where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have, he will not only leave on 2nd January, but after that, with very little focus on this side of the financial fence for the rest of the year. Even Venus, who left on Christmas Day and won’t come full circle until early 2027, won’t spend any time here this year or will Mars, who had left a week before the Sun, which on the December solstice will always take the solar spotlight off your financial situation and money matters. Apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, there will be no focus on this side of the financial fence until the Sun returns from 22nd November to 22nd December and Mercury from 6th December to 26th December.
However, with a chance to start the year with a sharp nose for money and everything needed to stay on top of money matters. Meanwhile, while Mercury’s departure from your financial sector on 2nd January will not only end all planetary activity here but with no planets in either of your two money houses, it won’t stay that way. A low-key year for money matters is instead destined to be a big year on the income side of the financial fence. It begins with Venus, the planet of money’s return to your income sector on 24th April to begin what she will always be working to make the most lucrative weeks of any year, something that two days later will get a massive boost, with the return of Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected on 26th April.
While Venus is only here until 19th April, Uranus is here until 2033, with these early weeks where they are able to bring the laws of attraction and synchronicity into play, setting the scene for not just the most potentially lucrative weeks of 2026, but months if not years. It is while Mercury is here from 17th May to 2nd June that you will have his smart head for money to draw on, while as always, the Sun will have the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters and options from 21st May to 21st June. While you will have to wait until April for things to kick off on the income fronts, with time to first take advantage of some active months on the job front and a chance to give income potential something to piggyback off.
Business
The stars are dialling up what will ultimately be a good year across the income, work and career fronts, though it won’t all come together at once and to start with, it is going to look like business as usual. Business as usual means Pluto, the planet of change and transformation on his own in your career sector, as he has been since January 2025, no planets in your work sector since Venus ended last year’s planetary activity on the job front in early November and Uranus ended all activity in your income sector a day later. However, things will start to change, first on the career front and by April on the income front, with work and job matters coming online in the second half of the year. Pluto’s days on his own will end when Venus returns to your career sector on 18th January, something that until she leaves on 10th February will see her working to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction.
It is two days later that the Sun will return, with his transit through your career sector from 20th January to 19th February the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your career and professional situation, matters and options. They will be joined by Mercury, who from 21st January to 7th February will make it easier to keep your head in the game, but it is Mars’ return from 23rd January to 3rd March that will really fire things up and get things moving. While this should leave Pluto on his own, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will return from 29th March to 12th August, before retrograding back out and then returning again from 24th October to 15th January 2027.
By the time Juno returns the second time, the most active months of the year on the job front will be underway and Uranus will have returned to your income sector on 26th April to spend the next six years here. By the time Venus returns to kick off the first planetary activity on the job front for the year on 7th August, Pluto and Uranus will have already connected, and Venus will move into a friendly aspect to both, as will every other planet returning this year. This is the point when things will lock into place across the income, work and career fronts and while Venus will leave on 10th September, Mercury’s return from 11th September to 1st October to 23rd October will keep the wheels turning and her seat warm. For on 25th October, Venus will return for a do over and until leaving again on 4th December, will bring home what she began four months earlier.
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