Scorpio yearly horoscope

The year's main story

You are coming back to yourself, and it is taking everything you have.

2026 is your year of reckoning with what you have built, what you have believed, and what you are willing to do next. The planets put you directly in the line of sight: your ruling planet Mars spends nearly the entire year in Aquarius and Pisces, running through your fourth and fifth houses, the zones of family and private life and everything you do for pleasure. At the same time, Pluto, your co-ruler, the planet of the absolute end and absolute beginning, is stationed in your fourth house all year, moving retrograde in May and then direct again in October. This is not a quiet transit. Pluto in the fourth house is the house turning over, the family story being rewritten, the private emotional ground where you stand getting broken and then rebuilt according to what is actually true.

Meanwhile, Jupiter moves from Cancer into Leo on June 30, crossing from your ninth house (belief, travel, what opens the world) into your tenth (reputation, career, public standing). This is a major shift. For the first half of the year, you are still processing something large about how you see the world, what you believe is possible, where you want to go. By the second half, the work turns outward: you are ready to step into a larger public role, or at least you are being asked to. The question is whether you will.

This is complicated by Saturn, which entered Aries in February and will spend the year in your sixth house, the zone of daily work, routine, and health. Saturn here is not permissive. It makes demands. It says: show up. Do the work. Stop the shortcuts. The pleasure you want, and you will want it, especially mid-year, cannot come until you have tended to the foundation. Saturn does not forbid joy; it delays it until you have earned it honestly.

The year opens with eclipses that shake your foundation. On February 17, an annular solar eclipse lands in Aquarius in your fourth house: this is your family, your home, your private interior. On March 3, a total lunar eclipse lands in Virgo in your eleventh house: your friendships, your networks, your longer-term aims. Both of these are about what has to leave so something truer can arrive. Eclipses are not gentle. They close doors and open others. They make you choose.

Venus turns retrograde in your first house starting October 3, and Mercury does the same in your first house starting October 24. This is the deep personal reckoning. You are being asked to look at who you are, how you come across, what needs to change about how you present yourself to the world. This is uncomfortable. But by November, as both planets station direct, you will have a new answer to the question of who you are and what you actually want.

The whole year turns on this axis: you cannot move forward into the public, into larger achievement, into wider belief until you have done the private work. Until you have been honest about what needs to end at home, what relationship to family and origin needs to transform, what you actually want to create and play with instead of what you thought you should want. The year asks for radical honesty. It rewards it.

First quarter

The year starts with Mercury and Chiron changing direction, and the tone is one of repair and clarity. On January 2, Chiron stations direct in Aries in your sixth house, the daily work, the routine, the body itself. Chiron here involves discomfort in how you work, in your sense of your own capacity, in the way you have learned to push through pain instead of addressing it. When it turns direct after being retrograde, it begins to move forward: you can start to heal the way you approach your own effort. This does not happen overnight. But the station itself is a turning point. Something in your body or your daily practice begins to feel less stuck.

On January 3, a Full Moon in Cancer lights up your ninth house, travel and study and belief. This is a culmination of something that began six months earlier: a project or a journey or a course of study is reaching a peak. If you have been working on widening your view of the world, on learning something that matters to you, this Full Moon is when the effort pays off or when you see clearly what the next step is.

Then the month accelerates. On January 20, the Sun enters Aquarius and your fourth house: this is the formal beginning of the season in which your home and family are the primary terrain. Venus enters Aquarius on January 17, softening the approach. Mars enters Aquarius on January 23, bringing an assertive energy. All three of these planets are in your private world now. What this means in practical terms depends on your situation, but the year's deeper work is beginning: something about your family is being examined. A choice about where you live, or whether to stay with a family member, or how to relate to your origins, is becoming urgent. There is a restlessness in the private sphere, a sense that something needs to shift.

On January 26, Neptune enters Aries and your sixth house. This is a long-term shift: Neptune will be here for fourteen years. For the first part of that transit, what it produces is a softening and idealization of daily routine. You may feel less attached to rigid schedules. Your work may become more fluid, more imaginative. But Neptune is also the planet of dissolution, and in the sixth house it can bring confusion about health or work boundaries. This is not yet a major disruption, but it is worth noticing: the clarity you have about how you spend your days may begin to soften.

On February 1, a Full Moon in Leo lights your tenth house, career and reputation. If there is a project or role or professional situation that has been building, this Full Moon shows you where you stand in it. There may be public recognition, or a clear sign that you need to make a change. The tone is illuminating.

Then comes the real turning point. On February 4, Uranus stations direct in Taurus in your seventh house, the house of partners and one-to-one relationships. Uranus has been retrograde here, and its station direct signals a shift: whatever has been stuck or unclear in your partnerships, committed relationships, or business dealings is about to move. There may be a breakthrough. There may be a rupture. But stagnation ends.

On February 14, Saturn enters Aries and your sixth house, beginning the serious work that will define the year. Saturn here is about showing up, doing the work, tending the daily practice. It is about discipline and consistency. If you have been sloppy or avoiding a responsibility, Saturn will not permit it much longer. But Saturn is also the planet of mastery: if you do the work, you will build something real. The tone is stern but fair. Saturn asks for your best self.

The eclipses arrive on February 17 and March 3, and they are profound. The first, on February 17, is an annular solar eclipse in Aquarius in your fourth house: your home, your family, your private foundation. This eclipse closes a cycle and opens a new one. If there has been a family situation or a home question hanging unresolved, this eclipse forces a choice. It is the sky saying: settle this. Move on. Make a decision about what your home life is actually going to be. The eclipse casts a shadow forward through the rest of the year, but the change it marks is real and relatively fast.

The second eclipse, on March 3, is a total lunar eclipse in Virgo in your eleventh house, your friends, your networks, your longer-term aims. This eclipse is about what is ending in your social life or your group affiliations. A friendship may shift or end. A group or community you have been part of may dissolve. Or you may leave it. The point is that what you are aiming at longer term is being clarified by what falls away. The eclipse illuminates what you actually want by removing what you do not.

Between these eclipses, on February 26, Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces in your fifth house, romance and play and creative work. This retrograde will last until March 20, and it is asking you to reconsider what brings you pleasure. Are you playing with the right people? Is your creative work actually expressing what you want to say? Are you settling in romance when you should be claiming something truer? The retrograde is an invitation to go back and reconsider.

By mid-March, Jupiter stations direct in Cancer on March 11, ending a retrograde period. Jupiter is in your ninth house, travel and belief. Its station direct means that if you have been considering a journey or course of study, if you have been questioning your beliefs, the way forward clarifies. The retrograde has done its work of investigation. Now you can move.

On March 20, Mercury stations direct as the Sun enters Aries and your sixth house. This is the beginning of a new phase: the work phase. The retrograde has ended, and you are ready to move forward on projects. The Sun in Aries here brings energy and assertion to your daily work. You are ready to do something. There is drive. But there is also the sense that you need to be disciplined about it, because Saturn is here too, watching.

On March 30, Venus enters Taurus and your seventh house. This is the beginning of a shift in how you relate to partners. Venus in Taurus is patient, loyal, and sensual. In your seventh house, it suggests a settling, a commitment, or at least a deepening of whatever partnership is in play. If you are single, this is a time when partnership is more likely to happen. If you are committed, the relationship enters a more stable phase. The mood is one of steadiness.

Second quarter

The quarter opens with a Full Moon in Libra on April 2, landing in your twelfth house, the house of rest, retreat, and what is hidden. This Full Moon illuminates something you have been keeping private, or something that is finishing quietly. There may be an ending of a secret, or a period of rest that becomes necessary.

On April 9, Mars enters Aries and your sixth house. Mars here is the drive to work, to assert yourself in the daily sphere. Combined with Saturn in the same house, it creates a push-pull: you want to move fast, but Saturn is asking you to move carefully. This is the tension of the quarter. How do you balance speed with wisdom? How do you keep yourself from burning out while still showing up with full force? The key is learning to work intelligently.

On April 17, a New Moon in Aries in your sixth house suggests the start of a work project or a shift in your daily routine. This is a beginning in the realm of practical work. You may start a new job, or a new system, or a new commitment to your health. The New Moon is fertile ground for intention.

On April 20, the Sun enters Taurus and your seventh house. The focus shifts to partnerships now. The second half of spring is about how you relate to others in one-to-one situations. There may be negotiations, commitments, or clarifications about what your partnerships are. The tone is grounded and steady.

On April 26, Uranus enters Gemini and your eighth house, beginning a new seven-year cycle. Uranus in the eighth house is the planet of sudden change and upheaval touching the zones of shared money, debt, intimacy, and what has to transform. This is a gradual shift over the next seven years, but it begins now. You may experience sudden changes in financial arrangements with a partner, or a sudden shift in intimacy. The eighth house is not easy territory, and Uranus here means you will not be able to stay comfortable about what needs to change. It will be disrupted until you address it.

On May 1, a Full Moon in Scorpio lights up your first house, the house of self. This is a significant Full Moon for you: it is your own lunar return, your own most personal space being illuminated. What you see in this Full Moon is who you are becoming. If there is something about yourself that you have been avoiding or not quite admitting, this Full Moon brings it to light. It is an honest moment.

On May 6, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius in your fourth house. Pluto is your co-ruler, and this station is significant. Pluto retrograde means the transformation it represents, the ending and rebuilding of your home, your family, your private foundation, turns inward. The work of the retrograde is internal work. You are reckoning with family stories, old patterns, inherited ways of being that no longer fit. This retrograde will last until October 16. It is deep work, and it is private. But it is essential.

On May 16, a New Moon in Taurus in your seventh house opens a new cycle in partnerships. This is a time to set intentions about the kind of partnership you want, the terms you will accept, the commitment you are willing to make. The New Moon is fertile ground for a new understanding with a partner.

Between May 17 and May 21, several planets shift quickly. Mercury enters Gemini on May 17, moving into your eighth house. Mars enters Taurus on May 18, joining Venus in your seventh house and bringing assertion to partnership territory. Venus enters Cancer on May 19, moving into your ninth house and softening belief, travel, and what opens the world. The Sun enters Gemini on May 21. Suddenly there is a lot of activity in your eighth house: shared money, intimacy, transformation. The energy is quickening.

On May 31, a Full Moon in Sagittarius lights your second house, money and what you own and what you think you are worth. This Full Moon shows you clearly what your financial situation is. If you have been avoiding looking at money, this Full Moon makes it impossible to avoid. But it is also illuminating: you see what you have and what you need.

On June 1, Mercury enters Cancer and your ninth house as the Sun enters the same territory on June 21. The middle of the year is a time of study, travel, and belief. If you have been considering a journey, this is the season for it. If you want to learn something new, this is the time. The mood is expansive, curious, open.

On June 13, Venus enters Leo and your tenth house, bringing a softness and charm to your public role and career. Venus here suggests that you are seen as more attractive, more appealing. If you are looking to advance professionally, this is a good time. There is support. There is luck.

On June 15, a New Moon in Gemini in your eighth house opens a cycle around shared money, intimacy, or partnership transformation. This is a time to set intentions about what you want to change in these areas.

On June 28, Mars enters Gemini and your eighth house. Mars here is assertive and impatient. It wants to move fast, to push, to drive change. In the eighth house, this can accelerate transformation in a partnership or financial arrangement. It can also create friction. The key is to channel the energy into constructive change rather than destructive conflict.

On June 29, Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer in your ninth house. This retrograde lasts until July 23. It asks you to reconsider your beliefs, your plans for travel, your understanding of the world. Are you really aligned with what you say you believe? Is the direction you think you are going actually the direction you want to go? The retrograde asks for honesty.

Also on June 29, Jupiter enters Leo and your tenth house. This is a major shift. Jupiter in the tenth house is the planet of expansion touching career and public reputation. For the next year, Jupiter will expand your professional opportunities, increase your visibility, and make you more likely to step into a larger public role. This is the gift of the year: Jupiter here is one of the luckiest positions in the chart. Your reputation is growing. Your work is more visible. If you want advancement, this is the moment to ask for it.

The Full Moon on June 29 in Capricorn in your third house illuminates conversation, siblings, neighbors, and the daily churn. Something in your communication or in a sibling relationship is being revealed.

On July 7, Neptune stations retrograde in Aries in your sixth house. Neptune retrograde here means the idealization and confusion it can bring to daily work and health starts to clear. You may gain more clarity about what your actual capacity is, or about boundaries in work. The retrograde lasts until December 12.

On July 9, Venus enters Virgo and your eleventh house, the house of friends and networks. Venus here brings warmth and connection to your friendships. This is a good time to deepen friendships or to join groups that align with your values.

On July 14, a New Moon in Cancer in your ninth house opens a new cycle around belief and travel. This is a time to set an intention about what you want to learn or where you want to go.

On July 22, the Sun enters Leo and your tenth house. The focus shifts to your career and public role. For the next month, your professional life is the primary terrain. This is a time of visibility and potential. The key is to show up as your best self.

On July 23, Mercury stations direct in Cancer in your ninth house, ending the retrograde. Clarity about your beliefs and direction returns. You know what you actually want to believe and where you actually want to go.

Third quarter

On July 26, Saturn stations retrograde in Aries in your sixth house. Saturn has been moving forward, demanding discipline and work. Now it turns back, and the retrograde period, lasting until December 10, allows you to reconsider what you have been doing, what systems you have built, what habits you have formed. This is a time of consolidation and reassessment. What is working? What needs to change? The retrograde invites you to slow down and look.

On July 29, a Full Moon in Aquarius in your fourth house illuminates your home and family. Pluto is retrograde here, working on transformation. This Full Moon shows you what the transformation is producing. There may be a significant shift in a family relationship or living situation.

On August 3, Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus in your seventh house. Chiron here involves partnership wounds and old hurts in how you relate to others. The retrograde turns the work inward: you are reworking your understanding of what you have learned through difficult partnerships or relationships. This retrograde lasts until January 2, 2027.

On August 6, Venus enters Libra and your twelfth house, the house of retreat and what is hidden. Venus here suggests a period of withdrawal, of privacy in relationships. If you have been very social or visible, this is a time to step back. There is also a quality of longing, of loving what is not fully accessible. This is a subtle time.

On August 9, Mercury enters Leo and your tenth house. The focus is on career communication. You are speaking about your work, your reputation, your professional goals. This is a good time to advocate for yourself professionally, to pitch ideas, to make your work more visible.

On August 11, Mars enters Cancer and your ninth house. Mars here is about pursuing belief, travel, and expansion with force. If you want to go somewhere or learn something or commit to a new belief system, this is the energy to do it. Mars in the ninth house is adventurous and impatient. It wants to move.

The key eclipse of the year arrives on August 12: a total solar eclipse in Leo in your tenth house, the house of career and reputation. This eclipse is a major marker. It closes one cycle in your professional life and opens another. The change can be sudden and significant. You may change jobs, or your role in your current job fundamentally shifts. Or a project you have been working on reaches a conclusion and a new one begins. The eclipse is powerful and irreversible. Whatever changes now is meant to change. The question is whether you are willing to change with it or whether you will resist. The eclipse casts a shadow through the rest of the year and into next.

On August 23, the Sun enters Virgo and your eleventh house. The focus shifts to friends and networks and your longer-term aims. This is a time to clarify what you are actually aiming at, what community you belong to, what you want from friendship.

On August 28, a partial lunar eclipse in Pisces in your fifth house illuminates romance, play, and creative work. This eclipse is about what is changing in your pleasure and self-expression. A creative project may reach a conclusion. A romance may shift. The point is that what brings you joy is being clarified by what falls away or transforms.

On September 10, Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini in your eighth house. Uranus has just entered this territory in April. Now it turns back, and the retrograde period, lasting until January 30, 2027, allows you to reconsider the changes in intimacy and shared money that Uranus is bringing. The retrograde can feel like a temporary reprieve, but the changes are still coming. Use the time to adjust your understanding of what needs to transform.

On September 11, a New Moon in Virgo in your eleventh house opens a new cycle around friendship and longer-term aims. This is a time to set intentions about what community you want to belong to, what you are building toward, what friendships matter most.

On September 26, a Full Moon in Aries in your sixth house illuminates your daily work and health. This Full Moon shows you clearly where you stand in your practice and routine. If you have been working hard, the Full Moon shows the results. If you have been avoiding something, it becomes impossible to ignore.

Fourth quarter

On October 3, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio in your first house, beginning a retrograde period that lasts until November 14. This is a significant personal reckoning. Venus retrograde in the first house is about who you are and how you come across, what you want to be loved for, what you actually value about yourself. The retrograde invites you to go back and reconsider. Are you presenting yourself authentically? Are you claiming what you actually want or settling for what you think you should want? The retrograde is a chance to reset your relationship with yourself.

On October 10, a New Moon in Libra in your twelfth house opens a new cycle around rest and what is hidden. This is a time to set intentions about withdrawal, privacy, and spiritual practice.

On October 16, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius in your fourth house, ending the retrograde that began in May. The work of transformation in your family and home has been internal and private. Now it begins to move outward again. The changes you have been processing internally start to become visible. There may be decisions to make or actions to take based on the internal work.

On October 24, Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio in your first house, beginning a retrograde that lasts until November 13. This retrograde is about your own thinking and self-understanding. You are reworking how you think about who you are, what you want, what you are capable of. This is deep personal work. By the time Mercury stations direct, you will have a new answer to the question of who you are.

On October 26, a Full Moon in Taurus in your seventh house illuminates your partnerships. This Full Moon shows you clearly where your committed relationships stand. If there is something unresolved in a partnership, the Full Moon brings it to light. The tone is grounded and practical, about what you want and need.

On November 9, a New Moon in Scorpio in your first house opens a new cycle of self. This is the moment of reset after the retrogrades of Venus and Mercury. You are emerging with a new sense of who you are and what you want. The New Moon is fertile ground for new intentions about yourself.

On November 13, Mercury stations direct in Scorpio, ending the retrograde and confirming the clarity you have gained about yourself.

On November 14, Venus stations direct in Libra in your twelfth house. The personal reckoning is complete. You know what you value, and you know who you are. Venus direct here brings a settling, a kind of acceptance. You are at peace with what needs to stay private and what you are willing to claim publicly.

On November 24, a Full Moon in Gemini in your eighth house illuminates shared money, intimacy, and what has to transform. This Full Moon shows you clearly what is changing in these areas. There may be a financial shift or a deepening of intimacy.

On December 9, a New Moon in Sagittarius in your second house opens a new cycle around money and what you own. This is a time to set intentions about your finances and your resources.

On December 10, Saturn stations direct in Aries in your sixth house, ending the retrograde that began in July. The retrograde has allowed you to reconsider your approach to work and daily practice. Now Saturn moves forward again, asking you to commit to what you have learned and to do the work with renewed discipline.

On December 12, Neptune stations direct in Aries in your sixth house, ending the retrograde that began in July. The confusion that Neptune can bring to work and health begins to clear. You have more clarity about your actual capacity and your boundaries.

On December 13, Jupiter stations retrograde in Leo in your tenth house, beginning a retrograde that will last into next year. Jupiter has been expanding your professional opportunities. Now it turns back, and the retrograde period allows you to reconsider what you have taken on, what you actually want to achieve professionally, what role you are willing to play. This retrograde is not disastrous, but it does slow expansion. Use the time to consolidate and clarify.

On December 24, a Full Moon in Cancer in your ninth house illuminates travel, belief, and what opens the world. This Full Moon shows you what you have learned or where you have gone. It is a culmination and an illumination.

Long-term themes

The year's deepest pattern is the work of Pluto in your fourth house, the house of home, family, roots, and private foundation. Pluto here is the planet of absolute transformation. It does not permit surface change; it demands that you go to the root. Pluto has been in Capricorn, which is more structured and external. Now it is in Aquarius, which is more detached and revolutionary. This shift, which began in November 2024, continues through the year as Pluto stations retrograde in May and then direct in October. The retrograde period is the deep work, the internal reckoning. What family story are you no longer willing to carry? What inherited pattern no longer serves? What relationship to your origins needs to fundamentally change? Pluto in the fourth house asks you to rebuild your foundation on truth instead of habit.

This is connected to the two eclipses early in the year. The February 17 solar eclipse in Aquarius in your fourth house is Pluto's first major statement: something has to change at home. The March 3 lunar eclipse in Virgo in your eleventh house is the corollary: as your home changes, your friendships and longer-term aims clarify. What you thought you wanted may shift as what you are actually willing to live with becomes clear. The eclipses close cycles and open new ones. They are irreversible. Whatever ends in these areas is meant to end.

Saturn in your sixth house all year is the counterpoint to Pluto's transformation. While Pluto is breaking down the foundation at home, Saturn is demanding that you build the daily practice and discipline to support yourself. Saturn here is not romantic. It is practical. It says: do the work. Show up. Be consistent. Take care of your health. Do not expect others to do for you what you can do for yourself. This is the year you learn mastery in the small things. You learn to work well, to tend your body, to build systems that last. Saturn does not give fast rewards, but it gives real ones. By the end of the year, if you have done the work, you will be more capable, more solid, more self-reliant.

Jupiter's move from Cancer to Leo on June 30 is a major shift in the year's emphasis. For the first half, you are still processing something about belief and the wider world. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer from early in the year until March 11 asks you to reconsider what you actually believe, where you actually want to go, what version of the world you are willing to inhabit. By June, you are ready to move forward on these questions. But then Jupiter enters Leo and your tenth house, and the work becomes public. Jupiter in the tenth house is one of the year's greatest gifts. It expands your career, increases your visibility, makes you more likely to step into a larger role. The August 12 total solar eclipse in Leo confirms this: your professional life is the terrain of the year's major shifts. But this happens only after you have done the internal work of the earlier months.

Neptune's fourteen-year transit through your sixth house begins on January 26. For the first part, it softens the boundaries around work and daily routine. You may become less attached to rigid schedules, more imaginative in how you approach your tasks. But Neptune is also the planet of dissolution, and it can bring confusion about health boundaries or unclear commitments in work. The retrograde from July 7 to December 12 offers periodic clarity. Use those windows to establish boundaries and to be honest about what your actual capacity is.

Uranus in your seventh house since February 4, 2025, continues through the year. Its station direct in February signals that whatever has been stuck in partnerships begins to move. On April 26, Uranus enters Gemini and your eighth house, beginning a new seven-year cycle. This shift is significant. While Uranus in Taurus was about sudden changes in how you relate in one-to-one partnerships, Uranus in Gemini is about sudden changes in shared resources, intimacy, and what has to transform in financial or sexual arrangements. This is not comfortable territory, but it is necessary. Uranus refuses stagnation. It will disrupt until you are willing to change. The retrograde from September 10 to January 30 does not reverse the shift, but it does allow you to adjust your understanding of what is happening.

Chiron in your sixth house and seventh house across the year, stationing direct in Aries on January 2 and retrograde in Taurus on August 3, is about discomfort in how you work and how you relate. Chiron does not heal by fixing the pain; it heals by teaching you to carry it with wisdom. The stations mark moments when your relationship to these areas shifts. The direct station in January allows movement forward in how you work and tend your practice. The retrograde station in August invites you to reconsider partnership wounds and what they have taught you.

The pattern of retrogrades through the year, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Chiron, is heavy. This is a year of going back, reconsidering, adjusting course. The retrogrades are invitations to look inward and to correct course. By the end of the year, as several planets station direct late in the cycle, you will have clarity about what you actually want and what you are willing to do to get it.

The year overall emphasizes your internal world (Pluto and Saturn in the fourth and sixth houses, the private realm), your belief and learning (Jupiter in Cancer until June, then Leo for public stepping into that belief), and your foundations (Saturn in the sixth, demanding daily practice; Pluto in the fourth, demanding honesty about family). The theme is building something real out of something true. Not what you think you should want, what you actually do. Not the story you inherited, the story you choose. Not the comfortable lie, the difficult truth.

Summary

2026 asks you to do the hardest work first: the reckoning with what you have inherited and what you actually want. Pluto's retrograde from May to October is the deepest layer. Use those months to examine family patterns, inherited beliefs, ways of being that no longer serve. The eclipses in February and March accelerate this work: something closes, something opens. Let it.

Simultaneously, Saturn in your sixth house all year is asking you to build the daily practice that makes you solid. Do the work. Show up. Tend your health. These two movements, the internal reckoning with family and the external discipline of daily practice, are the foundation of the entire year. Everything else rests on them.

The first half of the year is the period of deep questioning. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer until March 11 asks you to reconsider what you believe. Mercury's retrograde in Pisces from February 26 to March 20 asks you to reconsider what brings you pleasure. The solar eclipse in February asks you to change something at home. Use these months to look inward, to question, to be honest about what you actually want.

The second half of the year is the period of stepping forward. Jupiter enters Leo in June and your tenth house: your professional life is the terrain of expansion. The total solar eclipse in Leo on August 12 confirms a major shift in your career or public role. Venus and Mercury retrograde in October and November in your first house ask for a final personal reckoning: who are you, really, and what do you actually want to claim? By November, as these planets station direct, you have your answer.

The strongest windows for action are: late April to late May, when Mars enters Taurus and your seventh house and a New Moon in Taurus opens a new cycle in partnerships; late June, when Jupiter enters Leo and starts expanding your professional opportunities; and early August, just before the eclipse, when the opportunity for professional change is at its peak.

The most demanding windows are: February to March, when the eclipses force decisions; May to October, when Pluto is retrograde and asking for deep internal work; and October to November, when Venus and Mercury are retrograde in your first house and asking for a personal reset.

By the end of the year, you will have rebuilt something essential: your sense of who you are, what you actually want, and what you are willing to do to get it. This is not comfortable work. But it is necessary. And it is the foundation on which everything else rests.