Virgo yearly horoscope

The year's main story

You are learning that what you build in private determines what you can do in public, and this year puts that truth in sharp focus. Your ruling planet, Mercury, has moved into Sagittarius and your fourth house, the realm of family, home, roots, and the emotional ground beneath everything you do. For the next several years, your sense of what is solid, what is yours, and what you can trust to hold you is being remade. This is not a comfortable process. Sagittarius asks questions; it destabilizes what felt permanent. But the year ahead shows you precisely why this disruption matters: the houses that define your public presence, your partnerships, your work, and your sense of what you deserve are all under pressure to change, and none of it will stick if you have not first moved something fundamental underneath.

The year opens with three major ingresses in rapid succession. Mercury enters Capricorn on January 1st, pulling your thinking toward strategy and ambition in the creative and romantic domains. Then Venus follows on January 17th and Mars on January 23rd, both entering Aquarius: a shift that moves the planet of what you value and the planet of what you pursue into your sixth house, the realm of daily work, health, routine, and the small systems that keep life running. For the first three weeks of January, you feel clarity and purpose about what has to be done. The work is clear. The problem is also clear. You want to build something tangible.

But this is the month of the Full Moon in Cancer on January 3rd, sitting in your eleventh house of networks, friendships, and what you are building toward collectively. Something in your sense of belonging, or your role in a group, has been illuminated, and it may feel at odds with the private stirrings. You are caught between what you are being pulled to build alone and what you are discovering about who you actually are among others. This tension runs all year.

By mid-January, the picture darkens. Neptune, the planet of dissolution and reimagining, enters Aries on January 26th, moving into your eighth house: the house of shared money, debt, sexual intimacy, inheritances, and transformation. For the next fifteen years, something about how you merge your resources, your body, or your fate with another person is being fundamentally redrawn. Boundaries that seemed clear will blur. Certainties will dissolve. What you thought was a simple financial arrangement becomes tangled with feeling. What felt like solid commitment begins to show cracks. This is not a year when that process feels safe. Neptune in Aries is idealistic, naive, sometimes reckless. You will be tempted to believe things that are not true, to give money or trust to someone who does not deserve it, or to sacrifice something that was supposed to remain yours. The year's most dangerous transits orbit this one.

Saturn, the planet of hard boundaries and difficult lessons, enters Aries on February 14th and takes up residence in the same house, the eighth. For the next two and a half years, Saturn will demand that you sort out what is yours and what belongs to someone else, what you can control and what you cannot, what debts you actually owe and which ones you have been carrying for no reason. Saturn and Neptune in the same house create a particularly disorienting weather: one dissolves, one tries to rebuild, and you are caught between them. The practical effect is that any entanglement you have been avoiding will demand resolution. Shared finances, sexual boundaries, the question of whether you can trust your partner with your vulnerability: these will not stay hidden. Saturn does not allow it.

The spring eclipses tell the story of where the pressure lands. On February 17th, an annular solar eclipse in Aquarius darkens your sixth house, the realm of work and health. This eclipse opens a roughly six-month window of ending and beginning in these areas. You may leave a job, start one, or experience a fundamental shift in how you think about your labor and your contribution. On March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse in Virgo illuminates your first house, your own body and presence. Something about how you appear to yourself and to others is being thrown into relief. You are shedding an old skin. The two eclipses form a pair that asks: Who are you becoming, and is your work aligned with that?

The summer brings the most volatile period. On June 30th, Jupiter enters Leo and your twelfth house, the realm of rest, retreat, the hidden, and what is quietly finishing. For a year, Jupiter expands the parts of your life that nobody sees: your dreams, your spiritual life, your therapy or inner work, or simply the time you need alone to process. Jupiter is generous, but in the twelfth house, generosity can mean getting lost. You may find yourself drawn to escapism: sleep, substances, or simply the fantasy life that becomes more real than the waking one. At the same time, on August 12th, a total solar eclipse in Leo hits that same twelfth house, asking you to let something end. Some part of your life that you have been tending in secret, some pattern you have been running alone, some version of yourself that only exists when no one is watching: this year, you will have to choose whether to keep it or let it go.

Running through the entire year is a single electromagnetic fact: Uranus, the planet of rupture and reinvention, is moving into Gemini on April 26th and taking up residence in your tenth house, the realm of career, public reputation, and what you are known for. For the first time in eighty-four years, Uranus is in this house. This is not a quiet transit. Over the next seven years, your professional identity, your public role, your sense of what you are building for the world will be disrupted in ways you cannot predict. The year ahead contains the first shock of this. A job may change. A role you held may dissolve. Your reputation may shift rapidly. People may see you differently. The shift is not inherently bad, but it is destabilizing, and it comes at a moment when your foundation at home is also being unmade.

The year is an exercise in holding two truths at once: something profound is ending, and something genuine is being born. You will not feel safe. You will not have certainty. But by December, you will be clearer about who you actually are when the masks come off and the structures come down.

First quarter

The opening three weeks of January carry an unusual clarity. Mercury's entry into Capricorn on January 1st shifts your thinking toward what is practical and achievable in the realm of creativity and romance. You are not dreaming. You are counting. You want to know what is possible and what is not, what you can build and what remains fantasy. This is a useful frame. Whatever you have been uncertain about in matters of love, creative work, or pleasure becomes suddenly clearer in its outlines. If you have been weighing whether to commit to something, this window will show you whether the commitment is real or merely wished-for.

The same day brings Chiron stationing direct in Aries, an event that happens roughly every fourteen years. Chiron is the small planet that holds your old wounds and your capacity to heal them. Stationing direct means the process that has been turning inward will now begin to face outward. You have been working through something difficult in the realm of shared resources, sexual boundaries, or how you merge your life with another person's. Probably without realizing it, you have been making progress. Now the work you have done privately will begin to show itself in the world. You may feel more able to set a boundary you could not set before. You may be less willing to accept treatment that you once felt you had to accept. This is not comfortable for the people around you, particularly partners, but it is necessary.

On January 3rd, the Full Moon in Cancer lights up your eleventh house, the realm of groups, networks, and what you are building collectively. This is an illumination, and what gets illuminated may surprise you. You may realize that a friendship or alliance you have counted on is not what you thought it was. Or the opposite: someone you had written off reveals themselves to be genuinely present. There is a particular quality to this lunation that has to do with how you fit into the larger picture. You are not the center of this light. You are being shown your role in a structure larger than yourself, and the view may be discomfiting. Some of you will feel suddenly aware that you are standing on the outside of something you want to be inside, or that the group you are part of is moving in a direction you did not sign up for.

The middle of January is the turn. On January 17th, Venus enters Aquarius, moving into your sixth house, the realm of daily work, routine, and health. On January 20th, the Sun follows, then Mercury on the same day, and Mars on January 23rd. In the space of six days, three of the four inner planets have moved into the sign of reinvention and disruption. The effect is to make your work suddenly central. Not your career necessarily, but your labor: what you do day by day, the habits that sustain you, your health, your sense of competence in small things. You care more about these things. You want to do them better. There is an almost evangelical quality to this moment. You want to optimize, to improve, to see measurable results from your effort.

But the same moment brings Neptune entering Aries on January 26th, moving into your eighth house for the next fifteen years. This is the year's hinge. Neptune is not a visible planet. You cannot point to it in the sky. What it does is dissolve, blur, and reimagine. When it moves into a house, the first effect is often disorientation. Things that seemed clear become muddled. Boundaries that were solid become permeable. In the eighth house, the domain of shared money, sexual intimacy, transformation, and what you stand to inherit or lose, Neptune's arrival means that clarity is no longer available as an option. Someone you trust may turn out to be less trustworthy than you believed. A financial arrangement that seemed straightforward may become complicated. Your own desires may become hard to distinguish from what someone else wants from you. The eighth house is intimate. Neptune here makes intimacy confusing.

What you notice, if you are paying attention, is that your usual defenses are not working. You are someone who orders your world through analysis, through systems, through discrimination. The sixth-house planets are all calling for more of that: better routines, clearer health practices, smarter work. But Neptune is asking for the opposite. It is asking you to accept that you do not understand, to live in mystery, to trust things you cannot verify. The two movements are in direct opposition, and they are happening simultaneously. This is what the year's opening months are trying to teach you: you cannot stay in your comfortable zone of rational analysis. Something in your life requires you to feel your way forward, and you do not like it.

The new moon in Capricorn on January 18th opens a cycle in romance and creative work. This is the month to plant seeds in these areas. If you have been sitting on an idea, this is the moment to propose it. If you have been hesitant about pursuing someone, this is the opening. The energy is practical and grounded. You are not asking for magic. You are asking for real results from real effort.

The final week of January and the first two weeks of February bring further shifts. The Full Moon in Leo on February 1st illuminates your twelfth house, the realm of the hidden, the withdrawn, what is finishing. Something in your private life, your spiritual practice, or the part of yourself that no one sees is being brought into relief. You may feel exposed. You may realize that something you have been keeping secret is affecting your waking life more than you acknowledged. The house of rest and retreat is not restful right now. There is something you need to process, and you cannot process it alone anymore.

On February 4th, Uranus stations direct in Taurus after more than six months of retrograde motion. Uranus is in your ninth house, the realm of travel, study, belief, and anything that widens your perspective. When a planet stations, it gathers intensity. Having been moving backward through understanding and revision, Uranus now moves forward into action. This matters most if you have a Taurus placement or if your ninth house has been a site of particular focus. For most Virgos, it registers as a subtle shift: the urge to learn something, to go somewhere, or to question something you have believed, becomes harder to ignore. What had seemed like a passing curiosity becomes an imperative.

The month of February is dominated by two major planetary shifts on the 14th and the 18th. Saturn enters Aries on February 14th, moving into your eighth house alongside Neptune. This is Saturn's return to the sign it was last in during the early 1990s. For some of you, it will literally be twenty-nine years since Saturn was here. What you learn in the eighth house now will be a lesson that echoes the lessons of your early thirties, if those years were significant. Saturn is the planet of limits and consequences. In the eighth house, it means you will be forced to know the difference between what is yours and what belongs to someone else. If you have been borrowing money and not repaying it, the bill will come due. If you have been in a relationship where your boundaries dissolve into someone else's needs, you will be forced to choose: establish the boundary or accept the consequences. Saturn does not negotiate. It teaches through loss and restriction.

On February 18th, the Sun enters Pisces, moving into your seventh house, the house of one-to-one partnership. For the next month, the energy turns toward relationships of all kinds. If you have been neglecting someone, you will feel their absence. If you have been in a relationship that is not working, the dysfunction becomes harder to overlook. The seventh house is also the house of open enemies and public rivals. In this same moment, the stakes of any conflict or competition become clear.

Between February 6th and February 17th, three important events stack up. Mercury enters Pisces on February 6th, moving into your seventh house. Your thinking becomes oriented toward other people, toward how they perceive you, toward the agreements you have made with them. You are more attuned to nuance, more aware of what is unsaid. On February 10th, Venus enters Pisces, moving into the same house. What you value, and where you are willing to invest, turns toward partnership and connection. You want relationship. You want to be known. The danger is that you will be so eager to be understood that you will accept less than you deserve.

On February 17th, an annular solar eclipse in Aquarius darkens your sixth house. This is one of the year's most significant events. A solar eclipse opens a six-month window of ending and beginning. Whatever is illuminated by this eclipse will be the site of major change through August. The sixth house is work, health, routine, and the systems that keep your life functioning. This eclipse suggests that something in these areas will end and something new will begin. Some of you will leave a job. Some will start one. Some will experience a health crisis that forces you to rethink your relationship to your body. Some will simply realize that the way you have been living is no longer sustainable and you must change it. The eclipse is in Aquarius, the sign of disruption and innovation. This will not be a gentle change. It will feel sudden, even if you have been preparing for it unconsciously.

The month closes with Mercury entering Pisces on February 26th retrograde. This is the beginning of a retrograde cycle that will last until late March. During this period, agreements become unclear. Conversations do not land the way you intend them to. It is not a time to sign important documents or to make major commitments. It is a time to listen, to clarify what you think you have understood, and to be willing to revise your position.

March is the month of eclipses and reversals. On March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse in Virgo illuminates your first house, your own body and presence. This is a personal eclipse, and it is among the year's most significant. A lunar eclipse in your own sign is always a moment of shedding. You are being revealed to yourself and to others in a new light. Something about your appearance, your manner, or how you come across is shifting. Some of you will change your physical appearance. Some will realize that the way you have been presenting yourself no longer matches who you actually are. This eclipse has a particular intensity because it is total, and because Virgo is your home sign. You are being asked to recognize yourself.

Concurrently, Jupiter stations direct in Cancer on March 11th, moving into direct motion after months of retrograde review. Jupiter is in your eleventh house of networks and collective aims. Stationing direct, it begins to move forward with intention. Whatever you have been reconsidering about your role in a group or your longer-term goals becomes actionable now. You are ready to commit. You are ready to participate. But the eclipse on March 3rd is asking you whether the groups you are part of actually reflect who you are becoming, or whether you need to find new tribes.

On March 19th, a new moon in Pisces opens a cycle in your seventh house of partnership. This is the moment to set intention about what you want from relationship. What do you need from a partner? What are you no longer willing to accept? The new moon offers a clean slate, but only if you are willing to tell yourself the truth about what you actually need.

On March 20th, two things happen. The Sun enters Aries, moving into your eighth house, and Mercury stations direct in Pisces, also in your seventh house. Mercury going direct means that the period of confusion and revision ends. You are now ready to speak clearly about what you need. The Sun entering Aries means that the focus of your conscious will and identity turns toward the eighth house: the house of transformation, shared resources, and what must end. For the next month, you will be more aware of where your boundaries have dissolved. You will feel the impulse to clarify them.

Second quarter

April opens with two important events that define the quarter. Mars enters Aries on April 9th, moving into your eighth house. The planet of action and desire is now in the realm of shared money, sexual intimacy, and transformation. For the next several months, you are moved to act in these areas. If you have been avoiding a financial conversation with a partner, you will now want to have it. If you have been uncertain about the physical side of a relationship, you will now want clarity. Mars here is not gentle. It is direct, even aggressive. It does not accept vague answers. The question is whether this directness will clear the air or blow things apart.

On April 15th, Mercury enters Aries, following Mars into the eighth house. Your thinking is now oriented toward what needs to change, what needs to end, what is no longer serving you in the realm of partnership and shared resources. Mercury in Aries is blunt. It does not soften its message. If you have been skirting an issue, Mercury will pull you toward naming it directly.

The Full Moon in Libra on April 2nd is an earlier moment in the month. Libra is the sign of balance and the seventh house is partnership. This Full Moon illuminates your second house, the realm of money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth. The implication is that something about your self-worth, your earning capacity, or your sense of what you deserve is being brought into focus. You may realize that you have been undervaluing yourself, accepting less money than your work is worth, or allowing someone else to control your access to resources. This Full Moon creates a polarity between the seventh house, where the Sun is in Libra, and the first house, where the Moon is. The tension is between what other people value you for and what you know you are actually worth.

On April 17th, a new moon in Aries opens a cycle in your eighth house. This new moon is about transformation, endings, and what must change in the realm of shared life. Plant intention here about what you need to shed, what you are ready to release, what you want to transform.

On April 20th, the Sun enters Taurus, moving into your ninth house, the realm of travel, study, publishing, and belief. For the next month, your conscious will is oriented toward expanding, toward learning, toward movement. If you have been thinking about a trip, this is the month to plan it. If you have been considering going back to school or starting a course of study, this is the moment. The ninth house is the house of the wider view. The Sun here is calling you out of the close quarters of the eighth house, the house of intimacy and transformation, and asking you to remember that there is a larger world.

On April 24th, Venus enters Gemini, moving into your tenth house, the house of career and public reputation. What you value now orients toward professional growth, toward being seen for your work, toward reputation. There is a quality of lightness here. Venus in Gemini wants variety, connection, and the ability to move freely. In your tenth house, this means you may be drawn toward work that involves communication, variety, and public presence. You are less interested in being locked into one role or one narrative about who you are professionally.

On April 26th, Uranus enters Gemini, also moving into your tenth house. This is one of the year's most significant events, and you may not feel its full impact until later in the year. Uranus in your tenth house means that over the next seven years, your professional identity and public role will be subject to disruption and rapid change. You cannot predict what will happen. You can only be prepared to adapt. The first shocks of this transit are likely to come in the months ahead. A job may change. A role you held may dissolve. Your reputation may shift. People may see you differently. Some of this change will feel exciting. Some will feel destabilizing. All of it is necessary. Uranus does not disrupt for the sake of disruption; it disrupts to make room for something more authentic.

May brings further developments in the realm of work and belief. On May 1st, a Full Moon in Scorpio illuminates your third house, the realm of conversation, short journeys, siblings, and the daily flow of information. This Full Moon is asking you to notice something about how you communicate, what you are learning, or what information is coming to you. There may be a conversation that clarifies something important. There may be a piece of news that shifts your sense of what is possible.

On May 3rd, Mercury enters Taurus, moving into your ninth house. Your thinking is now oriented toward the bigger picture, the larger ideas, the beliefs that hold meaning for you. Mercury in Taurus is thorough. It does not rush. It wants to understand things deeply and to build on solid ground. If you have been intellectually scattered, Mercury here will help you focus. If you have been skeptical about something, Mercury will push you to do your research and find the truth.

On May 6th, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius, in your sixth house. Pluto is the planet of deep transformation, and when it stations, the intensity of its work becomes more concentrated. Pluto in your sixth house is about transforming how you work, how you keep yourself healthy, how you function in daily life. Stationing retrograde, Pluto turns inward, asking you to examine the deeper patterns that have shaped your relationship to labor and responsibility. This is a good moment to ask: Why do I work the way I do? What am I afraid will happen if I stop? What would it look like to have a healthier relationship to effort and productivity?

On May 16th, a new moon in Taurus opens a cycle in your ninth house. This is the time to set intention about what you want to learn, where you want to travel, what beliefs you want to examine or strengthen. Plant a seed about the larger world you want to access.

On May 17th, Mercury enters Gemini, moving into your tenth house alongside Uranus. Your thinking is now oriented toward your work, your reputation, your public role. Mercury in Gemini is quick, curious, and sees multiple angles. In your tenth house, this can mean that you become more visible in your professional realm, that your ideas get heard, that you are recognized for your communication skills. It can also mean that you become scattered, that you take on too many projects, that you overcommit because the opportunities look interesting.

On May 18th, Mars enters Taurus, moving into your ninth house. The planet of drive and action is now in the realm of expansion and belief. You want to pursue something larger than yourself. You want to travel, to study, to understand. There is an impatience in Mars in Taurus. It wants results. If you have been thinking about making a major move or a major change, you may feel the urge to act on it now. Mars in this house often suggests action in the realm of travel, publication, or the pursuit of belief. Some of you may be drawn to activism, to speaking publicly about what you believe, to putting your body and your conviction behind something that matters.

On May 19th, Venus enters Cancer, moving into your eleventh house of networks and collective aims. What you value now orients toward community, toward your friends, toward the groups you are part of. There is warmth here, and a genuine desire to contribute to something larger than yourself. You are more generous with your time and affection. You are more interested in being part of something meaningful.

On May 21st, the Sun enters Gemini, moving into your tenth house. For the next month, your conscious will is oriented toward your work and your public presence. This is a time when you can push your professional agenda forward. It is a time when you are noticed. It is a time when what you do matters and is seen. The danger is that you can become too identified with your job, too focused on how others perceive you, too willing to shape yourself into what others want you to be. The gift is clarity about what you actually want to build and where you want to be seen.

On May 31st, a Full Moon in Sagittarius illuminates your fourth house, the realm of home, family, and roots. This Full Moon brings something about your private life, your family, or your sense of home into focus. You may be aware of an old family pattern that is still shaping you. You may realize that you need to change something about where you live or how you relate to your family of origin. The fourth house is the foundation. Whatever is illuminated here is affecting everything built on top of it.

June is the most complex month of the quarter, with multiple shifts that create significant tension. On June 1st, Mercury enters Cancer, moving into your eleventh house. Your thinking is now oriented toward your place in groups, your friendships, your collective aims. Mercury in Cancer is intuitive and memory-oriented. It thinks about people and feels its way to understanding. In your eleventh house, you are attuned to the emotional texture of your friendships, the unspoken agreements in your groups, the loyalty that binds people together.

On June 13th, Venus enters Leo, moving into your twelfth house, the realm of the hidden, the withdrawn, what is finishing. For the next several weeks, what you value orients toward solitude, toward spiritual practice, toward the parts of your life that no one sees. There is a quality of withdrawal here, a need to tend to yourself in private, to let go of things that no longer serve you. Venus in the twelfth house can mean that you become interested in helping others behind the scenes, in doing work that does not come with public recognition. It can also mean that you are processing a loss or an ending in private.

On June 15th, a new moon in Gemini opens a cycle in your tenth house. This is the moment to set intention about your career, your public presence, your professional goals. Plant a seed about the work you want to be known for.

On June 21st, the Sun enters Cancer, moving into your eleventh house. For the next month, your conscious will is oriented toward your groups, your friends, your collective aims. You are more invested in being part of something larger than yourself. You care more about what your friends think. You are more aware of your place in the larger community.

On June 28th, Mars enters Gemini, moving into your tenth house. The planet of action is now in the realm of career and reputation. This is a time when you are willing to fight for what you believe in professionally. You are willing to speak up, to take a stand, to be seen. Mars in this house can mean that you pursue professional goals aggressively. It can also mean that you get into conflicts at work, that you challenge authority, that you become more visible through confrontation. The key is channeling this energy productively.

On June 29th, Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer, in your eleventh house. This begins a three-week period of revision and review. Agreements about group participation become unclear. Conversations with friends do not land the way you intend them to. This is not a time to make commitments to new groups or organizations. It is a time to reassess the ones you are already part of and to ask whether they still serve you.

Also on June 29th, the Full Moon in Capricorn illuminates your fifth house, the realm of romance, play, and creative work. This Full Moon brings something about these areas into relief. You may realize that you have been neglecting something that brings you joy. You may see clearly what is working and what is not in a romantic situation. You may experience a moment of clarity about what you actually want to create.

On June 30th, Jupiter enters Leo, moving into your twelfth house, the realm of the hidden, the withdrawn, and what is quietly finishing. For the next year, Jupiter expands the twelfth-house areas of your life. This can mean that your spiritual practice deepens. Your inner work becomes richer. Your dreams become more vivid and more meaningful. You may find yourself drawn to therapy, to meditation, to any practice that asks you to go inside. The danger is that Jupiter in the twelfth can also mean escapism, that you retreat from the world in ways that are not productive, that you use substances, sleep, or fantasy as a way to avoid the difficult work that is actually calling you. This is the month to set healthy boundaries around what expanded rest and inner work means versus what avoidance looks like.

Third quarter

July opens with a significant station. On July 7th, Neptune stations retrograde in Aries, in your eighth house. Neptune has been moving forward through the eighth house since January. Stationing retrograde, it turns inward, asking you to review and revise your understanding of intimacy, of shared resources, of what you have been willing to dissolve into or accept. If you have been confused about something in the realm of partnership or shared money, the retrograde station may begin to bring clarity. You may realize that something you believed was actually not true. You may understand, finally, what someone was trying to tell you. The danger is that you use this moment to retreat into a fantasy version of events rather than facing the truth.

On July 9th, Venus enters Virgo, moving into your first house, your own body and presence. For the next several weeks, you are more aware of how you appear to others. You may invest in your appearance. You may feel more confident in your body. You may be drawn to people more easily. There is a quality of self-possession here, a sense that you know who you are and you are comfortable in your own skin. This is a small but significant gift in a year when much about your identity is being questioned.

On July 14th, a new moon in Cancer opens a cycle in your eleventh house. This new moon is about your place in groups, your friendships, your collective aims. Plant intention here about the communities you want to be part of, the people you want to build with, the networks you want to develop.

On July 22nd, the Sun enters Leo, moving into your twelfth house. For the next month, your conscious will is oriented toward the hidden, the withdrawn, the finishing. This is a time to tend to yourself in private, to process what needs processing, to let go of what no longer serves you. The Sun in the twelfth house can feel disempowering. Your usual modes of visibility and agency are muted. But it can also be liberating. You are less concerned with how others perceive you. You are more honest about what you actually feel.

On July 23rd, Mercury stations direct in Cancer, in your eleventh house. The three-week period of revision and confusion ends. You are now ready to speak clearly about your groups, your friendships, your collective aims. You may recommit to a group or organization. You may make new agreements with your friends. You may finally have the conversation you have been avoiding.

On July 26th, Saturn stations retrograde in Aries, in your eighth house. Saturn has been moving forward through the eighth house since February, teaching you harsh lessons about boundaries and what you can actually control. Stationing retrograde, it turns inward, asking you to examine what you have learned. You may realize that something you thought you had to accept is actually negotiable. You may find the strength to set a boundary you previously thought was impossible. Saturn retrograde in the eighth house is a time to review and revise the agreements you have made with others, to ask whether they still serve you, and to be willing to renegotiate them.

On July 29th, a Full Moon in Aquarius illuminates your sixth house, the realm of work, health, and routine. This Full Moon brings something about these areas into focus. You may realize that your work situation has changed significantly since the eclipse in February. You may see clearly what is working and what is not in your daily practices. You may experience a moment of clarity about what you need to do differently to feel more grounded and healthy.

August is the month of the second major solar eclipse. On August 3rd, Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus, in your ninth house. Chiron has been moving forward through the ninth house since January. Stationing retrograde, it turns inward, asking you to examine the old wounds that may be holding you back from expansion, from travel, from belief, from pursuing larger aims. This is a good moment to ask: What am I afraid will happen if I get what I want? What old hurt is stopping me from moving forward?

On August 6th, Venus enters Libra, moving into your second house. What you value now orients toward money, toward what you own, toward your self-worth. Venus in Libra in your second house suggests that you are making choices about money more consciously, that you are willing to invest in yourself, that you are aware of your value and what you deserve to earn.

On August 9th, Mercury enters Leo, moving into your twelfth house. Your thinking is now oriented toward the hidden, the withdrawn, the finishing. You may be processing something in therapy or in private reflection. You may be having conversations with yourself about what you need to let go of. Mercury in the twelfth house is introspective. It thinks through feeling and memory rather than logic.

On August 11th, Mars enters Cancer, moving into your eleventh house. The planet of action is now in the realm of groups and collective aims. You are willing to fight for what your groups stand for. You are willing to be a voice for your friends. There is passion here for the communities you are part of.

On August 12th, a total solar eclipse in Leo darkens your twelfth house. This is one of the year's most significant events. A solar eclipse opens a six-month window of ending and beginning. The twelfth house is the house of the hidden, the withdrawn, what is finishing. This eclipse suggests that something in your private life, your spiritual practice, your inner world, or the parts of yourself that only you know about will end and something new will begin. Some of you will end a therapy process and integrate what you have learned. Some will let go of a dream you have been holding. Some will simply realize that the version of yourself that only exists in private no longer serves you and you are ready to bring more of yourself into the world. This eclipse is total, which means it will be intense. Be prepared for something significant to shift.

On August 23rd, the Sun enters Virgo, moving into your first house, your own body and presence. For the next month, you are the center of your own life in a way that may feel unfamiliar. Your conscious will is oriented toward your own becoming, your own growth, your own visibility. This is the solar return season for you, a month when you are most aware of who you are and who you are becoming. It is a powerful time to set intention about the year ahead.

On August 28th, a partial lunar eclipse in Pisces illuminates your seventh house. This eclipse brings something about your partnerships, your agreements with others, your one-to-one relationships into sharp focus. You may realize that something is no longer working. You may see clearly what you need to change. You may understand, finally, what someone has been trying to tell you. This eclipse is a closing point. Something is ending. The question is whether you end it consciously or let it die slowly.

September brings the new moon at your solar return. On September 11th, a new moon in Virgo opens a new cycle in your first house. This is the solar return new moon, the most powerful new moon of your year. This is the moment to set intention for the year ahead. Plant seeds about who you want to be, what you want to create, what you want to release. The new moon offers a clean slate, but only if you are willing to be honest about what you actually need.

On September 10th, Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini, in your tenth house. Uranus has been moving forward through your tenth house since late April, introducing instability and rapid change to your professional realm. Stationing retrograde, it turns inward, asking you to examine what you have learned about what you actually want from your work, what kind of professional identity feels authentic, what you are no longer willing to accept. This is a good moment to reassess your job, your role, your reputation, and to ask whether they still align with who you are becoming.

On September 26th, a Full Moon in Aries illuminates your eighth house. This Full Moon brings something about shared resources, sexual intimacy, transformation, and what must end into sharp focus. You may realize that something that seemed unclear in the spring is now coming into focus. You may see clearly what needs to change. You may understand, finally, what you have been denying.

Fourth quarter

October opens with a significant station. On October 3rd, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio, in your third house. Venus retrograde is a moment when what you value becomes unclear, and you are asked to revise and review. In your third house, this affects communication, short journeys, relationships with siblings or neighbors, and the daily flow of information. For the next several weeks, you may be rethinking what you value in your relationships with people you see regularly. You may be reviewing something you said and wishing you could unsay it. You may be reconsidering what you are willing to tolerate in conversation. This is not a time to make new commitments in the realm of communication. It is a time to clarify what you actually think and feel.

On October 10th, a new moon in Libra opens a cycle in your second house. This new moon is about money, self-worth, and what you own. Plant intention here about what you want to earn, what you value about yourself, what you are willing to receive.

On October 16th, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius, in your sixth house. Pluto has been turning inward since May. Stationing direct, it returns to its forward motion, and the transformation it has been working toward begins to move toward completion. In your sixth house, this means that changes to how you work, how you care for your health, how you manage your daily life are becoming more concrete and visible. The old patterns are falling away. The new patterns are beginning to take shape.

On October 24th, Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio, in your third house. This begins a three-week period of revision and confusion. Conversations do not land the way you intend them to. Agreements become unclear. Information gets mixed up. This is not a time to have important conversations or to make decisions about communication. It is a time to listen carefully and to be willing to revise your understanding of what you thought you knew.

On October 26th, a Full Moon in Taurus illuminates your ninth house. This Full Moon brings something about travel, study, belief, and your wider perspective into focus. You may realize that something you thought you believed is no longer true. You may see clearly what knowledge or experience you are missing. You may understand, finally, what you need to do to expand your sense of what is possible.

November brings clarity and resolution. On November 9th, a new moon in Scorpio opens a cycle in your third house. This new moon comes after the retrograde period, so it offers the chance to set new intention about communication, about what you want to say, about the relationships you want to have with people you encounter regularly. This is a moment to be clear about what you actually think.

On November 13th, Mercury stations direct in Scorpio, in your third house. The period of confusion and revision ends. You are now ready to speak clearly about what you think and feel. You may have the conversation you have been avoiding. You may clarify something that has been murky.

On November 14th, Venus stations direct in Libra, in your second house. Venus has been reviewing and revising what you value since early October. Stationing direct, you are now ready to move forward with clarity about what matters, what you deserve, what you are willing to invest in and receive. This is the moment to recommit to valuing yourself fully.

On November 24th, a Full Moon in Gemini illuminates your tenth house. This Full Moon brings something about your career, your public reputation, your professional identity into focus. You may realize that something has shifted significantly. You may see clearly what people think of you and whether that aligns with who you actually are. You may understand, finally, what you need to do to feel more authentic in your public role.

December brings the year to completion. On December 9th, a new moon in Sagittarius opens a cycle in your fourth house, the realm of home, family, and roots. This new moon is about foundation, about what you are building your life upon, about the private ground beneath the public structure. Plant intention here about what you need to change at home, what you need to heal in your family relationships, what kind of foundation you want to build going forward.

On December 10th, Saturn stations direct in Aries, in your eighth house. Saturn has been reviewing and revising what you have learned about boundaries since late July. Stationing direct, you are now ready to move forward with the hard limits you have discovered. Whatever you realized about what you can and cannot accept in partnership, this is the moment to establish it as policy.

On December 12th, Neptune stations direct in Aries, in your eighth house. Neptune has been reviewing and revising your understanding of intimacy and shared resources since early July. Stationing direct, you are now ready to move forward with what you have learned. If you have realized that something you believed was actually not true, this is the moment to act on that truth.

On December 13th, Jupiter stations retrograde in Leo, in your twelfth house. Jupiter has been expanding your inner work, your spiritual practice, your private life since June 30th. Stationing retrograde, it turns inward, asking you to examine what has actually served you in your retreat and what has simply been escapism. This is a good moment to assess what you have learned about yourself and what you are ready to integrate into your waking life.

On December 24th, a Full Moon in Cancer illuminates your eleventh house. This Full Moon brings your place in groups, your friendships, your collective aims into focus as the year closes. You may see clearly what these connections mean to you. You may understand, finally, what role you actually want to play in the communities you are part of. You may be ready to recommit or ready to move on.

Long-term themes

The single most important transit of the year is Uranus entering Gemini on April 26th and taking up residence in your tenth house, the realm of career and public reputation. This is the first time in eighty-four years that Uranus has been in your tenth house, and it is the beginning of a seven-year cycle of disruption and reinvention. What you are known for, how you work, your professional identity: all of these are subject to rapid and unpredictable change. The year ahead contains the first shocks of this. A job may change. A role you held may dissolve. Your reputation may shift. People may see you differently. This is not inherently bad. Uranus does not disrupt for the sake of disruption; it disrupts to make room for something more authentic. But it is destabilizing, and it comes at a moment when your foundation at home is also being unmade. The effect is that you cannot rely on external structures to tell you who you are. You must find that ground inside yourself.

Running alongside this is the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in your eighth house, the realm of shared resources, sexual intimacy, and transformation. Saturn entered Aries on February 14th, and Neptune entered on January 26th. For the next two and a half years, these two planets are in the same house, creating a peculiar and disorienting weather. Neptune dissolves boundaries. Saturn tries to rebuild them. The practical effect is that any entanglement you have been avoiding will demand resolution. Shared finances, sexual boundaries, the question of whether you can trust your partner with your vulnerability: these will not stay hidden. Saturn does not allow it. If you are in a committed relationship, this is the period when you must clarify what is yours and what belongs to someone else, what you can control and what you cannot, what debts you actually owe and which ones you have been carrying for no reason. If you are single, this transit asks you to examine the patterns that have shaped your intimate relationships and to be willing to change them. The presence of Neptune means that clarity is not available as an option. You must learn to act in the face of confusion, to set boundaries even when you do not fully understand what you are protecting, and to accept that some people and some situations will never make sense to you. This is not comfortable. It is necessary.

The eclipses of the year form a crucial pair. The annular solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17th opens a six-month window in your sixth house, the realm of work, health, and daily routine. The total lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 3rd illuminates your first house, your own body and presence. Together, these eclipses ask: Who are you becoming, and is your work aligned with that? Something in these areas will end and something new will begin. The eclipse window extends through August, which contains the total solar eclipse in Leo on August 12th, which illuminates your twelfth house, the realm of the hidden and what is quietly finishing. What is being shed in the work realm in the spring must be integrated internally over the summer. By the end of August, you should have a clearer sense of who you are outside the structures that have defined you.

Jupiter entered Cancer in early 2024 and moved retrograde, spending much of the year reviewing its position in your eleventh house of networks and collective aims. On March 11th, 2026, it stations direct, and you are ready to recommit to your groups and collective aims with new understanding. On June 30th, Jupiter enters Leo and your twelfth house for a one-year stay. For the next year, Jupiter expands the hidden, the withdrawn, the finishing. Your inner work deepens. Your spiritual practice becomes more meaningful. Your dreams become more vivid. The danger is escapism. Jupiter in the twelfth can mean that you retreat from the world in ways that are not productive, that you use substances or sleep or fantasy as a way to avoid the difficult work that is actually calling you. The year is asking you to learn the difference between healthy rest and avoidance.

Mercury, your ruling planet, is in Sagittarius in your fourth house, the realm of home, family, and roots. This is a multi-year transit that is remaking your sense of what is solid, what is yours, and what you can trust to hold you. Sagittarius asks questions. It destabilizes what felt permanent. But the year ahead shows you precisely why this disruption matters: the houses that define your public presence, your partnerships, your work, and your sense of what you deserve are all under pressure to change, and none of it will stick if you have not first moved something fundamental underneath. Mercury will remain in Sagittarius through 2027, so this process is ongoing. The year's work is to begin to accept that the ground is not stable and that you do not need it to be.

The retrogrades of the year fall into two categories. The outer-planet retrogrades (Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Chiron) are about reviewing and revising what these planets have been teaching you. The inner-planet retrogrades (Mercury, Venus) are about communication and values becoming unclear so that you can see them more truthfully. Mercury retrograde in Pisces from February 26th to March 20th asks you to revise your understanding of what you have agreed to with partners. Venus retrograde in Scorpio from October 3rd to November 14th asks you to revise what you value about communication and about yourself. Both retrograde periods are catalysts for change, not obstacles to it.

The year is structured around the tension between two fundamental movements: Uranus disrupting your tenth house of career and public identity, asking you to abandon the structures that have held you, and Jupiter expanding your twelfth house of inner work and rest, asking you to find yourself in the hidden places. The two movements are in different directions. One is pulling you toward the world. One is pulling you inward. The year is asking you to learn how to do both.

Summary

The year's dominant movement is an ending and a beginning happening simultaneously. Something about who you have been, how you have worked, and what you have believed about yourself is being shed. This process is uncomfortable. You are losing certainties you have relied on. But it is also clarifying. When you are no longer held together by external structures, you find out who you actually are.

The two strongest windows for action are the spring and the fall. In the spring, from February through April, the eclipses and the entry of multiple planets into your sixth, seventh, and eighth houses create a period of crisis and clarification. Use this window to make changes in your work situation, to have difficult conversations with partners, and to clarify what you need. By early May, the acute phase will be passing. You will have space to breathe.

The second strong window is the fall, from September through November. This is the period when retrogrades are stationing direct, when you are moving from review to action, when you are clearest about what has actually changed and what you need to do about it. Use this window to implement the changes you have been considering all year. Use it to have conversations that have been waiting. Use it to recommit to what matters and release what does not.

The periods to move more cautiously through are June and July. Jupiter enters your twelfth house at the end of June, and the total eclipse in Leo on August 12th is asking something profound of you. This is a period of deep internal work. You may feel less capable of moving into the world. You may find yourself drawn toward retreat and inner processing. This is not a bad thing. It is necessary. But it is important not to mistake this inward pull for apathy or depression. You are processing something real. Trust the process.

The most challenging window of the year is the period from February 14th through August 28th. Saturn and Neptune have both moved into your eighth house, and the eclipses are asking you to shed an old identity. You will feel disoriented. You will not have the clarity or certainty you usually rely on. This is not a time to make major decisions or commitments. It is a time to ask questions, to listen, and to accept that you do not understand what is happening. By the end of August, the acute phase will be passing. By September, you will have enough distance to see what has actually shifted.

The year will end with a sense of coming into focus. The eclipses will have had their way with you. The stations will have clarified what you have learned. You will not feel completely grounded. You will not have solved all the problems. But you will know more clearly who you are when the structures are stripped away. You will know what you actually need. You will be ready to build something new.