2026 | A year of Galloping Consciousness

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The world is Alive with new inspiration and powerful alignments in 2026

2026 opens a fresh chapter: a 1 Numerological Year, igniting new beginnings, independent initiative, and pioneering momentum. Like a Fire Horse under a hot afternoon sun, this year carries bold energy, adventurous optimism, and a desire to break free from old molds.

The cosmos mirrors this call for courage and creativity. Early degrees of Air and Fire in the outer planets—Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto—line up in a stabilizing cradle formation in July, offering a rare alignment for visionary breakthroughs, inventive thinking, and collective progress. At the same time, many personal planets and new moon seeds are anchored in water energy, bringing emotional depth, intuition, and relational insight to balance bold action with reflection.

As the year unfolds, we are invited to dream, explore, and act in harmony, blending inspiration with action, depth with courage, and independence with connection. The Fire Horse energy asks us to step forward boldly, take playful risks, and lead with authenticity—while the planets provide guidance, opportunity, and support along the way (along with a strange new consciousness bubbling up).

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1 Numerological Year and the Chinese Fire Horse

From a 9 Year to a 1 Year

2026 starts us into a new 9-year numerological cycle, with the number 1 ruling the vibration (2+0+2+6 = 10 ; 1+0 - 1).There is a lot that we’ve all been through these past 9 years, and hopefully wisdom that we can anchor in and use to clear some slates and move forward with new ideas and objectives.

1 Numerological Year and the Chinese Fire Horse

The main thing that trips me up is whether the 1 will give us all a bit more independent thinking and acting, or if it will add to the aggression that’s already pronounced. My feeling is that it will be a bit of both. There may be aggressive energy in the air, but from a more independent (versus group-think), pioneering mode—a passionate desire to forge new paths in our lives.

From Wood Snake to Fire Horse

The wood element was alive and kicking last year, but in yin form, it did feel a bit like an undercurrent. I had hoped that the snake’s wisdom mixed with the 9-year’s wisdom would bring some softening, but the yin wood of grasses and fields—its viral nature—pollinated an explosion of spreading theories that felt conspiratorial at times and probable at times. It was a year of needing discernment to tell fact from fiction. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t wisdom to be integrated in looking back over the past 9-year cycle. What do you do when the world you knew changes right under your feet? What have we woken up to that we took for granted or grew complacent about?

As we move into a yang fire year, mixed with a 1 year, it does feel hot to me. Add the horse to the mix, and we have an independent horse under a hot afternoon desert sun, charging forward with strength, headiness, and a bit of showmanship. Horses love freedom as does the 1 year. I was born in a horse year (although under the Earth influence) and know many a horse with a 1 life path. In my experience with this creature, its energy acts independently. Add in some fire, and we might have rogue energies departing from the expected or group sentiment, and for good or bad, following very independent decisions and actions.

Horses do bring a sense of humor that I feel has been missing for many years. It is optimistic, which we need right now. It is social, and despite the independent 1 year, I think this sociality has the potential to bring social bridge-building. Maybe in play, sports, movement, wit, communication, and adventure—things the horse loves—we remember how to come together and see each other as humans. Fire brings obsessiveness, impulsiveness, excesses, but also artistry.

My hope for the 1 Fire Horse Year is for us to be pioneering movers and shakers (rather than horses pulling war chariots).

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Eclipses | Pisces-Virgo Axis to Aquarius-Leo Axis

Seeds From Aries North Node Years

Although the North Node—the eclipse point of endings and beginnings—shifted out of Aries in January 2025, through September 2025, the new moons were still seeding intentions in Aries stages of each sign’s nodal/draconic chart (or the same sign in the draconic zodiac). When the North Node passes 0° of Aries, it marks, in my view, the start of a new 19-year draconic cycle.

I talk more about the layering of zodiacs in my 2026 Solar Guide.

Aries as Militant New Order
As the first sign, Aries initiates cycles with militant clarity. Its energy can be bold, urgent, and at times, aggressive or war-like. This has colored the global atmosphere of recent years—aggressive takeovers, domination mindsets, and the rise of strongmen echoing this archetype. Each of us carries Aries somewhere in our chart, and during this nodal phase, that dimension of our lives has been lit up.

At the same time, I also see the alignment of the Tropical Zodiac and Draconic Zodiac as a seeding point, like a new moon or sitting at the summit, as Capricorn does in the zodiac. It’s where we take our throne after returning from one journey, but hold a new seed that immediately creates hairline fractures in the construct that’s been established. At the summit, we have a view that gives us the ability to step back and make long-term plans. This, in storytelling terms, is like the Master of Two Worlds stage or the The (new) Ordinary World.

The summit/seed stage of a cycle, along with a 1st house/Aries-like energy, gives us leverage. We push against the stage to grow into the house—we push against the Caporicorn seed-like stage to assert ourselves in the world and grow in 1st house ways. To make our long-term plans and take action.

Shifting From Aries to Pisces–Taurus Seeds
Even though the North Node left Aries a year ago, the seeds planted during that time are still ripening and holding influence. But 2026 marks the turning point: the militant push for domination and “new order” begins to fade, making space for more Piscean seeds to take root. Pisces softens the edges with sensitivity, compassion, and mysticism.

Alongside this, Aries has shifted in the draconic chart into Taurus (every sign is now 1 sign ahead in the lunar draconic zodiac), layering in themes of values, beauty, and morals, similar to Taurus and 2nd house energy. This brings focus to kindness, grounding, and embodiment—though it can still divide the world into allies and enemies. Together, the Pisces–Taurus influence of the new moon seeds opening this year promises to loosen the grip of domineering forces and invite more humane, heart-centered growth.

In storytelling terms, this moves us from the Ordinary World where hierarchies and those in power take their thrones, to The Call to Action, where the pressure of holding the established construct (the seed shell) together starts to shatter as the new light inside the seed can no longer be contained. This is the rebel forces and collectives, dreaming things that the established norms can’t hold. The leverage we find here is the ability to break free of old values and enculturation to grow new values and enculturate in new 2nd house ways.

From Pisces–Virgo Axis to Aquarius–Leo Axis
On July 26/27, the North Node enters Aquarius, and the South Node moves into Leo. This new eclipse axis will amplify shadows already being revealed in progressive realms. Tech empires may face reckonings, AI could reveal distortions we must confront, and even non-profits may be scrutinized for their true energetic impact. We’re already seeing the airline industry falling apart, with Aquarius energy behind the north node. This will likely become more central to headlines this year, but new moon seeds that are two signs forward in the draconic zodiac will not happen this year. We will be looking at the shadows of Aquarius, but not seeding new growth in the energy profile and stage of growth it aligns with until 2027.

On the Leo South Node, we will be asked to edit how we approach leadership, play, and teaching. With Pluto traveling close to the North Node for the next year and a half, we can expect themes of power, politics, and control to be pulled into deep shadow work.

Meanwhile, the Pisces–Virgo axis will not simply fade—it will be seeded with new vitality. Expect new directions in media, art, and institutions, alongside more refined approaches to lifestyle, well-being, and the delicate balance between work and rest.

Eclipse Dates for 2026

• Aquarius Annular Solar Eclipse | February 17, 5:01 am MT at 28°

• Virgo Total Lunar Eclipse | March 3, 4:38 am MT at 12°

• Leo Total Solar Eclipse | August 12, 11:36 am MT at 20°

• Pisces Partial Lunar Eclipse | August 28, 12:18 am MT at 4°

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Outer Planets | The Transpersonal Stories

The powerhouses of the zodiac take anywhere from seven to thirty years to traverse a single sign. This year, our transpersonal planets settle into new signs—Pluto anchored in last year, while Neptune and Uranus merely dipped a toe in before reversing. While 2025 offered many transitions, it was only a preview. This year, those shifts truly begin to take root as all three of these transpersonal planets nest into their new signs, bringing seismic changes that have already been bubbling.

Pluto in Aquarius

Pluto made its more permanent move into Aquarius last year, beginning to expose the stark gap between the common person and the elite. We can expect the masses to uproot this rot and attempt to bring more humane equity to the future of the collective.

Over the next two decades, Pluto will continue to amplify power in innovation, tech, science, and engineering. However, with many of Aquarius’s degrees sitting behind the North Node, 2026 will be a year of endings and shadows for Pluto. This transit will illuminate the underbelly of power in progress, new age shadows (hello, Burning Man disasters), and innovation power brokers.

Neptune from Pisces to Aries
Neptune, the zodiac’s dreamer, tentatively explored Aries in 2025 before retreating to its comfort zone in Pisces. On January 26, 2026, Neptune returns to Aries with more confidence. Is this a positive shift? Time will tell. Aries, the zodiac’s initiator, bulldozes what’s broken to make space for new passion and direction. Neptune, on the other hand, dwells in dreams and illusions. The collision of these energies may feel militant, impulsive, and even uncomfortable to our softer side—but sometimes the dreamer needs a push to act on their visions.

Since 2011, Neptune in Pisces has been somewhat unmoored in media and collective illusions. Aries may sharpen its focus, creating clarity—but with a risk of militancy and bullying in Neptune’s connection to media. Early hints emerged in 2025, when media figures like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel faced scrutiny with questions around freedom of speech and whether fascist-like pressures were influencing media decisions. My take is to consume less media in the coming years (especially if it cowers to political control), and cultivate independent thought.

Through 2039, expect fashion and art to evolve toward raw realism, uniformity, utility, and physicality. Historically, this transit has been linked to crusades and zealous religious fervor, so caution is warranted.

Uranus in Taurus to Gemini
Uranus has been drawing stark lines, galvanizing collective energy. In Taurus since 2018, it polarized groups around issues of value, wealth, body, and sexuality, often reinforcing authoritarian voices. Its brief dip into Gemini revealed cracks in these polarities—internal dissent, unexpected alliances, and more fluid group dynamics.

Back in Taurus until April 26, 2026, we may see entrenched positions resurface. But when Uranus moves fully into Gemini (April 26, 2026 – August 2032), polarization will begin to splinter. Gemini’s energy—youthful, clever, mischievous, and communicative—will introduce flexibility, humor, and inventive problem-solving into the collective. What once felt rigid will become playful and unpredictable, opening new pathways and dissolving dualities.

Uranus in Gemini may bring drama and catty energy, but also levity. The collective conversation becomes dynamic and multidimensional—the Mad Hatter stirring the pot of moral certainties and groupthink. Humor, intelligence, and creative expression will temper strong stances, helping society navigate complexity with wit and insight, hopefully shattering entrenched polarities.

The Innovators Triad: A Mythic Vision

All three of these transpersonal planets will form positive and fluid angles with one another this year—a good omen for delightful solutions.

Pluto, the Underworld Architect, digs deep beneath the structures of society in Aquarius, uncovering hidden hierarchies and power imbalances. Uranus, the Trickster Visionary, dances through Gemini, scattering sparks of insight, mischief, and radical freedom across networks, conversations, and communities. Their trine weaves a current of creative disruption, where transformation and ingenuity flow effortlessly together.

Neptune, the Dreamer, sextiles both from Aries, a wild stallion of inspiration and daring. It imbues the triangle with imagination and vision, urging action not just for change, but for awakening—to ideals, possibilities, and the unseen potential of human ingenuity.

Together, these forces form a minor grand triangle: power meets innovation, and inspiration animates both. The world is called to evolve with courage, wit, and vision—to dream boldly, break old molds, and build structures that serve the collective while honoring the freedom of the individual.

In July, Jupiter will also link into this powerful grouping from Leo, all at 4° of their new signs, especially on July 29th as the Sun joins Jupiter and the moon and Pallas join Pluto in a full moon opposition. The weeks around this date should be dynamic with both harmonies and tensions playing in orchestration. This isn’t technically in eclipse season, but right on the heels of, and leading into one.

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Traditional Rulers | Our Personal Stories

Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn

As we move through 2026, the traditional ruling planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—embark on intricate journeys that interweave seeding, growth, and maturation across the zodiac. This year’s planetary choreography carries a sense of intentionality, with each luminary and planet engaging in archetypal stories that guide collective and personal development.

Sun and Moon: The Dance of Dreams

The Sun and Moon trace a subtle, yet profound dance this year, seeding dreams in Pisces tones. These placements resonate with the North Node, where the zodiac asks us to balance intuition and innovation, compassion and vision. Each new moon this year falls one sign ahead in the Draconic Zodiac relative to the Tropical Zodiac, giving the seeds a Taurus or 2nd-house quality. Through this layering, new ideas are anchored not only in inspiration but also in tangible values, resources, and practical manifestation. Through the dance of Sun-Earth-Moon, we have a chance to shed old stories so that new values and beauty can form.

The year invites reflection on how we imagine new possibilities (Pisces) while structuring them for collective usefulness and personal growth. Each lunar cycle becomes a portal to align emotional resonance with pragmatic action, linking inner vision to outer expression.

Mercury: The Trickster in Water

After two years of seeding fire synodic journeys, Mercury now moves into a water cycle, beginning the year in a Scorpio synodic journey. This journey explores emotional depth, transformative insight, and the power of subtle influence. Mercury will continue through water sign synods: Pisces in early March, Cancer in early July, and returning to Scorpio in early November.

This year, Mercury’s movement deepens our capacity for reflection, strategic thinking, and the alchemy of communication. Secrets, mysteries, and hidden connections may surface, inviting careful discernment and skillful navigation in how we convey and interpret meaning.

Follow the year’s Trickster’s Journeys HERE

Venus: The Heroine’s Journey

Venus continues her Heroine’s Journey, which began in Aries in the spring of 2025. Through 2026, she will navigate assertive, bold, and action-based landscapes that ignite a fiercer autonomy, completing this journey in late October before seeding a new path in Scorpio. We step from ARies miaden energy of last year to Aries queen this year in how we handle autonomy around fierce selfhood.

The Scorpio cycle, which starts in the autumn, highlights empowerment through unity, precision of personal and relational expression, and the integration of passion and purpose. We will experience new cracks around our ‘perfect world’ of intimacy and entanglement as we end the year.

Venus calls us to honor both our desires and responsibilities this year, cultivating decisiveness, bravery, and intentionality in our relationships and creative projects.

Follow the year’s Heroine’s Journeys HERE

Mars: The Hero’s Path

Mars moves through the second half of its Hero’s Journey that began in January 2025 in Cancer. In 2026, it travels from Capricorn through Virgo, gradually finding maturity in our individuation—our purpose and power. Mars’s Cancer journey emphasizes caring action, protective assertion, and the harmonization of aggression and nourishment. Its movement in this journey teaches us to wield energy responsibly, aligning personal drive with the needs of the broader community. This year, we start to find our footing, maturity, and purpose in this versus last year’s new worlds and hasty scrappiness.

Follow the year’s Hero’s Journeys HERE

Jupiter: Growth, Expansion, and Radiance

Jupiter begins the year, seeding a Cancer journey in early January, emphasizing emotional intelligence, care, and nurturing in how we explore and broaden life. By June 30th, Jupiter moves into Leo, shifting focus to self-expression, creative vision, and the expansion of personal influence. This dual movement encourages balancing inner cultivation with the courage to step into the spotlight and inspire others.

Follow the year’s Pilgrim’s Journeys HERE

Saturn: Foundations and Authority

Saturn continues the journey it seeded in Pisces on September 21, 2025, integrating complexity and compassion into our discipline and responsibility. On February 13, 2026, Saturn moves into Aries, signaling the start of a new initiative and calling for strategic assertion and leadership. A new journey calls on October 4, 2026, seeding growth to our focus and dedication through Aries’s personal power, pioneering boldness, militant order, and constructive influence.

Follow the year’s Initiate’s Journeys HERE

Conclusion

2026 emerges as a year of layered growth, bridging inspiration with tangible action, reflection with expansion, and personal vision with collective responsibility. The Sun and Moon invite dreaming and cultivating, Mercury guides insight and communication, Venus models relational boldness, Mars embodies caring action, Jupiter expands our inner scope and heart’s courage, and Saturn grounds us in complex discipline and assertive authority.

With a lot of water energy infused in the missions of the ruling planets this year, we are ready to go under the surface of life, find flow, and connect with a less resistant way of moving life.

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Major Transits | Collective Dynamism

Most of these transits are part of the broader cradle pattern, discussed earlier in this post, and are in effect for much of the year (beyond the exact noted date, as they are slow-moving planets).

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in Aries (February 20th)

The Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries is a rare alignment, occurring roughly once every 36 years. The last conjunction coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall, marking a profound shift in collective structures and the dissolution of old boundaries.

In 2026, this conjunction invites a similar reordering of authority, ideals, and personal initiative. Saturn brings structure, discipline, and accountability, while Neptune dissolves illusions, inspiring vision, compassion, and imaginative reform. Together in Aries, the energy focuses on courageous new beginnings—bold steps toward innovation, ethical leadership, and principled action—but not without the need to discern dreams from delusions.

This alignment signals a moment to rebuild systems, both personal and societal, with clarity, creativity, and integrity. It asks: where are our structures outdated, and where can imagination guide new forms of initiative and courage?

Saturn in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius (March 28th)

The late March sextile between Saturn in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius is a moment of constructive, transformative energy—a gentle yet potent echo of their intense 2020 conjunction in Capricorn, when the world faced the weight of Covid and global pause. Unlike the pressure and lockdown of that earlier alignment, the sextile offers guidance and support, like a Supernatural Guide in the Hero’s Journey: subtle, wise, and empowering rather than overwhelming.

Saturn brings focus, discipline, and the courage to take measured action, while Pluto fosters deep transformation, uncovering hidden potential in systems, communities, and personal structures. Together, in this flowing aspect, they allow you to navigate challenges with clarity, restructure your life or projects with long-term vision, and integrate lessons from past crises.

This sextile invites alignment between inner purpose and outer change. It asks: how can we act with responsibility while embracing transformation? Where can discipline meet evolution to create empowered, meaningful progress? The answer emerges through steady, intentional steps guided by insight and courage—much like a hero receiving the counsel of a wise, unseen mentor.

Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries (July 15th)

Uranus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries in the latter half of 2026 (and extending into 2027), is a rare, generational alignment, occurring only twice every 172 years. Historically, their 1993 conjunction in Capricorn marked the birth of the internet and the digital revolution, a moment of profound technological and spiritual awakening.

This separating sextile carries a similar energy, but in a subtler, guiding form—like meeting the Supernatural Guide in the Hero’s Journey. It’s a bridge between visionary insight and practical application: Uranus sparks inventive ideas, curiosity, and collective ingenuity, while Neptune lends imagination, intuition, and the ability to see beyond the obvious.

Together, they encourage spiritual and cultural progress, fostering breakthroughs that are both inspired and actionable. Where their past conjunctions unleashed new paradigms, this sextile invites integration: a moment to align innovation with higher purpose, intuition with experimentation, and individuality with community insight. It’s an invitation to act with vision, guided by inner clarity, as new paths of awareness and invention emerge.

The mystical phase represented by this aspect and the nature of these two planets combined, does tend to bring new and unusual consciousness to humanity. I’ll say a bit more about that in the quarterly overview of Summer.

Uranus conjunct Mars in Gemini (July 4th, 2026 - 2:08 am EST)

The US, in particular, has a profound relationship with this conjunction in Gemini. My take on why there is supercharged energy relates to the US birth chart. No matter which version you use, the day and year are the same, with Mars and Uranus conjunct in Gemini in its DNA. The particular US chart I have recently switched to (the Evangeline Adams version), Gemini is the US rising sign, hence the first house of agenda, initiative, core Self, and motivation. I think the history with this transit in the US strengthens my suspicions about this early morning chart being the right one, as a 1st house trigger would align with the wealth of history related to this transit.

For those who are intrigued and want to deep-dive into the matter, there is a 4-hour podcast episode covering a ton of research into it all: The Astrology Podcast. To pique your interest, here is a list of US historic events around this transit:

1776: Signing of the Declaration of Independence (hence this transit being in the US DNA)

1782: Revolutionary War peace talks begin

1861: Civil War begins

1865: The House abolishes slavery

1865: Civil War ends

1945: Atomic Bombing in Japan/WWII ends

1992: Cold War ends

As you can see, it’s a mixed bag of positive steps forward and difficult events. What is core is passion-fueled shakeups. The astrology surrounding the transit tends to have influence over which way the wind blows. Looking at the timing for the US (DC or EST time), this conjunction will be in the 2nd house with a Taurus rising. There is value at the core of what this stirs up. Uranus is part of a cradle aspect pattern throughout the year, involved in protecting and birthing something new. Mars will be in conjunction with Uranus during this innovative time, with Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune all forming positive aspects with Uranus. This makes me hopeful that Mars’s sometimes hotheaded reactions will be tempered and brought into something bigger, weaving in a bit of wise counsel to its impulsive reactions. In the draconic zodiac, Mars and Uranus will be in Cancer, giving more depth and interiority to Gemini’s sometimes fickle nature.

I don’t want to say outright that I feel good about this transit. It has a history of violent events igniting and resolving, but I do think there will be an effort to cultivate maturity, or at least strive for it. Uranus and Mars conjunct in the US 1st house, in my opinion, has astrong link to our interest in military innovation. We may have to face things around our gun laws, around martial law, around the militarization of police, or scary weapon innovations. In the end, I think we will ask things like ‘What is it worth?’ and ‘Are we mature enough to handle this properly?’ regarding whatever comes up.

Uranus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius (July 2026)

This is a time when your mind opens to bold, visionary ideas that can reshape how you connect, communicate, and collaborate. Uranus in Gemini ignites curiosity, inventive thinking, and fresh ways of sharing knowledge, while Pluto in Aquarius channels deep transformation in social systems, technology, and collective structures. Together, they create a supportive flow that allows you to release old patterns, embrace innovation, and find power in alignment with progressive change.

Individually, this transit encourages you to:

• Step into new ways of thinking and sharing ideas.

• Let go of rigid structures that no longer serve your growth.

• Experiment with technology, networking, or collaborative projects that feel ahead of their time.

• Align your personal ambitions with collective progress, finding empowerment in community transformation.

Think of this as a “visionary breakthrough” period—a rare chance to reimagine the future without the friction of past resistance. Courageous ideas and authentic experimentation are favored now.

Jupiter in Leo opposed Pluto in Aquarius (July 20th)

This is a moment of intense tension between personal ambition and collective power. Jupiter in Leo amplifies your desire for recognition, creative expression, and bold expansion, while Pluto in Aquarius challenges the structures, technologies, and social systems that shape the wider world. You may feel pulled between asserting your individuality and confronting the deeper forces that influence groups, institutions, or communities.

Individually, this transit encourages you to:

• Examine where your personal goals clash with broader societal pressures.

• Transform overinflated pride, ego-driven pursuits, or rigid attachments to control.

• Seek collaboration without losing your voice—power and influence are strongest when balanced with insight and adaptability.

• Be willing to release outdated paradigms to create space for innovation, authentic leadership, and social evolution.

Think of this as a “heroic reckoning” period—an opportunity to navigate power dynamics with courage, integrity, and creative intelligence.

Jupiter in Leo trine Saturn in Aries (August 31st)

This transit brings a rare opportunity to blend bold expansion with disciplined action. Jupiter in Leo encourages creative self-expression, joy, and taking calculated risks, while Saturn in Aries grounds these impulses with focus, strategy, and personal responsibility.

Individually, this transit invites you to:

• Turn inspired ideas into concrete plans with patience and structure.

• Step into leadership or take initiative in ways that are both ambitious and sustainable.

• Build long-term confidence by aligning passion with practical effort.

• Balance enthusiasm with discipline, allowing your creativity to flourish without burning out.

Think of this as a “hero’s mastery moment”—where vision meets strategy, and your personal brilliance can be anchored into lasting achievement.

Neptune sextile Pluto (they come close in July, but will be exact in the summer of 2027)

This transit invites a subtle but powerful shift in how we transform and dream. Neptune in Aries awakens personal courage, vision, and inspired action, while Pluto in Aquarius pushes collective evolution, innovation, and the dismantling of old systems. Together, they create a harmonious sextile, offering a rare alignment where personal insight supports societal transformation.

Individually, this energy encourages you to:

• Channel your visions and ideals into meaningful, innovative projects.

• Release old fears and embrace a bolder, pioneering sense of purpose.

• Sense where personal transformation aligns with collective growth.

• Trust subtle guidance from intuition and the unconscious to guide decisive, transformative action.

Think of this as a “meeting with the supernatural guide” moment—a time when personal insight and collective awakening converge, quietly steering you toward innovation, courage, and new possibilities.

With two very rare aspects involving Neptune and separating sextiles, interesting new consciousness is stirring.

Looking across 2026, several trends emerge with clarity:

• Outer Planet Momentum – July’s alignment of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto at early Air and Fire degrees provides a rare stabilizing moment for innovation, insight, and collective transformation. Fluid, inventive progress is supported by courageous, visionary action. On the heels of eclipse season and Jupiter opposing Pluto, I wouldn’t rule out a bit of drama at the same time as really exciting things taking place.

• Water-Sign Foundations – Personal planets and new moon seeds emphasize Piscean, Cancerian, and Scorpio tones, creating emotional depth, intuitive insight, and relational attunement. Dreams, empathy, and creative visions can now be anchored into practical value.

• Fire & Air Expansion – Early Fire degrees in Saturn, along with Air-leaning outer planets, create momentum for leadership, idea-sharing, and intellectual breakthroughs. Assertive energy is tempered by reflection, allowing bold steps. On the downside, Saturn in Aries could intensify the militant structuring of society, but also bring fresh maverick energies that are independent and pot-stirring.

• Numerological Energy: 1 Year & Chinese Fire Horse – 2026 is a 1 Year, a time for fresh beginnings, independent initiative, and bold action. Combined with the Fire Horse archetype, the year carries adventurous, pioneering energy, optimism, and a sense of playful freedom. We are called to charge forward with courage, creativity, and a dash of showmanship, forging paths that feel authentic while building bridges in relationships and communities.

• Integration of Vision and Action – From Neptune’s inspiration to Pluto’s deep transformation, Uranus’ ingenuity, and Jupiter’s expansion, the year invites alignment of personal initiative with collective progress. Courage meets strategy, insight meets experimentation, and dreaming meets practical manifestation. Rare sextile aspects between Uranus and Neptune, and Neptune and Pluto, will open up new fields of consciousness that could change reality as we know it.

• Call to Action Vibes – While the solar chart of the year shows the elite in their seat of power in the 19-year cycle between the Tropical and Draconic zodiacs, sitting at the top with command and authority, the new moon seeds of this year begin the shattering of the establishment. There is some initial Call to Action energy, where, like in Star Wars, the rebel forces have a new dream and collective backing. 2027 will be the real shattering, but the fractures in the old construct will become more and more apparent with collective organizing beginning to bubble. I have a 2026 Solar Journey guidebook that goes much deeper into this pattern and perspective.

In short, 2026 is a year of dynamic balance and pioneering spirit: the Fire Horse urges bold, independent action, while the cosmos provides support for inspired innovation, emotional attunement, and constructive risk-taking. It’s a year to dream, act, and forge new paths with courage, optimism, and vision.

Move your energy outward, into the world. Bring emotional care to pioneering initiatives.

Happy 2026, friends!

Allie