The year of 2025 was big. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest ones we’ve had in a while. As astrologers, we’ve been flummoxed and flabbergasted at the amount of high-intensity events stacked on top of each other: my astrologer friends and I made it kind of a running joke eventually, and most of us prepped years in advance for this. Truth be told, we’d all have been screwed if we hadn’t.

 

2026 is just as – if not slightly more intense – than 2025. As a matter of fact, astrologers in the early 20th century looked ahead to the astrological event of the mid- to late 2020’s and said: “Oh, this is going to be an intense and interesting time!”

Yes. Yes, it is.

 

For context, the year 2027 is going to lessen in intensity compared to 2024-2026 but is still going to be big astrologically speaking. Come 2028, we get to consolidate our lives again and find our footing once more (even if we’re change-resistant). Life slows down, we figure out what we really want and get to build on it, peace can be found. Before that, specifically this year, life is going to be a bit more of a roller coaster… with 2026 as the collective’s peak.

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Collectively vs. Personally

Astrology both works on a collective level – which is to say, its effects can be seen through a social and political lens – and personally for each individual in their own lives and individual growth. The latter is determined by your unique astrological blueprint (natal chart) and your choices in how you play the hand you’re given. In a nutshell, you’ll notice the energies astrology brings and meet its themes… but what you make of them is in your hand.

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This article tries to both speak to the collective and the personal level. But please keep in mind that this is still generalized: I don’t see your natal chart (personal astrological blueprint) that modifies the expression of every single astrological event and how it impacts you. If you’d like a more individualized analysis, please consider booking a reading.

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Also, please note that a year of many astrological events is not a bad year. Yes, it’s one in which we’ll feel a lot happening: life is not going to stay the same or feel the same as it has. But the way you’re impacted personally can make this the best year of your life. And you have the option to make the best out of what you’re given. Still, even if all of this doesn’t help… look forward to next year, or 2028, when life slows down again.

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So, why is 2026 so big?

There are 12 major players in astrology that hold sway over how big, or better, how intense, a year is going to be. (Plus, there’s minor players – but we’ll get to that later).

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Those players are: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Chiron, and the axis of Lunar Nodes (which I’m counting as one, since they’re symbiotic).

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Of all of these players, some of which take decades and one of which takes more than a century to finish its orbit… 11 change signs.

 

So, we have 1 planet holding down the fort while 11 out of 12 bring change.

 

And the (astrological, not astronomical) planet that keeps the course is… Pluto.

 

Pluto is the astrological significator of transformation, in-depth processes, power, death and rebirth, secrets, the hidden worlds within our worlds, and politics. It’s currently in the sign of Aquarius, which is all about society-wide changes, calling in the future, rebellion, revolutions, and inventions, quick large-scale change, our differences, diversity, and individualism in a context of larger groups at play. This is the sign of the black sheep and the inventor, the visionary and the humanitarian.

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Pluto in Aquarius, a 21-year-lasting, once-every-248-years event (this is not a typo, it truly is that rare) is and always has been a time of change in the world. It has never really had a stabilizing effect on history (at least, not in the past 1,000 years I analyzed and wrote about here) – because Pluto in Aquarius is not about stability, it’s about bringing change to stale structures and advancing humanity. It also deals with the power of groups… and that can be really beautiful (humanitarianism). But it’s not stagnant.

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So, our constant doesn’t even feel like a constant. So, let’s consider what we can actually build on.

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Finding Home and Stability

Luckily, there is an actually grounding and stabilizing, nurturing energy coming for us for half of 2026 that we can build on, at least until June 30th. Jupiter, the planet of blessings, is in its exaltation of Cancer.

 

Cancer is the sign of emotional and physical nurturance, the home, the heart, family, and familial love. This is a sign that allows us to find and build safe havens and that’s all about protection and finding and creating shelter. This event can emotionally ground us and help us find the places that nourish us even while everything else speeds up around us.

 

After June 30th, 2026, this influence falls away… but by then, some of the largest events of 2026 have already gone underway, so the soothing influence lasts through the timeframe we need it the most. Lucky, isn’t it? Jupiter next enters the sign of Leo, which we’ll discuss later.

 

For now, let’s focus on the actual most important theme… what change is even taking place?

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New Beginning, Change, and Agency

Since 2025, Neptune (165-year-orbit) and Saturn (29 ½-year-orbit) both started of closing out their stay in the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces. They also began their new journey in the first sign of the zodiac, Aries. This is incredibly rare, as this also means that they walked hand-in-hand between the first and last signs of the zodiac… which last happened before our A.D. time system became 4 digits long (the 9th century A.D.).

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Neptune is all about spirituality, intuition, compassion, kindness, our ability to see beyond our own ego, and a higher vision. Its shadow sides are also themes around delusion, addiction, martyrdom, and sacrifice that isn’t needed. On January 26th, it ends its journey in Pisces, the sign of illusion, fantasy, passivity, grief, addiction, intuition, and spiritual insight. Neptune entered Pisces back in 2011. Neptune next enters the sign of Aries, which is all about putting compassion into action and doing something with the insight you’re given. Together, they create themes around intuitive guidance/illusion about the self; idealizing the fight, competitions, and our heroes/allies; villainizing the people we fight against; and finding ways to help others that actually change the world for better. We’ve already gotten a preview of this energy between March 30th and October 22nd, 2025, but January 26th, 2026, is the real beginning as it’s Neptune’s full entry into this sign. This event lasts until March 2039.

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Saturn is all about finding, creating, and testing pre-existing structures and building firm foundations. It’s about limitation, boundaries, calcification/consolidation, gaining mastery, and dealing with the necessities in life. It’s also about elderhood and maturity and often seen as a harsh task master… as it teaches us assignments of personal growth and real-life changes. On Valentine’s Day, it ends its journey in Pisces that started back in March of 2023. The new event that’s starting is Saturn in the sign of the warrior, of self-mastery, knowing your own desires, and new beginnings. This is the sign of not taking No for an answer and for using bluntness like a battering ram, but also for pioneering and forging your own path. Words aren’t enough: Aries is all about action. We’ve already gotten a preview of this energy from May 25th – September 1st, 2025. It’ll last until April 2028.

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Both of these sets of events – Saturn in Pisces/Aries and Neptune in Pisces/Aries – are huge on their own. I wrote multiple articles for each that are all linked in a compilation here and at the bottom of the article, in case you’d like to get back to them.

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But together, they actually amplify each other and create a window of opportunity for Bonafide miracles and magic in our lives: because Neptune is the world of miraculous possibilities – that often doesn’t get realized because we lack the material grounding or practical steps towards realization – and Saturn is the planet of making things real, the exact thing Neptune’s best potential needs to come to life. This is the agent of practicality and putting things into workable, real-life forms, creating big changes that are led by a higher power and have a much bigger effect on us than we believe. If you’re interested in reading about the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that will play out for the majority of 2026, I have separate articles on that here.

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Another astrological event this year that plays out in a similar manner to Neptune and Saturn in Aries is Chiron. This is the asteroid of healing, wounds, and the wisdom and gifts that make us talented helpers of others and generate true wisdom. Where it travels through the sky, our wounds are revealed, healing takes place, and we generate gifts that help us become mentors and teachers. For the majority of the year, this player remains in its last leg of its journey in Aries (which started in 2018 and will continue until 2027… though we’ll have a brief period of seeing a new theme emerge when Chiron enters Taurus from June to September of 2026, before turning back to Aries). But the closing out aspect brings breakthroughs to areas we struggle in as well as final tests and closure.

 

Chiron in Aries reveals our true desires and helps us heal the wrong impressions we got about who we truly are. It allows us to reclaim our power where we lost our agency (both because of outside circumstances and because we didn’t realize what power we had to begin with) and allows us to create a new beginning and forge a new path.

 

Again, Chiron is mostly busy with finishing up in Aries… but it also starts a brand new, years-long event through Taurus which is its own major event in astrology. We’ll discuss the three months of Chiron in its new sign and their implications later.

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For now, let’s not slow down – but speak about the next huge transit.

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Quick Change

Added to these major events that center on new beginnings – a.k.a. change – we also see Uranus fully enter the sign of Gemini, which is a once-every-84-years event. So, you’ll experience this a maximum amount of 2 times in one lifetime, usually less than that.

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Uranus is the planetary player for shaking things up, bringing change, liberating us, revolutionizing what used to be, emphasizing independence, making us walk our own path rather than following the mainstream (which is already amplified with Pluto in Aquarius) and bringing electric and unexpected surprises.

 

Since April 2018 (to July 7th, 2025, and lately from November 9th, 2025, onward) it journeyed through the most change-resistant sign of the zodiac, Taurus. Taurus is all about the body, the land, environment, nature, resources (especially money and food), and our physical reality. It hates change because it’s the foundation for all life. Come April 26th, 2026, Uranus leaves this stabilizing sign and changes into the sign of Gemini… which it will stay in until 2033.

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This, in and of itself, it a huge deal as it’s an all-new 7 ½-year-long event that brings change to a whole new area of our lives, individually. But collectively, it’s also a huge deal because of Gemini’s nature.

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As resistant to change as Taurus is, so open to it is Gemini. This is the quickest sign of the zodiac. It’s already about flexibility, intellectual malleability in many ways, the curiosity that drives us to this place and that, a heady energy all about information and conversation and testing a perspective out to see if it’s the truth. It’s quite polarizing – both because people love or hate Gemini but rarely feel neutral about it – and because Gemini creates two worlds where there used to be one. It sees life through the lens of many different fractals, rather than a cohesive whole… and Uranus in Gemini creates that reality, rather than just reflecting it.

 

The planet of change in the quickest sign of the zodiac means that life is going to change very rapidly at least some of the time during the next 7 ½ years, but especially in 2026 when the event starts. Its polarizing and fractalizing impact means that we won’t see all people moving through this at the same time (though we’ll all move through change eventually), but see people split off into groups who go this way, or that. Mini-groups and camps form, schools of thought already there become more individualized and different from each other. This is amplified by Pluto in Aquarius which underlines our differences, and Neptune and Saturn in Aries that emphasize identity and self-development.

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It also frees our voice and liberates us from constrictions on our ways of thinking. Epiphanies come, information is revealed that was hidden and suppressed before (both due to Uranus and Pluto). Cognition – the entire way we think – will change, and the way we communicate will become a rapid avenue and theatre for change. Much more so than ever before, with Uranus in a favorable aspect of amplification to Pluto in Aquarius. Groups that used to be whole break apart. Sometimes, on a country-wide level, rather than “just” in our personal lives (though this might happen for you, too).

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Beyond that, learning becomes a potential far beyond what we’ve known and education changes – which is a good thing, because it needs to, thanks to Pluto in Aquarius’s introduction of A.I. to the broad masses. Themes around twins and multiples and the way this shapes us, as well as neurobiology and neurodivergence rises and will be understood better… so we can (Neptune in Aries) actually help and understand people in ways we didn’t before.

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The red thread between Uranus in Gemini, Neptune and Saturn in Aries, and Pluto in Aquarius is the world becoming okay with people’s differences. The ways people don’t fit in. The ways we think differently, the different gifts we have as individuals become something we don’t pathologize (or victimize ourselves for, which was a shadow of Neptune in Pisces 2011-2026). What makes us different and individuals is emphasized. And that’s a very good thing that will, with time, create opportunities.

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Revealing the True Self, Releasing the False Ideas About the Self

Another astrological event picking up in this is actually the Lunar Nodes (also known as the axis eclipses can take place around) moving from Pisces (North) and Virgo (South Node) to Aquarius (North) and Leo (South Node). Long story short, the Lunar Nodes are about collective and individualized growth and soul-led events that feel like they were orchestrated via higher guidance.

 

The North Node (now in Pisces, changing into Aquarius as the year goes on) is about what we’re growing towards, calling in, developing, and needing. This, in Pisces until July 27th, 2026, is compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, intuition, and rest. From July 27th, 2026, onward up until March 2028, the theme changes as the North Node moves into Aquarius: now, it again brings an emphasis for change, for forming an opinion and sticking with it, for embracing what makes you Other and bringing it to the world… and for heightened social awareness, too.

 

The South Node (now in Virgo, changing into Leo thereafter) is about what we’re building on, which both requires a process of capitalizing on the rewards of the past and reaching beyond them with time. If something around the South Node’s theme wasn’t good for us, we tend to detox, deemphasize, or lose it altogether, as well. In summary, it’s about creating right relationship with the past, while the North Node is about bringing in the future.

 

In Virgo, this is all about work, health, devotion, and routines. Essentially, we’re releasing our unhealthy habits around overworking/not working in efficient ways, unhealthy habits, and ways of serving/devoting ourselves to other that aren’t working. Come July 27th and all the way until March 2028, the theme changes to Leo.

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The South Node in Leo is interesting: it’s all about you. Personally. It’s about our gifts, the way we shine, our joy, our hearts, the things we have to give to the world. It’s also about who we truly are, deep down. The South Node here allows us to become more authentic as it strips away past ideas of who we were and allows us to build on the true self we already discovered. Of course, this is also aided by Chiron healing our wounds around our identity and power in Aries, and Neptune and Saturn in Aries as well: identity and the question of who we are are both big deals this year. What makes the South Node in Leo different is that it also rewards us for showing up and being seen, for giving our gifts to the world, in appropriate ways. It helps us find joy in these times, too, and allows us to build on our pasts when the past provides solid building ground – while Chiron, Saturn, and Neptune emphasize newness and new beginnings.

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The North and South Node are both always activated by eclipses, 2 sets of pairs that start in February and March, and continue with the last two eclipses in August. In both sets of eclipses, both Pisces/Virgo and Aquarius/Leo are represented… so, while the Nodes only change signs in July, we’ll have the themes of Aquarius/Leo all year, and Pisces/Virgo until August ends.

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The eclipses are on February 17th (Aquarius), March 2-3rd depending on time zone (Virgo), August 12th (Leo), and August 27-28th (Pisces).

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…But there is one more event that picks up on the Leonine theme of finding out who you REALLY are, of shining your light in this world, and of giving your gifts to it: Jupiter in Leo – which starts in the second half of 2026. From then up until mid-2027, Jupiter, the planet of blessings and expansion, enters the sign of Leo, amplifying the themes the eclipses and the South Node already activate.

 

This is an interesting and also intense time as Jupiter immediately forms challenging aspects with Pluto in Aquarius, which is all about change and our differences, and Chiron, which is about our wounds, healing, and our greatest talents and wisdom earned (though it’s at least not in Aries anymore during this time – more on that later).

 

This event brings us major opportunities if we wish to bring our gifts and talents to the world: either by allowing us to plant seeds to do so later, or by teaching us important lessons so we can do this in due time, or by actually putting us in front of the proverbial audience/allowing us to give our gifts in other ways – and be seen and recognized for doing so.

 

But this is also a very intense and change-bringing event that impacts us personally and collectively. The way we interact with the world at large changes, our self-worth is up for transformation, and some of us might have experiences with crowds and publicity that change them for good. One of the themes we’ll likely be guided to learn is to know when to disconnect from our need for a stranger’s validation, and in finding/prioritizing the path that leads us to inner peace.

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The advice I can give is to learn to not care so much about being validated by people who don’t know you very well. While this is easier said than done, it not only makes Summer and Fall of 2026 easier, it also is the major theme of this year anyway. Good luck!

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Peace, Resources, and Stability

We already discussed that Chiron will be in the sign of identity, healing our sense of self etc., for quite a while this year. What we can also add to this is that Chiron spends two separate timeframes in Aries: 2018 to June 19th, 2026, and then September 18th, 2026, to April 2027.

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But what is it doing between June and September? Chiron is entering the sign of Taurus (that Uranus vacated). This is actually a very welcome energy as Chiron is about generating wisdom and Taurus is about wisdom, the simplest form of it. Chiron also aids us in seeing what we need to heal and in providing this for us. Chiron in Taurus thereby shows us where and how we need stability and inner peace and, with time, helps us bring this.

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However, Chiron in Taurus might also show issues (globally and/or individually) with food, nature, climate, resources, body issues, and body image. If this is something you’re struggling with, please seek the help you need and know that you are not alone.

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Depth and the Emotional Heart

One last theme of 2026 is emotions running high and compassion abounding. While Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron in Aries, Jupiter and the South Node in Leo, and Pluto and the North Node in Aquarius all deal with our identity in many ways, shapes, and form, and while Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius also emphasize how different we are, we also have the added theme of returning to compassion, loving people as they are, and deep feeling.

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This is due to Jupiter in Cancer (until June 30th), the North Node in Pisces (until July 27th), and the 3 Mercury Retrogrades of the year (February-March in Pisces, June-July in Cancer, and October-November in Scorpio) directing our awareness to all of those themes. Venus turning Retrograde in Fall of this year in Scorpio and Libra also emphasizes the same thing.

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So, we’re not just turning into people who discuss ideas cognitively, we’ll also care for each other… something else emphasized by Neptune and Saturn in Aries, as together, they create practical compassion in action.

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Note for Readers in 2025: There is so much more to be said...

And said, it will be. But for now (August 2025), we'll leave it here. When Summer turns to Fall and the date of January 1st 2026 draws closer, personal predictions, specific advice to information on what we'll see in the world, and other helpful tidbits will be added to this site, to use and inform you for your discretion.

But since it's still mid-2025... we'll leave this here for now.

Happy rest of 2025,

Alexandra

Astrology from the Soul 

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Links:

Pluto in Aquarius

Neptune and Saturn in Aries and Pisces

Uranus in Gemini

Nodes in Pisces and Virgo
All articles (that have been released to this site already, with many more to come) can also be found here: 2025: Compilation of All Articles. A separate compilation article for 2026 will be released soon.