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Hey, Libra, this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. Joining me today is astrologer Leisa Schaim. I'm Chris Brennan of the Astrology podcast. And we're gonna look at the entire year's forecast for the next 12 months over the course of this video. So, hey Leisa, thanks for joining me for horoscopes this year.
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Hey, Chris. Glad to be here.
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So this is gonna be fun. We're going to look at this primarily from the perspective of your rising sign. So if your rising sign is Libra, then this is going to be the best horoscop. If you know your birth time, try to look up the horoscope that matches your rising sign. Otherwise, if you don't know your birth time, then it's okay to look at Libra if this is your sun sign. All right, so we're going to do a big picture overview and let's just jump right into it. Here's the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they'll end up by the end of the year. And these are the primary things that we're going to focus on that we've identified as the big transits during the course of 2026. So the very first one is that Saturn and Neptune are departing from the zodiac sign of Pisces and they're moving into Aries between January and February and both of them are gonna stay there for a number of years. And this is Moving from your 6th house of work and health, and they're moving into your seventh house of relationships and partnership.
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Yeah. So this really should be an alleviation of your 6th House topics. For instance, a lot of people I know who have Libra rising have talked about having nebulous or hard to diagnose health issues during this transit of the last few years, Since March of 2023 when Saturn went into Pisces, it could have also affected things involving your co workers or people you hire to do any work for you, as well as pets. And so this will be an alleviation of those issues. These will be moving into your seventh house of partnership, either personal or business partnership, and one on one interactions. So this will bring a greater focus on working in that area, having to put more effort into partnership or one on one interactions. It may also bring some nebulousness to this area. And we actually had Saturn and Neptune go into Aries in 2025. They got the closest to exactly conjunct in July of 2025. So that should maybe give you a sense, if you think back to what was going on for you at that time, maybe give you a sense of how that will be going forward here in your seventh house, especially around February, because that's when they do the exact conjunction by degree, right?
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Yeah. So moving out of a period. Cause Saturn went into your sixth house way back in March of 2023 and Neptune went into your sixth house back in 2011 or something like that, like 15 years ago. So these have been really long term transits in the health sector of your chart. And especially the one with Saturn over the past few years has probably coincided some obstacles or surmountable difficulties or setbacks, potentially even hardships when it comes to health matters or matters pertaining to your workplace. So the good news is that after the first couple months of this year, we see an alleviation of some of those issues with Saturn and Neptune moving out of there. So the area that starts getting a lot of focus though is your seventh house of relationships, which usually implies that there's some significant restructuring that needs to take place when it comes to relationships in your life over the course of the next two to three years as Saturn is transiting through the sign of Aries. And like Leisa said, you did get a little preview of it last year when Saturn dipped into Aries for a few months. But now it's gonna get really serious. So for those of you that are in relationships, sometimes there can be entering a patch, like sometimes a little challenging patch where maybe there's something going on in your partner's life where they're strugg with some stuff and then that's something that impacts you in some way. In other instances it can just be about setting better boundaries or setting better goals as a couple and entering into a new chapter of your life where as a couple you're more serious about things. For those of you that are not in relationships, sometimes Saturn Transits through the 7th House. Can either be a period where relationships are a little bit more tricky, or you decide not to focus on them as much. Or in other instances it can just be that you have a really serious relationship or a person that represents the archetype of Saturn, let's say a Capricorn or an Aquarius or somebody with Saturn prominent in their chart that comes into your life and plays that role at this time. So that's not necessarily a bad thing and could be a good thing. But the last thing that is kind of challenging is just that In February, Saturn and Neptune exactly form a conjunction. And my keyword for this lately has been that it's been like this reality distortion field in whatever part of the chart that's hitting. So one of the things you want to be careful about at this time, especially in February, is just make sure you're approaching things with clear eyes. Because you may not be seeing people or situations or especially relationships clearly and may have a hard time telling the difference between what's real and what's not or what's true versus what's false. So that will start to dissipate a little bit after February. But just pay attention to it, especially around that time period.
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Definitely. Yeah. For some people, especially at the time of the exact conjunction. But to some extent, while they're co present in general in your seventh house of relationships, it can be a time of structures that were previously there dissolving. That won't be the case for everyone, but it can be the case for some people. It can also be a time where you just have to try to balance realism and idealism in relationships. Kind of like you were saying, especially if you're meeting new people. Although it can apply as well to existing relationships. Sometimes you meet someone and you're like, are they too good to be true? And you might have a period of time, even this whole transit with Saturn and Neptune both there, where you're trying to kind of feel out what's realistic and what's like rose colored glasses with regard to relationships.
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Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So that's the first major transit that's happening especially around February, but it's really setting up a longer term thing that's going to last for a number of years. Let's move on to our next transit in 2026, which is that eclipse season starts in February through March. And this is our first eclipse season, which is taking place in the signs of Aquarius in Virgo, which is your fifth house of children and fun and games and Hobbies and your 12th House of Internal exploration, sometimes mental health and sometimes dealing with people that you don't get along with very well. So this is the first eclip eclipse series that we're gonna see in Aquarius, where eclipses are just starting to take place in that sign and the opposing sign, Leo, which will happen later this year.
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Yeah, it's really interesting actually, the overlap in timing here between the Saturn Neptune conjunction in your seventh house of partnership and that first eclipse in Aquarius in your fifth house. Because romance or dating or sexuality, those can all be fifth house topics. Even Though it can also be other things like children, creativity, if you do creative work, like creative output, hobbies, things you do for fun, et cetera. But I can see there easily being an overlap for some people anyway, with those both coinciding in February with that first eclipse there in your fifth house. So that can bring beginnings and endings wherever the eclipses happen. So there can be an important beginning or ending with regard to romance or children or. Or your hobbies at this time. It can be actually a new romantic partner, or it can just be a new chapter in an existing relationship.
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Yeah, that's a great point, that this first eclipse in Aquarius is bringing a period of major beginnings, but also major endings when it comes to one of the areas is romance and sex and sexuality and dating. And that could be coinciding with the Saturn transit going into the seventh house. At the same time, there could be some relationship that's cooling off during this time or even coming to an end that you decide to call it quits. But it'll probably be one of those. Closing one door results in opening another door. Because that's the thing about eclipses is even when they indicate endings, they also start a new beginning for you in that area of your life or open a new chapter. This could also be significant with respect to the topic of children, which is a major fifth house topic. Some people may have children around this time, as eclipses start happening in your fifth house over the course of the next two years, not just in 2026, but 2027. And for those of you that already have children, sometimes it can be about children reaching an important new milestone or entering a new chapter of their life, like graduating from high school or college or something like that.
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Definitely. And then with the other eclipse in your 12th house, that's a series that's already been between Pisces and Virgo, which are your 6th and 12th houses. So eclipses in the 12th house can be times of greater seclusion, whether proactively or otherwise. So sometimes it's a time where you feel like you need to kind of take time by yourself and have more contemplative time, sometimes at the time of dealing with mental health concerns or just being more proactive about your mental health. The 12th house can also bring in physical health, especially since you've already had those eclipses in process between your 6th and 12th. So for some people, it can be like new health issues or flare ups of existing health issues that cause you to spend more time alone for a period of time. But this one is not New, this is something that you've already been dealing with. And sometimes it's also dealing with people who you don't get along with, as you said Chris earlier. So, AKA enemies, or just, you know, for whatever reason, you don't mesh well with these people. So that can be something that comes up at this time. What am I missing?
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Yeah, just 12th house stuff when eclipses are happening, that this is the middle part of an ongoing sequence that we already saw happening last year of. In some instances, it can be dealing with people in your life that you don't get along with or who work against you in some way or who undermine you and finding a new beginning when it comes to that. Sometimes cutting certain people out of your life and ending some relationships if you feel like it's undermining you and no longer serving you well. Or in other instances, if it's something that you can't remove from your life, setting a new foundation so that your boundaries are clear and you are not putting up with anything that's unnecessary or that you don't have to be putting up with. Sometimes. This can also be important for doing mental health work when eclipses are happening in the 12th house, and taking care of your mind, sometimes doing therapy or other sort of internal explorations like that in order to also make sure that mentally, you're not becoming your own worst enemy or doing any sort of behaviors that are undermining yourself.
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Mm, definitely. Yeah. And since it's kind of a behind the scenes house, there can also be things that come up that you weren't aware of that were behind the scenes from your perspective. Like secrets. Not always, though. Sometimes it's just a time where you yourself are working more behind the scenes for a period of time, rather than, like, out front.
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Right. All right. So that's our first eclipse season that's happening in February and March. And then the next major transit is that in April. The planet Uranus is finally departing from the sign of Taurus, which it's been transiting through since 2018, 2019. And Uranus is now moving into the sign of Gemini, which is moving from your eighth house of shared resources and mortality and other people's money to your 9th House of Religion and philosophy and beliefs and travel and education. So this is actually a very exciting transit where Uranus is moving from kind of a tricky, challenging house to one of the more positive houses that's all about exploration and learning and expanding your horizons.
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Definitely, yeah. You've been dealing with potentially unexpected shakeups or sudden changes with regard to the 8th House topics for a good while now, since 2018. So those things like if you have shared resources with people or other people's money that affect you, your partner's income, if you have a partner could have been going through some shakeups at different times over that past while, or mortality related issues could have come up. Other people's crises I've heard as a tagline for the eighth House. And I've actually definitely experienced that personally as a signification. So as of April, it's moving into the ninth house. And so this is, I would agree, a really exciting transit and by and large a more positive transit. It's calling you to experiment, to be experimental and expand your horizons with regard to either higher education, long distance travel, publishing could come up for some people. That's a ninth House thing. And yeah, just belief systems. Definitely being more exploratory about your belief systems that can include religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, astrology goes in there. If you're listening to this, you're probably interested in astrology. So that's another thing you could be experimenting with getting more involved with over the next while. And even political beliefs can go there.
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Yeah, definitely. But the core of it is just having radical changes in this area of your life in terms of expanding your horizons and seeking a greater sense of freedom and liberation when it comes to some of these things. So for some people that can be exploring things very physically, like traveling to a different country and interacting with cultures that are different from the one you grew up with, and in that way having some unexpected surprises and learning some things that kind of like awaken you at some core level just as a result of moving around the world and being exposed to new things. So sometimes it happens physically or literally like that. Other times the explorations can be happening mentally or more in terms of the mind and in terms of education and learning, the ninth house is the place where we find college education, but also all sorts of other educational pursuits. And one of the things that often happens when we have major transits going through our ninth house is that our beliefs about the world start changing pretty radically, especially with Uranus, and especially in ways that might shock or surprise both people around us, but also ourselves, where we might suddenly find ourselves being attracted to a philosophy or a belief that's so radically different than what we've believed up to this point, that it almost seems like a sort of revolution or a complete break with the past. So that's very exciting because usually that's a good thing and usually it's like a Positive thing. You'll just have to be careful because your tendency will be to move really fast and sometimes it can be hard for other people in your life to keep up with you if you're having such radical changes or going through such a transformative period over a relatively short span of time.
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Definitely. While the ninth house isn't one of the primary houses in terms of one's sense of self, it can be really connected. The ninth house makes a trine to the first house. And your belief systems color very in large part who you are, who you present yourself to be, who you feel you are internally. So yeah, this is the area that's going to be going through a lot of major change over the next seven years. It won't happen all at once. But yeah, in terms of potentially being exposed to other people, either at a distance from other countries or other belief systems that that change your ways of viewing things or just going to college if that's age appropriate and that changing your views on things. But yeah, it should be a much more positive transit than the eighth house in terms of just containing more neutral to positive topics versus the more challenging ones you've been dealing with for quite a while.
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Yeah, definitely. And this is a long term transit that will last through the early2030s, so you're going to have plenty of time to really settle into it. There would have been a preview last year around July when Uranus first went into that sign for just a few months before going back into Taurus. But now in 2026, starting in April, we are fully into that new era for the better part of the next decade. All right, so that's that transit, the next one I wanted to talk about, we jumped to June, where in the first half of this year, in the first half of 2026, the planet Jupiter, the planet of growth and optimism and except expansion, is going to be Moving through your 10th House of Career as it goes through the sign of cancer. But then in late June, Jupiter's going to move into the sign of Leo, which is your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. And Jupiter's going to spend the next year moving through that sign and helping that process of growth and expansion in the topic and domain of friends. So this creates a really distinct division essentially between two halves of the year with Jupiter in your 10th house of career in the first half and Jupiter in the 11th house of friends in the second half.
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Yeah, I really like that Jupiter transit for you in the 10th House of Career and Public Reputation for the first half of the year. I like it in particular, in concert with Saturn and neptune leaving your sixth house, because that's also a workhouse, even though the 10th house is more like career writ large. But having that alleviation from your sixth house that's been going on for the last few years, and then having this really nice expansive energy in your 10th House of Career for the first half of the year, I think will be a really nice contrast for you. So that can be expansions with regard to the kind of work you're doing. It can be taking on new work projects. It can be being seen more widely or more publicly, if that's important to the type of work that you do. Because the 10th house is the most visible part of the chart. And so if there's anything with regard to your work where it's a positive thing for you to be visible, which is true, like most people, then this is going to be a great transit for you for the first half of the year to take advantage of.
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Yeah, definitely. And especially for the people that were born during the day. If you have a day chart, this Jupiter transit in your 10th house, and then 11th house is going to be experienced as the most positive transit this year, where you're just gonna be expecting or experiencing luck and good fortune first in the sphere of career opportunities and the potential for things like promotion or getting a new job, or having a sudden windfall when it comes to your career and reputation. And then having that shift in the second half of the year to starting to make more friends, starting to have your social life be much more prominent for you in very tangible ways, especially if it wasn't very much recently. And even things like social media can sometimes fall under the domain of the 11th House. So it could be about gaining more friends or gaining more followers when it comes to social media and whatever different social media sites you use. For example, I know somebody who made a post that went viral once, and then they made tons of new friends in their career field when they're having a positive transit like this in their 11th house. So that's some of the energy that that brings. And this transit's actually setting us up for two other transits that are going to start happening in the second half of the year that are going to be activating your 11th House of Friends and groups as well. So I have a feeling that this is going to be the major area of focus, especially in the second half of 2026. Going into 2027 is the area of friends and groups, definitely.
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And that can be personal Friends that can be followers, as you said, it can also be professional groups or networking. With Jupiter going through the first half of the year in your 10th house of career and then into your 11th, it can be helpful. Friends or colleagues, they don't have to be connected, but they can be. But yes, the 11th House of Friends and groups is going to be a definite hot spot for you in the second half of 2026, right?
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For sure. So this brings up just before Jupiter leaves Cancer and leaves your 10th house, there's gonna be this really auspicious Venus Jupiter conjunction that's gonna take place in Cancer in June, which should be really good for you in terms of your career. And this is one of the things that we found because we just finished researching and released our 2026 electional astrology report, where we go through and we highlight the most fortunate dates next year, especially for taking actions and trying to accomplish things in different areas of your life, with different electional astrology charts for each month of 2026.
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Yeah. So basically any important actions you want to take or new projects you want to start, whether it's your love life, business, home, et cetera, if you do it under a good electional chart using the best dates and times we found, that will give you better chances of overall success in what you're starting.
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Right? For sure. So the report contains a monthly forecast for each month and 28 auspicious dates and electional charts to use throughout the year, including coverage of telling you what dates to avoid. Because sometimes knowing when to do things is just as much about knowing the dates that are really good as it is knowing the dates that are really bad, where you should probably avoid trying to do major things like starting a business, getting married, or going on a major trip or something like that. So the report includes a video version, an audio version, as well as an extensive written report as a PDF. And right now we're doing a launch sale where it's just $49.95 for the first month, but then the price will go up in January to $65. So if you want to get the report, you can get it now@theastrologypodcast.com 2026report. All right, that takes us into the second half of the year, where the next thing that comes up is we get our second eclipse season, which takes place in the Signs of Leo in Pisces from August through early September. And this is happening again in your 11th house of friends, another activation of your Friends sector in your 6th House of Work and Health.
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Yeah. So this Leo eclipse is gonna be the first one in that series that we've had. So that brings important beginnings and endings or important beginning and ending chapters, at the very least, to the sector of friends, colleagues, social networks, social alliances, and the larger social sphere. It can be a time when you suddenly have new experiences with regard to groups, maybe you join new groups, either personal or professional. It can be a time when something important and new is happening with a friend of yours, or conversely, it can be an ending of a friendship at this time, although not always. But the important thing is it just brings beginnings and endings to this sector. So that's gonna be the first one and then the second one. And you can see it's overlapping with that Jupiter transit, which is nice and expansive there. So there should be more positive energy going on because of that overlap.
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Yeah. So we have an eclipse happening in our 11th House, and this is emphasizing, like Leisa just said, the Jupiter transit. But now it's bringing a much more heavy weightiness to some of those transits, because eclipses always represent major endings and major beginnings. So it's possible that this is bringing in another energy where there could be some friends or friend groups that have kind of run their course and come to a logical conclusion where either you could see a friend no longer being in your life for some reason, like if somebody moved away, for example, or you yourself could realize that you've outgrown a friendship or a friend group and decide to. To end that relationship at that time. So that's part of the process, though, where we have some really positive transits of Jupiter indicating growth and expansion. But we also have these weighty eclipses indicating beginnings and endings. So paying attention to if there's some things that have run their course might be important around the time of this eclipse in August, as well as if there's any new opportunities where you'll probably start a friendship around this time, which may not seem important at first, because eclipses usually don't when they happen. But then in retrospect, it'll turn out that you made a friend that ended up being very important in your life that happened around the time of that eclipse.
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Mm, definitely. And then the other eclipse is gonna be the Pisces eclipse, which happens in your sixth house. And this is really an end cap to all the activity that's been going on in your 6th House of Health and work for the last several years. So we've had Saturn and Neptune there. You've had a series of eclipses, and this is the Very last activation of that house. So there can be some important beginning or ending with regard to one of those topics as kind of the last hurrah of major shifts in that area. So there can be some sort of closure with regard to a health issue. There could be an ending of a job, a beginning of a new job, things of that nature.
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Yeah, whatever it is, since this is the last eclipse in Pisces, it's the end of a sequence of events that's been playing out over the past few years, especially Since March of 2023 when Saturn first went into Pisces. And it's trying to bring some closure and some final ending to that sector of your life, whether it's a health thing or whether it's a work related thing, but then also setting you up at the foundation and a launching point for a new beginning at the same time. So take advantage of that, try to institute some new and positive health things or try to take things in a new direction, Use it to set a new foundation at work, and you should be in good shape with that eclipse. All right, so that takes us on to the next major transit, which is after eclipse season. We go into October and November where Venus goes retrograde in the signs of Scorpio and Libra, which is your second house of finances and your first house of body appearance and self. So this Venus retrograde is very significant because it's happening partially in your rising sign and it's connecting together that financial sector with that tangible body appearance self sector. So it's going to make this particular Venus retrograde probably most important for you, since it's your rising sign compared to any of the other rising signs.
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Right. So Venus retrogrades can be a time where we revisit, rethink the areas that it's going retrograde in. So it'll first go retrograde in your second house of income and personal finance. So that can be rethinking how you make a living. It can be rethinking sources of income. It can be some sort of snafus with regard to, say, maybe you work on your own and you have certain clients that drop out of the picture or something during this time. Usually the retrograde is the reworking part. And then when it goes direct, things get more smoothed out going forward. This can be also reworking, like how you manage your finances or having a greater focus on managing your finances well, or new ways of doing so. And then when it retrogrades through your first house, that is big, as Chris said, that's big. For you. So that can be your sense of self, that can be how you present yourself, especially with a Venus transit in the first house, because that's often about sort of how you pleasingly present yourself in ways that are important for your life. So that can be reworking your appearance, things about your body, health habits, and anything like that. And I can see how for some people, connecting the two, it could be like reworking how you present yourself in ways that are helpful for you going forward for how you make a living.
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Yeah, absolutely. I commonly see people do makeovers when they have a Venus retrograde going through their rising sign. And I think especially for the people with night charts, this is going to be the most positive transit of the year. And some of those makeovers are actually going to work out pretty well. There may be some initial bumpiness because there'll be a pre retrograde shadow where you might make some changes initially, then it'll retrograde back into that later on and you may have to go back and tinker with things and revise things to perfect it. But ultimately, especially for the night people, it's going to be a positive one. For some of the day chart people, it might be a little bit more tricky. But I like your point about. Since this is connecting the second house and the first house, usually there's an overlap in those two topics. So for some people, it may be something about changing your appearance in some way that ends up impacting your income in some significant and essentially positive way. So looking for opportunities like that to take advantage of might be a really good idea.
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I should say, with the Venus retrogrades that impact things like your appearance, it's usually a good idea to think about the changes you might want to make during the retrograde and then implement them when it goes direct after it goes directly. That's generally because you can change your mind with regard to what you want to do, what changes you want to make. And some of those you can fix or tweak, but some of them you can't. If you cut off all your hair off and then you're like, oops, I don't like that at all. It's usually a better idea to think about the changes and then implement them going forward. After it's direct.
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Yeah, I mean, you can try, but sometimes the impulse to make the change early in the retrograde is there and is strong. And it's like sometimes it's part of the learning process is to just do it when the feeling arises. And then, yeah, sometimes it's not gonna Be great at first, but you may have learned something or there may be some piece of it that you do like. So that once the retrograde goes direct and then moves through that sign the last time, you sort of iron out some of the kinks or what have you. But it's always tricky to know early in the retrograde whether to make that major radical change or not. And for some people it may, because Venus retrogrades are always backwards looking. And sometimes it can bring people or situations back from the past. But for you it might be like revisiting something from your own past, like going back and revisiting a style from the past maybe that you experimented with previously, especially in eight year increments, where if you look back, this same Venus retrograde is repeated every eight years in Scorpio and library around the same time of the year. So for example, the last time this one happened was October, November of 2018, where the time before that was October, November of 2010. So I'd really recommend going back and looking at those time periods for some clues about how this particular retrograde might be important for you. Because there you might find some important ways in which things changed for you, notably as Venus was retrograde at those times that actually will start speak to some archetypal similarities of the upcoming period.
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B
For sure. Yeah. And we were talking a lot about personal makeovers, which can sound a little superficial, but I can think of examples, actually. I've known of people who got a promotion at work and then had to really consciously revise their wardrobe to present themselves as the supervisor at that point, even if that wasn't their usual style before that. And so that can be the kind of thing that links the second and first and why those would even be linked at all.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. There's all sorts of ways about how we present ourselves, but also how we think of ourselves. And because the first house is self, it can be sometimes surprisingly minor things about how we present ourselves or speak or represent ourselves to the world that make a major impact on our sense of self confidence and self worth. And this can be a really great transit in that context in terms of finding ways to just feel better about who we are and being in our body. And speaking of being in the body, I mean, even having a first house transit like Venus retrograde in the first can sometimes be good for the night. Chart people of addressing any bodily or other health issues that have arisen recently. Like for example, with one of those eclipses that just happened in the sixth house right before, before that sometimes that can help to smooth things over as a subsequent transit.
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Yeah, definitely. That's a great point.
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All right. All right. We could talk about Venus retrograde all day. Like I said, this is gonna be your most positive transit this year, particularly for the people with night charts, whereas the people with day charts, it was that Jupiter transit in the 11th that was the most positive. But that actually brings us to our next and our final transit, which is that Mars, late in the year, is preparing to go retrograde in the signs of Leo and Virgo, which is your 11th house of friends and your 12th house of people you don't get along with or with enemies. And this is an important transit because Mars doesn't actually station retrograde and start moving backwards from our perspective in the sky until January. But starting in September, late September, it already goes into Leo, which is one of the signs of it will retrograde back to, and then it switches to Virgo. So it's going to be spending an inordinate amount of time in those two signs of the zodiac over the course of the next nine months. And we get a real buildup and starting point of that here from late September through December of 2026.
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B
Yeah, so definitely Mars is going to spend way longer than usual in those two areas of your chart. So that can be something where if you pay attention as the transit gets going in September through December, you'll get a preview of what the retrograde will be about. You can kind of see signs of what's coming up for you in those areas. So for you, that's going to be the 11th House again of friends and groups. And then it's going to be the 12th House of People you don't get along with or behind the scenes activity.
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So this is, this is the third transit that we've seen this year that's activating your 11th House of Friends and groups and alliances. So for some reason, your 11th house of friends is just super much the focus this year. And this transit, I will say, is going to be a little bit problematic because the other ones have been somewhat positive, Especially the Jupiter transit through LEO in your 11th house is like growth and expansion of friends. Mars can sometimes bring some tensions, some conflict, or sometimes in extreme instances, even some strife or some separations of friends, especially for those of you with day charts. So you're gonna wanna be a little bit more careful during this time because sometimes if you act thoughtlessly or you say something in the moment that maybe is not very nice but that you don't think is gonna Be a big deal. Sometimes it can create a bigger rift in your friend groups or with a specific friend than you might anticipate at first. And it can turn into something that'll be more long lasting in terms of a conflict. So you'll need to exercise greater restraint when it comes to friends. Once this transit begins, starting especially in.
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B
September, Definitely you do want to be careful about those things. And at the same time, this can be a time where there's just some natural falling out with a friend or a friend group. Given that Mars is going to be going back and forth between your 11th House of Friends and your 12th House of People who you don't get along with, it can be a time where you have to be careful who are allies and who are not. And that can be a little tricky when Mars is going back and forth between the 11th and the 12th. Now that is going to be much more of an issue for day chart people are at least more of a potential issue for day chart people. It won't happen for everyone like that. Exactly. But for other people, it's just gonna be a time where you're working and putting a lot of effort into your friend group for whatever reason. You could be working on social activism even, and that's an 11th house thing. But then it goes into your 12th house, and it's gonna be a time where you suddenly pull back and wanna work more alone behind the scenes. And so there's gonna be a little bit of a push pull interplay between those two areas. But if you do pay attention in the last quarter of the year, you'll see the things that are starting to come up that you'll need to revisit in the first part of 2027.
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A
Yeah, I like that part about Mars connecting the 11th house and the 12th house. Because we saw in some of the retrogrades last year a lot of times where the retrograde would connect the house topics. And certainly the 11th House is traditionally in ancient astrology associated with friends. And the twelfth house in ancient astrology is associated with enemies. So you have to be a little bit careful, like I was saying earlier, not to create a conflict in your life at this time where you turn a friend into an enemy. And that's one of the more extreme, sort of like dangerous potentials to pay attention to at that time. Even if it's not something that you do deliberately. Because it can also be something that just arises spontaneously where you find these categories either getting blurred or somebody being moved essentially from one category into another. And that can Be kind of tricky and kind of problematic to deal with.
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B
Mm. For sure. But, you know, aside from that manifestation, it's really just gonna be that you're gonna be putting a lot of effort into the friends and the social area for a while. And then once it goes into Virgo, towards the very end of the year, you're gonna be moving more towards solitude for a bit of time.
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A
Yeah. So it's alternating between periods of extreme socialness versus periods of wanting to retire and pull back and have greater isolation and maybe even focusing on yourself and focusing on internal and psychological matters more, which was kind of foreshadowed by that eclipse earlier this year. That last Virgo eclipse that took place in March, which was in the 12th house house, and was more reflective and contemplative like that, where you're doing some of that inner work in here, we see a little bit of a return to that sometimes with the Mars retrograde happening in Virgo.
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B
Definitely.
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A
Yeah. But that is already taking us into 2027. Cause, like I said, that retrograde doesn't fully begin until January of 2027. But we're just getting the buildup and the preview of it in the last quarter of 2026. But I think we should probably stop there, otherwise. This has been our longest one horoscope so far. We've recorded for over 40 minutes. So Libra got all the details this year?
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B
Yeah, yeah. You got our top of the morning recording.
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A
Right. First one of the recording before we're like six more horoscopes in, and it's just like five minutes long.
- [39:59]
B
Yeah, exactly.
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A
All right, well, in that case, those are your major transits for 2026 Libra. So thanks for watching. Like I said earlier, for help planning out dates next year, definitely get our 2026 electional astrology report, which is on sale right now for $49.95, but only this month until January, where the price is going to jump to $65. So you can get it now at theastrologypodcast.com 2026report. Otherwise, if you want to learn more about our approach to astrology and reading birth charts, you can sign up for my Hellenistic astrology course@theastrologyschool.com all right, that's it. So good luck in 2026 and we'll see you again next.