Aries – The Eighth House of your horoscope covers money, business, property and possessions which depend on the involvement of other people. Muddled Mercury Retrograde ended your year (2025), but you are now correcting. Your Second House of personal income and life budgets are now triggered. You have major decisions about breaking free, being free, breaking with the past and being independent.
The Eighth House is basically about in-depth complex financial matters. It’s also about in-depth complex aspects of human existence like wills, mortgages, de facto partnerships, marriage, trust funds and so on. You will be pleased to leave the rehearsal and reversal behind, but you have life-changing choices to make by April 2026.
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Taurus – Ah yes. Your friends and groups, Taurus. Neptune often leads people into situations where there is no respect for boundaries and no concept of what is realistic, practical or even possible. When cornered, all concerned get a baffled look on their face as if they have no idea about anything! Don’t be that baffled person yet again or allow the ‘perpetually flummoxed’ into your space. And on no account, let anyone who is dazed, confused, drunk, drugged up to the eyeballs or unhealthily co-dependent become involved in your group or social media.
Neptune in Pisces in your Eleventh House is a double whammy if you also have Aquarius natal chart factors. It might be your political party, cricket team, football team or a good cause. It does all stop on January 26th, 2026, but until then draw a line, turn the phone off and watch social media like the proverbial hawk.
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Gemini – Your career, unpaid vocation or academic career will become real-world again on January 26th, 2026. Until then, contain and control what is going on. When people do not know who they are, they lose themselves in someone else or even in a whole alternative professional or academic vocational or career reality. Are you that person now? Or is your staff member, employer, colleague, professor or classmate?
Nobody is going to want an ordinary normal life now. This can be a final period of total escapism for your mind, body and spirit. As always with Neptune, ask yourself where all this is getting you. And by the way, a long period of restriction and heavy ring-fenced situations stops on February 14th, 2026.
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Cancer – You are nearly out of the longest, most confusing cycle in years for your involvement with foreigners, a foreign country or another language or culture. You may also have become attached to a person from another country, culture or background at this time in your own circle. You might live your life through them to the point where you appear (to outsiders) to have forgotten who you are or where you come from. Or they did it with you. Look Ma, no boundaries. Look at the end results.
This can also work two ways, of course. A man or woman who has a different passport, accent or cultural background to your own may become a little lost in your life, your personality or your world – a classic manifestation of Neptune in Pisces in your Ninth. It stops on January 26th, 2026, but you can contain it faster.
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Leo – Uranus in Taurus in the Tenth House puts liberating new stars in your eyes. It encourages you to use your position, your role or your career to bring about your most ‘impossible’ need for space, autonomy or release. More oxygen in the room. You will be free more than once by April 2026. Particularly, in relation to your job, your role, your mission or your ambitions. When it comes to your achievements in this cycle, the potential for something rather sudden and life-changing is definitely there. Do ask objective outsiders for their opinion and do listen to your critics. A revolution can either be a counter-cultural phenomenon in your field that sets everyone free or it can be Danton.
Leo, this is a major sign-off cycle for you. Since 2018, you have been rejected so often that you have been forced to carve your own path. Now you are at the end of that road, but another one is already showing up. If you did this right since 2018, you could care less about the old norms (and Old Normals) in your field and you are already blazing a trail of your own. That’s what this week is all about.
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Virgo – You’ll make some important new friends in these next six months who expand and improve your social life or, perhaps, it’s you expanding theirs. It’s evident now even on an uncomfortable Full Moon. There will be nothing particularly 2022 or 2023 about the friendships or groups. It’s all gone frightfully 2026. It’s almost written by Hollywood in terms of The Big Chill, Seinfeld, Friends or at least The Famous Five.
Nevertheless, your friendships and groups will boost the universe of all those who are around it. A friendship can seem like the stuff of myth, film, novels or legend. It casts a glow around itself. Jupiter in Cancer in your solar Eleventh is about what is gigantic or who (on social media) is a giant.
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Libra – Neptune enters Aries on January 26th, 2026, so you are days away from a partnership which is a total escape from reality (or an escape from a partnership). An affair is common. So is fantasising about someone else while you go on being married. You can also enter a new Jacques Cousteau phase of a partnership. Meanwhile, on the Calypso, we hold our nose and fall backwards into the ocean. The possibilities are endless. But the rule is the same. People or situations which represent a complete escape from the real world will now cast a great big net luring you into unknown and deeper waters. The more these people or situations offer you the chance to lose yourself and forget who you are or with whom you are in bed, the more Neptune will coax you forward.
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Scorpio – What does Neptune do in the Fifth? It leads us into sexual escapism and then it makes us so blind to the effect we are having on ourselves and others that we go where we should not. We also do what we should not. And if you are not careful, the real world out there will have to stop you. Or it already did, Scorpio. This has been a really long, long cycle. It ends on January 26th, 2026.
I mention it because we are in party season. Even if you know you are going to lose the confusion in weeks, you can still contain and control what is going on now. The golden rule with any Neptune cycle is to look at your situation as if you were completely outside it – as if you did not have a great big bubble to ride around in.
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Sagittarius – Let’s talk about power and the internet. Your personal power will be awarded to you (or taken away from you) by people en masse at this time online. There will be a strong sense of digital ‘me in here’ and ‘them out there.’ What Pluto asks now is that you take whatever steps you have to assist your own control by changing the game. Sack Facebook or Instagram. Whatever it takes. Throw your phone in the sea.
You can hit a crisis at this time which leaves you without power or, alternatively, reach a high point which puts you up where all those people out there are content to say you belong. Commonly, you will experience both effects in this cycle. Pluto in Aquarius and transits in Aquarius now until February 2026 makes web mastery and web masters a real talking point for you.
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Capricorn – You will be empowered in the money, property and lifestyle game in these years and also experience final chapters which bring a big end chapter with them – even ‘finishing’ a bank or an income source and so on. Situations which other people become incredibly intense about can’t help but affect you too. You have a whopping sign-off decision in January/February 2026. For lots of you, this will involve the house or flat. Real estate. Nevertheless, try to stay as detached as you can about what is going on. Capricorn, the purpose of this Pluto cycle is the same. Rich or poor, unless you dig deeper and find out what and who you value most and what is really priceless, you’ll never have control.
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Aquarius – As you sign off from two financial or property chapters on January 26th and February 14th, 2026 (or thereabouts), you need to find the qualities deep inside yourself which are worth far more (to yourself and the world) than the old budget. This means an inward search for what’s genuinely valuable. Priceless qualities. Precious ethics. Valuable skills.
It’s irrelevant if you win or lose the money, business or lifestyle game in these final weeks. In all cases, it’s an excellent time to ask yourself what you value most. It’s where your buried treasure is. Once you uncover it, you will be in a great position to know yourself, set your terms and create your life budget according to your own value system – never mind other people’s. The alternative world of escapism and the waiting game stops soon.
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Pisces – Uranus in Taurus is with you and also with your brother, sister or cousin. At this time, the cycle’s purpose is to get you to play a very different kind of game with, through or regarding your cousin, brother or sister. That way lies real freedom. You’ve had the shocks. Now you have until April 2026 to find the path. It will happen once you find out what it is about yourself that offers you the best chance of constructing a life which genuinely gives you space.
No matter if you feel like your life is just beginning now or if it’s effectively restarting, the story is the same with him or her (or about them). This is no time to hang on doggedly to the old set-up involving your cousin or sibling which has carried you to this point. Nothing about it serves your liberty. And in the long run, it’s your untethered self which is the only thing that’s going to exhilarate you. Find who you truly are and play a new game. You have until Easter.
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