The Year of the Horse is the real new year in Asia and Lunar New Year brings changes filtered through Asian astrology.
The Astrology and Tarot Show on Substack has a long video forecast with bestselling psychic Paul Fenton-Smith (Sydney), the amazing Tarot author Daisy Waugh (London) and Madalyn Aslan, who wrote my favourite book on Jupiter (New York). Join us with host Alicia Fulton here.
Part of your image appears to have been dormant, ignored, excluded or quite forgotten for the time that you have been involved in profiling or self-promoting online, Aries. Saturn in Aries suggests you look inside yourself and get to know all of you – not just the bits you were trying to work with publicly for the time that various plans were in place. It’s your whole self that this cycle is about, not the version of yourself you were trading with before. Matching the outer you to the inner you is an art form. The clothes? The title or name? Choices roll.
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From April 2026 (not far away), sudden changes and new freedom will shift your money, property situation and business interests. You’ll emerge as the clear winner in any war of independence (think America 1781) which most people simply cannot manage. Be aware of the fact that this will trigger all sorts of unpredictable situations. Can you handle that? Do you know how to go with it? Is your radar good enough to detect potential upheavals before they happen? It’s a good time to be a realist about the numbers – as from April, Uranus changes signs and life changes too.
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Foreigners, foreign cultures and countries, accents and languages are about big control questions now. Pluto is the planet which brings final chapters and new chapters at the same time which force you to confront yourself as you really are. This always results in a new beginning and a new kind of life – usually one which gives you far more control and power if you have the self-control.
In this cycle, you will experience Pluto through travel, relocation abroad (for work or home reasons), study, teaching, publishing and the world of the ‘world’ wide web. That’s quite a mixed bag. But it covers every situation, place and person which expands your horizons – geographical or intellectual. Willpower is your superpower.
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Saturn is out of your foreign countries and foreigners’ zone on February 14th, 2026 (or thereabouts – check your time zone). Heavy ring-fenced and binding restrictions also stop. The vagueness about boundaries stopped on January 26th. This is a new world for you. You do have some karma to complete by the final week of July 2026 with these nationalities, cultures or countries. But the path will be much clearer now that Neptune has gone and easier now that Saturn has gone. You could say, the final week of July is the first time in some years you can tell yourself that you no longer have to think about them, that, him or her. In some cases, it will have directly involved publishing or academia.
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For years, matters of a joint financial nature (as Patric Walker called it) have been a shifting piece of sand for you. It may have been sexual or romantic partners, relatives, the extended family of godchildren or in-laws. The mist cleared on January 26th, 2026. It was possible to see clearly and actually know boundaries for the first time in a very long time indeed.
Now, from February 14th, a long waiting game of heavy restrictions has also gone. This may be marriage and mortgage, co-parenting with a separated partner, the family inheritance, trust funds and so on. If you have any factors at 28, 29 Scorpio, this has been intensely personal. How will you handle the remaining karma, Leo, as you are owed or you owe and this must be played out until July.
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You are now in an end game with a partner (of any sort) or an enemy. Could be your wife, could be your brother. Could be your former business partner, maybe your boyfriend. Visualise scales. The scales are now clear. They were not for many years. The same person throughout or a sequence of different partners or opponents have shown you what it feels like to never be sure. To never have firm boundaries. To constantly try and look for an anchor, a lighthouse, the red and yellow flags. That’s now history!
Your second sign-off is February 14th, 2026 – St. Valentine’s Day. The most heavily restricted, ring-fenced and binding situation will end around then. Saturn is out of Pisces. All that remains is karma. You are owed or you owe from 18-19 years ago in the context of partnerships or battles. You must be repaid or, perhaps, repay and that is why life is on a loop with him or her, but it ends in July 2026.
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For years, you had Neptune in your Sixth House of daily routine, regular workload, the housework, any paid job (part time or full time), unpaid work (charity, volunteering, caring or parenting) and work ethic. That stopped on January 26th, 2026. Life is clear again. The occasional unreality of the last few years has also stopped. Sea mist vanishes and rainbows are shown to be the hallucinations they always were. The distortion is over.
This cycle also affected your mental health, physical health and fitness. You may have been powerfully influenced by recreational drugs, alcohol or medication. They all distort reality to some degree. Whatever the story was, Libra, that is now over. New lifestyle. What happens near February 14th is also the end of workload and wellbeing barriers. The obstacles will vanish. The waiting game is over.
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Each big, lucky new moment you experience with travel, relocation, study, publishing, the web, teaching, foreigners and your global angle will help you to search harder for opportunities to expand. When you set a new agenda and play a new game – preferably, using your most optimistic self – things open up. You have until June 2026 to complete the solution or opportunity. Your journeys, your studies, your new environments, your ventures into publishing (the internet is included in this) and your exploration of what and who you find foreign is where twelve-year potential is.
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Your ambitions to serve, your ideas about success (surely, it’s good health as well as recognition) and your mission to do your duty in life will trigger a journey of deep new freedom now and result in dramatic changes in your path. A complete change of position, status or employment is possible. So is a new place in the world which gives you extraordinary liberty. Uranus in Taurus is here until April 2026 and even though you’ve already been given independence so often since 2018, more of it is on offer again. This cycle will ask you to look at freedom in the particular game of success or achievement you and others have been playing.
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Money, real estate, possessions and other people’s life budgets can seem so different now as Pluto sends the message that there is more to you than other people’s perceptions of you or the rather old game you and they have been playing. This planet wants you to dig for your substance – the stuff you are really made of underneath which will empower you and give you control of yourself and your life on your own terms. This process is slow. It may take months or years. But, in many ways, you have no choice. If you hand your power over or give it up, you will pay the price. What empowers you now? Willpower. It’s a superpower.
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Pluto in Aquarius presents you with an image challenge to go beneath the surface to present the surface. You will need time and space to go inside yourself at this time in order to start the search even though it’s all about the film, the photography, the name, the brand and so on. This is true even on social media. What is it about yourself at the deepest layers that could genuinely give you the reins with your image? Plot your own path now by operating from your soul, not the name, face or title that either worked – or didn’t. A new life is here.
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With two cycles gone from your image zone, Pisces, you will be given a rare chance to dig up all those bits and pieces of your personality which were not on show before so that you can finally bring all of you to the web. This may be about your name, reputation, title, face, shape or style. Neptune and Saturn have gone. Only some karma remains. This cycle does not only concern you with the wider mirror reflection or longer Google entry, it’s also about one-on-one with the mirror, too. You are very likely to lose an old reflection now. Try to release it and move on. The dynamic in your chart meant that – for a lot of the time – you were only showing bits and pieces of yourself. Restart?
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