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Aries – Karma rolls again with your colleague, client, boss, customer or other workplace connection. The reason you go back to the start all the time is that it urges you to become a better person. This applies to university/college too. And, Aries, if you have full-time home duties it may be your nanny, your child, the supermarket delivery man – anyone who is around your home ‘workspace’ on a regular basis.
Stand back from this karma you are now participating in. Is it working well? Are you growing and learning? The faces may have changed but the song remains the same from life as it was 18-19 years ago. You are owed or you owe. All you can change is your response and doing that changes you as well. For some Aries people, this is a health or medical issue stopping or minimising work, housework or study.
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Taurus – The South Node in Virgo rules the bedroom – it rules your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend and ex-partners. It also rules your children and the younger generation as a whole. You may now find yourself karmically tied to any of these people – or discover that they are tied to you. That is why you keep going around in circles. It may sound strange to hear that you can be owed or owe (or vice versa), but it can happen now.
It was such a long time ago with he, she or another. About 18-19 years ago. Explore ways in which one or both of you can gain closure by July 2026. There may be daily repetition with or for this person now. To protect yourself from feeling too stuck, imagine yourself shielded by a new outlook. Become a different person. The sort of person who would cope best.
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Gemini – If it’s clear that the confusion around a friend is muddying the waters, you are going to have to find a way to create boundaries for the bond – gently. Typically, there are two issues with friends now. The first is that one person in the relationship appears to have lost their personality, their identity and their separateness to the point where they’ve lost touch with reality. The second problem is that this absence of boundaries from your side is encouraging both of you to get lost in a distorted vision in some way. Your social double-act is not respecting other people’s boundaries or reality. Nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet and all that.
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Cancer – The Eighth House of your horoscope now tenanted by Pluto covers money, business, property and possessions which depend on the involvement of other people. The Eighth House is basically about in-depth, complex financial matters. It’s also about in-depth, complex aspects of human existence like death, dying and sex. Marriage and mortgage. De facto partner and the rent. Wills! You can be easily dominated by others with financial, business or property matters now. You are likely to be taken over by people or plans which allow you to see this will be about control (ongoing). You are operating on pure willpower at this time, so be careful to keep on rebooting and re-energising. Of course, the end results of your devotion could be so empowering. But – pace yourself, Cancer.
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Leo – Neptune in the Ninth House often leads people into foreign situations with foreigners or actually abroad 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. And on no account, let anyone who is dazed, confused, drunk, drugged muddled become involved in your foreign affairs unless you are absolutely sure it’s not going to really muddy the waters long-term.
Once again, Leo, a reality check is required. You will be drawn into multicultural, bilingual, export, import, migrant visa, passport or similar situations which are not remotely real on any level. The escapism will be the only tangible thing you experience. And, perhaps, that’s fine. But, perhaps, it’s not.
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Virgo – You will soon have the final radical change with, for and through – foreigners and foreign countries. This is Uranus in the Ninth House which has been with you since 2018. The Ninth House covers experiences, places and people which expand your horizons. Travel is first on the list, along with emigration and relocation. It rules tourists, migrants, publishing in translation, international students and the world wide web. This week is preparation time for the predictably, unpredictable! In fact, you may want to allow for just about everything to happen by April 2026.
Let’s start there. While this cycle operates, you can become flipped sideways by one place (possibly more) or a part of the country that you find foreign. If you are pursuing journeys – or even a permanent change of scenery – that’s important. It’s important too if people at work or at home speak a second language or have an accent. The whole point of this cycle is freedom from – or freedom through.
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Libra – Jupiter in the Tenth House puts binoculars or a telescope in front of your eyes. It encourages you to use your position, your role or your career to bring about your biggest visions. Can it cause problems? Libra, let’s start with what’s good about this cycle. And really, it’s the solution or opportunity that first turned up from late June to late July. Maybe you have already seized the day. If not, carpe diem.
You will not want a normal, ordinary or average step up in these next few months as you realise what is possible. Particularly, in relation to your job, your role, your mission or your ambitions – there is a larger space in your usual field of vision. This week is part of it. When it comes to your achievements in this cycle, the potential for something rather special and completely out of the ordinary is definitely there no later than July 2026. Promotion? Award? Big hit? New job? Prestigious university or college? Amazing unpaid role?
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Scorpio – You’ll make some karmically important new friends in these next few months who spell closure with friends, your social life, groups or circles from 18-19 years ago – or, perhaps, it’s a familiar friendship or circle. You owe or are owed from the past which is why particular loops in your life remind you of ‘been there, done that.’ Of course, the past group, social or friendship karma from 18-19 years ago was truly co-dependent (anyone can see that)!
For the next few months that this cycle is in effect, the friendship or group does require you to change on the inside though. That way you will be far more comfortable and probably become a better human being as well. That’s the rule with the South Node in Virgo now in your Eleventh House of people power, allies and chums. It can be a political party or a band, Mumsnet or your childhood friend – it’s important this week.
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Sagittarius – Partners and duets, couples and pairs can resemble all kinds of double-acts on this unpredictable, liberating cycle. So, secret lovers or new work dual highways. The possibilities are endless. But the rule is the same. No rules from the past apply (except for a brief period from November 2025 to April 2026 when they may be broken or questioned). People or situations which represent a very different set of scales are here. The more these people or situations offer you the chance to be free and forget old restrictions or limitations, the more you realise life is set to be a series of Independence Days. As I’ve mentioned, the possibilities are endless. But we go where we should not (or they do) on this transit. We do what we should not too. And if you are not careful, you might end up being thoroughly set free from the past. Galvanised! This applies to platonic bonds, old marriages, ice-skaters and the lot.
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Capricorn – Jupiter in Cancer in your partnership zone has a way of reminding you that there is more to you than others can see in terms of your other half or the other side of the story. This can be any sort of double act or duet. Table tennis or marriage. Professional partnership or platonic apartment share. Mary Tyler-Moore and Rhoda. Pinky and Perky. No matter if you get a thumbs-up repeatedly from Jupiter – or you’ll be made aware of the need to be a lot more of an opportunist this week – you could feel like the ‘winner’ in the world of pairs and partnerships if you try.
Your personal life luck credits from 12 years ago will be awarded to you repeatedly until June/July 2026. What Jupiter asks now is that you take whatever steps you have to – to go higher and further. This is about a bigger and better marriage. A larger work duet, perhaps. And if he or she is not giving you that room to move? You won’t have far to look for another person who can enable that growth.
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Aquarius – You can ‘win’ in your lifestyle and daily existence now and not even be in a contest. Anyone born under your sign can do this too, but you have astrology to help you with timing. You have until mid-2026 to go higher, further and faster with your workload, unpaid work, health, fitness and wellbeing. At the point of your greatest luck making half the world mad wondering how you did it, you may decide to do the unthinkable and go even further. In fact, by July 2026, this may well be the only move that satisfies your soul. If so, why not? This week is a big part of it.
Here’s another option. If you wake up and find yourself with two simultaneous journeys – one about work and the other about wellbeing – feed one path into the other. One can be yours; the other can be theirs. One can reflect who you really are and what you’re really made of (always), but the second path can be new.
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Pisces – This triple Aries transit in your money and property sector is so rare. An awareness that what was so valuable or worthwhile about you lets you find more from gaining with the particular banking or real estate game you are playing with others now because you’re ‘making it’ on your terms. It’s your life budget. You’re also succeeding by adhering to a set of patient rules which make it impossible to trade on fast and easy anymore, Pisces. I’m not saying that your inner contradictions and your secret complexities about your life budget aren’t at play. In truth, you almost feel like three people now. This is a great time to scoop up the glittering prizes in the late 2020’s, though, then privately set your own agenda. This week – don’t forget who you really are. Use the money saved, made, pursued or repaid – to really get what you need in a long, long-term plan.
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