Capricorn 2026 Year Ahead Horoscope

Hey Capricorn, this is your yearhead horoscope and astrology forecast for the entire year of 2026. My name is Chris Brennan, and joining me today is a astrologer Lisa Schein. Hey Lisa, thanks for doing horoscopes with me this year. Hey Chris, glad to be here. Yeah, so we would recommend looking at the horoscope that matches your rising sign if you know your birth time. Although if you don't know your birth time, then you can also look at the one that matches your son's sign. So we're going to focus on giving a big picture overview of some of the major transits this year, and why don't we just go ahead and jump right into it. So here's the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year, and how far through the signs of the zodiac they'll get at the end of the year. And here's the major transits we're going to be talking about this year, starting with the Saturn Neptune conjunction, which is going to move from the sign of Pisces into the sign of Aries, starting in January and February right at the top of the year, and this is moving from your third house into your fourth house, which is a major shift in terms of slower moving outer planets. Yeah, so this will alleviate some of the constraint or harder work you may have felt for the last few years in particular around third house topics such as things involving siblings, cousins or other extended relatives. It could have been you had a sibling that was having a harder time than usual, or you just had more constraint or strain in your relationship with them during this time. That'll be letting up some things involving your neighbors or immediate neighborhood if you've had any trouble with that, or just communications in general if you've found it like more laborious to feel like it's taking more effort to get across what you're trying to communicate or for some reason some constraint around feeling like you can communicate easily. All of that's going to be moving on, which is a really good piece of news and it's moving into a different area. So there'll be a lot less strain around those topics and Saturn and Neptune are moving into, oh, I should say also there will be less nebulousness around those topics too, because that's been a big piece of those planets being co-present in your third house. So they're moving into your fourth house of home, family, parents, living situation, ancestry where you come from and things from the past. And so especially when Saturn and Neptune come together exactly in February, there can be a sense of some structures dissolving that were previously there and it can also be a time of reimagining what home base is for you. So where do you want to live ideally, whether that's your specific apartment or house or whether that's where in the world do you want to be living, where does home base feel like for you? Yeah, definitely. And sometimes that can bring up some challenges or surmountable difficulties in terms of your home and living situation. If you start running into issues or you realize that a certain living situation is untenable and sort of forces you to move into a different one. So that's one potential in terms of this transit with Saturn going into your fourth house. It can also though represent things happening in the lives of your parents or something in terms of your relationship with your parents reaching an important turning point and maybe being a little bit rockier or a little bit more distant than normal, which itself can be part of an ongoing process of renegotiating the boundaries between the two of you. Definitely. Yeah, so it's a longer term transit. Saturn will be there for about two and a half years and Neptune for much longer. So it's not something you have to figure out immediately, but you will feel a little bit of accentuation around this in February and it will harken back to when Saturn and Neptune got the closest that they already got in areas, which was the second half of 2025 and especially in July. In July, they came together within less than a degree. So there should be something similar going on in that area of life for you come February. Yeah, so I've been calling it over the past year, like the peak of the reality distortion field when Saturn and Neptune come together in a conjunction. In this instance, it's happening in your fourth house of home and living situation in parents and part of the trickiness there is it may be hard to tell the difference between what's real versus what's not real or what's true versus what's not true. And so it might be really important to especially around February when this conjunction is going exact to be careful in terms of making final decisions at this time because you may not have a clear picture really of what's going on, but that will start to improve after February as Saturn and Neptune start to move apart. The only one of the caveats with that is I did a research project a year ago on Saturn Neptune conjunctions and I did see people doing important things in history on Saturn Neptune conjunction setting up religious communities or philosophical communities and like specific living situations and things like that. And while I'm not necessarily like recommending you should set up a cult like I'm just saying if there's some way that the there's a constructive like manifestation of setting up a religion setting up a community situation and bringing into concrete form a living situation that's connected with your ideals, your beliefs or your religion or spirituality, I could easily see that as being a manifestation of this transit. Definitely like like starting an intentional community type of situation. I should also add, even though it sounds random, but very literal that Neptune transits through the fourth house or are notorious for water issues in the home and especially with Saturn and Neptune coming together. It's just a good thing to pay attention to your literal foundations and water issues surrounding that I'm not saying that will happen for everyone, but it happens often enough that I'm mentioning it. Right, definitely. All right, so that's our first transit the year moving on our next transit is eclipse season, the first eclipse season starts in February and March and this is going to be taking place in the signs of Aquarius and Virgo, which is your second house of finances and your ninth house of travel and education and beliefs. So this signals a period of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to these topics. Yeah, so the first eclipse is going to be an Aquarius, which is the first in that series, it'll be the first one we have in the Aquarius Leo series. And that'll bring beginnings and endings or at least many chapter beginnings and endings with regard to your personal income and finances, whether that's the source of how you make a living being like ending one job and starting a new job. Or it can be starting the seeds of like future ways you could make a living that are different than how you are now. It can also be beginnings and endings with regard to how you manage your finances and learning more about, you know, the financial world and getting more savvy around that any of those types of topics. Yeah, this is going to be the first transit of several trans is we're going to see activating the financial sector of your chart this year, starting with this first eclipse in Aquarius, but then in your second house of finances and money and possessions representing some endings, but also some new beginnings with respect to those topics. And then later in the year, we're going to see how that has an interplay with the role that other people's money has in your life, which includes things like partners, finances, but also taxes, loans and debts and other things like that as well. So that's the starting point of this and then the second part of this is the eclipse that takes place in Virgo, which represents major beginnings and major endings with respect to your beliefs and with respect to your outlook on the world, especially which is primarily what the ninth house relates to. So this could be sometimes the ending can be like completing a course of study or graduating from an educational program other times the new beginning can be starting to new learn a new like philosophy or starting a new educational course or starting to even to get into a new religion or something like that at this time. And this is part of an ongoing series of eclipses that started last year, so whatever was is happening with this, this is probably the continuation of something that already began earlier rather than something completely new, but I would pay attention that idea of major endings and major beginnings. Yeah, we're kind of in the middle of that eclipse series or sort of towards the end, but there's going to be one more. So you've had two in that same area of life in 2025 and there'll be this one and then one more in early 2027. So it will be an area of life that you've already had some changes around, but eclipses can bring new beginnings and endings and new chapters, even if you've already had some of that going on. So that can be the beginning or ending of an involvement with a university, for instance, or a course of study, it can be if you're looking into publishing that's not going to be relevant for everyone, but that's also a ninth house topic could be some sort of like planting the seeds of some sort of publishing project or just, yes, getting more involved or less involved in a religion or a philosophy or even political beliefs changing. Yeah, it can also just be about travel like a lot of ninth house activities or actions, activations can just be about taking a major trip to new country or perhaps if you've already moved or settled in new new country, the process of adapting to that and getting used to your new environment and the different cultural things and other things like that. So we'll come back to the ninth house because there's one more transit later in the year that's going to be relevant to that as well. So the next major transit to talk about first though is that the planet Uranus is going to depart from the sign of tourists where it's been since 2018 and 2019 and in April, it's going to move into the sign of Gemini for good for the next six or seven years. So this is moving from your fifth house of children of romantic matters of hobbies and games and fun fun and pleasures and Uranus is moving into your sixth house of work and health for a significant transit that will occupy most of the next decade. Yeah, so you may have had a lot of changes of a lot of potentially unexpected changes around fifth house topics since 2018 since Uranus went into tourists and into your fifth house so that can be changes with regard to the decision whether to have children like maybe you thought you weren't going to have children and now you have children at the end of the transit or changes in your children's lives if they're older and you have children. Also changes in just things you do for pleasure or what you consider to be fun and rewarding to do with your free time hobbies, et cetera. It can be changes in sexuality and there's going to be one last little hurrah around that in February or one accentuation before the transit is up in February. You're in a stations for the last time in tourists in your fifth house and then inner planets trigger that all month then it goes into your sixth house until 2033 and that's going to bring new changes and innovation around your work and health. Pets also go in the sixth house so oftentimes when Uranus transits the sixth house people have a new or renewed drive for independence with regard to their work. They want either greater independence in the terms of their work like doing more remote work for instance work at home or they want to work towards self-employment that's pretty common. It's not that it'll all happen at once but you'll have this feeling of kind of like new drive for independence in the area of work in particular and that should have started up a little bit last year in 2025 in the second half of 2025 as Uranus dipped into Gemini. Gemini but now it's going to be there for a good long while. Yeah there can also be unexpected disruptions in terms of your work especially involving technology either that's like disruptive in your work or that you're having to learn in order to leverage this transit reminds me a lot of how like AIs getting integrated into everything and how it's starting to impact different career fields and different jobs and especially for the Capricorn rising people I could see that being part of this story here as Uranus is moving into Gemini and moving into the sixth house of work. Sometimes that being disruptive and like not experienced is a good thing that comes out of nowhere and makes everything different very rapidly and very radically compared to what it was before but in other instances there's going to be people that learn how to as long as they're like flexible and stay on their feet like how to leverage new technologies to stay ahead of the game. So that may be part of the trick there in terms of figuring that out and of course six house transit can also relate to health matters so it's a good time to pay attention to health things sometimes it can be like weird or unexpected health things that come up that are hard to figure out because they're kind of like different or like wacky in some way that's like hard to pin down. But again sometimes things like using technology in order to figure that out and in order to get greater insight into that can be part of what a Uranus transit's about. Yeah, it can also be just new approaches that you're taking to your health so whether that's just as simple as like a new exercise routine or new nutritional kind of approaches to things you realize that you need to eat better clean up your diet that kind of thing. It can also though be because Uranus is one of the significations is sort of unconventional you can be getting into like more unconventional approaches or alternative approaches to health maintenance. Right, yeah, that makes sense. Alright, so that's setting up a long term transit that it's going to play out all the way through like 2032 or 2033 this is just the initial stages of it there was that preview last July. Over the next few months in the middle of 2025 but yeah lots of long term changes to pay attention to here starting in April. The next transit we want to move on to talk about is that the planet Jupiter is going to spend the first six months of 2026. Transiting through the sign of cancer but then starting in late June it's going to move into the sign of Leo for the rest of the year so this is moving from your seventh house of relationships and indicating growth and expansion and good things even potentially luck or new relationships in the first half of the year and then Jupiter is moving into the financial sector of your chart about shared resources other people's money inheritance and other things like that that should represent some positive financial things happening in the second half of the year. So Jupiter transiting your seventh house is going to be the second half of that transit that started in the middle of 2025 so we have the second half of that transit in the first half of 2026 and it's a time where if you're already in a relationship there tends to be it tends to be a time of greater positivity greater warmth greater emotional sensitivity with it being cancer in particular. Sometimes people get into situations where they have they they meet new people that are particularly generous to them or particularly positive one-on-one interactions can happen at this time and then it's going to move into your eighth house or should say also just positive things can be happening for your partner as well if you are partnered during this time. Like your partner has some sort of positive thing that happens in their their life like a promotion or something like that or they get lucky at work and then that leads to like a financial windfall that comes through them. Definitely yeah so with the moving into the eighth house like you just said that can that can easily be one possible manifestation of that where something positive is happening with the partner and then that contributes to the partners income going up and your shared resources your shared finances going up. Jupiter going through the eighth can also be a good time if you are looking for financial help with things like applying for grants loan scholarships those are all eight house things and those are more likely to come to you with a Jupiter transit through there although that's more true for day chart people you're born with the sun above the ascendant descendant access. It can be it can go that way for night chart people to is just a little bit more moderated. Yeah I definitely think this Jupiter transit these two houses is going to be the most positive transit this year for the people who are born during the day whereas the Venus retrograde that we'll talk about in a bit will be the more positive one for people born at night so good stuff to pay attention to there. The house Jupiter transit can also sometimes be like an inheritance or unexpected financial windfall that comes through things of that nature. Just other people's money collective resources. Sometimes also like investing can be an eighth house thing as well so that could be in good area of exploration also. Definitely especially with the clips as we're going to talk about. So one of the things about that is just before Jupiter changes signs and leaves cancer there's this really auspicious Venus Jupiter conjunction that takes place in cancer this year which is actually going to happen in your seven house of relationships so that could be really positive in terms of an important relationship turning point taking place at this time in the in June basically the June timeframe especially early June. And we actually notice this because we just finished researching and released our 2026 election astrology report where we went through and picked out the most fortunate dates during the course of the entirety of 2026 and then packaged them together as a report that people can use in order to plan things over the course of the next year. Yeah so basically any important actions you know you need or want to take in 2026 or important projects you want to start whether that's around your love life or business or home or what have you if you use these dates and times that we've picked out for you that are the best possible times to start things you're going to have better odds of successful results. Yeah so in the report we have 28 different dates that we've picked out as well as election charts that go with those in different tutorials and we go through each of the next 12 months and we give kind of a forecast a detailed forecast of the astrological weather each month and tell you not just which dates to use but also which dates to avoid because sometimes election astrology is just as much about knowing that there's going to be a mercury retrograde that starts on this date and not to start something new during that time or what have you. Then it is like gravitating towards the best dates so the report includes a video version and audio version as well as an extensive PDF right up of the written report itself and you can use it for business love or pretty much any major life events next year. So we're doing a launch sale for just the first month where it's forty nine ninety five but only until January and then the price is going to go up to sixty five dollars for the rest of twenty twenty six. So you can get the report right now at the astrology podcast dot com slash twenty twenty six report. All right so that takes us into the second half of the year in terms of our transit analysis where the next major thing that happens is we get our second eclipse season taking place in August into early September. And this is going to be a pair of eclipses that take place in the signs of Leo and Pisces which is going to be your eighth house of shared resources and your third house of communication and short distance travel. Right so that first Leo eclipse is going to be the first one in that series kind of combined with the first Aquarius eclipse we were talking about earlier in the year. So this is the same area of life where Jupiter is going to be transiting the second half of the year bringing more beneficial energies to the area of shared resources shared finances other people's money taxes loans debts potentially investment. And then the eclipse is going to punctuate that with an important beginning or ending or possibly both in one of the at least one of those topics so that can be that can be part of the Jupiter transit in terms of like your your partner suddenly gets a raise and that happens around the eclipse time. That can be a new interest in investment and a new involvement in that and like using the stock market for instance and you can also be a time where like I was saying earlier applying for like a grants or scholarships really good time to do that or loans. Yeah so having a eclipse happening in your eighth house in addition to the Jupiter transit you know the Jupiter transit sort of a generic lucky growth expansion type transit in this financial sector but having a clips is start to take place here brings an additional weightiness to it that the events that are happening here are important and impactful in terms of your overall life direction. And even though they might seem not super significant at first in some instances they're going to be the start of things that are major and the planting of seeds that are going to grow into these huge trees and like orchards in your life in the future. So that's especially taking place with respect to like financial matters and shared resources like some major shifts happening for example in a partner's life or with respect to their finances or with respect to the topic of other people's money in general. So it brings in some of those themes having to do with like mortality which can sometimes be more prominent at this time with the clips is in the eighth house but it's part of this ongoing series that we're going to see play out not just in 2026 but into 2027 because the clips is are going to keep bouncing back and forth between your second house of your personal finances and possessions and your eighth house of other people's money and shared resources. So you're going to be seeking balance and going back and forth between those two areas and going to extremes between them but eventually trying to find a way to level out and sort of meet in the middle. Yeah and there can just be kind of a series of changes with with respect to both your personal income and finances and how you share your your income and finances with other people. Yeah and how your income impacts other people or how other people in your life how their income impacts your personal resources in very tangible ways and sometimes focusing more on let's say your money making abilities in one in one period. Like when the second house of clips is are taking place for example like earlier in the year in like like February March versus other time focusing more on your partners income and finances during other parts of the year. So that's one possibility the other thing about this eclipse is not just the eighth house eclipse is also a third house eclipse so that's significant in terms of communication in terms of short distance travel and in terms of siblings neighbors and extended family and relatives of having major beginnings and major endings there. So what example of that in terms of communication but also let's say short distance travel is sometimes when the eclipse happens in the third house you can have like a vehicle that reaches the end of its life cycle and like breaks down or something so that you realize you need to get like a new vehicle or a new car at that time sort of fulfilling that symbolism of a major ending as well as a major beginning. Yeah at other times it could be the beginning or ending of an important writing project that's also third house or the beginning or ending of something having happened sorry happening in your siblings life or your relationship with your sibling and I like that this is the last eclipse in Pisces in that area after Saturn and Neptune have left that house for you. And so there may be some easing up of whatever that change is that last important beginning or ending in that area for you it happens without those heavier energies without that nebulous energy there. Yeah that's great I really like that and it is kind of tied in with that Virgo eclipse that happened earlier in the year in the 9th house which is the place of beliefs so there may be something about shifts in terms of your belief systems over the past year to and learning how to communicate that with people in terms of how you have to change the way you communicate to better adapt to what you believe. And how that may be part of the learning process and there may be a learning curve to that at this time but since this is the final eclipse in Pisces you sort of finally get the hang of it by this time. Alright so I think that's good for Eclipse season 2 next we move on to the Venus retrograde transit that's going to happen in Scorpio in Libra in the October November timeframe where Venus is going to go retrograde in your 11th house of friendship and it's going to back up into your 10th house of career which could indicate some overlap happening between those two separate areas of your life were suddenly friends and groups and alliances are becoming more important in terms of your career and your overall life. And your overall life direction compared to other times in your life. Yeah so Venus retrogrades pretty commonly bring back people from the past and happening in your 11th house initially of friends groups and social networks that can easily just be old friends coming back into contact with you coming back into your life for some reason. I can be either just for a moment or you know for longer it can be revisiting your friendships or internally revisiting your friendships or social networks and how they you know are are not working for you at the present time and then yes as you said linking it with your career and public reputation. For at least some people that can be sort of revisiting the connections between your social networks or large groups of people or organizations of people or just individual friendships or colleagues and your career. So pretty commonly for many people at least they have like professional colleagues and that's an 11th house topic and that can be one way that that can overlap with your your 10th house of career but yeah it's a revisiting process of those important relationships and connections and themes. Yeah for sure and to get a preview of what this trans is going to be about it repeats almost exactly every 8 years so the last time Venus was retrograde in Scorpio and Libra this happened in October and November of 2018 so you can think back to that time and think about especially whether there any overlaps between friends and career or just topics coming up in terms of friends and career at that time that could be relevant again today. Or you can even go back as further than that like 8 years earlier to October November of 2010 and that was again another Venus retrograde in the same size. So sometimes it can directly link events that occurred during those previous periods can somehow come up again in the present. And sometimes those two houses are connected in the retrograde and at other times you might find for instance for some people Venus is retrograding in the 11th initially and it's a time where you want to reconnect with old friends or just you know reconnect with people in your social networks in your community that you have kind of not been keeping up with lately but then it moves back into your 10th house and then you're like oh I actually need to focus on work right now for a while. And then it'll go back forward again through your house of career and then eventually back direct through your 11th house of friends and groups so there can be a little bit of an interplay where at different points you are wanting to reconnect socially but then realizing you need to put more attention to your career and then vice versa going forward. Yeah I think for people with night charts is going to be probably the most positive transit of the year though because it's going to be experienced is like good things happening in those areas and sometimes there can be positive relationships from our past like friendships or career relationships that come back into the present and become relevant again suddenly that actually push us forward and help us accomplish new things that we wouldn't have been able to accomplish otherwise. So it'll be like a windfall in some sense for other people like especially the day chart people this transit might not be as important and sometimes those relationships can come back from the past but then not necessarily be that significant or groundbreaking and the point is just to remind you of the past and to bring bring a brief period of reflection basically. Alright so that's the Venus retrograde transit so the final transit we need to talk about is the Mars retrograde transit that's building up by the end of 2026 and Mars does not go retrograde until early January of 2027 however it's already slowing down by the last quarter of this year from about late September forward Mars starts going through the two signs that it's going to station retrograde in which are Leo and Virgo. So this is going to be a retrograde in your eighth house of shared resources again bringing up that house once once again and your ninth house of travel and education and beliefs. Yeah so it's going to be a time where you're spending much more effort and energy for a prolonged period than usual Mars transit usually lasts just six weeks through one sign and we're going to be dealing with this Mars transit through your eighth and ninth house well into the spring of 2026 or 2027 so initially that's going to be that same area we've been talking about that has a lot of attention in the second half of 2026 for you where the Jupiter transit happening the second half of the year. And the eclipse is happening as well so there's going to be some energy or effort you're putting for some reason towards the area of either shared resources other people's money taxes loans debts you may need to clear up some things around those areas. And for day chart people this is going to bring more of a bifurcation of like more potentially more conflict or problems but also the extremes of positivity as well with both Mars and Jupiter going through Leo whereas for night people night chart people it's going to be a time where there's just more extended effort or energy put towards that with fewer extremes in either direction. But this is like the third transit already we've seen this year in your eighth house of shared resources for so for some reuse in this area of shared resources and other people's money keeps coming up over and over again this year at different points but especially in the second half of the year in this context it's a little bit more challenging because there is a potential for some. Strife or separations or obstacles and setbacks that take place in that context at this time where maybe earlier when you were having like just the Jupiter transit or just the eclipse that was taking place in August and September you were like rapidly expanding in terms of shared resources at that time and encountering good luck and and we're being essentially unopposed. But then with this Mars transit things slow down and things you run into a little bit more obstacles and difficulties in that area both in the area of shared resources but also in the area that pertains to travel education beliefs and other things like that. I would be a little careful with this transit for like legal issues involving taxes debts inheritance or other people's money just because the ninth house connecting to the eighth house can sometimes connect the government or like legal topics and running into obstacles there. Right this could also easily bring up if it's relevant to your stage of life student loans connecting both the area of like loans taxes that et cetera and higher education and I know that's a topic that's important for a lot of people these days. It also can be a time I'm thinking of the eclipses happening in your second and eight houses which are both financial houses but also your source of income in the second house. Together with Uranus trans and your six I can see for some people there may need to be some like juggling or renegotiation of your like your work situation which affects your own income which then affects like how you and your partner if you have a partner blend your finances and there could be some conflict around that safe. If you're having a changing work situation that changes your own income and you need to rely more on other people's you know your shared resources but with Mars going through your eighth as well it can also be like your partner suddenly having issues with their income or their money. Right for sure or um the 9th house 9th house is a travel house so it could be like a trip that ends up being more expensive or where there's greater expenditures than expected where it's connecting the 9th and 8th houses. Right yeah so this is a transit that's really just getting started in late 2026 and doesn't really fully intensify and become the most acute until early 2027. But I would just recommend paying attention to some of the things that start to develop in late September forward just because they could be events and circumstances that seem like they should come and go and not be that significant at first but then for some reason you end up returning back to them over the course of like eight or nine months and having to return to and do over certain things or revisit certain things during the course of that retrograde in the first half of 2027. Yeah Mars retrograde periods are it's always a time where you're spending more time than you initially think you need to on a certain project or area of your life and so if you pay attention during the last quarter of 2026 you can kind of get some clues as to what types of things you may need to redo or put more work into in the beginning of 2027. Yeah definitely all right I think that's it that's the last major transit for 2026 yeah yeah I think that's it awesome cool well those are your major transits Capricorn for 2026 so thanks for watching again if you need help planning are looking for good dates to start things next year check out our 2026 election a strategy report which again is only on sale for this month until January and then it goes up to $65 but you can get it on sale now for $49.95 at the astrology podcast.com slash 2026. Report otherwise if you want to learn more about our approach to reading charts and to astrology and reading birth charts in particular check out my Hellenistic astrology course at the astrology school dot com all right good luck in 2026 and we'll see you again next year. you