Our spring issue is out now. Our regular contributor and resident astrologer Mariana Saad shares what to expect in 2026 and how to navigate it with grace. Dive on in to find out more…
Reinvent Yourself With Astrology
The eight moon phases and personality.
By Mariana Saad
Perhaps you have heard many astrologers describing this year as the year of the big reset. In fact, it is not only a reset but a year that can set the path for many years to come. A thirteen-year cycle opens up the last week of January with Neptune entering Aries. A new two-and-a-half-year cycle starts with Saturn entering Aries from mid-February. The year started with an inward and internal orientation and watery, sluggish energy until April, with a significant period of caution and reassessment in February and March as Saturn enters Aries and meets Neptune around February 20, compelling us to dissolve old structures and to dream a new vision while the first Eclipse season of the year is taking place. It is a good time to process feelings and address difficult emotions as Saturn meets Neptune, Mercury retrogrades in Pisces, and Greater Benefic Jupiter is still in Cancer.
The momentum will start building towards the end of April, when Uranus will step into Gemini, beginning an eight-year journey of advancement and upgrade, followed by Jupiter entering Leo for a year and the Nodes of the Moon changing signs for the next eighteen months from July onwards. This is the year’s major turning point. Fire and Air will then dominate the elemental energy, and possibilities can open up. Nothing is the same as it was in the previous years. We are ready to take off into the future, early summer 2026. We are transitioning into the heart. Expect movement, decisions, multiplicity of choices and change kicking in. July can bring in some drama. Challenges to power and figures of authority, societal structures may be challenged as Jupiter opposes Pluto and Mars contacts Uranus
in Gemini. August invites you to break old patterns as we enter the second Eclipse season of the year.
Between September and November, Venus will retrograde first in Scorpio and then in Libra. Questioning our values within relationships, having those hard conversations, and reassessing our loyalties become urgent to move forward in our alliances and with ourselves. Revelations and secrets coming to light are a theme for the Autumn. Some questions and reflections to meditate on as you navigate the shift:
What would you like to add to your life?
What would you like to subtract to help you move forward?
What expectations, deceptions, illusions are you dissolving and releasing?
Where would you like to see progress and new goals taking shape?
What creative passions are you willing to devote yourself to?
2026 is a threshold year that sets the stage for the next decade. It is a year worth investing your effort in, by processing the old, clearing out what has not worked, before you welcome the new. It is not enough to dream; you need an action plan and a structure for the years to come. Saturn in Aries might struggle to get the resources it needs, so are we, but we are called to be brave, persistent, and to push through adversity so our dreams can come true.
Mariana is a Dublin-based astrologer offering one-to-one chart readings and personal astrology forecasts online through Zoom. Learn more about her at:
marianasaadastrology.com
@mariana_saad_astrology
