Pluto moves like demolition, compost, a deep dive: let what is false die so what is true can regrow.
Today on your chart · the day's weather
Contacts on the day
applying left of now, separating to the right. tighter orbs sit closer to the gold marker.
10 contacts live against this chart · orb window ±6°
The loudest thing in your sky this week is dissolution, sitting on your love life and self-worth. Day to day, the Moon colors it with a tender, inward pull. Pluto is retrograde, asking you to revisit where power and shadow live.
The day in layers
A quick read of what is loudest today, what else is active, where slow planets are working in your chart, and the longer emotional season underneath.
- Right nowNeptune fuses with your Venus (capacity for love and pleasure): merging directly: intense and hard to ignore
- Season underneathProgressed Moon in Cancer: A season of deepening feeling, when the need is for safety, home, and care
A 3rd-house year · age 26
Annual profections move the spotlight one house each year. At age 26, yours rests on the 3rd house: the mind. the local world. siblings, neighbors, the school, the daily exchange.
The sign on that house is Virgo, so its ruler is your Lord of the Year. Mercury sits in Pisces in your 9th house. Wherever the Lord of the Year sits is where this year's story concentrates. And transits to it (below) carry extra weight until your next birthday.
In your chart: the sign on your 3rd-house cusp and the year lord: your natal voice and mental tempo.
the year lord is Mercury: messages, contracts, commutes, and the stories you tell. Mercury retrogrades and transits to your natal Mercury are the year's edit passes.
What is loud right now
The sky sorted by volume: each bar spans the transit's active window; today is marked in gold. The three loudest contacts are named before you scroll the week and year timelines.
Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Venus.
Transiting Saturn is making a trine to your natal Pluto.
Transiting Jupiter is making a trine to your natal Venus.
The Moon, on you
The sky pivoting
The turns worth marking on your chart: eclipses that supercharge a degree, every new and Full Moon and the house each one lands in, and planets moving in reverse through your houses.
New & Full Moons ahead
Each lunation lands in one of your natal houses: the area of life it opens (new) or brings to a head (full).
- 14 Jul 2026New Moon in 21° CancerBegins in your 12th house · rest, release, the inner life. A quiet New Moon: set an intention to let go and replenish.
- 29 Jul 2026Full Moon in 6° AquariusIlluminates your 6th house · A job, a habit or a health effort comes to fruition. Complete it. And shed the routine that no longer serves the body.
- 12 Aug 2026New Moon in 20° LeoBegins in your 1st house · a fresh start for you: your body, your image, how you show up. Set an intention about who you are becoming.
- 28 Aug 2026Full Moon in 4° PiscesIlluminates your 8th house · Something deep surfaces into the light: a shared resource, a bond, a buried truth, to be faced, and freed.
- 11 Sep 2026New Moon in 18° VirgoBegins in your 2nd house · your money, your values, your sense of worth. Plant a seed for stability and self-respect.
- 26 Sep 2026Full Moon in 3° AriesIlluminates your 9th house · A journey, a study or a long search culminates. You arrive somewhere: in mind, in belief, or in fact.
- 10 Oct 2026New Moon in 17° LibraBegins in your 3rd house · your mind, your words, your local world. Start a conversation, a class, a writing habit.
- 26 Oct 2026Full Moon in 2° TaurusIlluminates your 10th house · Work done quietly becomes visible: recognition, a milestone, a public turning point in your path.
Eclipses ahead
Each eclipse supercharges the degree it falls on for months either side. The ones that touch a natal point are the markers worth watching.
- 12 Aug 2026Total/Annular solar eclipse at 20°02′ Leolands on natal Uranus (opposition, 0.0° orb) · in your 1st house
- 28 Aug 2026Partial lunar eclipse at 4°54′ Piscesfalls in your 8th house · no tight natal contact
- 6 Feb 2027Total/Annular solar eclipse at 17°38′ Aquariuslands on natal Uranus (conjunction, 2.4° orb) · in your 7th house
- 20 Feb 2027Penumbral lunar eclipse at 2°06′ Virgofalls in your 2nd house · no tight natal contact
Active retrogrades
Planets moving in reverse right now, framed by the natal house they're passing through. That's the department of your life the rethink is landing in.
the conversation, the deals, the routes: all under review
dreams and dissolutions, turned inward; the fog thins, but only for the part of you that wants to see
transformation pulled deeper underground; the underworld work continues out of sight
The seven days ahead
Every Mars-through-Pluto transit that goes exact this week: the dates the heavy contacts peak.
- Thu 16 Julin 3 daysMars opposition natal Pluto
What is touching you most right now
The five transits carrying the most weight: major outer-planet contacts to personal points are weighted heaviest, then tightness of orb.
You notice what you actually value, in love or in general, underneath what you have been told you should value. The clarity feels earned, not sudden.
This is Pluto lightly touching your Venus, an easy opening to see your real attachments more clearly. It asks you to let go of one thing you have outgrown, quietly, and make room for what you actually want now. The releasing is calm, not painful.
Release the thing you have already outgrown; you likely know exactly what it is. This kind of quiet honesty about love and worth rarely comes this easily.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Pluto is making a sextile to your natal Venus. Pluto is transformation. Death and rebirth. The function of the underworld. Natal Venus is the function of love. What is valued. How beauty is recognized and pleasure is received. Through this contact, an open, easy channel runs between them; the cooperation is available, though it asks to be actively used.
Pluto moves like demolition, compost, a deep dive: let what is false die so what is true can regrow. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Pluto is available to your Venus now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
Love takes on a dreamlike, transcendent quality. You long for the ideal, the soulmate, the perfect union, and you may find it or may chase a beautiful illusion. The heart opens to something almost spiritual, tender beyond reason, easily enchanted.
This is Neptune crossing your Venus, dissolution meeting love and worth. It asks you to love with compassion and openness while staying clear about who is actually in front of you. It can bring transcendent romance or painful idealization, and the difference is whether you are seeing truly or only dreaming.
Love generously, and keep your eyes soft but open. This transit can deliver the most spiritual love of your life or the most disappointing illusion. Adore the real person, not the fantasy, and the dream becomes something you can actually hold.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Neptune is making a conjunction to your natal Venus. Neptune is the function of dissolution. Imagination. The boundary between the personal and the universal. Natal Venus is the function of love. What is valued. How beauty is recognized and pleasure is received. Through this contact, the two functions are fused into a single blended force; where one moves, the other moves with it.
Neptune moves like fog rolling in past the edges of a photograph: stop demanding a hard edge where there is a genuine blur, and trust what you sense before you can prove it. Neptune is fused onto your Venus for this passage, colouring that whole function. Author the change consciously rather than being carried by it. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
An unusual person or an unusual taste catches your attention, and instead of dismissing it, you are curious. Your sense of what you like is quietly expanding.
This is Uranus lightly touching your Venus, an invitation to let attraction and taste stretch past the familiar. It asks you to follow the interest that does not fit your usual type, in people or in style, and see what it teaches you. Nothing needs to become permanent.
Flirt with the unfamiliar, literally or otherwise. A sextile costs you nothing to explore, and what you learn about your own taste is worth more than the specific outcome.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Venus. Uranus is the function of awakening. Sudden change. The frequency of the new. Natal Venus is the function of love. What is valued. How beauty is recognized and pleasure is received. Through this contact, an open, easy channel runs between them; the cooperation is available, though it asks to be actively used.
Uranus moves like lightning, a firmware update, a plot twist: break the pattern, try the weird angle. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Uranus is available to your Venus now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
Your feelings keep meeting friction, from other people, from circumstance, from your own reluctance to feel them. There is a sense of emotional duty pressing against emotional need, and the two will not reconcile easily.
This is Saturn squaring your Moon, a test of the emotional foundation. It often surfaces old patterns about safety and care that were installed long before you could choose them. The discomfort points at exactly the place your inner life needs reinforcing.
Tend the foundation now. The feelings asking for structure are not weakness, they are the blueprint for a security that will hold. Build it, and the next emotional storm has somewhere solid to break against.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Saturn is making a square to your natal Moon. Saturn is discipline. Structure. The function of limitation, mastery, and time. Natal Moon is the inner emotional body. The firmware running before consciousness boots up. Through this contact, they meet at a right angle of friction; the tension is uncomfortable, and it is also one of the strongest engines of growth in the chart.
Saturn moves like scaffolding going up around a building mid-renovation: do the unglamorous work now that the future self will thank you for. The friction is the point. Saturn is pressure-testing your Moon. Rather than bracing against it, let what is no longer working give way, and rebuild that part of your life on purpose. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
This week things feel unusually easy around your love life and self-worth, a current moving in your favor.
This is expansion arriving as a gift, the open door of a trine. The only danger is wasting it by coasting. Grace you do not use evaporates. Spend this one on purpose, while the door is open.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Jupiter is making a trine to your natal Venus. Jupiter is expansion. Faith. The function of growth and the search for meaning. Natal Venus is the function of love. What is valued. How beauty is recognized and pleasure is received. Through this contact, they flow together in natural, unforced agreement. A genuine gift, so smooth it can be taken for granted.
Jupiter moves like a door propped open wider than you expected: say yes bigger than feels comfortable, then build the structure to hold it. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Jupiter is available to your Venus now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
The year ahead
Every transit from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto that goes exact in the next twelve months: the dates the major influences peak. A planet that hits the same point more than once is crossing back over it in retrograde.
These exact hits are the year's activations: each date marks when a slow planet turns on part of your chart. Transits to your Lord of the Year (Mercury) or your profected 3rd house carry extra weight for the themes of your house year.
- 25 JulJupiter trine natal Venus
- 27 JulMars trine natal Uranus
- 29 JulJupiter opposition natal Neptune
- 29 JulMars sextile natal Sun
- 7 AugMars square natal Mercury
- 16 AugUranus sextile natal Venus
- 19 AugMars square natal Venus
- 21 AugJupiter square natal Jupiter
- 27 AugJupiter trine natal Pluto
- 29 AugMars sextile natal Jupiter
- 1 SepMars sextile natal Mars
- 1 SepJupiter square natal Mars
- 5 SepMars conjunction natal Moon
- 6 SepMars sextile natal Saturn
- 14 SepMars square natal Sun
- 15 SepJupiter square natal Saturn
- 16 SepSaturn trine natal Pluto
- 23 SepMars trine natal Mercury
- 3 OctJupiter opposition natal Uranus
- 6 OctUranus sextile natal Venus
- 7 OctMars trine natal Venus
- 9 OctMars opposition natal Neptune
- 12 OctJupiter trine natal Sun
- 18 OctMars square natal Jupiter
- 20 OctMars trine natal Pluto
- 22 OctMars square natal Mars
- 28 OctMars square natal Saturn
- 3 NovMars opposition natal Uranus
- 6 NovMars trine natal Sun
- 4 FebPluto sextile natal Venus
- 14 FebJupiter trine natal Sun
- 25 FebSaturn trine natal Pluto
- 26 FebJupiter opposition natal Uranus
- 9 MarPluto conjunction natal Neptune
- 22 MarMars trine natal Sun
- 28 MarSaturn square natal Moon
- 12 AprMars trine natal Sun
- 26 AprSaturn sextile natal Uranus
- 30 AprNeptune conjunction natal Venus
- 9 MaySaturn conjunction natal Sun
- 21 MayUranus sextile natal Venus
- 29 MayJupiter opposition natal Uranus
- 6 JunUranus trine natal Neptune
- 7 JunNeptune sextile natal Neptune
- 9 JunJupiter trine natal Sun
- 10 JunMars trine natal Jupiter
- 12 JunMars square natal Pluto
- 15 JunMars trine natal Mars
- 20 JunMars sextile natal Moon
- 20 JunMars trine natal Saturn
- 10 JulMars opposition natal Mercury
- 11 JulPluto conjunction natal Neptune
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