What Does 2026 Hold? Three Things to Be Aware Of...

Merry Christmas.

We are about to cross a threshold.

As we move toward 2026, I wanted to share with you, energetically, what is happening in the collective — and how you can bring that awareness into your own chart for wisdom about your personal 2026 year.

In numerology, we enter a 1 year in 2026. We get there by adding the digits of the year together: 2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 10, and then 1 + 0 = 1. This is significant because of what happens between the cycles of 9 and 1. When we end a 9 year and enter a 1 year, we pass through zero. Zero represents a reset, or at least an invitation for a reset. It’s a moment of clearing before initiation. It is a sacred gap with no structure. It is like Indiana Jones walking across invisible stones to reach the other side.

Zero is often overlooked, dismissed as nothing, or treated as a placeholder. But energetically, zero is anything but empty. Zero represents the pause between cycles. It is the breath between exhale and inhale. It is the moment when the old structure has dissolved, but the new one has not yet taken form.

Zero is the clearing.

It is the space where identity loosens, certainty fades, and direction has not yet crystallized. There is no map here. There is no established path. This can feel unsettling, especially for minds that crave reassurance and plans. But it is also profoundly sacred.

And 1, by nature, is about independence, courage, and beginning something new.

This theme is echoed in the Chinese zodiac as well. Chinese astrology works with five elemental modalities woven through a 60-year cycle. In 2026, we enter a Fire Horse year, which reinforces these same themes of momentum, autonomy, and initiation.

Fire brings activation. The Horse brings movement.

Astrology reinforces this same initiation theme through the eclipses of 2026. This is one of the most striking features of the year. There are four eclipses, and remarkably, they occur across all four elements: fire, earth, air, and water.

This is rare and meaningful.

Eclipses are not everyday new and full moons. They are thresholds. They concentrate energy. They mark turning points where something comes into focus and something else is released. Eclipses tend to bypass logic and go straight to lived experience. They reveal what can no longer remain hidden.

Having eclipses in all four elements suggests a year of recalibration. Not just change in one area of life, but integration across the full spectrum of being.

• Fire eclipses initiate identity, purpose, and creative expression.
• Earth eclipses ground us in reality, resources, and embodiment.
• Air eclipses shift perception, communication, and mental frameworks.
• Water eclipses move through emotion, intuition, and the unseen currents beneath the surface.

This elemental balance is important. It suggests that growth in 2026 is not meant to be one-sided. We are not being asked to expand without grounding, or to feel without understanding, or to think without embodiment. The invitation is coherence.

Coherence is when your thoughts, feelings, choices, and actions are moving in the same direction.
It’s not perfection or constant clarity. It’s the felt sense that what you’re doing matches what you know to be true, even while you’re still figuring things out.

Each of these eclipses will land somewhere specific in your birth chart. They activate particular houses and may closely contact your natal planets or angles. This is where the collective story becomes personal.

Where an eclipse touches your chart, life tends to ask for attention. Sometimes through opportunity. Sometimes through disruption.

• Solar eclipses tend to initiate new chapters.
• Lunar eclipses tend to bring culminations, releases, or emotional clarity.
• Neither is inherently good or bad. They are simply moments of truth.

Because these eclipses span all four elements, they may touch multiple layers of your life over the course of the year. One may speak to your work or daily rhythms. Another to your relationships. Another to your inner world. Another to your voice or vision.

1. Where are you being asked to become more independent?
2. Where are you being asked to initiate rather than wait?
3. Where does life seem to be asking for your participation, not your perfection?

Your chart holds these answers not as fixed outcomes, but as invitations.

We also need to be aware of the shadow side of a One year, especially when it is amplified by Fire Horse energy. While this cycle encourages initiation and forward motion, it can easily tip into false starts or premature commitments if movement is mistaken for alignment. Because speed without truth leads you off course.

There is a risk of burnout when momentum replaces discernment, or of impulsivity being framed as courage.

• Independence can harden into isolation.
• Rejecting support in the name of strength also leads to isolation and disconnection from God/Source/Universe.
• Finally, impulsivity mistaken for courage or bravery is the sneaky way you cover up a lack of inner leadership and stay in a cycle of repeating the same mistakes.

Naming these patterns does not take away from the power of the year. It allows the fire to be used consciously rather than consumed by it.

We can ask your chart to offer insight by looking at where these four eclipses fall for you personally. Take a moment now to copy and paste the prompt below into your favorite AI, and take a peek at what 2026 may be inviting in your life. If you need to download your Natal Chart Navigator, grab it here.

How to Get This Magic Working ✨

1)    Download your ⁠Natal Chart Navigator⁠ and save a screenshot to your phone in your photos (so you don’t have to repeat this step each week!).

2)    Upload your Navigator into your favorite AI.

3) Cut + paste the prompt below.

4)    Sit back, read the reflection, and connect to the cosmos <3

___________________________

Weekly AI Prompt: 

“Using my Natal Chart Navigator, which lists my exact house cusps with degrees and minutes in Table 2, help me understand how the major astrology of 2026 interacts with my personal chart. Please pay close attention to the four eclipses of 2026, which occur across all four elements. These eclipses are:

• February 17, 2026 — Solar Eclipse at 28° Aquarius 50′

• March 3, 2026 — Lunar Eclipse at 12° Virgo 54′

• August 12, 2026 — Solar Eclipse at 20° Leo 02′

• August 28, 2026 — Lunar Eclipse at 4° Pisces 54′

For each eclipse, identify which house it falls in using my chart house cusps (Table 2) and whether it closely contacts any natal planets (as listed in Table 1) or angles within a 3° orb for 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, or 180. If an eclipse is within this orb of a natal planet or house cusp, give that activation extra weight and explain what area of life may be undergoing initiation, release, or reorientation.

Please explain this in clear, everyday language, focusing on themes and lived experience rather than predictions or fixed outcomes.

Finally, bring this together into a grounded overview of my personal 2026 year, taking into account that 2026 is a numerology One year and the Year of the Fire Horse. Describe how themes of initiation, momentum, courage, independence, and forward movement may want to express through my chart, while also honoring the need for discernment, pacing, and self-trust. Please write this as if you are helping me orient to the year ahead, helping me see where life may be inviting conscious participation, choice, and alignment.”

___________________________

*My entire body of work is based on Western Astrology and the Koch House system.