Important Planetary Cycles
Astrological trends occurring now, include, Mercury Retrogrades, Pluto’s position in the sky and how it effects us – Solar and Lunar Eclipses and other key standout trends. To discover cycles which are larger themes going way out into 2033, go to the Longer Planetary Themes section you will find on the right side column of the Front Page of Starfires, or go HERE

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This Month’s Planetary Positions
Updated Ephemeris Planets’ Positions 2025
Latest Trends 2025-2026
Next Mercury Retrograde
Increased compassion, conquering fear and breaking through one’s illusions.
February 26, 2026 at 22 degrees Pisces.
Mercury retro February 26, 2026
Mercury in Pisces leads to extremely fussy high expectations. It can motivate us to become even more particular about certain projects, tasks, performance or even our body, health, diet and fitness than ever before. It could zero in on issues such as artistic expectations, medical outcomes desired, and could lead to disappointments and discouragements. Depending where it is targeting your own birth chart, will determine where and how it is playing out. To handle this Mercury retro, you would want to plan ahead, such as 1st of January 2026.
Lunar eclipse
March 3 2026

The March 3 Lunar Eclipse is in Virgo. It could lead to vulnerable health, immune system or body issues. Also, incidences involving work, employment or co-workers. Sometimes in Virgo, our pets require extra care. The main theme of all Lunar Eclipses, is to be cautious just before, during and after the peak date, March 3, for any risk taking, mistakes in judgment, and in this case, do not take risks with being around very sick people, food poisoning, unclean environments such as mold of fungus. Be cautious with your work situations, how your co-workers are behaving, reacting to things, or any form of pressure to help out, serve or step up and take on someone elses’ work. The Moon inconjuncts Pluto, not a good outcome.
Solar eclipse February 17, 2026 in aquarius
Upcoming Solar Eclipse will be in Aquarius at 28 degrees. It is moving us organically towards friendships, growth with impersonal fair and humane treatment, reactions and care for all people. Humanitarian concerns run high during this period. Transformational changes within our lives, upgrading to a more efficient smarter way. Is it work health, daily routines? Is it tech, knowledge, or could be how we interact with certain people in our lives? Uranus will square (challenge) this Solar Eclipse, so shocking global events could take place, most likely as early as February 14 up through the February 26 date. Personally, tests of patience, keeping your cool, remaining detached and impersonally held together no matter what might be coming at you from left field, would be key. Be on the alert for unexpected weather, disruptions, pay attention while driving, defensive in all ways.
Uranus’ cycle in Taurus is about to end
2011 – April 25, 2026
2018 up to April 25 2026, Uranus is known for upgrading society themes and trends and this cycle for Uranus has been in the extremely physical materialistic sign of Taurus. It is all about gold, metals, engineering, building and business. It’s about industry – machinery, computer tech and yes, space expansion and all the machines and equipment required to do it. I
Uranus is the planet of Alchemy and rules Aquarius. the sign of progressive innovation and the future. As it moved into Taurus, an acceleration of all Taurean themes started. Engineering, Science and Physics, all things related to material progress, but mostly, economy, finance, income and business trends rapidly changed, and especially the subject of currency, gold silver and other metals.
During key transits of Uranus through Taurus, there has been unexpected focus towards gold backed currencies and other forms of exchange such as blockchain, crypto along with a rapid transformation of how people earn their living. This all began in 2008 up through 2011 on to present. When Uranus leaves Taurus Aoril 25, 2026, the new Aquarian future models will have been laid in regards to engineering technology/machines, career shifts and economies of the world. And Uranus moving into Gemini will then shift the focus upon rapid transfer of products, data, everything regarding the information field, 3D Printing in homes, rapid exchange of money and sped up forms of interchange of data. Our minds ability to absorb and have access to enormous volumes of data is going to increase. (More regarding Uranus in Gemini, July 2025 – November 2025, returns April 25, 2026 on for eight years, in future post.
Uranus sextile Neptune
August through November 2027, Returns 2026-2027. (dates below)

Uranus in Gemini stimulates a greater objectivity with ourselves, desiring to change our troubling situations, breaking old molds, pushing ourselves to advance in some way. As it makes a sextile to Neptune, August – September 5, peaking August 28, this cycle helps us reach a successful breakthrough with something idealistic, something vital and important you may need to bring about.
Uranus will make important connections with Pluto, Neptune, Saturn which are called outer planets and have a stronger pull on our lives than the faster moving planets. August 28 Uranus and Neptune will make an exact sextile to Neptune. Uranus is intellectually higher mental capacity involving advanced thinking, innovative comprehension of things and it is in a compatible relationship with Neptune, exchanging helpful open-hearted collaboration between science and spirituality, love and advanced thinking. Neptune inspires divine love, as it is the higher octave of Venus. It enhances our intuition, spiritual longings, divine love and compassion.
Here are the dates when it is supercharged with potential for you:
August 2 – December 17, 2025, with the strongest exact connection on August 28 and November 20. You We definitely want to utilize this cycle for our alchemical experiment for our life at this time. It will be the increase of objectivity about ourselves, being able to self examine ourselves more clearly – honestly and implement change. It won’t be a mechanical strategy for change, but an inward growth, a strong feeling of coming into one’s own beautiful feeling of power and capacity for greatness.
We have no choice but to accelerate – so if you sense you might be in a state of paralysis, critical and negative, Uranus is planting seeds of change within you. We are all working hard on this new expectation of existence.
The next period of immense power of this cycle of Uranus sextile Neptune will be:
June 24, 2026 – August 8 2026
Returns, December 21, 2026 – February 13, 2027
Returns May 7 2027 – June 28, 2027
Returns February 18 2028 – May 12, 2028
Let’s take advantage of this incredible cycle now!
To read more of these types of long term trends, check out our 2025-2033 Trend section HERE
Pluto in Aquarius
Pluto in Aquarius March 23, 2023 – March 9, 2043
Can we align ourselves with greater brilliance, without losing our organic humanity?
In process of being updated Dec 1 2026
America Astrology
Updated December 1 2025
Many layers are occurring at the same time impacting the U.S. Astrology…
( in process of updating )
The most important concept to grasp, is America is a consciousness on planet earth, not a place, spiritually speaking. It’s the ideal represented by the drive for love, freedom and personal progress and so many other ideals, and so the cycles we’ve been covering over the past 20 years or so, are also being mirrored all over the entire world.
Saturn in Pisces
Saturn in Pisces 2023 February 13, 2026 N
How it is impacting your own world, and globally …
The new theme for our lessons in life, developing greater abilities, changed from Aquarius to Pisces, 2023. It will last up through February 13, 2026.
This Saturn is bringing up unresolved feelings, thoughts, emotions and psychological patterns within us, which have to do with ancient records, past challenges and programming. Personally and globally, our new push will be to re-program and clear negative fears, self limitations, accepting and enabling dysfunctional leaders and people in power in all walks of life, and live through a time where what is paraded in front of us could be sheer illusion.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!






