We all need a fairly well-developed psychophysical immune system to endure reality. If we interpret the transits of the year from this perspective, we will see that every planetary placement constitutes a collective challenge but also an individual resource. In other words, even if the collective situation will be extremely unstable and we are bombarded with increasingly surreal news, we will be able—with the help of the year’s energies—to refine a few capacities that will support our maturation.

2026 will be a year in which uncertainty intensifies and the need to explore our inner orientation grows, in search of perspectives that do justice to the quality of the time we are living in.

There are underlying models of reality that no longer work, and this has become impossible to ignore. Many people sense this but are unable to give clear expression to their intuitions, and this too is part of the process. We are entering an era of exploration beyond the ideological structures we are accustomed to. And by ideologies I do not mean only politics; worldviews are ideologies as well.

2026 will be a threshold: a moment of passage that requires awareness, honesty, and psychological maturity. Understanding the nature of the passage does not eliminate discomfort, but it does offer inner orientation. And orientation is what allows us to live the experience in a less reactive way.

Let us begin with Pluto in Aquarius (2023–2044), which remains one of the most pervasive energies.
Pluto’s entry into Aquarius has initiated a long, slow dismantling of authority structures that were once taken for granted. Historically, this transit corresponds to periods in which institutions lose their moral weight not through sudden collapse, but through the erosion of the beliefs that support them. One could argue that institutions have always had less moral weight than they appeared to have. What is new is that this will become increasingly evident.

The belief system or identity that once provided coherence to society loses its substance, and any attempt to build one’s life according to that society’s expectations brings neither stability nor inner peace. What emerges instead is a mixture of disillusionment and relief, as if the scaffolding of society had finally lost its veneer of respectability.

When external authority weakens, we are faced with a fundamental choice: to fall into confusion or to begin the slow and difficult development of inner authority. Most people have been oscillating between these states for some time.

This phase often manifests as an identity crisis, particularly related to work, education, and one’s place in the world. There may be a growing distrust of experts who speak without depth or integrity, and a loss of faith in models that claimed to explain how we should live.

It will become increasingly impossible to delegate the choice of our beliefs. Asking ourselves what we believe in and what we know is not enough; we must accept that the shared foundations of belief and knowledge are eroding in order to seek a deeper inner foundation, one that lies beyond the level at which we usually orient ourselves.

What supports this process is not certainty, but patience: accepting confusion as a loosening of crystallizations, beginning to decide based on our deepest feeling, and accepting that we may change course several times until we sense that we are touching not a new land, but an underground current that belongs only to us. There are no maps to rely on; we are the map.

At the end of February, Saturn will enter conjunction with Neptune. The conjunction will therefore be active at the beginning of the astrological year, which corresponds to the vernal point (March 21).

The Saturn–Neptune cycle coincides with the collapse of old dreams and the painful, uncertain birth of new ones. There is always a liminal space between these two phases, a space that is inherently disorienting: a kind of threshold in which we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we are becoming. This transit represents the essence of transition—the meeting of the principle of reality with the dissolution of the boundaries of reality and an opening to transcendence, which, if one holds a materialistic view of reality, is no longer transcendence but appears to be mere illusion. Neptune is a force that does not promote mental clarity; it confronts the ego with a different kind of limit than Saturn does. Saturn humiliates and downsizes the ego; Neptune, instead, makes it fragile and confused. Without the support of spiritual intuitions, the Neptunian ego regresses and escapes from reality.

We know that the vernal point marks the beginning of Aries, the sign in which the ego seeks autonomy and where will and initiative are crucial themes. The archetype of the ego, the fundamental question of choice, and the direction in which the vital impulse moves will be central themes for each of us. This is the moment to ask ourselves, between inner visions and the principle of reality, how we have moved so far and which impulses are emerging that can redraw the map of our lives. This is not about devising strategies to function better; it is about understanding who we are, the vision that has guided us so far, and the structures we have built to live that vision—or, for those who never had a vision, recognizing how reality imposed a life model that was far less reassuring than we believed.

Neptune in Aries dissolves the distance between beliefs and concrete life. It is no longer possible to claim values without embodying them, and this may push us to expose ourselves, but in a peaceful and measured way—so no reckless rush forward dragged by Mars, but no nostalgic immobility either, because that does not protect us; it weakens our forces. Saturn adds gravity: choices now carry consequences, and responsibility can no longer be postponed. Responsibility becomes inevitable, not as an abstract principle but as a daily reality.

The psychological challenge is intense. Many people will discover that what they believe in no longer supports them and will realize that their deepest convictions are different from what they thought they were. Pluto in Aquarius brings out the shadows of our beliefs, Neptune awakens the impulse to realize all-encompassing visions, and Saturn rages with a cruel superego that wants to impose order on something that does not yet have a form and therefore escapes any unambiguous definition.

Here it is essential to work on our relationship with Saturn and Neptune, because their fusion could be salvific. On the collective level, however, we will witness many illusions and many clumsy attempts to impose order on chaos, with the result of exacerbating it.

For some, the pain over lost identities and beliefs must be honored. Discomfort is not a sign of failure; it is a sign that we are responding to the quality of the moment.

In April, Uranus will enter Gemini and remain there until May 2033, a period of seven years, which traditionally represents the time needed for a new model to stabilize.

With Uranus in Gemini, the collective field becomes saturated with information that changes at great speed, and contradictions multiply. Historically, this transit is correlated with propaganda battles, fragmented consensus, and the division of reality along ideological lines. Communication accelerates faster than the time needed for reflection and integration, creating a cognitive short circuit.

The same event can generate very different narratives. Images and videos lose their evidentiary power and can no longer be considered reliable. In other words, we will never know with certainty what is happening unless we extend our antennae to probe the field. But given the plurality of disparate stimuli, even sensitives may find it extremely stressful to understand what the underlying currents of reality are.

We must avoid exhausted relativism or constant suspicion, which leads to delusional thinking. This is not the time for overly fanciful conspiracy theories, but neither is it the time for reflexive rejection of the evidence that reality may not be what it seems.

The task will not be to try to stay informed through reliable sources, but to remain psychologically integrated.

Those who will navigate this period most effectively will not be the most reactive or the most informed, but those whose values, perceptions, and actions are sufficiently aligned that they do not fragment under pressure.

Toward the middle of the year, Jupiter will enter Leo. The first thing that comes to mind is ego inflation. Jupiter in the sign of the Sun leads to an overestimation of the ego and its possibilities, which, on the collective level, is not good news—especially if we consider a Saturn (Jupiter’s polar energy) in Aries, stubbornly aggressive in its attempt to preserve obsolete structures or impose aberrant ones. And yet Jupiter in Leo is not only ego; it is also genuine creativity and the courage to affirm solar values in the best sense of the term: freedom, self-determination, trust in the good, generosity, and faith in humanitarian values. It could therefore also indicate the emergence of truly progressive movements that begin to assume greater authority.

The eclipses of this period invite reflection. Eclipses are moments of inward turning and redefinition of one’s life. There will be an annular solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17 (the Sun will not be completely obscured because the Moon will be at a point in its orbit where it appears smaller) and a total lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 3.

So, for each of us, what can this year mean in terms of contribution to the collective field? By contribution I mean the tiny influence each of us exerts not only on our immediate environment but on the field as a whole, based on how we think, feel, react, and express ourselves—ultimately based on the energy of our own field, which adds itself to that of the other billions of members of the human family.

What matters now? Accepting uncertainty and exploring our inner alignment; letting go of past projects; stopping the pursuit of illusions; overcoming the desire for conformity.

Refining discernment, discovering our true values, analyzing our reactive patterns, slowing our pace to counteract the acceleration that destabilizes the nervous system (Uranus in Gemini has a direct effect on the nervous system). Exploring the concept of inner authority.

Creating communities in which there is space for honest confrontation and emotional support.

Reflecting on the relationship between aspirations and reality, and on those aspirations that have not ceased to inspire our lives and that express values capable of still positively influencing reality.

Choosing non-negotiable values—those we will never compromise on—while practicing flexibility and tolerance in everything else. Rigidity leads to fragility, while compromise in every area leads to the loss of essential values.

I believe this is the message of the year to our consciousness.

And if our New Year’s resolutions have already run out of steam by January, here we have quite a few substantial proposals for how to move through this 2026.