2026 OPENING NOTES - FOUR ASTROLOGICAL VIGNETTES

Today I give you a little teaser into four interesting themes that will unfold throughout the year of 2026. If you would like 100 minutes of pure astro intel on 2026 then may I please point you to the Astrology of 2026 class. As soon as you sign up, you'll receive the replay in your inbox. 

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Hey, how are you? I'm good. It's Sunday afternoon. I'm sitting on my couch, um, feeling quite comfy and with like a very beautiful undercurrent of melancholia, um, which I'm a, I'm a fan of the good type, uh, because I've been listening to this song, which I just found, uh. About 40 minutes ago. And, uh, because I have obsessive tendencies, I have listened to it on repeat, uh, at least 10 times.'cause it goes for three minutes. Uh, and it's, there's no words. It's one of those, well, it's this kind of song that I just feel like a part of me has this old. Uh, ancient part of me is woken up in some lake, somewhere in rural England where a number of my bloodlines, uh, dance. So that's how you're meeting me. That's the mood of today. And just back from a holiday, uh, and on that holiday. And I wanted to tell you this because I think it's a great thing to do while we're in the expansiveness. The larges of SAG season is to write a wild list. Uh, I, as I've been mentioning here, I have been honing in, you know, for so much of Scorpio season. Uh, on, well, actually to be honest, for a lot of this year, and I feel like many of you are the same, for a lot of this year, I've really been honing in on what's important to me. Where do I wanna put my energy and my life? Um, how am I articulating my life? And I've been writing out a lot of lists. Uh, you know, Virgo Moon Mate, Gemini Sun. Can, she can write a list and she can action it. Let me tell you one of the greatest joys, uh, of my. Um, my sweet little life is, is crossing off things from that to-do list. I'm not going, I'm not gonna pretend, uh, that it's not. Uh, but I, I have been honing in a lot and a lot and a lot and for the last week I summer, so very beautiful. I was in, um, in the wit Sundays on an island that I used to get to go to a lot when I was younger and. I got to watch the moon rise, and I just had this huge vista in front of me and it was mountains, which is like my kind of territory with ocean. And this combination of the two, which was very, it's very good looking. And I was just sitting in front of this vista one morning. I was like, dude, you should write a wild list, like. Uh, there's something, you know, I've really honed in on, uh, not realism, that's dull. Um, what's the word? I don't know. I, I, I've, I'm very, very practical. I, I'm making these things sound bad. I think they're great things, but I, with the lists, you know, it's like there's, I, I know the why. I know the how to, uh, well. I have a sense of the how to, you know, there's still the room for mystery. Uh, but anyway, I was like, dude, write a wild list. Just go all out and write down the ultimate list of the year ahead. I, I know some people don't like doing those things. I dunno any of those people personally. No. I'm sure some of you don't like doing it, but for me it's just, I get very excited about, you know, I get extremely excited about buying a new diary or a new notebook or even a new pen. Like there's something about a clean slate, a fresh page that is so invigorating, uh, to me. Um, and. So I wrote out this wild list and it felt great, and so much of it is the things that I've been discussing with myself, with me, myself, and I within the confines of my diary. Um, and, and to my closest and dearest for the last couple of months. But there was something about this one where it was, it felt like there was more abandoned, there was more of this largeness and wildness and Sagittarius, like the adventurous spirit of this energy. And I'm saying this in case you, you resonate. Sometimes when we're leaning into, uh, the practical, the how to, which really allows us to get a lot of things done, I think. Uh, but if you, if, I don't know, sometimes if we lean in there a lot, life is a little more dehydrated. It's not as juicy, and I knew that I needed a re immersion of some juice. And yeah, so it just felt like this list was just so charged and it's all achievable. And it's also, it was also me at my edge of comfortability, you know, gone on the days where I would write a list that feels so outside of my own spectrum of reality, uh, because I always found those. Those lists or those, um, directions, you know, it's like almost like they were immediately diminishing. Um, and look, I have, I have amazing, uh, delusion. It's ac it's actually in my NA child. Um, and if you've been in astrology school, I've talked to you about the, the opposition that I have, and it's a, it's a great thing. Like I, I'm, I'm not short on. A supply of self-belief. Um, I, I, I promise you. Uh, and at the same time, it's like, learn for me, learning practical intelligence, uh, really got a lot of things moving. I had for forward momentum in a way that was a lot more me shaped than my life had been before when I was able to marry, uh. The belief, the visions, the ideas, the, the creativity with the, the 3D fundamentals of the how to. But yeah, I wanna say this to you. We're in such season, right? This is broad vistas, wide expanses, the realm of possibility. It's like we've put on a a, a lens that now allows us to very clearly see. How much possibility is, has been floating within our, uh, has been dancing with us and our energetic field for however long. Uh, and we may have just brushed past it, uh, you know, a month or two or many months ago, but now we're able to see it. We can, or better than that, we can feel it. We can sense the possibility, so. If you feel called, write your wild list. Uh, it's a beautiful exercise. I've, I've, I've revisited it a couple of times and, um, yeah, it's like, it, it holds a charge that my other directions for 2026 have not. Speaking of 2026, what I want to do today is essentially tease you a little bit, uh, tease you with four. Uh, vignettes of the forces at play next year. Uh, and while I, I won't really speak to the astrology, I might slightly with each of them, I want to speak more, more about what these things are about, what some of these themes will be there. There's, I, you know, this is a, this is a concise list. Uh, I held the. Class on the astrology of 2026 yesterday morning, and it was, it was quite enjoyable, uh, for me. You know, sometimes these things can feel like frantic or intense or, but it was actually an enjoyable one. I'd, I'd spent a lot of time contemplating this, so I had a lot that I wanted to say. And, um, I did start off by saying, yeah, I think we'll be here for, for about an hour. And when I. Ended the call. I looked up and saw it had been an hour and 40 minutes. So, uh, you can buy that workshop if you haven't already. And I go into all of this plus so, so much more, um, in great detail, but practical, uh, it, it is a marriage of the practical and the, well, the mystical. Um, we are talking about the frequencies of planets interacting. With us here on Earth. So there is a mystical component. Uh, okay, so for vignettes from 2026, number one, uh, we are in the midst of a simplification process. And this is really largely to do with the south node in Virgo, and that is here. With us until the 27th of July next year. So we still have another eight months of that if we take in December. And it's an incredible experience, uh, for myself, for for many of my clients and friends. Uh, you know, part, again, part of the joy of doing this kind of work is. It's, it's so much to do with pattern recognition, but then getting to hear from so many different types of humans how these, how these archetypal themes, these transits are being expressed and played out, uh, through the individual filters of different people. So, uh, with the south node here in Virgo. Which I've spoken about, but from this lens, it's like it's, it has been a simplification process. What are the expectations that I'm putting on myself? Uh, are they, do I, do I even want these things? Here are, is this meaningful and important to me? Is, is, are these my own? Is this my own set of, uh, expectations of what I want from myself in this lifetime or. The way that I want to go about actualizing these things or not. So this continues, it's been a theme this year, and it really, really continues into the first seven months of 2026, a simplification process whilst tuning in deeper to our own whispers and symbolisms and imagination, which is the north node in Pisces. The north node in PIs is giving us access to our intuition through the guise of clairvoyance and Clair sentience. This is why I say like these whispers of the soul, um, our own unique symbolism, which comes to us in our dreams, our daydreams, that visit us through our imagination. Um. That's a huge part that continues on, and, and what I'm noticing and being in conversation with clients about is because we're simplifying so much, you know, and this is in a, in a sense, this is really linked to the snake, the snake energy of, of 2025 or from February, 2025 to the 17th of February, 2026. Uh, it, which is. The releasing of what's not resonant. That to me is very much the south node in Virgo too. Um, and because we're removing what's not resonant, these, these things that we thought we wanted to actualize, which we, which we don't, or the systems or the habits or the way, the things that we had in place to get from A to B, we are refining and revisiting them. Uh, we're getting more efficient, we're getting clearer. Uh, and I almost wanna say like we're getting cleaner, uh, with our own energy because what's not resonant feels sticky and mucky within our systems. Now it's a lot more obvious. Uh, and so that's what I was saying. So what I'm finding very interesting is what is left A feels very true and b. Is feels incredibly achievable. It feels incredibly doable. Like I was just saying right at the beginning, uh, even, even with myself, it's like what the things that I am putting my energy towards don't feel like they're 10, 15, 20 years away. Uh, they feel like they're doable within the next year, you know, or they're certainly beginning and, and really starting to take hold over the next 12 months. And, and of course that's because of the work that I have been doing over many years, et cetera, et cetera. But in, in a huge part of it is this simplification process that we are, that's part of our co cosmic curriculum for all of us as earthlings, what's not resonant and um, like sharp and off key that we can notice it. It. And because we're removing those things, we are left with a level of spaciousness that allows us to hone in on what is genuine and true, and it feels closer. Now, I'd love to hear if this is something that you are feeling too. Number two, one of the wild things that's happening, and I've touched on this a lot this year.'cause of its importance and its sort of, I want to say singularity or its uniqueness as a, as a, as a coating. Um, which is the conjunction, the coming together of Satin and Neptune, which has been in PIs together, uh, for all of this year. And then it went into Aries and then they both went back into Pisces and then. Within the first six weeks of 2026, both will then move once more into Aries and just after we tick into the year of the horse, the wild, what is it? The fire horse. I was gonna say the wild horse. Uh, they will reach an exactitude. It's like zero degrees, 49 minutes. I could be wrong on that. I, I watched a couple of talks on this, uh, and, and the astrologer was saying that according to his research and, and as far back as he was able to go, this is the first time that Satin and Neptune have met at zero degrees of Aries. Zero degrees of Aries, by the way, is the beginning note of the zodiac. It's, it's, it's the equinox and it's the beginning of the astrological new year. Um, when, when the sun, sorry, when the sun hits zero degrees of Aries, that's the first, that's the equinox and that's the first day of the astrological, uh, year. So zero degrees varies. Is, is a potent degree. Uh, it's the beginning of the zodiac, and this will be the first time that Saturn and Neptune have met. Here in Aries Exact at zero degrees since 4,000 BC Wild, right? I think many of us have had this sense of the ancient, in the modern, this revisiting of, uh, I kind of want to say like truer ways, older ways, wiser ways. Uh, stepping back into our consciousness, uh, so many of us have found this. So many of us are reaching for much older stories than, uh, we have in the past. You know, myth mythology, uh, as an example. And so this really feels like, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of talk about. A new world, a new paradigm, et cetera, et cetera. And while I'm, I'm not, I'm not really into the language of that, uh, you know, I think people can really get stuck on this idea of, uh, well, I've heard people be like, you know, we're moving into this dimension and that means that everyone who's stuck on this dimension can't make it through. It's like it gets pretty elitist pretty quickly. Um. So how I would posit this is when this really takes hold, which again will be the middle of February, this exactitude. It's like these seeds. These are the seeds that will sprout in the coming years and decades. Satin 3D reality, the Lord of time. The Lord of karma as in karma, as in you report, you sow, where you're putting your energy, you get things back from meeting Neptune. Everything beyond time and space, spirit, creativity, mysticism, magic, meeting in Aries, the realm of the individual. Uh, it's how we initiate. Uh, our, our initiatory energy, how we initiate things, it's action, energy, it's fuel, it's the engine. It's where we get started. And so the coming together of, uh, let's say new visions within the bounds of 3D in the realm of the individual. So what I would say here is like. Those whispers that you have been receiving, those things that you have been shedding and the simplification that you've been going through, it plays into this. This isn't something that exists outside of us. This is something that we bring through us as individuals, part of Earth as Earthling. Um, I'll leave that one there. Number three, thankfully we're no longer playing to the crowd. There's gonna be a gigantic, uh, emphasis on the process of individuation, uh, plus new imprints of collective possibility of what community can look like and. This really begins on the 27th of July when we step into the new set of, uh, nodes with the south node in Leo and the north node in Aquarius. We are releasing everything that's unconscious and immature about Leo, uh, and a, a very unconscious aspect of this sign that's formed very early on is. Learning to play to the crowd, learning to play to the audience, belonging to the group ahead of belonging to the self. Um, and a lot of very clever brains have spoken about this, um, for some time. So I would, I would, I would look up individuation process if that's something that interests you. Um, I certainly speak about it a lot in my work because. Uh, well, it's, it's a foundational requirement to being a healthy whole human. I'm still here. Sorry, that was a long pause. Uh, okay. So, so I would just, you know, within yourself, I would look at. Okay. Where am I self-censoring? Where does it not feel safe to be who I truly am? You know, where there, there's a lot happening in the second half of next year, which regenerates, uh, regenerates. Genuineness, or, or a better way of saying that, is it recenters genuineness as. As Top Dog, you know, uh, yeah. As Top Dog. Uh, and I'm, I'm incredibly excited about this. There's, there's so much of a performative nature that we've really seen take hold as well as, uh, so much around, um, a social, uh, coding that. We all apparently must be adhering to otherwise we become dangerous, uh, individuals who must be ostracized and my God, how, how, how foul and boring and limited, you know. Um. I mean, that's my feeling. Uh, I'm sure you know where I stand on that after saying that. And, and there's so many sort of expressions of how this has played out, but we are really going to be revisiting that and, and it, it comes at a perfect time, I think. And then finally, the fourth, uh, vignette that I want to paint for you is the. Return of Free Thinkers. Remember, remember that whole thing that has been a, a tenet of human history. Um, it's like there's, yeah, there's just so much more of this, uh, at play and at the same time, uh, I must be clear and say that while. This may birth more free thinkers. This is Uranus entering Gemini, which will happen in April. There will also be more clever programming, uh, of minds of our psyches. And, you know, before class yesterday morning, I happened upon. Somebody, uh, what's his name? Chase Hughes. You can look him up. I, I haven't researched him, uh, a lot. Uh, but he is a behavioral specialist and has spent a lot of time with cult leaders, um, uh, operatives. Um, and I listened to a podcast with him after class yesterday where he was discussing. Brainwashing, and this may be, I think this is a great thing to arm ourselves with this kind of knowledge, uh, because we're all susceptible. And something that he said is that it is the people who fervently do not think that they are sub susceptible to being programmed or that they're not susceptible to. Uh, being brainwashed that are the most susceptible. Uh, and it's funny because I, I said something similar in class before I listened to him speak, which was that, you know, I would say that I have a very free mind in many ways, and I've also fallen prey to certain ways of thinking ideologies. Um, et cetera, that once I realized and thankfully had the openness to realize without shaming myself, you know, like, whoa, I really, ooh, that person isn't who I thought they were, or, oh, wow. Okay. I can really see the, the, the underbelly of this set of ideas now in a way that I couldn't before, and this isn't in line with me or my values. Um, it, yeah, it just, it just may, it, it gives me a lot of, um, compassion for our capacity to fall prey to programming. And again, I'm someone who I, I would from the outset be like, no way would I fall for stuff. I've fallen for stuff, heaps of stuff, and that's a really good. That's, that's all that, that's always a great lesson for me. Every time that happens. It's a great lesson for me. Um, but I just wanted to leave you with one thing that he said, uh, which is that when we are being essentially programmed, um, we will be made to feel different. So special and clever, and then ultimately. Will appeal be it someone will appeal to our sense of identity. Um, anyway, IFI found it really fascinating and just the timing of it was really interesting to come across this guy. Um, there's a lot happening next year and I will unpack it in real time, uh, when we're in each of these transits and in the experience of them. However, if you do want to get the lay of the land now, um, I highly recommend that you buy the class, especially, you know, it's a great, it's a, it's a great thing to have a sense of, uh, especially as you begin to plan your year Yes. To understand, uh, archetypally, thematically, energetically, psychically, how this, how and where this will play out within your specific chart, but also. If you run a business or if you are planning the year ahead, it's great to know these dates and the intel on these different things. Um, trust me, all, all the big dogs do this. Who knows who the big dogs are. Yesterday I was making jokes about the, the tech weirdos. I mean, they, a hundred thousand bazillion percent, um, have astrologers, uh, or, yeah. Sorry, I'm all over. I'm all over the place. I think I need to, uh, chill out and, and watch a TV show. Uh, but yeah, I heard that gives you a, a sense of the year. That's just four themes. But they're, they're strong and they're excellent. I think they're incredible. They're very exciting, you know, and yes, there's things to be aware of. But if we are self-aware, that's, I mean, that is, that's a huge part of the game. Right. And then acting for our highest good, you know? Um, alright, hope you, hope you have a beautiful week. Uh, the class is linked below, so is my essay for 2026 That's just come out on. Uh, Russia's website. You can also get the magazine in in news agents. But now for all of you in who are international, you can read your horoscopes for the year ahead. So I'll link that below. Uh, astrology School will begin on the year of the fire horse. You bet I'm gonna make use of that date. Um, it's also a partial solar eclipse that day, A new moon. In Aquarius and yeah, that's the 17th of February, that astrology school will begin classes as ever. I'll have two sessions each week, one so that we can, um, so that I can teach you all live, uh, regardless of your time zone. It will fill within those, it will fit within those two dates, um, and. Yeah, join the wait list if you're interested in that,'cause you will get first dibs and that will open up soon-ish. Uh, hope you have a great week and yeah, write your wild list. Bye.