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#16 - The Astrology of 2026
This week in The Astro Study Room, we are looking ahead to the astrology of 2026! We are covering some of the major transits (like Saturn conjunct Neptune at 0 degrees in Aries), all of the eclipses, and a look into the retrogrades of the year. This is our first time with such a technical episode like this one, and we are looking forward to seeing how we grow from here by the end of 2026. We hope you all enjoy!
Here are some of the topics we cover in this episode:
3:00 Our Goals and Manifestations for 2026
6:18 - Ember Fae Magic
7:23 - Jordan's Astrology Consultations
9:50 - How to Look Ahead for a Year
13:01 - Saturn-Neptune Conjunct at Zero Aries
24:20 - Solar Eclipse in Aquarius (2/17)
26:47 - Solar Eclipse in Aquarius for the United States
31:02 - Lunar Eclipse in Virgo (3/3)
33:29 - Solar Eclipse in Leo (8/12)
36:20 - Lunar Eclipse in Pisces (8/28)
38:52 - 2026 Retrogrades
47:58 - Astrology This or That
52:10 - Outro and What's Next in The Astro Study Room
6:43 - A look at the Full Moon in Cancer
17:59 - A look into Ember's natal chart
20:47 - A discussion about the place of the modern planets
24:28 - Some history of astrology
27:06 - A reflection on natural houses
37:02 - What's coming up in 2026
38:32 - Astrology This or That!
Next time, we will be having a conversation with our High Priestess: Elyse Welles! We asked her all about how she incorporates astrology into her magical practice. See you in the study room on January 20th!
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We would love to connect with all of you! Check out all of our content on TikTok and Instagram @theastrostudyroom
We also just launched our new YouTube channel and video episodes are coming up! https://www.youtube.com/@TheAstroStudyRoom
Come check out our free Patreon where we share extra journal prompts, ritual ideas, and other musings and behind the scenes content.
If you are interested in getting a reading from Jordan, you can message us on Instagram @TheAstroStudyRoom. In 2026, I will have a better booking system reading to go!
Follow Ember’s witchy embodiment journey on Instagram @emberfaemagic, take her free quiz to find out what is holding you back from your sensual magick or sign up for her newsletter at her website.
Hey Star students, welcome back to the Astro Study Room. I'm Ember Faye, your friendly neighborhood Fire Fairy Witch.
Jordan:And I'm Jordan, a university librarian by day and a dedicated astrology student by night. And yes, welcome back to the Astro Study Room. Our goal for this podcast is to feel like we are just students all meeting up after class to go over our notes together. So bring your notes, your water, and all your pens and highlighters. Every other Tuesday, we will be exploring core astrology topics, breaking them down, and just chatting about how these concepts show up in our real lives and reflecting on what wisdom the stars have to share with us. If you enjoy this episode, I hope you will consider subscribing and leaving us a review to help us grow this little cohort of astrology students.
Ember:Happy 2026, everyone. Yes. I mean, by the time you're listening to this, most people are probably still back at work and whatnot. But if you're still feeling celebratory, you can change out that water for champagne or coffee or whatever. We won't we won't judge. We are so excited to be coming into a new year. So this will be our first full year with the podcast. Yeah. Starting 2026. We'll just like be able to cycle through, which is so exciting. And I guess 2026 New Year on the Gregorian timeline. I mean, we'll have New Year around Aerie season, around the witch's new year. We just love a new year. So for this episode, we are really excited to have mostly Jordan diving in. You know, I'm just here for the for the sass and ass. Um, but no, uh, Jordan will be diving into our transits for the year, what we can look forward to, what we may need to be keeping an eye out for. Yeah, and I have not read this fully through yet. So all I didn't know that. Yes, I have not. So yes, I figured it would be live reactions. I'll be like, shit, flips the table and stupid Aries. Yes, as Jordan and I have have been talking a little bit about this turbulent astrology coming up in 2020.
Jordan:That's a good way to put it, yeah.
Ember:Yeah, we got a little turbulence. Everyone put their seat belts on.
Jordan:But put your tray tables up, everyone.
Ember:But you know, we're gonna try and deliver this information to you in a non-fear-mongering way, just really a way to like connect and understand what can be going on around these time periods and things to keep out for. Because I think if we're looking out for these energies and seeing what's going on, it's a good way to prepare ourselves for like spiritually, emotionally, maybe physically of like how we can handle some of the energy that might be in the cosmos.
Jordan:So I'm curious, Ember, if you have any goals for the new year. I know that I am graduating this year. That is one of my big goals, is to finish my master's degree. So excited. And I guess another big goal is to get, I would love to have a new job by the end of the summer. I feel like that's a little bit of a stretch, but definitely by the end of the year, I would like to have a new job. So that is my big 2026 goal that I will share with the podcast. We will manifest that with you, Jordan. I love that.
Ember:I don't know. I hate the idea of goals.
Jordan:You did mention that. That's totally fair. I think about, you know, since you mentioned that, I think about that a lot because I I think they're both totally great and valid. I just love like the energy of like we're all doing new things, or they don't, I mean, they're not always new, but like we're just all excited for our goals, and I love that feeling. Um, and I've been thinking a lot about how interesting it is that like you feel a lot of pressure from it to the point that you really don't like it, but I just like love the new year energy.
Ember:Well, it's really funny because I'm actually a very goal-oriented person, like my whole life. I mean, I went like every I drove through like high school, undergrad. I finished undergrad in three years, so I can get into vet school early and like graduated as a vet when I was like 24 years old. So I really am, and then went straight into residency from there, finished my residency. So it is and now you're like a director, right? Um no. I'm my title is like assistant director, but that's that's that's a big title. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's more like faculty, you know. I have like a faculty position and we're like faculty and I'm also staff, which is kind of fun. Um, I didn't know you were also staff. Yeah, I'm like an adjunct professor and staff as well because I I have like a double a double.
Jordan:Do you still get all the faculty benefits?
Ember:Yes. In the sense of I'm salaried.
Jordan:I know like where I work, I also work at university. Yeah, I know faculty gets more PTO than staff, like three days more. I think faculty has more flexibility in when they work, staff doesn't.
Ember:I think it's more like I am exempt an exempt employee. That's faculty. So it's it's similar. Um, it's salary, but so is Trevor. So he's faculty and staff. He is staff, but he's a salaried employee.
Jordan:I'm staff, but salaried. Interesting, but non-exempt. This is all stuff that like has nothing to do with astrology. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone not an academia is not gonna know what we're talking about.
Ember:Anyway, so I yeah, so goals, lots of goals my whole life. And I think I get a little bit stressed about thinking about like, okay, what's my goal this year? Because I get I will do it. I think that's the thing, is that I set a goal for myself and I fucking make it happen, no matter what.
Jordan:And so like in a kill yourself kind of way, yeah, a little bit.
Ember:And so I burn out, and I think that is my danger of like, okay, so I like to think of them as more manifesting. I'm gonna manifest this thing, and it and I know that manifesting always involves like doing things in my brain, and it's like less harsh of a word, it's essentially goals. Like, I just hate I'm like triggered by the word goals, I think, because of my history of burnout and just doing the things. That's fair. I hear you.
Jordan:I'll step off my soapbox now. Well, what do you have going on with Ember Faye Magic this year?
Ember:Oh, so I am currently still working on like still putting out my newsletters. I'm really excited that I will be doing some seasonal workshops uh at my local dance studio, which I'm really thrilled about. We had one for the winter solstice and it was incredible. I loved teaching in person, so that's kind of like a newfound interest of mine. Um, I will also be co-facilitating Elise Wells from Siki Numina's Red Thread. So that'll be really cool, I think. That's a course that'll be the first one that I've actually like completed before. So I'm truly there as like somebody who's like completed the course and like can offer like support and mentorship. Um yeah, you can still like find me at my website, sign up for my weekly newsletter, buy weekly newsletter, it is not weekly yet, or just take the free quiz in my bio on Instagram or TikTok. Yeah, I got lots of fun things. What about you, Jordan?
Jordan:Yeah, so I, as of recording this, have not yet found the exact calendar and booking system that I want to work with yet. But I am, I'm hopeful that by the time this episode comes out on January 6th, that I will have something by then. So right now I am selling natal chart readings and solo return readings. I do 30 minutes for$50 and an hour for$100. You can email me at theastudyroom at gmail.com or you can message us on Instagram to book, or hopefully in the description, I will have a link to whatever booking system I chose. That should be your 2026 goal, Jordan. Yeah, to like have some kind of business mindset.
Ember:I am excited to jump into this year with you, Jordan. I'm excited for all the things we have coming up. And as you all know, we love words of affirmation. It's my love language in particular. Jordan, what's your love language? Have we talked about this before? All of them. Okay, all of them. That makes sense.
Jordan:Gift giving is how I show love. That's my showing love language.
Ember:Gift giving. So we love gifts. We have donation tiers. Gift us your money on Patreon. So you can follow us on Patreon as well. Um, you know, it is a way that we share our episodes, our content that we have for you, and we'd love your feedback there on any episodes that we have or on social media. And yes, we do have those donation tiers. So if you feel so called to, we'd be honored to have your support. But obviously, no pressure to donate. Uh, we're just here to encourage you to join us for the free astrology content. And so, with that, as I always like to remind you, Jordan and I are both students ourselves, and we definitely don't know everything, but we'll be totally up front with that. We are learning together in this little astro study room, which is why it's so special to us.
Jordan:So, buckle up star students, class is officially out, and the study room is in session.
Ember:Okay, everyone. So instead of our you know, little astro weather, we are just gonna talk all astro weather for all of Twin. Big Astro Weather. Big Astro Weather with Astro Jordan. So, Jordan, can you before we go into it, tell us a little bit about your process? Like, do you use specific software that our users could also use? And like, how do you sit with these transits? How what is your process?
Jordan:So, I do have a software that I use. It's called Luna Astrology, and I use it for two reasons. One, the big one you'll hear people talk about is SolarFire. And I just don't have that one because it's expensive. That's it. That's why I don't have it yet. But Luna Astrology is a- That's it.
unknown:Yeah.
Ember:And Luna is the one that you've showed us before, right? Yes. Do you have it? Can you pull it up so that you see it? Because it is quite pretty.
Jordan:Yeah, so this is Luna, and I got it because I was at a point where I needed to be able to animate charts, which is when you can move through the time. And you can't do that for free on astro.com. Uh, but solar fire is much more expensive. I think this cost, like Luna Astrology cost me$8 a month. And I also like that it's browser-based, so I can pick this up from anywhere. I can use it on my phone. There is an app, and I recommend it. Sponsor us Luna Astrology.
Ember:So, do you um sit there and just go through the months? Like how, or do you focus on what each of the planets are doing?
Jordan:Like, how do you look at astrology for a year? So we know that there are things that are going to be major. So, like the big ingresses, which is when a planet moves into another sign. And those are really notable for the outer planets. Um, Jupiter onwards, we like to see where they're moving into. And then, and especially the modern planets, because they don't move every, they don't ingress every year. And then we know eclipses are significant. We know to look at retrogrades, and I think that's actually kind of how I've structured this episode a little bit is going over those things, going over the major ingresses and then the eclipses, and then the retrogrades for the year. So that's what I did.
Ember:So, Jordan, do you look at that? Like, are you like, okay, I'm gonna look and see what the modern planets are doing, or I'm gonna see where where the eclipses are, or is it like you'll go and be like, what's happening in January this year?
Jordan:I don't really do what's happening in January this year. I will say also, like, I'm heavily involved as a student, I guess, in the astrology community. So I also just am aware of what people have been talking about. So then I go and look up those things.
Ember:Okay, gotcha. Um, for people that are just interested in knowing like what's going on, would you recommend or could they go month by month?
Jordan:Yeah. Um you totally can. I know like you would look more at the sun and the moon and Mercury and a little bit of Venus, some Mars stuff, because that's that's the stuff that's gonna change more month to month. And then you would look at like the aspects, so how those planets are interacting even with the outer planets that are moving slower.
unknown:Okay.
Jordan:So you could totally, you can go. I mean, some people, you know, go day by day with their astral weather.
Ember:That is, yeah, you know, you're right. That is true. Um, okay. So for this episode, then we're structuring it as we're talking about the biggest transits. We're gonna talk about the eclipses and then some retrogrades. Is that like our is that our I was gonna say itinerary, our outline. That is our outline for today. Yep. That's our outline. We need a little PowerPoint.
Jordan:Let's jump into it. So our biggest transit that everyone is most talking about for 2026 is little drum. Dun dun dun. Yeah. Saturn and Neptune, ingress into Aries, conjunct at zero degrees.
Ember:Dun dun dun! Oh yeah.
Jordan:So uh to break that down, Saturn is our planet of boundaries, limitations, responsibilities, things like that. Neptune is our planet of spirituality, confusion, illusionment, manipulation, escapism, so on and so on. Saturn is in fall in Aries and hates to be in Aries. Neptune, I don't believe, has dignity. So, you know, just vibes or whatever. Neptune is vibing.
Ember:It's because Saturn is grandpa and Aries is grandson. And if you haven't listened to our planetary episodes about Saturn and like talking about Saturn in particular, also I think we brought that up in another episode.
Jordan:We mostly brought that up in Mars. I don't know. That's what I was thinking. We brought that up early on, yeah. Yeah, oh, we brought it up in one of the Astro weathers, so that was early on.
Ember:Oh, okay, yes, you should because Jordan's analogy to like why it's grandpa Saturn and Aries is like the annoying grandson that wants to party, anyways, and not buy toilet paper.
Jordan:You should listen to that episode, yeah. And so they will be conjunct together. Conjunct means that they are together at zero degrees of Aries. Zero degrees in astrology is a critical degree. This is seen as the most potent of a sign. And then I would also say, too, like Aries, zero degrees at Aries is the first degree of the whole zodiac. So it's like the very start. Yeah.
Ember:Is zero degrees the first degree? Yes, that's confusing.
Jordan:So each sign has zero to twenty nine degrees. So the last degree is twenty nine, which is also a critical degree. 29 degrees is considered the most critical.
Ember:But is it technically the 28th degree because it's zero is one?
Jordan:No, because 29 is the 30th degree.
Ember:Oh.
Jordan:Yeah.
Ember:I hate that. Anyway.
Jordan:Anyway, I think with Saturn and Neptune ingressing into Aries, I think in pop astrology is when you're really gonna start to see a lot more fear-mongering about these transits. And it's one of the only things where I feel like it's not completely unwarranted. Like this is a bit unfortunate historically. And the last time Neptune moved into Aries was literally, I think, three or four days before the Civil War officially started in the US. So that was the last time. So that's not looking too hot. To give you some dates, Saturn moves into Aries on February 13th. The exact conjunction between Saturn and Neptune is on February 20th. And this can be seen as like a collapse of old systems, structures, old hierarchies. And like I mentioned, this is the very first degree of the zodiac, so it's kind of like a redoing of all of the old things.
Ember:Would this be like creating boundaries around spirituality and uh sort of that collective dreamy dreamy vibes? Or is it like disillusion around boundaries?
Jordan:I do think it's well, I think it's disillusionment with spirituality. That's kind of my own prediction. I think the thing to think about too, Saturn being in its fall, Saturn has no support here. So I think it can indicate like a like a lot of difficulty, like a lot of challenge with boundaries. And I think the other thing too, when it comes to the modern planets, I like to look at them collectively and generationally more so. Right now I just work with the US's chart, but I would like to hopefully expand to other worldly charts. Um, but I like to look at it with the US's chart and how it will impact the American people. Did you do that for this episode? Some some of it, yeah. Cool. Yeah. We talked about before that I do think I do think Neptune in Ares is gonna be a lot about romanticizing war and the glory of a battle and like the glory of dying for your country. Uh, and I don't know if we've like lost that. Like I feel like it's dramatic to say like we've lost that, but I think my understanding is that we don't glorify that as much as we used to, and maybe that's because we haven't had a big war. I mean, I don't think it is something that should be glorified, but we might see that come back with Neptune in Aries because Neptune is also about like romanticizing things and kind of seeing things with rose-colored glasses, and Aries is a warrior, and so I think it's kind of romanticizing the battlefield kind of thing.
Ember:I wonder if that in our current day and time the battlefield is looks different. Like, is our battlefield like the fight for basic human rights or the fight for women's rights or you know, LBGTQ plus rights?
Jordan:Like there's there is but I wouldn't call that I don't know if it's a romanticizing of that versus the um well, you could, because I I watched this um so I was vegan for eight years, and now I'm vegetarian, but I still follow a bunch of vegan influencers. And there's one person I follow on TikTok, and she set free a bunch of factory chickens, and then she went to prison for it. Um, I think she she just went to prison like a couple months ago. And so I mean you can romanticize like that kind of martyrship.
Ember:Oh, oh, I see. Yeah, I think so. I think there's a lot of ooh, I'm getting like a hit here that there's a lot on social media, these people like romanticizing these values, these um these ethical, ethical considerations, ethical, not ethical, I'm gonna moral, like moral rights that they just talk about and talk about on social media, and they just like become this poster child for it, but like don't actually do anything. Like, you know, but you know what I'm saying? Like it's like it's performative, yeah. Yes, performative and and kind of like romanticizing this idea of that work for like where the people actually doing this groundwork who are actually going to protest, who are actually standing up and speaking out, it's fucking hard. Yeah, and not just going to protest and posting about it, kind of thing, yes, and so like it's like oh I did this thing, so I could see that as like a romanticization, uh romanticization of like a Neptune and Aries, and and that being like the warrior. Because that's I mean, but also there's a lot going on in the world, so yeah.
Jordan:I got this quote from Celeste Brooks, and I wasn't able to track back exactly why she said this, but I wanted to put it out there that she predicts that with this transit, militaries might refuse to fight, or there might be some kind of coup. Again, I couldn't really find how that related, and that was looking. At um Neptune and Saturn with the US's chart. And then she also quoted, I don't know how to pronounce this name. I think it's Stefan's Wig. And the vibe of this transit that she saw was every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. Another thing people are saying Neptune moving into Aries is the Red Sea, or the Red Ocean, even, so it doesn't have to be like the Red Sea. But just like this dark red, fiery ocean. And interesting. Why fiery? Because Aries.
Ember:Yeah, that's ice. I was about to ask, and then I was like, okay, fiery ocean, like Neptune and Aries.
Jordan:Um yeah, I know some people have said, like, you know, the ocean on fire, too. That's another one I've heard. So I hope our oceans don't literally go on fire. Can that happen? Yeah, oil spills, baby. Oh, you're right. Yeah. You're not gonna notice any like immediate impacts. I don't even know if I would say like in 2026 you will notice it. But Neptune is in a sign for 14 years. So that's a long transit. Saturn will only be there for two and a half years, but still a fairly long transit. So you're not gonna, I wouldn't say you're gonna notice anything February of 2026.
Ember:So with the collapse, so with Saturn being in fallen Aries, it weakens it, right? Right. And it's in conjunction. I'm just like sitting here trying to like process and think about this. So weakening the Neptune around, illusion and spirituality. Yeah, it's really interesting. I could see where you would get like the disillusionment with spirituality from that.
Jordan:Yeah.
Ember:Um, so I guess for our listeners, a really good journal prompt that you could work with with this transit is just really focusing in on what are your beliefs, what do you believe in, and track how that moves over this transit. Like maybe start in January, you know, February, reflecting on these values that you might have around your spirituality, if you have spirituality, you know, like I I think I hope that everyone has some sort of spirituality, even if it's like just for I I always think mind, body, spirit, right, is just so essential to our mental health, to our to our body, our being. And so even if the spirituality is like you believe in like connection with the earth, or you find connection with others and community, whatever that is, try to like pinpoint what that is and see how that starts to feel over the next couple months.
Jordan:You know what just came to me too is like this could be a lot about disentangling from oppressive religions. Because I was thinking, like, you know, you and I are thinking in the context of earth-based spirituality, but there are people who are in oppressive religions, and that's what they've always known. And it is it is scary to disentangle from that, from like the one thing that you've known, and then being told, like, this is how you reach salvation kind of thing. And if you don't do this, you're damned to hell. So it's scary to walk away from that and and wonder if you're gonna face hell for this decision. So I think that could be Saturn conjunct Neptune and Aries as well. And then I think also that this, even if it is scary, no matter what your religion or spirituality is, that it could be a good opportunity to explore something else and like step a little bit out of your comfort zone. And you can take that as close or as far as you want. But I know that's something that I'm kind of playing around with is dipping my toes into other things too.
Ember:Yeah, I love that. And I think this this you know, weakening of boundaries could be really important for something like that, right? Like those boundaries that hold you in a space, like those are going to be weakened with Saturn moving into its fall. So around this like idea of spirituality with Neptune. So that could be a really good time to look at what is like holding you in spiritually or mostly spiritually, I guess.
Jordan:Yeah. So for the eclipses, we always have like what, four eclipses every year. Uh, there's two eclipse seasons that we see each year. And the first eclipse we're going to have is on February 17th at 7 a.m. in Aquarius at 28 degrees. This will be a solar eclipse. And this is the first eclipse in the Aquarius Leo chain of eclipses. We're still gonna see another one in Pisces and Virgo, but this is kind of like the first taste. Oh, because it like retrogrades? The nodes actually move in retrograde. Um, but they're also they're not literal bodies, they're just points. But it has to do with uh the sun will be an Aquarius, and so that is what makes it like the eclipse has to do with the sun, the solar eclipse has to do with the sun, while the node just moves into or is almost moved into Aquarius. Does that make sense? So on if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see the eclipse chart on your screen. So the nodes are all wrapped up in like the collective work that we are all doing and the things that we are faced with. The north node down here will move into will move from Pisces into Aquarius on July 26th. So we've got some time before then. And Pisces is all about the uncertainty and the overwhelm, and Aquarius is about stability, looking towards the future and belonging and things like that. And so this solar eclipse will be the first one, like I said, in Aquarius. And here, Saturn is conjunct Neptune. It's applying to the conjunction. So this is like just a couple days before that exact conjunction that we just talked about. And I can see that this might have to do with AI taking over jobs or fear of that happening, even if that doesn't actually happen. And that's because Saturn is work and fear and death, and Aries is new, and Neptune is deception, and Aquarius is often tied to AI. I think during this eclipse, another big thing is we need to focus, so no multitasking, and that's because Saturn and Aquarius and a new moon are about focus, and Neptune and Aries can make things impulsive and distracting. We can also see Uranus is squaring the eclipse, and I think this would just mean like difficulties changing, just some like friction there. So when is the new the new moon is when? February 17th.
Ember:Okay, so it's the new moon and it's the eclipse, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then the conjunction actually happens on the exact conjunction is February 20th.
Jordan:Like that's when they are at the most exact, but they're conjunct at this point too. Yeah, okay. Like they're both at that zero degree mark now. Yeah, so how does this impact like the US? So again, imagine that the sun and the moon are over here. They're not actually in this house. This is right on the US's natal moon. So here is the US's natal moon, and it's at 27 degrees of Aquarius, and the eclipse is at 28 degrees of Aquarius. The moon in mundane astrology rules the public or the people. So like we are ruled by the moon as the American public. Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah. Why? My only guess, I'm sure there is a much better answer for this. My only guess is that the moon rules the body, the physical body, and we are bodies.
Ember:Hmm.
Jordan:Yeah, I don't know.
Ember:Okay, it makes it would make sense because we are, right? The people are what make up the emotional like capacity of a country. We're also like what the the inner like needs, like we are literally like we connect with the needs of the country, right? Like we are we're the ones with needs, the subconscious, yeah. Like that is us. Okay, so security and all that stuff. We're the ones with like need security. Okay.
Jordan:Yeah, that makes sense. So, so yes, the moon rules over the public or the people, and I think with it being in third house, I mean, this could have to do with like a karmic cycle in regards to something like transportation or technology. So, again, this could be another one of those like AI indicators. We can see here the north node is conjunct Venus exactly. I think that this could have to do with drug overdoses. Again, I feel like it's I I feel like it's a lot of negative things. Yeah, I feel bad about it.
Ember:How come wait? So, like Venus and Pisces um can have a lot. Let me just like think about this, can have a lot to do with like if we're talking Pisces, so Venus is love and like self-love, and what are like the positives of Pisces?
Jordan:Like emotionally in tune. They're charitable, they're compassionate, very kind.
Ember:Yeah, so like we're amplifying that by putting Venus there, no?
Jordan:But you could also amplify the the bad things. I will say here, Venus is exalted here, so that's a good thing, but it is one of those things that can be like, well, I guess drugs aren't a good thing, but it could it's one of those things that could be like too much of a good thing. We know Pisces loves escapism, and Venus might support that here. But why are we saying it's bad? Drugs.
Ember:No. No. Like, why are we saying like with the North Node in conjunction with Venus and Pisces? Like, why is that bad?
Jordan:I don't think that's all bad. It could be. I did actually write down here too, we could see like celebrities donating money, and that has to do with Oh, that has to do with because the ruler of the 10th house is Mercury here with it, which makes and the 10th house will rule public figures like government leaders and celebrities, which does make me think that this could also indicate celebrities donating money.
Ember:Like extra compassion and yeah, okay, and resources. And this is specifically the US chart, right? We're talking okay.
Jordan:Yeah, so if you don't live in the US, it might look different. And then again, too, I also we always say this at the beginning too, but like we're both students, so this is kind of something that I'm learning alongside all of you too. This is just kind of what I have found. And I'm not love this episode. Yeah, I'm not going so hard into saying like I am predicting drug overdoses. I definitely don't want to do that. But so take everything was a super big grain assault. But yeah, so extra love. Or extra love. Oh, also, fourth house rules your retirement years, which also makes me think if we're gonna see some government people retiring. Hmm. So that is the first solar eclipse. Any other things? Why would they be retiring? Just because there's activity happening in the fourth house right at this node, and tenth house rules government eliters. And for the US, that is Virgo, which makes the ruler Mercury, and Mercury is conjunct the north node in the house of retirement.
Ember:Okay. So the next one we have in March, right? Yes. Okay. So this is like our are still the same season. So this is our lunar eclipse on March 3rd at 7:37 a.m. in Virgo at 13 degrees.
Jordan:Yes. So this is something that I saw online from someone that I've somewhat trust. I haven't followed them for very long, but I don't know if I would call them fear-mongering. But someone mentioned that this lunar eclipse might indicate major layoffs in the US, and I don't know why. I feel like from what I can see, there it could go either way with like big layoffs or even big increases in jobs. So we're looking at the moon here in the 10th house, because this is a full moon, and I'm not really sure where they're getting layoffs from, unless we're just talking about Saturn being in Aries and that sucking. But I I couldn't really find any reason. Because again, Venus is exalted here, Venus is happy here. Things look fine from what I can tell. So I'm not really sure where that was from, but I wanted to point it out there because she's a much more established astrologer than I am. Um, I don't want to name drop her in case I don't know, I just don't want to be like, I disagree with her.
Ember:What house is Saturn in Aries in for the US? Fifth house. Fifth house down here.
Jordan:In the US's chart, Saturn is exalted in Libra. Which is kind of an interesting point, too, that like the US is experiencing it. I mean, it's experienced it many times, but experiencing it in fall, which is the opposite of where it has natal Saturn. So we'll have an opposition to our Natal Saturn. This eclipse will also be squaring the US's rising. So at 13 degrees, and the rising is Sagittarius 12 degrees. Celeste Brooks said that this could mean shocking events. Again, I kind of don't know why that would mean shocking events, but I wanted to point it out there in case that comes up. Another thing I guess I want to mention is that we're gonna go over these in our astro weather segments throughout the year, and that's gonna come across much more individual for you all rather than right now where I'm mostly talking about really big themes for the US that might not resonate on individual levels. We will talk about this later, and Ember will talk about it in her beautiful language that is probably a lot more understandable than what I'm talking about.
Ember:No, I think this is so good, Jordan, because this is kind of like I really feel like we're in some new experience uh in our study room, trying to like muck through this stuff together.
Jordan:That's so true. You're so right about that, because we are we are mucking through it together right now. So, what is our next eclipse here? Our next eclipse is a solar eclipse on August 12th at 1:36 p.m. in Leo at 20 degrees. So we are looking up here. For anyone watching on the screen, the outer ring is the current transits or the transits that we're talking about. The inner ring is the US's chart. With this solar eclipse, we see that Mars is at zero degrees, again, a critical degree, in fall in Cancer. And at this time, Neptune is in Aries, like we've talked about. I've heard this described as a holy war, but also the most positive looking eclipse of the year. What? And I think it's positive because one Jupiter is here, the dispositor of this eclipse is the sun, and the sun's doing fine. Sun's happy in domicile, and Venus is also in domicile in Libra. So there are some fairly comfortable planets along with two fairly uncomfortable planets. I think this is gonna be one of those ones where you can kind of you manifest what you want this eclipse to do with you. So it could be like breaking free from something, like it doesn't have to be like holy. Um, I guess the other thing too, because this is in the ninth house of the US's chart, so that brings in a churchy spiritual element, which brings in that holiness. But individually, I think you can kind of choose what you know what you're breaking free from. This can also be big, exciting, flashy events or parties because the sun is conjunct to the midheaven and Leo is flashy. Celeste Brooks has said that there will be great works of art created. Sounds cool. Yeah, does anything about this strike you?
Ember:I think one thing I keep coming back to is that like this is like the Aquarius Leo access, right? Axe Axis. So it's like kind of that balance between like the individual versus community kind of in a way. So if we're here in Leo now, this makes sense that it's more about like community. The Holy War, I don't is that because of Neptune being there?
Jordan:I think it's Neptune and then Mars is unhappy in Cancer, and then it's in the ninth house for the US chart.
Ember:Okay. I wonder what that looks like. Is it like, you know, we talked a little bit about that earlier, the disillusionment or the disconnection from the structures of oppressive religion. I wonder this is like a culmination of that. That's interesting.
Jordan:I think so. I think it could be.
Ember:Yeah. And then our next eclipse. I'll make sure I have a party. I'll put on August 12th. I'll schedule it now. Ugh, it's a Wednesday.
Jordan:The next eclipse is a lunar eclipse on August 28th at 12 18 a.m. This is all in Eastern Standard Time, by the way. In Pisces at four degrees.
Ember:So that's down here. It's where we see the moon. So we like you said, we still kind of have a little bit of that Virgo Pisces.
Jordan:Yep, and this is usually how it goes as we transition into another eclipse axis.
Ember:And 2027 will be fully I believe so. Aquarius Leo.
Jordan:Okay. For this lunar eclipse, Mercurius Mercurious, Mercury is exalted in Virgo, squaring Uranus in Gemini. And this makes me think that there will be great ideas inspired during this eclipse, but they might not be realized until later or sometime after the eclipse. But the seeds of that event or idea or whatever are being planted now. And I say that because it's a square and that indicates some kind of friction, which makes me think like people might have ideas for things and then feel frustrated about like not knowing what to do with that idea or not have not knowing how to bring it to fruition kind of thing. So I think that this will be a time where something is being planted, but you might not know what to do with that yet. During this eclipse, too, we also have Mars and Saturn squaring each other, both in fall, which is really unfortunate to be honest. And I think that I would see this as a fight between leaders and the soldiers without any kind of clear winner. And when I say soldiers, because I thought about this a while too, like, are we the soldiers? Are we literally talking about the military? Who are the leaders? Is it government leaders? Is it like some other kind of world power? I'm not really sure. But that is unfortunate. Like the government and the collective in general. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. And then going back to the the Mercury squaring Uranus thing, Celeste Brooks said that she could see this being people publicly tearing up documents or legal things, and maybe information gets publicized that absolutely was not supposed to be public. And this comes from Mercury being in 10th house and the sun also being in 10th house, which is the house of things that are public. And then the seventh house, which is where Uranus is in US in the US's chart, is the house of legal documents. And I guess the square would be the tearing up part. Interesting.
Ember:The Epstein files and then Yeah.
Jordan:We just like Have you heard of the Gypstein Files? No. I don't know if we want to talk about those, but this is uh, you know, you know the whole stuff with uh Gypsy Blanchard? No? Okay. Well, never mind. But people who are watching this, you all heard of the Gypstein files? Okay, so next we're gonna talk about the retrogrades. This will be a bit faster. Okay, we're gonna talk about the retrogrades. So Mercury will be retrograding in all water signs this year. That's kind of interesting. Every year there is like a dominant sign that Mercury is retrograding in. It's not always all one sign, but this year it is all water signs.
Ember:That sounds emotional. It sure does.
Jordan:I'm not ready. So I'll throw out some dates. You do not need to remember these dates. We will we will talk about them as they get closer. On February 26th until March 20th, Mercury will be retrograde in Pisces. June 29th to July 23rd, Mercury will be retrograde in Cancer. And October 24th to November 13th, Mercury will be retrograde in Scorpio. So we know that water is a feminine sign that pulls us inward. I think, you know, intuition heightens creativity. And I think, given, you know, this is honestly me practicing natural houses a little bit, but this makes me think about like setting alone time, setting aside alone time during these retrogrades and having some kind of Solitude during these retrogrades. What do you think?
Ember:I think that makes sense, right? We talk about retrogrades all the time. It's just like reprocessing. And I think being able to do that in a water sign is really important, like reconnecting with our intuition as well and going inward. So yeah, the vibes.
Jordan:Yeah. We'll definitely talk more about these as they come closer. Another big one for the year is Venus retrograde. So Venus will be retrograde October 3rd to November 14th, and it's going from Scorpio to Libra. So the interesting thing here is that Venus will be retrograding from detriment into domicile and then back again. Celeste Brooks said that this could be like trad wives exposed. I don't know why, but I wanted to share that. What does that mean? Like trad wives?
Ember:No, no, the well, you could tell our listeners that, but like more the exposed part.
Jordan:I don't know. Because I thought that, like, I feel like they are exposed. Maybe I only think they're exposed because I I don't know, watch hate videos about it. It's a trad wife, Jordan. No, is a traditional wife. It tends to refer to like a woman who follows traditional, often Christian values and wants to stay at home, wants to not make money, wants to serve their husband. I would say it's a big one. It's like it's a it's very service-minded. And none of that is like on its own bad. But it's just the part about going back into religion. It's religion indoctrinizing people from birth that makes it dangerous, I guess. And then like in general, it's hard because I do support women's desires to and men as well, but right now talking about women, women's desires to stay at home and to not work. I totally support that. However, it's also just not cool, and it's not totally safe for a woman to never make money. So that's a good one to balance.
Ember:I think of it a lot as like they are in service, like they do not make any decisions, they are in service to their master husband.
Jordan:Yeah. So maybe more exposure there. It is training the US's natal Venus and Jupiter in cancer. And this makes me think of something positive with loans and debts because of uh eighth house connections, but it also doesn't look like something the public would really know much about because eighth house is a hidden house. Ember, as a Venus ruled person, what are your initial reactions to this retrograde? It's gonna be going from your second house to your first house. It's not getting to your ascendant, but it'll still be second to first house. So it'll be going from house of like money.
Ember:Yeah, your house to detriment with like money. I'm a little bit worried about it's not always just money, you know.
Jordan:Like obviously that's kind of our biggest thing, but I mean it goes it's in detriment every year in your house of resources, and yeah, you do all right. Yeah. But then in domicile in your house of self and body. Wait, you said it goes retrograde in my second house every year? Not retrograde, but it it goes it's in your second house every year.
Ember:Yes, yes.
Jordan:Yes, yes, yes.
Ember:Well, that's why I'm a little bit worried about it going retrograde. It could be like revisiting problems you've done with money. Like, like, yeah, or like loans. Honestly, so it's it's making you worried about student loans. That would be.
Jordan:Do you have any eighth house placements? That would be uh in Taurus. Do you have any Taurus placements? I don't think you do. So it's not it's not opposing anything in your house of loans, which is good. I mean, it is opposing the house of loans, and then that's oh well Venus, okay, never mind. Venus rules your house of loans. So there is that. It could be loans. I think it could also be like maybe you feel like the things you spent your money on, you don't like you want to rework that, you don't like what you've been doing. It could be maybe you want to donate more money or something like that. And then I think the whole thing with the retrograde that's going from one house to another is how do those two things connect? So, how do how do your resources impact you and your body and yourself? Yeah, that makes sense. And then in Mars, we have no retrogrades, so hallelujah to my fellow Aries and Scorpio risings. There is, we will see the shadow period of a Mars retrograde towards the end of the year, and that will be tougher for my fellow day chart people, but we'll worry about that in 2027. Jupiter will be retrograde December 12th of 2026 until April 12th of 2027, so that's later later in the year, and that will be in Leo. But right now, as we're starting the year, Jupiter is retrograde in Cancer until March 11th, and then Saturn is retrograde July 26th to December 10th. So Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, we know spend a lot of the year, usually I think five months of the year in retrograde. So that's pretty round-of-the-mill average stuff. Um, another thing I want to talk about is Jupiter ingressing into Leo. So we have just had a lovely year of Jupiter exalted in Cancer. Or well, we're still having that year. We have six months left. On June 30th, Jupiter will ingress into Leo and we will have one year of that. Jupiter does not have dignity in Leo, which is it basically just means it's neutral. So I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Oh, another thing that someone pointed out to me that I I guess I thought would be interesting, Uranus will be retrograde in Gemini. And again, I don't really look at retrogrades for the outer planets or the modern planets too much, but your Uranus will be retrograde in Gemini from September 10th of 2026 until February 8th of 2027. And someone pointed out on Instagram, I don't remember who, that Charlie Kirk was assassinated a few days after Uranus went retrograde into Gemini of 2025. So look out for assassinations, maybe. We shall see. And then in Chinese astrology, it is a it will be a fire horse year. This starts on February 17th, during the solar eclipse in Aquarius. And I think that that is my messy scrap of notes. So what are our overall reactions for the year? I'm trying to make it positive. We know at some point Venus will be conjunct, Jupiter, and that's always great. Again, I kind of feel the same. Like this is a hard one to make positive because we've got some difficult planet. I think another thing too, I think what makes this year so uncomfortable is that it's a lot of like change and like long-term change too. Like it's a lot of like change now and not seeing results for a while. So the positive spin of that is like, you know, we're always moving forward, kind of thing. Like something hopefully good will come from this. We just might not see it this year. And then also, too, that's like collectively. Like everything we're talking about, it might look better in your own chart. So take that information too.
Ember:No, I like that. And I think, you know, I this is like the first time I've actually like looked ahead at astrology like this.
Jordan:I think it's gonna be really interesting to reflect on this at the end of 2026 because this I did look ahead in 2025, but not this in depth. I kind of looked ahead like three months at a time. This is the first time I've gone a year ahead and tried to do it all. So I feel a little brain fried too, but I'm very curious how I will feel at the end of 2026 now that I've reflected on it a year ahead of time.
Ember:And I think it'd be interesting as the year goes on. Maybe we could do little like other so check-ins with this after like the transit hits, or maybe you know, some of these big ones, like February tends to be like looks like it's a pretty big month. So maybe like sometime in like the end of March or something, checking in. And I don't know. I think I have to sit with a lot of this, and I'm sure our listeners do too, and and can reflect back on this episode in the future, and we'll be great with our astrology weather that we do with the episodes too to kind of reflect back. I think hearing it once is really helpful so that way when we talk about it again when it's actually happening, it'll there'll be like a memory trigger because we study.
Jordan:Yeah. So we're curious what you all think on this too. Feel free to message us on Instagram or comment or join us on Patreon. Let us know how you all feel about the year ahead. Okay, so for this or that, I actually did only three this or that questions, and then I asked you, I'm gonna ask you three off the cuff questions. Oh gosh, okay. Are you ready? That's new and scary. Is that new for 2026? Yeah, I think I do actually kind of want to do this a little bit more. Neptune in Aries or Saturn in Aries. Neptune in Aries. Me too. Mercury retrograde or Venus retrograde.
Ember:Mercury retrograde.
Jordan:I think I'd say Venus.
Ember:I'm um I was born in Mercury retrograde, so I don't think it like impacts me as much.
Jordan:I'm chill.
Ember:So I'm I'm cool with it.
Jordan:Pisces Virgo Axis or Aquarius Leo Axis.
Ember:I don't know. I'm curious about the Aquarius Leo Axis because we haven't had it yet.
Jordan:Yeah, I guess we'll learn more about it. I think um I mean what sticks out to me is it's the feminine versus a masculine. So it's really hard to pick. I think I would say, I really like Aquarius, so I think I would say Aquarius Leo. But I like Virgo and Pisces more than I like Leo. So that's hard. Okay, you ready for the three off the cuff questions? Sure. Okay, the first one's the hardest one. Take your time. Oh gosh. What placement of your chart would you switch out if you could?
Ember:I kind of love all my placements.
Jordan:Do you? Not a single one you would switch out.
Ember:Let me stare at my chart for a second. Oh, maybe my Mars in 12th house.
Jordan:Ooh, that is a good one.
Ember:Yeah, I think my Mars in the 12th house has always been something really difficult for me to like understand. I think it also contributes to a little bit of like why like my going really hard and then getting burned out and not really having a good balance or understanding of like how to do the things without feeling with that like disillusionment or like hidden abilities to understand, like, okay, what is this balance of like because like it's also in Virgo, right?
Jordan:So yeah, like I would change so many of my placements if I could. It's okay. My next lifetime, I'll I'll get a better chart.
Ember:But we've been told that we choose our chart in this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jordan:What is the most misunderstood sign?
Ember:Maybe Aquarius.
Jordan:Yes, Aquarius is my answer. Yeah. Stay tuned to hear why in our January 2027 deep dive. What is the most overrated sign? Leo. Leo. What do I think the most?
Ember:I think what does that mean, overrated sign?
Jordan:I was thinking about that too, because my answer that I came to mind for, you're gonna hate this, was cancer. And I think I see, I feel like cancer, it's not that it's overrated. I guess it goes back into being misunderstood, actually. Yeah, let's go back.
Ember:I don't like the word overrated. Yeah.
Jordan:I think like I love it. What signs do people love? Well, some people hate signs, but I'm like, people love Libras. That's an I guess that would be a highly rated one. I think people like cancers. I think people like use cancer a lot as like I cry a lot because I have a cancer placement kind of thing. But it's true, but it's not just that. It's true. Um, no, I also people really love Sages. Oh yeah, I do love Sagittarius.
Ember:Yeah, I love Sagittarius. I don't know. I struggle with Aries. Yeah.
Jordan:Aries is rough, and I feel bad because there, you know, Aries isn't bad, but it just feels bad. Same with Capricorn. That's the thing. I feel like a lot of people don't always like understand, that's a wrong way of saying it, but don't connect with the fact that Capricorn is a feminine earth sign, and yet we hate on it so much. Same with Scorpio. It's a feminine water sign that we hate on. We also hate on Geminis. That is a masculine.
Ember:I love Gemini.
Jordan:Oh my god, P2!
Ember:Thank you so much for being here in the study room with us. I'm so excited. We got to say bye-bye to 2025 together. And, you know, we're gonna stay hopeful about 2026. And we're gonna thank you for like sticking with us as we kind of jumbled through this, jumbled through it together in our little Astro study room. And don't forget to follow us on all of our socials at the Astro Study Room, on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. And we hope you join us this year to watch the magic grow with our podcast.
Jordan:If you'd like to go a little bit deeper into the studies with us, don't forget to sign up for our free Patreon. And you can even hang with us on our YouTube videos. And all of this will be linked in the show notes.
Ember:Stay tuned for our next episode, which is so awesome. We're gonna be interviewing Elise Wells from Seeking Numina. She is incredible, our mentor, our high priestess, and she we're gonna get into some really good conversations. So definitely listen in two weeks.
Jordan:Yeah, and then we've talked about before in 2026. Starting in March, we're gonna start our deep dive into the zodiacs. We're gonna do one a month, starting with Aries, like I said, in March. And then once a month, we will also have one of our fun other sods where we talk about hot topics in astrology, some kind of deep dive into history, or just some really interesting topics. As always, thank you all for listening to our show. And this podcast is my practice of asking big questions, uncovering the hidden truths, and creating an accessible space for others to do the same.
Ember:And I'm so grateful to be learning alongside Jordan and all of you, sharing our resources and diving into what it means to connect with the cosmos. Thank you so much for being part of this, and we'll see you back in the study room every other Tuesday.