2026 Business Horoscopes

ARIES
As is usually the case, it is the early and latter weeks of each year that are going to be the most active on the career front and it is the second half of the year when the planets will return to your work sector each year. While this year is no exception with Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos visiting both this year, then with a lot more energy. Mars will begin the year in your career sector and while he will leave on 23rd January, not before spending six weeks firing up your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit. With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of January in your career sector, for most of that time while the solar spotlight is on your career and professional situation, matters and options.

You also begin the year with Venus and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your career sector. Until leaving on 18th January, Venus will be working to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction, while Juno is playing a longer game. Like Venus, Mercury who will return from 2nd January to 21st January, is not hanging around and instead will give you just enough time to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open. When Mars leaves on 23rd January, this should end all planetary activity on the career front until the Sun and Mercury return in December but instead, Juno is here until 29th March and even then, will retrograde back in again from 12th August to 24th October.

As the queen of commitment, Juno is able to help set your professional resolutions in the early weeks of the year, help you stick to them and return just as the most active months of the year on the job front will be kicking off. This will start with Venus’ return to your work sector from 10th July to 7th August, with a short gap until the Sun returns from 23rd August to 23rd September. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your work and job situation, matters and options, with Mercury moving through from 25th August to 11th September, with a chance to work smarter, with your head in the game and your feet on the ground. This will end all planetary activity on the job front but not for the year, with Mars returning on 26th November for a standalone visit from 26th November 2026 to 22nd February 2027, powering things up on the job front for months.

TAURUS
The stars are dialling up what will ultimately be a good year across the income, work and career fronts, though it won’t all come together at once and to start with, it is going to look like business as usual. Business as usual means Pluto, the planet of change and transformation on his own in your career sector, as he has been since January 2025, no planets in your work sector since Venus ended last year’s planetary activity on the job front in early November and Uranus ended all activity in your income sector a day later. However, things will start to change, first on the career front and by April on the income front, with work and job matters coming online in the second half of the year. Pluto’s days on his own will end when Venus returns to your career sector on 18th January, something that until she leaves on 10th February will see her working to fuel your professional confidence, attract opportunities and steer things in a lucrative direction.

It is two days later that the Sun will return, with his transit through your career sector from 20th January to 19th February the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your career and professional situation, matters and options. They will be joined by Mercury, who from 21st January to 7th February will make it easier to keep your head in the game, but it is Mars’ return from 23rd January to 3rd March that will really fire things up and get things moving. While this should leave Pluto on his own, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will return from 29th March to 12th August, before retrograding back out and then returning again from 24th October to 15th January 2027.

By the time Juno returns the second time, the most active months of the year on the job front will be underway and Uranus will have returned to your income sector on 26th April to spend the next six years here. By the time Venus returns to kick off the first planetary activity on the job front for the year on 7th August, Pluto and Uranus will have already connected and Venus will move into a friendly aspect to both, as will every other planet returning this year. This is the point when things will lock into place across the income, work and career fronts and while Venus will leave on 10th September, Mercury’s return from 11th September to 1st October to 23rd October will keep the wheels turning and her seat warm. For on 25th October, Venus will return for a do over and until leaving again on 4th December, will bring home what she began four months earlier.

GEMINI
2026 has the potential to be a good year across the income, work and career fronts and while it won’t come together all at once, there is a pattern to the year. That pattern is a lot of support going into the first three and a half months of the year to get things up to speed on the career front, during which time having Jupiter in your income sector comes with the potential for a lucrative start to the year, before the professional gods shift their focus onto work and job matters in the second half of the year. While Jupiter will leave your income sector on 30th June, ending your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade, by then the faster planets will have returned, with Mars keeping the momentum going right through to when he leaves on 28th September.

By then things will be moving on the job front and while it will have been five months since the last planet left your career sector, they will get the ball rolling. It starts with Neptune and Saturn, who will both begin the year in your career sector, but are getting ready to leave, starting with Neptune on 27th January. This ends a journey that began with the planet of hopes and dreams’ return in 2012 and on 14th February Saturn, who since March 2023 has been giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn those dreams into reality, leaves as well. It will be 150 years until Neptune returns and another three decades before Saturn returns, but their legacy will live on.

Helping to exploit that legacy will be Venus’ return on 10th February, kicking off a period where from her return to Mars’ departure on 10th April they, the Sun and Mercury will work as a tag team to help with the launch of an already solid start to the year. As each planet moves through, they will all form a friendly aspect to Jupiter in your income sector, getting both this financial and professional year off to a positive start. While Jupiter will be gone by the time Venus returns on 10th September to begin the most active months of the year on the job front Mars, the last planet to move through your income sector this year and moving through from 11th August to 28th September, will still be there.  Venus will leave on 25th October but will retrograde back for a second time from 4th December to 7th January 2027, with the Sun and Mercury keeping her seat warm while she’s gone.

CANCER
While you will start the year with Mercury in your work sector, he will leave on 2nd January, not to return with the Sun until December. With neither Venus and Mars visiting your work sector this year and the Sun not returning to put the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options from 22nd November to 22nd December each year and Mercury not returning until 6th December, this is not an active year on the job front. Instead, this is going to be a big year on the career front, where the focus is on your wider professional game. At the same time, while Mercury will leave on 2nd January, this is not only a chance to start the year with your head in the game, but Venus only left on Christmas Day, the Sun three days and Mars a week earlier.

In other words, you don’t need the professional gods’ help on the job front, with more than enough momentum and resources to take it from here on your own. After a busy end to 2025, there is even a chance to take your foot off your gas as you wait for the pace to pick up on the career front. Because you have had the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your career sector for over three decades and she isn’t leaving until 2044, on the career front things never really go off the boil. However, the year not only begins with Eris in retrograde motion, but at a standstill ahead of a direct turn on 12th January, there is an opportunity to pause, with big changes just around the corner. Those changes begin when on 27th January Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returns to spend the next 13 years in your career sector.

This will be followed a few weeks later by Saturn’s return on 14th February, where until leaving in April 2028, he will give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes as he works with Neptune to turn professional dreams into reality. While Saturn and Neptune are here for the long haul, when Venus returns on 6th March, she will be working to exploit things now. This begins some of the most active months of the year on the career front, which will run through to when Mars leaves on 19th May. This is just over a month before Jupiter will return to your income sector on 30th June to kick off your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. By then, Neptune and Saturn will be settled into your career sector, with Jupiter linking up with them and enjoying their support for the next 13 months.

LEO
It is less that after an initial push things are going to go flat and more that on both the job and career fronts, the real push is going to happen in the first half of the year, but in a way that instead of departure from the norm, is a return to the norm. Until Uranus returned to your career sector in 2019 there had been continuous planetary activity on the career front for six years and in that time even Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion even moved through. Uranus left in July 2025 but four months later he retrograded back to tie up loose ends and as you move into the New Year he is still here and will be until he leaves on 26th April, this time not returning again for another eight decades. This comes just as the most active and busiest months of the year on the career front will be kicking off, starting with Venus’ return on 31st April. 

While Venus will leave on 24th April, two days before Uranus, with the Sun here from 20th April to 21st April, Mercury from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars not returning for his first visit in two years until 19th May, this will keep the momentum going. So much so that until he leaves on 29th June, Mars will be making these some of the busiest six weeks of the year on the career front. However, when Mars leaves this will be the end of the years where there has been near continuous planetary activity in your career sector, with the pattern shifting back to what it was before Uranus returned in 2019, but with all the experience, resources and momentum since then banked.

Meanwhile, it is while you are waiting for Uranus to turn direct on 5th February and for Venus to return to your career sector on 31st March to kick off the most active months of the year on the career front, the year begins with things already at that point on the job front. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of January in your work sector, the year always begins with the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options. This time, the year also begins with Venus, Mars and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment here, with Mercury returning with a chance to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open from 2nd January to 21st January. Over the course of the month, all but one will leave, Venus on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January and Mars on 23rd January. Staying on Juno, the queen of commitment, who will leave on 29th March but will retrograde back in again from 12th August to 24th October, helping you set and stick to your resolutions.

VIRGO
This is one year that will start out slow or at least with business as usual for a few weeks in order to get your bearings before things start to become a lot busier on the job front, before moving up a notch in April when things start to move on the career front. This isn’t a case of each taking turns, for while on the career front you will have a chance to build on from the action on the job front in the early part of the year, things there will only dial back and not go off the boil. With Pluto, the planet of change and transformation in just the second full year of a 20 year transit through your work sector, that is not going to happen. However, what will get the year off to a busy start on the job front is the return of the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars to your work sector, all within the space of five days.

It begins with Venus’ return on 18th January, something that will bring the laws of attraction into effect, followed by the Sun’s return on 20th January, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your work situation, job matters and options. It is a day later that Mercury will return on 21st January with a chance to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open. However, it will be Mars’ return on 23rd January that will be the game changer. Until leaving on 3rd March, Mars’ first visit in two years will be a chance to fire up your work passions, fighting and competitive spirit, while kicking off what can be the busiest months of any year.

While Pluto will stay on, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment’s return from 29th March to 12th August and again from 24th October to 15th January 2027, will help you set and stick to your resolutions. Meanwhile, having spent seven months in your career sector last year laying down foundations, Uranus will not only return on 26th April to spend the next six years here, but for the rest of this year and the early part of next year will be closely aligned with Pluto in your work sector. Uranus’ return comes two days after Venus returns to your career sector on 24th April, kicking off the most active months of the year on the career front, where it will once again be Mars, who when he leaves on 11th August will bring this chapter home before handing the keys to Uranus, who will take it from here.

LIBRA
While the year begins with some of the most powerful planets in the solar system positioned in your two professional houses, there is also a passing of the torch with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion not leaving your career sector until 30th June, but Neptune gone from your work sector by the end of January and Saturn just a few weeks later. This is the end of an era, for while he retrograded back in for seven months last year, when Neptune leaves your work sector on 27th January, it will be another 150 years before he returns, so not again in our lifetime. It is just a few weeks later that on 14th February Saturn, who since returning in March 2023 has played bad cop to Neptune’s good cop will leave as well, not to return for another three decades.

However, their legacy will live on, leaving you with the resolve to keep doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn dreams into reality. However, don’t expect the pace to drop back for on 7th February, a week before Saturn leaves Mercury will return, followed by Venus on 10th February. Venus will return to begin what will be the most active months of the year on the job front. While Venus will leave on 6th March, with the Sun here from 19th February to 21st March and Mars from 3rd March to 10th April, things won’t be dialling back anytime soon. Instead, the six and a half weeks that Mars is here could be the busiest of the year. Helping to keep your head in the game and your feet on the ground will be Mercury, who instead of racing through in 14 to 15 days, a retrograde phase will keep him here until 10th April.

This is when for the first time in 16 years, this will not only leave your work sector empty but it will stay that way for the rest of the year and the timing couldn’t be better. While all this is happening on the job front, Jupiter is in retrograde motion in your career sector and while he will turn direct on 11th March, he has until Venus returns on 19th May before it is time to bring things home. Once again, Mars will be the last planet to leave but this time, he won’t even return to your career sector until 11th August and won’t leave until September, by which point you will be into the most lucrative months of the year on the income front. While Jupiter will leave, bringing his 12 month quest for professional growth and expansion to a close on 30th June, the job of exploiting this will be at its height from Venus’s return on 19th May to Mars’ departure on 10th April.

SCORPIO
Moving into 2026 and the new professional year, it will not only appear to be business as usual, but for the first four weeks it will be. This makes this a year where you can’t judge a book by its cover, for you have moved into not just a major year on the job and career fronts, but in a way that is going to shape not just 2026, but 2027 and beyond. It is a given that you will start the year with the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your work sector, where she has been for over nine decades and will be until 2044. However, at a standstill and in retrograde motion until 12th January, the year is going to get off to a slow start. Make the most of this, for it won’t last. The first big development is when Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams not only returns to your work sector on 27th January, but to spend the next 13 years here.

It is just a few weeks later that on 14th February, Saturn will return and not leaving until April 2028, he will give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn Neptune’s dreams into reality. With both here for the long haul, this will give these major planets time to settle in before on 6th March, Venus returns to begin some of the most active months of the year on the job front. While Venus is only here until 31st March, with the Sun here from 20th March to 20th April, Mars from 10th April to 19th May and Mercury from 15th April to 3rd May, half the solar system will be joining forces and all with the support of Saturn and Neptune, who will keep the momentum going after they leave.

It is in the following month, after Mercury and Mars leave your work sector in May and Saturn and Neptune are settling in for the long haul, that things start firing up on the career front. While it is Venus’ return from 12th June to 10th July that will kick off the most active months of the year on the career front, while leading the way for the Sun, Mercury and Mars over the coming months, it is what happens while she is here that changes everything. That something is Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion’s return to your career sector on 30th June to begin your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade. Like every planet returning to your career sector this year, Jupiter will spend his early weeks at a friendly aspect to Saturn and Neptune in your work sector, forging a partnership that will continue until he leaves in July 2027. Right through until when Mars leaves on 26th November, there will be support to get this off the ground.

SAGITTARIUS
The year might get off to a slow start, but this will work to your advantage, with nothing to be gained by rushing into things. Instead, the professional gods are dialling up a year that not only spreads things out evenly across 2026, but in a way that puts the focus on work and job matters in the first half of the year and on the career front in the second half. With Mars spending time in both camps, this is also helping to balance things out. The year begins, as has every other year since he returned in 2019 with Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected in your work sector. However, for the last time for another eight decades, for once he turns direct on 5th February he will start making his way out, leaving on 26th April then not returning until April 2102.

However, Uranus will leave behind a legacy that he has helped you build over the last seven years, along with the support from the faster planets to both get the most out of his final months and keep the momentum going after he leaves. This will kick off with Venus’ return from 31st March to 24th April, something that during Uranus’ final weeks will have both the laws of attraction and synchronicity in effect. It is from 20th April to 20th May that the Sun will have the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options, with Mercury making it easier to work smarter when he moves through from 3rd May to 17th May. However, it is when Mars moves through from 19th May to 29th June that you will have the busiest and most active months of the year on the job front.

This will end all planetary activity on the job front for the year, but Mars will take you right to the doorstep of the second half of the year, which is when the focus will shift onto a broader career landscape. Once again, it is Venus that will kick things off, with her return to your career sector from 10th July to 7th August. By this point in the year Venus will be racing ahead, so will have been and gone by the time the Sun returns from 23rd August to 23rd September and Mercury from 25th August to 11th September. It is also by this point in the year that slowing ahead of a retrograde turn, Mars will be lagging behind and won’t return until 26th November. It is here that Mars will turn retrograde on 11th January 2027, something that will see him retrograde back out on 22nd February, only to return again from 15th May to 15th July 2027. Mars isn’t just returning to end the year fuelling your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit, he is setting up camp.

CAPRICORN
While you move into the New Year with no planets in either of your two professional houses, this is the norm for this time of year. It is not usually until the Sun returns to your work sector on 21st May that things start to take off on the job front and six months later, when he returns to your career sector on 23rd September each year, he does the same on the career front. While that is still and will always be the case, this year offers something to get excited about on both fronts, with an overlap of the two. This year, you won’t have to wait for the Sun, for nearly a month earlier, Venus will return to your work sector on 24th April to kick off not just all planetary activity on the job front this year but is instead the start of six years of continuous planetary activity.

The game changer comes two days later that Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected returns on 24th April and while he spent seven months here last year before retrograding back out, this time he is not leaving until May 2033. As will be the case for all planets returning to your work and career sectors this year, they will move almost straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto in your income sector. While for Venus, the Sun, Mercury and Mars return, this will be fleeting and will get their time in your work sector off to a positive and potentially lucrative start, Uranus and Pluto will be locked together for much of 2026 and 2027. While Venus is only here until 19th May, Mercury from 17th May to 2nd June and the Sun from 21st May to 21st June, it is Mars who will really exploit this.

It is eight days after the solar spotlight shifts off work and job matters that Mars will return and from 29th June to 11th August will make these some of the busiest and most productive weeks on the job front this year. It is while Mars is still here that Venus will return to your career sector from 7th August to 10th September, kicking off the most active months of 2025 on the career front. As she did with her return earlier in the year, Venus will spend her early days at a friendly aspect to Pluto in your income sector but also to Uranus in your work sector, beginning what will be a positive end to the year on the income, work and career fronts. A day after Venus leaves Mercury will return and will be here from 11th September to 1st October and the Sun from 23rd October to 23rd October. This should end all planetary activity on the career front for the year, but Venus will retrograde back in for a do over from 25th October to 4th December.

AQUARIUS
For the first time in 12 years, you are moving into the year with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion in your work sector and not leaving until 30th June, you are halfway through what he has been working to make your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade. You also begin the year with Jupiter in retrograde motion and with the last planet having left your career sector in December 2025, wrapping up all planetary activity on the career front until the second half of the year. With Jupiter not turning direct until 11th March and the first of the faster planets not returning to begin the most active months of the year on the job front and to help bring Jupiter’s journey home until May, the year might appear to get off to a slow start.

Instead, while giving you a chance to take your foot off the gas after a busy second half of 2025, the planets that will eventually play a major role in exploiting job and career potential this year are more focused on the money. With Neptune leaving your income sector on 27th January and not returning for another 150 years and Saturn leaving on 14th February, not to return for another three decades, in the early weeks of the year it is more about the income potential from work and effort put into your 2025 professional year. By the time Venus returns to your work sector from 19th May to 13th June, Jupiter will have been in direct motion for two months and leaving on 30th June, will be ready to bring things home.

Helping to get the most out of Jupiter’s final weeks and to keep the wheels going after he leaves, will be Mercury’s return from 2nd June to 10th August, the Sun’s return from 21st June to 23rd July and Mars’ return from 11th September to 28th September. It is while Mars is still here and things are still active on the job front, that Venus will return for what will be the first of two visits to your career sector, from 10th September to 25th October. With Mercury here from 1st October to 6th December and the Sun from 23rd November to 22nd December, they will keep the seat warm and the wheels turning until Venus retrogrades back in on 4th December. Not leaving again until 27th January 2027, Venus will end the year here.

PISCES
The one thing that this year won’t be is a repeat of last year, nor a continuation of the final months of 2025, though one will feed into the other. The year begins with Mercury on his own in your career sector and when he leaves on 2nd January, this will end all planetary activity on the career front until he and the Sun return in December. With neither Venus nor Mars returning to your career sector in 2026, apart from the Sun returning as he always does from 22nd November to 22nd December, apart from the Moon’s monthly visits and a Full Moon on 31st May, the only other planetary activity here this year will be when Mercury returns from 6th December to 26th December. Suffice it to say, this won’t be a big year on the career front, but then it doesn’t have to be.

The Sun, Venus and Mars all left your career sector in the final weeks of 2025 and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment only left on 30th December and along with starting the year with Mercury still here until 2nd January, with everything needed to start the year with your head in the game and taking the wheel on your own. At the same time, apart from a Full Moon in your work sector on 2nd February, there will be no planetary activity on the job front until June. However, when it begins, all hell will break loose and in the most exciting way possible. The first planet to reach your work sector this year will be Venus, who will move through from 13th June to 10th July and it is while she is here that everything changes.

Everything will change when on 30th June Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion not only returns to your work sector, but to begin your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade. With Jupiter not leaving until 26th July 2027, this will impact the rest of this year and next year as well. By then, Saturn and Neptune will have established themselves in your income sector and with all planets returning to your work sector moving into a friendly aspect to both as they move through, this marks the start of an exciting time on the income and job fronts. It is during the few days that Venus and Jupiter are alone here and with the element of luck and the laws of attraction in play, that things will get off to an auspicious start. This is something that will continue to evolve as the Sun moves through from 23rd July to 23rd August and Mercury from 10th August to 25th August. However, things will fire up again when Mars returns from 28th September to 26th November.