This article is written by astrologer and Akashic channel, Narayana Montúfar. She is the author of The Luminous Year—A Living Astrological Calendar and Ritual Guide for 2026. Please visit www.naramon.com to book a reading with her or follow her here: @narayanamontufar to keep up with her astro-weather reports.
Welcome to the turn of your year! From December 21 to January 19, the Sun blazes through the skies of Capricorn, guiding us in saying goodbye to the old era while setting the stage for the new astrological era to fully emerge. At its core, Capricorn is a zodiac sign strongly connected to the concept of time, always bringing a nostalgic tone to the events of the past, while bringing awareness of the need to focus on our future, too.
Expect to feel nostalgia and even confusion between December 21 and December 31 as Venus and Mercury clash with Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. This is a time to remember that we’re on the verge of closing both short and long energetic cycles, which is reflected in the end of major storylines that were present in our lives for some time. Since the end of 2024, the sky has been in a process of transition that fully ends in 2026. For this reason, as we prepare to enter the year ahead, it’s crucial to give yourself time to process all that has changed in your life ever since.
Unlike the beginning of 2025, the beginning of 2026 does hold some stellar astrological aspects for advancement. An epic triple meet-up between Venus, Mars, and the Sun in Capricorn sets the tone for the building of new and successful foundations to be built in our lives. Active between December 24 and January 16, this somewhat rare influence could translate into new professional and romantic opportunities that last for many years to come. You’ll feel this influence kick in at this season’s main lunar events—the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer and the January 18 New Moon in Capricorn.
January is also hosting one of the most exciting astrological influences we could receive to begin a new year. Saturn and Neptune in Pisces collaborate with Uranus in Taurus, uniting “the old” with “the new,” in perfect harmony. This Capricorn season, you’re being invited to take a careful look at the timeline of your growth and separate what’s still working from what’s not, and combine it with new and exciting ideas. In other words, your strategy to succeed should be inspired by a combination of old processes and innovation. Some of the best days to explore this energy are January 17 to January 20, when Venus meets with Pluto in Aquarius, the zodiac sign of the future.
This Capricorn season, we bring you a mini-tarot reading to help you transition from 2025 to 2026. Try connecting with its energy as you transition into 2026, a year that is set to fully welcome you into the new astrological era! Read your sun as well as your rising sign.
Your Horscopes for Capricorn Season 2025
Aries
You have a powerful season ahead of you, Aries. But to set yourself up for success, you’ll first have to honor both your mind and body. You might feel a bit tired and in need of rest during the first ten days of Capricorn season, when big-hitters Saturn and Neptune are activated in your sector of rest and healing, between December 21 and December 31. These would be fantastic days to take a vacation, a weekend getaway, or at least plan a restorative staycation.
This will prepare you for the first two weeks of January, which will most likely be very busy. A total of four planets will traverse your tenth house of career and public visibility, elevating your desire to succeed. One of these planets is Mars, which only activates this area of your chart once every two years. The January 28 New Moon in Capricorn is the best time of the year for launching a product or business or setting ambitious long-term goals. Alternatively, you might experience advancement in your personal life, too, due to the activations of Jupiter, which is currently blessing your sector of home and family. This Capricorn season, it’s crucial for you to establish a healthy work-life balance.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
The Magus
Focus, willpower, and the ability to create accompany you into the new year, Aries! Being a card of manifestation, the Magus speaks of you having everything you need to manifest a dream. You have the tools to create—all you need is to use them at the right time as a way to conjure with the universal and cosmic forces of creation.
Taurus
You have a serious and exciting season ahead, Taurus. You love Capricorn energy—and this year, it will inspire you to bring positive change into your life. With your planet, Venus, in Capricorn almost all season long, you’ll be focused on planting seeds for your career. You’ll be feeling creative, most likely giving birth to emerging yearly projects as well as learning new tools or strategies that will help you succeed in the year ahead. Communication, learning, and speaking play a big role now, meaning that the more you express yourself, the more you will grow.
This is also a season that is all about wrapping up all the learnings from the past two-and-a-half years. Since March 2023, Saturn in Pisces has requested your efforts in the area of community and collaborations—and this season brings the last push concerning all these efforts. If you own your own business, for example, these efforts could be focused on social media, marketing, or your brand’s voice. This last set of efforts you invest in now could seal the deal on a solidified visibility that sets you apart from your competitors. The Saturn-Uranus sextile asks: How can you combine the learnings from the past years with emerging and colorful ideas?
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Change
Accepting the natural flow of change is crucial as you transition from 2025 to 2026. This is especially true when it comes to continuing to build something meaningful that will last the test of time. Flow into the new year by finding a balance between your feminine and masculine energies.
Gemini
The turn of the year holds an introspective vibe for you, Gemini. The first ten days, when Venus and Mercury clash with Saturn and Neptune, could spark confusion concerning your goals or career path. But this isn’t a time to give up—instead, you’re being called to surrender to the learnings of the past two-and-a-half and even fourteen years! Later in 2026, you’ll feel more sure of where you’re heading. Along those lines, paying attention to your dreams could prove to be ultra-interesting as Uranus, the planet of genius, is activated all season long. Some of the craziest ideas you download now could prove to be successful down the road.
Your personal life will be brimming with activity this season, too. If you’re romantically involved, the triple meet-up between Venus, Mars, and the Sun could make things interesting in the bedroom. Deep talks, a higher level of commitment, or a hot-and-heavy vibe could be the result of you opening your heart to a new level of intimacy. This closeness could also translate into feeling a stronger sense of confidence, which will reflect in your ability to attract an abundance of all forms into your life at either the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer or the January 18 New Moon in Capricorn.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Ace of Wands
This is a card of initiation, so expect something new to be born for you as you transition from 2025 to 2026. Someone might approach you with a new initiative that awakens your inner passion. Alternatively, a new passion project could receive an injection of new life.
Cancer
You might love what this season ahead has in store for you, moonchild! Capricorn rules your seventh house of marriage and partnerships of all kinds, so you can expect a lot of action in this area of your life. There is an energy of growth and expansion that could translate into a new or deeper commitment, as well as a new business partnership or client coming your way. This season’s lunar events—the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer and the January 18 New Moon in Capricorn—activate the fortunate vibrations of Jupiter in your sign. Since Jupiter is currently retrograde, you might also cash in on a golden opportunity that you might have missed in the past few months.
Lastly, this is also a month during which you get to experience the need to heal your sense of leadership as the Wounded Healer, Chiron becomes activated in your career sector. You’ve been working with this energy for many years—but this season, in particular, requests that you trust in your unique abilities and talents, to rise above any challenges that resurface. This healing journey fully comes to an end in 2026, and what you learn from it could be positively invaluable.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Princess of Cups
Intuition, creativity, and sensitivity are at your disposal, especially when you make space to connect with your imagination or artistic side. While this is mainly a positive card, it does speak of the need to channel these gifts into art endeavors or tangible efforts to make the best of it.
Leo
Expect a busy season ahead, Leo! Capricorn rules your sixth house of work and productivity, and with a total of four planets activating it, your workload is bound to grow. Another manifestation of this energy would be a desire to invest time and effort in your wellness goals. By the time the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer comes around, you’ll know if the energy is either going into eating healthier and working out, or alternatively, setting ambitious career goals. After all, this is a season that also promises to light up your creativity. Uranus, the planet of genius and the one responsible for awakening your psyche and disposition since 2018, will be sending waves of brilliant ideas your way all season long.
Capricorn season also promises to be a very spiritual time for you. Since Jupiter entered your dreams and healing sector back in the Summer of 2025, you’ve been inspired to deepen your connection to spirit. As Jupiter, now retrograde, is lit up, you might be up for some big awakenings and realizations around what you’ve so far learned in this one-year journey. To truly feel into this magic, try spending more time either meditating or at least having your eyes closed for longer periods of time.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Prince of Disks
As you transition from 2025 to 2026, you are practically minded and industrious. You seem to be steadily working towards the manifestation of a long-term goal, which will bear you fruit. As you continue to make progress, you’re being inspired to inject a more playful energy into this goal.
Virgo
Resolve to surrender, Virgo. The beginning of the season might bring some confusion when it comes to relationships, as lover Venus clashes with Saturn and Neptune in your relationship sector between December 21 and December 31. It’s key to remember that the closing of cycles is a theme this month, bringing an energy of closure as well as healing, which also frees up some of your energy to explore new, emerging connections. A lineup of four planets, including the cosmic lovers Venus and Mars, activates your sector of romance, play, and fun all month long. The vibe is ideal for making new friends, going on dates, and focusing on doing some of the activities that you enjoy the most. The January 3 Full Moon in Cancer could solidify new friendships as well as new collaborations. And two weeks later, the January 18 New Moon in Capricorn could bring an exciting new person into your world.
If you are already involved in a committed partnership, Chiron going direct on January 2 brings you the opportunity to heal any outstanding issues that might have needed attention within your relationship. You’ll feel this energy the strongest between January 6 and January 13, when Venus and Mars set the stage for deeply intimate and healing conversations to take place.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Prince of Wands
As you transition from 2025 to 2026, you’re being given swiftness, strength, and intellectual power to start, continue, or finish a communication-related project. Since this is a card of leadership, you might be playing a more courageous role either at work or in another area of your life.
Libra
Capricorn season will be impactful for you, Libra, as you will be splitting your attention between your professional and your personal lives. The first ten days of the season, between December 21 and December 31, you might need to invest some of your time in figuring out which projects and processes no longer fit your flow, and which ones do get to accompany you into the new year. Pay special attention to the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer, which will be incredibly revelatory. Being a very positive lunar event, it could be the messenger that delivers positive news for your career and even your entire reputation.
This season, you will also experience a deep focus on your family, home, and foundation. This could mean spending a lot of time with your family, your partner, or perhaps processing the expansion that you’ve been experiencing in this part of your life since June of 2025. The January 18 New Moon in Capricorn marks a new beginning—you’re planting the seeds for something that is most likely going to grow and blossom for many years to come. This is, without a doubt, a time during which the universe is inspiring you to set intentions that feel very personal for the year ahead.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Works
Being one of the most productive and practical cards in the Thot Tarot card deck, this card symbolizes mastery over your craft and the progress you have made or can make to establish a strong foundation for yourself and your life. It also symbolizes the power of teamwork to bring things into manifestation.
Scorpio
Hopefully you like noise, Scorpio—because Capricorn season will be loud! Between December 21 and December 31, you might be traveling overseas, exploring life’s many wonders, or having fun. Enjoy yourself, but do keep in mind that the clash between money planet Venus with Saturn and Neptune could cloud your judgment about your financial state.
But the main reason why the season ahead is loud is the line-up of four planets having a celestial party in your third house of community. You might be working on a proposal, paper, book idea, social media strategy, or a project related to communication. Your efforts will be powered by this season’s lunar events, the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer, which activates your publishing house. And later on, by the January 18 New Moon in Capricorn, which plants the seed of a project that might stay in your life for a long time. Since your planet, Mars, will be super strong in the sky, both your ambition and creativity will be magnified, inspiring you to express yourself fully and fearlessly. January 17, in particular, holds power, when the words you share with others have the most amount of impact on others.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Power
Material success, stability, and wealth await you as you transition from 2025 to 2026. In many ways, you’re harvesting some of the effort you invested throughout the year. As a number four card, it brings a sense of stability to many of the aspects of your life, especially when you approach it with practicality.
Sagittarius
Expect a busy and productive season ahead, dear Archer. The beginning of Capricorn season could feel foggy and even confusing as you begin wrapping up some of the stories that have been present in your life for many months and years. The days between December 21 and December 31 are for surrendering but also for closure, as well as healing.
Once January arrives, your focus turns to money, value, and even productivity. With a total of four planets activating the area of your chart ruling finances and value, you could be getting ready to make a big transaction or even receive a raise. One of the main players of this season, your planet Jupiter, will be rooting for you, protecting you, and helping you attract opportunities. Do expect meaningful shifts around money, personal values, and even intimate relationships to come to the surface at this season’s lunar events. The January 3 Full Moon is all about embracing intimacy and a spirit of optimism. Two weeks later, the January 18 New Moon brings a new beginning for your finances, which will most likely boost your overall sense of self-confidence for months to come.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
The Empress
The highest manifestation of feminine energy inundates your life as you transition from 2025 to 2026, Sagittarius. This card is a reminder that abundance comes in many forms—through peace, creativity, and a strong connection to Mother Nature as well as all its creations. The ground is fertile for you to manifest your wildest dreams.
Capricorn
You get to experience your birthday every year, Capricorn‚ but this trip around the Sun feels particularly potent. As you welcome another year, Venus and Mars will be flaring along with the Sun, highlighting themes around romance and connection, ambition and money, as well as the creation of something new. In other words, this will be a birthday season to remember! Regardless of what you want to create in the year and even the astrological era ahead, you’ll have so much support to make it happen. Some of this support comes in the form of relationships, thanks to Jupiter sweetening your connections with other people. Under this combination of energies, a new romance could blossom, and even a new business partnership could be formed on or around the January 3 Full Moon.
Along the same lines, you’re also being given the fabulous January 18 New Moon to set intentions for the year ahead. Since one of the themes of the month is to combine old-school strategy with innovative thinking, you would be wise to come up with a strategy that allows for the wisdom you’ve accumulated while allowing yourself to brainstorm new ideas for the future. What you begin now could be the catalyst for your success for years to come.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Interference
While this is a time of manifestation for you, this card speaks of some intrusive thoughts interfering with your flow over the season ahead. You can navigate this intrusion by shifting the focus from the material to the spiritual plane, which will help you navigate confusion by bringing you to wholeness.
Aquarius
For you, Aquarius, the turn of the year holds a very specific energy. The first ten days of Capricorn season, from December 21 to December 31, require careful handling around money and possessions. At a spiritual level, these are days that might inspire you to take a deeper look into what’s most valuable and meaningful to you. In the end, Capricorn season is a time of going within and embracing introspection. This is particularly true this year, with a total of four planets passing through your sector of dreams, rest, and healing. You will know it’s time to hide and be with yourself when you’re either craving time alone or feeling more tired than usual.
Overall, 2026 promises to be a busy year for you due to Pluto being activated in your sign, inspiring you to come into your power. The more you process the past and spend time figuring out what you truly want in 2026 out of life, the easier it will be for you to attain it. Pay attention to your dreams and the intuitive hunches you receive during moments of rest, as they could be loaded with interesting bits of information. Both the January 3 Full Moon and the January 18 New Moon are full of psychic gifts for you, so tune into their energy.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
The Sun
As you embrace introspection this season, the light of the Sun is here to assist you, helping you illuminate information that was previously hidden. As you transition into the new year, getting in touch with your creativity by embracing introspection brings you a sense of happiness and vitality.
Pisces
This Capricorn season feels majorly important for you, Pisces. You’re starting to close two majorly important cycles, the two-and-a-half-year cycle of Saturn and the fourteen-year cycle of Neptune. The influence of these two planets could at times feel confusing—but know that these two work from the insight out and not the other way around. In other words, the answers you’re seeking are within yourself. Especially during the first ten days of Capricorn season, between December 21 and December 31, you’ll feel more connected when embracing a deeper sense of spirituality.
This is also a time during which you’ll feel very social, too! A line-up of four planets will have your social sector lit up all season long, so don’t feel surprised if you receive a lot of invitations to go out and connect with like-minded people. This will be particularly true at the January 3 Full Moon in Cancer. Two weeks later, the January 18 New Moon might deliver the possibility to make a new friend or two. But what’s truly magical about this lunar event is that it sets the tone for you to reconnect with your biggest hopes and dreams. Tonight, make it a point to request from the universe what you wish to bring into your life in 2026.
Your 2025-2026 Transition Tarot Card
Failure
While this card can feel scary, what it really signals is the possibility of failure if you give in to passivity. You are being reminded that to manifest a dream, sustained effort is necessary on your end. After all, you’re arriving at the end of a time period that has tested your resilience and ability to stay focused.
