Horoscope · the year ahead
Your Scorpio year a shedding, not a demolition.
A Scorpio year isn’t crossed on the surface. A fixed-water sign ruled by Mars and Pluto, you work in complete cycles: something ripens in silence, breaks away, then is reborn otherwise. The deep work is always the same: to shed without burning everything down, to loosen control without losing your depth. Your season, the lunations in your sign and the slow transits, detailed in the agenda below, give the dates of those thresholds.
The essentials
- Your season
- October 23, 2026 to November 22, 2026
- Lunations in your sign
- 2 in 2026
- Element and modality
- fixed water
- Ruling planet
- Mars (traditional) and Pluto (modern)
- Natural house
- the eighth house: deep bonds, crises, rebirths
- Keyword for the year
- the shedding
Your big work: the shedding
Fixed water keeps everything: the loyalties, the wounds, the promises, sometimes long after they’ve stopped being alive. Your deep work is to tell keeping apart from holding on. Faithfulness is your nobility; retention is its caricature, and you’re the only one who feels the difference from the inside.
Maturing, for you, is shedding: letting a skin grown too small fall away without turning it into a demolition. You don’t need to burn everything down to be reborn; it’s often when you burn nothing that the transformation goes furthest.
In love and friendship: trust before proof
You love all the way or not at all: lukewarm is more foreign to you than solitude. When you give your trust, it’s an oath; that’s why it’s given slowly, and why losing it leaves marks.
What grows you: speaking your vulnerability instead of testing it. Setting silent traps to check that you’re loved is your old reflex; it manufactures exactly the betrayals it fears. One question asked out loud is worth all the tests.
At work: the strategy of the depths
You build over the long haul and beneath the surface: while others announce, you advance. That silent endurance makes you the sign of long-haul projects, the ones that ask you to hold on when no one is watching anymore.
Your classic trap: all or nothing. One disappointment, and you raze the whole field instead of pulling the weed. Learning to close a chapter without tearing up the book, that’s the professional version of your shedding.
How to read your year
Your season is your annual descent: the Sun crosses your sign and invites you to sort what has to end. The new moon in Scorpio in this window suits intentions planted in the dark: what you begin there needs no witness to take root.
Six months on, the full moon in your sign brings to the surface what was ripening in secret. The slow planets entering Scorpio open long metamorphoses; the retrogrades there bring back what hadn’t finished ending. The exact dates are in the agenda below.
The advice you don’t want to hear
Not everyone is lying to you. The vigilance that served you as armor now costs you more than it keeps: to watch a bond is already to begin losing it.
Try the opposite, once: granting your trust a notch before the proof. Not to just anyone; to someone you’ve already chosen. It’s the only leap that transforms in depth, and no one can take it for you.
Your 2026 agenda
The Scorpio dates for 2026, calculated from the ephemeris and rechecked every night: your season, the lunations that fall in your sign, the planets that enter it or go retrograde there. Freely citable with a link to this page.
The lunations in your sign
The planets that enter your sign
- Venus enters Scorpio on September 10, leaving Libra
- Mercury enters Scorpio on September 30, leaving Libra
- Venus enters Scorpio on December 4, leaving Libra
Frequently asked questions
- When does your Scorpio year begin?
- At your season, when the Sun enters your sign and returns to its natal position. The new moon in Scorpio in this window is the right moment to set a discreet, deep intention. The exact dates are in the agenda on this page.
- Why is Scorpio linked to transformation?
- Because its two rulers tell the same movement: Mars, the traditional ruler, gives the courage to cut; Pluto, the modern ruler, presides over endings and rebirths. Scorpio lives in complete cycles: something dies, something is reborn, rarely by halves.