2026 Love Horoscopes

ARIES
The stars are dialling up a big year on the romantic front, though you might not know it at first. To begin with, it is business as usual, which means there is rarely, if ever any planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts in the first half of the year, with just the Moon’s monthly visits offering a chance to check in. It is the Moon’s second visit to your romantic sector in 2026 that will have a lot more potency, due to the Full Moon that will create on 2nd February. However, while the Sun’s return to your romantic sector on 23rd July is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, by then everything will have changed.

It will begin over a month earlier, when on 13th June Venus, the planet of love will make an early return, kicking off what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026. It is on Venus’ watch that on 30th June Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion will return to your romantic sector and not leaving again until July 2027, to begin your luckiest year for love and your biggest year for matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade. Helping to get this lucky year for love off the ground will be having Venus here until 10th July, the Sun from 23rd July to 23rd August and Mercury from 10th August to 25th August.

Even Mars, who spent several months in your romantic sector between November 2024 and June 2025 will be back, returning from 28th November to 26th November. Even then, a retrograde turn in January 2027 will see him retrograde back in for a second time next year and while Jupiter is still here. The whole second half of 2026 will remain romantically charged and this is when you will also find the most active months of the year on the relationship front. This will kick off Venus, the planet of love’s return to your relationship sector from 7th August to 10th September, with Mercury, the planet of communication returning from 11th September to 1st October and the Sun from 23rd September to 23rd October. That should end all planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, but Venus will retrograde back in for a do over from 25th October to 4th December.

TAURUS
While this isn’t a big or a game changing year on the romantic or the relationship fronts, the stars are making the second half of the year especially good for both. Until then, it is the Moon’s monthly visits that will continue to keep you connected while offering a chance to check in. The most important of those visits will be the Moon’s return to your romantic sector that will result in a total lunar eclipse on 4th March and to your relationship sector and the Full Moon this will create on 2nd May. In between the two Venus, the planet of love will move through Taurus from 31st March to 24th April, doing what she can to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations moving into your new solar year.

 

By this point, the love and relationship gods are still fairly quiet and will be until Venus becomes the first planet to move through your romantic sector in 2026, when she moves through from 10th July to 7th August to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026. As always, the Sun will move through, putting the solar spotlight on matters of the heart from 23rd August to 23rd September and Mercury will return to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page from 25th August to 11th September. The Sun’s departure will bring all planetary activity on the romantic front for the year to an end, but not for the year with Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returning from 26th November 2026 to 22nd February 2027.

Meanwhile, it will be Venus who once again is leading the way when she returns to begin the first planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, from 10th September to 25th October. Normally moving through in just 24 days, that’s a period of over six weeks and that means that something is up. That something is a retrograde turn on 3rd October that will see Venus retrograde back out, only to return again from 4th December 2026 to 7th January 2027, with a second chance to work her magic. Even Mercury, who will normally spend just 14 to 15 days here, will turn retrograde on 24th October, something that will keep the planet of communication here from 1st October to 6th December.

GEMINI
While the Sun, Venus and Mars all left your relationship sector before Christmas 2025 and Mercury, the planet of communication had left at the end of October, a retrograde turn had brought him back and as you move into the New Year, he is still here. However, only just, with his departure on 2nd January ending what was an overrun of last year’s planetary activity on the relationship front and all planetary activity here until the Sun returns again from 22nd November to 22nd December. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships and apart from when Mercury comes full circle again from 6th December to 26th December, this is all the planetary activity on the relationship front this year.

Even by normal standards this is light, for even Venus, the planet of love won’t visit your relationship sector this year, having left in late 2025 and not returning again until early 2027. However, as Venus only left on Christmas Day, with the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment having just left on 30th December and Mercury staying on to start the year here but leaving on 2nd January, with everything needed to start the year on the right track. It is halfway between the Sun’s last visit to and the next, that a Full Moon in your relationship sector on 31st May will be a valuable chance to check in. That will also be the case for a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 2nd April.

Meanwhile, unlike your romantic sector where Venus, the planet of love won’t visit at all in 2026, she will not only visit your relationship sector twice this year, but for a lot longer than the 24 days it will normally take her to move through. While the Sun’s return from 23rd September to 23rd October is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, Venus will return to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of any year on 7th August. Venus will leave on 10th September, but a retrograde turn on 3rd October will see her retrograde back in for a do over, this time spending from 25th October to 4th December working her magic.

CANCER
While it is a given that the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of January in your relationship sector, with the solar spotlight always on your relationships moving into the New Year, with a lot more company this time. The Sun will always return to your relationship sector on the December solstice, this time to find that Mars had returned a week earlier while Venus, the planet of love returned on Christmas Day and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships, for the first time in four years on 30th December. This is the team that you begin the year with, while held back by a retrograde phase Mercury, the planet of communication will return on 2nd January.

This is setting the year off to a powerful start on the relationship front, but by the end of January, the only planet still here will be Juno, who has her own agenda. With Venus leaving on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January, Mercury on 21st January and Mars on 23rd January, and an active start to the year on the relationship front is short lived, making it all the more important to make this count. This should end all planetary activity on the relationship front for the year until the Sun returns again on 22nd December and Mercury on 26th December, both ending the year here. Instead, Juno will not only stay on until 29th March, but a retrograde turn will see her return again from 12th August to 24th October. Whatever you are committing to in the early weeks of the year, Juno will help you stick to it.

Meanwhile, it will be Venus, the planet of love, who will begin the first planetary activity on the romantic front for the year, with her turn to your romantic sector from 10th September to 25th October. Despite leaving, Venus will also end the year here, promising something special in the final months of 2025. As always, the Sun will move through from 23rd October to 22nd November, while Mercury will return for what should be a 14 to 15 day mission to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page on 1st October. Instead, a retrograde turn won’t see Mercury leave until 6th December, while a retrograde turn will see Venus return for a do over and a second chance to work her magic from 4th December 2026 to 7th January 2027.

LEO
While Mercury will start the year in your romantic sector, he will not only leave on 2nd January, but after that, there is very little activity on the romantic front this year and instead, in 2026 and the focus is more on your relationships. However, as the Sun had only just left your romantic sector on the December solstice, Mars a week before, Venus on Christmas Day and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment on 30th December, with a chance to start the year on the right foot. As Venus and Mars won’t visit your romantic sector in 2026 and the Sun and Mercury won’t return until December, this is something that needs to be held onto, while the Moon will continue to return every four weeks to tend the romantic flame.

The most important of those visits will be the one that creates the Full Moon on 31st May, the most romantically charged Full Moon of 2026. Meanwhile, as the year begins, it will be business as usual on the relationship front with Pluto, the planet of change and transformation on his own in your relationship sector and having just finished the first full year of what will be a 20 year visit. That will change when on 18th January Venus, the planet of love returns to your relationship sector to both work her magic and kick off what will be the most active months of the year on the relationship front. She will be followed by the Sun, whose return on 20th January brings you to the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, while from 28th January to 15th February Mercury, the planet of communication will return to do what he does best.

With Venus not leaving until 10th February, the Sun until 19th February and Mars not until 3rd March, this is going to get the year off to an empowered start on the relationship front, though it is also just the start of the journey. With Pluto not leaving until 2044, this is a journey that will not only continue for the rest of the year but for decades, though with a lot of help in the early months of the year to get things off on the right foot. This includes an eclipsing New Moon on 18th February, something that offers a chance for new beginnings. However, Pluto won’t spend the whole year or even the majority of the year on his own with the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships returning for her first visit to your relationship sector in four years from 29th March to 12th August, before retrograding back in again from 24th October 2026 to 15th January 2027.

VIRGO
The stars are dialling up an important year on both the romantic and relationship fronts, though in a way that could be seen as one era coming to an end while another is opening up. The era that is coming to an end is on the relationship front with Saturn and Neptune both leaving your relationship sector, but unlike last year, not coming back. Neptune, who returned to your relationship sector in 2012, left at the end of March 2025, only to retrograde back in later in the year while Saturn, who had been here since March 2023, left at the end of May, only to retrograde back in a few months later as well. 2026 begins with both still here, but back in direct motion and getting ready to leave, starting with Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams on 27th January.

With Neptune not returning again for another 150 years, it is Saturn’s resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes that can help you cement the dream until he too leaves on 14th February, Valentine’s Day. This is before the Sun’s return on 19th February, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships but with Venus, the planet of love’s return from 10th February to 6th March getting her here in time. Venus is the last planet to make contact with Saturn until he returns again in three decades and the one that can capture his resolve to keep doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn Neptune’s dreams into reality.

With the Sun not leaving until 21st March and Mercury, the planet of communication returning on 7th February for what should be a 14 to 15 day chance to get the communication lines open instead turning retrograde and not leaving until 15th April, this will extend Neptune and Saturn’s legacy and especially with Mars returning for the first time in two years from 3rd March to 10th April. Meanwhile, it is while this is playing out that thanks to starting the year with the Sun, Venus, Mars and even the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your romantic sector, the year will get off to a romantically charged start. With Venus, the planet of love leaving on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January and Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos leaving on 23rd January, this needs to be a priority from the start.

LIBRA
On both the romantic and relationship fronts, first impressions will be that it is business as usual, but within the first three weeks of the year that will change on the romantic front and by the end of January, on the relationship front as well and for the latter, with major implications. While the year begins with planets in both your romantic and relationship sectors, with Pluto entering the second full year of a 20 year transit through your romantic sector and the dwarf planet Eris in your relationship sector for decades and both not leaving until 2044, they have been and will continue to keep an eye on things. However, this is just the baseline for what comes next. What comes next is Venus, the planet of love’s return to your romantic sector from 18th January to 10th February to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026.

Helping with that will be the Sun’s return from 20th January to 19th February and Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos’s first visit to your romantic sector in two years from 23rd January to 3rd March. It is during that time that Mercury, the planet of communication will move through from 28th January to 15th February, to do what he can to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page. While Mars’ departure on 3rd March will end what will be a romantically charged start to the year, Pluto is not only staying on but will be joined by the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment from 29th March to 12th August, before retrograding back in from 24th October to 15th January 2027.

Meanwhile, it is while all this is happening on the romantic front and overlapping this, will be the developments on the relationship front. On 27th January Neptune, who had returned for a few months later, will not only return but this time the planet of hopes and dreams won’t be leaving again until 2039. It is just over a few weeks later that Saturn, who also returned for three months last year will return on 14th February, this time not leaving until April 2028. This is a chance for Saturn and Neptune to reunite, together giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. Helping to get this new era off the ground will be Venus, the planet of love’s return from 6th March to 31st March, the Sun from 20th March to 20th April, Mars’ first visit in two years from 10th April to 19th May and Mercury, the planet of communication’s return from 15th April to 3rd May.

SCORPIO
On both the romantic and relationship fronts, while the year begins with a heavy focus on both and there will continue to be more active points in the year when the faster planets move through, on both fronts, the years of continuous planetary activity is coming to a close and it began last year. It was at the end of March 2025 that in your romantic sector since 2012 Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams left, only to return in October while Saturn, who had been here since March 2023 left at the end of May, only to retrograde back in just over four months later. While they were gone Uranus, who had been in your relationship sector since 2019 left in July, only to retrograde back in four months later.

As you move into 2026, all three are back and while Uranus won’t turn direct until 4th February and won’t leave again until 26th April, Neptune and Saturn are in direct motion and getting ready to leave, this is where, as you move into the New Year, the urgency is. Neptune will leave on 27th January and not to return again for another 150 years, when it comes to matters of the heart and all things romantic, moving into 2026 is all about having a dream, with Saturn staying on until 14th February, giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This will see Saturn leave on Valentine’s Day but not before Venus, the planet of love returns on 10th February to begin what she will be working to make some of the most romantically charged weeks of 2026.

By then Mars, making his first visit in two years, will be here and will have until he leaves on 10th April to fire up your romantic passions and fighting spirit. This is the point when, for the first time in 16 years, apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, this will leave your romantic sector empty for the rest of the year. It is just 16 days later that Uranus will leave your relationship sector on 26th April, not to return for another eight decades but this time, with this overlapping the final weeks of planetary activity on the romantic front. It will start when Venus, the planet of love returns to your relationship sector from 31st April to 24th April to work her magic, with the Sun moving through from 20th April to 21st May and Mercury, the planet of communication from 3rd May to 17th May. Once again, Mars will be the last planet to move through, with the warrior planet of the cosmos working to give you something to fight for as he moves through from 19th May to 29th June.

SAGITTARIUS
While Venus, the planet of love won’t spend any time in Sagittarius this year, as she only left on Christmas Day and sensing the big year ahead on the romantic and relationship fronts, you are likely to move into 2026 with high expectations on both fronts. This is anything but wishful thinking, for in 2025 the planets that are going to not only shape 2026 but for years to come all spent time in your romantic and relationship, laying down the foundations for what is to come. It began at the end of March 2025 when for the first time in 150 years Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned to your romantic sector, followed by Saturn for the first time in three decades at the end of May and then in July, Uranus returned to your relationship sector in July 2025.

All three are gone, but all with the promise that they will return and on top of the most active months of any year on the romantic and relationship fronts, they are returning to set up home. It will begin with Neptune’s return to your romantic sector on 27th January, where he will stay until 2039, followed by Saturn on 14th February, who until leaving in April 2028, will work with Neptune to give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to turn dreams into reality. While it is not until 26th April that Uranus will return to your relationship sector, it will be to spend the next six years here. It is during this time that the most active months of the year on the romantic and relationship fronts will not only be playing out, but will overlap.

It begins with Venus, the planet of love’s return to your romantic sector on 6th March to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of any year, but to find Neptune and Saturn already here. This begins the most active months of the year on the romantic front, which while Venus will leave on 31st March, with the Sun here from 20th March to 20th April and Mercury from 15th April to 3rd May, will not only remain in safe hands, but with Mars firing things up when he moves through from 10th April to 19th May. By then Venus will have gotten things moving on the relationship front before Uranus returns, but moving through from 24th April to 19th May, with the planet of love here when he returns on 26th April. While by the time the Sun leaves on 21st June, he and Mercury, the planet of communication will have moved through, Mars will add his passion to the mix when he moves through from 29th June to 11th August.

CAPRICORN
Because Venus, the planet of love returned to Capricorn on Christmas Day 2025, she is not only still here as you move into 2026, but until leaving on 18th January, is leading the way into the New Year and giving your heart a voice from the start. At the same time, moving into both a new solar and calendar year, Venus is spending the majority of the month updating your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the year. This year, you will find that the bar has been raised to a point where what your heart is telling you might feel more like wishful thinking. However, what your heart knows is that for the last time for another eight decades, you have moved into the New Year with Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected in your romantic sector and for the first time in 12 years, with lucky Jupiter in your relationship sector.

Uranus will leave on 26th April, but not before Venus can return to your romantic sector and with the most romantically charged months of 2026 continuing right through to when Mars leaves on 29th June. Venus will return to your romantic sector from 31st March to 24th April, for what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of any year. With Uranus leaving two days later but then not returning again until the year 2102, the planets that together rule through the laws of attraction and synchronicity are going to make these some of the most serendipitous weeks of the year on the romantic front. While it is Mars’ visit from 19th May to 29th June that will end all planetary activity on the romantic front for the year, this is giving the love gods the whole first half of the year to work their magic.

This will overlap Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion’s final months in your relationship sector before leaving on 30th June, a day after Mars wraps things up on the romantic front for the year. However, by then the planets that had been responsible for the most romantically charged months of the year will be migrating into your relationship sector and Venus will have even moved through by then. Venus will move through from 19th May to 13th June, giving the planets of love and luck time to work together. While the Sun will keep the solar spotlight on your relationships from 21st June to 23rd July, a retrograde phase will keep Mercury, the planet of communication here from 2nd June to 10th August. It is a day later that Mars will return, with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos keeping the momentum going from 11th August to 28th September.

AQUARIUS
While there is nothing to make it obvious from the start, 2026 is not only set to be a big year on the romantic and relationship fronts, but a gateway into 2027 and beyond. On the one hand, you will have the most active points of any year, which on the romantic front can run from April to June each year and on the relationship front, July through to September, though as is the case this year, with an overlap between the two. However, it is what else will be happening at the time that will also make these major turning points on both fronts. Venus knows that and when she returns to Aquarius from 18th January to 10th February, this will make her annual mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year feel more like wishful thinking.

However, as the planet of love, Venus knows what is coming and will be raising the bar on your expectations, even if you don’t know why. The why will not only come when Venus, the planet of love returns to your romantic sector from 24th April to 19th May to begin what she will be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of 2026, but when two days later, on 26th April Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected returns to spend the next six years here. Uranus had spent seven months here in 2025, working with your heart to prepare for what is coming. Helping to both get this new journey off the ground and make these the most romantically charged months of 2026 will be having the Sun and Mercury return in May.

However, eight days after the Sun leaves on 21st June, Mars will return and will spend from 29th June to 11th August firing up your romantic passions and fighting spirit. By this point, the rest of the faster planets will have returned to your relationship sector as will Jupiter, who on 30th June will return to begin your biggest relationship year in over a decade, something that won’t run its course until July 2027. Moving through from 13th June to 10th July, Venus will be here when Jupiter returns and while she will leave before the Sun returns on 23rd July, Mercury on 10th August and Mars on 28th September, this will give the planets of love and luck time to get this lucky year for love off to the right start.

PISCES
By the time you move into 2026, Jupiter has been in your romantic sector for over six months and is now in the second half of what he is working to make your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade. Jupiter returned in June 2025 and while he is not leaving until 30th June, some of the most romantically charged weeks of the year could be in his final six weeks, with everything leading up to that point. Jupiter turned retrograde in November and until turning direct on 11th March, is travelling back over ground already covered while holding the doors open to the past and second chances. A romantically charged Full Moon on 3rd January could unlock some of those doors.

Apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, Jupiter will remain on his own until Venus, the planet of love returns to your romantic sector from 19th May to 13th June to begin what she will always be working to make the most romantically charged weeks of any year. Last year, Venus was the last of the planets to move through your romantic sector and to connect with Jupiter but this year, as the first to return, this will give the planets of love and luck a chance to work together to bring things home. Helping with that will be the Sun’s return from 21st June to 23rd July and a retrograde turn that will keep Mercury here from 2nd June to 10th August.

This will end all planetary activity on the romantic front, but not for the year, with Mars returning from 11th August to 28th August to keep the romantic legacy alive. Meanwhile, while not as big a year on the relationship front as it is for matters of the heart, by then the most active months of the year on the relationship front for the year will be underway, starting with Venus, the planet of love’s return from 10th July to 7th August. Venus will be gone by the time the Sun moves through from 23rd August to 23rd September, and Mercury, the planet of communication from 25th August to 11th September, but will return to give and leave you with a sense of what you want from your relationships. Meanwhile, this will make Mars’ return on 26th November the start of a whole new chapter, one that will extend right through to the middle of 2027.