Written by Lisa E Zimmerman
As we rest in the liminal space between ending 2025 and entering 2026, we are completing an intense year of dramatic deconstruction and reconfiguring. This is a space of integration, allowing what you’ve learned and experienced to guide you, while regrouping as needed to prepare for the coming year. Align your consciousness with your current and future reality, while taking impeccable care of yourself.
Although we’re entering a new year, we’ll shift into high gear on Feb 20, when Saturn and Neptune meet at at 0º Aries, the beginning of the zodiac. With Saturn and Neptune still currently in Pisces, there is more cleanup, endings and dissolving in process. Trust the timing of your experience, as a Divine plan is at work and your job is to align your Inner Guidance with practical actions that support your Evolving Self and your life.
Dec 27 – Mercury trine Chiron. With Mercury in big picture Sagittarius, you may experience awareness, inspiration or insights via Wounded Healer Chiron, calling for you to live from your truth, integrating anything that blocks you from pursuing your desires.
Step 1 is discovering the truth of Who You Are (vs. your conditioning) and there are many layers to this. Mercury-Chiron in harmony can reveal false beliefs that limit your thinking, self-permission and self-expression, so be open to the messages and possibilities that Mercury in Sagittarius wants you to see. Every awareness opens a new door and is like wearing a new pair of glasses; the world changes as you see through a new lens.
A few days later, Mercury makes challenging aspects to Saturn and Neptune, the two planets left in Pisces that can can either structure and transcend 3D, or delay and confuse you until it’s “go” time. Your mental processes are under construction, available for an upgrade this week. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover blind spots that you’ve been operating through. Maybe you’ve been playing smaller than you are…
Dec 30 – Mercury square Saturn. You may face a delay or setback today. A conversation can hit a wall, so given a choice, have important communications or handle paperwork either the day before or after this. You may feel contracted or pessimistic re: a decision, plan or the future or it all seems like hard work.
Higher expressions are taking responsibility for your thoughts, words and perspective, remaining steady during a challenge, making a difficult but necessary decision or strategic planning with a realistic timeline. Maybe you don’t get everything you want right now. The purpose of delays will be revealed later. You’ll see.
🎉🌟Happy New Year! 🌟🎉
Jan 1, 2026 – We have two expressions of Mercury in one day and they are radically different. Early we have Mercury square Neptune and later, Mercury moves into Capricorn.
Mercury square Neptune. When you’re at the effect of it this nonlinear energy can generate confusion, melancholy, disillusionment and low vitality, but you can shift it by utilizing it deliberately. It fuels creativity (as audience or creator), supports spiritual practices, rest, leisure and being in nature. You can daydream, journal, read or write poetry, dance or do a sacred ritual to welcome your New Year. Your mind can transcend 3D reality and that’s the point.
Open to your imagination and see what comes through. No matter how far-fetched a message, idea or a dream may seem, it’s for you, otherwise it wouldn’t be in your consciousness. Stay open to your dreams and allow yourself to play in the higher realms. This is the final Mercury square Neptune in Pisces, the most creative, experiential sign in the zodiac. Have an artist’s date, let your mind wander and nourish your spirit.
Mercury in Capricorn. This is a reality check; what is and isn’t working? Outdated projects, systems and structures have to go or be revised. It’s time to plan and make practical decisions in order to see desired results. This is perfect for intention-setting, making a To Do list with the steps required to accomplish your goals. You can adjust as needed going forward, as adaptability will be part of the skill set needed to thrive in our evolving world.
Mercury in Capricorn asks you to embody your Authority and mastery, rather than just ambitiously seeking the spoils of success. In your Authority, Self-trust is paramount as you come from your center, rather than seeking feedback from others for validation. With mastery, your knowledge and proficiency isn’t performative, you transmit a world you know deeply, a language you speak fluently and a universe you invite others into. What a gift that is to the world, whatever your path.
Jan 2 – Chiron Direct in Aries. When Chiron turns Direct it’s about operating as your Self with courage and compassion, rather than diagnosing what’s lacking, missing or needs healing. Be willing to live your truth and honor your will, aligned with your heart and soul. You are needed on board as the truth of who you are, no more hiding; show up, be bold and be real. This is a spiritual practice for 2026.
The Sun in Capricorn requires responsibility for deciding where you place your energy and attention and what is outdated as you move into the next leg of your journey. Trust the endings, they will be followed by new beginnings that will crystalize as we move through 2026 and you will be amazed by what comes through you.
I am grateful for your presence on our journey together. 🌷
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ~ The Dalai Lama
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Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Coach and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping seekers discover who they came here to be and how to create an evolving, empowered and meaningful life. It is a joyful, heartfelt journey. www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️