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While the heat has gone out of yesterday’s Full Moon, the first weekend of 2026 is the perfect time for a confrontation between and Mars that is putting your work/life balance to the test. This is a reminder to put some early guardrails in place, both ahead of the Moon’s return to your romantic sector tomorrow and of Jupiter’s return in June to begin your luckiest year for love in over a decade.

The Moon is still in your communication sector after yesterday’s Full Moon, allowing you to capitalise on the pressure this put on any stubborn communication roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined. While the Moon will leave tomorrow, unlike most years, this annual push to get the communication lines open will have the ongoing support of Jupiter, the largest and most powerful planet in the solar system, until he leaves in June.

When Mercury, the planet of communication left your relationship sector two days ago, he not only ended all planetary activity on the relationship front, with no planets in your communication sector either, with no external support to keep the communication lines open. Fortunately, not only is the Moon returning for its first visit to your communication sector for the year tomorrow, but having spent months rather than weeks here, Mercury has left you with everything needed to keep the communication lines open on your own.

The Moon is not only still in Cancer, where as a Full Moon its clash with the Sun in your relationship sector may have a balance between your own and your relationship needs under pressure, but is clashed with Mars there today. If there is some personal and/or relationship tension or strong emotional responses, it is simply that having Jupiter in Cancer is personally empowering, making you less willing to compromise. Helping to turn this into an opportunity is having Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication on board.

In a case of perfect timing, it is over the first weekend of 2026 that a Full Moon is putting how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off to the test. Two days after Mercury left and ended all planetary activity in your romantic sector, but 12 days before Venus, the planet of love returns to begin the most important relationship months of 2026, this couldn’t be more timely.

Mercury’s return to your romantic sector two days ago not only completes the line up of planets that is getting 2026 off to a romantically charged start, but in time to become part of a rare cosmic phenomenon that is set to play out in the heavens over the coming days. Already the Sun and Venus, the planet of love are aligned here but within two days they will catch up and align with Mars, with Mercury catching up with all three next week. This will create a rare cosmic alignment that is giving the spirit of romance a serious boost.

At the same time that Chiron, the planet of healing is settling into his first full day in direct motion in your relationship sector, the dwarf planet Eris has come to a standstill as she prepares to turn direct. For another eight days, with Chiron in direct but Eris still in retrograde motion and both at a standstill, an overlapping of the past, present and future allows you to get a better understanding of each.

The Moon is not only spending its first visit of 2026 to an adventurous part of your chart and as a Full Moon, but at a friendly aspect to Saturn and Neptune in your romantic sector. This is the first Full Moon while Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion is here in 12 years and the Moon’s last visit before Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams leaves your romantic sector later in the month, putting some serious weight behind a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia.

As well as leaving you more emotionally engaged and aware, because the Moon had returned during Mercury, the planet of communication’s final days in Sagittarius and as it formed a friendly aspect to Pluto in your communication sector as it moved through, with everything needed to keep the communication lines open as well. With the communication and relationship gods planning something big for 2026, this has been a good way to start.

The Moon is not only still in your relationship sector after yesterday’s Full Moon, but after its clash with the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Capricorn yesterday, a clash with Mars there today continues to put pressure on a balance between your own and your relationship needs. However, with Mercury, the planet of communication in his first weekend in Capricorn and the Moon making a friendly aspect to Saturn in your communication sector, with everything needed to turn this into an opportunity rather than a challenge.

The weekend will be making it easier to hold onto the spirit of romance and also a sense of anticipation that the Moon left you with when it left and wrapped up its first visit to your romantic sector for the year yesterday. While there are currently no planets there, as the Moon moved through your heart’s over the horizon radar will have picked up its hints on how to line up for some major romantic developments ahead.

The weekend is making it easier to embrace the Moon’s first visit to your romantic sector for the year and the additional potency that, as a Full Moon, this is giving these romantically charged lunar vibes. The Moon comes around every four weeks and this will create some of the most romantically charged days of the month and while a lot more potent, for the first time in 12 years lucky Jupiter is here and he expands anything that comes into his orbit. The love gods are stating up front that this will be a big year for matters of the heart and all things romantic.