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The closer you get to Venus, the planet of love’s return to a social and serendipitous part of your chart in two days, the more important it becomes to start building trust in what your heart and gut are telling you. Venus’ return will bring the laws of attraction and synchronicity together, making it easier to find yourself in the right place at the right time. Especially if you are willing to be spontaneous.

While Venus won’t stick around for the upcoming New Moon, she will still be in an adventurous part of your chart when it returns tomorrow. While working until the end to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, it is an alignment with Uranus that peaks today that has the laws of attraction and synchronicity most closely aligned. As Mars moves into his final seven days in an adventurous part of your chart, he is adding his passion into the mix.

Until the Moon leaves and wraps up its first visit to your relationship sector for the year, the focus today is not only on your relationships, but with a need to remain as emotionally engaged as possible. With the Moon not only gone by tomorrow but Venus’ return to an adventurous part of your chart a day later likely to see the planet of love steal all your attention, this is a window of opportunity that can’t be wasted.

While you already have the Sun and every planet that will return to your relationship sector this year all here at the same time, it is the Moon’s return tomorrow that will make this a full house. While Venus will leave before the Moon can catch up and align with the Sun to create the first New Moon of 2026, she will be here when the Moon returns with a chance to become even more emotionally engaged and aware.

Two days before Venus, the planet of love is due to return to your relationship sector, Mars is not only just seven days away, but before he returns the Sun and Mercury, the planet of communication, will be here as well. Before the focus not only shifts onto your relationships but is set to stay there, as the Moon makes its first visit to your romantic sector for the year, today is all about capturing today’s romantically charged lunar vibes before they run their course.

Ahead of both the Moon’s return to your romantic sector to begin the lead up of the first New Moon of 2026, a friendly aspect between Venus, the planet of love here and Uranus in an adventurous part of your chart peaks. Venus still be here when the Moon returns, but will be gone by the time the Moon aligns with the Sun as a New Moon. This is bringing together a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia that the Moon can add even more energy to.

While Pluto is on his own in your romantic sector and has been since early 2025, by the time Mars returns in seven days the Sun and Venus and Mercury, the planets of love communication will all be here. Starting with Venus in two days, once things start to move on the romantic front the dam will burst and the most romantically charged months of 2026 will be underway.

It is just as Mars becomes the third planet to move into his final seven days in your communication sector that a friendly aspect between Venus here and Uranus in your relationship sector peaks. This is something that the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Mars will all do before leaving, with the planet of love able to get the ball rolling while making the final two days of her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice some of the best.

After a friendly aspect to the dwarf planet Ceres in your romantic sector yesterday, giving you a better read on her deep dive in your heart’s needs and priorities, as the Moon starts wrapping up its first visit to Sagittarius for the year, a friendly aspect to Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos there peaks. Eris only turned direct four days ago, giving matters of the heart the green light.

Two days before she is due to leave Capricorn and then not to return again until 2027, Venus’ friendly aspect to Uranus in your romantic sector peaks. In the short term, with the laws of attraction and synchronicity in effect and Uranus in retrograde motion, this is a day when anything is possible. Long term, this will help the planet of love raise the bar on your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the coming year.

While Venus, the planet of love is just two days away from her return to Aquarius, her final days in a nostalgic part of your chart and of the nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane she is taking your heart on, is set to become even more nostalgic between now and then. Before shifting her focus onto the future, Venus is encouraging you to embrace the doors still open to the past.

While the Moon’s return to a social and serendipitous part of your chart tomorrow will be before Venus leaves, the planet of love will be gone by the time it can align with the Sun to create a New Moon. While Venus is already using the laws of attraction and synchronicity to put you in the right place at the right time, as her friendly aspect to Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected peaks, this is becoming even more enhanced. The Moon’s return tomorrow will make this even sharper.