Every dated transit for October to December 2026, computed with Swiss Ephemeris rather than transcribed — Venus and Mercury retrograde in Libra, Jupiter into Leo, the nodes changing axis on 5 December. With four predictions written to be scored.
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The short version: the final quarter of 2026 is a rewrite, not a launch. Two personal planets turn retrograde in the same sign within three weeks, the lunar nodes change axis on 5 December, and Saturn ends a long retrograde on the 10th. If you are choosing when to start something, the second half of December is materially clearer than October.
By Savan Vyas — October – December 2026
This is the first of these. The plan is one a month, signed, with dates you can hold me to — because an astrology page that cannot be wrong is not telling you anything.
Everything dated below was computed rather than looked up. The positions come from the same sidereal engine that runs the charts on this site (Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa), and I cross-checked every date against a second independent calculation before publishing. Where the reading is uncertain I have said so rather than rounding it up into confidence.
Venus begins its retrograde phase in the sign it rules. Retrograde is apparent, not real — the planet does not reverse; from Earth it appears to, because we overtake it. What matters astrologically is the period, not the illusion.
Venus governs agreements, aesthetics and what we find worth having. Retrograde in its own sign tends to bring back the unresolved: an old arrangement resurfaces, a price gets renegotiated, a design decision made six months ago starts to look wrong. This is a good window for revisiting terms and a poor one for signing new ones you cannot easily unwind.
Three weeks after Venus, Mercury stations retrograde in the same sign. Two personal planets retrograde together in one sign is the defining feature of this quarter.
Mercury handles the paperwork that Venus negotiates. Overlapping in Tula, the pair concentrate on agreements specifically — contracts, partnerships, the written half of relationships. Expect the detail of an arrangement to matter more than its spirit. Read what you sign twice.
Jupiter changes sign, a shift that happens roughly once a year and sets the tone for the twelve months after it.
Jupiter in Simha favours the visible over the quiet: being credited, being seen, being the named person rather than the contributor. If there is work you have been doing without your name on it, this transit rewards attaching it.
Both planets end their retrograde phases on 13 November. Two stations landing on one date is a genuine coincidence of cycles, not a pattern with extra meaning.
The practical read is simple: the fog over agreements lifts here. If something has been stalled since early October, this is the date after which it tends to move. I would not treat the day itself as magic — allow a week either side.
The lunar nodes change axis. They always move together and always sit opposite; they shift roughly every eighteen months, so this is the quarter's slowest-moving and longest-consequence event.
The Rahu–Ketu axis describes where appetite goes and where it drains. Moving onto the Makara–Karka axis pulls hunger toward structure, status and the long climb, and away from home and safety. Read it as a change of appetite rather than of fortune: what you find yourself wanting shifts, quietly, over months.
Saturn ends its retrograde phase. Saturn is the slowest of the classical planets and its stations mark the turn of long processes rather than events.
Where Saturn has been retrograde, things that were formally settled tended to reopen — approvals, obligations, the slow institutional machinery. Direct motion is when that machinery starts moving forward again. Nothing arrives on the 10th; the difference is felt over the following weeks.
Six weeks after entering Simha, Jupiter stations retrograde in it.
The recognition Jupiter in Simha offers becomes less external and more internal for a few months. Not a withdrawal of opportunity — more that it stops arriving unprompted and has to be asked for.
Read together, the quarter has a clear shape. October and the first half of November are a re-working period: two personal planets retrograde in the sign of agreements, with the paperwork planet joining the negotiation planet. Things started here tend to get revised.
From 13 November the personal planets are direct and the quarter opens up. Then the slow structure changes: the nodes on the 5th of December, Saturn on the 10th. Those two are the events with consequences past this year.
If you are choosing a date to begin something that needs to hold — a contract, a partnership, a role — the second half of December reads materially clearer than October. That is a statement about the general sky, not about your chart, and the two can disagree. Your Dasha period and where these transits land relative to your own Moon will change the picture, sometimes completely.
Every position here is computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa — sidereal, the same basis AskSoma uses for birth charts. No date is transcribed from another site or a printed calendar.
Before publishing, each date is checked against a second, independently written calculation in the codebase. Where the two disagreed during drafting, I stopped and resolved the disagreement rather than picking the more convenient answer. That happened once while writing this issue.
The predictions above are written to be scored, and every one of them can be a miss. They go into AskSoma's Prediction Ledger, where dated calls are tracked to hit, partial or miss.
You will not find an accuracy percentage on this site yet, and that is deliberate. The number of resolved predictions is still too small for a percentage to mean anything, and early figures mislead in a specific way — windows that closed before anyone tracked them are structurally over-represented. When the resolved sample is large enough to be honest about, the number goes up publicly, whatever it says.
Retrogrades here are described as periods, not as omens. A planet does not reverse direction; the appearance comes from our own orbital motion. What holds up in practice is the timing of the phase, not the drama around it.
No. This is the general sky — where the planets are for everyone. What it means for you specifically depends on your own chart: which houses these signs occupy relative to your Moon and ascendant, and which Dasha period you are running. A transit that is significant in the general sky can be nearly silent in an individual chart, and the reverse happens too.
Two reasons, both boring. First, sidereal versus tropical: this site uses the sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, which currently sits about 24 degrees from the tropical zodiac most Western sites use, so sign changes fall on different dates. Second, time zones: a station that happens late on the 2nd in UTC is the 3rd in much of Asia. Neither is an error; they are different conventions, stated openly.
Less than it looks. Mercury and Venus both stationing on 13 November is a coincidence of two independent cycles, and coincidences happen. It is worth noting because the practical effect stacks — both agreement-related planets resume forward motion together — but it is not a rare portent, and anyone selling it as one is adding drama the astronomy does not support.
That is stronger than the evidence supports. The useful version is narrower: this window favours revisiting and revising over committing to terms you cannot unwind. If something has to be signed in October, it can be signed in October — read it carefully, keep an exit, and expect the detail to matter. Postponing a good decision for six weeks has its own cost.
Each one above states how it is scored, including what would count as a miss. The dated claims go into the Prediction Ledger, which tracks them to hit, partial or miss rather than quietly forgetting the ones that did not land. That is the point of publishing them with dates attached.
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