I want to share what I’m sensing for this eclipse cycle — not as an abstract forecast, but as a guide for how you might feel it move through your life. These are the lessons that will keep returning over the next year, shaping how we breathe, love, and endure.
Saturn: The Reckoner
Saturn is moving through the Bhadrapada stars, and his medicine is never gentle. He clears illusions, strips away denial, and asks us to stay with the hard things longer than we want to.
If you’ve been feeling like you can’t outrun your shadows anymore — that’s Saturn. He’s asking: Can you stop performing strength and actually let yourself be held in the deep water?
When you resist, it can feel like despair, numbness, or distraction. When you soften into it, something else happens: The illusion burns away, and you find yourself quieter… steadier… finally breathing.
Rahu + Ketu: The Polarizers
These two stir the extremes. Rahu magnifies obsessions, conspiracies, and apocalyptic storylines. Ketu dissolves the hollow parts of love and pleasure — the ways we perform connection instead of inhabiting it.
Together they test your relationships: Are you resting in someone’s presence because it feels true, or because it props up your image? Are you taking responsibility in love, or hiding behind duty while your heart goes untouched?
It’s okay if those questions sting. They’re meant to. They’re meant to bring you back to honesty.
Jupiter: The Gentle Return
Through it all, Jupiter sits in Punarvasu — the star of renewal. His whisper is simple: “Again and again, you are restored.”
This means that even when everything feels like it’s falling apart, the cycle will bring you back to light. You don’t need to have all the answers. You don’t need to hold it together perfectly.
Healing is spiral-shaped — falling apart and coming home to yourself, over and over.
The Integration
Here’s the bigger picture:
Saturn in Bhadrapada teaches you to face both the fire (burning away what’s false) and the water (sitting with what remains).
The Phalgunis teach you to balance joy and responsibility in relationship — love that is both tender and steady.
Rahu and Ketu test whether you’ll scatter into extremes or root into truth.
Jupiter reminds you that no matter how chaotic it feels, you always return to yourself.
This is not a year to keep performing. It’s a year to breathe. To let yourself be undone without rushing to fix. To find intimacy that is real, not rehearsed.
Because when you live from this place — your authenticity — you stop chasing. You stop forcing. You become a quiet revolution. The kind that makes other women whisper: “If she can live like that, maybe I can too.”
Here is more technical information:
Saturn in the Bhadras
First came Saturn to clear the way and to clearly set us up for what is coming. Saturn is the planet known to require us to pay our karmic debts up front and the more we can be on board with Saturn and his required humility, the better the rest of the transits will go.
Lesson: Saturn in Purva → Uttara Bhadrapada is like walking from fire into water. Purva Bhadra demands the courage to face illusions and burn away falseness. Uttara Bhadra insists on staying in the deep waters long enough to accept what remains. Saturn’s slow grind here has been pushing the collective into reckoning with shadow, stripping away denial, and demanding endurance.
If we resist: we get escapism, despair, or numbness. “Putting our heads in the sand” in Uttara Bhadra means avoiding the deep dive—and missing the initiation into healing.
While Saturn was transiting, Rahu was retrograding in opposition through the same area (Rahu and Ketu always move retrograde).
Rahu–Ketu Axis
Rahu in Uttara & Purva Bhadra → Shatabishak → Dhanishta
Purva Bhadra Rahu has amplified extremes—obsession with truth/untruth, conspiracy, apocalyptic visioning.
Shatabishak Rahu in 2026 swings to collective healing: The “100 healers” nakshatra. It asks: Can we harness Rahu’s disruptive energy toward innovation in medicine, technology, and consciousness? Or will we scatter into fragmentation?
By August 2026 in Dhanishta, Rahu bangs the drum of collective rhythm—wealth, power, and sound as tools of unity or domination.
Ketu in Uttara Phalguni → Purva Phalguni → Magha
Uttara Phalguni Ketu has been dissolving rigid roles and contracts—showing us where “relationship as duty” has grown hollow.
Now in Purva Phalguni, Ketu is exposing our attachment to pleasure, vanity, and entitlement. The shadows you named (“killing each other”) can manifest as grasping, projection, or sacrificing others for personal comfort.
By Magha (August 2026), Ketu returns us to ancestral reckoning: What of our lineage is worth honoring, what must be cut?
Collective Forecast: Two Lessons
Relationship to Self (Bhadrapada axis):
If we dodge the uncomfortable both/and—Purva’s fire + Uttara’s stillness—we miss Saturn’s invitation to mature healing. The work is to hold intensity without collapsing, to enter silence without denial.Relationship to Other (Phalguni axis):
When we live only in the shadows of the Phalgunis, partnership becomes extractive: romance without responsibility (Purva) or duty without tenderness (Uttara). Collectively, this shows up as exploitation, betrayal, and conflict. The healing here is restoring the sacred contract of relationship: play + responsibility, intimacy + integrity.
Jupiter in Punarvasu (until mid-2026)
The balm: Jupiter, as ruler of both Punarvasu and Purva Bhadra, is tying the threads.
Punarvasu’s gift: the return to the original light after storms, the renewal cycle (“again and again”). Jupiter here softens the extremes of Purva Bhadra Rahu and Saturn’s heaviness. It offers hope, reminding us that healing isn’t a one-shot ordeal but a rhythm of falling apart and being restored.
For the collective: Jupiter is saying, “Don’t get lost in the drama of endings—look for the return.” It’s a reminder that growth often comes in spirals, not straight lines.
The Bigger Picture
Integration point: The Bhadras (self) and Phalgunis (other) aren’t two separate lessons—they mirror each other. When we refuse our own inner both/and, we project shadow into relationships. When we fail at relational integrity, we retreat into self-denial. The axis of healing is weaving them together: self-truth feeding relational truth.
Rahu’s shift: The move from Purva Bhadra → Shatabishak is key. Collective healing will accelerate in 2026, but only if we’ve done the Saturn–Bhadra work of deep honesty. Otherwise, Rahu scatters us into endless “healing trends” without true transformation.
Ketu’s descent into Magha: August 2026 will test whether we’ve integrated ancestral wisdom or are clinging to patriarchal/ancestral wounds. Magha is regal but haunted; Ketu there can liberate us from outdated lineage contracts—or keep us bound to their ghosts.
More about the nakshatras:
Purva Phalguni ↔ Uttara Phalguni
These two nakshatras sit back-to-back in Leo (Purva) and Virgo (Uttara). They’re often seen as two stages of partnership:
Purva Phalguni (ruled by Venus, symbolized by the bed/couch): the joy of attraction, the sweetness of romance, the desire to rest in another’s presence. It carries the impulse to bond, to seek pleasure, to experience love in its generous, heart-centered expression. The shadow is clinging or seeking validation through the partner.
Uttara Phalguni (ruled by the Sun, symbolized by the marriage contract or two back legs of a bed): the next step—responsibility, shared dharma, the work of partnership. Where Purva wants to bask, Uttara says: “Alright, how do we sustain this? What duties do we hold together?” The shadow can be rigidity or over-emphasis on duty at the expense of play.
Living with each other in relationship:
Together, they teach balance between delight and duty. Purva invites us to cherish intimacy and warmth; Uttara reminds us to honor the contract and the practical work of building a life together. The lesson is not to get stuck at one pole—pure romance without responsibility, or pure responsibility without tenderness—but to weave them.
Purva Bhadrapada ↔ Uttara Bhadrapada
These live at the Aquarius–Pisces cusp, often called the “two feet of the funeral bed.” They turn the focus inward, dealing less with the “other” and more with the deepest relationship—self with Self.
Purva Bhadrapada (ruled by Jupiter, symbol: front legs of the cot, fire altar): intense, visionary, capable of austerity and idealism. It seeks to cut through illusion, even ruthlessly, to find truth. The shadow: extremism, burning oneself out, or cynicism.
Uttara Bhadrapada (ruled by Saturn, symbol: back legs of the cot, serpent of the deep): quieter, more surrendered, oriented to compassion and inner stillness. It tends toward endurance, patience, and a watery wisdom. The shadow: inertia or self-denial.
Relationship to self:
Together they form a passage. Purva Bhadrapada asks you to confront illusions, strip away false identities, face your own fire. Uttara Bhadrapada offers the cooling waters after the fire, the deep rest that comes when you’ve faced yourself and can sit with what is. The lesson: self-relationship is forged in the dance between radical honesty (Purva) and compassionate acceptance (Uttara).
Now (late 2025)
Saturn in Uttara Bhadra (Pisces): Collective initiation into the depths. The work is endurance, stillness, facing what lies beneath without fleeing. Healing requires sitting with both fire and water.
Rahu in Purva Bhadra (Aquarius): Amplifies extremes, polarization, apocalyptic visions. Our collective imagination can burn us out—or ignite transformation.
Ketu in Purva Phalguni (Leo): Exposing the shadow of pleasure-seeking: vanity, entitlement, performative relationships. What contracts of love are hollow?
Jupiter in Punarvasu (Gemini): Gentle return to hope—“again and again we are restored.” Renewal is possible, even after deep rupture.
February 2026 Eclipses
Rahu in Shatabishak (Aquarius): Shift from fire-and-fury Purva Bhadra to the “100 healers.” Collective medicine, new healing modalities, technology of wellness, but also fragmentation if we scatter.
Ketu in Purva Phalguni (Leo): Relationships still tested—ego and performance can sabotage true intimacy. Shadows may be loud in this eclipse.
Saturn still in Uttara Bhadra: The healing is only real if we’ve stayed in the water—avoiding denial, embracing both depth and surrender.
Forecast: A test of whether we can channel Rahu into collective healing rather than multiplying wounds.
August 2026 Eclipses
Rahu in Dhanishta (Aquarius/Capricorn): Collective rhythm, wealth, sound, drumming. Unity or domination—can the beat pull us together, or will it be weaponized?
Ketu in Magha (Leo): The ancestral reckoning. Ghosts of lineage rise: patriarchal dominance, kingship, bloodline pride. What of our ancestry do we honor, and what must we release?
Saturn in Uttara Bhadra (still): The test of patience deepens. Collective healing demands both honesty and endurance.
Forecast: By this point, the lessons are stark. If we’ve done the Saturn–Bhadra work, Rahu in Dhanishta becomes a drumbeat of unity. If not, it amplifies division. Ketu in Magha forces us to face ancestral baggage—liberation or repetition.
Through It All: Jupiter in Punarvasu (Gemini)
Acts as the quiet teacher behind the scenes.
Reminds us that renewal is cyclical, not linear.
Governs both Punarvasu and Purva Bhadra—tying the theme of returning light to the confrontation with shadow.
Offers a soft path amidst the turbulence: small rituals of restoration, returning to practices of care, remembering that what feels broken can be mended—again and again.
Synthesis
Self (Bhadras): The work is facing the fire (Purva) and staying in the water (Uttara). Saturn insists: there is no shortcut to healing.
Other (Phalgunis): The danger is hollow relationship—romance without responsibility, duty without tenderness. Ketu here dissolves what is false.
Collective Arc: From extremes and visions (Purva Bhadra Rahu) → collective healing (Shatabishak) → collective rhythm/ancestral reckoning (Dhanishta/Magha).
Jupiter’s Thread: Renewal, restoration, remembering hope. Jupiter is the bridge: without it, the eclipses feel like collapse; with it, they become cycles of rebirth.