The year turns on a date in late June, when Jupiter enters Leo and settles into your first house of self and presence. Until then, Jupiter has been moving through Cancer, your twelfth house of rest, solitude and what happens out of sight, and it turns direct there on 11 March. Read the first half of 2026 as a long quiet preparation. You may find that you want more time alone than usual, and that this is not withdrawal but a kind of gathering. Things you have half-known about yourself are sorting themselves into order without much fuss. From 30 June the mood changes. Jupiter in your own sign tends to make a person more visible, more generous and a little more willing to be seen taking up space. You do not have to announce anything. Notice instead which rooms you walk into with more ease, and which invitations you stop apologising for declining. Jupiter turns retrograde in Leo on 13 December, which suggests the year closes with a review rather than a rush: you take stock of what the expansion has actually given you. A practical suggestion for the early months: choose one place that is reliably quiet, a bench, a library corner, a slow walk at the edge of the day, and keep an unofficial appointment there once a week. Nothing needs to be solved while you sit. The twelfth house rewards people who give it unstructured time, and the habit will serve you well when the brighter second half arrives and the calendar fills. Through the year, Saturn and Neptune move into Aries, your ninth house, so your beliefs and sense of larger purpose are being slowly rebuilt. You may feel less certain of old convictions. That is useful. Let the questions stay open a while, and let your life, rather than argument, supply the answers.