The Vibrational Astrology Diary
by Linda Berry
Pluto is in its double cycle for 2026 from January 12 through February 4.
Today, Thursday (1/29/2026), the strongest vibrational influence comes from Mercury and Venus joining with Neptune (3*). This Vibrational Energy Pattern is focused on taking actions that achieve your goals. There is an awareness here of the way other people relate to your actions and goals and a need to relate to others in a harmonious way. This is balanced by a deep imperative to truly be yourself and do what is a real expression of your personal nature. This is about realizing that life requires dreams and the process of making those dreams come true in a rush of beauty that can be amazing and wonderful. pFor VA Students (8, 16, 24 ,32)
This vibrational energy pattern is better and more effectively implemented by making connections between things and people who do not seem to be connected. This is a good time to start new projects.
The AstroFrequency(s) for the day (strongest listed first)
1 (6*) Doing things your own way, evaluating the ideas of others and only changing if you agree with them
The Sabian Symbols of our Featured Planets: Mercury, Venus, Neptune >>
The uplifting message from the featured planet positions that shows the way through: You are embracing the whole of life with a love that transcends personal self-interest. You are opening up to the initial tentative pulse of creative energy within you, feeling it on a primal level of awareness, embracing it and allowing it to rise up in a flow within you.
The more dysfunctional expression of this message: You are sitting on the fence, refusing to make a commitment. You are failing to open up to the tentative pulse of creation that you feel within you because of a lack of commitment to the process or being too weakly connected or being too fearful and insecure.
15 Aquarius = Mercury merging with Venus [Two lovebirds sitting on a fence] You are embracing the whole of life with a love that transcends personal self-interest and/or you are sitting on the fence, refusing to make a commitment
1 Aries = Neptune [A woman rises out of water, a seal rises and embraces her] You are opening up to the initial tentative pulse of creative energy within you, feeling it on a primal level of awareness, embracing it and allowing it to rise up in a flow within you and/or you are failing to open up to the tentative pulse of creation that you feel within you because of a lack of commitment to the process or being too weakly connected or being too fearful and insecure
The Two Planet Diary
{When 2 planets interact it influences the way we want to express ourselves, our attitudes, moods, and impulses. Becoming aware of these vibrations helps us to guide these aspects of ourselves with awareness rather than being controlled by them.
There are longer patterns which tend to have more impact because we feel them for several days in a row and there are quick Moon patterns that impact our moods and feelings for a window of a couple of hours either side of the exact time of the aspect. The longer patterns are stronger and so are listed here, followed by a section on the Moods of the Moon}.
Jan 27 – Jan 31 (exact Jan 29) Mercury in Aquarius is joining with Venus in Aquarius. This energy is increasing in influence until it peaks at 5:17 AM on Jan 29 then it is decreasing fading out around 5 AM on Jan 31. This vibrational energy pattern brings an attraction to communication and connecting ideas in a beautiful way. You will likely be able to communicate more effectively right now.
Jan 26 – Jan 29 (exact Jan 27) Mars in Aquarius is joining with Pluto in Aquarius. This energy is decreasing fading out around 2 AM on Jan 29. This vibrational energy pattern brings an intense, compulsive drive to accomplish your goals.
Jan 9 – Jan 30 (exact Jan 20) Saturn in Pisces is sharing freely (sextile) with Uranus in Taurus. This energy is decreasing fading out around 12:30 AM on Jan 30. This vibrational energy pattern brings a desire to gather with other people who think like you do and to join together in projects of common concern.
The Moods of the Moon
{The Moon patterns only last a short period of time. They impact our moods and feelings for around 4 hours, 2 hours each side of the exact position.}
Starting at 12:56 PM, peaking at 2:56 PM, the Moon in Gemini is acting and agitating (square) with Saturn in Pisces. This 4 hr period is a time when you want to focus on what is really important in your life and take actions to support those things. This could involve things like working on long-term projects or cleaning out the things that are not important. So this is a good time to clean up something that has been bothering you.
At 5:31 PM the Moon enters Cancer, staying for 2 ½ days and shifting your emotional focus to close interactions with those that you consider to be family and to expanding your family group. You want to be able to genuinely be yourself and feel safe around those you love.
Starting at 3:40 PM, peaking at 5:40 PM, the Moon in Cancer is acting and agitating (square) with Neptune in Aries. This 4 hr period highlights your dreams and is a great time to do anything that is especially magical for you, like visiting some special place that you love to go to. There may be some feelings of disconnection from the everyday world and perhaps a sense of fuzziness or vagueness. It will pass as the Moon moves beyond Neptune.
The Cyclic Patterns Diary {These are patterns that continue over an extended period of time and you may find that rereading this periodically will help you effectively handle what we are all experiencing as our “astral weather” in this time period.}
On January 25, the First Quarter Moon Phase was reached with the Moon in Taurus and the Sun in Aquarius. This Vibrational Energy Pattern will be influencing us until the Full Moon on February 1, 2025. This Vibrational Energy Pattern emphasizes the importance of realizing that we each play our part in the network of living connections we all live in. As each of us develops and expresses our gifts we find our place in the living network around us. There is a sense of a responsibility to act in ways that bring more beauty into life. The Sabian Symbol for the Sun is “A Child born of an Eggshell” which is about you bringing to birth within yourself a new type of being whose deepest instincts are based on cooperation, love and awareness rather than on status and hierarchy. If you cling to old patterns based on status, being afraid to let go, then you will be unable to connect with your greater potential. The Symbol for the Moon is “A Woman of Samaria”. This is about the opportunity to experience love that recognizes your alienation and embraces it, reaching across the abyss to affirm you. You just might be able to move beyond separateness, alienation and loneliness.
On January 18, the New Moon occurred with the Moon and Sun in Capricorn. This Vibrational Energy Pattern will be influencing us until the next New Moon on February 17, 2025. This vibrational energy pattern brings a strong need to create a flow of our personal experiences with a spiritual understanding of the world. There is a strong call here to join with others and be ready to respond in the moment. The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon is “A Woman reading Tea Leaves” which is about opening up and seeing with great clarity the hidden level of reality where you are opening up to your intuitive awareness and taking responsibility for your impact of everything around you. If you operate blindly without taking responsibility for your life and your decisions, you are likely to have problems.
On December 21, the Sun enters Capricorn, the Winter Solstice. This Vibrational Energy Pattern will be influencing us at least until the Spring Equinox on March 20, 2026. This Vibrational Energy Pattern brings an awareness of natural beauty and a drive to contribute to it. This can be expressed either through deception and betrayal or by attuning to the highest spiritual awarenesses and transcending distorted ego patterns. The Sabian Symbol for the Sun to Moon relationship at the Solstice is “A Sword in a Museum” which speaks to laying aside the use of force to gain your ends and embracing love and peace both within yourself and in your interactions with others. If you refuse to do this you are likely to get caught in a pattern where you are holding grudges and being ready to fight others at any sign of opposition or possibly giving up in defeat and feeling worthless and useless.
On September 21, the New Moon Solar Eclipse occurred with the Moon and Sun in Virgo. This Vibrational Pattern will be influencing us until the next Solar Eclipse on February 17, 2026. This Vibrational Energy Pattern brings an evaluation of emotional patterns and responses seeking to separate deception and betrayal from the seeking of deep spiritual truth. If you listen clearly in your heart you will know which is which. This is a time for you to focus inside yourself and explore the deeper aspects inside seeking to get past any barriers that keep you from connecting into your unique self and your gifts. You are encouraged to project the current patterns into the future and see what will bring the best results for everybody involved. The Sabian Symbol for the Eclipse is “A False Call unheard in attention to immediate service”.This is about the importance of totally focusing on the immediate project or development in which you’re engaged, ignoring all distractions, operating from a state of personal completion and fulfillment. There is danger in you being pulled away from critical tasks, responding to outside interruptions and losing your sense of yourself and your ability to pursue the opportunities available to you.
On September 7, a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse occurs with Moon in Pisces and the Sun in Virgo. This Vibrational Pattern will be influencing us until the next Lunar Eclipse on March 3, 2026. This Vibrational Energy Pattern encourages us to see beyond our emotional reactions to the truth of this moment showing that we must learn to embrace that which we have previously excluded. We are challenged to adjust our visions of the future to see more clearly the possibilities for sudden insights into the deep archaic patterns that are holding us back from realizing our dreams. The Sabian Symbol for the Sun is “An Orangutan” which involves sensing powerful primitive distortions deep within you and recognizing the need to refine and guide those forces into more mature expression. It is dangerous in this energy pattern to take for granted your right to do whatever you feel like in life without considering its effect on other people. The Symbol for the Moon is “The Flow of Inspiration” which brings the potential for you to connect into the flow of spiritual inspiration moving through you and out into the world, If you close up and get caught in a cycle of negativity you will find your perceptions limited which will shut you off from others.
The Retrograde Diary: NO DEGREE CHANGES TODAY >> Introductory Period of Pluto2026: Reworking of Jupiter: Turning Forward of Uranus: Resolution of Saturn, Neptune, Pluto2025. {During the apparent retrograde period each planet’s movement relative to the backdrop of the stars slows down, reverses and then turns back around forward again concentrating its vibration in a particular area. There are issues that each planet focuses on during the period leading up to its turn backwards. These issues are addressed again to be reworked on during the retrograde period [in brackets] then a new understanding of these issues occurs during the post retrograde period. These issues are not from Vibrational Astrology, this is an experiment based on interpretations of the Sabian Symbols that I wrote many years ago. If an entry resonates with you, then claim it, if not, release it, it was for someone else. I would very much like your feedback on this. Points of especially concentrated energy are marked with “!!!”}
Mercury clear of any shadow (Dec 17, 2025 – Feb 11, 2026
Venus clear of any shadow (May 17, 2025 – Aug 30, 2026)
Mars clear of any shadow (May 3, 2025– Nov 4, 2026)
Jupiter R {Aug 17, 2025 !Sep13! [Nov 11 – !Jan 10, 2026! – Mar 11] !May 8! Jun 6} 15, 20, 25 Cancer → Jan. 26 – Feb. 4: (18-17 Can) Reworking: Working on being hungry and blocked and opening up to help from a mother spirit recognizing that you need a greater awareness and strength than you have in order to penetrate through the barriers and find the nourishment you need, learning to cease refusing help from others, seeking to do it all by yourself and gradually getting weaker and weaker [A hen scratching for her chicks]
Saturn {Apr 6, 2025 !May 7! [Jul 13 – !Sep 21! –Nov 28] !Jan 30, 2026! Mar 2} 25, 28 Pisces, 1 Aries → Jan. 25 – Feb. 4: (28-29 Pis) Resolution: Remember recognizing the splitting of the divine into many facets or rays of which you’re one, celebrating the beauty of the whole and the beauty of each part of the whole, learning to cease locking yourself into seeing everything from a particular perspective and missing the broad overview, tending to over-analyze everything and losing track of the essence in a study of the pieces [A prism]
Uranus R {May 20, 2025 !Jun 25! [Sep 6 – !Nov 21! – Feb 4, 2026] !Apr 15! May 21, 2026} 25, 27 Taurus, 1 Gemini → Dec. 29, 2025 – Mar. 11, 2026: (28-27 Tau) Turning Forward: The Challenge is being pursued by a more mature form of love that you can open up to, bringing greater awareness of your internal beauty and your interconnections to others, learning to cease closing down and rejecting the love offered due to adherence to social expectations [A woman pursued by mature romance]
Neptune {Mar. 13,2025 !Apr 20! [July 3 – !Sep 23! – Dec.10] !Feb 20, 2026! Mar. 30} 27, 28, 29 Pisces → Jan. 26 – Feb. 27: (30-1 Pis) Resolution: Remember opening up to the initial tentative pulse of creative energy within you, feeling it on a primal level of awareness, embracing it and allowing it to rise up in a flow within you, learning to cease failing to open up to the tentative pulse of creation that you feel within you because of a lack of commitment to the process or being too weakly connected or being too fearful and insecure [A woman rises out of water, a seal rises and embraces her]
Pluto 2026 {Jan 12, 2026 !Feb 20![May 6 – !Jul 27! – Oct 16] !Dec 29! Feb 6, 2027} 3, 4, 5 Aquarius → Jan. 12 – Feb. 10: (3-4 Aqu) Introductory: Are you making a deeper connection into the divine energy of light and love, healing the damage within you and within others that is the result of following distorted external patterns, becoming an experienced healer, learning to cease making false claims of abilities and powers that you do not possess, seeking to manipulate others into believing your claims [A Hindu healer]
Pluto 2025 {Jan 10, 2025 !Feb 18! [May 4 – !Jul 25! – Oct 14] !Dec 27! Feb 4, 2026} 1 Aquarius, 2 Aquarius, 3 Aquarius → Jan. 9 – Feb. 4: (3-4 Aqu) Resolution: Remember making a deeper connection into the divine energy of light and love, healing the damage within you and within others that is the result of following distorted external patterns, becoming an experienced healer, learning to cease making false claims of abilities and powers that you do not possess, seeking to manipulate others into believing your claims [A Hindu healer]
Next Cycle Diary:
Pluto {Jan 12, 2026 !Feb 20![May 6 – !Jul 27! – Oct 16] !Dec 29! Feb 6, 2027} 3, 4, 5 Aquarius
Mercury {Feb 12, 2026 !Feb 17! [Feb 26 – !Mar 7! – Mar 20] !Apr 5! Apr 9} 8, 16, 22 Pisces
Neptune {Mar. 16, 2026!Apr 23! [July 7 – !Sep 25! – Dec.12] !Feb 23, 2027! Apr 2} 1, 3, 4 Aries
Saturn {Apr 20, 2026 !May 22![Jul 26 – !Oct 4! –Dec 10] !Feb 11, 2027! Mar 15} 7, 11, 14 Aries
Uranus {May 25, 2026 !Jun 30! [Sep 10 – !Nov 25! – Feb 8, 2027] !Apr 19! May 25, 2027} 1, 3, 5 Gemini
Venus {Aug 31, 2026 !Sep11! [Oct 3 – !Oct 23! – Nov 14] !Dec 5! Dec 15} 22 Libra, 0 Scorpio, 8 Scorpio}
Jupiter {Sep 16, 2026 !Oct 15! [Dec 13 – !Feb 10, 2027! – Apr 12] !Jun 11! Jul 10} 17, 22, 27 Leo
Mars {Nov 5, 2026 !Nov27![Jan 10, 2027 – !Feb 19! – Apr 1] !May 16! Jun 8} 20 Leo, 0, 10 Virgo
All times are given in Eastern USA time zone.
Namaste,
Linda Berry
*Planetary Pattern Pictures and Sabian Symbol Interpretations, ©Linda Berry, AstroSleuth.org, 1* = 50-100 points, 2* = 100-150 points, etc.