[2026 ASTROLOGER’S DIARY] Hard Lessons & the Astrology of 2026 | AstroViktor

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Welcome to the Backstage Astrology Marathon. My name is Mara Medina. I’m so happy you’re here to listen to our astrologers and their stories: how they lived 2025 and what they are expecting from 2026.

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I was trying to write a nice introduction, but then I gave up, so I’m just going to explain what this marathon is about.

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I’m trying to collect stories from astrologers and ask them how 2025 was for them, because we’re always rushing into 2026. We want to know what’s going to happen because there’s so much uncertainty. But maybe sometimes we forget to integrate the lessons, the transits, and the eclipses we lived through in 2025.

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So I’m asking them, “How was it for you as an astrologer?” Maybe we can draw some lessons from their experiences and their own journeys.

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I hope you like this series. Usually I publish one episode per week, but because this is a marathon, I’m trying to publish more episodes — maybe two or three per week — where you’ll be able to listen to astrologers talk about how this year was for them.

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This is what we’re doing with the marathon. And if this is your first time here in Backstage Astrology, we are not doing predictions or stuff like that. We are asking astrologers what it is to be an astrologer, the journeys they go through, the lessons. So it’s more like a storytelling project, really.

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I think one of the most frustrating things about being an astrologer is that people want to treat you like you’re stupid, you know? Like, “Oh, you believe in that superstitious or medieval rubbish.” They want to act like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Honey, you just talk so much, and I never caught it. And so the talking led me into… I was in about sixth grade and they said, “We want to put you in Spanish. We want to put you in French.” I called into a radio show and answered a question. Immediately after the show, they said, “Would you like a job? Do you want a job?” What? And it started a decade career in radio. I had never studied for radio. I didn’t know anything.

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First of all, the thing that was most remarkable for me was when I realized that Aries was conjunct my eighth-house Moon. And in that relocation chart, Aries is right on my MC. Is it an accident that I wrote a book on Aries? I don’t think so.

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I wasn’t free at all. I was very much in my past pain and suffering and holding on to a lot of those things.

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The ship is sinking and we may all go down with it. It was like, “Okay, this might be the end of astrology.” Literally, I was like, “This could be the end. This really could.”

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It’s more personal and more intimate. So maybe if you’re an astrologer or even a therapist, you can draw some lessons from astrologers, because now there’s also social media, the digital world, their businesses. We’re trying to ask them what the journey was and maybe extract very important lessons — real lessons from real people, astrologers, the real person behind the scenes.

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This is why it is called Backstage Astrology. So I hope you tune into the marathon. If you really like these conversations, I prepared a special portal for you for December 2025 and January 2026 where you can register and access these conversations forever.

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You’ll also be hearing some news. You’ll be able to suggest people for the podcast and help me maybe draft some questions for them. I’ll leave the link below if you want to register and listen to some interviews that will be published in January — you can listen to them right now.

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I’m just trying to see if you guys like this project so I can continue with it, because it takes a lot of energy. I love doing these things. I love editing videos. I actually help astrologers with digital content and all sorts of things and websites and stuff. And this is why I started doing this, because when I listen to their backstage stories, I’m like, “Why don’t you tell this in public? Maybe we can learn something from that.”

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I hope you enjoy Backstage Astrology and the marathon that is going to be out there for one month on YouTube. After one month, maybe I will take some interviews down and they will be available only for subscribers. This is free content and you just need to register, and this lets me know that you like the content.

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I hope you enjoy this specific interview with this amazing astrologer, and I hope you have a really nice closing of 2025. And by the way, we’re interviewing astrologers in English and Spanish. Maybe you notice I have an accent. English is not my main language, but I’m trying my best. So thank you for being here and enjoy this conversation.

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Hi, welcome back to Backstage Astrology. My name is Maria Medina and I’m here with teacher and professional astrologer Astro Victor. I’m very happy to be here with him because we’re going to talk about 2025 and 2026. I’m going to ask Victor how 2025 was for him and what transits he’s looking forward to next year. The point of these conversations is to reflect on our 2025. But first of all, Victor, how are you today? Thanks for being here.

5:56

Victor: Thank you for having me back. I’m doing great, actually.

6:04

Mayra: Victor, 2025 — what a year. How was it for you? What are the special moments that come to mind as you reflect on it?

6:11

Victor: 2025 was a mix of emotions, actually, for me. There were really nice moments, less nice moments, but overall it wasn’t a catastrophic year. I focused a lot on myself to start with. I was in a relationship. I guess I’m not in a relationship right now. I ended it not long ago actually — a good three or four weeks ago. But sometimes things don’t work out, so we had to put an end to it.

6:56

I’ve got the South Node moving through my seventh house and I was expecting that something might happen connected to relationships and contractual agreements. I had that feeling that it’s not working, but if I want to be 100% honest, I was like, “Well, I’m going to be 43 in a second, and dating and relationships are not that easy.” So I kept giving this relationship a chance.

7:32

But I had to realize recently, especially when we had the Venus and South Node conjunction happening in my seventh house, that it’s not working. So I had to walk away from it. But I’m not sad about it. Life moves on. I’m ready for the next opportunity. I had to psychologically get through the idea that I don’t have to bury myself because I’m 43 and the dating life is getting more difficult. I was like, “I’m looking good, so I can attract another opportunity.”

8:12

And then the business slowed down slightly as well, which I expected anyway. I knew that was going to happen. I had Saturn conjuncting my financial planet in 2025, and in 2024 my solar arc Saturn was squaring my financial planet. So it was a continuous story. And now Saturn enters my second house.

8:43

I was ready for it, and therefore I started moving things around a little bit and thinking how I can best utilize this aspect. I started looking at price more, going for bargains, not wasting money on things that I don’t need. I’ve got a bit of a shoe and perfume addiction. I haven’t bought a pair of shoes for I think three or four months because I’ve got at least 60 pairs anyway.

9:19

Astrology is sometimes super good for preparing yourself for something maybe tougher that comes. Saturn-Mars aspects can be a little tougher, but at the same time they’re about willpower and putting the effort in. I feel like this year I worked a little bit harder as well just to make sure things were not going to fall apart.

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I think this was the very first year when I did a 12-sign forecast. Each of them is two and a half or three hours long, which was huge work anyway — gathering your thoughts, recording, editing, all those types of things. I put a lot of effort into it. Previous years I never wanted to do such a thing because at the end of the day it’s general. It can be as personal as possible based on the rising sign, but obviously we need the natal chart too.

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But I decided that it could still help because people are going through financial situations right now — globally this is happening, not just with people but with the economy and so forth. So I decided to do something more affordable so at least they can still have a guideline for the upcoming 2026–2027 transits, because these are very transitional years in my opinion.

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We’ve got Uranus changing sign, Chiron changing sign, a Chiron-Pluto-Jupiter T-square. We’ve got a lot of changes coming up in 2026. And even though these are tough aspects, you can utilize them in the best possible way if you understand their meaning.

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So yeah, that’s why I put that together. Obviously I wrote a book as well last year.

11:29

Mayra: Yeah, you’ve done a lot, Victor, this year.

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Victor: And I’m about to finish a second-house guideline, a complete guideline for your second house. This is what I’m going to work on in the next year. I’m going to work through all 12 houses so people can utilize it through their own natal chart. So yeah, it’s been a pretty busy year.

11:54

I worked out unfortunately… I did gain a bit of weight, so now I’m working on trying to get back down.

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Mayra: Wow, Victor, you’ve done so many things. For those who don’t know, Victor has prepared a guide for each sign for 2026. I’m going to leave the link in the description below where you can get this. You’re going to get a video, a small calendar, Victor’s guidance, and very interesting things happening in 2026 — but we’re going to leave that for the second part of this interview.

12:32

Victor, you were talking about Saturn touching your financial planet. Can you explain to people what a financial planet is — maybe they don’t know — and how it has affected you really?

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Victor: Sure. We’ve got 12 houses in your chart, and the second house is responsible for finances. It has other meanings as well. We can approach it from a physical, psychological, or emotional level. The second house might be connected to finances as well as self-worth, or inherited things from our parents — something that we store in the second house. But it also connects, for example, to food and what we put down our throat.

13:21

Each house has a ruler, and in my case the second-house ruler is Mars. Whenever Mars gets challenged or supported by other planets, that could talk to us about self-worth or money opportunities or hindrance.

13:47

Because Saturn is more on the drying-out type of element, and Mars is a very passionate planet, Saturn started to dry it out a little bit. So this could talk to us, on a physical manifestation level, about our energy level being lower. I think in 2025 actually my energy level was a lot lower, thinking back.

14:07

Even though I still go to the gym twice a day, Monday to Friday — one boxing and one weightlifting — sometimes the second session is a bit of “dragging your feet.” I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go. But I’ve already paid for the lesson, okay, I’m going. By the time I finish I’m all charged up. But to get there is sometimes a bit difficult.

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I think that’s exactly Saturn and Mars anyway, which is about willpower. Saturn is the taskmaster. It says to Mars, “No, you have to gather your energy. You have to get there. You made a commitment, so follow through.” My Mars is in Pisces natally, so sometimes it likes procrastinating.

15:07

A soldier swimming in the ocean is going to run out of energy at one point. A soldier is more about quick shooting rather than swimming the ocean through. Saturn can help there quite significantly to get to the finish line. But I did feel a little bit lower energy-wise because the second house represents the contained energy within the body from a physical point of view.

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When Saturn comes around, you might see that you are not as motivated or your vitality is not as strong as it used to be. But Saturn is walking away from my Mars, thank God, so I’m hoping I’m going to get my mojo back.

16:06

When it came to my diet, like I said, the second house is food as well. Saturn was probably telling my Mars to cut out certain types of food from my diet, but it just didn’t work.

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In March I did a sport camp and I lost 10 kilos there and looked really good. Then by the end of August, September, it came back on.

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One of the reasons is because I didn’t want to spend the summer in Marrakesh.

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Mayra: You’re located in Morocco, right?

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Victor: Yes. In Marrakesh the summer was like 45 to 48 degrees. Already in May it was 40 to 42 and I was struggling. By middle of June when it started being 48, I was like, bye-bye. So I went to northern Morocco where the summer is just 29 to 32 degrees. I rented a place there and I did that online. I didn’t even assume there wouldn’t be a proper kitchen.

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So there was no proper kitchen there and I ended up having to order every single day. I was like, okay, what can I do now? I paid for two months. I should have asked if there was a kitchen, but of course you assume there is a kitchen.

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There was no air conditioning either. I was like, excuse me, why did I not ask? So I bought a mobile air conditioner and then it was okay. But for one week I basically slept on the balcony because in Tetouan the temperature drops to about 20 degrees in the evening, which is very bearable. But the hot air gets stuck in the house even though the windows are open.

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I can only sleep properly in 16 to 18 degrees.

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Mayra: Wow.

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Victor: Otherwise I’m still using air conditioning in the evening before I go to bed. Even though it’s about 20 degrees right now in Morocco in the evening, it’s just too much for me. I cannot sleep without air conditioning.

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Mayra: And how do you manage to work under such conditions? I mean, you’re doing research, you’re teaching, you’re teaching for hours sitting there. How was it for you in that sense?

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Victor: In Marrakesh it’s no problem because I’ve got air conditioning. If it’s too hot, I switch it on and then it’s all good. In Tetouan, once I bought the mobile air conditioner, it was standing right next to me and then I was doing my work. So it was okay.

19:42

Mayra: You were mentioning that this year maybe the relationship area was kind of challenging. Just to remind people, can you tell us your Sun, rising, Moon, stelliums, so they can understand maybe why this relationship area was a bit of a challenge?

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Victor: I’ve got a Pisces rising sign, my Sun is in Aquarius in the 12th house, and I’ve got a Moon as part of a stellium in Sagittarius in the 10th house. The Moon actually conjuncts Jupiter as well. So I’ve got a lot of freedom-loving signatures.

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But this relationship went to the extreme where it gave me too much freedom. My partner was happy meeting once every three months. We survived one and a half years that way because my partner was in the army and got only ten-day holidays every three months. That was okay. But the service finished in July and it kind of carried on this every-three-month type of thing, or every two months.

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You cannot build a relationship foundation if you meet the person every two months, even though you guys speak every single day. For me an ideal relationship is, yeah, let’s spend two or three days together a week and then the rest — you do whatever you want and I do whatever I want, obviously faithfully and all those types of things. That’s how these freedom-loving signs operate.

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But I’m at that stage of life where maybe it works for a teenager meeting every two months — it doesn’t work anymore. So I had to make a decision about it.

21:44

Mayra: Victor, did you experience your Uranus opposition already or are you actually living it?

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Victor: Not yet. I’m about to experience that at the end of 2026, beginning of 2027.

22:04

Mayra: How does it look? Do you think there are going to be certain changes or sudden surprises?

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Victor: We will see. Uranus is in my 10th house and the transit Uranus will be in the 4th. I’ve been thinking about different business ideas and opportunities. Potentially, I can imagine — even though I’m not going to leave astrology behind — doing something else, something that I’m passionate about. Most likely this would be sport related or some other venues.

22:57

Everyone is going to experience Uranus opposing Uranus around the same age, somewhere around 42 to 43. Psychologically speaking this is the time when the midlife crisis comes up, right? We make a lot of decisions. We leave relationships and work behind and all those types of things.

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So Uranus will enhance the idea of me traveling more or focusing on my own freedom and adventures and wanting to experience a lot of things. It’s going to shake up my emotional foundation a little bit, I believe.

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Mayra: Interesting. And how did these eclipses hit you in 2025? You know the eclipses were on the Virgo-Pisces axis. Are you still working with them? What do you foresee for 2026? We still have a couple of eclipses on that axis, right?

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Victor: Yes. One of the eclipses happened actually on my Mars. But it’s important to remember that eclipses unfold over about 18 months. I know the popular belief is that an eclipse lasts three to six months, but actually it lasts for about 18. One of the reasons is that when you have an eclipse, nine months later that eclipse point is going to get squared by the Sun or the Moon, and then 18 months later it’s going to be opposed. So those eclipse degrees become sensitive for 18 months.

24:50

Mars represents travel and finances in my chart. I did travel quite a few times in 2025, but I think it also brought a highlight to my finances: that I have to reorganize them or have a better expenditure and way of thinking about money.

25:16

At the same time, because the second house is also about self-love — maybe it’s a bit cliché — but you cannot love someone else without loving yourself. The second house is a Taurus house, the seventh house is a Libra house, both ruled by Venus. These two houses are interconnected. If you cannot love yourself, you are going to be projecting that onto your relationship, seeking validation and all those types of things. Obviously that could ruin a relationship.

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I think that’s the realization I had to make in 2025: I cannot stay together with a person because they are aesthetically very pleasing and actually nice — it’s a nice person that I’m talking about — but they’re not ready to come out of their own comfort zone.

26:30

Recently I watched a presentation on the current generation, and what they said was that they are living in a “mama hotel.” What it means is that the current generation stays at home. They cannot detach themselves from the mom on one hand because mom gives them security — mommy cooks, mommy cleans, it’s cheaper — and young people nowadays cannot afford living on their own. Property prices are in the sky. So there’s no other choice but to stay at home.

27:13

That was the main problem in my relationship as well. It was like, “Okay, of course I can move to you, but what am I going to do with mom?” At one point we all have to grow up, right? A relationship has to be made and it has to work. I never wanted my partner to choose between family and me, so that’s exactly why I stepped out of it.

27:48

Family is important. Blood is thicker than water. But at one point this person is going to realize that if he wants a successful relationship, he’s going to have to get out of this “mama hotel” syndrome.

28:12

Mayra: Victor, how has Pluto in Aquarius been for you? You have an interesting Aquarius house — it’s in the 12th house. You also have your Sun there. It’s already been two years of Pluto in Aquarius. Do you have any reflections, challenges, or lessons?

28:31

Victor: When Pluto went into Aquarius, that’s when I took sport and getting rid of bad habits more seriously. It all started in 2020 when we had the Saturn-Jupiter conjunction in my 12th house — that’s when I started turning my life around.

28:52

But when Pluto went into the 12th house, that’s when I started attending sport camps and sport retreats, and I kind of got obsessed with it. One time I spent seven months at a sport camp, the next time three months, then one month, then another one month, and so forth.

29:14

But it hasn’t triggered anything in my chart yet. Even though it’s in the 12th house and operating under the subconscious, it hasn’t triggered any of my planets just yet. It’s about to trigger the Moon in my 10th house by sextile, but other than that I didn’t have much of an issue with Pluto in the 12th so far.

29:45

Mayra: So Victor, what are the transits you’re looking forward to personally — not collectively? If people want to learn about the collective, they can go to your channel. But for yourself, which ones are you looking forward to, which ones give you excitement, and which ones are a little bit like, I don’t know…?

30:04

Victor: I’m looking forward to the Saturn and Jupiter trine. I’m capitalizing on that, or I’m expecting a lot from that. There is one currently happening, but it’s not an exact trine. Jupiter currently is in 25 degrees of Cancer while Saturn is on 25 degrees of Pisces. So it looks like it’s exact, but it’s not because the small minutes are not meeting up.

30:45

So it’s kind of like a missed opportunity — imagine you are about to drink a glass of water and then someone snatches the glass out of your hand. It’s a failed opportunity or a failed attempt. Jupiter is very passionate in Cancer about protecting the family and giving birth to a child, and it almost happens and then somehow Saturn snatches it.

31:17

But next year we’re going to have the exact trine happening when Saturn will be on 13 degrees of Aries and Jupiter will be on 13 degrees of Leo. That’s a perfect trine. Saturn-Jupiter trines or Saturn-Jupiter cycles are about business cycles, or when we want to crystallize our visions. We want to give shape and form to them.

31:49

This trine is only going to work for people if they do have a vision and then put the work in. There’s the Saturnian element there. But I’m looking forward to it because Jupiter is connected to my career and Saturn is connected to my long-term goals and business ideas. I believe I’m going to have some business opportunities coming up next year. At least I’m putting that out to the universe right now. Hopefully they listen up there and bring that vision to life.

32:29

Mayra: What about with an Aquarius Sun? We also have the nodes moving to the Aquarius-Leo axis. Are you excited about it or not sure?

32:41

Victor: To be honest, I’m not very excited about it. It’s always good to reflect back nine or eighteen years before. We’re going to have the shift happening in mid-2026. The last time we had it — though reverse — was around 2017, and previously around 2009.

33:15

Collectively, 2008–2009, when we had the nodes in Leo and Aquarius, that’s when I relocated. I had a major relocation and went to England and lived there for almost 13 years. And in 2017–2018, that’s another relocation for me. I left England and started traveling the world.

34:02

I wouldn’t be shocked if this brings certain types of relocation for me again.

34:08

Mayra: Interesting patterns. You were mentioning the Jupiter-Saturn cycle, and I’m so glad you mentioned it because we had this conjunction in 2020 and I think that’s when you pretty much started to get out there with your YouTube channel, right? You started then, and now there is this trine. How do you relate this to your vocation journey?

34:31

Victor: On one hand it could bring me a boost. Secondly, it could indicate maybe that I’m about to start a new form and that can go pretty well. With Saturn it’s never quick, but it’s steady at least. Jupiter in Leo is very helpful if someone wants to be on a stage. Saturn in Aries wants us to have the courage to do so.

35:09

Basically, I always wanted to do something connected to helping people lose weight and get in shape. It was always a battle for me, and I think I’ve got the knowledge now to be able to help.

35:26

I was laughing the other day because I started watching The Biggest Loser. I was telling my friend, “If I watch The Biggest Loser, do you think I’m going to lose weight just because I’m watching them lose weight?” But it’s a type of mental calibration, right?

35:52

What happens is that people try to lose weight but are not taking care of the root cause of the problem. They are not figuring it out. I had this client a couple of weeks ago. She came to me the first time one or two years ago because she wanted to lose weight. We went through what food to eat astrologically speaking. I put my knowledge into it as well and she managed to lose weight.

36:27

But Jupiter went into her first house last year and I told her that if she was not having meaning in life and not embracing the Jupiterian quality — which is about freedom and sometimes letting go and starting a new chapter — she was most likely going to start putting weight back on. She came a few weeks ago and unfortunately she had started putting weight back on, but she’s got some really brilliant stuff going on in her chart. I think she’s going to get back into shape.

37:03

Basically she didn’t know how to leave work and relationship behind. She wanted to start fresh. That’s exactly what Jupiter wants in the first house: let’s start fresh. But she didn’t have the courage. I think she just needed a bit of a push to move forward.

37:27

I think what happens often with people’s journeys is that we are not eliminating the root cause of problems. I feel like with astrology as well as with my personal knowledge, I would be able to help people lose weight and maintain it, because I’ve been doing it for seven years now and I’m doing great with it. So I think I cracked the code.

37:54

Mayra: Amazing. I was talking to another astrologer who is using astrology in education and the learning patterns of kids. She’s a teacher also. Now you’re mentioning astrology and your habits and nutrition and exercise. It can be used in so many ways to improve our lives. But of course if we don’t have the willpower or commitment — now with Saturn in Aries and Neptune also — commitment will be important.

38:27

I think astrology is a great tool and I’m so happy if you take this path. It would be great to have someone to go to in order to learn more about habits, routines, exercises, motivation, and especially the psychology. Sometimes you’re lifting weights but even though you have the physical energy, the mind is very powerful.

38:47

Victor: That’s right. Psychology says that if you want to get rid of a bad habit, you have to do it at least for 30 days. Let’s say you want to quit smoking — for 30 days it’s going to be very tough, but after that it gets easier and easier. What we usually forget is that the little demon stays in our head. At one point when we are at a crossroads, the temptation is there.

39:20

The other thing I usually say with weight is that I eat everything. People ask, “What do you eat?” I eat everything. I eat cake, I eat this and that. It’s just that I try to do that with moderation. Or if I eat cake, then I go and work out a little bit extra hard. But I’m not willing to give up good things in life. I don’t want to be a rabbit living on salads. I’m not saying salad is bad — it’s just not me. I’m a heavy fiery person. I need meat.

40:10

I think it’s just understanding some of these concepts through your natal chart. Let me give you a tip: if you’ve got Aquarius on the fifth-house cusp, you should never do weightlifting and stuff like that. You need to do some team exercise like spinning classes or basketball. What happens is that you’re going to lose motivation if you just do weightlifting all the time, and then you’re going to end up quitting.

40:46

Your chances with a spinning class or something more team-spirited increase the chances that you’re going to stick around a lot longer. The fifth house represents sports and fun activities, something we do for pleasure.

41:05

Mayra: Oh wow. So if I’ve got Aries on the fifth house, then most likely weightlifting works for me because I’m going to start seeing muscles there?

41:18

Victor: Exactly. You’ll be like, “Oh, my biceps are getting bigger. Great, let’s carry on doing that.” Sometimes having that extra little tip that keeps you with an exercise longer is crucial.

41:36

Mayra: Victor, what do you make of Mercury’s retrogradation, as you say in English? The retrogradation?

41:48

Victor: The current one is a very interesting one. Mercury is about to go retrograde on six degrees of Sagittarius and then it’s going to go back to 20 degrees of Scorpio. This retrogression is super interesting for multiple reasons.

42:09

One of the reasons is because Mercury actually transferred the light between Saturn and Jupiter. Like I said at the beginning, there is no actual trine happening between Saturn and Jupiter. But when Mercury was in Scorpio around 25 degrees, it formed a grand trine between those two. So Mercury was able to bring the opportunity together.

42:45

The first Mercury retrograde potentially brought us an opportunity, kind of like a message about an opportunity. Imagine you got a phone call from your bank — Scorpio — that you have the opportunity to get a loan, and we are happy about it. Then Mercury went into Sagittarius, so that grand trine disappeared. But Mercury is about to go back into Scorpio on the 18th of November, and around the 20th that grand trine is going to happen again.

43:13

So this might be talking to us about a second opportunity, or an opportunity that might have failed the first time and now somehow comes back to us in certain ways. Mercury retrogression stops at 20 degrees of Scorpio and then it’s going to form another grand trine with Saturn and Jupiter. So that’s one of the reasons this retrograde is super interesting.

43:38

The second reason is that Mercury meets all the outer planets as well. It runs into Pluto, opposes Uranus, and then forms a trine with Neptune. That is also happening three times. Actually, forgetting about Mercury, this current era — October, November, December — is super significant because every single personal planet triggered or is about to trigger all the outer planets.

44:21

These last three months of the year are really showing us what’s going to come in the next three years. Mercury did that. Then Mars ran into Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus all at once. After that Venus is about to do that this month as well and the beginning of next month. That’s why it’s actually a very crucial period.

44:48

I prepare weekly forecasts and now it’s a little bit all over the place actually. The only reason is because it’s not weekly anymore. Sometimes I do it for ten days because I don’t want to break the aspect pattern. Imagine Mercury is making a trine to Jupiter and Saturn and maybe Neptune, and then the following week it would be running into Pluto and Uranus. I don’t want to break the pattern because this is a chain. Mercury runs into Jupiter, then Saturn, then Neptune, then Uranus, then Pluto — it’s a sequence of events.

45:34

That’s why nowadays my forecasts are sometimes for eight days, sometimes for ten days.

45:45

Mayra: And you do this for your members, no? Your YouTube channel, right?

45:52

Victor: Yeah, for my members. Then I break it down for all 12 signs as well. These videos are approximately 20 to 30 minutes long for each rising sign. I try to make it as practical as possible.

46:17

For example, Mercury retrograde in 2026 will be in water signs and probably on your rising signs. Can you give tips on how that behaves? Right now it’s on fire and then it moves to water signs.

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Victor: One year is always a shifting year from Mercury’s perspective. This year we had fire and water. All retrogressions started in fire and ended in water. Next year it’s only going to be happening in water. What is very unique about Mercury retrograde is that it has an 11-month loop.

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We had a retrograde now on six degrees of Sagittarius. Eleven months later Mercury will go direct around six degrees and the retrogression will start around 21 degrees of Sagittarius. Mercury covers about 15 degrees during the retrograde. So there is going to be a shift, and that shift happens every two to three years.

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Mercury retrogressions in water signs are going to be highly about having to think about our emotional roots and doing the healing. In my personal chart, it’s going to talk about changing my mindset about how I think about myself and how I see myself happy.

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One of the water cusps in my chart is the fifth, the other one is the ninth, and then obviously the first house. This is the recreational triangle. Never interpret a Mercury retrograde in just one house — look at the other pairs as well. So 1, 5, 9 for example, or 2, 6, 10. If you have it in the 2, 6, 10, then this is going to be talking to you about re-evaluating your work. In my case it’s about what I want to create and what makes me happy.

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I wouldn’t be shocked if next year would be a major move, because I want to be happier or I want to find certain roots, or maybe I’m going to relocate because I meet someone special. That’s the type of energy I believe might be happening.

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Mayra: Finally, I’m looking at your calendar, the one you prepared for 2026, and you actually talk about the major asteroids. Chiron is going to move to Taurus, which is kind of massive. Then we have Psyche in Gemini, Vesta in Aries, and Juno in Capricorn and Aquarius. Can you give us a sneak peek of what this means and how you relate to it?

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Victor: A lot of people are not looking at the asteroids, but I do like looking at especially the big ones. This year Astraea spent almost 11 months in Sagittarius, and Astraea is about karma breaking and also leaving something behind. Astraea is about to go into Capricorn this week. So after 11 months, Astraea is leaving Sagittarius behind — certain opinions and belief systems — and moving into Capricorn where it’s going to be about building a better life, but in a more materialistic way.

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Next year the Aries part of the chart is going to be the most active due to Saturn and Neptune, but we’re also going to have Vesta and Pallas Athena retrograde happening there. Pallas Athena is about pattern recognition, strategic wisdom, and planning, while Vesta is about focus. Saturn is about limitations as well as crystallization, and Neptune is our vision and dreams.

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So it really feels like if Saturn-Neptune wants to make something happen and make it real, Vesta says we’re going to have to be dedicated, we’re going to have to focus, and Pallas Athena says great — but we cannot do that without planning.

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In a very negative way, this could indicate unfortunately, on a global level, that people are going to focus on their own rights. Pallas Athena is a warrior-princess energy, Neptune is very ideological, and Aries is about fighting for independence, human rights, survival. So we might see a lot of protest out there.

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Again, it’s going to be happening in my second house, so surely self-love, finances, and food might become quite a prominent topic.

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Mayra: No wonder why you’re writing that second-house booklet.

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Victor: Exactly. That’s one of the reasons why I started with that. Maybe a lot of Pisces risings will need help with that.

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Mayra: Finally, what are the signs that are going to have a very good year? You can mention only the elements if you want. And the signs that will have a challenging year in your opinion, because you did all these forecasts for each sign.

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Victor: I think the fire signs might be doing relatively okay, just because Jupiter will be moving into Leo and we’re going to have Saturn in Aries. So that trine could be helping there quite nicely.

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However, without vision and aspiration, and without being visible or even a bit creative or risk-taking, then I think it’s not going to be that easy. The challenging element could actually be a little bit the air signs, because with Uranus in Gemini, Uranus can become quite a shock factor and maybe the mind is unable to immediately deal with it.

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The other challenging element could be the earth signs if they are not willing to get out of their comfort zone and move toward something new. Uranus is between Gemini and Taurus right now. It’s very much about Taurus having to get out of its comfort zone and embrace something completely new.

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Mayra: Oh my God. I’m Taurus rising.

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Victor: Stop it. And I think there are potentially a lot of opportunities for fire signs.

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Mayra: Victor, thank you so much for your time. It’s been one hour and, as usual, it went by so fast. Is there anything else you’re working on that you want to tell people about? Are you doing any specials during Christmas? You already built your 2026 astrology forecast — they’re still on your website, right? I’m going to leave the link below. Is there any new course, retreat, webinar coming in December or January?

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Victor: Surely I’m going to have a Black Friday sale, and it’s going to be a big one, as well as a Christmas sale. I currently have the house rulership course running. No other courses are planned just yet, but I do have a few webinars popping up.

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I’m going to hold one about dispositors on the 6th of December — how to read dispositor chains in your chart. I’m also going to have one on “Am I Cursed?” Recently I got quite a few inquiries about curses and stuff like that. I’m going to show signatures from a traditional point of view that could indicate someone being cursed.

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Mayra: Wow, that’s so unique and interesting in itself.

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Victor: For 2026, I’m going to do the planning in December for the first quarter, what’s exactly going to be happening, because the current course I’m running is 20 weeks, so that’s about to finish most likely in February. I don’t want to get too scattered. So nothing bigger will be happening until February, surely.

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But I will be spending Christmas and New Year’s in New York. So if you want to see me there, maybe we can actually organize that.

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Mayra: That would be great. Maybe somebody wants to have a reading. Do you do readings in person?

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Victor: Yeah. Last time when I went to New York, every day I did personal readings.

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Mayra: It’s so much fun to be in person. I think it’s a whole different experience, isn’t it?

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Victor: Exactly. Back in the day, 15 or 20 years ago, I was so against doing readings online. I was like, “No, I’m not doing that.” But the world has gone that way. Going back to that personal element is so cool. It just gives that magical touch to it.

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Mayra: Victor, finally, what is one quote or sentence that you would tell other people regarding 2026?

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Victor: 2026, like I said, is a transitional year. So I think the most important part is to embrace the change, not to look back. Welcome the change and go toward it. Because I unfortunately do believe that we’re going to have a major economic crisis coming up.

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Mayra: Yeah, I wanted to ask you more about maybe 2026 and 2027, especially 2027.

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Victor: We only feel the wind of it right now. Therefore everyone should be looking out for opportunities and having a Plan B and even a Plan C. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now: having the Plan Bs and Plan Cs.

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Mayra: Amazing. So guys, you got it. A very good way to use astrology is to see potential scenarios. So there you go. Victor, thank you so much again. I obviously hope to have you soon to talk more about this Saturn-Jupiter cycle, but more in detail, because I think it’s a fascinating topic in 2026 and 2027. Victor, thank you so much, and thank you guys for being here. Leave us a comment, share the video, or leave a question for Victor if you feel like it. See you in the next episode. Bye-bye.