Yearly horoscope
Karka (Cancer): 2026
The year, in one line
Guru is standing in a trine to your Moon — one of the three the tradition marks as a gift rather than a demand.
What this year opens for you
It favours taking on more than you currently carry: a student, a study, a responsibility, a vow. Also travel undertaken for meaning rather than escape, and any commitment made in good faith. Doors open more easily now than they will later; the ones worth walking through are the ones you would still choose without the ease.
The year's long tides
The four slow grahas, stretch by stretch, counted from your Moon sign.
Guru
1 Jan – 1 Jun: Guru in Mithuna, your 12th house
release, retreat, what you give away, and moksha
2 Jun – 30 Oct: Guru in Karka, your 1st house
the body and the self you arrive as
31 Oct – 31 Dec: Guru in Simha, your 2nd house
speech, family wealth, what you hold
Guru asks you to make room — for study, for a teacher, for a responsibility larger than the one you have. Its own trap is expansion without ground: more taken on than can be carried well. The question is not whether to grow but what you are willing to be answerable for.
Shani
1 Jan – 31 Dec: Shani in Meena, your 9th house
dharma, the guru, the father, the long road
Shani asks for what is slow and unglamorous: the thing kept up when nobody is watching, the commitment honoured after the enthusiasm has gone. It is not punishment and it does not take anything from you that was actually yours. What it exposes is what was being held up by momentum rather than by structure.
Rahu
1 Jan – 4 Dec: Rahu in Kumbha, your 8th house
what is hidden, inherited, endured, and transformed
5 Dec – 31 Dec: Rahu in Makara, your 7th house
the partner, and every agreement you make
Rahu asks for honesty about hunger. It sharpens wanting — for standing, for recognition, for the thing just out of reach — and it is very good at making that feel like purpose. Name what you actually want and the pull stops running you from underneath.
Ketu
1 Jan – 4 Dec: Ketu in Simha, your 2nd house
speech, family wealth, what you hold
5 Dec – 31 Dec: Ketu in Karka, your 1st house
the body and the self you arrive as
Ketu asks what you are ready to stop defending. Interest drains out of something that used to hold it, and the tradition treats that as release rather than loss. What it clears is rarely what you would have chosen to clear, and rarely what you needed.
When grahas turn back
A graha that turns back (vakri) asks you to revisit what it governs: slower, more careful, finishing before starting. It is not a warning.
- ↺ Guru in Mithuna: 1 Jan – 11 Mar
- ↺ Budha in Kumbha: 26 Feb – 21 Mar
- ↺ Budha in Karka: 29 Jun – 24 Jul
- ↺ Shani in Meena: 27 Jul – 11 Dec
- ↺ Shukra in Tula: 3 Oct – 14 Nov
- ↺ Budha in Tula: 24 Oct – 13 Nov
- ↺ Guru in Simha: 13 Dec – 31 Dec
Your act for this year
Teach somebody something you know, without being asked and without charging for it.
Open the Gita — Guru's season is for being taught →An observation, not a forecast. The year reads only the slow grahas and the turning windows, counted from the Moon sign Karka. Eclipses are not shown yet: VEDAUM prints only what it has computed. Your own chart, and its dasha, say far more.