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The USA 2026 technical astrology forecast reveals a year of profound psychological transformation, shifting power dynamics, and a collective search for national healing.
This article is part of the USA Quigley Forecast 2026. In our current article you will find the technical astrological explanation for the most important Directions & Progressions for the USA in 2026. In our monthly Forecast we expand these with the Major Transits to bring more in-depth information for that month. Discussion is open for members.
Find the USA Quigley/ Gemini Rising birth chart and the start of six articles why we use this Quigley chart here, instead of the common Sibley chart.
Important Notes for Reading This Forecast
- Timing & Accuracy: All mentioned dates are estimates. To demonstrate the astrology in action, we include real-life events in bordered sections following the aspects.
- Technical Framework: We prioritize Directions & Progressions before we add Transits, utilize Whole Sign Houses and use our own Rectified Birth Charts for maximum precision in all calculations.
- The “Translation” Method: Our style uses specific, recognized keywords to translate celestial symbols. While our phrasing may differ from “standard” astrology, the core meanings remain intact. Feel free to apply and expand upon them as you usually would, it will enrich your understanding of the astrology in real life!
- For this US chart: we’re missing the Pm and Pz directions (software limitation). Still the other directions & progressions (and transits in the monthly forecasts) are very much usefull.
Used abbreviations: Sp = Secondary Progression, Pm = Primary Mundane Direction, Pz = Primary Zodiacal Direction, Pv = Primary van Dam Direction, Sa = Solar Arc Direction, Aa = Ascendant Arc Direction, Va = Vertex Arc Direction
Used abbreviations: Sp = Secondary Progression, Pm = Primary Mundane Direction, Pz = Primary Zodiacal Direction, Pv = Primary van Dam Direction, Sa = Solar Arc Direction, Aa = Ascendant Arc Direction, Va = Vertex Arc Direction
January 2026
- DIRECTED CHIRON SEMISEXTILE RADIX MIDHEAVEN Va (8th House to 9th House)
Exact 2 Jan 2026 - Translation: Repairing or healing hidden/ lost power and control with traditional conservative authorities gives opportunities with showing faith and trust in ideals of friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent, but you don’t really see what the effect is.
- Explanation: Restoring power gives opportunities with trust in friends.
News Event Jan 03: US strikes Venezuela & capture of Maduro
- To keep the discussion clean with the Sibley chart: With a small rectification of the Sibley chart to 17:09:55 we have a Secondary Progression Moon opposite Mars for january 1st and a Progressed MC conjunct Uranus for januray 3rd, which is striking for the event. Still, this is in line with our conclusions in the comparisson between Quigley vs Sibley chart!
- TRANSIT URANUS SEMISQUARE SUN Tr-Na (12th House to 2nd House)
- Sudden and shocking insight of letting go/ ending trust, safety and reliability brings chances with insight/recognition of leaders about the valuable safety and security for protecting homes and citizens, but that’s hard/ difficult.
- Explanation: Shocking insights in the safety and security for citizens.
News Event Jan 7: Renee Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three, is fatally shot by an ICE agent while in her vehicle during a federal immigration raid in Minneapolis.
- DIRECTED JUPITER TRINE RADIX URANUS Pv (9th House to 1st House)
Exact 16 Jan 2026 - Translation: Faith and trust in the ideals of friends and like-minded people easily go hand in hand with suddenly changing insights through communication or actions in one’s own country.
- Explanation: Trust in friends suddenly changes
- DIRECTED URANUS SEMISQUARE RADIX MOON Pv (8th House to 9th House)
Exact 23 Jan 2026 - Translation: Sudden changing insights into power and control of traditional authorities through in-depth research gives opportunities with the people’s natural need for faith and trust in friends who want to be free and independent, but it is difficult.
- Explanation: The abruptly changing insights cause tensions with the trust of friends.
News Event Jan 24: Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a VA hospital, is shot ten times and killed by CBP agents during a protest against the earlier killing of Renee Good.
Combining Astro & Event: Protest (or rebeliousness=Uranus), just as shocking events. The 8th house is about transformations/ changes and also death. The Moon are the people and in the 9th house they can judge or show their beliefs. Aquarius can do this in groups and by protest (just like Uranus) for a better future.
- DIRECTED MERCURY SQUARE RADIX VENUS Sa (11th House to 2nd House)
Exact 27 Jan 2026 - Translation: Communication or negotiations with friends and like-minded people who are fighting for their own territory give tensions with the preference or condition to protect valuable relationships and families (financially) for safety, security and reliability.
- Explanation: Negotiations about the (possibly financial or relational) protection of territory for security.
- DIRECTED PLUTO SEMISQUARE RADIX VENUS Aa (3rd House to 2nd House)
Exactly 28 Jan 2026 - Translation: Changes of power and control through trust and loyalty to leadership in the region gives opportunities with the preference or condition to protect valuable relationships in the (own) interior, but that is difficult.
- Explanation: Change of power due to a lack of loyalty in the regions (possibly states) with the condition of protecting important relationships in their own country, but that turns out to be difficult.
- PROGRESSED MOON SEMISQUARE PROGRESSED MERCURY (11th House to 9th House)
Exact 29 Jan 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to fight for freedom and independence for friends and like-minded people with their own territory gives opportunities with faith and trust in international communication/negotiations/agreements, but it is difficult.
- Explanation: The need to fight for freedom in one’s own country offers opportunities with agreements, but they are difficult.
News Event Jan 29: A massive U.S. naval “armada,” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, moves toward the Strait of Hormuz as President Trump warns Iran that “time is running out” for a new deal.
Combining Astro & Event: Groups (11th house) of citizens (Moon) of the bold, brave and daring US soldiers/marines (Aries in 11) to communicate/negotiate (Mercury) international judgement in foreign countries (9th house) , but this part of the US citizens (Quigley) experience this as difficult.
February 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON SEXTILE RADIX URANUS (11th House to 1st House)
Exactly 5 Feb 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to fight for freedom and independence with friends and like-minded people for their own territory provides opportunities with suddenly changing insights in their own country.
- Explanation: The need to pioneer with friends and make new discoveries.
March 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON SQUARE PROGRESSED ASCENDANT (11th House to 8th House)
Exact 24 Mar 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to fight with friends and like-minded people for assertive/aggressive activities in their own territory creates tensions with transformations and major changes of power and control in their own country that may be hidden or kept hidden.
- Explanation: There are considerable tensions with the population in their own country due to changes in the balance of power.
- PROGRESSED SUN SQUARE PROGRESSED PT FORTUNE (10th House to 7th House)
Exact 24 Mar 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of sacrifice / solution / redemption of loyalty and loyalty to leadership gives tense emotions in strategic partners or opponents about belief and trust in goals.
- Explanation: Sacrificing or letting go of loyalty to the leader makes you feel disappointed and dissatisfied.
April 2026
- PROGRESSED SUN SQUARE RADIX ASCENDANT (10th House to 1st House)
Exactly 1 Apr 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of solving/sacrificing/letting go of dreams and ideals about faithfulness and loyalty to leadership creates tensions in communication and actions (possibly in the media) in one’s own country.
- Explanation: Letting go of recognition of leadership in public life creates tensions in one’s own country and the media through disappointment and deception.
- DIRECTED SUN SQUARE RADIX ASCENDANT Sa (10th House to 1st House)
Exactly 1 Apr 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of solving/sacrificing/letting go of dreams and ideals about faithfulness and loyalty to leadership creates tensions in communication and actions (possibly in the media) in one’s own country.
- Explanation: Letting go of recognition of leadership in public life creates tensions in society and the media through disappointment and deception.
- PROGRESSED JUPITER CONTRAPARALLEL PROGRESSED ASCENDANT (2nd House to 8th House)
Exactly 4 Apr 2026 - Translation: Faith and trust in protecting valuable people and their homes has a connection to the transformation/change/ending of power and control in one’s own life/identity.
- Explanation: Confidence in protecting the population has a connection to changing power and control.
- DIRECTED PLUTO SEXTILE RADIX MERCURY Pv (4th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 4 Apr 2026 - Translation: Changing/adapting power and control in internal cooperation for data expertise and technical specialism gives opportunities with communication or negotiating about valuable protection of people and houses.
- Explanation: Changing power through internal cooperation for technical specialism and data analysis gives opportunities in negotiations for protection.
- DIRECTED VENUS TRINE RADIX NEPTUNE Aa (8th House to 4th House)
Exactly 14 Apr 2026 - Translation: Preference or condition for hiding, disguising the transformation/changing of power and control over concrete and purposeful joint finances easily goes hand in hand with (disguising of) the dreams and ideals about internal data expertise and technical specialisms in the interior.
- Explanation: The conditions/reasons for changing power are disguised here or finances can be disguised. The technical specialisms and data analysis may be used domestically.
- PROGRESSED MOON SEMISQUARE RADIX MIDHEAVEN (11th House to 9th House)
Exact 17 Apr 2026 - Translation: The people’s need for protection with groups through aggressive activities of those who want to be free and independent gives opportunities to show faith and trust in the ideals of international friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent, but is difficult.
- Explanation: The need of the population to be protected, but there is little confidence in it
- DIRECTED MOON TRINE RADIX MIDHEAVEN Sa (5th House to 9th House)
Exact 22 Apr 2026 - Translation: People’s need to gamble/vote with strategic partnerships, with risks of affair easily go hand in hand with showing faith and trust in the ideals of friends who desire freedom and independence.
- Explanation: Betting on a vote (with the risk of problems) easily goes hand in hand with trusting in independence from friends.
May 2026
- DIRECTED NORTH NODE OPPOSITION RADIX SATURN Sa (11th House to 5th House)
Exact 7 May 2026 - Translation: The goals of fighting for friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent from aggressive activities in their own territory gives conflict/change with limiting/restricting/restricting/ending(much appreciated! Saturn Exalted in Libra) strategic partnership.
- Explanation: Wanting to fight for friends creates a conflict with ending a highly valued partnership.
- DIRECTED SOUTH NODE CONJUNCTION RADIX SATURN Sa (5th House)
Exact 7 May 2026 - Translation: Letting go of risks on legal judgments and affairs with strategic partnerships/opponents through gambling comes together with the release of limitations and obstacles.
- Explanation: Letting go of risks of judgment.
- PROGRESSED MOON SQUARE RADIX SUN (11th House to 2nd House)
Exact 9 May 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to fight for aggressive activities among friends/like-minded people on their own territory creates tension with insight and recognition of valuable (financial) protection of the people and their homes.
- Explanation: Competing to protect a territory with friends creates tension due to the leader’s insight into valuable finances for that safety.
- PROGRESSED SUN SQUARE RADIX MARS (10th House to 1st House)
Exact 11 May 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of leaders in public life about sacrifice of dreams and ideals create tensions with the conscious will/courage/need to fight for communication and trade/negotiations at home.
- Explanation: The leader’s disappointment in sacrificing ideals raises awareness of tensions in his own country and media over warlike acts.
- DIRECTED SUN SQUARE RADIX MARS Sa (10th House to 1st House)
Exact 11 May 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of leaders in public life about sacrifice of dreams and ideals create tensions with the conscious will/courage/need to fight for communication and trade/negotiations at home.
- Explanation: Repetition of the previous one, now more society oriented.
- DIRECTED JUPITER SQUARE RADIX SUN Va (11th House to 2nd House)
Exact 12 May 2026 - Translation: Belief and trust in protecting for aggressive activities on friends’ own territory creates tensions with insight and recognition of fidelity and loyalty to leadership for protecting the people and their families.
- Explanation: Confidence in the protection of friends creates tensions with the financial and material costs. Possibly excessive trust in or from friends.
- PROGRESSED VENUS SQUARE RADIX NORTH NODE (12th House to 3rd House)
Exact 15 May 2026 - Translation: Preference or condition of sacrificing/letting go/ending valuable safety/security and reliability creates tensions with the aim of being faithful and loyal to one’s own leadership with future vision for the region.
- Explanation: Preference for ending (financial) security creates tensions with loyalty to leadership in the region.
- DIRECTED MERCURY SEMISEXTILE RADIX MOON Pv (10th House to 9th House)
Exact 17 May 2026 - Translation: Dreamy communication about hope for resolving/sacrificing connections in public life gives opportunities with faith and trust in the need to protect the people from legal or international judgments, but you don’t really see what the effect is.
- Explanation: Dreamy/concealing information about solutions with contacts should give confidence in protecting the population.
- DIRECTED PLUTO SQUARE RADIX JUPITER Sa (5th House to 2nd House)
Exact 19 May 2026 - Translation: Profound change/destruction of power and control through risks of affairs with strategic partners or opponents creates tensions with the belief and trust in valuable safety, security and reliability in the (financial) protection of valuable people and their homes.
- Explanation: Destroying trust in strategic partners creates tensions with security.
June 2026
- DIRECTED MOON SQUARE RADIX URANUS Aa (4th House to 1st House)
Exactly 24 Jun 2026 - Translation: People’s need to be protected in their own country creates tensions with sudden shocking insights into media/transport/trade due to changes in opinions and judgments at home.
- Explanation: There is a need for protection at home due to sudden unrest or rebellion at home.
- PROGRESSED MOON OPPOSITION RADIX SATURN Aa (11th House to 5th House)
Exactly 27 Jun 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory causes conflict/change in limiting/restricting/stopping or terminating strategic partners, with risks of conflicts/affairs.
- Explanation: There is a need for protection at home through conflict and wanting to end the authorities.
July 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON SQUARE PROGRESSED JUPITER (11th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 7 Jul 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory creates tension with the belief and confidence in the valuable safety, security and reliability of the people and their homes.
- The conflicts and unrest lead to distrust in the population about the protection.
- DIRECTED NORTH NODE CONJUNCTION RADIX MIDHEAVEN Aa (9th House)
Exactly 11 Jul 2026 - Translation: The goal that is aimed at faith and trust in ideals of friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent comes together with showing modernization/renewal of ideals or showing inventions or legal judgments about groups of people/human rights
- Explanation: Showing goals by renewing or changing agreements.
- DIRECTED SOUTH NODE OPPOSITION RADIX MIDHEAVEN (3rd House to 9th House)
Exactly 11 Jul 2026 - Translation: Letting go of old ways of faithfulness and loyalty to leadership and vision of the future in the region with brothers and sisters creates conflict with showing faith and trust in legal judgments about freedom and independence.
- Explanation: Letting go of loyalty in the region causes conflicts with trust.
- DIRECTED SUN QUINCUNX RADIX MERCURY Pv (9th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 11 Jul 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of faith and trust in faithfulness and loyalty to leadership creates subcutaneous tension with communication about valuable safety, security and reliability, but you don’t really see what the effect is.
- Explanation: Loyalty to leadership creates tensions with safety and reliability.
- DIRECTED VENUS QUINCUNX RADIX VENUS Pv (9th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 16 Jul 2026 - Translation: Preference or condition for faith and trust in ideals of friends in freedom and independence creates subcutaneous tension with the preference/condition to protect valuable people and homes (financially/materially).
- The preference to have confidence in friends creates a subcutaneous tension with the conditions to protect them financially as well.
August 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON OPPOSITION PROGRESSED MARS (11th House to 5th House)
Exactly 3 Aug 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory conflicts with the demonstration of the conscious will/courage/need to fight for strategic partners/opponents with risks of affairs and for which you do not have the energy.
- Explanation: The need for protection indicates the need to act assertively/aggressively
- DIRECTED MERCURY TRINE RADIX SATURN Aa (9th House to 5th House)
Exactly 9 Aug 2026 - Translation: Communication or international negotiations about faith and trust in ideals of friends and like-minded people easily go hand in hand with gambling on structuring/forming/creating strategic partnerships, which are highly valued.
- Explanation: Negotiations over trust in ideals regarding the formation of partnerships.
- DIRECTED NEPTUNE SQUARE RADIX SUN Aa (11th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 17 Aug 2026 - Translation: Dreams and ideals about solving aggressive activities among friends and like-minded people in one’s own territory creates tensions with insight and recognition of valuable safety, security and reliability of the people. Confusion or disappointment about leadership.
- Explanation: Considerable confusion or disappointment among leaders due to tensions about valuable friendship (which is under pressure).
- DIRECTED URANUS SESQUISQUARE RADIX VENUS Sa (9th House to 2nd House)
Exactly 22 Aug 2026 - Translation: Suddenly changing insight into international faith and trust in individual uprising/revolution creates tensions with valuable relations and their finances/possessions in your own country, and you don’t want that.
- Explanation: Sudden changes in relationships or finances, and the US doesn’t want that.
September 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON CONJUNCTION PROGRESSED CHIRON (11th House)
Exactly 14 Sep 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory comes together with the repair/repair of strategic activities. Because of the conjunction, this can also be the destruction/breaking/irreparable damage of activities with friends.
- Explanation: The protection or security of the population comes together with restoring or destroying (!) strategic partnerships.
- PROGRESSED MOON SEXTILE RADIX MOON (11th House to 9th House)
Exactly 29 Sep 2026 - Translation: People’s need to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory gives opportunities with natural need for faith and trust in international friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent.
- Explanation: The need for protection and safety gives opportunities with international friends.
October 2026
November 2026
- PROGRESSED MOON CONJUNCTION RADIX CHIRON (11th House)
Exactly 3 Nov 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory comes together with the repair/repair of friends’ own territory, or the destruction/damage of friends.
- Explanation: The protection or security of the population comes together with restoring or destroying (!) strategic partnerships.
- TRANSITING NORTH NODE CONJUNCTION RADIX MIDHEAVEN (9th House)
Exact 5 Nov 2026 - Translation: The goal of having faith and trust in international judgments about the ideals of friends who wish to be free comes together with showing faith and trust in the ideals of friends who wish to be free and independent.
- Explanation: The intention is to have faith in the independent ideals of friends
- PROGRESSED MOON SEXTILE RADIX ASCENDANT (11th House to 1st House)
Exact 21 Nov 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory gives opportunities to communicate/act/transport in their own country.
- Explanation: There are opportunities to talk about the protection or safety of the population.
- DIRECTED SUN CONTRAPARALLEL RADIX JUPITER Aa (9th House to 2nd House)
Exact Nov 22, 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of faith and trust in ideals of friends or international legal judgments has a connection to faith and confidence in valuable safety, security and detriment to the people, their families, possessions and finances.
- Recognizing trust in friends has a connection to faith and trust in protecting finances/the people.
- DIRECTED JUPITER CONTRAPARALLEL RADIX SUN Aa (8th House to 2nd House)
Exact Nov 22, 2026 - Translation: The belief and trust in changing/transforming common concrete goals has a connection with the insight and recognition of leaders or own identity about protecting property or safety for the people.
- Explanation: Confidence in changing goals through the insight of leaders to protect the people’s assets/finances.
- PROGRESSED MOON SEXTILE RADIX MARS (11th House to 1st House)
Exact 23 Nov 2026 - Translation: Need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory gives opportunities with the conscious will/courage/need to fight for valuable communication/trade/transport by separating or splitting media/transport in their own country.
- Explanation: The need for protection at home indicates the need to communicate consciously about combining or sharing means of transport between friends and one’s own country.
December 2026
- TRANSITING JUPITER OPPOSITION RADIX MIDHEAVEN (3rd House to 9th House)
Exact 2 Dec 2026, Exact 23 Dec 2026 - Translation: Faith and trust in faithfulness and loyalty to future vision of leadership in the region creates conflict/change with showing faith and trust in ideals with international/cross-border friends/enemies who want to be individually free and independent.
- Explanation: There is a lack of trust in the leadership in the region, which makes friends want to become independent.
- DIRECTED MOON TRINE RADIX MIDHEAVEN Pv (5th House to 9th House)
Exact 3 Dec 2026 - Translation: People’s need for strategic partners through risk and gambling on affairs easily goes hand in hand with showing faith and confidence in expanding ideals with international/cross-border judgments about freedom and independence easily goes hand in hand with showing faith and trust in individual ideals of friends.
- Explanation: The need of strategic partners by expressing confidence in cross-border goals
- PROGRESSED MOON SEMISEXTILE PROGRESSED SUN (11th House to 10th House)
Exact 7 Dec 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to be protected from aggressive activities of leaders in their own territory provides opportunities with insight and recognition of sacrifice or resolution with leaders in public life, but you do not see what the effect is.
- Explanation: The need for protection in society creates opportunities with solutions from leaders
- DIRECTED SUN CONJUNCTION RADIX CHIRON Va (11th House)
Exact 10 Dec 2026 - Translation: Insight and recognition of loyalty and faithfulness to leadership with friends comes along with repairing/fixing/ resolving and connecting dreams and ideals in public life with leaders. Or the insight that this is irreparably damaged/destroyed.
- Explanation: Faithfulness and loyalty to the leader lead to restoration, but infidelity and disloyalty can irreparably damage trust.
- DIRECTED MARS SESQUISQUARE RADIX SATURN Sa (9th House to 5th House)
Exact 17 Dec 2026 - Translation: The conscious will/courage/need to fight for faith and trust in the ideals of friends who want to be free and independent creates tensions with limiting/limiting/restricting/stopping or ending strategic partnerships for protecting the risks of affairs that are so valued, but you don’t want that anymore.
- Explanation: The need to have the trust of friends creates tensions in society by terminating/changing a strategic partnership.
- PROGRESSED SUN SESQUISQUARE RADIX NORTH NODE (10th House to 3rd House)
Exact 21 Dec 2026 - Translation: Dreaming of insight and recognition of sacrifice or resolution in public life gives tensions with the goals of being faithful and loyal leadership in the region, and you don’t want that anymore.
- Explanation: The “solutions” in society create tensions with the goals of gaining leadership in the region and are at odds with letting go of international ideals with friends.
- DIRECTED SUN SESQUISQUARE RADIX NORTH NODE Sa (10th House to 3rd House)
Exact 21 Dec 2026 - Translation: Dreaming of insight and recognition of sacrifice or resolution in public life gives tensions with the goals of being faithful and loyal leadership in the region, and you don’t want that anymore.
- Explanation: (extra power) The “solutions” in society create tensions with the goals of obtaining leadership in the region and are at odds with letting go of international ideals with friends.
- PROGRESSED MOON SEMISQUARE PROGRESSED URANUS (11th House to 1st House)
Exact Dec 25, 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to actively fight for friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent gives opportunities with suddenly changing insights into communication and trade in their own country, but you don’t really see what the effect is.
- Explanation: Changes in competing for friends causes changes in trade and communication in one’s own country.
- PROGRESSED MOON QUINCUNX RADIX NEPTUNE (11th House to 4th House)
Exact 28 Dec 2026 - Translation: The need of the people to actively fight for friends and like-minded people who want to be free and independent creates subcutaneous tension with the ideals and dreams of cooperation in the interior for technical specialization and data expertise, but you don’t really see what the effect is.
- Explanation: There are subcutaneous tensions due to the (possible) use of technical expertise in their own country.
