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Aries
Aries, this is your year. There’s a huge planetary cluster in your constellation. Clusters of planets are always good.
This year, you’re taking charge of your life in general and your cooking in particular, heading toward new horizons.
In January, you become obsessed with Tom Yum Soup. In February, you bake your own sourdough with flaxseed. In March, you buy a $180 knife just to make sashimi.
That said, the stars also indicate you might slip back into your daily ham and mushroom omelet by April. Maybe hold off on investing in that knife just yet.
Your recipe: Thai beef basil: A trip in a rice bowl
Taurus
Your generosity is known to all, Taurus. Your joy in life is cooking for large gatherings.
But since you know your limits, your favorite object this year remains your Le Creuset Dutch oven. The one you’d have to actively botch to ruin a recipe. And you only have one, which is as lame as the excuses your friends give you when they return from Paris: “Cast iron is just too heavy to put in my suitcase...”
Good news: this year, Mars in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus join forces, inviting you to try something new — cooking just for yourself.
Your recipe: Aline Kamakian’s Homemade Su Beureg
Gemini
With Jupiter in Cancer, this is the year you finally mature, Gemini. Your friends are over your Toters/Deliveroo dinners. “Pizza/burger/sushi again tonight, guys?”
Especially since you always want to split the bill. #Cheapskate
Here’s the news: nobody in your circle can keep up with your lack of culinary ambition. Unless you want to wind up as a loser, alone in a damp, chilly apartment, get in the kitchen!
Start simple: pasta with something other than shredded cheese. Who knows, you might even like it.
Your recipe: Capellini pasta with shrimp: Fast and fabulous
Cancer
This year, Cancer, you’re entering a new era of your life. Say goodbye to your old self, with all its baggage, traumas (real or imagined), anxieties (legit or not), and endless “what ifs.”
But to take off and fly, Cancer, you have to travel light. Forget about fondues and raclettes and go all in on soups and savory tarts. Sucrine lettuce is your key to reconnecting with your true self.
Your recipe: The Three Sisters Soup (beans, corn and squash)
Leo
This is the year, Leo, when you finally stop going on about your sign. You don’t just have a strong personality, you have a pain-in-the-neck personality.
With Venus and Saturn meeting in your sign, you (and we, too) are being invited to relax. Even if that doesn't help you, it will definitely help everyone else.
This year is all about humility. It’s the year you finally follow the beef bourguignon recipe to the letter, because your “improvised” version — “Cooking is in my blood; I don’t need a recipe” — is always dry and way too salty.
Your recipe: Fatteh with pesto by Maya, The Kitchen Editor
Virgo
Aside from a quick visit from Uranus in Gemini at the end of April, the planets are all smiles for you this year, Virgo.
Want to overhaul your life? Go ahead! Want to just ride the wave? That works too!
Make the most of this. Chances like this don’t come around often. In the kitchen, do whatever you want: take over, abandon it, burn it down, redo it. You decide.
Your recipe: Whatever you want, pick something here. Or not.
Libra
What are your deepest desires, Libra? What do you truly dream of? Does your current reality fit who you are, or does it leave you wanting more? If not, should you adapt or change?
Those are just a few of the questions you’ll grapple with this year, thanks to the two planets squatting in your sign.
We sympathize, Libra, we really do.
Your recipe: Pierre Farah’s arak and blackberry sour cocktail
Scorpio
Your year, Scorpio, promises air, fire and some pretty friendly slow-moving planets. That means you’ll enjoy great energy.
By the way, that was supposed to be true last year, too. So if you got nothing meaningful done in 2025, the stars grant you a do-over this year. Say thank you, get up, shower, put on an apron and get in the kitchen.
Your recipe: The zero-waste tomato and labneh tart by Andréa Boueiz
Sagittarius
This year, Sagittarius, is all about steady self-assertion. Yes, it sounds like something dreamed up by a visionless executive committee. But that’s what the stars say.
That being said, if 2025 was good to you, 2026 has even better prospects. If last year you started getting creative in the kitchen, tried new things, then in 2026, you’re not just continuing, you’re ramping things up. Did you know you can marinate chicken in something other than lemon-olive oil?
Your recipe: John Achkar (and His Grandma)’s chicken shawarma
Capricorn
Much of 2025 was sour for you, Capricorn, due to the rigid Saturn-Neptune duo.
Good news: it’s over, the planets are finally aligned to make life easier.
Bad news: now it’s all on you.
Good news: everything’s possible for you this year.
Bad news: do you even know what you want?
Your recipes (we couldn’t choose): saffron risotto by Sophie Schoucair, or grilled yogurt-sauce ravioli (Mante) by Aline Kamakian, or Karine Zablit's creamy and comforting chocolate mousse.
Aquarius
This year, Aquarius, is all about returning to your roots. You’ve spent years exploring the world, seeing what’s out there. 2026 is the year you come back to the essentials. The Lebanese essentials, obviously. What else?
Hope you like garlic, because it’s going to be the key ingredient this year — along with Nexium.
Your recipe: Tara Khattar’s battenjen w koussa Mehche (stuffed eggplants and zucchini)
Pisces
Honestly, some years it’s best not to know. Okay, Pisces? If you liked 2025, reread last year’s horoscope and pretend it works for 2026 too.
Your (comforting) recipe: Andréa Boueiz’s chocolate chestnut cake
