The month and year get underway in the wake of another very powerful New Moon, from the 19th of December, just before the solstice, that activated all three outer planets. This involved Neptune and Uranus by close longitudinal aspects, the usual kind, and Pluto by extremely close declinational parallels that the Sun and Mars make to Pluto in that timing. The thirty-day lunation cycle of the previous month’s late SagittariusNew Moon takes us to the late CapricornNew Moon of January 18th, which also features Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and perhaps even more strongly. Another way to put this is to say that we are well and truly “in for it,” and yet there are mitigating sides to this dilemma that we must also take note of. The first of these is that Jupiter is also powerfully present in the recent New Moon, bringing his fundamental optimism and joyful expression to bear. We can always rely on hope and do our best to help produce the positive outcome. A second consideration is to additionally state that, no matter what, the universe has our back. It can all become exactly what we need in the moment. Everything that we experience is in fact the story that we make up about it. As Shakespeare informed us in his masterpiece, Hamlet, “Nothing’s either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” We can indeed manufacture whatever we want out of the transformational impact of these outer planets in the glory of their prominence. They could be in our lives to encourage us to grow beyond our previous high-water marks. Another great truth is that we do not learn very much during the easy times, but rather, our lessons come from the challenging ones, as we do what we can in the face of trial and thereby demonstrate character. So, while these times are undoubtedly difficult, they are also ultimately rewarding.
To examine more closely the recent SagittariusNew Moon lunation that sets the stage for the first half or more of January, we have Pluto, in the early degrees of Aquarius, providing a transformational tenor to that sign, wherever it shows up in your natal chart, or your solar one based on your Sun-sign. Pluto is in close semi-sextile to the position of Mars, in early Capricorn, so that we might need to keep our repressed anger in check as there could be outbursts there to contend with. Uranus in late Taurus is exactly inconjunct (or quincunx) the Sun and Moon, therefore also quite prominent. We have surprising events and unexpected revelations still occurring, plus intuitional information that comes from seemingly nowhere and yet can tell us true. Uranus is also right on the edge of 0° Gemini, so affecting that chart sector also. Neptune at 29° Pisces is closely squared by the Sun and Moon, and therefore extremely prominent, as was mentioned above, also affecting the Aries sign. Neptune can be deceptive or confusing, and yet there is a sense of the spiritual and the numinous that comes through these days in everything that we see and do.
There is also this month Saturn in late Pisces, and in close forming conjunction with Neptune, with the Saturn archetype representing the practical and as well the 3D world of the physical. Saturn is thus antithetical to Neptune, which operates to take us beyond the mere physical or mundane reality we normally experience. Astrologer Rick Tarnas has indicated that one consequence of Saturn-Neptune times is “deception unmasked” while another is an ideological divide in which neither side can – whatsoever – perceive or understand the other one’s point of view. Indeed, we seem to have that going on right now, in our politics, here is the U.S. and elsewhere.
As the January month begins, in its first weekend, there is the CancerFull Moon that emphasizes nurture and our feelings rather than our mental process. This Full Moon features as well a close triple conjunction of Venus, Sun, and Mars, opposite the Moon and in close quintile with Saturn. This is thus quite a dynamic juncture as well, and brings the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, including the spiritual possibilities of this interesting archetypal collision, into greater prominence.
One week later, the Last Quarter Moon of January 10th is another very intense configuration, featuring a cardinal grand cross between Sun, Moon, Mars, and Venus (all at 20° or 21°of their respective signs, with the Sun, Mars, and Venus conjoined in Capricorn) square Chiron at 22° of Aries, in conjunction there with Eris, which increases the energy. This is quite an important quarter moon lunation, again bringing Chiron and inner wounding to the surface, so potentially difficult to manage. This is the lunar phase that Dane Rudhyar identified as a “crisis in consciousness,” and we might continue to struggle in seeing our way clear to our best direction forward.
Then, in another week or so, we find the late CapricornNew Moon of the 18th, which features four additional planets lined up in late Capricorn or early Aquarius, indicating another dramatic New Moon when Pluto – along with Neptune and Uranus – are all once again featured.
In the First Quarter Moon of the 25th these personal planets, plus Pluto, are all lined up in Aquarius, square the Taurus Moon at 6° of the sign, and beginning the last week of the month with another potent configuration.
All in all, this is a very active month of January, which starts off another climactic year of 2026. In the following month of February, Neptune and Saturn meet again, coming into the same degree at 0° of Aries, the Aries Point, on the 13th. The remainder of the year features Uranus also returning to Gemini, and aligning by July with Neptune and Pluto, making for another year when all three outer planets, plus Saturn, are extremely active, and thus indicating that the potential pace of hither-to-unknown changes, at both personal and societal levels remains quite intense. Things might begin to settle down in 2027. In the meantime, we must all try to keep our heads on straight, and to participate as we can find it within ourselves to do so, in the societal transformations that we as a global culture are engaged in. It is important to recognize in all this, that if we can each work for the betterment of all, we can in this way make a tremendous impact. We are thus more powerful as individuals than we might think and may be able to collectively prove the old adage that when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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The Cancer Full Moon of Saturday, January 3rd, taking place at about 2 am PT, early morning for the east coast, and later morning for Europe and points east, represents another powerful juncture providing comfort as well as challenge. Most overtly significant in this intriguing lunation is the Venus—Mars conjunction at 12-14 degrees of Capricorn, with the Sun at... Continue Reading
Friday afternoon’s late Sagittarius New Moon, taking place at 5:43 PM PST and later evening for the east coast and Europe, and at 28° of the sign, features – yet again – a potent cocktail of outer planet energies involving all three of the biggest movers and shakers, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Trickster Uranus, at 28° of Gemini, is highlighted by a partile... Continue Reading
The Full Moon of December 4th arrives at 3:14 PM Pacific Time, in mid-Gemini, and, as it hits, informs our lives with a bright, curious, and wildly multidimensional atmosphere. The Moon at 13 Gemini stands opposite the Sun at 13 Sagittarius, illuminating the astrological axis of thought and meaning. This lunation is uniquely potent, because the lunar nodes are also at exactly 13 degrees of their respective signs of Virgo and Pisces, thus in square. What sets this moment apart is that this partile or same-degree square with the lunar nodes forms a grand cross across all four mutable signs, highlighting a moment that can feel like a karmic crossroads in the collective atmosphere and for our personal lives as well... Continue Reading
Friday’s Full Moon, occurring at about 1:30 PM PST, later afternoon and evening for points east, is an exciting lunation mostly due to aspects made by the Sun and Moon to outer planets. The Taurus Moon, at 24°, is within one degree of a conjunction to Trickster Uranus, at 25°, which could symbolize unexpected events and startling revelations over the... Continue Reading
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This is another month, Aries, when outer planet involvement in the current lunations is extreme. We have Uranus in the final degrees of Taurus, Pluto in early Aquarius, and Neptune in the last degree of the Pisces sign, thus also affecting the first degrees of your own. These all are featured, leading to revelatory and transformative situations and events, implying new upcoming understandings for anyone paying attention. This is so in the recent late SagittariusNew Moon, from December, affecting the first few weeks of January, and as well in the mid-month late CapricornNew Moon. It seems that “these are the times that try our souls,” and that hopefully point the way to a more productive and equitable future. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is highlighted in your sign by its square with Jupiter in Cancer, or your sector of home and family, in the early going and specifically in the Last Quarter Moon of January 10th, when there is a potent grand cross that includes Chiron. All this implies opportunity as well as struggle. One secret here is to manage your expectations, and to recognize that while easy days are fun, the real learning and progress tends to come from the more difficult times. This month is one in which your identity may be transforming. The important relationships in your life could also be inclined to throw you a few curveballs, illuminating shifts in perspective. The CancerFull Moon from the first weekend of the month could be said, for you, to be all about partnership and the lessons there. It is possible for inner wounding to come up in this regard, and it is wise to treat any such instances as opportunities to grow in your understanding of where they come from, deep inside. This might be especially so on the 10th, and also on the New Moon the evening of the 18th, which is another of these potent lunations when information of real consequence is likely to be revealed.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens in the wake of the SagittariusNew Moon that activated your ninth sector of belief, meaning, and long-range vision, also affecting your career and professional life. As the Sun and Moon made a square with the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, this lunation carries an interesting quality that feels more like a liminal threshold where one chapter is coming to a close while another begins. With Neptune at the anaretic of final degree of Pisces, something essential in how you understand the world and make meaning could be at a pivotal integration point. Your core values may quietly reorganize, inviting spiritual trust and a somewhat unusual willingness to stay present with questions rather than rushing toward certainty.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year begins, Mercury moves into Capricorn and into your tenth sector of career, public life, and long-term contribution, where the Sun, Venus, and Mars are already traveling. Your attention may turn more fully toward practical concerns of logistics, responsibility, and how your efforts are perceived by others. This transit supports focused thinking around career priorities and worldly commitments.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in your sign, amplifying its influence throughout the surrounding days and potentially calling up recognition of inner wounding. This moment can bring heightened awareness to ancient trauma around identity and confidence. This might include old narratives connected to self-worth or the need to prove yourself. Where hyper-independence or an internalized pressure to perform has masked deeper vulnerability, this Chiron station offers an opening for healing through connecting to your authenticity, innocence, and greater self-acceptance.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 illuminates your fourth sector of home, emotional foundations, and inner life, opposing the Sun in your tenth sector of career and visibility. With the Sun closely aligned with Venus and your ruling planet, Mars, this lunation highlights the balance between public persona and private life, and also issues of self and important partners. Clarity may arise around what truly matters, both in external achievements and your inner emotional experience. As an opening lunation for the year, this Full Moon carries a grounding quality that can help you orient from deep heart space.
Sun, Venus and Mars> Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout much of the first half of January, the Sun, Venus, and your ruler Mars move together through Capricorn, and this unusually long conjunction between the three of them is highlighting your tenth sector of vocation and long-term goals. This potent alignment blends will, desire, and values, supporting disciplined effort and intentional creation. You may feel especially motivated to make tangible progress toward something that carries lasting meaning, alongside a sharper awareness of the value of your time and energy.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-Square to Chiron and Eris> – January 7th–11th
The Capricorn personal planet conjunction of Sun, Venus, and Mars, comes to oppose Jupiter in your fourth sector of home and roots, amplifying tension between outer success and inner fulfillment. This is thus a powerful timing. Simultaneously, these planets form a T-square to Chiron and Eris in your sign, highlighting sensitive areas around autonomy and self-definition. Private versus public concerns could seem to combine. Frustration may arise where your independence feels challenged by responsibility or collaboration. Healing may unfold as you redefine sovereignty not as isolation, but as selfhood that can exist within your relationships as you seek mutual support.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus, your relationship sector ruler, enters Aquarius and your eleventh sector of community, friendship, and collective vision, soon meeting Pluto there, exact on January 19th. This marks a shift toward deeper transformation in your social world and for your key partnerships. Power dynamics within these circles may come into focus, asking for honesty and recalibration. At its best, this transit supports profound changes in how you connect, collaborate, and share values.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars, your ruling planet, in your career sector, forms a trine to Uranus in your second sector of resources and values, energizing innovation and decisive movement. Sudden insights around work, income, or priorities may prompt bold adjustments. While changes may feel abrupt, they can ultimately support greater alignment.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The CapricornNew Moon again activates your tenth sector of career and long-term direction, closely conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and supported by Uranus in trine and Saturn-Neptune in sextile — Neptune just days away from moving into Aries. This is another quite powerful and consequential lunation, and could be a defining moment for intention-setting around legacy and responsibility. It reflects a longer process of endings and beginnings unfolding since mid-year 2025. You may find a new sense of what must naturally fall away for something more authentic and deep within you to take shape, inviting discernment around what is truly worth building.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto in your eleventh sector of community and collective vision, normally hidden power dynamics within groups or alliances may come into view. This transit invites greater honesty about your role, influence, and alignment within the future you are helping to shape.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars, your ruling planet, follows the Sun into Aquarius and also meets Pluto there, exact on the 26th, dramatically intensifying themes of will, autonomy, and collective action. Power dynamics could come into play involving friends and groups you favor. This is a highly charged window that can either fuel strategic, transformative leadership or escalate struggles, depending on how consciously this energy is met
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s entrance into your sign marks the beginning of a profound, long-term shift in identity, will, and spiritual meaning for you. This ingress opens questions about where your sense of self begins and ends, and how your personal desires intersect with collective ideals. Inspiration and illusion can coexist, asking for discernment as you step into a new chapter of becoming.
This is another exciting and amazing month, Taurus, for you and everyone else. There is, for you, a particular focus on your beliefs and worldview that will take you as far as you will let it. The month’s first weekend is significant there, in a way that includes key partners. The understanding that you have about identity, career and the important relationships in your life is subject to a series of epiphanies – as also has been true in recent months – so that by now the messages are likely starting to sink in. Right from January’s very beginning you can see your ideas coming fast and furious, and some could relate to inner wounding that you have been feeling from issues of early childhood trauma long left to fester away in the depths of your psyche unresolved. It might be time to pay more concentrated attention to your inner world and most especially this form of ancient wounding. It is rather amazing, and yet true, that there is pure gold you can discover in this way lying deep inside. This as long as you can cast side any shame and any reluctance that you feel in going there. The early days of January are geared this way, and as well the Last Quarter Moon of the10th when there is a grand cross including Chiron, the Wounded Healer, prominent in your sector of unconscious process and inner work. Your night-time dreams could be quite telling in this regard and you may want a handy pen and journal near to your bed as you awaken from them. When the New Moon of the 18th arrives you will be caught in a storm of energy that might be difficult to weather and yet also very rewarding in terms of novel information, brilliant ideas, and vocational transformation. Your key partners continue to count for quite a bit as you strive to integrate what is going on inside your psyche.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens downstream from the SagittariusNew Moon at 28 degrees of the sign, conjunct Venus and square the current Saturn–Neptune conjunction, which colors the entire following month. For you, this lunation cycle lasting thirty days or well into January, activates your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and psychological transformation, along with your beliefs and worldview. With Neptune at the anaretic or final degree of Pisces, this recent New Moon carries a liminal quality that may create the feeling of a threshold throughout this cycle. Something long-held around trust, intuition, and subconscious patterns may be quietly dissolving, and what comes next might not yet be clear. There’s an invitation here to soften inherited beliefs around security and reciprocity, especially where old survival patterns no longer reflected your values. These first few weeks of January ask for presence with what is arising beneath the surface, allowing deeper truths to reorganize at their own pace.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year begins, Mercury enters Capricorn and your ninth sector of belief, meaning, and long-range vision, where the Sun, your ruling planet Venus, and Mars have already been travelling. Your mental focus may be drawn toward the frameworks and schools of thought through which you interpret your experiences. This transit supports grounded thinking around education, philosophy, or spiritual direction, helping your ideas take on clearer form without rushing toward certainty.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in your twelfth sector of rest, the unconscious, and hidden wounds, amplifying subtle healing processes in your inner world. Old patterns of self-doubt, withdrawal, or emotional exhaustion may come into awareness. This Chiron station invites healing through respite, honesty, and allowing vulnerability to be met with compassion and self-acceptance.
Full Moon in >Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 illuminates your third sector of communication, learning, and immediate environment. With the Moon in Cancer opposing the CapricornSun, Venus, and Mars, closely conjunct each other in your ninth sector of beliefs and worldview, this lunation highlights the relationship between your lived experience and the guiding principles you value. Conversations or realizations may clarify whether your daily choices align with your broader values, offering insight into what needs to be expressed, understood, or reframed.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout much of the first half of January, Venus, Sun, and Mars move within two degrees of each other through Capricorn and your ninth sector, aligning will, desire, and values around meaning and future direction. This is an unusually long time for these planets to be conjunct on another, creating an opportunity as this new year begins to bring focus to your higher learning. As Venus is your ruling planet, this period may feel especially important, emphasizing the importance of building a worldview that reflects your lived truth.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-Square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
This extended personal planet conjunction of Sun, Venus, and Mars in Capricorn proceeds to oppose Jupiter in its exaltation in Cancer in your communication sector, stretching the space between expansive ideas and everyday realities. The tension asks for discernment rather than excess, helping you refine what is worth pursuing. At the same time, the T-square that these planets make to Chiron and Eris in your twelfth sector may surface unconscious resistance or fatigue, reminding you that growth may requires rest, support, and time to listen more deeply to your inner knowing.
Venus Square Chiron – January 9th–11th
This brief aspect heightens sensitivity around worth and emotional vulnerability, particularly in private or unspoken ways. Old relational wounds may brush the surface, along with potential issues of self-worth and identity, offering insight into where greater kindness toward yourself is needed.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus, your ruling planet, enters Aquarius and your tenth sector of career and public life, soon thereafter forming a conjunction with Pluto in this sign. This marks a deep shift in how you relate to authority, visibility, and long-term contribution. Power dynamics within professional or public roles may come into focus, asking for honesty and transformation around what success truly means to you.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars in Capricorn forms a trine to Uranus in the late degrees of your sign, energizing change and forward momentum. Sudden insights or decisive shifts may arise around identity or direction. While this energy can feel disruptive, it ultimately supports liberation from stagnation and renewed confidence in your own evolution.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The CapricornNew Moon arrives in your ninth sector of beliefs and worldview, influencing as well your career and professional life, and closely conjuncts Mercury, Venus, Mars, plus aspecting Uranus along with Saturn-Neptune. This extremely potent lunation marks an important moment for setting intentions around belief, education, and future vision. With Neptune leaving Pisces by the end of the month, and Uranus nearing the end of its recent retrograde dip into your sign, there is a sense of liminal space as one massive cycle is ending, while another phase is being to form and take shape.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and your tenth sector, attention shifts further toward public roles and career endeavors. The conjunction with Pluto intensifies themes of power, authenticity, and agency, bringing awareness to what is ready to be claimed and what is fundamentally transforming.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th
The final week of January carries heightened intensity as Mars joins Pluto in your tenth sector. This alignment can correlate with decisive turning points or power struggles in career or public life. When approached consciously, it supports focused action and meaningful transformation, with restraint and awareness acting as essential guides.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s final entrance into Aries activates your twelfth sector of dream imagination and inner work, initiating a long cycle of spiritual reorientation. As Neptune dissolves old psychic boundaries, intuition, dreams, and unconscious material may become more pronounced. With Saturn preparing to follow Neptune into Aries next month, this entire period emphasizes the integration of vision and grounded practice, inviting rest, reflection, and discernment as a new internal chapter challenges old assumptions.
This is another fascinating and challenging month and year coming up for you, Gemini, providing further life adjustments. Amidst the ongoing changes in your beliefs and worldview, you are now dealing with process of metamorphosis involving the important relationships in your life. With the recent New Moon from last month having landed in that sector of your solar chart, in square with numinous Neptune, there is a factor there of idealization or even outright self-deception, perhaps deception practiced by others, that leads you to deep-seated alterations in the way you see yourself in connection with key partners and with regard to your relationships in general. This is a powerful focus as January begins, seemingly taking you away from your own self-interest, and yet in another way you might find that by exploring your connections with important others you are simultaneously doing the very best thing that you can do regarding your own self-development. There are the inevitable curve-balls symbolized by the strong presence of Uranus still near the beginning your sign, and indicating a very strong intuitional component that is available to you now. Your unconscious process is in general quite potent and meaningful for what you are about in the beginning of this consequential month and year. The CancerFull Moon of January 3rd is another significant juncture along the way, emphasizing, once again, your relationships, plus values and partnership agreements. The quarter Moon lunation of the 10th also represents a very taxing and perhaps difficult adjustment, indicating Inner wounding affecting partners and friends, as well as social groups you favor. Then the mid-month late CapricornNew Moon makes for another quite powerful juncture. This may stimulate your creative self-expression and open new vistas of enlightenment concerning the actual depth of your process of integration and transformation.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens in the aftermath of the New Moon in Sagittarius from last month, which has set the tone for the thirty-day cycle that carries you into the new year. For you, this lunation activated your seventh sector of relationships, dialogue, and mutual exchange, drawing attention to how shared beliefs, values, and intimacy might shape your connections. The New Moon was conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, so that there might be a subtle reckoning in the month’s first half around what you genuinely believe versus what you have been carrying out of habit or conditioning. Neptune at the final degree of Pisces joins career issues to long-term goals and social connectivity. There could be an invitation here to soften rigid frameworks around truth and meaning, allowing curiosity and lived experience to guide you toward more authentic connection.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the month begins, your ruling planet Mercury enters Capricorn, where the Sun, Venus, and Mars are already located, activating your eighth sector of shared resources, emotional bonds, and psychological depth. Your thinking may become more strategic and grounded, particularly around long-term commitments or matters involving trust, money, or internal psychological processes. Conversations could turn inward, toward boundaries, responsibility, and sustainability. This powerful transit supports clear, realistic communication around complex topics and encourages a more mature approach within you to intimacy and mutual reliance.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd
The direct station of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in your eleventh sector of community and belonging may bring up old sensitivities around visibility or your social contribution into focus. Internal questioning about whether your voice is valued within groups or collective spaces may resurface. Your key relationships might participate. This Chiron station offers an opportunity to reclaim sovereignty by showing up authentically, rather than shaping yourself to fit external expectations. Healing unfolds through honesty and self-compassion, admitting to these potential flaws, especially regarding how you engage with shared goals and future visions.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The CancerFull Moon of the first weekend of the month kicks off the new year, illuminating your second sector of values, finance, and self-worth, and opposing a strong concentration of planets in Capricorn or your eighth house of shared resources and inner process. Your inner Emotional truths around security and material stability may come into clearer view. This lunation asks you to consider what feels genuinely nourishing versus what is simply productive. Financial matters or questions of energetic exchange may reach a moment of clarity, helping you assess what is worth investing in as the year begins and orienting your perspective toward the abundance you desire.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
This triple conjunction is rare in the length of time it remains in effect, activating your eighth sector of intimacy and personal evolution and aligning will, desire, and values around deeper commitments and long range transformation. There is support now for intentional creation that involves shared effort or vulnerability. At the same time, the opposition these planets form to Jupiter from January 7th to the 11th may highlight tension between expansion and limitation, vision and realism. The T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries brings attention to wounds around autonomy within group dynamics. This period calls for a redefinition of sovereignty that includes collaboration rather than hyper-independence.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus enters Aquarius and your ninth sector of meaning, learning, and expanded perspective, and conjoins Pluto. Power dynamics around truth, freedom, or shared ideals could come into focus. This transit supports deep transformation in how you understand connection, belonging, and intellectual intimacy. Something you believe in may undergo a significant shift.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars in Capricorn forms a trine to Uranus in Taurus, energizing innovation and forward movement. Sudden insights or course corrections may help you break free from stagnation, particularly around future plans or collaborations. This is a window for decisive, thoughtful action, especially when you trust intuitive flashes rather than overthinking.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The first New Moon of 2026 is quite intensely powerful and arrives in your eighth sector, carrying notable initiatory weight. Your beliefs and worldview is also greatly affected. Conjunct your ruler Mercury, plus Venus and Mars, this lunation concentrates intention around shared resources, intimacy, and long-term commitments and supports new attitudes around your principles that are more entirely your own. Supportive aspects to the Sun and Moon – from Uranus by trine and Saturn and Neptune by sextile – may allow you to build something new that balances innovation with stability. This is the last New Moon with Neptune still in Pisces, marking a threshold moment that invites deep listening, as it may reveal an important nugget of truth as you move forward into new territory.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius, your attention shifts toward broader horizons, future oriented thinking, and evolving belief systems. The Sun-Pluto conjunction heightens awareness around power, agency, and authenticity. You may recognize where control dynamics have shaped your perspective and where reclaiming your voice requires a deeper look and new areas of learning.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th
This potent combination intensifies vital and emotional energy, particularly around your overarching life philosophy and humanitarian ideals. Frustration and outrage may bubble forth with intensity under this influence. This transit, ideally, supports decisive action and meaningful transformation. Awareness of pacing and boundaries can help prevent burnout.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s ingress into Aries begins a new 165-year cycle, activating your eleventh sector of community and collective vision with spiritual intention that is profound and that can also be confusing for issues of the 3D world of the physical. Inspiration and illusion intertwine as new dreams begin to form around leadership, belonging, and shared purpose. This transit invites discernment as you navigate evolving ideals and your role within a changing collective landscape.
This is another in a series of fascinating and challenging months for you, Cancer. The recent late SagittariusNew Moon from the previous December month, governing the thirty day lunation cycle that begins the new year carried a potent astrological message. The lunation cycle stemming from that lights up both your sector of service to others and your seventh sector of relationship, implying that key partnerships will become increasingly important to you as the January month unfolds. There is also the current prominence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, to contend with, lodged in your sector of career and professional life and stimulating questions in that area regarding inner wounding. Mystical realities could seem to be more real than the physical world they transcend. The best bet might be to just let things stay that way, even though these feelings are both supplanted and partly undermined by your sense of responsibility. The important partnerships in your life are an additional focus the first weekend of the month. This featured the Full Moon in your sign of January 3rd, which brought up the idea that your relationships will likely be shown to be in some way connected with your career aspirations. Then, a week later, hints of inner wounding that have been arising might come to a head in the timing of the Last Quarter Moon of January 10th, an amazing and active juncture that includes relationship-oriented concentration of energies and conundrums associated with somewhat difficult shifts in point of view. The late CapricornNew Moon of January 18th is also uniquely powerful. This is also about personal transformation and surprise intuitional revelations that could prove helpful in resolving the many issues and energies swirling about you in this climactic month and 2026 year.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins in the wake of the recent SagittariusNew Moon, which activated both your sixth sector of daily rhythms, labor, and devotion, and also your partnership sector since the New Moon was so close to 0 Capricorn. With the Sun and Moon at 28 degrees of the sign and conjunct Venus, this lunation cycle carries a complex, almost dissolving quality, as signified by its square to Neptune in her conjunction with the antithetical Saturn archetype. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, what might be quietly released in these first January weeks is something about obligation, productivity, or the meaning you attach to service or partnership. There is an invitation here to soften rigid expectations around usefulness or perfection and to listen more closely to what your body and spirit need in order to function sustainably. As old frameworks loosen, curiosity can guide you toward habits, rituals, and a relationship dynamic that allow you to feel more freed up and truly yourself.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, Mercury enters Capricorn, joining the Sun, Venus, and Mars already traveling there in your seventh sector of committed relationships, contracts, and mutual responsibility. As the new year begins, conversations may feel more serious, pragmatic, or future-oriented, particularly with partners, collaborators, or clients. This transit supports clear agreements and grounded dialogue, helping you articulate what you are willing to build with others, as well as what you need in return.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in your tenth sector of career, visibility, and public identity, turning up themes around confidence, leadership, and self-trust. What may resurface this current month are old wounds around being seen, taken seriously, or feeling worthy of authority. There is an opportunity to reclaim your seat and inner authority, slog with tending to inner places that have forgotten, through childhood trauma, their innate goodness. You win by allowing yourself to stand strong in your convictions. Healing emerges as you align your outer roles with your inner truth.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 arrives in your sign, illuminating the Cancer–Capricorn axis of care and responsibility. With your ruling planetary body, the Moon, perched in its place of rulership in Cancer and opposite the Sun, Venus, and Mars in your seventh sector of relationships, emotional clarity comes into focus through interaction with others. This lunation highlights the balance between honoring your feelings and honoring commitments, between self-nourishment and shared goals. Issues of self and other may predominate. You could gain insight into which relationships feel supportive of your long term well-being and which ones could on the other hand require renegotiation or adjustment. In your Moon-ruled sign, this Full Moon can feel especially centering for you, offering a moment to reconnect with your emotional compass.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th Venus, the Sun, and Mars travel closely together for an unusually long time through your seventh sector of relationships and commitment, aligning desire, values, and will. Over this period, partnerships and collaborations come into stark focus, offering support for building something meaningful with others. This configuration asks for clarity around where you are investing your energy and which shared efforts feel worth sustaining, so that discernment is required.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As this concentrated Capricorn collection of planets Sun, Venus, and Mars opposes Jupiter in your sign, emotions and ideals are amplified, revealing tension between personal needs and shared responsibilities. The T-square they make with Jupiter to Chiron and Eris at 22 and 24 Aries surfaces old wounds around autonomy and recognition, highlighting where collaboration challenges identity or self-trust. Growth comes through honest negotiation that honors both self-care and mutual effort. Lean into Jupiter’s inspiration to nourish joy within yourself as a primary source of radiance and thriving.
Last Quarter Moon in Libra – January 10th
This quarter moon features Jupiter in your sign opposed to Sun and Mars, all at 20 degrees, in a close grand cross with the LibraMoon opposite the Chiron– Eris conjunction in Aries. With Chiron prominent, this significantly potent lunation may bring an interesting, although difficult, recurrence of the inner wounding activation mentioned earlier for January 2nd. There is a touch of optimistic expansion – due to Jupiter’s highlighted presence – in a process of shifting attitudes, priorities, and understandings.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
Mid-month, Venus enters Aquarius and your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and psychological depth, where it then meets Pluto. This transit deepens relational dynamics, bringing hidden power patterns, fears, or desires to the surface. Financial or emotional exchanges may undergo transformation, requiring greater transparency and trust. While intensity is possible, this conjunction also supports profound healing when you are willing to engage honestly with what lies beneath the surface.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
This CapricornNew Moon is extremely potent, and activates your seventh sector once again, offering a powerful reset around partnership and long-term agreements. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and supported by harmonious aspects to Trickster Uranus and the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, this lunation carries innovation, epiphany, and surprising stability, with the subtle numinous quality of Neptune also present. What is reflected may include broader endings and beginnings – as multiple outer planets approach sign transitions – reinforcing the sense that you are standing at a significant threshold. This New Moon invites intentional choices around what you are building, going forward, and who with. You might be mulling over the kind of future you want to see enacted in those collaborations you choose. Saying goodbye to outdated relational patterns may be part of making space for more aligned and truly beneficial commitments.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto, emphasis shifts toward your eighth sector of transformation, vulnerability, and shared power. This transit brings heightened awareness to emotional bonds, psychological patterns, and the deeper dynamics of trust and control. You may notice where power is consciously or unconsciously exchanged, and where greater honesty is required. The Sun–Pluto conjunction supports profound insight and self-awareness, illuminating what is ready to be acknowledged, reclaimed, or released.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th
When Mars follows the Sun into Aquarius, the emotional intensity may increase. As Mars approaches its conjunction with Pluto, strong feelings, power struggles, or buried anger may surface, particularly around issues of dependence, autonomy, or shared resources. This period calls for conscious channeling of energy rather than reactive expression. Directness paired with self-awareness can help you engage these dynamics in ways that lead to transformation rather than escalation.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s entrance into Aries marks the beginning of a new 165-year collective cycle, activating your tenth sector of vocation, visibility, and calling. Over time, this transit will reshape how you envision leadership and contribution, blending sensitivity with courage. For now, it plants a seed, inviting you to imagine a future where your public life reflects deeper purpose, compassion, and your greater vision.
This is yet another month, Leo, with outer planet energies swirling around in your head and heart, implying further transformational and even revolutionary purpose. This would be affecting your relationships and your social scene as well as your creativity and long-term future goals, plus your workplace and habits of the past and present. You could find these to be shifting as the need arises for new ones more appropriate to your current beliefs and worldview. Changing times call for changing responses to them and this, for you, seems to involve different rituals and patterns more appropriate to the task at hand. Also. with regard to internal morals and fundamental beliefs, there could be some confusion, or idealism, and you may feel yourself reaching out for greater compassion as you reassess. The CancerFull Moon of the first weekend of January finds you mediating between inner and outer, plus issues of career and worldview, as you see the contrasts and reach for a balance point effecting something of a merger between disparate elements. Your moral compass which emerges strictly from deep within you, corresponding to your own inner light, is not can be separated from consensus attitudes that try to force their way upon you or the effects of early conditioning. After the mid-month January 18th New Moon, which enunciates an extreme focus on key partnerships in your life, you are seeking the common ground in your attitude between the physical and the numinous or otherworldly, giving both antithetical sides their due, allowing neither to dominate, so that the mystical becomes more concrete and the concrete more suffused with the light of cosmic intention.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins under the influence of the SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the lunation cycle now unfolding. For you, this cycle activates your fifth sector of creativity, pleasure, romance, and self-expression, and also affects your sixth – of day-to-day events and your workplace. Your habit patterns could feel renewed and your list re-examined. Conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, it carries a reflective and dissolving quality, as if some element of your current creative chapter is drawing to a natural completion and turning a new page. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, the depths of your psyche could be coming into play and something longstanding around intimate spaces may be in its final integration. There is an invitation here to soften rigid expectations around creativity or love, allowing curiosity to guide you back toward forms of expression that feel authentic.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the month opens, Mercury enters Capricorn and your sixth sector of workplace, health, and daily responsibility. Mental focus shifts toward practicality, efficiency, and long-term sustainability. You may feel more inclined to take your time seriously, streamline routines, and think strategically about how your energy is being used. This offers a stabilizing influence as the year begins.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in Aries in your ninth sector of belief, meaning, and perspective, intensifying healing themes in the surrounding days. Old wounds may surface around confidence in your worldview, your voice, or your right to inhabit your truth. This moment offers an opportunity to reclaim sovereignty through authenticity in this present moment rather than striving or over-reaching. Healing unfolds as you trust your lived experience and allow your understanding of the world to grow and evolve.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 arrives in Cancer, illuminating your twelfth sector of unconscious process, depth work, and inner life, opposite the CapricornSun in your sixth sector of daily effort and service to others. With the Sun conjunct Venus and Mars, your vital energy, relationality, and willpower all get sprinkled into the mix. This Full Moon highlights the need to balance nourishment with productivity, reminding you that restoration and nervous system soothing may be key ingredients to your wellbeing and functionality. Emotional undercurrents influencing habits or health may become clearer. Meaning emerges through quiet listening rather than action, offering a grounding and centering start to the year.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout the first half of the month, the Sun, your ruling planetary body, travels in an extended conjunction with Venus and Mars in Capricorn, emphasizing your sixth sector of daily devotion. This alignment is rare in its lengthy duration and brings will, values, and desire into coherence, supporting disciplined effort and intentional creation. There is potential to build routines that genuinely support long-term vitality. This configuration favors steady progress over immediate results and highlights the importance of honoring limits so that effort remains sustainable.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-Square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As the Capricorn planets Sun, Venus, and Mars gather close together and oppose Jupiter in Cancer – additionally forming a T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries – tension between subconscious patterns and external limitations may become more visible. Jupiter amplifies ideals and emotional depth, while the T-square highlights ancient wounds around autonomy and independence. You may feel pulled between self-reliance and the recognition that collaboration and support are necessary. This configuration calls for a redefinition of sovereignty that expands to include interdependence. Growth may come through acknowledging both personal strength and collaborative reciprocity.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus enters Aquarius and your seventh sector of committed relationships, conjoining Pluto soon thereafter. Relational themes may show up around desires for authenticity, freedom, and innovation. Power dynamics, intimacy patterns, or shared values may intensify, bringing deeper reckonings into view. While tension can arise, this transit also supports profound transformation in how you understand connection and belonging. Relationships may ask to evolve beyond familiar roles.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars in Capricorn forms a trine to Uranus in late Taurus, energizing innovation and decisive course correction. Sudden insights or disruptions may catalyze necessary change, particularly around work or relational patterns connected to your career. This transit supports breaking free from stagnation in practical ways and acting in alignment with your authentic needs.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon arrives as the first New Moon of 2026, carrying significant initiatory weight, landing in your sixth sector of day-to-day events and your workplace, and also strongly affecting your relationship sector. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and supported by a flighty trine from Uranus and a sextile from Saturn–Neptune, this New Moon concentrates intention around responsibility, legacy, and the expenditure of your life-force energy. Saturn–Neptune and Uranus, approaching their sign transitions, thus also affecting the sign following, are serving to reinforce the feeling that threshold moments are rarely linear. There is a cosmic invitation in all this that, in order to build with integrity, you release what no longer aligns with your future self.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun, your ruler, enters Aquarius and your seventh sector, Aquarius season brings further emphasis on relationships and shared vision. The Sun’s conjunction with Pluto highlights themes of power, agency, and transformation. Awareness grows around patterns of control and authenticity, inviting deeper honesty in how you engage with others.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars follows into Aquarius, intensifying raw energy and fierceness in your relational landscape. Suppressed anger or unresolved power dynamics may erupt to the surface, beckoning precision in your presence. Ideally, when engaged with keen awareness, this can be a potent period for decisive action and meaningful transformation, highlighting the interplay between individual will and collective purpose.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune enters Aries, beginning a new 165-year cycle and activating your ninth sector of belief and spiritual orientation. This shift blurs boundaries between personal conviction and collective vision, raising questions about sovereignty, leadership, and meaning. Inspiration and illusion coexist, calling for discernment. Closely tied to Saturn’s upcoming ingress into Aries, this marks the opening of a long process of integrating vision with responsibility, inviting you into an exploration of what faith and higher path look like for you in this rapidly evolving world.
This is an exciting and groundbreaking month, Virgo, when there is a lot of action taking place on the inside, and with your key relationships, plus with regard to your outer world persona. The prominence of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in their various placements within your solar chart is again extreme, and these “ambassadors from the galaxy,” as noted 20th-century master astrologer Dane Rudhyar liked to put it, are all significantly featured in the recent late SagittariusNew Moon from the previous month. That lunation cycle continues through the first 18 days of January and it should be quite a ride. Because Trickster Uranus is hovering on the edge of your vocational sector, and closely aspected by the Sun and Moon in that recent event, your creativity with regard to career and professional life is subject to fits and starts, sudden unexpected left turns, plus novel and perhaps extremely helpful revelations. Meanwhile numinous Neptune, also closely aspected in the recent New Moon, is affecting partnership agreements and facets of your sense of intimacy in connection and personal evolution, while a strong presence of transformational Pluto calls your attention to old and outmoded habit patterns that could be ready for alteration and replacement. This month’s Full Moon taking place on the 3rd is also energizing, and somewhat confounding, both mystical and practical as far as your beliefs and worldview. You are focused on projects and creative endeavors and especially with seeing their results in their impact on the world around you. Surprises along with novel ideas continue and even accelerate. The month’s ongoing revelations with the lunations of the 10th and of the 18th might unfold new vistas of service to others and a higher notion of your own creativity that opens greater spiritual dimensions of what you are up to, including a more positive viewpoint on inner flaws and wounding. The ups and as well the downs of life could also be seen as fuel for greater spiritual involvement with your work and your home life.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins under the influence of the late-degree SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the thirty-day cycle now unfolding. For you, this lunation activates your fourth sector of home, roots, and emotional foundations, plus affecting your sector of personal creativity, joy, and self-expression. With Sun and Moon conjunct Venus and square to the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, the recent New Moon cycle carries a reflective, dissolving quality, suggesting that some dimension or dynamic of partnership or family narratives may be turning a chapter. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, what may be released is any pattern that’s familiar but no longer sustaining. There is an invitation to soften inherited beliefs around what safety or belonging should look like, thus allowing lived experience to redefine what truly nourishes you.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, your ruling planet Mercury enters Capricorn, joining the Sun, Venus, and Mars already traveling there in your fifth sector of creativity, pleasure, and self-expression. Mental focus turns toward building something meaningful and lasting rather than chasing fleeting bursts of inspiration. This monthly cycle supports disciplined creative effort, thoughtful risk-taking, and a clearer sense of what is worth your time and energy as the year begins.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron’s direct station activates your eighth sector of intimacy and shared resources, intensifying healing themes around vulnerability, trust, and power for the week surrounding this date. Old wounds connected to intimacy or deep emotional bonds may arise, offering an opportunity to reclaim sovereignty through honesty and address outdated patterns of self-protection. Healing may emerge now through prioritizing staying connected with yourself and your truth, along with a willingness to engage more openly with what feels tender.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 lights up your eleventh sector of friendships, community, and long-term aspirations. Opposite the CapricornSun in your fifth sector, this lunation brings emotional clarity to the relationship between personal joy and collective belonging. You may gain insight into which dreams feel emotionally sustaining and which no longer align with your evolving values. This is a grounding Full Moon that helps clarify what feels worth building in the year ahead.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
From early January through mid-month, the Sun, Venus, and Mars travel together for an unusually long time through your fifth sector of creativity, joy, and procreation, supporting alignment of your will, values, and desires. This conjunction is rare in its lengthy duration and can foster intentional creation and sustained effort, particularly around creative projects, romantic commitments, or sources of pleasure that carry long-term meaning. There is encouragement here to invest your inspiration, where joy and purpose intersect.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As these Capricorn planets, of Sun, Venus, and Mars, oppose Jupiter in Cancer, tension may arise between personal expression and the needs of community or collaboration. The accompanying T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries highlights wounds around autonomy and self-definition. This configuration invites a reworking of what sovereignty means, reminding you that effectiveness often grows through interdependence rather than isolation.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus enters Aquarius and your sixth sector of work, health, and daily rhythms, where it meets Pluto. Values connected to labor, responsibility, and well-being may undergo a deep reckoning. Power dynamics within work environments or habitual patterns of daily life may come into sharper focus, inviting more authentic and sustainable ways of engaging with the mundane.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon arrives in your fifth sector of creative self-expression, also affecting your sixth of day-to-day environment and service to others. As the first New Moon of 2026, and conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, this New Moon concentrates intention and creative drive, while a trine to Uranus and a sextile to Saturn–Neptune invoke innovation and surprise intuition infused with practicality a well as inspiration. This lunation reflects broader endings and thresholds in motion and invites conscious choices around how you can best use your time, energy, and creative life force going forward.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and your sixth sector, attention turns toward daily systems and practical application. The Sun’s conjunction with Pluto brings awareness to patterns of control or burnout, highlighting where small but meaningful adjustments could support greater vitality and alignment.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars intensifies activity in your sixth sector, coming to its conjunction with Pluto. This confronting aspect may surface urgency or frustration around workplace or health matters, but it also offers potent momentum for decisive change. When consciously directed, this energy can support eliminating habits or obligations that drain your vitality.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s entry into Aries begins a new collective 165-year cycle, activating your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and psychological depth. Old spiritual assumptions around merging and trust may begin to dissolve, opening space for a more conscious relationship to vulnerability and power. This ingress, along with Saturn’s entrance into Aries in mid-February, sets the stage for integrating vision with responsibility in deeper emotional exchanges.
This is another consequential month for you, Libra, with further transformational effects emphasizing home and family, your creativity, and the key relationships of your life. The recent SagittariusNew Moon featured Venus, your ruler, in your sector of communicative outreach, which is therefore a major theme for the first part of January, leading up to another powerful New Moon configuration on the 18th. Meanwhile, the ongoing transformational intensity of Pluto in Aquarius signals that your creative self-expression continues to evolve. This will become and ongoing theme throughout the January month. In between these extremely potent New Moons there is also to consider the Full Moon of January 3rd, when a close triple conjunction in Capricorn of Venus, Sun, and Mars, all within little more than two degrees of the zodiac, signals that your relationships and your home life are highlighted over this month’s first weekend, and also somewhat entangled, as they may have been over the recent holidays. This could imply a harmonic benefit between these important life factors with also, though, potential confusion, due to Neptune’s presence at very nearly the 0° mark of Aries, representing, for you, your relationship sector. There could be spiritual realities to contend with in this area, or perhaps there could also be some form of seeming deception or misunderstanding. Questions thus arise relating to attitude and internal understandings, which reflect the highlighted presence – in your relationship sector as well – of Chiron, the Wounded Healer. It could be that inner wounding may in fact come up for you in this area, and if so, the message there is to pay attention to what is revealed to you in this way, since acceptance without blame or shame of this kind of issue, likely the result of unresolved or undigested early childhood trauma, can be very rewarding for you in the long run. With the powerful CapricornNew Moon of the 18th, issue of home and family may again come up, along with further deep-diving into your own evolving creativity and relationship concerns. It may help to remember that productive change is what we have, and in some ways might be all that we have, and yet by paying attention, we prosper.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens under the influence of the SagittariusNew Moon at 28° from last month before the year turned, setting the tone for the lunation cycle now unfolding. For you, this activated your third sector of perception, learning, and communication. The Sun and Moon conjunct your ruling planet Venus and square the current Saturn-Neptune conjunction, this lunation cycle carries a contemplative, dissolving quality, with a presence of Spirit. This late Sagittarius cycle is perhaps quietly suggesting that long-held beliefs or philosophical frameworks may be loosening. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces in the recent New Moon, something collective and personal around truth, faith, and the unseen is reaching a threshold of endings and beginnings. There is an invitation to soften rigid ideas about what is right or true, allowing lived experience of daily life to become your teacher. Core values may subtly reorganize, with some ideals fading while others deepen through embodiment rather than abstraction.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, Mercury enters Capricorn and your fourth sector of home, foundations, and emotional grounding. Mental focus may turn toward responsibility, long-term planning, and the structures that support your life behind the scenes.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stationing direct in Aries highlights your seventh sector of committed relationships, reciprocity, and mutual accountability. In the surrounding days, old relational wounds around self-worth, defensiveness, or the fear of being diminished may resurface for review and greater integration. Healing now asks for courage rooted in self-acceptance, allowing relationships to reflect, rather than who you feel you must be, who you truly are.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The Full Moon in Cancer illuminates the axis of care and responsibility across your tenth sector of career and public life and your fourth sector of home and emotional foundations. With the Moon in Cancer opposite the CapricornSun conjunct Venus and Mars, emotional truth comes into focus alongside ambition and long-term goals. This lunation may clarify what feels meaningful, sustainable, and worthwhile, especially where external expectations have overridden internal needs. It offers a grounding and centering moment to open the year, reminding you that nourishing rest and outward productivity may harmonize with your attentive balance and care.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout early January, the conjunction of the Sun, your ruling planet Venus, and Mars unfolds over an unusually long duration in your fourth sector of roots, security, and inner structure. This alignment brings will, values, and desire into coherence, offering strong support for intentional creation and disciplined effort. For you, this may involve building something meaningful at home or within your emotional life that has lasting value.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As the Capricorn cluster of planets, Sun, Venus, and Mars, opposes Jupiter exalted in Cancer in your tenth sector of growth and visibility, career goals and long-term vision come into sharper relief. The T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries emphasizes wounds around independence and self-assertion, calling for a redefinition of sovereignty that includes collaboration rather than isolation. Tension may arise between inner truth and external demands, particularly around autonomy within relationships. This is a moment to examine where balance has tipped too far in either direction or where mutual reciprocity needs to be restored.
Last Quarter Moon in Libra – January 10th
This quarter moon features Jupiter in your career sector opposed to Sun, Mars, and Venus, your ruling planet, all at 20 or 21 degrees, in a close grand cross with the LibraMoon opposite the Chiron– Eris conjunction in your relationship sector. With Chiron prominent, this significantly potent lunation may bring an interesting, although difficult, recurrence of the inner wounding activation mentioned earlier for January 2nd. There is a touch of optimistic expansion – due to Jupiter’s highlighted presence – in a process of shifting attitudes, priorities, and understandings. With Venus forming a square to Chiron, relational vulnerability and emotional sensitivity are emphasized. Old patterns around self-worth, love, or desire may be activated, offering insight into whatever internal dynamics may be ready for healing. Compassion toward yourself and others could become a key pathway forward, allowing tenderness rather than avoidance to guide connection.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
When Venus, your ruler, enters Aquarius and a few days later conjoins Pluto in your fifth sector of creativity, romance, and self-expression, relational themes shift toward authenticity and freedom. This powerful conjunction can intensify values and emotional bonds, bringing deep reckonings around desire, power, and belonging. Relationships and creative pursuits may undergo profound transformation, supporting a more honest and liberated expression of who you are and what you love.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon arrives in your fourth sector of home and family, carrying significant initiatory weight. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars there, this New Moon concentrates intention and focus around home, dwelling space, security, and emotional integrity, and also affects your sector of creativity, joy, including romance, and self-expression. Children in your life might additionally be involved. A trine to Trickster Uranus and a sextile to Saturn-Neptune in close conjunction offer a rare blend of innovation, stability, epiphany, confusion, and inspiration, and this also reflects broader threshold moments as these outer planets approach once again their major sign transitions. This lunation invites conscious choices around legacy and responsibility, encouraging you to release what no longer aligns so that you can build your way forward with improved integrity and greater care.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto in your fifth sector of creative self-expression, themes of individuality, creativity, and future-oriented vision intensify. This transit highlights personal power and agency, and outlines transformational changes in the heart of your creative powers, bringing awareness to patterns of control and authenticity within your artistic manifestation and romantic life.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars entering Aquarius and conjoining Pluto further intensifies psychological and emotional energy in your fifth sector. Suppressed anger or creative frustration may surface, offering potent focus for decisive action and transformation. Conscious channeling is essential here, allowing passion to fuel meaningful creation, as well as effective conflict resolution and repair.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s ingress into Aries begins a new 165-year collective cycle and activates your seventh sector of relationships and shared purpose. Spiritual focus shifts toward identity, will, and initiation, blurring boundaries between self and other. Inspiration and illusion coexist, raising questions about sovereignty, leadership, and commitment. This long-term transit sets the stage for you to redefine partnership through discernment, integrity, and mutual respect, especially as it prepares to intertwine with Saturn’s upcoming movement into Aries by mid-February.
This is quite a January month for you, Scorpio, one in which the transformational pressure upon you in the deeper layers of your psyche might be getting even more intense. There is reference to the potent and highlighted presence of Pluto in the fourth or root sector of your solar chart. You may have been experiencing this as power dynamics within your home and family setting; or it could also represent issues that keep coming up with your physical dwelling space. All in all, the best way to study this entire picture might be to see it as long-term personal evolution at the very core of your personality. This has been accelerating over recent weeks and months, and might come to a head, compelling changes that could be long overdue. The trine in this recent New Moon between Venus, your partnership sector ruler, and Chiron, the Wounded Healer, located in your house of workplace, habits, and health, could come into play this month as well, opening new vistas of possibility. This is especially true when you can stay open to greater acceptance of cut-off personality fragments that might be longing for better integration within your awareness. Right from the very beginning of the month you are more open to communications, curiosity, and learning since this is reflected in a third sector concentration of energies from the recent New Moon, the cycle still active in January, which took place on the border of this Capricorn sector with Mars, your traditional ruler, also there and semi-sextile to Pluto. The Full Moon of January 3rd is also quite significant, again emphasizing your key relationships as well as these more internal matters. There could be curve-balls on the horizon with your evolving sense of your partnership agreements and how your own internal transformation is coming along. The very potent late CapricornNew Moon of the 18th places even more emphasis on home and family concerns, inner healing, plus surprise intuitional information – perhaps involving partnership – that you do well to pay close attention to. It is difficult to overstate the significance of the powerful lunations of this month, for their impact on your ultimate journey toward greater authenticity in your life.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins under the influence of the late-degree SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the thirty-day cycle now unfolding. For you, this lunation activated your second sector of values, resources, and self-worth, plus affecting as well that of your communicative outreach and learning. The Sun and Moon conjunct Venus, your relationship sector ruler, and square the current Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Pisces, and the lunation cycle thus initiated carries an almost dissolving quality, suggesting that long-held beliefs around worth, security, or morality may be quietly loosening. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, a long chapter may be closing. A path connected to faith, idealism, or creativity could be turning as another phase begins. There is an invitation to soften rigid frameworks or allow lived experience to redefine what you truly value. Some ideals could perhaps fade, while others strengthen, perhaps through embodiment rather than abstraction.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st Mercury enters Capricorn or your third sector of communications and daily thinking, and your mental focus can become more pragmatic, supporting clearer conversations, better planning, and more intentional use of time.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in your sixth sector of workplace, health, and daily responsibility, potentially bringing attention to old wounds around daily function, productivity, or self-worth tied to effort. Patterns of overextension or self-criticism could surface, offering an opportunity to recalibrate your energy expenditure. Healing may now arrive your way, and potentially favor authenticity over proving or hustling, perhaps allowing you to rest into a rhythm that is sustainable
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The CancerFull Moon of the month’s first weekend illuminates your ninth sector of belief, meaning, and travel, opposing the CapricornSun in your third sector of thought, learning, and communication. Emotional truth may swim into focus alongside practical considerations, clarifying which ideas, goals, or philosophies genuinely nourish you. This lunation highlights the balance between curiosity and responsibility, helping you orient toward what feels meaningful and worth committing to as the 2026 year begins.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
A conjunction of the Sun, Venus, and Mars, your traditional ruling planet, unfolds over an unusually extended period in Capricorn and your third sector, aligning will, values, and desire. This is a potent window for focused effort around writing, learning, conversations, or plans that require discipline and follow-through. With Mars, your ruler, thus aligned, this aspect pattern supports a strong sense of agency that can shape longer-term outcomes.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As these personal planets, Sun, Venus, and Mars, gather in Capricorn, they oppose Jupiter in Cancer and form a T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries, allowing tensions between growth and limitation to become more visible. Beliefs, plans, or ideas may feel stretched by emotional fluctuations or competing demands of daily life. This configuration calls for a more nuanced understanding of sovereignty, one that allows for flexibility, and an adaptable attitude to meet yourself in your wellness needs as they evolve over time.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus enters Aquarius and conjoins your modern ruling planet, Pluto, shortly thereafter in your fourth sector of home, roots, and emotional foundations. This is an intensifying transit that can surface deep shifts around belonging, family dynamics, or emotional security. Power patterns may become visible, offering an opportunity to release outdated attachments and redefine what safety and connection mean to you now.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars, your ruler in its exalted placement in Capricorn, forms a trine to Uranus in late Taurus, energizing movement, innovation, and course correction. Sudden insights or disruptions may help you break free from stagnation, particularly around long-standing emotional or domestic patterns. As Mars is one of your ruling planets, this transit can feel liberating and catalytic, though potentially disruptive if not consciously directed.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The first New Moon of 2026 arrives in late Capricorn, conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and concentrating intention in your third sector or communications sector, with your root sector of home and family, also affected. This lunation carries initiatory weight, inviting conscious choices around how you think, speak, and engage with your immediate environment, and with respect to potential action orientations and unfolding revelations involving family ties or dwelling space revisioning. With Sun and Moon additionally linked to Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune in flowing aspect, and these potent outer planets nearing their respective sign changes, this New Moon reflects both immediate powerful evolution and also symbolism of a broader threshold moment that encourages releasing outdated patterns in order to re-build with in-rushing integrity.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto, themes of power, agency, and transformation intensify within your emotional foundations. Awareness sharpens around control, authenticity, and what needs to change at the root level in order for your optimal growth to unfold.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars also enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto, uniting both of your ruling planets and further amplifying intensity around home, familial roots, and inner security. Suppressed anger or power struggles may surface, calling for conscious channeling rather than reaction. When handled with awareness, this transit of your ruling planet to Pluto can transform deeply rooted patterns into new and milder pathways, though the process could at times feel quite confronting.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune enters Aries, beginning a new 165-year collective cycle that shifts spiritual focus toward identity, will, and initiation. For you, this subtly reshapes your relationship to workplace, health, and service. Inspiration and illusion coexist here, calling for discernment as new visions take shape and reminding you that inspiration in daily life asks for active engagement and cultivation of what truly lights you up.
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This is another wild and somewhat crazy month for you, Sagittarius, as you enter the new year in the wake of the recent New Moon in the late degrees of your sign. The thirty-day lunation cycle from last month lasts well into the first three weeks of January and foretells of the transformational effects upon you of outer planets plus Chiron, the Wounded Healer, the latter made prominent by a partile or same-degree square from Jupiter, your ruler, at 22° of Cancer in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. It seems that while you are vitally revising certain aspects of your communications and learning, the sector where Pluto is currently operating, and handling ups and downs – along with unexpected events and revelations – with regard to the key relationships in your life, due to the active presence of Uranus on the edge of Gemini, your opposite sign, you are also more aware of inner wounding. This affects in particular your creativity, joy, and potential romantic connections, the sector where Chiron is currently located. If inner wounding indeed arises, what is called for is greater acceptance of flaws or internal complexes, acknowledging this undigested residue of early childhood trauma. When you can lovingly accept yourself in all your different facets, without blame or shame, you are making important progress toward reweaving old wounding in more positive terms, one important lesson of this climactic month. The lunations of January are quite potent and are essentially guiding you toward greater peace and integration, especially when you can empower yourself to make this leap. There is the Full Moon of the 3rd, which brings up intimacy and personal evolution, in contrast with relationship or social issues, and the Last Quarter Moon of the 10th, which is very strong and features, again, Chiron, and the potential for inner wounding. The extremely potent late CapricornNew Moon of the 18th is also quite powerful, and features a stellium of six planets, aligned from the late degrees of Capricorn to the first few of Aquarius, representing therefore your shifting understanding of your resources and values along with your communication and information skills. All in all, this is a good month for progress if you can find the faith within you to weather the storm, accept the lessons, and count your inner blessings.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins under the influence of the late SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the cycle now unfolding. Occurring in your own sign and first sector of identity, embodiment, and personal direction, and conjunct Venus, the lunation cycle thus engendered marks a moment of self-redefinition. Squaring the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, this New Moon carries a dissolving quality, suggesting that old philosophies, belief systems, or guiding narratives around who you are and how you move through life may be quietly loosening. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, a long chapter may be closing that is connected to faith, idealism, or spiritual notions. Another will begin to take shape later in January. There is an invitation to soften rigid ideas about truth or purpose and allow lived experience to reshape your sense of self. Some ideals may fade while others strengthen, and through embodiment rather than abstraction.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, Mercury enters Capricorn and your second sector of resources, values, and material stability. Mental focus may shift toward practicality, budgeting, and long-term planning around sustainability and abundance. This transit supports clearer thinking around priorities, responsibility, and the efficient use of time and energy as the year begins.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in Aries, activating your fifth sector of creativity, self-expression, and authentic joy. Old wounds – perhaps connected to confidence, visibility, or the fear of being fully yourself --- may come to the fore. This moment offers healing through radical self-acceptance as you can manifest this, encouraging courageous self-expression rooted in your authentic self.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The CancerFull Moon illuminates your eighth sector of shared resources, emotional bonds, and psychological depth, opposing the Sun in your second sector of personal values. Emotional truths may surface around trust, dependency, or reciprocity, clarifying what feels nourishing and sustainable in both material and emotional exchanges. This lunation invites balance between self-reliance and shared support, opening the first weekend of the year with a grounding influence.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
The ongoing conjunction of the Sun, Venus, and Mars activates your second sector of worth, income, and self-sufficiency. This alignment is unusual in its extended duration and supports disciplined effort and intentional creation, encouraging you to build something of lasting value. Motivation may feel more steady now, helping you align desire, values, and action in practical ways.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As Capricorn planets Sun, Venus, and Mars come together to oppose your ruling planet Jupiter in Cancer across your second and eighth sectors, tensions around growth, security, and emotional dependence could become more visible. The T-square to Chiron and Eris in your fifth sector highlights wounds around autonomy, creative risk, or being seen on your own terms. This configuration invites a redefinition of sovereignty in the context of collaboration and encourages you to expand your capacity for presence within the depths of your own psyche, and seeking the pearls of wisdom in your own internal landscape.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st Venus enters Aquarius and your third sector of communication, perception, and learning, where it then conjoins Pluto. This transit intensifies how values, desire, and relational dynamics are expressed through words, ideas, and conversations. Exchanges may feel more charged, revealing underlying power dynamics or unspoken truths. There is potential for profound shifts in how you relate, speak, listen, and navigate the desire to understand and feel understood in return.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon lands in your second sector of resources, priorities, and self-worth, and affecting your third of communications and learning. This first New Moon of 2026 is another quite powerful lunation, marking this timing as notable in its initiatory weight. With Mercury, Venus, and Mars clustered nearby, this lunation concentrates attention around what you are building materially and energetically, and whether it reflects your deeper values. Harmonious aspects to Uranus and the Saturn–Neptune conjunction support innovation, realism, and inspiration, allowing new approaches to take shape without abandoning structure or meaning. There is an invitation to take responsibility for how your time, effort, and life force are being invested, without rushing toward immediate outcomes. This New Moon reflects a threshold moment, in the final month before Neptune leaves Pisces for Aries, and is asking for steady, conscious choices around sustainability, integrity, and long-term security.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius, it activates your third sector of communication, mindset, and meaning-making, and its conjunction with Pluto brings issues of power, agency, and authenticity into sharp focus. Awareness may focalize around patterns of control, persuasion, or self-censorship in how you express yourself. This transit invites you to reclaim your voice with greater clarity, illuminating where truth wants to be spoken more clearly.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars enters Aquarius, once again activating your third sector, intensifying mental energy and sharpening instincts around communication and decision-making. Mars’ conjunction with Pluto can surface suppressed anger, urgency, or confrontations tied to ideas, opinions, or information. Words carry added weight and heat during this period for you, and reactions may escalate quickly if energy is not consciously channeled. Used intentionally, this transit supports decisive conversations, strategic thinking, and the courage to address what has been avoided.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s entry into Aries activates your fifth sector of creativity, romance, and self-expression, beginning a new long-term era in how inspiration and desire are experienced. This marks the start of a new cycle around creative identity and authentic joy, where vision and illusion coexist. Discernment becomes essential as you learn to trust inspiration without losing yourself within it, ideally using the power of imagination for creative play and expression.
This is another rather amazing month for you Capricorn, with plenty of continuing outer planet involvement indicating ongoing evolutionary metamorphosis. You may find yourself questioning your very sense of who you at this time of your life really are. The recent late SagittariusNew Moon from the previous month, only two degrees away from 0° of your own sign, set the stage for the remainder of its thirty-day lunation cycle over the first few weeks of January. This consequential New Moon featured both Neptune and Uranus, closely aspected by the Sun and Moon, plus potent Pluto, in almost exact parallel to the Sun, and located in your second sector of resources, values, and self-worth; things in this Aquarius area continue to be radically changing. Neptune lies on the edge of Aries, and is conjunct in this recent New Moon to within four degrees of your ruler, Saturn. This presages a mystical actuality that is slowly setting in with you amidst your deep core process, figuratively in the clutches of 3D physical reality and yet not fully captured. That cosmic joker, Uranus, has a few tricks up his sleeve as well, pertaining to your sector of projects, creativity, and joyful excursions, so that the curve balls there keep on coming, with also surprising epiphanies and intuitional revelations long with revised habitual patterns. The powerful Full Moon of the 3rd takes place Cancer, your opposite sign, and can be magical for you, especially with regard to your key partnerships. Issues of self and other might come up for earnest adjustments, while the highlighted presence of Chiron indicates that inner wounding is also likely to rear its head in relationship connections, hopefully for the purpose of greater integration and healing. The succeeding lunations of January, on the weekends that follow, namely the Last Quarter Moon of the 10th and then the New Moon in your sign of the 18th, are also very significant junctures, and carry the transformational weight of your continuingly vibrant personal evolution.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens under the influence of the late SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the lunation cycle now unfolding through the beginning weeks of January. For you, this cycle activates your twelfth sector of unconscious process, release, and inner work, while also affecting your own first sector and your sense of identity. Conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, it carries a quiet, dissolving quality that may soften long-held beliefs or conditioning around duty, purpose, or moral certainty. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, a long spiritual or psychological chapter may be quietly closing. There is an invitation to loosen rigid inner narratives and allow curiosity to guide you toward lived experience and meeting the present moment. Core values may be subtly reworked behind the scenes, with some expectations dissolving and others strengthening through compassion and trust.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year begins, Mercury enters your sign, shifting mental focus toward responsibility, realism, and long-term planning. Thoughts become clearer and more grounded, supporting practical decision-making and strategic use of time. This transit can feel stabilizing, helping you articulate intentions that are both realistic and aligned with your deeper priorities.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is highlighted by standing dead still in the sky. This Chiron station highlights healing themes connected to home, emotional security, and inner foundations. Old wounds around belonging or receiving nurturance may surface, ideally to be met with honesty, care, and loving attention. This moment encourages a form of inner sovereignty rooted in self-acceptance rather than emotional armor.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 illuminates your seventh sector of committed relationships, opposing the CapricornSun, Venus, and Mars in your first sector of identity and direction. Emotional truths may come into focus around partnership, mutual responsibility, and the balance between personal ambition and shared care. This lunation asks what kind of support feels nourishing and sustainable, and what kind of commitment you are truly ready to offer and receive.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout the first half of January, the Sun, Venus, and Mars travel closely together in your sign, aligning will, values, and desire. This triple conjunction is rare in the length of its duration and offers strong support for intentional creation and disciplined effort, especially for you as it takes place in your sign. You may feel a renewed sense of agency around who you are becoming and what you are building, particularly when actions are guided by integrity rather than external pressure.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As the stellium of Sun, Venus, and Mars in your sign opposes Jupiter in Cancer, questions around growth, trust, and emotional generosity come to the forefront. The accompanying T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries may expose tension between independence and vulnerability. You could notice friction between personal authority and the realities of interdependence, calling for a redefinition of sovereignty that allows collaboration and invites authentic expression in joint ventures.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
As Venus enters Aquarius and meets Pluto, themes of value, attachment, and power intensify. Shifts may occur around finances, self-worth, or the deeper motivations behind desire. You may feel compelled to confront what no longer aligns with your evolving sense of security. Though intense, this transit supports profound transformation in how you relate to resources and personal values.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st
This energizing trine supports innovation, decisive action, and course correction. Sudden insights or disruptions may catalyze practical change, especially around work or creative expression. There is an opening here to break free from stagnation in grounded, constructive ways.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
This late CapricornNew Moon carries significant initiatory weight. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your sign, this lunation concentrates intention and focus, amplifying your capacity to shape the year ahead. Supportive aspects to Uranus, Neptune, and your ruling planet Saturn point to a powerful moment that blends innovation with responsibility and long-term vision. With Neptune and Saturn both nearing their exit from Pisces and eventual entrance into Aries, this is a true threshold window. This period reflects a gradual and organic process of integration, inviting careful use of time and energy and clarity around what you are ready to release in order to build a new chapter grounded in integrity and purpose.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and aligns with Pluto, awareness sharpens around themes of power, agency, and authenticity within your value systems. Patterns of control or attachment may become more visible, inviting honest reassessment.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars’s move into Aquarius intensifies psychological and emotional energy, particularly around self-worth and personal power. Suppressed anger or deeper motivations may surface, calling for conscious channeling. When approached with awareness, this transit supports decisive action and meaningful transformation.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s ingress into Aries begins a new 165-year cycle, shifting collective spiritual focus toward identity, initiation, and leadership. For you, this marks the beginning of a long-term reimagining of home, roots, and emotional foundations. Inspiration and illusion coexist here, making discernment essential as vision and responsibility begin to intertwine in new ways.
This is another extremely interesting month, Aquarius, with planets lining up in Capricorn, your preceding sign, and then gathering by month’s end into your own. The recent New Moon from December in the last degrees of Sagittarius, on the edge of your sector of unconscious process and inner work, informs your choices this month. Your social sector is buzzing, and you are likely to be engaged in fresh perspectives for your long-term goals. With Pluto, Lord of Death, Rebirth, and Transformation, highlighted once more in your sign in this current lunation cycle, covering the first few weeks of January, there continues to be transformation in the air for you, as the deeper sets of changes in which you are engaged become more evident. Neptune and Saturn, your traditional ruler, are also highlighted in their forming conjunction which perfects next month when they both return to Aries, or your sector of communications and learning. This is an odd-ball combination affecting your perspective on the world around you and giving you several different ways to look at things, and this, too, makes for a shifting landscape. The lunations of January, beginning with the CancerFull Moon of the 3rd, and including the CapricornNew Moon of the 18th, are very potent and rife with further outer planet combinations, so that important changes are more commonplace than rare as this consequential month continued to unfold. In between these last two junctures, the Last Quarter Moon of the 10th is also quite potent, featuring a grand cross in cardinal signs, including Chiron, the Wounded Healer, already highlighted in the recent New Moon from last month. This again could again bring up some potentially difficult issues for you. Chiron highlighted in your communications sector could inspire you to reexamine ancient wounds deep within you, or to speak of these to trusted interlocutors. You might want to note that healing can come from acceptance, and acceptance from sharing.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens under the influence of the SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the thirty-day lunation cycle now unfolding. For you, this lunation activated your eleventh sector of community, collective vision, and future orientation, and also affected your twelfth of unconscious process and inner work. With Sun and Moon conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in this New Moon, the lunation cycle thus initiated carries a quietly dissolving quality that may soften long-held ideals or social narratives you once relied on for meaning or belonging. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, a long chapter connected to faith, spiritual imagination, or collective dreams could be quietly closing. There is an invitation to loosen rigid moral or philosophical frameworks and allow curiosity to guide you toward lived experience rather than abstract principle. Some pre-existing visions for the future may gently fade, while others you now formulate can deepen through trust, compassion, and authenticity. Your sense of meaning may become more relational and embodied as the new year begins.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, Mercury enters Capricorn and your twelfth sector of rest, reflection, and inner processing. Mental focus turns inward, supporting quiet planning, realistic assessment, and behind-the-scenes organization. Clarity may emerge through solitude, contemplation, and intentional reflection.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in your third sector of communication, learning, and perception, intensifying themes around voice and self-expression. Old wounds connected to being heard, misunderstood, or dismissed may resurface. There is an opportunity for healing in this domain, encouraging you to reclaim your authentic voice, speak kindly to yourself, and listen more closely for how you want to communicate in ways that feel true to your nature.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The Full Moon in Cancer illuminates your sixth sector of workplace, health, and daily rhythms, opposing the CapricornSun, Venus, and Mars in your twelfth sector. This lunation brings emotional clarity around the balance between care and responsibility, nourishment and productivity. You may notice where daily routines have been shaped by unconscious pressure rather than conscious choice. Insight emerges around what feels sustainable and worth maintaining as the year begins, especially where rest and wellbeing are concerned.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout the first half of January, the Sun, Venus, and Mars move closely together in Capricorn, concentrating will, values, and desire in your twelfth sector. This alignment is unusual in its duration and supports intentional inner work, disciplined release, and creative gestation. Much of what is forming now remains internal, with something meaningful being shaped beneath the surface. You are encouraged to tend to invisible foundations, including emotional honesty, spiritual alignment, and rest, knowing they will support future momentum.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-Square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As personal planets Sun, Venus, and Mars in Capricorn oppose Jupiter in Cancer and form the tension with Chiron and Eris in Aries that is indicated by this T-square, friction could arise between inner truth and external expectations. Questions of autonomy, voice, and growth come into sharper focus. You may be called to redefine sovereignty in a way that honors both independence and interdependence, recognizing that collaboration can invite you more fully into inhabiting your truth.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
A major shift arrives as Venus enters your sign of Aquarius and then conjoins Pluto shortly after. Relational themes intensify, bringing deep reckonings around closeness, power, and desire. You may become aware of where compromise has diluted your truth, or where deeper honesty is required. This conjunction supports profound transformation in how you understand connection and belonging, beginning with your relationship to yourself.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars forms a supportive trine to Uranus, your modern ruling planet, energizing innovation, bold action, and course correction. Sudden insights may catalyze practical change, especially where liberation and originality are concerned. This is a constructive, albeit confronting, window for breaking free from stagnation in tangible ways.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon arrives in in your twelfth sector, conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars. This lunation, being close to the 0° make of your sign, also affects your first sector of identify, and carries significant initiatory weight, even as it also emphasizes closure and release. Harmonious aspects to Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune reflect the larger threshold moment unfolding collectively, as all of these planets approach the final weeks of their respective signs. This is an invitation to consciously release subconscious patterns you have been working to shift, creating space to build future structures with clarity and integrity.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
The Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto, marking the beginning of your solar season and a powerful personal reset. Pluto in your sign marks an arriving chapter of deep metamorphosis, while the Sun’s presence sharpens awareness around themes of agency, authenticity, and power. You might recognize where control dynamics shape your self-expression and where reclaiming your voice requires courage.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th
As Mars enters Aquarius and joins Pluto, psychological and emotional intensity increases. Suppressed anger or unresolved power struggles may surface, calling for conscious channeling rather than reaction. This is a potent period for decisive action and deep transformation, particularly around personal agency and your role within the broader context of community. Intentional pacing, physical movement, and grounding may be helpful during this time.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune enters Aries, beginning a new 165-year cycle and shifting the collective spiritual focus toward identity, will, and initiation. For you, this transit opens long-term questions around voice, leadership, and the contexts in which you want to learn and communicate. Inspiration and illusion coexist, asking for discernment as new narratives around sovereignty begin to form.
This is yet another month of intensity for you, Pisces, with outer planet energy still to be reckoned with in these January skies. Neptune, your ruler, is closely squared by the recent late SagittariusNew Moon that sets the stage for the current month, with its thirty-day lunation cycle just half-way completed as the month begins. Uranus and Pluto are also highlighted in the recent New Moon, with Pluto in close parallel to the SagittariusSun, while the January New Moon of the 19th, in late Capricorn, is also quite powerful in this same way. This suggests that, for you, all this month, there is a powerful activation of your sector of unconscious process and inner work where Pluto resides. You might therefore be able to benefit from considering what transpires below the surface layers of your psyche. Neptune, in the last degree of your sign, speaks to ideas concerning your very identity, and, being perched right on the edge of the second sector of your solar chart, this placement also brings up issues of security, resources, finances, and your ultimate individual principles and values, all of which are emphasized during January. Quite a lot depends as well on intuitive information that springs up from within your inner consciousness. The highlighted presence of Chiron, the Wounded healer, is also notable, in perfect square in the recent New Moon with Jupiter in Cancer. A study of what is going on within you might bring up deeper issues for feelings of vulnerability in financial terms, or attitudes toward self-worth, based on early childhood trauma that remain unresolved, and have not been integrated with your more mature consciousness. You might in fact want to check in with your natal placement of Chiron for more specific indication there. In any case, it benefits you to consider these sorts of internal considerations, and to recognize that loving self-acceptance in these areas can go far in the way of healing.
The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/
Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January opens under the influence of the late SagittariusNew Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the cycle now unfolding. For you, this lunation stirred questions around your tenth sector of career and professional life, and also affected your social sector of friendship and long-term goals. With the Sun and Moon conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, the lunation cycle that this New Moon kicked off carries a dissolving quality, suggesting that long-held values or moral frameworks involved with your identity may be loosening. With Neptune, your modern ruling planet, at the final degree of Pisces, a long personal and collective chapter connected to faith, imagination, and spiritual identity could be quietly closing. There is an invitation to soften rigid philosophies and allow curiosity to guide you toward lived experience, with core values subtly reorganizing now in this new year.
Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the year opens, Mercury enters Capricorn, and your mental focus may shift toward responsibility, long-term planning, and the practical use of time and energy. This transit supports clearer thinking and grounded communication, especially around shared goals or future commitments. For you, Pisces, this can feel stabilizing, helping translate intuition into structure and inspiration into plans that are sustainable rather than aspirational alone.
Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in Aries, intensifying therapeutic themes around self-worth, vitality, and healthy assertion. Old sensitivities or inner wounding connected to feeling overlooked – or needing to prove yourself – may come into sharper awareness. Coming more into who you really are now emphasizes authenticity over performance, inviting a quieter confidence rooted in self-acceptance and self-worth.
Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 illuminates the Cancer–Capricorn axis of nurturance and responsibility. With the Moon in Cancer opposing the Sun, Venus, and Mars in Capricorn, emotional truth rises alongside ambition and long-term priorities. This lunation clarifies what feels genuinely nourishing and worth sustaining, helping you reassess where effort aligns with meaning and feels life-giving, versus where it may be draining to your vitality.
Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout the first half of January, the Sun, Venus, and Mars travel closely together through Capricorn, aligning will, values, and desire. This conjunction is rare in its lengthy duration and supports intentional creation and disciplined effort, particularly in collaborative or long-range endeavors. It fosters a meaningful start to the new year, centering steady participation and consistency, with emphasis on building something of lasting value.
Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As the Capricorn planets Sun, Venus, and Mars come together to oppose your traditional ruling planet, Jupiter, now exalted in Cancer, tension arises between emotional expansion and practical limits. Ideals may feel compelling while circumstances ask for discernment. The accompanying T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries highlights sensitivities around autonomy and agency, calling for a redefinition of sovereignty that allows for interdependence while remaining true to yourself. Further healing might arise out of this seemingly difficult passage.
Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
As Venus enters Aquarius and soon conjoins Pluto, values and relational dynamics intensify. This activates your twelfth sector of inner process and marks a shift toward more conscious awareness of internalized patterns involving power dynamics or unspoken expectations. This transit supports deep transformation in how you experience connection and emotional intimacy.
Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st Mars forms a supportive trine to Uranus, energizing innovation, and unexpected developments. Sudden insights or changes may help you break free from stagnation, especially in creative or practical matters. While intense and potentially confronting, this aspect can support action that feels both liberating and constructive.
New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late CapricornNew Moon carries notable initiatory weight. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and in flowing aspect to Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune, this lunation may bring heightened focus to your community orientation and long-range aspirations, and also affects your sector of unconscious process and inner work that just proceeds your own. Because Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune are all on the brink of sign changes, this lunation reflects a series of threshold moments unfolding gradually over the coming months. With this atmosphere of endings and beginnings, you are invited into conscious choice around responsibility, legacy, and where you pour your energy.
Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun enters Aquarius and conjoins Pluto, attention turns again toward your twelfth sector of subconscious material. Themes of power, agency, and authenticity come into focus, revealing where deeper inner transformation is underway.
Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th Mars joins the Sun and Venus in Aquarius and soon conjoins Pluto, intensifying psychological and emotional energy. This influence can feel raw, as suppressed motivations or power struggles surface and require conscious channeling. When handled with awareness, this period supports willpower, fierce agency, and profound inner shifts.
Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th Neptune’s entry into Aries marks the end of its long passage through your sign of Pisces and the beginning of a new 165-year collective cycle. For you, this shift redirects spiritual focus toward questions of worth, resources, and what you are willing to invest your energy in. As emphasis moves toward identity, will, and initiation, boundaries blur between personal values and collective vision. Inspiration and illusion coexist here, calling for discernment as a new chapter begins and vision seeks embodiment through how you identify, make use of, and sustain what, for you, truly matters.
