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Month of January

Aries

Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your career sector, the solar spotlight will always be on your career and professional situation, matters and options as you move into the New Year. The difference this time is while Uranus had left your income sector in July, he is back, while you are also moving into the New Year with the South Node in your work sector. Another difference is how many planets the Sun has brought with him, getting the year off to a powerful start across the income, work and career fronts, though with a push in the first 23 days of the month and then things dialling back to make it more about the journey.

You not only begin the year with the Sun in your career sector, but when he returned just before Christmas it was to find that Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos had already been here for seven days, with Venus joining them on Christmas Day. It was five days later that the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment returned to your career sector for the first time in four years and where she will stay until the end of March. The rest of the planets including Mercury, who will return on 2nd January with a chance to get your head in the game and think on your feet, all gone by the end of the month and all within a five day period.

These will not only be some of the most defining days of the month across the income, work and career fronts, but so defining that this could shape how things play out for months. That five day period starts with Venus' departure from your career sector on 18th January and ends with Mars' departure on 23rd January. In that time the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars will not only leave but the Moon will move through, with a New Moon on 23rd January giving everything the green light.

Before leaving each planet will also form a friendly aspect to Uranus in your income sector and the South Node in your work sector, as will the Moon when it moves through, with Juno staying on to maintain that connection. Also bringing things together on the income, work and career fronts and acting as a trigger will be the Moon's return to your work sector from 7th January to 9th January.

Taurus

As you move into the new professional year it will be business as usual or a continuation of last year, with nothing to indicate how busy things are about to get. This makes it important to make the most of any chance to spend the early weeks of the year in the slow lane, holding back from jumping in the deep end until you have to. Instead, with no planetary activity in your work sector until the second half of the year and Pluto still on his own and playing a long game on the career front, you can afford to hold back.

This will give you time to pay attention and soak in all the insight and awareness you can when the Moon makes its first visit to your work sector for the year from 9th January to 11th January. Since Pluto, the planet of change and transformation returned to your career sector in November 2024 and until he leaves in 2044, this is something that every four weeks will see the Moon form a friendly aspect as it moves through your work sector, bringing a chance to get your professional bearings. By the time the Moon leaves it will be just seven days before everything is not only set to break loose on the career front, but all within the space of an action packed five day period.

It begins on 18th January, when as the planet of money, desire and attraction, Venus returns to spend the next 24 days fuelling your professional confidence, attracting opportunities and steering things in a lucrative direction. It is a day later that the Moon will not only return for its first visit to your career sector for the year from 19th January to 21st January, but will be here, sharpening your professional instincts and keeping you emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware when the Sun returns on 20th January and Mercury, with a chance to get your head in the game on 21st January. It is two days later that Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos will return for his first visit to your career sector in two years.

What began five days earlier with Venus' return, will have Mars declaring war on roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he works to fire up your competitive spirit. As Mars and Pluto, the planets of war and revolution team up, all bets are off.

Gemini

While January is going to be the launchpad for the rest of the year, it is also the beginning of the end of an era and halfway into February a new era will be underway. Until now, until during the months that Neptune and Saturn left your career sector last month, something that saw the North Node stay on to maintain a sense of professional direction, there has been continuous planetary activity here since 2010. Even before Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned in 2012, things had been underway for two years, with barely a moment since then when there haven't been planets here, planets that have been playing a long and slow game.

Yet as you move into the New Year that is getting ready to change, with Neptune leaving on 27th January, not to return again in our lifetime and Saturn a few weeks later, not to return for another three decades. This won't bring all planetary activity on the career front to an end, with Venus returning before Saturn leaves, Mercury and Mars keeping things active through to April and the North Node staying on to provide a sense of direction until leaving in July. However, with Saturn and Neptune gone the focus is going to shift from their long game, where you have had decades for things to unfold, to suddenly wanting to wrap things up in just a few months.

With no planetary activity in your work sector, but the last planet having just left last month, you have everything needed to keep your head in the game and work and job matters on track. Helping with that will be the Moon's return each month, with its first visit for the year from 11th January to 14th January a valuable chance to check in and get work and job matters moving for the year. Meanwhile, with the Moon making its first visit to your career sector from 21st January to 23rd January, this last visit before Neptune and Saturn leave will be a chance to ensure your professional instincts are sharp and you are emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware during their pivotal final days.

Cancer

While the year starts on a relatively quiet note, the pace will not only pick up as the month progresses, but by the end of the month a total transformation will have taken place. With the Sun having just left your work sector in the lead up to Christmas, Mars a week earlier, Venus on Christmas Day and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment on 30th December, the final months of 2025 are likely to have been the busiest and as you move into the New Year, things are still playing out. It is not until Mercury leaves on 2nd January that all planetary activity on the job front until later in the year will come to an end, while bringing a chance to move into the New Year with your head in the game and still in the process of tying up the loose ends of your game plan and resolutions for the coming year.

This is when you will finally have a chance to take your foot off the gas, with Mercury's final hours more an overrun from last year. As you also start the month with two of the three planets in your career sector, all minor planets playing a long game not only still in retrograde motion but at a standstill, this will finally give you a chance to take your work hat off and even take a break. Whether you have worked through the holiday period or not, this is when you will finally feel the pressure to always be on the clock drop back, with the Moon's return to your work sector from 14th January to 16th January a chance to check and both tie up the loose ends from some active months and set things on the right course moving forward.

By then, while Chiron will turn direct in your career sector on 3rd January and the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos on 12th January, they will remain at a standstill for the majority of the month, though when the Moon returns from 24th January to 26th January this will both give things a nudge and as your professional instincts kick in, make it clear that there is major change in the air. You won't have to wait long with Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returning to your career sector on 27th January to spend the next 13 years here and Saturn a few weeks later to spend the next two years giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes.

Leo

Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your work sector, the solar spotlight is always going to be on your work situation, job matters and options moving into the New Year. However, with a mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The familiar is that this is when the Sun will always have the solar spotlight until leaving on 20th January and even starting the year with Uranus in your career sector has been the norm since 2019.

However, with a different feel on both the job and career fronts this year, with a sense that on the career front things are drawing to a close, while on the job front things are busier and a lot more urgent. While Pluto, the planet of change and transformation left your work sector in November 2024 and this is the second time you have moved into the New Year without him here, last year after 16 years, he had only just left six weeks earlier. When Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos returned last month there had been no planetary activity on the job front since January 2025, the longest stretch in decades and without Pluto's slow pace and big picture approach, Mars was ready to fire things up and get things moving, which he will continue to do until leaving on 23rd January.

With Venus, who returned on Christmas Day leaving on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January and Mercury, who will return on 2nd January, leaving on 21st January, there will be an urgent push to gain as much traction in these early weeks as possible. Helping with that will be when the Moon not only moves through your work sector from 17th January to 19th January, but as a New Moon. This should bring all planetary activity on the job front until later in the year but instead the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment who returned on 30th December, is here until the end of March and through Uranus' final months in your career sector, before leaving in April.

When the Moon returns to your career sector from 26th January to 28th January, this will be a chance on both the job and career fronts to regroup.

Virgo

Make the most of what will be a relatively quiet or business as usual start to both the month and the year, for it is not going to stay that way. Not only will the month take a busier turn on the job front, but over the space of just five days, bringing an abrupt change in focus. At the same time, this will be just stage one, with a few months to get things up to speed on the job front, before even bigger developments on the career front from April.

In both the short and long term, this makes it important to make the most of a relatively quiet start to the month. This includes a chance to quietly get your bearings as the Moon not only starts the month in your career sector, but at a friendly aspect to Pluto in your work sector. This is a chance to start the year with your professional instincts sharp, finger on the pulse and ear to the ground but with Pluto still on his own in your career sector and with the planet of change and transformation playing a long game, with little if any urgency.

It will be a different story when the Moon comes full circle, returning for its second visit to your career sector for the year from 28th January to 30th January, something that will be a chance to also end the month with your professional instincts sharp. The period when everything changes on the job front is from 18th January to 23rd January and with the Moon making its first visit to your work sector for the year from 19th January to 21st January, this will ensure you are emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware during the great shift. It begins with Venus' return on 18th January, followed by the Sun's return on 20th January, something that at this point in the year will always see the solar spotlight shift onto your work situation and job matters.

It is a day later that on 21st January Mercury will return with everything needed to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open. This couldn't be more important, for it is two days later that on 23rd January Mars will return to kick off what could be the busiest six weeks of the year. This will bring Mars and Pluto, the planets of war and revolution together, firing up your work passions, fighting and competitive spirit.

Libra

In one way, January is a continuation of last year, with very little change from one month to the next. However, there is not only major change ahead, but with a Full Moon on 3rd January helping to jumpstart things on the job and career front. As there will always be a Full Moon in your work sector at some point during the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year, it is not uncommon that this is where the first Full Moon of the year should fall.

While this early in the year is going to give things an early boost, the real difference is that for the first time in 12 years, it is while Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion is in your work sector. This is a Full Moon that will always fall halfway between the Sun's last visit and the next, helping jumpstart things that might have gone off the boil and acting as a trigger for anything building in the previous six months. This time, halfway through Jupiter's 12 month quest for job growth and expansion.

The Moon is here from 3rd January to 5th January and as a Full Moon can be a wildcard and even more so with the element of luck in play, it is important to keep your finger on the pulse and ear to the ground but your mind and your options open, leaning into where this might steer things. At the same time, since his return in 2012, this is a Full Moon that has always fallen while Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams is in your career sector, forming a friendly aspect as it moves through and helping to jumpstart the professional year itself. With Neptune leaving your career sector on 27th January and then not returning again in our lifetime, this couldn't be more timely.

By the time the Moon returns for its first visit to your career sector for the year from 21st January to 24th January, Neptune will be just days away from leaving. This is also the Moon's last visit before Saturn leaves next month, with a chance to go into some pivotal days where the focus is getting ready to shift from the long to the short term with your professional instincts sharp.

Scorpio

From a slow or business as usual start, the pace of the month is going to gradually pick up, to the point where by the end of the month things will be opening right up and then staying that way and especially on the job front. While you begin the month with three planets in your work sector, the only one in direct motion is the dwarf planet Ceres and rather than being eager to see you get your work hat back on after the holiday period, she is using any downtime to focus more on her deep dive into your needs and priorities on the job front. Especially when it comes to job satisfaction and a sense of purpose.

The other two planets, Chiron who has been here since 2019 and the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos who has been here for over nine decades, are not only in retrograde motion but at a standstill. Chiron in order to turn direct on 3rd January and Eris on 12th January. It is in between the two that the Moon will make its first visit to your career sector for the year from 5th January to 7th January, something that every four weeks can sharpen your professional instincts while keeping you emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware.

The Moon will also form a friendly aspect to all three planets in your work sector as it moves through. By the time the Moon returns for its first visit to your work sector for the year from 24th January to 26th January, all three planets here will be in direct motion, bringing a chance to check in and get a read on the changing tide, but also in time to ensure you have your finger on the pulse and ear to the ground for what happens next. What happens next is on 27th January, a day after the Moon leaves Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will not only return to your work sector but to spend the next 13 years here, with Saturn returning a few weeks later to spend the next two years giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes.

Sagittarius

While on the job and career fronts itself there are no changes this month and if anything, with Uranus slowing ahead of a direct turn early next month but spending the whole month in retrograde motion in your work sector and barely moving, this works to your advantage. While Uranus, the planet that works to keep things real and authentic had after six years last July, a few months later he was back, so having him here at the start of the year is going to feel familiar. Uranus has come back to tie up loose ends and will leave again in April, not to return for another eight decades.

However, that is still three months away and by then the faster planets will have returned to bring things home. For now, there is not only no urgency on the job front, but the brakes are on. At the same time, while you begin the year with the South Node in your career sector, as it has been since January 2024 and will be until July, its function is to provide the tracks that will keep things on track, rather than the engine driving things.

However, what makes the difference this month and what is going to get the year off to a positive start across the income, work and career fronts is the planetary activity in your income sector. It is the money not the professional gods that are driving things this month and until Venus, the planet of money leaves your income sector on 18th January, the Sun on 20th January, Mercury on 21st January and Mars on 23rd January, they will all form a friendly aspect to the South Node and Uranus as they move through, drawing on their steady and stable influence on the job and career fronts. This will be especially so when the Moon makes its first visit to your career sector for the year from 7th January to 9th January and to your work sector from 26th January to 28th January.

With the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment staying on in your income sector until the end of March, that partnership will continue.

Capricorn

As far as things go professionally, the year is getting off to a quiet or at least business as usual way, giving you a chance to continue on from last year while having time to look to the future. There has been no planetary activity in either of your two professional houses since early November, when in the space of 24 hours Venus left and ended all planetary activity in your career sector and a day later, Uranus left and ended nearly 18 months of continuous planetary activity in your work sector. While there will be no more planetary activity on the career front until the second half of the year, with just the Moon's monthly visits keeping things on track, on the job front this is just a short reprieve.

It was less than two weeks after Jupiter left your work sector in June that Uranus returned for the first time in 77 years. While the planet that is charged with keeping things real and authentic while helping to show us alternative options was only here for four months before retrograding back out, he was both piggybacking off and helping to cement Jupiter's 12 month push for job growth and expansion and planting seeds that he can return to when he returns in April, this time here then for the next seven years. This is just when the Sun and the faster planets will be starting to return, giving you the first three months of the year to hold back and prepare.

It is during the first three months of 2026 that with no planetary activity in either of your two professional houses, the Moon's monthly visits will become a lot more important. The Moon will start the month in your work sector, giving you an intuitive edge from the start, before leaving on 3rd January, then coming full circle from 28th January to 30th January to end the month with the same insight and awareness. Meanwhile, it is the Moon's first visit to your career sector for the year that from 9th January to 11th January will sharpen your professional instincts while giving you a chance to check in with a general sense of professional direction.

Meanwhile, while the professional gods are taking a backseat this month, the money gods aren't, with some of the most lucrative months of 2026 kicking off on 18th January.

Aquarius

For the first time in 12 years, you have moved into the New Year with Jupiter in your work sector and at the halfway point of what is the planet of luck and expansion's 12 month quest for job growth and expansion. With Jupiter in retrograde motion and not turning direct until March, the focus in these early months is more on going back over and consolidating your position from last year or on going back to what you may have begun or started in the past. Rather than break new ground, Jupiter is going back over the ground already ploughed.

Also taking away the urgency is that while you will move into the New Year with no planets in your career sector, the last planets only left last month. This allows you to move into the New Year with a good sense of your professional bearings and of the road ahead. This also makes the Moon's visits to your two professional houses a valuable chance to check in and get your bearings.

The Moon will not only return for its first visit to your work sector for the year from 3rd January to 5th January, but as the first Full Moon of 2026. While a Full Moon can be a wildcard, bringing things to fruition and to a head, turning and/or tipping point in unexpected ways, for the first time with Jupiter here and the element of luck in play. It is a week later that the Moon will return for its first visit to your career sector for the year, something that from 11th January to 14th January will do more than just sharpen your professional instincts and act as a trigger.

As the Moon moves through, it will not only form a friendly aspect to Jupiter but as it does with each monthly visit, to Neptune and Saturn in your income sector. The difference this time is that with Neptune leaving on 27th January and then not returning again in our lifetime and Saturn a few weeks later, this could be a catalyst for everything that has been building across the income, work and career fronts and especially in the second half of last year. The Moon's return to your work sector on 30th January will not only see it end the month here but coming full circle from the Full Moon at the start of the month, this is when anything launched or set in motion then could come home to roost.

Pisces

It is in the very early hours of the month that you most need to have your professional hat on, as has been the case throughout the holiday period. This is less in order to get a jump on the new professional year from the start and more because you are still tying up the loose ends from last year. The Sun's departure from your career sector on the December solstice is something that just before Christmas each year will always take the solar spotlight off your career situation and matters and your professional game, allowing you to take your professional hat off over the holiday period.

With Mars having left a week before and Venus on Christmas Day, that should have been the case and especially as Mercury had returned at the end of October for what is normally a 14 to 15 day chance to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open. Instead, while a retrograde turn had seen Mercury leave and come back, this allowed him to spend time with the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment who left on 30th December. With Mercury leaving on 2nd January and then not returning again in our lifetime, this has allowed you to work on your professional game plan and resolutions over the holiday period.

This will leave your career sector empty, but with a chance to let things play out before Jupiter returns to your work sector in June to begin your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade. Until then, it is the Moon's monthly visits that will keep job and career matters on track. It is just three days after Mercury leaves your career sector that the Moon will return to your work sector from 5th January to 7th January, something that every four weeks will give you a better read on work and job matters and act as a trigger.

Knowing that when the Moon returns on 1st February it will be as a Full Moon, will also give you an intuitive sense of what you might be lining up for. Meanwhile, it is a week later that from 14th January to 16th January, the Moon will return for its first visit to your career sector for the year and since Mercury left.

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