This is a mystical and a relationship-oriented month, Cancer, when your integration with important others in your life aids your own, and when you are making a breakthrough that affects your outer persona along with your internal sense of what you uniquely stand for. The Capricorn New Moon that begins the January cycle took place at last month’s end in your relationship sector, bringing established partners or new beginnings in this important area into the picture of your ongoing developmental path. This monthly cycle is very active for you, including the quarter moons of the 6th and the 21st and the Full Moon in your sign of the 13th. This latter lunation is quite significant, speaking to issues of self and other, and the other-dimensional realities that underlie and may supersede your more normative understanding. This powerful juncture also colors your career and professional life with unseen realities more real that the illusory 3D so-called solid world. There could be the ideal of a successful union of inner and outer, mystical and practical, that lures you onward into career choices that feel aligned to your inner moral compass. You might feel the urge to get going with “the true business” of your life purpose and respond to what you hold deep inside yourself that stems strictly from your own understanding.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at https://www.starsignstyle.com/


January is, for you, about relationships and vocational transformation. You’ve likely – over time – come a long way in dealing with both platonic and romantic partners. Moving into the New Year, you could sense you’re embracing a fresh start with a significant other, thanks to the recent Capricorn New Moon in your opposite sign, which colors the first four weeks of January. As the month begins, in its first few days the Capricorn Sun harmonizes with Saturn in Pisces, increasing this focus. Meanwhile, Mars, the ruler of your sector of career and professional life, is moving in retrograde motion and opposed to the intensity of Pluto. This might have you introspectively looking into what makes you tick as far as your public persona and your career choices, including potential power struggles.

On the 3rd and 4th, with Venus, Saturn, Neptune and the Moon assembled in Pisces, thus a watery sector of the skies, you might find human relations and your friendships generally tending to go well, or even flourishing beautifully. The placement of these stars may encourage you to seek out something (or someone) foreign to you, so consider ways you might feasibly broaden your outlook, learn, grow and find people to hum in harmony with. Educational paths and the potential for spiritual development could also gently tilt your perspective.

The karmic North Node enters Pisces and your ninth house of travel, faith, philosophy, and knowledge on the 11th. In the coming year or more you’re encouraged to gaze out into the world, staying more open to meaningful insights. You may spontaneously sense truths that resonate, perhaps a natural course of wisdom or a philosophy that has seeped into you, now adopted as your own. This is less about what you think you understand, and more about remaining teachable, receptive to what’s beyond your comprehension.

On the 6th, you might like to take stock of your reputation and progress made professionally in the timing of the Moon’s First Quarter at 4 PM PST. Your calling, vocation, reputation, or sense of authority could be prominent now, so that you could strongly identify with your public image or the side of you that shows up ready to be recognized. There could also be temporary conflicts regarding these efforts with key partners in your life. You might want to consider any necessary admin that allows you to advance, while remaining mindful, as Mercury in your zone of systems, work, health, duties and habits is simultaneously confused or fantasizing with a square to Neptune. This might make the practicalities of wellness, diet, exercise or everyday routines more challenging to connect to.

On the 6th, also, in the early morning, Mars in backward motion re-enters your sign at 29°which could bring matters of understanding your own identity further to the fore.

On the 12th and the 13th, this retrograde planet harmonizes with nebulous Neptune. While time with a significant other is important, this is also a period that could be useful in redefining personal goals, your sense of direction or solo ambitions. Consider adjustments that bring you into alignment with where you’re headed. This might include reassessing your look or identity, making alterations that propel you toward your dreams and north star faster.

The Full Moon lands your sign on Monday the 13th, peaking in your first house of self and identity, and because this lunation makes a conjunction to your career planet Mars, you might find you’re bringing prominence to these themes. You benefit by blending the version of you that’s visibly aiming for success with the authentic persona that is slowly developing from the inside out. As the Full Moon additionally aligns with compassionate, omniscient Neptune, plus Uranus in your sector of networking, there are spiritual implications in everything that you do now. You could be perfectly at ease with your peers, teammates, or community, and yet also a little confused by the cosmic channels striving for your attention. By turning to inner understanding, you make strides on a journey of epic proportions, gravitating toward social settings, goals, and allies.

On the 18th, Venus conjuncts Saturn in your sector of educational impulses and higher mind realizations, and your social setting becomes more committed, dense, and meaningful.

On the 21st, the Last Quarter Moon lands in Scorpio, and therefore nudges you to have fun, expressing your creative, playful side, relishing cherished interests. Aquarius Season is now in session, with Pluto’s presence in the early degrees strongly felt. This could put important commitments, contracts, or other intimate considerations to the fore, forcing you to count on others. You might need to balance your own instincts and desires with investments calling you into the future.

You might need to be mindful that on the 23rd, with Mercury opposed to Mars and trine Uranus, it gets a little harder for one-to-one exchanges. Conversations could require extra tact, and it’s worth remembering that people, in general, have their little quirks, their radical differences along with their similarities.

On the weekend of the 25th, Venus contacts Mars and Uranus, favoring interpersonal dynamics in society, at a group level and in intimate settings. You could be actively participating among friends, or on a vision quest.

The Aquarius New Moon on January 29th takes place in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation and leads you into an exciting month ahead. This New Moon could underscore a pact, agreement or long-term interests, which covers in its thirty-day cycle almost all of February. The Sun in this New Moon configuration is tied to Jupiter in your twelfth house at this time, which could touch on internal plans that are ready for further deep diving. You could be close to turning a corner with your own inner work and processing, so you win when you persevere through explorations and excavations.

This is a rather wild month for you, Libra. You have your usual focus on relationships doubled and even squared by outer planet combinations with your ruler, Venus, at the Capricorn New Moon that begins the month, plus retrograde Mars being also opposed to transformational Pluto in early Aquarius. This indicates that you have a strong attachment right now to the key relationships in your life and could be looking more closely into them with an eye for their psychological evolution. Because Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is also highlighted this month from its positioning in the New Moon, there could be various manifestations of inner wounding from early childhood trauma buried deep within you that could also be coming up for you in the context of partnership; and this is for hopeful progress with these in terms of healing these ancient issues. Venus is also in sextile to Eris, Feminine Warrior in support of soul intention, so that you could experience certain unfolding of what you can consider life purpose in the course of an illuminating monthly cycle. The lunations of January include the 6th, when your innermost principles and values could be brought forward, and the Cancer Full Moon of the 13th, affecting your career sector, bringing further surprising events and unexpected enlightenment.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at https://www.starsignstyle.com/


Entering the new year, you linger in the framing of the Capricorn New Moon from December 30th, which characterized the thirty-day lunation cycle and therefore the first four weeks of the January month. This took place in a key sector of your chart, representing domestic concerns and issues of dwelling space, familial interactions and, as well, your family of origin. This could see you over the course the January month oriented toward home and family, with the possibility of personal evolution in this area. There may be an emphasis on your property, domestic life, a parent, elder, or your parenting role. The fresh start in these areas that percolates through January invites you to continue caretaking patterns or household themes that suit you, perhaps that have transformed you at a subtle inner level. It might be useful to address the many aspects of where you live, including hurdles crossed or metaphorical mountains scaled in the not so distant past, either working from familiar environments or enjoying what you’ve built in their place. A highlighted presence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in your relationship sector might indicate some notable progress in this area on where inner wounding, the residue of early childhood trauma, might arise in January with matters of partnership connection, resulting in progress toward eventual healing.

Venus enters Pisces on the 2nd, then the karmic North Node enters this sign on the 11th, resulting in a considerable assembly in the sixth house of your habitual day-to-day affairs, with Saturn and Neptune established there, too. With this celestial gathering you might emphasize rituals that see everyday life to go swimmingly, with attention on this theme of work and wellness in the weeks and months ahead. It may be useful to identify ways you keep on top of health, employment matters, appointments or essential duties. This might include a financial or contractual component, since Venus rules both your sign and Taurus, representing joint expenditures, long-term commitments and dependencies. Themes of service, collaboration and an energy investment in your habit patterns and health regimens may be possible.

A mortgage, loan, insurance policy, subscriptions or a promise to parties that support you may be extended, particularly the weekend of the 25th, when Venus aligns with Uranus in this sector of mutual gains. Maintaining your own equilibrium and serving others could be key, and household conversations or family operations could also fare well, as Mercury in your home zone aligns with Neptune in Pisces, the planet inspiring you to fulfil a meaningful role.

On the 6th, Mars, your planet of unions, self-worth, earned income and values, in retrograde motions, dips backward into Cancer or your vocational sector. This is on the same day as the First Quarter Moon in your opposites sign, which is also a significant juncture. There’s plenty of activity stirring in the water element, and the purposeful, professional corners of your chart this month. You could find you’re advancing and particularly visible to key people as you make progress in your role.

Mars makes a harmonious trine to Neptune during the Cancer Full Moon on the 13th, which illuminates your unrelenting work efforts and your position in the public eye. This lunation has the potential to directly involve others, given the close conjunction between the Moon and Mars. You might find you’re called into prominence, acknowledging your reputation, career and all you do for a romantic or platonic partner. This person may influence your vocational path, ways you’re an authority, parent or leader. Your relationship status might impact your goals and sense of success!

Venus will square Jupiter in your house of growth, philosophy, beliefs and expansion at this time too, which could result in either joyful excess of a degree of tension. Great learning experiences, a broadened understanding of the world and its people might not necessarily compliment general admin, your task load or style of managing routines. Therefore, you might want to balance the jobs you undertake with a journey of development and even social awareness.

On the 19th, the Sun enters Air sign Aquarius, and immediately forms a conjunction to Pluto. This signals a month bringing intense attention to children, passion projects and all that creatively inspires in you.

The 21st sees the Last Quarter Moon land in your resources sector. This is a time when the transformational effects of Pluto in Aquarius, conjunct the Sun and square the Moon, is greatly magnified, in a "crisis of consciousness."

On the 27th, Mercury enters this space and teams up with Pluto, bringing greater conscious awareness of the transformational factors taking place in your creativity during this important monthly cycle.

The Aquarius New Moon lands on January 29th, initiating a new cycle that lasts throughout February. During the thirty days that follow, it’s possible to think deeply about what you love and desire, embracing your own pleasures, interests, spiritual fertility, and artistic plans. As the Aquarian Sun makes a harmonious trine to expansive Jupiter during this lunation, celebrations and a focus on your affections, kids, artistic expressions or hobbies can be an even greater source of joy and happiness and potentially opens us paths to wisdom. The weeks that follow are colored by this alignment, so expect to prioritize what you want out of life and the adventures it offers.

This is another consequential month for you, Capricorn, with transformation of your values and prospective changes in your friendships, social setting, and committed partnerships. In its early days, following the recent New Moon in your sign, you are focused on yourself and your developmental arc, although from a new angle. This from a strong presence of retrograde Mars in your intimacy sector, tightly opposed to Pluto located in your sector of resources and values, plus a highlighted presence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, which implies that inner wounding could come up for you in your root sector of home and family concerns. This is therefore a somewhat dicey time, when rumblings from beneath the surface layers of your psyche could inform your experience. The upside is that there is a lot to learn in focusing inward during this rather intense monthly cycle. What might result is greater psychological integration, freeing you from false conceptions and allowing you to inhabit more of your true self. The lunation of the 6th and the Full Moon of the13th are powerful, with mid-month representing a fresh start in partnership as well as on the home front, either for your physical dwelling or else in terms of familial issues that might include your family of origin. The Last Quarter Moon of the 21st relates to a summing up of all of the above, and signals a shift in consciousness provided you have the courage to act on it.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at https://www.starsignstyle.com/


The year begins with a New Moon in your sign, from just two days before it began, which could feel like the ultimate fresh start for you and which colors the first four weeks of the January month. This brings focus to your authenticity, identity and persona, involving others also amongst your personal reflections. The configuration of this New Moon is rather dramatic, in that retrograde Mars opposes transformational Pluto in Aquarius, or your sector of values and resources, indicating an evolution there which could involve financial fluctuations and renewed enthusiasm for some aspect of the way that your finances get handled, or the possibility of a fundamental revision of your attitude to them and to the material world in general. In this New Moon configuration, Mercury also trines Chiron, the Wounded Healer, so that the topic of inner wounding could arise for better acceptance, understanding, and eventual healing.

On the 2nd, Venus enters Pisces, and the corner of your chart guiding you to communicate, teach and engage. Career choices could gain from your increased communication and outreach. Venus, planet of pleasure, fertility and enjoyment, joins with Neptune and Saturn, already in Pisces, and on the 3rd and 4th the Moon will gather there as well. Therefore, there’s great emphasis on interpersonal skills, writing projects or social commentary. This could be ideal for expressing ideas and sharing concepts that have taken hold, affecting your creativity and work-related ideas.

On the 4th, the Sun finds harmony with Saturn, your planetary ruler, potentially spotlighting your own special qualities that are part of this month’s focus. Located in Pisces and your relational third house, Saturn could encourage your involvement with close friends, and lead you to personally connected to your surroundings. This is a long-term influence lasting until February 2026, yet these themes could stand out on this day.

On Monday the 6th, we have the First Quarter Aries Moon, highlighting your home, family, and domestic sector while the ruling planet of this sector, Mars, in retrograde, dips back into Cancer on this same day. Significant individuals could be prominent around your property, with a nudge to revisit intimate dealings one-on-one. Household settings, how you nurture of feel safe could also be relevant. It might be important to find a balance between private spaces and ways that you welcome others to cross your threshold, particularly if you’re questioning a particular union or key persons. With Chiron as a background theme, it is possible that you will make progress with bringing internal dark spaces into the light of greater conscious awareness. As Mercury in Sagittarius – your twelfth house of unconscious process, inner work, and fantasy – is square Neptune in this lunation, your dreams, a longing for quiet retreat or an engaging process of inner discovery may seem overwhelming. There could be confusion as to how far to engage – and when rest is warranted. This might therefore be a really good time to check in with yourself, acknowledging inner concerns and realizations.

On Monday, January 13th, the Cancer Full Moon peaks arm-in-arm with Mars in your relationship sector, and harmonizes with both numinous Neptune and unruly Uranus in your fifth house of games, children, fun and creative inspiration! This is an exciting juncture for you and brings up issues of self and other for thoughtful reflection or gaining progress. Mars is closely trine Neptune, bringing up feelings of compassionate idealism and connections to your root psychological issues and attitudes. You might meet with key figures that are significant or find it easy to connect to your personal passions, expressing your heart’s desire. In this Full Moon as well, Venus is square Jupiter in your sector of health, work, organization and routines. It might be wise to avoiding overbooking your schedule, although there is enthusiasm for career, friendships, and collaborations.

From the 17th to the 19th, Venus meets Saturn, in a potentially positive timing for you to navigate local circles and have fun.

Sunday the 19th sees the Sun enter Aquarius and your zone of money, values and self-worth. With an immediate conjunction made to Pluto, it’s possible to focus deeply on earned income, investments, your personal contribution and assets. Here, you might sense the part you play, and where others depend or look to your input.

The 21st is the Last Quarter Scorpio Moon, which touches wider community networks, with potential for breakthroughs in groups or social settings.

Venus is aligned with both Mars and Uranus on the weekend of the 25th, suggesting a good time to celebrate or show affection to those as close to you as siblings, those pleasant to be around or with whom you find common ground.

Yet as Mercury opposes Mars on the 23rd, not everything that’s spoken about one-to-one is guaranteed to land well, or without a reaction. It’s possible there’s a surprise element or even jarring dynamics between you and others, which could benefit from a considered approach. You might like to tackle sensitive issues with extra care.

Mercury follows this trajectory on the 27th, tied to Pluto during the Aquarius New Moon on the 30th, a lunation featuring harmonious ties to Jupiter. It might be worth laying fresh eyes on what you have and what you might build – be it wealth or a more powerful sense of purpose, with learnings about your management style, health journey and multitasking abilities. Perhaps you’ll find yourself bolstered in confidence thanks to developments in your role, and can continue to prove yourself a useful asset, inspired in the weeks that follow.
 
The Aquarius New Moon of the 29th starts us off on a new and different cycle that features your sector of resources and values, wherein also the intense transformational energies of Pluto remain strongly configured, conjunct Mercury there as well, indicating further evolutionary changes ahead for you in this area and with regard to your beliefs and worldview during February.

This is another rather potent month for you, Aquarius, with Pluto newly in your sign and aspected – in the New Moon that begins the month astrologically – by retrograde Mars in your opposite sign of Leo. The current month therefore speaks to relationship issues and personal identity involving transformation in both of these areas. They say with Pluto, when he comes around in highlighted fashion in your transits, that you will either go willingly or go slowly and fighting, but in any case you will go. Your actions are of course your own, always, just it might be wise to know as you make your choice which way the wind is blowing. With the Capricorn New Moon to work with, all month long you have the additional mandate to get to know yourself in the dark and hidden spaces deep within you, the vast interior reaches of your unconscious psyche. This can be the way to better integrate all your parts, something that noted 20th-century psychologist Carl Jung frequently recommended. This cycle is dramatic, with the Cancer Full Moon of Monday the 13th quite powerfully featuring Mars, now having backed into Cancer, conjunct the Moon, in close aspect with Uranus in your sector of home and family, as well as Neptune in Pisces and with the new KBO planet Eris in Aries. This represents a shake-up and an opportunity to more fully inhabit your most authentic self as you evolve and grow.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at https://www.starsignstyle.com/


As the month and year begins we’re in the ongoing lunation cycle began by the Capricorn New Moon from the last days of the prior month of December. This thirty-day cycle lasts for almost the entire month of January, calling attention to your solitary twelfth sector of dream imagination, unconscious process, inner work, and catharsis. A letting go process could be in motion for you, inwardly, so that you may be taking time out in some ways, focused on recovery and life’s mysteries. Because transformational Pluto is featured greatly enhanced by his close opposition from Mars in Leo, you will want to consider the themes of transformation and internal work taking place behind the scenes, plus as these affect important partners in your life or your relationship dynamic in general. Your deep unconscious process may be brought closer to the light of your more logical awareness, especially since Mercury in your social sector – and ruling your sector of creative self-expression – is trine to Chiron, the Wounded Healer, which references inner wounding, long isolated and hidden away in the depths of your psyche.

Venus moves into Pisces and your money zone on the 2nd, giving you the potential to tend to your own security, personal stability and what you have – taking stock in your most prized assets. Your belongings, cash in the bank, or your winning attributes that serve as resources for you may be increasingly important throughout the month.

On the 4th, the Sun aligns with Saturn in this sector, perhaps allowing you to see financial responsibilities or your valuable contribution with realism. There could be emphasis on sacrifices made, healing modalities and ways you’ve come to terms with life that are ultimately rewarding. It’s possible you’ve given something up in order to invest in yourself and earn, which may now be apparent.

On the 6th, the First Quarter Moon lands in the middle of the Aries sign, or your sector of communications and learning. Your communication ruling planet Mars (retrograde until February 23rd) also moves backward into Cancer this same day. You might find yourself busy, reactivating a fitness plan, addressing employment matters or admin that serves to sustain you. Revisit habits that make sense, motivated in your role, organizing possessions, taking inventory of your needs. Consider necessary upkeep and maintenance (including the costs associated with daily life, health and wellbeing), managing what’s yours to take care of. People in your environment, communications, language or local ties may feature as you go about your business.

The 13th sees a Full Moon in this habit-oriented sector, closely aligned with Mars, suggesting these themes are again strongly illuminated. Acknowledge what comes up for examination and those involved, be they close relations, neighborhood ties or those around you every day. As the Sun finds harmony with changemaker Uranus in your fourth house, pick up on subtle cues related to your private life, and any disruption or marked differences at home. It may be a key time to move beyond unsettling circumstances concerning a parent, your property, family or the past. Neptune is also aspected during this Full Moon, circling back to your values, self-worth and what’s tangible. Venus squares Jupiter in Gemini in your house of creativity, inspiration, and joy, which could result in celebration or perhaps in some degree of tension regarding what’s earned, spent or saved. Developments around what you want, along with solo pleasures, and what you find fun may be challenging, requiring a practical component.

From the 17th to the 18th, Venus goes on to meet up with Saturn in Pisces, emphasizing this theme of income, and even the importance of your own inner sanctity and self-assurance. You may want to reflect on how far you’ve come, taking the issue of finances and your sense of place into serious account.

The Last Quarter Moon occurs on the 21st, in Scorpio, providing a catalyst for breakthroughs around personal goals, ambitions and aspirations, then, on the 23rd, the Scorpio Moon closely aligns with both Mars in Cancer and Mercury in Capricorn, in opposition. These planets find harmony with Uranus, which promises surprises, and unexpected revelations. Life could pull you in different directions, domestic and public, social and dutiful; be mindful as to what must be tackled and what can wait.

A few days back, on Sunday the 19th, the Sun entered your sign, suggesting a focus on you, ready or not, as the transformational developmental arc continues, an attitude that is further enhanced when mental Mercury follows, moving into your sign on January 27th, and conjuncting Pluto, bringing a more conscious awareness of the metamorphosis that you are currently engaged in.

The New Moon of the 29th in your sign sets the stage for the February month, and might see you through to a very personal new beginning. The influence of this Aquarius cycle lasts through the thirty days that follow. Mercury still conjuncts the Pluto position at the beginning of your fist solar sector, and as the Sun finds itself in a harmonious trine to Jupiter during this New Moon, you could be deeply and profoundly inspired. You might be able to harness this energy by recognizing future plans and tuning in to what’s interesting to you. It’s a good time to pay attention to what’s spotlighted for you, emphasizing your own way forward into better integration and joy.