Aries Horoscope for January 2026

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 Sagittarius New Moon, from December, affecting the first few weeks of January, and as well in the mid-month late Capricorn New 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 Cancer Full 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 Sagittarius New 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 Capricorn New 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.

Aries Horoscope for January 2026

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