01/25/2026
I read this every week and after reading this one and hearing the news out of Minnesota yesterday, I think it's important to see what the energies might play out....
Hey, howdy, and welcome to your weekly astro weather for January 26-February 1 2026. One down, 11 to go! Haha Oh my, but it’s a big week! Not a ton of interplanetary alignments but what we have going on this week could carry tremendous impact. We most decidedly have a proper Aquarius rager on our hands! So some of this will feel familiar to the power play and volatility potential of last week. All the planets have just completed the border crossing between Capricorn and Aquarius, and anything crossing into Aquarius runs smack into Pluto. The most volatile of all happens early this week AND we end the week on a BIG full moon, so it might be a good time to take your seats and buckle up. Jupiter in Cancer and Uranus in Ta**us continue their backward treks and Luna starts the week well grounded in Ta**us, destabilizes a little with a run thru Gemini, chills in Cancer, and ends the week opposing the Sun from Sol’s home sign of Leo.
An influence all of last week and this, first thing Monday, Neptune blazes back into Aries where he spent much of last year. This is a massive deal as it is the last time Neptune will shift into a new sign energy until May of 2038. This is also the start of a new 150-ish year journey thru the zodiac for the gas giant as Aries is numero uno! And, if you’ve been following along, we know that Saturn won’t be far behind…but we’ll get to that in about 2 weeks! Neptune’s job is to dissolve pre-existing structures and organization so that “new” can be created from dreams, vision, imagination, and seemingly divine inspiration. So some key words that accompany this are uncertainty, confusion, illusion, and delusion preceding new creations. Out with the old, in with the new! And, spoiler alert, sometimes “old” doesn’t go away easily or quietly. And that’s where we’re at! Try Googling “extinguishing events” haha. So, taking a deep breath, Monday into…
Tuesday, turn up the heat because this day, as well as the days surrounding it, has the potential for explosive situations. Materially and metaphorically. Think eruptions, explosions, shake, rattle, and rolling, because the god of aggression and severing runs smack into an obsessive, immovable force, Mars meets up with Pluto. This at 3 degrees of Aquarius, so peeps with natal chart placements, especially Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Mars, or Saturn at 2-4-ish degrees of especially fixed signs (Ta**us, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius), but really potentially anywhere, should take extra precautions as this could bring about life altering events. Shows of force, tests, pushing limits, exertion of will, power, and control may compel some to take a hard stand. If you’ve traveled this cosmic road with me for any length of time, you’ll likely know that Mars/Pluto interactions are among my least favorite thing to see in astrology, due to the sheer volatile and combustible nature. But sometimes that is precisely what is needed to bust a move and force a change. And I am quite sure we can agree right about NOW that change is necessary. This combo also offers an opportunity to dig down deep and do the drudge work that no one really wants to do, but to find the wherewithal to do it anyway. So there is a constructive use of this energy. The destructive power is just typically much more visible. Do watch for both sides this week. And, added bonus, as Mars is most fully in Pluto’s face, the Moon in not-giving-a lot-of-sh*ts, at least not thinking thru to consequences Gemini is triggering them, only serving to exacerbate any tensions or situations. Minds and words may be the primary weapons of choice and remember, self-righteousness and know-it-all-ness literally cannot get much stronger than this! So there are likely to be more mouths shooting off than guns but one often tends to lead to the other. Road rage could be a big problem. So seriously, tread lightly here! Red flag day!
Wednesday certainly brings an opportunity to pull it back and maybe unruffle a few feathers and that comes with a strong potential for intercession by the hand of fate and destiny. Unexpected intermediaries may appear and step up. This feels like a day for overthinking too, so finding a way to quiet minds and mouths may be helpful.
Thursday communication meets with discernment and interpersonal relations. We might call this “talk it out Thursday”. Just try to remember to think before speaking, ‘cuz you can’t take words back once they’ve left the lips and words carry power and consequences.
Friday and Saturday the mood softens considerably! Empathy and compassion have a brief fighting shot at tempering all the detached not-many-sh*ts-given mode of the past few days. New possibilities, kinder ones, gain some consideration.
Which gets us to Sunday. Luna, blazing thru proud, strong, authentic, sometimes ego centric Leo, spends the earlier part of the day shaking and stirring up whatever the earlier days of this week brought and by late afternoon opposes her current landlord, the Sun. We got us our Leo Full Moon for 2026 and friends, this one is absolutely loaded! Full moons in general bring max visibility, max power, max energy. Supercharged! Itchin’, antsy, and ready to bust bold moves, and for this one, it is literally Moon vs the world…because she opposes the Sun who is currently at the center of a 5 planet gathering. On paper, it looks like the gunfight at the OK Corral if there were 5 guys vs 1, and ALL are in sign energies that are not likely to want to consider anyone else’s position or to back down. And this is a big one for another reason…it is the last lunation before an annular “ring of fire” solar (new moon) eclipse coming in two weeks. Effectively, eclipse season starts NOW. And, spoiler alert, it’s gonna be another doozy! Great endings, great beginnings, and major turning points are entirely possible. So, Happy February, haha. One of the most impactful months of 2026, also hosting the signature planetary alignment for the year, one that we’ve been talking about for several years already! But we have to get there first, so…
With that, I thank you, as always, for stopping by and supporting my efforts here! In all seriousness…be careful out there this week. It is about as Aquarius as it can get, haha. There is a lot of volatility and combustibility without a lot of energy for holding back. Let’s dig in, do the hard work but keep it productive and constructive until we reconvene next time!
