“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
Let’s start where we actually are. End of January aka the real start of the real year.
You’ve just (barely, if you’re me)lived through a Pluto cazimi on Friday the 23rd and no, I won’t do you dirty by framing it with words like initiatory and transformational while everyone quietly spirals. Pluto sitting right in the heart of the Sun gleefully drags whatever has been festering in the basement straight into the kitchen, flicks on the unforgiving fluorescent light and asks why the fuck you’re still pretending this moldy belief system is just how things are.
Pluto cazimis tend to coincide with moments where power dynamics stop hiding. Collectively, they often show up as the mask slipping in real time. The thing everyone kind of knew was rotten suddenly becomes undeniable. If you’re a human navigating this unmistakable end-of-the-Roman-Empire moment in our history in real time, you can probably think of a couple of examples immediately and felt a little tired just doing so.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that the collapse doesn’t arrive with trumpets but with bad taste, bad leadership and the quiet disappearance of shared rules, all of which should feel uncomfortably familiar right now.
Governments lying badly and not even bothering to clean it up. Financial systems creaking louder than usual. Tech billionaires promising salvation while actively setting the house on fire and charging you a subscription fee for the extinguisher. Same old empire bullshit, which you’ve read here ad infinitum, because yes, I am a human alive on this planet and I carry a very real, very earned chip on my shoulder.
Personally, Pluto cazimi has a habit of resurfacing old material at precisely the moment you thought you’d outgrown it.
For me as Libra Rising, this directly attacked my second house where scarcity live just under the skin, ready to pop like an unwanted zit in a highly inconvenient time, to test how far we dared to come in shedding our skin of confusing survival with worth - and boy, have I been tested and still reeling from that unexpected dip in to the muck where money meets your idea about what you’re worth to the world (and your parents? Yep, being forty, I can confirm this does not change with age.)
This is what Pluto does best. It tests whether your values actually hold when something tangible is on the line.
Your Pluto cazimi story will look different, depending on where Aquarius sits in your chart and which part of your life Pluto just put under the microscope. We’ll unpack that properly in the zodiac-specific guidance below.
Read for your rising sign first, that’s your avatar, the role you’re playing on the outer stage, the character you’re embodying in this particular season of the story. Then peek at your Sun sign too if you want to see where the ego is getting lovingly but firmly poked.
What matters right now is this. Something cracked. Something clarified. And something is quietly asking to be rebuilt on far more honest terms than before.
And here’s the thing nobody tells you. January doesn’t actually start the year energetically. It opens the lobby. The awkward coat-check moment. The part where you’re still shaking off last year, pretending you’re fine, scanning the room to see who else looks as disoriented as you feel.
The real story kicks in now.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.” – Arundhati Roy
It’s the end of January and something so unique is happening above our heads, I chose this moment as a first chapter in a ten-part astrological story of 2026 (read more on that HERE).
We’re at the end of January and the sky has very deliberately chosen this moment to served an absolutely unhinged concentration of planets in Aquarius.
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, all doing the sardines game in the sign of the collective, the future, the weirdo, the quiet rebel, the system-breaker, the one who asks uncomfortable questions at the meeting and refuses to shut up.
This is not normal astrology.
They call it a stellium when three or more planets gather in one sign, but this is less quiet alignment and more full-on cosmic house party. And Aquarius is not the sign that hosts polite dinner conversations to the soundtrack of some tasteful lo-fi background music. Aquarius brings manifestos. Revolutions that start as memes.
Radical ideas that sound completely unhinged until suddenly everyone is chanting them out loud whilst setting their bra on fire.
So let’s ask the obvious question. Why now?
Why would the Great Game Designer, the Universe, your higher self on espresso - insert your own veneration here - decide that right after a Pluto cazimi we need to be turbo-dropped into Aquarius Season with this much emphasis on the water-bearer energy?
Because Capricorn and Aquarius together form the hinge of the year. Capricorn closes the book. Aquarius starts scribbling in the margins of the next one. Capricorn asks what actually worked and what quietly failed. Aquarius asks why the hell we were doing it that way in the first place and who benefits from keeping it that way.
On a global level, this looks like systems failing in public. Alliances fracturing. Old narratives about progress, democracy, capitalism, identity and belonging getting stress-tested hard.
The future is no longer theoretical or safely tucked away in some distant decade. It’s pressing its face against the glass, tongue out, demanding to be acknowledged.
On a personal level, this often shows up as a restlessness you can’t meditate away. That flutter in the chest announcing your nervous system disregulation that no amount of journaling fixes. The creeping sense that something in your life is outdated. A job structure. A relationship dynamic. A way you participate in society.
Even the version of yourself you’ve been performing because it once kept you safe. Aquarius does not want you dishonest but comfortable.
The vibe is fully those people, ideas and causes that resonate with who you’re becoming, not the outdated training program you were handed ten or twenty years ago.
Mercury in Aquarius rewires how we think and talk about the future. Mars in Aquarius changes how and why we fight. Venus in Aquarius updates what we value, how we love and what kind of connections we’re no longer willing to settle for. The Sun there makes it clear this is not optional background noise. This is the theme.
This is why this moment matters in the unfolding story of the year. This is the prologue where the future starts whispering. And occasionally, shouting through a megaphone.
Before we go day by day, let’s zoom out and look at the week as a whole, because rather than a random pile of transits, this too is a narrative.
We start with Neptune shifting into Aries, for like a good while.
Neptune leaves its cozy swamp in Pisces and enters Aries for the first time since the Civil War era. This is, fingers crossed, a beginning of the well-overdue death of antisocial media aka the assassin of what’s true and humane in favor of a Neptunean dream of making a living as a travel influencer. Aries will shake us up from this delulu conspiracy theory nightmare.
This is one of the defining shifts of the decade. Ideals stop being abstract. Dreams demand action. Bad news for spiritual frauds and cult leaders with thirteen sports cars in the garage. Rage, inspiration, faith, disillusionment all come closer to the surface.
Midweek, the Moon moves through Taurus and Gemini, making supportive aspects to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Mercury and Venus. In real life terms, this feels like emotional reality checks mixed with sudden insights. That moment where you finally understand why something hasn’t been working and, instead of burning the whole thing down, you have the clarity to tweak it.
On Thursday, Mercury and Venus meet in Aquarius, and this is a big one. Values meet voice. Love meets language. Conversations you’ve been avoiding because you didn’t have the words suddenly become possible. Not necessarily comfortable, but clean. Honest. Liberating in that slightly terrifying way honesty tends to be.
Friday and Saturday bring the Moon into Cancer, kissing Jupiter, sextiling Uranus, trining Saturn. Emotions amplify, but there’s also real support underneath it. Feelings get big, but they’re not uncontained. This is the friend who shows up with soup and takes your scissors away just when you decided to mark your breakup/breakdown by giving yourself bangs.
Family stuff. Home stuff. Belonging stuff.
It can feel deeply nourishing or mildly suffocating, depending on how allergic you are to intimacy and how well you’ve been honoring your own needs.
And then Sunday brings a Full Moon in Leo.
Theatrical. Exposing. Impossible to ignore.
Leo Full Moons pull the spotlight onto identity, creativity, pride and the places where we want to be seen and validated. After a week of Aquarius recalibration, this Full Moon asks a very simple but uncomfortable question.
Are you brave enough to be visibly yourself in the new story you’re writing?
No pressure. Just your heart on stage.
💀 A Day-by-Day Survival Guide to the Madness
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Depending on where you are in the world, you might feel certain transits slightly earlier or later. Time zones have opinions too.
🌀 Monday, January 26
Neptune enters Aries
This is a big fucking deal.
Neptune moving into Aries is a generational shift. We are talking about the end of one collective dream and the ignition of another, except this one comes with a flamethrower instead of incense.
Neptune has been swimming in Pisces for years, dissolving boundaries, blurring truths, flooding us with empathy, confusion, spirituality, escapism, disillusionment, addiction, art, grief, prayer, crystals, fucking influencers, lies, so many lies..and the slow realization that love and trust built on lies cannot sit with us anymore.
When Neptune crosses into Aries, the dream wants legs. Beliefs want action. Ideals demand embodiment. This is where the collective fantasy of who we are supposed to be gets tested through conflict, courage, righteous anger.
Globally, this correlates with belief-driven conflicts intensifying. Ideologies turning militant. Movements becoming louder, messier, less polite. Personally, this can feel like a sudden urge to act on something you have been quietly fantasizing about for years.
This might show up as finally starting a fight you have been rehearsing in the shower since 2019. Or realizing that your compassion has been weaponized against you and deciding, today, that it stops. Numbers blocked.
Last time Neptune flirted with Aries energy, I watched a friend torch an entire belief system they inherited from their family and then spend two years figuring out who they actually were underneath it.
But today is not about clarity. Think of it as keys inserted into engine ignition of your military grade vehicle. Notice what coordinates want to be typed in the car’s GPS. That’s your signal.
🌱 Tuesday, January 27
Moon in Taurus sextile Jupiter in Cancer
Moon conjunct Uranus in Taurus
Moon sextile Saturn in Pisces
Tuesday is weirdly tender and strangely stabilizing, considering the existential assault of Monday.
The Taurus Moon wants safety, comfort, food, comfort food that actually nourishes you, and a sense that the ground beneath your feet is not about to disappear. Jupiter in Cancer adds emotional generosity, memory, family themes, and the desire to feel held. Saturn in Pisces says yes, but with boundaries.
This is the kind of day where you realize that being taken care of does not mean being infantilized. And taking care of others does not mean setting yourself on fire. This is most likely lovely and I urge you to just trust fall into it. It’s that honeyed pocket of nice we’ll want to dip back into come eclipses in February.
Uranus conjunct the Moon can bring surprises. A sudden expense. An unexpected message. A change of plan that initially pisses you off but later turns out to be exactly what you needed. Like your train getting cancelled and you ending up having the most honest conversation you’ve had in months instead.
Or your mother calls and, for once, doesn’t push your buttons. Miracles happen.
Emotionally, this is a good day to ground. Cook. Touch something solid. Make decisions that prioritize long-term safety over short-term dopamine.
💬 Wednesday, January 28
Moon in Gemini trine Venus and Mercury in Aquarius
Wednesday is chatty. Mentally alive. Slightly unhinged in a fun way.
Gemini Moon days feel like that lovely but exhausting Gen-Z co-worker who wants to start a podcast with you but come Thursday they’d ask the same of twenty other people they find funny, but with Aquarius support, the ideas actually could connect today. Conversations flow. Insights land. The thing you couldn’t articulate last week suddenly comes out of your mouth fully formed, and you’re like, oh shit, that’s what I meant.
Venus and Mercury in Aquarius bring honesty without melodrama. This is the kind of energy where you can talk about feelings without drowning in them. Where you can negotiate, renegotiate and reframe.
This is an excellent day for difficult conversations that require intelligence instead of emotional theatrics. Saying, this doesn’t work for me anymore, without needing to justify your entire existence.
Last time I had a transit like this hit, I accidentally rewrote the rules of a friendship over coffee. No drama. No tears. Just truth. We both walked away lighter.
Use this day to speak. Write. Pitch. Brainstorm. Text the thing you’ve been overthinking. Just maybe read it once before you hit send.
💘 Thursday, January 29
Mercury conjunct Venus in Aquarius
This is the heart of the week.
Mercury and Venus meeting in Aquarius is a values reset. A relational software update. A moment where what you love and how you speak finally sync up.
Aquarius does not want….
My weekly guidance continues just below. I crafted a detailed actionable day-by-day plan for each zodiac sign based on how this Aquarius-heavy duty week messes up (or blesses up?) with your Rising Sign’s astrological houses!
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