General for Week Commencing: Monday 19 January 2026
Aries    Aries Monday 19 January 2026  Mar 21 - Apr 19
The theme this week is of change, with one of the most significant periods of change this year underway, not because of the influence or importance of any one planet and more because of the sum of the individual parts. In the five days from Venus’ departure from your career sector on Sunday and return to your friendship sector the Moon, Sun, Mercury and Mars will all do the same, shifting the balance of power of the year itself. While this won’t leave your career sector empty and things will continue to evolve and play out across the income, work and career fronts, it will be some of the minor players keeping the wheels turning. While cosmically speaking five days is a blink of an eye, in real time this is more a transition, continuing with the Moon’s departure on Monday, the Sun’s departure on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, with a New Moon giving this a tailwind.
 
Taurus    Taurus Monday 19 January 2026  Apr 20 - May 20
It is on Monday that the Moon will not only leave your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery but wrap up the first New Moon of 2026. While with the Sun, Mercury, Mars and the asteroid Juno still in an adventurous part of your chart by this point, this won’t see a sudden shift as the Moon not only returns to your career sector, but to join Venus in her first full day here. However, there is a definite shift underway, with the Sun doing the same on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday. It is Mars’ return to your career sector on Friday and his first chance in two years to fire up your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit, that will officially have the most active months of this professional year underway. Yet while this is a mass exodus of planets from an adventurous part of your chart, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment is not only staying on but by the weekend will have aligned with the South Node in a playful and creative part.
 
Gemini    Gemini Monday 19 January 2026  May 21 - Jun 21
There is change in the air and of the exciting kind, though this will make the lunar nodes’ policing of your work/life balance all the more important. It was on Sunday that Venus not only returned to an adventurous part of your chart, but to join Pluto, the planet of change and transformation, who on his own here since February 2025 has been waiting for this moment. Before the Sun, Mercury and Mars can join them, they are staying on to not only get the most out of their final days in your financial sector, but to capitalise on the New Moon here that runs its course on Monday. This includes a chance to remain alert and aware while the solar spotlight is on your financial situation and money matters, while using Mercury’s smart head for money to better manage when, where and how to channel Mars financial passions and fighting spirit. Once the Sun leaves and joins Venus and Pluto in an adventurous part of your chart on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, they will leave money matters in the safe hands of Juno, the queen of commitment.
 
Cancer    Cancer Monday 19 January 2026  Jun 22 - Jul 22
There is change in the air this week and of two distinct types. One is the impact now from a significant shift in focus that having the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars all on the move at the same time is going to have, though not in a way that is going to impact the year itself. The other is not only going to impact the year itself, but for years to come. The latter is Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams departure from your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery next Tuesday, where he has been since 2012 and return to your career sector, where he will spend the next 13 years. The Moon’s return to an adventurous part of your chart from Wednesday to Friday and then to your career sector over the weekend will help prepare for that transition. At the same time, beginning with Venus over the weekend, the Moon’s departure from your relationship sector and return to your financial sector on Monday, the Sun on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday will see a shift in focus from one to the other.
 
Leo    Leo Monday 19 January 2026  Jul 23 - Aug 22
As you move into the new week, the Moon is just leaving and wrapping up its first visit to your work sector for the year and the first New Moon of 2026. Both the contacts the Moon has made as it moved through and that the planets here are making, this will get the week off to an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts, but there is change in the air. The week begins with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your busy work sector, with Venus having just left on Sunday, yet by the weekend only Juno will remain. It is on Monday that the Moon will not only return for its first visit to your relationship sector for the year but just as Venus, the planet of love is settling into her first full day here. They will be joined on Tuesday by the Sun, followed by Mercury, the planet of communication’s return on Tuesday and Mars, the planet of passion’s return on Friday.
 
Virgo    Virgo Monday 19 January 2026  Aug 23 - Sep 22
Within the space of just five days the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury and Mars are not only all on the move, but they are all going from and to the same place, creating a shift in focus in a short space of time. What is making that shift even more pronounced is that they are all moving from one side of life’s fence to the other. It began over the weekend when just as the first New Moon of 2026 was forming, Venus left a playful and creative part of your chart and returned to your work sector. She will be followed by the Moon on Monday, the Sun on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, with the warrior planet of the cosmos’ return kicking off what can be the busiest six weeks of any year. While having so many all move in unison in such a short period of time is going to change the dynamics of the year itself, but with time to put guardrails in place to ensure life doesn’t become work and play.
 
Libra    Libra Monday 19 January 2026  Sep 23 - Oct 23
As the Moon leaves your home and family sector on Monday and wraps up the first New Moon of 2026, as well as putting a lot of focus on things close to home, this is going to take the pressure off Jupiter in your career sector. While their clash over the weekend is something that every four weeks throughout this 12 month quest for professional growth and expansion is going to put your work/life balance to the test, the timing couldn’t be better. For if ever there was a week crying out for the right work/life balance, this is it. With Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams in his last full week in your work sector and the Moon’s return on Wednesday putting it back in harmony with Jupiter in your career sector, this is a pivotal week professionally. However, the Moon not only returns to a playful and creative part of your chart on Monday, but just as Venus is settling into her first full day here. With the Sun returning on Tuesday, Mercury on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, the playful and creative side of life’s fence is also powering up.
 
Scorpio    Scorpio Monday 19 January 2026  Oct 24 - Nov 21
Venus, the planet of love may have left your communication sector on Sunday, but her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice is in safe hands and that includes in the short and long term. In the short term, on Monday and just a day after Venus left, the Moon is spending its final hours in your communication sector at a friendly aspect to Uranus in your relationship sector with Mercury, the planet of communication doing the same. By the time Mercury leaves your communication sector on Wednesday Mars, who will continue to declare war on communication roadblocks and barriers until leaving on Wednesday, will be doing the same. As the planets one by one leave your communication sector, they are all returning to your home and family sector, all of a sudden putting a lot of focus on home, family and/or property matters. This is something that Pluto, the planet of change and transformation, on his own here since February 2025 has been waiting for.
 
Sagittarius    Sagittarius Monday 19 January 2026  Nov 22 - Dec 21
There is change in the air and two levels. On a more mundane level, while having the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury and Mars all leave your income sector and return to your communication sector within the space of just five days is having a significant impact now, it won’t impact the year itself. The other change that is pending and drawing closer by the day will. While it is not until next Tuesday that Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will leave your home and family sector, where he has been since 2012 and return to spend the next 13 years in a playful and creative part of your chart, the Moon returns with a chance to help with that transition. It is from Wednesday to Friday that the Moon’s last visit to your home and family sector before Neptune leaves will help get the most out of his final days, while its return to a playful and creative part of your chart over the weekend is a chance to prepare for what comes next.
 
Capricorn    Capricorn Monday 19 January 2026  Dec 22 - Jan 19
What makes the timing of the Moon’s departure from Capricorn on Monday significant is that this is wrapping up both its first visit for the year and the first New Moon of 2026 during the last full day of your birthday month. A day after Venus left, though not before giving your heart a voice and a say in what you want from the coming year and with Mercury leaving Capricorn on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, this is the perfect time to draw a new line in the sand. Meanwhile, this will see the Moon return to your income sector just as Venus is settling into her first full day and where, as the planet of money this has opened the doors to the most lucrative months of 2026. With the Moon’s sharp nose for money and Venus’ access to the laws of attraction, by the time the Sun returns on Tuesday and Mercury with the smart head for money needed to get your head in the game and to think on your feet, you will have a head start. On Friday, they will be joined by Mars, with the warrior planet of the cosmos returning for his first chance in two years to declare war on income roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined.
 
Aquarius    Aquarius Monday 19 January 2026  Jan 20 - Feb 18
As you move into the new week the lines between the past, present and future will be blurred and while they will stay that way for most of the week, as the week progresses, the balance will shift more towards the future and away from the past. While Monday is Venus’ first full day in Aquarius and as the Moon joins her, this will have heart and gut on the same page and both looking to the future, this is also the last full day of your old solar year. It is a day later that the Sun will leave a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and return to Aquarius, where it will join the Moon and Venus to kick off your birthday month and new solar year. However, until Mercury leaves and returns to Aquarius on Wednesday and Mars on Friday, old doors will remain open. Meanwhile, it is on Wednesday that the Moon will return for both its first visit to your income sector for the year and its last before Neptune and Saturn leave, giving you a short and long term sense of perspective.
 
Pisces    Pisces Monday 19 January 2026  Feb 19 - Mar 20
It is on Monday and just as Venus is settling into her first full day in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart that she will be joined by the Moon, adding to a sense of nostalgia but also a desire for time to reflect and to hear yourself think. Both will be here when the Sun not only returns on Tuesday but to begin the month long wind down of your old solar year, with Mercury returning on Wednesday and Mars on Friday to begin the wind down of your current Mercury and Mars cycles. However, at the same time that before returning the Sun, Mercury and Mars will have their focus on the social side of life’s fence, where the focus is very much on the present as Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams reaches his last full week in Pisces, his focus is on the future and especially on your long term hopes, dreams and aspirations. This makes this a week where the lines between the past, present and future will be blurred or where you are travelling from zone to zone and back again.
 
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