January 18 2026

Sunday, JANUARY 18

Very early today, Mercury aligns with Mars in the sign of Capricorn, exciting and overstimulating our nerves. We want to get to the point so that communications can be insensitive. Keeping busy and making headway satisfies us more than usual, and it’s best to channel excess mental energy constructively.

Tensions are possible, particularly when we are over-excited about an idea or resist considering others’ input. We are more invested in our ideas and convictions than usual, and we’re more courageous in expressing them. It’s a time of quick thinking and decisiveness.

A New Moon occurs today in the sign of Capricorn, at 2:52 PM EST. With this potent new-beginning energy, it makes sense to focus on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Goat–-tenacious, resourceful, disciplined, wise, ambitious, prudent, constant–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives.

It’s time to focus on practical, attainable long-term goals, develop maturity and common sense, prepare for the future, make commitments and recognize responsibilities, and realistically nurture our dreams. We have the chance to create some serious order in our lives!

Making concrete plans can be satisfying in the week ahead. We might develop reasonable boundaries and rules that offer us freedom from some worry and chaos.

This New Moon is aligned with Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto. In other words, all of the inner planets are aligned, although Venus is the only inner planet not in Capricorn (Venus is in early Aquarius).

This lunation is sextile Saturn and Neptune, trine Uranus, and it’s also opposite Jupiter. We’re ready to make something special of our profession, reputation, long-term goals, and responsibilities. It’s a powerful time for practical solutions and innovation. Teaming up to achieve a work or material goal can be successful and attractive now. Meeting new people through these endeavors can also figure strongly. It’s as much of a practical time as it is a magical period. We’re both inspired and ready to put in the work to make things happen.

Tonight, Mercury forms a sextile with Saturn and heads toward a trine to Uranus, helping us reason things through. It’s a good time to put a new spin on our methods. We’re alert, pragmatic, and busy. Thoroughness brings rewards.

It’s a time of being more mentally grounded, and reasoning things logically and step by step can be beneficial and even soothing. At the same time, we’re not afraid to tap into our inventiveness.

The Moon is void today from 4:58 PM EST, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a sextile to Neptune), until the Moon enters Aquarius at 5:19 PM EST.

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