Weekly Horoscope, January 11-17, 2026: Permission to Play

Updated January 10, 2026 05:05AM

This week brings alignment. Although we can easily get lost in the ever-pervasive culture of hustle, determination, and expectation that disconnects us from ourselves and fixates on a notion of success that isn’t entirely our own at the beginning of the year, the cosmos swoops in and ensures we maintain balance and intentionality in our thoughts. The upcoming transits invit this remembering and nudge everyone to connect inward and prioritize our inner knowing, needs, and truths so they may inform our outer actions. Your weekly horoscope for January 11-17, 2026, affords you more glimpses at how the cosmos plays out in the everyday.

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Mercury Opposite Jupiter

Midweek brings an opposition between Mercury in Capricorn and Jupiter retrograde in Cancer on January 14, 2026. This aspect stretches our awareness, perspectives, intentions, and narratives.

Mercury in Capricorn, a transit that began on January 1, brings quiet ambition to our minds. It asks us to think practically and longterm from a space of patient determination as we consider what we want to do, build, and become in life.

Jupiter, which sits across the cosmos in the opposite sign of Cancer, has been inviting connection with our emotional selves, our felt experience of safety and belonging, our innate needs, and how we can become our own source and solution in response to said needs.

Imagine the integration of opposites, a space to hold both sides of the perceived coin, or to consider how these opposing sides might become partners. Here, ambition becomes grounded in emotional truth, future thinking becomes shaped by feeling rather than external expectations, and strategy becomes informed by instinct.

It’s a time of redefining our relationship with success—both inner and outer. Think of it as a reconsideration of the way we move, look ahead, and tend within. It’s as if intuition is suddenly asking to hold a valid place in practical planning, responsibility includes self-compassion, and discipline doesn’t discount self-care.

Venus Enters Aquarius

A few days later, on January 17, 2026, Venus leaves the grounded earth sign of Capricorn and enters the air sign of Aquarius, where she moves freely, seeks freedom, explores independence, and expands her thinking.

The planet of beauty, romance, and art will remain in Aquarius until February 10, 2026. Until then, she brings a felt shift to the way we connect, inhabit our innate value, create, love, and receive. In Aquarius, Venus sweeps through the mind and our patterned ways of thinking and communicating more than the realm of body and emotion. She also goes beyond traditional perceptions of what relationships must look like or what beauty is accepted as norm.

This transit is not about the structures that already exist, it’s about a sense of personal liberation regarding the partnerships that inspire us, the self-love that liberates us, and the creativity that shapes who we become. These apply not only to ourself but to our communities and to life itself.

As Venus shifts into the Uranus-ruled sign of Aquarius, it prepares us for the entry of the Sun, Mercury, and Mars also entering this sign later in the month. Allow yourself to experience inspiration, observe what liberation feels like, and allow traditional perceptions that do not serve you to fall away. This is your cosmic permission slip to do things your own way—a permission slip that has always been there, yet is finally beginning to speak louder.

Your Weekly Horoscope, January 11-17, 2026

Through your weekly horoscope, you are invited to move toward your future in a way that nurtures your present experience instead of drains it. You are offered a consistent reminder that the building of your life can be beautiful and joyous, that responsibility can be a sort of sacred devotion, and that imagination and self-love are requisite in the experience and continual creation of your life. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

Worth is becoming less and less based on outer measures for you. As such, this week nudges your thoughts, emotions, and movements to reflect this truth. It’s a supportive time to connect with your innermost needs. Allow space for renewed dreams, desires, and sense of belonging.

Taurus Rising

There’s an expansion of the mind and a renewal of the way in which you perceive your life, purpose, future, identity, and the world. Release the grip on your existing narratives so that life can show you more. Also, allow space to look ahead as you rest in your truth.

Gemini Rising

Look inward. Be open to discovering more of yourself, your hurts and strengths, your inner patterns and relationship with safety. For transformation, empowerment, meaning, and inner freedom await you. Hold the parts of you that don’t feel safe to pursue your desires, for this is your very doorway forward.

Cancer Rising

Release the bounds of your identity a little this week. Offer your self-perceptions more space. More of your depth is waiting to be revealed. More of your truest desires are ready to appear. More of your meaning, purpose, inspirations, and wisdom are waiting to be discovered.

Leo Rising

Connect with the inward, the upward, the spiritual, and the sacred. Guidance is waiting there with more of it wanting to flow through your everyday existence. This week activates a readiness for liberating love and a vaster vision as you look ahead and discover as well as honor your inner strength.

Virgo Rising

Your voice, your essence, and your truth want to be unleashed and considered as life-giving vitality. Not everything needs to happen at once, though. This week invites an honoring of self, body, and smaller movements that contribute to your greater becoming.

Libra Rising

This week invites a welcome melding of inner with outer, a space in which imagined outcomes and actions balance truth, emotional fulfillment, and embodied safety. It brings inspiration, creativity, and a readiness to share your voice and ground your routine, each grounded in self-love.

Scorpio Rising

Where have your creative inspirations been leading you? What has your mind been revealing? What is your intuition sharing? As you feel into freedom of the heart, what does that look like? As you turn your awareness within, know that every layer of self shares truth and guidance this week.

Sagittarius Rising

Worthiness, strength, and emotional awareness are your themes. This week draws you more into your body, where more intuition and guidance awaits discovery. Let your curiosities and desires speak through what inspires and brings you a sense of intention. Your everyday routines ask for greater intention and freedom.

Capricorn Rising

There’s a shift and expansion of your identity, imagination, and stories that you tell yourself of who you are and where you are going. Observe what it means to be embodied in your worthiness. Here you become magnetic and receptive to the immense goodness wanting to come your way.

Aquarius Rising

Intuition is speaking to you this week. Listen to your body and your emotions as you hold space for greater embodiment of your beauty, your creativity, and your self-nurturance. Allow your identity to begin evolving, informed by a connection to life itself.

Pisces Rising

This week is a portal of the future entering the now with you as the vessel, your mind as the inspiration, your intuition as the visioning. When you close your eyes, what do you want? When you go through your day, how can you begin taking the shape of your most essential being?

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