Your Weekly Horoscope, January 18-24, 2026: Taking a Stand for Yourself

Welcome to a busy, transformative, and alive week in the cosmos. As Mercury dances with multiple planets, the initial new Moon inspires contemplation and cazimis spark change within and without. It’s a time to recreate ourselves and our efforts as we realign with the whisper, the compass that always propels us forward. Your weekly horoscope for January 18-24, 2026, explains how.

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January 18 | Mercury conjunct Mars & New Moon in Capricorn
January 19 | Sun enters Aquarius; Venus conjunct Pluto
January 20 | Mercury enters Aquarius
January 21 | Mercury cazimi

Mercury Conjunct Mars in Capricorn

Our week begins with a cosmic spark during the meeting of Mercury and Mars in Capricorn on January 18, 2026.

Mercury has been in purpose-driven Capricorn since January 1, 2026, where it has been aligning our minds with our intended effects, thoughts with long-term goals, and vision with practical movement. Mars has also been traveling through the Saturn-ruled sign since December, holding space for our grounded ambitions, focused drive, and patient building of our desires.

As they come together this week, three archetypes ignite within us: the mind, the body, and the mission. Thoughts inspire action, passion ignites the mind, and vision sharpens decisive action. As the path ahead begins to speak, there is an ignition of motivation from within that asks for patient dedication and trust in the long-term unfolding of our intentions.

New Moon in Capricorn

The same day brings our first new Moon of 2026 with the Capricorn new Moon on January 18, 2026. Capricorn is our sign of endurance, focus, depth, and meaning. It is a sign of legacy, ambition, determination, and authority that inspires self-mastery. It urges the manifestation of the call from within to become who we believe we are here to be.

Under any new Moon,  the sky is dark as the Moon recreates herself from total emptiness. Our invitation is something of the same. As we become still and feel the silence and darkness, we reconnect with the profound aliveness within us and create from the perceived emptiness of the moment.

This lunation anchors our visions. It asks us to commit ourselves to our purpose, not forget our intentions, and remain patient as we allow them to unfold through us over time. Although not immediate, a profound new beginning is within reach, one that turns destiny into practicality and possibility into form.

Sun Enters Aquarius

The day after the Moon begins its building phase, the Sun enters a new sign. As our star shifts from Capricorn into Aquarius, it simultaneously shifts from earth to air, tangible to intangible, form to thought, practicality to possibility.

It marks the beginning of a new season, one of innovation and inspiration, liberation and objectivity. This time is quick, cerebral, future-oriented, and rebellious. It shakes the confines of conformity, expectation, and social norm so that we can explore a new way of moving through the world as ourselves. A way of moving through the world that is creative, unhindered, and in devotion to an inner rhythm and truth, regardless of what is accepted or expected.

A Uranus-ruled sign, Aquarius sharpens the mind as the Sun traverses its constellation. It sensitizes and attunes us to the future so that we can explore and innovate liberating ways to begin creating the future through us.

Mercury Enters Aquarius

Following the Sun, Mercury enters Aquarius on January 20, 2026, where it will remain until February 6, 2026. Mercury in Aquarius activates and quickens the mind. It encourages our perspectives, narratives, and ways of thinking to wander beyond their known spaces and into the unknown realm of vast possibility, innovation, and originality.

Here the mind opens to future-oriented thinking and visionary dialogue. It also brings us objectivity as we observe, with curiosity and neutrality, our inner and outer experiences. Here we can challenge our existing ideas, opinions, narratives, and ways of labelling ourselves, others, and the world.

Mercury Cazimi 

A day after Mercury’s entry into Aquarius, the planet enters the heart of the Sun and forms what is also known as a cazimi on January 21, 2026.

Mercury cazimi is a reset of the mind, a conversation with potentiality, and an expansion of awareness. It heightens intuition, speaks through dreams, and offers the mystical reminder that each mind can access something larger more, intelligent, and inexhaustibly creative. This is a day to keep a journal within reach at all times. If you ask for ideas, they will appear in abundance. Allow yourself to open to inspiration and explore new perspectives and your mind will expand.

Weekly Horoscope, January 18-24, 2026, Preview

Whether or not we are aware of it or even intending it, our will, motivations, and movements become channels for something larger, shaping society as much as they shape our personal experience. This week, our actions begin to become visionary, our desires liberating, and our intentions innovative. Your weekly horoscope helps you understand how to shape your efforts. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

It’s a week to look within and ahead. Listen to your inner compass when you reclaim yourself as authority. Expand your perception of what is possible for yourself. Feel into your sense of purpose by listening to what feels liberating within you and letting it transform you.

Taurus Rising

Let your truth be felt in your body. Empowerment comes from claiming self-authori—not only of yourself but of your vision, your purpose, and your future. Your direction is speaking to you, asking to be recognized as coming from the depths of your being and wanting to be honored through your actions.

Gemini Rising

There is a readiness to trust yourself, your inner knowing, your perception beyond the tangible, and your enduring strength. The week brings intimacy with your depths and expansion of your mind. It also brings a reclamation of your truth, your beliefs, and your meaning. It’s a week to liberate you from any influential perspectives that were never yours.

Cancer Rising

It’s a week to plant your quiet desires. You are initiating an era of relating and loving, feeling and transforming. As you surrender to your depths, you meet the parts of you waiting for your presence and awareness. What results is an inner reclamation.

Leo Rising

Move intentionally. Move with patience. It’s a week that invites you to tune into a more sustainable pace and anchor into those routines you find most supportive. This new chapter ignites a liberating new way of relating and loving in partnership, one that compels you to  transform old narrative into new desires, outdated patterns into freeing truths, and honest intimacy into the alchemy of self.

Virgo Rising

Your weekly horoscope asks you to listen to your desires. Then ask what would commitment to them look like? Clear or vague, confident or wobbly, these are your north star. It’s a week to renew your rhythms in ways that bring you liberation each and every day. What new routines would clear stagnation and ignite inspiration in you? Let the new in.

Libra Rising

A new foundation of self is being formed. As your sense of self oscillates its focus between inward and outward, your inspiration becomes a source of profound liberation when expressed. Whether you write, dance, paint, sing, or however you express yourself, let yourself have that. Honor whatever inner transitions are taking place.

Scorpio Rising

Observe your mind. Bring awareness and devotion to whatever desires, visions, and long-term goals have been swirling within it. This week begins a season of profound inner transformation. An empowering moment is taking place within your emotional structures, the formative material from youth that is ready to be renewed. Consider it a rebirth of the psyche.

Sagittarius Rising

Anchor your worthiness within your body. As you allow every cell and long-held belief to experience the truth of your innate value, you can let your mind activate and alchemize. It wants to reach into the cosmos and swim within your depths. Let it.

Capricorn Rising

Can you feel yourself stepping into a new cycle of self this week? It’s a week that brings transformation in your self-value and an honest look at your relationship with safety, whether tangible or intangible. Let your desires take up more space. Let your devotions be felt within your being. Let your actual identity recreate itself.

Aquarius Rising

It’s a week that invites you to meet more of yourself, letting who you are becoming both surprise and inspire you. As you navigate one cycle to the next, let yourself experience a shift from surrender to expression, from release to renew, from old structures of identity and perceptions of self to someone entirely new. Welcome to a new you.

Pisces Rising

What has been inspiring you recently? Your weekly horoscope makes it easier for you to commit to whatever imaginings have been wanting to take shape through you. Whatever wants to manifest through you is compelling you to find a space of surrender. Let silence be the source of creativity and solitude the way to return to your truth.