Leo Horoscope for January 2026

This is yet another month, Leo, with outer planet energies swirling around in your head and heart, implying further transformational and even revolutionary purpose. This would be affecting your relationships and your social scene as well as your creativity and long-term future goals, plus your workplace and habits of the past and present. You could find these to be shifting as the need arises for new ones more appropriate to your current beliefs and worldview. Changing times call for changing responses to them and this, for you, seems to involve different rituals and patterns more appropriate to the task at hand. Also. with regard to internal morals and fundamental beliefs, there could be some confusion, or idealism, and you may feel yourself reaching out for greater compassion as you reassess. The Cancer Full Moon of the first weekend of January finds you mediating between inner and outer, plus issues of career and worldview, as you see the contrasts and reach for a balance point effecting something of a merger between disparate elements. Your moral compass which emerges strictly from deep within you, corresponding to your own inner light, is not can be separated from consensus attitudes that try to force their way upon you or the effects of early conditioning. After the mid-month January 18th New Moon, which enunciates an extreme focus on key partnerships in your life, you are seeking the common ground in your attitude between the physical and the numinous or otherworldly, giving both antithetical sides their due, allowing neither to dominate, so that the mystical becomes more concrete and the concrete more suffused with the light of cosmic intention.

The following was written by our in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/

Previous New Moon in Sagittarius – December 19th, 2025
January begins under the influence of the Sagittarius New Moon that arrived just before the solstice, setting the tone for the lunation cycle now unfolding. For you, this cycle activates your fifth sector of creativity, pleasure, romance, and self-expression, and also affects your sixth – of day-to-day events and your workplace. Your habit patterns could feel renewed and your list re-examined. Conjunct Venus and square the Saturn–Neptune conjunction, it carries a reflective and dissolving quality, as if some element of your current creative chapter is drawing to a natural completion and turning a new page. With Neptune at the final degree of Pisces, the depths of your psyche could be coming into play and something longstanding around intimate spaces may be in its final integration. There is an invitation here to soften rigid expectations around creativity or love, allowing curiosity to guide you back toward forms of expression that feel authentic.

Mercury Enters Capricorn – January 1st
As the month opens, Mercury enters Capricorn and your sixth sector of workplace, health, and daily responsibility. Mental focus shifts toward practicality, efficiency, and long-term sustainability. You may feel more inclined to take your time seriously, streamline routines, and think strategically about how your energy is being used. This offers a stabilizing influence as the year begins.

Chiron Stations Direct in Aries – January 2nd
Chiron, the Wounded Healer, stations direct in Aries in your ninth sector of belief, meaning, and perspective, intensifying healing themes in the surrounding days. Old wounds may surface around confidence in your worldview, your voice, or your right to inhabit your truth. This moment offers an opportunity to reclaim sovereignty through authenticity in this present moment rather than striving or over-reaching. Healing unfolds as you trust your lived experience and allow your understanding of the world to grow and evolve.

Full Moon in Cancer – January 3rd
The first Full Moon of 2026 arrives in Cancer, illuminating your twelfth sector of unconscious process, depth work, and inner life, opposite the Capricorn Sun in your sixth sector of daily effort and service to others. With the Sun conjunct Venus and Mars, your vital energy, relationality, and willpower all get sprinkled into the mix. This Full Moon highlights the need to balance nourishment with productivity, reminding you that restoration and nervous system soothing may be key ingredients to your wellbeing and functionality. Emotional undercurrents influencing habits or health may become clearer. Meaning emerges through quiet listening rather than action, offering a grounding and centering start to the year.

Sun, Venus, and Mars Conjunction in Capricorn – January 2nd–12th
Throughout the first half of the month, the Sun, your ruling planetary body, travels in an extended conjunction with Venus and Mars in Capricorn, emphasizing your sixth sector of daily devotion. This alignment is rare in its lengthy duration and brings will, values, and desire into coherence, supporting disciplined effort and intentional creation. There is potential to build routines that genuinely support long-term vitality. This configuration favors steady progress over immediate results and highlights the importance of honoring limits so that effort remains sustainable.

Personal Planets Opposite Jupiter and T-Square to Chiron and Eris – January 7th–11th
As the Capricorn planets Sun, Venus, and Mars gather close together and oppose Jupiter in Cancer – additionally forming a T-square to Chiron and Eris in Aries – tension between subconscious patterns and external limitations may become more visible. Jupiter amplifies ideals and emotional depth, while the T-square highlights ancient wounds around autonomy and independence. You may feel pulled between self-reliance and the recognition that collaboration and support are necessary. This configuration calls for a redefinition of sovereignty that expands to include interdependence. Growth may come through acknowledging both personal strength and collaborative reciprocity.

Venus Enters Aquarius – January 17th
Venus Conjunct Pluto January 18th–21st
Venus enters Aquarius and your seventh sector of committed relationships, conjoining Pluto soon thereafter. Relational themes may show up around desires for authenticity, freedom, and innovation. Power dynamics, intimacy patterns, or shared values may intensify, bringing deeper reckonings into view. While tension can arise, this transit also supports profound transformation in how you understand connection and belonging. Relationships may ask to evolve beyond familiar roles.

Mars Trine Uranus – January 17th–21st
Mars in Capricorn forms a trine to Uranus in late Taurus, energizing innovation and decisive course correction. Sudden insights or disruptions may catalyze necessary change, particularly around work or relational patterns connected to your career. This transit supports breaking free from stagnation in practical ways and acting in alignment with your authentic needs.

New Moon in Capricorn – January 18th
The late Capricorn New Moon arrives as the first New Moon of 2026, carrying significant initiatory weight, landing in your sixth sector of day-to-day events and your workplace, and also strongly affecting your relationship sector. Conjunct Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and supported by a flighty trine from Uranus and a sextile from Saturn–Neptune, this New Moon concentrates intention around responsibility, legacy, and the expenditure of your life-force energy. Saturn–Neptune and Uranus, approaching their sign transitions, thus also affecting the sign following, are serving to reinforce the feeling that threshold moments are rarely linear. There is a cosmic invitation in all this that, in order to build with integrity, you release what no longer aligns with your future self.

Sun Enters Aquarius – January 19th
Sun Conjunct Pluto January 21st–25th
As the Sun, your ruler, enters Aquarius and your seventh sector, Aquarius season brings further emphasis on relationships and shared vision. The Sun’s conjunction with Pluto highlights themes of power, agency, and transformation. Awareness grows around patterns of control and authenticity, inviting deeper honesty in how you engage with others.

Mars Enters Aquarius – January 23rd
Mars Conjunct Pluto January 24th–30th
Mars follows into Aquarius, intensifying raw energy and fierceness in your relational landscape. Suppressed anger or unresolved power dynamics may erupt to the surface, beckoning precision in your presence. Ideally, when engaged with keen awareness, this can be a potent period for decisive action and meaningful transformation, highlighting the interplay between individual will and collective purpose.

Neptune Enters Aries – January 26th
Neptune enters Aries, beginning a new 165-year cycle and activating your ninth sector of belief and spiritual orientation. This shift blurs boundaries between personal conviction and collective vision, raising questions about sovereignty, leadership, and meaning. Inspiration and illusion coexist, calling for discernment. Closely tied to Saturn’s upcoming ingress into Aries, this marks the opening of a long process of integrating vision with responsibility, inviting you into an exploration of what faith and higher path look like for you in this rapidly evolving world.

Leo Horoscope for January 2026

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