Aries Horoscope for January 2019

This is an important era in your own personal evolution, Aries, as well as for the society. The transformational forces that were active all last year are rising to an even higher plateau of onrushing energy, and what was only perhaps dimly perceived comes into greater focus with this new month and year. The issues that concern you enlarge or grow proportionally smaller so that new priorities come suddenly to the fore. Surprising events provide unexpected illumination and new ways of seeing. Your career choices become more intensely consequential while relationship issues also shift into an entirely other gear, bringing enlightened recognition of what you have at some level always known. Initial illusion and confusion yield themselves up to a more inclusive and more spiritual understanding of the hidden logic behind events. The structure of your life is cosmically morphing, and your choices are to willingly go with the program or, if unwilling, perceive yourself to be a victim rather than a master of your own fate.


The following was written by this month's guest columnist Adam Elenbaas of The Nightlight Astrology School


Happy New Year, Aries!
January begins just as your ruling planet, Mars, is entering your home sign and first house, where it will stay for the entire month after a long and perhaps frustrating stay in your twelfth house, in Pisces. With Uranus also turning direct in Aries in your first house on January 8th, you are going to be firing on all cylinders to start the month. It’s a good time to launch a new project, a new personal health regime, or to make an energetic comeback after a period of exhaustion, fatigue, or uncertainty.

The Sun and Saturn are also coming together in Capricorn in your tenth house of career as the month begins. Then, on January 5th a Solar Eclipse will fall in Capricorn in your tenth house, mightily emphasizing career issues. On January 10th the Sun in Capricorn will conjoin Pluto, also in your tenth house, and finally on January 21st Mars in Aries will square Saturn in Capricorn in your tenth. That’s a huge lineup of transits in your tenth house, all of which most generally points to a strong emphasis on your career, public reputation, authority figures, hard work, mastery, rank, or promotion currently. Given the simultaneous energy coming from Mars and Uranus in your home sign, a few possibilities come to mind. You might be implementing a new work or business idea right now and experiencing some pushback from people in authority or from those who wish to do things the in the same ways they’ve always been done. You could be reaching a critical point of achievement or completion, professionally. Or, you could be at a kind of personal and professional crossroads, perhaps being forced to make a big change or difficult decision about your professional future. Whatever might be happening, the solar eclipse is also a sign of things to come. These changes will be deep and long lasting and will likely play out over the next year and a half with multiple eclipses set to come through your career house.

January is also going to include several dynamic aspects from Mercury. On January 8th Mercury in Capricorn will square your ruling planet, Mars, in Aries, bringing an aura of mental and communicative intensity and analysis or scrutiny. Similarly, between January 12th and 13th, Mercury in Capricorn will conjunct Saturn in your tenth house of career, bringing seriousness and commitment, focus and maturity.

On January 13th, just as the Sun and Moon come into the square alignment of the First Quarter Moon, Jupiter in Sagittarius in your ninth house of religion, higher education, and long journeys will square Neptune in Pisces in your twelfth house. Venus in Sagittarius is perfecting a trine to Mars in Aries in your first house (January 17th).Your faith and beliefs are being stimulated by waves of inspiration and beauty, friendship, peace, and imagination. With Jupiter in your ninth house all year long, this is a time of great learning and even spiritual expansion. Alternatively, you may find that your mind and heart are being expanded by the suffering and plight of others, perhaps moving you to serve or help in some way.

On the late evening of January 20th, a Lunar Eclipse lands in Leo in your fifth house of creativity, pregnancy, children, and the arts, placing a very powerful emphasis on these topics and bringing the eclipses you’ve had over the past year and a half to a dramatic climax. Finding faith in yourself, and your own creative direction in the world, regardless of what others may think, is of the utmost importance right now.

Then, some January magic culminates on January 22nd when Venus in Sagittarius, just separated from a square to Neptune, conjoins Jupiter in your ninth house, bringing grace, growth, excitement, good fortune, and beauty to an already expansive dynamic unfolding in your ninth house of faith, religion, and long journeys. While you are clearly are being offered a very special opportunity this month to expand personally, it is likely that close relationships with friends, lovers, mentors, or fellow seekers will be a big part of how you are taking your next steps forward!