19 Jan 2026: 6:53am (exact, local time)
The New Moon in Capricorn gives us a rare 6 planet out of sign stellium with Mercury-Mars in tight conjunction to the Sun & Moon from Capricorn, with Venus and Pluto joining the stellium from Aquarius.

"Start as you mean to go on" - is a good motto for this New Moon. Capricorn is cardinal earth, it wants facts and step by step action for strong foundations. Capricorn always brings themes of integrity and longevity to the fore. Aquarius is fixed air. Pluto wants our honest evolution, aiming deeply and intensely to do so. Venus wants our values and connectivity, she moves through grace and aesthetic. Both teach us about power dynamics. Air activates the intellect and the mind. As we step forward into 2026, things will continue to move slowly until midyear and so we may feel stuck in a doorway or threshold, anxious and wondering what we are doing with our lives and our energy. Trust the process. This pause can be very useful if we don't dissipate our attention thru frustration.
Use this New Moon as a time to seed a message for yourself and the collective. We can remember that instead of acting rashly from a place of anxiety or stuckness, we can choose to use this time to center ourselves and ground (Capricorn) into our collective (Aquarian) ideals (Venus), not by ignoring our shadows, but by acknowledging them (Pluto) and have the courage and willpower (Mars) to walk our talk (Mercury) from where we actually are at now in this moment. Stelliums really highlight focused embodiment of energy. So we keep our feet grounded in the truth of where we actually are, and from here turn and face our shadow and the discomfort that is just a part of growing. "Responsibility is simply the ability to respond", and we can do so taking our shadow by the hand and walking into the unknown from this more integrated and evolved place.
When there is a New Moon, the Sun and Moon are in conjunction and so both are bringing forth the same energy through their different lenses. The Sun is our yang - our conscious day time awareness that moves linearly and outwardly. The Moon is our yin - our intuitive, reflective night time awareness that moves circularly and inwardly. Together they form the energy of the spiral, a pattern on which much of the known universe - from our DNA to our galaxy, sunflowers to seashells - is based.
What do you fear more - Change or things staying the same?  "If we keep doing what we've been doing, we'll keep getting what we've got." Venus conjunct Pluto in Aquarius advises us to lean into one another, without turning away from or avoiding our shadows and the messiness of our actual growing and humanity. In Aquarius, they promise that by reaching into creativity together, we are able to envision something totally different from the old forms and what we have been habituated to seek. So let us embrace the discomfort of this time, knowing that only by doing so can we evolve into the change we want to be in the world.
Saturn and Neptune are sextiling this New Moon from Pisces and so there is tangible magic in the air, but we will have to actually work for it. Pisces is mutable water and these days between now and Feb 15 we can seed prayers and intentions more easily into the ether. When Saturn and Neptune form the exact conjunct at 0 Aries on the 15th of Feb, it marks a very tangible shift into cardinal fire energy, where the vibe of intensity and force, initiation and transformation will tend to dominate. Aries is known for being rash, blustery and impervious. Think of a seed deep in the dark earth at the point of germination - it requires those qualities to grasp the spark of life and push through heavy soil into light where it can unfurl its still vulnerable new possibility. It means that the seeds we sow now while the gods of form (Saturn) and formlessness (Neptune) are still drenched in compassionate driven, empathetic Pisces energy are really key to what we will be harvesting in the future.

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