Starcodes for the week of January 2-8, 2026
Blessings on your New year!
The planets encourage us to organize our home base and get right with one another this weekend then hit the ground running on Monday. The personal planets – Sun, Mercury, Mars, and Venus- all conjunct in Capricorn and push us to gear up for a busy, potentially productive 2026, but right now we may feel like we’re spinning our wheels.
Capricorn wants clear work, wants resolutions, personal autonomy, clear steps to climb from the bottom of the hill to the top. Capricorn’s challenge instigates depression if we don’t feel progress or arguments over control and leadership, but its gift can bring competence, organization, and ambition where we channel it wisely.
This lineup highlights any struggle around work, paychecks that don’t match inflation or the changing work landscape stripping away old jobs. It highlights tension between our personal authority to authentically be ourselves and societal control over the changing human landscape. We could feel out of control, Capricorn’s least favorite place.
Whatever leaves one feeling out of control can bring a need to control others, and could bring tension in relationships( unless we dance through it) around power dynamics, work, ambition, and interpersonal authority underlined by Mars, the Sun, and Venus conjunct in Capricorn. Venus and the Sun conjunct exactly on Tuesday, Venus and Mars perfect their conjunction on Wednesday, and the Sun and Mars run together on Thursday.
For most of us this line-up may just call us to look to the foundations, make sure we understand one another, and be sure our actions support healthy friendships and relationships. Our work relationships or groups and organizations could need extra love and gardening.
For some who feel out of control in their life or around the globe, those control issues can skyrocket at home or in politics. Questions of custody, permissions, encouragement can tighten, insecurity can kill the very thing they want to feel safe. Watch the politics of control tighten. Far more powerful than control, we will read as a sign of love someone who really encourages our goals, cares about our wellbeing, and believes in our right to grow on our own terms.
If we ourselves feel a sudden intense need to control others, let’s see what we can control and improve in our own lives; simple things can soothe our nerves while we work on those bigger challenges.
Over this weekend the Full Moon in Cancer, exact Saturday morning, spotlights the difference between our Lunar need to be home and nest cozily versus our Capricornian desire to accomplish. We need to find the balance, to feel safe, healthy, cozy, and secure in our home helps us have the foundation we need to go out there and do our work.
Sunday night, and early next week, a more outgoing Leo Moon opposes Pluto and urges us to leave the vacation mind behind to throw ourselves into a new chapter of our life. The real work kicks in on Tuesday as the Moon enters Virgo and starts to trine all those Capricorn planets. Tuesday and Wednesday it’s time to implement what we need for the work ahead, thought people can get cranky because they feel the illusion that it all has to be done at once. It doesn’t. Don’t take their crankiness personally. Through all the red and green lights, the rush and the doubts, just put one foot in front of the other.
Friday, January 2: We’re not quite ready to come out of vacation-mind under a waxing, moody, interior Cancer Moon, but it’s important to step outside of that cozy space and check in with future projects with, not dread, but curiosity. Just assess the situation, how people are and where they are now; re-establish connection, remember threads dropped before the holidays. Next week we get to work. Notice any tension between home base and work, look for the illusion that they are at odds with one another; investigate how they can support each other better.
Moon square Saturn 12:09 AM, Moon square Neptune 5:20 AM, Moon enters cancer 6:08 AM, Chiron stationary direct 7:37 AM, Moon opposed Mercury 7:57 AM.
Saturday, January 3: Tend to the nest, reorganize the post-holiday house for comfort and efficiency to support this next busy season as the full Moon in Cancer opposes Sun, Mars, and Venus. People can get crabby or impatient in their efforts to adjust or balance our inner world with our outer world; let’s see if we can make this world feel more nurturing to all involved.
Moon opposed Venus 1:39 AM, Moon opposed the Sun 3:20 AM, Moon opposed Mars 5:36 AM, Moon opposed Jupiter 3:54 PM.
Sunday, January 4: Check in on overnight dreams as they may give signals about this next chapter while the Moon trines Saturn and Neptune. Work through concerns midday as the Moon opposes Pluto, comfort lonely hearts. The Leo Moon then helps turn our view outward, helps us gird our loins and prepare to extend ourselves this week. Deal with a potentially depressing moment midday as the Moon opposes Pluto; stay in the present, deal, but do not read the future here. Note a sense of urgency or inevitability but don’t believe that story; take notes and implement ideas in the weeks ahead.
Moon trine Saturn 12:44 AM, Moon sextile Uranus 3:11 AM, Moon trine Neptune 5:58 AM, Moon enters Leo 6:43 AM, Moon opposed Pluto 11: 24 AM.
Monday, January 5: Hit the ground running, be visible, update websites, pitch proposals. Today we connect, tomorrow we activate. Check in on the important players in life and make sure to both see them clearly and be seen by them as the Leo Moon quincunx the Capricorn planets and trines Chiron. Generously give advice when asked for, but don’t offer it otherwise. Tonight- we can be our own best audience; let’s take a moment to notice and pat our own back for every major and minor victory, good deed, or kindness. Spirit sees, we can see it ourselves, and then it matters less if anyone else notices.
Moon trine Chiron 8:58 PM.
Tuesday, January 6: Figure out the nuts and bolts of the next adventure as the Moon enters industrious Virgo. But also let’s take a moment to let in the beauty of this world, really bring it to the heart- the taste of breakfast, Sunlight on the pine tree, the look in a friend’s eye, even if we have to push aside this world’s ugliness for a moment to find those sparks. The Sun conjuncts Venus in Virgo and offers the possibility of a new and beloved project or chapter if we can share responsibility and control. Reach out to lonely people and be careful around those who blame others for their personal experience. Express loving kindness by supporting a beloved’s autonomy.
Moon square Uranus 6:04 AM, Sun conjunct Venus 9:35 AM, Moon enters Virgo 9:56 AM.
Wednesday, January 7: Engage this busy day with purpose and don’t let it eat up this productivity with worry or minor concerns; stay on target. The nervy Virgo Moon trines all the Capricorn planets and asks us to put pen to paper, make lists, put action into our love and creativity. Venus conjuncts Mars exactly and can bring a decision point in aesthetic decisions and in loving relationships; it’s so important that we not find fault but consciously garden the love and beauty in our life. Keep eyes open for a meet-cute, a sparky connection over work or the plumbing isle, romance in unromantic places.
Moon trine Mercury 1:01 AM, Mercury square Ceres 2:01 AM, Moon trine Sun 6:03 PM, Moon trine Venus 6:43 PM, Moon trine Mars 6:46 PM, Venus conjunct Mars 7:42 PM, Moon sextile Jupiter 10:58 PM.
Thursday, January 8: Tactfully initiate recent pragmatic decisions as the Sun conjuncts Mars in Capricorn while the Virgo Moon opposes Saturn and Neptune and trines Uranus. Finess the work, make adjustments and fix the details but do not dilly dally. This is a decisive day with measured progress. Be assertive, not aggressive, but watch out for those that do not know the difference. Direct confrontations can get brutal, try working towards a common goal instead. Get things cleaned up, repaired, and healed in the environment and between people as the groundwork to launch the next step. Moods soften this evening, feel a hunting melancholic undertone in this busy time as the Moon enters Libra and trines Pluto. Take a deep breath and nurture relationships of all types.
Moon opposed Saturn 10:45 AM, Moon trine Uranus 12:49 PM, Moon opposed Neptune 4:22 PM, Moon enters Libra 5:05 PM, Moon trine Pluto 10:46 PM.
Provided by Heather Roan Robbins www.roanrobbins.com
