ASTROLOGY

Intro

When 4 or more planets join in the same sign, at just few degrees from each other, it’s a stellium. From January 10 to 16, and in day 18, it will happen in Capricorn. Days 17, 19 and 20 are intervals, and from January 21 until February 04, another stellium will be seen in Aquarius. 

The two signs will reach an extreme intensity, and the energies will be expressed by starting from the most individual matters: physical vitality (Sun) and strength (Mars), emotions (Moon) and feelings (Venus), thoughts (Mercury), desires (Mars) and sexual energy (Pluto).

Capricorn, Earth sign

In individual affairs, the body is experienced and consolidates the state, beyond what it has been used to. In the emotional area, time passing by makes it hard to find something new… About the type of thinking and reasoning, the sign turns to be a bit cautious, trying to keep what has been reached and earn based on previous processes. About feelings, it unfolds quite personal ways at the time of seducing and prefers one-to-one, regulating all of the keys in sexual relations, paying a lot of attention to physical pleasure, and even though it may be too soon to say it, creating lasting ties over time. Capricorn is quite present and active in daily stuff too, like a warrior willing to face battles in everyday situations where something could be earned, where there be a field to win, a benefit to get, a chance to take and go for more. With the sign, all kinds of births have remained in the past, and the energy is unfolded to be implemented in concrete terms, rather than preparing the field for later. And it’s one of the best signs of the Zodiac in terms of organization, capitalization, and solid strength to put the efforts and build constructive works.

Aquarius, Air sign

By starting communication with other people, it finds echoes and opens the path to novelties, unusual environments and those people who had walked on other roads. When it doesn’t find resonance, Aquarius searches for a climate making it easier to transmit desire and interests, sometimes even by speaking loud, so everybody stays in tune. On the contrary, it may keep emotional distance. Because of the same reasons, it feels comfortable inside of communities and social groups, always opening spaces for common projects or expanding based on common interests. But it doesn’t tolerate closed circles, not with other people nor within. In the zodiacal wheel, Capricorn’s maturity provides the key note to tolerate differences. But when that note is absent, Aquarius may turn chaotic and live in a wide and unstable world, among fights and discrepances making it very hard to live together. Anyway, in diversity is where it finds the main source of energy, as well as intelectual and emotional motivation, the reasons why it lives all kind of sentimental relationships, sometimes simultaneously, mostly informal ones, inside of a communicative and trustful climate, and without caring about incompatibility issues.

Main astral tendencies

The great planetary gathering begins in January 10. First, Mercury will join the Sun, Mars and Venus. And Pluto and the Moon will do the same later. When these type of conjunctions are observed in the sky, the experiencies, situations and events derive from the whole set of planets.

Jan 10 to 17. An impulse to conceive and gestate, in a broad sense, will be quite present. But there’ll be other type of energies, more concrete ones, of preset shapes, and of stronger presence. Different matters will be going through different times, or different phases. Some developments from the past will be heavier than the chances for expansion and growth.

Jan 14 to 16. Couples and partners will seem magnets catching the interest and the desire to possess them. They might have played a role related to the accumulation and consolidation of earnings and resources, but these ones could be suddenly dispersed, without a chance to retain them or keep the ownership.

Jan 16 to 30. Controlling the vital energy, especially of the physical body, will be the most important matter. The destiny where it be taken to will have total effects on oneself and the others. The peak of the tendency in day 23 could bring massive disperssions with eventual and definitive losses. Days 25 and 26 will be better for battling, like a counterweight for the tendency.  

Jan 17 to 25. Feelings and affinities will be contagious, although something or someone could be pulling the strings about it… Sensual communication and free love will find their way out through the nearest environments, especially during day 20 of the month.

Jan 18 to 26. Words consciously spoken, processed over time, and organised communications could progressively change the tone of expression. Especially in day 21, seductive words will reach a high volume. There’ll be a chance to become aware of or express in words something related to underlying processes that have just been started, which also have multiple paths at disposal for reaching very long-term goals, especially involving the finances.

Jan 18 to Feb 07. When what was desired has now been conquered, ambition could push forwards to go for much, much more... even leaving behind formal ways. In conflictive situations, plenty warrior and sexual energy will allow facing any battle, especially in daily matters and sentimental relationships. With more intensity in day 23, some tendencies to display active domain won’t mind formalisms.

Karma on the table

The intensities in Capricorn and Aquarius have their own karma, too. One of them refers to the loss of shapes, which sometimes leads to an undifferentiated chaos. Inside of that chaos, excesses and overflows of all kind show up. And sometimes, inside of that same chaos, reactive ways emerge, too, as extreme defenses trying to keep the experience organized. The mentioned lost is related to Saturn, and it’s an astral tendency quite active since April 2025. The planet rules Capricorn and indicates not just a karma of shapes about to be lost but also a karma extending new roots. The shapes about to be lost are those previously developed, for example structures, organizations, legal doctrines, governments and, in a more familiar meaning, the osseous system as it is the structure and inner support that has reached full development.

Saturn’s karma meets other karma, a more ancient and profound one, linked to the mixing and fusion of communities and social groups, followed by the dissolution of any personal conquest implying to exclude from or set a difference in the totality. Neptune rules Pisces and indicates this karma of total fusions, both internal and external. They can be appreciated when everything and everyone becomes homogeneous by sharing a deep emotional empathy, or when big sources of energy go through global or massive movements. The means for fusion extend over all areas, from the most concrete and material ones to the subtlest or more invisible ones. In the process, this type of karma usually shows contradictions and creates confusion, with tangles very hard to be undone.

Closer back in time, Uranus is another quite present planet if considering the other karmas. The planet rules Aquarius, the sign of the second stellium in 2026, and it’s finishing a cycle that began in the 60’s of the last century.  Since May 2024, it began to remove fixations, change the resources, the usages and even the ownership on them, contributing to a great extent to fusioning processes and the change of shapes and ways. The planet still contributes to all of it, introducing novelties for organic productions and new technologies for material developments. The end of Uranus’ cycle is a challenge for possessiveness, and it won’t be easy to remain attached to models in those areas.

Traditionally, Saturn is considered as the planet of karma, and Capricorn as the sign of beginnings and endings in that sense. The stellium in the sign indicates the ending of massive affairs, when it will be established what has been fused and what has not joined the process of global massification. As it happens during endings, something will be no more although something will be started, too. The new beginning will be experienced since the stellium in Aquarius during 2026, and in the next years all that has resisted fusions will be dissolved, according to the new karmic roots created during the process. Saturn and Neptune in Pisces indicate the karma of these times.

The Main astral tendencies play a role during the karmic ending and beginning. Among them, the new start is indicated by Mercury too, the smallest and fastest planet in the solar system. Perceptive inside and outside, it rules the vision and medicine. Light and agile, it also rules trips or moves to nearby places. Fast and rational, it’s associated to words, and any expression or mean for communication, math calculations and commerce. The karma of Mercury during the stellium will increase the tone of voice, such as Aquarius likes to, although it wouldn’t prefer so since the new beginning is the karma of the voice of consciousness, of the introspective vision, of good health when it happens inside of an organic order that works according to an internal logic. Inside of the karma of no-shapes, mixes and fusions, the voice of consciousness could disseminate a vision, an understanding, and also sell and buy hidden resources, among verbal discussions and agitated unions, which would be something out of series for a voice that, during 2026, is more meditative and internal rather than a speaker. The action of Mercury could also alter the bodies, if during the new beginning the systems and logics don’t flow towards the changes of these times.

Moons of the two stelliums

Being in tune with the Moon in each sign is a way to evoke the potentiality of the seed, bringing it to the present time for shaping and making it last as much as we want to. The Moon also indicates the karmic memory, so the evokation doesn’t just bring the future to be developed to the current moments but also give us the chance to change the moment at which the development will happen, as well as to change the shapes it will acquire.

The karma of these times makes it easier for psychic perception and communication, for example by invoking, evoking, dissolving what is rigid and changing the shapes of the energy. These activities are some of the ways fusions take place. But the karma of these times doesn’t fixate shapes: they will be transformed, and are just temporary.

Related articles

• Astrology 2025-26: the astral karma. Between January 2025 and July 2026, the karma of the Moon ingresses into birth charts through Virgo and Pisces. The karma of the charts is ruled by Mercury and Neptune. The article on Karmic Astrology describes both signs, the roles of rulers, new born babies’ karma, and how an atheistic, dynamic and esoteric approach on the subject is defined. 

• Saturn in Pisces: dissolving boundaries. An article by Lynn Bell (2022) in The Evolving Astrologer magazine, about the transit of Saturn in Pisces: does it dissolve boundaries, unleashing fears and chaos?

• Bringing shape to water: Saturn in Pisces 2023-2026. An article by Alexandra Karacostas (2023) in The Mountain Astrologer magazine, with an alternative point of view about Saturn’s transit in Pisces: does it provide a shape to new perceptions?

• Astrology 2025-38: Neptune in Aries. The planet ingressed into the sign in March 2025, and it makes the definitive entrance by the end of January 2026. The transit sets an end for one of the planet’s cycles started in the 40’s of the last century, with dissolving processes taking the lead after the stelliums, since the karmic new beginning in Capricorn and until 2038.

• Astrology 2025-28: Saturn in Aries. The planet ingressed into the sign in May 2025, and it makes the definitive entrance by the middle of February 2026. The transit in the Fire sign indicates the beginning of its own cycle, after the ending suggested by the stellium in Capricorn, where it rules.

• Astrology 2025-32: Uranus in Gemini. The planet ingressed into the sign of the twins in May 2025, and makes the definitive entrance in May 2026. The transit in the Air sign indicates the beginning of one of its cycles, and is synchronized with other three planetary cycles just starting too (Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto).

Moon images by © Fred Espenak in www.astropixels.com.

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