Today’s Moon:
- The Moon is in Taurus.
- There is no void Moon period today.
- The Moon is waxing and in its First Quarter phase.
- The First Quarter Moon occurred on the 6th.
Retrogrades:
- Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from December 6th, 2024, to February 23rd, 2025).
- Mars is Rx, Jupiter is Rx, and Uranus is Rx.
Ingresses:
- Mercury enters Capricorn today (Mercury is in Capricorn from January 8th to 27th).
**Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Daily Horoscopes/Astro Highlights for each Sign:
Aries
Mercury heads to the top of your solar chart today, dear Aries, and your communications have more impact than usual during this cycle that lasts until the 27th. Note that you’re more likely to be held accountable for your words during this period, which may make you a little guarded in your communications for the time being. This can also be a time to make detailed plans about long-term goals or career. Your intelligence may come into the limelight, or you may gain recognition for your ideas and methods during this cycle. This can also be a good time for enhancing your reputation, learning things that help you in your career, and discussing future plans. You’re heading towards significant changes, but today requires some reorientation. You may deal with doubt or fears about what you can handle. It’s likely to be a fleeting feeling, and although it may not seem productive, if you examine why you feel this way, you might discover something important about yourself.Taurus
You naturally take the lead or act independently today, dear Taurus. The qualities that come most naturally to you set the emotional tone of the day. With Mercury’s move into your spirit sector today, you’ll crave more interactivity until January 27th. This transit eases self-expression and smooths out communications. You may feel inspired by an idea or learn something that excites you and positively impacts future projects. Your aspirations and ideals are driving forces in your life. During this cycle, you might frequently consider ways to enjoy a change of pace and experiences beyond the ordinary and mundane. There is a greater hunger for learning, but not the rote kind–you want to expand your knowledge instead. This transit stirs your curiosity or mental restlessness if you’re not feeding your interests. Changes are in the air, and they do seem to be quite positive, but you can be experiencing some self-doubt today. It’s a useful process even though it can feel a little deflating initially. Aim to observe and process, and don’t go along with something if your heart isn’t in it.Gemini
Mercury heads into your solar eighth house today, dear Gemini, where it will transit until the 27th, where the Sun is already transiting. These influences spotlight your intimate life, attachments, mysteries, psychology, investigations, work on the self, and long-term strategies in the weeks ahead. You’re looking for deeper meanings or hidden agendas. Mercury brings some objectivity to complicated and deep-rooted emotions and circumstances in the weeks ahead. Discussions can intensify quickly, yet you can detach yourself from topics enough to keep things rational, logical, and fair. Nevertheless, there can be some confusion revolving around boundaries in relationships with the Sun and Chiron clashing today. As such, it’s not an ideal day for bold actions and sweeping decisions or statements. Keeping a low profile until you sort things out is for the best. You are aware of so many choices and possibilities that making a decision is a real challenge.Cancer
Mercury moves into your opposite sign for a stay until January 27th, dear Cancer. During this cycle, you’re more inclined to talk things through and make joint decisions. There can be fantastic opportunities to learn through your interactions with others. The idea is to look at areas of your life from a different perspective. This position could also mean that, at this stage, others have a lot to say or more input in your life. You have a more substantial need for intellectual stimulation through others, and you seek someone to share your ideas and decision-making processes more frequently. The Sun is also transiting this area of your solar chart, and with Mercury also here, your relationships are in high focus. You have a lot to learn about yourself through your interactions. Today, with the Sun’s square to Chiron, there is likely to be some confusion, perhaps mostly inside you. It should lead to something very positive but can temporarily throw you off. Take your time while confidence is low and doubts surface. Pay close attention to what appears now, as you may see the fears, resentments, or anger that need management.Leo
Mercury heads into your solar sixth house today, dear Leo, where it will stay until January 27th, and you can become entirely caught up in the details of your everyday life. You may dissect problems, solve tricky matters, and find solutions to practical problems during this cycle. Do watch for over-thinking and over-analyzing situations. With this tendency kept in check, you’ll do well if you put extra effort into organizing your space and seek information that helps you improve your health, habits, and daily routines. With the Sun already in this sector of your solar chart, you’re putting even more thought into your routines, chores, and health. However, with the Sun and Chiron in conflict today, you might feel temporarily demotivated and slightly under the weather for a short spell. You could be extra sensitive to your surroundings and to what people say. While you sense a need for changes and improvements, a solid plan can elude you. Despite all of this, things are certainly looking up.Virgo
Mercury enters your solar fifth house for a stay until January 27th, dear Virgo. In the weeks ahead, you can experience a stronger desire to make sense of your feelings. You more often analyze your love life, verbalize your affections, or pour more mental energy into games and creative pursuits. The Sun is already in this area of your solar chart, and Mercury now here further emphasizes joyful pursuits in your life. You are proud of your ideas and very good at expressing them to others smoothly at this time. This transit encourages your desire to share yourself, especially your observations and ideas. Your outlook or attitude is mainly positive, outgoing, and refreshing during this period. However, with the Sun’s square to Chiron today, you may be dealing with some ambiguities or battling cosmic energy that feels a little clogged. It’s temporary, and it could prompt a critical rethink or change. If you’re questioning a recent endeavor or plan, pace yourself today so that stress is minimal. Mixing business and pleasure may not be wise at the moment.Libra
You’re inclined to turn inward as you examine your motivations or to take a break from the action today, dear Libra. Mercury moves into an introspective area of your solar chart–your sector of home and family–where it will visit until January 27th. There can be more frequent discussions and thoughts about family, domestic life, your support system, roots, and the past. Activity increases in your home, which can include work or learning and study. This transit helps you bring more logic and rationale to matters, and it can also open up communications with loved ones. You crave more peace and predictability. Today, however, others may seem to doubt you, but consider that people tend to be so rooted in their issues that they can’t see others clearly temporarily. Avoid over-explaining yourself, as tempting as it may be — let your good character speak for itself.Scorpio
Mercury heads into your solar third house today, dear Scorpio, and until January 27th, this planet of communication keeps you mentally busy. You’ll be doing more connecting, calling, writing, and sharing. There can be more fluency when writing and speaking. You’re putting out feelers and learning many diverse but useful things. You could sometimes be a little fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errands or some information overload. On the other hand, you could enjoy the challenge of tackling various subjects. As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It’s a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Still, people tend to be stuck in their issues today with a Sun-Chiron square, and you may need to deal with some doubt before pressing forward. Just for now, it can be hard to make sense of the signals you’re receiving from others. Do what you can to muster up not only patience but trust that things will right themselves with just a little time. Aim to give yourself some time to recharge.Sagittarius
Mercury enters your solar second house today, dear Sagittarius, for a stay until January 27th. You’re in great shape for focusing on priorities in the weeks ahead, particularly with the Sun already in the same sector of your solar chart. You’re drawn more to concrete facts and certainties than dreams and visions during this cycle, which simplifies your life on some levels. Still, you could be missing critical spiritual considerations when making decisions and drawing conclusions. Generally speaking, this is a period for cultivating patience and building your resources. Analyzing or sorting out your finances can be in focus. It’s also a great period for gathering new money-making ideas. Today, however, some confusion over boundaries or differences in values can be frustrating. Solutions seem out of reach, or you’re too tired to think of them. It’s important not to miss opportunities due to insecurities or doubts, but brief periods when you’re downcast or skeptical can ultimately fill you with more courage. Take your time with big decisions until you’re feeling back to normal.Capricorn
Mercury moves into your sign today, dear Capricorn, and your mental energies quicken. During this cycle, you’re more likely to share your ideas and inspiration with others and less inclined to procrastinate or question your goals and dreams. You might feel freer to express yourself in the weeks ahead. Mercury will stay in your sign until January 27th, and others more often listen to your ideas and opinions. However, you’re also more inclined to make your choices and decisions independently. It’s the time of year when you can most efficiently use the power of words to attract what you want for yourself. You communicate your personal experiences more often. Today, the Sun’s square to Chiron suggests a bit of faltering, although things seem to straighten out towards the end of the day. Changes are in the works, and they’re very positive ones, but they tend to create some confusion at the outset. You might be especially sensitive about family or personal matters today, or you could find that something triggers your vulnerabilities and sets you a little off track. It’s temporary, however.Aquarius
Mercury heads into your solar twelfth house today, dear Aquarius, where it will transit until January 27th, bringing some introspective energy to your life. This transit stirs a need or desire to look at the world around you a little differently. You’re more contemplative and less decisive in the weeks ahead. You need time to digest and process recent events and ideas. Your intuition plays a more prominent role than usual in the decisions you do make. There can be some challenges focusing and concentrating on mundane matters during this cycle, primarily because you’re more interested in thinking about patterns, subtleties, and emotional issues. Today, however, with the Sun and Chiron forming a square, communications can quickly go awry as they are misunderstood, and it’s best to avoid scheduling important meetings or discussions now. It may be best to save it for a better day when lines aren’t crossing. Even so, pushing yourself above your insecurities can be worth the effort. Your courage to improve and put frustrating situations behind you is building.Pisces
Mercury heads into your solar eleventh house, where it will visit until January 27th, dear Pisces. This transit brings more attention to teams, friendships, networking, groups, community, and causes, particularly on mental levels. It’s an inventive period for ideas, although it’s not always the most practical period. You want to enjoy yourself, fulfill happiness goals, make contact, and reach out to like-minded people. Group activities and friendships can be more involving. You’re keeping abreast of current affairs and happenings with friends or in your community and networks. Indeed, conversations with friends and various networking activities increase and offer learning experiences. Your ideas during this cycle are unusual or unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by while entertaining new ideas. Not all of these ideas will necessarily last or lead to new projects, but it’s a time of dreaming up new possibilities and possible solutions to problems. You’re heading towards meaningful changes, but today requires some reorientation and a wait-and-see approach as you face doubt or fears.* Remember to read horoscopes for your Ascendant sign and Sun sign. If you don’t know your Ascendant sign (and you know your birth time), you can look it up here.
Astrology of Today – The Details:
If you’re astrologically inclined and interested in the details of the Astrology of today, here are some of the factors considered in the forecasts:
Planet Color Key: The longer the bar, the slower the aspecting planet, and the longer the duration of the planet’s transit.
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