Read your Guide to the Week of January 17th: a usable and concise toolkit for the week’s upcoming astrology.
Themes 🌈 … All the feels, catharsis, brave new worlds, embracing your inner weirdo, lightbulb moment
What’s happening 🔮 …
- January 17th:
- Full Moon in Cancer at 3:48 pm PT
- January 18th:
- Uranus stations direct at 7:27 am PT
- The nodes enter Scorpio/Taurus at 10:50 am PT
- January 19th:
- The Sun enters Aquarius at 6:39 pm PT
- January 23rd:
- Mercury cazimi in Aquarius at 2:28 am PT
What you’ll need 🎒 … Snooze button, bat burrito videos, emo playlist, body pillow, mindmap, as many “How to Reparent Yourself” manuals as possible
How to make the most of this week 🎯 … The week begins in cuddle formation, as the Cancer Full Moon wrings our hearts out. Remember that tears purge cortisol. This release prepares us for the cattle prod of Uranus’ stationing direct. To make the most of it, give your rebellious streak a laser focus. Meanwhile, a new story unravels in the houses that contain Taurus and Scorpio: what opulence are you hungry for? What deadweight needs to be shed? Mercury’s audience with the Sun on January 23rd reveals the keys to our genius (and re-parenting). We create the laws of this new utopia.
Tarot card of the week 🃏 … The Star depicts a being kneeling on the edge of a pond, open to the blessings of the universe. Straddling the depths of their subconscious and sturdy land, their grief work is supported by the cycles of the earth. Self-possession and practical magic will be the keys to renewal. The card’s correspondence to Aquarius keeps our focus on the future, with the knowledge that we never step in the same river twice. Let this ripe Cancer Moon be a bath (and soul) balm.
Affirmation of the week 😌 … Just like people, my emotions can only be understood once I care enough to get to know them. Instead of brushing past difficult feelings like strangers on the street, I treat them like old friends that have come bearing just the gift I need now.
What to read and listen to 📚 … Your horoscopes for the nodes in Scorpio and Taurus (from January 18th), the Sun in Aquarius (from January 19th), and Mercury in Aquarius; your reading and guided meditation for the Full Moon in Cancer.
How this Full Moon in Cancer is impacting you 🌕 …
Aries & Aries Rising: This Full Moon opens you to the depth of your ancestral root system. Here, you dwell with the sorrows, triumphs, and traditions that brought you here, to this patch of land. How are you evolving these lineages? What sinkholes do you walk away from? You get to choose which stories to carry with you.
Taurus & Taurus Rising: If your mental processes are deluged by Full Moon feels, imagine these rains fertilizing your mind’s floodplains instead. A stream of consciousness letter to yourself could dislodge any lingering debris. As could a mindful walk around your neighborhood. Allow yourself to be enfolded by the prayer-maze of your daily circuit and rituals.
Gemini & Gemini Rising: The Full Moon may have you in cocoon mode, wielding a sleep mask against money woes or financial anxiety. It’s not easy to process questions of material security, but this moment also helps you rally your inner resources. Your time and energy are precious, so it’s okay if you take an extra minute to fill your cup first.
Cancer & Cancer Rising: Heart already stitched on sleeve, this Full Moon shows it off a little — at least to those who have earned the privilege to witness it. Allow yourself to be soft and vulnerable with a confidant. Meanwhile, if an inner calling is kicking up winds of uncertainty or impostor syndrome, such fears are only a sign that you’re doing it right.
Leo & Leo Rising: This Full Moon plunges you into fathoms of rest and solo time. Allow your most insidious fears to be tumbled and polished by your REM cycle. In the moonlight, you see their growth edges that much more clearly. Certain anxieties may never be completely vanquished, but they can be named, delineated — even befriended.
Virgo & Virgo Rising: This Full Moon may have you yearning for a collective, coven, or community that enfolds you in its tide pool. Perhaps there’s shadow-work that needs to be born by many hands right now. Trust the connections that flow into your tender spaces. Bearing your heart to a trusted friend can do wonders for quelling anxiety.
Libra & Libra Rising: Your life direction, like Luna, has its phases. This Full Moon may invite you to surrender, again, to this rhythmic propulsion. If your professional life is in a state of bloom, you might be yearning to duck backstage for a replenishing nap. After all this glowing and growing, remember that release is also a part of this sacred dance.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising: This Full Moon, a balm is found in wisdom traditions, spiritual pursuits, and other modes of self-expansion. You may be drawn to topics others turn away from, or moved by the myths that map spaces of death and regeneration. Surrender to the flow of this process: the book that falls off the shelf exactly when you need it.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising: This Full Moon brings a healing process to a brave culmination. While the loss or pain you’ve experienced over your lifetime might feel tender to touch, such deep feelings nurture your inner strength. The willow sees in the lashing wind its tango partner. Dance this grief around.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising: Even the most stoic of sea goats can be disarmed by the caregivers in their lives. This Full Moon, allow yourself to be mother-ducked by your beloveds, BFFs, and even strangers. Beneath your impeccable tailoring, there’s a nostalgic soul who longs to merge with the other. “Forget” one chink in your armor tonight.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising: Whatever you’ve been toiling on, this Full Moon brings a project to culmination. Your approach to the daily hustle can be as fluid and changeable as Luna itself, but allow yourself to rest on some laurels today. You might also consider the shadows you’ve been avoiding through the endless water-wheel of the grind.
Pisces & Pisces Rising: This Full Moon, the partition between pleasure and mortality is tissue thin. Like night-blooming flowers that fold back into themselves by morning, the most profound delights are sometimes tinged by loss. Allow yourself to explore darker topics through the safety of a game. Catharsis can be tapped with your fellow revelers.
