The First Month Of The Year Has Arrived — Here's Your January Horoscope

As 2025 dawns, the moon holds court in disciplined Capricorn, igniting everyone's ambitions.

Hopefully, you tapped your ideas quickly into your Notes app while refilling the bubbly or captured them in a voice memo before bed. The moon shifts into idealistic Aquarius on New Year's Day (and the day after), giving you a chance to ruminate on your ideas, or vision-board them, before getting back to your routines and leaving them in the memories of the New Year's Eve ball drop.

The good news: Capricorn season extends until January 19, so you're not going to lose your momentum on your supersized visions easily.

While you're mapping out how to crush 2025, be mindful not to say the quiet part out loud.

Firecracker Mars has been retrograding through ferocious Leo since December 6, 2024, making everyone's roar a little (or a lot) more intense.

On January 6, the red planet goes into "silent simmer" mode as it retreats into Cancer for the rest of its backspin, until February 23.

Sensitivities are going to be heightened, and you may feel like you're wading through a minefield of mixed messages. Cut stressful people a wide berth and bring awareness to the emotional energy you bring into a room.

For the first time since December 2007, the destiny-driven lunar North Node sets sail on a fantastic voyage through Pisces. From January 11 until July 26, 2026, the veil will be thin, which could bring a global (and personal) spiritual awakening.

Across the zodiac wheel, the lunar South Node hunkers down in analytical Virgo, bringing common sense to the equation. As magical as the tidal wave of Pisces energy can be, we will need periodic reality checks during this 18-month transit. Virgo's systems and routines support the free-flowing enchantment of Pisces.

It's peak cozy season on January 13 as the first full moon of 2025 glows in warm-fuzzy Cancer.

Emotions that have been simmering below the surface may spill out under these stirring moonbeams. The full moon cuts a close connection to retrograde Mars, dialing up the intensity level of your exchanges.

Be gentle when delivering feedback to avoid bruised egos or ruffled feathers. Under Cancer's domestic influence, home life is equally top of mind.

The Sun beams into communal Aquarius, the sign of collective and humanitarian efforts, on January 19. This is peak season for activism, and there's no shortage of important causes to rally behind in 2025. How can you make your corner of the world a safer, more egalitarian place for all?

The Sun in "one love" Aquarius shines a light on innovative solutions. Crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, or any pooling of resources gets a thumbs-up now.

The Aquarius new moon on January 29 marks the beginning of the new lunar year: the Year of the Snake.

We say goodbye to the Wood Dragon and hand the magic stick to 2025's reigning creature, the seductive Wood Snake. This is the second of the two-year wood element cycle, which puts emphasis on growth and cultivating our natural gifts until February 17, 2026!

After a five-month retrograde that began on September 1, shock-jock Uranus wakes up on January 30. As the planetary innovator makes a U-Turn in money-minded Taurus, opportunities to improve your economic status could crop up everywhere.

Don't get stuck on projects that aren't clicking into place. Business opportunities could arise when you're out doing mundane tasks like picking up your coffee or chatting up another parent at a PTA meeting.

No matter what you do for a living, keep your mind open to boundary-pushing and edgy possibilities. Pursuing one of them could lead to quite the bounty in the days ahead. Let's go!