Hello friends, how is 2025 treating you so far? Mars is the planet of desire, will, and energetic release. Mars is currently retrograde in the sign of Cancer, so a lot of inner work is being done on what we want, what makes us feel safe, and what makes us create. When Mars is in Cancer, we are likely to operate from our emotions. Something is brewing inside all of us from all the dramatic changes that happened last year and let me tell you: we are all going to get to know our Mars this year. There’s a lot of energy that wants to be spent, and we start the year thinking about what we want to do with that energy. We will be working with movement, boldness, and initiation.
Did you think this was a game?
Mars is how we act out, and where our drive originates and right now it’s in the sign of emotions, creation, the place of making a safe container, and the sign of nurturing. Mars will be joining the Moon in her domicile sign of Cancer as she blooms. Here are the timestamps, but below that is the vibe for the week.
January 13th
Full Moon in Cancer @ 23 degrees (conjunct Mars @ 27 degrees)
2:26 pm PST/ 5:26 pm EST
Capricorn Sun trine Taurus Uranus RX @ 23 degrees
12:01 am PST/ 3:01 am EST
January 14th
Pisces Venus square Gemini Jupiter @ 11 degrees
11:31 am PST/ 2:31 pm EST
Jan. 15th
Capricorn Sun oppose Cancer Mars RX @ 26 degrees
6:24 pm PST/ 9:24 pm EST
January 18th
Capricorn Sun sextile Pisces North Node, trine Virgo South Node @ 29 degrees
3:11 pm PST/ 6:11 pm EST
Pisces Venus conjunct Saturn @ 16 degrees, sextile Capricorn Mercury @ 15 degrees
5:25 pm PST/ 8:25 pm EST
The full Moon on Monday January 13th will take us to this point of culmination with our desire, and with Mars conjunct, this is some BIG full Moon energy. There may be a gasp, a release, a crescendo, and the energy is fully emotional for all of us. There is something that’s wrapping up when it comes to our family/ home/ mother figure/ creativity, and it has been pushed as far as it’s going to go. This is it. We will feel it. We will see it reflected in us. Repressed emotions are going to find a way out. Remember to breathe, touch water if you can. We are doing this collectively.
Full Moons are oppositions between body and soul that manifest in our relationships. This full Moon takes us into our mother/father dyad. Our public and private selves. There is definitely some contention in the gender binary here, but remember everyone feels, acts, initiates, hurts, and wants. There’s a lot to sort out here, especially if you try to ignore or push away your feelings. Or if you don’t know how to safely experience your feelings.
This same day-- Capricorn Sun that is spotlighting Moon is also making a trine to Taurus Uranus. There’s some impulse to freedom mixed in, there’s some divine surprise, and a flash of insight in the game. This full Moon was created to make you really know deeply, something about what you want and how that needs to change. You are meant to feel it. You are meant to contend with your creation so far; this life that you have made, and now, you maybe wonder why you wanted what you wanted.
We all have expectations and they are all met with realities.
This vibe asks us to know your own emotional score, when it comes to your family, home, work, and public life. Who are you, and who do you want to be, and how is that working for you?
As we roll into Tuesday January 14th, we have Pisces Venus squaring Gemini Jupiter for some frustration with our connections, values, beliefs, and ability to expand. Rumors and truth may come up against our deepest connections. Our fundamentals might be tested too, this square also features Saturn nearby to Venus, and Saturn won’t let us just have fun and be merry. Saturn wants us to work for it, develop for it, and with that energy in dreamy, loving, compassionate Pisces, there’s a lesson here to learn about our values and beliefs. Gemini Jupiter is the ruler of this Venus, so there is an idea of working with truth, lies, facts and responsibilities in this energy. A lot of this will likely fall out of that full Moon energy.
Wednesday January 15th we have an opposition between Cancer Mars and Capricorn Sun. This has been mounting through the full Moon, so it’s an energy we have been working with through the last few days but here it comes to its showdown. Sun has some support from Uranus in Taurus with a trine, but there is a tension between us. We are facing off between what we want and who we are and there’s going to be a lot of emotions involved. Those of us who struggle to understand or talk about our emotions might want to consider how we can make room at the table for our feelings and how we might acknowledge the elephant in the room. There will be something to contend with here with another person.
Again this gender binary can float, but the energies are a mashup between masculine and feminine archetypes. Perhaps we are all having a gender war with ourselves. How will we lead, strategize, and get work done, if we don’t even want the goal? What if we have been building a castle on a fault line? What are we working towards if it doesn’t make us feel safe, or able to contend? Expect a freedom-loving, change vibe to enter in here, to cream up this strong coffee.
We work with this energy all week. It is the end of Capricorn season and we have some deep Pisces energy going in the background. This is emotional. It’s heavy. And we are all doing it together.
On Saturday 18th, we will have a banger day. I equate this day as a sick beat dropping. We are going to have to dance even if we don't feel like it. The Sun at 29 degrees of Capricorn is in the most urgent point, and sextiling North Node in Pisces and trining South Node in Virgo, we know there’s some karmic smackdown coming. The karmic nodes are in cohesion with this energy of Capricorn, and pointing us to our lessons. Saturn is the ruler of Capricorn Sun and is also being joined by Venus in Pisces on this very same day.
This day is fated.
We have responsibilities and that should become a little clearer today because This Venus/ Saturn conjunction makes a sextile to Mercury. Pisces Saturn gives us spiritual lessons and mastery over our values, connections, and what we love. We need to learn the lesson. Perhaps we are able to really take responsibility for what we value, and love. Or perhaps we have to end something that is really not helping us move forward. Pisces is the sign of victims and perpetrators, addictions, altered states, dreams, and spirituality. We are going to know more today about what we are able or unable to receive. We will know what if what we’ve built is sturdy and in it for the long haul. We will know if we have bottomed out with something or someone. Mercury joining the party to make sure we get the message.
And of course this could go either way, commitment and absolute devotion or a hollowing out. What stays and what goes is unclear, but there is a karmic imperative behind it.
An interesting note to exit Capricorn Season. A big punctuation. And all coming out of the gates with a big emotional reckoning in the full Moon in the sign of the Mother.
She has something to say to us.
Full Moon blessings for a dynamic week!
xo Astro-Anarchist
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