This week brings alignment. While it can be easy to get lost in the ever-pervasive culture of busyness, determination and expectation that disconnects us from ourselves and fixates on an idea of success that isn’t quite ours at the start of the year, the cosmos swoops in and ensures we maintain balance and purpose in our minds. The upcoming transits invite this reminder and urge everyone to connect inwardly and prioritize our inner knowings, needs and truths so that they can influence our outward actions. Your weekly horoscope for January 11-17, 2026 offers you more insight into how the cosmos plays out in daily life.
Your weekly horoscope, January 11-17, 2026, example
January 11 | Moon enters Scorpio
January 13 | Moon enters Sagittarius
January 14 | Mercury is opposite Jupiter
January 16 | Moon enters Capricorn
January 17 | Venus enters Aquarius
Mercury opposite Jupiter
Midweek brings an opposition between Mercury in Capricorn and Jupiter retrograde in Cancer on January 14, 2026. This aspect expands our awareness, perspectives, intentions and stories.
Mercury in Capricorn, a transit that began on January 1, brings quiet ambition to our minds. It asks us to think practically and long-term from a space of patient determination as we consider what we want to do, build and become in life.
Jupiter, which is across the cosmos in the opposite sign of Cancer, invites connection with our emotional selves, our felt experience of safety and belonging, our innate needs, and how we can become our own source and solution in response to those needs.
Imagine the integration of opposites, a space to hold both sides of the coin, or to consider how these opposing sides could become partners. Here, ambition is rooted in emotional truth, future thinking is shaped by feeling rather than external expectations, and strategy is informed by instinct.
It is a time when we successfully redefine our relationship, both internally and externally. Think of it as a rethinking of the way we move, look forward and lean inward. It is as if intuition suddenly demands a valid place in practical planning, responsibility also includes self-compassion, and discipline does not leave out self-care.
Venus enters Aquarius
A few days later, on January 17, 2026, Venus leaves the grounded earth sign of Capricorn and enters the air sign of Aquarius, where she moves freely, seeks freedom, explores independence and expands her thinking.
The planet of beauty, romance and art will remain in Aquarius until February 10, 2026. Until then, she creates a felt shift in the way we connect, inhabit, create, love, and receive our innate worth. In Aquarius, Venus races through the mind and our patterns of thinking and communicating, more than through the realm of body and emotion. She also goes beyond the traditional perception of what relationships should look like or what beauty is accepted as the norm.
This transition is not about the structures that already exist, it is about a sense of personal liberation regarding the partnerships that inspire us, the self-love that sets us free, and the creativity that shapes who we become. These apply not only to ourselves, but also to our communities and to life itself.
As Venus shifts into the Uranus-ruled sign of Aquarius, it prepares us for the arrival of the Sun, Mercury and Mars who also enter this sign later this month. Allow yourself to experience inspiration, observe what liberation feels like, and let go of traditional perceptions that don’t serve you. This is your cosmic permission slip to do things your own way – a permission slip that has always been there, but is finally starting to speak louder.
Your weekly horoscope, January 11-17, 2026
Through your weekly horoscope you are invited to approach your future in a way that nourishes your current experience rather than depletes it. You are consistently reminded that building your life can be beautiful and joyful, that responsibility can be a kind of sacred commitment, and that imagination and self-love are prerequisites to the experience and continued creation of your life. Read for your rising sign.
Aries rising
The value to you becomes less and less, based on external standards. As such, this week encourages your thoughts, emotions and movements to reflect this truth. It is a supportive time to connect with your deepest needs. Provide space for renewed dreams, desires and a sense of connection.
Taurus rising
There is an expansion of the mind and a renewal of the way you perceive your life, purpose, future, identity and the world. Let go of your grip on your existing stories so that life can show you more. Also allow space to look ahead as you rest in your truth.
Gemini rising
Look inside. Be open to discovering more about yourself, your pain and strengths, your inner patterns and relationship with safety. Because transformation, empowerment, meaning and inner freedom are waiting for you. Hold onto the parts of yourself that don’t feel safe to pursue your desires, for this is the gateway forward.
Cancer is rising
Let go of the boundaries of your identity this week. Give your self-perceptions more space. There is more of your depth waiting to be revealed. More of your true desires are ready to appear. More of your meaning, purpose, inspirations and wisdom are waiting to be discovered.
Leo rising
Connect with the inner, the upward, the spiritual and the sacred. Guidance is waiting there and more of it wants to flow through your daily existence. This week activates the willingness for liberating love and a broader vision as you look forward and discover and respect your inner strength.
Virgo rising
Your voice, your essence and your truth want to be unleashed and viewed as life-giving vitality. However, not everything has to be done at once. This week invites you to honor yourself, your body and smaller movements that contribute to your greater becoming.
Libra rises
This week invites a welcome merging of inner and outer, a space in which imagined outcomes and actions balance truth, emotional fulfillment, and embodied safety. It brings inspiration, creativity and a willingness to share your voice and ground your routine, each based on self-love.
Scorpio rising
Where have your creative inspirations led you? What has your mind revealed? What does your intuition share? When you experience the freedom of your heart, what does that look like? As you turn your awareness inward, know that every layer of yourself is sharing truth and guidance this week.
Sagittarius rising
Dignity, strength and emotional awareness are your themes. This week draws you more into your body, where more intuition and guidance await discovery. Let your curiosity and desires speak through what inspires you and gives you a sense of intention. Your daily routines require more intention and freedom.
Capricorn Rising
There is a shift and expansion of your identity, imagination and stories you tell yourself about who you are and where you are going. Observe what it means to be embodied in your dignity. Here you become magnetic and receptive to the immense goodness that wants to come your way.
Aquarius rising
Intuition speaks to you this week. Listen to your body and your emotions as you make space for a greater embodiment of your beauty, your creativity and your self-care. Let your identity evolve, informed by a connection with life itself.
Pisces rising
This week is a portal of the future that enters the now with you as the vessel, your mind as the inspiration, your intuition as the vision. When you close your eyes, what do you want? As you continue throughout the day, how can you begin to take the form of your most essential being?
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