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A Cancer Full Moon, with relationships and more potently energized by Venus and Mars, highlights the first half of January. We also have Chiron turning direct, the build-up toward an incredibly rare Grand Stellium with all five personal planets, and more!

This forecast covers this half-month’s most important astrological events. Also check out my award-winning This Week in Astrology audio podcast and YouTube video forecasts!

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In This Forecast

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• Cancer Full Moon (1/3)
• Chiron Direct (1/2)
• Incredibly Rare All-Personal-Planets Grand Stellium Coalescing
• Aspects With Two Personal Planets
• 7 Mini Grand Trines!
• 4 T-Squares
• Fast Mover Aspects
  • Mars
  • Mercury
  • Juno
  • Sun
  • Vesta
  • Venus
• Coming in my January 16-31 Forecast
• Chronological Event Listing

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As of January 1 …

• The Moon is waxing.

• Chiron is retrograde thru 1/2.
• Uranus is retrograde thru 2/3.
• Jupiter is retrograde thru 3/10.

• The Uranus-Neptune-Pluto Mini Grand Trine (w/ Saturn for now) continues thru 9/6/2029.

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Cancer Full Moon

A Full Moon illuminates the sky on 1/3 at 5:03 am EST (13°1′ Cancer).

Any Cancer Full Moon is great for release or adjustment in several areas. These include home, family, security, emotions, and shadow work.

Home could relate to where you live now or where you were raised.

Family could involve the people who raised you (blood kin or not), legal family bonds you’ve created as an adult, or people so close that you consider them family.

Security relates to core needs like safety, food, and shelter.

Emotions relate to your feelings, from the highest to the lowest. Finally, shadow work involves healing the challenging emotions that remain from old traumas.

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Aspects

This lunation’s most important aspects are the Moon’s tight oppositions to Venus and Mars. We’ll also delve into a harmonious Mystic Rectangle and a tight Uranus semi-sextile!

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Venus and Mars

This Full Moon’s headline aspects involve Venus and Mars, which tightly bracket the Sun and oppose the Moon.

Relationships

Venus and Mars are the most obviously feminine and masculine planets, and are naturally associated with relationship. Not only that, their aspects to the Moon – oppositions – are the aspect of relationship! This is clearly an important time to be focusing on the important people in your life.

Supportive, Toxic, or “Mixed Bag”?

Relationships can be messy. If you’re feeling confused or overwhelmed, try viewing your connections through three simple lenses.

First, look at your Supportive Relationships. These are your bedrock. How can you honor them and bring them even closer?

Next, acknowledge the Toxic Relationships. If a connection is overwhelmingly negative, give yourself permission to release it or minimize your exposure.

Finally, there are “Mixed Bag” Relationships. These are the tricky ones that can swing between amazing and exhausting!

Over the course of 12,000+ client sessions, I’ve learned that harmonizing these tricky relationships is possible. But the more of the following four situations that exist, the greater your chances of success:

1. Both people truly want to fix the relationship.
2. When necessary, you use a structured method to communicate. (I love Nonviolent Communication.)
3. Both people understand that they’re responsible for their own emotions.
4. You’re both doing your all-important inner healing work apart from each other. This could be with a facilitator, or with DIY tools like my free Healing Invocation.

Repairing these “mixed bag” relationships can take a lot of time and effort. Make sure there’s a realistic chance for a positive outcome before you dive in!

With Venus and Mars (as well as the Sun) in Capricorn, practically oriented or business relationships get special support. This pragmatic sign can also help you deal with relationships more wisely, objectively, and efficiently.

Mars in Capricorn can help you persevere with a relationship process all the way to its conclusion.

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Other Venus-Mars Potentials

You can marry attraction (Venus) with drive and assertiveness (Mars). This can generate magnetism, desire, and creative force!

At its best, this conjunction promotes:

• Strong charisma and sexual intensity.
• The ability to act on your desires.
• Steady, consistent creative output.

Whatever excites you highlights your path. You can more easily set clear energetic and practical boundaries in relationships. And you can embody desire consciously. This lets you act on what you love to create beauty, connection, and momentum!

Your desire can be more purposeful and disciplined, reaping enduring results. In Capricorn, Venus (attraction and values) and Mars (drive and will) operate through restraint, long-range strategy, accountability, and maturity.

Desire has a more serious tone. When you want something or someone, you’re willing to work for it. Love is proven through showing up, not just sentimentality. Pleasure increases with trust and stability.

Mars is exalted in Capricorn – the Red Planet’s second-strongest sign placement – which can help you with:

• Enhanced self-control and stamina.
• The ability to delay gratification to achieve a goal.
• Grounded, purposeful sexuality that deepens with respect and commitment.
• Efficient, steady drive.

In this conjunction, desire (Venus) and action (Mars) can move in lockstep. Attraction is activated by competence and reliability. It’s easier to pursue what you value and finish what you start.

In short, a Venus–Mars conjunction in Capricorn is desire with a spine. It’s best used to build love, art, and power that endure!

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Mystic Rectangle

The Moon, Sun, Venus, and Mars are also part of a Mystic Rectangle, which also includes Jupiter and the lunar nodes.

The potentials of the Cancer Moon, Venus, and Mars, described above, lay out the biggest opportunities of this harmonious aspect pattern.

Jupiter, loosely conjunct the Moon, expands your opportunities. The “Great Benefic” can also inspire you to explore the meaning of life, pursue meaningful learning, and share your wisdom with others.

Finally, the lunar nodes harmoniously aspect every other planet in the Mystic Rectangle. This makes it easier to do everything already discussed in alignment with your life purpose!

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Uranus

This Full Moon’s other aspect is a nearly exact semi-square with Uranus.

Can you overcome any resistance to deeply embodying and expressing your authentic human self? Are you following your intuitive hits? And are you serving others with your special talents you most love to use?

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Chiron Direct

Chiron turns direct on 1/2 at 9:38 am EST (22°35′ Aries). The wounded healer turned retrograde about five months ago on 7/30 (27°9′ Aries).

Chiron functions as the wounded healer. Now that he’s direct, you can actively work with unresolved material connected to self-identity and courage in the outside world.

While Chiron was retrograde in Aries, you might have worked with wounds around your core identity and your right to take up space. These might have included:

• Early experiences of not being allowed to assert yourself.
• Shame or fear around anger, desire, or leadership.
• Hesitation to act due to fear of rejection or conflict.

As Chiron turns direct, the focus shifts from contemplation to action. Instead of overthinking why you were wounded, you can focus on how to live differently now – even if you’re still tender.

Your wounds don’t have to disappear entirely. (Although many have experienced complete healing of old trauma with my free Healing Invocation.) Even short of full healing, you can take action with the wound present, without letting it define or paralyze you.

Chiron direct gives you permission to move forward without needing external validation. Your actions may feel vulnerable or imperfect, but you’re in motion!

You can reframe anger as information instead of danger. Expressing this fiery energy skillfully and consciously can help you set boundaries.

In Aries, healing happens by doing. Small acts of courage, such as speaking up, starting something new, or saying “no,” can become medicine for you.

Your body can be a key site of integration. Movement, somatic practices, and physical assertiveness help anchor psychological insight into lived reality.

In short,

• Act before you feel fully healed.
• Choose one area where you’ve been hesitating and take a careful first step.
• Notice where anger is asking for respectful, life-affirming expression.
• Replace self-questioning with self-authorization: “I am allowed to start!”

Chiron turning direct in Aries marks the moment when identity-based healing stops being theoretical and becomes lived. Courage doesn’t arrive after healing. It is the healing!

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Incredibly Rare All-Personal-Planets Grand Stellium Coalescing

A truly rare and historic astrology alignment is coming. In fact, my web searches couldn’t find a time when it’s ever happened before!

It’s the conjunction, within six degrees, of all five personal planets: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

As if that wasn’t enough, this Grand Stellium will also conjoin Vesta and Pluto. And all seven planets will make soft aspects with Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to form a 10-planet Mini Grand Trine. This will be a stunningly potent astrological moment!

All this will happen during the Capricorn New Moon on 1/18, which I’ll interpret (including its squares with Chiron and Eris) in my January 16-31 forecast. But I had to steal some of that New Moon thunder here, to help you understand the events setting the stage for this possibly unprecedented event.

If you know when all five personal planets have ever previously conjoined — even within 10 degrees — please contact me!

Here are all the planetary pieces currently fitting into place:

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Aspects With Two Personal Planets

Sun Conjunct Venus

The Sun and Venus come together on 1/6 at 11:36 am EST (16°22′ Capricorn). This illuminates all the Venus potentials described in my 1/3 Full Moon forecast.

Venus Conjunct Mars

Venus conjoins Mars on 1/7 at 9:43 pm EST (18°9′ Capricorn). I interpret this conjunction thoroughly here as part of my Full Moon forecast. (This link goes to the same destination as the previous link.)

Sun Conjunct Mars

The Sun conjoins Mars on 1/9 at 6:41 am EST (19°12′ Capricorn). This adds the Sun’s vitality to the wonderful potentials of Mars in Capricorn. You can read about those here, also in my Full Moon forecast.

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7 Mini Grand Trines!

All seven of these Mini Grand trines will merge into a “Super Mini Grand Trine” that peaks with the 1/18 New Moon. To interpret them here would steal too much thunder from that New Moon interpretation, coming in mid-January, so consider this a cliffhanger!

However, I can tell you that the potentials of all the fast movers involved are massively empowered. Check out their meanings in the individual planet sections below.

Here are the seven Mini Grand Trines:

• 1/12 peak: Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 12/28, peaks 1/12, ends 1/25.
• 1/17 peak: Venus-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/11, peaks 1/17, ends 1/21.
• 1/18 peak: Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/16, peaks 1/18, ends 1/18.
• 1/20 peak: Sun-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/13, peaks 1/20, ends 1/25.
• 1/20 peak: Mercury-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/16, peaks 1/20, ends 1/23.
• 1/20 peak: Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/14, peaks 1/20, ends 1/21.
• 1/23 peak: Mars-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/14, peaks 1/23, ends 1/31.

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4 T-Squares

As if all of the above wasn’t enough, we also have an opening act: four T-Squares, all peaking in the first half of January. These include all the personal planets except the Moon, all of whom square Chiron and oppose Jupiter.

(The Libra Moon actually does join this aspect pattern for a few hours on 1/10, briefly forming a Grand Cross. However, this doesn’t add any new archetypal energy to the aspect pattern: the energy of the Moon is already covered by Jupiter’s placement in Cancer, while the Moon’s Libra energy is already lit up by Venus.)

The personal planets’ potentials certainly gain some energy from Jupiter and Chiron. But this aspect pattern’s main effect is to amplify Chiron, who occupies the T-Square’s focal point. Unhealed emotional pain may get triggered, so have your trauma healing techniques ready. And, if you’re ready and able, step up and serve others as a healer or wisdom giver!

Here are the four T-Squares:

• 1/11 peak: Sun-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/2, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/11 peak: Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/9, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/12 peak: Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: started 12/31, peaks 1/12, ends 1/21.
• 1/15 peak: Mercury-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/9, peaks 1/15, ends 1/19.

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Fast Mover Aspects: Mars, Mercury, Juno, Sun, Vesta & Venus

Here are aspects, aspect patterns, and sign changes involving the personal planets and asteroid goddesses. This section includes some of the aspects and aspect patterns discussed above.

To learn why I interpret these fast mover events as a group, instead of discussing each aspect separately, click here.

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Mars

Mars receives regular infusions of slower planet energy throughout the first half of January. This will give you plenty of energy and inspiration for your efforts as a warrior, pioneer, sexual being or entrepreneur!

• 1/1: Mars sesquare Uranus (12°56′ Capricorn-27°56′ Taurus)
• 1/2: Mars quintile Saturn (14°17’ Capricorn-26°17’ Pisces)
• 1/7: Mars quintile Neptune (17°35′ Capricorn-29°35′ Pisces)
• 1/7: Venus conjunct Mars (18°9′ Capricorn)
• 1/9: Sun conjunct Mars (19°12′ Capricorn)
• 1/10: Mars opposite Jupiter (20°4′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/12 peak: T-Square w/ Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: started 12/31, peaks 1/12, ends 1/21.
• 1/13: Mars square Chiron (22°39′ Capricorn-Aries)
• 1/23 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Mars-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/14, peaks 1/23, ends 1/31.

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Mercury

Mercury wraps up its latest slower planets run on 1/3, then starts a new series of connections on 1/11. These Mercury aspects can juice up your ability to think, learn, write, teach, and communicate!

• 1/1: Mercury square Neptune (29°30’ Sagittarius-Pisces)
• 1/1: Mercury enters Capricorn (4:11 pm EST)
• 1/2: Mercury conjunct Juno (1°32’ Capricorn)
• 1/3: Mercury semi-sextile Pluto (2°48’ Capricorn-Aquarius)
• 1/11: Mercury quintile Saturn (14°51′ Capricorn-26°51′ Pisces)
• 1/12: Mercury quintile Neptune (17°41′ Capricorn-29°41′ Pisces)
• 1/14: Mercury opposite Jupiter (19°34′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/15 peak: T-Square w/ Mercury-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/9, peaks 1/15, ends 1/19.
• 1/20 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Mercury-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/16, peaks 1/20, ends 1/23.

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Juno

Juno, the asteroid goddess of committed partnership, energizes opportunities in her specific field of relationships through 1/6.

• 1/2: Juno conjunct Mercury (1°32′ Capricorn)
• 1/6: Juno semi-sextile Pluto (2°53′ Capricorn-Aquarius)

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The Sun

The Capricorn Sun aspects a slower planet every few days during January’s first half. You can use this energy to light up your maturity, responsibility, and productivity!

• 1/4: Sun quintile Saturn (14°23′ Capricorn-26°23′ Pisces)
• 1/6: Sun conjunct Venus (16°22′ Capricorn)
• 1/7: Sun quintile Neptune (17°36′ Capricorn-29°36′ Pisces)
• 1/9: Sun conjunct Mars (19°12′ Capricorn)
• 1/10: Sun opposite Jupiter (20°6′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/12: Sun square Chiron (22°38′ Capricorn-Aries )

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Vesta

These aspects and patterns, strong throughout the first half of January, light up Vesta’s key theme: selfless service to a higher cause. What does this look like for you?

• 12/27 peak: T-Square with Vesta, Jupiter, and Chiron: started 12/11, peaked 12/27, ends 1/11.
• 1/7: Vesta trine Uranus (27°46′ Capricorn-Taurus)
• 1/11: Vesta sextile Neptune (29°39′ Capricorn Pisces
• 1/12 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: started 12/28, peaks 1/12, ends 1/25.

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Venus

Venus rules relationship, creativity, money, and aesthetic appreciation. The first half of January provides abundant stimulus in any or all these areas!

• 1/4: Venus quintile Saturn (14°25′ Capricorn-26°25′ Pisces)
• 1/6: Sun conjunct Venus (16°22′ Capricorn)
• 1/7: Venus quintile Neptune (17°36′ Capricorn-29°36′ Pisces)
• 1/7: Venus conjunct Mars (18°9′ Capricorn)
• 1/9: Venus opposite Jupiter (20°11′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/11: Venus square Chiron (22°38′ Capricorn-Aries)
• 1/11 peak: Grand Trine w/ Sun-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/2, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/15: Venus sextile Saturn (27°8′ Capricorn-Pisces)
• 1/15: Venus trine Uranus (27°37′ Capricorn-Taurus)
• 1/17 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Venus-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/11, peaks 1/17, ends 1/21.

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Coming in my January 16-31 Forecast

• Mind-blowing Capricorn New Moon, including …
  • Incredibly rare all-personal-planets Grand Stellium, and
  • 10-planet Mini Grand Trine, including the gods of change!
• Neptune enters Aries to stay
• Saturn sextile Uranus
• Mars conjunct Pluto
• And more!

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Chronological Event Listing

• 12/27 peak: T-Square with Vesta, Jupiter, and Chiron: started 12/11, peaked 12/27 ends 1/11.

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• 1/1: Mercury square Neptune (29°30’ Sagittarius-Pisces)
• 1/1: Mercury enters Capricorn (4:11 pm EST)
• 1/1: Mars sesquare Uranus (12°56′ Capricorn-27°56′ Taurus)

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• 1/2: Chiron direct (9:38 am EST, 22°35′ Aries)
• 1/2: Mars quintile Saturn (14°17’ Capricorn-26°17’ Pisces)
• 1/2: Mercury conjunct Juno (1°32’ Capricorn)

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• 1/3: Full Moon (5:03 am EST, 13°1′ Capricorn)
• 1/3: Mercury semi-sextile Pluto (2°48’ Capricorn-Aquarius)

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• 1/4: Sun quintile Saturn (14°23′ Capricorn-26°23′ Pisces)
• 1/4: Venus quintile Saturn (14°25′ Capricorn-26°25′ Pisces)

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• 1/6: Juno semi-sextile Pluto (2°53′ Capricorn-Aquarius)
• 1/6: Sun conjunct Venus (16°22′ Capricorn)

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• 1/7: Venus quintile Neptune (17°36′ Capricorn-29°36′ Pisces)
• 1/7: Venus conjunct Mars (18°9′ Capricorn)
• 1/7: Vesta trine Uranus (27°46′ Capricorn-Taurus)
• 1/7: Sun quintile Neptune (17°36′ Capricorn-29°36′ Pisces)
• 1/7: Mars quintile Neptune (17°35′ Capricorn-29°35′ Pisces)

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• 1/9: Venus opposite Jupiter (20°11′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/9: Sun conjunct Mars (19°12′ Capricorn)

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• 1/10: Sun opposite Jupiter (20°6′ Capricorn-Cancer)
• 1/10: Mars opposite Jupiter (20°4′ Capricorn-Cancer)

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• 1/11: Venus square Chiron (22°38′ Capricorn-Aries)
• 1/11 peak: T-Square w/ Sun-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/2, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/11 peak: T-Square w/ Sun-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/2, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/11 peak: T-Square w/ Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/9, peaks 1/11, ends 1/16.
• 1/11: Mercury quintile Saturn (14°51′ Capricorn-26°51′ Pisces)
• 1/11: Vesta sextile Neptune (29°39′ Capricorn Pisces

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• 1/12 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: started 12/28, peaks 1/12, ends 1/25.
• 1/12: Sun square Chiron (22°38′ Capricorn-Aries )
• 1/12: Mercury quintile Neptune (17°41′ Capricorn-29°41′ Pisces)
• 1/12 peak: T-Square w/ Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: started 12/31, peaks 1/12, ends 1/21.
• 1/12 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 12/28, peaks 1/12, ends 1/25.
• 1/12 peak: T-Square w/ Mars-Jupiter-Chiron: started 12/31, peaks 1/12, ends 1/21.

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• 1/13: Mars square Chiron (22°39′ Capricorn-Aries)

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• 1/14: Mercury opposite Jupiter (19°34′ Capricorn-Cancer)

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• 1/15 peak: T-Square w/ Mercury-Jupiter-Chiron: starts 1/9, peaks 1/15, ends 1/19.
• 1/15: Venus sextile Saturn (27°8′ Capricorn-Pisces)
• 1/15: Venus trine Uranus (27°37′ Capricorn-Taurus)

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• 1/17 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Venus-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/11, peaks 1/17, ends 1/21.

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• 1/18 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Vesta-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/16, peaks 1/18, ends 1/18.

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• 1/20 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Mercury-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/16, peaks 1/20, ends 1/23.
• 1/20 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Sun-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/13, peaks 1/20, ends 1/25.
• 1/20 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Sun-Mercury-Venus-Mars-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/14, peaks 1/20, ends 1/21.

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• 1/23 peak: Mini Grand Trine w/ Mars-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto: starts 1/14, peaks 1/23, ends 1/31.

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Whatever your Sun Sign, my forecasts can help you make the best use of the current astrological energies.

All dates and times are in the U.S. eastern time zone. Events are most powerful on the dates listed, but their influence will be active for at least a week before and after.

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