Increasing Soul Sovereignty: The Collective Shift From Capricorn To Aquarius ~ 2026 Astrology

The powerful astrology of late January has four personal planets (Venus, the Sun, Mercury, and Mars) moving through early Aquarius and forming consecutive conjunctions to Pluto at 3° Aquarius, creating a two-week period of intense transformation and energetic amplification. These activations work through different layers of the energy body (mind, heart, body, and consciousness), potentially catalyzing a “full system upgrade” that dismantles outdated expectations, identities, and life directions while revealing new gifts, knowingness, and personal evolutionary paths. Both the elevated and shadow expressions of Aquarius will be alive and on display, including fixation, alienation, emotional bypassing, and intellectual rigidity that may surface during this time, alongside powerful breakthroughs, clair downloads, and expanded awareness. Collectively, the transits may coincide with disruptions in Aquarian-ruled systems—including technology, data centers, communications infrastructure, and transportation—so preparation and analog backups may be wise. Ultimately, these Pluto conjunctions initiate deep personal and societal shifts that cannot be denied or reversed, paving the way for more empowered, future-oriented creations as new soul chapters take shape. Jan 17 - Venus enters AquariusJan 19 - Sun enters Aquarius at 8:45 pm ETJan 19 - Venus conjunct Pluto in Aquarius at 3 deg 19Jan 20 - Mercury enters AquariusJan 22 - Mercury conjunct Pluto in Aquarius at 3 deg Jan 23 - Mars enters AquariusJan 23 - Sun conjunct Pluto in Aquarius at 3 deg 25Jan 27 - Mars conjunct Pluto in Aquarius at 3 deg 32Pluto In Aquarius Journey - Planets In Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Sag, Aquarius https://youtu.be/J4cBPZjBdkUManifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-Manifesting

The astrological weather is highly active this week with over 20 transiting aspects that accelerate change, breakthrough, completion, and forward momentum. A stellium of planets in late Capricorn forms supportive trines to Uranus RX in Taurus and sextiles to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, offering tangible solutions, relief, and opportunities after weeks of heavier density and responsibility themes. The Capricorn New Moon on January 18 at 28 degrees marks a powerful karmic completion point and a new long-term intention setting moment rooted in maturity, mastery, and self-respect. As the personal planets rapidly shift into Aquarius afterward, consciousness opens to new ideas, innovations, and future-oriented pathways amid the collapse of outdated systems. Although the external world may feel chaotic, you may choose to invest in inner stability, remain adaptable, say “yes” to surprising openings, and trust that fast endings lead to fast beginnings as new timelines unfold.Fire & Form Live Workshops starting in February! 3 live astrology workshops with personal chart readings covering Neptune enters Aries, Saturn in Aries, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and the February 17 Aquarius Solar Eclipse, Year of the Fire Horse. More details here: https://www.mollymccord.online/offers/hT2LC22sManifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-Manifesting

The powerful energetic threshold from Capricorn to Aquarius that humanity is moving through in January 2026 relates to years of Capricorn lessons around structure, mastery, responsibility, and physical-world achievement. Earlier in the decade, Pluto, Saturn, and Jupiter in Capricorn already prepared us, and now a cluster of personal planets will cross from Capricorn into Aquarius, activating this shift at a more personal level. Capricorn brings the soul’s work in form, commitments, and integrity, and Aquarius brings the corresponding liberation into new visions, energetic sovereignty, and nonlinear timelines marked by detachment, higher consciousness, and faster intuitive processing. At a personal level, identify where late Capricorn and early Aquarius degrees fall in your chart to understand where major transitions are unfolding. This week, you may sense it is time to honor the new clarity, neutrality, and future-oriented frequency emerging.Manifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-Manifesting

Neptune re-enters Aries on January 26, 2026, beginning a 14-year transit that shifts collective and personal consciousness into new territory around identity, intuition, and spiritual embodiment. We briefly sampled these energies in 2025 and now this long-term ingress initiates a deep rebirth of the self, dissolving outdated identities and awakening psychic, creative, and intuitive capacities. Individually, Neptune in Aries can bring questioning, energetic inconsistency, and a loss of interest in what no longer aligns, while collectively it influences competition, conflict, pharmaceuticals, sports, weather patterns, sexuality, hormones, and the spirit of personal agency. Paired with Saturn entering Aries soon after, the tone is slow, non-linear, and not conducive to instant gratification—calling for patience, trust, and inner listening. This transit may change how we use our energy, relate to our bodies, disengage from overstimulation, and seek more authenticity. Fire & Form Live Workshops starting in February! 3 live astrology workshops covering Neptune enters Aries, Saturn in Aries, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and the February 17 Aquarius Solar Eclipse, Year of the Fire Horse. More details here:https://www.mollymccord.online/offers/hT2LC22s

A cardinal T-square from January 9 to 15 puts pressure on key life choices—especially for anyone with placements around 20–22° of the cardinal signs. A Capricorn stellium (Sun, Mars, Venus, and an out-of-bounds Mercury) activates serious, practical responsibilities and “get it done” momentum, while Jupiter retrograde in Cancer at 20° pulls you inward to reassess what truly feels nourishing, aligned, and worth your time, often revealing where you’ve outgrown old professional or emotional agreements (including the “golden handcuffs” of security vs. soul truth). Chiron direct in Aries at 22° adds a healing edge, pushing courage, individuation, and a break from stuck patterns that have been amplified since the Jupiter–Chiron square tightened in late October. The bigger collective backdrop of Saturn–Neptune in late Pisces (endings, leadership turnover, and collective health themes) will continue to be prominent as they approach their February 20 conjunction at 0° Aries, emphasizing that our responsibility is to choose empowered, solution-focused consciousness over fear narratives. Overall, this T-square is an initiation guiding you to realignment through discomfort, and calling you to move forward faster, trust your read on energy sooner, and commit to what matches your deeper purpose now.Manifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-Manifesting

Black Moon Lilith moves through Sagittarius (December 20, 2025 to September 16, 2026) and activates deep, often hidden emotional truths connected to belief systems, identity, freedom, and personal truth. Black Moon Lilith represents the shadowed parts of the emotional body—primal feelings, suppressed desires, rage, grief, and untamed truth—and in Sagittarius, these themes emerge around alienation, persecution, nonconformity, and the courage to think differently from the collective. This transit can awaken memories from the past nine years—or even other lifetimes—of being a heretic, dissenter, or outsider, especially around religion, culture, politics, or philosophy. Lilith’s work is deeply personal shadow work, not something that needs external validation, and is a time to consciously honor, accept, and responsibly integrate these emotions rather than suppress or externalize them. Unlike Lilith’s heavier Scorpio passage, Sagittarius brings movement, release, and liberation, helping you recognize what you’re finally “over” and ready to leave behind. As Lilith moves through the Sagittarius areas of your chart, she encourages self-honoring independence, emotional sovereignty, and a renewed sense of freedom—supporting you in stepping into your truth, trusting your inner wisdom, and moving forward lighter, clearer, and more fully yourself. 2026 Soul Growth Astrology Program ~ Powerful new beginnings in 2026 with Saturn-Neptune conjuction plus, 3 Mercury retrogrades, Venus retrograde, 2 Venus Star Points, 4 eclipses in 4 different astrology signs, and a lot more! Use code ‘NEW’ to get it all for $44 USD ~ Check out more details here: ⁠https://www.mollymccord.online/2026-soul-growth-astrology

The Venus Star Point on January 6 at 16° Capricorn is a deeply grounding, clarifying moment that reconnects you with what you are building and developing that deeply matters. This is a “full Venus” star point, with Venus direct and conjunct the Sun, initiating an inward cocooning phase that helps us reassess our values, creative priorities, self-worth, and long-term goals without pressure to rush forward. This star point illuminates a four-year cycle that began with the retrograde Venus Star Point in Capricorn in January 2022, inviting reflection on how your sense of purpose, mastery, career direction, and self-respect have steadily evolved since then. With Mars also conjunct the Sun and Venus, there is supportive momentum for aligned action, clear roles, healthy collaboration, and professional progress, especially when efforts are well-defined and values-driven. Ruled by Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, this Venus Star Point reminds us that we are co-creating what comes next during a time of major endings and uncertainty. Capricorn offers the authority, discernment, and inner strength to choose wisely, honor our mastery, and build something meaningful and enduring from a place of self-love and integrity.Manifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-ManifestingNew! 2026 Soul Growth Astrology Program ~ Powerful new beginnings in 2026 with Saturn-Neptune conjuction plus, 3 Mercury retrogrades, Venus retrograde, 2 Venus Star Points, 4 eclipses in 4 different astrology signs, and a lot more! Use code ‘NEW’ to get it all for $44 USD ~ Check out more details here: ⁠https://www.mollymccord.online/2026-soul-growth-astrology

January 1st begins with Mercury making its final square to Neptune in Pisces, inviting reflection on intuition, imagination, and trusting subtle inner messages without needing immediate clarity. As Mercury enters Capricorn later that day, joined by the Sun, Venus, and Mars, the tone shifts toward realism, boundaries, responsibility, and discerning what truly deserves your time and energy as the year begins. Chiron stations direct at 22 deg Aries on January 2nd, marking a turning point in personal healing and sovereignty and signaling readiness to move forward after a period of deep internal work. Yet sensitivity remains heightened through its square to Jupiter in Cancer. The January 3rd Cancer Full Moon brings an emotional and heart-centered recalibration, activating themes of belonging, safety, unconditional love, and emotional truth as the lunar energy aligns with Sirius, our Spiritual Sun. Together, these transits describe an initiation into 2026 that asks for stronger boundaries, deeper self-trust, and a renewed connection between heart and purpose, setting the stage for a very active and forward-moving January.New! 2026 Soul Growth Astrology Program ~ Powerful new beginnings in 2026 with Saturn-Neptune conjuction plus, 3 Mercury retrogrades, Venus retrograde, 2 Venus Star Points, 4 eclipses in 4 different astrology signs, and a lot more! Use code ‘NEW’ to get it all for $44 USD ~ Check out more details here: ⁠https://www.mollymccord.online/2026-soul-growth-astrologySedona Ascension Retreat from March 20 to 22, 2026 ~ Unconditional Love is the key that opens portals! More details here: ⁠https://sedonaascensionretreats.com/ref/8/

A new “1 year” of beginnings, momentum, and purpose is here, anchored by an intense concentration of planets in Capricorn energy: The Sun, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Juno, Vesta, and Astraea. The Sun traveling with Mars exalted in Capricorn supports focused ambition, long-term planning, and building something enduring, especially in career, business, and life direction. As multiple Capricorn planets oppose Jupiter retrograde in Cancer and square Chiron in Aries, there will be an increase in themes of emotional authenticity, self-trust, vulnerability, and healing old self-doubt, particularly during mid-January’s sensitive integration window. Saturn in Pisces sexties Uranus in Taurus at 27 degrees (with Neptune nearby), signaling permission to release outdated structures and trust necessary life changes that have already been in motion since last year. January culminates in highly charged Aquarius energies as the Sun, Mars, Pluto, Venus, and Mercury align, alongside Neptune’s re-entry into Aries, marking collective upheavals, paradigm shifts, and revolutionary momentum. As the new year begins, remember that nothing meant for you has been lost, switchbacks are part of the path, and January 2026 offers profound opportunities to ground your purpose, evolve your nervous system, and step confidently into a future aligned with your soul’s calling now.Manifesting with the Minor Grand Trine ~ Powerfully access your highest timeline with the major astrology from 2025 into 2029 and discover how the big outer planet transits will show up in your astrology chart with 20+ videos. More videos added annually. https://www.mollymccord.online/Minor-Grand-Trine-Manifesting

The new year is going to be very different than what 2025 pushed us through. A few more thoughts to share.