horoscope-2026-01-08

While the year is getting off to a busy start, it won’t always be that way, though with a chance from the start to put some boundaries in place. In between the Moon’s departure from your romantic sector yesterday and its return to your relationship sector tomorrow, what you don’t want is to be so busy that you forget to hold onto the influence of those romantically charged lunar vibes before it fades.

It is while the Moon is making its first visit to your romantic sector for the year, that a friendly aspect to the Sun, Venus and Mars, aligned in an adventurous part of your chart peaks. As Venus, the planet of love moves into the final days of her mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, she is getting support from every side.

Ahead of its return for its first visit to your romantic sector for the year tomorrow, the Moon is making its monthly transit across the lunar nodes, putting their policing of your work/life balance in the spotlight. With no planetary activity in your romantic sector but Venus, the planet of love just 10 days away from her return to an adventurous part of your chart and the start of her mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, this is the right reminder at the right time.

After a friendly aspect to Mercury and the asteroid Juno, the planet of communication and the queen of commitment in your relationship sector yesterday the Moon, making its first visit to your communication sector for the year, forms a friendly aspect to the Sun, Mars and Venus there. While the Moon is passing through and will be gone by tomorrow, behind this are forces on the communication and relationship fronts that can keep the momentum going.

As well as leaving you more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware, the Moon’s departure from Leo yesterday has left you more aware of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. Ten days before Venus, the planet of love is due to join Pluto in your relationship sector and ahead of the Moon’s return to your communication sector tomorrow, there is a message behind any buttons this might have pushed.

While the Moon’s first visit to Virgo for the year is making you more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware, it is also having an impact on the romantic and relationship fronts. While crossing the lunar nodes, this is putting a balance between your own and your relationship needs in the spotlight, a friendly aspect to the Sun, Venus and Mars, the planets of love and passion in your romantic sector, is adding to an already romantically charged start to the year.

On the heels of the weekend’s Full Moon and its work/life balance reminders, today the Moon is crossing the lunar nodes, putting a light on their policing of how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off and the timing couldn’t be better. In 10 days Venus, the planet of love will return to your romantic sector to kick off the most romantically charged months of the year, with just enough time to prepare.

After their alignment in your communication sector peaked yesterday, the Sun and Venus are starting to separate just as Venus’ alignment with Mars here peaks. While Venus is here for another 10 days, this is the day when her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice is fully aligned with Mars’ war on communication roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined.

After his direct turn in your romantic sector over the weekend Chiron, the planet of healing is still at a standstill, but looking ahead and to the return of Neptune, planet of hopes and dreams later in the month. Unlike Chiron, who in retrograde motion gravitated to old wounds, in her final days in retrograde motion Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos is fighting to make the most of the doors still open to the past.

It is just as Venus, the planet of love moves into her final 10 days in Capricorn that her friendly aspect to the Moon, making its first visit to an adventurous part of your chart for the year peaks. Before leaving tomorrow, the Moon will spend its final hours at a friendly aspect to Uranus in your romantic sector, as will Venus before she leaves next week, with a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia already in the air.

While Venus is still 10 days away from returning to Aquarius to begin her mission to update your romantic and relationship desires, hopes and aspirations for the coming year, the Moon has already made its first visit to your romantic and relationship sectors for the year. The Moon will not only come full circle while Venus is in Aquarius, its departure from your relationship sector yesterday and from your romantic sector over the weekend allows you to start the process.

The Moon’s first visit to your relationship sector for the year was always going to see it cross the lunar nodes, shining a light on their policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. This can push some buttons, but just as Mercury, the planet of communication has moved into a friendly aspect to the South Node in your relationship sector and is on hand to keep the communication lines open.