Weekly Horoscope: January 5 to January 11, 2025

Your weekly horoscope is here. Monday may be the first day back from the holidays for some; however, with Mars still in retrograde, it might not feel like time to gear up just yet. Double back and test, retest, and consider your options going into these first few months. Legacy requires legacy moves—do the extra legwork to make this year worth it.  Rinse and repeat to hardwire your new year’s intentions into your reality. Try on your best adulting persona. Who knows? You may unlock parts of your potential you were avoiding or didn’t know you were capable of. Mature may be the new black, so speak like an expert, do your homework, and show up prepared so you can wing the rest.

Read on to discover what’s in store for your sign during the week of January 5, 2024, through January 11, 2025.

Aries

You’re on the up and up as the waxing moon swings into your sign on Sunday, forming the quarter moon stage of its cycle on Monday. This monthly mini-moment of tension demands decisive action. Consider your New Year’s intentions: When push comes to shove, will you push on or revert back to an old habit? My advice is to push through it—forward march.

That said, leave plenty of wiggle room for testing your options while Mars (which happens to be the planet that rules your sign) is in a long retrograde. Through February 23, everything isn’t quite ready for full speed ahead. More options are bound to come to light, so work on your plans and stay open to updates.

Taurus

La Luna swings into your sign on Tuesday late afternoon through Thursday around 5 p.m., so balance impracticality with pleasure. Indulge your senses while planning your empire. The emotional landscape is for nurturing and nourishing yourself with nature. That means flora and fauna, as well as clean, natural foods, moving your body, and bringing harmony to your environment.

Get out the calculator and go over your finances or delve into Investing 101, because Taurus is a sign of building foundations that last. Mars swings back into your sphere of local connections from Monday, so take action that nurtures those relationships. Assess how you use your energy locally and if you might like to lead a local or community initiative—or get involved in someone else’s.

Gemini

Mars, the planet of energy and willpower, slips back into your sphere of finances this week. Consider how you might use your energy to generate income in line with your aspirations and values. How are you using your get-up-and-go entrepreneurial side while nurturing your bottom line?

Personal audits are useful, so this is your cosmic reminder that it doesn’t have to be business as usual ad infinitum. Back it up, consider your options, investigate, and trial over this period. Using your energy in a nurturing capacity—caring, nourishing, entrepreneurial, and certainly initiating—is the way to go. Research new clients, employers, work on your pitch, and perfect your throw, as it were.

Mercury switches modes in the sphere of other people’s resources, so opportunities could come through others or by aligning with a larger organization or those with assets you know just what to do with for mutual benefit.

Cancer

Mars backs up into your sign on Monday as part of its long retrograde through February 23. This period is the perfect time to assess your direction, how you use your energy, assert yourself, and generally make your mark in this world. Test and trial, research, and consider your options, as well as what you want to be doing—and how. This suggests an opportunity to change, pivot, or switch tracks altogether.

What could do with a change? It’s a new year, which always feels like a fresh start or a blank page ready to rescript your plotline or even your M.O. So take the time to do that. Supporting your family, moving home, or nurturing a personal dream? If not now, then when?

The moon heads into your sign on Saturday around lunchtime, calling in your family or squad for connection over lunch.

Leo

Mars, the planet of energy and action, exits your sign after an explosive period this week as it continues its retrograde back into the previous sign, your neighbor, Cancer. It’s passed this territory twice, with one more pass to go.

You are positioned well to change the trajectory of an aspect of your life if you’ve been gliding along on guardrails that have timed out on their original usage plan or if you’ve veered off course over time. Use this period to correct your path, turn the steering wheel of your life, and get those wheels in motion so you’re on the right track for you.

You have one life—make it the best it can be with decisions and actions that are either dramatic or that accrue step by step over time. We’re all here cheering you on. You may be backing it up, testing ideas or ground, researching, or simply feeling things out—and that’s okay. The real drive time begins April 18, when Mars is back in your regal sign.

Virgo

As you move forward into the year, balance by stepping back to survey your direction, use of energy, and perhaps how you want to lead the charge and break new ground. In your sphere of wider networks, friends, and clubs, this could look like joining a new gym, meeting new people, or stepping into a leadership role.

Start your own group or club to share your skills, interests, and meet new people. The shared economy is a great way to collaborate, so perhaps test it out. Find ways to pool resources or set up an app to vet and connect people.

Midweek, Mercury heads into your sphere of romance, self-expression, and children. If you’re on a date, keep it mature and talk yourself up to impress. You have plenty of accomplishments, and sometimes it’s okay to boast! Enjoy your date’s sensible yet dashing escapades and allow them to enjoy yours. Write out that manual you’ve always wanted to share.

Libra

Mars, the planet of action and leadership, retrogrades back into your career zone, suggesting an opportunity to work on your approach or direction. Some people take a fair evaluation as a sign you’re not siding with them, regardless of whether they’re right or wrong.

While you’re all about being fair and are more detached than people give you credit for, over this period, you may need to work on simply supporting your team or audience. Use your diplomacy while also being sure people feel a sense of safety and security.

And perhaps it’s you who needs that emotional safety net, Libra. Right or wrong, we all need safety first so we feel free to express ourselves, blossom, and share our gifts with the world. Midweek, Mercury heads into your domestic sphere, so gather the tribe and pass the talking stick. This is a great time to have everyone share ideas, needs, gratitude, and grievances so they can be attended to.

Scorpio

In ancient astrology, Mars was considered the “ruling planet” of your sign. These days Pluto has taken that mantle. However, it’s always worth considering the themes of Mars and the legacy that leaves for your sign. Mars is strong, a warrior, and in Scorpio style, that would be the ninja—total stealth mode!

This week, Mars, currently in a retrograde, slips back into your sphere of the bigger picture, international travel, study, and media. If you’re on an airplane traveling for work, that checks out. Dreaming of foreign shores? Get planning or satiate that thirst for adventure with some well-chosen documentaries. Cooking shows set in international locations? Why not?

Leading by example and acting on your highest principles? Now’s your time to get them aligned. Consider your direction, how you use your energy, and what your “gut instincts” prompt.

Sagittarius

Mighty Mars backs up into your sphere of intimacy and other people’s resources for the next few months, so aligning with a larger organization could get you where you want to go. Backtracking and redirecting your approach—how you use your energy—is beneficial.

Consider whether your closest relationships energize, drain, or tend to feel neutral or ambient. Are they passionate, nurturing, or nourishing your direction, ambition, or how you need to use your energy?

Midweek, Mercury moves out of your sign and into business-oriented Capricorn. Ideas you had over the last month are best structured and applied now. Build out a plan and strategy that will also support your income, positioning yourself as an expert. Structure and apply your ideas. What message are you most passionate about sharing? Go with that.

Capricorn

With Mars, the planet of action, retrograding into your opposite sign, it’s time to redirect your approach to a relationship—or relationships in general. Do you need to be more assertive, demand more, open up to nurture, or get out there and mingle? This is your time to work that out.

How are you using your energy? Is there a direction you could be taking but have been putting off? Opposition from someone else could be exciting, but if you’re not up to matching it, then it could feel like an affront. It’s okay to set clear boundaries and enforce them. It’s also okay to let people in. Decide what you need and when.

Acting to protect, nurture, secure, and even sort out your space are all beneficial uses of this energy before driving forward with plans after late February. The planet of communication, Mercury, moves into your sign midweek, so your ideas and connections are spotlit. Take note of epiphanies and who sparks your intellect.

Aquarius

Time for self-care as Mars retrogrades back into your sphere of wellness, work, and daily routine. Get plenty of rest, nurture yourself with warm, hearty meals—home-cooked if possible. Spa day? Yes, ma’am!

Energize by tending to tasks, and even if you’re not the cooking type, this is an opportunity to nail a few easy, nutritious, and delicious staples. It’s the perfect time to get your health and fitness goals on track for the year, as well as the habits that underpin them. If work could be done with redirection or even an entire leap, then do the behind-the-scenes prep now.

Mercury moves into your zen zone on Wednesday, so pick up “the vibes.” What is your gut/subconscious sharing with you? What kind of language does it use? Write down your dreams and note realizations as they appear during the process.

Pisces

La Luna swans through your sign until just after lunch on Sunday, so see this as a time to dream, rest, and nurture yourself with art, love, or a creative escape like theater or a film. With energetic Mars retrograding into your creative and dating sphere, what might you benefit from assessing and redirecting?

Perhaps it’s an approach that isn’t working, needs a change, or an up-level out of a comfort zone in order to improve. Since this zone is about creative self-expression, what you do over this time supports your sense of self and confidence. Experiment, try new things, consider a variety of options, or feel into what you know in your heart of hearts is right for you.

Mars is about agency and assertiveness—where might you be ready to take the lead using your compassion and emotional intelligence?

Vanessa Montgomery—a.k.a. Astro All-Starz—is a professional counseling astrologer and the upcoming author of Astro Power: A Simple Guide to Prediction and Destiny for the Modern Mystic. Aimed at enlightenment and seeing past labels to the oneness that unites us all, Montgomery’s work also helps navigate the practical essentials with grounded cosmic intel. Her motto: Free your mind, own your power, create your world. You can learn more at astroallstarz.com or follow Montgomery on Instagram @astro_allstarz.