January 2021 Planetary Overview – Major Astrological Aspects and Transits

We present you the planetary overview for January 2021, based on major astrological aspects and transits. In January 2021, Jupiter and Saturn transit the first grades of Aquarius. Mercury (on 8^th January) and the Sun (on 19^th January) also enter Aquarius. There is a New Moon in Capricorn on 13^th January and a Full Moon in Leo on 28^th January.

1^st January: Mercury in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces

5^th January: Mercury conjunct Pluto in Capricorn

6^th January: Mars enters Taurus

You have more energy at your disposal for work and money-making projects. Your goal is long-term satisfaction. „Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived“ (Eleanor Roosevelt)

 

8^th January: Mercury enters Aquarius

Mercury encourages original thinking and remembers us that rules are made to be broken. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. (Mary Shelly)

 

8^th January: Venus enters Capricorn

You become more pragmatic and you try to build relationships with powerful people. „To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today’s pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn’t it?“ (Shūsaku Endō)

 

8^th January: Sun in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces

9^th January: Mercury in Aquarius square Mars in Taurus

9^th January: Venus in Capricorn trine Mars in Taurus

10^th January: Mercury conjunct Saturn in Aquarius

11^th January: Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius

12^th January: Mercury in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

 

13^th January: New Moon in Capricorn (Sun conjunct Moon in Capricorn)

The New Moon in Capricorn is about establishing long term goals for your career. It is also about improving your public image. „The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing“. (Michael E. Gerber)

13^th January: Mars in Taurus square Saturn in Aquarius

14^th January: Uranus again direct in Taurus

We are attracted to unconventional things and people. We appreciate freedom more than ever. „You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things“. (Andy Warhol)

 

14^th January: Venus in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus

14^th January: Sun conjunct Pluto in Capricorn

17^th January: Jupiter in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

 

19^th January: Sun enters Aquarius

Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, is a sign of liberty and we fully understand the importance of being independent. „I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will“ (Charlotte Bronte)

20^th January: Mars conjunct Uranus in Taurus

23^rd January: Mars in Taurus square Jupiter in Aquarius

23^rd January: Venus in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces

24^th January: Sun conjunct Saturn in Aquarius

26^th January: Sun in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

 

28^th January: Full Moon in Leo (Sun in Aquarius opposite Moon in Leo)

Sun in Aquarius opposites Moon in Leo. This is a good time for self-expression, with creativity and originality. „It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation“ (Herman Melville)

 

28^th January: Venus conjunct Pluto in Capricorn

29^th January: Sun conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius

 

30^th January: Mercury retrogrades in Aquarius

Mercury is retrograde until 21^st February. Inventive thinking is at a peak. But take care what you invent! Alfred Nobel invented dynamite for digging tunnels, but it became a lethal weapon. Another advice for this transit: technology shouldn’t kill creativity, it has to enhance creativity. „No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination“ (Edward Hopper)