Real-time monitoring of world events: January 2026

Major in-sky astro-events

January 7: Mars is parallel Pluto > event forecast period is January 1–January 17

January 10: Mars is opposition Jupiter > event forecast period is January 1–January 27

January 26: Neptune moves to Aries

January 27: Mars is conjunction Pluto > event forecast period is January 8–February 16

Saturn conjunction Neptune peaks February 20

Uranus trine Pluto peaks July 18

Major astro-events January 2026

December 20, 2025: Sagittarius new Moon at 1.43am GMT > Moon is conjunction Venus (peace, the social set and women); conjunction Mars (conflict, strife, accidents and fires); square Saturn (safety, economy, poverty, storms and loss); inconjunct Uranus (disruption, unrest, protests and technology) and square Neptune (schemes, booms, exaggeration, inflation and fraud).

Progressed Saturn semisquare Mercury in the Saturn cycle ends January 5

Progressed Pluto semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle peaks January 12

Progressed Jupiter parallel Pluto in the Jupiter cycle peaks February 12

Progressed Pluto parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle peaks April 9

Progressed Uranus parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle ends May 22

Progressed Pluto parallel Uranus in the Pluto cycle peaks September 24

Progressed Pluto parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle peaks September 6, 2027

January 2: Progressed Mars parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle starts > peaks January 12

January 3: Progressed Mars is trine Sun in the Mars cycle

January 6: Progressed Mars is sextile Saturn in the Mars cycle

January 7: Mars is parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Saturn semisextile Sun in the Saturn cycle starts > peaks January 20

January 9: Progressed Mars is square Mercury in the Mars cycle

January 10: Progressed Sun is opposition Mars in the Sun cycle; and Mars is opposition Jupiter in the sky

January 12: Progressed Mars is parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle > ends January 20; and progressed Pluto is semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle > ends February 12

January 13: Progressed Mars is trine Uranus in the Mars cycle

January 14: Progressed Sun is trine Uranus in the Sun cycle; and progressed Pluto parallel Neptune in the Pluto cycle starts – peaks April 11

January 15: Progressed Mars is sextile Moon in the Mars cycle

January 16: Progressed Mars is trine Jupiter in the Mars cycle

January 18: Capricorn new Moon at 7.52pm GMT > Moon is conjunction Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto; opposition Jupiter; sextile Saturn and Neptune; and trine Uranus. With the Sun and Moon conjunction Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto the mundane affairs of a specified house in each nation’s new Moon chart are accentuated.

January 20: Progressed Saturn is semisextile Sun in the Saturn cycle > ends January 31; and progressed Saturn sextile Neptune starts > peaks January 30

January 22: Progressed Mars is sextile Neptune in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun parallel Uranus in the Sun cycle starts > peaks January 26

January 23: Progressed Sun is conjunction Pluto in the Sun cycle

January 25: Progressed Mars is semisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle

January 26: Progressed Sun is parallel Uranus in the Sun cycle > ends January 30; and progressed Mars is conjunction Pluto in the Mars cycle

January 27: Mars is conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars is sextile Mars in the Mars cycle

January 30: Progressed Saturn is sextile Neptune in the Saturn cycle > ends February 9

January 31: Progressed Mars is square Venus in the Mars cycle

Author: DW Sutton

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