ENERGIES OF THE WEEK JANUARY 6-12, 2025 ✨🕊💫
Mars Retrograde in Cancer, Mercury in Capricorn, Lunar Nodes Shift
We are stepping into remarkable Year, one that holds significant developments for which we have been preparing for years, perhaps even decades.
January is a month that invites us to redefine our deepest needs, correct past missteps, and move forward from a renewed emotional foundation. And this week urges us to discover ways to feel supported and secure as we begin to shape the future, trusting both our intuition and something greater than ourselves.
The second week of January 2025 brings the retrograde Mars shifting into Cancer, Mercury entering Capricorn, and the pivotal movement of the Lunar Nodes into the Pisces-Virgo axis. These celestial shifts introduce fresh perspectives and new priorities.
As we move away from the intense Mars-Pluto opposition (January 3), this week provides a breather, allowing us to align more harmoniously with the ethereal, sweet vibrations of Venus, which entered dreamy and imaginative Pisces on January 4.
Venus’ exalted position in Pisces enhances love, beauty, imagination, and creativity until February 4, enabling us to transcend and dive deep into the ocean of emotions, desires, and healing love and embrace the magic of compassion and artistry.
✨🕊On Monday, January 6, retrograde Mars returns to Cancer♋, last seen in September and October. This energy will accompany us for over two months, as Mars stations direct on February 24 at 17° Cancer, completing its journey through the sign on April 17.
Mars, the planet of action, will, and survival, struggles in the emotional waters of Cancer, a sign of its fall. Yet, this position is far from powerless. From Cancer, the great nurturer of the zodiac that prioritizes emotion and puts heart into everything, Mars can wage fierce battles to protect what it holds dear.
Under this influence, emotional tensions may run high, and issues related to motherhood, women, home, homeland, family, and inner security—whether personal or national—could resurface for re-evaluation and resolution.
On a personal level, this transit encourages us to reassess projects started in September-October and to reexamine internal security, family dynamics, and boundaries while tending to lingering wounds from the past or childhood that may still impact our behavior and decisions.
In the 16⁰-27⁰ degree area of Cancer in your chart, suppressed emotions and unresolved issues may reemerge. However, this is an opportunity to honor your inner world, identify what drives and supports you internally, and what stresses, angers, or oppresses you, so you can find healing and liberation.
Mars being out-of-bounds until April 7 might lead to exaggerated and unconventional reactions, making us less likely to follow restrictions and rules. Nevertheless, this placement fosters self-reliance and independence, helping you discern what you truly want and why, enabling you to enact needed changes with greater awareness and newfound inner strength.
Also on January 6, Mercury forms a square to Neptune at 27° Sagittarius-Pisces, affecting the late degrees of Mutable signs (Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces).This aspect may uncover where you’ve lost your way and need to reorient yourself. This alignment may involve deception, misinformation, lies, fantasies, illusions, difficulties concentrating, addictions, or paranoia. Yet, amidst this mental confusion, clarity often emerges about what isn’t working and lacks authenticity.
Avoid major decisions, negotiations, agreements, or serious discussions during this time, as misunderstandings and inaccuracies are likely. Steer clear of substances and distractions that cloud your judgment. Instead, embrace the artistic, imaginative, and creative inspiration this aspect provides and dive into reading, writing, storytelling, or spiritual practices that connect you to your inner world.
✨🕊On Tuesday, January 7, the Moon reaches its First Quarter phase 🌓 at 16°55’ Aries♈. This position often sparks a desire to act independently, heedless of others’ opinions or obstacles. Therefore, if you belong to the middle of the second decan of Cardinal signs (Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn), you may discover what motivates you, build confidence, and decide to take a risk or make a bold move toward something meaningful and more authentic for you.
✨🕊On Wednesday, January 8, Mercury forms a quincunx with Mars at 29° Sagittarius-Cancer. This alignment may bring heightened sensitivity, competition, or mistakes from impatience and lack of coordination between thought and action. Patience, a new approach, and foresight are needed to avoid regrets.
Later in the day, Mercury enters Capricorn♑ until January 28. This placement will benefit Earth and Water signs and help bring clarity and order to chaotic situations. Over the next three weeks, focus on practical matters, think long-term, plan, and organize. It’s an excellent time for serious discussions, setting goals, and turning dreams into reality.
On the same day, Mercury’s square to the Lunar Nodes at 0° Capricorn-Aries signals a crossroads that challenges decision-making. This aspect suggests that something in your thought process or communication style must change to align with your destiny and make meaningful progress.
This transit may bring conflicts or doubts, but the choices made here will significantly shape your karmic path and relationships. Speak your truth with responsibility, clarity and honesty, to avoid deadlocks, especially if you have planets in the early degrees of Cardinal signs.
✨🕊On Thursday, January 9, the Sun forms a square to Chiron at 19° Capricorn-Aries, affecting the late second and early third decan of Cardinal signs. This aspect may trigger wounds and insecurities related to identity, personal achievements, and your sense of place in the world.
Although this influence might evoke feelings of inadequacy or rejection, it encourages you to separate your self-worth from external successes. Recognizing and embracing your vulnerabilities is the first step toward healing and growth, potentially leading to new forms of self-expression that restore your alignment and strength.
✨🕊On Sunday, January 12, Mars forms a magical and healing trine with Neptune at 27° Cancer-Pisces. This alignment invites us to be exactly where we are meant to be, receiving blessings, divine guidance, synchronicities, and miracles.
This is an ideal moment to heal old wounds, bring understanding to relationships, and make amends for events or situations initiated in late October when this aspect last occurred with Mars direct in Cancer. While Mars retrograde now, enables us to correct course and operate from a higher vibration of strength, inspiration, and love.
The week concludes with one of 2025’s most significant astrological events: the Lunar Nodes move from the Aries-Libra axis to the Pisces-Virgo axis,♓♍ marking a new eclipse cycle.
This cosmic shift in the axis of spirituality, sacrifice, and service, calls us to make the mundane sacred and the sacred mundane over the next 18 months. It opens a new chapter of personal and collective evolution, emphasizing the balance of body and spirit, unity, and connection to the divine and higher self.
This period will amplify our sense of purpose and support growth in arts, healing, water-related professions, psychology, metaphysics, and philanthropy.
It will remind us of our sacred nature and encourage reliance on intuition, creativity, compassion, imagination, and faith while releasing attachments, control, over-analysis, and perfectionism associated with the South Node in Virgo.
This is an opportunity to align more closely with your soul and trust the greater Plan that always knows best!
May your week be guided by light and blessings!✨🕊☮🕊💫
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli