January 2021 Horoscopes
These horoscopes are written based on your Rising Sign, but are applicable to Sun and Moon signs as well. See here for more information on your Rising/Ascendent sign.
Pisces and Pisces Rising
2020 pulled on your empathetic heart strings and your enmeshment with the collective experience. It asked you to show up for your community with compassion and unwavering devotion, as you worked as a team to manifest solutions to old systems that are no longer working.
The Astrology of January asks you to be less community oriented in the best way possible, and only for a short period. It wants you to put in “behind the scenes” work in order to create balance and a strong foundation for when you emerge into the limelight again. If you are afforded the opportunity to, spend time meditating, journaling, and plotting. Create daily rituals that can help serve you and keep you stable as the ground continues to be rocky in this upcoming year.
With this introspective work, you might discover more healthy and sustainable ways to show up for yourself, and therefore be of service to others in a way that does not impede your personal boundaries. Mental health is important. Work on creating a sustainable daily structure that will both better serve those around you and do so when the time is right.
Aquarius and Aquarius Rising
The beginning of 2021 marks a new period, moving towards self mastery and a feeling of reemergence after the 2020 incubation period. You’ve been in a deeply introspective state of mind, both plotting and scheming, contemplating which shoes you’ll want to wear when you take your first step into this new year.
Last year symbolized a weight on your shoulders that you could not totally grasp. It presented both the opportunity to hide like the Saturnian hermit needs, but in anything other than a passive way. While you hid, you were being asked to visualize a different kind of society, one with new systems that you know on a guttural level could actually work. But first you had to do the hard work of investigating and transforming yourself.
As of January, you get to reinvent how you navigate the world and finally share and act on all of those ideas that you have been storing away. Your ideas and personal strength are going to be extremely helpful for those around you throughout this upcoming year. This is a great time to tap into the brave and inventive Uranian side of your personality, while upholding the structure of Saturn as you move into this new year.
Capricorn and Capricorn Rising
This month is a continuation of going deep within yourself, but with a bit more relief. 2020 may have been both comfortable and uncomfortable for you. It really asked you to change your old notions of traditional thinking and to consider perhaps less conventional ways of approaching your environment.
Being a “hard” worker is not a new idea for you, and as you know, assets come through the achievement of your goals. However, the astrology of January 2021 takes you a little out of your own self image, with more intention around what is that you value. Sure, you know how to acquire what you want, but the question is - what exactly is that? And why? What brings you pleasure? This is a great time to define what you find beautiful and what you really want to work for, materially.
This is also a great time to do some house cleaning – donate what no longer “sparks joy” and hold onto items that please your senses and stimulate your mind. January also marks a time of focusing even more closely on your finances, possibly reevaluating your spending by sifting through your bank account and paying attention to where you have been allocating your resources.
Sagittarius and Sagittarius Rising
The start of the New Year asks you to reconsider how you communicate. What forms of communication have been helpful for you and what has hindered your ability to manifest your deepest desires?
Part of your life journey and essence, is to be an inspirational light to those around you and communication is an essential part of that mission. Your scope of vision is vast, and now you are being asked to synthesize that vision. Take your unique perspective and communicate it in the most effective way you know how, whether it be in the form of writing, art, dance, or just sharing new ideas with friends. This is also a great time to journal and reevaluate the beliefs that you have held deeply and stubbornly and let go of the ones that no longer serve you.
Beliefs and a sense of morality are important themes in how a Sagittarius Rising approaches their environment, but sometimes we need to be open to many possibilities of the truth, rather than being married to one. As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. What are your beliefs about yourself or the world that keep you in the same place, and which ones can you let go of in order to grow?
Scorpio and Scorpio Rising
The Astrology of January 2021 highlights a shift of focus around communication to topics around home, lineage and ancestral roots. There may be a new focus around what home means for you, or perhaps a move to a new location is on the horizon. By being careful and strategic in your plans, you may be gifted with really positive material rewards. This could be a good time to remodel, redecorate, or change locations if the location of your current home no longer aligns with your goals.
Possible tensions may arise between striving for a different concept of home and the partnerships that are near and dear to you. While you may want to push forward with a new romantic or work relationship, that new bond may not align with your plans for getting closer to this idea of home.
While you inch towards finding an environment that matches your personal needs, it is important to maintain healthy boundaries with the people close to you in order to actualize whatever home means for you.
Libra and Libra Rising
Creativity, pleasure and play are the main topics that will be highlighted for you as we move into 2021. Over the last several years, you may have experienced necessary change or a restructuring around what home means for you and possibly an exploration into your family roots and lineage. That part of your life will be alleviated in 2021 and the focus will now shift towards what you find pleasurable, as well as your creative outlets.
While pleasure and play are exciting topics for your Venusian soul, your journey towards exploring this part of your life may not be a steady one. Only through hard work and dedication will you creative pursuits manifest and you will perhaps need to reorganize your approach to pleasure in order to experience true relaxation.
This is an excellent moment for diving deep into your creative projects while also striving for balance. You may be hit by beams of lightning-like ideas that you want to fulfill quickly before they vanish. Spend time journaling, write down your ideas before acting and find pleasure in leisure activities so that when you do take action, you will have sustainable energy to do so.
Virgo and Virgo Rising
The Astrology of January 2021, brings greater attention to your daily routines, health, and everyday work life. 2020 had a major impact on those specific topics for everyone, but they will become especially highlighted for you in the coming year.
The new year asks you create balance around work and self care. By paying special attention to this balancing act, your everyday work life can exist in a more nourishing, as opposed to a complacent, way. If 2021 is anything like last year, this is an excellent time to “work on yourself”. If therapy is available, go for it. If you need a small pet to bring you comfort or give you a sense of responsibility, go for it. If you need to spend a day taking baths and watching TV, go for it!
You may feel a deep desire to get out in the world, travel, and play after the extreme isolation of last year. This tension between wanting to explore and needing to do the work within will be a continuous theme throughout the duration of 2021. Perhaps setting up something like a reward system, will give you the ammunition to continue to do the necessary work will provide you with vitality to explore once the world opens back up.
Leo and Leo Rising
Romantic relationships and work partnerships become the focal point in your life with the beginning of 2021. Over the last few years, you may have experienced difficulty or set backs in your everyday work routine or possibly had physical ailments manifest due to work stressors. January brings relief to that part of your life as helpful relationships may take form which could potentially resolve those previous set-backs.
A potential irritation may arise around mid January as you strive to move forward with creative and inventive work projects, but need to attend to your close relationships simultaneously. A balance will be necessary between these two areas of life in order to keep them on track. Perhaps by giving special attention to your work or romantic partners, you will be able to manifest those “out of the ordinary” creative projects with the help of those around you.
There is a lot of energy and potential for big changes in career and partnership during the entirety of 2021. Take care of those around you, your body, and make strategic decisions as new opportunities present themselves.
Cancer and Cancer Rising
2020 was the end of a three year period for you of deeply investigating how you relate to others and the partnerships you form, be it romantically or professionally. While this will continue to be a theme in your life as we enter the new year, there is a shift of focus from partnership to the self.
Perhaps there has been a lot of considering what the ideal partner should be like as opposed to what you specifically find attractive. It is additionally time to consider how your mental health factors in with your partnerships. This takes deep, introspective work, and if 2021 is anything like last year, this is the most ideal time to dive in. You are about to undergo a necessary transformation that will ultimately benefit you in forming the tight knit, chosen family that you have always been striving for - whatever that looks like for you.
This is an opportune moment to look into the emotional baggage you have been carrying and learn coping skills so that you do not pass down trauma. What work do you need to do on yourself to create healthy sustainable relationships?
Gemini and Gemini Rising
The astrology of January gives you the opportunity to investigate some of your deepest beliefs and philosophies on life. 2020 exposed everyone to the harsh realities of all sides of the human condition amidst a pandemic and you were especially in touch with the multiplicities of experiences that everyday people were experiencing.
Now that you have been exposed to both sides of the coin, January 2021 highlights your personal beliefs. What topics from last year do you no longer need to focus your energy on? Is there something you would like to learn more about? Would it best serve you to learn an entirely new skill or language as a way to separate yourself from the binaries of the previous year? Do you need to learn from a teacher or an online class, or is this something you ought to do alone?
By dedicating yourself to some higher learning, you will experience ah-ha moments that clear up the confusion from the previous year. You will be able to reacquaint yourself with your own values, morals and beliefs that will continue to give you a strong foundation moving into the new year.
Taurus and Taurus
January 2021 marks a new period of growth through strategic hard work in your professional life. While you continue to explore alternative health routines and new and interesting ways of presenting yourself to the world, the topics around career become emphasized with the start of the new year. You may feel extra extroverted with a deep desire to explore earthly pleasures, while needing to remain balanced enough to attend to the tasks in your professional life that begin to emerge.
The astrology of the last several years offered the opportunity to reconsider some of your deeply held beliefs and philosophies. There was a restructuring around what you held to be true, and 2020 may have afforded you the time to reconsider those beliefs and which ones you still deeply resonate with and which ones no longer serve you.
The beginning of this new year gives you the opportunity to do the same within your profession. Does the career you have mirror these newfound philosophies that you were able to ruminate on during hours of isolation? Does it really reflect who you are and how you want to be remembered? If not, now is the time to take action while knowing there will be bumps in the road. Slow, steady, and methodical wins the race.
Aries and Aries Rising
2020, particularly for you, brought focus to tensions between your career and how you want to be perceived in the world. Instead of the major focus in your life being tied to your identity through your profession, January 2021 marks the beginning of a new three year period that brings attention to the part of your life tied to community, friendship, and allies.
There is an overall shift from the self to how you and your community can strategize in order to reap the rewards of hard work through communal effort. This will have a collective effect. Perhaps this new year invites you to have a “less is more” attitude when considering those close to you. You are in an excellent place to take action around some of your 2020 visions for the collective and to cohesively work with those close to you to make that vision possible. But this will only happen through careful planning and strategizing.
Topics around assets, finances, and what you find materially pleasurable also gain importance with the start of this new year. You may want to forge ahead quickly to assuage some of the financial upheaval that may have occurred in 2020, but this might be a good time to take deep breaths before taking the plunge and to really strategize your spending in the next couple of months.