Weekly Horoscope, January 4-10, 2026: Pursuing Your Desires

Welcome to an active week in the cosmos with Venus and Mars cazimi and a grand planetary dance with the Sun, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. The transits ahead illuminate our need for balanced and sustained forward movement as we look ahead to the new year. It’s a week that sparks and inspires, and your weekly horoscope for January 4-10, 2026, explains how not to overlook what’s being handed to you.

Weekly Horoscope for January 4-10, 2026, Preview

January 4 | Moon enters Leo
January 6 | Venus cazimi; Moon enters Virgo
January 7 | Venus conjunct Mars
January 9 | Mars cazimi; Venus opposes Jupiter; Moon enters Libra

Venus Cazimi 

A cazimi, derived from the Arabic term kaṣmīmī meaning “in the heart,” is when a planet draws close to the Sun. In our solar system and in astrology, the Sun is the essence of all life. As Venus in Capricorn enters into the heart of the Sun this week on January 6. 2026, she is 0ffered vitality, awareness, and the very source of life itself.

Venus on this day allows for a deeper illumination of what we truly value. It holds the space for clarity around love, worthiness, desires, priorities, and devotion. It is an inner rebirth and a spark of inspiration. It is also a day of enduring, concerned with long-term becoming, the paving of our path as we look ahead to who we are evolving into and how that translates into our relationships and creations.

Venus Conjunct Mars

The Venusian momentum continues the next day as Venus and Mars meet, or conjunct, while each are in the Saturn-ruled sign of Capricorn on January 7, 2026.

Venus illuminates worth, desire, love, and beauty. Mars equates to passion, drive, will and action. Holding them together, Capricorn is anchored, wise, and consistent. This conjunction sparks intentional movement partnered with desire, devotion, responsibility, and long-term vision. It is moving with patience in service to what matters most. Here we are invited to move from the heart in a manner that is balanced, patient, and wise.

Mars Cazimi

Two days later on January 9, 2026, Mars enters the heart of the Sun in a cazimi and we are offered a spark of vitality and courage.

As the momentum heightens, passion speaks through our body. On this day everything Martian—desire, initiative, and leadership—is amplified. Thanks to the influence of Capricorn, our will, purposeful action, and capacity for focus is reset. Expect change in how we act on our responsibilities and claim leadership over our desires and sacred commitments.

Venus Opposite Jupiter

On the same day, Venus in Capricorn dances in opposition to Jupiter retrograde in Cancer. An opposition, as the name suggests, takes place between a planet appearing on one side of the zodiac wheel and another planet in the exact opposite sign of the zodiac. Here we aren’t singularly focused. Rather, we are able to see both sides and hold contrasting parts of ourselves even as we balance multiple truths at once.

These activations stretch us and challenge us to align seemingly separate aspects of ourselves by allowing all parts of us to be valid. Oppositions remind us that different colors can not only co-exist but collaborate and co-create. This opposition illuminates the need for emotional comfort as well as long-term responsibility. This cosmic dance stretches us between what feels good now and what supports growth over time by asking us not to dismiss one side of the spectrum but to find a place of balance—pleasure and sustainability, the emotional and the practical, the present moment and what is yet to be.

Weekly Horoscope for January 4-10, 2026

The days ahead invite you to look ahead in a way that is grounded and balanced between present and future, inner and outer, desire and endurance, emotional and practical, needs and wants. True dedication to your desires and your future doesn’t dismiss the now, but is resourced by and built on it. It doesn’t ask that you abandon yourself, but is fed by your presence, depth, and fulfillment.

This week holds space for you to find your place within the symbiotic relationship between self and world, inner and outer. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

There is an inner compass guiding your emotions as well as your thoughts. This week invites you to tune in and feel. There is sustenance being offered to you to move ahead, build, claim your leadership, create change, and make magic.

Taurus Rising

Your curiosities, ideas, and desires are your sacred guiding force this week. Wisdom is wanting to speak through you, open your mind, and expand your understanding of truth. It’s a time to reorient your perspectives and bring knowing into partnership with your narratives. Allow inspiration to heighten and synchronicities to guide.

Gemini Rising

It’s a revealing week as more of you is ready to be remembered, claimed, and awakened. Observe your inner strengths and trust in yourself. Transformation awaits as inner strength, security, and worthiness become available through surrender, vulnerability, intimacy, and honesty.

Cancer Rising

Old identities are ready to fall away. Long term visions begin to speak. And self-worth is ready to become a primary driver behind everything. As this week illuminates matters of emotions and logic, relationships and identity. Any desires that relate to your committed connections become clear.

Leo Rising 

Pour into yourself—your body, your habits, your rhythm and routines. This week invites you to align with your actual now rather than your imagined future. Work your curiosities and interests into your current lifestyle through small steps. As your intuition heightens, your emotion intensifies. Let these be part of your compass.

Virgo Rising

Allow space for inspiration and creativity to come alive within your body this week. These are the essence of your future expressing themselves through you. Observe any old narratives you hold about fitting in versus authenticity. See if you can find the place where they are not opposites but rather one.

Libra Rising

Your weekly horoscope brings a week of self-awareness that invites you to look within to the wisdom and inner map waiting there. Touch into that knowing first before you come home—and observe where this fullness inspires you to engage with movement, creation, visioning, and building.

Scorpio Rising

This week is an opening of the mind. Inspirations, ideas, possibilities—these are streaming through the awareness of your mind. It’s the kind of week that reminds you life is a conversation—ask questions and quiet so that you may hear the answers. Your intuition is heightened as your narratives are rearranging and your perspectives expanding.

Sagittarius Rising

Worthiness. Desire. Embodiment. Groundeding. Devotion. Practical application. This week invites honesty with what you want and how you are willing to show up for it. Expect it to illuminate your relationship with inner and outer resources–including finances and resilience, body and emotions. As it does, confront any fears of not enoughness until you remember your truth.

Capricorn Rising

Take note of where your curiosities want to move you this week. They are speaking, guiding, heightening, and glimpsing futures. Let them become grounded into sustainable and intentional movement—a sacred building that will last. Also take note of any patterns of overworking or body dismissal. As they arise, rewrite them.

Aquarius Rising

There is a kind of productive rest calling your name this week. Not rest that numbs or distracts but that reconnects and renews. An inner grace can be found in this kind of rest. Consider it a map, inspiration, intuition, guidance, and resources for any goals that await.

Pisces Rising

Play with what inspires you. Observe where it opens, where it feels stuck, where it expands you, and what old patterns it touches in the process. The future is speaking and imagination is heightening. As this takes place, tend to any old fears related to self-expression, being seen, and trusting your ability to create.

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