Capricorn season is about adulthood, so set your intentions for the year and prepare to make some important decisions about the way you want to live
Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinARIES// ARIES RISING
Happy New Year, Aries! A lot of signs have a lot to learn from you this year, as your fearless attitude leads us towards necessary new beginnings. January is a powerful career month, as the Sun shines its light on your sector of profession, encouraging you to build a long-term plan for 2024 and beyond. You can use the energy of the New Moon on Capricorn, occurring on the 11th, to call in long-term career growth and recognition.
With your ruler, Mars, moving through Capricorn, you are decisive about your movements, perhaps even on the receiving end of a promotion and greater responsibility. On January 21, the Sun and Pluto conjoin in Aquarius, encouraging you to take what you have mastered in the shadows and share it with a wider audience. Global events may create seismic shifts to the status quo, inciting a period of collective revolution. No sign is more equipped to handle this year than you, so treat your impulses as God sends, and be ready to lead the pack.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinTAURUS//TAURUS RISING
Happy New Year, Taurus! Venus, your planetary ruler, is in Sagittarius for most of the month, prolonging holiday celebrations and libations, amplifying your appetite for adventure. A propensity to overindulge is well balanced by the celestial configurations of Capricorn, making sure you don’t overdo it and setting your sights on the year ahead. Travel may be in the cards, as your sector of journeying is illuminated.
The New Year offers you a new vantage point and perspective, as you learn to balance your romantic vision with realistic boundaries. When the Sun and Pluto collide in Aquarius on the 20th, they incite a period of important transformation for your professional life, encouraging you to dedicate yourself to a cause that utilises your talents, while keeping your values in check. The month ends with a Full Moon in Leo, helping you curate a work-home balance and encouraging you to protect your heart.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinGEMINI//GEMINI RISING
2024 opens on a determined note, as you are restored clarity and focus as Mercury stations direct. Setting realistic intentions you can keep, January provides you with the energy of follow-through and discernment, setting the tone for the monumental changes in store.
Boundaries need to be assessed in your intimate circles, and practising restraint of tongue would benefit you. Look out for important revelations in relationships on the 21st. Not everyone is destined for your journey, or are as quick to exercise flexibility in outlooks. As the planets move into Aquarius towards the end of the month, you are reinventing your perspective about how the world provides for you. A mindset of cynicism and victimhood is replaced by hope and possibility.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinCANCER//CANCER RISING
Happy New Year! As we enter 2024, you are emanating from the heart, your sights set on long-term partnership. With the Sun radiating in your opposite sign of Capricorn, the focal point of January is on your closest counterparts. Whether they be friends, coworkers or lovers, you are discerning who to keep in your life in the upcoming year.
With Pluto, planet of the underworld, stationed in your sector of partnerships, revealing the shadow elements of your company, change is required. Don’t be afraid to part ways from anyone who is diminishing your sense of safety, and remember, when you part ways from toxicity something healthier is always waiting to take its place. January is your time to outline the treatment you want to accept – and holding firm boundaries when faced with people on a power trip.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinLEO// LEO RISING
Happy New Year, Leo! Capricorn season shines its light on your sector of health and wellness, motivating you to keep any New Year’s resolutions that pertain to your body. Commit to curating a wellness protocol, and fine-tuning your machine, so you can be a weapon of mass seduction. Mid-month, as the planets move into Aquarius, romance is on the horizon. You are craving new counterparts, eager to embrace more eccentric company.
As Pluto stations in your sector of partnerships, fated encounters are in store. You are given X-ray vision when it comes to your company, and you might not always like what you see. Equally prone to bouts of obsession and detective work, the relational dynamics of 2024 are intense. Utilise the full moon in your sign on the 25th to expunge any lower modalities of relating, and remind yourself of your lovability.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinVIRGO// VIRGO RISING
New Year’s resolutions are not an annual activity for you, as you like to set tangible goals you can meet weekly. Your sharp mind is enhanced when Mercury stations direct on the 1st, helping you set your sights on the year ahead. What do you want to accomplish? How do you want to be received by the world at large? What legacy do you wish to leave behind? Set a pen to paper on the 11th, when a New Moon falls in your creativity sector.
Around the 20th, the mood shifts, and you are encouraged to curate a routine that enhances your mind-body connection. Eager to experiment with new health fads, you are inspired to try out the latest and greatest in medicinal concoctions that provide you with energy and nutrition. Whatever you put into your body, plays out in your reality. This year you will be taking major leaps forward in areas of wellness.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinLIBRA // LIBRA RISING
The New Year kicks off on an unusually insular note, as you are inspired to clean house and hunker down at home. With areas of family and your abode highlighted, you are changing your scenery, eager to curate a cosy vibe. Whether you are letting things go, redecorating or even trying to implement some intuitive feng shui, you are focused on providing yourself with safety.
The year ahead holds less socialising and more purpose work, and you are encouraged to make cuts to your company. With Pluto moving into your sector of romance, you may be going through some long-awaited endings, clearing room for more intrinsic and fated connections. You are cleaning house, both figuratively and literally, taking skeletons out of your closet and making room for upscale designer. Avoid the desire to rekindle burnt-out flames. True love awaits.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinSCORPIO//SCORPIO RISING
With Mercury stationing direct on the 1st, you are restored a sharpened sense of clarity, keeping a laser focus on the year ahead. Pluto, your planetary ruler, has been in Capricorn for nearly two decades – exasperating your sense of ambition and material desires. As the planet of power prepares to proceed into futuristic Aquarius, you begin to challenge the status quo and shift gears. If your emotional state was heavily affected by your financial freedom, expect a sense of alleviation.
The days of celebrity culture and corrupt politicians are nearly in our rear-view. Welcome to an age of ideas, an era of new beginnings. The currency you crave is commitment to self. You have transformed your propensity to pedestalise untrustworthy people, and are learning to become your own authority. Eager for community, January means that it’s time to find your people, assess your values and pick a new mission.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinSAGITTARIUS// SAGITTARIUS RISING
Capricorn season is about adulthood, which you have a tendency to steer clear of, much preferring to live life as an endless set of adventures. January keeps you grounded, as the planets challenge you to make resolutions and commitments to last the upcoming year.
With the planets congregating in your sector of finances, use the 11th to set intentions for your income. You are encouraged to formulate more innovative and sporadic avenues of income, and become your own boss. Opt for pitching projects, rather than falling back into the dangerous lull of a 9-5. Reject tradition and embrace financial success. You unearthed latent talents, and reclaimed abilities in 2023, and now is your time to shine.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinCAPRICORN// CAPRICORN RISING
With the communicative hiccups and mishaps of December’s Mercury Retrograde behind you, you kick off the new year with steadfast clarity. Eager to make moves that have been delayed, 2024 begins with an uplifting momentum, particularly when Pluto excavates your sign on the 20th, alleviating fears and beckoning you forward. Mars remains in your sign, helping you pair your words with actions and adding a pep in your step.
Use the New Moon on the 11th to discern your direction and dream up wild desires that take you to new territory. Your priorities have changed, and you want to alleviate responsibilities in order to find a network of like-minded individuals, who share your integral values. When Aquarius season begins on the 20th, you are encouraged to utilise your community and social sphere to create and collaborate professionally.
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Happy New Year and Happy Birthday early Aquarians! As 2024 begins, you find yourself anticipating great and lasting metamorphosis. Transformation is on the horizon, as Pluto prepares to enter your sign, providing you with power and the promise of permanent change. As a result, you may find yourself more insular in early January, taking inventory of your varied experiences, processing emotional material. You have been so many people, in so many connections, and your gift of perspective and insight is of ample value in the year ahead. Use January to get grounded, centred, and emanate your outlook.
You will find that in 2024 you are powerfully honest, bestowed a pair of X-ray goggles, able to detect the underlying truth in almost anything. A cazami (alignment) between Pluto and the Sun in Aquarius on the 20th beckons you to begin to share your more vulnerable side with a wider audience, and proudly gallivant ahead.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinPISCES// PISCES RISING
Happy New Year, Pisces! Last month’s retrograde could have felt sporadically slow, with a lot of stops and starts. December brought professional delays and mishaps, and even an underlying sense of confusion around your career direction. Fret not, for January arrives bestowing much needed clarity. As Venus transits across your career sector, people you know may provide opportunities to share your creative gifts with a wider audience. This transit bodes well for self-publishing and travelling to foreign terrain, so expect luck and blessings so long as you take risks.
With the New Moon in Capricorn occurring on the 11th, your new year’s intentions are heard by the heavens, and any wishes of wanderlust or exploration may very well come true. You want to spread your wings and see the world, abandoning the mundane humdrum of local life. This year, you are craving variety, a change of scenery and a grand adventure. The planets are eager to provide you with inspiration, so long as you continue to employ your imaginative faculties and visualise.
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