Mars is your planetary ruler Aries, so it’s an important celestial body to know about! When Mars makes moves, you feel it more than other signs. Mars moves into your tenth house of career on the 16th, which is excellent for networking and all public image matters. Mars will have an impact on your ascendant for those of you who are Aries rising. This will give you the courage and confidence you need to confront any lingering matters that may have hung on to your to-do list since the end of last year. Until February 23rd, you have the support you need to reach higher in career, and connect with important powerful people who may act as allies or simply strengthen your ambition for the coming year. It’s a good time to connect with contacts in your field who stimulate your vision and strategy. 

Your ruler will join Mars in Capricorn from the 13th, making this a highly creative time for you dear Taurus. Mars will spend the next five weeks in your ninth house of travel, higher learning and spirituality. It’s a wonderful time to branch out of your comfort zone in terms of reading material and engage your intellect a bit more. The ninth house is a place that offers truth, wisdom and expansion, so reach for it! Perhaps an online course, documentary series or academic book will stimulate the curiosity that surges with this incoming Mars transit. You may also feel the urge to be more social and interact with community more due to Mars’s movements. Connect, get curious, and see what you discover. 

Mars enters your rather private eighth house of transformation for the next five weeks. There are rumblings deep within your psyche that relate to your feelings about the past. If you’re coupled up, this signals a highly sensual and intimate time where you can truly understand something about your psychological habits in relating to another. Mercury in the sign opposite yours gives you the ability to clearly communicate how you feel now, even if the desire for privacy is stronger than usual. With Saturn continuing to move through your career zone, the start to 2026 is about understanding how what you do publicly relates to who you are as a person inside. Your outer efforts need to bring satisfaction and fulfilment on a deeper level. 

Mars in Capricorn activates your seventh house of relationships. Until 23/02 you will naturally notice more people wanting to engage and connect. Whether in the hallway at work, while ordering your morning coffee or through deliberate action on your behalf, this is bound to be a time of abundant connection. Make a point of actively nourishing important bonds in your life. If conflict arises (because let’s face it, Mars is the planet of aggression) then you’ll have the courage and confidence to speak your mind and deal with it directly. Mars will give your sensitive sign the gusto to breeze past obstacles, so fear not if they arise. Digging your heels in and being stubborn about what you desire isn’t a bad idea now. Just watch out for any exaggerated impatience. Everything happens in divine timing. 

You’re wrapping up a five week period of Mars activating your sector of personal creativity, children and joy, so it’s been a festive time. Now from the 16th, Mars enters your sector of service, work and health, bringing structure where you need it most. It’s a good time to focus on financial planning for the year ahead due to Jupiter in your abundance house and Saturn in your sector of deep-wealth. This Mars transit will help you tackle goals and streamline your life to set you up for success throughout the year. Get excited about a new fitness routine or workout class that invigorates your week and keeps your day interesting. You’ll have more energy than usual so find ways to express it.

Mars will spend the next few weeks moving through your fourth house of home, family and property. With almost all of the other planets hanging out in the same sector for all of January, home and family are your focus now. Saturn in your fitness and health zone will encourage you to polish your workout regimes so that they challenge the status quo and keep you mentally satisfied. If it’s too easy, it won’t stretch your limits. Relationships of all kinds also receive a boost due to this Mars transit and business negotiations or collaborative efforts put the ball in your court. Mars wants to see you take charge of your life in the next five weeks and do so without stubbornness. An open mind is where you find success thanks to Jupiter in your ninth house of wisdom. Stay pure of heart while unwavering in your demands of life in the next month. There will be plenty of enjoyable moments with loved ones, so make space in your diary for play and recreation. Venus wants you to flow through tasks now. 

Mars in Capricorn activates your house of communication and learning. This is a curious, dynamic time for you where you get to express yourself more freely, ask more questions and indulge your wanderlust. Use this time to engage with others socially perhaps more freely than your private sign would prefer to usually. Peace and enjoyment for you comes from the interchanging of ideas with others who don’t necessarily share the same viewpoint. The bridge from January to February is all about self expression and asking questions that are not a means to an end. What does it feel like to enjoy a museum exhibition or watch a movie that is out of your comfort zone. Try it and see how it expands your perception, leading to greater creativity and better decisions in business. 

Mars in Capricorn will stimulate your house of income, financial stability, speech and family relations. While Saturn continues to hunker down in your fourth house of home and family, this is a time of increased focus on the important building blocks of your life. Jupiter in Gemini continues to bring you positive new relationships that offer you growth and the chance to be authentically yourself. Use this time to consolidate your finances and expand your abundance mindset if necessary. Your return on investment is to be considered now. 

This is your chance to step into your highest potential and show the world who you are. If the end of 2025 felt stagnant or not as fast paced as you’d like, Mars in Capricorn until February 23rd is here to help accelerate your lofty dreams and bring them closer to reality. The only thing to watch out for now may be some impatience. Mars is a feisty planet who when traversing your own sign can imbue you with the courage of a warrior and the impatience of someone busy with an important agenda. Luckily Venus is also in your sign for the coming weeks offering you the chance to weave pleasure into your life wherever you so wish to see some more sparkle and fun. Indulge your senses through a spa day or creative hobbies to satisfy Venus’s urges this month. Female friendships and relations of all kind receive a boost thanks to the Venusian influence. 

Mars in Capricorn for you dear Aquarius is a time of closure, of endings and processing. This may be a time of intense subconscious activity. Your dream world may be more vivid than usual, and sleep may be beckoning you into its embrace more often than usual. Listen to your body more than usual, for you are undergoing a deep transformation before Mars finally enters your own sign on February 23rd. Venus is together with Mars in your twelfth house which brings heightened creative inspiration and a chance to give yourself more pleasure. More rest is needed so that the fruit of this astrology can show up for you once February arrives. 

This transit of Mars in Capricorn which lasts until February 23rd is a time of material abundance, connection with like-minded community and togetherness. Your social bonds require your interaction and they want to see you lit up in all your glory during this time. You have the courage and power to carry forth your goals before Mars slips into your sleepy twelfth house of seclusion and rest from February 23rd. Now is the time to reach out to those you love and enjoy the support of your allies. Whether for personal or professional purposes, this is sure to be an active time of socialising and rewarding interactions.