The Week of January 19th, 2026: A powerful start to Aquarius season
Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Episode 266
In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all.
The astrology of the week of January 19th, 2026, awakens us to our collective power. The Sun, Mercury, and Mars all move into Aquarius, pulling focus toward humanitarian issues and the fight for liberation. And four planets join forces with Pluto, bringing secrets, power imbalances, and hard emotional truths to the surface. It’s time to face our fears and the forces that try to rob us of our autonomy.
This episode covers:
The Sun’s sextile to Neptune on Monday, January 19th
The Sun’s entrance into Aquarius on Monday, January 19th
Venus’s conjunction with Pluto on Monday, January 19th
Mars’ trine to Uranus on Monday, January 19th
Mars’ sextile to Saturn on Monday, January 19th
Mercury’s sextile to Neptune on Tuesday, January 20th
Mercury’s entrance into Aquarius on Tuesday, January 20th
The Mercury cazimi on Wednesday, January 21st
Mercury’s conjunction with Pluto on Thursday, January 22nd
Mars’ sextile to Neptune on Thursday, January 22nd
Mars’ entrance into Aquarius on Friday, January 23rd
Mars’ conjunction with Pluto on Tuesday, January 27th
This episode was recorded on 11/19/2025.
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Want to learn what 2026 has in store for you? Open your CHANI app and head to the “This Year” tab to listen to your month-by-month astro breakdowns from Chani Nicholas, read your horoscopes for the year (tailored to the four main areas of your life), and dive into the journal prompts, rituals, altar suggestions, and guided meditations that will help you navigate the astrology of 2026 as it unfolds. Btw, we’re never wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Three things about this week. Number one, it's deeply transformative for our relationships. |
| 0:07.1 | Number two, it demands that we have some very deep and very real conversations. |
| 0:15.8 | Number three, it wants to remind us and wake us up to our collective power. Hello and welcome. This is the |
| 0:26.2 | Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie, Channy Nicholas, in this episode, |
| 0:33.2 | we are talking about the very real and the very deep week of January 19th. Y'all, I told you |
| 0:41.9 | there would be a sea change in January. Did I not? Did I? I know I said it somewhere. Do I say it |
| 0:46.7 | here? If I didn't say it here, let me say it now. There's a sea change. This is it. January 19th, |
| 0:52.5 | everything changes. The first couple of weeks of January were go time. |
| 0:57.8 | We talked about it. I said, get your little seeds in the ground, plant your little seeds, take your |
| 1:02.9 | actions, make your little battle plans, make sure you are starting things now because these are |
| 1:09.3 | the good conditions. I'm not saying these are not good |
| 1:12.6 | conditions. These are different conditions. The conditions that we're working with this week are so |
| 1:19.9 | intense. They are so cathartic and they are so much about power. And I really want us to think about our power. Our power in our personal |
| 1:31.7 | lives, our power in our personal relationships, our power in the world, and the things and, yes, |
| 1:39.0 | the forces that try to make us feel powerless. We are at an important anniversary. |
| 1:47.5 | I just want to say, I'm recording this in November. |
| 1:50.4 | I have no idea what mid to late January looks like. |
| 1:55.0 | None. |
| 1:55.4 | I just have an astrological idea of what this time looks like. |
| 1:58.9 | I don't know what's going on politically. |
| 2:01.9 | I don't know what's going on in the world, but I know the astrology. And the astrology is saying, and also the |
| 2:08.4 | chronological calendar, the Gregorian calendar is saying, it has been a year since there was an |
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