The Week of January 26th, 2026: The Full Moon in Leo and a once-in-a-lifetime shift
Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas
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4.3 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Episode 267
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 26th, 2026, is about taking up space and making sh*t happen. Neptune fully moves into Aries for the first and only time in our lifetimes, where it will inspire us to fight for our ideals over the next decade. Mars also teams up with Pluto, underscoring our collective power. And the Full Moon in Leo stirs up creative potential, urging us to dream bigger and bolder. It’s time to get loud, command attention, and act on our visions for a better world.
This episode covers:
Neptune’s entrance into Aries on Monday, January 26th
Mars’ conjunction with Pluto on Tuesday, January 27th
Mercury’s conjunction with Venus on Thursday, January 29th
The Full Moon in Leo on Sunday, February 1st
The end of Uranus’ retrograde on Tuesday, February 3rd
This episode was recorded on 01/13/2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Three things about this week. One, it's home to a once in a 165 year cycle. Two, we're going to watch |
| 0:11.4 | some really big power dynamics take place in our personal and our collective lives. And three, |
| 0:20.6 | by the end of the week, something is going to get |
| 0:21.9 | very loud and very ferocious and very in our face. Hello and welcome. This is the |
| 0:29.0 | Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie, Channey Nicholas. |
| 0:35.0 | We are ending January and we are moving into February. And I need to make one |
| 0:41.2 | thing clear. February is one of the most important months of 2026 because it contains within it |
| 0:50.5 | astrology that is so rare and is happening all at once. So by the time we get into |
| 1:01.1 | March, we're going to be like, whoa, what even was February? So we are beginning |
| 1:08.1 | February with a very loud, very full, very boisterous, very obvious, very big |
| 1:14.4 | full moon in Leo. |
| 1:16.1 | But before we get there, Monday, the 26th of January, Neptune enters Ares. |
| 1:24.2 | This is a once in a 165 year transit. We had a little bit of Neptune and Ares in 2025. |
| 1:32.5 | We had it between March and October of 2025. So we had a little taste test, if you will. And because |
| 1:42.9 | Aries is a sign that is so full of fire, so full of energy, |
| 1:49.0 | and so full of get up and go, it galvanizes a great deal into action. Because Neptune is a |
| 1:59.0 | planet that is about the dream and the ideals and the visions, |
| 2:04.4 | we know that this is our signal to make sure that we are dreaming actively and on purpose. |
| 2:13.0 | We are dreaming the world into being, that we are visualizing the world in which we want to create. |
| 2:22.3 | We are seeing in our mind's eye, in our imagination, the way forward, the next step and the next step and the next step and the next step. |
| 2:33.8 | We don't know exactly where we're going the next step. We don't know exactly where |
| 2:35.8 | we're going to end up. We don't know exactly how we're going to get there. But the point of Neptune |
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