The Week of January 5th, 2026: New beginnings with Mars and Venus
Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas
CHANI
4.3 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Episode 264
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 5th, 2026, is about planting seeds and making moves. Venus cozies up to the Sun, spotlighting where we need to invite more beauty, balance, and connection into our lives and relationships. Then Mars joins the party, pushing us to fight for our long-term goals. It’s time to be relentless about what we want. You ready?
This episode covers:
The Venus cazimi on Tuesday, January 6th
Venus’ conjunction with Mars on Wednesday, January 7th
The Mars cazimi on Friday, January 9th
Venus’ opposition to Jupiter on Friday, January 9th
The Sun’s opposition to Jupiter on Saturday, January 10th
Mars’ opposition to Jupiter on Saturday, January 10th
This episode was recorded on 11/17/2025.
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Want to know what Chani’s reading beyond the astro? Join her book club, The Next Chapter, to explore her favorite titles and build community around books that reckon with and reimagine the world we’re living in.
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.
The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.
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| 0:00.0 | Three things about this week. One, it's excellent for relationships. Two, it is phenomenal for getting things done. |
| 0:09.3 | Three, it's filled with go time potential. Hey, Astro Bestie, good news. We have made our year ahead content four times more detailed, richer, more in depth. |
| 0:25.0 | It's really like four times the readings. |
| 0:26.8 | You have four astrological horoscopes for the year, 26. |
| 0:31.6 | Instead of four readings for the year, instead of giving you a quarterly reading for the year, |
| 0:36.8 | I have recorded 12, count them, |
| 0:40.2 | 12 readings for the year, one for every single month because I need you to understand the |
| 0:46.5 | astrology month by month. It is a wild year and we are going to make the most of it understanding |
| 0:53.1 | when to go, when to hold them, |
| 0:54.9 | when to fold them. You get the idea. There's also a bonus year at a glance reading. I cannot |
| 1:01.6 | wait for you to dive in. Head to the Chani app now and go to the Your Year tab. I'll see you over there. |
| 1:10.2 | Hello and welcome. This is the Astrology of the Week |
| 1:13.1 | Ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie Channy Nicholas. And in this episode, we were |
| 1:19.5 | talking about the infamous week of January 5th. Why is it infamous? Well, because I've been talking |
| 1:25.3 | about it forever. It's just infamous in this little realm of |
| 1:28.3 | existence. And it has so many opportunities in it. This is the week I've been talking about |
| 1:37.3 | for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks because the astrology of 2026 is very roller coastery. It is very up and down and here and there. |
| 1:49.4 | And let me tell you something. We do not want to be trying to begin things in February or March. |
| 1:57.8 | And April seems a little bit clustered as well. We really want to begin things now. |
| 2:04.0 | So if you've been around, you've been hearing me trying to get us all in gear for this week. |
| 2:09.8 | This is the week we want to plant our seeds or take action on the seeds we planted at the solstice. |
| 2:19.5 | If you're with me around the solstice, |
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