SCORPIO HOROSCOPE for JANUARY 2026

SCORPIO/SCORPIO ASCENDANT

So the month begins with Mercury into your 3^rd house, joining an awesome stellium of Venus, Sun & Mars. To the extent the 3^rd house is about your mental genius, the ideas that turn you on and how you communicate about it, you are already so onto it!

Venus & Sun bring creative inspiration, about the core values that turn you on, enough to express whatever you’re on about, with shiny authenticity. Mars brings the courage of your convictions, to stick up for whatever you believe in, in fierce Scorpio style-and even better act upon your gut instincts that feel so right, sans wasting time with unnecessary self doubt. Know what I mean?

So Mercury turning up, from Jan 2^nd is perfect to clarify your intentions, as you look forward to the New Year ahead. I mean on the one hand, you could suddenly be questioning everything, to make sure your belief systems stand up to your own scrutiny, let alone whoever you are talking to about it. Ideally, this is a good thing! You get to finesse your own opinions, with elegant intellectual discipline.

As you finesse the persuasive charm, with which you express yourself about it. I mean do admit your tendency to be enigmatic, lowkey challenging everyone to read the subtle cues-as you reman inscrutable, with your poker face on? Scorpio doesn’t like to give too much away-about their next move on the chessboard of life, right? Maybe clever Mercury keeps you super savvy, about your strategies in this regard. Also maybe Mercury helps, to express yourself with incandescent clarity-feels so good to be clear as a bell, letting everyone know exactly what you think. Certain key dialogues going on, could get real at warp speed, in the first half of Jan!

Especially the Sun in your 3^rd house, activated by the Full Moon of Jan 3^rd, joining positive Jupiter in his natural habitat-the 9^th house of idealistic, visionary, wisdom. All about the quest for meaning & higher purpose, in terms of personal growth. I mean with Jupiter retrograde, the real buzz could be interrogating everything you believe in, with an open mind to more expansive, exciting ways to pursue your purposeful dreams and schemes, in the world.

Also, it must be said, this situation of Venus & Mars flanking the Sun, is spectacular energy, for love/marriage & romantic compatibility. So in the 3^rd house, your superpower here is effective communication. Especially with Uranus, nearly completing several years in your 7^th, love/partner sector. You are presumably well versed by now, at sparking up liberating new ways to relate to your loved ones, that require radical honesty-or at least exciting frisson, embracing the things you can’t control about one another, as an actual turn on? As opposed to, do admit, your tendency to lurk in the corner, being infuriatingly enigmatic and hoping everyone will read your mind, hmmm?

So if already partnered/in love, ideally open to actually talk about the feelings going on, to renew the real, fluxy, exciting chemistry between you, rather than just boring control freakery? Or if single/swanning around on the dating scene? You are so damn desirable-to the extent your magnetic, fascinating flirty wiles are on point. Even more than usual you know how to lure them in, with sexy verbal repartee.

By the New Moon of Jan 19^th, in your 3^rd house, with Mercury & Mars exactly conjunct. Your capacity to express yourself with clever, intellectual genius and passionate authenticity is awesome-in all areas of life.

Then you get to apply this, specifically in your 4^th house of home, family & domestic dynamics. Where your ruler Pluto is lowkey digging into the roots, of your foundational notions of where & with whom you belong-in order to transform and empower your entire sense of the home base:

So Venus into your 4^th from Jan 18^th, exactly conjunct Pluto by Jan 21^st is so welcome! For gorgeous creative inspiration, to beatify your existing abode, or maybe manifest a new one? And gorgeous, loving relating skills, to get along with your tribe and harmonise familial dynamics. Even if Pluto brings weird power trips or volatile, intense feelings-Venus helps to ameliorate any drama, and hopefully love the hell out of one another anyway, as best as possible. Especially swiftly followed by Sun, Mercury & Mars, all conjunct Pluto by the end of Jan. The focus on the Scorpio home life, with the confidence & clever relating skills to create the sanctuary & tribe you desire-is real, for the second half of the month!

Then Neptune into your practical 6^th house, from Jan 28^th. The more you have a supportive home base, can navigate Neptune inspiring daily habits, around holistic wellbeing & creative work ethic, for the next several years. More on this Neptune action, in the February scopes…

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