With Venus leaving your career sector in seven days and the Sun, Mars and Mercury all gone within 12 days, the push is on to get this professional year up to speed. While support from the Moon and the South Node brings you to the end of what has been a positive and empowering week on the income, work and career fronts, it is over the weekend that Jupiter is pushing for a need to also have the right work/life balance.

Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of January in your career sector, it is a given that moving into the first full week of 2026, the solar spotlight is going to be on your career and professional situation, matters and options. The difference this year is just how many other planets are here, their interaction with each other and with forces on the income and job fronts. While you began the year with the Sun, Venus, Mars and even the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your career sector, it wasn't until the New Year that Mercury returned with a chance to get your head in the game and think on your feet. Not only has it been decades since all these planets were here at the same time and in time to get the new professional year off to an empowered start, but in the heart of the week, a rare triple alignment between the Sun, Venus and Mars will form, firing up your confidence, motivation and competitive spirit.

Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your career sector, the solar spotlight will always be on your career and professional situation, matters and options as you move into the New Year. The difference this time is while Uranus had left your income sector in July, he is back, while you are also moving into the New Year with the South Node in your work sector. Another difference is how many planets the Sun has brought with him, getting the year off to a powerful start across the income, work and career fronts, though with a push in the first 23 days of the month and then things dialling back to make it more about the journey. You not only begin the year with the Sun in your career sector, but when he returned just before Christmas it was to find that Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos had already been here for seven days, with Venus joining them on Christmas Day. It was five days later that the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment returned to your career sector for the first time in four years and where she will stay until the end of March. The rest of the planets including Mercury, who will return on 2nd January with a chance to get your head in the game and think on your feet, all gone by the end of the month and all within a five day period. These will not only be some of the most defining days of the month across the income, work and career fronts, but so defining that this could shape how things play out for months. That five day period starts with Venus' departure from your career sector on 18th January and ends with Mars' departure on 23rd January. In that time the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars will not only leave but the Moon will move through, with a New Moon on 23rd January giving everything the green light. Before leaving each planet will also form a friendly aspect to Uranus in your income sector and the South Node in your work sector, as will the Moon when it moves through, with Juno staying on to maintain that connection. Also bringing things together on the income, work and career fronts and acting as a trigger will be the Moon's return to your work sector from 7th January to 9th January.