[Fate & Free Will ] Astrology for the Week of December 29 - January 4, 2026

2025 ends in a fog and 2026 asks you to hit the ground running as soon as it clears. There's a pile-up of planets in Capricorn ready to work, and once Mercury joins them Thursday afternoon, you've got some of the most productive energy of 2026 and it lasts through mid February. (I didn't say easy, I said productive.)

The only speed bump is Saturday's Full Moon asking you to notice something important before you barrel past it.

Monday 12/29

• ☽ ▻ Taurus | 6:57 am eastern
• ☽ at 02° 38‘ Taurus  □ ♇  at 02° 38‘ Aquarius | 11:24 am eastern
• ☽ at 06° 38‘ Taurus △ ♀︎ at 06° 38‘ Capricorn | 6:03 pm eastern
• ☽ at 08° 37‘ Taurus △ ☉ at 08° 37‘ Capricorn | 9:21 pm eastern

Monday has an undercurrent of intensity that can fuel productive work if you channel it. There's a "deal with it now" kind of energy that cuts through post-holiday laziness. Use it. 

Power struggles are possible if you go looking for them, but that same force works well for tackling anything you've been avoiding.

• Best for: Productive work, tackling what you've been putting off, focused effort, cutting through distractions.
• Potential Challenges: Power struggles, obsessive focus, intensity that escalates if unchecked.

Tuesday 12/30

• ☽ at 11° 22‘ Taurus △ ♂︎ at 11° 22‘ Capricorn | 1:53 am eastern
• ☿ at 26° 04‘ Sagittarius □ ♄ at 26° 04‘ Pisces | 2:15 am eastern
• ☽ at 21° 29‘ Taurus ✳ ♃ at 21° 29‘ Cancer | 6:27 pm eastern
• 🌔 Waxing Gibbous Moon | 11:44 pm eastern

Tuesday expect delays, "no" answers, or realizing you need more information before you can move forward. This isn't the day to pitch big ideas or expect enthusiastic responses. 

It IS the day to handle the serious stuff, difficult conversations that require maturity, realistic assessments, or anything that benefits from saying less rather than more.

• Best for: Serious conversations, realistic planning, handling obligations, saying what needs to be said, tasks requiring discipline.
• Potential Challenges: Communication blocks, pessimism, feeling unheard, delays, plans hitting limitations.

Wednesday 12/31

• ☽ at 26° 07‘ Taurus ✳ ♄ at 26° 07‘ Pisces | 1:58 am eastern
• ☽ ☌ ♅ at 27° 57‘ Taurus | 4:56 am eastern
• ☽ at 29° 30‘ Taurus ✳ ♆ at 29° 30‘ Pisces | 7:24 am eastern
• ☽ V/C | 7:24 - 8:13 am eastern
• ☽ ▻ Gemini | 8:13 am eastern
• ☽ at 02° 42‘ Gemini △ ♇ at 02° 42‘ Aquarius | 12:34 pm eastern

Wednesday New Year's Eve arrives with last minute changes and a growing fog that makes it nearly impossible to tell what's true. Information is unreliable. People believe what they want to believe. Promises made tonight may not survive contact with January's reality.

This is fine if you're celebrating and don't need anything to be completely reliable. It's terrible if you're trying to make plans, have a serious conversation, or figure out what someone really means. Assume you're missing something. Verify before you trust.

• Best for: Creative expression, enjoying the fantasy without mistaking it for reality, letting go of rigid expectations.
• Potential Challenges: Lies that sound true, decisions based on false information, believing what you want to believe, promises that evaporate, confusion about what's real.

Thursday 01/01

• ☿ at 29°30' Sagittarius □ ♆  29°30' Pisces | 8:33 am eastern
• ☿ ▻ Capricorn | 4:10 pm eastern

Thursday whatever you think you know, whatever someone told you, whatever brilliant idea strikes... don't act on it yet. This is peak "confident wrong answer" energy. Resolutions made under this influence aren’t the picture of sobriety and discernment.

However, once Mercury moves into Capricorn at 4:10 pm eastern, thinking gets more structured and practical and you're good to go with planning, resolutions, etc. 

• Best for: Rest, recovery, rethinking what’s possible but serious planning AFTER Mercury changes signs, practical goal setting once the fog lifts.
• Potential Challenges: Deception, mental exhaustion, plans built on false premises, the confident wrong answer, mistaking what you want to be true for what is true.

Friday 01/02

• ☽ at 26° 14‘ Gemini □ ♄ at 26° 14‘ Pisces | 2:09 am eastern
• ☽ at 29° 31‘ Gemini □ ♆ at 29° 31‘ Pisces | 7:23 am eastern
• ☽ V/C | 7:23 - 8:09 am eastern
• ☽ ▻ Cancer | 8:09 am eastern
• ☽ at 01° 08‘ Cancer ☍ ☿ at 01° 08‘ Capricorn | 9:57 am eastern

Friday is a "too many tabs open" kind of day. Your mind is still catching up from the week while emotional energy builds toward tomorrow's Full Moon.

Whatever Saturday is going to illuminate is already starting to surface. Pay attention to what keeps tugging at you even when you're busy. That's probably the thing the Full Moon wants you to notice.

• Best for: Admitting (to yourself or others) what you feel instead of what sounds right. Getting something off your chest.
• Potential Challenges: Scattered focus, competing demands, lingering confusion, feeling stretched thin.

Saturday 01/03

• ☽ at 12° 10‘ Cancer ☍ ♀︎ at 12° 10‘ Capricorn | 3:40 am eastern
• 🌕 Cancer Full Moon | 5:02 am eastern
• ☽ at 13° 01‘ Cancer ☍ ☉ at 13° 01‘ Capricorn
• ☽ at 14° 37‘ Cancer ☍ ♂︎at 14° 37‘ Capricorn | 7:37 am eastern
• ☽ at 20° 58‘ Cancer ☌ ♃ at 20° 58‘ Cancer ℞ | 5:54 pm eastern

Saturday the Cancer Full Moon at 5:02 am eastern is the main event. Something is demanding attention while you're in the middle of productive momentum. The tricky part is the work is going well, which makes it harder to stop and notice what else is asking for your attention.

This Full Moon illuminates something you've probably wanted to grow for a while. There's a lot of drive and ambition competing for the same bandwidth. You might push past feelings to keep going, or notice them and decide the 'urgent' work matters more right now.

It doesn't. Both are important.

• Best for: Emotional clarity, realizing what you want, seeing what you've been neglecting, noticing what's been building while you were focused elsewhere.
• Potential Challenges: Missing the moment because you're distracted, pushing past feelings to stay in motion, letting something important lose to something urgent.

Sunday 01/04

• ☽ at 26° 22‘ Cancer △ ♄ at 26° 22‘ Pisces | 2:44 am eastern
• ☽ at 27° 51‘ Cancer ✳ ♅ at 27° 51‘ Taurus ℞ | 5:11 am eastern
• ☽ at 29° 33‘ Cancer △ ♆ at 29° 33‘ Pisces | 7:59 am eastern
• ☽ V/C | 7:59 - 8:43 am eastern
• ☽ ▻ Leo | 8:43 am eastern
• ☽ at 02° 50‘ Leo ☍ ♇ at 02° 50‘  Aquarius | 1:25 pm eastern

Sunday you'll be dealing with residual Full Moon topics until the Moon moves into Leo at 8:43 am eastern. From there, tension builds. Power dynamics surface. Emotions that seemed manageable become harder to control. This could show up as confrontations, obsessive thinking, or situations where someone (maybe you) tries to control what can't be controlled.

• Best for: Confronting what needs to be confronted, work that requires emotional depth, transformative conversations.
• Potential Challenges: Power struggles, control issues, emotional intensity that escalates, obsessive focus, confrontations.

Until next time, my wish for you is multifaceted growth.  - Robin💋