01/01/26

Today at 13:11, Mercury enters Capricorn, inviting our thoughts to slow down, mature, and take responsibility for the direction we’re choosing. It’s the very first day of the year, a symbolic doorway, and there’s something powerful about beginning with intention rather than urgency.

With Mercury entering Capricorn on the first day of the year, this is a powerful moment to understand your inner motivations and long-term direction. A birth chart helps reveal what truly drives you beneath surface desires, offering clarity around your purpose, patterns, and how to consciously choose your next steps.

As this new cycle begins, I find myself reflecting not on what I want to achieve, but on what moves me. So often we move through life on autopilot, reacting instead of choosing. We wake up, go through the motions, and don’t always pause to ask what’s truly driving our decisions.

Sometimes, without realizing it, we’re moved by pain. By old wounds. By comparison, envy, or fear of being left behind. And when that’s the fuel, it’s no surprise we keep repeating the same patterns, same relationships, same frustrations, same endings dressed in different clothes.

This year invites a deeper kind of awareness. Not judgment, not pressure, just honesty. What emotions have been steering your choices? What beliefs have quietly shaped your path without your consent?

Mercury in Capricorn asks us to take responsibility for our inner leadership. To recognize that clarity is a form of self-respect. When we understand what motivates us, we regain our power to choose differently.

Growth doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with seeing more clearly. With asking ourselves where we’re moving from, fear or love, lack or trust, survival or purpose.

Today is an invitation to pause before rushing forward.

To ask: What do I want to be moved by this year? Not what looks impressive. Not what proves something. But what feels aligned, steady, and true.

As the year opens, let this be the moment you choose intention over impulse, awareness over repetition, and truth over habit.