Hi sweetheart, and welcome to the second weekly love horoscope reading for January 6th – 12th. The planets are quite moody, brooding, stormy and like a typical January winter sky in the Northern hemisphere.
Mars is Retrograde in Cancer this week represents a little bit of frustration in terms of both family life and life direction, as maybe things are not proceeding as smoothly as you would like or in the direction you would like.
So if you can you alone or you and a partner can use this disruptive energy creatively, maybe you can stop what you’re doing, reassess and steer your life in a slightly different direction that could possibly lead to a breakthrough.
So often a lack of personal fulfillment or boredom with your current goals or objectives is at the heart of any disagreements or emotional detachment.
With the retrograde as well as Mercury square Neptune, this is a time when there can be some setbacks in relationships, often things become a little bit flat or maybe you experience differences or estrangement because your passions collide.
So while this is not necessarily a time of serious or fundamental problems in a love relationship, there are hurdles to be encountered, there are annoyances and quite a lot of frustration which often surrounds logistical issues.
You and your partner may feel that you just can’t connect or events and circumstances are stopping you from enjoying life as a couple as much as you want to. The message is chill, adjust the pace, be mindful of what’s truly important and disengage from drama.
Here’s Your Weekly Love Horoscope for January 6th – 12th:
Read your weekly love horoscope, based on your Zodiac sign. Remember to check your Sun, Moon, and Rising sign for better accuracy…
Aries: Bones of contention
This is a week when Mercury Square Neptune makes you more passive, less assertive and you may even be more withdrawn, more introspective and definitely less likely to want to argue or debate. It is certainly not a good time to get into heated discussions. You are more likely to keep your thoughts to yourself and less likely to want to take impulsive journeys or social trips.
As Mars enters Cancer retrograde, themes about family and domestic security come to the fore. It’s likely that projects which were initiated to improve or renovate your home tend to stall as it’s more difficult to get cooperation from tradespeople, builders and contractors.
That being said, this isn’t a good time to initiate any major projects or repairs in your home, and if you have any ongoing you should be patient right now and make other plans as it may be impossible to push forward until next year.
Emotionally this can be a period where you feel quite defensive, it’s not unusual for you to become unproductively focused on anger and any recently unresolved issues can cause you quite a lot of irritation.
If you are emotionally mindful, you can express and examine your anger in a productive, way but otherwise you might become dramatic for no reason or you might pick arguments about things that seem trivial as a way of opening up discussions.
It’s a very good week to get to grips with buried emotions and disruptive feelings in an honest way, but healing and satisfaction starts within, so avoid discussing issues with your partner before you have assessed them yourself.
Taurus: Retrace and Regroup
In new relationships, this may seem like a crisis week, as it’s hard to reach agreement and you may feel you have no common ground with your partner however it’s a result of Mercury Square Neptune which encourages deeper thinking; and analysis and some indecision or toying with ideas is normal.
Use this period to pause and re-engage about recent decisions you or you and a partner have made as well as events, and ask yourself, do I want this, should we change gear now, do we understand this properly, are we truly in agreement or are we just going with the flow?
As Mars enters Cancer retrograde, projects in connection with study can be less interesting, more frustrating and you may start to wonder why you ever got involved in certain courses of education. You will certainly reassess any recent goals connected to further education.
This is definitely a time for you to rethink, get reorganized and simplify things, it’s not the greatest time to embark on short trips away or increasing your daily travel commitments.
This is a good time to be strategic, to take a step back and rethink your strategy in work and also to be more diplomatic and considered in your communications in love.
In a relationship it’s definitely not a good time to force yourselves to make important decisions or to be very analytical, as you may not have the facts or knowledge to understand all the important factors in the decision matrix right now.
Gemini: Love Paradox
With Mercury Square Neptune, the paradox is that while you want more freedom, on the other hand you need more support and also more stability from your partner. You need to know that his emotions will remain consistent.
The best way for you succeed right now is to play the percentages, to stick to your guns, to stay in your own bubble and try and shut out distractions. It’s very easy to be set off course by what’s going on socially and in wider society, and in order to keep your life and love goals on track you must trust your own judgement and stick with your opinions, because this is the way to be successful even though patience is also required.
Mars enters Cancer retrograde which can make you little bit passive aggressive because you are feeling a lot of frustration and are often not operating with conscious awareness, so you don’t understand how you are coming across in relationships.
Try not second-guess yourself right now. You may have a sudden lack of confidence or you may be questioning how you are going about things, but this is a natural process as you try to better understand how effective you are being in relationships right now.
Cancer: Responsible not Culpable
Mars enters Cancer retrograde and this often represents an important turning point, new opportunities and a new to pursue a different course with courage and strength. It is often a test of your inner resolve and a need for you to up your energy level to tackle obstacles and pursue something out of the ordinary.
You will have to motivate yourself to work on a long-term or vital goals and you will need to repeatedly push yourself forward, no one else will be able to do this for you, so you have to rely on yourself and dig deep. You may sometimes feel more tired and therefore you have to pace yourself and manage your energy.
During this phase, it’s very important how you handle frustration and conflict, you’re not always able to tackle obstacles head and on, so sometimes you have to retreat, gather yourself and try again in a different way.
It’s often not appropriate or easy to be openly assertive, in certain situations you must be careful however not to be passive aggressive, particularly in your relationships, so make sure that you don’t take out your work dissatisfaction in your love life.
Situations may cause you to feel more responsible than you actually are for the outcome of events, and in these situations you won’t defend yourself.
It’s important that you keep your level of responsibility, culpability or blame in any situation to a realistic level, do not take more credit or indeed more blame that is necessary, otherwise you can create a lot of stress for yourself. It’s important for you to identify any self-defeating behavior or negative messaging and take corrective action.
Leo: Subtle Choices and energy shifts
This is an important week to think about what decisions and choices you are facing with your partner. The fact that Mercury is square Neptune and Mars is retrograde in your solar 12th house, indicates that these decisions or choices are incredibly important and significant, so it is essential that you choose the right avenue with awareness of subconscious attitudes and blockages.
With an existing partner or new partner, focus on what is unique and relish anything that seems a little bit quirky and usual, even learning about the relationship is an opportunity to experience something new within yourself.
If you’re in a new relationship, you should embrace the unpredictable rather than trying to guard against. See your new relationship as a chance to discover something different about yourself every day and get out of comfort zones in terms of your lifestyle.
You may gain by bending the rules slightly and being a bit more flexible with your current financial circumstances. You also need to act in a way that is fair and just, and not under-handed; otherwise, karma will come back to haunt you.
Virgo: Set your red lines
During this week, it is important for you and your partner to be individuals, you both need to do things your way and so let yourselves be king of your destiny, and so don’t force yourself to agree on everything, rather learn to agree to disagree.
With Mars retrograde in Cancer, if your relationship is generally going well, this is the time when your partner can energize you, he can motivate you and help you to be courageous and enthusiastic about your goals and ambitions.
Likewise you should help your partner to pursue his goals as well, so teamwork is not necessary, but what is necessary is being mutually supportive to each other in terms of your individual goals, and almost cheerleading each other.
However, if your relationship is not one of metal support, this is a time when you may feel that your partner is very demanding or you may even be pressuring you to do something that you’re not particularly keen to do so.
This is an important time to have boundaries, although maintaining boundaries often means that there will be some conflict and disharmony, because right now your partner is in a very assertive mood and that means boundaries have to be up and maintained with a lot of strength and persistence. You may have to say NO more than once, so be firm but try not to enter into arguments.
Libra: Success is a choice
With Mars entering Cancer retrograde, during this week your enthusiasm for dealing with the people could wane and that’s why it’s a good idea to take a step back, not over commit and not to arrange anything that’s going to take a great deal of energy and confidence.
In terms of your professional reputation, you should be careful: so if it’s a question of whether to be a little bit controversial or unorthodox or not, it’s probably best to stick to the straight and narrow. This is a great time to perfect things and to make sure the end product is absolutely perfect.
In love, you will generally be eager to pursue ways to agree rather than disagree, as conflict of any kind feels pointless and time wasting. The key in love is to work with what you have, rather than worrying about what you don’t have. Be present in relationships and get stuck in working on the immediate issues and then moving on.
As Mercury in Sagittarius is square Neptune, welcome changes in your relationship, even when you didn’t see them coming, use the opportunity to make adjustments.
Use this time to question and analyses the commitment you have to your partner and review some new relationship norms and mores that will help you both take your relationship forward. Success in love is a choice, so choose to be more successful and become closer than ever as you both learn to navigate the ups and downs of life together as a team.
Scorpio: The questions run too deep
With Mercury square Neptune, events right now may conspire to slow you down and it can be particularly frustrating dealing with other people in the workplace. This is not a good time for sudden sexual liaisons with colleagues, even though it might be possible that you may be in an intense situation with a colleague that leads to some chemical attraction.
Set yourself goals and initiate changes you have been seeking to make, but putting off. You are able assert yourself will with greater conviction, and you can use your powers of persuasion to move the dial in love.
Tackle relationship matters that concern you, you will achieve a lot as you are not likely to over compromise. The next step is also connected with your inner child and this involves bringing sparkle into your life by surprising your partner, encouraging him to surprise you and doing things together that are reminiscent of the time you first met before you got bogged down by responsibility. If you are single, this may be time for spontaneous nights out or dinner parties.
As Mars enters Cancer retrograde, this is not necessarily an opportune time to plan a long trip because your enthusiasm can suddenly wane, making the trip a bit of a damp squib.
It’s also a time when you tend to question things a great deal and your catch phrase may be, “why?” You often become kind of dissatisfied and the things in your life which usually bring you solace can go out the window for a while, so you could behave quite erratically and can be quite hard to calm down because your go to comforts are suddenly not delivering for you.
This often turns out during this period that things that you thought were fairly simple, turn out to be a lot more complicated and that’s why you may suddenly have to devote a lot more time to them.
Sagittarius: Delicate Intimacy
As Mars is retrograde in Cancer, it’s important for you to be delicate in how you approach sexual matters with your partner right now, as he’s kind of indecisive in general and possibly a little bit insecure about his prowess.
It’s definitely a good time to think about some sex counseling or starting discussions about how you could explore more, take your sex life forward or possibly address issues more creatively.
It’s not a good time to avoid intimate discussions, but on the other hand these have to be tackled quite delicately, however if you use a little bit of imagination it’s amazing what can be achieved in terms of turning your sex life around and being more expensive in the bedroom.
This is definitely not good time for you as a couple to apply for a loan, extend credit or get a little bit wild with the credit cards. You should try and save money as much as possible and pay down debt, if it is really necessary for you to get a loan you should be cautious, you should shop around and you should make sure you deal with reputable people. If you deal with anything online where you can’t have hands or physical verification the people you are dealing with, you could land in deep water.
This is a period where you may also review your love relationships and any relationship that was entered into very recently i.e. within the previous 2 months, could come into question, or you may suddenly have a lack of enthusiasm or indeed cold feet. So definitely not a time yield to demands for commitment.
Capricorn: Playing Defence
Although this week is great for contemplating home improvement, property investment, moving home or buying new property, those pursuits should be approached with caution. During the Mars retrograde, household projects could slow down or stand still, you and a partner may have a little rethink or you may run into some difficulties involving breakdowns and malfunctions.
Emotionally you are inclined to be more defensive during this retrograde period, you are putting up walls and getting a little bit touchy, and you can focus on old hurts and angers, wanting to rake up issues from the past.
In some cases issues from the past will resurface and need to be dealt with but you often deal with them in a knee-jerk way and not a particularly wise or detached way, so count to ten and understand the domino effect.
Now, the Mars retrograde has an effect on long-term relationships, business partnerships and also negotiations. This is definitely not a good time for marriage counselling as it could actually lead to more problems than solutions, and it may set you back as a couple.
It’s also important to communicate clearly because with Mercury square Neptune your partner may perceive you as harder to reach and so you have to make more of an effort to understand his feelings and where he is coming from.
Aquarius: Getting authentic wins
There are issues of tension and anxiety for Aquarius Woman during Mars retrograde, you can feel more snappy and irritable and you are certainly more careless about communications, which can leave others feeling left out in the cold.
Expect some problems or delays in terms of day-to-day commuting or IT issues and internet dating is a minefield. This is probably a good time to focus more on working from home and you should delay any unnecessary short-term trips or interstate travel, because these may be frustrating and there may be mix-ups and dead ends. This isn’t a good week to have a first date after meeting a guy online.
The saying ‘necessity is the mother of all invention’ come to mind this week, because problems that occur can actually awaken an ingenious side of your character and you may actually drive great benefit from working out how to sort out a problem, you may also gain new skills or abilities by doing this.
You can be quite anal during this phase or even a little obsessive, you tend to find details very important and sometimes really small things can really bug you. Sometimes you search for problems or issues that you can put your mind to in order to distract you from parts of your life or relationship that you are not well and finding really boring and uninspiring.
It’s really important that you pace yourself, this can often be a period where you are extremely impatient and you want to see more progress, but you can’t force the pace. You have to work with the natural rhythms and flows in relationships, and quality matters and it’s more important to hone in on what truly counts than getting shorter term wins that fail to bring real progress.
Pisces: Backtracking
This is not a time to be gung ho or overconfident as it’s likely that there will be surprises and pitfalls when it comes to spending and investing. You may need to reassess recent purchases and if you do buy anything then you need to make sure that the guarantees and warranties are effective, and you may want to take extra insurance out on important items, particularly motor vehicles.
Mars retrograde in Cancer indicates some havoc in your romantic life. However, this can actually be an exciting time to meet a new Man, because you are eager to get to know intriguing people and you want relationships to move fast.
You have a lot of enthusiasm when it comes to matters of the heart and are quite affectionate, wearing your emotions on your sleeve, however at the same time you blow hot and cold as emotions flare up and die down very quickly. In addition you’re quite touchy and this can lead to some tensions because you tend to become angered or upset quite quickly.
Romantic relationships are generally quite complex right now, and it’s often hard to fulfill your desires – as The Stones song goes, “I can’t get no satisfaction.”
So while you get quite hot and bothered and eager for intimacy, your expectations are probably too high and you can come over as quite anxious, which means you don’t respond in a way leads to fulfilment and often romance seems a hot mess because you can suddenly have a change of heart.
Backtracking and questioning what you really want and whether you are doing the right thing is particularly for the course in love, and this can make you hard to be with because you are so ambiguous about where you stand in the relationship.
Summary
During Mars retrograde in Cancer we tend to perceive the behavior of others as confusing, but at the same time we can be a little ambiguous which often leads to stalemates and loss of communication.
In addition with Mercury square Neptune, there is this strange push pull, on off about this period. During this phase we battle to put our mind to anything, we keep questioning, we have a lot of self-doubt and therefore any initiatives that we’ve started will stall because we are less confident. Work on communicating, talking things through with your partner and helping to maybe settle the doubts in both of your minds.
Key phrases for this week:
Clarity, Emotional awareness, Doubts, Questioning, Reassess, Conflict avoid, Future orientation
See you again next week.
Your sister and relationship astrologer,
Anna Kovach
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