On January 15th, the Capricorn stellium continues to test your relationship with authority and ambition. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars cluster in your tenth house of public standing, asking you to consider what kind of legacy you're building and at what cost. This isn't about climbing ladders for the sake of status as it's about understanding that your actions in the world carry weight, consequence, and moral dimension.
As we watch millions take to the streets in protests across all 31 provinces of Iran, the planetary alignments reveal something profound about collective courage. The Capricorn stellium squares your Aries Sun, activating your natural warrior energy but demanding strategic patience rather than impulsive action. Mars in Capricorn teaches that effective rebellion requires planning, that righteous anger needs structure to create lasting change rather than momentary catharsis.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile, which perfects on the 20th but is already active, speaks to the delicate balance between revolution and institution-building. The Iranian people are demonstrating what happens when Saturn's structures (in this case, an oppressive regime) become so rigid they can no longer contain Uranian impulses toward freedom. You're being asked to examine your own relationship with authority, not just external authority figures, but the internal tyrant who might be suppressing your authentic self in the name of "being realistic."
Today, Mercury in Capricorn is moving toward conjunction with Mars, sharpening your strategic thinking and your ability to communicate with force and precision. Use this energy to plan, to organize, to build alliances rather than to fight battles you're not yet prepared to win. The protests in Iran show us that timing matters, that sometimes patience is revolution's greatest weapon, and that when people finally move together, they move mountains.
What strikes about the Iranian situation is the role of collective organization. The protests escalated on 8th January following calls for protests and general strikes, demonstrating how individual courage becomes exponentially more powerful when channeled through coordinated action. Your Aries nature wants to be the first one charging through the gate, but leadership in this moment looks like coalition-building, like ensuring everyone is equipped and ready before the charge begins.
The stellium's sextile to Saturn in Pisces in your twelfth house suggests that some of your most powerful work right now is happening behind the scenes, in the realm of spiritual preparation and unconscious patterning. Before you can effectively challenge external authority, you need to understand your own internalized relationship with power. Where did you learn that achievement requires self-betrayal? Who taught you that success means abandoning your authentic desires? These aren't abstract questions, they're the groundwork for genuine transformation.
Pluto in Aquarius is also playing a supporting role, sitting at the edge of the stellium and asking you to consider how your professional ambitions serve collective liberation rather than just personal advancement. The Iranian protesters aren't fighting for individual success, they're fighting for a fundamentally different social order. What would it mean for your career goals to be oriented toward justice rather than just recognition?
Consider what you're willing to sacrifice for your principles. The Iranian protesters are risking their lives for freedom. What are you risking? And more importantly, what structures in your own life, internal or external, need dismantling? Your fire is needed, Aries, but it needs to burn with purpose, not just heat. The warrior archetype you embody is being redefined right now, shifting from the lone hero to the community organizer, from the impulsive fighter to the strategic revolutionary. This doesn't diminish your power, it amplifies it, directing your considerable force toward targets that actually matter and battles that can actually be won.
Thursday finds you navigating between stability and upheaval as Uranus retrograde in your sign prepares for its final return to Gemini in April. The Capricorn stellium activates your ninth house of belief systems, philosophy, and what you hold sacred. There's a fundamental question being asked: what do you truly believe, and are you willing to let those beliefs be tested against reality?
The situation in Iran reflects a brutal economic reality that resonates with your sign's domain. Beginning on 28 December 2025, protests initially spurred by Iran's deteriorating economy and rising inflation have been held in all 31 of Iran's provinces, with the average bottle of cooking oil having just doubled in price. When people can't afford to eat, when their savings evaporate, when the basic security you value so deeply is stripped away, revolution becomes inevitable. This is Taurus energy pushed to its absolute breaking point, where the body's needs can no longer be denied or delayed by ideology or political control.
Uranus in your sign has been revolutionizing your relationship with material security since 2018. You've learned that clinging to what feels safe can sometimes be the most dangerous thing you can do. The Iranian regime's attempt to maintain control through violence and censorship while the economy collapses demonstrates the futility of rigid attachment to power structures that have lost all legitimacy. Today's energy asks you to consider what you're building your sense of security upon. Is it genuinely stable, or are you, like the Iranian regime, maintaining an illusion of control while the ground crumbles beneath you?
The Capricorn planets sextile Saturn in Pisces and trine Uranus in your sign, creating a supportive structure for making necessary changes without losing yourself entirely. This is practical revolution, the kind where you update systems that aren't working while honoring what genuinely serves. Think of it as renovating the foundation of your house while you're still living in it. Difficult, yes. Impossible, no.
Venus in Capricorn speaks to the beauty of integrity, the elegance of living according to your actual values rather than performing values for social approval. The Iranian protesters chanting "Death to the dictator," "Death to Khamenei," and "This year is the year of blood, and Khamenei will be overthrown" are demonstrating what happens when the gap between stated values and lived reality becomes unbearable. They were promised governance, economic stability, spiritual leadership and received corruption, poverty, and brutality instead.
Your ninth house activation by the stellium asks you to examine the philosophies and belief systems you've inherited. What ideas about money, security, and worthiness did you absorb from your family, your culture, your early experiences? Are these beliefs actually true, or have you been operating according to inherited scripts that no longer serve your actual life? The Iranian people are rejecting an entire ideological framework that has governed their country for nearly five decades. What ideological frameworks might you need to reject?
Mars in Capricorn in your ninth house suggests that some of your beliefs might need to be defended through direct action rather than just intellectual assent. It's one thing to believe in justice theoretically; it's another to take concrete steps toward it. The protesters in Iran show us what belief looks like when it's embodied, when it's willing to risk everything, when it moves from the realm of philosophy into the realm of action.
Today, examine where you're compromising your values for comfort. Examine where your desire for security might be keeping you complicit in systems, personal or political, that harm others. Your steadiness is a gift, but only when it's in service of something worth maintaining. In October 2025 the World Bank projected that Iran's economy would shrink in both 2025 and 2026, and that annual inflation would rise towards 60%, these aren't abstract numbers; they represent human suffering, families unable to survive, the erosion of everything your sign holds dear. When the material foundation crumbles, what remains? This is the spiritual question hidden in today's economic pressures, both globally and personally. Your task is to build security that's based on genuine value rather than artificial control, on real resources rather than manipulated markets, on authentic worth rather than inflated self-importance.
The Capricorn stellium in your eighth house of shared resources, power dynamics, and transformation is asking you to look beneath the surface of your relationships and financial entanglements. This isn't comfortable territory for your sign, which prefers to keep things light, mobile, and noncommittal. But today's energy demands depth, demands you reckon with the ways power moves through your life and whose interests you're serving.
The communications blackout in Iran, where authorities cut internet and telephone lines the night of January 8 local time, is particularly relevant to your Mercury-ruled nature. Information is your oxygen, communication your natural habitat. Imagine being cut off from all networks, unable to share what you're witnessing, unable to coordinate with others, unable to speak your truth to the world. Yet the protesters found ways to organize anyway, demonstrating that the need to speak truth to power transcends technology, that human connection and desperate courage can bypass even the most sophisticated censorship.
This resonates with your eighth house stellium because the eighth house is about what happens when normal channels of exchange break down, when you're forced into intimacy and interdependence whether you're comfortable with it or not. Following an internet and telecommunications blackout imposed by Iranian authorities on January 8, 2026, as nationwide protests intensified, the world was largely cut off from direct information about what was happening. The regime tried to control the narrative by controlling communication, the ultimate violation of Gemini principles.
Mercury in Capricorn is in your eighth house, moving toward Mars, suggesting conversations about money, intimacy, and shared power that might feel confrontational but are necessary. The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile supports finding innovative solutions to old power imbalances, whether in your personal finances, your intimate relationships, or your professional negotiations. This aspect says: there are new ways to structure power dynamics, new models for resource sharing, new frameworks for understanding who owes what to whom.
Your mental agility is one of your greatest assets, but it can also be a defense mechanism. Today, resist the urge to intellectualize away uncomfortable truths. The situation in Iran shows us what happens when people stop accepting clever explanations for intolerable conditions. Footage from the southern city of Shiraz showed security forces driving over a protest barrier that read "We revolt due to hunger", simple, direct, undeniable. No amount of sophisticated propaganda can disguise the reality of empty stomachs and empty futures.
The eighth house is also the house of death, rebirth, and transformation. Something in your life needs to die right now, a way of thinking, a relationship dynamic, a financial arrangement, a story you've been telling yourself about how things work. The Iranian people are witnessing the death of a regime that seemed immovable just months ago. "I anticipate that the Islamic Republic that we're seeing today is one unlikely to see 2027. I really think there is going to be some change," said one analyst. When structures that seemed permanent reveal themselves as fragile, it changes everything.
What are you not saying because it might disrupt the peace? What truths are you dancing around with clever words instead of speaking plainly? Today is for direct communication, for calling things what they are, for letting your words carry the weight they deserve. Your flexibility is valuable, but so is your commitment to truth. Find the courage to land somewhere, to take a stand, to let your many perspectives converge into clear action.
The stellium's connection to Pluto in Aquarius suggests that transformation of collective power structures requires new forms of communication, new networks of information sharing, new ways of speaking truth that can't be censored or controlled. Your role might be as translator, as messenger, as the one who finds ways to say what needs to be said even when it's dangerous to speak. The Iranian protesters are risking their lives to communicate basic truths about their reality. What truths are you called to speak, and what are you willing to risk to speak them?
Thursday's Capricorn stellium directly opposes your Cancer Sun, activating your relationship axis and forcing you to examine the balance between self-care and showing up in the world. Six planets in Capricorn (including the Moon until later today) pull you toward structure, responsibility, and achievement, while your Cancerian nature wants to retreat, to nurture, to feel your way through rather than strategize.
The protests in Iran carry particular resonance for your sign, which governs home, family, safety, and belonging. By 10 January 2026, Iran International reported that at least 2,000 protesters had been killed nationwide over the previous 48 hours, with hospitals in Tehran and Shiraz reported to be overwhelmed by injured protesters, many suffering gunshot wounds. When home becomes a battleground, when the desire for safety must be weighed against the need for freedom, your sign understands the impossible calculus involved. These are mothers and fathers, grandparents and children; family units being torn apart by state violence, the sanctity of home violated by political brutality.
The stellium in your seventh house asks: who are your people, and what are you willing to risk for them? Cancer often retreats when threatened, protecting the vulnerable by creating safe havens away from conflict. But sometimes safety requires confrontation. Sometimes the most nurturing thing you can do is fight for a world where everyone can be safe, not just those in your immediate care. The Iranian protesters understand this, they're not just protecting their own families but fighting for a future where all families can thrive without fear.
Venus and Mars both in Capricorn in your partnership sector suggest that your relationships are being restructured right now, whether you're ready or not. The old patterns aren't working. The security you thought you'd built might have been based on unspoken agreements that no longer serve anyone. Today's energy supports having difficult conversations with grace and clarity, setting boundaries that protect your heart while remaining open to connection.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile offers a template for how to honor both stability and change, both tradition and progress. The protests escalated on 8 January following calls for protests and general strikes by Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, representing a connection to pre-revolutionary traditions while fighting for a radically different future. This is the paradox your sign lives as you're the keeper of history and tradition, yet you must also be willing to let the past die when it becomes a cage rather than a foundation.
Saturn in Pisces sextiles the Capricorn planets, offering spiritual support for the practical changes you need to make. This is where Jessica Davidson's contemplative approach meets Elliot Voss's psychological clarity: you can honor your feelings while still taking strategic action. You can grieve what's ending while building what's beginning. The Iranian people are simultaneously mourning what they're losing and fiercely fighting for what they're creating.
Your emotional intelligence gives you access to collective feeling in ways other signs don't experience. You can sense the grief, rage, and hope moving through the Iranian protests as if it were your own. This empathy is a gift, but it can also be overwhelming. Today, practice discernment about what emotions are yours and what you're absorbing from the collective field. You can care without carrying. You can feel with others without losing yourself.
The Moon moves into Aquarius later today, shifting from the concentrated Capricorn energy into your eighth house of transformation and shared resources. This transit asks you to examine how your need for emotional security might be preventing you from engaging with necessary change. Security isn't the same as stagnation. Protection isn't the same as avoidance. The Iranian people are demonstrating that maternal energy, protective, nurturing, devoted to survival, can be revolutionary. It's the mothers and families who are often at the front lines, demanding a future for their children.
Your capacity to care is not weakness; properly directed, it's the force that moves history. Today, let your protective instincts expand beyond your immediate circle. Let your desire for safety become a demand for justice. Let your capacity for nurturance become a commitment to collective liberation. The home you're being called to protect is larger than your personal dwelling, it's the home we all share, and it needs fierce defenders.
Thursday brings the Capricorn stellium through your sixth house of work, health, service, and daily routines. This is unglamorous territory for your royal sign, not the spotlight or the stage, but the behind-the-scenes labor that makes everything else possible. Yet today's transits are teaching you that real power isn't always visible, that sometimes the most important work happens in the ordinary, repetitive actions that build foundations for extraordinary change.
The Iranian protests illuminate this principle beautifully. On the fifth day of protests, workers and employees of the central fruit and vegetable market in Tehran stopped working and joined the nationwide uprising by stopping the distribution cycle. These aren't famous people or political leaders, they're market workers, the invisible labor force that keeps a city fed. Yet their participation transformed the protests from political demonstration to existential crisis for the regime. When the people who make daily life possible simply stop, everything stops.
Your sixth house stellium asks you to examine your relationship with work and service. Are you only interested in the glory, or are you willing to do the unglamorous work that actually creates change? Are you showing up consistently in small ways, or are you waiting for the grand moment when you can be the hero? The Iranian workers at the market demonstrate that heroism often looks like showing up for your shift and deciding, together with your coworkers, that today you won't participate in your own oppression anymore.
Mars and Mercury together in Capricorn in your sixth house sharpen your ability to strategize about daily life, to communicate clearly about work matters, to defend your boundaries around health and routine. This conjunction asks: what daily practices are you willing to commit to in service of your larger goals? Revolution isn't just dramatic moments, it's the accumulation of small decisions, repeated daily, in alignment with your values.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile supports restructuring your work life in innovative ways. Maybe you need to update your skills, change your industry, or completely reimagine what "work" means for you. Saturn in Pisces in your eighth house suggests that this restructuring involves confronting your fears around money and survival. What would you do if you weren't afraid of financial insecurity? What work would you pursue if you trusted that your needs would be met?
Venus in Capricorn in your sixth house reminds you to find pleasure and beauty in the mundane. Your sign is associated with creativity and play, but today's transit says that work itself can be creative, that routine can be beautiful, that there's dignity and even glamour in doing your job well. The Iranian market workers found their power not by becoming something other than what they were, but by recognizing the essential nature of their everyday labor.
Pluto in Aquarius is also playing a role here, transforming your understanding of collective power and community organization. The opposition People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has published the names of 57 protesters killed so far (referred to as martyrs in resistance communications). Hundreds more have been injured, and thousands arrested in recent days. These numbers represent real people, individuals who made the choice to show up, to participate, to add their body to the collective body of resistance. Each person matters. Each contribution counts. This is the opposite of Leo's usual mode of standing out, this is about joining in, about being part of something larger than yourself.
Your health is also highlighted today. The sixth house governs the body, and the stellium here suggests you need to pay attention to physical signals. Are you exhausted? Are you ignoring pain? Are you sacrificing your wellbeing for external achievement? The Iranian people are fighting for their lives in the most literal sense, thousands are injured, hospitalized, dying. Hospitals in Tehran and Shiraz were reported to be overwhelmed by injured protesters, many suffering gunshot wounds. This brutal reality asks you to value your physical existence, to honor the body that allows you to participate in life at all.
Today, commit to small, consistent actions aligned with your values. Show up for the work that needs doing, even when it's not exciting. Take care of your body as an act of resistance against systems that want to exhaust you into compliance. Find your power not in being special, but in being part of a collective force that can move mountains through accumulated effort. Your light still shines, Leo but today it shines brightest when it joins with other lights to illuminate the way forward.
The Capricorn stellium fills your fifth house of creativity, pleasure, risk, and authentic self-expression. For your typically reserved and service-oriented sign, this is an unusual activation, you're being asked to play, to create, to take center stage in ways that might feel uncomfortable or even frivolous given the state of the world. Yet today's transits insist that joy and creativity aren't luxuries; they're necessities for sustainable resistance.
The Iranian protests reveal both the power and the necessity of creative expression under oppression. Even with an ongoing communications shutdown, which experts say is unprecedented in its scale, protesters have found creative ways to organize, communicate, and resist. Symbols become language. Actions become art. The simple act of sitting down in front of security forces, demonstrators sat down in one passage in front of security forces as other shops nearby shut down Tuesday, online videos showed and witnesses said, becomes a form of creative resistance, a performance of nonviolent power that speaks louder than weapons.
Your fifth house stellium asks what you're creating and why. Mercury and Mars together in this sector suggest that your creative work right now needs teeth, needs purpose, needs direction. You're not making art for art's sake, you're making art that says something, that changes something, that contributes to collective understanding or resistance. Your analytical gifts allow you to see patterns others miss, to communicate complex realities in accessible ways. How might you use these gifts creatively?
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile, with Saturn in your seventh house and Uranus in your ninth, supports finding innovative ways to collaborate with others on projects that challenge existing belief systems. Maybe you need to partner with people whose approaches differ from yours. Maybe your creative work needs to incorporate perspectives that make you uncomfortable. The Iranian protests bring together diverse groups, as protesters lit fires while thousands more joined marches in cities including Borujerd, Arsanjan and Gilan-e Gharb, united by common cause despite differences in background, belief, and method.
Venus in Capricorn in your fifth house speaks to the discipline required for creative work. Inspiration is necessary but insufficient; you also need structure, practice, commitment. The Iranian protesters aren't acting on pure spontaneous emotion, there's organization beneath the apparent chaos, coordination beneath the distributed action. Your creative work requires similar discipline, similar commitment to showing up repeatedly even when inspiration wanes.
Pluto in Aquarius hovering near the stellium transforms your understanding of what creative work can be and do. This isn't about self-expression for its own sake, it's about using creativity as a tool for social transformation. Your sixth house Sun usually makes you focus on service and improvement, but today's fifth house activation reminds you that joy and pleasure are also forms of resistance. When regimes try to break people's spirits, insisting on joy becomes revolutionary.
The fifth house also governs risk and courage. What are you willing to risk for authentic self-expression? The Iranian protesters are risking everything, as of Tuesday, at least 1,850 protesters have been killed. You're probably not facing life-or-death stakes in your creative pursuits, but the question remains: what are you willing to risk? Criticism? Rejection? Failure? Your Virgoan perfectionism often prevents you from creating at all because nothing you make feels good enough. Today's energy says: create anyway. Express anyway. Risk the imperfection because the act of creation itself matters.
Your health-conscious nature understands that play and creativity are necessary for wellbeing, yet you often prioritize productivity over pleasure. The stellium in your fifth house demands you reclaim joy as a practice, fun as a necessity, creative expression as medicine. The Iranian people fighting for their freedom are fighting for the right to exist fully, not just to survive, but to thrive, to create culture, to make art, to live with dignity and beauty. Your creative work honors this fight when it insists on the value of human expression, when it refuses utilitarian reduction, when it proclaims that beauty and meaning matter as much as efficiency and productivity.
Thursday's Capricorn stellium activates your fourth house of home, family, roots, and emotional foundation. Six planets concentrated here create intense pressure on your domestic life and your internal landscape. For Libra, who often focuses outward on relationships and aesthetics, this inward, foundational work can feel destabilizing. Yet today's transits insist that you can't create genuine balance in your external life until you address what's happening at your roots.
The situation in Iran speaks directly to fourth house themes, home becoming uninhabitable, family structures threatened, the foundation of daily life crumbling under political and economic pressure. When the average bottle of cooking oil just doubled in price, when people can't afford basic necessities, when protesters lit fires while thousands more joined marches throughout their cities, the concept of "home" as a safe, stable refuge becomes impossible. This is fourth house devastation, the collapse of the container that's supposed to hold you.
Your challenge today is to examine what "home" means to you. Is it a physical place, or is it an internal state? Is it about family approval, or is it about self-acceptance? The Capricorn stellium asks you to build emotional foundations that can withstand external chaos, to create internal stability that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. The Iranian people are demonstrating extraordinary resilience, continuing to fight even after thousands were arrested during the violent crackdown. What allows some people to maintain their center even when everything around them is falling apart?
Mercury and Mars together in your fourth house suggest difficult conversations with family members, particularly around values, politics, and what kind of world you want to create. Your Libran tendency is to smooth over these conflicts, to maintain family harmony at all costs. But today's energy says some conversations are more important than peace. Some truths need to be spoken even when they create tension. The Iranian protesters chanting "Death to the dictator," "Death to Khamenei" aren't concerned with maintaining polite discourse, they're concerned with survival and freedom.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile offers a template for balancing tradition and change in your home life. Saturn in Pisces in your sixth house speaks to daily routines and health practices that support your foundation. Uranus in Taurus (still retrograde) in your eighth house asks you to revolutionize your understanding of shared resources and power dynamics. Together, they suggest that home renovation, literal or metaphorical, requires both honoring what works and fearlessly changing what doesn't.
Venus in Capricorn in your fourth house asks what beauty looks like in your private spaces. Are you creating a home that reflects your actual values, or are you performing domesticity for some imagined audience? The Iranian protesters are fighting for the right to determine their own domestic arrangements, their own family structures, their own definitions of home. When the regime controls even private life, resistance means reclaiming personal space as sacred territory.
Your fourth house is also about ancestry and lineage. What patterns have you inherited from your family around conflict, power, and resistance? Were you taught to keep the peace at all costs, to never rock the boat, to prioritize harmony over honesty? Today's transits ask you to examine these inherited patterns and decide which ones still serve you. The Iranian people are confronting generational trauma, deciding that they won't pass on to their children the same oppression their parents endured.
Today, make your home a sanctuary not just from the world but for your authentic self. Create spaces, internal and external, where you can be completely honest, completely yourself, completely present with what you actually feel rather than what you think you should feel. The foundation you're building right now will determine everything else. Build it strong. Build it true. Build it according to your actual values, not inherited scripts about what "home" should be. The Iranians fighting for freedom are fighting for the right to build homes and lives according to their own vision. Honor their fight by building your own life with the same fierce commitment to authenticity.
The Capricorn stellium moves through your third house of communication, information, immediate environment, and daily interactions. For Scorpio, who prefers depth over breadth and privacy over exposure, this activation of the most social, accessible house in your chart creates interesting tension. You're being asked to communicate more openly, to share information more freely, to engage with your immediate surroundings in ways that might feel superficial compared to your usual intensity.
Yet the Iranian situation reveals the life-and-death importance of communication and information. Iranian authorities cut internet and telephone lines the night of January 8 local time, creating an information blackout designed to isolate protesters from each other and from international support. When communication is cut, when information can't flow, when people can't coordinate or share what they're witnessing, oppression operates freely. Your third house stellium asks: how are you using your access to information and communication? Are you hoarding knowledge, or are you sharing it? Are you using your voice, or are you remaining silent when speech is needed?
Mercury and Mars together in Capricorn in your third house give you exceptional mental sharpness and communicative force right now. You can cut through bullshit, see through lies, perceive hidden power dynamics that others miss. This is classic Scorpio perception, but today it needs to be expressed outwardly rather than kept as private knowledge. The Iranian protesters are risking their lives to communicate truths their government wants hidden, despite the blackout, on 10 January 2026, The Guardian documented multiple reports of security forces opening fire on demonstrations. Someone found a way to get this information out. Someone chose to bear witness and communicate what they witnessed, despite the danger.
Your natural investigative abilities are highlighted now. You're good at research, at following threads, at uncovering what's been buried. How might you use these skills in service of truth-telling? The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile supports finding innovative ways to communicate uncomfortable realities, to structure information so it's accessible without being diluted. Saturn in your fifth house asks you to bring disciplined creativity to your communication. Uranus in your seventh house suggests that partnerships and collaborations might help you reach audiences you couldn't reach alone.
The third house also governs siblings, neighbors, and your immediate community. Are you connected to the people around you, or are you maintaining Scorpionic isolation? The Iranian protests show the power of neighborhood and community organization, workers and employees of the central fruit and vegetable market in Tehran stopped working and joined the nationwide uprising. These are people who share physical space, who see each other daily, who decided together to resist. Your third house activation asks you to engage with your actual neighbors and community members, to build local networks of care and resistance.
Venus in Capricorn in your third house speaks to finding beauty and grace in daily communication, in ordinary interactions, in the simple act of speaking kindly to the person at the grocery store or checking in on a neighbor. Small-scale human connection becomes revolutionary when larger systems are failing. Pluto in Aquarius amplifies this, suggesting that collective transformation happens through networks of ordinary people sharing information and coordinating action.
Your intensity is needed right now, Scorpio, but it needs to be accessible, shareable, communicable. You can't transform what you can't talk about. You can't change what remains hidden. Today, practice speaking plainly about complex realities. Practice making your insights available to people who don't share your depth of perception. Practice using your considerable power in service of collective understanding rather than personal control.
The Iranian protesters are demonstrating incredible courage by continuing to communicate, coordinate, and resist despite at least 16,784 individuals have been arrested. They're showing up in their neighborhoods, talking to their neighbors, sharing information, organizing together. Your third house stellium calls you to do the same, not at the risk of your life, probably, but at the risk of exposure, vulnerability, being seen and known in ways that might feel uncomfortable. Your power multiplies when you share it. Your knowledge matters more when you teach it. Your intensity creates more change when you let it touch other people's lives.
Thursday brings the Capricorn stellium through your second house of money, resources, values, and self-worth. For your typically expansive sign, this focus on material reality and financial constraint can feel limiting. You'd rather be exploring ideas, pursuing adventures, expanding horizons. But today's transits insist that you ground your philosophy in practical reality, that you value your own resources as much as you value abstract ideals.
The economic dimension of the Iranian protests speaks directly to second house themes. The protests began on 28 December 2025, following the collapse of the Iranian currency, with the rial having lost nearly 80% of its value since last year. This isn't just numbers, it's people's savings evaporating, their ability to feed their families disappearing, their economic security destroyed by forces beyond their control. When money loses meaning, when resources become unavailable, when the basic exchange systems that allow survival collapse, revolution becomes necessary.
Your second house stellium asks what you actually value beyond your ideals and beliefs. It's easy to have expansive philosophies about justice and freedom; it's harder to examine whether your actual spending and resource allocation align with these values. Are you supporting systems that oppress others while proclaiming progressive beliefs? Are you hoarding resources while talking about collective liberation? The stellium demands integrity between your stated values and your material reality.
Mercury and Mars together in Capricorn in your second house sharpen your thinking about money and resources while also potentially creating conflict around these issues. You might need to have difficult conversations about finances, whether with partners, employers, or yourself. The Iranian protesters understand that economic justice is inseparable from political freedom, footage from the southern city of Shiraz showed security forces driving over a protest barrier that read "We revolt due to hunger". When basic needs aren't met, when economic oppression makes survival impossible, all other concerns become secondary.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile offers support for restructuring your relationship with money and resources in innovative ways. Saturn in your fourth house asks you to build financial foundations that create genuine security. Uranus in your sixth house suggests experimenting with new work arrangements, income streams, or ways of exchanging value. Together, they say: there are different ways to organize economic life, different models for prosperity, different definitions of wealth.
Venus in Capricorn in your second house speaks to finding beauty in simplicity, pleasure in what you already have, satisfaction in enough rather than always seeking more. Your Sagittarian nature tends toward expansion and acquisition, more experiences, more knowledge, more adventures. Today's transit asks you to appreciate what you've already accumulated, to value your existing resources rather than constantly reaching for what's next.
Pluto in Aquarius amplifies questions about collective economics and resource sharing. The Iranian people are fighting not just for political freedom but for economic justice, for systems that distribute resources fairly rather than concentrating them in the hands of corrupt elites. Pezeshkian previously positioned himself as a champion of the working classes, promising economic relief through reduced government intervention in the currency market while also blaming US sanctions, corruption and excessive money printing. When leaders promise one thing and deliver another, when systems claim to serve the people while enriching the few, revolution follows.
Today, examine your relationship with money, resources, and self-worth. Do you value yourself appropriately? Are you charging enough for your work, or are you underselling yourself? Are you spending money on things that genuinely matter to you, or are you trying to buy happiness, freedom, or meaning? The Iranian protesters teach us that some things, dignity, freedom, truth, can't be bought but also can't be taken away unless you surrender them.
Your philosophical nature wants to transcend material concerns, to focus on higher meanings and larger truths. But today's transits say that spirit incarnates in matter, that your ideals mean nothing if they're not embodied in how you actually live, spend, work, and value yourself and others. Ground your vision in practical action. Align your resources with your actual values. Build economic foundations that can support your expansive dreams while also supporting collective liberation. The Iranians fighting for freedom are fighting for the right to economic dignity, to fair distribution of resources, to systems that serve human flourishing rather than elite accumulation. Your second house right now is part of this larger fight.
Today finds you at the center of cosmic attention with six planets, Sun, Moon (until later today), Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto nearby in Aquarius, concentrated in your first house of self, identity, and personal will. This is your season amplified to extraordinary intensity. You're being asked to step fully into your power, to claim your authority, to embody the leadership and structure-building capabilities that are your natural gifts.
The Iranian protests offer both warning and inspiration for Capricorn energy. The regime represents Capricornian structure gone toxic, authority maintained through force rather than legitimacy, hierarchy that serves only those at the top, tradition weaponized against change. The latest protests, which are now in their second week, came after Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said there would be no leniency for those who help the enemy against the Iranian government. This is the shadow side of your sign: rigid control, fear-based authority, structures that have outlived their purpose but refuse to die.
Yet the protesters themselves embody positive Capricornian qualities, strategic planning, persistent effort, willingness to work within constraints while pushing for change. The protests escalated on 8th January following calls for protests and general strikes, showing the kind of organized, coordinated approach that creates lasting change rather than just emotional release. This is Capricorn at its best: patient, strategic, committed to long-term goals despite short-term costs.
Your first house stellium asks: what kind of authority do you want to embody? Leadership isn't about dominating others, it's about taking responsibility, creating structures that serve everyone, being someone others can depend on. Mercury and Mars together in your sign give you clarity of vision and force of will. You can see what needs to be done and you have the energy to do it. But are you building something that serves your ego, or something that serves collective flourishing?
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile, with Saturn in your third house and Uranus in your fifth, suggests that innovative communication and creative expression can update existing structures without destroying what works. You don't have to choose between tradition and progress, stability and change. The Iranian protests include both, many demonstrators have been calling for Pahlavi's return to Iran, connecting to pre-revolutionary monarchy while fighting for modern democratic freedoms. This is the dance your sign must learn: honoring what's worth preserving while fearlessly changing what's not.
Venus in your sign emphasizes your natural dignity and grace under pressure. Even in challenging circumstances, you maintain composure, keep working, show up consistently. This steadiness is valuable, but examine whether it's crossing into rigidity. The Iranian regime's refusal to adapt, to respond to legitimate grievances, to change course even as everything crumbles, this is Capricorn's greatest danger. Your strength becomes brittleness when you can't bend.
Pluto in Aquarius at the edge of your stellium transforms your understanding of power and authority. Traditional hierarchies are crumbling globally. The emergence of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the deposed shah, as an alternative leader was equally striking, as he actively rallied protesters and called for them to take to the streets. New forms of leadership are emerging, more networked and distributed, less top-down and controlling. You're being asked to evolve your leadership style, to find ways to exercise authority that empower rather than dominate.
Today, step fully into your power while examining what that power is for. The Iranian people are fighting against leaders who use power for personal benefit rather than collective service. You have the opportunity to demonstrate different possibilities e.g., leadership that serves, authority that empowers, structures that support rather than constrain. Your natural gifts are desperately needed right now, but only if they're wielded with wisdom, humility, and commitment to justice.
Build something that lasts. Create structures that serve. Lead by example. Show others that Capricornian energy can be force for liberation rather than oppression, that discipline and structure aren't opposed to freedom but can actually create the conditions that make freedom possible. The world needs your gifts, Capricorn. Just make sure you're building the right world.
Thursday begins with the Capricorn stellium still in your twelfth house of the unconscious, hidden enemies, and self-undoing, but the Sun enters your sign later today, beginning Aquarius season and shifting the energy from introspection to outward expression. The morning hours offer final opportunities to examine shadow material e.g., what you've been avoiding, what unconscious patterns are sabotaging your conscious goals, what needs to be released before you can step fully into your power.
The Iranian situation resonates deeply with Aquarian themes of revolution, collective action, and technological control. An ongoing communications shutdown, which experts say is unprecedented in its scale, was imposed by authorities on Thursday, representing the shadow side of your sign's domain. Technology can liberate or oppress. Networks can connect or isolate. Information systems can illuminate truth or enforce propaganda. The Iranian regime's use of internet censorship as a weapon demonstrates how Aquarian tools can be wielded for authoritarian purposes.
Your twelfth house stellium this morning asks you to examine your own relationship with technology, information, and collective participation. Are you using your access to networks and information in service of liberation, or are you passively consuming? Are you building communities of resistance, or are you isolated despite being constantly connected? The protesters in Iran found ways to organize despite the blackout, demonstrating that human connection transcends technology when necessary. What would you do if your digital tools were suddenly unavailable?
Mercury and Mars together in your twelfth house suggest that some of your most important work right now is happening below conscious awareness. Dreams might be particularly vivid and meaningful. Intuitions deserve attention. Unconscious patterns are ready to be seen and healed. The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile connects your second and fourth houses, suggesting that revolutionary changes in your resource management and home life require addressing unconscious fears around security and belonging.
When the Sun enters your sign later today, you'll feel a shift from internal processing to outward expression. Aquarius season always brings emphasis on innovation, collective action, future vision, and humanitarian concerns. This year, with Pluto in your sign and the Iranian protests demonstrating both the power and the cost of revolution, your season carries particular weight. What are you willing to risk for the world you want to create?
Venus in Capricorn in your twelfth house speaks to hidden pleasures, secret attractions, private creative work that's not ready for public display. Not everything needs to be shared immediately. Not all activism is visible. Some of the most important work happens in preparation, in community-building, in relationship-development that creates the foundation for public action later.
Pluto in your sign throughout 2026 continues transforming your identity and your understanding of power. The Iranian protests show us what Plutonian transformation looks like collectively e.g., "I anticipate that the Islamic Republic that we're seeing today is one unlikely to see 2027", said one analyst. Complete destruction of existing structures, death of what seemed permanent, rebirth into forms we can barely imagine yet. You're undergoing similar transformation personally. Who you were is dying. Who you're becoming is still emerging. Trust the process even when it's uncomfortable.
Today, as you transition from twelfth house introspection to first house expression, carry forward what you've learned in the dark. The Iranian protesters demonstrate that revolution requires both visible action and invisible support, both public courage and private preparation. Your Aquarian gifts of vision, innovation, and commitment to collective liberation are desperately needed. But they're most powerful when grounded in genuine self-knowledge, when connected to real communities, when aligned with actual human needs rather than abstract ideals.
The world needs your revolutionary spirit, Aquarius. It needs your refusal of oppressive norms, your insistence that other worlds are possible, your willingness to experiment with new forms of social organization. Just make sure your revolution serves actual liberation rather than just different forms of control. The Iranian people are teaching us that freedom requires constant vigilance, that justice demands continuous effort, that the fight for human dignity never truly ends. Join that fight with your full self, conscious and unconscious, practical and visionary, individual and collective.
The Capricorn stellium activates your eleventh house of community, friendship, collective projects, and future vision. For Pisces, who often operates in private, emotional, or spiritual realms, this emphasis on group dynamics and social participation can feel exposing. Yet today's transits insist that your gifts are needed in collective contexts, that your empathy and intuition serve larger purposes than just personal healing.
The Iranian protests embody eleventh house themes, collective action, friendship networks, groups organizing for shared futures, communities coming together across differences to fight for common goals. Anti-government protests have erupted across all 31 of Iran's provinces in a wave of unrest that marks the biggest challenge to the regime in years. This isn't isolated individuals acting alone; it's coordinated collective action across vast geographic and demographic diversity.
Your eleventh house stellium asks: who are your people, and what are you building together? Are you participating in communities aligned with your values? Are you contributing your unique gifts to collective projects? Or are you remaining isolated, convinced that your sensitivity makes group participation too difficult? The Iranian protesters include all kinds of people, young and old, urban and rural, different ethnicities and regions, demonstrating that diversity strengthens rather than weakens collective action when united by common purpose.
Mercury and Mars together in Capricorn in your eleventh house sharpen your thinking about friendship, community, and collective goals while potentially creating conflict within groups. You might need to speak difficult truths in community contexts, to challenge group dynamics that aren't working, to defend boundaries even when it disrupts harmony. The Iranian protesters aren't maintaining false peace, they're speaking truth loudly and clearly, willing to endure conflict because genuine change requires it.
The approaching Saturn-Uranus sextile, with Saturn in your sign and Uranus in your third house, supports finding innovative ways to communicate your vision while maintaining spiritual and emotional grounding. You have access to futures others can't yet see, to possibilities that seem impossible from current vantage points. But your visions only matter if you can communicate them effectively, if you can bring others along, if you can translate spiritual insight into practical strategy.
Saturn in Pisces in your first house has been teaching you about healthy boundaries, about the need to maintain your sense of self even in collective contexts, about the importance of practical action alongside spiritual awareness. Pressure remains on Hamas and Hezbollah to disarm. The US and Israel may conduct strikes as the broader regional context affects Iran's internal situation, demonstrating how individual and collective, personal and political, spiritual and material are always interconnected. You can't separate inner work from outer circumstances.
Venus in Capricorn in your eleventh house speaks to finding beauty in community, grace in collective action, aesthetic pleasure in groups of people working together toward shared goals. Your artistic and spiritual gifts are valuable in community contexts. How might you contribute your unique sensibilities to collective projects? The Iranian protesters use creativity and symbolism as forms of resistance, sitting down in front of security forces, using specific chants and slogans, finding ways to communicate despite censorship. Your Piscean imagination could serve similar purposes in your own communities.
Pluto in Aquarius in your twelfth house suggests that unconscious transformation of collective consciousness is happening. The invisible realm where you're most comfortable is being revolutionized, making space for new forms of spiritual awareness, new understandings of unity and interconnection, new ways of accessing collective wisdom. By 13 January, Iran International reported that at least 12,000 people had been killed in what is the largest massacre in modern Iranian history. This level of suffering enters the collective unconscious, affecting all of us whether we're consciously aware or not. Your sensitivity means you feel these collective wounds acutely. How can you channel that feeling into healing action?
Today, show up for your communities. Contribute your gifts to collective projects. Let your spiritual awareness inform political action. Let your empathy motivate organization. The Iranian people are demonstrating that change requires both: emotional connection and strategic planning, spiritual conviction and practical resistance, individual courage and collective strength. You contain all of these capacities, Pisces. It's time to bring them forward in service of the world you want to create.
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