January Currents Field Report

Scope & safety note: This is an archetypal field report, not a prediction about individuals. Times listed are approximate timestamps; translate into your own locale and practice rhythm. Where traditions differ (they do), I’ll flag it.

Month at a Glance

January in the Northern Hemisphere is the cold lab of the year: the world’s outer interface is quiet, and the inner system can finally be profiled without constant environmental noise. In ceremonial terms, we are between Yule’s ignition and Imbolc’s first thaw — between the spark and the sap. In Christian mystical terms, we are still moving through the long afterglow of the Incarnation (Christmas tide), with the month’s early days still tasting of myrrh and milk: God in flesh, Light in matter, breath in lungs.

January 2026 opens on Mary, Mother of God — the Theotokos — explicitly framed as Binah / Great Sea; Marian mantle, with a magical use of “consecrate year; protection rites”. If you want the month’s keynote in one sentence, it’s this: the year begins with a Mothering Intelligence that protects the work while it hardens.

Binah (Understanding) is not soft in the sentimental sense. She is the womb that sets limits. She is the ocean that holds you, and therefore also the ocean that says: you will not get away with vagueness this year. The Marian current here is not merely devotional; it is a container technology — a spiritual “shielding protocol” for an entire annual cycle. If you’re a magician, an artist, or both, you can treat Mary-on-Jan-1 as a reminder that creativity requires boundaries to remain incarnate.

Immediately, the Calendar of Currents gives us a technical confirmation of the month’s early operating system: Mercury enters Capricorn at 0° on 2026-01-01 (21:11 UT). Mercury is the mind’s courier — contracts, notes, conversations, the little packets of meaning that keep your life from buffering. In Capricorn, that courier takes Saturn’s posture: slower, more precise, more suspicious of fluff. The “Saturnian mind” with practical applications: contracts, planning, disciplined speech. Translation: January begins by asking your intellect to become an accountant and a monk. The glamour of the new year is allowed, but it must be cashed out into actionable steps.

Lunar hydrology: the month’s first big signal is a Cancer Full Moon

On 2026-01-03, a Full Moon in Cancer (13°) at 10:02 UT, keyed to Cheth/Chariot; Lunar tide, with recommended uses: water scrying; charge lunar talismans. This is a classic polarity: Capricorn builds the outer wall; Cancer floods the inner rooms. If Capricorn is the cathedral’s stonework, Cancer is the baptismal font and the kitchen hearth.

In Golden Dawn Qabalistic path language, Cancer corresponds to Cheth, the Chariot — protection, containment, “the vehicle that carries you through.” In psychological language, it’s the nervous system’s home-base: the place you return to when you’re overwhelmed. In Christian language, it’s the watery side of Incarnation: the Word made flesh also means the Word made fluids — blood, tears, milk, sweat, the “ordinary” sacraments of embodiment.

So the beginning of January asks: Can you build and feel at the same time? Can you do disciplined planning without emotional desiccation?

Epiphany + comets: “star lore” arrives with actual sky-messengers

The Epiphany current is unusually strong: Epiphany observed (Jan 4) and Epiphany on the traditional date (Jan 6), with explicit Hermetic framing as Tiphereth radiance; guiding star and solar revelation; star lore, with practical applications like house blessing, threshold wards, bless chalk/door. This is already enough to make January feel like a Magi-month: navigation by a Light that is not reducible to your personal preferences.

But then the sky delivers a second layer: Comet 24P/Schaumasse reaches perigee (closest to Earth) on Jan 4, peaks in brightness Jan 7, and reaches perihelion (closest to the Sun) on Jan 8. A “wandering messenger; portent” and is an excellent time for skywatch divination; record omens.

Comets in classical and medieval imaginations are not “friendly.” They are exceptions — highly elliptical visitors, strange vectors, the anomalous data that disrupts normal models. A serious modern practitioner doesn’t need to treat comets as literal doom-portents — but we can treat them as archetypal interrupts: “Pay attention. The system is receiving a message from outside its usual loop.”

Epiphany is precisely that: the recognition of Christ not only as my comfort, but as cosmic signal — light to nations, guidance beyond tribal boundaries. When a comet is active at Epiphany, the mythic layering is thick: the sky itself behaves like a parable.

Midmonth: Jupiter’s mercy vs. Capricorn’s austerity — and a balancing act in Libra

On Jan 10, Jupiter at opposition in Cancer (20°) at 08:34 UT, framed as “Jupiter radiance; Chesed expansion” with suggested use: Jupiter talisman; prosperity rites. Jupiter in Cancer is traditionally a strong placement (exaltation in many astrological systems), and in Qabalistic terms, Jupiter resonates with Chesed — Mercy, magnanimity, benevolence, the expansive force that says there is enough.

But opposition means polarity: Jupiter’s mercy faces the Capricorn Sun’s discipline. The “field weather” becomes a question: Where is your Saturnine austerity starving your Jupiter? Where is your Jupiter indulging in ways that your Saturn cannot sustain?

The same day, we get a second stabilizer: Last Quarter Moon in Libra (20°) at 15:48 UT, framed as Lamed/Adjustment; balance waning, with practical applications: banishing; reconcile; cut cords. Libra is the scales; Lamed is the “goad” that corrects course. In a systems sense, this is feedback control: the moment you discover that your current trajectory overshoots the target, so you trim.

So mid-January is a triple current: Jupiter says “expand,” Capricorn says “endure,” Libra says “balance or break.”

Theophany/Baptism and the desert father: water initiation followed by clean, hard solitude

On Jan 11, the calendar highlights Baptism of the Lord, explicitly as water initiation; lustration and “renew vows” work. This is the Christian pivot where Christmas tide closes in many Western calendars: the infant in the manger becomes the grown Word stepping into the Jordan — choosing an initiation into public life. Mystically, baptism is not mere symbolism; it’s a reconfiguration of identity: dying and rising, cleansing and commissioning.

Then the month turns to St Anthony the Great on Jan 17, framed as ascetic ordeal; spiritual warfare and practical work like fasting retreat; ward obsession. St Anthony is a desert-father archetype: the person who goes into the quiet not to escape life, but to confront the inner menagerie. In a modern register, St Anthony is the one who has the courage to be offline long enough to discover which thoughts are truly theirs.

This juxtaposition is elegant: water initiation (belonging) → desert solitude (discernment). First you are washed into the body of the Mystery; then you test what in you resists that Mystery.

Late-month shift: Aquarius cluster + a comet messenger + Neptune’s ignition

The end of the month is a coordinated ingress cascade into Aquarius:

• Venus enters Aquarius (0°) on Jan 17 (12:43 UT)
• Sun enters Aquarius (0°) on Jan 20 (01:45 UT)
• Mercury enters Aquarius (0°) on Jan 20 (16:41 UT)
• Mars enters Aquarius (0°) on Jan 23 (09:17 UT)

This is unmistakable: the month’s second half is not only “Aquarian,” it is Aquarius at the gate (0°) — the threshold moment of a sign. The calendar frames Aquarius consistently as Tzaddi/The Star energy (Golden Dawn attribution), emphasizing group-work, visionary rites, networking, tech magic, attracting allies, strategic activism.

A technical note for initiates: some Thelemic lineages swap the Hebrew letter attributions for Aquarius and Aries (Crowley’s famous “Tzaddi is not the Star”). I’m staying with the Golden Dawn map here. If your lineage differs, read this section as describing the Star-current in general: hope, orientation, signal-beacon, the geometry of community.

And then — again — there’s a comet at the pivot. Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) reaches perihelion on Jan 20 and hits peak brightness Jan 26. The calendar suggests long-range divination; skywatch rite; record omens. So the Aquarius shift is escorted by a second messenger-object: an “outer” visitor that mirrors Aquarius’s transpersonal tone.

Finally, the month ends with a genuine threshold fire: Neptune enters Aries (0°) on Jan 26 (17:40 UT), framed as visionary initiation with the caution: “dream-to-action rites; guard delusion.”Neptune is not part of the classical seven-planet schema; this is modern territory. Treat Neptune as a field effect on imagination and collective myth — Aries 0°, the ignition point.

If Aquarius is the network and the blueprint, Aries is the first spark in the engine cylinder. Neptune in Aries (as a symbolic reading) asks: What if your dreams are no longer allowed to remain private, poetic fog? What if they must become prototypes? And simultaneously: What if your prototypes must pass reality-testing, so you don’t mistake fantasy for calling?

On maps, mysteries, and the humility of instruments

A field report is always constrained by instrumentation. We’re using planetary cycles, feast days, and Hermetic correspondences as sensors — they’re meaningful, but they’re not total. Your life also has weather: grief, money, love, fatigue, inspiration, the daily sacrament of making dinner. No system fully captures the Mystery. Use this report as a ritual compass, not a prison. If your lived reality contradicts the “sky story,” believe your life — and then ask what the contradiction is teaching.

Calendar of Currents

Below is the month’s Calendar of Currents. Each entry includes the date (and where relevant, sign/degree/time), then the Hermetic and Christian resonances, followed by practical applications for magicians and makers.

January 1 — Marian mantle + Mercury in Capricorn: the year begins inside a container

2026-01-01 — Mary, Mother of God
Hermetic key: Binah / Great Sea; Marian mantle.
Christian key: Theotokos; Incarnation. Magical use: consecrate year; protection rites.

Resonance: In Qabalistic terms, Binah is the sphere of Understanding, boundary, form. Marian devotion here is not only love; it’s structure as mercy. You begin the year by acknowledging: I am not self-created; I am held.

Practical use: This is an excellent day for a simple dedication: a candle, a prayer, a written intention, and a gentle boundary-setting vow (“I will protect my attention this year.”). For artists, it’s a consecration of the studio as a womb: not a performance stage, but a gestation chamber.

2026-01-01 (21:11 UT) — Mercury enters Capricorn (0°)
Hermetic key: Mercury in Capricorn; Saturnian mind.
Magical use: contracts, planning, disciplined speech.

Resonance: Think of Mercury as your internal communications protocol. Capricorn is the compression algorithm: remove noise, keep signal.

Practical use: Draft your year’s “operating manual”: project scopes, budgets, rituals you actually have time to do. Magical speech becomes more potent when it is precise.

January 3 — Holy Name + Full Moon in Cancer: vibrational Logos meets the water-tide

2026-01-03 — Holy Name of Jesus
Hermetic key: Logos vibration; Divine Name power.
Christian key: Holy Name; IHS.
Magical use: Name-prayer; banish by Name.

Resonance: In Christian mysticism, the Name is not mere label; it’s presence. In Hermetic terms, names are operators: they call patterns into coherence.

Practical use: If you practice the Jesus Prayer (“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me”), this is a potent day to renew it. If you do ceremonial work, consider a simple banishing where the Holy Name functions as the central stabilizer — especially if your imagination has been running hot with new-year intensity.

2026-01-03 (10:02 UT) — Full Moon in Cancer (13°)
Hermetic key: Cheth/Chariot; Lunar tide.
Magical use: water scrying; charge lunar talismans.

Resonance: Cancer is the protective shell; the Chariot is the disciplined container that can move through chaos without spilling its sacred cargo. This moon says: emotions are not errors; they are data.

Practical use: Favor water-based divination, dream incubation, and home-altar work. For creative workers: write from the “inner house” (childhood rooms, ancestral kitchens, remembered winters).

January 4–8 — Epiphany window + Comet 24P: the sky behaves like a parable

2026-01-04 — Epiphany (observed in some places)
Hermetic key: Tiphereth radiance; guiding star.
Christian key: Magi; Manifestation.
Magical use: house blessing; threshold wards.

Resonance: Tiphereth is the solar heart of the Tree: beauty, harmony, the “center that makes the system sing.” Epiphany is revelation as navigation: the light that tells you where to go.

Practical use: Bless doors, studio thresholds, laptops, cameras — anything that functions as a portal in your life.

2026-01-04 — Comet 24P/Schaumasse at perigee (closest to Earth)
Hermetic key: wandering messenger; portent.
Magical use: skywatch divination; record omens.

Resonance: A comet at perigee is a reminder that “outer space” can feel intimate: the far comes near. In an artist’s language: inspiration approaches the atmosphere.

Practical use: Keep an omen-journal. Not as superstition — more like field data. What images recur? What coincidences cluster? Treat it as pattern recognition, not paranoia.

2026-01-06 — Epiphany (traditional date)
Hermetic key: solar revelation; star lore.
Christian key: Magi; Light to nations.
Magical use: bless chalk/door; seek guidance.

Resonance: This is the liturgical “Star day.” In Hermetic terms, it’s also a day to contemplate the axiom “as above, so below” as lived practice: guidance comes through symbol, story, and sometimes the sheer weirdness of grace.

Practical use: Traditional Epiphany chalking (where practiced) becomes a gentle form of threshold magic. If you do it, do it reverently, not performatively.

2026-01-07 — Orthodox Christmas (Julian calendar)
Hermetic key: solar child; renewal.
Christian key: Nativity.
Magical use: bless hearth/home; Incarnation prayer.

Resonance: Another “Incarnation node” appears, reminding us: the Christ-mystery is not one day; it’s a season of deepening.

Practical use: Simple hearth blessings, food blessings, gratitude rites. Especially good for artists who need to recover tenderness after Capricorn rigor.

2026-01-07 — Comet 24P peak brightness
2026-01-08 — Comet 24P perihelion (closest to Sun)

Resonance: Peak brightness is “visibility,” perihelion is “purification by proximity to fire.” The comet is simultaneously messenger and crucible.

Practical use: If you do magical timing, treat peak brightness as a day for receiving symbols; treat perihelion as a day for refining them — distilling the message down to one actionable phrase.

January 10–11 — Jupiter opposition + Libra last quarter + Baptism: mercy, balance, cleansing

2026-01-10 (08:34 UT) — Jupiter at opposition in Cancer (20°)
Hermetic key: Jupiter radiance; Chesed expansion.
Magical use: Jupiter talisman; prosperity rites.

Resonance: Jupiter at opposition is Jupiter at maximum visibility: the “big benefic” stands across from the Sun like a lantern in the dark. In Cancer, Jupiter’s expansion is emotional, familial, protective — mercy as shelter.

Practical use: Prosperity magic is best done here with ethics: not “more at any cost,” but “enoughness with generosity.” A Jupiter talisman can be as simple as a blue candle + a written pledge of giving.

2026-01-10 (15:48 UT) — Last Quarter Moon in Libra (20°)
Hermetic key: Lamed / Adjustment; balance waning.
Magical use: banishing; reconcile; cut cords.

Resonance: Libra is balance not as static fairness, but as ongoing adjustment — like stabilizing a drone in crosswind. Last Quarter is the waning turn: release, simplify, subtract.

Practical use: Excellent for cleaning your ritual space, deleting what drains you, and reconciling where possible. If you do banishings, do them with clarity, not spite.

2026-01-11 — Baptism of the Lord
Hermetic key: water initiation; lustration.
Christian key: Theophany; Jordan.
Magical use: cleansing rites; renew vows.

Resonance: Baptism is a sanctified “reset.” Not erasure — reorientation.

Practical use: Wash hands consciously; bless water; renew your vows in plain language. If you’re an artist: commit to a practice that feels like “clean water through pipes” (daily sketch, daily paragraph, daily photo walk).

January 17–19 — Desert Father + Venus in Aquarius + Theophany (Orthodox): solitude meets community love

2026-01-17 — St Anthony the Great (Abbot)
Hermetic key: ascetic ordeal; spiritual warfare.
Christian key: Desert Father.
Magical use: fasting retreat; ward obsession.

Resonance: Anthony is a patron for anyone fighting the “obsession loop” — compulsions, intrusive thoughts, addictive scrolling. His warfare is largely internal: learning to see thoughts as phenomena, not masters.

Practical use: A small fast (from noise, not necessarily from food) can be more powerful than a dramatic austerity. Choose one habit to “exorcise” gently: a week of reduced doomscrolling can be a genuine spiritual rite.

2026-01-17 (12:43 UT) — Venus enters Aquarius (0°)
Hermetic key: Venus in Aquarius; Tzaddi/Star.
Magical use: attract allies; group harmony charms.

Resonance: Venus is cohesion, attraction, relational magnetism. In Aquarius, love becomes a network — less possessive, more collective. This is friendship as sacrament.

Practical use: Consider reaching out to collaborators. Build the “mutual aid” structure of your creative life: critique circles, studio swaps, resource-sharing.

2026-01-19 — Orthodox Epiphany/Theophany (Old Calendar)
Hermetic key: water blessing; revelation.
Christian key: Theophany; Baptism.
Magical use: bless waters; purification immersion.

Resonance: This repeats the Jordan motif — revelation through water.

Practical use: If you can’t do immersion, do symbolic immersion: a mindful shower, hands over a bowl of water, a prayer of cleansing and commissioning.

January 18–20 — New Moon in Capricorn → Aquarius solar/mercurial shift + comet perihelion: the blueprint turns outward

2026-01-18 (19:52 UT) — New Moon in Capricorn (28°)
Hermetic key: Ayin / Devil; seed in matter.
Magical use: set discipline intentions; Saturn workings.

Resonance: Capricorn’s Ayin/Devil imagery is often misunderstood. In a mature Hermetic reading, the “Devil” is not Hollywood evil; it’s bondage to the inert, attachment to dead forms, fear of change. A Capricorn New Moon asks you to plant seeds in matter without becoming enslaved to the material.

Practical use: Make one vow you can keep. Saturn respects small, consistent acts.

2026-01-20 — Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) perihelion
Hermetic key: comet messenger; far-sight.
Magical use: long-range divination; skywatch rite.

Resonance: Far-sight is Aquarius’s specialty: seeing a pattern larger than the self.

Practical use: Ask a “five-year question.” Not “what will happen,” but “what do I want to be faithful to, regardless of what happens?”

2026-01-20 (01:45 UT) — Sun enters Aquarius (0°)
Hermetic key: Solar in Aquarius; Tzaddi/Star.
Magical use: consecrate group-work; visionary rites.

Resonance: Solar ingress is a seasonal gear shift: the narrative lens changes. Aquarius solar season highlights community, ideas, systems, future.

Practical use: If you run a coven, a studio collective, or a creative team, this is prime for mission statements and shared vows.

2026-01-20 (16:41 UT) — Mercury enters Aquarius (0°)
Hermetic key: inventive mind.
Magical use: divination; networking; tech magic.

Resonance: Mercury in Aquarius is “mind as antenna.” Insights arrive as downloads, sudden connections, lateral solutions.

Practical use: Great for experimenting with new tools — digital or magical. Also excellent for divination framed as hypothesis-testing: “If I do X, what shifts?”

January 21–26 — Purity vows, activism, conversion, apprenticeship, and the month’s final ignition

2026-01-21 — St Agnes of Rome
Hermetic key: purity; lamb symbolism.
Christian key: virgin martyr.
Magical use: vow-work; boundary protection.

Resonance: Agnes is not “purity culture”; she is sovereignty under pressure — refusal to be owned.

Practical use: Boundaries are a form of purity: purity of intention, purity of consent. Make one boundary explicit.

2026-01-23 (09:17 UT) — Mars enters Aquarius (0°)
Hermetic key: reforming fire.
Magical use: break habits; strategic activism.

Resonance: Mars is drive, will, conflict-energy. In Aquarius, Mars fights for systems change, innovation, collective liberation.

Practical use: Channel heat into strategy. If anger rises, ask: “What is the most intelligent next move?”

2026-01-25 — Conversion of St Paul
Hermetic key: sudden illumination; path-turn.
Christian key: Damascus conversion.
Magical use: road-opening; transform beliefs.

Resonance: Paul’s conversion is the archetype of the interrupt: the moment your certainty collapses into a larger truth. It’s also a warning: illumination changes you; you don’t control it.

Practical use: Road-opening here is less “remove obstacles” and more “remove false premises.” Identify one belief that might be outdated.

2026-01-26 — Ss Timothy & Titus
Hermetic key: transmission; apostolic chain.
Christian key: pastoral mission.
Magical use: consecrate teaching; spiritual mentorship.

Resonance: This is the apprenticeship feast: the tradition passed hand-to-hand.

Practical use: Seek a mentor, or be one. Share one technique with humility.

2026-01-26 — Comet C/2024 E1 peak brightness
2026-01-26 (04:47 UT) — First Quarter Moon in Taurus (6°)
Hermetic key: Vav / Hierophant; build form.
Magical use: take tangible steps; earth talismans.

Resonance: Taurus builds. The Hierophant teaches. First Quarter acts. After Aquarius ideation, Taurus says: “Now make it real.”

Practical use: Excellent for physical craft: build the altar box, make the talisman pouch, print the zine, bind the book.

2026-01-26 (17:40 UT) — Neptune enters Aries (0°)
Hermetic key: visionary initiation.
Magical use: dream-to-action rites; guard delusion.

Resonance: This is a threshold marker. Neptune dissolves and enchants; Aries initiates. Together they can produce inspired courage — or a confused crusade. The calendar’s warning is: guard against delusion.

Practical use: Treat this as a “vision hygiene” event: commit to discernment practices (journaling, counsel, sobriety of claims) alongside inspiration.

Suggest Reading & Listening

Books & Texts

1. The Corpus Hermeticum (e.g., Brian Copenhaver translation)
   For a month balancing disciplined mind and visionary revelation: the Hermetic voice that treats cosmos and soul as mirrored systems.
2. Israel Regardie (ed.), The Golden Dawn
   A practical reference for ritual grammar and Qabalistic correspondences — useful when Mercury-in-Capricorn wants structure.
3. Pseudo-Dionysius, The Mystical Theology
   A crystalline guide to apophatic (unknowing) prayer — excellent for St Anthony’s desert current and Neptune’s “fog + fire” threshold.
4. Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing
   January is a month of silence and attention; this text trains the will to pierce thought with love.
5. Anonymous (Valentin Tomberg), Meditations on the Tarot
   A bridge text between Christian mysticism and Hermetic symbolism — especially apt for Epiphany and the Star-current.

Music, Hymns, and Films

1. “As With Gladness Men of Old” (Epiphany hymn)
   A melodic enactment of guidance-by-light; good for threshold blessings.
2. “We Three Kings” (traditional Epiphany carol)
   Works well as a playful-but-serious sonic sigil for the Magi current and comet imagery.
3. Arvo Pärt — “Fratres”
   Minimalist sacred geometry in sound: perfect for Mercury-in-Capricorn discipline and Aquarian clarity.
4. John Tavener — “The Lamb”
   Resonates with St Agnes (lamb symbolism) and the month’s purity-as-sovereignty theme.
5. Film: The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
   A cinematic meditation on grace, nature, and cosmic scale — ideal for Epiphany and Neptune threshold contemplation.

Reflection & Benediction

January 2026 arrives like a sealed letter slid under the door of the year. The wax is still warm.

The month begins with the Mother and the Messenger: Mary’s mantle as a vast, deep container, and Mercury’s entrance into Capricorn as a signal to choose disciplined speech. There’s a quiet mercy in this. So many of us start a year with ambition and collapse. January says: don’t start with speed. Start with a vessel. Start with a rule of life that is small enough to keep and sacred enough to matter. In the logic of the Mysteries, form is not the enemy of spirit; form is spirit’s way of staying.

Then the Full Moon in Cancer floods the inner rooms. If you listen, you can hear the building creak as it adjusts to water pressure. This is a spiritual physics lesson: your psyche is not an abstract mind floating above biology; it is an ecosystem. Emotions are weather patterns. Memory is ocean current. And if you are a maker — poet, painter, ritualist — your best work will often come from learning to read your own tides without drowning. The Chariot of Cheth is not only a tarot image; it is the embodied skill of carrying a sensitive heart through a harsh world without armoring into numbness.

Epiphany follows, and with it an insistence: guidance is real, but it rarely flatters. It comes as star lore and threshold blessing, and in this month it comes accompanied by comets — messengers with strange orbits, symbols of “the outside” arriving near. The rational mind might say: comets are ice and dust. The mystic mind replies: yes — and the world is still allowed to speak in metaphors. The scientific eye and the magical eye do not have to fight. One describes composition; the other describes meaning. In healthy practice, they cooperate: material facts, symbolic truths.

Midmonth gives us a paradox worth keeping: Jupiter’s expansion in Cancer at opposition, paired with Libra’s last-quarter correction. It is tempting to interpret “expansion” as permission to do more, buy more, become more. But Chesed is not mere growth; it is magnanimity. It is the capacity to hold others in mind. When Jupiter expands without ethics, it inflates. When it expands with mercy, it nourishes. Meanwhile Libra whispers the hard truth: balance is not a moral pose; it’s maintenance. It’s what keeps the system from tearing itself apart.

Baptism of the Lord arrives like clean water through a pipe. If Christmas is the Mystery’s arrival, Baptism is the Mystery’s commissioning. It is the moment you stop treating revelation as private comfort and start treating it as public responsibility. And then St Anthony stands in the desert, facing obsession and spiritual warfare, reminding you that responsibility requires clarity — and clarity sometimes requires solitude.

Then, the Aquarius cluster lights up like a control panel: Venus, Sun, Mercury, Mars — each entering at 0° Aquarius across the late month. The Star-current is not just “community.” It is orientation. In a world that can feel like a thousand competing narratives, Aquarius asks: what is the pattern that connects? What is the signal beneath the noise? For artists, this is a blessing: inspiration becomes collaborative, ideas cross-pollinate, the work becomes less lonely. For magicians, it is an operational upgrade: group rites, shared intention, mutual mentorship become unusually potent.

Finally, January ends with a hinge: First Quarter in Taurus — build form, take tangible steps — and then Neptune enters Aries. The calendar’s counsel is: dream-to-action, guard against delusion. We stand here at the boundary between vision and ignition. This is where mysticism can become either embodied prophecy or self-deception. The difference is humility. The difference is testing. The difference is remembering that the Holy is not obligated to match your fantasies.

And so, as this field report closes, I offer you three questions to carry — not as burdens, but as lanterns:

What vow could you keep that would sanctify your year through consistency rather than intensity?

Where do you need cleansing — not because you are dirty, but because you are ready to be commissioned?

What vision is asking to become a prototype, and what reality-check will keep it honest?

May your Saturn be humane.
May your Jupiter be generous.
May your Moon be truthful.
May your Star be shared.
May your Neptune be inspired.
May your Aries be brave without being reckless.

And in the Name beyond names, in the Light that guides without coercion, may your work — ritual, art, love, labor — become a small, precise instrument through which the Infinite can touch the finite without breaking it.

Benediction:
May the Great Sea shelter you without drowning you.
May the Star orient you without blinding you.
May the Fire awaken you without consuming you.
And when your maps fail — as all maps do —
may you remember: the Mystery is not a problem to solve,
but a Presence to return to.

Amen. So mote it be.