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2026 kicks things into gear fast! February 2026, with the epochal Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries, is just around the corner, so there’s no room for drifting or messing around. 

In the first part of the month, the planets in Capricorn do the structural work, helping us clarify priorities, commitments, and what kind of legacy we want to carry forward. 

In the second half of January, the Aquarius energy – together with Neptune’s definitive ingress into Aries – opens the door into the new chapter we’re stepping into.

January 2026 is a pivotal month because it helps us embed what we’ve already initiated into this new era we’re moving into.

The key dates are January 3rd, when we have a supportive Full Moon in Cancer, January 7th-9th, featuring a rare triple Sun-Venus-Mars conjunction in Capricorn, January 18th, with a “all hands on deck” New Moon in Capricorn, and of course, January 26th, when Neptune enters Aries for good.

But let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month: 

January 3rd, 2026 – Full Moon In Cancer

On January 3rd, 2026, we have a Full Moon at 13° Cancer. 

The Full Moon is conjunct Jupiter and opposite Venus and Mars. This Full Moon in Cancer will show us how our desires and expectations meet – or don’t meet – our actual needs.

As the Rolling Stones said, you can’t always get what you want – you get what you need.

And that’s a very good thing, because our “desires” are not always “ours”. They’re either shaped by societal standards, OR they can’t materialize yet because the timing is not right. 

This is where the Cancer Full Moon asks us to tune in and pay attention to what’s really going on in our lives – what’s actually possible right now. 

With that awareness, we might be offered something even more relevant, more supportive, or better aligned with where we truly are.

The Moon and Jupiter feel at home in Cancer: the Moon is in domicile, and Jupiter is exalted in Cancer. This is nurturing, protective, life-affirming energy. 

One of the best Full Moons of the year may arrive with opportunities we didn’t see coming – because they don’t look like what we thought we wanted, but are nonetheless exactly what we need.

Pay attention to whatever surfaces around this Full Moon, because it will inform you what’s worth building on in the year ahead.

This Full Moon is still not the best time to set intentions or make concrete resolutions – that sweet spot comes later this month – but it IS an important moment to figure out where to direct your energy next.

January 7th-9th, 2026 – Sun Conjunct Venus Conjunct Mars

Between January 7th-9th, 2026, we have a triple conjunction between Sun, Venus and Mars. 

First, on January 7th, Sun conjuncts Venus at 16° Capricorn; this is the turning point in Venus’ 584-day cycle, when Venus transforms from a morning star into an evening star. 

The following day, Venus catches up to Mars and makes an exact conjunction at 18° Capricorn, and on January 9th, the Sun conjuncts Mars at 19° Capricorn, initiating a brand-new 2-year Mars cycle.

The geometry of this configuration is spectacular. We won’t see anything in the sky, with Venus and Mars too close to the Sun and therefore ‘invisible’ – yet there is some serious Game of Thrones-type twist happening behind the scenes.

What might look like a celestial agreement – Sun, Venus, and Mars all aligned – is actually much more complex, with new beginnings and endings happening simultaneously. 

As Venus and Mars are involved – this rare transit will bring key relationship developments, and shifts in our desires, wants, and commitments.

A detailed report dedicated to this rare Capricorn conjunction will follow closer to the date.

January 17th, 2026 – Venus Enters Aquarius

On January 17th, 2026, Venus enters Aquarius, and soon after, it conjuncts Pluto (now at 3° Aquarius), so we’re pulled very quickly into the heart of what this new Aquarian era is about.

Venus is the first of the personal planets to enter the sign – in the next few days, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, and Mars will all follow, passing through Hades’ gates and redefining what really matters.

In the 2nd half of the month, there’s no time for tomfoolery. With so many personal planets crossing Pluto in Aquarius – we’re asked to take stock, grasp the gravity of the times we’re living in, and align ourselves more consciously within this new collective landscape.

January 18th, 2026 – New Moon In Capricorn

On January 18th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 28° Capricorn. This is not your usual New Moon; this New Moon is literally conjunct all the personal planets + Pluto.

The New Moon in Capricorn is also trine Uranus, sextile Neptune and Saturn, and opposite Jupiter. This is an “all hands on deck” New Moon – one that interconnects every major layer of life, reconfiguring direction, priorities, and long-term trajectory all at once.

Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars cluster in the final degrees of Capricorn, while Venus and Pluto occupy the first degrees of Aquarius. 

This creates a bridge between the old world and the new. Capricorn is the life structures we’ve been building over the past decades; Aquarius points to what comes next – the new world we’re stepping into. 

This is a threshold New Moon – and yes, this is the right time to write your New Year’s resolutions. At this New Moon, it will be almost impossible not to grasp what matters.

When you write your resolutions, reflect on what legacy you want to carry forward, and which communities, networks, or systems are the right containers for what you’re building next.

January 20th-21st, 2026 – Sun And Mercury Enter Aquarius

On January 20th, the Sun enters Aquarius. Happy b-day to all Aquarius people out there!

Soon after, Mercury joins and conjuncts the Sun, marking the “Full Moon” or rather the “Full Mercury” phase of the current Mercury cycle. 

Sun and Mercury join Venus and Pluto for a 4-planet Aquarius stellium that, once again, helps us zoom out and see the bigger picture – and how our own life fits into this new reality.

In January, there are so many exact conjunctions, so many initiations, that we can hardly keep up. It’s download after download, and the momentum builds so quickly that before we know it, we’re already in a completely different place.

January 23rd, 2026 – Mars Enters Aquarius

On January 23rd, 2026, the tone becomes even more Aquarian as Mars joins the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in the sign. 

As the last personal planet enters Aquarius, it becomes crystal clear not only where we’re heading, but what steps we actually need to take – concretely – to get there.  

January 26th, 2026 – Neptune Enters Aries 

On January 26th, 2026, Neptune re-enters Aries, this time for good. This is big! From now onwards, there is no turning back to how things were.

It’s not that Neptune in Aries is a completely new energy. We had a taste between March-October 2025, when Neptune gave us the ‘trailer version’ of the transit. 

But this time there’s no going back, no “preview,” no “I’m going back to Pisces”. We’re heading into a 14-year Aries era that will reshape society and our sense of identity from the ground up.

By mid-February, Saturn will also enter Aries, and then that’s pretty much it. And then on February 21-22, the deal is sealed, when Neptune and Saturn meet in the first degree of the zodiac (0° Aries). 

This January 26th shift is the first insight into what this new era is going to feel like – so you’ll want to pay attention to what happens around the time of the ingress.

A detailed report about this unique event will follow.

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“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It’s everyone’s, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family’s attempts to eat locally. Wikipedia

Zephyr and his companion in The Birth of Venus (detail), (c. 1484-1486) Art: Sandro Botticelli

Portrait by Vasily Perov, c. 1872

“Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy; only because of that.”

~ Dostoyevsky

Russian novelist (October 30, 1821 – February 9, 1881), short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Wikipedia

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• October 2025

‘All Men, all Things, all Space & Time & Life, are here at the depths of my Soul, are figments of my imagination, figments of consciousness.’

–Thane Walker

(Contributed by Marty Owens)

Figment origin:

late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive’. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.

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• Google AI on Thane Walker

Thane Walker (born c. 1890) was the co-founder of The Prosperos, a spiritual and philosophical organization established in Florida in 1956. 

He was a prominent follower of the mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and developed a program of “transformative spiritual education” that integrated mysticism, psychology (Freudian and Jungian), astrology, and occult traditions. 

Key Biographical Highlights

• Early Life & Military Service: Born in Nodaway County, Missouri, Walker claimed to be one of America’s first psychologists. He served as a Marine Corps officer and entertained American troops in Japan during the post-WWII occupation.
• Nazi Resistance Claim: He famously claimed to have been imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp after writing an article titled “I Saw Hitler Make Black Magic”.
• The Prosperos: Co-founded with Phez Kahlil, the group moved its headquarters to California in the 1960s. Its teachings focused on “waking” students from everyday sensory reality to a wider reality through stories and disorienting activities.
• Progressive Views: The organization was notable for its early openness to homosexuality, bisexuality, and androgyny, which was reflected in Walker’s writings. 

By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)

There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are and where our life leads is yet unwritten. Such moments come most readily at the beginning of something new.

To begin anything — a new practice, a new project, a new love — is to cast upon yourself a spell against stagnation. Beginnings are notation for the symphony of the possible in us. They ask us to break the pattern of our lives and reconfigure it afresh — something that can only be done with great courage and great tenderness, for no territory of life exposes both our power and our vulnerability more brightly than a beginning.

One of English artist Margaret C. Cook’s illustrations for a rare 1913 edition of Walt Whitman’s of Leaves of Grass. (Available as a print.)

How to leap into the thrilling and terrifying unknowns of the possible is what the Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue (January 1, 1956–January 4, 2008) explores in a chapter of his parting gift to the world, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (public library), which also gave us his luminous meditation on kindling the light between us and within us.

He begins by telescoping into deep time, reminding us that we are but a small and new part of something ancient and immense — a vast totality that holds us in our incompleteness, in our existential loneliness, in the vulnerability of our self-creation:

There are days when Conamara is wreathed in blue Tuscan light. The mountains seem to waver as though they were huge dark ships on a distant voyage. I love to climb up into the silence of these vast autonomous structures. What seems like a pinnacled summit from beneath becomes a level plateau when you arrive there. Born in a red explosion of ascending fire, the granite lies cold, barely marked by the millions of years of rain and wind. On this primeval ground I feel I have entered into a pristine permanence, a continuity here that knew the wind hundreds of millions of years before a human face ever felt it.

When we arrive into the world, we enter this ancient sequence. All our beginnings happen within this continuity. Beginnings often frighten us because they seem like lonely voyages into the unknown. Yet, in truth, no beginning is empty or isolated. We seem to think that beginning is setting out from a lonely point along some line of direction into the unknown. This is not the case. Shelter and energy come alive when a beginning is embraced… We are never as alone in our beginnings as it might seem at the time. A beginning is ultimately an invitation to open toward the gifts and growth that are stored up for us. To refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.

[…]

Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer) by Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1817. (Available as a print and as stationery cards.)

Just as our lives are shaped by those necessary endings — by what we choose to let go — they are shaped by what we choose to begin, however precarious the precipice of the new.

A century after Van Gogh exulted in risk as the crucible of the creative life and a decade after David Bowie urged young artists to “always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in,” O’Donohue adds:

Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different. I have never seen anyone take a risk for growth that was not rewarded a thousand times over.

Art by Dorothy Lathrop, 1922. (Available as a print and as stationery cards.)

And yet we are homeostasis machines, our very organism oriented toward maintaining the status quo of comfort and predictability, which every beginning inevitably disrupts with its fulcrum of change and its brunt of uncertainty. O’Donohue considers what it takes to override our creaturely reflex for habituation:

Sometimes the greatest challenge is to actually begin; there is something deep in us that conspires with what wants to remain within safe boundaries and stay the same… Sometimes a period of preparation is necessary, where the idea of the beginning can gestate and refine itself; yet quite often we unnecessarily postpone and equivocate when we should simply take the risk and leap into a new beginning.

He renders the vulnerability and redemption of that leap in a poem — a kind of self-blessing to consecrate the courage of beginning:

FOR A NEW BEGINNING
by John O’Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Art by Sophie Blackall from Things to Look Forward to — an illustrated celebration of living with presence in uncertain times.

Sometimes — in fact, often — beginnings are tucked into endings. In consonance with his philosopher-poet friend David Whyte’s poignant reflection on ending love and beginning love, O’Donohue writes:

Often when something is ending we discover within it the spore of new beginning, and a whole new train of possibility is in motion before we even realize it. When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this is exactly what a beginning does. It is an opening for surprises. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there are always exciting possibilities.

Paying attention to those portals of possibility is both an act of self-respect and a reverence of life:

Part of the art of living wisely is to learn to recognize and attend to such profound openings in one’s life.

Complement with poet Pattiann Rogers’s stunning ode to our ongoing self-creation and the poetic psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on how people change, the revisit John O’Donohue on why we fall in love, the essence of friendship, and how we bless each other.

DRM News Jan 1, 2026 Award-winning poet Cornelius Eady delivered a stirring poem titled “Proof” during the inauguration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His words centered on identity, resistance, and possibility—framing the historic moment as evidence that those once told “not now” truly belong. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News. “This Moment Is Our Proof”: Poet Cornelius Eady Stuns Crowd at NYC Inauguration “You Have to Imagine It”: Cornelius Eady’s Poem Defines Historic NYC Moment Poetry Meets Power: Cornelius Eady Delivers ‘Proof’ at Mamdani Inauguration “They Said It Wasn’t Yours”: Poet’s Words Resonate at Historic NYC Ceremony Cornelius Eady poem, Proof poem inauguration, Zohran Mamdani inauguration, NYC inauguration poetry, City Hall ceremony, spoken word politics, American poets, political poetry, New York City culture, immigrant identity, LGBTQ voices, social justice art, historic NYC moment, DRM News, January 2026 news, US local politics An inauguration ceremony was held on the steps of New York City Hall as Mamdani was sworn in as mayor, marking a significant moment in city politics. Prominent figures including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other politicians and public figures were expected to attend the event, highlighting its national political significance. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News. Live: New York Mayor Mamdani Inaugurated at City Hall Ceremony Live Coverage: Mamdani Sworn In as New York Mayor at City Hall New York Mayor Mamdani Takes Oath Live as Leaders Gather at City Hall Live: Inauguration Ceremony Held for New York Mayor Mamdani New York, Mayor Mamdani, inauguration ceremony, City Hall, New York mayor, NYC politics, political event, swearing in, US politics, Democratic leaders, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, public ceremony, government leadership, city governance, political news, live coverage, New York City news, inauguration live, civic event. Live: New York Mayor Mamdani Inaugurated at City Hall Ceremony | DRM News | AC1F

The whole cerremony:

• Saturday, January 17, 202610:00 AM 
  Sunday, January 18, 2026 6:00 PM

With Heather Williams, H.W., M.

Come! Learn to Translate what appears to be a Problem back to Principle. 

And remember, as you change your view of the world – the world you view changes!

PROSPEROS STORY:  Thane Walker founded The Prosperos in 1956. During WWII he worked with the German Underground and was locked up in a concentration camp in Germany. He thought he was going to die and at first felt that dying was the best way to go because there was nothing he could do. But then his attention shifted! He awakened and realized that, even if the Nazi’s kill him – they could never touch his Innate True Self – the Essential Beingness that he truly is – and that which we all truly are! Thane felt completely free in his Innate True Self – and the next day he was released. They did not want it known that an American person was killed there. It took him ten years to recover and during that time he created two tools to help people wake up to their Innate True Self. 

“You will really get a greater awareness regarding Spiritual Truth! Heather sparkles and has such a dynamic concise delivery.”  Dr. Anna Hamilton

1. Tool #1 is TRANSLATION CLASS– a tool in which you focus your attention on a problem and instead of reacting – you reason your way to a new understanding. You learn Aristotle’s Syllogistic Reasoning Process and experience for yourself a valid way to open up to your Innate True Self that is here NOW, back and behind a problem. Heather’s Translation class will be:  January 17 & 18, 2026.

Instructor : Heather Williams, H.W., M.

Class will begin on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time, and 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, See additional times below, we will also have periodic breaks.

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Presentation Times

Hours for this class will differ from our usual presentation plan.

January 17 – Day 1 –
Class begins at
10:00 PT, and runs until about 6:00 PT

January 18 – Day 2 –
Class begins at
10:00 PT and runs until about 6:00 PT

Estimated breaks of 15 minutes between lessons and a 30-minute meal break on Day 1

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Class Fees

New to Class: $195

Review: $75

Register Now !

For information, contact Heather@TheProsperos.org

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Dec 31, 2025 Bruce Olav Solheim, PhD, is Professor of History at Citrus College in Glendora, California. He also served as a Fulbright Professor in 2003 at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway. He teaches a paranormal personal history course. He is the author of five books on history and political science, one novel, three plays, and several books about his personal paranormal history, including Timeless: A Paranormal Personal History, Timeless Deja Vu: A Paranormal Personal History, Timeless Trinity: An Extra-Terrestrial and Paranormal Personal History, Anzar the Progenitor, and most recently We Are the Aliens. He is also the author of a new comic book series, about an alien visitor to earth, called SNARC. He explains that his own paranormal personal history exploration has led him to investigate odd memories associated with ostensible alien encounters. To do so, he sought the help of a hypnotherapist specializing in such cases. He also reached out to an old friend who shared one such experience. In addition to recovered memories, he describes his own inner dialogues with an apparent alien entity he calls Anzar. The discussion also includes synchronicities and mystical experience. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on April 9, 2020)