January 3: Full “Wolf” Moon
January 18: New Moon in Capricorn
January 2nd Full Moon … Notice What is Coming to Light
We begin the new year with a full moon in Cancer in the early morning of January 3rd. The Cancer full moon is a reminder to settle down after the holidays, pull your energy in, and focus on self-nurture, family connections, and responsibilities. It’s a time to reset your activities, commitments, and priorities. If you’ve been feeling overloaded, rest before fully diving into the month and year ahead.
Also, review the intentions you set for the December 19th new moon. The corresponding area in your home was the Knowledge gua, the front right corners of your house and every area. Are you noticing anything taking shape or coming to life? If not, give them some more time. When you sow seeds of intention, they may need to root under the surface for a bit. Things are happening out of sight … similar to how nature rests during the winter months prior to lots of growth bursting forth in the spring. Growth and progress happen behind the scenes, underground, and out of sight before coming fully into view. Trust the process.
Jan 18th New Moon in Capricorn: Time for a Personal Reset
We have a new moon in Capricorn on Sunday, January 18th, Martin Luther King weekend. This provides you a few post-holiday weeks to settle into 2026, reassess where you are, and to establish your plan for the year. Capricorn is an action-oriented and determined sign. After the whirlwind past year, this is a good month for a personal reset.
It’s an ideal time to do long term planning, to organize and to add structure to what you’d love to manifest. Begin with your vision, intentions, and goals. Write a plan by adding details. Define who, what, where, how and when things will get done. Anticipate and expect help from “unseen” sources as you do this. Magic happens all the time … you don’t have to do everything yourself. Jean Slatter’s book Hiring the Heavens is a good one to draw on and to read, if you’re not familiar with it.
Focus on the Fame Gua
From a feng shui perspective, Capricorn aligns with the Fame Gua. This is the center back of your home, every room in your home, your yard or land, and your workplace as well. The Fame gua is associated with the Fire element. Fire energy helps to illuminate your path. It provides life and energizes your goals, giving them a boost and helping them to come alive. Capricorn new moons provide the perfect foundation for you to seek what you want in life, and to put the processes and structures in place to support your vision and goals. Susannah Conway’s Unravel Your Year 2026 is a wonderful and extensive planning tool. I encourage you to check it out.
Activating your Fame gua can provide you more visibility by shining your light to the world. January is a good month to do this, particularly if you would like to:
- Draw from your wellspring, your inner source of power
- Clarify your goals and direction
- Define and/or strengthen your personal plan
- Put a solid foundation in place
- Add structure to support your efforts
- Fully use your resources
- Manage your responsibilities
- Get a new job
- Be well known
Fire Energy and the Fame Gua
The Fire energy of the Fame gua is strengthened by the element Wood. In turn, Fire feeds and strengthens Capricorn’s Earth qualities that nurture you and others and provide stability to your life. Fire, and therefore the Fame gua, are weakened by an excess of Earth, Metal and Water energy in the center back areas of all of your spaces. Do have representations of some of these energies in your Fame gua to bring balance, but just not too much. As you clean and refresh your Fame gua, see your goals and dreams unfolding just the way you want (or in ways even better than you anticipate!).
Begin by assessing how your space feels. If it feels great, chances are it’s in balance. If your space feels cluttered or uncomfortable, make some adjustments. If you’re not sure, take a picture of the space and study it. Often, you can see patterns in photos that you don’t see in person. This is because you can be blind to things that you’ve been living with for thirty days or longer. You look at the space but your eyes gloss over what’s there.
Fire energy is represented by:
Sunlight and the sun
Candles, lights, and sparkly items
Fire and flames
Red and the red palette
Triangles, pyramids, diamond, and cone shapes
People and animals
Electronics and electrical items
Wood energy is represented by:
Fresh plants and trees
Fresh flowers
Green and blue
Vertical stripes and tall columns
Floral fabrics
Art with any the above attributes
Perhaps you have a poinsettia plant or a Christmas cactus from the holidays? These are perfect additions to “fire up” your Fame gua, as long as they’re still thriving. If you aren’t ready to pack away your holiday ornaments, put them to work this month. Shiny and glittery objects, diamond shapes, and pyramids and triangles, among other items can reinforce your intentions in the Fame gua. Lights and candles do the same. Keep them out and continue to enjoy them for a few more weeks. If you’re ready to move ahead to Valentine’s Day, add some red and pick hearts to your Fame gua.
Circulatory, Heart, Eye, Head or Brain Problems? Adjust your Fame Gua
From a health perspective, the Fame gua influences your heart network and small intestine, as well as your overall circulation, eyes and vision, head, and brain. In addition, Capricorn new moons impact backbone, joints, knees, skin, and hair.
If you have health issues related to these areas, audit your Fame guas. These areas are the center-back of all of your spaces (from the main entrance or door) … your house, every room in your house, your workspace and your land. Look for dull, stagnant energy, clutter, things in disarray or out of balance, plumbing or electrical problems, cloudy windows or ones not fully working properly, anything that needs repair, etc. Correcting these situations will strengthen the energy of your Fame gua and positively influence the corresponding areas in your life.
Clean Your Fame Gua and Write Down Your Intention or New Year’s Resolutions
The first two weeks of January are the time to take stock of your Fame areas. Clean and refresh these areas. Adjust and/or repair what you can. Then, on January 18th, write your intentions or New Year’s resolutions and strengthen them with a meditation. As you write, be clear about what you want. Add details. Describe what you intend to manifest as you begin the new year. Write in the present tense, just as if things are happening now. Keeping your focus in the present, brings things closer to you. Afterall, you’re always in the present. You are never in the past or the future.
One thing you might do is light a candle as you set your intentions with the new moon this month. Reinforce this with a blessing or a prayer. Continue this for 27 days, until February 13th. If this seems too long to you, light your candle for at least nine days. Continue for another nine days, if you can. If you have time, repeat again. Twenty-seven is a powerful number. Holding your focus for this period will help your intentions to manifest.
Nine tips to reinforce Fame attributes this month:
- Create a Vision Board. These work!
- Place your New Year’s Resolution or intentions in your Fame gua, in a red envelope.
- Light a candle and reinforce your intentions each day for 27 days.
- Add some red … such as a bowl of fresh red grapes or apples.
- Place a red flowering plant or fresh flowers.
- Hang or place something that sparkles or glitters.
- Include diamonds diamond shapes, or red and pink hearts.
- Place pictures of happy people who enjoy being together, doing things they love.
- Include something that represents high integrity or how you’d like to be known.
January is the perfect month for a reset. Cleaning your Fame gua and consciously activating it will go a long way toward getting the energies moving in your favor. You can also activate your space by ringing a bell or playing beautiful music.
Check-in at the February 1st Full Moon
The full moon that aligns with your Fame gua adjustments is February 1st. This is the time to revisit the objectives you set with the January 18th new moon and notice how things have shifted for you. You plants seeds of intention with each new moon and check back for signs of activity or forward movement at each full moon.
Chinese New Year is February 17th
February 17th begins the year of the Fire Horse. I’ll write about this next month. To prepare, do some cleaning and thin things out. Let go of items that no longer interest you or things that have become stale in your life. Set an intention to refresh and revitalize (fire up!) yourself and your living and work spaces for 2026.
Contact Peg if you would like help assessing or balancing your space. Sometimes a quick assessment via Zoom or phone is enough to get you moving along. Set up a complimentary 15 minute appointment through Calendly or contact me via email.