This month will see a shift in focus from matters of the heart and onto your relationships and while this has nothing to do with the New Year, the fact that this shift will happen in January makes this even more the end of one chapter and the start of the next that it already is. There has been continuous planetary activity in your romantic sector since Mars returned in September for his first visit in two years and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment less than two weeks later. Since then, the Sun and Venus have moved through, though with Mercury, who had returned at the end of October for a 14 to 15 day mission to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page still here. Mercury will leave on 2nd January, ending all planetary activity on the romantic front until he and the Sun return in December. With Venus and Mars not returning in 2026, this makes Mercury’s final hours here all the more important. However, the Moon will continue to return every four weeks, with these monthly visits key to keeping the spirit of romance alive and especially when it makes its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 14th January to 16th January. It is just two days later that the focus will shift onto your relationships, though starting the year with Pluto here, this was already the case, but in a business as usual kind of way. What happens next will be anything but slow or gradual, with a sudden powering up on the relationship front that will begin with Venus, the planet of love’s return on 18th January, followed by the Sun’s return on 20th January, Mercury, the planet of communication’s return on 21st January and Mars’ return on 23rd January. With the Moon making its first visit to your relationship sector for the year from 19th January to 21st January, this will ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware when the dam bursts and the most important months of the year on the relationship front kick off.