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Exact aspect

Mercury-Mars conjunction
18 January 2026.

Past.

What it changes

How you think and speak · What you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance

The two work as one, impossible to separate.

Why?
Mercury in Capricorn → · Mars in Capricorn →

Mercury governs… how you think and speak — the pace, the level of detail, what you keep to yourself. Mars governs… what you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance.

It concerns you if your birthday falls…

  • 14–18 JanuaryMercury sits on your Sun, to the degree.
  • 14–18 JanuaryMars sits on your Sun, to the degree.

Calculated over every birth from 1920 to 2030 (Paris day): depending on the year, the Sun can be a day early or late, hence the range. Your Sun is only one point of your chart: the app also looks at the other nine, to the minute.

See the dates and positions

Mercury and Mars form an exact conjunction on 18 January 2026 at 08:42, Paris time. The aspect stays within one degree from 17 January to 19 January: 2 days and 7 hours.

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apart
Mercury and Mars glide from where they stood on 3 January 2026 to the exact moment, when the two meet at the same degree.
Exact18 January 2026, 08:42
Mercury26°03′ Capricorn
Mars26°03′ Capricorn
Within one degreefrom 17 January to 19 January

The conjunction — 0°

Two points at the same degree: their functions merge, impossible to live one without the other. The strongest aspect — neither easy nor hard in itself, it amplifies whatever it touches.

In the glossary →

The two planets

☿︎ Mercury governs…

how you think and speak — the pace, the level of detail, what you keep to yourself.

Mercury in Capricorn →

♂︎ Mars governs…

what you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance.

Mars in Capricorn →

Which points of your chart do these planets touch?

Your birthday tells where your Sun is. Your birth, to the minute, tells where the other nine are. Every morning AstroXP crosses these positions with all ten, and tells you what time it plays out for you.

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The same month

Calculated with astronomy-engine (the app’s engine): geocentric positions, tropical zodiac, Paris times. A planet is “in” a sign by its ecliptic longitude.