This week feels like you’re standing at the edge of something: a precipice, a cliff, or maybe just a really awkward conversation you know you need to have. It’s the moment before things move, when you can feel the air thick with potential and you know, deep down, that nothing will ever look quite the same after this. The astrology isn’t asking you to do the thing yet (Mars is still brutally retrograde), but it is asking you to think about it — to sit in the discomfort of knowing that the way forward requires more than what you’ve been doing, or at least something different.

This is the week where we start to really understand what we could be doing differently if we threw out the playbook — and where we plant the seeds to do exactly that. Here’s what the week looks like:

• Sun, Jan. 26: Venus in Pisces sextiles Uranus ...