This Week in Magick: 1/27-2/1

✨ THIS WEEK IN MAGICK ✨

January 27th - Feb 1st, 2026

The moon waxes from First Quarter in Taurus on Monday through Waxing Gibbous, building toward the Snow Moon in Leo on Saturday evening. But the real magic is planetary. Neptune enters Aries on January 26th and stays there until 2039. This isn't a transit. It's a generational reset.

The last time Neptune moved through Aries was 1861-1875. Industrial revolution. Civil war. The reshaping of nations through fire and action. This time around, Neptune dissolves the boundaries between spiritual vision and embodied action. Dreams demand manifestation. Illusions around independence, identity, and courage get stripped bare. And the old escape routes close.

ANCIENT ROME SOWS SEEDS

Then on January 27, Romans celebrated the Dies Natalis of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the divine twins (Dioscuri) who appeared on horseback to announce victory at Lake Regillus in 484 BCE. Horse gods. Battle gods. Brothers who shared immortality.

These aren't quaint historical footnotes. They're seed-time rituals. Purification before planting. Protection of what hasn't yet broken ground.

BRIGID'S FIRE, THE TREES' NEW YEAR

Then everything converges on February 1st. Imbolc arrives (Celtic fire festival marking spring's first stirrings), St. Brigid's Day (honoring the triple goddess of smithcraft, poetry, and healing), and Tu Bishvat (Jewish New Year of the Trees). Each tradition plants seeds in frozen ground. Each knows that transformation starts underground, in the dark, before anything blooms.

Brigid's mythology blurs the pagan goddess and Christian saint so thoroughly that historians can't separate them. Fire goddess. Forge keeper. Poetry patron. Healer. The one who brought keening (ritual wailing) to Ireland. Her crosses, woven from rushes, hang above doorways to protect against lightning and evil. Her eternal flame burned in Kildare for 500 years, tended by 19 priestesses, producing no ash.

Tu Bishvat honors the moment when sap begins rising in trees in Israel, even while winter holds. Kabbalists created a mystical seder with four cups of wine (white to red, like seasons turning) and fruit from the seven species of the Land: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, dates. The teaching: humans are trees of the field. What roots are you tending?

Then the Full Snow Moon in Leo rises Saturday night at 5:09 PM EST. This is Leo at its most regal. Bold. Creative. Unapologetic. The moon opposes an Aquarius sun still riding that stellium energy from last week, so we're balancing self-expression with collective responsibility, personal fire with group vision.

WORK WITH IT

For Neptune in Aries (January 26): This is 13 years of spiritual warriorship. Light a red candle and declare one illusion you're done carrying. Then declare one action you'll take in service of a vision larger than yourself. No more dreaming without doing. No more fighting without faith.

For Castor and Pollux (January 27): The divine twins. Horse gods. Battle brothers. One mortal, one immortal, sharing their fate. Honor partnership. Brotherhood. The bonds that make you stronger. If you ride, bless your horse. If you fight (literally or figuratively), ask for their aid. Offerings: water (they watered their horses at the Spring of Juturna).

For Imbolc/Brigid's Day (February 1): Brigid's fire is creative, not destructive. Light white or red candles at dusk. If you have a forge, a smithy, or tools you work with, bless them. If you write, paint, or craft anything, dedicate your work to her. Leave milk and bread at the threshold. Weave a Brigid's cross from straw or rushes and hang it above your door for protection.

For Tu Bishvat (February 1 at sundown): Hold a seder with four cups of wine and fruit from the seven species. Eat something you've never tasted. Plant seeds. Donate to reforestation. Remember: you are a tree of the field. Tend your roots.

For the Full Moon in Leo (February 1, 5:09 PM EST): Leo rules the heart, creativity, and courage. This moon asks you to step forward visibly. Write down what you're ready to be seen for. Carve it into a gold or orange candle. Light it under the full moon. Dance. Sing. Create for no reason except that creation is your nature.

TOOLS FOR THE JOURNEY

Red candles and dragon's blood resin for Neptune's Aries fire / Water for the Dioscuri / White and red candles, milk, straw for Brigid / Dried figs, dates, pomegranates, olives for Tu Bishvat seder / Gold, orange, or red candles for Leo Full Moon / Sunstone, citrine, tiger's eye for solar heart magic

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