Sun and Rising Sign Horoscopes, 2023: Using Our Sign’s Potential

The stars of 2023 highlight confidence, creative expansion, faith-filled action, and a potential for prosperous results in an area that has likely seemed challenging. Check your Sun and Rising Sign horoscopes below to find out which areas to focus on to get the most out of 2023.

In the chart for Winter Solstice, which sets the tone for the new astrological year, Jupiter exactly squares the Sun at the critical degree of 0 Aries. Jupiter relates to confidence, prosperity, and success, and in Aries, connects our fortune directly to faith-based actions. Dynamic forces are unleashed, expanding confidence and catalyzing our sense of purpose in ways that characterize the entire ahead.

Come mid-May, this Great Benefic will enter abundant Taurus, whose normally calm terrain has been shaken up by the surprising activity of Uranus since 2019. The combination of comfort-loving Taurus with iconoclastic Uranus is associated with the pandemic, which shook up everything that had seemed relatively secure: financial systems, business, the very fabric of material reality as we knew it.

Besides these collective experiences, Uranus has been moving through an area of our birth charts—and lives—that has altered our personal status quo. Often suddenly, windows of change have opened, promising a new, freer experience. But the windows haven’t always been clearly set in their frames or stayed firmly open. 

In 2022, despite our emergence from the pandemic twilight zone, the seesaw experience of promise and doubt has been fueled by Eclipses on the Scorpio-Taurus axis. On May 16, fortunate Jupiter will be entering Taurus, moving its beneficial influence through areas of our chart and lives that have already been shaken up by Uranus. This cosmic opportunity can even out the bumps, calm the anxiety, and catalyze miracles of positive change. 

However, before entering the bull’s field of abundance in May 2023, Jupiter, in Aries since mid-December 2022, enlivens areas requiring the strength and action. Jupiter brings opportunity, but it can make things seem deceptively easy. With Jupiter in Aries, our active participation can be decisive to ground Jupiterian opportunities; even our actions of themselves are the energy of success.

And not just any actions, but those somehow related to faith: based on faith, done in faith, directed to increase faith, and somehow directed at what may seem a challenging situation. With Aries’ ruler Mars in Gemini, the actions are likely related to words—self-expression, writing, speaking up, negotiating, sales, personal connections, mantras, positive affirmations, prayers, mental processes, self-dialogue, convincing ourselves and others.  

Being actively engaged in our own luck and fortune is more decisive now than ever. The horoscopes below spotlight the areas of our lives where we can prepare for the best results of the shift of fortune that will come with Jupiter’s entrance in Taurus. With giant Jupiter in Aries and Aries’ ruler Mars in Gemini in the New Year’s chart, the action-oriented influence continues throughout the entire year. May the angels of confident action support us in our focus, determination and faith, so that the surprises we harvest in the terrain of Taurus—the fruits of seeds sown with our Aries actions—can be decidedly divine.

Note: check horoscopes for both your Sun and Rising signs.

Aries’ 2023 Potential: Renovation, Promotion, Confidence, Faith, Prosperity

Jupiter, planet of fortune, is currently in your sign, giving you faith in yourself and in your own charm. You can release the past, along with some minor dramas, and concentrate on a bigger picture now. You’re enthusiastic about your projects, and opportunities flow, particularly related to Jupiter and the Ninth House areas of higher education, negotiation, beliefs, publication, promotion, your image, and foreign countries. 

With Mars, your ruling planet, in Gemini, communications play an important part in your success. Take the microphone, get in front of the camera, speak up and focus on cultivating personal connections and nurturing ties to colleagues, siblings, neighbors and clients. Avoid the compulsion to take risks, coming on too strong, or seeming brash, arrogant or pushy. Act on opportunities but keep your feet on the ground. Don’t let up on faith-filled actions; they set the stage for a phase of material success and self-esteem that can begin in mid-May when Jupiter’s activation of your Second House of resources and values.  

Taurus’ 2023 Potential: Discover Hidden Treasures

Lately, Uranus in your sign has been shaking you out of your comfort zone. Now, with Jupiter activating your Twelfth House, you can apply knowledge garnered during 2022 to your inner work, and at last, release old patterns. In your own private way, you can expand your faith. Particularly propitious are: going on a sojourn or retreat, working on forgiveness and with your dreams, studying and applying psychology, developing inner guidance, expanding devotion and compassion, and connecting with angels and spirit guides. Also, you can finish something or close a cycle from the past. 

Jupiter in your Twelfth House now brings prosperity through healing, spiritual activities, dowsing and practicing therapy. To hold this focus for the first few months of the year prepares you for new fortune and freedom that surge in mid-May when abundant Jupiter enters your Sun sign, unlocking the gifts of Uranus in Taurus. Avoid escapism and abuse of mind-altering substances. 

Gemini’s 2023 Potential: Spiritual and Social Growth, Romance

Jupiter in your Eleventh House brings fortune and expansion through social connections, group activities, and your life mission. With brave Mars in your Sun Sign, your ambivalence gives way to confidence. You have more energy than usual, and having a cause or something to promote or sell will help you direct this energy constructively. You feel more confident about reaching out, and people respond positively. Your happiness grows as you develop more comfort about your ability to manifest personal happiness. As your self-esteem surges and you take on new projects, avoid overdiversifying. Keep the focus on what’s most important. Fortune flows in altruistic and business activities, including online and group activities. Avoid actions that could end up sabotaging you, partying too much, or wasting time with peripheral projects and interactions. 

Cancer’s 2023 Potential: Social Expansion and Professional Progress

Rebel Uranus in your Eleventh House of friends, causes, and groups has been shaking up your connections, freeing you of old, stale contacts, and renewing your network. You may have felt beholden to past associates—but focusing on the new ones now will put you in a much better position when Uranus enters Gemini in two years. Your professional trends are also favorable. With Jupiter in Aries activating your Tenth House of profession and long-term goals, this is a year to get recognized for your talents and achieve a new level of status. Jupiter leaves Aries in mid-May, so the first months of 2023 are worth honing in on. Take the reins of your future, ground opportunities, and actively promote your professional image and goals. Jupiter also blows things up, so avoid spreading yourself too thin. Also avoid indiscretion, exaggeration, and gossip, as they could bomb on you. Focus on long-term goals and renewing your network.    

Leo’s 2023 Potential: Academic and Personal Development, Consolidation of Long-Term Goals

This is a year to bring your unique voice to life’s table, particularly in the professional arena or in a project that brings you into public view. Try to release perfectionism and past disappointments and jump back into life’s game, sharing your creative contribution in a new way. If you feel you need more knowledge, you can gather it through study and travels while Jupiter in Aries transits your Ninth House through mid-May. Your partner or an unusual person may help you, as may associates, foreign contacts, publishers, publicists, and a teacher. Go back to school, takes courses, seek out groups or methods that open your perspective and strengthen positive beliefs. Focus on learning, especially through May, when Jupiter enters Taurus, the sign of your Tenth House-. Professional opportunities you’ve been working on or hoping for are apt to flower.  

Virgo’s 2023 Potential: Inner Growth, Expanded Horizons, Wealth

Your focus has been shifting towards wider horizons. These may include a change of beliefs, new avenues of study, a broader audience for your work or message, a project involving foreign peoples and lands, and a new search for meaning. Through mid-May, Jupiter is transiting your Eighth House of intimacy, hidden change, shared finances, and secrets. Focus on action that can bring deep transformation, particularly going to therapy, keeping a journal, self-healing, using positive affirmations, reviewing a financial agreement, paying off a loan, establishing credit, improving your sex life, building a business, getting your taxes or papers in order, and developing wealth. This focus will prepare you for Jupiter’s entrance into Taurus (May 16). This shift makes the rest of the year easier, filled with adventure, travels, learning and interesting people. A scholarship, foreign funding or other new channels of abundance can be opened. 

Libra’s 2023 Potential: Fulfillment In Love, Negotiated Solutions, Deep, Positive Change, Wealth

Since Uranus entered your Eighth House in 2019, you’ve experienced revelations about your deep emotions and/or undergone unexpected changes in relationships or finances. It hasn’t been easy, but it has made you aware of your inner power. The changes will become easier and even generate prosperity when Jupiter enters Taurus in mid-May. In the meantime, the planet of expansion in your Seventh House brings opportunities to improve your one-on-one relationships, love life, connection with the public, and negotiating skills. You can sign a fortunate contract or begin a happier period in love. Your natural charm and charisma make you well-received. However, this transit can also accentuate some naturally passive tendencies—staying in the harmonious flow, avoiding challenges, and postponing decisive action. The first four months of the new year bring exceptional fortune, particularly in these Seventh House areas. Design a strategy and make every day an active leap of faith! The benefits of your bold and focused actions will last for the next 12 years. 

Scorpio’s 2023 Potential: Strengthen Habits for Work, Healing and Wellness, Happiness in Love and in Key Ties

Since 2019, surprising movements in your love life, close ties, and/or relationship with the public have brought a sense of freedom and at the same time an activation of new desires. At times this may seem exciting, but it may have come with a sense of tension and lack of stability. This year, Jupiter can help ground some of the positive changes, and make your way seem more like coasting and less like jumping up and down. Jupiter in Aries from January through mid-May supports you in acting on opportunities to consolidate your wellness, work life, or a service project, and as you do, you are preparing for the entrance of the great benefic into Taurus, the sign of your Seventh House. Lay the groundwork for that period of joy, blessing and prosperous alliances by honing in on your practical success, organizing daily habits, and consolidating your self-healing and care. 

Sagittarius’ 2023 Potential: Promotion of Your Talents, Contact with Light Beings, Success In Work

During its transit through your Sixth House of work and wellness, Uranus has made you restless for change in your work situation or in something concerning your daily habits. Past achievements and ways of doing things have lost their luster. As 2023 begins, you have a chance to pave the way for a new beginning. You can reap the just fruits of your talents with fortunate Jupiter transiting through your Fifth House of creativity. You’ve been experiencing this energy as Jupiter was already activating this house for part of 2022. Also, it’s not new for you to be lucky and have your talents be in demand, so it may seem to you like business as usual. But this is in fact a special time. By resisting going on an escapade to the Bahamas with a new romantic interest and instead, focusing on developing present opportunities, you’ll be ready for the abundant benefits generated for your health and work life when Jupiter, your ruling planet, enters your Sixth House in mid-May. 

Capricorn’s 2023 Potential: Fun, Romance, Consolidated Miracles

With Pluto, planet of involuntary alchemy, transiting your sign since 2008, you’ve experienced very deep changes. At times you may have doubted your ability to live through them. The godfather of the solar system will leave your sign on Spring Equinox, 2023, so your greatest tests are almost over. In one way or another, you’ll have affirmed your inner strength and come through it all empowered. You may not feel very playful, but Uranus transiting your Fifth House unleashes your creativity and invites you to try new hobbies and ways of expressing your talents, going on a trip, or starting a romance. You might even reconnect with a childhood sweetheart. The lottery and games of chance could bring a sudden stroke of luck, as could defying propriety and speaking your mind. This positive potential will become more evident as fortunate Jupiter follows Uranus into your Fifth House in mid-May. In the meantime, the large planet will be in the sign of your Fourth House, where it shines its protective rays to facilitate dealing with family situations, remodeling, expanding or selling a home or real estate, doing business from home, or increasing the number of people you live with. 

Aquarius’ 2023 Potential: Brilliant Communication, Growth of Sales, Home or Family

Your rebellious ruler, Uranus in the Fourth House, has you on your feet, ready for change—itching to cast off confining family patterns, move to a new place, or establish a home situation in which you can be more yourself. Your family role as galvanizer is accented, although you may seem a bit much for those close to you unless you tap into the joy of Jupiter in the sign of your Third House of communication, and expand your connections and outlets of expression. You can shine as you focus on any activity involving words: promotion, sales, debate, negotiation, commerce, writing, taking care of bureaucracy, and participation with neighbors, siblings and colleagues. With Jupiter’s ruler Mars in Gemini, natural sign of the Third House, you can throw your energy assertively into these areas and as you do, prepare the way to ground the benefits of Santa Claus planet, Jupiter, when it enters Taurus, sign of your Fourth House, on May 16. This brings gifts of prosperity to your family and success in real estate or a business that you do from home, or in projects related to roots, home or family. It can also bring some kind of expansion of your family or home base. 

Pisces’ 2023 Potential: Assertiveness, Financial Renewal and Self-Expression

Jupiter in assertive Aries activates your Second House of values, awakening your self-esteem along with the ability to express your feelings in a more direct manner, and as you do, to set appropriate limits. You have energy and opportunities to expand your income or financial base. Promote them actively for the first months of the year, as come May 16, Jupiter will shift into earthy Taurus, the sign of your Third House, turning its beneficial rays to focus on communications. Suddenly you’ll be able to ground a project or possibility that has been exciting you for the last four years but seemed sort of off-and-on. This involves one or more goals like: writing, self-expression, promotion, sales, short trips, commerce, negotiation, and/or something related to colleagues, neighbors or siblings. By focusing on financial growth and assertiveness for the first four and one-half months of the year, you can make the most of the rest of the year, with a chance to express your deep creativity in satisfying and joyous ways. 

Crystal Pomeroy

Crystal Pallas Pomeroy, Maya’s daughter and astrological protégé, offers in-depth astrological consultations from her home in Mexico, in person or via Skype. She is a noted author as well as a regular radio and television commentator on esoteric topics, and leads a spiritual and healing ministry in Mexico City. Crystal offers workshops on astrology, the sacred feminine, indigenous spirituality, and the goddess in beautiful locations throughout Mexico. Her book Angels & Goddesses (Llewellyn, Spring 2022) is available now. Reach Crystal by email here.