While there is no doubt that 2025 is a huge year for change, so much so that this is the defining feature of the year, for you, the biggest of those shifts has already taken place. Everything now is secondary to what has been the greatest cosmic shift or transition that you’ll go through in this lifetime. That is the return of Pluto—the planet of change and transformation—to Aquarius and the birthing process that began in March 2023 but didn’t end until November 2024. By the time you move into the New Year, after a false start in 2023 and another in 2024, Pluto has been back in Aquarius for just six weeks—but he is here to stay and won’t leave until 2044. With the planet of change and transformation in Aquarius for the next 20 years, this gives you the time and resources to change your life and embrace major new beginnings without having to reinvent the wheel overnight. Pluto has returned in time to find Jupiter—the planet of luck and expansion, with whom he was closely connected in the middle part of 2024—still in a playful and creative part of your chart. This will see them resume that bond. And when Jupiter leaves and returns to your busy work sector on 10th June, there will soon be someone to step into his shoes. While the Sun will be there by then and ensure that life doesn’t suddenly become all work and no play, less than a month later, Uranus returns to your romantic and creative sector for the first time in eight decades on 7th July. From the start, Uranus is going to move into a friendly aspect to Pluto; they’ll remain closely aligned until he retrogrades back out on 8th November. That will also be the case when Uranus returns again in April 2026, this time to remain here until 2033.
This makes it easier to maintain a balance between work and play, especially in the first four months of the year. These could be the busiest months, defining things on the income and job fronts for the rest of the year and beyond. The year begins with Saturn and Neptune still in your income sector but getting ready to leave. Neptune—who has been here since 2012— leaves on 31st March, and Saturn—who has been here since March 2023—on 25th May. There will be a huge amount of support from the faster planets during that time, including Venus and Mercury, who will leave but then retrograde back in, spending much of the first four months of the year together in your income sector. Helping you get the most out of this is having Mars retrograded back into your work sector from 6th January to 18th April, two months after having left, not usually to return for another two years. Once they, and the planets traveling with them, leave your income sector, Saturn and Neptune will turn their attention onto your communications.
Change is in the air, especially on the income side of the financial fence. The forces that have been dominating things for years are now prepared to move on and bring a major chapter to a close. However, this will be drawn out; even planets like Venus and Mercury—who will rush through in a matter of weeks without looking back—are going to move backward and forward in the way a major planet would. A slower outer planet will never return to an area of your chart for the first time in decades and then stay there for years. Instead, they take a few years to transition in, as they move in, out, and back again before settling in—and then doing the same before leaving. This is what is happening this year with Neptune, who has been in your income sector since 2012, leaving on 31st March but then retrograding back in on 22nd October before leaving for good in January 2026.
Saturn, who returned to your income sector in March 2023 and who has been working with dreamy Neptune to give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality, will leave on 25th May. Saturn will retrograde back in on 1st September but leave again in February 2026. He will be back in another three decades, but Neptune won’t be back again in our lifetime. This is the way a major or outer planet will transition out of an area of your chart, so things don’t suddenly cut off. Less common is for the faster planets to do that, but as if in a case of solidarity and to capitalize on Saturn’s and Neptune’s influences, Venus and Mercury are doing just that. It begins with Venus’ return for what should be a 24-day visit to your income sector on 3rd January.
As the planet of money, desire, and attraction, Venus can make these the most lucrative weeks of any year. Instead, although Venus will leave on 4th February, she will retrograde back in for a second time from 27th March to 1st May. At the same time, Mercury—who will usually spend two weeks giving you the money smarts needed to get your head in the game and think on your feet—will move through from 15th February to 3rd March before retrograding back in for a do-over from 30th March to 16th April. In the middle of this, the Sun will move through, putting the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters, and options from 18th March to 20th March. On the other side of the financial fence, things will be less active this year, though Mars will move through your financial sector from 17th June to 7th August. This offers a chance for you to take advantage of the gap in planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence and fire things up financially.
In May 2024, Jupiter—the planet of luck and expansion—returned to your romantic sector and began your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart, and all things romantic in over a decade. Until he leaves on 10th June, Jupiter will continue working and make his final months some of the best and most expansive. Although this is one of the biggest things that can happen on the romantic front in a decade, this cosmic event is about to be dwarfed—or revealed to be just the stepping stone for the once-in-a-lifetime event coming down the pipeline. Until then, in retrograde motion until 4th February, Jupiter is more focused on the past than the future, with a lot of nostalgia in the mix. Once Jupiter turns direct, he will start moving forward, ready to make his final months count.
During Jupiter’s final weeks, the Sun’s return on 21st May shines a solar spotlight on matters of the heart. At the same time, Mercury—moving through from 26th May to 9th June—will be working to give your heart a voice and to align your heart and mind. Mercury will leave during Jupiter’s last full day, and on 21st June, when the Sun also exits, your romantic sector will be empty for the first time in over a year. It should stay that way for the rest of the year. But instead, the best is yet to come. Held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus—the planet of love—won’t return to your romantic sector until 5th July, beginning what can be the most romantically charged weeks of any year. While Jupiter will be gone by then, Venus’ timing couldn’t be better, for she will be here when Uranus—the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected—returns for his first visit to your romantic sector in eight decades.
Uranus will retrograde back out on 8th November, but when he returns in April 2026, he will remain here until 2033. Meanwhile, although the year begins with Mars in your relationship sector, he will retrograde back out on 6th January. The planet of passion, also the warrior planet of the cosmos, delays his desire to see you fight for what you want from your relationships until he returns for a do-over from 18th April to 17th June. Ten days later, Mercury—the planet of communication—will return for what is normally a two-week visit on 27th June but won’t leave until 3rd September. During that time, the Sun will move through, with Venus returning to work her magic from 26th August to 19th September.
As you move into this new professional year, first impressions will suggest that either there’s nothing to see here or it’s business as usual. The year begins with no planetary activity in your work sector after Mars left in November 2024, though you wouldn’t normally expect any at this time of year. And while the main body of planets has already moved through your career sector, the asteroid Juno—the queen of commitment—is still there. Juno is a tiny player whose influence is more internal than external, so she is not going to be triggering any activity on the career front. Instead, until leaving on 20th February, she will make it easier to stick to your resolutions. However, within days of moving into 2025, things will start to change—especially on the job front and in a way that will be in preparation for much bigger things to come. On 6th January and almost two months to the day after leaving, Mars will retrograde back into your work sector and won’t leave again until 18th April.
Until turning direct on 24th February, Mars will be going back over old ground and retracing the steps taken during the two months he had previously spent here. Mars will normally only spend six weeks firing things up on the job front in a way that only the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos can. But after spending two months here from September to November 2024, he will spend another three and a half months here. Retrograding planets often signal major developments ahead that they need to spend additional time helping you prepare for. Mars’ time here is going to create a lot of opportunities and progress on the job front, as well as a sense of purpose once he is back in direct motion. This is also preparation for Jupiter—the planet of luck and expansion—to return on 10th June and the start of your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade. Helping to get that underway will be having Mercury in your career sector from 9th June to 27th June and the Sun from 21st June to 22nd July. Held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus won’t return until 31st July, and until leaving on 26th August, she will be on her own with Jupiter, bringing the laws of attraction and the element of luck together. It is less than a month later that Mars will return to your career sector on 22nd September to begin firing things up on the career front. This time, instead of preparing the way for Jupiter’s return to your work sector, as he returns to get things moving on the career front, it will be to piggyback off the momentum he will have created by then. Over the coming months, the Sun, Mercury, and Venus will all move through, keeping things active on the career front until 12th December.
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