The main theme of 2025 is change, especially for those of you born under the sign of Aries. The past will start making way for the future and major new beginnings—but with a period of transition. You have had Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams, in your sector of subconscious thinking, imagination, and review for the last 12 years. And while he’s definitely been inching closer to his first return to Aries in our lifetime, during recent years, he has gotten tantalizingly close before turning back. Saturn behaved similarly, ending your current three decades-long Saturn cycle as he inched closer to Aries each day until also turning back. As you move into 2025, both are back in direct motion and picking up some serious speed. And this time, they are going to finally make it over the line, with Neptune returning to Aries on 31st March and Saturn on 25th May.
The early months of the year are likely to see the lines between the past, present and future get fuzzy. A rush of planets returns to Aries at around the same time, but first need to go through the nostalgic, reflective part of your chart. That is still the case even after you move into your birthday month and new solar year on 20th March. The chance to clear the past and embrace the future and the big dreams is finally possible when Saturn returns to Aries on 25th May. Until then, the harsh taskmaster of the cosmos will want you to take care of unfinished business so that you’re finally free to move on, but with time to work with Neptune on those big dreams you have for the future.
Other big changes are looming on the social front. Pluto finally left your career sector late last year and is now settling into the first full year of a 20-year visit to your sector of friendship, teamwork, and networking—with the added help of Jupiter in your communication sector. Even when Jupiter leaves on 10th June, Uranus’ return on 7th July will see him take over. This is another of the big changes in 2025, with Uranus leaving your income sector after nearly six years of being a major support for Pluto, who was in your career sector. This will bring these major forces back together again, this time with a greater focus on connecting. Uranus will retrograde back into your income sector on 8th November, after some active months on the job front from June to October. Things kick off on the career front with Mars’ return to your career sector on 15th December.
On both sides of the financial fence, it is business as usual and a large degree of the expected, but with enough surprises that this won’t be just another rubber stamp year. You begin the year with Uranus—the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected—in your income sector, as he has been since 2019. Since then, Uranus has been very much working in tandem with Pluto, who was spending his final years in your career sector. However, Pluto left in November and now Uranus is getting ready to leave as well, on 7th July. This will give the faster planets a chance to make one last visit before the planet that has been keeping things moving in a lucrative direction leaves; Uranus will return once more on 8th November, leaving for good just after the Sun returns in April 2026.
However, it is in the early months of this year that there will be a push to get the most out of Uranus’ final months. This will start with the Sun’s return from 20th April to 21st May, something that puts the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters, and options at this time each year. Mercury will move through from 11th May to 26th May, giving you the money smarts you need to get your head in the game and think on your feet. However, it is when Venus moves through—from 6th June to 5th July—that the real magic could happen. Venus is the planet of money, desire, and attraction; her movement through your income sector can create the most lucrative weeks of any year. With Uranus leaving on 7th July, along with his ability to trigger the laws of synchronicity, real opportunities could open up.
Meanwhile, things aren’t as active on the other side of the financial fence and won’t be until Mars returns to your financial sector on 22nd September. But the money gods have a secret weapon up their sleeves. That secret weapon is the asteroid Juno—the queen of commitment—who will begin the year in your financial sector, making it easier to keep your financial resolutions. Juno will leave on 20th February but retrograde back in from 15th April to 1st October. She will still be here when Mars returns on 22nd September to fire up your financial passions, fuel your fighting spirit, and begin the most active months of the year for money matters. By then, Uranus will be gone from your income sector. For the first time since 2019, this will be a chance for some focused attention on the other side of the financial fence.
When Mars leaves your romantic sector on 6th January, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos has already been here for two months. And its retrograde means that he isn’t finished yet. Instead, he has barely begun. His return on 18th April will be for a complete do-over, with a chance to spend another two months firing up your romantic passions and fighting spirit before leaving on 17th June. Normally spending just six weeks here every other year, between November 2024 and June 2025, Mars will spend four months firing things up. This prepares for Venus—the planet of love—and her extended stay in Aries this year.
For while Mars is retrograding back into and out of your romantic sector, Venus is set to do the same when she returns to Aries on 4th February for what should be a 24-day chance to work her magic. Instead, a retrograde turn on 2nd March will see Venus retrograde back out again on 27th March, nearly two months later. Once in direct motion, she will return for a second visit from 1st May to 6th June. A Full Moon in your romantic sector on 13th February will get the first chapter off to a romantically charged start, and when Mars returns to your romantic sector on 11th June, he will easily slip back into the scene. Between them, Venus and Mars are going to keep the romantic flame burning for much of the first half of the year.
Even then, with Mercury returning to your romantic sector on 27th June and a retrograde turn keeping him here until 3rd September, this feeling will continue well into the second half of the year. What Venus, Mars, and Mercury all have in common is their time in retrograde motion, indicating that there is a strong link to the past this year. There will not be any planetary activity in your relationship sector until Mars returns to it on 7th August. But, the South Node’s departure on 12th January will end its 18-month policing of a balance between your own needs versus your relationship needs. This will take the pressure off you and your relationships, leaving you with an authentic sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.
While it might appear to be business as usual as you move into the new professional year, at least there is a chance to take your foot off the gas. For many, this comes after years of not even realizing that you even had your foot on the pedal. It wasn’t until the end of November 2024 that Pluto—the planet of change, transformation, and rebellion—finally finished its 16-year stay in your career sector, not to return again in our lifetime. Because the Sun always spends the first three weeks of each year in your career sector, things are likely to feel like business as usual as you move into any new professional year: with the solar spotlight on your career and professional situation, matters and options as you look to the journey ahead. However, by the time you move into the New Year, Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres—who stayed on after Pluto left—will have left already. By the end of January, your career sector will be empty.
Apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, there will be no more planetary activity in your career sector until Mars returns on 15th December to fire up what will be an active end to this professional year and start to your 2026 professional year. The last time your career sector was empty for this long was in 2007, the year before Pluto first returned. After 16 years, it is time to take your foot off the gas! You can also remove the training wheels—you can take it from here on your own. However, this does put a lot more focus on January; invest your time and energy into getting this new professional year off on the right track. The Sun, who always spends the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your career sector, will leave on 20th January. Fortunately, Mercury will be here from 8th January to 28th January, giving you everything you need to move into this new professional year with your head in the game.
However, while planetary activity ceases on the career front until the end of the year, that is not the case on the job front. But there’s no need to rush. You have time to let things from the last few years play out first, before the busiest months of the year kick in. This will start with Mars’ return to your work sector from 17th June to 7th August. The warrior planet of the cosmos will fire things up and get things moving in the very heart of the year. While these are likely to be the busiest months of the year, a few weeks after Mars leaves, the Sun will return to put the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters, and options from 23rd August to 23rd September. At the same time, Venus and Mercury will return, so the most active months of the year on the job front won’t end until Venus leaves on 14th October. By then, Mars will only be two months away from his return to your career sector.
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