There is a lot happening this year—and some serious changes. For those born under the sign of Cancer, that could ring warning bells. But rest assured, this is change of the exciting kind—a mix of major new beginnings and an exciting professional year that won’t upset the work/life balance you enjoy so much. This is your year to have your cake and eat it, too. As you move into the New Year, Jupiter is still in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart. It is also in retrograde motion, with this final year of your current 12-year Jupiter cycle of expansion well into its review mode. On 4th February, Jupiter turns direct, and on 10th June, he heads towards his return to Cancer. This begins a new 12-year Jupiter cycle of expansion and a lucky, expansive year full of the potential for major new beginnings.
By then, much will have changed. This is especially true in the professional landscape, where there’s a major effort underway to get the most out of Saturn and Neptune’s final months in your sector of adventure, travel, learning, and discovery. Neptune—the planet of hopes and dreams— has been here since 2012 and will leave on 31st March, while Saturn, who has been here since March 2023, will leave on 25th May. A parade of planets will move through between 3rd January and 17th May, but because of retrograde turns, Venus and Mercury will both spend a considerable amount of time here. This is your chance to catch the exciting spirit of adventure as Neptune returns to your career sector for the first time in three decades on 31st March and Saturn for the first time in three decades on 25th May.
They will both return to an adventurous part of your chart for a few months later in the year, but both will leave and return to your career sector in early 2026, Saturn to spend until April 2028, and Neptune until 2029. By early February, things will be starting to move on the career front; they’ll be in full swing by the end of March. This is something that Mars will be keen to exploit when, after retrograding back out of your income sector on 6th January, he returns for a do-over from 18th April to 17th June. This provides some serious competition for Pluto, who—after spending 2024 transitioning out of your relationship sector and into your financial sector—is finally settled in until 2044. As the planet of change and transformation, he is here to change things up—especially your relationship with money. As he’s here for the next 20 years, though, there’s no pressure on you to reinvent the wheel overnight.
There is a sense of warning as you move into 2025. But while there could be some financial tension, this is not a sign that this is going to be a challenging year financially—it’s the very opposite. This financial tension will be short-lived, although it will return for a few days in April and again at various points around the middle of the year. You had a taste of this last year when Pluto was beginning to transition into your financial sector but wasn’t ready to commit. Pluto was here when the Sun, Venus, and Mercury returned for their annual visit to your income sector, leading to clashes when they returned. By the time Mars also returned to your income sector in November, Pluto had left. And although he returned just a few weeks later, by then, Mars had cleared the early degrees—where you would have experienced any financial tension.
Pluto will be at the early degrees of your financial sector for most of the year and until 2044. Any planet that returns to your income sector will almost immediately clash with the planet of change, transformation, and rebellion. But this discord will be over quickly, as the other planets move on. Pluto will be a bouncer at the doors, reminding you that although you are entering some lucrative months, he is watching that you are also balancing the flow of money coming in with going out. With Pluto here for the next 20 years, this is the start of a major period of financial growth—and for taking your financial power back. This could create some financial tension early in the year, because while Mars managed to avoid a clash with Pluto when he returned to your income sector in November, this face-off is unavoidable when he retrogrades out on 6th January.
This will leave your income sector empty until Mars returns on 18th April, giving you time to focus on money matters, as is always the case in the early months of every year. Venus—the planet of money—begins the year in your financial sector but will leave on 3rd January. On the other hand, the Sun will be here from 20th January to 18th January, Mercury from 28th January to 15th February, and the dwarf planet Ceres—who began her first deep dive into your financial sector in four years—will leave on 24th February. Apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, this will leave Pluto on his own for the rest of the year, shifting the focus to the long game. Mars’ return to your income sector on 18th April, apart from a bit of pushback from Pluto when he first returns, will kick off the most lucrative months of 2024, lasting until Venus leaves on 19th September.
Because the Sun always spends the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at the start of the year. As you move into 2025, there will be a mix of the expected and the unexpected. The expected is that the solar spotlight is on your relationships and will be until the Sun leaves on 20th January. Not as expected—but also not unusual—is that although Venus, the planet of love, moved through late last year and is no longer here, her influence can still be felt, helping you realize what you want from your relationships. With Venus not returning again until Christmas Day, this is something that you need to hold onto.
Held back by a retrograde phase, Mercury was late to return to your relationship sector last year and will instead return from 8th January to 28th January in order to do what he—the planet of communication—does best. Meanwhile, the unexpected is what is missing, as for the first time since 2008, you move into the New Year without Pluto—the planet of change, transformation, and rebellion here. Pluto left in November 2024 and won’t be back again in our lifetime. But after 16 years, he has forever changed what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This means that when Mercury leaves your relationship sector on 28th January, it will remain empty until Mars returns on 15th December, firing things up a week before the Sun comes full circle on 22nd December.
Mercury won’t return to your relationship sector again this year, making these early weeks of 2025 important for opening communication lines. However, with Venus—the planet of love—joining the Sun and Mars on 25th December, the year will end with a strong focus on your relationships. And although you begin the year without any planetary activity in your romantic sector, and Mars doesn’t return to kick off the most romantically charged months of 2025 until 22nd December, this year, the love gods have a secret weapon. The asteroid Juno—the queen of commitment—returned for her first visit to your romantic sector in four years in November 2024. While Juno will leave on 20th February, she will retrograde back in again from 15th October to 31st October, giving you the resolve to keep the romantic flame burning.
As you move into the New Year and get your first look at 2025, first impressions suggest that, as far as professional years go, it is business as usual. The dwarf planet Eris—the warrior planet of the cosmos—is still in retrograde motion in your career sector, as is usually the case. And while the Sun left your work sector just before Christmas, Mercury is still here, tying up the loose ends of several active months on the job front until he leaves on 8th January. Eris has been in your career sector for over nine decades, and it is not unusual for the tail end of the previous year’s activity on the job front to spread into the early days or even weeks of the New Year. However, 2025 is a living example of the fact that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Despite first impressions, this professional year will be anything but business as usual, with major change just three months away.
Mercury will leave your work sector empty when he exits. And, while not a major player, the asteroid Juno—the queen of commitment—returns from 20th February to 15th April and gives you the resolve to stay on top of work and job matters during some of the most exciting months on the career front in decades. Juno will dip back in from 1st October to 30th December, just as things are about to fire up on the job front, starting with Mars’ return to your work sector on 5th November and running through to the early days of 2026. However, it is on the career front that everything is happening this year, beginning with Venus’ return to your career sector on 4th February. To start with, there is nothing unusual about this, except that instead of spending just 24 days fueling your professional confidence, attracting opportunities, and steering things in a lucrative direction, a retrograde turn will see her retrograde back out on 27th March, only to return for a do-over from 1st May to 6th June.
Coincidentally, Mercury will do the same, returning on 3rd March for what should be a two-week chance to get your head in the game and think on your feet, only to see him retrograde back out on 30th March and then return for a do-over from 16th April to 11th May. What is it that makes two planets that will normally rush through in just a few weeks not only be reluctant to leave but return for a second time? They must be preparing you for something big. And that something is Neptune—the planet of hopes and dreams—returning to your career sector for the first time in our lifetime on 31st March, followed by Saturn’s return for the first time in three decades on 27th May. Together, they give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn professional dreams into reality. Saturn will retrograde back out on 1st September and Neptune on 22nd October but will both return in early 2026.
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