2025 is not only a year of major change. It’s also a gateway year, opening things up for several years to come while forming new cosmic partnerships that are going to reshape things considerably. What makes this exciting for you is that it takes place while Jupiter—the planet of luck and expansion—is still in your sign. Plus, you are still in the foundation year of a new 12-year Jupiter cycle of expansion, which lasts until he leaves on 10th June. Jupiter is still in retrograde motion as you move into the New Year and will be until 4th February, giving you a chance to pause before embarking on the roller coaster ride this year brings. However, one of the changes that will have the biggest impact on not just this year but for decades to come has already happened. As you move into the New Year, you'll just be starting to get a feel for it.
On New Year’s Day, Pluto—the planet of change and transformation—will have been back in your sector of adventure, travel, learning, and discovery for six weeks. He’ll be here from now until 2044; for the next 20 years, simply going through the motions is no longer an option. And with Neptune leaving your career sector on 31st March after nearly 13 years there and Saturn leaving on 25th May after two years, this professional year will also be getting off to an empowered start. Saturn and Neptune are working hard to make their final months count, urging a partnership that gives you the resolve to do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to turn your most cherished dreams into reality. And there will be a flood of planets supporting this. The faster planets will start arriving in your career sector as early as 3rd January, and the last one won’t leave until 17th May, eight days before Saturn.
This is something that Mars will be eager to exploit when he retrogrades back into your income sector for a double-dip visit from 6th January to 18th April. With Pluto now in an adventurous part of your chart to stay, he will be keeping a close watch on your work/life balance. Meanwhile, one of the biggest changes of 2025, and the one that could have the most personal impact, is Uranus returning to Gemini on 7th July—for the first time in eight decades. Uranus is the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected; it’s all about our personal truth while being able to work through the laws of synchronicity to put things on the right path, often through unexpected, serendipitous, or a-ha moments. Like all outer planets, it takes time for Uranus to transition. He will retrograde back out on 8th November, only to return in April 2026 and remain here until 2033.
As you move into this new financial year, there is a mix of the expected and the unexpected on both sides of the financial fence, plus a sense that the tables have turned. Ever since Pluto—the planet of change, transformation, and rebellion—returned to your financial sector in 2008, there has been near-continuous planetary activity on this side of the financial fence, the side that influences how you manage your money. Year after year, planets have come and gone from your income sector, but only ever for a few months at a time, and always forced to compete with Pluto’s overarching focus on your financial situation and money matters. The balance of power has been focused on that side of the financial fence, but not anymore.
For the first time since 2008, you will move into the New Year to find Pluto gone. As always, the Sun spends the first three weeks of each year in your financial sector, shining the solar spotlight on your financial situation and money matters. This is the annual update that money matters receive each year. The enormity of Pluto’s departure may not hit home until Mercury moves through—from 8th January to 28th January—bringing the money smarts needed to get your head in the financial game and think on your feet. Barring a few months in early 2025, this will leave your financial sector empty. It will stay that way until Mars returns on 15th December, the Sun on 22nd December, and Venus on 25th December, for what will be your next annual update for money matters. Gone is the overriding focus on money matters as attention shifts to the income side of the financial fence.
It starts on 6th January, when two months after its departure, Mars—the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos—will return for a do-over, this time without having to compete with Pluto and money matters. This period focuses on income and a fight for what you deserve, with a retrograde motion until 24th February that opens doors to the past and second chances. Mars will exit on 18th April, temporarily leaving your income sector empty until Mercury returns on 9th June to begin what are usually the most active months of the year on the income front. However, everything will change a day later, with Jupiter returning on 10th June to begin your biggest and luckiest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. The most potentially lucrative weeks of the year occur when Venus moves through from 31st July to 26th August, with the planets of money and luck able to join forces.
As is often the case, the main focus on your relationships is going to occur during the latter months of each year, sometimes flowing into the early weeks of the new year. Beginning the New Year with Mercury—the planet of communication—still in your relationship sector, while the Sun and Venus have already moved through, gives you a chance to start with the communication lines open. Additionally, the relationship gods have a secret weapon up their sleeves this year. Normally, in your relationship sector for just 14 to 15 days, a retrograde turn that has kept Mercury here for two months will finally see him leave on 8th January. This should quiet things in the relationship sector until Mercury returns on 30th October, ready to kick off this year’s round of planetary activity.
But instead, on 20th February the asteroid Juno—the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships—will return for her first visit in four years. Juno will leave on 15th April but by retrograding back out, which means she will return for a do-over from 1st October to 30th December. Still here when Mercury comes full circle, as well as when Mars returns on 5th November, the Sun on 22nd December, and Venus on 1st December, Juno is set to have a subtle but strong influence on your relationships this year. Unlike the Sun, Mercury, and Venus, Mars doesn’t return each year, so to have him show up suggests that the final months of the year will be the most significant on the relationship front.
Mars’ return on 7th August kicks off the first planetary activity on the romantic front since October 2024. While Mars is only here until 22nd September, by the time he leaves, the Sun and Mercury will both be here and will continue to keep the romantic flame burning. Mars—the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos—will be the first planet to kick off this year’s most romantically charged months. But it will be Venus—the planet of love and the last planet to return on 14th October—who will bring things to a close on 7th November, three months to the day after Mars kicked things off. This will see the planets of passion and love bookend the most romantically charged three months of 2025.
There are big changes on the career front this year. The end of an era is approaching, but there’s an entire year to bring things home, and you’ll have an extraordinary amount of support during the first half of the year. Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams, is ending its time in your career sector, as is Saturn, which had a recent return. Neptune entered your career sector for the first time in our lifetime in 2012 and since then, he has been shaping your professional dreams. However, it was Saturn’s return in March 2023 that finally gave you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality. While they won’t fully leave until early 2026, they both begin transitioning out this year, with Neptune leaving on 31st March and Saturn on 25th May.
This is not goodbye, but with Saturn not retrograding back in until 1st September and Neptune until 22nd October, they will be gone for several months. When Neptune does leave in January 2026, he won’t return again in our lifetime, while when Saturn leaves in February 2026, it will be another three decades before he returns, making these final months with both here especially important. This is how the slower outer planets will always transition out of one part of your chart and into another. But what is unique this time is that Venus and Mercury, who usually move through in a matter of weeks, are mirroring this. Venus will return on 3rd January to begin what is normally a 24-day mission to fuel your job confidence, attract opportunities, and steer things in a lucrative direction.
But instead, when Venus eventually leaves on 4th February, it will retrograde out, returning again for a second time from 27th March to 1st May. Mercury will do the same, returning with everything needed to work smarter, get your head in the game, put ideas on the table, and open communication lines from 15th February to 3rd March. After retrograding out, Mercury will return again from 30th March to 16th April. With the Sun moving through during that time, this is going to provide wraparound support to get the most out of Saturn and Neptune’s final months here. The asteroid Juno—queen of commitment—will be in your work sector until 20th February, helping to keep this professional year on track, especially on the job front, before retrograding back in from 15th April to 1st October. This is a theme this year, but it means you will have her resolve to draw on until Mars returns to fire things up on the job front on 22nd September. This begins some active months that won’t run their course until 12th December, when Saturn and Neptune return to your career sector.
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