2025 is remarkable—not just for the amount of change that will occur but because all the outer planets—those that stay in the same place for years or even decades, the ones that blend into the background—are all on the move. As you move into the New Year, the one exception is Pluto. The planet of change and transformation has just finished his big transition and has been in your communication sector for just six weeks, where he’ll remain until 2044. Pluto spent a few months here in early 2023 and another seven months in 2024, dipping back into your income sector in between to tie up the loose ends of a visit that began in 2008. It was last year, when Pluto was in your communication sector, that Jupiter not only returned to your relationship sector but moved straight into a friendly aspect.
Jupiter is still in your relationship sector—and will be until 10th June. Having Pluto back in your communication sector at the same time will help you get the most out of what is set to be a big year for all your relationships. Jupiter ends his partnership with Pluto and his 13-month visit to your relationship sector on 10th June. This sets the scene for Uranus to do the same less than a month later, on 7th July, when he returns for his first visit in eight decades. Like Pluto, Uranus— as an outer planet —still has unfinished business from his time in your work sector, which began in 2019. He’ll leave there on 7th July, but he retrogrades back in on 8th November to tie up loose ends.
Uranus leaves your work sector for good in April 2026, remaining in your relationship sector until 2033—with Pluto in your communication sector the whole of that time. The other major planets on the move this year are Saturn and Neptune, one the hard taskmaster of the cosmos and the planet of personal responsibility and the other the planet of hopes and dreams. Neptune has been in your home and family sector since 2012 and Saturn since March 2023. Whereas Neptune is all about the dream, Saturn has the resolve and discipline to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. Neptune will leave and return to a playful and creative part of your chart on 31st March and Saturn on 25th May, along with the faster planets that will be following in their wake. This transition from home and family to the more playful and creative side of life’s fence will play out during Uranus’ final six months in your work sector, when life is likely to be busy. This will make your work/life balance important.
What sets 2025 apart is that the tables have turned. The until-now dominant income side of the financial fence is pulling back, allowing the other side to have its turn. But this won’t be immediately apparent. Along with beginning the year with no planetary activity in your financial sector, the Sun always spends the first three weeks of January in your income sector, making it appear business as usual. In November 2024, Pluto—the planet of change and transformation—left your income sector for the first time in 16 years. But Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres were still there, and it wasn’t until they left in early December that this sector was empty. However, this will not last long, with the Sun returning—as always—to put the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters, and options just before Christmas each year.
It is not until the Sun leaves on 20th January and Mercury finishes moving through from 8th January to 28th January that your income sector will be truly empty. Apart from the Moon’s return every four weeks, there will be no more planetary activity in your income sector until 15th December, the longest you have gone without planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence since 2007. However, after all that time you no longer need the training wheels. As you would expect at this time of year, 2025 begins with no planetary activity in your financial sector—the side of the financial fence focused on your financial situation, money matters as a whole, and how you manage the money you have. But that won’t be the case for long.
On 6th January, two months after leaving your financial sector in November, Mars—the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos—will retrograde back for a double-dip visit. Not turning direct until 24th February, this will be Mars’ chance to return to what he began last year. And this time, he won’t have to compete with Pluto in your income sector. As well as giving money matters a boost, this is a chance to prepare for even bigger developments ahead. Mars will leave on 18th April, but not before doing what he can to fire up your financial passions and fighting spirit in order to see you take your financial power back. This is preparation for Jupiter’s return on 10th June to begin your biggest year for financial growth and expansion in over a decade. Mercury’s return on 9th June and the Sun’s from 21st June to 21st July will help get the ball rolling, but the real magic occurs when Venus returns from 31st July to 26th August, bringing the planets of money and luck together.
With Jupiter—the planet of luck and expansion—at the midpoint of a 12-month transit through your relationship sector, the year starts with a strong focus on your relationships. But Jupiter, who remains in your relationship sector until 10th June, begins the year in retrograde motion, temporarily putting this year-long quest for relationship growth into a review phase. When Jupiter turns direct on 4th February, he shifts the focus off the past and onto the future, though there won’t be any urgency until the Sun returns on 21st May. This is the point in each year that the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, and it comes just in time to get the most out of Jupiter’s final weeks. The Sun is here until 21st June and is joined by Mercury—the planet of communication—moving through from 26th May to 9th June.
After the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter leave, things will get interesting. Venus’ late return to your relationship sector on 5th July is set to be a real advantage. Held back by the time spent in your romantic sector earlier in the year, Venus is late to return. This will put the planet of love here when Uranus—the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected—returns for his first visit to your relationship sector in eight decades. Uranus is only here until 8th November but will return in April 2026 and won’t leave until 2033. This is the start of a major new relationship chapter, with Jupiter’s 12-month visit just the first step. But by then, something extraordinary will have already begun to develop on the romantic front.
It begins on 4th February when Venus—the planet of love—returns to begin what should be the most romantically charged weeks of 2025. Instead, this will bring the most romantically charged months, as Venus stays until 27th March, retrogrades back out, and returns again from 1st May to 6th June. However, the reason why Venus isn’t rushing through in 24 days like she normally would will soon become apparent. Neptune—the planet of hopes and dreams—returns for his first visit to your romantic sector in our lifetime on 31st March, and Saturn returns for his first visit in three decades on 25th May. Neptune will retrograde back out on 22nd October, but when he returns in January 2026, he will be here until 2039, while Saturn will retrograde back out on 1st September but will return in February 2026 and remain until April 2028.
On the one hand, it is business as usual on the job and career fronts this year. But there will be some big differences that set this year apart in a way that isn’t going to be too game-changing. Instead, they will contribute to making this a good year on both fronts. Since Uranus—the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected—returned to your work sector in 2019, there has been continuous planetary activity on the job front. However, Uranus is a slow outer planet whose main focus is on keeping things on their right path and continuing to provide the freshest perspective. Uranus can also trigger unexpected, serendipitous, or a-ha moments, especially when other planets are moving through. The year begins with Uranus in retrograde motion, and until he turns direct on 31st January, you are still reviewing things from last year.
With no planetary activity in your work sector, the year might get off to a slow start. This gives you a chance to ease into things. The first sign of change will be the Full Moon in your career sector on 14th March. This occurs at this time each year, and as it is halfway between the Sun’s last visit and the next, it can give career matters a much-needed boost. However, what suggests that something has changed is that this will be no ordinary Full Moon but a total lunar eclipse. This is the result of the South Node’s return to your career sector on 12th January, where it will keep a silent watch on things—especially in the rearview mirror—until leaving in July 2026. Meanwhile, as happens on the March equinox each year, the Sun’s return to your career sector on 20th April will turn the solar spotlight onto your work situation, job matters, and options before leaving on 21st May.
Mercury will move through from 11th May to 26th May, while Venus follows a bit later, from 6th June to 5th July. As has been the case each year since 2019, they will each connect with Uranus as they move through. However, on 7th July, two days after Venus leaves, Uranus will follow. Uranus returns on 8th November to tie up loose ends and leaves again in April 2026, not returning for another eight decades. It is during Venus and Uranus’s final weeks in your work sector, when they work together to bring the laws of attraction and synchronicity into effect, that Mars will return to your career sector on 17th June and begin the first planetary activity on the job front this year. As planetary activity on the job front takes a break, this will provide continuity, with a parade of planets that will move through until 14th October. By then, Uranus will be just a few weeks away from returning to your work sector on 8th November.
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