As you move into the New Year, Pluto—the planet of change and transformation—has been back in your home and family sector for just six weeks, where he’ll remain until 2044. This is something that you have been preparing for since March 2023, when he began his transition. As you’ll see from the movements of the other outer planets this year, leaving one sign and moving on to the next is always a complicated process that takes several attempts. In this case, Pluto has been transitioning out of your communication sector, where he has been since 2008, and into your home and family sector, where he will remain for the next two decades. However, it is an event in the very early days of the month that holds the key to getting the most out of this incredible year. And while it might feel challenging at the time, it is super important to pay attention.
That celestial shakeup is a clash between Pluto and Mars, just as he is about to retrograde back out of your career sector on 6th January. Mars is in retrograde motion, so he isn’t going to push back much. As he returns to your sector of adventure, travel, learning, and discovery just as things are starting to fire up in a playful and creative part of your chart, he will be keen to use any work/life balance tension to his advantage as well. Pay attention to any work/life balance tension or pressure, especially in those first days back to work post-holiday. This is your opportunity to tweak things, Att the very least, make this one of your New Year’s resolutions. What you have is an extraordinary but busy professional year as well as a big year for home, family, relationships, and the playful, creative, adventurous side of life’s fence.
Mars is back in your sector of adventure, travel, learning, and discovery until 18th April. The timing couldn’t be better, with Neptune, in a playful and creative part of your chart since 2012, leaving on 31st March, Saturn—who has been here since March 2023—leaving on 25th May, and an army of support during their final months. However, this is a well-defined period; you’ll see Neptune, Saturn, and their entourage return to your busy work sector, and Mars will return to your career sector on 18th April for a do-over. Before they return in the New Year, Saturn will retrograde back out again on 1st September and Neptune on 22nd October for a few months, with Neptune then here until 2039 and Saturn until 2028. This is the one year when having the right work/life balance couldn’t be more important—especially if you want to have it all.
The balance of power remains on the side of the financial fence that focuses more on your financial situation and money matters than on money coming in. But still, this is set to be a crucial year for taking back your financial power. There will be enough activity on the income side of the financial fence to create some lucrative months. The year begins with Mercury still in your income sector, giving you the money smarts needed to keep your head in the game and your feet on the ground. Mercury exits on 8th January, leaving your income sector empty. This is the tail end of the planetary activity from last year that has spilled into the early days of this year. These can be considered bonus days, beginning a year where the power is very much on the other side of the financial fence.
As you move into the New Year, Jupiter—the planet of change and transformation—is in your financial sector but in retrograde motion. This makes him a sleeping giant, ready to wake up when he turns direct on 4th February. Until then, at the halfway point in Jupiter’s 12-month quest for financial growth and expansion, things are in review mode. You have a chance to learn and gain as much as possible from the past before the journey home begins. That push to bring things to fruition will begin with Jupiter’s direct turn on 4th February and will continue until he leaves on 10th June. Helping to bring things home will be the Sun’s return, from 21st May to 21st June, and Mercury’s return, from 26th May to 9th June. Mercury’s smart head for money kicks in, and the solar spotlight shifts to your financial situation and money matters during Jupiter’s final weeks.
The Sun’s departure on 21st June will leave your financial sector empty for the first time since April 2023, but not for long. 14 days later, Venus—the planet of money, which had been held back by a retrograde phase—will finally return on 5th July. Just two days later, Uranus—the planet of surprise, synchronicity, and the unexpected—will return for his first visit to your financial sector in eight decades. This dwarfs everything until now, for apart from when he retrogrades back out from 8th November to 26th April, Uranus is here until 2033. Uranus will be here when the most lucrative months of the year kick off. This begins with Mercury’s return to your income sector on 30th October but will really take hold when Mars moves through from 4th November to 15th December and Venus from 1st December to 25th December.
On both the romantic and relationship levels, this is not your normal year—nor what has become your normal. Until now, your normal has been that, ever since his return to your romantic sector in 2012, Neptune—the planet of healing—has been keeping the romantic dream alive and your romantic sector continuously active. In addition, you have had Saturn in your romantic sector since March 2023, giving you the resolve to take responsibility and to do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to turn dreams into reality. At the same time, you have had Uranus keeping things real and authentic on the relationship front since returning to your relationship sector back in 2019.
However, all three are leaving this year or, at the very least, beginning to transition out, bringing you to the end of an era. The first to leave will be Neptune, who will exit your romantic sector on 31st March, followed by Saturn on 25th May. They both return later in the year to tie up loose ends—Neptune from 22nd October, leaving for good in January 2026, and Saturn from 1st September, leaving for good in February 2026. Helping with that transition—and to get the most out of these powerful forces—is Venus, who would normally only spend 24 days in your romantic sector each year. But this time, Venus will return on 3rd January and won’t leave until 4th February, and even then, by retrograding back out—she will return for a double-dip visit from 27th March to 1st May.
What is turning what are normally the most romantically charged weeks of any year into the most romantically charged months? Even Mercury will retrograde in and out—from 15th February to 3rd March and again from 30th March to 16th April—giving your heart a voice and putting your heart and mind on the same page. Then the focus will shift to your relationships, with the Sun’s return to your relationship sector on 20th April—the point in each year when the solar spotlight shines on your relationships.
Held back by their time spent in your romantic sector, Venus and Mercury will be late returning to your relationship sector this year. Mercury—the planet of communication—will work to open communication lines when he moves through from 11th May to 26th May. Venus—the planet of love—moves through from 6th June to 5th July and will be the last to make contact with Uranus before he leaves on 7th July.
First impressions might suggest that this will be a slow or, at the very least, an ordinary professional year, with not a lot to see here. You do start the year with Mars—the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos—in your busy work sector, but he is not only in retrograde motion but will retrograde back out on 6th January. This will leave your work sector empty. Even the dwarf planet Eris—the warrior princess of the cosmos—who has been in your work sector for over nine decades, will begin the year in retrograde motion. Starting the year with the warrior prince and princess of the cosmos in your two professional houses, but both in retrograde motion won’t just feel like the brakes are on; they really will be on, but for good reason. Eris will turn direct on 11th January but will remain at a standstill for the whole of January, giving you a chance to pause before this professional year takes an unexpected and exciting turn.
On 4th February, things will start to pick up, with Venus returning to begin what is normally a 24-day chance to fuel your job confidence, attract opportunities, and steer things in a lucrative direction. Instead, Venus will soon start slowing down as well, with a retrograde turn on 2nd March seeing her retrograde back out on 27th March, only to return from 1st May to 6th June to find that everything has changed. Even Mercury will follow the pattern of planets turning retrograde and holding things back, for he will return to your work sector from 3rd March to 30th March, only to retrograde back out and return again from 16th April to 11th May. In both cases, they have seen what’s coming and know that the few weeks they would normally spend here won’t be nearly enough.
What is coming is not just Mars’ return to your career sector on 18th April, but the return of Neptune—the planet of hopes and dreams—for his first visit to your work sector in our lifetime on 31st March. This is followed by Saturn returning for his first visit in three decades on 25th May. Both will retrograde back out later in the year, Saturn on 1st September and Neptune on 22nd October. But when Neptune returns in January 2026, he will be here until 2039; Saturn will return in February 2026 and not leave until 2028. That slow start to the year is so that you have time to get your bearings and prepare for what is coming. Mars will move through your career sector from 18th April to 17th June, but this will be followed by a period from 27th June to 19th September when the Sun, Mercury, and Venus will all move through.
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