2025 is not only a year of major change, but this is a gateway year and is going to open 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 comes while Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion is still in Gemini and you are still in the foundation year of a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion and will be 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 the year will take you on. However, one of the changes that will have the biggest impact not only on this year but for decades to come has already happened and as you move into the New Year, you will be just starting to get a feel for it. On New Year’s Day Pluto, the planet of change and transformation has been back in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery for six weeks and here now until 2044, for the next 20 years simply going through the motions is no longer an option. Yet with Neptune, after nearly 13 years in your career sector leaving on 31st March and after two years Saturn leaving on 25th May, this professional year will also be getting off to an empowered start. Not only will Saturn and Neptune be working to make their final months count and of a partnership that is giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality, but 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 won’t leave until 17th May, eight days before Saturn. This is something that Mars will be keen 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 will have the most personal impact is when on 7th July, Uranus will return to Gemini for the first time in eight decades. Uranus is the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected and the planet that is all about our personal truth while able to work through the laws of synchronicity to put things on the right path, often through unexpected, serendipitous or eureka moments. Like all outer planets, it will take time for Uranus to transition and he will retrograde back out on 8th November, only to return in April 2026 but to remain here until 2033.
As is often the case, the main focus on your relationships is going to be in the latter months of each year and sometimes flowing into the early weeks of the new year. While moving into the New Year with Mercury, the planet of communication still in your relationship sector but the Sun and Venus having already moved through is both a chance to start with the communication lines open, this year the relationship gods have a secret weapon up their sleeves. 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 be the end of all planetary activity on the relationship until Mercury returns on 30th October to kick off this year’s round of planetary activity. 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 that she will return for a do over from 1st October to 30th December. Here when Mercury not only comes full circle but 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 will also visit your romantic sector this year, with his return on 7th August kicking 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. While Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos will be the first planetary activity to kick off this year’s most romantically charged months 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.
As you move into this new financial year there is a mix of the expected and the unexpected and that includes on both sides of the financial fence while at the same time, a sense that the tables have turned. 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 where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have. Year after year, planets have come and gone from your income sector, but only ever for a few months at a time and always having to compete with Pluto’s overarching focus on your financial situation and money matters. That was the side of the financial fence that the balance of power has been, but not anymore. For the first time since 2008, you will move into the New Year to find Pluto gone and while the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of each year in your financial sector and the solar spotlight is on your financial situation and money matters, this is more the annual update that money matters get each year. It might not be until Mercury, who will move through from 8th January to 28th January with the smart head for money needed to get your head in the game and to think on your feet leaves, that the enormity of Pluto’s departure will hit home. For bar a few months in early 2023, this will leave your financial sector empty and 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 and instead, the focus is shifting to the income side of the financial fence. It starts on 6th January, when two months after leaving 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 time it is all about the income side of the financial fence and a fight for what you deserve and in retrograde motion until 24th February, this includes the doors this will open to the past and second chances. Mars will leave on 18th April and while this will leave your income sector empty not for long, with Mercury returning on 9th June to begin what are normally the most active months of any year on the income front. However, a day later everything will change, 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 will be when Venus moves through from 31st July to 26th August, with the planets of money and luck able to join forces.