While January is going to witness a significant amount of change, what is even more significant is the shift in focus that within the first two weeks of the year is going to see 2025 look very different to 2024, even if for now the overriding influences will stay the same. It is still a few months before the major changes that 2025 already has a reputation for will begin. For now, the changes this month are more a chance to create some separation from last year, but not before exploiting all the advantages. The latter is definitely the case when it comes to the empowered start that the year is going to get off to on the income, work and career fronts before the forces there disband. This will hold strong for six days, giving you enough time to ensure the momentum from last year continues and this new professional year gains a foothold. However, things will start to disband when Mars leaves your work sector on 6th January, followed by Mercury’s departure from your career sector on 8th January and then four days later when after 18 months, the North Node will leave your income sector. While there are planets staying on in your income sector, until Mars returns to your work sector in April for a do over, this will leave your two professional houses empty. However, as one partnership ends, two more will begin. Three days before Mars retrogrades back into a playful and creative part of your chart, Venus will return to Pisces on 3rd January and they will both have the support of the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in an adventurous part of your chart. This is going to fire up the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence. At the same time, when Mercury joins the Sun in your friendship sector on 8th January and the South Node returns to your relationship sector on 12th January, they will have the support of Uranus in your communication sector from the start.
Within the space of three days, things are not only set to fire up on the romantic front but stay that way for the first four months of the year and all of it from out of the blue. As you move into the New Year there is no focus on matters of the heart, as you would expect at this time of year. So much so that the Full Moon in your romantic sector on 14th January is halfway between the Sun’s last visit and the next and what is usually the least active point in any year on the romantic front. At the same time as last year Venus, the planet of love didn’t return to Pisces until March, she should still be several months away. Yet while the year begins with the status quo, all that is about to change and all in the space of just 76 hours. It begins with Venus’ early return to Pisces on 3rd January, something that will have consequences down the line. Returning this far head of the Sun Venus will be forced to slow down, spending a full month in Pisces rather than the normal 24 days and even then, after leaving next month she will return in March to spend another five weeks here. It is three days later that two months after leaving, Mars will retrograde back into your romantic sector on 6th January. This is the same thing Venus will do and as Mars is back until 18th April, they will be working as a team for much of that time. Just having the planets of love and passion spend a few weeks working in tandem would be a game changer, but this will continue for months. You will get an early read on this when the Moon returns for its first visit to your romantic sector for the year from 12th January to 14th January. It is while the Moon is here that on 12th January the South Node will return to your relationship sector and the North Node to Pisces, beginning what will be an 18 month policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs as well as a series of eclipses. This makes the Moon’s return to your relationship sector from 17th January to 19th January a valuable chance to check in.
There is change in the air on both sides of the financial fence and with it a chance to clear some of the bottleneck. Until the lunar nodes leave your two money houses on 12th January, they will continue to police a balance between money coming in and money going out. With no planetary activity in your financial sector until later in the year, when the South Node leaves this will leave this side of the financial fence empty, allowing the income side to grow, even though the North Node will leave your income sector on the same day. The difference is that while there is no planetary activity in your financial sector, there is continuous planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence. Until then, the South Node will be pressing home a need for balance while at the same time giving you a chance to get your financial house in order from the start. The Moon won’t return for its first visit to your financial sector for the year until after the South Node leaves, with a chance from 19th January to 22nd January to both check in and also tweak any financial choices, decisions and plans you may have made before it left. Meanwhile, while this will allow all the focus to shift to the income side of the financial fence and there are due to be major developments here in a few months, this will also have an immediate impact here as well. The North Node is part of a team that is getting the year off to an empowered start across the income, work and career fronts before disbanding. This includes Mars, who will retrograde back out of your work sector on 6th January, Mercury will who leave your career sector on 8th January and the North Node, who will leave your income sector on 12th January. After that, with the dwarf planet Eris coming to a standstill in order to turn direct in your income sector on 11th January, this will be a chance to pause. Until then, the Moon will make its first visit to your income sector for the year and the last before the North Node leaves from 6th January to 8th January, something that could act as a trigger across the income, work and career fronts.