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As you move into 2025, there will be a mix of the expected and the unexpected while at the same time, there are several reasons why a balance between work and play needs to be a priority from the start. Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart that shouldn’t be a problem. Especially as even though the Sun will leave on 20th January, for the last 16 years Pluto has been here. Even when the Sun leaves and returns to your busy work sector, this therefore shouldn’t be a problem, right? Wrong, for having left in November Pluto is no longer there and he won’t be coming back. While Mercury will move through from 8th January to 28th January, when he leaves this playful and creative part of your chart will then remain empty until later in the year. This year there is no backup and not only that, Pluto is now in your work sector and will be until 2044 and for the first time in 12 years, you have moved into the New Year with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion in your career sector. With Jupiter not leaving until May, 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal but also busy professional year. January is definitely set to become progressively busier, for while Venus will leave your work sector on 3rd January and shift her attention onto your relationships, the Sun will return on 20th January, Mercury on 28th January and the Moon on 29th January to begin the lead up to the first New Moon of 2025 a day later. Fortunately, helping to keep things balanced will be Mars’ return to your friendship sector on 6th January, something that will kick off a powerful few months for friendship and relationship building. Meanwhile, on 12th January a shift in the lunar nodes will see their ongoing quest for balance shift. For the last 18 months the lunar nodes have been policing a balance between money coming in and money going out but they will shift to policing a balance between your own and your relationship needs.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of January in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. However, unlike every other year since Pluto returned in 2008, without the guarantee of near year round planetary activity on the romantic front. Pluto’s 16 year visit ended in November and by the end of the month your romantic sector will not only be empty, but it will stay that way until later in the year. This makes this something that needs to be taken seriously, with no room for complacency. While the Moon will leave your romantic sector on New Year’s Day, it was an alignment with the Sun on New Year’s Eve that created a New Moon that has given the spirit of romance a boost from the start. Held back by a retrograde phase, from 8th January to 28th January, Mercury will work to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page. With the Sun leaving on 20th January, when Mercury leaves this will end all planetary activity on the romantic front until later in the year, though with the Moon coming full circle from 27th January to 29th January. In the meantime, on the relationship front things are just starting to get exciting. Moving into the New Year with Saturn and Neptune both back in direct motion in your relationship sector and with the support of the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment in your communication sector, there is reason for confidence from the start. However, things will take an exciting turn when Venus, the planet of love returns to your relationship sector on 3rd January, for what will be the first of two visits before finally leaving on 1st May. The Moon’s return for its first visit for the year from 4th January to 6th January will give you an early feel for this.
For the last 18 months, the lunar nodes have been in your two money houses, where they have not only triggered eclipses while policing a balance between money coming in and money going out but have both provided and received a lot of support. The lunar nodes are leaving on 12th January and this is going to change the dynamics on both sides of the financial fence. Unlike the income side of the financial fence, there is planetary activity in your financial sector, so when the North Node leaves on 12th April this won’t end all the focus 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. However, while there are two planets in your financial sector, they are not only here for the long haul, but the asteroid Chiron only just turned direct at the end of last month and in order to turn direct on 11th January the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos will need to come to a standstill. Until Venus returns next month, apart from benefiting from the North Node’s sense of financial direction, there will be a chance to pull back and let money matters settle. The Moon will make one last visit to your financial sector before the lunar nodes leave from 6th January to 8th January, making it important to pay attention. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence until later in the year, when the South Node leaves your income sector it will remain empty. However, having spent the final days of 2024 at a friendly aspect to Pluto in your career sector where Venus, the planet of money is until 3rd January and having been working in harmony with Jupiter since he returned to your work sector last year, it leaves the planets in your two professional houses with a lucrative sense of direction. It is during the Moon’s last visit to your income sector for the year from 19th January to 22nd January that the Sun will return to your income sector. As well as sharpening your nose for money, this could act as a trigger across the income, work and career fronts.