The planet that got the ball rolling on the big changes that will define 2025 as a gateway year into the next phase while offering a chance to start drawing a line on the past, is the one planet that is settled into position. By the time you move into the New Year Pluto has been back in your busy work sector for six weeks and he will be here now until 2044. It was while Pluto was starting to transition in last year that Jupiter not only returned to your career sector to begin your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade but spent his early weeks closely aligned with Pluto. With Jupiter not leaving until 10th June, that partnership has resumed, making 2025 a significant year on both the job and career fronts. Pluto is a slow moving planet and with Jupiter in retrograde motion until 4th February things might be slow to get moving but make the most of this slower pace while it lasts. While Jupiter will leave on 10th June, with Uranus returning to your career sector for the first time in eight decades on 7th July, work and career matters will continue to go hand in hand. Another area of massive change is on the relationship and financial fronts, with Saturn and Neptune not only both on the move but in unison. Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams has been in your relationship sector since 2012 and Saturn, the planet of personal responsibility has been here since March 2023, making them a well established team while putting a lot of focus on your relationships over recent years. While Neptune continued to fuel the dream, Saturn continued to keep it real. Neptune will leave on 31st March and Saturn on 25th May, but not before a huge amount of support from the faster planets as they move through. This will start with Venus’ return on 3rd January for what is normally a 24 day visit but instead, after leaving and returning she will eventually leave again on 1st May. While Saturn will retrograde back into your relationship sector on 1st September and Neptune on 22nd October, only for a few months before leaving again in early 2026, Neptune not to return again in our lifetime and Saturn not for another three decades. Instead, Neptune and Saturn are transitioning into your financial sector, where they will continue to work as a team, this time with Neptune fuelling your financial dreams while Saturn gives you the resolve and discipline to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn those dreams into reality. That transition begins when Neptune returns for the first time in our lifetime on 31st March and Saturn for the first time in three decades on 25th May, but never with the planet of hopes and dreams before.
Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always going to be on matters of the heart and all things romantic as you move into the New Year. This year there is going to be less focus on matters of the heart and more on your relationships. Partly because Pluto, who had been in your romantic sector since 2008 left in November 2024 and won’t be back again in our lifetime, though not before forever changing your romantic expectations. Once the Sun leaves your romantic sector on 20th January and Mercury, who will return on 8th January to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page leaves on 28th January, apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, this will end all planetary activity on the romantic front until Mars returns on 15th December. However, with Mars then here until January 2026, the Sun always returning just before Christmas and Venus, the planet of love on Christmas Day, this is one year when the love gods will be saving the best till last. However, while the planetary focus on matters of the heart and all things romantic is contained to the early and final weeks of the year, it is a different story on the relationship front. While Saturn, who returned to your relationship sector in 2023 and Neptune, who returned in 2012 won’t leave for good until early 2026, they will both begin to transition out this year. After nearly 12 years Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will leave your relationship sector on 31st March, though will retrograde back in to tie up loose ends on 22nd October, before leaving for good and not returning again in our lifetime in January 2026. Saturn, the hard taskmaster of the cosmos and the planet that is all about personal responsibility will leave on 25th May, retrograding back in on 1st February before he leaves in February 2026, not to return for another three decades. Helping with this transition will be Venus and Mercury, with the planets of love and communication both doing the same. Venus will return on 3rd January but will retrograde back out on 4th February, returning for a do over from 27th March to 1st May. Mercury, the planet of communication will return on 15th February and while he will leave on 3rd March, he will retrograde back in for a do over from 30th March to 16th April. This is a year of transition and the year that could define all your relationships moving forward.
While this financial year will not see an equal amount of focus on both sides of the financial fence, each side has more than enough to make this a good year for both income and money matters. While there is far less planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence, both in terms of the amount of moving through and the scale of that activity, rather than spread your resources, by knowing which will be the most lucrative months, you are able to channel all your resources into those times while using the rest of the year to focus on having the professional momentum to support this. Apart from a Full Moon in your income sector on 13th April, there will be no planetary activity in your income sector until Mars returns on 7th August. However, from then everything opens up and the most lucrative months of 2025 will extend right to when Venus, the planet of money moves through from 14th October to 7th November. Venus will be the last planet to return and the last to leave and as the planet of money, desire and attraction, it will be her job to capitalise on the momentum and potential that has been building over the previous months. Meanwhile, moving through from 7th August to 22nd September, it will be Mars’ job to fire things up and get the ball rolling. While the second half of the year is going to be the most potentially lucrative, the other side of the financial fence will begin powering up in early February. Technically things never go off the boil on the financial front, the side of the financial fence where the focus is more on what you do with and how you manage the money you have for the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos has been here for over nine decades and will be for another three. Eris is the sister planet to Pluto, so has a slow orbit and has been subtly stocking the fires of your financial passions and fighting spirit your whole life. However, things don’t really get active on the financial front until the faster planets come along and this year that will start with Venus’ return on 4th February. Here Venus will start what is set to become a pattern, for while she will leave on 27th March, it will be by retrograding back out, so will return for a do over from 1st May to 6th June. Mercury will do the same, moving through from 3rd March to 30th March, retrograding back out and then returning from 16th April to 16th May. Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will do the same when he returns for the first time in our lifetime on 31st March and Saturn, for the first time in three decades on 25th May. Neptune will retrograde back out on 22nd October and Saturn on 1st September, though with both returning again in early 2026.