An inauspicious start to 2025 with a logjammed Mars opposition Pluto on January 3rd bringing high tensions in the days before will put a damper on New Year celebrations. Though nothing will stay the same for long in a fast-moving, ever-changing year.
Astro-details for the year ahead.
Pluto is now firmly into Aquarius, staying till 2043/44, with whatever social changes that will bring; with Mars making another aggravated opposition to Pluto in late April and a square in time for the September Lunar Eclipse.
The other outer planets are also on the move. Neptune moves into Aries on March 30th staying till October 2025, then retrogrades into Pisces for a final time until late January 2026.
In tandem Saturn moves into Aries on May 26 staying till early September 2025, then retrogrades into Pisces till mid February 2026. There will be one exact Neptune Saturn conjunction in the first half of August 2025 another late February 2026 into March 2026.
Saturn Neptune together are associated with the rights of the underdog – whether workers or women’s, as well as health issues, either epidemics or medical advances. It can be creative though also neurotic as over-active imaginations brew up conspiracies.
Jupiter moves out of Gemini into Cancer on June 10th for a year thereafter which may bring a hint of calm in particular to family and domestic affairs.
Uranus moves out of earthy Fixed Taurus into communicative, scattered Gemini on July 7th staying till early November 2025 then retrograding into Taurus until late April 2026. After which it proceeds through Gemini for seven years until 2032. Inventive ideas will fly, freethinking will be the name of the game. The mood will not always be realistic but hyper-alert.
In August the Saturn Neptune conjunction will sextile Uranus and then aspect Pluto exactly late August through September. September through early October 2025 will be the first Uranus trine Pluto. So that August/September phase will be one to watch for game-changing moments. Not necessarily tumultuous but indicative of the times. Uranus trine Pluto brings insights which allow for constructive transformation if handled well.
The Eclipses: The North Node retrogrades into Pisces in early January 2025 and stays there till July 2026.
Solar Eclipse on 29 March at 9 degrees Aries in 9 New North Saros Series. Bernadette Brady says it is a physically expressive series, can be accident-prone or violent but also positive if energy used constructively. Aspects are not upbeat but not overly stressed.
Lunar Eclipse March 14th at 24 degrees Virgo with a Sun Saturn opposition Moon in a Half Grand Sextile to Mars and Uranus looks downbeat and fractious.
Solar Eclipse on September 21 at 29 degrees Virgo in 9 New South Saros Series – which is described as worrisome about responsibilities with paperwork or health news about others. Said to have a sense of destiny about it. A Mars square Pluto dominates the chart with the New Moon opposition Neptune and Saturn trine Pluto and trine Uranus – so it carries the signature of the changing year.
Lunar Eclipse on September 7th at 15 degrees Pisces.
The year ends with Saturn Neptune back in Pisces and Uranus back in Taurus – albeit briefly – and encouraged by Jupiter in Cancer bringing a stabilizing trine to Saturn.
The changeover from materialistic, practical, nature/eco-focused Earth (Taurus/Capricorn) and overly emotional Water (Pisces) of recent times to enthusiastic, exuberant, not always realistic but rarely quiet Air Fire will be instructive to live through and should be more upbeat despite the uncertainties hanging around.
“The changeover from materialistic, practical, nature/eco-focused Earth (Taurus/Capricorn)” got me thinking.
We talk about earth signs as eco-focused (particularly Taurus) but no meaningful action is being taken against climate change. And the problem stems from materialism and manufacturing for profit rather than sustenance. The Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions have been landing in Earth since 1840 – the end of the Industrial Revolution when CO2 PPM began increasing.
The 2020 conjunction was in Aquarius so maybe that’s the start of shift. Maybe with more outers in Air, the ideologues who aren’t interested in materialism, will actually start to create policies which take action on climate change? Hard to believe at this moment but might fit with the astrology
We can only hope. Thanks for the interpretation
All the eclipses in the carts above have the Sun either conjunct (March eclipses) or opposition (autumn eclipses) the Suns for my brother, my father and me (March eclipses). Is there any advice on what to look out for?
Will be watching that September eclipse, as it’s directly opposite my natal Pluto.
Eclipses in hard aspect to the Sun say changes are necessary. Don’t stick in the mud and keep doing the same old same old.
Thanks. I should have written exactly conjunct my 11th house Pluto, though presumably this is no less a hard aspect. Saturn-Neptune in 25/26 will oppose that point of my chart.
The March solar eclipse is conj. my Venus in the second house – I might take a lottery ticket.
“Saturn Neptune together are associated with the rights of the underdog – whether workers or women’s, as well as health issues…”
With RFK, Jr pulling the strings to devaluate vaccinations, could be prelude to new versions of polio, measles,and…cancers.
Well, looks like Bezos moved to near Mar a Lago and is friends with Ivanka Trump. The rise of the Oligarchs.
Speaking of Fire/Air the Tech big boys, Zuckerberg, Bezos an Altman
are donating millions to the Trump inauguration fund. Maybe
sugaring Trump up so he won’t bring court cases against them.
I think the act is called “largesse”.
Trump charities have just made rather more money from ABC and Stephanopoulos who have just paid Trump (foundations )15 million for defamation to avoid a costly lawsuit…