January 2025
The New Year will open slowly with an intense, challenging mood till after the 3rd. Progress will be slow, actions restricted and blocked circumstances putting everyone in a less than light-hearted mood. Once it clears with an active, ambitious, resourceful Capricorn Sun free to kickstart proceedings the road ahead will open up. Mars across the zodiac in Cancer will rev up engines and liven discussions. While Venus in Pisces will bring soft moments of sweetness and hopes of romantic candlelit suppers.
With a largely Earth Water emphasis, practical and creative projects will be top of the agenda for almost three weeks as will finding a balance between practicalities and emotional needs.
After the 19th the Airy Aquarius Sun and then Mercury meeting determined Pluto will make for in-depth discussions and meaningful moments. Not all seamless or frivolous but a time to reach for insight and understanding.
PLANETARY ASPECTS:
3: Venus into Pisces until February 4th – emotionally sensitive, dreamy, romantic, kind, self-protective.
Mars in Leo opposition Pluto in Aquarius – blocked and trapped in days running into 3rd, aggravating. Grit teeth and endure.
4: Sun in Capricorn sextile Saturn – sensible, good for planning and practical tasks.
6: Mars retrogrades into Cancer to stay till April 18th – excitable, overly-emotional, good for domestic reorganization. Mercury in Sagittarius square Neptune – vague, evasive, kind.
8: Mercury into Capricorn until 27th – all thinking and conversation focused on practical outcomes. Sensible.
12: Mars in Cancer trine Neptune – creative, good for attracting attention/publicity, dreaming of glamour.
13: Sun trine Uranus – inventive, positive surprises.
Full Moon in Cancer – pulled in two directions.
14: Venus square Jupiter in Gemini – frivolous, indulgent, sociable.
16: Sun opposition Mars – go-ahead, assertive, argumentative
Sun trine Neptune – kind, creative, dreamy.
19: Venus conjunct Saturn in Pisces – emotionally cool, separated from loved ones
Mercury sextile Venus – sweet words.
Sun into Aquarius for four weeks – chatty, friendly, forward looking, stubborn.
21: Sun conjunct Pluto – intense, blocked, requires effort to make progress.
23: Mars sextile Uranus in Taurus – revved up, excitement, uncompromising.
Mercury opposition Mars – argumentative, sharp.
Mercury sextile Uranus – bright ideas, lively chat.
25: Venus trine Mars – passionately enthusiastic
26: Mercury sextile Neptune – mind, vague, dreamy
Venus sextile Uranus – sociable, flirtatious, fun loving
27: Mercury into Aquarius until February 14th – communicative, well-informed, curious, stubborn.
29: Mercury conjunct Pluto – intense, dogmatic, self-righteous
30: Uranus direct – subtle shift – innovative schemes start to move faster.
Sun trine Jupiter – lucky, confident, new opportunities
OUTER PLANETS
Jupiter in Gemini from May 25 2024 until June 2025 – good for conversations, curious, knowledgeable, thinks and talks easily, multi-tasking, tendency to go for breadth of understanding not dept, superficial.
Saturn: In Pisces from March 8 2023 till September 2025 – a time to let the past go, push old regrets aside and be supportive to those in need.
Uranus: From March 2019 until July 2025 in Taurus – changing attitudes to handling of money, possessions and resources especially in agriculture and our attitude to nature.
Neptune in Pisces from February 2012 until April 2025 – religious, spiritual, has resonances with Muslim history.
Pluto in Aquarius from late November 2024 till 2044. Can be enlightening, fosters social movements and equality, changes outlooks and attitudes, brings intense discussions and scientific advances.