2025’s astrology has unique features:
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Pluto is now solidly in Aquarius.
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Saturn is transitioning into Aries.
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Neptune is also transitioning into Aries.
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Uranus is transitioning into Gemini.
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Jupiter moves into Cancer on June 9th.
Saturn in Pisces
Saturn continues its travels through the final sign of the zodiac, Pisces, but in 2025, it’s on its way out and ends the year in Aries. Saturn first entered the sign of Pisces in March 2023 and now it will stay in Pisces until 2025/2026, but there’s some transitioning into Aries in 2025. Saturn points to areas where we have some growing up to do. This means there can be some limits and rules to follow.
While Saturn is in Pisces, there can be some frustration in achieving practical goals until we learn to integrate our material and non-material values. There can be times when we feel uncomfortable with big shows of feeling or vulnerability and weakness, but we limit ourselves if we don’t allow ourselves to feel these very human qualities.
While we will root for the underdog, we don’t feel comfortable feeling like we are one. We should watch for subtly conveying to others that we don’t need kindnesses, compliments, and support. During this cycle, we can be bothered by people who play the victim or are too out there with their spirituality.
Saturn has something to teach us, no matter which sign it’s visiting. During its transit through Pisces, we would benefit from learning to recognize how we may limit ourselves and our experiences if we deny our connection to the more vulnerable, messy, or chaotic side of ourselves.
There is some tendency to avoid scrutiny at all costs during this period, which can lead to missed opportunities. Even if we’re strong and resilient, we can sometimes doubt that we can cope. There is also a possibility of formidable enemies. On the other hand, quietly working hard can be a real strength of this position. We’re learning to allow ourselves to be creative and imaginative. We’re also capable of considerable effort and hard work in support and service. It’s easier for us to put our egos aside in order to get things done.
We’ve had Neptune in Pisces for many years, and Saturn’s influence on Pisces-ruled areas in our charts has been considerably different. Neptune breaks down boundaries while Saturn builds them. Also, Neptune seeks inspiration and boosts imagination while Saturn wants us to pay attention to our practical priorities. Saturn wants us to shape up, be mature, and cultivate self-reliance and self-discipline in these areas of life.
In areas where we’ve grown accustomed to meandering, dreaming, and taking detours, we’re now challenged to define, draw lines, and pay attention to the rules. It’ll take some adjustment and ideally, we’ve already been working on this, so we are coming into 2025 feeling better equipped.
Pluto has ended its transition from Capricorn to Aquarius, and is in Aquarius all year. Pluto transited Capricorn for many years, and it has finished its work in the sign. Pluto re-entered Aquarius on November 19th and it’s there to stay for a couple of decades.
While Pluto is in Aquarius, we take social structures and politics seriously and seek major reform in these areas. Unusual, intense, or dramatic happenings are possible with friends and networks. We will likely confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations.
We may be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities. It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas.
Babies born with Pluto in Aquarius will have these themes hard-wired into them. Pluto is in Aquarius from March 23, 2023, to June 11, 2023, later from January 20, 2024, until September 1, 2024, and again from November 19, 2024, to March 8, 2043, at which point it will weave in and out of Aquarius and Pisces.
Pluto is very slow-moving, and with retrograde activity, it advances only about 1-3 degrees per year, depending on the sign. Pluto will spend between 19 and 20 years in Aquarius.
Jupiter and Saturn in 2025
Areas of tension this year are where we find Aries, Aquarius, and Pisces in our charts. We can look to the Gemini and Cancer parts of our charts for where we are expanding or improving in a significant way in 2025.
With Aquarius and Pisces energy strong during 2025, we take an interest in what happens to society or the majority. Chiron and sometimes Saturn and Neptune in Aries along with Uranus in Taurus and Gemini and Jupiter in Gemini and Cancer, ensure special attention to the self, individuality, and family.
Jupiter in Gemini
Jupiter continues in Gemini until June 9th, 2025 where it has been since May 25th, 2024. During this period, we place strong emphasis and value on intellect. We see opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written channels. We’re more inclined to believe that intelligence and knowledge are the primary keys to solving problems with this transit. Communication and contact are especially valued.
With Jupiter in Gemini, we attract the most good fortune when we use our wit and when we’re versatile, social, and curious, putting others at ease with friendliness and sincere curiosity. We find our joy in connecting, learning, delivering, teaching, and facilitating.
The energy of this transit could also include lack of follow through, too many ideas without a plan to set them into motion, gossip, too much information, fickleness, ambivalence, and indecision. We may take on too many things and lose focus.
Jupiter in Gemini finds joy in getting and keeping in touch. It’s a good time to improve our communication skills and upgrading the systems, machines, or devices that keep us mobile and connected, such as phones, cars, bikes, computers, and so on. New avenues or channels for communicating and traveling can open up. Jupiter in Gemini urges us to learn as much as we can about the people around us, and also to learn, share, connect, and improve our everyday communications.
Jupiter in Cancer
Jupiter will be in Cancer from June 9th, 2025 until June 30th, 2026. Jupiter in Cancer brings opportunities to grow and succeed through emotional channels, expanding our foundations, and building our families. We are more inclined to believe that emotional intelligence is the major keys to solving problems. Connecting intimately is valued.
During this cycle, we attract the most good fortune when we are sympathetic, charitable, use our powers to save and accumulate, and comfort others. Real estate, child care, mother care, and the food industry can be prosperous avenues.
We place strong value on the instinct to nurture. With a Water sign Jupiter, we have a strong belief in a higher power. We are able to attract luck and rich life experiences through our intuition, imagination, and compassion. Helping those in need boosts our morale.
Jupiter likes to expand and learn, so when Jupiter is paired with Cancer, we may be more interested in learning about our roots, exploring genealogy, learning about family traditions, etc. We might value real estate, owning a home, expanding our home, and building a family, and we might have more faith in our family.
It’s a great time to connect with and repair relationships with family, loved ones, and roommates, honor needs for comfort, familiarity, and safety, and recognize the importance of intuition. We should avoid using family or comfort as an excuse to avoid responsibilities to the outside world. We should also watch pampering or coddling others and ourselves. In Cancer, Jupiter motivates us to honor our intuition, emotions, families, and inner needs, and to build our support systems.
Note that this Jupiter in Cancer transit helps to release us from the struggles we may have had while Mars was retrograde in Cancer from January 6th to February 23rd.
Saturn is moving into Aries
Saturn begins its transit of Aries in 2025. This transition from Pisces to Aries will be complete in 2026.Saturn is in Aries from May 24, 2025, to September 1, 2025, and then from February 13, 2026, to Apr 12, 2028. Saturn enters Aries on May 24th this year, then it turns retrograde on July 13th and returns to Pisces on September 1st.
While Saturn is in Aries, we may experience frustration when pursuing our goals. We can feel uncomfortable with big shows of individuality or self-centered behavior. This period also presents a unique opportunity for personal growth. As we learn to balance our individual needs with collective responsibilities, we can overcome this discomfort. By recognizing the necessity for balance, we can expand our potential for personal development. Otherwise, we could limit ourselves.
In recent years, there has been a lot of attention on the self. Aries energies have been celebrated. Saturn in Aries wants to moderate this focus where it has been excessive. We become more critical of this celebration, noting where a self centered attitude has worked against us. However, it may go too far in the opposite direction when the goal should be to correct where things have been imbalanced and excessive. Healthy, balanced levels of self-sacrifice are ideal.
During this transit, we can be resourceful. It’s a time to evaluate our egoism and self-centeredness, identifying areas where we may assert ourselves to our own detriment. For instance, in our pursuit of living our truth, we may inadvertently trample on others’ liberties. The Saturn in Aries transit empowers us to recognize and address these self-centered behaviors, putting us in control of our actions and their consequences.
It’s also a time for exploring our fear of being seen as less than strong or less than first place. These fears can limit our experiences as we might bow out of competition or avoid activities where we could appear less than competent. These experiences could be wonderful if we enjoy them for what they are rather than worry about the outcomes.
Uranus in Taurus & Gemini in 2025
Uranus in Taurus continues to shake up our attitude towards money and personal possessions. It’s a time for bold innovations in these areas. We saw this energy in action in previous years, and more developments are expected in 2025 when Uranus transitions into Gemini.
We can expect changes to what we value on non-material levels as well, and we’re inclined to value ourselves in new ways through the course of this transit that lasts until April 2026.
In 2025, Uranus briefly visits Gemini before going all-in starting in April 2026. From July 7th to November 7th, Uranus revolutionizes the ways we communicate, connect, learn, and teach.
In Gemini, Uranus stirs up our ideas, learning, and communications. It revolutionizes our transportation and communication systems and sense of connectedness. There can be great progress andunpredictability.
During this 7 to 8-year cycle, learning and education may be disrupted, dramatically changed, or non-traditional. It’s a time that demands adaptability and open-mindedness. Our communication styles, especially the ways we extend gestures and pleasantries, can change dramatically. Ideas can spread very quickly and create dramatic change. There can be more movement, migration, and busyness in general. Sudden changes in alliances can occur, along with disruptions in friend groups. Revolutions regarding air quality may be a much-needed revelation.
It can also be a time when we’re moving toward more gender neutrality, particularly in our communications. Fashion can become more unisex.
Our relationships with siblings and neighbors can undergo a change. In education, there can be more of a thrust toward inventiveness and creativity or intuition. Changes or advances in our experiences of short journeys can be remarkable.
Labor-saving devices and revolutionizing what and how we read, exchange and disseminate information, trade, transit, transport goods, surveil, track, and learn can continue to develop, surprise, disrupt, and advance. Uranus brings strong themes of curiosity and interest.
Staying open to change and being flexible can be in vogue. It’s a period of significant changes in social discourse and the seeking of freedom in and through communications and education. We’re breaking through taboos related to sharing ideas, education, and communications. Using words to shock or rebel comes naturally.
However, we may lack follow-through, focus, and concentration. Nervous energy can also be extreme. It can be a time of liberation as well as disruption.
Uranus will be in Gemini more consistently from April 25, 2026, to August 3, 2032, and then from December 12, 2032, to May 22, 2033.
Uranus spends about 7-8 years in a sign. The range for Gemini is 2025 to 2033 with some transition periods between Taurus and Gemini and then Gemini and Cancer.
Neptune spends part of the year in Aries
Like Saturn, Neptune enters Aries in 2025, but later returns to Pisces. Neptune is in Aries from March 30, 2025, to October 22, 2025, from January 26, 2026, to May 21, 2038, and then from October 21, 2038, to March 23, 2039.
Neptune enters Aries for the first time this year on March 30th. Neptune turns retrograde on July 4th at a little over 2 degrees of Aries, and then it returns to Pisces on October 22nd. Neptune will transit Aries consistently starting in January of 2026.
While Neptune is in Aries, we idealize independence, courage, bravery, freedom, and fresh starts. However, we may not see ourselves clearly, or we might struggle with defining ourselves and our boundaries. We might also inflate our importance, which can be quite detrimental. Presenting false images of ourselves that we end up identifying with can be especially tempting.
As we strive toward our ideal of more independence and individualism, we should make sure we don’t leave people behind. It’s a good idea to check in with ourselves to be sure we’re not harboring delusions. Other issues to watch for include impatience with things we don’t understand and being caught off guard by competitors or anger that we failed to recognize.
It can be a time of great wonder and impulse and we tend to boldly follow our intuition wherever it leads us. We have faith in our ability to innovate, lead, start anew, and win. We can be inspiring others to action and promoting our beliefs, ideas, and missions. It can be a time of new, exciting, and modern styles in fashion, art, and music and maybe radical or pioneering changes in beliefs, religion, and philosophy.
There can be new approaches to spirituality and compassionate acts. Aries is too stern to express itself compassionately, preferring action and revolution to express its care. We’re ready to reject and do away with dogma. The need for change and innovation is innate and intuitive.
The North Node of the Moon & Eclipses in 2025
Eclipses falling along the Virgo-Pisces sign axis dominate this year, with the final eclipse along the Aries-Libra axis occurring in March as a Solar Eclipse in Aries. The first along the Virgo-Pisces sign axis happened on September 17th, 2024 as a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces.
The True North Node leaves Aries and enters Pisces early in 2025: on January 11th (True NN) and January 29th (Mean NN).
There are four eclipses in the year 2025:
- Total LUNAR Eclipse March 14, 2:54:23 at 23 Virgo 57
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse March 29, 6:57:34 at 9 Aries 00
- Total LUNAR Eclipse September 7, 14:08:37 at 15 Pisces 22
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse September 21, 15:53:51 at 29 Virgo 05
With the North Node in Aries and the South Node in Libra in January, we continue to receive the message that over identifying with a partnership or resorting to appeasing a partner can undermine our relationships. We’re working on codependency issues and indecision by cultivating our independence.
It’s a period of learning to love ourselves, trust our instincts, and lead without fear. Learning to act on our impulses, which implies a certain amount of self-confidence, is an empowering lesson of the North Node in Aries. Striving for internal peace, rather than focusing only on achieving harmony and balance in relationships, will improve our relations and bring us happiness and satisfaction.
However, last September’s Lunar Eclipse was in Pisces, starting a new eclipse sign set. It was the first eclipse in a set occurring along the Virgo-Pisces axis that will extend until February 2027. In 2025, three of the four eclipses occur in this set. The North Node enters Pisces in January and stays there all year as well.
There’s a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in March 2025, a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces in September 2025, a Solar Eclipse in Virgo in September 2025, a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in March 2026, a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces in August 2026, and a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in February 2027.
These eclipses can serve as prompts to make improvements in Virgo- and Pisces-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify.
Health or work issues may come to the forefront with the health and service axis Pisces-Virgo involved. The ability to set boundaries relating to the amount of service we render can also become a significant issue. However, this sign axis is also about balancing faith and practicality. There could be situations that test our faith or magnify our fears and doubts. Secrets may be revealed, including secrets of our own from deep within.
For some, a new calling will surface. A new line of work that better matches our inner nature, desire to serve, or emotional make-up may unfold in the months following this eclipse. We may discover that we need more rest or attention to our spiritual nature than we are currently allowing ourselves. Our hearts open and issues of trust and faith are in focus.
Health and service matters are bigger themes with Virgo-Pisces eclipses.
Venus & Mars Retrogrades
Venus turns retrograde in 2025 and Mars continues its retrograde that began in December of 2024.
With Mars retrograde in Leo, pride can push us to greater heights, but it can also keep us from expressing our true feelings or prevent us from truly learning from our experiences and from others. We might see more sulking or pulling away to make a point.
From December 6th, 2024, Leo areas of our charts require some rethinking. We might re-assess our current projects, our approach to getting what we want, and our desires. Rather than directly assert our desires, we tend towards introspection. We can be hesitant about taking action, second-guessing our instincts or natural impulses rather than acting upon them.
Leo rules children, creativity, recreational pleasure, entertainment, and romance. We may need to reassess our approach to these matters, perhaps due to frustration or anxiety. Projects may not get off the ground as planned, possibly due to hesitation, caution, or fear of taking risks. Health issues may be a factor especially in areas ruled by the heart and back, areas ruled by Leo, and accidents are a possibility throughout the Mars retrograde period.
Mars began its retrograde in the sign of Leo on Dec 6, 2024, returns to the sign of Cancer on January 6, 2025, and then continues in Cancer until Mars ends its retrograde on Feb 23, 2025, and turns direct.
With Mars retrograde in Cancer, we might have trouble finding healthy outlets for frustrations. We can be more pensive and cautious, taking our time to reach our goals. If we push ahead impulsively, we may run into problems, obstacles, and frustrations.
Cancer rules our foundations, our homes, domestic affairs, and relationships with family. We may need to reassess our approach to our home lives. We are likely to feel some frustration or anxiety about our comfort and security, our roots, and our domestic affairs.
Health issues may be a factor, especially in areas ruled by Cancer, including the stomach, and accidents are a possibility throughout the Mars retrograde period.
Our goal during a Mars retrograde should be to better understand our impulses, survival instincts, anger, sexuality, inner courage, and the ways we go about getting what we want from life. The cosmos are asking us to look before we leap rather than throwing ourselves into action, but just for now.
Venus is retrograde in 2025 from March 1st to April 12th. This retrograde cycle occurs in Aries and Pisces.
Similar retrograde Venus patterns repeat about every eight years and a similar Venus Rx period occurred from March 4th to April 15th, 2017, also in Aries and Pisces. There may be common themes shared with this period.
As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are times when we reassess what and who we value. It is considered a bad time for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period either. Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans and for rethinking our personal relationships. Taking final action in the areas of finance and love, however, is not advised until Venus turns direct again.
With Venus retrograde in Aries for much of this retrograde cycle, from March 1st to 27th, we may question how much independence and confidence we have in our relationships.
With Venus in Pisces towards the end of the cycle from March 27th to April 12th, the tendency for misplaced faith in love may be strong. The compassion we’re seeking may be missing now.
Old friends and lovers may reappear, complicating current relationships. We may have to deal with relationship issues from the past during this Venus retrograde cycle. Events seem fated or predestined. It can be a challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox and experimental relationships may be favored.
Affection is difficult to express in a natural or spontaneous way. We might find others are lacking in sincerity or genuineness
Venus is in its detriment in Aries. Some of the more negative associations of Venus in Aries may be particularly prominent and/or hard to take, including impatience, arrogance, and childishness or naïveté. Those who have a lot of Aries in their charts may be more introspective, distant, or hard to reach during this cycle and they may be reconsidering things.
Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle. However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps along the way. This can be a good time for experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to “complete” them. Some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them.
We may be in touch with our deeper, less obvious, and less superficial needs and wants. This makes it a good time for reevaluating our relationship needs, but major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends on April 12th. If possible , it would be even better to wait until the end of the shadow phase as well after May 16th. Our perceptions may be skewed and we can come out of the retrograde cycle with regret if we have acted hastily.