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 post 2025 – Earth Water changes to Air Fire first appeared on Astroinform with Marjorie Orr – Star4cast.
