Astrological turning points abound in 2025, and their impact will reverberate in our lives for many years to come. But with great changes come great challenges. Tapping into our courage, individually and collectively, will help us co-create a brighter future. Prepare to face the friction of this upcoming year, and get ready to generate some heat.
Here are the six major astrological shifts that you need to know about.
1. The lunar nodes enter Virgo and Pisces — and kick off a new series of eclipses
The lunar nodes enter Virgo and Pisces: January 11th, 2025
Lunar eclipse near the South Node in Virgo: March 13th, 2025
Solar eclipse near the North Node in Aries: March 29th, 2025
Lunar eclipse near the North Node in Pisces: September 7th, 2025
Solar eclipse near the South Node in Virgo: September 21st, 2025
On January 11th, the North Node flips into dreamy Pisces and the South Node into meticulous Virgo. The North Node signifies hunger and increase, and the South Node — which always appears in the opposite sign — represents catharsis and release. The lunar nodes are the two points where the Moon’s orbit around Earth intersects with the ecliptic — and where eclipses happen.
Eclipses spark shake-ups, surprises, and plot twists. The first of this series of Pisces eclipses took place on September 17th, 2024, planting the seeds for this 18-month round of celestial wild-card draws. Map out the ways your perceptions and observations shifted around this time, and prepare for more enchantment. Just remember: It should pull you deeper into the heart of your life, not disconnect you from reality.
On March 13th, 2025, the first Virgo eclipse near the South Node highlights any unhelpful habits we’re ready to shed, including perfectionism, micromanaging, and martyrdom. Where could you be more aligned, grounded, and clearheaded, and where could you use a dose of compassion or grace? Answering this question is crucial for integrating these eclipse lessons with ease. Sometimes you need to reckon with your to-do list or have an honest conversation with a therapist; sometimes you need the more mystical wisdom of your tarot cards. Offer yourself both kinds of guidance, as needed, to strike the right balance between the mundane and the magical.
2025 also features the final eclipse in bold Aries on March 29th, tying up a two-year-long sequence of lessons about assertiveness and conflict in our personal relationships and collective movements. As always with eclipses, easy does it. Lying low and resting up will help you download the intel you’re meant to receive from these moments. Growth isn’t always comfortable or predictable — but it will ultimately transform you for the better.
2. Venus retrogrades in Aries and Pisces
Venus retrograde in Aries and Pisces: March 1st – April 12th, 2025
Venus — the planet of love, creativity, and connection — goes retrograde once every 18 months, kickstarting a roughly 40-day review of these themes in our lives. On March 1st, the celestial creatrix begins its underworld journey through independent Aries and imaginative Pisces, prompting us to refine how we work with courage, aggression, and vitality in our bonds with others. Whether you tend to push your own agenda or shy away from stating your desires, this period is all about dialing it in.
Instead of leaping horns-first into fresh encounters, take this opportunity to reassess what you’ve learned from previous relationships — both romantic and platonic. This is also an occasion to update ingrained habits and test out healthier behaviors in new connections. If you find yourself dodging old friends at the coffee shop or getting blasts from the past in your DMs, reflect on why these recurring characters are showing up for you now and what lessons you’re still integrating from them. Reclaiming your sense of authority, autonomy, and personal conviction sometimes involves confronting the ties that have limited you.
Venus’ descent is also a potent time for re-examining how you relate to your creativity. If you’ve been avoiding your most audacious muses and playing it safe, explore your inner reasoning. This retrograde can embolden you to alchemize fear into feistiness, if you’re willing to engage with your shadow work honestly.
When Venus slips back into dreamy Pisces on March 27th, it will encourage you to pop any lingering illusions or delusions that have distorted your firepower. And by the time Venus stations direct on April 12th, you’ll be ready to go forth and blaze.
3. Neptune enters Aries
Neptune in Aries: March 30th – October 22nd, 2025
Neptune — the planet of illusions, delusions, imagination, and spirituality — departs its home port of mystical Pisces and enters bold Aries on March 30th. Changing signs approximately once every 18 years, Neptunes transition marks a major shift in how we collectively engage with our ideals. When the celestial dreamer enters this Mars-ruled fire sign, sparks fly. Instead of just fantasizing about giving peace a chance, the ram of the zodiac encourages us to show up at the protest and take action.
Yet Aries isn’t all about moxie and initiative; it also signifies the ways aggression can wound us. And Neptune has a tricky tendency to blur the lines between fact and fiction. This placement teaches us that adrenaline rushes can be more destructive than useful when they don’t serve a higher, compassionate purpose. During this transit, staying grounded and resisting the allure of spiritual or political propaganda will be essential for honoring and protecting what we believe in. Neptune will station retrograde on October 22nd and swing back into Pisces, and it will then return to Aries in 2026 and remain in this sign until 2039. Think of this year as a teaser for what’s to come. Practice staying humble and heart-centered when temperatures rise, and you won’t be led astray.
4. Saturn enters Aries
Saturn in Aries: May 24th – September 1st, 2025
When Saturn enters Aries on May 24th, it encourages us to bring more boldness to the foundations of our lives — without sacrificing our practicality. Traditionally, the planetary taskmaster is thought to be in its fall in this impulsive, Mars-ruled sign, meaning that it’s not entirely comfortable in this placement. While Saturn prefers forethought, caution, and restraint, Aries tends to fly by the seat of its pants. When the two collide, we’re asked to be more disciplined and intentional in the ways we exercise our aggression, vitality, and drive. Noticing where we’re overly competitive or impatient can help us stay levelheaded as we strive to realize our ambitions.
Saturn has a reputation for teaching tough lessons, but for a reason: Experiencing dissatisfaction and encountering life’s constraints can help us tap into our stamina, grit, and accountability for our own actions. If you get burned by someone’s overeager ego or fiery temper — including your own — practice respecting boundaries and accepting limitations. You can integrate your hotter-blooded side with the more reasonable parts of you, if you give yourself permission to pause and think twice before acting — and you can find a way to advocate for more sensible approaches to political affairs, should the balance between force and fairness get tipped off-kilter.
On September 1st, Saturn will retrograde back into Pisces, reminding us to tie up any loose ends in our daydreams and take full responsibility for our fantasies. Once Saturn re-enters Aries, where it will return in 2026 and remain until 2028, make this your motto: Seek the clarity and stability of the middle ground.
5. Jupiter enters Cancer
Jupiter in Cancer: June 9th, 2025 – June 29th, 2026
The planet of wisdom and abundance — Jupiter — has been buzzing through chatty, charming, and distractible Gemini since May of 2024. Jupiter is thought to be in its fall in Gemini, meaning that it struggles to realize its deeper purpose in this mutable air sign. On June 9th, 2025, the planetary teacher exchanges its open tabs and eclectic emojis for more heartfelt explorations when it enters sensitive Cancer, the sign of its exaltation.
Jupiter magnifies whatever it touches, and it operates at the peak of its generous powers in this cardinal water sign. Think: fairy godmother vibes. Cancer is a nurturer through and through, so expect the topics of caretaking, nourishment, ancestry, inner child healing, reproductive rights, and/or community care to gain prominence during Jupiter’s year-long stint in the sign of the crab.
This transit is a once-in-twelve-years boon, and the trick to activating its fertile magic in your own life is realigning with your intentions — and infusing your actions with genuine emotional vulnerability. It can be risky to follow your heart, but that’s where your luck blooms most lushly in 2025. In all your efforts to spread TLC and create collective prosperity, think big, and the cosmos will boomerang your expansive wishes right back to you.
6. Uranus enters Gemini
Uranus in Gemini: July 7th – November 7th, 2025
Uranus — the planet of disruption — has been kicking up trouble in material-minded, Venus-ruled Taurus since 2019. Think: fluctuating markets and supply chains, surges in worker strikes, intensifying climate crises, and upheavals in Venusian realms such as reproductive rights. When rebellious Uranus enters Mercury-ruled Gemini on July 7th, 2025, it will shake up mass communications and bring revolutionary messages to the collective airwaves.
The planetary rabble-rouser will retrograde back into Taurus for six months, starting on November 7th, but it will ultimately spend about seven years in Gemini, which is plenty of time for Uranus to upend all our cozy norms. Expect innovations — and a touch of volatility — in the sectors of journalism, television, social media, and publishing. All our efforts to express ourselves will get charged with a more radical voltage, so study up on the ways your favorite activists have wielded words to make positive shockwaves on behalf of good causes.
When Uranus is on the scene, anything is possible, and nothing is guaranteed. Instability is the price we have to pay to activate our most exciting future. Let curiosity lead the way. And for extra credit, practice embracing paradox. The more agile our thinking is, the easier it becomes for us all to cast spells for the common good.
Want to learn more? Check out these 2025 astro tools
1. Real-time readings and resources in the CHANI app
To find out how these events will impact you, check the Transits tab of the CHANI app throughout the year. This area is updated by the minute to reveal how the planets are showing up for you, based on your birth chart. To better understand how to work with these transits as they happen, visit the “This Week” section of the app, where you can find altar suggestions, rituals, journal prompts, guided meditations, and a reading specific to your sign. Plus, you can check your free Current Sky horoscopes in the “Today” section of the home page to learn how all the planets, points, and nodes are influencing your life at any given moment.
2. The 2025 Year Ahead
CHANI premium subscribers can head to the “This Year” section of the CHANI app for quarterly astrology readings from Chani Nicholas. Personalized for your sign, these audio offerings break down exactly how 2025’s major astrology will impact you throughout the year. This section of the app also contains key astrological dates for 2025, your yearly horoscope, and rituals, journal prompts, altar suggestions, and guided meditations to help you work with the main themes of the year: trust, winning, nurturance, and disruption.
3. The 2025 Astro Planner
Consider our 2025 Astro Planner your map, compass, and companion for the coming year. Complete with 300 pages of rituals, reflections, exercises, astro cheat sheets, planetary movements, and daily and monthly calendars, this resource allows you to plan your year, track your intentions, and make the most of 2025’s astrology as it unfolds. Plus, it includes a customizable birth chart, 100+ astro stickers, a 2025 Moon calendar, and astro forecasts for each month. (Let’s just say it sells out every year for a reason.)
4. The 2025 Yearbook
The 2025 Yearbook is a brand-new, comprehensive astro resource for all 12 signs. Packed with 300+ pages of sign-specific forecasts, rituals, and affirmations for the coming year, this limited-edition book has everything you need to navigate 2025’s era-defining astrology. It also includes sticker sheets, spaces to take stock of your astro placements, and fun autograph pages — because who doesn’t want to get their yearbook signed?
Here’s to an abundant, bold, and innovative 2025.
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