Your Guide to the Astrology of 2025

Every major transit for 2025 and what it means for your rising sign. Also included are key dates to watch for within these longer transits.

I can’t believe it’s already time for a new year, how the time flies! I’m so excited for 2025. I’m ready for Saturn to get out of my 8th house and to be done with this 8th house profection year. For me personally, 2024 felt like a year of going within and shedding to prepare for a new chapter. Fortunately, there are so many major planetary shifts taking place in 2025 that it is bound to feel very different. First, I’ll be going over all of the major transits happening throughout the year, and then paid subscribers will have access to what everything means for their individual rising sign, as well as key dates to take note of within each of these major transits. Think of this as a guide that you can keep referring back to over the next twelve months.

To kick things off, 2025 is very unique in that every single outer planet will be entering a new sign. Pluto fully moved into Aquarius at the end of 2024, so 2025 is the first year it will be entirely in that sign. Neptune and Saturn are both dipping into Aries, Uranus is entering Gemini, Jupiter will move to Cancer, and the North and South Nodes are entering Pisces and Virgo. On top of all of that, we will be in a Mars retrograde throughout the start of the year, then a Venus retrograde is happening in March/April across the signs of Aries and Pisces, and Mercury retrograde is slowly shifting out of the fire signs into the water signs this year.

2024 saw a lot of action taking place across the mutable signs, with Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Gemini. The start of the year is a continuation of those themes, with Saturn still in Pisces until May 25 and Jupiter in Gemini until June 9. The two planets will be squaring each other in January and again in June, so those two months may hold a bit of tension. Let’s start with Jupiter. While Jupiter spends the first half of the year in Gemini, you will still be experiencing growth and a desire to expand in that Gemini ruled house of your chart. There may be an emphasis on generating ideas or picking up new skills there, since Gemini is such a communication focused sign. Jupiter retrograde will lift on February 4, so you will get a second wave of momentum and opportunities in that part of your life, especially if you didn’t see that much happen throughout the second half of 2024 with the start of this Jupiter transit. Jupiter then moves into Cancer on June 9 for the rest of the year and throughout the entire first half of 2026, so that sense of expansion and a desire to learn more will shift into the Cancer ruled house of your chart. In general, there will also be greater emphasis on your home and family life, and maybe also wanting to nurture yourself and others. Once we move into later 2025, you may be figuring out what type of environment makes you feel the most comfortable and secure.

Before we get to Jupiter entering Cancer though, we start off the year very much still in the midst of a Mars retrograde happening in that same sign until February 23. Once we move past that date, it may feel like you have more energy and a better sense of direction in that Cancer ruled house of your chart. So it’s interesting that an area of frustration for you at the very start of the year will feel much more abundant and will turn out to be a major area of growth once we reach the second half of the year. The reworking of those themes and redirecting your energy there has to happen first though.

Saturn is now entering its third year of being in Pisces, so you may feel like you’re finally getting the hang of the themes associated with the Pisces ruled house of your chart. You may spend the next year receiving a final push that you need in that part of your life, or you’re gaining a sense of mastery over the themes associated with the Pisces ruled house in your chart. However, people with Pisces, Virgo, Gemini, and Sagittarius placements or angles between about 14-29 degrees will be feeling this Saturn transit pretty intensely throughout a large part of 2025. There might be additional stressors or responsibilities that you’re taking on, or you’re experiencing tough growing pains as you transition into a new life chapter.

Saturn will shift into Aries on May 25 and stay there until September 1, before it returns to Pisces for the rest of the year. Therefore, this three month period in the middle of 2025 will offer a sneak preview of themes that will unfold from 2026-2028, when Saturn returns to Aries for two years. While Saturn has been in Pisces since March of 2023, I’ve noticed collectively that mental health, spirituality, coping with heavier emotions, and inner healing have all been bigger themes that we have been experiencing. With Saturn starting to move into Aries, there will be a greater emphasis on taking action, being your own leader, and standing up for yourself. You will also suddenly notice that the Aries ruled house in your chart is becoming very activated. While the Aries eclipses that have been going on the past couple of years have already shaken things up there and brought about significant changes, there is still major restructuring that needs to go on in that part of your life.

Speaking of Aries transits, there is so much happening in that sign this year. Neptune is changing signs for the first time since 2012 as it leaves Pisces and moves into Aries. This shift will occur on March 30, and Neptune will remain in Aries until October 22. Saturn and Neptune will also be in a close conjunction with each other in Aries throughout all of June, July and August, which is a big contrast in energy. On the one hand, you might be trying to build new structures for yourself in that Aries ruled house of your chart, but it could also be that you’re also dissolving an old way of being there too. Once again, we’re seeing that middle period of 2025 as being a peak period for understanding what these new Aries transits will be about.

In addition to Neptune and Saturn entering Aries, there is also a Venus retrograde and a Mercury retrograde happening there. Venus retrograde will start on March 1 in Aries and end on April 12 in Pisces. Meanwhile, Mercury retrograde will start on March 15 in Aries and end on April 7 in Pisces. Therefore, that end of February into March period of this coming year will feel kind of tricky. You may be reflecting on how you show up in relationships and communicate with people. With one retrograde on top of the other, the first few months of 2025 may feel like a transitional time, where nothing is fully set in stone.

There is also a final Aries solar eclipse that will take place in this same part of your chart on March 29, which will also be another push to make a change or see a significant development happen in that specific house of your chart. The eclipse will be at 9 degrees of Aries, so people with cardinal sign placements right around that marker will feel the effects of that eclipse a bit more intensely.

Even though we are getting one last Aries eclipse, the North and South Nodes technically will have already left Aries and Libra and moved into Pisces and Virgo as of January 11. With the North Node in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo for the next year and half, collectively we may see a shift away from hyper-productivity and being overly critical and work focused, to being more compassionate, spiritual, creative, and wanting to find deeper meaning in what we’re doing. So while Saturn may have brought stress to these areas, the North Node there may bring about greater change and developments. Both Pisces and Virgo are signs that are associated with service, so wanting to help out others could be a big theme too. Aside from the one last Aries solar eclipse, we will experience a Virgo lunar eclipse on March 13, a Pisces lunar eclipse on September 7 and a Virgo solar eclipse on September 21. March and September will be big periods for change, and having major endings and beginnings around the time of these eclipses - this is especially the case if you have significant chart placements, like your sun, moon or rising, in either Pisces or Virgo.

There are also two major outer planet transits going on this year that are actually pretty similar. Uranus moves into Gemini from July 7 until November 7, before it returns again to this sign in April 2026. Meanwhile, 2025 is Pluto’s first full year in Aquarius. Both of these transits have a lot to do with the sharing of information, technological advancements, and changing the way we think about connection and community. Both of their entries into new houses of your chart will be felt loudly when more quickly moving planets, like the Sun or Mars aspect them from mutable or fixed signs. Uranus and Pluto will be trining each other throughout 2025 too, linking the themes of those parts of your chart in a positive way.

And finally, we can’t close out the major transits for the year ahead without mentioning the other signs and dates of Mercury retrogrades. In addition to the Mercury retrograde in March in Aries/Pisces, there will be another one from July 18 - August 11 in Leo, and then a final one from November 9 - November 29 across the signs of Sagittarius and Scorpio. So there’s still that ongoing theme carrying over from 2024 of reflecting and making adjustments in the houses ruled by fire signs in your chart, but we’re slowing shifting into the water sign ruled houses with these Mercury retrogrades. Having the water signs activated by Mercury in this way will set the stage for what will unfold in 2026.

Let’s now get into what everything means for your rising sign…