Monthly Transits – January 2025

Welcome to 2025!

New Year’s Day sees Luna conjunct Pluto in Aquarius 2 (An unexpected thunderstorm) – a degree getting a lot of attention this month as Pluto opposes Mars in Leo 2 (An epidemic of the mumps) on 1/3, giving this year an extra spicy start.

The start to the year heralds widespread shifts in the collective, heightened tensions, and confusing communications related to power structures, leadership and difficult negotiations.

For the first 11 days of Jan, the North Node sits in Aries 1 (the Aries Point/World Axis) and on the 11th, the nodes of fate move into Pisces/Virgo. January should provide some pretty clear and immediate foreshadowing of what to expect over the next year as this Aries/Pisces cusp dominates the headlines throughout 2025 and 2026.

Neptune enters Aries this year for the first time since 1861 and Saturn follows right behind while Mercury and Venus both retrograde over the Aries Point. With Uranus also changing signs and both outer planets ending the year back in their current signs (Pisces and Taurus), 2025 brings significant but impartial previews of the more permanent changes we can expect to see in 2026.

January’s Full Moon on the 13th is trine Uranus and loosely opposing Mars. Thwarted ambitions, surprising upsets, and corrupt power players being exposed are all key themes of this lunation.

Venus spends the month exalted in Pisces! The week of the Full Moon, she squares Jupiter in degrees inspiring her purpose and certainty, then meets up with Saturn for a powerful conjunction before sextiling Mercury in degrees related to the sanctity of public rituals.

When the Sun moves into Aquarius and conjoins Pluto on the 21st (hi Unexpected Thunderstorm!), expect some powerful truths to be coming to the surface.

The New Moon occurs the same day Mercury joins Pluto (hi again, Unexpected Thunderstorm) and also marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year – Welcome Wood Snake!

We end the month with Uranus ending its retrograde cycle and moving direct plus a lovely Sun trine Jupiter!

To 2025!