2025 Forecasts by Rising Signs

Capricorn to kick things off

[Maternal grandmother with baby goat (correction: it’s a lamb, but let’s enjoy some magical thinking and humor me), circa early 2000s. She was a Gemini Sun, but she must have had some serious Capricorn going on. She was nothing but tenacity and hard work, and sharp until the end. She said she was happiest when they had the farm. She lived to nearly 100 and died during Capricorn season.]

I’m a fan of factory settings in charts, meaning that before you even put a planet into a chart, the positions of the signs and their associated houses already tells us a baseline story for a particular rising sign. Being a Virgo rising, Saturn rules both my Capricorn 5th house of creative enjoyment and Aquarius 6th house of arduous work, I thought it would be fun, because I’ve never done this, to give myself the daunting task of writing up forecasts for 2025 for each of the rising signs. [Here is a simple online calculator to find your rising sign if you do not know it. You will need your birth date, location, and reliable time of birth.]

My goal is to focus on some of the more pivotal transits of the year and how they will affect each rising sign. This is a high-level overview, and each would be further defined by other fast moving transits which will be fodder for future posts. And, how these affect you personally depends on specific planetary configurations and other sensitive points in your natal chart. You can work with me on a more nuanced forecast based on your natal chart. Find information about my consultation practice here. What we’ll explore:

• Pluto officially in Aquarius

• Mars retrograde

• Jupiter moves into Cancer

• Venus retrograde

• Saturn moves into Aries

• Eclipse cycle changing signs

• Uranus moves into Gemini

CAPRICORN

Today we will start with Capricorn, the feminine domicile of Saturn that launches us out of the dark and into the beginning of the growing light as the Sun has hit its lowest point in the northern hemisphere sky at the winter solstice and begins to inch its way a bit higher in the sky each day.

Pluto in Aquarius: 2025 gives us the year when Pluto will be 100% in Aquarius to stay for about twenty years which means that for Capricorns, it has moved out of your first house and into your second house of personal resources, the place that represents what sustains us, and your relationship to possessions and assets. Your Pluto story was previewed in Spring of 2023 and will now continue in earnest for decades. Pluto in your 2nd could affect your attitude toward income, and your relationship to material stuff could be called into question and go through a transformation. It’s a long process with Pluto, and all of this will not be answered in 2025, but a slow revelatory process around what you own, how you acquire income, and what it means to stay afloat in a material-driven world will devolve and evolve. If you have planets in the second, those moments could be more acute as Pluto makes its approach to those degrees. The hard aspects to Pluto from the sign’s ruler Saturn will likely deliver those cathartic moments in 2028-29 and later in 2035-36. But those transits will certainly be more relevant to the world stage and may or may not effect you personally. Again, lots depends on your own chart.

Mars retrograde: Mars is already in its retrograde journey as I type this. It began its geocentric cosmic backward movement on December 6th in Leo, your 8th house, the place where we are entangled with others, place of indebtedness, place of gains through loss. By January 6th, Mars will have moved back into Cancer, your 7th house of relationships: romantic, platonic, business, therapeutic, adversarial. Mars by nature is assertive, conflict-oriented, good at getting results for better and for worse, good at severing. In Cancer, as I mentioned in a past post, Mars’s energy can be turned into a passive aggressive neediness where compromise and equal cooperation can be difficult. Mars can be impulsive which may be your own behavior or what you are witnessing from others in close relationships.

Because of the retrograde motion, you may find yourself encountering someone from your past or retreading wounds or issues related to 8th house of shared resources being dragged into the 7th for review and becoming a factor to contend with. On February 23rd, Mars will return to direct motion at 17 Cancer. If you have planets or sensitive points in the 7th, this could be the final pass and hopefully you’ll find resolutions to the tense transit. Either way, choose your battles well through this transit as this could be an especially hard time to find cohesion in a partnership situation, but you might find that something just has to be dealt with already. The good news is that Venus will be looking on in a superior position in her exaltation from your 3rd house bringing positive distractions with your daily life and communications. Even if the 7th is being a drag, your local network is a haven of beauty, creativity, and the platonic affections of your closest kin by blood or otherwise. Local travel and bathing in natural beauty would be the best spiritual salve.

Jupiter moves to Cancer: After all that intensity with the Mars retrograde, later in the year, you should find a reprieve as the greater benefic moves into Cancer, your 7th, on June 10th which should be a full-on positive tonal change in the place of your intimate relationships. Jupiter is in its exaltation in Cancer giving it lots of prominence, not to mention an angular house for you, so it will be a significant transit. This could be someone new coming into your life, especially since Venus will be happy in her own sign of Taurus in your 5th house of fun and games making a nice sextile to Jupiter. She’ll be post retrograde in her strong momentous morning star phase.

Life doesn’t repeat because of the constantly changing cosmic influences, but it can rhyme. As a baseline, reflect on topics of relationships during June 2013 - July 2014 which would have been the last time Jupiter moved through your 7th house. Did you start something, build something, meet someone who had the right wisdom for the moment?

Nothing is perfect. Jupiter and Saturn will have their final square of this long opening square phase between the two planets which started in July of 2024 in their first pass at perfecting. They’re building to their second now at the close of this month, and the final will be this summer. So their story started for you between your 3rd and 6th houses. This could have added up to a lot of setbacks and fits and starts around illness, your daily grind, your local environment, siblings/extended kin, perhaps less than productive communications or lack there of around any of that. The final square will hit right as Jupiter ingresses into Cancer. It won’t be prolonged since Jupiter is strong in direct motion while Saturn is slowing down and gearing up for retrograde. By the third week of June, Jupiter will meet the Sun for its rebirth of its synodic cycle just as its separating from Saturn. Now with this square angular in your 4th and 7th houses and increased Jupitarian power, hopefully it will tie up some threads and make room for new connections. This may add up to a romantic partner(s) or could be other types of beneficial relationships that help you professionally or in other ways. Jupiter helps us grow what is important to us. 7th house can also be a place of clients, for example, if that’s the kind of relationships you need to grow. Even with the Saturn meet-up initially, Jupiter angular 7th should prove to be a fortuitous transit that helps you manifest rewarding relationships.

Venus retrograde: Backing up a bit, Venus will start her retrograde cycle on March 1st at 10 degrees Aries, your 4th house of home, parents, property, your past, and the more private aspects of your life. Like Mars’s retrograde, she will move back into the previous sign which could connect the topics of those two places. Initially, you might find a turn around or repercussion of sorts in your place of home which could involve a femme figure in your life, consider mother or sister given the strong association of the 4th to family life, especially with Mars seeing Venus by square as she makes this station. The two planets don’t actually meet up by degree, for now, but Venus in Mars’s sign and the sign-based square so the desire to bring balance might be harder to come by.

But Venus retrogrades are not especially negative. Like any retrograde of the fast moving planets, she can bring reversals, visitations from the past, and with her could add up to reconsiderations with how and with whom we’re relating with in general, or managing some changes with how others are relating with us. But it’s Venus who likes beautification in all ways, and she’s wearing a Mars tool belt, so you may find yourself in a serious home improvement project.

She moves back to the third where you just experienced her in exaltation in your 3rd house of local space, communications, rituals, and how you harmonize with your usual suspects. She will traverse the same degrees that she did from January 24th through Feb 4th, so that time period may lay some seeds as an indication of what this Venus retrograde story will be about for her time in Pisces from March 27th - April 29th. Should be a heightened time of socializing. Spring will have sprung and travel, even locally, and communing with nature (something I mentioned back with Mars’s transit as a good respite).

Here’s the thing, Venus is spending an inordinate amount of time in the lower part of your chart, your closest and most intimate environments, physically and metaphysically, which seems to add up to a serious rejuvenation of what constitutes ‘the everyday’ which might have felt stunted and stagnant with Saturn hanging out there for over two years dealing out road blocks and presenting you with limitations, real and imagined, given Neptune in the game as well.

Saturn moves to Aries (Neptune too!): Saturn has been in your 3rd house for a couple of years and will move on to Aries your 4th on May 24th. The 4th is your place of family life, parents, home, property, ancestry, the private space as mentioned above. Saturn there will have you get serious about anything involving your home life. Saturn reminds us of where we’ve hit our limits, so the limitations of how home and all things that can that represent our foundations with all the responsibilities of that will begin to come into focus. This is a two and half year transit that will just get off the ground in 2025. Over its course, it could involve more attention to parents, house problems, or difficult but necessary resolution of issues from the past, family or otherwise. Saturn asks you to secure and repair your foundations, physically and psychically, in order to prepare and have the ability to build your next thing.

I parenthetically added Neptune because it is a big deal, almost too big, like Pluto, to discuss in a year forecast, but we can’t ignore this ingress. It’s been in your 3rd house blowing its fog machine since 2011. It will be in Aries for about 14 years. What does that mean for your 4th house? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m going with the realties of aging parents on the one hand and remaking the notion of what home is or can be. Neptune can be idealistic and not realistic. Interesting that Saturn will be there initially and that, perhaps could be rather grounding and tempering for Neptune’s flights of fancy. It’s a weird combination, but maybe it will add up to an interesting and creative beautification of what home life can be as Saturn keeps you at sea level. Both planets will revisit Pisces in the Fall before returning to Aries for the longer haul in 2026, so again this is the appetizer move that could give you some indications of what is to come.

New Eclipse Phase: The eclipses operate across two opposing houses and change that axis about every 18 months. The lunar nodes which are the representatives of eclipse points when we look at charts are beginning to move from your 4th and 10th to the 3rd and 9th places. These are cadent houses that can deal in spirituality and travel with the 3rd being the here and now version of that, while the 9th is the bigger picture - think Lunar versus Solar with the Moon being more rooted in our daily lives, while the Sun is more our ideal over-arching life themes. Either way, the push and pull that the eclipses will foster between these two place, with the North Node in the 3rd and the South Node in the 9th could suggest that it’s time to make manifest those ideals of the 9th into the everyday activities of the 3rd, bringing it all back home to name that Dylan album. Eclipses are like curveballs. I like Adam Sommer’s description that they are plot twists. Lunar eclipses on the South Node – March in Virgo – can be a physical emptying out. Lunar eclipses on the North Node – September in Pisces – could present a sudden accumulation. Maybe you'll clear some decks in your psyche to make room for it in your daily. The Solar eclipse in Aries in March will be the last pass of that set of houses involving your 4th, so perhaps what you gain from that eclipse is helping you tie up or push a change to your 4th house of family of home.

Uranus moves into Gemini: The final transit we’ll look at is Uranus’s ingress into your 6th house. As usual, Uranus will put one foot in and then recede back and then ingress for its seven year duration come 2026. But from July 7th through November 7th, we’ll get the initial feel for the planet in Gemini. This could bring up a full review for you on work life and what that means. Uranus is all about freedom and the 6th is all about how we sacrifice, where do we really want to put our energy, and wrestling with subordination or fighting the good fight for those stomped on by society. This transit will be pivotal for you to figure out how to make work life less shackled. This is Gemini, so communication, technologies, messaging, and movement can be crucial to evolving your next thing.

I find it fascinating that Uranus will be entering the house considered the joy of Mars because those two planets have a lot in common in terms of shaking it all up, revolutionary spirit, independence, and sudden actions and potential severing to make it happen.

The continuing trine dynamic between Uranus and Pluto is interesting. It was happening between your 1st house and 5th for so long, but now they are moving onto work and income. The thing about the 6th house is that it could saddle you with set backs, like illness or accidents or the shit we just don’t want to do. If opportunities reveal themselves, open yourself up to them, Uranus wants to help you revolutionize your situation, and has that weird and magical capability of presenting the unexpected.

Stay tuned for Aquarius.

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