#Mars transit 2025

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Big astrology events coming: Mars in Cancer triggers chaos, scandals, and economic shocks. Be ready. #Astrology #MarsInCancer

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Mars Transit in Gemini, 2025: How It Affects Your Moon Sign

In 2025, Mars, the planet of action, energy and ambition, will have a major impact on the zodiac sign Gemini, the sign of communication and intelligence. From January 21 to April 2, 2025, Mars will transit through Gemini, meaning all zodiac signs should prepare to experience a flurry of action and excitement this time. In a contrasting scenario, however, the Moon sign of individuals would decide how Mars in Gemini would work for them. The Moon represents emotions, instincts, and inner self. The effects will be further understood using a person's birth chart and how this particular transit impacts them.

Mars in Gemini: Impact on Each Moon Sign

The universe sends a crucial message about this transit for Gemini Moon signs. If there was a time to get your mind racing, it is now. With Gemini's duality, there will always be opportunities for inspiration and motivation to express thoughts and ideas, engage in new undertakings, and more. This is the time for getting success in business with quick decision-making. At the same time, Gemini's energy should be checked since it also brings the potential for overwhelming and hasty brainstorming.

Sagittarius Moons may find that Mars in Gemini creates frustrations around the need for freedom in communication and learning. You may be tempted to be more vocal than necessary, and while speaking one's mind has pros, finding a balance between action and thought is more important and will save one from much frustration.

Given a Virgo Moon, this pole transiting through your 9th house helps you develop your intellectual and analytical abilities. One may also be inspired to implement their thoughts unconventionally. Because of your detail-oriented approach, success may come your way, but beware of becoming overly critical of other people's ideas or approaches.

If you are someone with a Pisces Moon, you may find Mars in the Gemini period as one where you will be internally provoked to question and challenge your own emotional and subconscious habits. This could be a very cosmically charged period for emotional natives as they are intellectually and physically pushed out of their comfort zones. Take care while dealing with your loved ones, as this is the time that can cause link problems in married life.There's no better moment to make quick decisions or act boldly.

This feeling is further enhanced by Mars' presence in the sign of Gemini, as people will be prone to action. Mars will encourage rapid exchanges, decision-making, and mobility in Gemini as it is an air sign. The planet will make you want to do something just for the sake of doing it. This tendency will define even the events bound to occur later on the calendar.

For those who have been putting things off for too long or are already bored with everything happening, the planets align perfectly when Mars enters Gemini. It is a time for starting activities, making contacts that open new doors, or introducing hot ideas. The transit is favourable for putting forward an idea of starting a business or expressing an opinion that has been on your mind, as it encourages swift actions.

Nevertheless, Gemini's placement on Mars can also be considered bipolar, so one should not be too hasty before making decisions. This is the perfect moment to put one's thoughts into action. However, it is also essential to be aware of the repercussions.

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How This Energetic Transit Affects You – Analysis

Most certainly, the placement of Mars in Gemini is a blessing in disguise that will help you grow and progress by leaps and bounds in your life. Gemini's placement encompasses energy and a sense of speed, which could lead to restlessness. This phase, for many, may be characterized by rapid word formation and a strong intent to perform simultaneous duties. There is, however, a degree of worry since a complete focus on one task is hard to guarantee while Gemini's flexibility prompts one to accept other options.

There are expected increased volumes of speech in general and close-to-aggression levels in particular. You may become increasingly vocal, keen to state your ideas and fight for what you think is right. Avoid negative words or actions that will get you into trouble; Mars moves in Gemini and can lead to communication being lost and something else being heard entirely.

And what if you have already demonstrated signs of being orally impatient or undecided? Then expect fidgetiness to accompany much of this time. Mars has been considered impulsive and might make you commit too quickly without perceiving all angles. Channel this explosion of thought and interest for a better purpose, and make sure you don't form snap decisions based on impulses.

The Retrograde Transit of Mars in Gemini: Must-Have Information

Beginning on January 21, 2025, Mars enters its retrograde, which will make this transit very particular. Mars's retrogression sees an implicit inclination towards introspection, rehashing history, and realigning one's focus and resources. Because Mars is retrograde, the typical drive and stamina we are used to in our everyday lives will not be present, leading to frustration and obstacles, primarily in communication, mobility, and even making decisions.

There is some resistance, or the return on investment seems longer than you would like. It can be a phase when there is little to show for the work done or when assertiveness – forever a feature – is barely in sight. One may use the opportunity to analyze previous steps taken, draw maps on how to take the next steps and determine the next steps so they can set the stage for the new phase without showing a hurry. On the other hand, loss of direction could also be caused by retrogrades, which might inspire the remembrance of former developed ideas or projects that remain undone and require closure or renewed attention.

For this, patience and contemplation must be the main virtues because even if people have the right ideas, it is the wrong time to put them all into practice. Where your headspace has gone and whether your moves are harmonious with where you intend to be are matters to care about. Such misapprehensions only consume precious resources, and this is why it is recommended to act with calmness.

Mars Direct in Gemini: Time to complete past incompleted tasks

By mid-February 2025, Mars will go direct in Gemini, unleashing its full thrust. At this moment, there is a greater focus and tendency to act decisively. After the retrograde period, which is a very reflective period, the direct motion of Mars once again restores vigour and determination. Many people can find clarity about what to do: job or business during Mars retrograde turning direct again.

For those who, all through the retrograde, had doubts or were re-evaluating their goals, the direct motion of Mars has come exactly to do that and enable one to have the resolve and confidence to proceed without any second thoughts. The planet will be going direct, prompting people to take those decisive steps that they earlier took a step back from or re-evaluated. Even so, it is essential to apply what was gained from the lessons of the retrograde so that the new initiatives being taken are not arbitrary.

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Stay Aware and Take Necessary Actions with Dr. Vinay Bajrangi

One of the dilemmas many people confront is whether to look at nativities personally or approach an astrologer, Dr Vinay Bajrangi, for detailed illustration in light of the complexities of Mars in Gemini transit, which also includes a retrograde cycle. Knowing and remembering how this particular transit will impact your natal chart or birth chart is essential. Best astrologers like Dr Vinay Bajrangi can help you understand how the energies of Mars in Gemini will work regarding your Moon sign, relationships, and profession.

Dr Bajrangi, a well-known astrologer, can assist you in utilizing this transit for effective energies according to your birth date. You can seek brief astrological guidance and the best astrological remedies- whether you want to make courageous decisions, face troubles, or need clarity during Mars' retrograde. In either case, people can be assured that Dr Vinay Bajrangi's expertise can help cope with this transit.

Bear in mind the potential astrological patterns before making any major decisions. Be careful and consult with an astrologer who can guide you when to act and which spheres of your life require greater caution.

With Mars in Gemini, you will experience high intelligence and the ability to take action. There is no time to stay; take your chances and take appropriate action with the best astrologer, Dr Vinay Bajrangi!

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Enery Update: Mars Retrograde 2024-2025

From December 6, 2024 to February 26, 2025, Mars will retrograde from 06° Leo to 17° Cancer. As this is a personal planet retrograde and it encapsulates most of our winter holiday season, it is a fairly long term aspect that we should all keep our eyes on.

The SetUp

Due to its position in our solar system (close to the Earth but past its position relative to the Sun), Mars is the planet that goes retrograde the least frequently, roughly every 26 months. Although we know that its backward motion is an illusion, astrology always views planets in their relationship to our home, the Earth. When a planet moves in retrograde motion, it retraces its steps through the horoscope wheel, repeating degrees that it has recently passed through. This creates an opportunity for a cosmic do-over as the world experiences these repeating degrees thrice: once when the planet enters its pre-retrograde shadow, a second time during the retrograde, and a third time after it stations direct once more in its post-retrograde shadow. This puts intense emphasis on these areas of life represented both by where it falls in the horoscope wheel and how it interacts with every person’s natal birth chart.

Mars is our planet of action. It is the planet that governs our drive and our energy levels. It rules the sign of Aries and the 1st house and co-rules the sign of Scorpio and the 8th house, along with the planet Pluto. We all have Mars placed somewhere in our charts. This placement shows what motivates us and how we go out and get what we want. Mars is also considered to be the Lesser Malefic in Traditional Astrology because it governs anger and strife. Mars needs a purpose – generally to move forward and accomplish a goal – or else it can easily become a bad actor.

When Mars moves in retrograde motion, it moves backward through the horoscope wheel. This is unfortunate as Mars prefers to gain and improve constantly. Retrograde planetary motion is all about looking back over the path that has been traveled and making the necessary changes to correct course. Some Mars placements (Virgo, for example) tend to be more comfortable with this than others. The big flex is to lean into the energy of this retrograde energy and work with it rather than against it.

As this Mars retrograde stretches from 06° Leo back to 17° Cancer, it crosses from a fixed sign back into a cardinal sign. Mixed sign retrogrades are more challenging to understand until you have a good grasp of astrology. What I want you to understand right now is that this retrograde will affect people with personal planets between 00-06° and people with personal planets between 17-29°.

This Mars retrograde will most strongly affect the following groups in the order written. Remembering, this is a compounding effect; the more categories you meet, the stronger the retrograde will be.

Those born with Mars from 00-06° Leo or 17-29° Cancer, and all Aries and Scorpio Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or Mars

Those with Mars in Cancer or Leo that do not meet the above degrees

Anyone with a personal planet (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) from 00-06° Taurus or Scorpio (square) or Aquarius (opposition), or 17-29° Aries and Libra (square) or Aquarius (opposition)

Anyone with a person planet from 00-06° Aries or Sagittarius, or 17-29° Scorpio or Pisces (trine)

Anyone with a personal planet from 00-06° Gemini or Libra, or 17-29° Taurus or Virgo (sextile)

Anyone with Mars in the 1st House or Mars conjunct their Natal Sun

Keep in mind here that as a personal planet, Mars’ retrograde will impact everyone to a greater or lesser degree, and it will impact our daily lives as a collective as well. You can determine what area of life Mars will impact by looking at the retrograde and how it relates to your chart by sign, house, aspect, and degree.

The Nitty Gritty

I want to reiterate from the start that although traditional astrology says that retrogrades are Bad and Mars retrogrades, in particular, are bad, this is not a foregone conclusion. Retrogrades are a change in the energy output of the planet in motion, and it takes clever awareness to adapt and work with rather than against this energy. Mars retrogrades tend to be the most challenging for humans for one simple reason – humans are, on average, very adverse and reactive to change. Mars wants to charge forth and exert its will upon the world, whereas Mars’s retrograde moments tend to call for pauses and reflection before action.

It is to our advantage that this Mars retrograde coincides with Fallowtide and the retreating of the light. It is disadvantageous that it coincides with our greater holiday season with all of its rushing and potential family disputes.

There are some almost inevitable truths to a Mars retrograde cycle: anything that requires action (be it your job, physical exertions of all kinds, the court systems, etc.) will move much slower than average. There will inevitably be people who can’t handle this slow-down and will lean into emotional reactivity and violence. Along with Venus, Mars is one of our relationship planets, so its retrograde can lead to relationship issues and breakups. (it’s worth noting here that Venus will retrograde as well in the coming spring, which will exasperate relationship issues as these two retrograde cycles overlap with one another)

Mars retrograde cycles tend to illuminate the areas of our lives where we are not getting what we want. This may be because of misplaced goals or poorly thought-through strategies. Or, quite simply, life isn’t fair, and effort rarely equals payout. Mars retrogrades show us how we and our Others react when we are stymied. It may lead to pessimism or depression in those prone, especially as this cycle coincides with our dark season, so stay aware and practice the self-care necessary to weather this rough transit if necessary.

In particular, this retrograde cycle crosses from our fixed fire sign, Leo, backward into our cardinal water sign, Cancer. Immature Mars in Leo energy can be egotistic and self-serving; immature Mars in Cancer tends towards emotional manipulation to get what they want or need. These will be the two battles of this retrograde season. Immature Mars in Leo energy says, “I deserve this,” and immature Cancer energy says, “And I will do what I must to keep this.”

I intentionally use the word immature here because there is a mature form to both of these energies, and discovering this is part of Mars in retrograde energy. Mature Mars in Leo energy is “We ALL deserve this and I will work to make that happen,” and mature Cancer energy is “When we work together to accomplish our goals, we both win.” I also want to reiterate here that we all exhibit immature behaviors now and then, which doesn’t make us bad people. We are all imperfect human beings. The goal with retrogrades like this is to recognize when we are being immature or unfair to others, and to course correct.

As mentioned above, retrogrades all happen in three phases: the pre-retrograde shadow, the retrograde proper, and the post-retrograde shadow. This can explained through the silly analogy of falling in a hole:

Oh no, I fell into this hole! I didn’t know that it was there. There was no way of avoiding it! (pre-retrograde shadow)

Oh SHIT! Did I just fall into that same fucking hole? I should learn to avoid that. (retrograde)

(and hopefully) Oh hey – look at that hole! I don’t need to fall in that – I can walk around it. (post-retrograde shadow)

In this way, many people will face a lesson somewhere in their lives around the themes of the specific retrograde. Of course, whether they learn from it depends on many factors, such as general awareness, ability to think critically, and general maturity level. A person who isn’t willing to change will never get much from a retrograde cycle; on the other hand, someone who is open and willing to look critically at themselves and their own actions may gain a great deal.

Mars makes several aspects to our outer planets, the lunar nodes, and our asteroid Chiron, which shows that this will likely be an especially momentous retrograde for many. During this journey, Mars in Cancer will sextile Uranus in Taurus, trine Neptune in Pisces, and square Chiron thrice and trine Saturn in Pisces twice. Additionally, Mars will oppose Pluto thrice (once in Cancer and twice in Leo) and trine the North Node thrice (twice in Leo and once in Cancer).

This switchover between signs is especially important here. While Mars is moving backward between Cancer and Leo, Pluto is entering Aquarius for good, and our lunar nodes are switching from the Aries-Libra axis to Pisces-Virgo. This is part of a greater story evolving throughout 2025 as both Neptune and Uranus will also change signs. We can see that the cosmic pause of this Mars retrograde is likely necessary because everyone on Earth is undergoing a drastic shift in energy. We need the space to realign, even if it doesn’t fit our perfectly crafted 5-year plan.

If you aren’t where you thought you’d be during this Mars retrograde, know you are right on time. Pay attention to what is going on around you and discern if perhaps it is where you are meant to be and you just haven’t realized it yet.

Some big changes may be in order; there is no denying that. But holding on (the immature Mars in the Cancer specialty) doesn’t really keep things the same, even when we want it to.

If you want to do magic to help with this retrograde, I would encourage work around Pathfinding and Discernment. When the roads fade away, you may need to pave your own or hedge-trim your way through life until the way becomes clear.

The Details

10/04 – Mars enters its pre-retrograde shadow 17° Cancer 10/06 – Mercury in Libra square Mars in Cancer 10/08 – Venus in Scorpio trine Mars in Cancer 10/13 – Mars in Cancer trine Chiron in Aries (1) 10/14 – Sun in Libra square Mars in Cancer 10/25 – Mars in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus (1) 10/28 – Mars in Cancer trine retrograde Neptune in Pisces (1) 11/2 – Mercury in Scorpio trine Mars in Cancer 11/3 – Mars enters Leo, Mars in Leo opposed Pluto in Aquarius (1) 11/17 – Mars in Leo trine North Node in Aries (1) 11/27 – Sun in Sagittarius trine Mars in Leo 12/06 – Mars retrogrades 06° Leo 12/12 – Venus in Aquarius opposed retrograde Mars in Leo 01/02/25 – retrograde Mars in Leo trine North Node in Aries (2) 01/03 – retrograde Mars in Leo opposed Pluto in Aquarius (2) 01/06 – retrograde Mars enters Cancer 01/12 – retrograde Mars trine Neptune in Pisces (2) 01/15 – Sun in Capricorn opposed retrograde Mars in Cancer 01/23 -Mercury in Capricorn opposed retrograde Mars in Cancer, retrograde Mars sextile Uranus in Taurus (2) 01/25 – Venus in Pisces trine retrograde Mars in Cancer 2/3 – retrograde Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (2) 2/9 – retrograde Mars in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces (1) 2/23 – Mars stations direct 17° Cancer, Mercury in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer 2/26 – Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (3) 3/08 – Sun in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer 4/4 – Mars in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus (3), Mars in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces (2) 4/6 – retrograde Venus in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer 4/8 – Mars in Cancer trine North Node in Pisces (3) 4/18 – Mars enters Leo 4/19 – Mars in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (3) 4/20 – Sun in Taurus square Mars in Leo 4/26 – Mars in Leo opposed Pluto in Aquarius (03) 5/02 – Mars exits its post-retrograde shadow 06 Leo

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2025 Forecast

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast's 2025 Forecast, hosted by Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock. Saddle up, it's a long one!

Overview

This year's forecast is divided into an overview of big planetary shifts and a chronological breakdown, but it doesn't go quarter-by-quarter like in previous years.

Outer Planet Shifts

It's quite rare that such slow-moving planets as Neptune, Uranus and Pluto* all enter new signs in the same year (*Pluto has already ingressed to Aquarius after transiting Capricorn for the past 16 years, but this is the first full year he'll spend in Aquarius). Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018, and Neptune first ingressed to Pisces in 2011. Thus we are seeing major shifts happening all at the same time. These represent major cultural and social changes. In personal charts, this concludes activity in other parts of our charts and begins focus in a new area.

Pluto in Aquarius (November 2024 (final ingress) - January 2044)

Chris has been connecting this to cryptocurrency (Bitcoin started under Pluto in Capricorn) and AI stories, such as Google & other companies rolling out livechats. He predicts that robots, especially humanoid ones, will he ubiquitous in everyday life by the end of Pluto in Aquarius, though Austin is skeptical as to how evenly distributed technological advancements will be. Jobs and labor will surely be affected by the increasing digitization of different industries. Everyone's trying to hitch a ride on the AI train, but it'll take a major scandal before we see regulations put in place or see just how it'll integrate into society. We'll have to train our eyes to recognize the artificially generated, and we'll also have to deal with inefficient bureaucracy that technology alone can't quite fix. In mundane developments, even though the US was founded under Pluto in Capricorn, most of the government structure were put into place under Pluto in Aquarius. Last time Pluto was in Aquarius was the French Revolution (opposite Leo, the fixed signs of sovereigns and heads of state). The current Pluto in Leo generation (baby boomers) were raised definitively in the area of the celebrity, an issue that will likely come into question in the years ahead.

Uranus in Gemini (July 2025 - May 2033)

Uranus trines Pluto during this transit, so these two planets' themes are closely tied over the next decade. Previous Uranus in Gemini periods include the revolutionary war/founding of the USA, its Civil War, and WW2. Term limits were pushed and set under this transit with Washington & FDR; 84 years previous to the founding of the US John Locke wrote his ideas on government. Continuing on the theme of liberal democracy, the King James Bible was published under Uranus in Gemini in the 1600s--an attempt to democratize religion and encourage readers to have their own individual relationship with the text. Uranus was discovered during a Gemini transit in 1781, and was almost named "George" after the King of Britain. In general Uranus in Gemini brings particularly forward-thinking ideas while in Mercury-ruled signs. We should expect to see continued developments in AI controversies and LLMs (large language models), and the role of language overall. We can also expect shakeups in transportation, with technologies like self-driving cars and drones expanding in transportation, war, and everyday life. The burgeoning dominance of electric vehicles space travel are also likely previews into the Uranus in Gemini era, and we can look out for major developments in the realm of social media as well.

Neptune in Aries (March 2025 - March 2039)

Neptune's 165-year cycle means it changes sign about once every 14 years. The last Aries transit was in 1861-1875, and the ingress coincides exactly with US Civil War: Fort Sumter fell the day it ingressed. Neptune gives us dream-logic for its time, trends that are often only clear in retrospect. Austin describes the Neptune in Pisces era as valorizing qualities like acceptance & inclusivity, where the heroic figure of the time is a compassionate mystic/saintly. He predicts Neptune in Aries will valorize "the heroic." Where once suddenly everyone was an astrologer or witch, now, suddenly we're all soldiers/warriors. (This played out literally as mass conscription in the US Civil War & in England in previous Aries Neptune periods.) This period also saw developments in photography, namely war photography in newspapers bringing the goriness of war into every home. Civil War photos were originally shot in 3D and meant to be experienced through viewers, and the first color photo was taken 05/17/1861 when Neptune was at 1Aries, bringing levels of heightened realism and simulation into the conversation. Neptune in Aries faces us with forks in the road--no half measures.

Neptune in Aries can indicate wars remembered for their ideology, as was the case with the Taiping Revolt/Rebllion's bloody conclusion during Neptune in Aries (begun in Pisces). One of the deadliest wars in history (cost at least 20-30 million lives), it was instigated because of an extremist Christian religion. In medical astrology Mars-Neptune contacts can indicate autoimmune diseases where the body attacks itself, and the mundane analogy here is internal conflicts. In antiquity, the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE occurred during Neptune in Aries, Pluto in Aquarius, and the eclipse points moving from Aries/Libra to Virgo/Pisces (all configurations we'll see in 2025). This is considered a catalyzing event for the subsequent Jewish diaspora over the following centuries, as well as the shift from centralized worship to Rabbinic Judaism. In science & engineering, the steam engine, dynamite, first underground railway, Suez canal, mechanical submarine, and the concept of light as EM radiation via Maxwell equations all came about during Neptune in Aries periods.

Saturn in Aries Saturn is entering Aries from May to September this year and will be copresent with/conjoining Neptune over the next three years. Saturn is in fall in Aries, highlighting tensions between patience and impulsivity. We can also expect prominent figures to fall from grace, such as during our last Saturn in Aries in the late 1990s with the scandal around Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinksy. In personal charts, Saturn in Aries people will often chalk up their difficulties to "not trying hard enough," when really it may just be a matter of timing and patience. Famous Aries Saturn people include skater Tony Hawk, daredevil Evel Knievel, directors Francis Ford Coppola and Lily Wachawski, witch-hunting politician McCarthy, writer Margaret Atwood, actresses Zendaya and Lucy Lawless, and activist Malala Yousafzai.

Saturn Conjunct Neptune Saturn and Neptune will get within 1 degree of each other this year, though we don't get an exact conjunction til 2026. We've been seeing the buildup of this since Saturn entered Pisces in March 2023. What's real and bounded, and what's illusory and pervasive? This tension between illusions & structures likely means we'll see increased distrust in authority, such as the public doubting what's reported in news stories or fake news sparking major conflicts, and Chris predicts increasing polarization between aggressive skeptics and religious fundamentalists. Austin uses the analogy of the Mad Max: Furiosa movie--everyone is trying to conscript you to come fight with them for water. Austin notes that Saturn-Neptune contacts punctuate major events in recent Russian history, including the founding of St. Petersburg and the dissolution of the USSR. He also brings up the historical example of ronin, rogue samuari who had some public support as vigilantes, and compares it to Luigi Mangione's alleged assassination of the United Healthcare CEO, saying the public reaction to this event is a prediction of things to come.

Chronological Breakdown

Mars Retrograde: December 2024 and January 2025

We enter the year with Mars retrograde in Leo (opposite Pluto) and moving to Cancer on January 6th, and only getting to Leo on April 17th. This makes an extended transit through those two signs. Observationally, Mars is actually brightest and closest to Earth during its retrogrades, rising as the Sun sets, making him hyper-visible and much more reactive & chaotic than Venus & Mercury retrogrades. And indeed Mars's station on December 6th saw a bunch of major events: an attempted coup in South Korea, the Assad regime falling in Syria, a healthcare CEO assassinated in the US, a contested election in Romania, and the French government collapsing through a no-confidence vote.

Back to 2025, though: Mars entering Cancer on the 6th hearkens back to his last visit to the sign, September 4th-November 3rd of 2024. Events, both mundane and personal, will come back to us during this time. In politics we saw a lot of nativism and racism in US politics while Trump was campaigning, and unfortunately this is likely to resurface. Concerns over homelands & origin showed up in celebrity news with controversy over the New Orleans Superbowl booking Los Angeles-based rapper Kendrick Lamar over NoLa native Lil Wayne.

Mars is in fall in Cancer, and with Saturn in Aries later we get both malefics in fall this year. The trap of Cancer Mars is "nothing's safe enough," while that of Aries Saturn is "nothing is under enough control," and we must be on our toes to avoid falling into either. Mars in Cancer is reactive and impulsive, in contrast to the Saturnian discipline & foresight that Capricorn grants it in exaltation. In personal charts Mars rx in Cancer/Leo can show up as obstacles or frustration, or as an extended expenditure of energy in that area. Retrogrades can also bring things or people back into your life, and how you handle the situation sets you up for the next time you meet.

January 2025

We enter the month with retrograde Mars opposing Pluto on the 3rd and regressing to Cancer on the 6th. On January 15th we get the exact opposition of Mars to the Sun, days after the Full Moon, so that's another time to watch out for in events. The US presidential inaguration is on Jaunary 20th under a Sun-Pluto conjunction.

Electional chart for January:

The chart is for January 10th, at roughly 9:30AM local time to get early Pisces rising. The ruler of the Ascendant, Jupiter, is in the 4th house (♊) in a day chart and makes an auspicious conjunction to the Moon, who herself is separating from a square to Venus (♓). Venus is also exalted in the first house & on the Ascendant. This is also about as far away as we can get from the Mars-Pluto opposition while also avoiding the Sun-Mars opposition later this month. This is good for 4th house matters: not only home and family, but also matters where you're important but not visible, like a director.

Overall, January and February are dominated by the Mars retrograde, a "not so calm" before the storm of springtime.

March & April Venus goes retrograde on March 1st, regressing into Pisces before stationing direct on April 12th. Meanwhile, on March 29th we get an Aries solar eclipse, the final installation in a series going back to October 2023. The next day, March 30th, Neptune waltzes into Aries for the first time in a century. Meanwhile Mercury retrogrades from March 15th until April 7th, backtracking into Pisces while doing so. And if that wasn't enough, Saturn moves into Aries on May 24th. March & April are like a series of cascade reactions, and we'll spend the rest of the year (or few years in the case of Saturn) reacting to, cleaning up the aftermath of, and wrestling with understanding what happened. We'll definitely see major geopolitical events, maybe with bizarre connections, all the while thinking things are going in one direction when they're really going another.

Venus & Mercury Retrograde; Eclipses

Venus's station points are felt most intensely, but like with the Mars retrograde we also experience this as an extended transit of Venus through the signs of Aries and Pisces from January to June. Her retrograde also comes just 5 days after Mars concludes his own. Chris predicts that, unlike the Leo Venus rx a couple summers ago, there may be more fighting around women's issues rather than straightforward celebration. In Aries we already expecting a more combative expression of Venusian issues, and the increased activity in Aries only intensifies this prediction. Venus in Aries is not quiet--she's bold, active, and direct. In personal charts we'll see returns of events from 8, 16, or 32 years ago (last time she was retrograde in Aries), reviewing and revising relationships in the present. What and who do we want? Do we still want that? Under Venus rx we look for an unambiguous "yes." We can also see delays or postponements, scandals, and provocative art & culture. We'll be going back and forth between an exalted, compassionate Venus and a forthright, exiled Venus, choosing between the two on any given day and trying to reconcile them.

With Venus retrograde we can also think of the myth of Inanna (a story based off the Venus rx cycle), who descends through gates of the underworld and returns home to find her consort has taken the throne before she takes it back. We'll likely see stories about women in powerful positions reclaiming something after going through a struggle as Venus stations direct in her sign of exaltation. Specifically, she stations direct on April 13th conjunct Saturn (ironically another signature of Trump's upcoming inauguration), with Mercury retrograde also in Aries & Pisces at the same time. Both these planets are passing over Neptune in late Pisces as well: sometimes we have a lovely, dreamy vision that turns out to be terribly disappointing. Venus and Mercury will both cross Neptune three times, in both Aries and Pisces.

Mercury stations at 0Aries on March 29th, the same day as the solar eclipse, and switches signs with Neptune (leaving Pisces) the next day. The culminating eclipse is marred by miscommunications and illusions. As the last installment of a series begun in October 2023, this eclipse will definitely see developments in Israel's wars on other countries in the region. More generally, in mundane astrology North Node solar eclipses in Aries have coincided with the assassinations of heads of states & movements, as well as the eclipsing/stepping down of leaders...yet another signature of changing/threatened leadership in 2025.

In the middle of March we also get our first Virgo eclipse of this series, corresponding to the September eclipse in Pisces. We'll revisit the areas again in September with a Pisces and Virgo eclipse. The barrier between Aries/Pisces and Virgo/Libra sees a lot of activity in the first half of 2025. We'll definitely remember this year for the crazy Aries activity, though Austin predicts it'll come back to haunt us in 2026.

May-June-July Saturn enters Aries on May 24th, creeping up on Neptune and getting within a degree of him by July (~13th-14th), and then stationing retrograde. An outer planet's first station in a new sign signals what to expect, and Saturn and Neptune both do so in July (on the 13th and 4th respectively). From May 24th to September 1st we have Neptune and Saturn very close to each other and retrograding. Uranus enters Gemini on the 7th.

Jupiter in Cancer He enters in June of 2025, staying there until June of 2026. In this sign of his exaltation, he'll be counterbalancing some of the crazier transits of this year. He's also doing cleanup after Mar's messy transits earlier this year in the Cancer parts of our charts. Jupiter is a little folksy in Cancer--he's not just lavishing the wealthy, but is generous to everyday people as well. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was enacted during Jupiter in Cancer in 2013-14 (a Jupiter under attack!), bringing important healthcare considerations to this placement (A/N: Cancer as a sign of nurturing and protection). In July of 1990 during Jupiter & Venus in Cancer, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed. Chris is wary of being too optimistic, but hopes that something good in healthcare is coming forward. This transit is a Jupiter return (every ~12 years) for the US Sibly chart, and also the repetition of a longer 83-year cycle where he hits the same degree on the same day--the third one since the US's founding, making this an especially potent Jupiter return. You'll notice that's only one year off from Uranus cycles, so we'll definitely see further reevaluations of the US's founding this year.

Generally, exalted planets represent someone at the highest level of their field, and Jupiter in Cancer is a sort of "get rich slow" planet. Success is cultivated, grown, and encouraged. In June & July Jupiter will square Saturn, though, a configuration that corresponds to financial and economic crashes. Jupiter in Gemini saw tech company crashes, but in a new sign we'll likely see new industries affected.

July & August: Outer Planet Teamup

Uranus enters Gemini on July 7th, the last of the slow outer planets to ingress to his new sign. From then til October 21st, we have the rare and powerful influence of several outer planets teamed up: Uranus sextiling Saturn & Neptune and trining Pluto (meaning Saturn & Neptune also sextile Pluto). This is a sort of pilot episode previewing what'll happen when they return in 2026. These planets shift from feminine water/earth signs to masculine air/fire signs, and each outer planet (except Pluto) will retrograde into his preceding sign in October & November, giving us a break from the teamup of big players for a bit. Mars in Libra will aspect all of these outer planets in August, making the configuration especially active then.

September - Eclipse Season Last September we saw our first Pisces eclipse of this series, and we'll have had another development with the first Virgo eclipse in March. Now we're firmly in Virgo-Pisces eclipses for the next 2 years. The September 7th and 21st eclipses will have us think about the big picture vs. granular details--how can we hold them in unison? The major endings & beginnings brought by eclipses are further punctuated by Saturn regressing back into Pisces on September 1st. Maybe a last set of upgrades need to be put in place in our Pisces area, though now our Virgo house is tied in as well.

October, November, December Neptune returns to Pisces October 22nd, Uranus to Taurus on November 7th, and Saturn stations direct for his last pass through Pisces on November 27th. A new chapter of our lives has begun, but we need to do a final check-in before things reach completion. The outer planet demolition team will be back on April 25th, 2026, where it'll stay until 2032-33. Neptune will station in Pisces on December 10th, another important Pisces turning point. Jupiter stationing in Cancer on November 11th is the cherry on top for the year ending where it began (but not to stay!). We end 2025 coming full circle on our sort of last look backwards before plunging for good into new--though not entirely unknown--territory.

[sheeeetux11]

Astrology (Short x Sweet) 🍯✨• 2230

Full Moon in Cancer 23° 🌕♋️ Jan 13, 2025

Cathartic. Enlightening. Inner Balance. 🤍

A Powerful Full Moon 🌕 to kick off the year with. Mars in Rx & Full Moon in Cancer join forces to Oppose the Sun in Capricorn & Pluto in Aquarius. The Mars Pluto Opposition intensifies, along with the Lilith Chiron Opposition. Deep Inner Crisis can be a possibility. Internal frustrations bubble up to the surface. 🦀 Repressed anger can lead to conflicts, some that can make/break relationships once & for all.

Delays, disappointments & rejections can be very hard to rationalize & deal with, especially if you have been feeling held back or blocked from your true potential & ambitions. Themes of family/home & career ambitions can clash. 🐥 Your personal security can seem compromised, career/public image prospects may feel shaken, causing major imbalance.

Clarity after catharsis. This 🌕 will transform your views on personal/professional success along with your spiritual outlook on life. Closing out old patterns & cycles of handling tense emotional situations, conflicts of interest and personal disappointments. 🦁 New approach to dealing with life’s responsibilities on all levels. Taking on bigger roles and stepping into your power, becoming the authority of your own life.

Find healthy coping mechanisms to managing your anger, stress, anxiety, fear & disappointments. Believe, Affirm & Align. Adapt to the Newness. You’ve already walked through the threshold of your New Awakening. 🦋

[popstrologize]

PUT ME OUT OF MY SUFFERING GODDDDDD

[soulhealingastrologywithamanda]

Your Cosmic Week Ahead Big shifts coming April 21-27! 💎 Monday: A fated reality check 🔥 Wednesday: Comfort vs. tension 🌹 Thursday: Relationship truths surface 🌑 Sunday: Powerful Taurus New Moon [Read Now] for: *A 3-minute Mars-Pluto ritual * Journal prompts *New Moon tools

[siderealmaven]

Saturn entering Sidereal Pisces + Mars return to sidereal Cancer feels like driving a car that is slowly running out of gas. And instead of pulling over, you just ignore it and tell yourself you have enough to get where you need to go. (Plot twist: you do not.)

[yuriinullification]

T-plus seven weeks

[cosmiccannibalcamille]

Mars Retrograde in Leo Horoscope

What: Mars Retrograde in Leo

When: Dec. 6, 2024 - Jan. 6, 2025

Who’s Impacted: EVERYONE, but esp. Fixed signs & Fire signs.

Takeaway: the planet of courage, motivation, and conflict backpedals through the confident Lion, encouraging a reexamination of our energies, confidence, and self-assertion.

Mars Retrograde in Leo highlights where your pride, ego, and assertiveness (or lack thereof) might be getting in the way of your personal growth.

If you are a Leo, Aries, or Scorpio, or you have significant placements in Leo, particularly the Moon, Mars, or Ascendant (#me), then you probably already know this is a significant transit for you. Even if you’re not a Leo, or you don’t have any Leo placements, you might already be noticing a shift in your physical energy, moving from ra-ra motivation and supercharged passion to…fatigue, lethargy, and/or disinterest; or maybe your energy levels feel good, but the pace of life, the speed at which things are happening, are frustratingly slow.

That’s the thing about Mars in Leo: this transit and chart placement wants what it wants when it wants it, and it has a tremendous strength of will to make that happen...Mars in Leo puts forth an enormous amount of focused, fervent effort towards a goal and expects to get it, to achieve it, to receive applause and a bright Gold Star for it simply because Mars in Leo willed it so.

But during Mars Retrograde, strength of will, passion, and self-confidence get put on pause. Instead of forcefully forging ahead—ie: passionately pouncing on goals like a lion in the jungle—you’re encouraged to rewind, reflect, and refine your why. Why are you chasing that goal? Why are you putting so much effort, energy, concentration, or creativity into that relationship? That project? That career path?

I write about this in my 2025 Astrology Guide, but the mission of Mars in Leo is to align your ambition and actions with the true desires of your heart. It sounds a bit woo-woo and cheesy, I know, but Leo actually rules the heart. So, Leo is driven by the desires of the heart, and finds motivation when pursuing a goal that leads to something more than just praise and attention.

Get the FULL SCOOP on 2024 Mars Retrograde in Leo (including horoscopes for your Sun / Rising sign) on The Cosmic Almanac:

[lemoncholy-stars]

end of camp and i might cry

[futurefatum]

Kala Sarpa Yoga from Mar 29–Jul 28, 2025 signals a fated transformation. Darkness before rebirth. #Astrology #Destiny #SpiritualAwakening

[astromeena]

Mars Transit in Cancer from 3 April 2025 to 7 June 2025 – Affected

[elminx]

We Need To Talk About Mars

Mars has been retrograde for about a month. Retrograde Mars is about to re-enter Cancer, the sign of its exile, from the back end.

But wait, there's more!

Mars will also be out of bounds for the next three months. (until 4/7, to be exact)

What does this all mean?!?

I get that astrological terms are a lot.

Let's start with retrograde, which most of you probably have somewhat of an understanding of. Due to how the Earth and Mars are moving around the Sun currently, it looks to the human eye as if Mars is moving backward through the signs rather than forward as it usually does.

Retrograde reverses the typical energetics of the planet. This can be read universally (all Mars retrogrades have a certain feel) or by the sign Mars currently inhabits (in this case, Mars in Leo and Mars in Cancer).

All Mars retrogrades slow down outward input of energy and action, as those are the domains of Mars. We must review and readjust how we will get what we want during the typical Mars retrograde cycle. Mars energy can be viewed as unreliable during this time - it is cosmically "Out to Lunch."

Cancer, the cardinal water sign, is the sign of Mars' exile. This means astrologically that Cancer is the opposite sign of Capricorn, the sign of Mars' exaltation. Mars wants to move forward, always working towards the next goal or achievement, but the sign of the crabs moves in a sideways motion, zigzagging half-hazardly towards their goals. This is energy similar to Mars in retrograde as it also slows down and obstructs the natural energy of Mars.

Now, on top of these 2 points against Mars, it has also moved out of bounds. This is a matter of declination, the angular distance (North or South) of the equator. Our Sun's farther-most Northern point is indicated as 23°27'N (The Tropic of Cancer), and its Southern point is 23°27'S (The Tropic of Capricorn) - this is considered the influence of the Sun - where the Sun can reach. When a planet goes out of bounds, it moves beyond 23°27'. It moves beyond the reach of the Sun.

The Sun is the soul's light- the seat of consciousness. What the Sun can't reach, we cannot control. An out-of-bounds planet often feels like having a planet stuck deep in the 12th house of the unconscious.

This is thrice indicative of lack of action, or, at least, inability to control or understand our actions.

This isn't meant to be scare tacticy - this is intended to create a base level of understanding as to what is happening within our own heads AND what's happening in the world around us. I would expect "work" to get even more bogged down than it is already. I would expect tempers to be at an all-time high. I would expect anger, dysregulation, and some amount of violence from the people who can't slow down or stop.

This is a Cosmic "Pause" with a hint of "Rewind" mixed in there for good measure. The big flex right now is to look at what you're doing and try to stay conscious of why and how you are going about your life. Adjustments right now are strongly encouraged.

I know it's the time of year when everyone is told to make resolutions to start over, but Mars is not in alignment with this thrice over. I'm not trying to discourage you because today is ALWAYS a good day to start over; I just want people to understand that it will be slow going.

Nothing will likely feel easy until these multiple Mars deficiencies change.

Mars stations direct on 2/23. Mars moves below 23°27' on 4/7. Mars exits Cancer on 4/18.

As you can see, this is a long-haul transit, so don't waste your gas in fighting it all now. Slow and steady (with plenty of patience) is the gold standard for managing this transit.

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[saturniandevil]

April 2025 Important Dates

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast's April forecast. This month's forecast notes are a little late, due in no small part to the eclipse at the end of March--Chris and Austin wanted to record as far away from the eclipse as they could for electional & mundane reasons, and I in turn was too busy to sit down and take notes on the 31st itself or the following week! As such I'll be skipping the March recap for this month (interested parties can watch the video linked above).

We entered the month fresh off the Aries eclipse, with its effects lasting into around the 5th of the month. The energy of major endings and beginnings in our lives is strongly in effect. Neptune has also just entered Aries after about 14 years in Pisces. Here's a visualization of "eclipse season" below:

April 4th - Saturn sextile Uranus Experimental Uranus and careful Saturn rarely work together well, but a sextile might be the perfect aspect to help us balance new endeavors with what's tried and true. Mercury and Venus's stations next week in late Pisces will reactivate this sextile as well.

April 7th - Retrograde Venus opposes Saturn, Mercury stations direct Mercury and Venus have started stationing direct and have just barely begun to be visible after sunrise (after they were being obscured by the eclipse!). Venus will emerge from the underworld to a place of power in her sign of exaltation, while Mercury isn't in as good shape--Pisces is their fall and exile, so if communications clear it's still a lot of work. Austin says Mercury "returns from the underworld confused and hungover to a bunch of weird emails."

April 12th - Full Moon in Libra, Venus stations direct The first lunation after eclipses will really start to bring things back to normal, especially with Venus going direct into a place of power in her exaltation. With Venus ruling the Moon, things should be set up for going forward and healing, but Mars in Cancer is still throwing a tantrum in the background, firing some warning shots before he enters Leo. Here's the chart:

April 16th - Mercury enters Aries

April 17th - Mercury conjunct Neptune

April 18th - Mars enters Leo Mars was last here back in the fall before retrograding into Cancer and bringing a cranky, childish, conservative mess to us the last few months. Mars in Leo brings us show masculinity and bravado, as well as bravery and showmanship. It can be admirable or obnoxious, depending on what you've got to show...Mars just gives you the energy! Mars stationed at 06 Leo before beginning this retrograde, so we'll be revisiting events as he retraces his steps through his post-retrograde shadow (which ends on May 1st). Cancer placements will be happy to know we're finally getting to the end of this Mars retrograde cycle:

April 19th - Sun enters Taurus This launches us into an upcoming T-square with the Sun (♉), Mars (♌), and Pluto (♒), further lighting up and complicating the Mars-Pluto energy elaborated below (April 26th).

April 20th - Sun square Mars

April 23rd - Sun square Pluto

April 24th - Venus conjunct Saturn

April 26th - Mars opposite Pluto Mars opposed Pluto right before the US election, the second pass around the new US Congress sworn in and the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas & New Orleans (as well as the possible source of the LA fires) on New Year's Eve/Day, and this upcoming transit is the third of the series. Mars's violence is amplified out of proportion by Pluto, giving us senseless violence and annihilation. We'll already start feeling this when Mars enters Pluto on the 18th...

Mars-Pluto makes us very aware of and irritated by power dynamics, both overt and subtle, real and imagined.

April 27th - New Moon in Taurus

The Moon getting involved further intensifies the Mars-Sun-Pluto T-square discussed above, though within a few days this starts to separate and the intensity fades.

April 30th - Venus enters Aries Venus is finally passing the last of her post-retrograde shadows, with Mercury completely clear and Mars well on his way out. April is the time to wrap up all of this unfinished business. Venus and Mars retrogrades give us big resets for the next year and change ahead.

[sheeeetux11]

「 Lilith in ♎️ Opposing Chiron in ♈️, squaring Mars & 🌕 in ♋️ with ☀️ in Capricorn 」 i.e., making a Grand Cross in the Astrological Sky. 🪽

Yea, horrific atrocities that were once covered up will have no choice but to be held accountable.

Sorry but, Govts & communities across the 🌍 will have to remember, Pluto in ♒️ & Uranus in ♉️ are directly involved in this Grand Cross, there is no escape.

When people wake up to unite for Justice, everyone will be held accountable, no society, community, institution or govt can try to close a lid on Injustice. Divine Truth will Prevail, always, bringing Divine Justice. 🐲