The Astrology of 2025
Written by our resident astrologer Alice Kelpie.
Collective themes for 2025:
Creative Boldness, Embracing Intuition, Courageous Leadership, Adaptation & Advancement
The astrology of 2025 is marked by pivotal planetary shifts, setting the stage for profound change.
With all the outer planets moving signs - joining Pluto, which shifted into Aquarius at the end of 2024 - the influx of new energies encourage emotional expansion, intellectual adaptability, and spiritual exploration.
Below is an overview of the celestial year ahead, its themes, and practical tools to help you navigate its energies.
Tarot card of the year:
The Hermit
The Hermit tarot card (representing the number 9 in numerology) guides us to embrace solitude, seek higher truths and occult knowledge, and step into the unknown with faith and curiosity, cultivating self-awareness and leadership.
These themes offer powerful opportunities for individual and collective evolution.
Numerology:
2025 is a 9 year representing completion, reflection and release.
It marks the end of a cycle. This year is for personal spiritual growth, integrating lessons and preparing ourselves for a new cycle.
Chinese Zodiac:
Year of the Wood Snake
Of course we were excited to discover that 2025 is the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese zodiac. The Year of the Wood Snake begins on January 29, 2025 and will end on February 16, 2026. The snake is the sixth animal in the Chinese zodiac and is associated with wisdom, patience, and mystery. The element of wood adds creativity, flexibility, and growth to the snake's traits.
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Outer Planet Shifts
1. Neptune in Aries (March 30, 2025)
After 14 years in its home sign of Pisces, Neptune, the ruler of spirituality, transitions into fiery Aries. This marks a new chapter of spiritual and creative expression, encouraging experimentation, innovation, and pioneering approaches, pushing us to embrace uncharted territory in personal and collective evolution.
2. Saturn in Aries (May 24, 2025)
Saturn’s entry into Aries emphasizes personal leadership, responsibility, and disciplined action. Aries represents the self, and Saturn’s influence encourages individuals to take charge of their growth, define their goals, and build resilience through structured efforts.
3. Uranus in Gemini (July 7, 2025)
Uranus changes signs for the first time since 2019, revolutionizing communication, learning, and technology. Expect rapid technological advancements and innovative ways of exchanging information. This transit previews the themes of intellectual evolution that will define the Uranus-in-Gemini era.
4. Jupiter in Cancer (June 9, 2025)
Jupiter’s move into Cancer deepens emotional bonds, strengthens family connections, and promotes personal growth related to home and emotional security. This transit highlights themes of nurturing and creating supportive environments for personal and collective growth.
Lunar Nodes & Eclipses in Pisces/Virgo
On January 11th, 2025, the North Node moved into Pisces, and the South Node moved into Virgo, starting an 18-month cycle connecting earthly experiences with our spiritual path
This shift encourages releasing Virgo’s perfectionism to embrace Pisces’ creativity, intuition, mysticism and surrender. The Lunar Nodes, where the Moon’s orbit intersects the Sun’s path, are linked to eclipses, which create powerful transformation portals.
Eclipses amplify the nodal cycle’s themes and can be energetically intense, making them a time for observation rather than action. This axis already experienced a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on September 17, 2024.
In 2025, eclipses on the Pisces-Virgo axis will take place on:
March 13–14, 2025: Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo.
March 29, 2025: Partial Solar Eclipse in Pisces.
September 7, 2025: Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces.
September 21, 2025: Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo.
Inner Planet Retrogrades in 2025
Retrograde periods are a natural part of the astrological cycle, offering opportunities for reflection and introspection. The year begins with Mars still retrograding through Cancer, followed by three Mercury retrogrades and a significant Venus retrograde.
Venus Retrograde (March 1 – April 12): Venus retrogrades through Aries and Pisces, urging reflection on relationships, self-worth, and finances. Aries emphasizes independence and assertiveness, while Pisces fosters spiritual surrender and emotional connection. This retrograde is a time to revisit unresolved dynamics, redefine your values, and explore the spiritual depth of your connections.
Overlapping Retrogrades (March 15 – April 7): During this window, both Venus and Mercury retrograde in Aries and Pisces, amplifying the need for introspection in communication and relationships. It’s a time to review, revise, and release the past. Avoid starting major projects or making significant decisions; instead, focus on tying up loose ends and reassessing priorities.
Ongoing Practices for Integration
Here are some practices to help you integrate the dynamic energies of 2025, which call for adaptability, resourcefulness, and alignment with your higher self:
Creative Expression: Explore your creativity to connect with your inner wisdom. Consider following The Artist’s Way. Practices like writing morning pages or taking yourself on artist dates will help you align with the expansive energies of Jupiter in Cancer and Neptune in Aries. Creativity can also foster innovative thinking, essential during this time of new beginnings.
Grounding Practices: Grounding will be vital with Neptune’s and Uranus’s sign shifts this year, as they influence anxiety and the nervous system. Write a list of nervous system regulation tools that work for you—such as deep breathing, mindful movement, or time in nature—and keep it handy for moments of stress.
Join a Retreat: Considering 2025 is the year of reflection, release and personal spiritual growth, joining a retreat with us couldn’t come at a better time. We have two retreats coming up in 2025 - Soul Medicine in Tulum from the 22nd - 27th February & Wild Goddess in Puerto Vallarta from the 24th - 31st May.
Visualization for Bold Actions: Create a vision board or Pinterest collage to imagine the outcomes you desire. Visualize the steps you’ll take to manifest your goals. Align your efforts with measurable objectives. This practice embodies the bold and disciplined energy of Saturn in Aries.
Daily Journaling: The nodal shift calls for reflection, creativity, and spiritual surrender.
Use journaling prompts such as:
“How can I embrace the flow and surrender to what is?”
“What areas of my life require me to let go of control and trust the process?”
“How can I incorporate more creativity into my day?”
Meditation: A hermit year is an ideal time to commit to a 5–10 minute daily meditation practice, offering space for reflection. This pause will support you during periods of heightened introspection when Mercury and Venus retrograde simultaneously.
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The astrology of 2025 calls us to meet the unfamiliar with grace and curiosity. Through grounding practices, creative exploration, and a willingness to surrender, we can navigate the year’s shifts with resilience.
As old patterns fade, new pathways emerge, inviting us to dance boldly with change and craft a life of inspired possibility.
Uncertainty is always uncomfortable, but learning to be with it will serve us well.
Allow life to unfold this year and reveal its wisdom to you.
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