Your 2025 Horoscope Is Here to Guide the Year Ahead

Your 2025 horoscope can help you manifest the best year yet. The year will be filled with once-in-a-lifetime transits that’ll allow each of the 12 zodiac signs opportunities to upgrade and transform their lives for the better. The year will also bring major shifts for society at large as well as your own career, love, and personal growth. Are you ready for so much change?

Whether you are or not, the astrological transits of 2025 promise a magical year ahead. There will be so many new opportunities for growth and chances to manifest your dreams into reality. With some grit and action, it’s possible to align with these transits: Pluto’s new shift into Aquarius, a powerful set of eclipses, Neptune’s significant shift into Aries, and Uranus stepping into Gemini among them.

The cosmic tides are steering us all toward innovation, courage, and self-discovery. And as the North Node enters Pisces and the South Node sits in Virgo throughout this new year, we may see society as a whole focus on more spiritual growth and the releasing of perfectionist tendencies that hold us back from creating.

Read on for a breakdown of all the major astrological transits of the year ahead as well as a special 2025 horoscope for each zodiac sign. I’ll also share how to best embrace the energies of this year in order to manifest the kind of life you desire.

The Major Astrological Transits of 2025

December 2024-February 2025: Mars Retrograde

We start the new year in the midst of a retrograde in Mars, the planet of action and passion. This retrograde period spans from December 6, 2024 until February 23, 2025 and will dip between Leo and Cancer. You may experience tiredness, a lack of motivation, and a slowed down libido during this time. This is a perfect time to reflect on the areas where you’re causing your own burnout or playing into dynamics that make you feel uninterested about the greater picture. How can you honor your need for rest and relaxation? And can you better align yourself with people, places, and things that make you feel inspired this year and beyond?

January 11: The North Node of Destiny Enters Pisces, South Node of Karma, in Virgo

From the first month of this year until July 2026, we will have the North Node of Destiny in Pisces, leaving the South Node of Karma in its opposite sign of Virgo. This shift will ask us to focus on our spiritual, creative, and compassionate pursuits while releasing our perfectionism, need for control, and overly analytical tendencies in the process. Remember that Pisces rules over dreams and the hidden aspects of life—so the answers you seek may be hiding just underneath the surface or out in the ethers.

March 30: Neptune Enters Aries

Neptune—the planet of spirituality, dreams, intuition, illusions, and magic—will enter into bold, fiery, leader Aries on March 30. This shift will make massive changes to the way music, art, fashion, and our collective dreams are expressed. Charlie XCX’s Brat was ahead of its time, because that same angsty, uncouth energy will flow with us throughout 2025. It’s important to push yourself outside of your comfort zone with what you dream about and share with the world under this transit until it ends in 2039. The next 14 years will favor the members of society that go against the grain and listen to their own inner voice rather than trends and other people’s opinions.

May 4-October 13: Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius

We just had a once-in-a-lifetime shift when Pluto—the outermost planet of destruction, secrets, sex, death, and rebirth—entered into eccentric Aquarius back on November 19, 2024. In 2025, this planet, which tends to be societally impactful, will station retrograde from May 4 until October 13. This will give us all an opportunity for reflection and major collective growth. Old emotions and stories will resurface to give us a chance to heal and accept our past once and for all by looking at it through the lens of the observer (a.k.a. Aquarius). Are you ready to redefine yourself by honoring your past and alchemizing it for a better present?

May 24: Saturn Enters Aries

Saturn, the planet of karma and rules, enters passionate and impactful Aries in May. Those with Aries in their birth chart will be starting their Saturn Return during this time. During this transit, which starts in May 2025 and lasts until 2028 (on and off, with a few retrograde periods), we’ll all feel a pushback around freedom and liberation. To succeed during this transit, we must balance action with responsibility, learn how to assert ourselves with confidence, and simultaneously use discernment with our impulses. Not all risks lead to rewards, but strategic risks will. Remember that during Saturn in Aries this year.

June 9: Jupiter Enters Cancer

Jupiter—the planet of good luck, optimism, expansion, and good fortune—will enter the intuitive and family-oriented sign of Cancer until June 2026. Leaning into generosity and remembering that all people of this earth are family is key during this time. Set healthy boundaries within family dynamics, lean into your intuition, and create a safe environment for yourself to flourish in. We have three homes to tend to in 2025: our bodies, our living spaces, and the earth.

July 7: Uranus Enters Gemini

Uranus is the planet of rebellion, sudden changes, and revolution. When it enters the fast-paced, witty, and connective sign of Gemini on July 7, we’ll have a chance for society to band together and make necessary and sudden changes to systems that have not been working for all. We could see changes in the way our laws, borders, technology, and social media usage function. This may ultimately forge a more effective and connected path forward. This transit will be with us until August 2032.

The Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2025

The Eclipses in 2025 will offer us powerful opportunities for transformation—especially when it comes to our spirituality and creativity. With the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo throughout 2025, the eclipses will play on this axis that reminds us that sometimes the biggest epiphanies come from cleaning out space in our mind, or home, and making way for magic to enter into our lives. Letting go of the past and finding closure is a huge theme for this year’s eclipses.

March 14: Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

This Full Moon eclipse encourages grounding and letting go of our self-critical and controlling tendencies. Focus instead on simplifying your routines and finding balance between productivity and rest.

March 29: Solar Eclipse in Aries

A New Moon partial solar eclipse brings us bold, pioneering energy to take into the rest of the year. This will be an excellent time to set courageous intentions and take risks that align you with your authentic self. No more hiding who you are from the world!

September 7: Lunar Eclipse in Pisces

Emotions run deep with this eclipse and may urge us to release spiritual or emotional burdens that we are still carrying around. Connect instead with creativity, monitor your dreams and their messages, and use your inner voice to find clarity.

September 21: Solar Eclipse in Virgo

Practicality meets renewal. This eclipse will be a great chance to set intentions that help you to refine your goals, organize your life, and improve your well-being without compromising joy. Make your life work for you, first and foremost, under this eclipse.

Mercury Retrograde in 2025

This year, we have three instances of Mercury retrograde—with all dipping into fire signs. This indicates that slowing our communication down, listening better in conversation and arguments, and honoring that not all of our impulses are good ideas is key. Each retrograde has a pre-shadow period, where we build up to the retrograde and feel its effects ahead of time, as well as a post-shadow period after the retrograde has ended in which we’re still descending out of the eye of the storm. A cazimi indicates when Mercury aligns with the sun. This will bring an even more intense moment of reflection and recalibration to the retrograde.

​​Mercury Retrograde Period #1: March 14-April 7

1. Pre-shadow: February 28 (Pisces)
2. Mercury retrograde: March 14 (Aries)
3. Mercury cazimi: March 24 (Aries)
4. Mercury direct: April 7 (Pisces)
5. Mercury post-shadow ends April 26 (Aries)

​​Mercury Retrograde Period #2: July 17-August 11

1. Mercury pre-shadow: June 29 (Leo)
2. Mercury retrograde: July 17 (Leo)
3. Mercury cazimi: July 31 (Leo)
4. Mercury direct: August 11 (Leo)
5. Mercury post-shadow ends August 25 (Leo)

​​Mercury Retrograde Period #3: November 9-November 29

1. Mercury pre-shadow: October 21 (Scorpio)
2. Mercury retrograde: November 9 (Sagittarius)
3. Mercury cazimi: November 20 (Scorpio)
4. Mercury direct: November 29 (Scorpio)
5. Mercury post-shadow ends December 16 (Sagittarius)

2025 Horoscopes

2025 will bring new and exciting opportunities to take risks that can lead to incredible rewards. Fortune favors the bold, and the more outspoken, action-oriented, and aligned you get with your beliefs, the more favored you will be. This year, it’s important to honor the periods of life where you’re asked to take a pause and then motivate yourself when it’s time to take action. Read on below for your sun sign—but pay attention to your rising sign and moon sign as well—for the most accurate insights into how you can manifest your best year yet.

Aries

2025 is a year for bold steps, Aries. When Neptune enters your sign, it may awaken your deepest dreams and prompt you to redefine your purpose. With the solar eclipse in Aries on March 29 and Saturn entering your sign in May, you’ll likely feel a surge of confidence to tackle challenges and manifest big goals. This might be the year that long-term commitments start to take place and level you up in ways that could change the course of your life for the better. So use discernment before saying yes too quickly to anyone or anything.