Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of every year in your work sector, the solar spotlight is not only always on your work situation, job matters and options as you move into the New Year, but this will provide the illusion that it is business as usual. It might not be until near the end of January that you will realise how much things have changed, with the need to always have on your foot on the gas or always feeling like you have to reinvent the wheel gone. Instead, with a chance to take the trainer wheels off and instead do things on your own. It was towards the end of November 2024 that after 16 years Pluto, the planet of change, transformation and rebellion and a planet that is partial to drama and a bit of chaos every now and then, finally left. However, because the year always begins with the Sun here this might not be immediately apparent.

Especially with Mercury returning from 8th January to 28th January with a chance to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open. However, with the Sun leaving on 20th January, it is when Mercury leaves that your work sector will be empty and apart from the Moon's monthly visits, it will remain empty until Mars returns on 15th December to fire things up again. Apart from a few months in early 2023, this is the first time since 2007 that there hasn't been continuous planetary activity on the job front all year, with a chance to finally take your foot off the gas. If there is one criticism that you could put on this year in terms of work and job matters, is that compared to the past things could be a bit boring, but in the best possible sense of the word. You have graduated and can now continue the journey on your own, without the drama or chaos.

There are also changes on the career front with Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected starting to transition out of your career sector. Uranus won't finally leave, not to return again for another eight decades until April 2026, but he will leave on 7th July before retrograding back in on 8th November to tie up loose ends. This will give the Sun, Venus and Mercury time to return before Uranus leaves and as he will be in his final months by then, this is when after being here since 2019 a lot of things will fall into place. A lack of planetary activity on the job front will be a chance to pivot to the wider career landscape when the Sun moves through your career sector from 20th April to 21st May, Mercury from 11th May to 26th May and Venus from 6th July to 5th July. Venus will leave just two days before Uranus leaves on 7th July, with the two able to bring the laws of attraction and synchronicity together in those final weeks.