While it is the early and the latter months of the year that are going to be the most romantically charged, you have not only returned to one of the most important years on the relationship front in your lifetime so far but the start of a new 20 year journey that you have been preparing for since as far back as March 2023. This is when Pluto, the planet of change and transformation returned to your relationship sector for the first time in over 200 years. While Pluto was here for less than three months before retrograding back out again, this is when he began to plant the seeds for change and for real and authentic relationships. Pluto returned again in 2024, this time for seven months before retrograding back out, only to return again on 20th November. This time Pluto is here to stay and not leaving until 2044, there isn't a moment of 2025 or the next 20 years when he won't be there, in the background guarding against complacency.

This is now your new normal, but there will be a lot more focus on your relationships when the Sun and the other planets move through. The year begins with Venus, the planet of love in your relationship sector until 3rd November and with the dwarf planet Ceres, who is making her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years until 24th February. This is when the Sun, returning from 20th January to 18th February to put the solar spotlight on your relationships and Mercury, who will return from 28th January to 15th February to do what as the planet of communication he does best, will take over. Ceres will be the last to leave, with her departure on 24th February leaving Pluto on his own until the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars return in early 2026.

Meanwhile, the year begins with Mercury still in your romantic sector and until leaving on 8th January he will be working to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page. While this should end all planetary activity until the most romantically charged months of the year begin on 30th October and run right through to early 2026, the love gods have a secret weapon up their sleeve. That secret weapon is the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment, who will return for her first visit to your romantic sector in four years on 20th February. Juno will leave on 15th April, but by retrograding back out, which means that when she turns direct, she will return for a do over from 1st October to 30 December, with the resolve to keep the romantic flame burning.