On both the romantic and relationship fronts there are two distinct but overlapping chapters. The first is the ordinary planetary activity, which on the romantic front will run from Mars' return to your romantic sector on 17th June to Venus' departure on 14th October. On the relationship front, this will run from Mars' return to your relationship sector on 22nd September to Mercury's departure on 25th December. Before that, it will be a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 14th March and another in your relationship sector on 13th May that will give both a boost. However, in addition, there are some larger and overlapping themes in play.

The first is on the relationship front, where you not only begin the year with the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships in your relationship sector but even when she leaves on 20th February, she will retrograde back in again from 15th April to 1st October. When Juno returned last November, it was for the first time in four years and with the Sun here at the time, she has stayed on to help keep your relationships on track. Juno will still be here when Mars returns to your relationship sector on 22nd September, with a chance for the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos to take over from there. Meanwhile, it is the Full Moon in your romantic sector on 14th March that holds a clue to what is happening on the romantic front.

This is a Full Moon that will always fall halfway between the Sun's last visit to your romantic sector and the next and at the least active point in the year on the romantic front, this is designed to give matters of the heart a boost. However, this will be no ordinary Full Moon but a total lunar eclipse, which can only happen when a Full Moon falls close to one of the lunar nodes. In this case, the South Node, whose return on 12th January will also turn a New Moon on 22nd September into a solar eclipse. This will be the second of two ordinary New Moons, with the first on 23rd August and just after the Sun's return. The South Node is here until July 2025, with more eclipses next year and with the element of fate now in play.