Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships from the start. As you move into 2025 there will be a mix of the expected and the unexpected. The expected is that the solar spotlight is on your relationships and will be until the Sun leaves on 20th January. Not so much expected but not unusual is that while Venus, the planet of love moved through late last year and is no longer here, her influence can still be felt, giving you a sense of what you want from your relationships from the start. With Venus not returning again until Christmas Day, this is something that needs to be held onto.

Held back by a retrograde phase Mercury was late to return to your relationship sector last year and will instead return from 8th January to 28th January in order to do what as the planet of communication he does best. Meanwhile, the unexpected is what is missing, as for the first time since 2008 you move into the New Year without Pluto, the planet of change, transformation and rebellion here. Pluto left in November 2024 and he won't be back again in our lifetime, though after 16 years he has forever changed what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This means that when Mercury leaves your relationship sector on 28th January it will remain empty until Mars returns on 15th December, returning to fire things up a week before the Sun comes full circle on 22nd December.

Mercury won't return to your relationship sector again this year, making these early weeks important for getting the communication lines open. However, with Venus, the planet of love joining the Sun and Mars on 25th December, the year will end with a lot of focus on your relationships. Meanwhile, while you move into 2025 with no planetary activity in your romantic sector and Mars won't return to begin the most romantically charged months of 2025 until 22nd December, this year the love gods have a secret weapon in the form of the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment, who returned for her first visit to your romantic sector in four years in November 2024. While Juno will leave on 20th February, she will retrograde back in again from 15th October to 1st October, giving you the resolve to keep the romantic flame burning.