While the year will begin with Mars in your work sector and Mercury in your career sector, within just eight days both will be gone though in both cases, you won't have to wait as long as you might think for the next lot of activity. There is rarely any planetary activity on the job front at this time of year, so just starting the year with Mars here is an anomaly while Mercury is still in your work sector because he hasn't quite finished a visit that had begun in early November 2024 and had run overtime due to a retrograde phase. Mars will have been in your work sector for two months when he retrogrades back out on 6th January and Mercury will have been in your career sector for two months when he leaves on 8th January. This might leave your two professional houses empty but with a lot to draw on and process.

At the same time, you won't have to wait until the Sun returns to your work sector in July or for it to return to your career sector in November, as he does each year or just rely on the Moon's monthly visits. Career matters will get a boost when the asteroid Juno returns to your career sector on 20th February and while not a major player and her influence is more an internal rather than an external one, as the queen of commitment she can give you a sense of resolve until she leaves on 15th April, returning again from 1st October to 30th December, which will coincide with the most active months of the year on the career front. Work and job matters will get a more substantial boost when once back in direct motion, Mars will return to your work sector on 18th April for a do over, this time spending another three and a half weeks firing things up on the job front before leaving on 17th June.

By the time the Sun returns on 23rd July, the point in each year when the solar spotlight is just starting to shift onto your work situation, job matters and options for the first time each year, a lot of water will have already passed under the bridge. This second chapter and the more typical for this time of year will run from the Sun's return on 23rd July to Venus' departure on 19th September. By the time Mars returns to your career sector on 5th November to fire things up, Mercury will have beat him by just a few days, returning on 30th October to begin the most active months of the year on the career front. By then Juno will be back and you will have her resolve and sense of commitment to draw on. From Mercury's return things will remain active on the career front right through to 2nd January 2026, with November and December the most active months.