Because the Sun will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always going to be on matters of the heart and all things romantic as you move into the New Year. This year there is going to be less focus on matters of the heart and more on your relationships. Partly because Pluto, who had been in your romantic sector since 2008 left in November 2024 and won't be back again in our lifetime, though not before forever changing your romantic expectations. Once the Sun leaves your romantic sector on 20th January and Mercury, who will return on 8th January to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page leaves on 28th January, apart from the Moon's monthly visits, this will end all planetary activity on the romantic front until Mars returns on 15th December.

However, with Mars then here until January 2026, the Sun always returning just before Christmas and Venus, the planet of love on Christmas Day, this is one year when the love gods will be saving the best till last. However, while the planetary focus on matters of the heart and all things romantic is contained to the early and final weeks of the year, it is a different story on the relationship front. While Saturn, who returned to your relationship sector in 2023 and Neptune, who returned in 2012 won't leave for good until early 2026, they will both begin to transition out this year. After nearly 12 years Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams will leave your relationship sector on 31st March, though will retrograde back in to tie up loose ends on 22nd October, before leaving for good and not returning again in our lifetime in January 2026.

Saturn, the hard taskmaster of the cosmos and the planet that is all about personal responsibility will leave on 25th May, retrograding back in on 1st February before he leaves in February 2026, not to return for another three decades. Helping with this transition will be Venus and Mercury, with the planets of love and communication both doing the same. Venus will return on 3rd January but will retrograde back out on 4th February, returning for a do over from 27th March to 1st May. Mercury, the planet of communication will return on 15th February and while he will leave on 3rd March, he will retrograde back in for a do over from 30th March to 16th April. This is a year of transition and the year that could define all your relationships moving forward.