The Year Ahead

my thoughts about 2025 and its game changing astrology

This is an extract from my article in the new The Dark Half Journal to purchase a copy click here

As you have probably seen, the next few months is an exciting time for astrology, a lot of big changes are happening in our world. I will try to avoid the sensationalism and the pitfalls I have seen on social media both exaggerating and frightening people as to what these events mean. The main changes are with the Transpersonal planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto so these are generational shifts which may or may not affect us personally depending on our own horoscope. The effects may be positive or negative depending on how we negotiate change and which energies and lessons these planets represent to us. Astrology is so fascinating because it works on so many levels, how things pan out depends to a great degree on what level we operate at.

What do I mean by that? How conscious we are of our own inner dynamics, how we respond to issues like power, letting go, love, creativity, dreams, obsessions, money and the hidden and the taboo. We are not, in other words, helpless in these situations, our behaviour determines our experience.

The first big change is Pluto, which has been in Capricorn for over twenty years. It has now changed signs from hardworking, responsible, paternalistic Capricorn to Aquarius which is an air sign. In traditional astrology both Capricorn and Aquarius are ruled by Saturn, the former the feminine, the later the masculine expression of the planet. People tend to wax lyrical about the quirkiness of Aquarius, but Saturn is there too. Aquarians are airheads often, but with their feet on the ground, they promote their unusual or revolutionary ideas in the world in order to transform it. Examples include Germaine Greer, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker and Angela Davis. They are revolutionaries through words, each one using language, Air, to express their radical views and at the same time, embodying their vision in the world, Saturn grounds them in other words. Aquarians are in there getting involved, putting their ideas and vision into reality.

Aquarius is about the collective, rather than ‘the big man’ of Capricorn. Aquarius wants everyone to share in their consciousness raising, but they can be just as dictatorial to dissenters, you are either in or out with Aquarius, they are few shades of grey here.

How might that show? Increased awareness of our mutual dependency, the internet and social media have started the ball rolling, but it has become lost in a morass of toxicity and filth. AI is another, newer expression of Aquarius’ love of technology. Like the internet and social media, it is a neutral resource, it depends on how we choose to use it. Certainly, technology can be used to control people, China with its social capital control of things like plane tickets and shops, denying access to them to citizens deemed ‘anti-social’ is a darker expression of this. Along with the collective is the fierce individualism of Aquarius. They will do it their way irrespective of how everyone else behaves. They have a vision, a mission, things to do and no one and nothing will stand in their way.

Of course, this new Pluto age appears as we tip into climate catastrophe and the threat of endless war, which, incidentally, may be seen as the selfishness of Capricorn, who has to control everything. Aquarius is more logical and less crushing, there may well be wriggle room to improve and change ‘the system’ another Capricorn word. Capricorn loves to have everything in it place and to know where they are in the pecking order, they respect hierarchies. This does not appeal to the Aquarian, who both wants to bring everyone with them, while at the same time to be outside looking in. This would be enough change in an ordinary year, but later on Neptune also changes signs. It has been in mystical, dreamy, confused and creative Pisces since 2011, so thirteen years.

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