Astrological preview for 2025

Since October 2024 and noticeable until mid-May 2025
Mars retrograde – opposing Pluto and Chiron.  

What do I really want?
Chiron hurts and heals, Mars acts and pursues goals, Pluto flushes the subconscious to the surface and stands for the powerful in the collective. These months are intense and healing, also because they are confrontational.

Experiences, often also interpersonal ones, prompt us to reflect on issues of power and powerlessness and serve as preparation for the coming summer months and years.

But old world orders that are dissolving also encourage you to re-tune your values, your motivation and your will. This process helps you to be able to act with more clarity and a heightened awareness.
What really drives you – what motivates you inside to say: ‘I want this from the bottom of my heart and I will do anything to achieve it.’
These processes can teach you to remain focussed and authentic within a strong external dynamic.
This is important so that you can use the quantum leap of the coming years as a source of strength for your personal development. 

Self-care and resistance
Mars also controls your immune system. Anger, frustration or insecurity can trigger weaknesses and inflammation in the first five months of the year. A lot of unconscious and repressed issues are likely to be flushed to the surface by spring so that they can be understood and healed. However, don’t let the external chaos become your inner chaos but tidy up your inner self.

Invest in your inner health and your immune system, strengthen yourself on all levels of your being and learn to distance yourself from external influences. 

Those who take time out in the first few months of the year will sail in the full wind of planetary energies.
What annoys or frustrates you – what makes you feel powerless or small?

Such feelings often go back to early imprints and conditioning. We repeat these different forms and manifestations throughout our lives – until we can fully understand them.
An essential healing process takes place via the emotions. If we cleanse our hearts, our family history – we can find acceptance and peace. When we find our way out of the karmic revolving door, we can access our inner sources of strength. It makes us strong, free and compassionate. 

If you are born in Taurus, Scorpio, Leo or Aquarius or have 0 to 5 degrees of these signs, planets or the Ascendant, you will feel the strong Mars energies more directly in the first months of the year.
Cancer of the last decade will also feel the strong Mars more strongly from 7 January to mid-April, and the Leos of the first decade until 7 January and then again from mid-April to the beginning of May.
31 March 2025 – Spring 2026 – Neptune as new ruler – realistic visions of freedom 

Humanity is on the verge of comprehensive changes to its cultural values, its collective ideals and dreams and also to its consciousness.
NEPTUNE has the meaning of water, including floods, the incomprehensible, the soul and dreams. It stands for creativity (including music and art), it also rules over addictions, as well as longings and utopias. It shows the expression of human intuition – which is changing.
Neptune moves into Aries on 31 March, where it will remain until 2038. He is followed by the realist Saturn on 26 May. Together they move repeatedly to 0 degrees Aries until 2026 – on ‘the cosmic rift’. It is the beginning of the zodiac, which corresponds to the concrete beginning of something new. It also marks the point where dreams and matter meet, just as Neptune stands for dreams and utopias, Saturn for matter and Aries for assertion and struggle. The conjunction will be exact to the degree in February 2026, but because it is so powerful, it is already active.

The most recent example of this is the fall of Bashar Al-Assad on 8 December. If we go back even further, we see that many popular uprisings, revolutions and the overthrow of tyrants go hand in hand with the Saturn-Neptune cycle. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, we also had a conjunction of the two planets.
We can therefore assume that old systems will come to an end in order to make room for new utopias and possibilities. The balancing act between utopia and feasibility will be at the forefront. 

The strong fire- air- and water energy will also shown in climatic terms. What we have already experienced may become even more pronounced: further warming of the world’s oceans, floods, but also drought and strong winds, as well as lava flows.   

Individual correspondence: Live your values!
In a state of dissolution and new organization, many things may feel unstable and uncertain. At the same time, however, this also offers great creative opportunities for renewal.
As the energies become more subtle, consciousness also changes. People become more medial and inspired, but also more motivated to live their values consistently and passionately.
It is now also much easier for you to leave old things behind!
Your personal horoscope will show you how these new and powerful impulses of inspiration want to materialize in your life. What idealistic goals do you want to realize? How well do you find your balance between ideal and reality, between freedom and responsibility?

7 July 2025 to 3032, Uranus in Gemini – In the rush of information
The second important, long-term energy change is made by another giant of our solar system. On 8 July, the revolutionary and visionary Uranus moves from earthy Taurus into airy Gemini for eight years. The spirit of Uranus is free, ingenious, courageous, universal, future-orientated, experimental, creative, untamable, intelligent but also stubborn. Uranus, as lord of the sky, feels at home in Gemini because the mentally mobile element of air predominates there.
This quality has a highly technological effect, opens up our perception and therefore has a significant influence on society.
Technological developments such as AI, quantum computers, blockchain technology and humanoid robots will become even more present. Findings from space travel and outer space will convey an unprecedented view of the world in relation to humans and the cosmos.
This will also change social coexistence and, in particular, our everyday routines. There will be fundamental reforms in medicine, education, mobility and means of communication. 

You can benefit personally from the agile ‘spirits of the air’: 

The visionary spirit, coupled with pronounced creativity, gives you ingenious ideas, lets you dream more freely and anew and leads to new projects. You can express yourself more clearly and directly, which also refines your telepathic abilities.
Information-disinformation and collective manipulation
With the Air Epoch, we will be inundated with information. In this jungle, we need a stable inner foundation, healthy everyday structures, sharpened perception and good discernment more than ever in order to recognize even more clearly what is good for us and where we are invited to set ourselves apart.
Information, digital networks and data are considered the new gold in the new age. Disinformation has always existed. Because of global networks, disinformation, and the collective manipulation often associated with it, will be more pronounced than ever before.
The marketing and advertising strategies of companies are also increasingly reluctant to use even more subtle methods to capture people, especially children, in the wake of AI & Co.
It is important to be mindful and protect children. Instead, allow children to have real experiences – also to channel their strong creative and telepathic abilities in a healthy direction.

The air and fire signs are breaking new ground:
If you are a Libra, Gemini, Aquarius or Leo, Aries or Sagittarius on the first degrees of the sign, or if you have your Ascendant there, then you will perceive and experience what is happening as powerful, creative energy and liberation. You can expect an exciting year that can bring surprising twists and turns. 

I sincerely wish you magical moments for this dark time of year. For the new year, I hope you can free yourself from old baggage and then have the courage and confidence to realize your dreams.

15 December 2024, Bettina Bettini