Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Aquarius for the entire year of 2025. All right, so my horoscopes are designed primarily for those that have either their Sun sign in Aquarius or especially your rising sign in Aquarius. And I'm gonna give a big picture overview of some of the major transits that are gonna happen and major themes for you over the course of the next 12 months.
So let’s jump right into it. So here’s the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year, and it shows how there’s some clusters of planets in different sectors of your chart over the next 12 months. So these are some of the major transits I'm gonna be talking about over the course of the next - of this video, and I'm gonna go through them roughly in this sequence.
And here is a slide that lists some dates if you wanna go back and refer to that later for more specifics on some of the time frames involved on each of these transits. All right, so let’s jump into the first transit I wanted to talk about which we open the year with, which is the Mars retrograde that’s happening in your 7th house of relationships and your 6th house of work and health. So Mars just went retrograde in December of 2024 at the very end of the year here.
It slowed down, and it did a u-turn in your 7th house of relationships, and then in early 2025, Mars is gonna move back into your 6th house of work and health. So especially for those of you with day charts, this can be kind of a challenging transit where it can kick up some dust and there can be some challenges or some strife or conflict that arise in the sphere of relationships with other people, whether it’s either romantic relationships or close one-on-one business partnerships. You could find yourself at this time having some significant fights that arise or some significant tensions, and in some instances, this can lead to a severing or a cutting off of certain relationships in your life at this time.
So sometimes that doesn’t have to be like, the worst case scenario; sometimes it can be necessary. But other times, it can just indicate a period of significant conflict. So one of the things that I always recommend is to exercise caution during this time when it comes to getting in fights, especially with close one-on-one relationships in your life, because sometimes what you think is just a minor little argument can sometimes snowball and turn into a much larger conflict during this time if you’re not careful.
So that’s some of the energy that we move into the year with, and then Mars retrogrades back into your 6th house of work and health, and that can sometimes bring up some issues of conflict in the workplace. There can be some challenges that arise for you at work or you could get into some fights with people at work, especially if you find yourself in any sort of managerial position where you have somebody working for you. There could be more conflict with somebody in that position at this time.
It’s also a good period - it’s a good time to take care of your health and to be extra cautious when it comes to health matters, especially in the first four months of this year while Mars is moving through Cancer, because sometimes there can be health issues that arise that we have to deal with at this time. So it’s good not to take additional like, chances or risks with our health during this period, because sometimes Mars can lead us to like, impulsiveness or lead to having a lot of energy in this area of our life. But sometimes that can lead us to not think ahead or to do something risky that could have some sort of negative health implication if we’re not careful.
So dealing with health matters, trying to manage things in terms of work and health, and finally because Mars is retrograding from your 7th house of relationships into your 6th house of work and health, it’s possible that this transit could connect together those two seemingly separate areas of your life at this time and show some sort of crossover between like, relationships affecting your health or relationships and partnership affecting your work or something like that. So pay attention to those potential crossovers. That’s gonna be especially the case during the first four months of the year, but really, Mars is not finished with this sector until like, June or something like that.
So it’s really the first half of the year that this transit is in effect with greater or lesser intensity at different points. So the good news, though, is that starting in the entire second half of the year starting in June, Jupiter’s gonna move into Cancer and into your 6th house of work and health. So whatever dust Mars kicks up in this area of our life in the first especially four months of the year, Jupiter’s gonna come in and just sweep things up.
It’s gonna improve things with respect to our health, with respect to our work, and other 6th house topics. So this looks like actually a very excellent time for work and health where whatever strife or difficulties or obstacles or conflicts come up earlier in the year will probably be resolved in the second half of the year. And things in some instances may be better than they ever were before once Jupiter goes into that sector of our chart, and that’s gonna last for the entire second half of the year all the way into the first half of 2026.
So it’s a very positive transit for improving your health, getting more healthy. If you’ve had health issues in the past, like, potentially finding some resolution or something that actually helps bring some relief or fixes certain things. There’s a lot of really good potential there.
And similarly, at work, if you were having some issues at work, the 6th house when Jupiter goes through it is often a period where things are going well at work, where you find like, a good job, especially if there was a break earlier in the year, and just generally a period of hope and optimism and success in that area of your life. So that’s super good. All right, so moving on.
The next set of transits - there’s a cluster of like, three different transits that are all taking place this year around your 3rd house of communication, siblings, extended relatives, neighbors, community, and short distance travel. So the 3rd house covers a lot of things; I did like, a whole seven hour episode on the 3rd house not too long ago showing all the different things that it covers. And for you for some reason this area of your chart is very activated this year in 2025.
So the first thing that’s happening is that the last eclipse is gonna take place in Aries in your 3rd house in the springtime around March and April. And this is the last eclipse of a series of eclipses that have been taking place there over the course of the past year since about late 2023, basically, we started having our first eclipses in Aries and Libra. So the keywords that I use for this, for eclipses, is major beginnings and major endings.
So some of this, because this is the last eclipse, this may be the culmination of a series of major changes and a series of major beginnings and endings that have been happening in your 3rd house of communication over the course of the past 12 months. So you may be learning how to communicate differently at this time. There may be something about your communication style that’s been going through some significant changes.
And this is finally gonna see the end result of that at this point once we get this last eclipse in Aries. Sometimes there can also be some issues with like, siblings where either they’re going through some major changes or there’s something about your relationship with them that’s going through significant changes. That’s also true for relationships, interactions with your neighbors or your neighborhood in general, and other things like that.
So what’s weird about this is that’s like, one of the transits that’s happening in your 3rd house starting in the spring. But there’s a bunch of other transits too. So one of them is that Saturn and Neptune not too long after this are going to enter into Aries and move into your 3rd house where they’re gonna form an almost exact conjunction this summer.
So during the entire middle part of 2025, a lot of the energy is this Saturn-Neptune conjunction that forms in your 3rd house of communication. So that’s gonna be one of the major signatures of this year. And Saturn when it goes into the 3rd house can sometimes indicate that there’s some restructuring or some surmountable difficulties that arise with respect to the topics of communication, of mobility, of siblings and neighbors.
That there’s some sort of issues that arise in this area of your life that force you to deal with them and to try to fix things to whatever extent that you can. So sometimes when Saturn goes into that area, there can be a feeling of like, coldness or distance that starts to develop in your relationship with some of the 3rd house people in your life. So if you have siblings, there could be some sort of like, distance with your siblings that starts to arise at this time for some reason.
This could also be the case with extended relatives or especially with neighbors. And while it sounds weird to bring up the topic of neighbors sometimes because that’s usually not like, a major facet of most people’s lives, sometimes when issues come up with neighbors or when there’s relationships that become strained, it can become very notable in your life because then it’s like, something that’s usually in the background and is not relevant or significant suddenly becomes more relevant because it’s something that you’re having to deal with. So being careful to manage those relationships so that they don’t fray and don’t cause you additional issues if you exercise restraint and caution would be good advice at this time.
All right, so Saturn’s going into your 3rd house. This is gonna be an initial preview of a three year long transit of Saturn through your 3rd house starting in 2025, so it’s something that’s gonna play out over a long term. But it’s going into your 3rd house at roughly the same time that Neptune goes into your 3rd house right around the time that that eclipse takes place in the spring.
So Neptune entering your 3rd house is a much more long term like, decade long transit. And what’s tricky about Neptune going into the 3rd house is that normally the 3rd house represents communication and how we communicate what we think and believe to the world and how effectively we do it. And Neptune, though, is this nebulous planet that tends to bring a sense of like, cloudiness or a lack of clarity to whatever area it moves into.
So with Neptune moving into your 3rd house of communication, there’s something coming up here about a lack of clarity in communication that starts to arise in your life at this time for some reason. And since that’s also coinciding with like, Saturn moving into the 3rd house and some challenges or restrictions to communication, there’s something very interesting here that’s going on that will be important to pay attention to, especially this summer when those two planets get very close to a conjunction in this sector of your chart. So on the one hand, Saturn tends to make us want to be overly focused on reality and on like, the cold hard facts, the cold hard truth.
Whereas Neptune will pull us in an opposite direction of making us want to focus on things that are more idealistic, things that are sometimes like, more metaphysical or sort of like spiritual or religious or philosophical. And sometimes Neptune can cause us to be not very grounded in reality, or sometimes disconnected from it entirely. And there’s something about this basic tension between Saturn and Neptune that’s really gonna play out in your 3rd house of communication, and you’re probably gonna go back and forth between one or the other and being overly realistic to the point of pessimistic in your communication style to on the other hand being overly idealistic and maybe not fully grounded in reality in your communication style during this time.
So I think you’ll probably swing back and forth, but one of the goals for you should be to achieve some sort of balance or moderation between those two extremes in your life to whatever extent you can. And this summer is really gonna be the first test of that where some of those things will arise within you as well as in your external circumstances that’ll force you to have to like, contend with those two opposing energies. So it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out and what that presents itself as.
All right, so if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Venus retrograde transit that starts in the spring that happens in the spring that starts in your 3rd house of communication and then retrogrades back into your 2nd house of finances. So with Venus retrograde in the 3rd house, sometimes that can bring people from your past back into your life, and sometimes it can lead to reconciliations with people from your past where relationships may have separated or may have faded for some reason. So because it’s a retrograde in your 3rd house, I would think that that could have to do with like, reconciling with siblings, with extended relatives like aunts or uncles or cousins, with neighbors or people from your neighborhood, which can sometimes include friends - like, friends you grew up with in your local community or your local neighborhood can suddenly come back into your life for some reason.
So that’s gonna start in your 3rd house of communication and neighbors and everything else, and then it’s gonna retrograde back into your 2nd house of finances. So this may cause you to rethink or have to retool some things financially, but especially for those of you with night charts I think this should actually be a very positive transit for financial matters with Venus going through your 2nd house and then stationing direct there in Pisces. And that actually brings us into the next transit that I wanted to talk about, the next major shift in 2025, which is that the eclipses are shifting into your 2nd house and 8th house axis, which is the financial sector of your chart.
So at its core, this means that there’s gonna be some major beginnings and major endings when it comes to financial matters in your life at this time. So this probably already started and started to accelerate last year in 2024 when we had our first eclipse in the sign of Pisces in September. There was an eclipse there, and also Saturn has been transiting through your 2nd house, which in the best case scenario is forcing you to put more structure and more work into financial matters in your life.
But in the worst case scenario it can also sometimes bring up some challenges and some surmountable difficulties when it comes to finances in your life. In September time frame, I would have expected that to have been more prominent - September through November of 2024. And that’s one of the good things about Saturn moving into Aries is it’s gonna start to depart from your financial sector, which will probably lead to an alleviation or resolving of some of the issues and some of the slowness that Saturn probably brought to your 2nd house of finances since early 2023, since March of 2023 when it entered that sign.
So eclipses happening here, though, indicates a period of major focus and major activity and major beginnings and major endingings. So there may be something about financial matters where you’re starting to take your finances more seriously where you are trying new things, and you may have a new development in your life where you start playing with the topic of money and finance and possessions and doing something new with it that sets a new foundation in your life. So this 2nd house set of eclipses is tied in with an 8th house set of eclipses which the 8th house represents other people’s money in your life in general.
So that can pertain to topics like taxes, debt, inheritance, also investing can be a major topic - like, this can be a period where you get into investing or the role of like, investing or having your money managed or you managing the money of other people can become more relevant. The 8th house is also the house of shared resources with your partner, either a romantic partner or a business partner. So there may be some major changes and major beginnings and endings happening with respect to their finances which then impact your finances in some way, either directly or indirectly.
And part of the theme of this set of eclipses is showing how your finances are not independent from those of other people, but how somehow those two areas of your life are interconnected in some way. So that’s something that will start in the springtime of 2025 when we get the first eclipse in Virgo, but it really gets going in September of 2025 when we have our first full set of eclipses in Virgo and Pisces, which is your 2nd and 8th house. So really pay attention to what’s happening in the financial sector around that time in September, because you’ll probably see some major changes start to take place.
All right, so the very last transit that I wanted to talk about today is that Uranus is departing from your 4th house of home and family and living situation where it’s been transiting since 2018, which has probably been coinciding with some major pretty radical shifts in terms of your home and living situation and in terms of your relationship with your parents to some extent. And now Uranus is moving into your 5th house of children. The 5th house also represents sex and sexuality.
It also represents fun and games and leisurely activities and the role that hobbies and other things like that play in your life. And with Uranus moving into this house, usually Uranus is the planet that brings sudden and rapid change that sometimes happens unexpectedly, and sometimes brings things or moves things in a new direction very quickly, because Uranus also always does things super fast. So there’s gonna be some major shake ups in this area of your life somehow starting in 2025 where in July of 2025, Uranus goes into Gemini and into your 5th house for the first time.
But this is part of a seven year long transit that’s gonna shake up this part of your life over the course of the next, like, most of the next decade through the early 2030s. So this is not something that will necessarily happen overnight, but I think it’s gonna be really important to pay attention to any changes that start taking place in your 5th house starting in July of 2025 because they could be a preview of a longer term shift that’s gonna radically transform your life in this area in some ways. So sometimes there can be issues of like, freedom and like, liberation and wanting to get rid of some restrictions that you feel like have been put on you in this area of your life up to this point.
For those of you that don’t have children, sometimes this can bring children unexpectedly. For those of you with children, sometimes there’s something going on in your children’s life where maybe they’re being a little bit, they have more of an urge for like, freedom or for, you know, being a little bit less restrained than they were up to this point, and sometimes that can feel like they’re going through changes really quickly or being somewhat erratic. But ultimately, that’ll be like, a phase in their life that will be for the best.
It can also be a period in which things about your orientation towards sex and sexuality can change, and there could be some additional excitement in this area of your life. There could be some innovation where you start doing things differently for some reason, or start looking at that area of your life differently for some reason in a way that’s radically different than what you had done up to this point. And especially if you feel like there’s been any restrictions or anything’s holding you back in that area up to this point, you may find yourself wanting to get rid of those just in order to be free and in order to find and be your most authentic self.
The last area is just games and hobbies where sometimes that sounds like a minor area of the person’s life that shouldn’t be important, but sometimes having a hobby or having something that you do for fun and enjoyment and pleasure can actually be the things that make life enjoyable and make life worth living sometimes for some people when other things in a person’s life are not going as well. So there may be some sort of new hobby or new activity or new pastime that you get into that you find really exciting and that you start focusing on a lot more at this time. And it could have some sort of broader transformative effect on your life that ultimately is liberating and is ultimately good.
So that’s something to pay attention to as well when Uranus goes into your 5th house in the second half of 2025, and then Uranus will come back and dip back into Taurus next year I think in 2026 for a last transit through your 4th house of home and family, but then eventually in like, a year or two, Uranus will just be like, fully into your 5th house. So the second half of 2025 is just the initial preview of that, but it should be an initial preview where you’ll start seeing some changes happening already right at the beginning of that transit. So pay attention to it and keep an eye out for it, because that’s a big transit that lasts for seven years, and there could be some really good things that come with it.
All right. I think that’s it for this forecast. So those are the major things I wanted to focus on and tell you about for 2025.
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