As we enter a new month, the slate is wiped clean and there are endless possibilities for growth. See what’s in store for your relationships, career, and emotions in the month ahead, here’s your January horoscope for 2025.
Capricorn, Dec 22 – Jan 20
As the new year’s sun shines on Capricorn birthday celebrations, you’ll find the fun in fundamentals. Mercury in your strategic, goalsetting sign for the larger part of January engages you in the art of playing the long game: positioning yourself for success by organising, planning and setting up connections to help you thrive in 2025. Practical Capricorn is regarded as the provider sign, and this year’s nodal axis invites you to offer your accumulated experience to the wider community, perhaps passing on your expertise by mentoring or teaching.
Aquarius, Jan 21 – Feb 19
The transiting nodes in astrology outline our journey and progress through life. South node shows our familiar, well-worn operating modes: the been there, done that story. North node directs us to what we can achieve during its 18-month cycle, which for Aquarians begins this January with redefining what values are currently of primary importance. This month really lights up for you in its last days when the celestial trifecta of sun, new moon and Mercury in your sign presses the start button on this year’s undeniably exciting new Aquarian life cycle.
Pisces, Feb 20 – Mar 20
With gracious, graceful Venus beginning this year in your sign, could you be more blessed? Yes, on January 12 when the karmic north node shifts into Pisces: a celestial axis point opening an 18-month portal of planetary support for using your natural talents to do your true work in the world. The south node indicates you’re now moving away from how you’ve been managing relationships, because as Piscean genius Albert Einstein so elegantly observed, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”
Aries, Mar 21 – Apr 21
Featuring responsibilities and authority figures, this month asks you to balance your urge for independence with the need for negotiation and cooperation, and to harness that rebel Aries spirit in support of others and your own best interests. Mars reversing in your base of operations could raise home and family issues, which this year’s nodal axis suggests are best addressed by rejigging your usual approach into something more flexible and empathetic. If mediation and cleaning up behind the scenes are needed, you’re likely to find this surprisingly warm and rewarding.
Taurus, Apr 22 – May 21
Taureans adore stability, but changemaker Uranus backed up in your sign predicts ongoing economic disturbances and the disarray of supply chains. What to do? Venus recommends what comes naturally to your earthy sign: planning your personal and business life according to cyclic and seasonal principles. The zodiac’s south node is turning the page on a new life chapter this January, which requires letting go of an old self-image and the thoughts and behaviours that accompanied it. You are so much more than you thought, so here’s to your latest incarnation.
Gemini, May 22 – Jun 22
Your planet mentor Mercury in highly focused mode for most of this month is spot on for concentrated attention to detail. This could incline the general populace to take things a bit too seriously for your taste, so bring some Gemini spritz to lighten and brighten weighty exchanges. You love changing things up, and mid-January’s south node shift signals that it’s time to ditch stale domestic routines, while north node steers your personal journey for the coming 18 months towards a less heady, more heart-based approach to work and professional interactions.
Cancer, Jun 23 – Jul 23
Antsy planet Mars reversing into your sign in early January needs careful handling. If you’re feeling extra sensitive, be firm with your boundaries. Nurture relationships with people who have your back. Retreat to the security of the Crab cave if you need to. The annual full moon in your domestic sign on January 14 is the year’s best for connecting with family members or posting a tribute on social media to a respected elder. Then lively new moon on January 29 rewards thinking outside the box, staying curious and keeping a wide variety of options open.
Leo, Jul 24 – Aug 23
Retrograde Mars introducing a reflective, introspective start to the year gives you the opportunity to finesse that delicate dance between your need to lead and allowing others to find their shine. January’s pivotal south node shift has the potential to open up possibilities that until now might have been obscured by ideas about what needed to be done, and who needed to do it. This year’s north node placement offers Leos psychological self-development through the process of sharing resources: making inclusive spaces for your audience, patrons, family, friends and community.
Virgo, Aug 24 – Sep 23
This month the zodiac’s astrological south node entering Virgo for the coming year and a half calls a halt to putting others’ needs before your own, and being constantly available as everyone’s problem solver. Directives are even more specific from the celestial north node which highlights a healing road towards partnership renovations and more fulfilling relationships – starting with numero uno. So be extra gentle and kind to yourself as you say goodbye to past versions of yourself, like a snake shedding her old skin for this season’s shiny new look.
Libra, Sep 24 – Oct 23
January’s astrological south node closing the door on whatever has had its day amplifies this month’s full moon reminder that making space around us gives our brains room to breathe. Curated space-arranging is a Libran superpower, so use this celestially-assisted cycle for deleting knick-knack overload. Venus and the north node combine to underline the need for feeding your body, mind and spirit quality nourishment: think order, simplicity, volunteering, charity work and healing walks in nature – the original antidepressant – to clear accumulations of inner clutter.
Scorpio, Oct 24 – Nov 22
The zodiac’s south node moving into your sector of friends and groups announces it is time to review your networks. Which people, plans and projects no longer resonate? Who are the keepers, and how can you tell? You can tell by the tingly taste of aliveness and excitement as you head in the direction indicated by the north node for the coming 18 months. For Scorpios, this direction is towards a creative renaissance in your zone of self-expression, whatever that is for you: a new love, true love, adding to your family, opening your own business … The sky’s the limit.
Sagittarius Nov 23 – Dec 21
With your mentor planet Jupiter retrograde in the Sagittarian heart and partnership zone this month, a focus on caring personal connections will pay off in the form of increased support from others. That said, strategic Mercury recommends easing slowly into new arrangements, and not without a back-up plan. As celestial south node renders your comfort zone of autopilot operating and habitual responses less appealing, north node underlines the importance during the coming year of establishing a calm, stable base and unshakeable inner core in the eye of ongoing existential storms.
