NEPTUNE IN ARIES 2025-2039 On 30 March 2025 Neptune made its first timid entrance into the sign of Aries after being in Pisces since 2011. Neptune then began its annual 5-month retrograde period on 4 July 2025 at 02°10’ Aries (antiscion 27°50’ Virgo) and remained in Aries until 22 October 2025 when it re-entered Pisces once again and has since lingered at 29° Pisces from late October 2025 to 26 January 2026! Giving the best and the worst of its characteristics in this sign. As Neptune now leaves Pisces for good and enters Aries until 2039 it’s all about endings and new beginnings.[...]
AN UNFORTUNATE PREDICTION From my blog in March 2023 about the ingress of Saturn into the sign of Pisces (https://my-sky-pie.com/saturn-enters-pisces-7-march-2023/). Saturn in Pisces could show up in many situations, here’s just a few: Scepticism regarding esoteric and astrological practices could become rife (the infamous Pendle Witch trial was held in 1612 in England when Saturn was in Pisces), to believe, Saturn needs proof of a tangible nature, however, on the flip side with this placement many could begin (again) to search for that tangibility in subjects that in themselves [...]
MERCURY ENTERS AQUARIUS And joins Venus who’s already there… In Aquarius, a sign co-ruled by Saturn (traditional) and Uranus (modern), Mercury is even more thirsty for knowledge, always in search of new ideas and technologies but ready to reject or even abandon them as soon as the new (Uranus) becomes the normal (Saturn). Mercury in Aquarius will give us new visions, make us aware of new possibilities, allow us to envision an ideal world or society, which might be great as a theory, but much less so as a practicality. Aquarius is a fixed Air sign so here Mercury is at home in[...]
OOB NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN On 18 January there will be an OOB New Moon at 28°43’ Capricorn (antiscion 01°17’ Sagittarius). This is the fourth New Moon of six at 28° of the relative signs. Capricorn is a Cardinal, Earth sign, so persons with planets or angles of the natal chart at 24-29° of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra will be particularly affected by this lunation as well as its antiscion point of 1°17’ Sagittarius. New Moons are notoriously the best moment to set fresh intentions for the month ahead and with Capricorn involved, this needs to be done in a very serious,[...]
VENUS ENTERS AQUARIUS The first of three personal planets to enter Aquarius over the next week. After a spell in serious, practical Capricorn, Venus enters the cool, collected and independent sign of Aquarius. In this sign Venus wants the liberty to come and go as it pleases but this doesn’t necessarily mean unfaithfulness, just that equal rights and a seemingly no-strings-attached attitude need to be maintained for relationships to function. It’s the Venus placement par excellence for bed-buddies in a mix-and-match of friends becoming lovers and vice versa since Venus here is [...]
OOB FULL MOON IN CANCER the mooniest Moon….are we too emotional? The OOB Full Moon will occur at 13°01’ Cancer, a Cardinal, Water sign (antiscion 16°59’ Gemini) and will be the first Full Moon of 2026. The most motherly of Moons opposes the sternest and most fatherly of Suns which has OOB Venus on one side and OOB Mars on the other, both combust. OOB Moon is in a wide conjunction with Jupiter R. Capricorn restricts and downsizes, and this could bring out the worst of Cancer characteristics making us retreat into our shells as we cling to the familiar. Let’s remember that [...]
OOB MERCURY MOVES INTO CAPRICORN ….a suddenly serious mood as the year begins Today, OOB Mercury barges out of Sagittarius with the usual bluntness and awkwardness that often characterises his sojourn there and bounces into Capricorn. After fun-loving Sagittarius this will certainly hit him with force, dampening his mood and deepening his thoughts and encouraging all of us to think, plan and talk in a much more serious fashion. Mercury’s first encounter is an opposition aspect with a retrograde Jupiter in Cancer (19°34’) on 14 January whilst the planet is about to return in [...]
VENUS OOB ENTERS CAPRICORN ON 24 DECEMBER 2025 From frivolous and gaudy to self-possessed and distinct. Social propriety and etiquette, at least on a public level, mean a lot to this rather ambitious placement for Venus, less so perhaps in the bedroom, but that is a side that Venus Capricorn would prefer to keep private! Venus’s contours are finely chiselled and with a distinct “no frills attached” attitude in this serious sign. Ambition is often part of the picture too. Venus will remain OOB until 3 January, the wild-card effect could be quite marked during this festive season [...]
OOB NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS ……new beginnings? I wish There will be an OOB New Moon at 28°24’ Sagittarius (antiscion 01°36’ Capricorn) and it will be the third of a series of six consecutive new moons on this degree of the relative signs. One might suppose that with Jupiter being the dispositor of this New Moon things might be on an upward curve after the past two rather intense lunations. A moment of respite and hope after despair. Think again. Jupiter, dispositor of this lunation, is exalted in Cancer where it is now transiting, likened to an honoured guest there, [...]
MARS IS OUT OF BOUNDS (OOB)* AS IT ENTERS CAPRICORN Are you ready for the ride? Mars, having exceeded the Sun’s outermost limit from the celestial equator, finds itself, as from 27 November, out of bounds in a southern direction as it enters Capricorn, the sign of its exaltation. The planet won’t be making or receiving any Ptolemaic aspects until after it has re-entered the bounds so until 07-08 January it will be free to act or misact as it likes since it will have no-one to “play” with! Although high Southern declination does tend to lead to a less open way of acting, more [...]