Weekly Forecast for December 30 2024 - January 5 2025

Astro-Weather for December 30 2024 - January 5 2025:

Happy New Year! Best wishes to you and yours for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025! 🎇🍾

This week opens up with a New Moon in Capricorn, on Dec, 30 at 2:27 p.m. PST.  If you set New Year resolutions, now is the time!  Yes, it's a couple of days ahead of the new year, but the New Moon is the best time, astrologically.

Just remember that Mars is still retrograde, until Feb. 23 2025.  Until then, it's a better time to strategize for 2025, rather than putting your plans into action. Avoid elective surgeries while Mars is retrograde, and remember that it's a great time to end any lingering conflicts in your life. 

Note that this week, Mars will oppose Pluto. Old resentments and disputes can flare up mid-week.  While it may feel good to let it all out, you could also get locked into a stand-off that emotionally drains you. Take a time-out to avoid the drama.  Remember that Mars retrograde is an excellent time to find your energy leaks - people or situations that drain you of energy.  Energy is currency! Use it wisely. 

Note: the dates in this forecast are for Pacific to Eastern time. 

✨  December 30, 2:27 p.m. PST:  New Moon in Capricorn

How perfect is that! A New Moon just before the start of the new year.  And it's a very powerful one, too. At 9° Capricorn, It's trine Uranus, bringing in the vibe of energizing beginnings.

If you make New Year resolutions, set them today. Just remember that Mars is retrograde until Feb. 23, so plan for your year ahead, but don't set your plans into motion just yet.  Not that they will be unsuccessful if you do! It's just that it might take them a longer period of time to come to fruition. 

It's also a great New Moon for the career-minded. Capricorn rules older age, as well, so if you’re worried about your financial stability in retirement, circle this one on your calendar.

✨   Dec. 31:  Moon in Capricorn makes positive aspects;  Mercury trine Chiron

How nice! Even though the Moon in Capricorn is not the most exuberant, let-me-have-that-glass-of-champagne Moon, it makes positive aspects only on Dec. 31, promising a positive New Year's Eve.

Mercury is trine Chiron, making Dec. 31 a great day to journal about the year you're leaving behind - good AND bad - to promote deep healing.

✨   Jan. 2:  Mars opposite Pluto 

OK, this is not the easiest energy.  It was last active at the end of November, during the presidential election  in the USA.  Because of Mars's retrograde motion, it's now opposing Pluto again. We will experience one more hit of this energy in April 2025.

Mars opposite Pluto can bring power struggles bordering on violence,  Stay away from dark places and volatile people.

You will feel this opposition on a personal level if you have personal planets or angles (Ascendant, Descendant, MC or IC) between 25° Capricorn, Aries, Cancer and Libra, and 5° Aquarius, Taurus, Leo or Scorpio. If that's you, something new may be birthed in your life, but just like giving birth, it can come with pain. But, as with every transformative change, there can be such a wonderful payoff at the end.  If that's you, you may be interested in a reading. 

✨   Jan. 3-5:  Waxing Moon in Pisces

Imagination and intuition are high, especially when the Moon aligns with Neptune on January 5, at  6:30 a.m. PST.   It's a great couple of days for spiritual and artistic pursuits. 

Book a Tarot reading. Work with crystals. Meditate. Or just relax and get an extra hour of sleep if you can! 💤 Your body and soul may need some more rest when the Moon is in Pisces. Listen to it. 

Neptune is at 27 degrees Pisces, finishing its stay in the sign it rules and where its powers are amplified.  It will move into Aires on March 30 2025, and will briefly retrograde into Pisces on October 22 2025. Once it moves back into Aries on Jan. 22 2026, we won't see Neptune in Pisces again in our lifetime! It takes Neptune 165 years to orbit the Sun.

So take full advantage of the times when the Moon is in Pisces and conjunct Neptune.  There is only a handful left of these incredible opportunities to connect with the Divine.

👉 Welcome, 2025!  Four outer planets all change signs, which is a rare and powerful energy shift.  What's more, Saturn and Neptune both move into Aries, forming a super-powerful conjunction that will peak in 2026.  In the past, it brought major changes in world leadership and big ideology shifts. 

There is more!  An equally powerful Uranus-Pluto conjunction is starting to build, Jupiter moves into Cancer mid year and teams up with Saturn - how nice! Will the real estate crisis finally be over? Tune into my webinar,  "Navigating 2025", to find out. 

Pre-recorded in easy-to-view chapters, it will guide you through the key energies of 2025, what to pay attention to, and the auspicious dates of the year for specific pursuits. 

The bonus guide "Best Dates for..." is already posted.  You will be able to access it immediately after you order.  

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