Year Ahead 2025 Horoscope: Aries

In 2025, the celestial spotlight is on you.

On March 1st, Venus — the planet of creativity, connectivity, and pleasure — stations retrograde, prompting you to rewire your self-confidence and your relationship with your radiance. Reworking your self-care rituals and how you tend to your physical vessel will reignite your inner pilot light if your glow has been dimmed. The key to making the most of this review period? Clarifying what gives you energy and what depletes it. This is a potent moment to reinforce your trust in the signals your system sends you. And when the planetary creatrix ducks into dreamy Pisces on March 27th, weaving more lovely space-out time into your schedule will help you access subterranean truths and desires that surface only in your solitary hours. Vision-board your next era and the latest version of your persona with gusto, but consider holding off on getting that outrageous back tattoo until Venus goes direct on April 12th.

Neptune — the planet of idealism, spirituality, and delusion — offers you a crystal ball for your personal world upon entering Aries on March 30th20th, the beginning of an ethereal self-reinvention period that will last until 2039. Because this is a longer-term transit, its effects will likely play out gradually over time. But pay attention this year to the thinning of the veils between you and the world. Practice treating your body as a wise tuning fork, capable of picking up subtle impressions from your environment. And if your sense of self sometimes feels malleable or shapeless, like soft clay, get creative with your newly fluid ego. Opportunities for gentle regeneration await. 

Then Saturn — the planetary rulemaker — enters Aries on May 24th, kicking off a two-and-a-half-year crash course on honoring your limitations. Learning how to establish fierce but compassionate boundaries will help you protect the vibrancy you’ve cultivated in your inner world and cut ties with those who drain your vitality. Energy vampires, begone. 

Saturn transits can be grueling at times, but their struggles serve a purpose: holding us accountable for our aspirations. Saturn thrives when we create structure and work toward our highest aims, even — perhaps especially — when it’s difficult to do so. Committing to consistent, healthy habits and positive self-affirmations can help you stay on track. If your self-esteem wavers during this period, know that your doubts are temporary. These dips are meant to teach you how to build a relationship with the part of yourself, deep within, that remains securely anchored amid the endlessly shifting weather of emotions. A word of advice: Resist giving in to competitive instincts during Saturn’s stint here. What others appear to be achieving has nothing to do with your own development. You’re not here to win a race against anyone. You’re just here to grow.

This year, self-focus isn’t self-absorption; it opens a portal to all that you have to offer your community. Turn inward before you manifest outward. The talents and capacities you unearth in your own private universe have the power to create bold transformations in the world around you.

On March 1st, Venus — the planet of creativity, connectivity, and pleasure — stations retrograde, prompting you to rewire your self-confidence and your relationship with your radiance. Reworking your self-care rituals and how you tend to your physical vessel will reignite your inner pilot light if your glow has been dimmed. The key to making the most of this review period? Clarifying what gives you energy and what depletes it. This is a potent moment to reinforce your trust in the signals your system sends you. And when the planetary creatrix ducks into dreamy Pisces on March 27th, weaving more lovely space-out time into your schedule will help you access subterranean truths and desires that surface only in your solitary hours. Vision-board your next era and the latest version of your persona with gusto, but consider holding off on getting that outrageous back tattoo until Venus goes direct on April 12th.

Neptune — the planet of idealism, spirituality, and delusion — offers you a crystal ball for your personal world upon entering Aries on March 30th, the beginning of an ethereal self-reinvention period that will last until 2039. Because this is a longer-term transit, its effects will likely play out gradually over time. But pay attention this year to the thinning of the veils between you and the world. Practice treating your body as a wise tuning fork, capable of picking up subtle impressions from your environment. And if your sense of self sometimes feels malleable or shapeless, like soft clay, get creative with your newly fluid ego. Opportunities for gentle regeneration await. 

Then Saturn — the planetary rulemaker — enters Aries on May 24th, kicking off a two-and-a-half-year crash course on honoring your limitations. Learning how to establish fierce but compassionate boundaries will help you protect the vibrancy you’ve cultivated in your inner world and cut ties with those who drain your vitality. Energy vampires, begone.

Saturn transits can be grueling at times, but their struggles serve a purpose: holding us accountable for our aspirations. Saturn thrives when we create structure and work toward our highest aims, even — perhaps especially — when it’s difficult to do so. Committing to consistent, healthy habits and positive self-affirmations can help you stay on track. If your self-esteem wavers during this period, know that your doubts are temporary. These dips are meant to teach you how to build a relationship with the part of yourself, deep within, that remains securely anchored amid the endlessly shifting weather of emotions. A word of advice: Resist giving in to competitive instincts during Saturn’s stint here. What others appear to be achieving has nothing to do with your own development. You’re not here to win a race against anyone. You’re just here to grow.

This year, self-focus isn’t self-absorption; it opens a portal to all that you have to offer your community. Turn inward before you manifest outward. The talents and capacities you unearth in your own private universe have the power to create bold transformations in the world around you.

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