!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Aquarius Season 2025 !!

Happy 2025, and happy Aquarius season, readers! 

Before we begin, I must apologize, primarily to my Capricorn readers, for my neglect of the previous season’s horoscopes. The holiday season grabbed me by the hair and dragged me into the new year. I spent a lot of time thinking about the irony in how Capricorn season starts during the holidays. A sign about diligence and discipline opening up some of the most gluttonous days of the culture I live in.  This also explains my laziness in getting these horoscopes out, so I thank you for your patience, particularly you Capricorns waiting for your shout-outs.

With that said, these horoscopes are going to focus less on Capricorn (or Aquarius) and more on the astrology of the new year. I’ll still give compliments to Capricorn and Aquarius in your own horoscopes, but I would be remiss to ignore a 2025 update for you all since there is so, so, so much to talk about.

2025 is astrologically unique because after the 2024 movement of Pluto into Aquarius, all of the other outer planets are also changing signs. I’ve been digging around the internet looking for a clue about a time when this last happened, and the only answer I’ve found is 578 BCE from star-loom and even that only has 3 of 5. If you know of another year this has happened, let me know, but it’s mathematically very unlikely: Jupiter changes signs every year, Saturn every 2.5, Uranus 7, Neptune 14, and Pluto 12-30…I’m not good at that kind of math but perhaps if one of you is you can tel me the likelihood of such a thing. Suffice it to say, you don’t need to be an astrologer to remark that the world seems to be changing a lot, and while I firmly believe astrology doesn’t determine our lives, it absolutely describes them very well.

Of the slower moving planets in that bunch, all of them changing from water and earth signs into fire and air signs, this is moving from inaction to action, from emotion into expression, from detail into system. This is astrology about the exposure of things that have previously been hidden, things that have previously been held to be true and inevitable and that might turn out to not be so. The signs getting the bulk of this big action—Aries, Gemini, and Aquarius—are all action oriented signs, and all with a lot of propensity for chaos. I don’t mean chaos in the Internet-speak way that the word has become a substitute for “crazy”; I mean the true unexpected, disordered, and unruly.

These horoscopes will focus on the houses which will be newly occupied for you over the course of 2025. For some of you, the nature of the houses will be at odds with the nature of the sign—such is the complexity of astrology. For all of you, for all of us, I invite us to watch the unfolding events of this coming year with protection, clarity, and hope.

Happy new year,
Amelia

PS: These horoscopes get a bit technical because there’s so much going on: Here is an “astrology for dummies” cheat sheet.

Horoscopes are written using whole house calculations and are meant as inspiration and affirmation. Specific calculations are made for the rising signs, but if you don’t know your rising sign, you can read for your sun. You can access your birth chart at astro.com, café astrology, or many other apps and websites using your birth date, time, and location. You can also find out lots of personal information by booking a reading with me here.

Aries Rising

The major astrological movements of 2025 will see new action in your houses of identity, communication, and community, Aries rising. These houses are, for you, associated with fire and air. They describe the way your nature is expressive, curious, and a bit chaotic. There is a particularly strong emphasis on the movement into houses ruled by air signs: your third and eleventh houses, communication and community. These houses get the longest transits and speak to a new chapter in your life.

What is the relationship between the way you communicate and the company you keep? How does your curious nature show up in your social groups, in the way you interact with many people? These parts of your life could see big changes this year, Aries rising, coupled with Saturn moving into your first house meaning a two-and-a-half year period of personal renewal around discipline and boundaries.

This is excellent astrology for getting serious about yourself and working for what you want. Enjoy it, but work for it.

Taurus Rising

The big planetary movements this year will bring new transits through your houses of the unconscious, resources, and career. This is at once deeply practical and personal: Saturn and Neptune both begin traverses your 12th house which rules your dreams, solitude, mental health, and the unknown. Saturn is practical and disciplined, while Neptune is expansive and spiritual: this is likely to be an important year for your subconscious development.

Meanwhile the parts of your chart about resources and career also receive new transits, meaning your money and work see new cycles starting this year. These cycles are long and will take years to take shape, but with this year starting them off mean you will definitely feel new energy there.

You have the potential to find new ways to make money this year, and while Taurus hates discomfort, you also love your resources, so sit with the discomfort.

Gemini Rising

You get a big astrological transit this year, Gemini, as Uranus starts a new 7 year transit through your sign.  This is astrologically big news and could mean new energy, new ideas, new identity.

Uranus is about change and upheaval, so as the planet hits the exact degrees of your rising sign, you will be in a period of potential for innovation around both your identity but also your one on one relationships. Due to the slow moving nature of the outer planets, this could happen any time between now and 2032 (terrifying to write that number) but the new energy starts this year.

Meanwhile the other major astrological movements invite you to consider your growth and community: how have you changed in relationship to your relationships? What have you outgrown? What have you grown into? This is a great year to consider what and how you want to learn, and to set some plans for new adventures.

Cancer Rising

This year is important for all people with Cancer in a major astrological placement, and for cancer risings opens up a new 12 year cycle of identity (Cancer Suns will have a touch of this energy as well). Think back to 12 years ago: what were you doing? What were you passionate about? How have you changed since then? How have you stayed the same?

It’s important to use this year to consider how you want the next 12 years to go and to use the benevolent energy of Jupiter to set them up how you want. This is also a big year for your personal development with major planetary movements in the parts of your chart that are about intimacy   and the subconscious.

This is a great year for therapeutic practices, self reflection, and opportunities for growth.

Leo Rising

The astrology this year hits has lots of shifts into the part of your chart that are about relationships, Leo rising, so this year has a lot of possibility for changes and focus on your social life. Pluto’s movement into Aquarius is a big transit for all Leos, as Aquarius is your opposing sign, but slow moving Pluto will be in Aquarius until 2043 so there’s a llloonnnnggg time before this plant hits you personally.

This year also opens up the beginning of transformative personal growth, with Neptune (planet of spirituality) moves into your ninth house of expansion. The 9th house rules religion, travel, and higher learning: anything that helps you expand your worldview. With Neptune newly in this area of your chart you are liable to have a new lease on your spiritual side, with a heavy desire to wander.

This is all complementary astrology, Leo, and is also all starting off long transits that will be with you for a long time. Use this year to set the groundwork for the exciting life you want to lead.

Virgo Rising

The astrology this year includes major movement into houses about work and labour, heading up long cycles of transformation in these areas of your life. These transits are long, long, long lasting, between 7 and 18 years long, so it will truly be a cycle of your life to implement these changes.

Since this year is the beginning of both of them, the opportunity to set your intentions for those transformations is strong. Many of the occurrences over these transits will be out of your hands, but you can choose how you react to them. What do you want your day to day work life to look like, Virgo rising? How do you want your career to support you? What do you want to put out to the world and be known for?

Spending some time in deep communication with your closest intimate people will help you come to these realizations, Virgo rising, and this year is a wonderful time to work on that.

Libra Rising

Much of the astrology of this coming year sees a transition into a more extroverted period of astrology following a more introverted time for Libra risings. The parts of your chart about creative expression, relationships, and growth through experience are all getting new visits, and with that comes abundant change to the first and last of those topics.

You could expect sudden new ideas related to your growth that would lead to innovative new ways of thinking – educational choices that are out of left field? An unexpected desire to travel to a new place? New interest in religion or spirituality?

All of these changes are supported by a period of you stepping into your creative power, and experiencing a transformation that, at its best, could be extremely fun, and at its worst, could be a bit dramatic. If nothing else it stands to be exciting!

Scorpio Rising

The coming year features new astrological movement in introverted and contemplative parts of your chart, Scorpio rising. Thankfully Scorpio people are cut out for this, and naturally inclined to do the deep investigations. This year you start a new cycle of this transformation related to your home and family – both the home(s) you grew up in and the house you live in now, and both your family of origin and chosen adult family.

This is a Pluto transit, and Pluto moves very, very slowly, so you don’t worry if you don’t get everything figured out this year as you have until 2043 to work through this. The depth doesn’t end there, Scorpio rising, as you also have the beginnings of good astrology for talk therapy, and for innovative realizations through that therapy.  All of this is held together by some really helpfully discipline and regularity in your day to day life, so you can count on that to keep you together.

I know this probably sounds so intense, Scorpio rising, and I sort of wish I could tell you something more chill, but also, you were very much born for this.

Sagittarius Rising

The astrology shifts this year into expressive sides of your chart relating to the way you interact with the world and your closest people, Sagittarius rising, and with that comes the capacity for transformation.  I’m called to talk about having Saturn in your fifth house starting this year for the next two-and-a-half following it: Saturn is known for discipline, boundaries, and rigidity, and the fifth house is about all the things that make life worth living.

The fifth house rules fun, creative expression, parties, dancing, children, pets…We go to the fifth house when we need to remember why we bother. Sagittarians, on the hedonistic side of things, particularly love this part of life. Saturn in this part of the chart seems like it might be a bit of a downer—who wants ridigidity around fun? But what I think could be useful is a little bit of discipline.

A little bit of creative discipline holding you to your goals, a little bit of discipline preventing you from overdoing parties. This comes alongside transformative and innovative changes to your one-on-one relationships and to the way that you communicate.

You could learn ways of speaking that better express what you mean. This could make people uncomfortable, but this isn’t worth holding back your necessary growth.

Capricorn and Capricorn Rising

Dear Capricorn, I apologize for missing your seasons. A funny fact about Capricorns is that I’ve noticed that when collecting astrology memorabilia, Capricorn is one of the signs you can always find available. I have a very specific ’90s astrology mug collection and I come across the Capricorn mug all the time (my only two missing ones are Libra and Sagittarius – I’m starting to think every Sag mug broke by the year 2000). To me this just helps prove astrology—of course Caprirocns don’t want the mug because Capricorns are less likely to believe in astrology.

This preamble is just to get into saying that of all the signs to act like the fact I missed them would be ok, you are high on the list – but of all the signs for whom it is actually okay, you are very low. You like recognition, you like admiration, and you like accomplishment, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

This year, Capricorn risings have the beginnings of some…very practical astrology. This is kind of a bummer to report, in some ways, because gosh, aren’t you always dealing with the practical? But the parts of your chart seeing major new planetary visits are about your resources, your home, and your day to day routine.  You are beginning long term change related to the day to day, and very long term change related to your resources, but since both of those transits are so long (7 and 19 years respectively) this is more about reporting on how that energy is shifting rather than what you need to do about it right away (because there is no right away).

In the shorter term, Saturn beginning a 2.5 year tourney through your fourth house of home means this is a great time to get serious about home and family. Thinking about starting a family of your own? Getting a pet? Buying a house? Renting a new apartment? Painting your bathroom?

This astrology is great for working through the practicalities of those options, and getting the necessary things done in order to accomplish them.

Aquarius Rising

happy you season, Aquarius!  Your lot are weird, intelligent, incisive, logical, but not the scientific robot that the internet likes to paint you as. Aquarius cares, deeply, about freedom and human rights. This is why your sign governs systematic understanding: by looking at a system from above, you can see who is at a disadvantage. If Capricorn the mountain goat has climbed to a top of a mountain to reflect on his accomplishments, Aquarius stands at the top and says oh shit there’s so much down there and look at what is on fire.

One of my favourite movies, a black and white 90s B movie called Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same is one I almost always reference with my astrology clients. In this movie, an extremely budget alien comes to earth to learn about humans, and in the process of doing so, falls for a kind of sad butch dyke who works at a stationary store. Because she is in fact an alien, she can never truly understand her love, but the two of them make it work through their differences and through the alien’s often miscalculated attempts at human expression. Aquarius is certainly the alien of the zodiac, but you rule the fundamental and shared human experience of alienation.

The knowledge that every person is their own person can be overwhelming, so much to the point that young children don’t actually know it to be true. Buy you, Aquarius, you know this and so much more.

Pluto recently shifted into your sign, and I keep getting asked “What does this mean for Aquarians?”. The short answer is that at some point, in the next 19 years, you’ll have a Pluto conjunction to whichever of your planets or points is in Aquarius, which itself will be about a 3 year period. The shorter answer is that I don’t know. It is the capacity for intense transformative astrology, for sure, but it’s also over such a long time and so far away that it’s hard to report on.  Pluto transits are fate. They’re things we can’t prepare for and that we deal with the best we can when they happen. Globally, we’re in a big Pluto transit. So if you want to know how it will affect you, look around and observe how you see systems changing.

How you see old structures crumbling and new ones being devised. How you see people clinging to the old when the new is so obviously already happening. Think about how that might feel on a personal level and you’ll get a glimpse of what that there year period will look like for you, Aquarius.

Pisces Rising

Pisceans get some relief this year as Neptune moves out of your sign (in fact the sign of its rulership) and into Aries. Your lot can get easily overwhelmed, and with Neptune in the mix that added a real extra layer of III cannnnnnntttt dooooo iiiittttt. If you’ve been morose or malaised, this could bring some relief. I’m glad for you especially as Pluto’s movement into Aquarius introduces some rather intense astrology to your life, with a lot of focus on your subconscious.

Read the Aquarius horoscope above for a bit more context on the length of that (it’ll be about 19 years), and don’t worry because this will very much be deep background noise and not front burner stuff. It does mean you are moving into a chapter of your life that could very much involve deep spiritual development. I recently learned the phrase spiritually gifted from a colleague of mine who is in fact deeply spiritually gifted. What we might otherwise call psychic, woo-woo, or crazy, is simply a misunderstood gift. Pisces rules this kind of stuff, and if you personally are a pisces less interested in the woo side of things (though you are reading a horoscope), think of it as being capable of understanding things that other people don’t believe in.

If you are of the woo variety, charge your crystals and get your aura photographed because it’s coming into a powerful period of your life.

OMG Stars is our astrology column written by queer astrologer Amelia Ehrhardt (@amelia.np.e). At the beginning of each new astrological season, Amelia interprets the upcoming astrology with a focus on how to navigate current events (astrological and global).