Your Week Ahead Astrology

Your Week Ahead Astrology

Happy New Year! Make it a great year!

We start the year with bang. A powerful New Moon in Capricorn (read my previous blog as I wrote all about it there) and now Venus enters Pisces on January 2nd 2025. We are focused on getting serious about our lives including our relationship and financial sectors.

Venus is the planet of Love, Connection, Attraction and Money. Venus is exalted in Pisces, which means that all Venusian Themes will be highly activated in our lives right now. Notice your personal goals in the areas of Love and Money as those will be activate from now until Spring 2025. While Venus is in the mutable water sign of Pisces, the qualities and energies of Venus can be expressed more easily and effortlessly in the sign of Pisces.

Pisces teaches us compassion, gentleness, surrender, the dissolving of boundaries and limitations, oneness and unity with all beings. It is also a sign that is deeply intuitive, intimate, spiritual and emotional. Venus will remain in Pisces until February 4th 2025. However,Venus will turn retrograde in late March and will re-visit Pisces until April. The Venus Retrograde which occurs every 18 months or so, will last from March 1st all the way tthrough April 12th, 2025.

While Venus is in Pisces we have an opportunity to expand our understanding of Love. Venus rules Love, Money and What we want and desire in our lives. Venus exalted is a great opportunity to get clear on what you love, want and desire.

Venus in Pisces will teach us about Love. Whether we are giving Love or receiving Love or both, Love in all its expressions will be accessible to all of us during this period.

The opportunity of Venus in Pisces

Notice the state of Love in your life and all its expressions (compassion, kindness, generosity, equanimity, etc.). Love in your personal life (family, pets, friends, lovers, etc.). Love in your career, work, and mission/purpose. Love in your interactions with the world at large. This is a great time to familiarize yourself with your Love Language (There are Five Languages of Love, google more on the subject).

If you are in a relationship (any relationship), this is a powerful time to work on improving your interactions with significant people in your life. Create and solidify bonds. How are your words, actions and intentions showing up in intimate relationships as well as relationships overall in your life?

If you don’t have significant relationships in your life, then this is the time to cultivate them. Meet new people. Create community. Expand your social networks. Get on a dating site or on a dating app. Now there’s also friendship apps. So, you can join one of those too. It’s time to expand your capacity to receive and give Love in all areas of your life.   

Also, practice self-compassion. Kindness begins with the self. Practice friendship with yourself. Becoming your own best friend so you may be a better friend to others.

As Venus enters Pisces, we have an opportunity to expand our understanding and expression of Love. It’s time to Love and be Loved. This transit is beneficial for all Water and Earth placements. Notice your Natal Chart placements in these elements. It’s time to give all things Venus a priority in your life.

Mars opposite Pluto January 3.

Mars retrogrades from Leo back to Cancer on January 6th 2025. Mars has been in Leo since November 3rd 2024.  Mars will be in Cancer until April 18th. Mars is teaching us powerful lessons in our Leo and Cancer sectors. Notice your placements in both signs. Mars teaches us about our use of energy and will. Mars is about force, action, passion, drive, assertion and initiation.

Retrogrades help us to slow down and reflect on the planetary energies that are retrograde. We may feel frustrated, irritated and more angry than usual during this transit as our will gets cleaned up. Notice the use of your willpower. This may be a time when you don’t get your way. Notice what you do when you don’t get your way. Notice the way the Ego shows up in yourself or others. Notice emotions that flare. Breathe through energies and ground. Be in the present.

While Mars is retrograde in Cancer we have an opportunity to develop our emotional intelligence. We can choose our reactions to things, instead of allowing life to dictate how we respond. We can choose our response – that’s the true meaning of responsibility (our ability to respond). We can fine tune our emotions like a musician fine tunes the strings of an instrument. We can learn to navigate our inner water and find stillness within. It takes time and effort, but consistency will pay off.

Another way to benefit from the Mars Retrograde period in Cancer is to heal your relationship with all things ruled by Cancer. Cancer rules family, home, food and self-care. Heal your relationships with family, home, food and self. Notice how you nurture yourself and others. Cancer also rules ancestry and the mother. So ancestral patterns may come up during this Mars Retrograde as well as spiritual lessons with your mother or mother figure may come up. Notice what shows up and be willing to work with the energies so as to heal what needs to be healed.

Mars teaches us about action and force. During the Mars retrograde we get to redefine our actions. What actions are working, and which are not? What actions are we ready to take in our lives? How forceful are you? Are you forcing things into being? Or are you allowing life to flow? It’s time to find a balance between both.

Most importantly, take your time. Mars retrogrades are a great opportunity to slow down, rest and be mindful of our actions and interactions with the world around us. During retrogrades we have an opportunity to look back and look forward. Notice what you have learned this past year and what you are creating for yourself and your life for next year.

We are planting new seeds in our lives, and sometimes we can’t see the sprouts growing. But they are. A lot is happening underneath the surface of Life. Trust the process. Trust Life.

Expect another blog before the end of the week. Thank you for reading. Follow me for more @anamariapinedacom on Instagram or here on my website http://www.anamariapineda.com