Headlines of Autumn 2025 | Tying Up Loose Ends
Hindsight is 20/20. As the year winds down, we reflect on its broader arc. I try to capture what this might look like when I write the Yearly Overview at the start of the year, but it’s usually in retrospect that the true themes and essence come into focus. Go back and reread the Yearly Overview for 2025. What aligned and what fell flat?
Looking ahead through autumn, the central theme is one of tying up loose ends and integrating past lessons. 2025 brought seismic shifts, with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all changing signs in the same year—a rare event of shockwave-level change. Additionally, in a theory I subscribe to regarding phases within the greater astrological ages, we also entered a new 15-year tone in 2025. Life has reoriented in ways that may feel unrecognizable. And yet, we haven’t fully digested where we’ve come from. As three of the aforementioned planets retrograde back into their previous signs—Saturn already did so in late summer, with Uranus and Neptune to follow this autumn—we’ll get a moment to process what we may have skipped over earlier in the year.
I wrote about Saturn’s return to Pisces in Headlines of Summer 2025. Now, as Uranus and Neptune regress into their former signs in the months ahead, let’s look at what this might mean—and why it could be a good thing.
Headlines for spring
Potent Dates (conjunctions, squares, and oppositions)
Neptune returns to Pisces
Uranus returns to Taurus
Potent Dates
These are general energies—your unique birth chart may support or challenge these influences.
September 24:
Mars in Scorpio square Pluto in Aqiarius
As a returning square, this marks a time for reflection and the need to confront powerful actions that were perhaps impulsive, insensitive, yet also passionate and authentic. It’s a moment to contextualize the impact of themes like the intersection of politics and military action, or domineering behavior on Wall Street. In our personal lives, we may encounter reflections around our motivations and personal agendas, especially involving entanglements, power dynamics, and strategies related to wealth or debt.
November 20:
Mercury Rx conjunct Sun in Scorpio (end of fire journeys, start of water journeys)
(End of Fire Trickster Journeys, Start of Water Journeys)
A new Trickster Journey begins, shifting from the fiery seeds of past years to a more emotional and intuitive realm. This first water journey, seeded in Scorpio, invites us to notice inconsistencies, paradoxes, and contradictions within the emotional landscape. Unspoken contracts, psychic undercurrents, and the rules of entanglement come into focus. What’s not adding up? What new questions about power currents are asking to be explored? Put on your investigative hat and start digging into the underbelly—of psyche, power consolidation, intimacy, and trauma.
December 8:
Mars in Sagittarius square Saturn in Pisces
Another approaching square places Mars once again in the hot seat, this time pushing into Saturn. This aspect invites us to resolve tensions stemming from past actions that were overly assertive or ill-considered, particularly in the realms of business, goal-setting, or professional ambition. It’s time to move toward more resonant and emotionally attuned alignment.
December 14:
Mars in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces
Mars is facing a series of karmic confrontations this autumn—and frankly, it’s overdue. With the North Node recently in Aries (Mars’ domain), and Mars having crossed the North Node there, we’ve seen an amplification of aggression: war, policing, destruction, and the display of power, often at an immature developmental level. Narcissism has also been front and center. But with Mars' crossing of the karmic South Node this past summer, a shift toward reining things in has begun, and autumn is bringing reckonings with cronies this planet has conspired with.
Now, Mars squares Neptune, bringing tensions around illusion, distortion, and escapism into focus. How have fantasy or denial been used to justify forceful behavior—personally or collectively? In our own lives, this can illuminate where we’ve acted impulsively based on media-fueled delusions, or where we’ve masked action behind idealism or confusion. Neptune resists confrontation, so this may not be easy—but it’s necessary. What nebulous impulses need to be seen clearly and released?
Neptune REvisits Pisces
October 22, 2025, Neptune revisits Pisces, where it had been since 2011, to tie up some loose ends.
Neptune returns to Aries more permanently on January 26, 2026, to stay until March 2039.
Neptune RX REvisits Pisces
Neptune, co-ruler of Pisces, governs the sea, gases, chemicals, illusion, mysticism, and transcendence. Pisces represents spirituality, compassion, fantasy, art, institutions, shadow, and escape. Together, they blur the boundaries between the self and the infinite.
Since 2011, Neptune in Pisces has made us more sensitive to subtle energies—and simultaneously, those energies have become more embedded in daily life through technology, media, and global consciousness. In true Neptune fashion, paradox abounds: even as we recognize the damage of overuse (of plastics, fossil fuels, illusions), their proliferation continues.
Some defining themes of Neptune in Pisces:
The glamorization of glamour
Media illusions in overdrive
The rise of spirituality and mysticism in pop culture
Digital escapism and streaming culture
Compassion-based activism
Institutional distrust and conspiracy theory booms
Normalization of altered appearances (plastic surgery, filters)
Fashion democratization (blurred lines between haute couture and streetwear)
Petroleum advancements and their oceanic consequences (e.g., thermal expansion, ecosystem degradation)
As Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces, this is a moment for collective reflection. What illusions did we buy into? What spiritual or artistic insights did we gain? What shadows emerged, and what gifts were offered?
Neptune’s brief entry into Aries earlier this year sparked early concerns around inflation linked to global tariff tensions. Historically, Neptune in fire signs correlates with inflationary spikes. When Neptune was in Leo (1920s), inflation surged, leading up to the 1929 crash. It happened again in Sagittarius (1970–1984), during another major inflation cycle. A flare-up may be ahead.
For more, revisit the Yearly Overview and the section on Neptune’s future in Aries.
Uranus revisits Taurus
A return to revise fluid structuring in the complex areas of art, institutions, and spirituality.
November 8, 2025, Uranus revisits Taurus, where it had been since 2018, to tie up some loose ends.
Uranus returns to Gemini more permanently on April 26, 2026, to stay until August 2032.
Uranus RX REvisits Taurus
I’ve spoken often (and critically) about Uranus in Taurus—it’s been deeply aligned with the rise of authoritarian sentiment. Interestingly, as Uranus began leaving Taurus, we started seeing cracks in those hyper-polarized movements. We’re not entirely out of the woods, but the tone is shifting.
Now, Uranus returns to Taurus one final time via retrograde. This could be our opportunity to reflect on polarization—not just politically, but also economically, socially, and ideologically. It’s a chance to compost the darker aspects of the transit and integrate the lessons we may have missed.
Astrologically, the final degrees of any sign take on the flavor of Pisces and Aquarius—symbols of reflection, transcendence, and collective growth. Even within Taurus, the final anaretic degree hints at resolution and release.
In Closing
With both Neptune and Uranus revisiting signs they’ve occupied for 7 and 14 years respectively, we’re being offered a cosmic retrospective. These final passes provide a valuable window to look back, reassess, and carry forward wisdom we couldn’t quite grasp in real time.
