Headlines of Spring 2025 | RAW Mysticism
If you’ve already perused the Yearly Overview for 2025, you know it’s a ‘Year of Transitions’—every outer planet is moving signs bringing different energies into being. Three of these outer planet shifts arrive this spring with Neptune (the biggest shift), Saturn, and Jupiter.
Neptune and Saturn will move from the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces, into a reboot of touring the zodiac with the first sign, Aries. This is like our Dreamer and Architect archetypes moving from a cosmic world to a raw and rugged construction zone. From a spiritual sanctuary to the American Wild West.
Jupiter’s move to Cancer should feel good. Cancer is the sign of our Seeker’s exaltation. Our seeker archetype is shifting from Gemini, which loves to explore its backyard (and can feel restrictive to expansive Jupiter), to Cancer which loves to give stable and fertile grounds for our Seeker to stand on as it pushes our boundaries to broaden life.
Headlines for spring
DO and DON’T this eclipse season
Potent Dates
Neptune moves into Aries
Saturn moves into Aries
Jupiter moves into Cancer
eclipse season
ECLIPSE SEASON
As we enter spring we are in the thick of eclipse season, with our final Aries eclipse on March 29th. Watch for bullies, narcissists, military, and aggressors in the news and in your life.
DO: Dream of fresh trajectories, insist on authenticity, be direct and assertive, and spring clean.
DON’T: Hold onto baggage, start conflicts, initiate on impulse, or behave aggressively.
Potent dates
These are very general as your unique birth chart may support or negate some of these dates.
April 5: Reconciliation (or argument) energy and a great date night for established relationships. Venus Rx conjunct Mercury Rx in Pisces
April 7: Deepen love commitments (could also fracture love commitments—make it or break it energy). Venus Rx conjunct Saturn in Pisces
April 21: Initiate new fitness regimens, construction projects, or assert your leadership/creativity. Mars square Sun/Earth from Leo
April 27: Find formidable backing or support for revolutionary causes. Mars in Leo opposed Pluto in Aquarius
May 17/18: Break out of a rut, break free from material limitations, and revolutionize your values and voice. Sun conjunct Uranus in Taurus
May 26-29: Meet new people, flirt, sign contracts, make purchases, and engage in business development. Mercury, ruler of the season, in many aspects from Gemini—conjunct Moon, trine Pluto, sextile Saturn/Neptune, conjunct Sun
June 8: Make connections to find expansive opportunities. Mercury, ruler of the season, conjuncts Jupiter in Gemini
June 9: Claim the power of your value. Don’t be seduced or taken advantage of by someone more powerful than you. Venus square Pluto from Taurus
June 9: Commit to something that pushes your foundational boundaries. Jupiter square Saturn from Cancer
June 18: Be assertive in pushing the boundaries of your dreams and career. Jupiter square Neptune from Cancer
NEPTUNE IN ARIES | Inspired Order
A mystical and artistic lens is about to hone in on what’s rough and tumble, raw, and assertive in life. Since 2011, Neptune has been in the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces, amplifying glamour, illusion, and fantasy as well as doing shadow work. However, this nebulous planet is rebirthing and starting a new 165-year tour of the zodiac as it steps into Aries, the first sign of the warrior’s terrain, on March 30th.
When a planet completes a tour of the zodiac, it has transcended something. Acknowledge understandings and complex comprehension that has settled in around the mystical aspects of life, around Neptune’s ability to connect us to the subtle realms. What have you become more sensitive to and aware of? How has your consciousness transcended an old boundary? How has the world’s compassion leveled up since 1861 (when Neptune started its last tour of the zodiac)? Just because Neptune is going back to the raw basics doesn’t mean starting over. While the zodiac seems like a circle, most astrologers see it more as a spiral. Neptune is entering a new level.
We might think of Wild West art as a past round of bringing art to the raw aspect of life. What does that Wild West look like now? I imagine strange flying objects and mystics being painted into the scene.
In a more modern sense, I can’t not talk about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance. Neptune is the artist, the musician, the dreamer, and the fashion designer, while Aries loves uniformity. Aries can be militant as it wants to bring order into place. Kendrick’s dancers were in solid red, white, and blue uniforms (I heard someone say prison uniforms inspired them). Still, it was inspiring and interesting, not stiff like we’d see with Mars in Aries, which might make uniformity strict. The uniformity, or unity, that Aries desires isn’t negative until it gets repressive or abusive. Neptune wants to soften and bring inspiration to Aries’ order and unity. It wants to make uniformity into high art. It wants to bring idealism and dreams through order and unity. Neptune brings symbolism and layered meaning that expands us with shivers. I don’t mean creed-like symbolism such as a flag. Neptune is more subtle and nuanced. The red, white, and blue uniforms in Kendrick’s performance were subversive with subtle (and sometimes blatant) commentary about America, especially Black America, right in front of POTUS’s face. There were layers upon layers of nuanced art through the uniformity of his costuming/fashion.
We’ve graduated from illusions of a separated world. We’ve transcended nationalistic ideals. We’re too connected now and consciousness has seen through certain dimensions that we can’t stuff back in a box. The unhinged dreamer in me wants to believe that the inspired order and unity Neptune will bring is unifying as a planet to connect with other realms in an orderly yet inspired way. Or more simply, order that unifies a more global human consciousness.
Of course, old constructs grip tight to what was. Old tactics will be used such as attempting to inspire crusades against those who don’t have the same spiritual orientation. I can’t see it holding. Too many of us have transcended that nonsense. But, those who want to control the world will try, while those of us who are aligned and eager to start the new chapter (like moving from high school to college) will leapfrog over those stuck in the past. Those with attachment issues around consciousness and ideals will be left in the dust as new order and unity organize around a new level of consciousness.
Neptune will return to Pisces due to retrograde from October 22 - January 26, 2026, before moving full steam ahead in Aries until 2038.
Neptune in Aries through the Signs
Aries: With Neptune in your own sign, you will feel your prickly side become a little softer. You may embark on healing journeys, spend more time by the sea or in remote locations, and art could start to flow from you. Be physical in fluid ways—tai chi, surfing, dance, ice skating.
Taurus: Neptune is moving into its natural house in your chart, the 12th house of dreams, illusions, art, and mysticism. As an agent of your 11th house, you could attend more group-oriented spiritual or artistic retreats, innovate in areas of art and consciousness, or help to liberate stale practices in institutional settings.
Gemini: Neptune is moving into your electric-powered 11th house. As an agent of your 10th house, expect aspirations and position in the world get more rebellious and innovative. You may pioneer new technologies through your career, become a media networker, or simply break out of old molds around the structures of life to find healing in freedom.
Cancer: Neptune is moving to the pinnacle of your chart in your 10th house. As an agent of your 9th house of vision, philosophies, and wisdom, you might make religion or culture-based philosophies part of your career trajectory. You might crave to be a professor or engage in global career adventures. Let your mystical beliefs lead your aspirations.
Leo: Neptune is moving into your 9th house of vision, beliefs, and seeking. As an agent of your 8th house, you might investigate and research religions or philosophies, transform your beliefs, or explore the world as a way of uprooting hidden parts of your psyche or healing traumas.
Virgo: Neptune is moving into your 8th house of shared resources, intimacy, empowerment, and psyche. As an agent of your 7th house of relationships and aesthetics, you may go through healing transformations around what trust and commitment mean, become more empowered through spiritual relationships, uproot secret channels of power to seek equity in the world, or use artistic design to build wealth or empowerment.
Libra: Neptune is moving to your 7th house of relationships, justice, and aesthetics. As an agent of your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle, you may work more closely with a spouse or business partner, engage in projects around justice, do work that engages your aesthetic sensibilities, or claim a lifestyle that is more easeful.
Scorpio: Neptune is moving into your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle. As an agent of your 5th house of leadership and creativity, you may step into artistic leadership or creative roles at work, bring more fluid recreation to your day-to-day, or bring aspects of luxury and glamour to your work. If you are an actor, this is a great transit that could help you get work.
Sagittarius: Neptune is moving into your 5th house of leadership, spotlight, and creativity. As an agent of your 4th house of home, family, imagination, and caretaking, you could find your artistic imagination becoming more courageous in the light, move to an area that fosters recreation, or engage in more play and fun with your family.
Capricorn: Neptune is moving to the roots of your chart, in the 4th house of home, family, and depth. As an agent of your 3rd house of socializing, communication, and identity, you may become a little more of a hermit, bring more socializing into your home, create foundations for communities, or find family life more bustling and interesting.
Aquarius: Neptune is. moving into your 3rd house of connection, communication, domestic travel, socializing, and identity. As an agent of your 2nd house of personal finances, values, sensuality, and voice, you may find income streams through speaking or writing, or becoming an influencer. You could feel your self-worth more tied to a sense of belonging or generally value your social life more than you have in the past.
Pisces: Neptune is moving into your 2nd house of personal finance, values, voice, and sensuality. As an agent of your 1st house of motivation, direction, and passion, you may feel more passionate about making money, spend money a little more impulsively, value your personality through sharing your voice or make money on your personality (hello memoir). Let your passions lead you to a more valuable life.
SATURN IN ARIES | structure overhaul
We have another planet moving into Aries this spring, on May 24th, transcending an old curriculum and leveling up. Saturn’s rebirth won’t be as profound as Neptune’s. This planet has a 29.5-year cycle (versus 165-year) through the zodiac, but its 2-and-a-half-year transit is still a long time to progress through a lesson.
Saturn is an architect and CEO. It wants structure, focus, building, and authority. Saturn wants mastery and position in the world.
It brings discipline and dedication to its goals, is a planner, and can shoulder great responsibility. Aries brings our planets into rebirth energy, inspiring them to find new direction and passion and instilling new order after taking a wrecking ball to what’s already broken down. While going through Pisces since 2023, this executive archetype has been doing shadow work—a light shone on its secrets and delusions. I think we are all waking up to the web of illusions that corporations have spun.
For the next few years, we might see different ways of structuring corporations—time for an overhaul in the executive sector, yes? We could see new styles of architecture, new passion and direction in building, and maverick types shaking up corporate territory. On the flip side, we could see executive types become more militant or heavily guarded (a la Luigi types out to get them) and corporations try to become a version of an Emporer. I just don’t think Pluto in Aquarius (power to the people) will allow corporate overloads to take over. I think that’s the old model coming down as Saturn’s executive powers went massively unchecked since it started its last zodiacal tour in 1998, with Pluto supporting corporate power players in Capricorn for a lot of that time.
It’s time for a capitalistic exorcism, freeing ourselves of corporate possession of the people. Let’s welcome some Maverick energy into the corporate landscape and allow Pluto in Aquarius to dictate a need for power to belong to the people. Let’s welcome more utopian building and structuring.
Saturn will return to Pisces for a short stint from September 1, 2025 to February 13, 2026 (due to retrograde).
It will re-enter Aries from February 13, 2026 to April 2028.
Saturn in Aries through the Signs
Aries: Moving into your own sign, get ready to feel more structured, responsible, focused, and in training to rule the world. Your career will become a central focus for the next few years. Prepare for more responsibility and equally more reward. Let your aspirations meet your passion and pioneering.
Taurus: Saturn is moving into your 12th house of dreams and healing for the next few years. As an agent of your 9th house of vision and beliefs, expect a lot of spiritual seeking, oceanic journeys, and downloads out of nowhere that bring beautiful, healing perspectives to your life. Write an Eat, Pray, Love kinda story.
Gemini: Saturn in moving into your 11th house of groups, networks, innovation, originality, and liberation. As an agent of your 8th house, you could build new technologies for wealth management, psychology, or research. You might find more empowerment through groups or collaborations. Unleash your investigative focus into the realm of humanity and progress.
Cancer: Saturn is moving into your 10th house of aspirations and career for the next few years. As an agent of your 7th house of relationships, justice, and design, you may find yourself building a business with a partner, standing up to injustices, bringing a designer’s eye to architectural projects, or being a supportive spouse to a partner shouldering heavy career responsibilities.
Leo: Saturn is moving to your 9th house of vision, belief, and perspective for the next few years. As an agent of your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle, you may dedicate yourself to religious or philosophical practices—yoga or the Kabbala. You may broaden your perspective around what wellness means or push the boundaries of your work. Work could take you overseas or open you up to a bigger life.
Virgo: Saturn is moving to your 8th house of shared resources, power dynamics, psyche, and investigation. As an agent of your 5th house of leadership, the spotlight, and creativity, you may find yourself in leadership roles in powerful territory. You could share your creativity in mysterious ways, such as an actor taking a role as an investigator, mob boss, psychologist, or sex worker. Point your responsible heart and its unifying powers toward the hidden dimensions of life.
Libra: Saturn is moving to your 7th house of relationships, justice, and aesthetics for the next few years. As an agent of your 4th house of home, family, and security, you may find yourself creating more stable roots with a spouse, taking on a supportive role around a spouse, seeking equity in the world for women and caretakers, or bringing more soul and imagination to your aesthetic sensibilities.
Scorpio: Saturn is moving to your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle for the next few years. As an agent of your 3rd house of community, communication, and local movement, you could find yourself doing more work in communications or marketing, engaged in community organizing, or bringing more lightness and socializing to your day-to-day life or work culture. Let your need for connection and movement be part of your daily duties.
Sagittarius: Saturn is moving to your 5th house of leadership, the spotlight, and creativity. As an agent of your 2nd house of self-worth, personal finances, and voice, let your voice be more courageous, make income through leadership or the spotlight, and shine for the way to value professionalism. Let your focused sense of pleasure and beauty lead your pioneering creativity—let that thing you’ve built on your own from the ground up be celebrated.
Capricorn: Saturn is moving to your 4th house of home, family, and foundations for the next few years. Being your chart ruler, you will likely feel motivated and passionate about creating fresh and stronger foundations in your life. Don’t be scared to make some messes in the roots of your life as a new chapter of fertile soil wants you to do a complete makeover around your sense of soul, security, and at-homeness.
Aquarius: Saturn is moving to your 3rd house of connection, communication, and community for the next few years. As you ruler, your passion and motivation will lie in a makeover around your identity and sense of belonging in life. There is a lot of physical and passionate energy in how you connect. You may find yourself gravitating toward athletes, entrepreneurs, and maverick types. It’s time to refresh your mind, social life, and interests.
Pisces: Saturn is moving into your 2nd house of personal finances, voice, and values for the next few years. As an agent of your 11th house of innovation, liberation, and originality, you may bring your unique brand of light to your voice, make money through technology, or liberate from old values that are suppressing your odd-ball side.
JUPITER IN CANCER | Soulful self-narrative
I think of the term ‘survival of the fittest’ with this concoction, but in the way it was meant by Darwin, which I’ll circle back to in a minute.
Jupiter is a social planet. It is our explorer, professor, and culture vulture. Jupiter civilizes through sharing and exchanging ideas. It wants to push boundaries and perspectives, sometimes through debate and friction, but always through questioning.
For the past year, Jupiter has been exploring its backyard in Gemini, not its cup of tea, but sometimes what’s needed to progress. How many of you have been exploring community as a broadened concept and exposing yourself to perspectives around local ecosystems? How have you tapped into your communities as something that expands your life, or felt friction with your communities as you’ve pushed your perspectives around belonging and identity?
Jupiter can indicate some of the big cultural moments in society. While I don't believe it was only Jupiter in Gemini boosting his art in the past year, Kendrick Lamar’s Gemini Sun gained cultural significance from Jupiter. The timing was right for him to share culture-oriented music and messaging, from his Darke feud to his mega-culture phenomena hit Not Like Us, to the Super Bowl.
With some communicative philosophical friction under our belts, Jupiter’s move into Cancer has us feeling more stable and settled in our concepts of belonging—how we belong or who we are. With a move to Cancer on June 9th, we are moving from trying to fit in so we can survive, to the correct use of ‘survival of the fittest’—committing to the soils that feel good and right underfoot hence being the right fit (not changing ourselves to try and be the right fit), making surviving and thriving natural. Put another way, our self-concepts and self-narratives have been rewiring, but in Cancer, something is clicking in. This allows us to be in fertile conditions that help our self-narratives become more soulful, aligned, and healthy.
When our self-narratives are wonky, the future can be predicted as not turning out great. There are studies around this. When self-narratives are positive, when we see ourselves as humans who overcome, grow, and thrive, guess what? Our future reflects this. Feeling more right in our self-concepts and narratives as Jupiter shifts to Cancer, we will have green lights to reach and imagine and expand life in enriching ways.
Through next June, secure your self-concepts on grounds that feel good to you and see how this makes the trajectory of your life feel held and supported in new and thrilling ways. Grow on the grounds where you are the hero or heroine in your story, not the victim.
Jupiter in Cancer through the Signs
Aries: Jupiter is moving into your 4th house of home, family, and security. As an agent of your 9th house of vision, perspective, and beliefs, you might seek to expand your foundations, feel more optimistic about your stability in life, or seek to stabilize your roots so that you can expand and grow your life with more nourished foundations.
Taurus: Jupiter is moving to your 3rd house of connection, communication, and community for the next year. As an agent of your 8th house, you might be drawn into intriguing rabbit holes of investigation or research, digging up powerful information. You could bring your precise wisdom to your communications, growing your social clout, or invest in areas of communication or community.
Gemini: Jupiter is moving to your 2nd house of values, voice, and personal finances for the coming year. As an agent of your 7th house, you could earn an income through a partner, become more pleasure-oriented in your relationships, voice your needs with others better, or infuse your aesthetic environments with more beautiful objects and possessions.
Cancer: Jupiter is moving into your 1st house of initiative, direction, and passion for the next year. As an agent of your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle, you may become more energetic around organizing yourself, being productive, and refining your days to feel balanced, well, and purposeful.
Leo: Jupiter is moving to your 12th house of dreams, illusions, and healing for the coming year. As an agent of your 5th house, you could take on leadership roles in your spiritual or artistic communities, let your heart decompress and take a time out, or come into deeper understanding around ego.
Virgo: Jupiter is moving into your 11th house of innovation, collaboration, and originality for the coming year. As an agent of your 4th house, you could break out of domestic ruts and find new freedom in home, family, and security. You could infuse imagination into sci-fi writing or innovate ways for caretaking to be exciting and progressive.
Libra: Jupiter is moving into your 10th house of aspiration and focus for the coming year. As an agent of your 3rd house, you might infuse your aspirations with social dynamics, schooling, or seek positions centered on social connection. Plug your mind and connective motor into your ability to plan with nourishing focus and imaginative gentleness.
Scorpio: Jupiter is moving into your 9th house of perspective, vision, and beliefs for the coming year. As an agent of your 2nd house of values, personal finances, and voice, you may speak more freely about your beliefs or find philosophies that become valuable to you. You could infuse grand visions with more pragmatic financial perspectives or flip some of your black and white perspectives on their head.
Sagittarius: Jupiter is moving to your 8th house of empowerment, shared resources, and investigation for the coming year. Being your chart ruler, direct your passion and motivation into uprooting areas where you are blocked from your power. Give new direction and motivation to how you build wealth, empower yourself, and understand the psychology of your personality. Put passion into transforming who you are and become more potent.
Capricorn: Jupiter is moving to your 7th house of relationships, justice, and aesthetics. As an agent of your 12th house, you might be challenged around compassion in partnerships this year. Secrets may arise in relationships, or you may want justice around complex institutional workings in the world. There are tensions to harmonize this year that may feel complicated, but the growth you’ll come into will imbue you with beautiful understandings.
Aquarius: Jupiter is moving to your 6th house of work, wellness, and lifestyle for the coming year. As an agent of your 11th house, you might bring innovations to your work process or discover technologies that make work more efficient. You could liberate stale day-to-day rhythms and find new freedom and liberation in your days.
Pisces: Jupiter is moving to your 5th house of leadership, creativity, and the spotlight for the coming year. Being one of your rulers, bring passion, direction, and initiative to your creative side, stepping up in life to be seen with confidence and magnetism. Let passion merge with your heart to light your life with expansive flair and creative eagerness. Be courageous and bold.
