As you move into this new professional year, first impressions will suggest that there is either nothing to see here or it is business as usual. The year begins with no planetary activity in your work sector after Mars left in November 2024, though you wouldn't normally expect any at this time of year and while the main body of planets has already moved through your career sector the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment is still there. Juno is a tiny player whose influence is more internal than external, so she is not going to be triggering any activity on the career front and instead, until leaving on 20th February she will make it easier to stick to your resolutions. However, within days of moving into 2025, things will start to change and especially on the job front and in a way that will be in preparation for much bigger things to come. On 6th January and almost two months to the day after leaving, Mars will retrograde back into your work sector and won't leave again until 18th April.

Until turning direct on 24th February, Mars will be going back over old ground and retracing the steps taken during the two months that he has already spent here. Mars will normally only spend six weeks firing things up on the job front in a way that only the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos can, but after spending two months here from September to November 2024, he will spend another three and a half months here. Retrograding planets often signal major developments ahead that they need to spend additional time helping you prepare for. While Mars' time here is going create a lot of opportunities and progress on the job front and a sense of purpose once he is back in direct motion, but this is also preparation for Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion's return on 10th June and the start of your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade.

Helping to get that underway will be having Mercury in your career sector from 9th June to 27th June and the Sun from 21st June to 22nd July. Held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus won't return until 31st July and until leaving on 26th August she will be on her own with Jupiter, bringing the laws of attraction and the element of luck together. It is less than a month later that Mars will return to your career sector on 22nd September to begin firing things up on the career front. This time instead of preparing the way for Jupiter's return to your work sector, as he returns to get things moving on the career front it will be to piggyback off the momentum he will have created by then. Over the coming months the Sun, Mercury and Venus will all move through, keeping things active on the career front until 12th December.