Because of a retrograde turn last year Venus, the planet of love is still running behind schedule and it is not until the final days of your birthday month that she will finally return on 17th February. This is when your heart gets to have its voice and a say in what you want from the coming year, but with no planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts, this might feel more like wishful thinking. However, as Venus' retrograde turn last year was in your relationship sector, where she spent four months rather than the usual 24 days, you have a much better sense of what you want from your relationships. At the same time, while you can't see what lies ahead as the planet of love, Venus knows that 2024 is set to be a big year for matters of the heart and all things romantic.

This means that while as Venus moves through Aquarius from 17th February to 12th March, she might be fuelling desires and expectations that feel more like wishful thinking, they are anything but. There will be no planetary activity in your romantic sector until the Sun returns on 21st May, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart. However, from then things are set to accelerate rapidly with Venus, the planet of love returning on 24th May and just two days later, Jupiter returning to begin your luckiest year for matters of the heart and all things romantic in over a decade. Venus is here until 17th June, with the planets of love and luck coming together for the first time here in 12 years.

With Mercury here from 3rd June to 17th June and the Sun until 21st June, there will be support for Jupiter in the early weeks of a journey that won't end until he leaves in June 2025. However, Jupiter won't be on his own for long, with Mars moving through your romantic sector from 21st July to 21st September, bringing the planets of luck and passion together here for the first time since 2013. This will overlap the start of the first planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, which will begin with Mercury's return on 3rd July and continue through to his departure on 9th September. In that time the Sun and Venus, the planet of love will also move through. However, just as on the romantic front, Mars will make a standalone visit to your relationship sector from 4th November 2024 to 6th January 2025.