There is change in the air and especially on the income side of the financial fence, as the forces that have been dominating things for years now prepare to move on, bringing a major chapter to a close. However, this will be drawn out and even planets like Venus and Mercury, who will rush through in a matter of weeks without looking back, are going to move backwards and forward in a way that a major planet would. A slower outer planet will never return to an area of your chart for the first time in decades and then stay there for years. Instead, they take a few years to transition in, moving in, out and back again before settling in and then doing the same before leaving. This is what is happening this year with Neptune, who has been in your income sector since 2012 leaving on 31st March, but then retrograding back in on 22nd October, before leaving for good in January 2026.

Saturn, who returned to your income sector in March 2023 and who has been working with dreamy Neptune to give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality, will leave on 25th May. Saturn will retrograde back in on 1st September but will leave again in February 2026 and while he will be back in another three decades, Neptune won't be back again in our lifetime. This is the way a major or outer planet will transition out of an area of your chart, so things don't suddenly cut off. Less common is for the faster planets to do that, but as if in a case of solidarity and to get to capitalise on both Saturn and Neptune's influence, Venus and Mercury are doing just that. It begins with Venus' return for what should be a 24 day visit to your income sector on 3rd January.

As the planet of money, desire and attraction, Venus can make these the most lucrative weeks of any year. Instead, while Venus will leave on 4th February, she will retrograde back in for a second time from 27th March to 1st May. While Venus is doing this Mercury, who will normally spend two weeks giving you the smart head for money needed to get your head in the game and to think on your feet, will move through from 15th February to 3rd March, before retrograding back in for a do over from 30th March to 16th April. In the middle of this the Sun will move through, putting the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters and options from 18th March to 20th March. On the other side of the financial fence things will be less active this year, though Mars will move through your financial sector from 17th June to 7th August, with a chance to take advantage of the gap in planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence to fire things up financially.