While Mars will leave your romantic sector on 6th January, not only has the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos already been here for two months, but by retrograding back out it means that he isn't finished yet. Instead, he has barely begun and when he returns again on 18th April, it will be for a complete do over, with a chance to spend another two months firing up your romantic passions and fighting spirit before leaving on 17th June. Normally spending just six weeks here every other year, between November 2024 and June 2025, Mars will spend four months firing things up while setting things up for Venus, the planet of love and her extended stay in Aries this year.

For while Mars is retrograding back into and out of your romantic sector, Venus is set to do the same when she returns to Aries on 4th February for what should be a 24 day chance to work her magic. Instead, a retrograde turn on 2nd March will see Venus retrograde back out again on 27th March, nearly two months later and then once in direct motion, return for a second visit from 1st May to 6th June. A Full Moon in your romantic sector on 13th February will get the first chapter off to a romantically charged start, while with Mars returning to your romantic sector on 11th June, he will easily slip back into the scene. Between them, Venus and Mars are going to keep the romantic flame burning for much of the first half of the year.

Even then, with Mercury returning to your romantic sector on 27th June and a retrograde turn keeping him here until 3rd September, this will continue into well into the second half of the year. What Venus, Mars and Mercury all have in common is their time in retrograde motion, indicating that there is a strong link to the past this year. Meanwhile, while it is not until Mars returns to your relationship sector on 7th August that there will be any planetary activity in your relationship sector, the South Node's departure on 12th January will end the lunar nodes 18 month policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. This will take the pressure off you and your relationships while leaving you with an authentic sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.