With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of January in your relationship sector, the focus will always be on your relationships from the start. With two New and two Full Moons here this year and with Pluto finally ending a journey that began in 2008, this suggests that this whole year will be a defining one on the relationship front and the closing of a chapter. After 15 years Pluto, the planet of change and transformation did leave your relationship sector last March, only to retrograde back in again less than three months later. Pluto is still here as you move into the New Year but will leave with the Sun on 21st January. With Mars in your relationship sector from 5th January to 13th February, Mercury from 14th January to 5th February and Venus from 23rd January to 17th February, this is when the planets of passion, communication and love will come together to create the real magic.

This will also leave your relationship sector empty, until a pair of Full Moons, the first on 22nd June and the second a month later on 21st July will bring some important wakeup calls after what will have been your longest stretch with no planetary activity in your relationship sector in 16 years. However, this is not the last you have seen of Pluto, for he will retrograde back in for one last chance to regroup from 2nd September to 20th November, this time for the last time in our lifetime. With Venus coming full circle for her second visit of the year from 12th November to 7th December, she will return in time to become the last planet to make contact with Pluto here in our lifetime.

Venus will still be here when the Sun returns from 21 December 2023 to 20th January 2025, by which point with Pluto gone a nearly 17 year chapter will have come to an end. Meanwhile, it is just as Pluto is dipping back into your relationship sector for one last time that things will start brewing on the romantic front. Venus, who was the last planet to leave your romantic sector in 2023 when she left on 30th December, will be the first to return on 23rd September, less than nine months later. Venus is only here until 18th October and while these will be the most romantically charged weeks of the year, the Sun will keep the solar spotlight on matters of the heart until 22nd November.