While there is no planetary activity on the romantic front as you move into the New Year and there is no major planetary activity on the relationship front, what you have there is a thread that is having a subtle but important impact. Late to return to your relationship sector last year because of a retrograde turn and therefore late to leave, when Venus left your relationship sector in October 2023 this should have left your relationship sector empty. Instead, it was while Venus was here that the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships returned for her first visit in four years. Usually here for two months, Juno should have left by now but instead, a retrograde turn on 13th January will keep her here until 10th August.

Juno's influence won't be overt, but her sense of commitment is there to draw on until Mercury, the planet of communication returns on 26th July and Venus on 5th August. Before then, matters of the heart will get some much needed attention as the first of two romantically charged periods kicks off when Venus, the planet of love returns to your romantic sector from 17th June to 12th July. Mercury, the planet of communication will return on the same day and the Sun four days later on 21st June. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always fall onto matters of the heart and all things romantic. However, by the time the Sun leaves on 22nd July Venus and Mercury will both be gone and your romantic sector will once again be empty.

However, a second chapter will run from 5th September to 4th November when Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos makes his first visit to your romantic sector in two years. Mars will return right in the heart of the most active months of the year on the relationship front, which will run from Mercury's return to your relationship sector on 26th July and his departure on 26th September. In that time Mercury, the planet of communication will dip in and out while Venus, the planet of love will return from 5th August to 30th August and the Sun, as he does each year will have the solar spotlight on your relationships from 23rd August to 22nd September.