While as you move into the New Year there is no planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts and you wouldn't expect any at this time of year, that is about to change. First impressions might reveal that it is business as usual, but that illusion will be shattered within just a few days when on 6th January and two months after leaving Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos retrogrades back into your romantic sector. Because the Sun always returns on the June solstice and Venus and Mercury at around the same time, this is not usually a romantically charged time of year. However, this is just a taste of things to come and having already spent two months firing things up, Mars will continue to fire things up before leaving again on 18th April.

Mars is in retrograde motion until 24th February, with the doors open to the past and second chances. It is shortly after Mars returns that a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 14th January will help to kick start things. While Mars will return to find your romantic sector empty and apart from the Moon's monthly visits, he will leave it empty, before the Sun can return on 21st June everything will have changed. Mars will normally only spend six weeks in your romantic sector before returning two years later but having spent two months here in late 2024 and another three and a half months, this will ensure you are ready for what comes next. What comes next is not just Mercury's return to your romantic sector on 9th June, though the timing couldn't be better and instead, what happens a day later, when on 10th June Jupiter will return to begin your luckiest year for love and all things romantic in over a decade.

Mercury is only in your romantic sector from 9th June to 27th June, but his annual mission to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page couldn't come with better timing. The real magic is going to happen when Venus returns and joins up with Jupiter, with the planets of love and luck coming together from 31st July to 26th August. This is right in the heart of the most active months of the year on the relationship front, which will begin with Mars' return to your relationship sector on 17th June and end with Venus' departure on 14th October.