Astrology: The Year 2025 in Review In fact, February and March will be the only months with no difficult Mars aspects. But with five outer planets hovering between the high-energy cusps of two signs and 7 volatile Mars aspects (marked in red), one can expect a fair amount of convulsions in this transition year.
Many comments have indeed described 2025 as a difficult year, and one can point to several tough periods, such as Mars
retrograde opposite Pluto (Jan 3), Solar Eclipse (March 30), Mars opposite Pluto (April 26), Mars opposite Saturn (Aug 7), Full Moon/Mars square Jupiter (Sept 8), Full Moon Lunar
Eclipse (Nov 4), and Mars square Saturn exact Dec 8 (Nov. 25- Dec 29) all had many significant volatile incidents, including major fires, earthquakes, storms, and floods.Winter
Mars
retrograde opposite Pluto, January 3, with added pressure from the Jupiter-Saturn
square and the still unstable Pluto ingress into Aquarius, heralded a
dramatic start to the new year. Some events, over the full period of the
aspect, which ended around January 29, including the dramatic Eaton, California
fires where, sadly, the Altadena
Theosophical Library Center and Press was lost:
South Korea plane crash (Dec. 29), Jimmy
Carter passing (Dec. 30), Lightning strike US Capitol, Washington
Monument, and Empire State
Building (Jan. 2), Mass
shooting (New York) (Jan. 2), Puerto Rico power outage (Jan. 2), Two US-based
"terrorist" attacks (New Orleans and Las Vegas) (Jan. 3), Massive
fireworks explosion in Honolulu (Jan. 6), Central US winter storm (Jan. 6), Canadian
PM Justin Trudeau steps down (Jan. 6), Tibetan Earthquake (Jan. 7), Los Angeles
fires (Jan. 7), Elon Musk Rotherham rhetoric (Jan. 8), Korean President arrest
standoff (Jan. 15), David Lynch passes (Jan. 16), Space
X Rocket explosion (Jan. 17), US Inauguration fallout (Jan. 20), Garth
Hudson passes (Jan. 21), Southern US Snow storm (Jan. 21), Turkish ski
resort fire (Jan. 22), Indonesia flood (Jan. 23), Slovakia protest (Jan. 24), Germany protests (Jan. 25), Congo rebels (Jan. 27), Colombia rebels (Jan. 27), India Kumba Mehla deaths
(Jan. 29), Washington
Plane/Helicopter crash, 67 deaths (Jan. 29), Storm Eowyn (Feb.1), Australia
fires (Feb. 3)
There have been several
high-profile airplane
crashes, with US fatalities from crashes more than doubled in 2025
compared to 2024. It seems to coincide with the ingress of Pluto
in Aquarius, an air sign. One event that can serve as a
good overall illustration of the prognostic was the Washington
Ukraine Minerals deal press conference on February 28. The
Oscar ceremonies on March 1 featured
numbers from all three great Wizard of Oz musicals, and so this very Theosophical fairy
tale has cemented itself as an enduring myth maker in popular culture, with no
signs of slowing down...
Spring
Spring began with United States
tariff
trade and expansion challenges.
Mars opposite Pluto, April 26 saw some striking events:
April 21 -Pope Francis,
committed to service, humility and healing, dead at 88
Jun 15 Mars square Uranus
Minnesota shootings, Israel-Iran,
Russia-Ukraine, G7,
Vaccines
This period was apparently fated for reclusive, sensitive,
multi-talented pop music geniuses: Sly Stone June 9, Brian
Wilson June 11, we also lost Serge Fiori
on June 24, also Alfred Brendel June 17 Mick
Ralphs June 23 Lalo Schifrin June 26 Summer
June 23: US-Iran America’s attack
on its nuclear facilities, Israel-Iran hostilities escalate, Church attack
in Syria kills
20, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released, mandatory Ten
Commandments in US
school judged unconstitutional
Much of the central and
eastern U.S.
has had above-normal precipitation over the three months from April 23 through
July 24, 2025. For communities in Texas, New Mexico, West Virginia and New
Jersey, the floods have been deadly. And many more
states have seen flash flood damage in recent weeks, including New
York, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Vermont and Iowa.
Five US governments initiatives receive push
back: Texas floods, Immigration, Planned Parenthood, Ukraine, Veterans Affairs
July 20-24-
we had Sun opposite Pluto, Moon square Saturn, Venus square Mars, Saturn
Conjunct Neptune, Jupiter square Saturn (wide), Sun sextile Uranus, (and Lilith
at, 13 degrees Scorpio)- 7 challenging aspects help explain high number of
deaths of musicians, actors, artists that week
Deaths July 20-24 Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, Malcolm
Jamal-Warner, Tamra Lucid, George Kooymans, Chuck Mangione, Tom Lehrer, Dame
Cleo Laine, Tommy McLain
The
Uranus shift
to Gemini saw the release of several summer fantasy film blockbusters: Superman (2025 film) July
7, Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle July 18, The
Fantastic Four: First Steps July 25, and the surprise hit, KPop Demon Hunters June
20. My Melody &
Kuromi a Netflix stop-motion animated series hit the #2 spot on
Netflix's worldwide TV chart shortly after its July 24, debut. Kind of like Willy Wonka meets
Perceval/Fisher King tale, a tale of jealousy, obsession, collective
healing and redemption that could be considered as a good illustration of the
Summer prognostic.
Aug 7 Mars opposite Saturn, Neptune Full Moon
an interesting Full Moon in Aquarius weekend unified,
symmetrical chart Mars opposite Saturn/Neptune kite & Venus T-square
Mercury opposite Pluto kite 3 interlocking minor grand trines Pluto,
Neptune/Sat, Uranus, Merc, Mars above also form Mystic Rectangle Venus conjunt
Jupiter
A week prior, the heart-breaking, tragic death of 10-year-old Rebekah
Baptiste underscoring Jupiter
in Cancer, June 9, focus on family values. This could be considered an
exemplary event that encapsulates much of the Summer prognostic.
The massive magnitude
8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's
Kamchatka Peninsula last week has triggered the
activity of seven volcanoes in the area; Israel Gaza offensive announced; UK Palestine protest; Russia talks with Trump announced; Floods in Asia & US; California
& Canada wildfires; Trump Washington
security measures; NY Times Square & Georgia shootings
A town in Japan, Toyoake, Aichi
prefecture is
to urge all residents to restrict their smartphone use to two hours a day in an
attempt to tackle online addiction and sleep deprivation.
Sept 8, Full Moon Lunar
Eclipse with Mars square Jupiter
quite a powerful
eclipse...
Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, has announced his
resignation; at least 19 people have been killed
and dozens injured in Nepal
after demonstrations against a sweeping social-media ban; Nepal's parliament set on fire after PM resigns over
anti-corruption protests; Russia hits Ukraine
with biggest air attack of war, sets government building ablaze; Shooting attack at Jerusalem bus stop kills
6 people; French lawmakers voted to
oust Prime Minister François Bayrou; Killing of Charlie
Kirk
Fall
Following the September 21
solar eclipse, we had
Sep 24 Mars square Pluto
Oct 1 Dr. Jane
Goodall passed away.
Oct 9 Thomas Pynchon's last novel was published in 2013.
Since then, the world has become a lot like a Pynchon novel...In his new novel,
Shadow Ticket, he has
a long bit in about asports and apports, disappearances and reappearances
during séances. Big Lebowsky Gravity Rainbow prequel...
Oct 14 Gaza peace plan
announced. In the Fall prognostic, I boldly declared:
Although there
have been some strong efforts, I do not see the chance of the Russia-Ukraine
and Israel-Hamas wars showing any signs of ending before next Spring at the
earliest.
Perhaps I was off the mark,
but the peace
process, although making headway, is taking time to unfold, therefore, my
prognostic for a Spring
finalization might still be plausible. In any case, conditions for
peace should be more favourable in the Spring, as the outer planets take a more
definite positioning in the new signs.
Oct
21 Takaichi Sanae becomes Japan's 1st
woman Prime Minister. On November 7, a statement about Taiwan prompted a diplomatic skirmish with China.
Sailor Moon: The Super Live musical's tour of China was promptly cancelled.
Nov 4 Mars opposition
Uranus Full moon in Taurus
November 5
Rio Brazil drug raids, against
large organized
crime ring, Sudan violence, Philippines
Typhoon
Kalmaegi, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica,
Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Hamas-Israel attacks escalate, Tanzania
election violence, India
Religious
stampede Afghanistan Earthquake, November 11: 758-metre-long
Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, months after opening.
Astronomers spotted comet
3I/ATLAS with Hubble again on November 30, when it was 178 million
miles (286 million kilometers) from Earth, and using the telescope’s Wide Field
Camera 3 instrument, captured an even clearer shot.
Mars square Saturn exact Dec 8 ends Dec 29
Early possible effects noted around November 25 include, Hong
Kong apartment complex
fire, Over 1300 people dead & 1.2 million displaced
following devastating flooding and landslides in South-East
Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka,
caused by tropical
Cyclones Senyar and Ditwah.
Around December 8, we had 7.6
earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, 7.5 earthquake
in Alaska, Ukraine-Russia peace deal stalled,
Israel-Gaza peace
deal stalled, (progressing slowly), Thailand-Cambodia border
skirmishes, failed
coup in Benin, violence
in Congo, Sudan civil
war humanitarian crisis, US seizes
Venezuelan oil tanker, continuing pressure
campaign, dramatic documentary about Anglican Church abuse
scandal aired. Two coronal mass ejections (CME) struck Earth's
magnetic field, sparking geomagnetic storm conditions and painting the night
sky with vivid aurora displays as far south as California U.S., Austria, and Germany.
Around December 14,
Saturn father issues highlighted with Rob
Reiner and wife murder and father-son Hanukkah
shooting in Australia,
15 dead. Both events could be seen as examples encapsulating many of the
elements in the prognostic for the semester (compounded by Sun square
Saturn (exact Dec. 16) and Mars square Neptune
(exact Dec 14)).Astrology: The Year Ahead 2026
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