The Astrology of 2025

SpiritualityAstrology

Jan 2

Written By juniper stokes

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Around this time of year, it can seem as if every astrologer is talking about how major the changes to come will be.

It gets old, I know.

And…2025 really is a bit wild. So let’s look at just a few select highlights.

Take a deep breath — I’m not going to bombard you with a bunch of astro terms and a million dates to remember. I am going to highlight a few things that I think you’ll find helpful :)

North Node to Pisces 1/11

First, our collective North Node is shifting into Pisces on 1/11.

The North Node represents our collective evolutionary path, pointing toward what we are being called to embrace and integrate. In Pisces, this brings themes of spiritual growth, emotional healing, compassion, and surrender.

Of course, the shadow side of this can be the tendency to blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Spiritual illusions can distract from Truth, and addictive tendencies — especially those that pull us into altered states of consciousness — can gain power.

Overall, I’m feeling hopeful and ready for this shift. It feels like the perfect energy to hold the Wild Alchemy Apprenticeship.

I’m guessing that a lot more folks will find an interest and access in plant medicine too (if you’re headed down this path, please connect with me about psychedelic preparation and integration programs).

What to expect with the North Node in Pisces

Spiritual Awakening & Intuition

This is the time for your intuition to lead the way. If you feel called to expand your spiritual studies, live a more mystical life, and cultivate your intuitive practices — the cosmos support you! Dreams, omens, and synchronicities will be speaking to your soul, guiding you home to yourself.

More Compassion & Empathy

I don’t know about you, but I’m really ready for this. The cancel culture, info wars, and public shaming of recent years have left us divided and downtrodden, both with each other and within ourselves. It’s time to heal.

Let yourself be drawn to serve the causes that live in your heart. Be vulnerable. Trust your sensitivity. And soften the hard boundaries that cause more harm than healing.

Where can you let go and surrender? Trust the flow of life just a bit more?

As old structures dissolve, remember that they allow something beautiful and new to emerge.

Creativity & Imagination

Everyone is a creator. If we truly are a reflection of the divine, then it is in our nature to create from the heart. What beauty do you want to birth into the world?

Whether you are drawn to expressing yourself through art, poetry, music, film, or food; creative problem solving; or visioning a radically healed and whole future for our planet — let your imagination lead the way.

Escapism & Confusion

The world of spirit can be both enticing and confusing. Primary themes in the shadow of this era include: addiction and avoidance; blurring of healthy or needed boundaries; falling into collective fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories; getting lost in illusion, including those that take you into martyrdom; and letting those dreams and visions take on unrealistic agendas that set you up for distraction or failure.

Support for Making the Most of this Transit

For years, I’ve specialized in working with clients who have become overwhelmed, hijacked, or disillusioned by the Wild West of modern spirituality. This feels like really important preparation for the times to come…

Which is why one of the primary intentions for the Wild Alchemy Apprenticeship is to support you in cultivating and clarifying a truly healthy and integrated spiritual practice. One that is perfect for you — not based on trying to merge a million well-intended spiritual teachers idea into one nonsensical whole.

Registration will open soon, so grab a spot on the waitlist here.

I also will continue to offer this support in my 1:1 sessions, though there are limited spots available. These sessions support your personal spiritual path through deep inner alchemy.

Psychedelics can play an essential role in our awakening this transit — but this world is also a place where the shadow side of Pisces gets really big. If you head down this path, please reach out. Through sacred preparation and ritual integration, you will revolutionize your psychedelic experience.

The Generational Planets Are Shifting

The other major astro influence this year is that our two outer planets are both changing signs. In astrology, “outer planets” are known as generational planets. Every generation has its own vibes, and these planets point us to what those vibes might be.

This year, we’re kicking off a period of dynamic transformation, innovation, and a fiery drive toward idealism and change. New cultural, intellectual, and spiritual eras are upon us — bringing themes of imagination, rebellion, and courage. Buckle up…

Neptune in Aries

On 3/30, Neptune enters Aries, where it will stay until 2039. This brings some Aries fire and initiative to Neptune’s dreamy and spiritual focus.

Spiritual breakthroughs, visionary and creative inspiration, and radical compassion are on the horizon.

But so is the growth of the spiritual ego — think of a messiah complex and spiritual bypassing to the extreme. (Thought Bali-ponytail-tantric-healer-man was cringe? Just wait…) Watch out for this in the teachers and leaders you encounter with in the coming years (and check yourself too!).

What to expect with Neptune in Aries

Here comes the growth of spiritual leadership — for better and worse.

This transit invites us to connect with our internal spiritual leadership, shedding old programing and awakening to what is true and right for us. It might inspire you to live more in alignment with your values and even take real world action to create a world that better matches your spiritual visions.

Unfortunately, when spiritual leadership arises within a competitive, capitalist, survival-of-the-fittest society…it can easily become a performative money grabbing scheme at best and can perpetuate messiah-guru driven spiritual abuse at worst.

Pretty please keep your wits about you when it comes to charismatic spiritual teachers or movements that promise salvation, revolution, or utopian visions with creepy undertones. Please.

Hopefully, radical compassion will help with this.

When Aries is in service, it’s an unstoppable spiritual warrior. Rather than simply feeling empathy, Aries helps Neptune put compassion in action.

This should offer a nice counter to the collective service of this Aquarian age. While Aquarius wants what’s best for the collective, it doesn’t care too much about individual feelings. This transit reminds us to really feel for the experiences of individuals while keeping a higher vision in place.

Enjoy the creative vibes and dreamy visions that will arise.

I love that North Node Pisces is kicking off this Neptune era. In modern astrology systems, Neptune is the ruler of Pisces, so we get a super-charged dose of all things watery, dreamy, emotional, visioning, and creative.

We might see the arts become more poignant or provocative, impacting the rest of culture more prominently. With this, utopian dreams may arise. If we can let these visions inspire us without pulling us into fantasy land, we’ll be doing our world a great service.

Uranus in Gemini

On 7/7, Uranus enters Gemini, where it will stay until 2033. Uranus is the great disruptor, and Gemini is all about higher learning and communication. So…expect some major revolutions in how we think and connect with each other.

If you’re thinking about AI right now, you’re on the right track. You don’t need astrology to tell you that we’re only beginning to see the impacts of this tech…but it’s pretty cool how it all lines up ;)

What to expect with Uranus in Gemini

Think intellectual, communication, technological revolution. Rather than go into all the areas of society this might influence — I’m just going to invite your imagination to go wild. You know what’s coming…AI, crypto, transportation, youth uprising, media overwhelm…it’s all already started.

While there’s a lot of good here, there are some definite things to watch out for. Information overload could go next level — especially misinformation and weaponized ideologies.

Remember what’s true and real. Do a digital detox often. Connect with the Earth.

Neptune in Aries + Uranus in Gemini: The Big Picture

All together, we can expect an era that continues to redefine what it is to be human. What is consciousness? What is animate and alive? What is real?

I imagine we’ll see radical new creations arise out of the merging of art, spirituality, and technology.

And we’ll probably see some backlash to the big changes upon us.

I hope we’ll see GenX in more leadership roles across the board. There is something about that generation that knows how to balance Piscean and Aries energy — I think this generation is perhaps the most primed to offer a bridge from the old era to the new, neither clinging to the past nor burning it all down. That’s just me though…what do you all think?

And there’s a lot more happening this year

Overall, the first half of the year looks a little rough…but the second half looks awesome. We’ll see. Lots of fiery Aries energy, nurturing Cancer blessed by Jupiter, eclipses, retrogrades…all the things! Keep tuning in for more as each new astro season is upon us :)