As you move into the New Year and get your first look at 2025, first impressions will suggest that as far as professional years go it is business as usual. The dwarf planet Eris, the warrior planet of the cosmos is still in retrograde motion in your career sector, as is usually the case and while the Sun left your work sector just before Christmas, until he leaves on 8th January Mercury is still here, tying up the loose ends of some active months on the job front. Eris has been in your career sector for over nine decades and it is not unusual for the tail end of the previous year's activity on the job front to spread into the early days or even weeks of the New Year. However, 2025 is a living example of the fact that you can't judge a book by its cover, for despite first impressions this professional year will be anything but business as usual, with major change just three months away.

While Mercury will leave your work sector empty when he leaves, while not a major player the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment's return from 20th February to 15th April will not only give you the resolve to stay on top of work and job matters, but during some of the most exciting months on the career front in decades. Juno will dip back in from 1st October to 30th December, this time just as things are about to fire up on the job front, starting with Mars' return to your work sector on 5th November and then running through to the early days of 2026. However, it is on the career front that everything is happening this year and it begins with Venus' return to your career sector on 4th February. To start with there is nothing unusual about this, except instead of spending just 24 days fuelling your professional confidence, attracting opportunities and steering things in a lucrative direction, a retrograde turn will see her retrograde back out on 27th March, only to return for a do over from 1st May to 6th June.

Coincidently Mercury will do the same, returning on 3rd March for what should be a two week chance to get your head in the game and to think on your feet, only to see him retrograde back out on 30th March and then return for a do over from 16th April to 11th May. What is it that makes two planets that will normally rush through in just a few weeks not only be reluctant to leave but return for a second time? Something big must be up that they are preparing you for. That something is Neptune, the planet of hopes and dream's return to your career sector for the first time in our lifetime on 31st March, followed by Saturn's return for the first time in three decades on 27th May, together giving you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn professional dreams into reality. Saturn will retrograde back out on 1st September and Neptune on 22nd October but will both return in early 2026.