While it might appear to be business as usual as you move into the new professional year, to start with at least there is a chance to take your foot off the gas and for many, it will be after years not even realising that you had it on in the first place. It wasn't until the end of November 2024 that after 16 years Pluto, the planet of change, transformation and rebellion finally left your career sector, not to return again in our lifetime. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of each year in your career sector, things are likely to feel much the same as they do as you move into any new professional year, with the solar spotlight on your career and professional situation, matters and options as you look to the journey ahead. However, by the time you move into the New Year Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres, who stayed on after Pluto left have already gone and by the end of January, your career sector will be empty.

Apart from the Moon's monthly visits, there will be no more planetary activity in your career sector until Mars returns on 15th December to fire up what will be an active end to this professional year and start to your 2026 professional year. The last time your career sector has been empty this long was in 2007, the year before Pluto first returned. After 16 years it is time to take your foot off the gas but also the trainer wheels, knowing that you can take it from here on your own. However, this does put a lot more focus on January, when a lot can be invested into getting this new professional year off on the right track. The Sun, who will always spend the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your career sector will leave on 20th January but Mercury will be here from 8th January to 28th January, giving you everything you need to move into this new professional year with your head in the game.

However, while there will then be no more planetary activity on the career front until the end of the year, that is not the case on the job front, though with time first to let things from the last few years play out before the busiest months of the year kick in. This will start with Mars' return to your work sector from 17th June to 7th August, with the warrior planet of the cosmos able to fire things up and get things moving in the very heart of the year. While these are likely to be the busiest months of the year, it is a few weeks after Mars leaves that the Sun will return to put the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options from 23rd August to 23rd September. In that time Venus and Mercury will return, with the most active months of the year on the job front not ending until Venus leaves on 14th October. By then Mars will only be two months away from his return to your career sector.