LEAD THE WAY
After a couple of years sampling Pluto in your sign for a few months at a time, we start the year with Pluto now firmly in your Sun sign (on November 26th 2024) where it will live until 2043. While this is a huge transformative transit for us collectively, it is also a transformative period for your Sun; the core expression of your personality and identity.
Pluto is the Roman expression of this underworld, alchemical archetype that shares much with its Greek counterpart, Hades. Both have ties to the underworlds – which we can interpret as our own psychological depths and hidden (shadow) aspects and gifts. In a more physical sense, they are both linked to what lives underground, specifically seeds and minerals. Part of this long-range curriculum for your sign now is a process of seeing, integrating and expressing more of yourself. There is much gold in your underground. An easy place to begin is to contemplate who you were as a young child. What brought you joy? What are the threads between child you and adult you?
Part of the genius of your sign is related to your early experiences of being on the outside, looking in. Your freak flag may be large, or it may be invisible to most, the thing is, there’s a sense of seeing, feeling or experiencing life differently to ‘the norm’ that may have felt like you did not belong. However that played out for you, it is a huge and natural part of the Aquarian experience. What’s important is to find the potency in your outlier magic and to share it with the rest of us, rather than choosing to remain outside and aloof.
Your ruler, Uranus, is taking its last laps in Taurus, where it has been since 2018 and from July 7th until November 8th you’ll get a taste of Uranus in Gemini, a fellow air sign. Take note of the change in temperature during this transit as it feels like you are being given the mic. This is the archetype of the communicator, it’s how we receive and express our intel and is in such a supportive relationship to both your Sun sign and Pluto in the early degrees of your sign. There’s an emphasis here on expressing your ideas and thoughts, and really homing in on how you clear the chatter in your mental plane. It may be journaling or verbally processing aloud to yourself, whatever feels most natural to you. You can really use this transit to both clear your mind and really communicate more of your own magic, your own ideas and perspectives and Aquarian P.O.V.
Gemini has the gift of simplifying complexities so that anyone can understand an idea or concept. On either side of those dates, Uranus will be in Taurus.While it is a seemingly odd combination, it has also been a grounding force for your sign., tapping you into the daily rituals that anchor you into your body. As a cerebral being, grounding into your own body and being present is medicinal for your sign. Soak up the simplicity and grounded-ness of this transit while it’s still here. Have an attitude of curiosity. There are big transits at play here for you and the more that you can remain clear and grounded and curious about what comes up, the more you can actively receive and work with the medicine your sign is being offered this year.
Want to understand why the zodiac signs are the way they are? Look no further than our comprehensive guide to the personality traits of each zodiac sign. Plus, you can find all the answers to the year ahead in our 2025 astrology forecast.
PHOTOGRAPHY Anna Pogossova @ Bernstein & Andriulli AU
FASHION Hannah Cooper
SET DESIGN Roze Hooij
PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Simon Hardy
STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Mia Kidis
