Love Monthly for Month Commencing: Saturday 01 February 2025

   Aries Saturday 01 February 2025  Mar 21 - Apr 19
Things are not only set to become more romantically charged this month but in a way that you wouldn’t normally expect at this time of year and in a departure from a focus that has been more on your relationships. When the South Node left your relationship sector last month, this ended the lunar nodes 18 month policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs, while leaving you with no planetary activity on the relationship front until later in the year. The Moon will continue to return every four weeks, with its return from 16th February to 18th February a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.

However, where things have dialled back on the relationship front, they are heating up on the romantic front. It starts on 4th February when Venus, the planet of love will make an early and extended visit to your romantic sector. Last year Venus didn’t return until March, which is usually when you would expect her to return and she moved through in just 24 days, as would normally be the case. This time, Venus will not only return over a month earlier than last year, but she won’t leave until 27th March.

By the time you get to the end of the month, Venus will have come to a near standstill ahead of a retrograde turn on 3rd March that will see her leave by retrograding back out, only to return on 1st May to spend another five weeks here. Helping to get this romantically charged chapter off to an empowered start will be the Moon’s return to your romantic sector from 11th February to 13th February. Normally this would be the only visit while Venus is in Aries, but this is just the first of several encounters while as a Full Moon, this is going to give the spirit of romance a serious boost.
 
   Taurus Saturday 01 February 2025  Apr 20 - May 20
There is change in the air this month, with the dynamics looking very different on the romantic front than what you would normally expect at this time of year. On the one hand, you have the South Node in the first full month of its 18 month transit through your romantic sector, something that while not a planet is going to keep the spirit of romance alive while defending against roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined. The South Node will always put a lot of focus on the past, something that will take on new meaning when Venus, the planet of love returns to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 4th February.

This should be the start of a nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane that will end 24 days later with Venus’ return to Taurus but instead, that won’t happen until early June. This is because of a retrograde turn early next month that will take the planet of love into even deeper reaches of love’s memory lane and will eventually see her retrograde all the way back out and back into a social and serendipitous part of your chart, where she begins this month. Adding to a sense of romantic nostalgia will be the Moon’s monthly visit to your romantic sector from 13th February to 15th February, something that will see these romantically charged lunar vibes reach their peak on Valentine’s Day.

Meanwhile, it is the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment who has been flying the flag for your relationships, with her return in early November until her departure from your relationship sector on 20th February continuing to keep the focus on your relationships. In a case of perfect timing, the Moon will make its monthly visit from 18th February to 21st February, ensuring you are emotionally engaged and aware during Juno’s final hours as she leaves. Fortunately, a retrograde turn next month will bring her back in April to spend another five and a half months here.
 
   Gemini Saturday 01 February 2025  May 21 - Jun 21
With no planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts, as you move into the second month of February, as is the norm for this time of year, it all comes down to the Moon’s monthly visits and the water that has already passed under the bridge. There will also be a surprise thrown into the mix on the relationship front. While there is no planetary activity in your romantic sector and there will be none until the second half of the year, it was just last month that the South Node ended its 18 month visit. As well as keeping the focus on the spirit of romance throughout that time, the South Node also defended against old excuses, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined.

After 18 months it won’t take much to continue what this began, though the Moon’s monthly visits will be key to keeping the spirit of romance alive. This makes it important to make the spirit of romance a priority when the Moon moves through from 16th February to 18th February, creating some of the most romantically charged days of the month. Meanwhile, it was also last month that Mercury, the planet of communication left your relationship sector, but not before spending over two months here.

Normally Mercury will rush through in 14 to 15 days, giving you barely enough time to work with the planet of communication before he is gone. However, a retrograde turn kept Mercury here long enough that you have everything needed to keep the communication lines open. However, it is here that there are some surprise developments, with the Moon’s return from 21st February to 23rd February a chance to get an early feel for this. It is the day before that on 20th February the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships will return for her first visit to your relationship sector in four years, with the Moon’s return a day later a chance to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware from the start.
 
   Cancer Saturday 01 February 2025  Jun 22 - Jul 22
There has been a shift in the regular pattern that each year has taken since as far back as 2008, with a shift away from your relationships and onto matters of the heart instead. Because Pluto’s 16 year visit to your relationship sector ended in November 2024, when Mercury left towards the end of last month this brought to an end near continuous planetary activity since 2008. With no more planets returning to your relationship sector until later in the year, this has taken the focus off your relationships while the Moon will continue to return every four weeks.

The Moon was here when Mercury left last month and will come full circle from 23rd February to 25th February. This will be the first time the Moon has moved through without planetary activity since a short period in early 2024, but with a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware. Apart from that, there will be no focus on your relationships all month and with Mars still in Cancer, this means no tension between your own and your relationship needs, though with an ingrained sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.

Meanwhile, while Venus, the planet of love will leave an adventurous part of your chart on 4th February and the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will leave your romantic sector on 20th February, both will turn retrograde next month and start heading back. Venus will return in March to another five and a half months on what will be an ongoing mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, while Juno will return to spend another six months here. While they are gone the asteroid Vesta, the goddess of the hearth will keep the romantic flames alight, with help from the Moon as it passes through your romantic sector from 18th February to 20th February.
 
   Leo Saturday 01 February 2025  Jul 23 - Aug 22
Because the Sun will always spend the majority of the first three weeks of February in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, often by the end of the month, all planetary activity on the relationship front could have come to an end and you would have to wait until the following January for the Sun’s return. That won’t be the case this year nor in any other year until Pluto, the planet of change and transformation leaves in 2044. While Pluto spent time here in 2023 and 2024, when he returned in November it was to spend the next 20 years here.

This means that this month there are two things going on, the early months of what will be a two decade long journey and the more immediate focus that you can put on your relationships now, which includes starting the month with the Sun, Mercury and the dwarf planet Ceres here, but as they will all be gone by the end of the month, with a short term focus. The Sun will keep the solar spotlight on your relationships until leaving on 18th February while the dwarf planet Ceres deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities that began in November, will continue until she leaves on 24th February.

More urgent is Mercury’s departure on 15th February, with the planet of communication racing through in just 17 days. When the Moon returns from 25th February to 27th February Pluto will be on his own and it will have become more about the journey. However, by then there will also have been some surprise developments on the romantic front. On 20th February, the day before the Moon returns for its monthly visit from 21st February to 23rd February, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will return for her first visit to your romantic sector in four years. By then Venus, the planet of love who will return to an adventurous part of your chart on 4th February, will be settling into her extended mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together.
 
   Virgo Saturday 01 February 2025  Aug 23 - Sep 22
Ever since Pluto first returned to your romantic sector in 2008, there has been near continuous planetary activity, including the several years that Jupiter and Saturn spent here, Mars’ return every two years, the Sun, Venus and Mercury returning each year and a host of minor planets in that time. Yet when Mercury left late last month, this ended all planetary activity in your romantic sector until later in the year, with the love gods finally taking the trainer wheels off. However, the Moon will continue to return every four weeks, something that makes holding the influence of these romantically charged lunar vibes during the few days it is here all the more important.

The Moon will make its first visit since Mercury left from 23rd February to 25th February, making these the most romantically charged days of the month. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of planetary activity on the relationship front, but the planets there are preparing for the same thing. After being in your relationship sector since 2012, Neptune will be leaving later next month and Saturn just over a month later. However, with maximum input between now and then. Venus, the planet of love will leave your relationship sector on 4th February, however, a retrograde turn early next month will see her retrograde back in for a do over later next month.

It is while Venus is gone that Mercury, the planet of communication will return on 15th February, where he will spend the rest of the month. With the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships in your communication sector until 20th February, this will provide wall to wall communication support. It is while they are still there that the Sun’s return to your relationship sector on 18th February will turn the solar spotlight onto your relationships, as it does at this time each year. It is 10 days later that a New Moon on 28th February will offer a chance for new beginnings, in the heart of the Moon’s visit from 27th February to 1st March.
 
   Libra Saturday 01 February 2025  Sep 23 - Oct 23
Because the Sun will always spend the majority of the first three weeks of February in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. This year you have an overlapping of the ordinary focus that matters of the heart get at this time of year and the start of a much longer and more significant journey. That journey is Pluto, the planet of change and transformation’s 20 year transit through your romantic sector that will keep him here until 2044. Pluto spent time here in 2023 and again in 2024, but when he returned in November it was to spend the next two decades here.

Pluto hasn’t been on his own since Venus and the dwarf planet Ceres returned in early December and while Venus left in the New Year, Ceres' first deep dive into your heart’s needs and priorities in four years will continue until she leaves on 24th February. Until he leaves on 15th February, as the planet of communication, Mercury will be focused on giving your heart a voice and putting your heart and mind on the same page. With the Sun leaving on 18th February, when Ceres leaves six days later Pluto will be on his own and apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, it will stay that way until later in the year.

The first of those visits will be from 25th February to 27th February, with the Moon returning a day after Ceres leaves. While matters of the heart and the spirit of romance will never go off the boil, there is going to be a lot more focus on your relationships, starting with Venus, the planet of love’s return to your relationship sector on 4th February. This is early in the year for Venus, who last year didn’t return until March. So early, that a retrograde turn early next month will force her to slow down and wait for the Sun’s return next month. With the Moon moving through your relationship sector from 2nd February to 4th February, while it will leave just before Venus returns, with a chance to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware from the start.
 
   Scorpio Saturday 01 February 2025  Oct 24 - Nov 21
While the Sun won’t return to your romantic sector until 18th February, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart, the month gets off to a romantically charged start and there will be more to come. While Venus, the planet of love will start the month in your romantic sector but leave on 4th February, by then she has been here for a whole month. Normally moving through in just 24 days, this means that Venus is slowing down and while she won’t turn retrograde until early next month, by the end of next month she will be back for a do over.

The Moon also begins the month in your romantic sector and while it will leave on 2nd February, even in the shortest month of the year, this will give it time to not only circle back for a second visit from 27th February to 1st March, but this time as a New Moon. This means that the Moon will begin and end the month in your romantic sector, with a lot of water set to pass under the bridge between those two visits. The last thing Venus will do before leaving your romantic sector is spend her final days aligned with dreamy Neptune, as has every other planet that has moved through since his return in 2012. However, it is also for the last time and while Venus will connect again when she retrogrades back in later next month, it will be for the last time.

That is because after 13 years the planet of hopes and dreams will leave and while he will return later in the year, only to tie up loose ends by the time the Sun and the faster planets come around next year, he will be gone. No wonder Venus was reluctant to leave and will return for a do over. Meanwhile, it is 11 days later that Mercury will return to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page, with the Sun returning to your romantic sector on 18th February, where they will end the month. Meanwhile, after a direct turn in your relationship sector at the end of last month, when the Moon moves through from 4th February to 6th February and connects with Uranus, it will be to find the focus has shifted away from the past.
 
   Sagittarius Saturday 01 February 2025  Nov 22 - Dec 21
While they returned on 12th January, as the lunar nodes settle into the first full month of their new 18 month policing of your work/life balance, the timing couldn’t be better. Unusual for this time of year, things are warming up on both the romantic and relationship fronts, with a need to be willing to make time for both. The month begins with Jupiter not only still in retrograde motion but at a standstill, though with support from the Sun and Mercury, the planet of communication in your communication sector. The month begins with a friendly aspect between the Sun and Jupiter still separating, while another with Mercury will peak on 4th February, just as Jupiter turns direct.

By the time the Moon returns from 6th February to 8th February, Jupiter will be back in direct motion, with the focus off the past and onto the road ahead, though with Mercury staying close until he leaves on 15th February. With Jupiter not leaving your relationship sector until June, this is the start of a turnaround and thanks to the Moon, with a chance to move forward emotionally engaged and aware. That isn’t all that is happening in the early part of the month, with things also taking a romantic turn early on.

It begins with the Moon’s return to your romantic sector from 2nd February to 4th February and while an ordinary monthly visit, these romantically charged lunar vibes will be the perfect lead up to Venus, the planet of love’s return. Venus will return on 4th February, just a few hours after the Moon leaves and after it has already warmed things up. This is early in the year for Venus, who last year didn’t return until March to return. So early, that she will be forced to slow down and wait for the Sun, who doesn’t return until later next month. Venus will do this by turning retrograde early next month, something that will see her eventually retrograde all the way back out at the end of March, only to return just over a month later to spend another five and a half weeks here.
 
   Capricorn Saturday 01 February 2025  Dec 22 - Jan 19
The month begins with Uranus having just turned direct in your romantic sector less than 48 hours earlier while Mars is still in retrograde motion in your relationship sector and will be until turning direct on 24th February. Uranus will start the month at a standstill and over the course of the month slowly start to move forward while over the course of the month Mars will slow down, coming to a standstill in order to turn direct. Either way, both are taking things slowly and deliberately as you navigate your way through what is an important month on both the romantic and relationship fronts.

For Uranus and matters of the heart, this is the end of what has been an annual retrograde phase since he returned in 2019, except this time he will be preparing to leave in July. This is not goodbye for good, for Uranus will retrograde back in later in the year and a lot of water will pass under the bridge before then, but this is preparation for his final departure early next year, not to return for another eight decades. This makes this a month where the tide has not only turned on the romantic front but you are in the final stage of what is a seven year journey. The Moon will make its only visit this month from 4th February to 6th February.

Meanwhile, while Mars will remain in your relationship sector until April, even this is preparation for something bigger, with Jupiter returning in June to begin your biggest year for relationship growth and expansion in over a decade. This explains why there is so much effort being put into the communication lines this month. While Venus, the planet of love will leave your relationship sector on 4th February, a retrograde turn early next month will see her return for a do over, by which point there will be even more resources. Meanwhile, the Moon will return for its last visit while Mars is in retrograde motion from 9th February to 11th February, bringing a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware.
 
   Aquarius Saturday 01 February 2025  Jan 20 - Feb 18
While there has been no planetary activity in your relationship sector since Mars retrograded back out early last month and there will be none until he returns in April, the Moon not only continues to make its monthly visits but support on the communication front is building. Meanwhile, there is also a turnaround on the romantic front this month, with 4th February an important day on both fronts. In the lead up to this, the Moon’s monthly visit to your communication sector from 2nd February to 4th February will be a chance to get the ball rolling ahead of Venus, the planet of love’s return just a few hours later.

It is just as Venus is settling into what will be her longest visit to your communication sector in eight years and her extended mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice, that just a few hours later and also on 4th February, Jupiter will turn direct in your romantic sector. Still on his own but with a lot of support from the Sun and planets in your romantic sector, this brings you to a major turning point on the romantic front, with what Jupiter is working to make a lucky year for love back on track after taking a detour down memory lane.

It is just a few days later that the Moon will return for its monthly visit to your romantic sector, with the romantically charged lunar vibes from 6th February to 8th February able to jumpstart anything stalled and get the romantic flame burning again. This is when you will sense that the focus has shifted away from the past and onto the road ahead. It is a few days later that the Moon will not only make its monthly visit to your relationship sector from 11th February to 13th February but as a Full Moon. By then Venus will be settled into your communication sector and will be on hand to give any strong emotional responses a voice.
 
   Pisces Saturday 01 February 2025  Feb 19 - Mar 20
While this is an important month on both the romantic and relationship fronts, at a time of year when that is not normally the case. There is rarely any planetary activity in either at this time of year and while on the relationship front that is still the case, as the South Node settles into its first full month in your relationship sector, this is a whole new experience. Along with its partner the North Node in Pisces, the lunar nodes are embarking on an 18 month policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs. As Venus, the planet of love will cross the lunar nodes before she leaves Pisces on 4th February, this will give you your closest sense yet of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.

At the same time, as you move into the new month Venus is still separating from a friendly aspect to Mars, who retrograded back into your romantic sector early last month. On top of the two months that Mars had already spent here before leaving in September, when he returned two months later it was to spend another four months here. With Mars not leaving until April and Jupiter returning in June to begin your luckiest year for love in over a decade, he has returned to prepare the way. In retrograde motion until 24th February, for the majority of the month Mars will be focused on the past and especially when the Moon moves through from 9th February to 11th February.

While Venus will be gone from Pisces by then, her own retrograde turn early next month will see her retrograde back in to spend even more time with Mars over the coming months. Meanwhile, the Moon will return to your relationship sector from 13th February to 16th February, something that will see it cross the lunar nodes. As well as a chance to become more emotionally engaged and aware, this will give you another chance to check in on what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This will also be a chance to take advantage of Uranus’ first full month back in direct motion in your communication sector.