2024 Horoscopes Overview
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2024 Overview Horoscopes
The following are overview horoscopes for the year 2024. For more Cafe Astrology Yearly Horoscopes, see also 2024 Preview Horoscopes and 2024 Yearly Horoscopes.
Overview of 2024
We have several continuing and developing themes, but the year 2024’s astrology has unique features.
Saturn in Pisces
All year, Saturn travels through the final sign of the zodiac, Pisces. It first entered the sign in March of last year, leaving Aquarius and not to return to the sign for another 27 years!
Saturn’s stay in Pisces will last until 2025/2026.
Saturn points to areas where we have some growing up to do, which means there can be some limits and rules to follow wherever we find this sober, realistic planet.
As such, while Saturn is in Pisces, there can be some frustrations in achieving practical goals until we learn to integrate our material and non-material values. There can certainly be times when we feel uncomfortable with big shows of feeling or vulnerability/weakness. But by not fully allowing ourselves these very human qualities, we limit ourselves.
While we will work hard or root for the underdog, we don’t feel comfortable feeling like we are one. We should watch for subtly conveying to others that we don’t need kindnesses, compliments, and support. During this cycle, we can be bothered by people who seem to play the victim, or on another level, are too “out there” with their spirituality.
Lacking some faith or trust in our intuition (or life itself), we can frequently feel vaguely fearful. In fact, it can feel more comfortable to offer tangible help and advice than emotional shows of support.
Saturn has something to teach us, no matter which sign it’s currently visiting. This time around, we would benefit by learning to recognize how we may limit ourselves and our experiences if we deny our connection to the more vulnerable, messy, or chaotic side of ourselves. It’s a step-by-step, slow-but-sure process.
There is some tendency to avoid scrutiny at all costs during this period, which can lead to missed opportunities. Even if we’re strong and resilient, we can sometimes doubt that we can cope. There is also a possibility of persistent or formidable enemies.
On the other hand, quietly working hard can be a real strength of this position.
We’re learning to allow ourselves to be creative and imaginative.
We’re also capable of considerable effort and hard work in support and service. It’s easier for us to put our egos aside in order to get things done.
We’ve had Neptune in Pisces for many years, and Saturn’s influence on Pisces-ruled areas in our charts is considerably different. Neptune breaks down boundaries while Saturn erects them, for one. For another, Neptune seeks inspiration and boosts imagination, and Saturn wants us to pay attention to our practical priorities.
In essence, Saturn wants us to shape up, be mature, and cultivate self-reliance and self-discipline in these areas of life.
So, in areas where we’ve grown accustomed to meandering, dreaming, and taking many detours, we’re now challenged to define, draw lines, shape up, and pay attention to rules. It’ll take some adjustment! Ideally, we’ve already been working on this last year, coming into 2024 feeling better equipped.
Pluto continues its transition from Capricorn to Aquarius
Pluto has been transiting Capricorn for many years, and it has more work to do in the sign. However, last year, it made its first dip into the sign of Aquarius (from March to June).
This year, in 2024, Pluto once again enters Aquarius (on January 20th) for another dip into the sign before returning to Capricorn for its last hurrah on September 1st.
But this year is different: when Pluto re-enters Aquarius on November 19th, it’s there to stay for a couple of decades.
While Pluto is in Aquarius, we take social structures and politics seriously and seek major reform in these areas. Unusual, intense, or dramatic happenings are possible with friends and networks.
During this long-term cycle, we will likely confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations.
We can be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities. It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas.
Babies born with Pluto in Aquarius will have these themes hard-wired into them!
Pluto is in Aquarius from March 23, 2023, to June 11, 2023, later from January 20, 2024, until September 1, 2024, and again from November 19, 2024, to March 8, 2043, at which point it will weave in and out of Aquarius and Pisces.
Why so many dates? Pluto is very slow-moving, and with retrograde (effective backward) activity, it advances only about 1-3 degrees per year, depending on the sign. While Pluto flirts with Aquarius again in 2024, it won’t consistently transit the sign until November. In all, Pluto will spend between 19 and 20 years in the sign.
Jupiter and Saturn in 2024
So, areas of tension remain where we find Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces in our charts, but Capricorn is leaving the list in mid-November.
On the other hand, we can look to the Taurus and Gemini parts of our charts for where we are expanding or improving in some significant manner in 2024. Read more about Jupiter in Taurus and Jupiter in Gemini.
With Aquarius and Pisces energy strong in the year 2024, we take a particular interest in what happens to society or the majority. Chiron in Aries and Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus, ensure special attention to the self and individuality.
Jupiter is in Taurus
Jupiter continues in Taurus until May 25th, 2024 (since May 16th last year). All in all, it spends a little over a year in this Fixed Earth sign.
Jupiter in Taurus continues to bring opportunities for patience, building and strengthening efforts, and focusing on comfort, stability, and longevity.
How can we best make the Jupiter-in-Taurus transit work for us? During this cycle, we attract the most good fortune when we are steady workers, charitable, generous but discriminating, and patient.
Long-term financial investments are in favor. A strong self-image or feelings of self-worth contribute to success.
There can be a delight for sensual pleasures and a desire for the “simple good life” with Jupiter in Taurus. In contrast to the urgency of the previous Jupiter cycle (while Jupiter was in Aries), we can take pleasure in pursuing our goals in a more drawn-out and leisurely fashion, watching our profits or possessions slowly but surely accumulate. Basic needs have to be met satisfyingly before we pursue other goals.
We benefit most when we observe wisely rather than jump too quickly into something new. Considering long-term viability and value is wise while Jupiter transits Taurus.
We enjoy collecting and building things. In truth, possessions can be our comfort or pleasure zone, which can lead to having too much or an unhealthy focus on material things or the joy of buying.
In Taurus, Jupiter urges us to enjoy, appreciate, and build on what we already have, and to adopt a patient approach to achieving our goals. See also Jupiter transits Taurus.
Jupiter is in Gemini
Jupiter is in Gemini from May 25th forward and spends a little over a year in this Mutable Air sign.
It’s a lively transit: During this period, we place strong emphasis and value on the intellect.
We see opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written channels.
Generally, we’re more inclined to believe that intelligence and knowledge are the primary keys to solving problems at this time. Communication and contact are especially valued–they’re hot commodities!
With Jupiter in Gemini, we attract the most good fortune when we put our wit and ingeniousness to full use and when we’re versatile, social, and curious, putting others at ease with friendliness and sincere curiosity.
It’s a lively transit: During this period, we place strong emphasis and value on the intellect.
We see opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written channels.
Generally, we’re more inclined to believe that intelligence and knowledge are the primary keys to solving problems at this time. Communication and contact are especially valued–they’re hot commodities!
With Jupiter in Gemini, we attract the most good fortune when we put our wit and ingeniousness to full use and when we’re versatile, social, and curious, putting others at ease with friendliness and sincere curiosity.
We find our joy in connecting, learning, delivering, teaching, and facilitating.
The more difficult manifestations of this energy include lack of follow through, too many ideas without a plan to set them into motion, gossip, too much information, fickleness, ambivalence, and indecision. We may take on too many things and lose focus, for example.
Jupiter in Gemini finds joy in getting–and keeping–in touch. It’s a powerful time to improve our communication skills, and it’s an excellent period for upgrading the systems, machines, or devices that keep us mobile and connected–for example, phones, cars, bikes, computers, and so forth. New avenues or channels for communicating and transiting can open up.
In Gemini, Jupiter urges us to learn as much as we can about the people around us, as well as to learn, share, connect, and improve our everyday communications. See more details about this transit: Jupiter transits Gemini details: calendar page.
Health in 2024
Health issues in 2024 can more frequently have to do with poor circulation, rheumatism, and problems with calves, ankles, nerves, and the mind. Breathing abnormalities may continue as a health theme this year. Psychological or mental inclinations that could contribute to health problems include erratic health routines/health care and a tendency to detach ourselves emotionally, perhaps too much. A lower-starch diet, breathing exercises, and special attention to air quality may be appropriate.
With Saturn in Pisces, issues with the feet, the lymphatic system, psychosomatic illnesses, and health problems related to avoidance or neglect can be more prominent. Issues with the pineal gland, melatonin, and circadian rhythm imbalances can be notable. Other health problems connected to this transit include auto-immune disorders, poisoning, drug sensitivities/overdosing, chronic fatigue, and hard-to-diagnose disorders.
Jupiter is in Taurus to May 25th, 2024. Health issues with Jupiter are usually related to excesses, while Taurus issues are often connected to the throat or neck. Taurus accumulates, as does Jupiter, but regularity and rhythm are important with the sign, and Jupiter could upset the balance.
Jupiter is also associated with the liver, memory, and arterial blood flow. Jupiter transits can be protective but they can also enlarge or exaggerate functions.
Health problems associated with Taurus under stress include thyroid or parathyroid issues (example, cysts), throat or tonsil irregularities, and problems with the voice or vocal cords or sense of smell, which could come into prominence with Jupiter in Taurus.
It’s certainly possible that latent problems in these areas can magnify during this Jupiter transit. It’s also possible that solutions arise for these issues since Jupiter has healing, protective energy.
This can be an excellent time for special attention to developing the voice through voice training, for example, and to throat care or the throat chakra.
Focusing on steadiness, regularity, and rhythm or balance can be fortifying during this cycle. Pacing ourselves can be beneficial, more so than usual.
While Jupiter is in Gemini, health matters we might see more of can relate to hands, arms, shoulders, lungs, tubes, connectors, capillaries, vessels, and sensory receptors. For example, Jupiter in Gemini, when challenged, can be associated with locomotor, blood, or cognitive disorders and stroke.
Jupiter, for example, can promote enlargements or produce benign cysts, but even if benign, can wreak a bit of havoc by pressing on other systems or creating imbalances, for example. Excess is also a potential problem with Jupiter, such that even consuming too much information, media, and the like with Jupiter in Gemini can lead to health issues. Gemini is associated with breathing, especially inspiration, and we might question whether some health concerns are to do with consuming too much air, as another example.
We might especially benefit from improving manual dexterity skills, breathing exercises, and developing our communication skills during this Jupiter cycle to enhance our health.
Uranus in Taurus in 2024
Uranus in Taurus continues to shake up our attitude towards money and personal possessions, and it’s a time for bold innovations in these areas. We saw this energy in action in previous years, and more developments are expected in 2024. We can expect changes to what we value on non-material levels as well, and we’re inclined to value ourselves in new ways through the course of this transit that lasts until April 2026.
The North Node of the Moon & Eclipses in 2024
Eclipses falling along the Aries-Libra axis occur again this year, with the final one in this sign set coming only next year, in March 2025. It began with the Solar Eclipse in April, 2023. The True North Node entered Aries last July.
Eclipses this year are:
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse March 25, 3:00:05 at 5 Libra 07
- Total SOLAR Eclipse April 8, 14:20:37 at 19 Aries 24
- Partial LUNAR Eclipse September 17, 22:34:13 at 25 Pisces 41
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse October 2, 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
With the North Node in Aries and the South Node in Libra all year, we receive the message that over-identifying with a partnership or resorting to appeasing a partner can undermine our relationships. We’re working on co-dependency issues and indecision by cultivating independence.
It’s a period of learning to love ourselves, trust our instincts, and lead without fear. Learning to act on our impulses, which implies a certain amount of self-confidence, is an empowering lesson of the North Node in Aries. Striving for internal peace, rather than focusing only on achieving harmony and balance in relationships, will improve our relations and bring us happiness and satisfaction.
The September Lunar Eclipse, however, is in Pisces, and a new eclipse sign set begins: it’s the first eclipse in a set occurring along the Virgo-Pisces axis that will extend until February 2027.
While the next eclipse after this one (chronologically) is in Libra, there will be a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in March 2025, a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces in September 2025, a Solar Eclipse in Virgo in September 2025, a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in March 2026, a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces in August 2026, and a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo in February 2027.
As the first in a sign set, this September eclipse can serve as the initial prompt, nudge, or push to make improvements in Virgo- and Pisces-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify.
Health or work issues may come to the fore with the health and service axis (Pisces-Virgo) involved. The ability to set boundaries to the amount of service we render can also become a significant issue. Situations that test our faith or magnify our fears and doubts may be part of the picture. Secrets may be revealed, including discovering secrets of our own nature from deep within.
For some, a new “calling” will surface. A new line of work that better matches our inner nature, desire to serve, or emotional make-up may unfold in the months following this eclipse. We may discover that we need more rest or attention to our spiritual nature than we currently allow ourselves. Our hearts open, and issues of trust and faith are in focus.
Venus & Mars Retrogrades
Venus does not turn retrograde in 2024 and Mars does, but only near the end of the year. In short, love is rather straightforward and smooth, but desire is more complicated in the last couple months of 2024. From December 6th, Leo areas of our charts require some rethinking. We might re-assess our current projects, our approach to getting what we want, and our desire nature. Rather than directly assert our desires, we tend towards introspection. We can be hesitant about taking action, second-guessing our instincts or natural impulses rather than acting upon them. See Mars Retrograde for more details. Note that Mars will retreat into Cancer while retrograde in early 2025.
With Mars retrograde in Leo, pride can push us to greater heights, but it can also keep us from expressing our true feelings, for example, or prevent us from truly learning from our experiences and from others. With Mars retrograde in Leo, we might see more sulking or pulling away to make a point.
Leo rules children, creativity, recreational pleasure, entertainment, and romance. As such, we may need to re-assess our approach to these matters, perhaps due to frustration or anxiety. Projects may not get off the ground as planned, possibly due to hesitation, caution, and fear of taking risks. Health issues may be a factor (especially in areas ruled by Leo–the heart and back), and accidents a possibility throughout the Mars retrograde period.
- Mars begins its retrograde in the sign of Leo on Dec 6, 2024, at 6 Leo 11, returns to the sign of Cancer on January 6, 2025, and then continues in Cancer until Mars ends its retrograde on Feb 23, 2025, turning direct at 17 Cancer 01.
Sign Emphasis in 2024
The areas of our charts where we find Taurus can involve some shake-ups, new thinking and approaches, and radical changes in some cases. It’s also where we need to challenge ourselves and strive to improve. This year, it’s also an area where we are finding more joy until May.
The areas of our charts where we find Aquarius involve new but slow evolution, transformation, renovation, and intensity. This used to be exclusively for Capricorn areas of our charts, but we’re transitioning to the Aquarius chart areas.
Pisces life departments involve some lessons and strengthening exercises, and they require simplifying and harder (or smarter) work. Oddly, we’re also receiving lessons to expand our options, soften our boundaries, and spiritualize our approach in the same areas. It’s not always straightforward what’s expected of us!
Saturn fixes, balances, and gives us lessons with whichever sign, house, or point it visits–this year, it’s Pisces. Jupiter teaches too, but uses a far different approach, aiming to open us up and fill us with faith and courage to explore and discover–this year, in Taurus and Gemini areas.
We’re finding our joy in Taurus and Gemini areas. Opportunities are opening for us in these life departments.
Business Trends in 2024
In business in 2024, as with all other areas, different themes are working concurrently. Jupiter in Taurus until May 25th reminds us to get comfortable, build long-lasting businesses or products, draw on patience, and appreciate the world of the five senses. We might make innovative products for doing “comfort” in new ways.
Uranus encourages us to branch out and consider new and improved or progressive ways of doing business. We should also be approaching money in an entirely new way as Uranus transits Taurus again this year. We need to deal with money and personal possessions in new ways and learn to free ourselves from certain material constraints.
Innovative methods to make ourselves comfortable emerge and can be an important business focus or trend. Jupiter in Taurus to May points to even more success and blessings in these areas.
In recent years, we’ve seen this Uranus theme through sometimes abrupt changes with money, valuables, possessions, and income that may have resulted in a reshuffling of priorities or values. We’re working with these new variables. Income might come from non-traditional sources or ventures.
We’re also bringing progressive ideas to the world of business. New ways of doing business and making, viewing, and handling money are likely. Income and the energy we put into making money can be variable as our values are changing, in general, related to what we make and own.
Jupiter in Gemini from May 25th forward is powerful for improving communication, connection, and transportation. It’s an excellent period for upgrading the systems, machines, or devices that keep us mobile and connected–for example, phones, cars, bikes, computers, and so forth. New avenues or channels for communicating and transiting can open up.
We have more options or we see more options during this Jupiter-in-Gemini transit. Areas that can improve and benefit are sales, education, representing (agent), teaching, guiding, marketing, writing, editing, journalism, information gathering and relaying, transport, touring, languages, commerce, aviation, and communications.
There can be some good fortune or experiences surrounding communication and learning. Favored now are pursuits and fields that require dexterity, novelty, logic, gathering, collating, reporting, quick thinking, and agility. These areas can be most attractive or profitable. Products that facilitate these things can also be in demand.
With Jupiter in Gemini, we prefer learning programs with a focus on ideas, fact-gathering, interaction, and discussion. Building our communication skills or connections contributes significantly to success. Learning can be our comfort or pleasure zone.
We see opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written channels. We strongly believe that intelligence and knowledge are crucial to solving problems and that being well-informed is empowering.
It’s a fine time to focus on what we’re communicating–our message–in our businesses. We can find ways to pull together facts and deliver information in a more attractive package. Still, we should watch for being too scattered or restless to benefit from this transit’s opportunities.
People may be more attracted to gadgets, puzzles, trivia, and words and may want to improve their immediate environment and daily life. A focus can be on light, morale-boosting social activities.
While Jupiter asks us to grow, expand, and believe, Saturn asks us to simplify, test, and question. The Jupiter-Saturn square in August and December points to some need to adjust, moderate our enthusiasm, and fix problems.
However, Jupiter’s alignment with Uranus in Aries is powerful for innovations, especially in areas of comfort, security, and pleasure. Jupiter’s harmony with Neptune in May and Pluto in early June are powerful for imagination, strategy, and insight. Turning problem areas around, recycling, and reimagining products or businesses can figure strongly.
The North Node in Aries all year brings a strong focus on self-growth and special attention to independence and courage–products and services that promote living one’s truth and being oneself are likely to thrive.
Love Trends in 2024
Concerning love and relationships, we continue to do some excavation and soul-searching regarding our past. There can be a focus on getting ourselves together–figuring out what we want to leave behind and what we want to take forward with us.
The downsides are primarily about how we generally handle emotions during this period. We can feel uncomfortable with big shows of feeling or vulnerability/weakness with Saturn in Pisces, for example. By not fully allowing ourselves these very human qualities, we limit ourselves. We should watch for subtly conveying to others that we don’t need kindness, compliments, and support. We may be less tolerant of people who appear to play the victim or seem too “out there” with their spirituality. Certainly, we can feel more comfortable offering tangible help and advice than emotional shows of support.
We should learn to recognize how we may limit ourselves and our experiences if we deny our connection to the more vulnerable, messy, or chaotic side of ourselves. It’s a step-by-step, slow-but-sure process.
People with strong Pisces in their charts can be more serious–they’re working on their discipline. They can seem distant, and, in truth, they’re going through things. Virgos can feel some distance in a key relationship or pressure due to a lack in the partnership realm. Scorpios and Cancers can enjoy more discipline and stability. Pressure comes from various life departments for Sagittarians and Geminis–the need for more maturity in these areas can weigh heavily on them sometimes.
There’s a revolution happening with Uranus in Taurus, and it’s about approaching sexuality and gratification differently. We’re less inhibited about expressing sensuality, self-love, body love, and pampering. We’re challenging what we previously valued and embracing a new-age view of the feminine. Women’s “roles” in relationships are revolutionizing this year and in the coming years.
In 2024, there’s likely to be a stronger focus on the individual and independence–living one’s truth and asserting oneself. We believe in our personal responsibility and what individuals bring to the table in a relationship.
We have further work to do on self-confidence, body image, and our relationship with our independence. Chiron in Aries is certainly a me-oriented transit, but it’s a vital one if we want to bring our whole selves into a relationship. In 2024, the North Node is in Aries all year, boosting and extending this theme further. Relationships can benefit from the general attitude that the past should be left behind us. Some of us can feel more confident in our ability to be independent, and this can test some relationships.
Getting ourselves in shape with money matters and personal belongings can be particularly strengthening in 2024, especially until May. At the same time, finding new and unusual ways to enjoy ourselves and make an income can be attractive.
From late May forward, how we communicate on an everyday level becomes especially important to us. People who listen to us, allow us to talk about our daily experiences, and encourage light conversation are more attractive than usual. Improving communication skills can go a long way toward boosting attractiveness and love.
Read more about the general trends expected in love and relationships in 2024 (soon).
New Year 2024 Chart
The New Year chart’s exact timing depends on where you are in the world, of course, and the above is a 0-degree Aries chart.
See also monthly horoscopes, and daily horoscopes that interpret the roles of these and other factors in the solar charts of each sign.
2024 Horoscope Overviews for Each Sign
Also available are the 2024 Horoscope Previews and 2024 Love Horoscopes. The following are my summaries of the year ahead for each sign.
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