Aries Monthly Horoscope
February 2025 Horoscope: Predictions for Aries
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| Aries born April 11 to 20 |
Overview for this Month: Aries (All)
February 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
The month ahead puts a spotlight on your social life, friendships, happiness goals, healing, and aspirations, dear Aries. While your planetary ruler, Mars, remains retrograde until the 23rd, you're in a good position to make changes and adjustments that will ultimately improve the viability of your goals and projects and the quality of your relationships. You have loads of charm, particularly with associates and networks, and you’ll do well to mingle.
Being in the spotlight or in charge is fine for a time, but we all need a break from too much action, pressure, and decision-making, and February gives you opportunities for that break.
Jupiter ends its retrograde on the 4th, favoring learning, communication, and transportation. The motivation to pursue personal interests increases, and this will get even better in the next several months. You may return to old or abandoned dreams, studies, and plans with new eyes, enthusiasm, and excitement. Your confidence in your studies or your ability to express yourself increases. You’re more courageous about reaching out to others, or blocks to making connections lift, and this is a time for spontaneous and natural interactions.
Venus in your sign from the 4th forward, boosting your appeal. The changes you make with friends or associates are a step in the right direction with long-term benefits. Solid energy is with you now for dreaming, wishing, and planting seeds for the future. It’s also a good period for personal magnetism.
While your love life has been complicated recently, and others may have even undervalued your worth, you are now strutting your stuff. Incredibly magnetic, the world is appreciating your unique style. A partner could be in your corner. It's important to note, however, that on March 1st, Venus, still in your sign, will turn retrograde. This could bring about a period of reflection and reassessment of your approach to the world and your relationships.
In the first half of the month, especially, you are in an excellent position to collaborate. This is a powerful time for learning and sharing ideas. There is incredible support from friends or inspired connections in your networks.
The 12th brings a Full Moon and a nice opportunity to follow your heart or finalize a creative project. There can be a revelation about romance, children, or creative ambitions. Epiphanies occurring now are about where to find your joy.
Later in the month, you’re moving into a period of review and reflection. Venus in your sign appears to slow down as it heads towards a retrograde starting in March, and the Sun and Mercury move into your privacy sector.
The Sun moves into your privacy sector on the 18th, shortly after Mercury headed there on the 14th, launching a cycle in which you are inclined to review and reflect on recent events, feelings, goals, and endeavors.
Mars turns direct on the 23rd after retrograde motion since December 6th, which can feel a long time coming! At this juncture, you'll begin to enjoy more clarity about home and family matters. A project might pick up pace, reach a turning point, or resume now. Because Mars is your planetary ruler, it's personal! Energy levels increase.
Recent complications, confusion, or coolness in the family, home, and with personal initiatives begin to clear. While family life remains busy, it's a straightforward kind of "busy" that you can handle. When problems exist, it's far easier to deal with them when you know exactly what they are than it is when you can't pinpoint the actual problem. If you need support or help, your warm personality will win the day.
The latter part of the month is also strong for pursuing health, financial, and work goals, but you have a very natural inclination to withdraw and rest more in the last week of the month. You begin to pay more attention to wrapping up a busy year and contemplating your next steps.
After the New Moon on the 27th, circumstances favor or require a new start with how you do your downtime. You’re looking at mental health, rest, relaxation, and escapism in new ways, and you’re inclined to find highly interesting ways to replenish yourself now. There can be events and realizations that help distance you from self-limiting secrets or situations, which ultimately will give you more freedom.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Aries (Born March 21 to 31)
AND Aries Ascendant from 0 to 10 degrees Aries:
February 2025 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 18th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.
You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.
From February 18th forward:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until February 3rd:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From February 4th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until February 14th:
Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.
Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.
From February 14th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde until February 23rd (since December 6th, 2024):
All Mars retrograde cycles affect you on a highly personal level because Mars is your sign's ruler. If you have an Aries Ascendant, Mars is your chart ruler, and Mars retrograde can also affect you on the physical plane as well as your personal presentation or image to others. You don't assert yourself or state what it is that you want as directly as you normally do, and you could be withdrawn and introspective, pulling back from life a little as you figure out what it is that you truly want from it. Pushing yourself during this Mars retrograde cycle will only lead to frustrations and slowdowns. It's time to review how you have been handling yourself in terms of self-assertion and expression of anger in general, and for considering making changes to your approach to getting what you want out of life.
Occurring in your solar fourth house during this period, household projects may slow down or stall. Repairs may need to be done, or circumstances are such that living conditions seem unstable or in need of review. Perhaps the enthusiasm that you have been building for work around the house is lessening. You may have an increased desire to rule the roost, or you feel that this position is no longer in your hands, and if this transit stimulates conflict or disputes, it is likely to be family-related--you may have arguments with them, about them, or on their behalf. You may get worked up about old problems or regarding emotional issues from the past that are resurfacing now. Refocusing, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. It's time to review how you have been handling your assertiveness on the home front and with family.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
The month ahead puts a spotlight on your social life, friendships, happiness goals, healing, and aspirations, dear Aries. While your planetary ruler, Mars, remains retrograde until the 23rd, you're in a good position to make changes and adjustments that will ultimately improve the viability of your goals and projects and the quality of your relationships. You have loads of charm, particularly with associates and networks, and you’ll do well to mingle.
Being in the spotlight or in charge is fine for a time, but we all need a break from too much action, pressure, and decision-making, and February gives you opportunities for that break.
Jupiter ends its retrograde on the 4th, favoring learning, communication, and transportation. The motivation to pursue personal interests increases, and this will get even better in the next several months. You may return to old or abandoned dreams, studies, and plans with new eyes, enthusiasm, and excitement. Your confidence in your studies or your ability to express yourself increases. You’re more courageous about reaching out to others, or blocks to making connections lift, and this is a time for spontaneous and natural interactions.
Venus in your sign from the 4th forward, boosting your appeal. The changes you make with friends or associates are a step in the right direction with long-term benefits. Solid energy is with you now for dreaming, wishing, and planting seeds for the future. It’s also a good period for personal magnetism.
While your love life has been complicated recently, and others may have even undervalued your worth, you are now strutting your stuff. Incredibly magnetic, the world is appreciating your unique style. A partner could be in your corner. It's important to note, however, that on March 1st, Venus, still in your sign, will turn retrograde. This could bring about a period of reflection and reassessment of your approach to the world and your relationships.
In the first half of the month, especially, you are in an excellent position to collaborate. This is a powerful time for learning and sharing ideas. There is incredible support from friends or inspired connections in your networks.
The 12th brings a Full Moon and a nice opportunity to follow your heart or finalize a creative project. There can be a revelation about romance, children, or creative ambitions. Epiphanies occurring now are about where to find your joy.
Later in the month, you’re moving into a period of review and reflection. Venus in your sign appears to slow down as it heads towards a retrograde starting in March, and the Sun and Mercury move into your privacy sector.
The Sun moves into your privacy sector on the 18th, shortly after Mercury headed there on the 14th, launching a cycle in which you are inclined to review and reflect on recent events, feelings, goals, and endeavors.
Mars turns direct on the 23rd after retrograde motion since December 6th, which can feel a long time coming! At this juncture, you'll begin to enjoy more clarity about home and family matters. A project might pick up pace, reach a turning point, or resume now. Because Mars is your planetary ruler, it's personal! Energy levels increase.
Recent complications, confusion, or coolness in the family, home, and with personal initiatives begin to clear. While family life remains busy, it's a straightforward kind of "busy" that you can handle. When problems exist, it's far easier to deal with them when you know exactly what they are than it is when you can't pinpoint the actual problem. If you need support or help, your warm personality will win the day.
The latter part of the month is also strong for pursuing health, financial, and work goals, but you have a very natural inclination to withdraw and rest more in the last week of the month. You begin to pay more attention to wrapping up a busy year and contemplating your next steps.
After the New Moon on the 27th, circumstances favor or require a new start with how you do your downtime. You’re looking at mental health, rest, relaxation, and escapism in new ways, and you’re inclined to find highly interesting ways to replenish yourself now. There can be events and realizations that help distance you from self-limiting secrets or situations, which ultimately will give you more freedom.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2025.
See also detailed 2025 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 1 to 10)
AND Aries Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aries:
February 2025 Aries Career, & General Trends
February 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until February 22nd:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From February 23rd forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until February 2nd:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From February 3rd to 19th:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From February 19th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde until February 23rd (since December 6th, 2024):
All Mars retrograde cycles affect you on a highly personal level because Mars is your sign's ruler. If you have an Aries Ascendant, Mars is your chart ruler, and Mars retrograde can also affect you on the physical plane as well as your personal presentation or image to others. You don't assert yourself or state what it is that you want as directly as you normally do, and you could be withdrawn and introspective, pulling back from life a little as you figure out what it is that you truly want from it. Pushing yourself during this Mars retrograde cycle will only lead to frustrations and slowdowns. It's time to review how you have been handling yourself in terms of self-assertion and expression of anger in general, and for considering making changes to your approach to getting what you want out of life.
Occurring in your solar fourth house during this period, household projects may slow down or stall. Repairs may need to be done, or circumstances are such that living conditions seem unstable or in need of review. Perhaps the enthusiasm that you have been building for work around the house is lessening. You may have an increased desire to rule the roost, or you feel that this position is no longer in your hands, and if this transit stimulates conflict or disputes, it is likely to be family-related--you may have arguments with them, about them, or on their behalf. You may get worked up about old problems or regarding emotional issues from the past that are resurfacing now. Refocusing, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. It's time to review how you have been handling your assertiveness on the home front and with family.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
The month ahead puts a spotlight on your social life, friendships, happiness goals, healing, and aspirations, dear Aries. While your planetary ruler, Mars, remains retrograde until the 23rd, you're in a good position to make changes and adjustments that will ultimately improve the viability of your goals and projects and the quality of your relationships. You have loads of charm, particularly with associates and networks, and you’ll do well to mingle.
Being in the spotlight or in charge is fine for a time, but we all need a break from too much action, pressure, and decision-making, and February gives you opportunities for that break.
Jupiter ends its retrograde on the 4th, favoring learning, communication, and transportation. The motivation to pursue personal interests increases, and this will get even better in the next several months. You may return to old or abandoned dreams, studies, and plans with new eyes, enthusiasm, and excitement. Your confidence in your studies or your ability to express yourself increases. You’re more courageous about reaching out to others, or blocks to making connections lift, and this is a time for spontaneous and natural interactions.
Venus in your sign from the 4th forward, boosting your appeal. The changes you make with friends or associates are a step in the right direction with long-term benefits. Solid energy is with you now for dreaming, wishing, and planting seeds for the future. It’s also a good period for personal magnetism.
While your love life has been complicated recently, and others may have even undervalued your worth, you are now strutting your stuff. Incredibly magnetic, the world is appreciating your unique style. A partner could be in your corner. It's important to note, however, that on March 1st, Venus, still in your sign, will turn retrograde. This could bring about a period of reflection and reassessment of your approach to the world and your relationships.
In the first half of the month, especially, you are in an excellent position to collaborate. This is a powerful time for learning and sharing ideas. There is incredible support from friends or inspired connections in your networks.
The 12th brings a Full Moon and a nice opportunity to follow your heart or finalize a creative project. There can be a revelation about romance, children, or creative ambitions. Epiphanies occurring now are about where to find your joy.
Later in the month, you’re moving into a period of review and reflection. Venus in your sign appears to slow down as it heads towards a retrograde starting in March, and the Sun and Mercury move into your privacy sector.
The Sun moves into your privacy sector on the 18th, shortly after Mercury headed there on the 14th, launching a cycle in which you are inclined to review and reflect on recent events, feelings, goals, and endeavors.
Mars turns direct on the 23rd after retrograde motion since December 6th, which can feel a long time coming! At this juncture, you'll begin to enjoy more clarity about home and family matters. A project might pick up pace, reach a turning point, or resume now. Because Mars is your planetary ruler, it's personal! Energy levels increase.
Recent complications, confusion, or coolness in the family, home, and with personal initiatives begin to clear. While family life remains busy, it's a straightforward kind of "busy" that you can handle. When problems exist, it's far easier to deal with them when you know exactly what they are than it is when you can't pinpoint the actual problem. If you need support or help, your warm personality will win the day.
The latter part of the month is also strong for pursuing health, financial, and work goals, but you have a very natural inclination to withdraw and rest more in the last week of the month. You begin to pay more attention to wrapping up a busy year and contemplating your next steps.
After the New Moon on the 27th, circumstances favor or require a new start with how you do your downtime. You’re looking at mental health, rest, relaxation, and escapism in new ways, and you’re inclined to find highly interesting ways to replenish yourself now. There can be events and realizations that help distance you from self-limiting secrets or situations, which ultimately will give you more freedom.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aries in 2025.
See also detailed 2025 Aries Yearly Horoscope.
Aries (Born April 11 to 20)
AND Aries Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aries:
February 2025 Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 8th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From February 8th forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
All month:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until February 8th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From February 8th to 25th:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From February 25th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde until February 23rd (since December 6th, 2024):
All Mars retrograde cycles affect you on a highly personal level because Mars is your sign's ruler. If you have an Aries Ascendant, Mars is your chart ruler, and Mars retrograde can also affect you on the physical plane as well as your personal presentation or image to others. You don't assert yourself or state what it is that you want as directly as you normally do, and you could be withdrawn and introspective, pulling back from life a little as you figure out what it is that you truly want from it. Pushing yourself during this Mars retrograde cycle will only lead to frustrations and slowdowns. It's time to review how you have been handling yourself in terms of self-assertion and expression of anger in general, and for considering making changes to your approach to getting what you want out of life.
Occurring in your solar fourth house during this period, household projects may slow down or stall. Repairs may need to be done, or circumstances are such that living conditions seem unstable or in need of review. Perhaps the enthusiasm that you have been building for work around the house is lessening. You may have an increased desire to rule the roost, or you feel that this position is no longer in your hands, and if this transit stimulates conflict or disputes, it is likely to be family-related--you may have arguments with them, about them, or on their behalf. You may get worked up about old problems or regarding emotional issues from the past that are resurfacing now. Refocusing, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now. It's time to review how you have been handling your assertiveness on the home front and with family.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:
The month ahead puts a spotlight on your social life, friendships, happiness goals, healing, and aspirations, dear Aries. While your planetary ruler, Mars, remains retrograde until the 23rd, you're in a good position to make changes and adjustments that will ultimately improve the viability of your goals and projects and the quality of your relationships. You have loads of charm, particularly with associates and networks, and you’ll do well to mingle.
Being in the spotlight or in charge is fine for a time, but we all need a break from too much action, pressure, and decision-making, and February gives you opportunities for that break.
Jupiter ends its retrograde on the 4th, favoring learning, communication, and transportation. The motivation to pursue personal interests increases, and this will get even better in the next several months. You may return to old or abandoned dreams, studies, and plans with new eyes, enthusiasm, and excitement. Your confidence in your studies or your ability to express yourself increases. You’re more courageous about reaching out to others, or blocks to making connections lift, and this is a time for spontaneous and natural interactions.
Venus in your sign from the 4th forward, boosting your appeal. The changes you make with friends or associates are a step in the right direction with long-term benefits. Solid energy is with you now for dreaming, wishing, and planting seeds for the future. It’s also a good period for personal magnetism.
While your love life has been complicated recently, and others may have even undervalued your worth, you are now strutting your stuff. Incredibly magnetic, the world is appreciating your unique style. A partner could be in your corner. It's important to note, however, that on March 1st, Venus, still in your sign, will turn retrograde. This could bring about a period of reflection and reassessment of your approach to the world and your relationships.
In the first half of the month, especially, you are in an excellent position to collaborate. This is a powerful time for learning and sharing ideas. There is incredible support from friends or inspired connections in your networks.
The 12th brings a Full Moon and a nice opportunity to follow your heart or finalize a creative project. There can be a revelation about romance, children, or creative ambitions. Epiphanies occurring now are about where to find your joy.
Later in the month, you’re moving into a period of review and reflection. Venus in your sign appears to slow down as it heads towards a retrograde starting in March, and the Sun and Mercury move into your privacy sector.
The Sun moves into your privacy sector on the 18th, shortly after Mercury headed there on the 14th, launching a cycle in which you are inclined to review and reflect on recent events, feelings, goals, and endeavors.
Mars turns direct on the 23rd after retrograde motion since December 6th, which can feel a long time coming! At this juncture, you'll begin to enjoy more clarity about home and family matters. A project might pick up pace, reach a turning point, or resume now. Because Mars is your planetary ruler, it's personal! Energy levels increase.
Recent complications, confusion, or coolness in the family, home, and with personal initiatives begin to clear. While family life remains busy, it's a straightforward kind of "busy" that you can handle. When problems exist, it's far easier to deal with them when you know exactly what they are than it is when you can't pinpoint the actual problem. If you need support or help, your warm personality will win the day.
The latter part of the month is also strong for pursuing health, financial, and work goals, but you have a very natural inclination to withdraw and rest more in the last week of the month. You begin to pay more attention to wrapping up a busy year and contemplating your next steps.
After the New Moon on the 27th, circumstances favor or require a new start with how you do your downtime. You’re looking at mental health, rest, relaxation, and escapism in new ways, and you’re inclined to find highly interesting ways to replenish yourself now. There can be events and realizations that help distance you from self-limiting secrets or situations, which ultimately will give you more freedom.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the fifth house of your solar chart from July 22 to August 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both July and August’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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