The Astrology Podcast
Transcript of Episode 431, titled:
2024 Year Ahead Horoscopes for Each Zodiac Sign
With Chris Brennan
Episode originally released on December 31, 2023
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[Aries]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, I’m the host of The Astrology Podcast, and this is your year ahead horoscope forecast for the zodiac sign of Aries for 2024. All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they’ll get by the end of the year. And here are the main keywords or the main themes that are gonna be prominent for you this year. I’m gonna focus on big-picture stuff, so your primary keywords this year are: self, relationship, finances, communication, friends, and enemies. So those are the primary topics that I think are gonna be the most important and the most active for you this year, and I’m gonna expand on that and explain why that is and what some of the transits are that coincide with that during the course of this video, but I wanted to give you the highlights right at the start. All right, so let’s jump into it.
So, first things first, self and relationship. So this is tied in with the eclipse series where we’re gonna see a continuation of the Aries and Libra eclipse series over the course of this year, which started last year in 2023 and will continue on and eventually culminate at the end of 2024. So this set of eclipses is taking place in your 1st house of self, and your 7th house of relationships. So usually when this happens a person will go through a period of kind of going back and forth between learning and developing some new understandings of their sense of self, which can sometimes relate to their mind and other times relate to their body, but also just developing a clear picture of who you are and what you want out of life and what that means for you in a very personal sense.
So that’s the 1st house and the Aries side of the eclipses. The other side of that is that when a person has eclipses in the 7th house, usually it means a period of major beginnings and major endings for relationships. Sometimes if a person is not in a relationship, they’ll find that a major relationship starts at this time. And other times, if a person’s in a relationship, they may find—in some instances, if the relationship is not going well—that things wrap up or come to some sort of end or conclusion. In other instances, if a person’s in a relationship, you may just reach the end of a major chapter in that relationship, and you may start a new chapter in the relationship after some developments or events take place that cause some changes for you both. So, generally, this just means a period of major beginnings and endings in this area of your life. Here’s a diagram that shows the timing of those eclipses. So the relationship one is in March, then the self one is in April, and then there’s another relationship one in October. So major beginnings and major endings for self and relationship are the keywords for those.
Moving forward, the next theme I wanted to focus on and talk about a little bit is the Saturn transit through Pisces, which is going to conjoin Neptune—especially around the June-July timeframe—and the Pisces eclipse that’s gonna take place a few months later in September. So this is happening in the 12th house in your birth chart, for those of you with Aries rising. So my primary keyword for this and primary theme is gonna be restructuring to address nebulous challenges regarding those who undermine you or ways in which you undermine yourself. So I want you to think about and reflect on that sentence or reflect on some of those keywords during the course of this year because there’s gonna be different ways in which that’s gonna be more or less relevant, depending on where some of these challenges are coming from and whether the challenges are coming from outside or whether they’re coming inside.
So the 12th house has to do oftentimes with people that we don’t get along with in our lives, which can sometimes in an extreme sense mean enemies or people that are out to get you or to cause you problems. So with Saturn having ingressed or having moved into this sector of your chart for a three-year long transit about a year ago, in March of 2023, it began a period where sometimes people do run into or encounter more issues with people they don’t get along with and running into surmountable difficulties or obstacles with those people that have to be overcome. Unfortunately, part of the trickiness with this transit is that Saturn is meeting up with Neptune in that sign this year where it’s gonna come within 10° of a conjunction.
Sometimes Neptune can make things very nebulous so it’s not really clear what’s going on. You’re not really sure who the problems are coming from. Sometimes you can make mistakes in assuming things that turn out not to be the case later, or sometimes you can not assume things and then it turns out that you’re kind of surprised later that somebody was causing you problems behind the scenes. So these are some themes you’re gonna have to work with and reflect on this year just in terms of the people that you get along with and how you can restructure your life in order to deal with those people better; either finding a way to address those problems and still have those people in your life, or in other instances, ways that you can remove those people from your life if it’s causing such issues that you just can’t proceed further.
The other thing to think about with this transit is that sometimes it has to do with ways in which we sabotage or undermine ourselves. So sometimes a transit of Saturn through the 12th house can be a good time for self-reflection, periods of isolation and self-contemplation, and sometimes just focusing on mental health can be a really good thing to do during the course of a Saturn transit. This will be the second year out of this three-year-long transit, so you should start to get a handle on it by the end of this year, and you should start making progress towards it. I think—especially in September, when that first eclipse occurs in the sign of Pisces in this house—it’s really gonna highlight and put more of a spotlight on this area of your life and this area of your chart, which doesn’t necessarily have to be bad. But sometimes people can go through a period of introspection at this time, which, ultimately, once you emerge out of that period, you’ll find that it was quite positive and helpful and was a real period of internal growth.
All right, so that’s our second transit of the year, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Pisces and that Saturn transit through your 12th house which is ongoing. The next transits I want to talk about are some of the positive ones happening this year, the major ones are the Jupiter transits. Jupiter—this transit started last year—has been transiting through your 2nd house of finances, but this year it’s actually going to meet up with and form a conjunction with the planet Uranus, which is the planet of unexpected things.
So my primary keyword for this transit—for the first-half of the year for you—is unexpected financial opportunities; that’s one of the ways that I can put together what that transit is all about for you and those of you with Aries rising in a concise way because Jupiter, in your 2nd house, represents growing and expanding financially and, Uranus represents sudden things that happen unexpectedly. So I want you to be on the lookout this year for opportunities for growth and expansion financially, especially ones that maybe are unique ones that are off-the-beaten path, ones that you hadn’t considered before or might seem weird or unlike you or sort of unexpected in some way. Pay attention to those opportunities because they could prove to be very beneficial, especially around the May timeframe, when this conjunction goes exact in your chart; so that’s one of the most positive transits of the year that I wanted to highlight.
What’s gonna happen after that is in June, Jupiter’s gonna move into Gemini and into your 3rd house of communication. So my primary keywords for that are growth and expansion in communications, mobility, as well as relatives. So the 3rd house primarily relates to how you speak, how you write, how you communicate what’s inside of you and how you convey that to the world outside. And with this Jupiter transit in the entirety of the second-half of 2024, you’re gonna go through a period where you’re gonna learn new things about how to communicate more effectively and become more confident as a communicator and more confident broadcasting your message to the world, whatever that means for you, given your individual and unique circumstances in life.
So part of it is growth in communication. The 3rd house also has to do with mobility, especially moving around locally. So sometimes this can relate to cars or other ways of getting around town and some sort of benefits or growth or expansion in that area of your life. For some people this can mean things like getting a new car, getting a new bicycle or something like that—like something that is a new development when it comes to mobility for you. The final area is the 3rd house relates to siblings, relatives, extended family, as well as sometimes neighbors or your neighborhood.
So this could be a period of growth and expansion when it comes to your relationships with siblings, your relationship with other extended relatives, with something good happening in terms of that; or, alternatively, just in terms of your neighborhood, getting more comfortable and finding that there are new benefits and opportunities for you in your immediate environment—your immediate city—than you have experienced before up to this point. So that’s the other most positive transit that I see happening this year and that really ramps up in June, when there’s a lot of planets that are moving through this sector of your chart. Not just Jupiter, but also there’s a Venus cazimi and a number of other transits at the same time. So it’s just a very active period for you, especially in June, but the Jupiter transit will extend all the way through the end of 2024.
So those are the most positive transits I think happening this year. Moving on, the next section I wanted to talk about is there will be a Mars retrograde in the signs of Cancer and Leo towards the end of the year. So later in the year, when Mars goes retrograde in Leo and Cancer, the keywords that I have for that are tensions surrounding children, sexuality, as well as home and parents and private life; I say that because we’re talking about two different houses or two different sectors being activated in your birth chart. The 5th house relates to the topic of children, but also other topics related to sexuality, to fun and games, and how you do leisurely activities in your life. So with Mars going retrograde there sometimes it brings up tensions or sometimes even conflicts in this area, or you can find yourself butting heads with the people that are represented by that house.
So if you have children sometimes it can indicate a period of tension for some reason in that area. Because it’s a retrograde, sometimes it can involve going back and looking at the past and bringing up past conflicts so that they can be aired out and addressed one last time, so that you can then eventually move forward. Sometimes the 5th house also relates, as I said, to sex and sexuality. So it can be an area where there’s a little bit more tension there, or perhaps you have some conflict or some severing or separation when it comes to a lover or something like that as a potential of Mars retrograde in the 5th house.
So the other house that it’s really gonna be activating—Mars is gonna go retrograde through Cancer, which is your 4th house of home and parents. So a lot of those things that I just said about the 5th house also relate here to the 4th house and to the topic of your home and living situation. So sometimes this can mean there’s some greater tension in your home life for some reason. If your parents are around, or if they’re still in your life, there can be greater tensions either in your parents’ lives that somehow affects your relationship with them, or sometimes just direct tensions with them that need to be addressed.
Ultimately, this is gonna be more or less constructive for different people depending on where they’re at in their life and how their birth charts are set up, but in the long term sometimes it can be sort of an irritating influence that forces us to focus on addressing issues that arise, and the biggest thing is I would just pay attention to initiating conflicts with the people in your life that are represented by these houses during this time. Sometimes things that you think will just be a minor conflict—like if you say something off-the-cuff, or if you say something even hurtful—during this time can blow up and become a much longer or larger issue than you may anticipate at the time. So I would just be a little bit more reserved about initiating conflicts either with parents or children at this time due to that potential this year.
All right, so that’s the Mars retrograde transit. Finally, the last transit I wanted to mention is that the planet Pluto is departing from Capricorn and your 10th house; it’s departing from your 10th house of career, and Pluto is moving into your 11th house of friends and groups and social movements. So you’re ending a pretty long period going back to 2008-2009, when Pluto first moved into Capricorn and into your 10th house of career, where you went through this period of transformation when it came to your career, your social standing, and your overall direction in life. Now Pluto is departing this year and moving into Aquarius, which is your 11th house of friends and groups, which usually indicates, most broadly, transformative experiences with friends and groups.
So sometimes this can really deepen certain relationships that you have with friends because you go through some pretty heavy or serious stuff with them, other times it can end some friendships if they’ve reached the end of their life cycle in some sense, but the primary thing is just being open to the potential for having transformative experiences through friends and groups and navigating that as gracefully as you can. Sometimes Pluto brings up issues of control and manipulation and power plays, and one of the things that’ll be important for you is to be somewhat restrained when it comes to that; manipulating a friend for some reason is a potential issue with the Pluto transit through the 11th house. But if you are careful about that, and you approach things in that way, then I think that you’ll be able to emerge from this having a much deeper and more profound sense of what friendship means for you and the power of friends and groups and alliances in your life.
All right, so those are my main themes that I wanted to touch on for this year. Here are the transits that I just talked about. Here are some of the dates for some of those transits, for those watching the video version of this, just so you can compare the likely timeframes and the periods of importance. And other than that, I think that’s it for this horoscope for 2024. So, yeah, that’s it. So for a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube, which you can find by googling that or going to my YouTube channel.
Other than that, for good dates this year, I actually just released a report called the 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through each of the next 12 months, and I picked out the luckiest or most fortunate dates for initiating different types of ventures and activities using the principles of electional astrology. So that report is on sale for 15% off right now, and you can get it at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report, but, otherwise, good luck. If you have any questions, post them in the comments section below this video on YouTube. Otherwise, I hope you have a great year, and I’ll see you again next year for the horoscopes for 2025. All right, good luck and take care.
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[Taurus]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope forecast for the entire year of 2024 for the sign of Taurus. All right, so let’s jump right into it. So your main keywords this year—to summarize right at the beginning—are gonna be health, finances, friends, home, family, and career. So those are gonna be some of the main topics that I want to talk about, ‘cause I think those are gonna be your main areas of activity this year, in some ways, constructive, and in other ways, challenging. So let’s get into it and break down each of those individually and why those are your main keywords this year.
All right, so I wanted to start first with the eclipses. So this year we’re gonna see a continuation of the eclipse series that started last year in your 6th and your 12th houses. So the 6th house is the house that pertains to work, as well as to health, especially physical health, and eclipses usually represent major beginnings and major endings. So for some people, if this relates to your work, it may relate to starting or stopping a new job if you’ve reached a critical turning point in terms of that. For others, it’s gonna relate to health matters and moving into some new chapter of your life when it comes to your health, both in terms of the 6th house, which is your physical health, but also potentially the 12th house, which can relate to mental health. So starting to work on your health, sometimes people do productive things like start a new workout regimen, or they start focusing on new healthy eating habits or other things like that. Whatever it is, there’s just a greater emphasis this year on some of that, and in some ways it should represent a continuation of some of the themes that started last year when this eclipse series began in 2023.
So with the 12th house eclipses—in addition to some of the things that represent mental health and focusing on that and taking care of yourself—whereas the 11th house, which is right next to it, represents friends and groups, the 12th house can represent people that you don’t get along with very well or who undermine you in your life in some way; so sometimes this can mean outright enemies or people that work against you in some way. So having eclipses in the 12th house can sometimes indicate a major beginning of a new feud with somebody. In other instances, it can represent the end of that, or some sort of previous conflict coming to some sort of culmination or some sort of end point, reaching a new chapter or turning point when it comes to that.
So one thing that’s also relevant in terms of the 12th house can be themes of self-undoing and just coming to realizations about ways in which we undermine ourselves that we don’t realize that we’re doing. So that’s something to pay attention to as an area of growth this year, and I think that ties in with some of the other themes that we’re gonna get into when it comes to growth of the self later on with some of the Jupiter transits that you’re having this year. All right, so let’s move on.
Another area where there’s gonna be some potential challenges is regarding your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. You have a Saturn transit that’s been going through that sign, which represents surmountable difficulties in that area, and that transit started in March of 2023, about a year ago. So you’re already a little ways into it, but this year Saturn’s gonna get very close to a conjunction with Neptune, and then there’s also going to be an eclipse in Pisces in your 11th house in September. So this is highlighting the topic of friends and groups, the eclipse represents a new beginning or a new ending in that area, and the Saturn transit, though, sometimes brings up surmountable difficulties when it comes to friends.
So sometimes this can mean that you run into some issues with friends or you have a falling out. You may find yourself being a little bit more isolated from your friend groups than you were previously. But sometimes this can be constructive in the long term, ‘cause sometimes these periods of challenges can come up and can clear the way of old friends in order to make way for new ones in the long term, as well as open you up to new experiences. The only thing that’s a little tricky is that Neptune is gonna be in the mix, especially around the June-July timeframe. So some of the challenges regarding friends and groups may be kind of nebulous and hard to pin down exactly in terms of what’s going on and what’s happening, and clarity may be something that you struggle with at this time regarding what your obligations are to your friends, what their oblations are to you, and just ways in which you interact; so this is gonna be a major area of activity off and on at different points throughout this year.
So that’s one of the transits I wanted to highlight for friends and groups. I wanted to highlight some of your most positive and best transits this year. The first set occurs for pretty much the entire first-half of the year, which is this Jupiter transit through Taurus, and through your 1st house of self, mind, and body. So Jupiter represents growth and expansion, and so this is the one that ties in to earlier when I was talking about mental health in that you have a very positive transit here for growth and expansion of your understanding of yourself. So there’s something positive happening here when it comes to your conceptualization of yourself, which can sometimes mean the way that you think about yourself in your life internally, in terms of your mind, but other times it can also relate to your body.
So sometimes this means some sort of change or some sort of optimism, or maybe feeling yourself more in terms of your physical appearance and moving into some new phase in terms of that. Especially in the May timeframe, Jupiter is going to come up to a conjunction with the planet Uranus, and this represents a period of unexpected growth and opportunities in this area. So, for you, I think this means unexpected opportunities for growth and learning new things about yourself, developing your personality, developing your mind and different mental skills, and also developing things about your body, which could tie in nicely with some of the eclipse transits that are gonna have you focusing on physical health, as well as mental health. So, overall, one of the main themes this year and one of the most positive things for you is growth of the self—both in terms of mind and body—and having lots of opportunities for growth during the course of especially the first-half of the year.
All right, so that’s the Jupiter transit through Taurus. The next most positive transit that I wanted to highlight for you this year is in June, Jupiter’s gonna go into Gemini, and it’s gonna stay there for the rest of 2024; so this transit is for the entire second-half of the year; and Gemini is your 2nd house of money, possessions, and finances in general. So Jupiter transits through the 2nd house usually represents a period of expanding your financial horizons, finding new opportunities for making money, and, in some instances, having financial windfalls or things that just kind of come out of nowhere that help you out financially and represent an expansion in that area of your life.
So, for other people, they’ll just find new opportunities in order to make money or grow their finances, or something about their personal possessions goes extremely well at this time and extremely smoothly in terms of acquiring things and having some enjoyment in terms of your physical possessions at this time. So that transit’s lasting for the entire second-half of the year. There is a period of heightened activity—especially in the June timeframe—‘cause that’s when Venus and a number of the other planets will go through this sector at the same time—in addition to Jupiter itself—but it should be one of the most positive things that I can find for the entire second-half of the year.
All right, so those are your Jupiter transits. The next ones I wanted to talk about are some of the more challenging transits that come up this year, which is the Mars retrograde. Later this year, Mars is gonna slow down in the sign of Leo, and it’s gonna move back into the sign of Cancer; and this is your 4th house of home and parents and your 3rd house of communication, siblings, and relatives. So the main keywords I have for this— generally speaking, or archetypally speaking—is that it indicates a period of tensions surrounding topics like home and living situation and your interaction with your parents, but also potentially tensions involving siblings, mobility, and neighbors.
So Mars transits can be kind of irritating, sometimes they can involve conflicts or themes of severing and separation. It’s gonna start in the November-December timeframe when it comes to the 4th house and some potential conflicts at home—in terms of your living situation or potentially with your parents—but then it’s gonna extend and go back into Cancer. The 3rd house represents things like siblings, so it could be a period of irritation or frustration when it comes to your siblings, if you have any. The 3rd house also represents mobility. Sometimes that can relate to things like your car or getting around town locally and running into some issues or some tensions there.
And, finally, the 3rd house can also represent communication. So this could be a period when you find yourself to be a little bit more verbally-combative and getting into arguments with people. And that’s something you might want to pay attention to and be a little bit careful about, because sometimes during a Mars retrograde, we can initiate a conflict due to irritation, thinking that it won’t be a big deal. But sometimes a little conflict can turn into a much larger one, like a fire that gets kindling and sort of grows out of control. So that’s something to pay attention to in all of these relationships and to exercise restraint if you can. So here’s an image for the Mars retrograde, to give you dates, for those watching the video version of this.
All right, so that brings us to the final major slow-moving outer planet transit that I wanted to to talk about this year, which is the Pluto transit—where Pluto is departing from your 9th house of religion and belief, philosophy, foreign travel—and Pluto is moving into your 10th house of career for the next 20 years. So the primary archetypal keyword for this is transformative experiences with respect to your career and your overall life direction. And during the course of this transit, you may find yourself going through some very profound transformations when it comes to your conceptualization of who you are and what you’re meant to do in your life, especially in terms of your career or in terms of the thing that gives you reputation and status in the world. Sometimes Pluto transits can be a little bit tricky; they can be challenging, they can bring up issues with power plays and control and manipulation and having to deal with people that are trying to exert an influence on you to go in one way or another with respect to your career, and sometimes needing to take your power back carefully, to take things into your own hands and make a choice about where you want to go in your life, even if in some instances it means leaving certain things behind that you had been doing up to that point.
So this is a whole 20-year transit that’s gonna last for 20 years after this, so it’s not something that’s all gonna come at once. But since this is the first year that Pluto’s gonna fully move into Aquarius, it would be good to start paying attention to any themes that come up this year with respect to your career and your overall life direction, because even if they seem insignificant at the time, you may find that they end up having a much more long term and profound impact than you realize at first just because you’re at the very cusp or the very start of this very long-term, two-decade-long transit that should completely transform your career by the time it’s finished 20 years from now.
So those are actually the main transits that I wanted to touch on during the course of this year. Here are some of the transits that I mentioned—for those watching, the video viewers—and the astrology behind them. Here are some of the dates involved for some of the timeframes in which they’ll take place. But other than that, I think that is it for this horoscope for Taurus for 2024. So for a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast”, which you can find on my YouTube channel. Also, if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, I just released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through and highlighted the most fortunate dates over the course of the next 12 months in order to do different ventures and undertakings and start things. So that report’s actually on sale for 15% off right now. You can find it at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, that’s it for this forecast for 2024. So good luck this year. Let me know if you have any questions or comments, or if you want to share your experiences so far in the comments below this video on YouTube. Otherwise, good luck this year, and I’ll see you again next year.
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Special thanks to all the patrons that helped to support the production of this episode of the podcast through our page on Patreon.com. In particular, a shoutout to the patrons on our Producers tier, including patrons: Kristi Moe, Ariana Amour, Mandi Rae, Angelic Nambo, Issa Sabah, Jake Otero, Jeanne Marie Kaplan, and Melissa DeLano.
If you’re looking for a reliable astrologer to get an astrological consultation with, then we have a new list of astrologers on the podcast website that we recommend for readings. Find out more information at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/Consultations.
The astrology software that we use and recommend here on the podcast is called Solar Fire for Windows, which is available for the PC at Alabe.com. Use the promo code ‘AP15’ to get a 15% discount. For Mac users, we recommend a software program called Astro Gold for Mac OS. You can find out more information at AstroGold.io, and you can use the promo code ‘ASTROPODCAST15’ to get a 15% discount.
If you’re really looking to expand your studies of astrology then I would recommend my Hellenistic Astrology Course, which is an online course on ancient astrology, where I take people through basic concepts up through intermediate and advanced techniques for reading birth charts. You can find out more information at courses.theastrologyschool.com.
And finally, thanks to our sponsors, including The Mountain Astrologer Magazine, which is a quarterly astrology magazine which you can read in print or online at MountainAstrologer.com, and the Northwest Astrological Conference, which is happening both in person and online, May 23-27, 2024. You can find out more information at norwac.net.
[Gemini]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope forecast for Gemini for the entire year of 2024. All right, so let’s jump right into it, Gemini. So here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they will end up, and here are the main keywords for you this year, which are: friends, children, self, career, health, and beliefs. So those are the main themes that I think you’re gonna encounter and focus on this year, and I’m gonna spend the rest of this video breaking down why that is and what transits are gonna correlate with that, sort of expanding on it over the course of the next year.
All right, so let’s start first with the eclipses. So there’s gonna be eclipses this year in the signs of Aries and the sign of Libra, which is your 5th house of children, creativity, leisure, and sex and sexuality—your 5th house, which is Libra—and the 11th house, which represents friends and groups and alliances in your life; it’s the house of friends, basically. So eclipses represent major endings and major beginnings in this area of your life, and sometimes it can represent very important events that are happening, where there’s changes that are happening in these two distinct areas of your life. Sometimes these can be interconnected, but other times it just represents a singular set of events that are taking place in that specific area.
All right, so some of these changes already started last year in 2023 when these eclipses first started taking place in this sector of your chart. So when it comes to the 5th house, which is Libra, sometimes eclipses—if you don’t have children—can represent a period where you have children or the topic of children somehow becomes more important to you for some reason, whether your children or somebody else’s. In other instances, if you already have children, it can represent a new chapter in your child’s life in terms of your relationship with them for some reason.
The 5th house also represents creativity. So some of you may find yourselves taking up a new hobby or a new creative activity. Whether it’s artistic, or whether it’s just things you do in order to have fun and sort of blow off steam—while sometimes those can seem unimportant, other times in our life they can actually be very important and enriching, and for you it’s gonna be more of a focus this year. The 5th house also relates to sex and sexuality. So it may be some new chapter in your life when it comes to this, in terms of a new relationship that’s either starting or ending, that has a major impact on your life and the way that you express yourself in that area as well.
So that is the 5th house. The 11th house represents friends and groups and alliances, and when you have eclipses taking place in this area, usually it either means new, major friendships that are starting or starting a new social activity or joining a club, ‘cause the 11th house also represents alliances. Other times, with eclipses taking place in this area, it can represent the end of a friendship. Especially if a friendship has kind of run its course and it’s reached the end of its life cycle or the end of its usefulness for either you or your friend, sometimes this can represent a period where you sort of close down that chapter of your life when it comes to friends, which then in turn will free you up and make you more available to form other friendships in the future, since each ending also represents a new beginning.
So those are the eclipses that are taking place in that sector of your chart this year. The next section that I wanted to focus on was this Saturn-Neptune conjunction in transit in your 10th house of career and overall life direction. So my primary keyword for this is nebulous challenges regarding career and life direction, largely because of what will happen around June and July, especially this conjunction between Saturn and Neptune. Saturn represents what’s real versus Neptune usually represents that which is imaginary or illusory, and there’s some sort of tension between those two that’s taking place at this time in your 10th house of career.
So this is tied in with a broader three-year transit of Saturn through your 10th house of career that just started last year in March of 2023. Saturn usually represents surmountable difficulties and periods of consolidation or running into obstacles when it comes to one’s career and overall life direction. So, for some of you, this may represent leaving a job or leaving a line of work that you’d been working in for a while. In other instances, it can represent a period of trying to be more realistic about what your career and life goals are, especially if that comes into tension or conflict with that area, if you’ve been a little bit more idealistic about that area of your life over the course of the past decade, especially since Neptune’s been transiting through Pisces for quite a while now. But this is really gonna come into focus, not just in the June-July timeframe when Saturn and Neptune conjoin each other, but especially around September, because we’re gonna get an eclipse in September in your 10th house of career; and that’s gonna represent the beginning of a new series of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to your career and overall life direction.
So that’s similar to the eclipses that were taking place, that I mentioned earlier, in your 5th and 11th house; but those eclipses were a continuation of a series from 2023, whereas this Pisces eclipse is the start of a new series that’s gonna highlight that sector of your chart of public life and your overall life direction over the course of the next year-and-a-half. So some major changes are coming, and I think that’s really gonna highlight the area of your career and overall life direction starting in September, but also carrying into next year, into 2025.
All right, so those are some of the things that you’ll be focused on in terms of that. The next section I wanted to focus on is some of the really positive transits that you’re having this year that are gonna be the things to look forward to the most and to be the most hopeful for. So transiting Jupiter has been going through your 12th house since mid-2023, but in the first-half of 2024, this is gonna reach a critical turning point, where my primary keyword for it is an expansion or unexpected growth and opportunities with respect to two topics in particular—one is enemies, or people that you don’t get along with, and the second is areas of mental health and how you deal with your mental health. So this is gonna be—even though those sound like challenging areas—a very positive period of growth and expansion when it comes to those topics, especially in the first-half of 2024.
So while the 11th house that I was talking about earlier represents friends and people that help you or that you get along with, the 12th house usually represents the opposite, which is people that you don’t get along with; in some extreme cases that can mean enemies, people that outright work against you or undermine you in some way. With Jupiter transiting through your 12th house, though, this year, in the first part, there’s gonna be some opportunities to reconcile with some of these enemies or to smooth things over a little bit more than had occurred prior to this transit beginning last year. In particular, I think in May, there’s gonna be the potential for unexpected periods of success when it comes to people that you don’t get along with. Especially if there’s some sort of conflict or battles that you’ve had with them up to this point, this transit of Jupiter conjoining Uranus in your 12th house of enemies in May may represent you being successful or overcoming them in some way, especially if there’s something where you’ve been having to defend yourself or fight against something that’s been challenging or difficult when it comes to that area of your life.
So that’s one area. Another area that the 12th house has to do with is isolation and going inward and sort of trying to help our internal mental state. And with transiting Jupiter going through your 12th house, this can be a good time for self-reflection and to come to some new realizations about who you are and what you’re doing here that are gonna be helpful for you in terms of your mental state and in terms of mental growth. So this can be a good year, for example, to start seeing a therapist and to build a relationship with a therapist or some other sort of mental health advocate that can help guide you in that internal journey and help you to make progress and reach new heights or new realizations during the course of especially the first-half of this year. So definitely take advantage of that opportunity.
All right, so the other area that’s sort of related—but is distinct in terms of the timing of one of the most positive transits that’s gonna happen this year—is that starting in June, Jupiter’s gonna move into your 1st house of self and mind and body. So this should represent a period of expansion of self and understanding who you are. And it’s interesting that this will follow in the second-half of the year, immediately after some of the opportunities and some of the work that you do in the first-half of the year, which I think relates to that mental health piece that we were talking about earlier; although it also may relate to finally getting a hold of and finally smoothing over some things with people who were undermining you.
I forgot to mention the 12th also represents ways in which we undermine ourselves and sometimes learning and coming to realizations about ways in which we’re doing that. But once we have those realizations, it can then begin a period of growth once you’ve overcome that and learned to stop doing it and no longer do it anymore. So that may be part of what’s happening here in the second-half of the year. You overcome some of that stuff in the 12th house, in the first-half of the year, and it just frees you up to do so much else in terms of learning more about yourself, learning more about your mind; but also having a period where things are going relatively well in terms of your body and your physical health can be indication of having a Jupiter transit through the 1st house.
So sometimes people start new workout routines, or they start focusing on ways that they can improve their body, and they start taking advantage of opportunities to do that. Sometimes they have a change of appearance, or they do some sort of physical change that changes how they appear to the world and projects a much more optimistic and positive vibe, which in turn then has this feedback effect where other people treat you in a way that’s more positive as well, which can then in turn improve your sense of self. So this transit is lasting for the entire second-half of the year, it’s very positive. Having Jupiter go into your rising sign just represents luck, opportunities, opportunities for growth and expansion in general over the course of the second-half of 2024 and going into 2025. So probably the most positive transit that’s happening this year is that Jupiter—the planet of luck and abundance—is going into your sign.
All right, so moving into other areas, there is gonna be a Mars retrograde later in the year, and this is gonna be going through your 3rd house and your 2nd house, so my primary keywords for this are tensions surrounding siblings, neighbors, and finances. So the 3rd house is the one that represents siblings, neighbors, communication, sometimes it can represent your neighborhood or your city, basically, your immediate environment; and for some reason, with Mars slowing down and stationing retrograde there, there’s an extended period of irritation. So sometimes with 3rd house transits—especially a Mars transit—it can indicate having a conflict that has to do with communication.
So one of the things that you can do to be proactive about this is be careful with how you communicate with people. Especially if you find yourself more irritable and more prone to flying off the handle at these times, try not to go too far. Because sometimes during Mars transits, we can initiate a verbal conflict with somebody that we think will pass by and not be a big deal, but it can end up having much more far-ranging implications, or it can lead to a longer-term conflict than we might expect at first. So be careful with communications. If you have siblings, this can pertain to siblings and your relationship with them, so be careful with that, especially the potential for strife or separations. The 3rd house can also represent extended family, as well as neighbors; so people that live in your immediate neighborhood and the potential for conflicts with them.
Mars is also gonna retrograde back into your 2nd house, though, which is the place of finances, and sometimes this can indicate tension surrounding financial matters, potentials for running into challenging issues surrounding that, or having other Mars-related irritations that make you feel very frustrated or even angry surrounding financial matters at this time. So I would just recommend exercising caution when it comes to both of those topics this year, especially in terms of doing anything that you initiate yourself out of irritability or anger, and to try to do things that are a little bit more restrained or a little bit more calm and collected. And if you cultivate that then you should be able to navigate and avoid some of the worst potential scenarios when it comes to those topics.
All right, let’s see, the final transit that I wanted to mention this year is Pluto is departing from Capricorn, your 8th house, and it’s moving into Aquarius, your 9th house of travel, religion, beliefs, philosophy, foreign places, and it’s going to begin a 20-year period which should broadly coincide with transformative experiences surrounding travel, that which is foreign to you, as well as your beliefs and your personal philosophy. So we got a little bit of a preview of this transit already last year in 2023 when Pluto first dipped into Aquarius, but this year, by the end of 2024, Pluto will firmly move into Aquarius, where it will stay for the next two decades. So, for most people, this represents a period of profound transformative experiences that come as a result of being exposed to things that are different from your starting point.
So sometimes this means being exposed to different cultures or different peoples as a result of travel or as a result of foreign cultures that open up your eyes to different ways of living. In other instances, the 9th house and transits like this can represent going into a period where you’re exposed to new belief systems and new ways of thinking about the world, which can even be political beliefs, but it can also represent religious beliefs. So I’ve seen people go through complete religious transformations or transformations with respect to their politics or their political beliefs during this time.
So this can be, ultimately, a positive transit, but you should try to exercise restraint. There can be a tendency to go overboard or to go too far when you pick up something that’s new, but then as a new convert to something, to take it a little bit further and to lack moderation in terms of your adoption of that thing. Everybody likes getting into something new and then getting deep into it and researching it heavily, but just try not to go too far; because sometimes if you go too far when it comes to a new belief or a new worldview, it can lead to a sort of extremism that can be a little bit much.
So try to take it easy if you can, and if you do that, I think you’ll experience the more positive manifestations of this transit, which can be very positive transformations, where you’re leaving your old beliefs and worldviews behind and you’re moving into a period where your beliefs become quite different than what you had before. Yeah, so that’s the last transit that I wanted to mention, and that transit will be ongoing over the course of the next 20 years. But this year it’s important to pay attention to the early phases of it, because it’ll give you a preview of what’s to come over the next two decades.
All right, I think that’s it in terms of the major transits that I wanted to mention this year. Here’s the Mars retrograde dates, here are the primary transits that I mentioned here in this horoscope, and here are some of the key dates, for those watching the video version on YouTube, that correlate with some of the different transits that I mentioned during the course of this horoscope.
So I think that’s it for this horoscope for 2024. For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast”, which you can find on my YouTube channel. If you’re looking for good dates this year to do different things over the course of 2024, I recently released a report, where I went through each of the next 12 months and I highlighted the most fortunate and auspicious dates for doing different types of ventures or starting new things using the principles of electional astrology. So I’m currently running a 15%-off New Year sale on that report, and you can get it at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, thanks for watching this horoscope. Good luck next year. Let me know in the YouTube comments how you’re doing and what you’re excited about in the coming year of 2024. Otherwise, I’ll be back again next year to do the horoscopes again one year from now. So good luck, have a great year, and I’ll see you again next year.
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[Cancer]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Cancer for the entire year of 2024, so let’s jump right into it. So the main keywords for you this year are: career, home, family, beliefs, friends, enemies, and money of others. So in the rest of this forecast, I’m gonna expand on and explain why I chose those keywords for you and we’ll sort of dive into them more, but I wanted to get to the point right from the start.
All right, so let’s start with our very first thing this year, which is I wanted to focus on the eclipses that are taking place in your 4th house of home and family and your 10th house of career. eclipses represent major beginnings and major endings, so usually it’s when one chapter ends and another begins. So these eclipses started last year in 2023, and it opened up a sequence of beginnings and endings when it comes to, on the one hand, your 4th house—which is your home, your living situation—but also your parents and your relationship with your parents, if they’re still around.
For many people, this can sometimes represent moving, for example, from one place to another and starting a new beginning in a new location. For others, it can represent a new chapter at home, like a major redesign or redecoration of your home and living situation. In other instances, it represents a major new beginning when it comes to your relationship with your parents and perhaps something going on in their lives. So this should be a continuation of themes that already started to come up last year, but we’ll see a continuation and culmination of some of those trends all the way into the later parts of 2024.
The other eclipse that’s taking place is up in your 10th house of career, so major beginnings and major endings when it comes to career. For some people, this may represent reaching an ending point when it comes to a current job or a current career. Perhaps, in some instances, people decide that they’re no longer happy with where they’re currently at, so they decide to quit one career and move into a completely different field. So that’s gonna be a major part of the energy, especially around the March-April timeframe, which is when the Aries eclipse takes place this year.
So those are the eclipses. Let’s move on to the next section, which is talking about the Saturn transit that’s gonna be happening—or is already happening actually—in your 9th house. So the 9th house represents one’s beliefs, one’s education—both political beliefs, but also sometimes religious or spiritual beliefs. And the Saturn transit started last March, and it usually represents a period of challenges but surmountable difficulties when it comes to this area. In some instances, this means that people start questioning things about certain beliefs that they’ve had about the world, or they run into certain issues with education, and sometimes this can create a roadblock or a real internal crisis for a period of time; but eventually through much striving and through focusing on the issue and trying to get through it, eventually you can come to some new realizations and some new levels of security in terms of what you believe about the world and what your general outlook is when it comes to things.
So getting stable with this, though, this year is gonna be a little bit tricky, ‘cause one of the things that’s happening is that Saturn is going to conjoin Neptune around the June-July timeframe. Saturn can represent things that are very realistic, whereas Neptune can represent illusions and fantasy. So there’s some sort of tension here where Saturn is kind of bringing some really cold hard truths to an area where you’ve maybe had some illusions for the past several years, and the attempt to reconcile some of these things is gonna be one of your main challenges this year. So that’s why I said nebulous challenges regarding education and beliefs.
Some of these trends are gonna be heightened and you’re going to see the spotlight really put on them even more so later in the year in September because we’re gonna have the first in a series of eclipses that’s gonna take place, which is gonna represent an ending and a new beginning for you in this area of your life. And then that eclipse in September will be the first in a series of eclipses that are gonna take place there over the course of the next year-and-a-half, all the way into 2025. So major beginnings and major endings when it comes to beliefs. Sometimes this can also represent travel, interaction with foreign cultures or foreign countries, and other things like that.
So let’s move on to some of the most positive transits that you have going on this year. The first one I wanted to highlight is the first-half of the year, you have Jupiter’s transit through your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, and Jupiter’s gonna meet up with and conjoin the planet Uranus in May, which is gonna represent an opportunity for unexpected growth when it comes to friends and groups and alliances. So this is a transit that started last year in 2023, but it’s gonna reach its culmination here in the first-half of 2024, where you’re going through this period of expanding your friend group, maybe connecting with new groups of people who have similar beliefs or similar interests. Generally, it’s a very optimistic time where a person can find it much easier to make friends and to grow their social circle than at other times in their life. In particular, once Jupiter meets up with Uranus in May, I would take advantage of any opportunities or be on the lookout for any opportunities that may come to you as a result of friends or alliances at this time, because even though it may come from an unexpected source, it could be very beneficial.
So that’s one of the most positive transits that you have going on this year. Another positive transit is starting in June, Jupiter is going to ingress into your 12th house. On the one hand, if the 11th is friends, then the 12th house represents either people that you don’t get along with in your life, or, in some instances, it actually represents outright enemies or people who work against you in some way. So when you’re having a positive Jupiter transit through your 12th house, though, oftentimes this means that there can be instances where you can reconcile with people who were formerly enemies, or you can come to some sort of agreement with them. In other instances, if you were previously having conflicts and battles with these types of people, you may find yourself in a situation where you’re sort of victorious in some sort of dispute with them, which can be very positive.
Another area for Jupiter in the 12th house can be the internal world and dealing with one’s mental health and really focusing on this area, which in some ways can be somewhat isolating in that it can tend towards leading you to be a little bit more secluded in the second-half of the year than you were in the first-half of the year where you were much more social. On the other hand, sometimes by going inwards and working on ourselves, we can actually find things out about ourselves and we can come to new realizations about the nature of our lives that are actually very important. And I think that’s gonna be a really important theme for you. That’s going to be, while subtle, very positive and perhaps one of the most positive things that you’ll eventually emerge from in the second-half of 2024, with that Jupiter transit through your 12th house.
All right, so those are two of the positive transits this year. One area of potential difficulties is the Mars retrograde later this year, which is going to take place in Cancer and Leo. And Leo—where the transit will begin—is your 2nd house of finances, and Cancer is of course your rising sign, which signifies both your body, but also your mind; and more broadly speaking, the 1st house represents our sense of self opposite to the 7th house, which represents our relationships. So these two areas are gonna be sources of potential tension and irritation for the last few months of the year, basically.
For some people, this may mean that you need to exercise caution when it comes to spending or when it comes to investing or other financial matters, because a Mars transit through the 2nd house can be a little bit challenging for one’s finances. In other instances, when Mars goes back to your 1st house, to Cancer, that can mean that it can be good to exercise caution and restraint when it comes to your physical body and to not do anything impetuous or risky, where you could risk getting into an accident as a result of doing something off-the-cuff or doing something that you maybe weren’t supposed to be doing.
Another side effect of this transit is that sometimes when Mars goes through the 1st house, it can represent a period in which we’re more agitated or more irritable than at other times in our lives. So it can be good to try to exercise restraint there as well, so that you don’t initiate conflicts or get into fights with people, because even little arguments or fights during this time that don’t seem that important could blow up and become much larger or much more long-term conflicts if you’re not careful. So my main piece of advice is to exercise restraint and caution and try to keep yourself cooled down during the latter half of the year—I shouldn’t say half; the last few months of the year—just because you may feel yourself being a little bit more hotheaded than normal.
So that’s the Mars retrograde transit. The last transit I wanted to mention is Pluto is departing from your 7th house of relationships and it’s moving into your 8th house, which represents shared finances and other people’s money. So if you have a partner, this can indicate a period in which there can be transformative experiences surrounding other people’s money and the topic of money that belongs to others in your life in general, so sometimes this can be a positive thing. Other times, it can indicate a period where there’s a little bit more issues surrounding control and power moves or even manipulation involving other people’s money than at other times in your life. Another topic that can come up sometimes during this is issues surrounding mortality, where our own mortality or other people’s mortality becomes more of the focus in our lives or becomes more relevant for some reason, just in terms of thinking about and contemplating that.
So those are some of the themes with that transit, and it’s gonna be kind of a long-term transit, so it’s something that isn’t going to necessarily be a singular event that all happens at once. But it’s good to start paying attention if any of those themes come up this year, because they could turn out to be more relevant for you in the long term, so it’s good to get a handle on them early on in the transit.
All right, I think those are all the main transits. So that is why my main keywords for you this year are: career, home, family, beliefs, friends, enemies, and the money or the finances that belong to others. So I think that’s it for this horoscope for this year. Here are the main transits that I was talking about, for those watching the video version, here are some of the dates associated with those transits, and, otherwise, that is it for this horoscope for 2024. For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube.
Otherwise, if you’re looking for good dates to start or to do things during the course of the year, I recently released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, which lists fortunate dates in each of the next 12 months to launch different types of ventures and activities using the principles of electional astrology. So I’m doing a 15%-off sale right now for New Year’s, and you can find out more about that report at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, good luck this year with your transits, Cancer, and I’ll see you again next year for the horoscope for 2025. So have a great year!
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[Leo]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Leo for the entire year of 2024. All right, so let’s jump into it. So the main keywords for you this year and the main themes are: beliefs, finances, career, friends, self, enemies, and relationships. So those are the main themes that I’m gonna be talking about and I’m gonna spend the rest of this video kind of expanding on to talk about what transits coincide with each of those topics being activated for this year in your birth chart. All right, so let’s pull up your chart for the year; so this is for Leo rising.
All right, so the first transit I want to talk about is some of the eclipses that are taking place this year in your 9th house of beliefs and your 3rd house of communication. So this is a continuation of eclipses that already started last year in 2023 that represent a sequence of major beginnings in major endings when it comes to these topics in your life. The 9th house represents education. It represents beliefs. It represents our religious views or spiritual or philosophical views. It can also represent foreign travel and exposure to foreign places, people, and things.
So there’s some major new beginnings and major endings for you going on in this area of your life, and some of this may be educational, some of it may have to do with travel, but at the core of it, it has to do with your beliefs about the world and what you think the world is like and what your outlook is fundamentally and philosophically. There’s some things that you may be learning that are new, and there’s other things where you may have reached an ending point in terms of your belief in those things and you may go through a transition at this point. These are some things that already started last year, so it should represent the continuation, but also the culmination of that this year, especially around the April timeframe when there’s a major eclipse that’s gonna take place in Aries.
So in terms of the 3rd house and the Libra eclipses, the 3rd house represents communication primarily, which is ironic ‘cause I’m having trouble communicating right now. The 3rd house represents communication. Also, if the 9th house is what we believe about the world and what we’ve learned, the 3rd house is how we communicate that to other people. And there may be some things that you’re learning about how you communicate and how you might be able to communicate differently through different mediums, or how you might be able to communicate more effectively. So look for some major new beginnings when it comes to that topic and major ways that you could start a new chapter of your life when it comes to communication this year. The 3rd house also can represent siblings, short-distance travel and mobility, like your car, as well as neighborhoods and the people around you, in your immediate neighborhood or vicinity; so there may be some major beginnings or endings when it comes to those topics as well during the course of 2024.
All right, let’s look at other topics. I wanted to shift gears to the 8th house and Pisces, where you’ve had a Saturn transit that’s been happening over the past year, since March of 2023. This year Saturn is gonna move into a conjunction with Neptune, which is where we get some ideas of nebulousness or nebulous challenges. And it’s gonna be combined with some added emphasis in September with an eclipse that’s gonna take place in Pisces. So the 8th house primarily represents shared resources with a partner or other people’s money. So this could include things like debt, taxes, your partner’s income—if you have a partner—and even things like inheritance. So with Saturn going through this house sometimes it represents a period of challenges or surmountable difficulties that arise in this area. but they’re usually difficulties that you’re able to overcome or you’re able to get through, through a lot of hard work and effort; for example, adopting better strategies for paying off debt can be one good way to deal with a Saturn transit through the 8th house.
One of the only issues with this transit is just that because Neptune’s there, some of the issues and challenges are gonna be a little bit nebulous and a little bit hard to pin down, so that you may not know where the issue is coming from and it may take you a while to really get a good grasp on it. I think this should be even more of the focus, though, in September when this transit is highlighted by that eclipse that’s gonna take place there in Pisces; and then there’ll be sort of a spotlight that’s really shown on that area to emphasize it and draw your attention to it more. Sometimes with inheritance there can also be issues surrounding mortality, where the idea of mortality—whether it’s your own or others—can come up and become more prominent in your life for some reason. But that can often be constructive—doing things like writing a will or something like that can be a constructive use of that energy.
All right, so let’s move on to some of the more positive transits this year. I wanted to highlight some of the Jupiter transits, and one of them is the Jupiter transit in the first-half of the year through your 10th house of career. So my primary keywords for this are unexpected opportunities with career and life direction. So this is through Taurus, basically from January through May, and it sort of culminates in May with this Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in your 10th house. Jupiter represents opportunities and growth, and Uranus represents unexpected things, things that come out of nowhere; so the combined meaning is unexpected opportunities in terms of your career and your overall life direction.
So the first-half of the year—and especially in May—I would be on the lookout for opportunities for growth and expansion when it comes to career. There may be some opportunities that come your way, like getting a promotion or switching into a new career field that could be beneficial for you or more high-paying. Try to think outside of the box when it comes to this transit, though, because Uranus usually rewards uniqueness; it rewards doing things that are different than what the standard or what is normal. And sometimes when you think outside of the box with Uranus transits, you can find that there are opportunities there that you didn’t otherwise think were possible or that other people may have overlooked. So that should be a great transit for career matters this year.
After that, I wanted to highlight the 11th house transit, because in June, Jupiter is going to move into your 11th house of friends, groups, and alliances. And this is going to indicate and begin a six-month period—actually a period that will last a little bit longer than six months, but will last the entirety of the second-half of this year—of growth and expansion when it comes to groups, friends, and alliances. So for many people this can mean things like making new friends, expanding your social circle, starting to connect with other people that have similar interests as you, either in terms terms of personal things that you enjoy, like hobbies, or even in terms of like political interests or similar beliefs in some sense; basically, people that have like-minded interests. So the entire second-half of the year, especially June in particular, is gonna present some opportunities for making new friends and expanding your social circle. And that’s probably gonna be one of the most positive transits of the year, besides the 10th house career transit that happens in May, so I would be on the lookout for it and I would try to take advantage of it in order to expand your social circle while you can during this time.
All right, let’s see, other transits this year—there is gonna be a Mars retrograde period that’s gonna take place late in the year, especially in the last two months, in the October, November, September timeframe; it’s going to take place in your 1st house of body and self and your 12th house of enemies and self-undoing. Mars transits can be kind of irritating and they can indicate tensions surrounding these areas. So with the first one, it can be tensions surrounding your body or tensions surrounding your mind, which can indicate a period of greater irritability, where you may find yourself more irritable and prone to get into arguments with people for a period. It can also indicate a period where you’re more impulsive than at other times, so you could do things impulsively that could get you into trouble.
It’s a good idea to exercise restraint and caution, so that you don’t get into an accident as a result of acting impulsively and do something that hurts you physically, but also to restrain yourself in another sense—mentally or character-wise—so that if you’re more irritable during this time, you don’t start any major fights with people that could have been avoided. Sometimes with Mars retrograde transits, you can initiate what seems like a small fight, which later turns out to be a much bigger and more long-lasting one, especially if you act thoughtlessly during that period.
All right, so that’s the Mars transit through your 1st house. The 12th house part is the 12th house usually relates to enemies, because it’s the counterpart to the 11th house, which signifies friends. So what’s interesting is that, on the one hand, while you’re gonna be growing your social circle in the second-half of the year with the positive 11th house transit for friends, you need to be careful because with Mars going retrograde in your 12th house, this can also indicate conflicts with people that you don’t get along with or even sometimes people that are outright enemies or that attempt to undermine you.
Because this is a retrograde, sometimes it has a backwards-looking function, so it may indicate enemies or people that you don’t get along with from the past coming back into your life for some reason. This doesn’t have to be a huge deal necessarily, but it’s something to pay attention to. Again, try to exercise some caution or some restraint; that way, you don’t create any larger conflicts that might be avoidable if you had only restrained yourself instead of diving head first into it somewhat impulsively. If you’re able to do that, it should be fine, though.
All right, the final transit that I wanted to mention is that Pluto’s moving into Aquarius this year in 2024, and this is gonna inaugurate a period of transformative experiences with respect to relationships that will actually last for quite a long time because Pluto transits move so slow. So a Pluto transit through the 7th house—the 7th house represents marriage, partnerships, relationships. Usually it just indicates a period where there are these intense experiences that draw us in and draw our attention and cause some deep, core transformations within us as a result of interactions with other people. So this can be typically like a relationship transformation. Whether it’s a new relationship coming into your life at this time or whether it’s having this sort of experience through an old relationship, the point of it is just that your relationships are gonna be much more deep and much more intense for a period of time with Pluto moving into this sector of your chart. So that can be a good thing or that can be a challenging thing, but it’ll be important to pay attention to what sort of themes start to arise for you in relationships this year because it may give you a preview of some themes that are gonna become much more long-term ones in the future, so definitely pay attention to it.
All right, so those are all of the main things I wanted to cover today. So that’s the reason why my keywords for this year are: beliefs, finances, career, friends, self, enemies, and relationships. Here’s the main transits that I was correlating that with, for those watching the video version. Here’s some of the dates associated with them, just so you can refer to that later on if you want to. Otherwise, I think that’s it for this horoscope for 2024.
If you’d like a more detailed breakdown of some of the transits this year, be sure to check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Otherwise, for good dates to do things next year, I recently released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I go through and I pick out the best dates that are the most fortunate for doing different things over the course of the next year. I’m doing a 15%-off sale on that right now, so you can find it at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
Otherwise, I think that’s it for this horoscope, so thanks a lot for watching. Good luck this year, and I’ll see you again next year for the horoscopes for 2025. All right, take care.
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[Virgo]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope for Virgo for the entire year of 2024. All right, let’s jump into it. First, I wanted to say the main themes that you’re gonna encounter this year which are: finances, relationships, beliefs, career, friends, enemies, and health. So those are some of the main themes that you’re gonna encounter this year, and I’m gonna spend the rest of this video expanding on what transits are associated with the activation of those themes in your life and what the timeframes are and everything like that. So let’s go ahead and jump right into it.
All right, so the first transit that I wanted to highlight that you’re having this year is a continuation of the eclipses that are happening in your 2nd house of finances and your 8th house of shared resources. These eclipses started last year, and my keyword for eclipses is major beginnings and major endings; so, for you, this is major beginnings and major endings when it comes to finances and shared resources. For some people, this indicates fluctuations in finances. For others, it represents maybe you’ve gone as far as you can with a certain manner of making money and you’ve come to the end of that, so it’s the end of one chapter; but then the end of one chapter opens up a new chapter, so that there are new opportunities for growth and financial success during the course of the year.
Part of this, though, is taking place in the context of your 8th house, which represents other people’s money and shared resources. Sometimes this indicates the resources of a partner—if you’re married or have a relationship partner—that there’s something about your partner’s resources that are suddenly affecting yours and some changes in that area. In other instances, the 8th house can represent things like debt, inheritance. It can represent taxes and other things like that. So pay attention to these areas of your life, ‘cause it seems to be getting a lot of activity this year of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to financial matters.
So that’s the first transit I wanted to highlight. The next transit I wanted to highlight is talking about these transits through your 7th house of relationships that are happening this year, especially, initially, the Saturn transit through Pisces and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s gonna take place around the June-July timeframe. So my primary keyword for this is nebulous challenges regarding relationships. Saturn going into your 7th house usually represents a period of surmountable difficulties for relationships where sometimes relationships cool off or others can come to an end. You can find that you run into some obstacles or some difficulties, and you may decide at this time that there’s some relationships that have kind of reached the end of their lifespan and you don’t want to proceed further. On the other hand, sometimes these are surmountable difficulties, where something comes up but you decide to work through it; and if you put in a lot of effort and a lot of dedication to overcome those obstacles, then you can emerge from this period with a much stronger relationship than you had going into it.
The only issue here, though, is because Saturn is gonna be conjoining Neptune, Neptune is kind of nebulous, and it makes it harder to grasp exactly what the issues are and where they’re coming from. There’s this inherent tension between Neptune, which represents illusions and idealism versus Saturn, which represents the cold, hard reality, and there’s gonna be some sort of tension for you this year between idealism versus realism when it comes to your relationships. This is gonna be heightened even more so around the September timeframe because there’s gonna be an eclipse in Pisces, which is going to indicate a period of major endings and major beginnings for relationships. So some people start new major relationships during those times or other people end relationships at those times, or at least end a major chapter of a current relationship at the very least; so that’s gonna be one of your main areas of activity this year, relationships.
Moving on to some of the more positive things, I wanted to talk about some of the Jupiter transits that you’re having this year. In the first-half of the year, you’ve got Jupiter going through your 9th house of travel, religion, education, beliefs, and interaction with foreign cultures and foreign places. In May, Jupiter is gonna conjoin Uranus, which presents the potential for unexpected opportunities with respect to this area of your life. Whether it’s beliefs, whether it’s travel, whether it’s education—there’s some sort of opportunity that comes that’s sort of sudden and somewhat unexpected, especially around the May timeframe.
So for many of you—because the 9th house represents beliefs and education—it may represent starting to learn something new about the world and starting to expand your horizons in some way that’s new and unexpected for you. In other instances, it may present the opportunity to go on a trip or to travel to a foreign country in a way that’s new and exciting for you in order to see a place that you haven’t seen before; that’s kind of the energy of this transit, especially in the first-half of the year, but culminating, in particular, around the May timeframe.
So that’s the first positive transit. The other really positive transit for you this year is Jupiter, in June, is gonna move into Gemini, which is your 10th house of career and overall life direction. So this represents a period of growth with respect to your career and life direction, where if you’re already in a current line of work, you could get a promotion, or you could see some sort of advancement in your current career field. The 10th house also represents reputation, so it can be a very good period for your reputation in general and hitting a new height in terms of that. I would take advantage of this transit to look for different opportunities of growth in your chosen career field, because the second-half of this year in particular—especially in June—is gonna be just full of possibilities and full of potentials for growth, and it would be good if you had your eyes open and you took advantage of any of those opportunities when they presented themselves to you.
All right, so that is the Jupiter transit. I wanted to move on and talk about the Mars retrograde that’s gonna take place later in the year. So this Mars retrograde is going to be taking place in Leo and Cancer, which are your 12th and 11th houses. Mars transits can be kind of tense—they can bring hidden tensions to the forefront in our lives—and, for you, this is taking place in the 11th house of friends and the 12th house of enemies. So it’s maybe tying together these two topics in your life, where it could bring some hidden tensions to the forefront with respect to your friendships, and there may be some friends in your life who become enemies or become people that you don’t get along with for a period of time; alternatively, there may be some enemies that you clash with that suddenly become friends.
Since this is a retrograde period, some of the energy of this period can involve bringing things from the past into the present. In this instance, it would be bringing some tensions from the past and resurfacing some of those tensions in the present. Whether those are tensions with friends or tensions with enemies or people that you don’t get along with very well—that’s kind of the energy of this transit during the last two or three months of the year. So as long as you deal with that energy and you exercise restraint and caution, it shouldn’t necessarily be too bad; but just try to avoid getting into any conflicts or fights that are unnecessary or that you don’t need to get into; or at least make sure that if you initiate a conflict that you’re okay if it becomes a bigger conflict than you might think at first. Because one of the things about Mars retrogrades is sometimes we can start a little fight, thinking that it’ll just come and go over the course of a day or two, but then for reasons outside of our control it can become much larger than we expected at first. So just be careful getting into any major conflicts at this time, unless you really are prepared to deal with something that could be a little bit more drawn-out than you’re anticipating.
All right, so that’s the Mars transit. The last transit I wanted to mention is Pluto’s gonna go into Aquarius, which is your 6th house of work and health. This can indicate a period of transformative experiences when it comes to either your workplace and what you do for work, or it can be a period of transformation with respect to your health and your body. Sometimes this can be a little bit challenging. There can be challenging issues that come up and force us to dig deep and research things very deeply in order to come up with solutions for these issues. So if this is happening with respect to health, there may be some things where you have to really dig in deep and research things deeply in order to figure out a solution to some long-standing issues that you’ve had in the past that now suddenly require more long-term attention and resolution of some sort.
If this is happening in the workplace, sometimes there can be issues with issues of power, control, manipulation, and other issues, especially if you find yourself in a management position. If you have people that are working underneath you as subordinates, there can be issues with control and intrigue and manipulation when it comes to those people. So just be very careful if you enter into any situations like that, because sometimes it can be somewhat problematic. But as long as you’re aware of that, and you exercise caution, it shouldn’t lead to any major issues outside of something that you can handle.
All right, so those are the major transits that I wanted to mention this year, and that’s the reason why the main keywords this year: are finances, relationships, beliefs, career, friends, enemies, and health. So I think that’s it for this forecast for this year. Here are the main transits that I talked about, for those watching the video version, and here are some of the key dates for some of those transits, just to give you an idea and a reminder of the timeframes.
But other than that, I think that’s it for this forecast for 2024. So if you’d like a more detailed breakdown of the transits for next year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. And if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, I recently released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through and I’ve outlined all of the most fortunate dates for starting different ventures and for doing things during the course of the next 12 months. So I’m running a 15%-off New Year’s sale on that right now, and you can find out more information at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, that’s it for this forecast. Good luck this year, and I’ll see you next year for the horoscope for 2025. So good luck and take care.
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And finally, thanks to our sponsors, including The Mountain Astrologer Magazine, which is a quarterly astrology magazine which you can read in print or online at MountainAstrologer.com, and the Northwest Astrological Conference, which is happening both in person and online, May 23-27, 2024. You can find out more information at norwac.net.
[Libra]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Libra for the entire year of 2024, so let’s go ahead and jump right into it. So your main keywords this year, to summarize Libra, are: self, relationship, health, money, learn, friends, career, and children. These are some of the main topics that are gonna be activated for you during the course of this year based on the transits, and I want to spend the rest of this video expanding on that and talking about the specific transits that will activate different parts of your chart and different topics in your life.
So I wanted to start first with the eclipses—where we’re gonna see a continuation of an eclipse series that started last year in 2023, and it’s gonna continue on into 2024—and these eclipses are happening in your 1st house of self mind and body and your 7th house of relationships. Eclipses represent major beginnings and major endings in the area of life that they fall. For many of you, then, because this eclipse series is bouncing back and forth between your 1st house of self and your 7th house of relationships, part of the purpose of this time is figuring out how to balance your own personal needs as a person and what your goals and desires and wishes are versus the needs of other people that you’re in relationships with, especially close, personal, one-on-one, often romantic relationships. So you’ll probably swing back and forth between putting more emphasis on yourself versus putting more emphasis on others during the course of this year at different points, and eventually the goal is to reach balance in the end.
But with eclipses happening in your 7th house, sometimes this means if you’re not in a relationship, it can indicate a major new relationship coming into your life, especially around the April timeframe, which is when the eclipse in Aries will take place. For those of you that are in relationships already, sometimes it can indicate the end of a chapter in that relationship and the need to start a new chapter for some reason. In some extreme instances, if a relationship has reached the end of its life cycle, then eclipses can sometimes indicate the end of a relationship, which then will open you up and make space for other new ones to come into your life. Let’s see, other things—focusing on mind, body, self, appearance, and other 1st house-type topics are definitely the potential for the Libra eclipses, which will take place both in March and then again later in the year in early October. So pay attention to some of those topics because some of them may profoundly change your sense of self and who you are and how you appear to the world in some pretty significant ways.
All right, so those are the eclipses that are taking place throughout the course of the year at different points. The next thing I wanted to move on to talking about is the Saturn transit and other transits happening in Pisces this year, which is going through your 6th house of work and health. So Saturn transits tend to represent challenges and often surmountable difficulties, my keyword for Saturn, and Saturn’s meeting up with Neptune this year, especially around the June-July timeframe; and, usually, Neptune represents things that are nebulous or mysterious or that are sort of like illusions, whereas Saturn represents the cold hard facts and reality and truth of things. So when you get these two together you end up with a bit of a tension in this sector of your life, in this sector of your chart, so that’s why my primary keyword for this transit is nebulous challenges surrounding work and health, so that’s gonna be part of what you’re trying to work out this year.
So when it comes to health, that means there may be some health issues coming up that you feel like you need to address. This doesn’t always mean that it’s an actual crisis or something like that, but rather it could just be something where you’re trying to put more routines into your life for health matters; you’re trying to improve health slowly and incrementally. The challenge will be balancing optimism and idealism with realism about what is within your capability of doing. If there are any health things associated with this transit, it can be tricky because sometimes Neptune things are hard to get a grasp on and can be so nebulous that they’re hard to pin down; so maybe part of the tension this year is trying to figure out where things are coming from and how to address them as one of the themes.
I think some of this will become a little bit more prominent in September, when we’re gonna get the first eclipse in the sign of Pisces that will really put a spotlight on this area even more so than it was earlier in the year in especially June and July, so that’s one area to pay attention to. The 6th house can also pertain to work. So some of the issues that I just mentioned may relate to nebulous challenges surrounding work and the workplace. Especially if you find yourself in a sort of managerial position with subordinates, there could be some challenges that are kind of nebulous with subordinates and dealing with them and some setbacks that you have to work on but then eventually overcome, but all of that should be manageable.
All right, so that is that transit through your 6th house this year, which is one of the more long-term ones that’s gonna be off and on this year. Next, I wanted to focus on some more positive transits that are happening involving Jupiter, one of them is this transit of Jupiter through your 8th house of shared resources, other people’s money. A Jupiter transit through your 8th house is actually quite positive ‘cause it indicates a period of growth and expansion in this area. And Jupiter is actually going to meet up with and conjoin Uranus in the May timeframe—April-May timeframe—and my main keyword for this is that it presents unexpected opportunities involving the resources of others.
For some people, this represents the resources of your partner, if you’re in a long-term relationship; they may have some sort of sudden financial windfall or get a raise at work or have some sort of inheritance come their way, since inheritance is definitely an 8th house topic that can come up. But the 8th house also can be other people’s money in general, more broadly, even outside of your partner’s finances. So sometimes this can involve things like taxes, debt, even investments or other things like that that give you some sort of positive period of growth and financial windfall at this time, especially ones that are unexpected or come from a sector that you didn’t think of that sort of come out of nowhere. The 8th house sometimes has to do with issues surrounding mortality, so in some instances this could also mean something positive along those lines, which can mean things surrounding an inheritance or some other scenario like that. So that transit’s gonna be happening for the entire first-half of the year and then culminating around the late April timeframe when Jupiter conjoins Uranus exactly.
All right, so my other most positive transit for you this year is that Jupiter in June is gonna move into the sign of Gemini, which is your 9th house of education, learning, philosophy, beliefs, religion, travel, and foreign countries and foreign places; so this is gonna initiate a period of growth and learning and expansion when it comes to these topics in particular. So some people start learning new things; they take a new course of study at this time and they start expanding their horizons by learning and expanding what they know. Other people take a major trip—like an international trip or a major long-distance trip—that also broadens and expands their horizons and exposes them to things that they hadn’t thought of or hadn’t learned previously.
Other things—it can be a period of learning, travel, and sometimes beliefs. The 9th house can represent religion and philosophy and our personal belief systems, and sometimes we can learn new things about the world that expand the scope of how we think the world works and what our place is in it. And I think this is one of the most positive transits that you’re having this year, especially, starting in June. There’s gonna be a bunch of planets moving through Gemini, so I think it’s gonna be relevant, especially at that point. But even into the entire second-half of 2024, Jupiter’s gonna be transiting through Gemini, so we’ll see a continuation of some of those themes during the second-half of this year and on into 2025. So that’s definitely one of the most positive transits that I’m most excited about for you this year.
All right, so moving on, another major transit that’s happening this year is the planet Mars is going to go retrograde in the signs of Cancer and Leo, which is your 11th house of friends and your 10th house of career. Mars retrogrades can sometimes raise tensions; they can be kind of tense transits that raise tensions in the area of the chart that they go retrograde in. For you, this is tension surrounding friends and career, and some of these tensions may be happening separately or independently in terms of having new tensions with friends or friend groups or alliances, or they may be happening together so that it ties together the topics of both friends and career.
So my main piece of advice here is that you should just be careful about starting conflicts with friends at this time, or at least if you do, if it’s necessary—‘cause sometimes you have to address things when they come up—just to be aware not to fly off the handle or do anything that you might regret later; because sometimes a small conflict started during a Mars retrograde that you think shouldn’t last more than a day or two can blow up into a much longer-term conflict that has more far-reaching implications than you might anticipate at first.
With this transit, some of the worst-case scenarios are severing and separation and loss of friends with Mars in the 11th house, and with Mars in the 10th house, it can mean more conflict at work, having clashes with superiors, or even having some sort of severing or separation when it comes to your job and career at this time are the potentials of that transit in the worst-case scenarios; but all of these could be manageable as long as you just go into them aware of some of the possibilities and try to exercise caution and restraint as much as you can during this time. So this Mars retrograde transit is happening the last two months of the year—when it really heats up—and it’ll continue a little bit on into next year.
All right, so those are those main transits. There was one last transit I wanted to mention, which is Pluto’s going into the sign of Aquarius this year for a while, and Aquarius is your 5th house of children, of play, of leisurely activities, creativity; the 5th house also relates to sex and sexuality. Pluto represents deep transformative experiences in whatever area of the chart that it transits. It’s departing from your 4th house—where it’s been for over a decade, which is the house that has to do with home, family, living situation, and parents—and you’re sort of gonna be emerging during the course of this year, 2024, from a very long transit of having a pretty intense and transformative experience when it comes to those topics of home and family. Now the emphasis is gonna shift to this other area of children, sexuality, and leisurely activities, and you’re gonna find that some of these topics are going to bring pretty deep transformative experiences into your life.
So this may involve things like having children, or if you already have children, things that are going on in the lives of your children that’s important and transformative for you, so that you go into it one way and you come out another; sometimes even just the process of having children can itself be a transformative experience, and for some people it’ll be as simple as that. For others, since the 5th house relates to sex and sexuality, it can mean having some pretty deep or intense relationships or new relationships that come into your life that change your views on sex and sexuality in some sort of profound way.
Finally, the last topic that sometimes comes up with the 5th house is fun and games and leisurely activities, like what you do for fun in order to enjoy life and sort of blow off steam; but some of these topics either become more intense for a period or potentially just take much more of your focus, so that maybe there’s something you get really into and you decide to go really deep into that leisurely activity or that game or what have you, just because it becomes so intensely fascinating to you. So all of this is all right as long as you exercise caution and restraint because Pluto tends to go to extremes. And so, whatever you do, if you do get into some new activity that’s fun, just try to exercise a little bit of restraint and not go overboard, which might be your initial impulse with that transit.
All right, so those are all of the main transits that I wanted to talk about this year, so that is why my primary keywords—just to reiterate once again—for this year are: self, relationship, health, money, learn, friends, career, and children.
All right, so that is it for this horoscope for 2024, thanks a lot for watching. If you’d like a more detailed breakdown of the transits for this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Or if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, for lucky dates to do things, I just recently released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, which gives fortunate dates for each of the next 12 months over the course of 2024 that you can use to launch different types of ventures and activities. So I’m doing a 15%-off sale right now for New Year’s, and you can find out more about the report at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, that’s it for this horoscope. So good luck in 2024, Libra, and I’ll see you again next year. All right, bye.
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[Scorpio]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead astrology and horoscope forecast for Scorpio for the entire year of 2024, so let’s go ahead and jump right into it. Your main keywords this year, Scorpio, are: health, enemies, children, relationship, money, career, and home. So those are some of the main topics that are gonna come up for you this year, that are going to be the most prominent in your life, and I want to spend the rest of this forecast expanding on that and talking about which transits correlate with each topic and what other different manifestations of those topics you might see come into your life.
All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar for the year, for Scorpio and Scorpio rising. The first transit that I was gonna focus on is the eclipse series that’s gonna continue this year in Libra, which is your 12th house, and Aries, which is your 6th house. So the 6th house relates to work and health, and the 12th house relates to things like people you don’t get along with in your life, which can sometimes be enemies; it can also relate to periods of isolation or even actions where we sort of undermine ourselves without realizing it. With eclipses, they always represent major beginnings and major endings, so it’s gonna be like the opening of a new chapter of your life for each of these topics.
When it comes to the 6th house that can mean—since it’s relating to work—some major new period at work or a new beginning at work. For those of you in a managerial position, it could be some sort of new chapter when it comes to somebody that works for you or somebody that supports you in some way. The 6th house also relates to health, especially physical health, whereas the 12th house can relate to mental health. So this may represent a period where you’re putting more attention towards your health than at other times in your life and starting to try new things and open up new avenues of trying to improve both physical health as well as mental health. So some people, for example, start a new diet or exercise regime when they’re having major 6th house transits like this. Other times, with the 12th house eclipse, people can start seeing a new therapist or trying to do something in order to become more reflective and work on their internal self, while at the same time working on their external physical health.
This is a continuation of some themes that already started last year. These eclipses began in 2023, but they’ll continue through 2024, especially in April. Yeah, late March and early April will be the first set of eclipses in these signs, and then there’ll be another one later in the year in October, at the beginning of October. So those should be some of the main themes that come up during that time, but the point of it—especially with the health thing—is just finding new ways to improve your health, both in terms of your mind and your body; and as long as you’re proactive that should actually be a very good thing.
The last thing I meant to mention is the 12th house can also represent enemies. So sometimes it represents a new chapter when it comes to dealing with people in your life that you don’t get along with and having to take new measures in order to make sure that people who might be undermining you do not go too far or that you put a stop to that if necessary. So sometimes it represents a new chapter of dealing with people that undermine us in our lives, as well as sometimes new realizations about ways in which we undermine ourselves and don’t even realize it and ways to help improve that in our lives as well, which can sometimes be tied in with the mental health fixes that I mentioned earlier.
All right, so those are the eclipses taking place there. The other area that I wanted to talk about is some of the nebulous challenges surrounding your 5th house with this Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s taking place this year in your 5th house of children, leisure, and sex and sexuality. Saturn typically represents challenges or surmountable difficulties that come up, and Neptune represents things that are illusory or nebulous or hard to really grasp, and what this represents is the potential for some challenges to come up in this area.
For example, some people, when they have 5th house transits, have issues arise with children, where there’s some sort of obstacle that they have to work through with their children, either in their relationship with them or in terms of something happening in the life of your child. But with Neptune there, it may be a little bit nebulous or hard to pin down exactly where it’s coming from or what issue arises as a result of it, basically. The tension between Saturn and Neptune—especially around the June and July timeframe, when they’re both going to get really close, within 10° of a conjunction—the tension is gonna be telling what’s real versus what’s not real. In other instances, it can be a tension between doing the ideal thing versus doing the realistic thing. Those are gonna be some of the tensions that you may wrestle with this year when it comes to that topic, either in terms of the topic of children in general or other people’s children, because it can also work as a more broad topic.
The 5th house also pertains to games and leisurely activities, like what you do for fun. You may find some challenges, or you may find yourself being a little bit more serious this year when it comes to this topic for some reason. This transit actually began last year in March of 2023, so this is a continuation of it; but we’ll see an intensification of it this year because of the proximity of Saturn and Neptune, and then also due to the eclipse later in September that I’ll mention in a minute.
The other topic that the 5th house relates to is sex and sexuality. So with Saturn going through there, again, you may experience some surmountable difficulties that come up, or there’s something that arises that presents an obstacle. It’ll be a question of whether it’s a complete roadblock, where you can’t proceed further with that avenue. The other scenario is that it’s a surmountable difficulty, where if you just put a lot of work and dedication towards fixing it and overcoming it that, eventually you’re able to get through that obstacle and it becomes a sort of ‘what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’-type situation rather than one that just completely shuts things down.
Again, because of Neptune, the core roots of things are gonna be a little bit nebulous and hard to grasp, so you may have to spend a lot of time just sorting through what the actual issues are before you figure everything out this year. This is gonna become heightened, as I said, around the September timeframe, ‘cause there’s gonna be the first eclipse there in Pisces in September, and that eclipse series is gonna continue on into next year, into 2025. So that’s really gonna shine a spotlight on this area of your life—especially in September—even though some of the things had already been building up prior to that point; the eclipse is just gonna make them more necessary to address than they had been up to that point.
All right, so that’s the 5th house transits this year. I wanted to mention some of the really positive transits you have, ‘cause there’s actually some really good ones this year. The two most positive transits that you have this year—the first one is that Jupiter is transiting through your 7th house of relationships, and it’s gonna conjoin Uranus in May. So this transit is good for the entire first-half of the year, and Jupiter usually represents a period of growth and expansion. But, here, ‘cause it’s conjoining Uranus in your 7th house of relationships, my primary keyword is that it represents a period of unexpected opportunities involving relationships, as well as the growth and expansion of relationships in your life during this time in general, so this is a really good time for relationships.
With Jupiter going through the 7th house, sometimes if people aren’t in a relationship, they can find them themselves in a relationship. If you are already in a long-term relationship, you can find that you go into a particularly good period for relationships for the entire first-half of this year; and this is continuing a transit that started last year. With Uranus here, over the past several years, relationships may have been a lot different than normal, or a lot different than previous, and there may be some things about your relationships that are kind of odd or unique or off the beaten path. And some of those changes this year are going to be affirmed or sort of confirmed in some way by Jupiter, in a way that should be very positive and growth-oriented. So this is one of the most positive transits that you’re having this year that I really like, because it’s, generally speaking, good for relationships. And I would pay attention especially to the May timeframe—the April-May timeframe—for the sudden, unexpected potential for opportunities that you should keep an eye out for if they come along.
All right so that is your 7th house transit. The other really positive transit that’s happening this year is that in the second-half of the year, starting in June, Jupiter will go into your 8th house of shared resources. For many people, typically, the 8th house represents the partner’s finances, and a Jupiter transit through the 8th can indicate a period where maybe your partner has a sudden financial windfall of some sort or maybe they have an inheritance. Or maybe you, yourself, have an inheritance because the 8th house represents other people’s money in general, but oftentimes it’s the way in which other people’s money or resources ends up affecting you. In this instance, because it’s a Jupiter transit, it should be affecting you in a positive way through growth and expansion in this area; a raise for the partner. In other instances, the 8th house can indicate things like debt, taxes, inheritance with respect to you, but all of these should be positive events that happen in some way or growth-oriented events in this area. Yeah, so that’s I think the second most positive transit this year, and it has to do with finances and resources involving other people in your life.
All right, so that is that transit. Let’s move on to the Mars retrograde that’s happening this year, which is happening in Cancer and Leo towards the end of 2024; and this is happening in your 10th house of career and your 9th house of education, travel, and beliefs. Mars retrogrades typically coincide with tensions in the area of our lives that they go retrograde in, so my primary keyword for this is tensions surrounding career, as well as beliefs, education, and travel.
So when you have a Mars retrograde in the 10th house that sometimes can indicate a period of conflict involving your career, conflict involving your job or even involving superiors if there’s people that are in a position over you. Sometimes these conflicts can result in severing or separation if you decide to leave one job or leave one career and move into another. Other times, it can just indicate an extended period of irritation and annoyance with your situation without it necessarily being a big deal. The important point usually is to just exercise restraint so that you don’t do something impulsive or something that you might regret in retrospect if you had been a little bit more careful. So, basically, avoid causing problems in your life when it comes to career and these other topics that happen as a result of impetuousness or as a result of anger or irritability.
With Mars going retrograde in the 9th house as well, this could involve some conflicts surrounding education or beliefs. For different people, sometimes the 9th house can represent one’s politics or one’s religious beliefs and just views about the world in general, and there’s something at this time where your beliefs are conflicting or causing you to get into fights or conflict with others. In other more tangible instances, the 9th house and a Mars retrograde transit can mean having a trip where you run into difficulties or issues as a result of travel—since the 9th house is the place of travel in foreign countries—as well as just getting into conflicts with people that are from a different background than your own is a potential manifestation of this transit.
Let’s see, anything else? Education. Education is the last one that’s very relevant with the 9th house. Sometimes that can indicate a conflict involving education. Other times it can mean severing or separating yourself from an educational path that you had been going down and deciding as a result of some sort of conflict that you have to go a different way rather than the way that you had been proceeding up to that point.
Sometimes, because it’s a retrograde, this can be bringing up old issues from the past rather than new ones. But even if the experience is problematic or negative in some way at the time, typically, if it forces you to go in a different direction than you would have gone otherwise, ultimately, it’ll end up working out for the best and being for a good reason or a good purpose in the long run when you look back on it in retrospect. So that transit’s happening the last few months of the year—especially in the November-December timeframe—and then it leaks into 2025 a bit as well.
All right, so the last transit that I wanted to mention is the planet Pluto is moving into your 4th house of home and family and parents and private life, so my primary keyword for this is deeply transformative experiences with home and parents. So Pluto is a planet that makes us have some pretty intense, pretty deep experiences sometimes. Sometimes this can involve things with the parents and a period of having experiences with the parents that draw you in and cause you to have much more attention on this area than you have at other times in your life. And sometimes we can go through things with our parents either based on our relationship with them or based on things that are happening in their lives that can have a deeply transformative effect on us, so that we go into it one way at the beginning of that transit, and we emerge quite different on the other side.
So the 4th house sometimes relates to parents; in other instances, it can relate to your home and your living situation. There may be some major changes that are happening or that are coming at home, and some of these may be a little bit challenging or a little bit difficult. Sometimes Pluto transits—both with respect to home or parents—can involve issues of control, issues of manipulation or power plays or things like that; basically, situations in which you have to take your power back and take power into your own hands and wield it carefully and ethically as much as you can. But with respect to the home and living situation, some of these experiences that you’re gonna go through are gonna have a deeply transformative effect in terms of your home and living situation and just what is happening in your private life.
Ultimately, like with the Mars transit, it’s one of those things where it may clear the way of some old things, but in doing so it’s gonna make way for new things in this area of your life and new experiences that you’ll appreciate in the future but that you couldn’t have had otherwise without going through this transit first. So this transit is really getting going next year, and then it’s gonna last for a while after it goes into Aquarius this year in 2024. So it’s not necessarily something that’s all gonna happen at once, but pay attention to any changes in this area of your life that start happening next year because they may have a much more longer-term impact than you might anticipate at first.
All right, so those are the main transits that I wanted to go over for this year. Here is a list—for those watching the video version—of these transits. Here are some of the dates involved for each of the transits that I mentioned. Here’s the Mars retrograde period. Otherwise, I think that is it for this horoscope for 2024. For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Or for good dates to do things next year, I recently released a report where I went through and I picked out the best dates over the next 12 months for doing things—in my 2024 Electional Astrology Report—giving fortunate dates for the year ahead. So I’m doing a 15%-off New Year’s sale right now, and you can find out more information at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, good luck in 2024. Have a great year, and I’ll see you again next year. All right, take care.
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[Sagittarius]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Sagittarius for the entire year of 2024. All right, let’s jump right into it. Your main keywords this year, Sagittarius, are: children, sex, friends, home, parents, work, health, relationship, communication, and siblings. So these are some of the main topics that are gonna become prominent for you in different ways this year, and I’m gonna spend the rest of this video expanding on each of those topics and why they’re important for you, as well as how. All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar. And I want to start first by talking about the eclipses that will be taking place in your 5th house of sex and fun and leisure and children and your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances.
So this is a continuation of an eclipse series and some trends that started last year in 2023, and we’ll see a continuation of some of that energy of major beginnings and major endings when it comes to these topics in your life during the course of this year, especially during eclipse season, which is around March and April of 2024, as well as there’s gonna be one more eclipse in this axis in October. So with the 11th house eclipses in Libra, that’s major beginnings and endings when it comes to friends and groups.
You’ve been entering a new chapter of your life where there’s some new friendships that are starting, and you may meet some people where maybe you don’t think it’s gonna be a major friendship at first, but then it turns out that that relationship grows and develops and becomes much more important in the long term than you anticipate it first. And there’s gonna be other friendships where you’re gonna find that you may have reached the end of the life cycle of that friendship, and there may be some friendships that fall away into the past and cease to be as important for you or come to, in some instances, an ending during the course of this year. The 11th house also has to do with social groups. So sometimes that can mean joining a new social network or club or finding other like-minded individuals that share similar beliefs or participate in similar activities would be a use of this energy.
With the 5th house eclipses, this is major beginnings and endings when it comes to children. So sometimes this can mean children become more important in your life for some reason, either your own children—in terms of, for example, having children—or, in other instances, it can be other people’s children that somehow become prominent in your life for some reason; but for some reason the topic of children is becoming more prominent as a potential topic this year.
The 5th house also has to do with sex and sexuality. So there’s some sort of theme that started last year that continues into this year of moving into a new chapter in your life when it comes to sex and sexuality and some major changes that are happening in that area. The final thing is the 5th house has to do with fun and games and leisurely activities and what you do basically for fun. So you may find that there are some things that you used to do for fun that you’re no longer enjoying as much and maybe you stop doing, and there’s other things that maybe you’ll discover that you didn’t know that you enjoyed but you start finding a lot of enjoyment in and you start putting a lot more focus in during the course of this year.
So those are the eclipses that will be happening off and on throughout the course of this year. The next thing I wanted to focus on is the Saturn transit, where Saturn’s going to conjoin Neptune this year in your 4th house of home, family, parents, and private life. My primary keyword for this is nebulous challenges surrounding home and parents. So Neptune’s been transiting your 4th house for years now, but Saturn just moved into this house just last year, in March of 2023. Typically, Saturn represents challenges and surmountable difficulties in the home and living situation. So there may be some things about your home and living situation that are some challenges or some annoyances that are arising this year or setbacks that you have to deal with. But because Saturn’s conjoining Neptune, some of these issues are kind of nebulous, and it’s hard to address them or hard to really pin down what the issue is or how to fix it.
With Saturn-Neptune, also, there’s a tension between the ideal versus what’s realistic, as well as trying to tell the difference between what’s true versus what’s false. For some of you, that’s gonna relate to your home and living situation and some challenges going on there. For others, it may relate to your parents, either in terms of things happening in their lives or in terms of your interaction and relationship with them and having some surmountable difficulties that come up that you have to work through and deal with; although they’re made a little bit difficult by the Neptune part of this, which is the nebulousness and the difficulty in pinning down exactly what the solution is.
Some of this is gonna become more prominent and more pressing in September when there’s going to be an eclipse in the sign of Pisces that’s really gonna put the spotlight and the emphasis on this part of your life even more so than before, and more emphasis on your private life starting at this time in September. So that’s one of the transits that I wanted to highlight, ‘cause it seems like a major one for you this year in terms of just home and parents becoming more of the focus for some reason.
All right, let’s talk about some of your best transits this year. So one of them is the Jupiter transit through your 6th house of work and health, and Jupiter is going to meet up with and conjoin the planet Uranus. My primary keyword for this—that conjunction goes exact in April—is unexpected opportunities involving work and health. When Jupiter transits through the 6th house, it can be a period where sometimes we start focusing on our health more. Uranus has been there for the past few years, so sometimes this can cause unexpected disruptions to our health. But when Jupiter comes in, it can provide unexpected solutions and a way to fix or to offset things that were bothering us previously. So this can be a good time to look into working on your physical health, seeing a new doctor, starting a new diet or exercise regime, and otherwise just pursuing growth and expansion in this area of your life, especially around the April timeframe, ‘cause there may be some unexpected opportunities that come up which can really help you in this area when it comes to health.
So that’s the health side of things. The 6th house also pertains to one’s work, where some of these similar opportunities for growth may be happening in terms of your workplace. Maybe there’s some opportunity to grow or expand at work that you hadn’t anticipated before but it just comes out of nowhere; and if you’re paying attention to it, you can kind of jump on it and take advantage of that opportunity. Sometimes the 6th house pertains to subordinates or people who work for you. For some people, this may be starting to work with somebody that really helps to support you in some significant way, especially in terms of your workplace.
So that’s one of the more positive transits this year. The other really positive transit you have this year, the last one, the timeframe is from the beginning of the year all the way through May. And then starting in June, the planet Jupiter’s gonna move into Gemini, which is your 7th house of relationships. The keyword for this transit is growth and expansion when it comes to relationships, partnership, and potentially even marriage. So Jupiter transits through your 7th house are just positive for relationships in general. For some of you, if you’re not in a relationship, this may bring a positive relationship into your life at this point; or if you’re already in a relationship, this may open up a new chapter for you in terms of your relationship with your spouse and things going better than usual for some reason during the course of the entire second-half of this year.
Although it’s really gonna kick off in June when a bunch of planets are gonna transit through Gemini at the same time, and that should be the focal point, but then Jupiter’s gonna stay in Gemini for the entire second-half of 2024. That should be very good for relationships, so that’s definitely one of the most positive transits that you have this year. Sometimes with Jupiter in the 7th house, it can even be a good time to finalize or take a relationship to the next level, whatever that means in your individual situation. For some people, in the most ideal scenario, it can mean getting married or something like that.
All right, so that is the most positive transit that you have this year. Let’s see, other transits going on—there is gonna be a Mars retrograde this year in Leo and Cancer, which is your 9th house of travel and education and your 8th house of shared resources, other people’s money, and sometimes topics surrounding mortality. So with Mars retrograde in your 9th house, this is kind of similar to, for example, the Venus retrograde that took place last year in your 9th house in Leo; for some people, they took a major trip, ‘cause the 9th house represents travel. The 9th house also represents education, so there are educational opportunities here. With this transit, my primary keywords are tensions surrounding beliefs, travel, and shared resources.
Mars transits can be kind of irritating or can be kind of tense in that there can be more conflict in these areas of our lives during the course of this long transit of Mars through this sign. So that could indicate some conflict involving education. Maybe you were going on one educational path, but then you decide for some reason that you have to stop that and you have to go a different path and you have to sever yourself from some relationship or some form of learning that you were doing up to that point. For some people, the 9th house represents beliefs and religion or even their politics, and there may be something about this area that’s getting you into greater conflicts during the course of this year and having some forms of strife or discord involving your beliefs. I already mentioned travel and the potential for running into some issues with travel at this time, especially long-distance travel.
The other part of this transit is the 8th house. The 8th house usually represents shared resources, other people’s money. Sometimes this represents the partner’s finances if you’re in a long-term relationship, and there can be some setbacks or some conflicts involving your partner’s resources or involving the role of other people’s money in your life in general, so sometimes this can refer to things like taxes, debt, or other things like that. And you’re gonna want to be careful during this time not to do things too impulsively, to think things through, and to avoid conflicts in this area. For example, a scenario could be like you get into a conflict with a partner over some shared resources or shared finances, and what looks like it should just be a little blowup or a little conflict turns into a much larger one that has greater or more long-term implications than you imagined initially.
My main advice for this Mars transit that’s happening—especially the last two or three months of the year—is just to exercise caution, to try to avoid doing things too impulsively in this area of your life, and to exercise restraint. Especially during Mars transits, we can be more irritable and more prone to getting into fights, but if you exercise some restraint, then you should be able to mitigate the worst possible scenarios of this transit just by avoiding starting conflicts that might get out of control otherwise, so that’s my main piece of advice.
All right, the final transit that I wanted to mention is Pluto is departing from your 2nd house of finances, and Pluto is moving into your 3rd house, which represents communications, siblings, neighbors and your neighborhood, as well as extended family and relatives. Pluto transits can indicate transformative experiences with respect to this topic, where for some reason you’re drawn in and this area of your life becomes more intense for a period of time. So I think this is gonna relate primarily—because it’s your 3rd house of communication—to the way that you communicate in the world and how you share what you know or what you believe. This may draw in the Pluto transit a little bit that’s going retrograde later this year, where that’s indicating the potential for conflict surrounding beliefs, whereas Pluto is indicating some issues with how you communicate. So part of this transit may be learning how to communicate effectively and how to avoid some of the darker sides of Pluto, which can be issues with control or manipulation or power plays.
For those of you that have siblings, sometimes this can relate to your relationship with your siblings and having some issues of control or manipulation or some darker themes that you have to work through with them. That can also relate to neighbors and having some issues with your neighbors or other extended relatives in the family. The 3rd house can also relate to short-distance travel, how you get around your city, like driving, or other short forms of communication. Generally speaking, this is a pretty long-term transit, but I would just pay attention to any changes that start happening in this area of your life next year in 2024, because usually that can give you a preview of some of the major changes that are gonna happen in the future as this transit continues to be active over the next few years.
So, yeah, deeply transformative experiences with communication and neighbors, as well as siblings, but you’ll emerge out of some of those transformative experiences in a much different place than you were when you went into it. And even if some of those experiences are challenging, or if they remove or clear the way of certain things in your life, they will then open up the opportunity for other things to move in and fill that spot that may not have existed or happened if that event hadn’t happened. Ultimately, it’s a positive transit, but it’s one that can be very deep and transformative in a way that changes you at a core level. And for you, especially, I think changing the way that you communicate is gonna be a very core part of that, so it should be very interesting transit to pay attention to, to see how it goes this year in 2024.
All right, I think that’s it in terms of the major transits that I wanted to cover this year. So here’s the major transits that I was talking about, for those watching the video version. Here are some of the dates involved in some of those transits. Here’s the Mars retrograde transit. Otherwise, I think that that is it for this horoscope for 2024 for Sagittarius. For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Or if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, I just released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through each of the next 12 months and picked out the most fortunate or lucky dates over the course of the next year. So I’m currently doing a 15%-off New Year’s sale on that report, and you can get it at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, that’s it for this forecast. Thanks a lot for watching. Good luck this year, and I’ll see you again next year for the horoscope for 2025. So good luck and see you again soon.
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[Capricorn]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Capricorn for the entire year of 2024. All right, so let’s jump right into it. Here’s your main keywords for this year, Capricorn, which are: home, parents, career, communication, siblings, children, health, relationships, and finances. So those are some of the main topics that are gonna be activated for you this year, and I’m going to spend the rest of this video expanding on that and going into why and what transits specifically will activate those parts of your chart or those parts of your life.
All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar. I wanted to start first by talking about the eclipses this year, which are taking place in your 10th house of career and your 4th house of home, family, and private life. So eclipses signify or represent major beginnings and major endings in the areas of your life that they fall. For you, this is a continuation of some major changes and some major beginnings and endings that started last year when these eclipses started taking place in this sector of your chart in 2023, and we’ll see a continuation of this story and some of these changes as we move further and further into 2024. So with eclipses taking place in the 4th house, sometimes that’s major changes in terms of your home and your living situation.
For some people, they find a new place to live. For other people, they decide there’s something about their current living situation that they don’t like, so that there’s some sort of ending when it comes to their current situation. So this is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter when it comes to your home and living situation in some way. For other people, this represents the parents and things either happening in your parents’ lives that are major events, or your relationship with your parents and some sort of ending and new beginning when it comes to your relationship with them can often coincide with eclipses.
For the other part of this transit, for the 10th house, when it comes to the Libra eclipses, this represents major beginnings and endings when it comes to your career and your overall life direction. Usually, this represents a turning point. For some people, they may have reached the end or as far as they can go when it comes to a current career or job in terms of their work, and they may find that there’s the ending of a certain chapter of activity when it comes to their work up to this point. So perhaps they leave a job or lose a job for some reason, but that then opens up a whole new chapter of opportunities for them to head in a new direction when it comes to their career at this time. Yeah, that can be quite positive, but it just indicates a major important turning point and the closing of one chapter and the opening of a new chapter when it comes to not just your career, but also your public reputation and public profile and how you’re seen by the world at large. So those are some of the eclipses that are taking place this year. Those will especially be active in March and April and then again in October for that specific set of eclipses.
The next thing I wanted to focus on is the transits of Saturn and another eclipse that’s gonna take place in your 3rd house of communication, siblings, neighbors, your neighborhood, and short-distance travel. So my primary keyword here is nebulous challenges with communication, siblings, and neighbors, primarily because of this Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s gonna get really close around the June and July timeframe, especially; although it’s part of a longer three-year transit of Saturn through your 3rd house that started last March in 2023.
So Saturn represents challenges that arise and oftentimes surmountable difficulties, where there’s some sort of challenge that comes up that forces you to address it. It’s something where it acts as a roadblock—where you can’t proceed further in doing that thing—or in other instances, it just forces you to address that issue, and through great striving and effort you’re able to overcome it. For some of you, the 3rd house represents communication, so these challenges may have to do with communication—and how you speak and how you talk to people in different manners and how you express what’s inside of yourself—and running into some issues with that that you have to overcome. The only issue in overcoming them is the Neptune element makes things kind of nebulous, so that it’s kind of hard to know how to address things and what the issue is. And the basic distinction between Saturn and Neptune is that Saturn represents what’s real versus Neptune represents what’s illusory; and, for you, there may be a tension between telling the difference between those two this year.
The 3rd house also represents siblings. So there could be some tensions or challenges when it comes to either your relationship with your siblings or some things that are happening in their lives, if you have siblings. The 3rd house also represents neighbors and your neighborhood, so there could be some challenges coming up in your immediate vicinity. And while that sounds like it’s not a major topic, it’s actually surprising sometimes when 3rd house transits happen, and you find out that your neighborhood is actually more important—especially if there’s challenges happening—than you might think at first. So I think some of this is gonna become even more of a focal point in September when there’s gonna be an eclipse in Pisces, which is going to shine more of a spotlight on this area of your life than there even had been up to this point. At that point, there’ll be some major beginnings and major endings when it comes to some of the topics that I just mentioned that are associated with this house in your chart.
So that is that transit this year. Next, I wanted to mention some of the really positive transits that are happening this year, one of them is the Jupiter transit through your 5th house, which is gonna represent a period of unexpected opportunities when it comes to topics like children, creativity, leisurely activities, but also sex and sexuality. So Jupiter is transiting through here, and it’s gonna conjoin Uranus in April. Jupiter represents growth and expansion and enjoyment and the confirmation of good things, and Uranus represents unexpected things that come out of nowhere, that cause major changes and are somewhat revolutionary. I think this is gonna be a really good transit for you. It’s gonna last for the entire first-half of the year, from January all the way through May, with a specific focal point in April, when Jupiter meets up with Uranus.
For some of you, this is gonna indicate a period of growth when it comes to the topic of children, whether it’s your own children—some people actually have children during a Jupiter transit through their 5th house—or, in other instances, it’s just the topic of children in general, where for some reason children become more important to you in your life at this time, and they become a source of positive things for some reason—positive opportunities; so pay attention to that. The 5th house also has to do with creativity and leisurely activities. So it could be a good time to expand your horizons and take up some new forms of creating things or some new forms of bringing fun and games into your life in order to balance out the work sphere, which is also gonna be active at this time.
Finally, the last area is the 5th house has to do with sex and sexuality. So this can be a good period in terms of that, where you have a new romantic partner, or where things are just going particularly well for you and you’re trying out new things and things are particularly innovative and exciting when it comes to this area. Even if you’re currently in a relationship or have a long-term relationship, it may be a good time to open up a new chapter of trying new things for you this year, especially in the first-half of the year, and especially around the April timeframe when that conjunction goes exact.
All right, so that’s one of your most positive transits this year. The other really positive transit is that starting in June, Jupiter is gonna move into Gemini, which is the area of your chart that has to do with health and work. So this can be a good time for addressing health issues that have come up. If there’s something that’s been bothering you in terms of your bodily health, especially, this can be a good time to see a specialist or to experiment with different ways to heal that or ways to improve your health. If you do so, you may be more successful at this time in finding some solutions or finding ways to improve your overall health and bodily activities this year compared to other years, especially in the second-half of 2024; this transit’s gonna last for the entire second-half of the year, basically, the second six months of the year.
The 6th house also pertains to work and to subordinates, so things may be going particularly well for you in terms of your work at this time. And if you find yourself in a position where you have anybody that’s helping you in some sort of subordinate role, you may have interactions this year that are either particularly positive or particularly supportive and helpful from people that play that supportive role for you this year. If you don’t have somebody—like an assistant or somebody like that that helps you—it could be a good time to get one in order to help you do what you do in terms of your work more effectively.
So that’s one of the most positive transits this year aside from the 5th house transits. Other areas that I wanted to talk about—I wanted to mention the Mars retrograde, which is gonna happen towards the end of the year, and that’s gonna be happening in Leo and Cancer, which is your 8th house of shared resources, and your 7th house of relationships. This is a little bit tricky because Mars retrogrades typically indicate tensions. So my primary keyword for this transit is tensions surrounding shared resources and relationships. Shared resources—sometimes that refers to the partner’s money or the partner’s finances and income, and with Mars going retrograde in your 7th house, this can sometimes indicate a period where there’s greater friction when it comes to relationships than at other periods.
Sometimes things can come up from the past that cause fights or cause conflict or dissension, and in some extreme instances you might decide that you’re fed up and you no longer want to be in a relationship, and it can indicate the severing or separation of a relationship in some instances at this time if things are really not going well. Sometimes these conflicts can involve money or shared resources between the two of you, because this is gonna be going through your 8th house.
The 8th house can also represent things like debt, taxes, and other things that have to do with money that is owed, or money that is stored outside of you. So I would be careful here about financial investments, risky financial investments or problematic financial involvements with a partner or with other people, just because during this time there may be a greater chance for conflict or that causing issues than at other times. I would recommend caution and restraint during this time, especially if you feel yourself getting into more conflicts or you feel yourself being more irritable at this time.
In some circumstances, there are fights or arguments that we need to have to get everything out, but the great danger with this transit is that sometimes people can find themselves being more irritable and they can start a conflict with somebody—like a partner—that they think will just last for a day or two, but then it’ll end up turning into a much larger or much more long-term conflict than they anticipated or than they really wanted it to be. So I would just know that going into it and be a little bit more cautious, and if you do that then you should be able to navigate and avoid some of the worst manifestations of this transit during the course of the last two or three months of the year.
All right, so that is that transit. The final transit I wanted to mention is Pluto is finally departing from Capricorn—where it’s been for a decade—and Pluto is moving into your 2nd house of finances. So this is kind of interesting with the other transit because it’s indicating the beginning of a period of deep transformative experiences involving your finances and your relationship with money and possessions. So there’s something about this transit that’s going to really get going this year, that’s gonna change your outlook and change your attitude towards money and finances.
Sometimes Pluto transits can involve problematic issues like manipulation or issues with control or obsession or things happening behind the scenes. For you, this is gonna be centralized for some reason in the area that has to do with your money, your checkbook, and your personal finances, as well as your attitude towards those things and your attitude towards possessions. This is gonna be a pretty long-term transit, but you should start paying attention to any changes that happen with finances this year because they could have a much more long-term impact than it might seem like they will at first first, or they could indicate that you start going in a new direction when it comes to money and finances that ends up being quite different than what you had before, as well as quite transformative for you in terms of your attitude towards those things.
So that is, I believe, the last major transit that I meant to mention this year in terms of your horoscope for 2024. Here are all of the transits that I mentioned, for those watching the video version. Here are some of the dates associated with those transits, just for quick reference in the future. Here’s a graphic for the Mars retrograde dates at the end of the year. Otherwise, I think that is it for this horoscope for 2024.
For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year and some of their meanings, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Forecast” on YouTube. Otherwise, if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, I just released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through each of the next 12 months and I picked out the luckiest and most fortunate dates for doing things during different parts of the year. So I’m running a 15%-off New Year’s sale for that right now, and you can find out more information at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, that’s it for this horoscope. Good luck this year, Capricorn. Have a great year, and I’ll see you again next year. All right, bye.
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[Aquarius]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Aquarius for the entire year of 2024. All right, so let’s jump right into it. Your main keywords this year, Aquarius, are: communication, beliefs, finances, home, children, relationships, health, and self. So those are some of the main themes that are gonna come up based on the planetary transits this year, and I’m gonna spend the rest of this video talking about some of those transits and diving into some of those topics more deeply, as well as giving you timeframes.
All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar for this year. I’m gonna start by talking about the eclipses that are taking place in your 9th and 3rd houses, in Aries and Libra. So my primary keyword for these eclipses are major beginnings and endings in communication, beliefs, and travel. Some of the eclipses are taking place in your 9th house, which represents education, philosophy, one’s religion, and, generally speaking, one’s beliefs about the world, which includes one’s politics. So with eclipses taking place in this sector of your chart, there’s some major beginnings and major endings in this area of your life.
There may be some things that you used to think about or believe about the world that somehow are coming to an end, but this is opening up a new chapter where there’s some other things that you’re learning about the world that mark a fresh start for your public outlook and how you look and believe about things. So this can be very good and very eye-opening in terms of education and belief and your personal philosophy of life. For some people, the 9th house has to do with travel and so there could be a major trip involved, or there could be some sort of expansion of your beliefs that has to do with having exposure to a foreign culture or to somebody or some people that are different from what you grew up with.
Let’s see—so with all this 9th house activity with respect to your beliefs, this is gonna open up, also, the eclipses in your 3rd house, in Aries, which will have to do with how you communicate what you believe. So there’s gonna be some major changes and major beginnings and major endings in terms of your communication style and in terms of how you talk to people and how you present what you know or what you think about the world and the form in which you present it.
The 3rd house also has to do with siblings, neighbors, and extended relatives. So there may be some either major events happening in the lives of those people in terms of major beginnings and major endings, or there may be something about your relationship with them, ending one major chapter in terms of your relationship but then opening up a new chapter when it comes to your interactions with them at the same time. The 3rd house also has to do with travel. So there could be something involving mobility or getting around your city that’s significant at this time as well. So those eclipses are gonna be taking place at different parts of the year, but especially in the March-April timeframe, and then again in October when there’s an eclipse in Libra on October 2.
All right, so moving on to other transits, the next area I wanted to talk about is the Saturn transit and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction that’s happening in Pisces this year, as well as an eclipse that’s gonna happen later in September. Pisces is your 2nd house of finances, money, and possessions, and my primary keyword here is nebulous challenges with finances and possessions this year, primarily because of this Saturn-Neptune conjunction. Neptune represents what’s illusory, it represents idealism, whereas Saturn represents what’s real, and it has a sense of being about cold hard facts, so there’s some sort of tension here this year.
For the past several years, Neptune’s been transiting through this house, and maybe you’ve had a more idealistic or a less grounded approach towards your finances and towards wealth. But starting a year ago, Saturn went into Pisces in March of 2023, and it started a period where you had to get more serious about finances; there’s some sort of tension that’s building between this idealism or almost delusion, which is represented by Neptune, versus the cold hard reality of Saturn and the conflict or tension between those two. Sometimes Saturn can bring challenges or surmountable difficulties, where financial matters may be a little bit harder to come by for a period of time or you run into some obstacles, but through great striving and effort you’re able to overcome them and become stronger as a result of that when it comes to your finances and personal possessions. So some of the Saturn-Neptune tensions are gonna peak around the June and July timeframe when that conjunction gets really close, and then this area of your life is gonna come under much more intense scrutiny and focus around September when we have an eclipse in Pisces. At that point, you’re gonna see a major pivot or a major turning point when it comes to financial matters this year and some sort of great ending as well as a new beginning.
So that’s one of the major transits I wanted to highlight about this year. I also wanted to highlight some of the really positive transits that you have coming up this year; the first one is Jupiter’s transit through your 4th house of home, parents, and private life, where Jupiter is going to conjoin the planet Uranus in April in this area of your life. And my keyword for this is unexpected opportunities with respect to your home, private life, and parents. For some of you, with Jupiter going through your 4th house, maybe there’s some new opportunity to move to a new location or to improve your home and your living situation in some distinct way. The Uranus element of it brings an element of suddenness, unexpectedness, and radical change in some way, but usually in a positive sense since it’s Jupiter that’s meeting up with Uranus.
For some of you, the 4th house will represent your parents and something about your interaction with your parents and maybe some improvement in terms of your interaction with them or in terms of something that’s happening with their lives that’s relatively positive at this time. So this transit’s lasting for the entire first-half of the year—from January all the way through May—and it peaks around the April timeframe when Jupiter actually conjoins Uranus, but that’s a really good transit for the entire first-half of the year.
The other really good transit that’s gonna happen this year is gonna happen in the second-half of the year, starting in June, when the planet Jupiter will move into Gemini for the second-half of 2024, and that’s going into your 5th house. My keyword for this transit is growth and expansion when it comes to children, creativity, leisurely activities, as well as sex and sexuality. For some of you, when it comes to the topic of children, this can be something positive coming into your life with respect to children, and for some people it can be growth and expansion in terms of literally having children at this time. For others, it can be that there’s something about your relationship with your children if you already have some, or something going on in their lives that’s particularly positive and notable this year, especially starting in June, when a bunch of planets are gonna move into Gemini all at the same time.
The 5th house also has to do with leisurely activities, like fun and games, and the things that we do in order to have fun and bring joy into our life. With Jupiter moving into this area in the entire second-half of the year, it could be a good time to take up a new hobby or to find some things that you just enjoy or you have fun with that bring joy into your life, because you’ll be more successful in finding things and more successful in finding joy during the second-half of the year than at other times in your life.
The 5th house also has to do with sex and sexuality. So there could be either a new romantic partner that you particularly enjoy and have fun with in the second-half of the year, or there could be something about your current relationship where maybe you move into a new phase, or you move into a new chapter of that relationship when it comes to your sex life that just tends to go particularly well or particularly positive; so that’s something to keep an eye out for in terms of looking for new opportunities for growth in this area during the second-half of the year, but especially focusing on June.
All right, so there’s that one. The next one I do want to talk about—there’s gonna be a Mars retrograde towards the end of the year, and that’s gonna be taking place in Leo and Cancer, which is your 7th house of relationships and your 6th house of work and health. So my primary keyword for this is tension surrounding relationships, work, and health. Mars retrograde transits are tricky ‘cause sometimes they bring up tensions or issues with anger or issues with conflict in the area of the chart that it goes through. For you, it’s gonna be going through the area that has to do with relationships, the 7th house, which could indicate a greater propensity for fights or conflict or even the potential for severing and separation when it comes to relationships during the course of this transit.
So it’s important when you have transits like that just to go into it knowing that ahead of time and then exercising some caution or some restraint, especially if you find yourself more irritable or angry than usual and getting into more fights than usual, or if you find that your partner, for example, is more angry or getting into fights with you more than than typical. The danger here is that you need to be careful—that if you start a conflict, you show some restraint, because sometimes conflicts started during this transit can blow up into much bigger or much more long-term conflicts than you might anticipate at first. So the main piece of advice is just to either try to exercise restraint and caution, or at least go into any fights or conflicts knowing that if you start something that it could turn into a much bigger thing than you might intend at first.
Some of this energy is also applied to your 6th house of work and health. So there could be some conflicts at work or involving subordinates or people that work for you, like assistants. Also, the 6th house, because it has to do with health, can indicate some irritation or some annoyances or even some challenges and tensions that arise when it comes to health and health issues. So if there’s anything that you can do to address some of those things right from the start—instead of letting health issues linger—than that would be advised; the same with workplace disputes at the same time. Yeah, so those are some of the transits that are happening in terms of the Mars retrograde during the course of especially the last two-to-three months of this year and some of the potentials for that transit.
Finally, the last transit I wanted to mention is that Pluto is actually going into Aquarius this year for good, and that’s gonna be the beginning of a very long-term transit that signifies major transformative experiences with respect to your mind, your body, and your sense of self. Pluto transits can be kind of intense and kind of deep—they force us to go deeper into ourselves—and sometimes when we go within ourselves, we unlock deeper transformations in terms of understanding who we are, and what we’re about in the world in terms of our perception of ourselves and what we’re doing here; that’s the core meaning of this transit, for you, of Pluto going into your rising sign or into your 1st house.
For some people, this is gonna be transformations and awakenings that involve your mind, and, for others, it’s gonna be transformations that involve your body. So during the course of this, sometimes there’s things that have to move into the past and pass away in our lives in order to make room for other new things and other new realities that we then have to adjust to and accommodate in order to understand the new things that are in front of us. But the primary keyword is just major changes and major transformations to your sense of self and the uniting and relationship between your mind and your body and what the interaction is between those two. That’s a major transit that begins this year, that’s gonna last for quite a while after 2024, but you should pay attention to it and pay attention to any changes that start happening in that area, because they may be a preview of some other major changes that’ll come up in the future, in the long term, as this transit progresses.
All right, I think that’s the last major transit that I wanted to mention for you for 2024. So here’s a list which shows the major transits that I just mentioned during the course of the year. Here’s a list that gives some specific dates for some of those transits and the timeframes in which they’re gonna be relevant. Here’s a diagram that tells you about the Mars retrograde period and dates. Otherwise, I think that’s it for this horoscope for Aquarius for 2024.
For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Otherwise, for good dates next year to do different things, I just released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went through and I picked out some of the most fortunate or lucky dates during the course of the next year. I have a 15%-off New Year’s sale that’s currently running on that report, and you can find out more information at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
Otherwise, I think that’s it for this horoscope. So good luck, Aquarius, next year, and I’ll see you again at the end of the year for horoscopes for 2025. All right, good luck and take care.
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[Pisces]
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your year ahead horoscope and astrology forecast for the zodiac sign of Pisces for the entire year of 2024. All right, so let’s jump right into it, Pisces. Here are your major keywords for the year: finances, self, communication, home, family, work, health, children, enemies, and mental health. So those are some of the main themes this year that I want to talk about, and I’m gonna spend the rest of this forecast expanding on some of those topics and the transits associated with them.
All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar. I want to start off first by talking about the eclipses that are happening in Aries and Libra, which are happening in your 2nd house of finances and your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money. Eclipses represent major beginnings and major endings in these areas of your life, so it represents the end of one chapter when it comes to your finances and the beginning of a new chapter. So sometimes there can be very pivotal events that take place at this time, which change our relationship towards money and finances and financial resources in general. Some of this has to do with your own personal finances, which is the 2nd house, and some of it has to do with shared resources, which is the 8th house, and that can relate to things like your partner’s finances—if you’re in a long-term relationship—and that maybe there’s some major changes when it comes to their finances either going upwards or downwards that affects you somehow personally in a direct way.
In other instances, the 8th house can represent debt, taxes, as well as things like inheritance—inheritances and mortality. So in some way these topics come up for you in a significant way that ends up affecting your personal finances, and this is part of an ongoing story or ongoing process that actually started last year in 2023, when the eclipses first started happening in this axis of your chart. But we’ll see a continuation of it this year with some important events taking place especially around the March-April timeframe, when the first set of eclipses takes place, and then again in October, when the next eclipse takes place in Libra.
So that’s the first major area or topic this year. The next one that I wanted to talk about is that we have the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which is coming up, and it’s gonna get very close to going exact in your 1st house, in Pisces, this year. The 1st house represents your sense of self and who you are in the world and how you appear or how you show up to others. The 1st house also represents the mind as well as the body. So my primary keyword for this transit—because it’s Saturn conjunct Neptune—is nebulous challenges involving the self, the mind, and the body.
Already Neptune has been going through Pisces for the past several years, which is bringing some nebulousness, some floatiness, and a little bit of idealism to your outlook on life; but recently, starting last year, in March of 2023, Saturn actually went into Pisces, which was bringing a much more heavy, much more realistic or a much more sense of realism into the picture. Sometimes Saturn can bring with it some challenges or some surmountable difficulties, where either Saturn will shut down one avenue in which you’ve been proceeding up to this point and just say that you cannot proceed further in what you’re doing, or, in other instances, it just presents a roadblock where something comes up that an obstacle, but through much striving and work and effort on your part, you’re able to overcome it and become stronger as a result.
For you, because it’s happening in your 1st house, some of these challenges probably pertain to your body in some sense. So sometimes this can indicate a period where our physical vitality is a little bit lower than usual, or in which we’re encountering more health issues or different types of ailments that make us feel slower or make us feel like we’re aging much more rapidly than at other times in our lives. This can also apply to our mental state, so that we feel more slow, or we feel a little bit more depressed, or a little bit more dark and gloomy than at other periods in our lives. The problem with Neptune being involved is that sometimes it can make it so that the solution to this is a little bit hard to grasp and it’s a little bit hard to pin down.
So that’s something that’s gonna peak, especially around the June or July timeframe, when the Saturn-Neptune conjunction gets really close. But then we’re gonna see some added emphasis and major developments in this area around September, when an eclipse happens in Pisces, which is gonna represent a new beginning and a major chapter of your life starting with respect to your sense of self and what you need to do in order to take care of yourself. So this is important because it’s gonna open up and lead into an eclipse series next year in 2025 that’s gonna start bouncing back and forth between your 7th house of relationships and your 1st house of self, and you’re going to need to put more emphasis at different points on yourself versus your relationships, but eventually try to seek balance between those two. But at least for this year, for 2024, I think the emphasis is gonna be more on self and just needing to take care of yourself and do the things that are restful and healing for you in order to support both your body as well as your mind.
All right, so that is that transit. I wanted to mention, also, some really positive transits that are coming up this year, the first one is the Jupiter transit through your 3rd house, where Jupiter’s eventually gonna meet up and conjoin with Uranus in Taurus in your 3rd house. And my primary keyword for this is unexpected opportunities with respect to communication, relatives, but also potentially your neighbors or your neighborhood and your local environment.
The 3rd house represents how we speak and communicate to the world. And during this time—especially during the first-half of the year—this could be a good period for opening up different ways to communicate and different avenues of communicating and expressing your inner thoughts and your inner ideas about the world. For some people, this can be taking up a new communication medium in order to get your message out into the world. For other people, it could be things like learning a different language, so that you learn how to communicate differently. But the vibe of this is just—especially in the April timeframe—taking advantage of any unexpected opportunities for growth in this area, because if you do, then you could find yourself becoming much more successful as a communicator, bringing much more positive things into your life than at other times before. The 3rd house is also siblings. So there could be some good events going on with your siblings or with respect to your relationship with them. It also represents extended relatives, as well as neighbors, and there could be some positive opportunities in terms of your immediate environment that you should take advantage of because they could be quite beneficial.
All right, so that’s one of the most positive transits of this year. The other really positive transit is that starting in June, Jupiter’s gonna move into your 4th house of home and family. This represents a period of growth and expansion with respect to your home and family and parents. In terms of the home, it just indicates that in the second-half of the year, you’re gonna go into a period where things are going much better at home. For some people, you might move into a new home or a new house, which represents an upgrade compared to what you had before. In other instances, if you’re already settled, you may decide to change things at home or do some home improvement or some things that are just meant to improve your private life in order to make it more supportive and more helpful for you in your home environment.
The 4th house also represents parents. So there may be some positive events happening in the lives of your parents or some positive things that happen in terms of your interaction and your relationship with your parents that ends up being quite beneficial. I would say that this will be especially the case around the June timeframe, when not just Jupiter, but several other planets move into Gemini all at the same time. It looks like a pretty good time. And then the Jupiter transit itself that I was just talking about will last for the entire second-half of 2024, so that’s why it’s one of the most positive transits of the year.
All right, moving on to other transits, there’s gonna be a Mars retrograde in the last few months of the year, and this is gonna be taking place in your 5th house and your 4th house. So my primary keyword for this is tensions around work, health, children, and sexuality. Sorry, actually I circled the wrong one. It’s taking place in your 6th house and your 5th house and that’s why I wrote work, health, children, and sexuality. So the 6th house has to do with work and health, and the 5th house has to do with children, leisurely activities, but also sex and sexuality.
Mars transits can tend to bring a little bit of conflict into the area of our lives that they’re transiting through. For you, with Mars going through your 6th house, there could be some challenges or some conflicts at work or conflicts with people who work for you or assistants, if you find yourself in a managerial position. The 6th house can also represent health. So sometimes there can be irritating or heating-type ailments that happen at this time, so in some forms of Ayurvedic medicine or other things like that they’ll try to counteract it by doing things that are more cooling. You’ll find yourself getting a little bit more angry or a little bit more hotheaded and sometimes this can cause you to be a little bit more impulsive. Part of the advice for that is to be a little bit more careful or a little bit more reserved or conservative in your actions, because you don’t want to do anything impetuous or impulsive that puts you in a situation where you could have an accident or an injury, for example.
The other part of this transit is Mars is going retrograde in your 5th house. If you have children, sometimes this can indicate a period of more irritability or conflict with children than at other times in your life. This can also indicate a period—in terms of sex and sexuality—where there can be a little bit more conflict surrounding this area as well or a little bit more irritation. Perhaps you or a romantic partner are more irritable or can, in a heated moment, say something hurtful and it can lead to a much more major fight or blowup than maybe was intended at first.
As with all Mars transits, the advice is just to exercise caution and restraint so that you don’t do anything or say anything that leads to a more significant or long-term instance of severing or separation than maybe you intended or maybe than you would want at first. Although, certainly, with Mars transits the advice is always that if there needs to be a conflict—because sometimes there are conflicts that have to happen or have to arise at this time—to just go into it knowing that something that seems smaller, more limited could become a bigger issue. So pick your battles wisely, I guess, is the main piece of advice for that transit.
All right, so that’s the Mars retrograde happening in the last couple of months of the year. The final transit I wanted to mention is just that Pluto is departing from your 11th house of friends, and it’s moving into your 12th house. The 12th house represents, fundamentally, a couple of things. If the 11th house represents friends, then the 12th house represents people that we don’t get along with very well, or sometimes people that are outright enemies or people that undermine us in some way, so that’s one topic for the 12th house. And Pluto itself represents deeply transformative experiences. So this is indicating a period where you’re gonna have some deeply transformative experiences involving people that you don’t get along with very well in your life. Sometimes this can raise issues of control or manipulation and the need to push back against those things if you find them happening, or you find somebody’s trying to undermine you through those methods.
In other instances, the 12th house can also represent mental health and just taking care of ourselves. Sometimes a good manifestation of this transit can be starting to see a therapist and starting to go into therapy in order to do a deep dive to better understand some of the ways in which, in some instances, we can be undermining ourselves or undermining our own actions without realizing it. But if you do that—you do that type of work where you sort of dive deep and look inside yourself—you can emerge sometimes as a much different person and as a much more effective person in the world by having done that internal work and working on your mental health. Ultimately, I think that’s gonna be a positive transit, and it’s gonna be a long-term process because it’s a longer transit. But it’s good to pay attention to any changes that start happening in 2024 with respect to that because it could be a preview of some longer-term transits that will be playing out in the future.
All right, so I think that’s actually it in terms of transits that I wanted to mention for 2024. So here’s all of the major alignments that I was talking about this year. Here’s a quick slide—or those watching the video version—which shows some dates of some of those transits to pay attention to. Here is the graphic for the Mars retrograde transit that I mentioned for the last few months of the year. Otherwise, I think that’s it for this horoscope and for this report about 2024.
For a more detailed breakdown of the transits this year, check out my “2024 Year Ahead Astrology Forecast” on YouTube. Or if you’re looking for good dates to do things next year, I actually just released my 2024 Electional Astrology Report, where I went and looked at all of the fortunate dates next year and outlined, over the next 12 months, when the most lucky dates are to do different types of things. Currently, I’m doing a 15%-off sale for New Year’s, and you can find out more information at theastrologypodcast.com/2024report.
All right, I think that’s it, Pisces, for this horoscope for this year. So good luck in 2024, and I’ll see you again next year. All right, bye.
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Shoutout to our sponsor for this episode, which is the CHANI App, the number one astrology app for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing. You can download it on the Apple App Store or on Google Play, or for more information visit app.chani.com.
Special thanks to all the patrons that helped to support the production of this episode of the podcast through our page on Patreon.com. In particular, a shoutout to the patrons on our Producers tier, including patrons: Kristi Moe, Ariana Amour, Mandi Rae, Angelic Nambo, Issa Sabah, Jake Otero, Jeanne Marie Kaplan, and Melissa DeLano.
If you’re looking for a reliable astrologer to get an astrological consultation with, then we have a new list of astrologers on the podcast website that we recommend for readings. Find out more information at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/Consultations.
The astrology software that we use and recommend here on the podcast is called Solar Fire for Windows, which is available for the PC at Alabe.com. Use the promo code ‘AP15’ to get a 15% discount. For Mac users, we recommend a software program called Astro Gold for Mac OS. You can find out more information at AstroGold.io, and you can use the promo code ‘ASTROPODCAST15’ to get a 15% discount.
If you’re really looking to expand your studies of astrology, then I would recommend my Hellenistic Astrology Course, which is an online course on ancient astrology, where I take people through basic concepts up through intermediate and advanced techniques for reading birth charts. You can find out more information at courses.theastrologyschool.com.
And finally, thanks to our sponsors, including The Mountain Astrologer Magazine, which is a quarterly astrology magazine which you can read in print or online at MountainAstrologer.com, and the Northwest Astrological Conference, which is happening both in person and online, May 23-27, 2024. You can find out more information at norwac.net.