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This week’s horoscope is made of excerpts from The Awakening, the 2025 annual edition of Planet Waves. Editor: Elizabeth Shepherd. You can read The Awakening and three other annual editions by purchasing the 2025 Autumn reading, Easy Does It.
Aries (March 20-April 19) — I don’t want to oversell this year’s astrology, though I feel confident saying this much. You have a once-in-a-lifetime wildcard opportunity to reinvent yourself into pretty much anything you truly want, and are willing to work for. A rare combination of events gives you the potential to connect with something much larger than yourself. And if that is not your thing, with discipline you can direct these aspects inward and create yourself from the inside out. You can make a world of your own — though the lure of involvement will be compelling in a new way every day. One way or another, these transits will arrive, and I am encouraging you to take creative control to the best of your abilities. Any astrologer could say “aim high.” But more to the point is: be sincere. Chiron always indicates a healing process of some kind. And the thing being healed is chaos and alienation driven by a century of nonstop advances in electrical communications. These changes have instigated both collective and individual crises, along with many seeming opportunities. If you can heal the chaos, there will be many creative and professional opportunities available to you. Yet the healing factor is essential to honor. It’s about making peace with who you are; it’s about recognizing the changes you’ve been put through and what this has done to your relationships. And more than anything, healing means taking your life out of automatic mode.
Taurus (April 19-May 20) — If you’re old enough to have lived through the early 1970s as a young adult, the feeling may be similar to what you experienced then — yet in an entirely new context. The technology issue is significant here: Eris has largely represented the disruptive force of technology on our psyches, and on any possible sense of wholeness. It represents whatever has divided us within ourselves. Chiron, on the contrary, represents the holistic principle. It is an integrative force that puts things back together, or makes contact with their underlying wholeness. In the process, it can reveal the cracks in the foundations and the sore spots and the places that need healing, so it can be inconvenient in that sense — though you’ll be happy to make the discoveries that you make under Chiron’s influence. What you learn about yourself now and through the course of Chiron conjunct Eris will prepare you for what may be the ultimate relation of self — Chiron entering your sign in mid-2026, and soon after returning to its original discovery position. The aspects that are developing in your chart are more about whole-making and integrating than they are about fraying, fragmenting or self-alienating. And in this realm of reconstitution of yourself, and reinventing your ideas about life, you have much help.
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Gemini (May 20-June 21) — In disembodied times, anger and attack are cheap methods of self-actualization. This helps explain why there is so much rage on the internet — lacking bodies, people are confused about who and what they are; there is always something to get pissed off about; and raging and attacking make you feel like you belong somewhere or understand who you are. This may feel good, but it’s diversionary. I’m not saying that there isn’t plenty to be angry about, but anger does not actually accomplish anything. In our times it’s more like a social game. It’s fair to say that you’re set up to have the next phase of your identity development play out in an open forum (this is how we live under digital conditions, though for you it’s especially vivid due to where Aries is in your chart — the wide-open 11th place). However, you’re likely to experience a powerful pulling competition between public and private. You cannot really escape the public; I suggest you emphasize what is internal, personal, individual and about you. If you participate boldly in your own life and self-evolution, your participation in the public realm will be much more fun and productive. But please remember: if your motivation is about rage and dissatisfaction, you will not have a creative or self-creative experience. If you’re feeling angry much or all of the time, you’re in the disembodied trap of the digital environment. You will know you’re back in your body and back in reality because you feel better and want more out of life.
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Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Above all else, Chiron is about healing, whatever form that may take. We must not lose sight of this as we enter one of the most exceptional phases of Chiron’s action in quite a long time. And the thing being healed is your sense that you’re effective, and have the potential to attain a goal. This translates to being able to handle yourself in the extremely chaotic digital environment. The challenge of this environment is that there is no up, down, left, right or center. It is entirely nonlocal and decentralized, and those are very difficult conditions under which to have a goal. Yet this astrology translates to being able to focus yourself and work within our scrambled and confusing times. This is a tremendous asset to have, though it helps if you know what you want. I strongly suggest you focus on that idea, so that you can make decisions that guide you closer to something that matters to you. The digital environment is constantly screaming, “One thing is like another. What you do doesn’t matter.” But it does. One message of all the astrology I’m describing in Aries is that what you want, and what you want to accomplish, is very important to you. I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: your growth, your personal evolution, your development as an adult, your connection to the world and your professional success all land in the same place.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — One essential point of spiritual expression for you is creative risk. The conjunction of Chiron and Eris in your 9th place is what you might call self-creative risk. And the Chiron-Eris conjunction is going to push this to a new limit. It’s true that many will respond with anxiety (their disembodied state calling for getting their hand into the glove of their own existence) and others will take to the streets. The internet will very likely explode into a never-before seen degree of involvement, much of which will not be creative. For you, the sense of being summoned to a quest will be undeniable. You may be called to begin, you may be called to complete, you may be called to explore — though you will not be sitting still, and you know that the implications here are physical, emotional and spiritual, rather than merely digital. If this will feel good for anyone, it will be for you. (Artists with a strong Sagittarius signature will also feel good.) Not everyone wants to experience radical awakening. It’s just too painful. But you are going to experience that as the drive to explore yourself and the world around you. So that’s pretty good.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — To have four major points in Aries involved in two historic and life-changing conjunctions is a lot of karma. And the person you think of as “yourself” is deeply invested in the lives of other people, and you’ve always known this is an important way that you exist, even in the most basic and minimal sense of that concept. Yet you often straddle the line between deeply invested and wanting to be a loner with no obligations. That’s not going to work (and to the extent anything has not worked, you need to look there for information about how that happened). You are here on Earth to find a better way. That better way will be entirely of your own design. The bottom line of these transits is cultivating self-awareness, particularly as you exist within your relationships. You are not separate from your relationships and what happens within them. This is true, despite the prevailing casual nature of commitment (especially among many younger people). If you proceed through life with self-awareness, with your proverbial fog lights on, you will be more likely to be relationally aware. You will also be more inclined to understand that there are meeting places between your interests and those of others. The task you now face is to find that common ground and work from it. There will always be some; and at a minimum you can work to protect the interests of others even as you make decisions in your own interests.
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Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — The Chiron-Eris conjunction reaches its first of three peaks this coming May. If I had to put words to this image, the first one that comes to mind is honesty, of a kind that is gradually becoming alien to people. Another involves seeing through the bright, shiny surface of the technology that surrounds us and considering what it’s doing to all of us, using a more complex approach. The facade is likely to come off. And with Chiron, there is a healing process involved, and if we connect that to Eris, it’s about doing what you can to consciously regain your wholeness. I know this is a lot to consider in one thought form. It’s not especially easy to interpret. But I would suggest that one of the best things you can do is to focus on the process of simplifying your life in thoughtful ways. There will be a distinct advantage to a “less is more” approach. By that I mean proceeding gently, being gentle on yourself and on your partners. Everyone is going through changes and experiencing things that they don’t understand. You may be in one of the best positions of anyone around you to actually process reality in a meaningful way. But as part of this, definitely take as much time listening to what others perceive as possible. Valuable clues will come from people you are close to.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — Life may at times have a game-like quality, but it’s not a game. At its best, life is an adventure (some prefer a vacation, some say it’s a misadventure). Yet the astrology of our moment says we exist in a very serious time. Serious means for the world, and for you and your relations. Do not be distracted by the people partying on the Titanic. Listen to those who crow endlessly of doom at your own risk. Your assignment is to step up to the challenges of our moment, and make it your moment. That may mean active leadership, though my key words for your calling are “acting as if to hold the world together.” This is a special kind of leadership, unknown in capitalist society. Here, the game is every man and every woman for themselves. There is nearly no sense of cooperation for its own sake, or for the sake of the community. The usual question everyone expects everyone else to ask is, “What’s in it for me?” If someone says, “How can we all benefit?” that is allegedly Communism. But it’s not. It is community. It’s mutual support; it’s economy and efficiency of scale. Existence is so stacked against an individual human that the notion that any person does anything “alone” is ridiculous. You cannot make your own toilet paper; you do not have a cow. And your astrology this year is calling on you to rise to the calling of community leadership.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — Now, under full digital conditions, we have some help not just understanding the problem but also how to conceive of solutions. And some of those solutions are coming with the conjunction of Chiron and Eris that spans from approximately now through the spring of 2026. This conjunction will be The Great Reveal of what we’ve gotten ourselves into with this whole digital trip, where rice cookers have IP addresses and we are photographed by security cameras five thousand times a day. Thankfully you are well-positioned to address the problem of AI and digital disembodiment in creative and fully conscious ways. This is not about “changing your online habits.” It’s about a radical reclaiming of oneself in the midst of a total onslaught of technology that pillages us; and then on top of that, a state of mind created in society that is turning colder every day despite the planet heating up. And creativity, coupled with direct experience, is your way through the chaos and insanity of the up and rising next generation of the digital environment. Your creativity is how you heal, how you create yourself, how you grow and express yourself. And this does not require a nuclear power plant to energize. What is called for is openness, curiosity and the quest for experience.
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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Measure your depth of incarnation by your consistency in keeping commitments — especially the ones you don’t have to keep (such as those that won’t affect your credit score if you avoid them). In this I include the most casual statements of intent, such as to assist another. This holds for everyone: sanity means, in part, having an excellent track record keeping your promises. These should never be given lightly. Measure and account for everything you say that is not true. You know that people trust you and give you credibility without you having to do much. To what extent do you take advantage of that? I also suggest you track your concept of fairness, no matter who is involved — yourself or any third party. Make sure that you’re fair to everyone and lean into being a little extra fair when in doubt. The conjunction may stir up some old issues for you. It’s vital to approach those issues from the standpoint of an adult and not the child you once were. There is an art to this; it used to be called therapy, though today you’re getting your information from astrology. You have plenty of power, if you would only use it. Part of that power will include restraint, meaning the ability to regulate yourself from being overwhelmed by events, by your feelings about them, and by your own inwardly-created feelings.
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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — The process indicated by the 2025-2026 conjunctions — the ones that happen in your 3rd house of how you think and how you communicate — has roots into a century ago (the dawn of electrical mass communications) and also back to the early 1970s, when the thing that was changing was how people were thinking about who they are. The tribal environment was going at full force, and then there was also some meek reversal of that environment in the form of therapy being more popular than it is today — a sign that some people were reverting to an individualistic state. However, I don’t think this is about you joining a caravan. Rather, I think this is about you experiencing the first wave of the overheated, absurdly tribal digital environment reversing into individual awareness; and also your being able to involve yourself in the AI environment potentially without going insane or treating it like God. You escape the worst effects by participating in a creative way — as a creator and not merely as a consumer. Note that most of the digital realm is about consumption, and where we think we are contributing (usually in the form of social media) is more often about recycling what someone else has done than it is about being creative. And this is why social media is so exhausting. It offers no creative fulfillment. Chiron-Eris is calling you to focus your mind and will also bestow you with superpowers of perception and creative ability. This will not happen by itself, but the opportunities will be available — if you dare to take them — and courage will indeed be a factor.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Nothing is impossible under this astrology, though you must do what is so often difficult for you, which is to value yourself and your contribution. This is more about quiet, inwardly focused confidence — not the kind that comes from wearing big boots and a big hat. I am talking about the confidence that comes from having an understanding with yourself, and the maturity born of being tempered and educated by experience. But that does not mean cynical. Too often, experience translates to bitterness; you must take the benefits of every situation you’ve ever been in and put them to work for you. And the other essential piece is proceeding only in alignment with your values: what you hold to be true. We are all accustomed to making what seem like small compromises. They are not small; they are veers in the other direction than you want. They weaken your integrity and your resolve. The necessary order of operations is from inner to outer; from yourself to the world. You may not be able to control this totally but you can make decisions that honor this principle. You are the fulcrum; you contain the connection that makes anything outside of yourself relevant or even safe.
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