Star Struck Style

Today is my birthday!

Last year on this day, I rediscovered the year-ahead forecast on “Café Astrology.” In retrospect, it was a pretty good assessment of what would I experience in 2024. For that reason, I was eager to read what I can expect in 2025. That prediction follows:

“Your birthday occurs around the First Quarter Moon this year, and you are reaching a significant turning point in your personal growth journey. You may be more emotional this year, and you should watch for unnecessary conflicts and hasty decision-making. Otherwise, this is a year with great potential for increased energy, motivation, and growth. You are more ambitious and desirous of action in the year ahead. This should be a busy, dynamic period in your life.

Indeed, this can be a year for building faith and confidence in your personality, skills, and talents. You can experience a stronger desire to seek out meaning, wisdom, and mental stimulation in your life during this period. Others might frequently turn to you for guidance.

You have an emotional need to start something new this year to make a fresh start somehow. This promises to be an active and energetic year in which you feel renewed self-confidence. You are more assertive and enthusiastic, and also more willing to let go of the past.

It’s a powerful year for expressing yourself, creativity, and passionate interests and ideas. Discussions are often animated, perhaps sometimes over-stimulating. You’re enthusiastic, interested, and interesting.

There can be a stronger tendency toward, or desire for, commitment and deep involvement in certain relationships or a particular one. You may be taking love and/or friendship more seriously with someone special. There can be a willingness to make sacrifices if it seems the best way to make improvements in relationships and with money matters. You can be quite particular in your tastes, and better than usual at handling money and saving.

You are willing to put in the effort to make a particular relationship work, or you may successfully team up with a partner to work or fill a responsibility. It’s a powerful period for being fair and patient with one another, and reaping the rewards.

At times, you can wrestle with your expectations, as well as struggle between reliance on logic and putting your faith in something. Some confusion or even deception can figure strongly in your communications this year, and it s important to avoid glossing over or overlooking important details. Jumping too quickly into things is something to watch for. Watch also for scattering your energies over too many activities and projects.

The period ahead also favors dancing, swimming, photography, arts, and entertainment. If you are an artist, this could be an especially inspired, imaginative, and productive year. Paying attention to your gut feelings, which will, more often than not, provide you with valuable information, is key. You seem to have a strong sense of trends, which can give you a sense of control and confidence in your decisions.

With a Mars-North Node aspect, you may be actively involved with teamwork and collaboration with others this year. This can also indicate stirred passions and is one indication of a union, the beginning of a significant new relationship, or the intensification of an existing romance. It is also related to intense and satisfying projects.

Even so, Mars-Pluto energy with you this year is a little more complicated. If channeled positively, you could move mountains when it comes to pushing your projects ahead. If mishandled, however, you could be argumentative, stressed, and hell-bent on having your way! The bottom line is a tendency towards obsessive or compulsive behavior. Avoid taking extreme measures to make things happen your way, and avoid people who might be doing the same. Deliberately trying to maneuver things in order to get the upper hand will be a lesson in frustration this year.

Your passion to make a difference, a change, or connection is notable this year. It’s a time to discover your passions for ideas and causes. Helping or guiding others can figure strongly, and the people you meet play a big part in your future. Friendships and connections feel fated and can be significant.

You can make notable connections that are supportive, generous, satisfying, or successful this year. It’s a strong period for forging beneficial alliances.

Summary:

It’s not always easy to settle in and focus, but when you’re in the zone, you can accomplish much this year. Connections made this year tend to be mutually beneficial and growth-oriented. Changes in direction and focus are likely, and a brand new project or personal interest can be in the works.”

With Mars hovering around my midheaven as the year begins, the advice regarding my career is especially relevant. I’ve given myself a couple of deadlines to decide if I want to move on to something else. I’m under too much stress at my current job, and they don’t pay me enough to keep me up at night.

The other part that stands out is this line: “You have an emotional need to start something new this year to make a fresh start somehow. This promises to be an active and energetic year in which you feel renewed self-confidence. You are more assertive and enthusiastic, and also more willing to let go of the past.” I already feel as if my energy levels are picking up after a year that was characterized by my second Saturn return and the wet blanket feeling that transit can bring.

So, I’m looking forward to 2025. It’s also a Wood Snake year in Chinese astrology: the same as the year I was born. That’s supposed to be lucky!

Anyway, I’ll try to revisit this prediction every now and then to see how accurate it turns out to be. In the meantime, I’ve got a massage booked, and then I’m going to go buy myself a birthday cake just in case no one else does.

See you next time . . .