2024 General Horoscopes

ARIES
There is a mix of stability and variety this year that is going to be the perfect fit for you. If things are too settled and stable, they become boring, but too much change can be unsettling, even for you. Providing the stability this year is Saturn, who returned to begin the three year wind down of your current three decade long Saturn cycle last March. With any teething issues out of the way and as Saturn won’t start transitioning into Aries until next year, he will spend the whole of 2024 in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, with the job of learning from the past continuing at an unhurried pace. Where there is change is with Jupiter and Pluto, one the planet of luck and expansion and the other the planet of change and revolution. The year begins with Jupiter in his first full day back in direct motion in your income sector and Pluto in his final three weeks in your career sector.

With your biggest year for income growth and expansion not ending until Jupiter leaves on 26th May, this is benefiting from not only Pluto’s final weeks in your career sector but some active months that won’t run their course until the asteroid Juno leaves on 8th February. The real push to get this professional year off the ground and benefiting from having Jupiter in your income sector is when Mars moves through from 5th January to 13th February. Meanwhile, while this will leave your career sector empty, the pace will continue to pick up on the income front, with the Sun’s return to your income sector on 20th April beginning the most active months of the year on the income front and the most potentially lucrative of Jupiter’s time here. Jupiter will leave on 26th May, but until Mars leaves on 21st July he will continue to milk this.

Meanwhile, on 21st January Pluto will leave your career sector, where apart from a few months last year he has been since 2008 and return to your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking. Here Pluto will have just as much support, starting from the Sun’s return on 21st January and continuing through to when Mars leaves on 23rd March. This will also allow Pluto and Jupiter to continue their partnership, for when Jupiter returns to your communication sector on 26th May he will move straight into a friendly aspect. Jupiter will return to put a major focus on all your communications until leaving in June 2025, just as Pluto has returned to begin a 20 year focus on your social life, friendships, teamwork and networking. With the South Node spending the whole year in your relationship sector, this will make this a powerful year for all aspects of friendship and relationship building.

TAURUS
As you move into the New Year there is a much bigger opportunity for a fresh start than you might appreciate at the time. For having turned direct on New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day is Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion’s first full day in direct motion and the start of the final chapter of his 12 month visit to Taurus and of the foundation year of this new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion. Jupiter will remain at a standstill for several weeks and with Uranus, in Taurus since 2019 not turning direct until 27th January, this buys you time to get your bearings as you prepare to move into not just the most defining months of this year, but months that could have a bearing on the rest of this 12 year Jupiter cycle.

 

Jupiter won’t leave Taurus until 26th May, five days after your birthday month ends. With Jupiter in Taurus throughout your birthday month, from 20th April to 21st May and with Venus returning from 28th April to 24th May and Mercury from 16th May to 3rd June, they will return to ensure you have everything needed to invest in the future and the journey ahead. Mars will move through from 9th June to 21st July, returning after Jupiter leaves to capitalise on the momentum this has created and with a chance to put your plans for the future into action. As the planets one by one leave Taurus, it will be to return to your income sector, arriving ahead of Jupiter and in Mercury and Mars’ case after he returns but in the early days and weeks of the start of your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade.

This puts a lot more significance on events back in January and in particular Pluto’s return to your career sector on 21st January. Pluto returned in March 2023, but less than three months later the planet of change and revolution retrograded back out again. This time, while Pluto will leave again from 2nd September to 20th November, this time it is only for 11 weeks and as once he returns, he is here now until 2044 and with Jupiter not leaving your income sector until June 2025, they will work in tandem. With the South Node spending the whole of 2024 in your work sector, something that will create an eclipsing Full Moon here on 25th March and an eclipsing New Moon on 3rd October, this will make 2024 a big year across the income, work and career fronts. Even if this isn’t advertised on the box from the start.

GEMINI
This is a year for major endings and beginnings, with a 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion ending on 26th May and another beginning when the planet of luck and expansion returns to Gemini. Jupiter returned to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart in May 2023, bringing you to the final year of this current 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion and with it, a chance to close old doors and to focus on completion. This became an even deeper review when Jupiter turned retrograde in August 2023 and as he only turned direct on New Year’s Eve, as you move into the New Year you are just starting to look to the future. However, events in January hold clues to what kind of future that is destined to be, when Pluto returns to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 21st January.

Along with the Sun, who will return on the same day this will put the focus on the adventurous side of life’s fence. While the Sun is only here for a month, apart from the 11 weeks when he will retrograde back into your financial sector from 2nd September to 20th November, Pluto is here now until 2044. Helping to get this off the ground will be Mars, who will return for the first time in two years to fuel a passion for adventure and a hunger for life’s richer experiences from 13th February to 23rd March and Venus, who will return to fuel a desire for adventure from 17th February to 12th March. When they leave Pluto will be on his own but as the planet of change and revolution, this has planted seeds that will continue to take root and sprout.

Why this is significant is that when Jupiter returns to Gemini on 26th May, he will move straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto and until leaving in June 2025, apart from the 11 weeks when he retrogrades back out, they will be working in harmony. This will also put both in harmony with the South Node, which will spend the whole of 2024 in a playful and creative part of your chart. As you move into both a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion on 26th May and into your birthday month and new solar year on 21st May, the strongest support will be coming from the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence. Yet balancing this out will be Saturn and Neptune, who are keeping a steady hand on the wheel of this professional year and especially on the career front. This will have a positive impact during the most lucrative months of the year, which will run from 17th June to 22nd July and then from 5th September to 4th November. The second will overlap the most active months of the year on the job front, which will run from 23rd September to 22nd November.

CANCER
While there won’t be any wild shifts and none of the dramatic changes or the seesaw ride that 2023 took us on, there will be two significant shifts. One you have already had a taste of and the other will be a new but also important but calming experience. Last year saw a lot of movement in the normally stable outer planets and one of those shifts was Pluto, who after 15 years in your relationship sector left in March 2023, something that saw him return to your financial sector for the first time in our lifetime. Pluto is the planet of change and revolution, so this gave you a chance to look at how you might want to change things up on the financial front while leaving you with plenty to think about and mull over when he retrograded back out less than three months later.

This put Pluto back in your relationship sector, where since his return in 2008 he has been working to create more authentic relationships. However, this has meant that no planet has been able to move through Cancer without clashing as they moved through. It was that constant putting a balance between your personal and relationship needs to the test that has given you a better sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you, which Pluto has used to help all your relationships grow and evolve. Pluto will leave again on 21st January, the same day that the Sun will also leave your relationship sector and return to your financial sector. The Sun is only here for a month but apart from retrograding back into your relationship sector to create some closure from 2nd September to 20th November, Pluto will remain in your financial sector for the next 20 years.

This will have a positive impact when Jupiter leaves your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking on 26th May and return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart to begin the wind down of your current 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion. This is in preparation for Jupiter’s return to Cancer in June 2025 and the start of a new 12 year Jupiter cycle. This will put Jupiter and Pluto in harmony from the start and a combination of Jupiter’s focus on winding things down and the fact that Pluto is no longer putting pressure on the planets as they move through Cancer this year, is likely to lower your stress levels while making it harder to sweat the small stuff. Meanwhile, one planet that was on the move last year but is now staying put is Saturn, who is now settled into his three year visit to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery.

LEO
Where last year we saw a lot of change, this year things are a lot more stable, with the two major changes that we do have, over and above the ever changing backdrop of the faster planets, are happening in harmony. The year begins with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion in his first full day back in direct motion in your career sector and Pluto, the planet of change and revolution just three weeks away from leaving your work sector, where they have worked in harmony for a major part of 2023. Pluto had left and returned to your relationship sector in March so wasn’t there when Jupiter returned in May 2023 to begin your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade. However, Pluto retrograded back into your work sector just a few weeks later and has been here ever since.

Because Jupiter only turned direct on New Year’s Eve he is still at a standstill and as the first eight weeks of the year are likely to be some of the busiest of the year, this is a chance to let things settle professionally while first gaining as much traction on the job front as possible. While the Sun and Pluto will both leave your work sector and return to your relationship sector on 21st January, with Mars moving through from 5th January to 13th February, Mercury from 14th January to 5th February and Venus from 23rd January to 17th February, they will keep the momentum on the job front going. By that time Jupiter will be picking up speed and the focus can shift onto career matters, with the Sun’s return on 20th April and Venus’ on 28th April beginning a push to make the final weeks of Jupiter’s quest for professional growth and expansion some of the best.

The Sun and Venus will leave before Jupiter, but it is Mars’ return from 9th June to 21st June that could see the full extent of what’s possible fully exploited. By then Jupiter will have returned to your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking, he will spend until June 2025 making this the most expansive area of your life. This will also allow Jupiter and Pluto to resume their partnership, this time promoting friendship and relationship building. This will have the support of the South Node, which will spend the whole of 2024 in your communication sector. Meanwhile, staying put is Saturn, whose return to your financial sector in March 2023 began a three year quest to take your financial power back.

VIRGO
There is set to be a major pivot from the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence to the busy professional side this year, but it won’t happen in one fell swoop and with time to transition from one to the other. The two planets at the centre of things are Jupiter and Pluto, with New Year’s Day Jupiter’s first full day in direct motion in an adventurous part of your chart and the start of Pluto’s final three weeks in a playful and creative part. Pluto had been here since 2008 but in March 2023 left and returned to your busy work sector, where he was able to plant seeds that he could return to later. This meant that Pluto was gone when Jupiter returned to your career sector in May 2023, but he returned just a few weeks later and since then, in harmony, they have put a lot of focus on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence.

The change begins when Pluto not only returns to your work sector on 21st January but on the same day as the Sun. This won’t leave a playful and creative part of your chart empty with Venus, Mercury, Mars and even the dwarf planet Ceres keeping things active through to 8th February. With Jupiter not leaving an adventurous part of your chart until 26th May and with plenty of planetary activity here right through to when Mars moves through from 9th June to 21st July, life isn’t going to suddenly become all work and no play, but this is where things are heading. For when he leaves on 26th May, Jupiter will return to your career sector to begin your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade.

As soon as he returns Jupiter will move straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto, who by then will have been in your work sector for four months and will have become established. Apart from the 11 weeks that Pluto will spend back in a playful and creative part of your chart from 2nd September to 20th November, he is in your work sector until 2044 and through the majority of the time that Jupiter is in your career sector until leaving in June 2025. With the South Node in your income sector all year, what 2024 doesn’t have on the wrapper as you move into the New Year is just what a big year this is destined to become across the income, work and career fronts. Yet standing by and policing that this doesn’t negatively impact your relationships is Saturn, who will spend the whole of 2024 in your relationship sector.

LIBRA
This is a year where what it says on the box might be an indication of the early part of the year, but not the year as a whole and there is nothing to indicate a major shift ahead to the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence. This isn’t something that will happen in one fell swoop and instead in two parts, the first on 21st January and the second on 26th May. The planets behind this shift are Jupiter and Pluto, who as you move into the New Year have their focus on home and money matters and as they are working in harmony, with a nice overlap between the two. New Year’s Day is Jupiter’s first full day in direct motion in your financial sector, but still at a standstill and not leaving until 26th May, this takes the brakes off your biggest year for financial growth and expansion in over a decade, but with the best still to come.

At the same time Pluto is in his final weeks in your home and family sector and while after 15 years the planet of change and revolution left in March 2023, he retrograded back in less than three months later and has been here ever since. With the Sun always spending the last 10 days and the first three weeks of each year in your home and family sector, the solar spotlight is always on home, family and/or property matters at this time of year. However, never before with lucky Jupiter in your financial sector and in harmony at the time. The Sun and Pluto will both leave on 21st January but a parade of planets, including Mars making his first visit in two years will keep things active on the home front until 8th February.

It is then that the Sun and Pluto will return to your romantic and creative sector and while the Sun is only here for a month, apart from the 11 weeks when Pluto will dip back into your home and family sector from 2nd September to 20th November, he is here until 2044. This is where Pluto will make his home for the next 20 years and while this means that he is no longer in harmony with Jupiter, that won’t be the case for long. On 26th May Jupiter will not only return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery but straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto and apart from the 11 weeks when Pluto is gone, they will continue to work in harmony until June 2025. This will put the focus on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence in a way not seen before. Helping to keep things balanced is Saturn, who apart from spending the whole of 2024 in your work sector, will keep things grounded.

SCORPIO
While they will separate for several months, Jupiter and Pluto will begin and end the year in harmony, though with a different focus. The year begins with Jupiter in his first full day in your relationship sector and having just turned direct on New Year’s Eve, this is more than a symbolic chance for a fresh start. Jupiter has been in retrograde motion for four months and as well as turning direct and shifting the focus away from the past and onto the future, as he will leave on 26th May this is when you will enter the final phase of this powerful year for relationship building. This comes just as Pluto moves into his final three weeks in your communication sector and with he and the Sun both leaving on 21st January, as the tide turns on the relationship front it is with the full support of the communication gods.

Even after the Sun and Pluto move on, the support will still be there with Mars in your communication sector until 5th January, Mercury from 14th January to 5th February and Venus from 23rd January to 17th February, it is the planets of love and communication that will offer the most support. While there will be no more planetary activity in your communication sector by the time the dwarf planet Ceres leaves on 8th February and the most important months of the year on the relationship front are still in front of you, this will leave you with everything needed to keep the communication lines open. Meanwhile, as the planets leave your communication sector they will follow Pluto into your home and family sector, where apart from 11 weeks from 2nd September to 20th November, he will call this home for the next 20 years.

It is not until Mars leaves on 23rd March that Pluto will be on his own, with two months for the planet of change and revolution to settle in and with ongoing support during that time. It is just over two months later that Jupiter will leave your relationship sector on 26th May and return to your financial sector to begin your biggest year for financial growth and expansion in over a decade. Surrounded by planetary support at the time, this will get this off to a powerful start, but it will also put Jupiter and Pluto back in harmony. While they will move straight into a friendly aspect, until Jupiter leaves in June 2025 there will be a lot of harmony and support for financial matters on the home front. Meanwhile, spending the whole of 2024 in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart Saturn, the hard taskmaster of the cosmos will be policing a balance between work and play.

SAGITTARIUS
While it won’t happen overnight and there will be an overlapping that allows for a smooth transition, the two planets that will have a big influence on the year as a whole will see a focus shift from income and job matters and onto a chapter where there is a lot more focus on communication and your relationships. While this is happening independently of the other, because Jupiter and Pluto will start and end the year in harmony, but with a different focus, there is a link between the two. New Year’s Day is Jupiter’s first full day back in direct motion in your work sector and having just turned direct on New Year’s Day, this takes the brakes of this professional year from the start. While Jupiter will remain at a standstill for several weeks and especially with Uranus still in retrograde motion here until 27th January, this marks the third and final stage in your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade.

The push will be on to make these final months count and while Jupiter will leave on 26th May, it is not until Mars leaves on 21st July that everything will have run its course. This makes 2024 a huge year for work and job matters and especially the first half. The pace will have really started to pick up by the time the Sun returns on 20th April and Venus on 28th May. Meanwhile, the year also begins with Pluto in your income sector, as has every other year since his return in 2008. This has put Jupiter and Pluto in harmony since Jupiter’s return to your work sector in May 2023, with his and the Sun’s departure on 21st January ending their partnership, for now anyway. With Mars in your income sector from 5th January to 13th February and Venus from 23rd January to 17th February, support for Jupiter and for work and job matters as they pick up speed will continue.

However, Pluto will have returned to your communication sector by then, where apart from when he retrogrades back into your income sector for 11 weeks from 2nd September to 20th November, he will spend the next 20 years. This means that Pluto will be here and ready to support Jupiter from the start, when he returns to begin his 13 month visit to your relationship sector on 26th May. Jupiter will move straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto, with a chance for the planets of luck and change to form a new partnership, one that will focus on communication and your relationships right through to June 2025. This will also put both in harmony with the South Node, which will spend the whole year in your friendship sector.

CAPRICORN
This is not so much a year of two halves and more a year where there is a slide or a transition to a much busier second half. The planets that will have the most impact on the year as a whole are Saturn and Jupiter and beyond that if there are any changes or shifts in the outer planets, which would represent a major pivot that will not just impact the year itself but decades to come. You have the latter this year but while Saturn is now settled into your relationship sector and will remain there all year, Jupiter is on the move. As Jupiter will only spend around 12 months in each area of your chart it is a given that he will shift focus at some point during the year but this time, his shift just happens to tie into a major pivot that will also take place. That major pivot is coming from Pluto, the planet of change and revolution leaving Capricorn and returning to your income sector on 21st January.

If this sounds like deja vu, it is because Pluto did the same thing in March 2023, only to retrograde back into Capricorn less than three months later. This is normal for a slow outer planet and he will retrograde back in again, this time to spend 11 weeks tying up loose ends from 2nd September to 20th November, not to return to Capricorn again in our lifetime. This is when a journey that began back in 2008 to find and embrace the kind of change that allows you to express yourself and your life authentically began. Yet as one chapter ends another is just starting, with Pluto’s return with the Sun on 21st January the start of a commitment to his 20 year stay in your income sector. While Pluto will retrograde back out, this time after being here for over seven months and only leaving for seven weeks.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars will all move through your income sector during Pluto’s early months, getting the year off to a potentially lucrative start. However, this might not reach its full potential until Jupiter leaves a playful and creative part of your chart on 26th May, where he will stay until leaving in June 2025. This will begin your biggest year for job growth and expansion in over a decade in the early months of Pluto’s 20 year visit to your income sector. Jupiter will move straight into a friendly aspect to Pluto, putting them in harmony from the start. As the South Node will spend the whole of 2024 in your career sector, this could be your most powerful year across the income, work and career fronts ever. A lunar eclipse in your career sector on 25th March and a solar eclipse on 3rd October will help to cement that. Yet while Jupiter will leave a playful and creative part of your chart on 26th May, Mars will keep fighting to maintain a balance between work and play until he leaves on 21st July.

AQUARIUS
As you move into the New Year, things are going to look very much the same as you left them in 2023, though with a sense of change in the air. The first change to take place will also be the one that has the most personal impact with Pluto, the planet of change and revolution not only returning to Aquarius with the Sun on 21st January, but to begin a visit that will keep him here until 2044. Pluto did return to Aquarius in March 2023, but while this gave you a chance to look to the future and any major changes that you might want to make, as he retrograded back out less than three months later, this was more a chance for some window shopping. This saw Pluto return to your sector of subconscious thinking, imagination and review, where he had been since 2008 and is still as you move into the New Year.

However, with Pluto returning to Aquarius on the same day that the Sun returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year, this rather than New Year’s Day is the day when the future will open up for you. With Mercury returning to Aquarius from 5th February to 23rd February, Mars from 13th February to 23rd March and Venus from 17th February to 12th March, every planet that will return to your sign this year will be here to get this new chapter off to an empowered start. However, Pluto isn’t fully settled in and will retrograde back out again on 2nd September though after over seven months, he will be doing more than just window shopping. This time Pluto will only be gone for 11 weeks and will not only return on 20th November but will stay in Aquarius for the next 20 years.

This will have unexpected consequences, when on 26th May and having done everything he can to promote growth and expansion on the home, family and/or property fronts, Jupiter will leave and return to your romantic and creative sector. This will begin your biggest year for matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative in over a decade, but it will also put Jupiter in harmony with Pluto, who he will form a friendly aspect to as soon as he returns. There will be an overlapping of planetary activity on the home front until Mars leaves on 21st July and with the Sun returning to your romantic and creative sector on 21st May to prepare for Jupiter’s return five days later. This makes for a year of two halves for the planet of luck and expansion while returning to support Pluto as you enter a major period for personal growth.

PISCES
While 2024 won’t see the degree of changes or uncertainty that we saw in 2023, there is enough to ensure things don’t become stuck while at the same time, giving you enough certainty to feel grounded. The latter is coming from Saturn, who having returned to Pisces last March to begin a new three decade long Saturn cycle of learning and growth is now well and truly settled. Saturn is here for the whole of 2024, which means that he won’t be changing things up and as he and Neptune, the planet of dreams and your ruling planet won’t leave until early 2026, they will continue to work as an unlikely team. As you move into the New Year Saturn has retrograded back to the start of Pisces so he and Neptune are still too far apart to connect, but back in direct motion that gap will close and as it does the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality will increase, but with little or no urgency.

Where there is change is with Pluto and Jupiter, the only planets that will make any significant changes this year apart from the normal passage of the faster planets. The year begins with Jupiter in his first full day in direct motion in your communication sector, after his four months in retrograde motion ended on New Year’s Eve. With Jupiter not leaving until 26th May and with a huge amount of support during his final weeks, the year gets off to a lucky and expansive start for all aspects of communication. With the asteroid Juno in your relationship sector until 10th August, a time of year when there is rarely any planetary activity on the relationship front, this is something that your relationships can benefit from. Especially as Juno is the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships.

This is something that will be a support for Pluto in his final weeks in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking before he and the Sun leave on 21st January and for the planets that will stay on after they leave. Between then Mars, Venus, Mercury and the dwarf planet Ceres will keep things active until 8th February, after which your friendship sector will be empty. Pluto will retrograde back in for 11 weeks from 2nd September to 20th November, but the planet of change and revolution is getting ready to leave his home of the last 16 years. It is then that Pluto will return to your sector of subconscious thinking, imagination and review, where for the next 20 years he will work to open your mind and transform your thinking to a more authentic view. Pluto will also be a support for Jupiter, who on 26th May will return to begin your biggest year for growth and expansion on the home, family and/or property fronts in over a decade.