First of all, let’s get this year into perspective by looking for an astrologically comparable year. When was the last time that all the outer `heavy duty` planets were connected to each other, as if all attending the same tense assembly? Because that is what is happening this year, and as it that wasn’t enough they are all changing Zodiac Signs as well, it is quite exciting!

We’d have to go back to 1965, or before that, 1955. Both of these epochs introduced big, new, social changes to the western world. Among other things, 1965 witnessed the introduction of the right to vote for Black people in the USA. This act was crucial in the cultural transition towards equal opportunity for Black races. Great Britain led the West in a `Youthquake` fashion revolution symbolised by Mary Quant’s mini skirt and the geometric designs of ‘op-art’.

1955 saw the beginning of the Space Race and the children born in that year grew up with TV shows such as Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds. The highly imaginative and ambitious concepts in these productions, found an attentive audience as symbolised by the outer planets in the birth horoscopes of the 1955 babies. Many influential people such as Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) and Steve Jobs (Apple) were both born during this year and whatever else can be said, they are visionary futurists.

Back to 2025 and let`s take a look at the planetary changes and liaisons this year. In order to get my head around it, let alone anyone else`s, I spent a day or so gathering the information together and setting it out in a calendar-style Word table which may, or may not, be useful!

Let`s start at the top with the year 2025 and the months in columns. The top four rows in colour show the date the important outer planets move backwards and forwards into different Zodiac Signs. Now bear in mind that these slow movers can be decades in the same Zodiac Sign, and you start to get the message that this year is different. All of them are on the move, or have been, but it won`t be until mid-2026 that the sailing back and forth will stop and they settle into their new Signs or environments.

And `new environment` is the right phrase, because this is exactly what this symbolises. Cultural, sociological and political evolutionary change is happening. Rapid technological growth has fuelled revolutionary pressures affecting national beliefs, opinions and cultural practices. For example, in the UK a brand-new political party has been born and has taken the number two position within two years of its birth. At the time of writing, Elon Musk is threatening something similar in the United States.

The last half of the above Word Table is sub-headed ASPECTS, and this means the relationship between the transpersonal planets – those that describe the structures, undercurrents and archetypes of humanity or civilisations. Briefly...

Uranus describes the revolutionary, free spirit of humanity. A sudden awakening or lightbulb moment of ingenuity, when we reach for the future and unrestricted discovery, including cutting edge science.

Neptune’s mission is to search for redemption. To search for a euphoric and ecstatic oblivion; to blend with the unconditional love of deity and encourage a passive, pining, submissive experience. It introduces longing and yearning for a soft, yielding encounter.

Pluto represents the never-ending cycle of Life. The ruling principle of birth and death which relentlessly purges and destroys to make way for improvement and new growth.

Now… these planets are not just changing their environment (Zodiac Signs) as we see in the top half of the table, they are communicating harmoniously with each other via the aspects in the bottom half of the table too… and it reads like this…

…our need for redemption (Neptune) is co-ordinating with humanity`s ingenuity and willpower (Uranus) and the cycle of life with Nature`s need for constant improvement through birth and death (Pluto).

When those aspects are viewed in a horoscope, (see below) they form an attractive pattern of facilitating, supportive energy.

Additionally, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto belong to the Feminine/Yin polarity, so indirect, long-term planning is at the heart of them. (The Feminine does long-term planning) And even though Uranus is a Masculine/Yang energy, as an Air planet, it also brings futuristic planning, as well as genius, to the table.

This is starting to sound quite positive right? Well, it could be. Unless some one is planning a war to end all wars in a very unified, harmonised way. (Okay, best not call that one in.)

Feminine energy can appear quite benign. If we think about the Biblical myth of the dark `formless and empty` Feminine waters, with the generative, life-giving force of the Masculine stirring it from above, we start to get the picture. However, beneath the surface of the water, gestation occurs and evolution is unstoppable.

So late 2025 appears to bring a period of evolutionary development. When the river of collective consciousness swings to a new direction. And it is not aimless, hurried or without long-term planning. There is cohesion in these planets and they could be symbolising a new and developing epoch of the Feminine. And I do mean that Feminine/Yin develops or evolves a new intelligence.

I have been talking about the Rise of the Feminine since 2020, so consideration of an intellectually evolving Feminine sounds about right to me. We have an asteroid called Pallas Athena which represents mental activity and repressed feminine intelligence. Athena actually conjuncted Pluto in Aquarius on 24th February this year and will conjoin again on 14th October. This cannot be a coincidence. Demetra George points out that the combination of Pluto and Athena “emphasises the power of ideas to transform reality.” Together, they create ideas “that will influence and transform”.

Pluto represents the quantum realm, where particles have multiple potentials until observation forces one potential to become our reality. Put simply, we can observe, or `reveal`, a potential into existence. The powerful combination of Athena and Pluto in Aquarius, supported by Uranus, Saturn and Neptune holds remarkable... potentials.

We might dicover a previously undetected `dark energy` network of plasma-like electrical force/energy. Remember the movie `Avatar`, where a biological neural network connects all life-forms and Nature? Such a `discovery` would fall under the astrological rulership of Aquarius, whilst the network itself is the evolving Feminine.

Babies born this year will carry this planetary generational marker, suggesting they will strain every sinew to live in a future of re-balanced attitudes to the intelligence of Nature and the Feminine in general.

Maybe a very good year after all! 

2025 Copyright Alison Chester-Lambert. PLEASE insert a link to this article if you are using the ideas in it? Thank you.

My photograph of the Full Moon on Saturday April 12th 2025 

The Dwarf Planets symbolise various aspects of evolution, population trends, the Secrets of Life and the Duality. They also enable a longer foresight into human destiny. Being physically far out from the central Sun, although solar control remains, it is not as strong as it is with the inner planets like Venus and Earth.

Out there at the edge of the Solar System, there are massive tidal forces of a cosmic nature, hinting at a complexity our minds have not yet discovered… but we are close… very close. We know this because we have discovered the planets that represent this, so we are ready to take on their energy.

Haumea and Pluto formed a long running conjunction from 1944 – 1963 whilst Western countries were resonating to the post-war drum beat of procreation - the instruction to have babies and replenish their numbers. The former Western Allies were keen to maintain their strength and security by re-building tax coffers and armies.

Social demography officially recognises the years from 1946 to 1964 as those of the `Baby Boomers` (or Generation Jones in America), a large generation that continues to have a significant impact on the world’s economies and our planet’s population. Note the very close alignment between the official Baby Boomer years and the planet`s connection? In 1944 the planets joined and the first Boomer year is 1946. Remember it takes a year to conceive and then give birth?

Hindsight and more research now divide the Boomers into two groups: those born from 1944 to 1954, called Boomer 1`s, and those born from 1955 to 1964, called Boomer 2`s. This slow reclassification occurred because of emerging marked difference in principles. The Boomer 1`s valued meaningful philosophy over financial success. The Boomer 2`s (called Generation Joneses in the USA) reverse that, they value financial success over meaningful philosophy.

Other research considers the Boomer 2`s to have more balanced mainstream views, tempering idealism with cynicism. Yet more research cites consumer behaviour, values and attitudes. My thoughts… Astrologically, both groups have the Pluto Haumea conjunction and if we just concentrate on the issue of having babies, we can leave it at that. Together, Pluto and Haumea are critically implicated in the matter of population reproduction trends.

However, there was a Uranus Makemake conjunction from 1953 until 1957 and this is joined by Jupiter from mid 1954 to mid 1955. The time of the Baby Boomer 2`s.

That made the uncompromising, badass difference!

Let us consider some of the Makemake key words… Gung-ho, competitive and roving. Now Uranus… revolutionary, uncompromising, awakening and enlightening. Then Jupiter arrives, providing a carefree, expansive energy to the mix. No wonder this cohort contained the highest proportion of Brexit voters!

Unlike the Boomer 1`s, the Boomer 2`s went through early childhood with televisions and electrical goods (Uranus), which added a sense of discovery and worldly knowledge to their universe. Science fiction in the guise of Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds appeared on screen from 1962, and these programmes fed the inborn, instinctive belief that space was NOT an empty vacuum – as they were being taught in schools.

Let`s fast forward to the present. According to the clockwork cycles of the Solar System, Pluto and Haumea engage again from 2022 – 2028, but this time there would be 90 degrees between them. (A square aspect in astrology.) This square will reveal the challenges in their joint endeavours, a time when the results of the events of the conjunction will be tested for any necessary adjustments. How has the Baby Boom thing worked out?

Let’s get the opinion of Sir Richard Attenborough? He has this to say “I have no doubt that the fundamental source of all our problems, particularly environmental ones, is population growth. I can’t think of a single problem that wouldn’t be easier to solve if there were less people.” That bad huh?

Countries in Asia and the African continent will contribute the biggest population growth during this century, but the developed countries can hardly start preaching to them now.

In my opinion, the six years that Pluto and Haumea are in square to each other offer the opportunity to get real and address over-population issues with the safe, and freely available, birth control methods that religious beliefs have denied women.

Surely it is better to prevent birth, than witness young death through poverty and starvation?

But still, the Roman Catholic church "forbids contraceptive use because it is a sin against nature". Surely the sin against nature is a human population that displaces nature itself? (Haumea also represents nature and the natural world.) 

The planetary deities sometimes offer us the opportunity to work with the winds of change that the planets are describing. Their `two-sides-of-the-same-coin` duality, a negative or positive aspect to the same issue, means that we have choices. This is where our free will presides.

With regard to birth control or birth promotion, new choices are available to us now. What do you think?

COPYRIGHT ALISON CHESTER-LAMBERT 2024

On the 20th November 2024, the dwarf planet Pluto will cross the invisible dividing line between the portions of the sky called Capricorn and Aquarius for the very last time.

Pluto’s final move into Aquarius after 16 years in Capricorn signifies the completion of a pretty big transformation in our lives. It represents a giant sea-change in our cultural background, and a significant leap into the `Age of Aquarius`.

I want to remind us what Pluto actually symbolises. It is sometimes a difficult `driver` to understand, and in using the term `driver`, I am thinking of software that controls input and output operations, or simply a `force that controls`.

Pluto represents transformation and (sometimes brutal) change by creation or destruction. It is the intelligent power or principle which fulfils the cycle of progression and growth. An evolutionary force which brings about gradual change without restraint or sympathy. It is built into the structure of life and even though it can and will be destructive, this should be seen in the light of constant improvement.

Perhaps Pluto is also a reservoir or repository of souls that exits in a hidden dimension of the Cosmos. An invisible appendage to our universe, which the Ancients envisaged as the Underworld.

Pluto’s natural growth impulse is useful to the Sign it is moving through. Returning again to the idea that Pluto is a `driver`, it develops the Sign`s raw material into `what it must become`. And let us remember that a Sign has dominion over one twelfth of our Uni-verse or dimension, including a one twelfth input into the life of every human.

Capricorn benefitted from a deep purging of global financial institutions after the near disaster of 2008, the year Pluto entered this tough Earth Sign and let us note this typical pattern. Firstly, Pluto recognised the rickety state and `shifting sand` of the existing global financial institutions which couldn’t even support further growth. People`s savings had been turned into loans on the other side of the planet, and to those who could never afford to repay them.

Pluto sent earth-quaking waves of shocking destruction and death through world banks and financial institutions, causing a severe global economic crisis. Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and every bank in Iceland? The Lord of the Underworld took the world of Capricorn to the brink… but left enough stability for recovery and Pluto’s magical regrowth.

This dwarf planet’s inclination for progress and development has assisted the survival and growth of the Capricornian energy ever since. Property prices, financial securities and formal institutions became `what they must become` - a typical plutonian impact. So what happens to the universal Capricornian energy and its resonances, now that Pluto has pretty much `moved on` and this mysterious Underworld Force is no longer interested in the Capricornian ideals of preservation, status and frugality?

Well, these ideals will lose support in the Collective. There may be a growing distaste for the `old` ways of institutional and corporate corruption, protectionism and elitism. (All products of worship at the altar of the status and profit gods). The mutual back scratching of the upper classes, the banking system, financial products and planning and building regulations… Without Pluto`s input, Capricorn`s dominions will not continue to strengthen and there may be some contraction as things settle down. Rather like soil settling down after the garden has been dug.

A planet orbiting from one Zodiac Sign to the next will experience the new energy breaking down the orders of the old one. There is a different `future` in the pipeline, with new goals and collective aspirations. The Age of Aquarius is here and it is time that Aquarian values become the centre of Pluto`s powerful attention.

The Lord of the Underworld will spend the next 20 years initiating a new world order - that of discovery and the Cosmic Mind. The Aquarian dream is about (among other things) understanding scientific and mathematical precision, breaking free of the past, and the uncluttered perfection of the future.

So maybe you have just read that, and you are still asking “But what does that mean to ME?” Apart from the general issues of artificial intelligence, anything alien, advanced methods of communication, and the increasing complexity of technology, transiting Pluto’s move into a new Zodiac Sign doesn’t really single out individuals per se, although they may get in the way of a general purge. In the case of the move into Capricorn, those working in the financial sector with redundancy notices were pawns in a much bigger sea change.

Home-schooling may become a trend since all Aquarian-type people despise the homogenised, ill-fitting hole of nationally-organised school curriculums. Other people may suddenly long to take a science degree, or break out of employment in order to back-pack around Canada.

What about the Collective impact? As corny as this may sound, science fiction productions may have more than a few pointers. If you feel so inclined, dig out all your sci-fi movies and box sets for a good old binge. You could be amazed at the resonances.

I think `control` should be flagged up as an issue, along with power and supremacy battles. But these will be fought over the ideals of independence, future concepts and discovery. Just another day in the life of Captain James T. Kirk then! The strongest Uranian and Aquarian need is to break free. Freedom from predictability and restraint ensures the Klingon`s “undiscovered country” of the future.

We do need to give some thought to electricity, for we live in an electrical universe with electrical thoughts and electrically controlled movement. Even something as tiny as a single cell in the human body has a flow of charges inside and outside of its membrane which generates electrical currents. The relationship between positive and negative ions acts on planets, solar systems, galaxies and beyond, creating a universe which only exists because of electricity.

This system is only truly understood by Uranus – the symbol of these things - and Aquarius, the Sign or energy it resonates with. Pluto`s use of Uranus’s electrical designs and electrical systems is similar to the way a composer arranges musical notes according to the physics of sound. Or let`s put that another way, Pluto… in its Mother Nature guise… uses Uranus`s tool box to produce Life from chemicals and Pluto`s and Uranus`s correspondences are woven into the fabric of our dimension.

The deepest paradox of the Aquarian experience is the admiration and seeking of Utopian dreams, perfection, clean lines and clutter-free environments. Whilst at the same time harbouring a need to rebel against the very discipline and rigid self-control required to achieve Utopian perfection. It is in the Aquarian nature to rebel, but then to dislike change.

Aquarius strives to break free of restrictions but clings to `proven` science. How can this paradox ever be resolved? Perhaps by the acceptance of a world less perfect or less rigid. Maybe the scientist has to accept the presence of magic. Maybe a little less disdain for that which cannot, and should not, be proven.

COPYRIGHT!  Alison Chester-Lambert, April 2024