Free Will Astrology (1/2/25)

CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19): You’re the most pragmatic sign of the zodiac and are most highly skilled at getting constructive things done. It’s also true that you thrive on organizing the chaotic details of our messy world
into smooth-functioning systems. But I periodically need to remind you that these superpowers of yours require you to nurture a vigorous and rigorous imagination. All of what you ultimately accomplish originates in the fantasy realm. This will be especially crucial for you to keep in mind
during 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The “Mona Lisa” is a world-famous painting by Leonardo da
Vinci. Beneath its visible surface is evidence that the artist reworked it extensively. There are at
least three earlier versions with different facial features. In one, the figure has eyebrows and is
wearing hairpins and a headdress. These details were scrubbed out of the image that now hangs
in the Louvre Museum in Paris. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you
have been engaged in a comparable process as you have worked on your labor of love. In my
reckoning, you’re finished with your false starts, practice runs and dress rehearsals. In the
coming months, you can make excellent progress toward ripening and culminating your
creation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Ancient Greek literature references a drug called nepenthe. Anyone
who ingested it would forget memories that stirred pain and sorrow. Many of us modern people
might consider taking such medicine if it were available. But let’s imagine a very different
potion: one that arouses vivid memories of all the wonderful experiences we have been blessed
with. If there were such a thing, I would recommend that you sample it frequently in the months
to come. That’s because your relationship with the good parts of your past will be especially
useful and inspirational. In fact, drawing on their power will be instrumental in helping you
create your best possible future.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): There are experiences, people and places that can either be good for
you or bad for you. Which way they tilt at any particular time may depend on your mood or their
mood or forces beyond your immediate control. An example for me is social media. Sometimes
it’s a mediocre drug that dulls my sensibilities and aggravates my fears. On other occasions, it
brings rich new connections and teaches me lessons I’m thrilled to learn. What about you, Aries?
In my astrological view, 2025 will be a time when you will be wise to reevaluate and redefine
your relationships with these paradoxical resources. If there are some whose influence is far
more likely to be bad than good, consider ending your bond. For those that are equally bad and
good, do what you can do to enhance the goodness.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus supermodel Linda Evangelista has supreme levels of self-
esteem. At the height of her career, she bragged that she got out of bed each morning with the intention of earning no less than $10,000 in the coming day. I’m not advocating that you be
equally audacious in your expectations during 2025, dear Taurus. But it’s reasonable for you to
adopt at least a measure of Evangelista’s financial confidence. According to my analysis of your
destiny, cosmic rhythms will be conspiring to open up economic opportunities for you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): In 2025, dear Gemini, I invite you to make ample use of at least five
of the following 11 tactics: 1) Shatter the molds. 2) Defy the conventions. 3) Challenge the norms.
4) Redefine the boundaries. 5) Disrupt the status quo. 6) Defy old rules and create new ones. 7)
Go against the flow and against the grain. 8) Bushwhack through frontiers. 9) Dance to
unfamiliar rhythms. 10) Search for curious treasures. 11) Change the way you change.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Good advice for the first half of 2025: 1) Lose your respect for
tangled complications that have begun to rot. 2) Keep some of your necessary protective
defenses, yes, but shed those that no longer serve you and are weighing you down. 3) Bury a
broken-down dream to make room in your heart for a sweet new dream. 4) Scour away as much
resentment as you can. 5) Sneak away from people and situations that are far too demanding. 6)
Discard as much as you can of what’s inessential, unhelpful and defunct. 7) Don’t make a radical
break for freedom yet, but begin plotting to do so by your birthday.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): The coming months will be an excellent time to dream up bigger, better,
more original sins and seek out wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. You should
experiment with being naughty and even sweetly wicked as you uplift your spirit and deepen
your love for life. You are being invited by your future self to experiment with daring departures
from tradition that bring you exciting challenges. Dear Leo, my wish for you in 2025 is that you
will be cheerfully courageous (not belligerently courageous) as you become both smarter and
wiser than you have ever been before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Aztecs were originally known as the Mēxihcah people. Before they
forged an empire, they were seminomadic tribes. But even then, early on, they were guided by a
prophecy that they would eventually settle permanently in a place where they found an eagle
roosting on a cactus holding a snake in its talons. In 1325, wanderers spied this precise scenario
on a small island in Lake Texcoco. Soon they began to construct the city of Tenochtitlan, the
capital of their future kingdom. I bring this true myth to your attention, Virgo, because I want to
invite you to formulate a similar prophecy in 2025 — and then fulfill it. Your personal empire is
primed for expansion and consolidation.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): As 2025 unfolds, your burdens will grow lighter, and your duties will
become more interesting. Joyless missions and trivial hopes will be increasingly irrelevant and
easy to relinquish, opening up opportunities for fresh assignments that motivate you to play
more and to work smarter rather than harder. During the coming months, dear Libra, I predict
you will be basking in extra-good karma and tapping into more fertile mojo than you have in a
long time. Would you like more freedom than ever before? It’s yours for the plucking.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Painter P.K. Mahanandia is well known because of his fine art. He
is even more famous for an amazing adventure he had in the name of love. It’s a long story, but
his wife was living in her native Sweden while he was stuck in his native India. Mahanandia was
still at an early stage of his career and couldn’t afford to fly by plane. Instead, he bought a used
bicycle and headed west, covering about 27 miles per day. He pedaled through Afghanistan, Iran
and Turkey until he arrived in Europe 127 days later. He had raised money by drawing portraits
of people he met along the way, so he had enough to travel by train the rest of the way to
Sweden. I’m thinking you may have an epic romantic adventure yourself in 2025, Scorpio.
Maybe not quite as extreme, but very interesting.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To symbolize your destiny in 2025, I drew a Tarot card. It was
the Nine of Cups. Here’s my four-part interpretation: 1) Sometime soon, you should identify
your top desires and ruminate about how to express them in the most beautiful and fulfilling
ways possible. 2) Take a vow that you will shed half-hearted, insecure approaches for bringing
them to fruition. 3) Be uninhibited about seeking not just a partial but a complete version of
each fulfillment. 4) Figure out which allies you will need in your life to manifest the happiest and
most meaningful outcomes.