Sagittarius
While the Sun's return to Sagittarius over the weekend is the point in the year when your birthday month and new solar year begins, but rarely with such an empowered start. While the Moon left on Sunday, it was here when the Sun returned, ensuring you were emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware from the start, but just as its alignment with Mars here was both adding fuel to his passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit and giving you a sense of where to channel this. While in 2021 and 2023 Mars returned to Sagittarius during your birthday month, the last time you moved into your birthday month and new solar year with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos already here and having already spent three weeks firing things up, was in 2010. At the same time, while Mercury retrograded back out of Sagittarius last week, not before leaving you with everything needed to keep your head in the game and your feet on the ground.
Sagittarius
As Venus, the planet of love moves into her last week in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, the conditions are ideal for both embracing the past while preparing for the future. Venus is taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down love's memory lane that will end with her return to Sagittarius next Monday, with the closer she gets the more potent both a sense of romantic nostalgia and anticipation are set to become. Helping you and your heart to start looking to the future is not just that you have moved into the first full week of your birthday month, but it was over the weekend that the dwarf planet Ceres turned direct in your romantic sector. At the same time, helping you to embrace a sense of romantic nostalgia while making the most of the doors open to the past and to dance with some old ghosts, is that the other two planets in your romantic sector are still in retrograde motion. Returning to your romantic sector on Sunday, the Moon will be here during Venus' final hours in a nostalgic part of your chart and when she returns to Sagittarius next Monday, creating a bridge between the past, present and future.