“], “filter”: { “nextExceptions”: “img, blockquote, div”, “nextContainsExceptions”: “img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button”} }”>
Welcome to the astrology of 2024. It’s a new chapter with new energy, new invitations, and new opportunities. Each year holds an array of cosmic movements, each whispering different insights and invitations of growth, and 2024 is no different. There is magic to be found within the year ahead—moments of beauty and opportunity, challenge and transition.
While the stars and planets are forever in motion, not unlike us, there are some movements that hold larger and more promising significance than others. Below are just a few of those pivotal moments in astrology in 2024.
Essential Dates in Astrology 2024 and What They Mean for You
Pluto in Aquarius | January 20-September 1, November 19-March 2043
We have been dancing within the era-defining movement of Pluto in Capricorn to Pluto in Aquarius since March of 2023. The coming year, however, holds space for the settling of Pluto in Aquarius, where it will remain for the next 19 years. But only after it has one final detour in Capricorn.
Pluto is our planet of the underworld. It is transformation, rebirth, empowerment, excavation, and the unconscious. It represents the unseen, the mystery, and our inner reserves that are not often journeyed. An outer planet, Pluto is slow moving, spending up to 21 years in each zodiac sign. As it transitions into a new sign of the zodiac, it represents an entirely new era for our personal experience and that of the collective. We feel that shift deeply.
Since 2008, this powerful planet has been journeying through the grounded earth sign of Capricorn, inviting immense transformation in our individual and societal foundations, responsibilities, securities, and structure. It has been illuminating the spaces within our society and inner worlds that have been built upon power dynamics that we no longer desire for ourselves. Pluto stationed in Capricorn has been pulling apart structures, and it has been doing so with the knowing that the era that comes next will create new structures built on doing things in service to the collective.
Aquarius is an air sign. It is all about change and innovation. It looks to the future, a new way, a better way. It serves humanity, the collective good, and the movement of evolution itself. Pluto returns to Aquarius for the second time from January 20, 2024 to September 1, 2024. It then shifts back into Capricorn while the planet is in retrograde, where it will remain until November 19, 2024. It is on this date that Pluto returns to Aquarius, where it will remain for the next nineteen years until March 8, 2043.
The astrology of 2024 marks the beginning of a new age for us as a collective. Where revolution, innovation, evolution, and the transformation of power dynamics are here to be looked at and worked with. It is where we are invited to reconsider the status quo and the established foundations and structures upon which our society sits and begin to question them. And it brings a beautiful opportunity for empowerment and a return to respecting the inner authority that we hold for our own lives.
Aquarius is the water bearer pouring into the collective from its sacred vessel. Yet it isn’t just water that this air sign is sharing with the masses. It’s consciousness, new streams of inspiration, and, simply yet powerfully, a new way to do things.
Eclipses in 2024
Eclipses are doorways into transformation. They empower. They clear out. They herald endings and open us to beginnings. They are the cycle of life itself—always in motion and forever changing, becoming, dying, and rebirthing. Generally speaking, we meet four eclipses each year, and 2024 is no different.
The lunar nodes play a key role within each eclipse. Comprised of the north node and the south node, they connect us to a sense of purpose, destiny, and soulful evolution. They hold a mystical energy to them, bringing synchronistic events and moments that feel created solely for us, as if life itself were whispering exactly what we needed to hear, whether or not the experience of hearing what is ours to receive is easy or not. If ever we were to look up into our skies and feel the presence of something guiding us, the lunar nodes, and therefore eclipses, are a part of this feeling.
The year to come continues the chapter that began during 2023 with eclipses in Aries and Libra in March, April, and October. These eclipses held within them invitations and reminders of inner courage—the courage to be who we are, to claim the life that calls our name, and to leap into the very creation and living of what we desire. They inspire us to claim our passions, our needs, and our independence, and to channel more of who we are into ourselves, into life, and into our fulfillment.
The coming year begins a series of eclipses in different signs. September brings a lunar eclipse in the watery sign of Pisces, opening a new story that we will continue into 2025. Pisces is our boundless, dreamy, and imaginative sign of the zodiac, and a lunar eclipse in this water sign illuminates the ways in which we may be neglecting this part of us and place our intuition to the side or use our imagination or empathy to turn away from reality.
With the invitation to empower the Pisces within each of us and use this healing, loving, and creative energy in ways that support us, this eclipse mirrors the ways we may be expressing these energies in a disempowering way. Awareness is where we begin.
Libra Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: 25 March, 2024
Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse: 8 April, 2024
Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse: 17 September, 2024
Libra New Moon Solar Eclipse: 2 October, 2024
Jupiter Conjunct Uranus in Taurus | April 20, 2024
Approximately every 14 years, the outer planets of Jupiter and Uranus come together in conjunction. And 2024 happens to be one of those years.
When we have a meeting of outer planets, it always feels significant. Outer planets, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto—planets outside of the asteroid belt—move relatively slowly. Their impact reverberates out into our worlds, reaching deep into our lives and often impacting us in ways that we continue to unravel for years to come. These planets often spark changes in the collective yet also play out individually in our birth charts.
Jupiter, in astrology, is our planet of expansion. It magnifies whatever it touches. It expands whatever touches it. It brings potential, opportunity, optimism, hope, and meaning to the spaces it travels in our skies. Uranus is our planet of change. It is the lightning bolt cracking open what is expired so that what is new can be planted. It is liberation and innovation, inspiration, and freedom. It is also a planet concerned with social awareness, the evolution of humanity, and awakening consciousness, and often plays out in surprising, yet wildly impactful, ways.
This meeting in our cosmos is a spark of fresh, innovative, abundant new energies. It is an invitation to explore new frontiers, both collectively and within our own lives. It is a moment in time for us to completely crack open the narrative of what we feel is possible for ourselves and reach into new opportunities for our lives. Collectively, it invites a new wave of liberation and freedom, societal change, and evolution.
There can also be a deeply spiritual energy to this transit, a feeling similar to the lunar nodes, where we are held by and within the hands of something greater. As if there are hands opening doors to support us on our unique journeys. Note that these energies will be active not us on the day of the conjunction but from April 3 to May 7, 2024.
As Jupiter invites a beautiful stream of faith and trust in life, Uranus gifts us with what could only be likened to foresight. It opens sight, pulls in future potentials and ideas that were floating around in the ethers waiting for us, and it allows us to see the positioning and purpose in where we are right now, the steps we are guided to take in this moment, and how each is leading us deeper into fulfillment and purpose.
Jupiter in Gemini | May 25, 2024-June 9, 2025
An exciting, quick, energizing, and playful energy in the astrology of 2024 is that of Jupiter entering Gemini. The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is all about growth, expansion, truth, perspective, and wisdom. It’s a planet that can feel like luck, good fortune, and abundance, bringing gifts and opportunities wherever it travels.
Gemini, a Mercury-ruled air sign, is all about the mind. It is curious, quick, intellectual, lively, and adaptable. Gemini wants to learn, communicate, move, gather information, share information. Soon after its meeting with Uranus, as Jupiter enters its realm in the cosmos on May 25, 2024, for the next year and a little while, all the planet’s growth and expansion come into the workings of the mind. It’s a chapter of intellect, immense curiosity, learning, and sharing. It’s an opportunity to strengthen and build confidence in the way we communicate, socialize, and approach learning new things. And it opens the mind, inviting us to consider new ways of seeing things, understanding things, making the space for the acceptance of different opinions and ways of being in the world.
Jupiter in Gemini is our invitation to expand the horizons of our mind. To play within the mind as if information and learning were the most exciting and empowering spaces available. To try new things and explore new perspectives. And to develop our relationship with adaptability and freedom. Gemini is an energy that shifts and changes just as freely as the wind, and it is through unclenching our hands and allowing ourselves to ebb and flow in the same way that we will receive our own abundant gifts of Jupiter.
What Does This Mean For You?
Life collaborates with each of us differently. What one of us receives from a moment or experience can hold such a different meaning to another within the same moment or experience. While the astrology of 2024 and the movements of our skies hold collective invitations, overall themes, and whispers that meet each one of us, they also hold within them more personal invitations. Remember, there is no one else in the world that moves through this life in the way that you do.
To reveal more personal insights as to where these transits are guiding you uniquely, find an online natal chart calculator. You will need your date, time, and place of birth. Look in your natal chart for the zodiac signs mentioned above, and take note of the houses that they occupy. For example, as Pluto moves into Aquarius, look to locate what house Aquarius lives within to know what house Pluto will be traveling through in your natal chart. These houses represent different areas of our lives, and can provide more explanation, for example, about the specific spaces in life where Pluto is bringing deep empowerment, transformation, and change. For the eclipses, look to the houses that Aries, Libra, and Pisces occupy.
Note whether there are any planets living within those signs and houses in your natal chart. As the planets move through that sign in our skies, they will also activate and enliven those planets in your chart. For example, if your Sun is in Aquarius in your 10th House, as Pluto moves through Aquarius it will not only bring change to your 10th house matters of career and legacy, it will also begin working with your Sun, bringing transformation to your identity, life force, and sense of self.
May each of these astrological events be doorways into more of who you are, more of your relationship with life itself, and more joy, meaning, love, and fulfillment. May you hear the invitations within each moment, for they always exist.
Learn more about the influence of astrology in your life, including astrological events, the Moon cycles, your Sun and Moon and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with the current influences, and more with Jordane Maree at Girl and her Moon.
About Our Contributor
Jordane Maree is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community exploring Soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is a writer, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of Girl and Her Moon: The Podcast. She is inspired, every single day, to be the mirror for you to see all that you truly are, you in all your infinite abilities, in total expansion, in infinite opportunity and love.