The month ahead: “January 2025”
– Written by: Steve Jump to reading schedule
I think January 2025 needs a silly yet dramatic moniker. Something like, “Loads of Nodes“, or “Don’t point UR-anis at me you prick!!“. And sure the nodes are changing signs and Uranus is going direct at the end of the month, so those work on some level, but the month is so much more than its astrology. The monikers rooted in the astrology i.e. the planetary pull on the core energies of the month are the punchline to what is the core “joke” of the month so to speak.
So in reality neither of those “monikers” will do, and January 2025 is too big for a silly title/moniker. But then again maybe I could come up with some better monikers if I thought about it?? But no, I’m making this shit up in real-time as I type and I’m not going to stop my flow just so I can be extra clever in the eyes of my readers. Truth be told I don’t treat these write-ups any differently than I do my reading videos. My policy has always been a bit of the Howard Stern approach of just saying shit and going with it. Sometimes what I say hits, and sometimes it doesn’t. What I say will always offend someone.. There’s no way to avoid that in today’s societal energies, so I care very little about that. But in the end no matter what I say and/or the impact it has is nearly always a tick in the “win” column for me from my perspective. This “win” is not because I’m an asshole… I mean I am, but that’s not why I put a win on anything I say or do. NO, it’s a win because I know that I’m conveying a message contained within an energy as honestly as I can. And that’s good enough for me. It’s sort of like that old mantra I gave you all long ago, “you are who you are, and you’re doing the best you can.” Speaking for myself, sometimes I’m funny, sometimes I’m serious, and sometimes I’m neither of those things and I’m an idiot. But it doesn’t matter because it’s all magic, it’s all contained within what I refer to as a “cell” of energy. Which is really just a fancy term for a “moment”.
Time is an illusion. The way energy actually flows is more like film. Film is a serious still images that when played at speed make a moving picture i.e. a movie. The energy around us flows much the same way. Our lives happen as a serious of “cells”, photocells in a way. A serious of stills, or as we’ll call them here “moments”, when one passes another one comes in etc. etc…
The magic of SLT, my life, your life, love, or anything really always lives in the “moments”. Magic as I often say lives in the unknown, in the uncertainty of it all. To get a little Pink Floyd for a “moment”. “The moments that make up a dull day” (and there are many on any given day) are actually quite spontaneous, even if they’re planned. This is because we don’t control the energies around us, only our response to said energies. That said, “moments” are easily ruined when their flow is interrupted, i.e. when they’re “over-planned”, or just not allowed to flow freely at all. In the end there are no moments that make up a dull day, because there are no dull days. That dullness only lives in our perception, and frankly most people’s poor understanding and handling of the energies around them. Everything is energy, and everything is connected, and thus everything matters. An understanding of what I’ve covered in this one paragraph is why people like me can make something like jury duty, or a boring date, or a boring party fun. It’s ancient wisdom really but simply put and paraphrased a bit it says to “swim in the waters you’re in”. It’s always easier to look at the environmental energies that surround us as water, and we the fish in that water. If you’re a fish and you’re in a flowing river, you don’t swim the same way you would if you were in a big open lake. So you “swim in the waters you’re in”. You could even say you “play the hand you’re dealt” if you prefer more card based wisdom. lol
If you think I’m off track and that in some massive dumb-ass attack I’ve forgotten that I’m writing about the month of January 2025 you’d be wrong. Actually everything and I mean everything I’ve written so far pertains to January 2025’s energies. And I’ve phrased it the way I have in the hopes that by understanding the concept of “moments” you’ll utilize this month’s energy to its full potential. You see January (likely into early to mid-February) is filled with what I think are the most powerful and dare I say at the risk of typing he most gay-sounding thing ever put into text by a heterosexual, “magnificently–magical” moment-types of them all. It’s a type of energy where something appears and happens out of absolutely nothing…
The above said… The “moments” that make up January 2025 are “spontaneous combustion moments”. Things will pop in and pop out, almost like some magic fairy is making it all happen.
Since we’re on a Pink Floyd kick from earlier. I’m reminded of another lyric from Pink Floyd’s “Time”. The final line of the chorus sections goes something like, “Ten years have got behind you – No one told you when to run – You missed the starting gun” No don’t freak out… January’s energy isn’t implying that you missed any starting guns. That’s just the lyric, you can take it up with Roger Waters. But energy does cut both ways so it is possible some of you have missed a starting gun or two in the past. But in general as the energy seems to be flowing January 2025 IS THE STARTING GUN… For some it’s a wake-up call, and for others “it’s just another brick in the wall” so to speak… Either way the month as a whole is an invitation to check out “The dark side of the moon“, and maybe even sit down and “Have a cigar” while we’re there. But we can’t stay long otherwise we might get “Brain damage“, and January with its important node shift in particular will indeed be always trying to “keep the loonies on the path“.
And yes the entire paragraph above was brought to you by Pink Floyd, from a mix songs from “Dark side of the moon”, and “The Wall”. Both of which as titles would be quite fitting to describe January of 2025 as coincidence would have it.
The big news in January astrologically speaking anyway is the node shift. Its been a long year and a half with the north node in Aries. For some its been quite depressing in many ways. Because Aries energy is action oriented, and if your “destiny” isn’t panning out for you, the north node in Aries can be a down-right bummer. Now however the north node of destiny is moving into dreamy, artsy Pisces. And the south node is heading into grounded, earthy, chastity belt wearing Virgo. Which is good, because you can dream safely, and we can relax a bit and have a little fun on our ride down destiny’s freeway. Maybe start a game of 101 bottles of beer on the wall as we sing our way to destiny’s road. With Mars moving back into Cancer on the January 6th and retrograde all month long we’ll have a chance to rewrite our own history book. Or maybe a better way to phrase it would be, we’ll all get a chance to pave over some of the emotional potholes that the north node’s journey through Aries may have created.
All of this is accomplished within the energy by the universe “showing” you something this month. This month, January 2025 through a seemingly endless series of “spontaneous moments in time”, “moments” that seem to happen out of nowhere, combined with the usual planned moments, which in January’s energy seem to be possessed and take on a life of their own WILL show you something. That something will be different for all of you. Maybe you’ll see how silly you’ve been about something or someone, or maybe there’s something or someone you need to take more seriously, or maybe you’ll suddenly out of nowhere develop feelings for someone or they you. Who knows…. like I said, it’ll happen and play out differently for all of you…
Your advice for the month lives in you going back to what I wrote at the beginning of this article in the “monikers” for January section. I just made shit up, I made-up some monikers as I was typing. I didn’t stop, I just kept typing. I didn’t think about any of those monikers, they’re all just off the top of my head. I “winged it” as the kids would say… I didn’t care if they were good or bad, in fact I didn’t assign any label to them at all. I simply made them part of the flow of this article, as I did with two Pink Floyd albums as well in fact.
Could I have sat down and come up with some really awesome monikers???? Maybe… maybe not. Sometimes when we over-plan, over-process, we suck the magic out of things. i.e. for me in the moment of writing them, they were funny.. But if I had to sit down and spend 20 minutes or so bouncing ideas off other people, or worse-yet focus-grouping them in my own head, the “funny” or “the flow” might have gotten lost in the practicality of it all. And that’s your advice for January. The magic, the fun, the lessons, the adventures, the “funny”… all live in the spontaneous nature of the energy. So your advice put bluntly is, don’t be a buzz-kill. For the best results this month, January’s energy must be allowed to be itself…..to be what it is, and even allowed to be “who” it is when it belongs to a person instead of an event or moment of happenstance. All you have to do is “swim in the waters you’re in”. If you stop swimming, or try to control things by insisting on swimming a certain way, you’ll have a pretty tough month I promise you.
So why is this all important?? In the end the lessons learned this month be they good or bad (and it will vary for each of you) can and will be carried forward throughout 2025 and frankly for years to come. In fact the first quarter of 2025 is an energetic big deal as we lead up to Saturn’s move into Aries in May, which sees it joining Neptune which will have already moved there in March. And as if all that wasn’t enough, that’s all followed by another slow moving gas giant planet’s big move, Uranus, which moves into Gemini in early July, placing it by the way exactly where it was during the WWII era and post WWII cleanup/shame era toward the end of its transit i.e. (1942-1948’ish). But the needle hits the proverbial record on it all right here in January 2025.
In closing, under the category of “for the greater good“… In the process of “swimming” through this month of releasing control of people and situations in full, you might just catch a glimpse of what it’s all for, and where you’re headed. Releasing control also creates open spaces in the energy (voids) which offer brief moments of pure clarity when they happen. January 2025’s energy if utilized properly can provide you with a rare map of Destiny’s freeway. You can’t keep the map, but if you’re not too busy trying to control things that can’t be controlled you’ll have plenty of time to get a good look at it. Which as an energy rather humorously sort of reminds me of those people who when there were bookstores used to read the book IN the bookstore instead of buying it and taking it home. Yeah… it’s a bit of that…
Cheers….
Special Reads Completed Late December 2024
(As readings are completed, links are added)
- The Full Moon in Gemini reading
- Mercury direct in Sagittarius reading
- The January 2025 Overview reading
- New Moon in Capricorn reading
- Pluto in Aquarius sextile the North Node of destiny reading
__Special Reads Coming January 2025___
- Venus in Pisces reading
- Mars Retrograde BACK into Cancer reading
- Mercury in Capricorn reading
- The North Node entering Pisces reading
- The Full Moon in Cancer reading
- The Second-half of the January reading
- The February 2025 Overview reading
- Mercury in Aquarius reading
- The New Moon in Aquarius (Chinese year of “The Wood Snake”) reading
- Uranus Direct in Taurus reading
The above are “special” planned readings. They’re generally listed in the order I plan to pull them. Of course along with the readings listed above the usual random timeless reads and individual sign energy update mayhem will ensue as the energy dictates. There will also be as usual “Singles reads”, “Cure for Cancer” reads, “3 card” reads, TF Journey, & Schrodinger’s Cat reads peppered in along the way.
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