Welcome to Intuitive Astrology with Molly McCord. Thank you so much for joining me today as we're going to

discuss the astrological energies of January 2025, looking at the most influential astrological

transits of this month. However, I need to give you a heads up that this will be a hard-hitting podcast

episode. I am going to touch on some of the bigger themes

that we're moving into in 2025, how the astrology is showing up and unfolding

throughout the first quarter of the year, and provide some beneficial insights to remind you of your power, your ability to move

through this dynamic time on the planet and to look at how far you've come, to reference the

changes you have navigated and been through, to see how brilliantly you have been adapting

and evolving with these times because this is a time

like no other. And I know with astrology there can be a lot of hyperbole, but I want you to know

that the messages I share with you, I do so with a sense of great responsibility. And I really

sit with things before I share them. So I do want

a reference that 2025 brings us into many new energetic territories with the outer planet's

all changing signs. So let's put that into a frame of reference around how in April 2004 the USA experienced the great American

solar eclipse. We had that big eclipse moving across the country, starting in Texas, moving

across the heartland and going up into Maine, signaling that the U.S. is going to be

evolving into a whole new sense of identity, new beginnings, and new areas of ourselves

to work with and work through. The USA has also endured the Pluto return energies that started in the middle of 2002.

That was when Pluto in Capricorn was at 27 degrees.

And in the U.S. chart, the Pluto energy is at 27 degrees retrograde of Capricorn.

And as with a typical Pluto transit, the energies unfold over

about a year and a half time period. Additionally, the USA has experienced Uranus and Taurus, getting to

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