The Astro Book Club: January 2025 Recap
Quick Review of the readings~ and some surprising coincidences. Two randomly chosen authors have almost identical charts! Chiron in Taurus and more Uranus energy mentioned & video recap!
January is finally coming to an end, we’ve had some wild emotional transits and news, and yet this is only the beginning of this exciting year.
Quick Recap: The month began with a Full Moon in Cancer, while Mars is moving retrograde in Cancer. Then we had Pluto & Sun & Mercury & Moon come into Aquarius.
Pluto entered Aquarius on November 19, 2024 and will remain there until 2044, and this was the first Sun & Pluto conjunction we experienced this year. Pluto is so much more than the planet of “Death” - it is transformative & in the sign of Aquarius, very inventive. This is a higher octave of Pluto than what we’ve experienced in Capricorn. This is ambition with a higher mission.
Happy Aquarius New Moon! ~ January 29, 2025
Aquarius New Moon & The Aquarius Season inspires us to aim higher. This quiet Winter period helps us to focus on our dreams and aspirations for the year ahead. It’s the best time to book and plan amazing events. This is a mentally stimulating Moon, rather than an emotional one. Embrace your dreams and take action on the inspired ideas that come to you at this time!
January 2025 Book Review! I got a ton of reading done this month:
Laini Taylor's Dreams of Gods and Monsters - Sagittarius Stellium
Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities - Aquarius with Capricorn Mercury teachings, Sag Moon, Virgo Rising
Andromeda by Therese Bohman (Swedish author brought to me by @bookofthemonth) - Leo Sun/Mercury, Aries Moon, Scorpio Rising
Bunny by Mona Awad - Leo Sun/Mercury, Aries Moon, Scorpio Rising
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (audiobook) - Pisces, Aqua Mercury/Moon
I was surprised to find that Therese Bohman and Mona Awad were born a day apart. They even share an Aries Moon. Almost identical charts (as seen below), and yet very different writing! They do share some similar themes in their writing, particularly the Chiron in Taurus.
I have a theory: Writers and Artists can channel energetic placements that are strongly aspected in their charts. This Astro Book Club project is channeling my Gemini Moon, for example. It’s a project that includes many projects and my own random/intuitive readings. It’s an education of my own making and a patchwork of many different flavors.
Bohman & Awad have natal charts that have a strong Chiron aspect, where Chiron in Taurus is opposing their first house (of the Self) and Uranus in Scorpio.
Sidenote: Another Leo Sun author I read, Sayaka Murata is also a Scorpio Rising with Uranus in 1st house, a Mercury in Leo, and Taurus Chiron although she was born a year later. She also has a Taurus Moon conjunct the Taurus Chiron, also in strong aspect and opposition to Uranus.
These authors all share a Virgo North Node, but their incredible commercial success most likely comes from their shocking and unconventional female characters. This is due to Uranus in the 1st House and Scorpio. When a planet inhabits our first house (Ascendent) it has a major influence over our chart, and Astrologers usually refer to that planet as the Chart Dominant.
All three of these Leo Sun authors coincidentally write female characters who have a serious passion for their careers.
The Convenience Store Woman simply loves her job. The main protagonist in Andromeda is a book editor and feels like she hit the jackpot - she genuinely enjoys her job. In Bunny, we have a writer who is in a prestigious college Grad program, trying to expand her passion into something more…and it turns into so much more!
The Chiron in Taurus in the 7th House (of Marriage/Relationships) brings a Fear of losing highly valued possessions and/or beloved people. There is a fear that relationships are not solid, but can anytime slip through the fingers like water or smoke. Both Awad & Bohman dealt with this theme prominently in their writing!
In Bunny, the female characters have a strange power to create people from their own wishes/dreams/wants and then sometimes violently destroy them when their human creations don’t fit the expectation. The main protagonist lives with her invented friends as if in a dream. The reader and the protagonist cannot always know what relationships are real or based on some kind of strange psychic invention.
Ultimately, we never have possession of other people, places, or things. This is the truth that Chiron, The Wounded Healer, brings through Taurus. We want permanence of everything we love, and unfortunately the Universe teaches us the difficult lesson of detachment by showing us that impermanence and change are the way of nature.
Check out my video! I talk about all the books here, quick summaries (I try not to include too many spoilers just in case you want to read these books), and a little astrological analysis.
Join my book club and we can talk so much more! Thanks for your support everyone.