Let’s be real. The past year has felt like an emotional marathon for so many of us. If you’ve been carrying baggage, unfinished business, or old wounds that just won’t heal, you’re not alone. Something in the cosmic air has been heavy, relentless even.
The stars, however, suggest that as we close the book on 2025, three zodiac signs in particular are about to experience something rare and deeply needed: genuine closure. Here’s the thing about closure. It’s not just about moving on. It’s about releasing what no longer serves us, understanding why things unfolded the way they did, and finally allowing ourselves to breathe without the weight of the past pressing down on our chests. So which signs are poised to leave their struggles behind? Let’s dive in.
Aries: Releasing the Need to Fight Everything
In 2025, Aries has been seeking closure in regards to the past and receiving karma for the good or the bad. For much of the year, destiny encouraged Aries to shake off old versions of themselves, especially in relationships and personal goals. Saturn transits in the 11th house for the first three months and finally leaves to go to the 12th house in March end, which suggests Aries natives have to work twice as hard without getting any rewards.
Here’s what makes late 2025 so potent for Aries. The universe is laying more weight and responsibility on their shoulders throughout the summer and fall, but with purpose. The first months felt slow, calling for deep reflection on where they’ve been. Patterns across the board are being set up now that could affect the upcoming three decades of their lives.
Aries is releasing reactivity, shifting from impulsiveness and anger, and getting ready to embrace feeling more grounded. This means finally letting go of the exhausting need to battle every single obstacle. Growth for Aries at year’s end isn’t about charging forward. It’s about learning when to stand still, breathe, and trust the process without feeling like they’re constantly at war.
Cancer: Finding Peace with What Was and What Will Be
Cancer horoscope 2025 indicates a positive shift in career, finances, and personal growth. Post-May, with Jupiter’s transit, there are chances of financial relief and advancement in career, bringing success and new opportunities. Yet the real work for Cancer hasn’t been about external success. It’s been about emotional healing deep beneath the surface.
Jupiter enters Cancer on June 9, 2025, and brings emotional healing. This is the kind of healing that invites us to travel inward as far as possible, tending to all that was set in place in our formative years. The patterns from our families, the gifts from our lineages, the emotions and fears from experiences too young to process.
For Cancer, closure at the end of 2025 isn’t dramatic. It’s quiet, sacred, and profoundly internal. It’s about making peace with family dynamics, childhood wounds, and the stories they’ve been telling themselves for years. The second half of the year brings so much happiness and fulfillment, allowing Cancer to live in the moment and prioritize true love, fertility, and creativity.
Scorpio: Embracing Transformation and Letting Go of Control
2025 promises a transformation in the lives of Scorpio natives, with a fair share of both challenges and growth. In terms of career, hard work will be rewarded with promotions and new business opportunities, especially from May. However, the deeper transformation happening for Scorpio has been about releasing their need to control every outcome.
When will good times begin for Scorpio in 2025? You may have one of your best years ever this year, and it’s going to be very lucky for you before May. This fortune comes with a caveat, though. Scorpio has had to face their shadow, confront what usually stays hidden, and sit with uncomfortable truths.
As the year closes, Scorpio is finally able to compost the negativity, the obsessive tendencies, and the fear of vulnerability. The total lunar eclipse on September 7, 2025, at 15 degrees Pisces, and the partial solar eclipse on September 21, 2025, at 29 degrees Virgo, affect people born with personal planets in Mutable signs most significantly. These eclipses act as turning points for emotional endings and genuine transformation. Scorpio learns that true power comes not from controlling everything but from trusting the process of death and rebirth.
The Astrological Backdrop: Why These Three Signs?
Swift change is on the way in 2025, and in 2025, four out of these five outer planets are shifting, following Pluto, which shifts in 2024 permanently into Aquarius for almost 20 years. This isn’t just about individual growth. We’re living through a collective shift, a bridge year marked by major cycles of change, release, and realignment.
Due to retrogrades, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune return to the previous signs they occupied by autumn of 2025, and all planets will officially be in their new homes by May 2026. 2025 might feel like we’re living in between two worlds that aren’t fully formed; one is in the process of disintegration, and the other is yet to be built.
Aries, Cancer, and Scorpio are especially impacted by these transits because of where the planets land in their individual charts. These three signs have been wrestling with the heaviest karmic lessons, but they’re also the ones who will experience the most profound relief as the year ends. The fog is lifting, and clarity is emerging after years of uncertainty.
Mercury Retrograde’s Final Gift: Clarity in Communication
Mercury retrograde occurs November 9 to 29, 2025, in Sagittarius and Scorpio. Mercury stations retrograde in Sagittarius for its final retrograde of the calendar year on November 9, 2025, and will return to Scorpio on November 18 and station direct on November 29.
This final Mercury retrograde of the year is especially significant. It invites all three of these signs to revisit past choices, conversations, and pending matters. For Aries, it’s about questioning beliefs and letting go of limiting assumptions. For Cancer, it’s clearing recent misunderstandings and having pending conversations. For Scorpio, it’s about seeing what took place during the retrograde from a new vantage point and finding philosophical understanding.
This transit is an invitation to realign with what is true, an opportunity to question our existing beliefs and open up to different ways of seeing the world and our place in it. When Mercury stations direct on November 29, these three signs will feel a significant shift in mental clarity. Misunderstandings dissolve. Communication flows more freely. The path forward becomes visible.
The Eclipse Season: Emotional Turning Points
The second Eclipse Season of 2025 opens under Virgo skies with the Virgo New Moon on August 23, ushering us into a six-week corridor of change, release, and reorientation, with the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo from January 2025 until July 2026, inviting us to soften the edges of perfectionism and practice a deeper trust.
There is a sense of karmic culmination, and what no longer serves is ready to dissolve back into the ocean. This is especially powerful for our three signs. Aries, always the warrior, learns that not every battle needs fighting. Cancer, the nurturer, realizes that protecting their own peace isn’t selfish. Scorpio, the transformer, understands that letting go doesn’t mean losing power.
Eclipses are essential disruptions to our routine cycles that can be beneficial by bringing much-needed shifts in perspective and redirections in our life course, holding invitations and reminders to be who we are and claim the life that calls our name. The September eclipses, in particular, close chapters that began many years ago, preparing all three signs to more fully embody their true paths.
Saturn’s Lessons: Hard Work Meets Release
Important transits include Saturn in Pisces, Jupiter in Taurus and Gemini, and Rahu and Ketu shifts, which will shape global and personal events. Saturn in Pisces brings making peace with the past and coming to terms with karmic debts as some of the issues that confront you as a new phase begins in your life, and failure to face these things can cause setbacks.
For Aries, Saturn’s presence in the 12th house throughout much of 2025 has hidden recognition and forced them to work in silence. It’s been frustrating, but now there’s relief. For Cancer, Saturn’s influence has asked them to budget well emotionally, to spend their energy only where it truly matters. For Scorpio, Saturn has demanded they face their deepest fears and transform their relationship with power and control.
As Saturn prepares to shift into Aries in early 2026, these three signs are wrapping up karmic lessons that have been brewing for years. The hard work is almost done. The release is near.
Jupiter’s Blessings: Expansion and Hope
Jupiter, our planet of blessings, will journey into the zodiac sign of Cancer on June 9, 2025 and will remain there until June 30, 2026, and this is one of the most fortunate periods of Jupiter’s cycle, as it is exalted in this Water sign, meaning that this mighty planet can distribute his greatest blessings, luck, and opportunities to the entire world.
This is huge for Cancer natives, obviously, but it also has ripple effects for Aries and Scorpio. Jupiter in Cancer brings emotional healing across the board. It fosters intimacy, compassion, and a return to what truly matters: family, roots, and the home. For Aries, this transit helps them find emotional fulfillment beyond achievement. For Scorpio, it softens their intensity and reminds them that vulnerability is strength.
Jupiter, as an archetypical influence, is tied to spirituality, hope, compassion, good will, fortune, favor, generosity, optimism, and faith, and Cancer, as a cardinal water sign, is aligned with emotion, our roots, family, domesticity, and the home. These themes dominate the second half of 2025, offering all three signs a sense of hope and renewal they desperately needed.
The September Eclipses: A Portal of Transformation
At 29 degrees Virgo, the Solar Eclipse on September 21 brings an ending and a beginning at once, as a South Node eclipse highlighting the need to let go of outdated Virgo patterns like over-perfectionism, hyper-criticism, or the belief that we must earn our worth through endless service, with Saturn opposing the eclipse from Pisces and both Uranus and Pluto making supportive trines.
This eclipse closes a chapter that began many years ago. It completes a Virgo cycle and prepares us to more fully embody the Piscean North Node path. For Aries, Cancer, and Scorpio, this is about releasing systems, routines, or identities rooted in fear and allowing life to gently reorganize them. There’s deep evolutionary support for building something freer, truer, and more soul-aligned.
Eclipses remind us that cycles of light and shadow are woven into the fabric of existence, teaching us that endings and beginnings are inseparable, that what is obscured will one day be revealed, and that transformation is a constant companion on the path of the soul. These three signs are walking through this portal with courage, and on the other side, they’ll find the closure they’ve been searching for.
Cosmic Closure: What It Really Means
Twin astrologers Tali and Ophira Edut held their year-end webinar for astrology lovers to declare cosmic closure on the past year, and here’s what the signs can declare cosmic closure on, by element. The 3 Rs of Cosmic Closure invite us to think about what we want to let go for our cosmic closure.
Cosmic closure isn’t about forgetting the past or pretending pain never happened. It’s about integrating the lessons, honoring the journey, and consciously choosing to release what no longer serves us. For Aries, it’s releasing ruminating and shifting from moodiness to visibility. For Cancer, it’s releasing distraction and shifting from feeling scattered to embracing depth and connection. For Scorpio, it’s about releasing stagnation and shifting from feeling stuck to embracing curiosity and adventure.
This is the gift of late 2025. The universe is giving these three signs permission to close the chapter, to heal, and to step into 2026 with a clean slate and renewed sense of purpose.
