2023 Love Horoscopes

Apart from the lunar nodes continuing to police a balance between your personal and relationship needs until 18th July, there is no planetary activity on the romantic or relationship fronts as you move into 2023, as you would expect at this time of year. However, there is still enough happening in the first half of the year, a time when there is rarely any planetary activity on the romantic and relationship fronts to work with. The first is a romantically charged Full Moon on 8th March. Always falling halfway between the Sun's last visit to your romantic sector and the next, this can give the spirit of romance a boost. What makes the timing auspicious is that it is just days later that Venus, the planet of love, will make an early return to Taurus from 17th March to 11th April.

It is during this time that you can update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, creating a roadmap for your heart to follow. The next significant event will be an eclipsing Full Moon in your relationship sector on 6th May, the last before the South Node leaves in July. This will be a last push by the lunar nodes to flush out any balance issues between your personal and relationship needs. Fortunately, with Mars in your communication sector from 26th March to 21st May and Venus from 8th May to 6th June, the planets of love and passion have you covered. The first planetary activity on the romantic front for the year begins with Mars' return to your romantic sector on 11th July, with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos making his first visit in two years.

While Mars is only here until 28th August, with Mercury here from 29th July to 5th October and the Sun from 23rd September, they will continue what they started. However, the most romantically charged weeks of 2023 will be when Venus, the planet of love moves through from 9th October to 8th November. It is while Venus is here that the first planetary activity on the relationship front of 2023 will begin, when Mars once again gets the ball rolling when he returns to your relationship sector on 12th October. This begins what will be an unbroken chain of planetary activity and support for your relationships, running through to Venus' departure on 30th December.

As is the case in most years, all the planetary activity on the romantic and relationship fronts is in the second half of the year. That doesn't mean that matters of the heart and your relationships will have to wait until later in the year for any support. Not only are there other things going on in the first half of the year, but the impact from planetary activity on the romantic and relationship fronts in the latter part of 2022 is still running its course. In addition, the Moon will continue to return to both your romantic and relationship sectors every four weeks, and one of the most important of those visits will be a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 6th April. While this can always give the spirit of romance a boost and is the most romantically charged Full Moon of 2023, the timing also makes this significant.

Running ahead of schedule, Venus, the planet of love, will return to Gemini from 11th April to 8th May, returning to update your romantic and relationship expectations for the coming year long before your birthday month and new solar year begin. Returning just five days after this romantically charged Full Moon, Venus can keep the spirit of romance alive. Equally well timed is a Full Moon in your relationship sector on 4th June, something that can be a more challenging experience, as it puts a balance between your personal and relationship needs to the test. Fortunately, Venus is on hand once again. By this point, the planet of love will have rushed so far ahead of the Sun that she will be forced to slow down, with a retrograde turn keeping her in your communication sector from 6th June to 9th October.

Normally Venus will spend just twenty four days giving your heart and your relationships a voice, but she is here for four months, and more importantly, returning just two days after the Full Moon in your relationship sector, will return in time to give this a voice. Meanwhile, Mars will make his first visits to your romantic and relationships sectors in two years in 2023, leading off a period of planetary activity on the romantic front that will run from his return on 8th August to the Sun's departure on 22nd October. Held back by a retrograde phase, Venus will make a standalone visit from 8th November to 5th December. By then, planetary activity on the relationship front will be underway with Mercury, the planet of communication, kicking things off on 10th November. Between then and 23rd January 2024, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars will move through, making November and December the most important relationship months of 2023.

Because the Sun will always spend the last ten days and the first three weeks of every year in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships as you move into any new year. You also begin the year with Venus, the planet of love, in your relationship sector, and as she will leave on 3rd January it is important to listen to your heart from the start, for once she is gone, she won't be back until 2024. The Sun will stay on until 20th January, and while this will take the solar spotlight off your relationships, Mercury, the planet of communication, isn't done yet. Having returned in early December 2022 for what is normally a fourteen to fifteen day visit, a retrograde turn has kept Mercury here, and with it, support to keep the communication lines open.

Mercury begins the year in retrograde motion, and until turning direct on 11th January is more focused on giving the past and unsaid words a voice. Until leaving on 11th February, Mercury is giving the communication lines a massive boost in the first two months of the year, and the timing couldn't be better, for it is the following month that Pluto will leave. Pluto, the planet of change and revolution, has been in your relationship sector since 2008, with his departure on 24th March leaving it empty for the first time in over fourteen years. This is more a break, with Pluto retrograding back in on 11th June, though leaving again next January. This will give Mercury, who will return again on 2nd December and the Sun on 22nd December, a chance to work with Pluto one last time. 

A Full Moon in your relationship sector on 3rd July, will be a chance to check in on how your relationships are going. Meanwhile, while the first planetary activity on the romantic front doesn't begin until when Mars returns to your romantic sector for the first time in two years on 12th October, a romantically charged Full Moon on 6th March will give things a boost. As a lunar eclipse, this will have a lot more influence while Venus, the planet of love's return to Cancer just two days later, can keep the spirit of romance alive. Venus is making an early return this year and moving through from 8th May to 6th June, she will have left weeks before your birthday month and new solar year even begins. This means Venus will be late returning to your romantic sector this year, keeping what Mars begins on 12th October fuelled right through to when she ends all planetary activity here on 30th December.

While the Sun won't return to your relationship sector until 20th January, something that will put the solar spotlight on your relationships at this time each year, Venus makes an early return on 3rd January. The planet of love isn't here for long, but from 3rd January to 27th January she will be working her magic, and knowing that once she returns she won't be back until 2024, will be working to help you not only see what you want from your relationships but to turn that into reality. As with all the planets returning to your relationship sector this year, it will be to connect with Saturn for the last time before he leaves on 8th March. Saturn returned in 2020 to begin what can be a challenging journey, but also an empowering one, getting to the heart of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.

When Saturn leaves on 8th March, it will be another three decades before the hard taskmaster of the cosmos returns, taking the pressure off you and your relationships, but shaping things for years to come. Until then, while Venus will work to leave you with a better sense of what you want from your relationships and the Sun will keep the solar spotlight on your relationships from 20th January to 19th February, Mercury's return could be the most significant. Held back by a retrograde phase, the planet of communication won't return to your relationship sector until 12th February and until leaving on 3rd March, as the last planet to have contact with Saturn before he leaves, will be working overtime to ensure the communication lines are open. It is Saturn's departure five days later that will leave your relationship sector empty for the first time since 2020.

However, it won't be empty for long, with Pluto, the planet of change and revolution, returning to your relationship sector on 24th March for the first time in our lifetime. Where Saturn was all about discipline and structure, Pluto returns to build on from that, offering an opportunity for a fresh start. Pluto isn't here for long, retrograding back out on 11th June but then returning next January, eventually making this his home until 2044. Meanwhile, while there is less planetary activity on the romantic front this year, what you do have is top of the shelf, including Venus, the planet of love, spending an incredible four months in Leo, from 6th June to 9th October. The first planet to return to your romantic sector this year will be Mercury on 10th November, ahead of the Sun's return on 23rd November. It is just a day later that Mars will return for the first time in two years, fuelling your romantic passions and fighting spirit from 24th November 2023 to 5th January 2024, right through the Christmas, New Year and holiday period. With Venus, the planet of love here from 30th November to 14th January 2024, this year will end, and the next will begin on a romantic high.

Because the Sun will always spend the last ten days and the first three weeks of every year in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart, as you move into any new year, and will be until he leaves on 20th January. This time the year also begins with Venus, the planet of love in your romantic sector, but as she will leave on 3rd January, this is something that needs to be seized. While the Sun and Mercury will both return to do this all over again in December, Venus won't return until 2024 and Mars won't visit your romantic sector at all in 2023. This makes it important to embrace the spirit of romance from the start, and especially with Pluto, who has been here since 2008, leaving on 24th March. Pluto will retrograde back in again on 11th June, but with a chance to tie up loose ends before leaving again in January. 

While Venus will leave your romantic sector on 3rd January and the Sun on 20th January, Mercury, who begins the year in retrograde motion and won't turn direct until 19th January, is here until 11th February. This is over two months after Mercury returned on 7th December 2022, to begin what is normally a fourteen to fifteen day visit. With Pluto leaving, Mercury is spending additional time doing what he does best, which is giving your heart a voice and putting heart and mind on the same page. This will also help to keep the spirit of romance alive, and especially between Pluto's departure on 24th March and his return on 11th June, the first time your romantic sector will be empty in over fourteen years. The spirit of romance will also get a boost from a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 3rd July, the most romantically charged Full Moon of 2023. 

From the very beginning, regardless of what the Sun and the faster planets are up to, this is a major year on both the romantic and relationship fronts, with some of the most powerful planets in the solar system either already involved or about to make their exit or entry. Just starting the year with Saturn in your romantic sector and Jupiter in your relationship sector is putting the two most powerful planets in the solar system front and centre. While Jupiter only returned late last year and is still in his early days in your relationship sector as you move into 2023, he had already spent five months here before retrograding back out last year. Jupiter has returned armed with everything needed to bring relationship growth until leaving on 17th May, though it is in February that things will really take off.

While Jupiter has just returned to your relationship sector, Saturn is preparing to leave your romantic sector on 8th March, ending a journey that began in 2020. Saturn can be a tough and demanding planet, but he has given you the ability to take your power back when it comes to matters of the heart. Helping to smooth out any of Saturn's sharp edges will be Venus, with the planet of love returning to your romantic sector from 3rd January to 27th January. Venus will be working to get the year off to a romantically charged start, and meeting up with Saturn here for the last time for another three decades, will be drawing on the power she can give you to move mountains if you have to. With the Sun here from 20th January to 19th February and Mercury from 12th February to 3rd March, this will help to make Saturn's final months here count.

However, while Saturn's departure on 8th March will leave your romantic sector empty for the first time since 2020, it's not for long, with Pluto, the planet of change and revolution returning for the first time in our lifetime just a few weeks later on 24th March. While Saturn is all about staying strong and inflexible, liking to stay between the lines, Pluto is a rulebreaker and will be encouraging you to have fun with what you have learned over recent years. By then things will be heating up on the relationship front, with Venus' return on 20th February bringing the planets of love and luck together in your relationship sector for the first time in over a decade. Venus is only here until 17th March, but she will be followed by the Sun and Mercury, who from 19th March to 20th April, will give you everything needed to make Jupiter's time here count, before he too leaves on 17th May.

With Neptune in your romantic sector since 2012 and Uranus in your relationship sector since 2019, and both here until 2026, there is continuous planetary activity on the romantic and relationship fronts throughout the year, or at least that is the case at this period in your life. However, there are not only times when things will be active, and especially when the faster planets move through, but both are set to get a serious and game changing boost this year. It was only late last year that Jupiter left your romantic sector for the second time in 2022, but this time, he won't be back. However, when Venus, the planet of love returns on 27th January, she will be keen to capitalise on the growth this has made possible. Venus will be alone with Neptune until the Sun returns on 19th February, giving the planets of love and dreams plenty of time to work their magic.

While Venus will leave a day later, this will get the year off to a romantically charged start. However, it is while the Sun is here from 19th February to 21st March and Mercury from 3rd March to 19th March, that everything changes again, with Saturn returning for his first visit in three decades, and for his first encounter with Neptune in your romantic sector in our lifetime. Neptune is the planet of dreams and fantasies, and Saturn is the planet of structure and discipline, but this is a partnership that will run through to early 2026 when they will both leave. Saturn's return is a chance to get serious about matters of the heart, and where Jupiter has spent most of last year working with Neptune to fuel your romantic dreams, and the hard taskmaster of the cosmos can help turn those dreams into reality. 

Until Neptune leaves in January 2026 and Saturn a month later, they will work as an unlikely team to create the most powerful romantic years in our lifetime. Not to be outdone, there is something special developing on the relationship front as well. Things will become more active on the relationship front when Venus, the planet of love returns on 17th March to work her magic, and before she can leave on 11th April, Mercury, the planet of communication, will return on 4th April to begin what should be a two week mission to give your relationships a voice. Instead, a retrograde phase will keep Mercury here throughout the Sun's month-long visit from 20th April to 21st May, not leaving until 12th June. This will prove a massive advantage when on 17th May, Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion, returns to begin the most expansive twelve months on the relationship front in over a decade.

Starting the year with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion in your romantic sector, not only makes 2022 a lucky year for love from the start, but this is something that you have spent months preparing for. Jupiter first returned to your romantic sector in May 2022, but a retrograde turn saw him move back out at the end of October. Once in direct motion, Jupiter was on his way back, returning just before Christmas to deliver the Christmas present of a lifetime. As you move into 2023, Jupiter has only been here for eleven days, but with five months already under his belt, both you and he are ready to hit the ground running. However, things will really take off when what could be the most romantically charged weeks of 2023 begin with Venus' return on 20th February, with the planets of love and luck working as a team until 17th March. 

With Mercury returning on 19th March and the Sun on 21st March, they will take over from where Venus left off, with the solar spotlight on matters of the heart and on Jupiter's influence through to 20th April. During that time, there will be not one but two New Moons. The first on 22nd March will be an ordinary New Moon, though the first with lucky Jupiter here in over a decade. It is four weeks later that a second New Moon, this time a solar eclipse on 20th April, will bring luck, fate and the potential for major new beginnings together. With Jupiter leaving less than a month later on 17th May, this will be a push to make these final weeks count. After that, it is not just the Moon's return every four weeks that will keep the spirit of romance alive, but the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos, who will quietly keep things ticking over. 

Meanwhile, you also begin the year with Mars not only still in your relationship sector, but in retrograde motion. Mars returned in August for what is normally a six week mission, to help you fight for what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. Instead, a retrograde turn has not only kept Mars here, but by the time he eventually leaves on 26th March, he will have been here for seven months, his longest visit in eight decades. Once Mars turns direct on 13th January, his focus will shift from the past and onto the journey ahead, working during that time with Saturn, who is in your communication sector until 8th March. With Mars gone, this will leave your relationship sector empty, until Venus returns on 11th April to begin the annual attention that your relationships get. From Venus' return on 11th April to Mercury's departure on 27th June, there will be a chance to build on from what Mars began.

While starting the year with Venus, the planet of love in, Capricorn is not unusual, unlike last year when she didn't leave until March, when she leaves on 3rd January she won't be back until 2024. Venus will spend less than seventy-two hours in your sign this year, but importantly, they are also the first hours of a brand new year, with the planet of love able to have her say from the start. As well as getting the year off to a romantically charged start, Venus is on a mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year, and this year, she is asking you to aim high, and especially on the romantic front. To begin with, it is business as usual for this time of year on both fronts, which means no planetary activity in your relationship sector and Uranus, in retrograde motion, in your romantic sector.

It is not until Uranus turns direct on 23rd January, that the focus will fully shift from the past to the future, though having the North Node here since January 2022 has allowed you to keep sight of where you are going. It was the North Node that turned an ordinary Full Moon into a total lunar eclipse in November 2022. Things might get off to a slow start on the romantic front, and especially in terms of turning Venus' desires into reality, but your romantic sector is the dark horse of 2023. What could be some of the most romantically charged weeks of 2023 will begin with Venus' return to your romantic sector on 17th March, with the planet of love giving the spirit of romance a serious boost until she leaves on 11th April. It is while Venus is here that Mercury will return for what should be a two week visit on 4th April, but instead, he won't leave until 12th June and this will prove to be a game changer. 

It is less that Mercury will still be here, giving your heart a voice and putting heart and mind on the same page when the Sun moves through from 20th April to 21st May, and more that he will still be here when Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion, returns to begin your luckiest year for love in over a decade on 17th May, something that won't run its course until 26th May 2024. Meanwhile, while this is happening, your relationships will also get a boost when Mars returns for his first visit to your relationship sector in two years from 26th March to 21st May. With Venus here from 8th May to 6th June, this will give the planets of love and passion time to work their magic, without the Sun's reality checks. It is after they both leave that the Sun will move through from 22nd June to 23rd July, and Mercury, the planet of communication from 27th July to 11th July, all during the early weeks of your luckiest year for love in over a decade.

This year has something special and over and above the norm on offer, on both the romantic and relationship fronts, though at different times of the year, and that will work to your advantage. With romantic matters getting off to a good start, this is a chance to put maximum energy into matters of the heart and all things romantic in the early months of the year, before your relationships are set to get a major boost in the middle months of the year. As the balance of power shifts from romantic and relationship matters, you might find that what starts out as a romantic adventure progresses into something more enduring on the relationship front. Beginning the year with Mars in your romantic sector, is going to get the year off to a romantically charged start, but things will get an additional boost when Venus, the planet of love, returns to Aquarius on 3rd January. 

When Mars returned to your romantic sector in August 2022, it was for the first time in two years, with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos, normally spending six weeks firing things up. Instead, a retrograde turn has not only kept Mars here, but even after he turned direct on 13th January, by the time he leaves on 26th March this will have been his longest visit in eight decades. While there is no other planetary activity in your romantic sector while Mars is here, having Venus in Aquarius until 27th January, will allow you to make the most of the final days where the doors are open to the past and second chances and help get things up to speed again once he turns direct. Running ahead of schedule, something that will later have huge implications on the relationship front, Venus will return to your romantic sector on 11th April, just a few weeks after Mars leaves on 8th May. 

Venus will leave on 8th May, but from the Sun's return on 21st May to Mercury's departure on 27th June, they will help to bring this romantic chapter home. It is on the same day that the Sun returns to your romantic sector that Mars will return to your relationship sector on 21st May, but unlike the seven months he has just spent in your romantic sector, he only has until 11th July to fire things up. That is more than enough time, because it is on 6th June that Venus will make an incredibly early return. With the Sun not returning until 23rd August, Venus is so far ahead by then that she will be pulled back, with a retrograde turn on 23rd July keeping her here until 9th October. This will be Venus' longest visit to your relationship sector in our lifetime, giving the planet of love more than enough time to work her magic.

There is no major planetary activity on the romantic and relationship fronts that will keep things active all year. However, there is more than you would normally expect, because Mars will visit both your romantic and relationship sectors for the first time in two years in 2023, and a Venus retrograde phase that will have no direct impact, will have an indirect impact on both. Normally there is a twenty-four day gap between Venus' departure from your romantic sector and return to your relationship sector each year, but instead, she will turn retrograde in that time and there will be a four month gap. This means that Venus will make a much earlier than expected return to your romantic sector, which will have exciting implications, while a delayed and late return to your relationship sector, will keep the focus on your relationships much further into the year than is normally the case. 

While there will be no planetary activity in your romantic sector until Mars returns on 26th March, three months before the Sun turns the solar spotlight onto matters of the heart each year, the spirit of romance will get an early boost. This is thanks to a Full Moon in your romantic sector on 7th January, the most romantically charged of 2023, and Venus, the planet of love's return to Pisces from 27th January to 20th February. It is just over a month later that Mars will return for his first visit to your romantic sector in two years, and held back by a retrograde phase he is ready to fire up your romantic passions and fighting spirit. Normally here for just six weeks, Mars still hasn't built up to full speed after turning direct in January, so will instead stay on for nearly two months, not leaving until 21st May.

This is when Venus' early return to your romantic sector could be a game changer, returning on 8th May while Mars is still here, bringing the planets of love and passion together. When Venus leaves on 6th June, this will leave your romantic sector empty until the Sun returns from 22nd June to 23rd July, during which time Mercury will also move through. Meanwhile, it is while the solar spotlight is still on matters of the heart that Mars will return to your relationship sector on 11th July, beginning his first visit in two years, and the first planetary activity on the relationship front this year. Mars is here until 28th August, so will be here when Mercury returns on 29th July and the Sun on 23rd August. While the Sun will keep the solar spotlight on your relationships until 23rd September, a retrograde turn will keep Mercury, the planet of communication, here until 5th October. This is when Venus' late return will work to your advantage, with the planet of love returning for a standalone visit from 9th October to 8th November.