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Your 2025 Literary Horoscope
What do the stars have in store for your TBR pile? We scanned the skies for 2025 and paired those predictions with some apropos reading recommendations: scroll down to find your sign and some written-in-the-stars reads to take you through the next year (and beyond).
Predictions are adapted from Elle Magazine (read these for more detail, if you like!)
Quick jump to your sign:
Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer
Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces
Aries (March 21-April 19)
The year starts out with Aries’s ruling planet, Mars, in retrograde – signalling delay and frustration. Early in the year, conserve and focus your energy or risk burnout by spring. If you stay focused and mindful of your health and relationships, you should be seeing success as summer rolls around.
What this means for your reading:
Read page-turners that are a true escape and won’t burden you further nor distract you from your essential tasks at hand. We recommend a cozy mystery set in a far-flung locale like Victor & Me in Paris (Turnstone Press), or a funny play like Gay for Pay: The Blake & Clay Plays (Scirocco Drama/J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) – plays having the added advantage of being quick to read, too!
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Astrologer Helena Woods calls 2025 Taurus’s “money year” – not just in increasing your income, but also your sense of style and personal taste. She cautions, though, not to overindulge, and also keep your eyes out for opportunities to build and expand community.
What this means for your reading:
What’s more tasteful than poetry about fashion? We recommend imbuing your style with some substance with a read like Marguerite Pigeon’s The Endless Garment (Wolsak & Wynn). And if you’re looking to build community, start with Casey Plett’s meditation on the concept of community, On Community (Biblioasis).
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
If you’re looking to move up or change in your career, this is the year to do it, Gemini! On the romantic front: if you’re single, put yourself out there. And if you’re in a relationship, put effort into keeping things new.
What this means for your reading:
To really help jumpstart that career change, we recommend practical, non-nonsense advice that will appeal to your rational Air sign, like Sarah Vermunt’s Careergasm (ECW Press). And whether you’re keeping the romance in a relationship or looking to woo someone new, romantic poems, like the traditionally-inspired ones found in Irfan Ali’s Accretion (Brick Books) are a great start.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
You may have found yourself even more cozied-up than usual during the holiday break; and this tendency towards needing rest and quiet time will continue into 2025. Your newfound interests in introspection may have given you some divine insight (maybe you’ll be writing this column next year, hey?), and you’ll be able to see great opportunities for what they are towards the latter half of 2025.
What this means for your reading:
Encourage your new inclinations towards introspective self-study. If that meant something like astrology, Victoria Mbabazi’s poems in their zodiac-inspired collection The Siren in the Twelfth House (Palimpsest Press) might be right up your alley. If tarot was more your thing, try Courtney Bates-Hardy’s Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press), instead.
Leo (July 23-August 22)
Financial windfalls predicted for Leos this year are cautioned as a kind of double-edged sword: with newfound successes in finance could come folks looking for your assistance. Even if you’re typically a giving person, make sure you don’t discount your own needs and desires.
What this means for your reading:
Look for fiction of people in similar situations as the ones you’ll be facing to help you gain some perspective: whether it’s Leslie Vryenhoek’s debt counsellor heroine Meriel-Claire in Ledger of the Open Hand (Breakwater Books) or the women motivated by earning more money for survival in Marjorie Chan’s play Lady Sunrise (Playwrights Canada Press).
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
With the stars predicting a transformative year for you in both work and life, the best advice for you would be to let go of control (sorry, Virgo, we know that was hard to hear) and embrace the changes to come.
What this means for your reading:
Turn to memoirs of people who’ve seen a lot of change in their own lives, like Jo-Ann Wallace’s A Life in Pieces (Thistledown Press), or get some gentle life advice from S. Bear Bergman’s Special Topics in Being a Human, illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson (Arsenal Pulp Press).
Libra (September 23-October 22)
You’re due to have a lot more control over your life, so why not use that new capacity to enact a star-favoured change of environment? And if you do choose to take on a move, remember to rely on yourself first – you can do it.
What this means for your reading:
We recommend a few poetry collections about relocating to new places: whether it’s Catherine Owen’s collection about her experiences leaving coastal BC for Edmonton, AB in Moving to Delilah (Freehand Books) or Holly Flauto’s interrogation of the pains and privileges of settling in a new country – especially a colonial one like Canada – in Permission to Settle (Anvil Press).
Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
2025 will be a year of abundance for Scorpios, and all of that hard work paying off means it’s time to shift from a work-first focus to one of creativity and self-expression. In short, get creative and have some fun!
What this means for your reading:
Really drive home the idea of art for art’s sake with the essay collection Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World (TouchWood Editions), or dive into the insightful poetry and illustrations of Hana Shafi’s People You Know, Places You’ve Been (Book*hug Press) for some creative inspiration.
Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)
For Sagittarius folks, this will be a year of reassessment and potential, in work, life, and home. To find these opportunities, the stars point to travel: so pack your bags and keep your eyes and ears open to the new.
What this means for your reading:
We suggest books where the characters travel to different locales: whether it’s the introspective novellas set in Abu Dhabi in Raymond Beauchemin’s The Emptiest Quarter (Signature Editions) or the absurdist romp that is Pasha Malla’s All You Can Kill (Coach House Books), set during an island wellness retreat.
Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
This is a year of helping for Capricorns, whether it’s reducing the workload for your partner so that they can reach their goals, or caring for aging parents. In assisting others, you’ll gain valuable introspection time for yourself.
What this means for your reading:
Try the incisive short stories of Debbie Bateman’s collection Your Body Was Made for This (Ronsdale Press) that detail the (often hidden) stages of a woman’s life to better understand yourself or your partner, or read the poems in Yvonne Blomer’s The Last Show on Earth (Caitlin Press), which contend with caring for aging parents and our troubled planet, both.
Aquarius (January 20-February 18)
The stars predict romance and fun for Aquarius in 2025, so prioritize hobbies and social activities in your calendar. It may even be a year of pregnancy, if this is something you’re looking to do!
What this means for your reading:
In this romantic year, cerebral Aquarians will appreciate Marie-Pier Luneau and Jean-Philippe Warren’s deconstruction of the romance novel Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d’amour (Baraka Books). And if pregnancy is on the horizon – or not – for you, the personal essays in The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood (Goose Lane Editions), edited by Kerry Clare, will give you some perspective.
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
The year ahead promises to be exciting for Pisces, with potential to grow in all areas of life. With all this positive energy coming in, it’s worth it to take the time to re-evaluate your existing relationships and your role within them.
What this means for your reading:
We encourage you to read some novels that contend with the idea of self-examination and reflection over time, like Richard Cumyn’s This Lark of Stolen Time (Great Plains Press) or Rebecca Morris’s Other Maps (Linda Leith Publishing).
For even more recommendations, check your Moon and Rising signs, too! And if you like, share your zodiac reading recommendations on Instagram, and tag us @alllitupcanada.
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