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ARIES NEW MOON/PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE - 29March 2025

3/26/2025

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Exact at 10.57am UK time (GMT)

To say that this Moon is powerful would be a massive understatement! Indeed, this whole Eclipse season is particularly potent, because not only have we had the Spring Equinox in the middle of the two Eclipses, but we also have Neptune in the very last degree of the entire zodiac, getting ready to move into Aries the day after this Eclipse. This could bring a significant energetic shift. While one chapter is ending, it may not be exactly clear yet what awaits us on the other side, so we are being called to have faith and trust in the unseen and the unknown. This New Moon/Eclipse is an interesting mix of Aries and Pisces, which are two very different energies. The ending and the beginning. A sense of culmination and completion which opens the door for new growth and a fresh start.

Aries is a bold, brave, independent and pioneering sign that isn’t afraid to try something new and take the path less travelled. It is a direct, forthright, honest, open and very enthusiastic energy that represents the initial spark that ignites the fire. It is the shoot that forces its way out of the ground after a long hard winter, eagerly seeking the light. Aries invites us to be honest about who we are, what we want and where we want to go. It calls for us to trust our instincts and act on our impulses. Aries tends to act first and think later! There is an innocence and naivety to this sign that we are being called to emulate, as we are invited to see the world with fresh eyes, an open heart and a beginner’s mind. What is waiting to be born right now? Who are we becoming? What is our hearts’ true desire?

We also have Mercury Retrograde in Aries, getting ready to move back into Pisces on Sunday. In fact, Mercury joins Neptune in Pisces literally just a few hours before Neptune moves into Aries, and it is so interesting that the planet of the mind and communication is spending the last few hours with the planet of spirit, oneness and unity before it makes its transition. It feels very significant somehow, and could bring spiritual revelations, heightened intuition and compassionate and understanding conversations, both with ourselves and others. It could also mean that our imaginations run away with us, and we could find that we are confused and struggle to make ourselves clear. During the actual New Moon, however, Mercury remains in forthright Aries, calling for us to be open, honest and direct with ourselves and each other. It can also mean that we have to contend with some angry thoughts and communications. 

With both Mercury and Venus retrograde at the moment, and travelling alongside each other on the way, we could find ourselves being transported back in time, revisiting old versions of ourselves in order to gain more insight and understanding of our current situation. People and relationships from the past could also re-enter our orbit, whether by them literally popping up or simply through memories resurfacing for us to confront and process. It all has something to teach us, helping us to understand ourselves and hopefully find some resolution and healing. We are also invited to reflect, review and revisit any issues within our relationships that might be holding us back, letting go of any patterns that are no longer serving us or the relationship. Some relationships may have to be left behind, some may find themselves in a weird state of limbo. 

This is all happening with the backdrop of the North Node in Pisces and Neptune in such a prominent position, helping us to release any guilt, shame, regret, resentment or remorse and find true acceptance, forgiveness, love and compassion towards others and, most importantly, towards ourselves. It is time to let it all go so that we can start fresh, aligning with our true self. An old karmic cycle is ending, and it is an ideal opportunity to let go of old entanglements and patterns, surrendering to whatever is coming next, even if what lies ahead is not yet clear. We are called to trust the unseen and the unknown, paying attention to the signs, omens and synchronicities that can show us the way forward. This New Moon can bring about a profound reset and rebirth, so it is important to do the inner work and let go of any patterns, attitudes, memories and ways of being that simply no longer serve us. This particular opportunity won’t come our way again. 

Venus moves backwards from Aries into Pisces on Thursday 27 March, joining Neptune in the final degree of Pisces. It is quite a shift of energy, the planet of love and relating moving from direct, assertive, decisive, independent Aries back into sensitive, compassionate, kind and empathetic Pisces. Venus in Aries can be a bit of a loner and could bring out the more impulsive, honest and self-serving side of our nature, even bringing knee-jerk reactions in the realm of relationships. As I mentioned, Aries acts first and thinks later! However, it also helps us to express our needs in an unapologetic manner. This energy can bring up frustration and even anger around matters of the heart. 

Venus joining Neptune in Pisces is much more gentle, reflective, receptive and idealistic, helping us to see the best in each other and find true forgiveness, understanding and compassion, melting our hearts. It could be a magical, romantic and serendipitous time for our relationships, as Neptune has a unifying quality and can help to dissolve anger, fear, ego and any barriers that we erect to protect ourselves and keep us feeling separate from one another. This combination will still be very strong during the New Moon, helping us to truly connect with one another and to allow our egos to take a back seat. As this is all occurring in the final degree of Pisces, we could also be called to let go somehow, in the spirit of love and acceptance. Indeed, true love just is – it doesn’t come with conditions and can see beyond our human flaws and frailty. 

The ruler of this Aries Moon is Mars, currently in sensitive, emotional Cancer. All week long we have had the final Chiron Mars square, exact on Wednesday 26 March, which holds the potential for activating old wounds and childhood emotional patterns and triggering us somewhat! This is a profound opportunity for healing whatever comes up during this time, and it could help to be aware that our hurt inner child could be activated, making us a bit more reactive, over-sensitive, protective and defensive than we might usually be. It is all a gift, however, as it can show us what still needs healing. Saturn is also forming a supportive trine to Mars, helping us to act on our dreams and ideals and to come up with some kind of long term, concrete plan for ourselves and steadily work towards it. Saturn also brings the gift of accountability, calling for us to take full responsibility for our actions. 

The Sabian symbol for this New Moon, at 10° Aries, is a strong one, and resonates with the feeling that this is the beginning of a new cycle: “A teacher gives new symbolic forms to traditional images” which Dane Rudyar describes as “Revision of attitude at the beginning of a new cycle of experience. Here a new dimension of consciousness is discovered, revealing higher possibilities of experience and mental development. This is a phase of ABSTRACTION and of emotional allegiance.” 

Wow. Let it be so. Neptune moves into Aries the day after this New Moon, symbolising a new phase of our spiritual development. In the meantime, we could be feeling more sensitive, connected and spiritually open, which could also bring confusion, overwhelm, grief, anxiety and susceptibility to feeling anything going on in the collective, including fear. It is very important to be kind to ourselves during this time, as a lot could come up for us to process in order to step into this next phase. This is a time of dissolution, completion and culmination, calling for us to be brave and accept, surrender, allow and let go of whatever needs to be released right now, opening ourselves up for whatever is waiting to come in. Faith and trust! All will be revealed in the fullness of time. 

Much Love

Amy
xoxo

Artwork: Winds of Change by Sarah Camille
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VIRGO FULL MOON / TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE - 14 March 2025

3/10/2025

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Exact at 6.54am UK time (GMT)

This is an incredibly powerful Full Moon, as it is also a total Lunar Eclipse, which brings a sense of completion of a cycle and ushering in a new one. Eclipses are incredibly powerful and can bring about fated experiences that change our lives and shift our consciousness. This one feels especially potent and poignant with so much energy in Pisces, the last sign in the zodiac, with its ruling planet Neptune in the very last degree of the entire zodiac. What needs to fall away for us to usher in the new energy? What might we need to resolve to move to the next phase? What in our lives is coming to a natural conclusion? What do we need to let go of so that we can move forward and grow? As one chapter ends a new one takes its place. 

The Sun is in Pisces, opposing the Full Moon in Virgo, and both are activating the Nodes of the Moon, which is what makes this Full Moon so important and fateful. The North Node is currently in sensitive, intuitive and compassionate Pisces, guiding us forward, both personally and collectively, while the South Node is in helpful, analytical and perfectionistic Virgo. Virgo is a very humble, service-oriented sign that calls for us to work on ourselves to become the best that we can be, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. However, while the North Node is in Pisces we are called to release any Virgoan tendency to be hard on ourselves or overly self-critical or perfectionistic, both toward ourselves and others. 

The Pisces North Node encourages us to find a greater degree of acceptance, and to forgive ourselves and others for our so-called imperfections. We are only human, and human beings make mistakes sometimes! While the Virgo part of us prefers things to be organised and in order, in neat, tidy little boxes, the Pisces North node calls for us to accept that sometimes things get a little bit messy and don’t always make sense. Pisces reminds us that ultimately, we are not in control, and to simply relax, let go and surrender to forces that are larger than us. We are invited to trust the quiet voice within that knows what is best for us, even when the guidance doesn’t make logical sense. We are encouraged to develop faith and trust that we are being guided in the right direction, even when the way is not clear. 

This Moon invites us to embrace the helpful traits of Virgo and develop healthy routines that help us to take care of our mind, body and spirit. Pisces is calling for us to still the monkey mind, open our hearts and connect to the unseen, developing a deeper connection to spirit. However, as we do this, we could find ourselves more sensitised, open, vulnerable, destabilised and even overwhelmed, so it is important to eat well, get good exercise and do all we can to ground and nourish ourselves. This is a great time for meditation, Tai Chi, yoga, prayer and all forms of healing and energy work, especially in the build up to this Moon, as we could be feeling more tender, open and connected to all that is.

Saturn is sitting right next to the Pisces Sun, opposing the Moon, which also calls for us to develop greater discipline and control over ourselves and to set healthy boundaries, but could also make things feel a bit heavy and “real”. Pisces is the part of us that can tend to bury our heads in the sand when the going gets tough and may prefer to escape into fantasy land or numb out rather than facing reality. Saturn, however, is the planet of reality and the Lord of Karma, so there is no avoiding things when he is around! Saturn reminds us, in no uncertain terms, that we reap when we sow. 

This Moon certainly could bring a lot up and out, possibly bringing into focus whatever we feel guilty about, so much so that we could judge ourselves and give ourselves rather a hard time! Saturn does call on us to be accountable, taking responsibility for whatever we have done or not done, while Pisces encourages us to admit where we might have gone wrong, make amends where we can and forgive ourselves and others for our human failings. We all have all done things that we regret, but rather than dwelling in guilt, it is better to simply vow to recognise where we went wrong and do better next time. If we could turn back time, how would we do things differently?

Saturn can bring up our fears and make us all too aware of our limitations but is can also help us to step up to the plate in a mature and responsible manner and create better boundaries to protect ourselves. In the build up to this Moon it could be a good idea to keep an eye on anyone in our life who may be struggling or depressed, as reality could feel hard to bear for some of the more sensitive and vulnerable souls amongst us. Virgo can bring analysis paralysis and a spiral of negative thoughts which can be a bit tricky. Those of us with personal planets or angles around 22° of a sign, especially the mutable signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, will feel the energy of Saturn most acutely. The Saturn/Sun conjunction is exact on Wednesday 12 February, but will still be strong during this Moon. 

Luckily, we also have Uranus, the Great Awakener, supporting the Sun and Moon, which is a welcome relief! Uranus is the planet that comes after Saturn in the planetary line-up and can help us to liberate ourselves from our fears, our judgements, our conditioning and any unhealthy patterns that might be holding us prisoner. Uranus can help us to see things from another perspective, bringing clarity, insight and greater understanding of whatever we may be facing during this time. Sometimes just seeing things from a different point of view can bring the change we need. Those of us with personal planets or angles around 23° of a sign, especially the Earth and Water signs, will benefit most from this liberating, insightful energy.

Venus and Mercury are joining together in Aries for this Full Moon, which could bring some honest, open, direct conversations around our relationships and/or our finances. Venus is currently retrograde, while Mercury is standing still, getting ready to turn retrograde on Sunday 16 March. As such, we could be pulled into the past somehow in order to review, reflect, revisit and repair any patterns that no longer serve us in the area of self-worth and relating. We may need to look backwards so that we can understand, learn, let go and move on. Combined with all of this Pisces energy, this is an ideal time to forgive and forget, so that we can move forward with peace in our hearts.

Aries could help us to be brave and bold enough to bring things up for discussion that we might usually shy away from. However, it can also mean that we say things on impulse, or in the heat of the moment, that we wish we could take back! However, being honest with ourselves and others is always helpful, and we have the potential to bring old grievances, resentments and regrets from the past out into the open so that hopefully we can make our peace with it all and move on. All this Pisces energy is inviting us to let go, tie up loose ends, find resolution and leave the past behind, while Aries calls for us to step forward and make a fresh start, trying something new on for size. 

The Sabian symbol for this Full Moon, at 24° Virgo, has a certain purity to it: “Mary and her little lamb”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “The need to keep a vibrant and pure simplicity at the core of one’s being, as one meets the many tests of existence.  This symbol tells us that, though great, spectacular and resolute efforts are needed in order to achieve one’s higher goals of destiny, still the essential quality as one journeys on “the Path” is pure, spontaneous, fresh and non-violent approach to all encounters. This of course is Jesus’ entreaty to his disciples – that they should be like “little children.” Without such a deep, heartfelt simplicity the seeker after spiritual experiences or Initiation is bound to find himself glamourised by his own successes, and to see his ego feeding on the drama of struggle and victory. This symbol presents us with a subtle hint of technique. Beyond individual prowess and social eminence, the individual whose innocence is fixed upon spiritual realisation should genuinely radiate INNOCENCE.”

There is an innocence and purity to this symbol that is at the core of the Virgo/Pisces polarity, which calls for us to cleanse, purify and humble ourselves so that we can truly connect with Spirit. Virgo helps us to work on ourselves, to serve others and to deflate the egocentric balloon. Pisces reminds us that ultimately we are not in control and calls for us to put our trust in the unknown, to find peace with what is and true acceptance of ourselves and others, in all our perfect imperfection. Eclipse season is upon us, shepherding in in a new chapter, while Neptune is at 29° Pisces, which represents the culmination of a cycle and could be a time of profound emotional clearing and closure, with some important lessons around faith, trust, surrender, acceptance, dissolving ego and spiritual connection. It is time to truly know what it means to let go.  

Much Love

Amy
xoxo

Picture: Surrender by Alice Popkorn







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    Amy Bird

    I love writing about the Moon and the effect it has on us all, both collectively and personally. We all look at the same Moon and feel her energy, albeit in different ways. It reminds us that we are not alone and there is something very comforting about that!

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