Yearly Calendar: Page 3

Venus enters Aquarius

Venus is in Aquarius from December 7, 2024-January 2, 2025. Venus enters Aquarius today, and we move towards unconventionality, independence, and freedom as themes in our social relationships under this influence. Aquarius can be just as faithful as Capricorn, but it has to be on its own terms! Experimental relationships are more intriguing now.

Being friends as well as lovers is important to us during this cycle. Allowing one another freedom of expression, and treating others fairly, unselfishly, and impartially, are themes now.

We treat people as equals and take our friendships, causes, and interests seriously. We prize intellectual stimulation and companionship. Income boosts come through innovative ideas. We can remake traditions and approach things unconventionally. Being true to ourselves is of the utmost importance in our relationships. Venus-in-Aquarius is a friendly but aloof period.

Aspects Venus makes while in the sign of Aquarius in December 2024

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Venus are in bold.

• Dec 7, 2024 9:08 AM Venus  0 Aquarius 23 conjunction  Pluto  0 Aquarius 23
• Dec  8, 2024 2:07 AM Venus  1 Aquarius 12 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 16 Gemini 12
• Dec 10, 2024 2:30 AM Venus  3 Aquarius 31 sextile True Node  3 Aries 31
• Dec 11, 2024 5:45 PM Sun 20 Sagittarius 24 semi-square Venus  5 Aquarius 24
• Dec 12, 2024 5:46 AM Venus  5 Aquarius 58 opposition Mars  5 Leo 58
• Dec 13, 2024 2:45 AM Mercury  6 Sagittarius 58 sextile Venus  6 Aquarius 58
• Dec 13, 2024 6:05 AM Venus quintile Chiron
• Dec 17, 2024 4:33 PM Venus 12 Aquarius 10 semi-square Neptune 27 Pisces 10
• Dec 19, 2024 12:52 AM Venus 13 Aquarius 40 semi-sextile  Saturn 13 Pisces 40
• Dec 19, 2024 9:10 PM Venus 14 Aquarius 38 trine Jupiter 14 Gemini 38
• Dec 22, 2024 2:12 AM Venus 17 Aquarius 06 semi-square True Node  2 Aries 06
• Dec 23, 2024 7:46 PM Venus 19 Aquarius 01 sextile Chiron 19 Aries 01
• Dec 28, 2024 2:41 AM Venus 23 Aquarius 44 square  Uranus 23 Taurus 44
• Dec 31, 2024 9:37 AM Venus 27 Aquarius 18 semi-sextile  Neptune 27 Pisces 18

The Moon is Full in Gemini on December 15, 2024, at 4:01 AM EST.

The Gemini Moon exactly opposes the Sagittarius Sun. The Gemini-Sagittarius polarity is a mental axis, where Gemini represents the “lower mind” and Sagittarius represents the “higher mind”. A Gemini Moon encourages us to think logically, while Sagittarius persuades us to think in a far broader manner. Sagittarius symbolizes the quest for meaning and ideas that expand upon the here and now.

Gemini is quite comfortable in his or her immediate environment or neighborhood, while Sagittarius stimulates us to venture beyond. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do.

This Full Moon is about communication, attitude, and sense of adventure. Something has been building inside of us, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings. We need to express them.

The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time–a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships. With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic “illumination” occurs in our own lives. However, these feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is not particularly rational as yet.

Finalizing plans should probably be saved for a later date and we should watch for too-quick decisions and actions, but paying close attention to what’s illuminated now makes sense. Through the events or the tensions of this time, we can ultimately get to a better understanding of ourselves, and particularly of our desires.

The chart wheel above shows the main, most important influences, which is useful to see the chart patterns and heaviest factors. Below, the chart wheel has some additional points, such as Chiron, major asteroids, Eris, and more. Click on it to enlarge.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 23 degrees and 53 minutes of Gemini opposite the Sun at 23 degrees 53 minutes of Sagittarius, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 20 to 28 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) most significantly.

Sun enters Capricorn

Sun is in Capricorn from December 21, 2024-January 19, 2025.

While the Sun is in Capricorn, we are motivated by feelings of responsibility, ambition, and respect for law and order. Capricorn derives much satisfaction in completion and accomplishment. Standards, structures, and an appreciation for order are Capricorn themes.

Capricorn wants tangible results, knows what is feasible and what is not, and is most comfortable working within an established framework and known boundaries or limits. Working towards a long-term goal is most satisfying with this influence.

We take a conservative approach to most matters during this month-long transit. Taking risks or making impulsive moves doesn’t suit us. We move ahead gradually but steadily and prosper by playing the long game–patiently working toward our objectives and taking care of our future. It’s a time when we expect eventual success by embracing step-by-step methods.

Aspects the Sun makes while in Capricorn in 2024-2025

Excluding the Moon. The Sun’s major aspect dates are in bolded color.

• • Dec 21, 2024 10:31 PM Sun  0 Capricorn 46 semi-sextile  Pluto  0 Aquarius 46
  • Dec 23, 2024 1:32 AM Sun quintile Saturn
  • Dec 23, 2024 5:39 AM Sun  2 Capricorn 05 square  True Node  2 Aries 05
  • Dec 23, 2024 12:00 AM Sun  3 Capricorn 53 quincunx Mars  3 Leo 53
  • Dec 29, 2024 4:58 PM Sun  8 Capricorn 42 sesquiquadrate Uranus 23 Taurus 42
  • Jan  2, 2025  10:18 PM Sun 12 Capricorn 59 quincunx Jupiter 12 Gemini 59
  • Jan 4, 2025 5:36 PM Sun 14 Capricorn 50 sextile Saturn 14 Pisces 50
  • Jan  5, 2025  6:08 AM Sun quintile Neptune
  • Jan  8, 2025  5:53 AM Sun quintile True Node
  • Jan  8, 2025  7:36 AM Sun biquintile Jupiter
  • Jan 8, 2025 8:54 PM Sun 19 Capricorn 03 square  Chiron 19 Aries 03
  • Jan 13, 2025 3:13 AM Sun 23 Capricorn 24 trine Uranus 23 Taurus 24
  • Jan 15, 2025 9:38 PM Sun 26 Capricorn 13 opposition Mars 26 Cancer 13
  • Jan 16, 2025  1:10 PM Sun 26 Capricorn 52 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 11 Gemini 52
  • Jan 17, 2025 6:20 AM Sun 27 Capricorn 36 sextile Neptune 27 Pisces 36
  • Jan 18, 2025 6:27 PM Sun 29 Capricorn 08 sextile True Node 29 Pisces 08

The Moon is New in Capricorn on December 30, 2024, at 5:27 PM EST.

The New Moon in Capricorn marks the beginning of a new cycle. The Sagittarius New Moon cycle ends and the Capricorn New Moon cycle begins.

The New Moon is exact on January 11th when the Sun and Moon align in the sign of Capricorn. This lunation symbolizes a new beginning in the cardinal earth sign of Capricorn. It’s a time during which we can focus on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Goat–tenacious, resourceful, disciplined, wise, ambitious, prudent, constant–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives. Now, we can focus on practical and attainable long-term goals, work on developing maturity and common sense, prepare for the future, make commitments and recognize responsibilities, and nurture our dreams in a realistic manner.

With this potent Capricorn energy, we have the chance to create some serious order in our lives. It’s time to make some solid plans and to set the stage for reaping the rewards from our new beginnings, as little or big as they may be, in approximately two weeks’ time after the Full Moon occurs. One of Capricorn’s “lessons” is acceptance of the concept that reasonable boundaries and rules actually do offer us freedom–freedom from worry and chaos, for example. Setting goals for ourselves allows us to focus on what really matters.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 9 degrees and 44 minutes of Capricorn, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 6 to 14 degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.

Venus enters Pisces

Venus is in Pisces from January 2-February 4, 2025. It will return to Pisces soon after: from March 27-April 30, 2025. This unusual pattern is due to a Venus retrograde cycle that’s divided between the signs of Aries and Pisces from March 1st to April 12th, 2025.

Venus enters the sign of Pisces today.

Pisces never sees the world in black-and-white terms. Rather, Pisces sees all the colors of the rainbow. With the goddess of love in Pisces, our love is all-embracing, we are able to forgive and understand, we are seducible and seductive, and we show compassion to our partners.

Venus in Pisces is tender and affectionate, although hard to reach, as there is a longing for something that is difficult to define and hard to satisfy. Borders and boundaries blur under Venus in Pisces. The shadow side of this position is allowing ourselves to be deceived because we want to believe, as well as evasiveness. We should watch for falling in love with an idealized image of something or someone. It’s also important to watch for avoidant or indirect behavior.

Venus is exalted in Pisces and does well in the sign. It’s devoted, compassionate, exceptionally giving, and capable of sacrifice. We might refer heavily on our intuition with our finances and love life during this cycle. We gravitate to–and appreciate–unusual, tossed aside, poetic, artistic objects, situations, and people. We seek activities that move, inspire, or touch us.

 

Money may slip through our fingers, or we could ignore or overlook some of the practical elements of our lives now. However, finances improve if we connect with our otherworldly talents, imagination, desire to heal and serve, or sense of mission.

This transit is not particularly strong for resolve or determination, but it’s good for adaptability and increased understanding or acceptance.

Aspects Venus makes while in the sign of  Pisces in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Venus are in bold.

• Jan  3, 2025    9:47 AM Venus  0 Pisces 30 semi-sextile  True Node  0 Aries 30
• Jan  3, 2025     6:41 PM Venus  0 Pisces 54 quincunx Mars  0 Leo 54
• Jan  4, 2025    12:47 AM Venus  1 Pisces 10 semi-sextile  Pluto  1 Aquarius 10
• Jan  6, 2025     6:22 PM Venus  4 Pisces 02 semi-square Chiron 19 Aries 02
• Jan  8, 2025    12:22 AM Venus biquintile Mars
• Jan 13, 2025    11:51 PM Venus quintile Uranus
• Jan 14, 2025    10:07 AM Venus 11 Pisces 48 sesquiquadrate Mars 26 Cancer 48
• Jan 14, 2025  2:48 PM Venus 12 Pisces 00 square  Jupiter 12 Gemini 00
• Jan 18, 2025  8:26 PM Venus 16 Pisces 05 conjunction  Saturn 16 Pisces 05
• Jan 19, 2025    10:47 AM Venus 16 Pisces 40 semi-square Pluto  1 Aquarius 40
• Jan 19, 2025 11:31 AM Mercury 16 Capricorn 41 sextile Venus 16 Pisces 41
• Jan 22, 2025     6:01 AM Venus 19 Pisces 15 semi-sextile  Chiron 19 Aries 15
• Jan 25, 2025 6:54 PM Venus 22 Pisces 26 trine Mars 22 Cancer 26
• Jan 26, 2025 6:11 PM Venus 23 Pisces 16 sextile Uranus 23 Taurus 16
• Feb  1, 2025     2:50 AM Sun 12 Aquarius 42 semi-square Venus 27 Pisces 42
• Feb 1, 2025  11:33 AM Venus 27 Pisces 59 conjunction  Neptune 27 Pisces 59
• Feb 1, 2025 4:42 PM Venus 28 Pisces 09 conjunction  True Node 28 Pisces 09
• Feb  3, 2025     3:51 AM Venus quintile Jupiter

Note…Venus will return to Pisces later while retrograde and transit the sign again from March 27th to April 30th, 2025.

Mercury enters Capricorn

Mercury is in Capricorn from January 8th to 27th, 2025.

When Mercury is in Capricorn, our thinking is methodical and our focus is sober and practical. It is easier to concentrate on the task at hand under this influence. Our conversations may be quite realistic or focused on business/practical matters. Our thought patterns and communication styles become more logical, orderly, and organized.

We are more able to sort out what is relevant and essential. Realism enters the picture, our speech is no-nonsense, and precision becomes important to us. Our survival instincts are strong–we’re interested in what will benefit us in the long term.

We’re not interested in the fluff, preferring to get right to a point or the bottom line. Communication can be somewhat guarded or cautious, and similarly not very floral or expressive. We gravitate to concrete subjects and information that’s logical, useful, and well-organized. We may prefer a methodical approach to studying. Our fantasies may be well-considered and possible, with realistic overtones.

We need to be wary of becoming too rigid in our thinking. We may come across as cold or harsh. For some, there is a fine line between realism and pessimism. At times, we might lack humor, or we’re inclined toward sarcasm when joking. We can be quite stubborn with our ideas and methods.

We can use this period to make solid, realistic plans and get organized. It’s a favorable time to advise, teach, or guide. Generally, we’re more concerned than usual with our reputation or responsibilities. Our dependability can reap rewards. We love to plan ahead and map out our next steps. Changes of schedule can be most disconcerting during this cycle.

Our reactions are sensible, cool, and level-headed while Mercury is in Capricorn.

 

Aspects Mercury makes while in the sign of Capricorn in January, 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mercury are in bold.

• Jan 8, 2025  12:14 PM Mercury  0 Capricorn 24 square  True Node  0 Aries 24
• Jan  9, 2025     3:47 AM Mercury  1 Capricorn 20 semi-sextile  Pluto  1 Aquarius 20
• Jan 10, 2025     1:01 PM Mercury quintile Saturn
• Jan 13, 2025    11:42 PM Mercury  8 Capricorn 23 sesquiquadrate Uranus 23 Taurus 23
• Jan 16, 2025     7:51 AM Mercury 11 Capricorn 53 quincunx Jupiter 11 Gemini 53
• Jan 18, 2025     7:03 PM Mercury quintile Neptune
• Jan 19, 2025  2:38 AM Mercury 16 Capricorn 07 sextile Saturn 16 Pisces 07
• Jan 19, 2025  11:31 AM Mercury 16 Capricorn 41 sextile Venus 16 Pisces 41
• Jan 19, 2025     6:33 PM Mercury quintile True Node
• Jan 20, 2025     2:48 AM Mercury biquintile Jupiter
• Jan 21, 2025  3:06 AM Mercury 19 Capricorn 14 square  Chiron 19 Aries 14
• Jan 23, 2025  3:49 PM Mercury 23 Capricorn 12 opposition Mars 23 Cancer 12
• Jan 23, 2025  5:07 PM Mercury 23 Capricorn 17 trine Uranus 23 Taurus 17
• Jan 25, 2025     4:43 PM Mercury 26 Capricorn 26 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 11 Gemini 26
• Jan 26, 2025 1:32 PM Mercury 27 Capricorn 49 sextile Neptune 27 Pisces 49
• Jan 27, 2025  2:22 AM Mercury 28 Capricorn 41 sextile True Node 28 Pisces 41

The True North Node of the Moon enters the sign of Pisces

The True North Node is in Pisces from January 11, 2025, to July 26, 2026.

 

While the North Node of the Moon transits the sign of Pisces, it’s a time to work on feelings of guilt about not doing enough or the tendency to overanalyze and overthink. We’re learning to put more faith or trust in a bigger plan. Our path is to develop our love for ourselves and others through growing our compassion and understanding. It’s a time to learn more humility as we recognize that we (and others) are not perfect and don’t have to be.

Benefits come from developing our imagination, empathy, capacity for compassion, and faith. If we default to overworking or over-attention to physical health, we must now recognize the need to commit to our mental and emotional health. Learning to let go of an obsession with rules, details, and fears of not doing things perfectly or correctly will help us achieve a greater sense of balance and quieten guilty feelings and fears of failure, leading to a better state of inner balance.

Not only is this a robust period for inner work, but it’s also an excellent time for work behind the scenes. More quality time to ourselves helps us connect with our muse and potential for inner healing. We’re discovering that being idle is not inherently wrong — we need to disconnect, detox, and decompress from time to time. At the same time, we can enjoy more magic in our daily routines. It’s a strong time for growth through meditation, healing, medicine, research, art, film, photography, poetry, dance, and psychology.

Note that the Moon’s North Node travels a sign for approximately 18 months. When the North Node is in Pisces, the South Node is in Virgo.

The Moon is Full in Cancer on January 13, 2025, at 5:27 PM EST.

A Full Moon occurs when the Sun in Capricorn forms an opposition to the Moon in Cancer. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time – a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships.

The Cancer-Capricorn polarity deals with the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturance (represented by Cancer) versus the public life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn).

Attachments and love are ruled by Cancer, while achievements and rewards/punishments are ruled by Capricorn. In some ways, this polarity deals with the balance between unconditional love and conditional love. The Cancer Moon encourages us to value our home base and our roots, while Capricorn persuades us to consider our sense of duty and responsibility along public lines.

While Cancer may most enjoy attaching to the home and family, Capricorn urges us to attend to the responsibilities to the outside world. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do.

This Full Moon is about balancing our commitment to our career and families. Something has been building inside of us, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings. We need to express them.

Something is exposed or illuminated, prompting us to get in touch with those things in our personal lives that we may have been neglecting or putting off. With so much attention to our relationships, careers, and personal plans these days, a push for considering our emotional needs occurs now.

This is a time to clear up past patterns that have been holding us back from personal fulfillment, particularly those that are home or family-centered or that revolve around our work-home balance and attitudes toward comfort and responsibility.

This Wolf Moon harmonizes with Uranus, Neptune, and the Moon’s nodes, and we can feel a wonderful sense of mission and progress now. Our revelations are pivotal and growth-oriented.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 24 degrees and 0 minutes of Cancer, opposite the Sun at the same degree of Capricorn, affecting people with personal planets and points at approximately 20 to 28 degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn).

Sun enters Aquarius

Sun is in Aquarius from January 19-February 18, 2025.

During this cycle, we are motivated by our hunger for knowledge, experience, and originality. Innovation is more important to us than convention. We become more aware of what is outdated in our lives, and strive to find new perspectives and new ways to do things. The class distinctions, structure, and order that Capricorn finds appealing now seem to be too rigid. The freedom of the individual becomes far more significant to us. We strive to free ourselves from some of the restrictions, inhibitions, and limitations that now feel constraining rather than safe.

 

We recognize those things that are obsolete or outdated, and we’re ready to change the world with new ideas and methods. We might often let our heads rule over our hearts during this cycle, preferring an objective, impersonal, and rational approach to life.

Aspects the Sun makes while in the sign of Aquarius in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of the Sun are in bold.

• Jan 20, 2025     9:26 PM Sun  1 Aquarius 17 semi-square Saturn 16 Pisces 17
• Jan 21, 2025  7:28 AM Sun  1 Aquarius 43 conjunction  Pluto  1 Aquarius 43
• Jan 26, 2025     8:48 PM Sun quintile Chiron
• Jan 30, 2025  5:59 PM Sun 11 Aquarius 18 trine Jupiter 11 Gemini 18
• Feb  1, 2025     2:50 AM Sun 12 Aquarius 42 semi-square Venus 27 Pisces 42
• Feb  1, 2025     9:31 AM Sun 12 Aquarius 59 semi-square Neptune 27 Pisces 59
• Feb  1, 2025     1:33 PM Sun 13 Aquarius 09 semi-square True Node 28 Pisces 09
• Feb  6, 2025     9:10 AM Sun 18 Aquarius 03 semi-sextile  Saturn 18 Pisces 03
• Feb  7, 2025     3:41 AM Sun 18 Aquarius 49 quincunx Mars 18 Cancer 49
• Feb 8, 2025   1:22 AM Sun 19 Aquarius 44 sextile Chiron 19 Aries 44
• Feb 9, 2025    7:08 AM Sun 20 Aquarius 59 conjunction  Mercury 20 Aquarius 59
• Feb 11, 2025   2:30 PM Sun 23 Aquarius 20 square  Uranus 23 Taurus 20
• Feb 12, 2025     4:00 AM Sun biquintile Mars
• Feb 15, 2025     7:22 PM Sun 27 Aquarius 34 semi-sextile  True Node 27 Pisces 34
• Feb 16, 2025     4:38 PM Sun 28 Aquarius 28 semi-sextile  Neptune 28 Pisces 28

Mercury enters Aquarius

Mercury is in Aquarius from January 27-February 14, 2025.

When Mercury is in Aquarius, we are hungry for knowledge and open to new and original ideas. We begin to think outside of the box, and our thinking becomes more progressive and objective. Our communication and thought patterns are spontaneous, somewhat fragmented, and liberal. This is a time when inventive thinking is at a peak.

We’re reasonable, finding it easier to separate intellect and emotion when assessing a situation. Although progressive-minded and receptive to new studies and information, we are not quick to sway from our ideas and beliefs. During this cycle, we take more interest in thinking that’s daring or original. As we envision a better future, we can come up with truly interesting ideas and concepts.

Aspects Mercury makes while in the sign of Aquarius in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mercury are in bold.

• Jan 29, 2025  2:52 AM Mercury  1 Aquarius 58 conjunction  Pluto  1 Aquarius 58
• Jan 29, 2025     5:31 AM Mercury  2 Aquarius 09 semi-square Saturn 17 Pisces 09
• Feb  1, 2025    11:26 AM Mercury quintile Chiron
• Feb 3, 2025 4:51 PM Mercury 11 Aquarius 16 trine Jupiter 11 Gemini 16
• Feb  4, 2025     6:14 PM Mercury 13 Aquarius 05 semi-square Neptune 28 Pisces 05
• Feb  4, 2025     7:56 PM Mercury 13 Aquarius 13 semi-square True Node 28 Pisces 13
• Feb  7, 2025     2:11 AM Mercury 17 Aquarius 07 semi-square Venus  2 Aries 07
• Feb  7, 2025     4:57 PM Mercury 18 Aquarius 11 semi-sextile  Saturn 18 Pisces 11
• Feb  7, 2025    11:14 PM Mercury 18 Aquarius 39 quincunx Mars 18 Cancer 39
• Feb 8, 2025  2:21 PM Mercury 19 Aquarius 45 sextile Chiron 19 Aries 45
• Feb 9, 2025  7:08 AM Sun 20 Aquarius 59 conjunction  Mercury 20 Aquarius 59
• Feb 10, 2025  2:27 PM Mercury 23 Aquarius 19 square  Uranus 23 Taurus 19
• Feb 11, 2025    12:39 AM Mercury biquintile Mars
• Feb 12, 2025    11:49 PM Mercury 27 Aquarius 38 semi-sextile  True Node 27 Pisces 38
• Feb 13, 2025     9:30 AM Mercury 28 Aquarius 21 semi-sextile  Neptune 28 Pisces 21

The Moon is New in Aquarius on January 29, 2025, at 7:36 AM EST.

The New Moon in Aquarius marks the beginning of a new cycle. The Capricorn New Moon cycle ends and the Aquarius New Moon cycle begins. In the sign of Aquarius, friendship, brotherhood, group activities, social pursuits, group projects, trying something new, humanitarian efforts, or joining a group will be a strong focus. New beginnings regarding any or all of these matters are possible now.

This is a time when we should solve problems that require thinking “outside of the box.” We look to the future with a brand new, positive, and hopeful vision, frequently brainstorm and socialize, and focus on extending a friendly hand, receiving support, and expressing platonic love for those around us. It’s a time to give our emotions and passions a “break”, as we develop more objectivity and some detachment from past haunts. We might learn how something (or someone) works or revitalize ourselves through experiences that are new or simply different.

This cycle encourages us to reach out to people in our social circle and in our community, and recognize the value of our friendships and social networks. We might also recognize that some level of detachment and distancing ourselves from our habits and attachment to the past will help us break away from destructive behaviors that are holding us back.

With this potent Aquarius energy, we have the chance to make progressive changes in our lives. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to these matters.

This New Moon harmonizes with Jupiter, and we find ourselves in the right place at the right time. We’re positive about our new beginnings.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 9 degrees and 51 minutes of Aquarius, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 6 to 14 degrees of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) most significantly.

Venus enters Aries

Venus is in Aries from February 4 to March 27, 2025, and then April 30 to June 6, 2025. This two-step, drawn-out pattern is unusual for Venus due to the Venus retrograde period from March 1 to April 12, 2025: retrograde Venus divides its time between Aries and Pisces in 2025.

With Venus in Aries, love is spontaneous and direct. The chase is very exciting to us under this fiery influence. We are bold, fresh, and a little impatient when it comes to matters of the heart. We don’t look back with Aries energy. We are not interested in saying sorry or dwelling on the past–it’s a brand new day! It’s time to make things work right now.

Aries is known for a love of the chase and the conquest, but Aries love can be longstanding as long as it remains relatively fresh. Aries is blunt–there’s no sugar-coating with Aries. This can sting, but rarely is Aries energy mean or petty. Saying it like it is is important to the sign. Desires are strong and expressed spontaneously, enthusiastically, and directly. Aries prefers to seduce rather than be seduced, to chase rather than be chased.

While Venus is in Aries, we gravitate to Aries-like activities, pleasures, pastimes, and objects of interest. Our tastes can veer toward action, new enterprise, conquests, courageous or daring acts, and so forth. We can be somewhat impulsive with our money or entertainment choices.

Our interests can be insistent and strong, but possibly short-lived. It’s not the best time for holding onto money. We might pour our resources too quickly into new ventures or projects but tire of these things just as rapidly.

However, when Venus later turns retrograde in the sign of Aries, we experience different behaviors. See Venus turns retrograde in Aries (2025) for more details.

Dates:

• Venus enters Aries on February 4th
• Venus turns retrograde on March 1st
• Venus, still retrograde, returns to Pisces on March 27th
• Venus turns direct (ends its retrograde) on April 12th
• Venus enters Aries again on April 30th

The Moon is Full in Leo on February 12, 2025, at 8:53 AM EST.

The Full Moon in Leo marks a strong awareness of our feelings on a matter.

The Moon is full when the Aquarius Sun opposes the Moon in Leo. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time–a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships.

The Leo-Aquarius polarity deals with the balance between all that is personal (Leo) and all that is impersonal (Aquarius). The energy of the Leo Moon is creative self-expression and the boost to the individual ego that we receive through pleasure and romance, while the Aquarius Sun rules the group, more impersonal friendships, and objectivity. This Full Moon urges us to strike a balance between romance and friendship, and between expressing ourselves in personal and impersonal ways.

The Leo Moon is proud and intensely individual–not content with simply being just one of the team. The Aquarius Sun, while individualistic as well, values independence and the “team.” The Full Moon illuminates this conflict.

With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic illumination occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves, and to let things out of our systems. Over the coming weeks, we will discover what this means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings. We need to express them. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is not particularly rational as yet.

This Full Moon forms a square to Uranus, and we should watch for rebellious behavior or flip decisions associated with our revelations now.

The same Full Moon in Leo chart with additional points:

This phase of the Moon occurs at 24 degrees and 6 minutes of Leo, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 20 to 28 degrees of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) most significantly.

Mercury enters Pisces

Mercury is in Pisces from February 14-March 3, 2025 and, soon after, from March 29-April 16.

Why the two date ranges? Mercury travels through the full sign of Pisces this year, but later, while Mercury is in Aries, turns retrograde (on March 15th) and returns to Pisces on March 29th. Mercury ends its retrograde on April 7th, and it leaves Pisces again on April 16th.

When Mercury is in Pisces, our thinking processes are more visual, intuitive, and imaginative. We are especially attuned to the world of emotion, which colors both our thoughts and our communication style.

We guess well, express ourselves with imagery, and make decisions intuitively. We are more attracted to consciousness-raising information.

It’s not always easy to verbalize our impressions during this cycle. We don’t enjoy pinning down, labeling, or strictly defining things. We recognize that life isn’t always logical, and we prefer not to think in black and white terms. We’re sensitive and impressionable, which means we can take in more than usual and it can sometimes overwhelm us. Pisces needs periodic time alone or within to regenerate and detox.

Aspects Mercury makes while in the sign of Pisces in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mercury are in bold.

• • Feb 15, 2025     3:06 PM Mercury  2 Pisces 27 sesquiquadrate Mars 17 Cancer 27
  • Feb 15, 2025     3:58 PM Mercury  2 Pisces 31 semi-sextile  Pluto  2 Aquarius 31
  • Feb 17, 2025     1:20 AM Mercury  5 Pisces 05 semi-square Chiron 20 Aries 05
  • Feb 18, 2025    11:02 PM Mercury  8 Pisces 37 semi-sextile  Venus  8 Aries 37
  • Feb 20, 2025    11:41 AM Mercury quintile Uranus
  • Feb 20, 2025  3:13 PM Mercury 11 Pisces 44 square  Jupiter 11 Gemini 44
  • Feb 23, 2025  11:58 AM Mercury 17 Pisces 01 trine Mars 17 Cancer 01
  • Feb 23, 2025     9:39 PM Mercury 17 Pisces 45 semi-square Pluto  2 Aquarius 45
  • Feb 25, 2025  7:02 AM Mercury 20 Pisces 16 conjunction  Saturn 20 Pisces 16
  • Feb 25, 2025     9:33 AM Mercury 20 Pisces 27 semi-sextile  Chiron 20 Aries 27
  • Feb 27, 2025  4:37 AM Mercury 23 Pisces 36 sextile Uranus 23 Taurus 36
  • Mar 1, 2025   11:35 AM Mercury 27 Pisces 24 conjunction  True Node 27 Pisces 24
  • Mar 2, 2025  11:22 AM Mercury 28 Pisces 57 conjunction  Neptune 28 Pisces 57
  • Mar 29, 2025 10:46 PM Mercury 29 Pisces 59 conjunction  Neptune 29 Pisces 59
  • April 4, 2025 2:53 AM Mercury 27 Pisces 17 conjunction  True Node 27 Pisces 17
  • April 10, 2025 9:01 PM Mercury 27 Pisces 23 conjunction  True Node 27 Pisces 23

Note: Mercury returns to some aspects due to a retrograde/direct cycle during which time Mercury divides its time between the signs of Pisces and Aries.

Sun enters Pisces

Sun is in Pisces from February 18-March 20, 2025.

With the Sun in Pisces, we are guided by altruistic feelings. We are less motivated to do than we are to feel, imagine, and dream. A “what will be, will be” attitude reigns, and we are guided by a sense of universal correlations. Pisces rules empathy, selfless love, devotion, and wisdom. Its shadow side can include self-pity, a feeling of being victimized by life, passivity, and elusiveness.

While we may not always verbalize or express our feelings and impressions during this cycle, they’re strong and motivating. We prefer to believe and trust, giving things/people the benefit of the doubt until they prove us wrong. We might often tune out problems or conflicts rather than tackle them head on, hoping they will iron themselves out. Prosperity flows when we’re connecting with our heart, being kind, and helping others. The need to withdraw or retreat to restore our energy is strong from time to time.

Aspects the Sun makes while in the sign of Pisces in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of the Sun are in bold.

• Feb 20, 2025     7:00 AM Sun  2 Pisces 06 sesquiquadrate Mars 17 Cancer 06
• Feb 20, 2025     8:35 PM Sun  2 Pisces 40 semi-sextile  Pluto  2 Aquarius 40
• Feb 23, 2025    12:53 PM Sun  5 Pisces 22 semi-square Chiron 20 Aries 22
• Feb 28, 2025    11:07 PM Sun 10 Pisces 49 semi-sextile  Venus 10 Aries 49
• Mar  1, 2025     7:13 PM Sun quintile Uranus
• Mar 2, 2025  1:18 PM Sun 12 Pisces 25 square  Jupiter 12 Gemini 25
• Mar 8, 2025 12:13 AM Sun 17 Pisces 53 trine Mars 17 Cancer 53
• Mar  8, 2025     4:53 AM Sun 18 Pisces 05 semi-square Pluto  3 Aquarius 05
• Mar 11, 2025     7:34 AM Sun 21 Pisces 09 semi-sextile  Chiron 21 Aries 09
• Mar 12, 2025  6:29 AM Sun 22 Pisces 06 conjunction  Saturn 22 Pisces 06
• Mar 14, 2025  5:16 AM Sun 24 Pisces 03 sextile Uranus 24 Taurus 03
• Mar 17, 2025  2:03 PM Sun 27 Pisces 24 conjunction  True Node 27 Pisces 24
• Mar 19, 2025  7:25 PM Sun 29 Pisces 36 conjunction  Neptune 29 Pisces 36

The Moon is New in Pisces on February 27, 2025, at 7:45 PM EST.

The following is the New Moon astrological chart wheel for the Pisces New Moon in 2025.

The New Moon in Pisces marks the beginning of a new cycle. The Aquarius New Moon cycle ends and the Pisces New Moon cycle begins.

The New Moon in Pisces is a good time to commit to personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Fish. These include taking a leap of faith, accepting imperfections in ourselves and in others as a different kind of “perfection,” starting a project that requires imagination and visualization skills, consciously putting time aside for peaceful and rejuvenating activities, and sharing a dream with another.

With this potent Pisces energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives.

With such a strong showing of bodies in the sign of Pisces, we can be particularly focused, determined, and concentrated. We should watch for being too narrow in our focus.

The major bodies are all direct, contributing to a feeling of moving forward. Still, Venus is close to stationing retrograde, and it’s best not to push ahead prematurely. This New Moon is square to Jupiter, and we should avoid overshooting and excess.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 9 degrees and 41 minutes of Pisces, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 6 to 14 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) most significantly.

Alternate chart with additional bodies (Chiron, asteroids, Eris, etc.):

Mercury enters Aries

Mercury is in Aries from March 3-29, 2025, and then from April 16-May 10, 2025. [Why two periods? Mercury spends its time in Aries in two steps due to its upcoming retrograde cycle.]

When Mercury is in Aries, we are less concerned with objective viewpoints and explanations, and more concerned with reaching a decision…quickly!

Our thoughts and ideas are pioneering, and we tend to speak more spontaneously and directly with the planet of communication in bold and assertive Aries.

Mercury in Aries themes:

• quick, possibly impatient or hurried, decisions
• independent thought
• mental competitiveness
• direct, straightforward, honest, uncomplicated (perhaps insensitive or blunt) communications
• executive decisions
• preference to learn through personal experience, not instruction
• quick, perhaps defensive or combative, responses

Mercury spends more than the usual few weeks in the sign of Aries in 2025 due to a retrograde cycle that will occur in the signs of Aries and Pisces from March 15th to April 7th, 2025.

Aspects Mercury makes while in the sign of Aries in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mercury are in bold.

• Mar  3, 2025    12:15 PM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Mar 5, 2025  8:13 AM Mercury  3 Aries 00 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 00
• Mar 11, 2025   6:54 PM Mercury  8 Aries 47 conjunction  Venus  8 Aries 47
• Mar 12, 2025     4:25 AM Mercury  8 Aries 58 semi-square Uranus 23 Taurus 58
• Mar 17, 2025     2:28 PM Mercury  9 Aries 10 semi-square Uranus 24 Taurus 10
• Mar 24, 2025  3:48 PM Sun  4 Aries 25 conjunction  Mercury  4 Aries 25
• Mar 25, 2025 6:02 PM Mercury  3 Aries 27 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 27
• Mar 26, 2025     2:53 AM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Apr 17, 2025  12:11 AM Mercury  0 Aries 38 conjunction  Neptune  0 Aries 38
• April 20, 2025  5:39 PM Mercury  3 Aries 46 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 46
• Apr 25, 2025    12:12 AM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Apr 27, 2025    10:58 AM Mercury 11 Aries 08 semi-square Uranus 26 Taurus 08
• May  1, 2025     1:19 AM Mercury quintile Pluto
• May 5, 2025  1:21 PM Mercury 22 Aries 20 sextile Jupiter 22 Gemini 20
• May 6, 2025  9:48 PM Mercury 24 Aries 25 conjunction  Chiron 24 Aries 25
• May  8, 2025     2:54 AM Mercury 26 Aries 20 semi-sextile  True Node 26 Pisces 20
• May  8, 2025     8:56 AM Mercury 26 Aries 45 semi-sextile  Uranus 26 Taurus 45
• May  9, 2025     1:31 PM Mercury 28 Aries 42 semi-sextile  Saturn 28 Pisces 42

The Moon is Full in Libra on March 14, 2025, at 2:54 AM EDT. This is a penumbral Lunar Eclipse.

A Full Moon occurs when the Sun in Pisces forms an opposition to the Moon in Virgo. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. Certainly, it can be an emotional time – a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships.

This phase of the Moon occurs at 23 degrees and 57 minutes of Virgo opposite the Sun at 23 degrees and 57 minutes of Pisces.

It’s the second eclipse in a set of seven occurring along the Virgo-Pisces axis from September 17th, 2024, to February 20th, 2027. The first one was a Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. While we’ve been focusing on building our faith since September 2024, this March eclipse in Virgo prompts us to consider getting organized and how it affects the work-rest balance.

This eclipse serves as a prompt, nudge, or push to make improvements in Virgo- and Pisces-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify. It’s a time to resolve matters, strike a balance, take a lesson, and move on, but take some time with this–eclipses can temporarily hide a part of our lives for us to focus on another. Ultimately, we should be striving for a balance.

This eclipse affects people with personal planets and points at 19 to 29 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) most significantly.

Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Virgo-Pisces axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants concerning the balance between Virgo-ruled and Pisces-ruled areas of life. We are encouraged to find a balance between day-to-day functions and routines, physical health, and the need for order (Virgo) and vision, spiritual health, disorder, and the infinite (Pisces).

Read more about this and other eclipses affecting our lives in Eclipses/Lunations.

Virgo rules the tools and techniques we use to deal with day-to-day life, while Pisces rules the tools we use to deal with our spiritual selves. The key to balance lies in identifying and expressing our spiritual needs while maintaining order in our everyday lives. Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire–we would either be living in chaos or excessive order.

The contrast between precise, logical, work-centered, factual Virgo and spiritual, compassionate, holistic Pisces comes full bloom. The energy of the Virgo Moon is the awareness of the need for more precision, attention to detail, and responsibility. The Pisces Sun, on the other hand, is visionary–focused on what’s universal and hard to define.

This Full Moon is about emotional declarations. Something has been building inside of us, likely of a personal nature, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the coming months, we will discover what this declaration means for us. For now, it’s difficult to sit on our feelings. We need to express them.

With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic “illumination” occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves, and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.

This total Lunar Eclipse urges us to strike a balance between work and service, practicality and impracticality, criticism and acceptance.

This eclipse is about awakening to the need to enjoy more order in our lives. This is an eyes-wide-open time for our work, habits, health, and routines. We are likely to receive strong messages from our intuition regarding our next move along these lines.

Emotions, feelings, and revelations in the weeks following this eclipse are pivotal. This is a rewarding Full Moon eclipse, ripe with possibilities and learning experiences. However, it can take some time before we get the whole picture.

A crisis of sorts (which can be a crisis of consciousness) or sudden awareness of a lack in our lives provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs within the context of the house polarity where the eclipse occurs in our natal charts.

Relationships may be challenged, broken, or strengthened at this time. Our discovery is emotionally charged and dramatic–everything feels big and larger than life at this time. Epiphanies are likely as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into affirmative action, although there can be some initial level of chaos.

However, it’s important to note that we’re temporarily in the dark about a matter at the time of an eclipse, and we’re seeing another area of life as if we’re looking at it through a magnifying glass. It’s distorted—we don’t yet have the full picture. This perspective does help us, ultimately, but it helps to remember that we’re missing something and to defer judgment.

This is a time to work on clearing up past patterns that have been holding us back from fulfillment in our everyday lives.

Revelations coming in can be blown up and dramatic but not discountable since they come from real feelings. With eclipses, we get a strong emphasis on one area of life but a blackout in another area, and it makes sense to wait to make big decisions for when we can see the whole picture.

This Lunar Eclipse can have a way of bringing dysfunctional areas of our lives to our attention. Emotions and realizations feel big. Plans can blossom.

Through events, circumstances, and epiphanies after the time of this eclipse, we learn that we need to get in touch with our needs for a stronger connection with our routines, work, and physical health needs. To feel fulfilled, we need to acknowledge and embrace our need for our daily routines to serve us well.

We become aware of where we have been overdoing our focus on replenishment where it’s come at the expense of living an organized life.

Full Moons are always helpful for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can see where to bring back balance. Our larger work should focus on reaching a good balance. Enlightenment in the weeks following the lunation provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs, ultimately leading to positive actions and decisions.

In 1998, a Lunar Eclipse occurred at a similar degree as this Virgo one on March 13th, and in 1979, a Lunar Eclipse occurred at a similar degree. It might be helpful to think back to issues in your life that were in effect around these dates, if applicable, to get an idea of how this 2025 Lunar Eclipse might affect you.

However, you can also look back in a general sense to eclipse sets occurring along the same Virgo-Pisces axis as the current one in effect from September 2024 to February 2027 for more information gleaned by looking to the past to understand themes in the present and future.

The following are also periods of your past, if applicable, that may have had similar themes to this current eclipse set:

Virgo-Pisces Eclipse sets (current, future, and some in recent history):

• March 2034 to February 2036
• September 2024 to February 2027
• March 2015 to February 2017
• September 2006 to February 2008
• March 1997 to September 1998
• September 1987 to August 1989
• September 1978 to August 1980

The following lists the set of eclipses falling along the Virgo-Pisces axis only (there are other eclipses in different signs between these):

• Partial LUNAR Eclipse September 18, 2024 25 Pisces 41
• Total LUNAR Eclipse March 14, 2025 23 Virgo 57
• Total LUNAR Eclipse September 7, 2025 15 Pisces 23
• Partial SOLAR Eclipse September 21, 2025 29 Virgo 05
• Total LUNAR Eclipse March 3, 2026 12 Virgo 54
• Partial LUNAR Eclipse August 28, 2026 4 Pisces 54
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse February 20, 2027 2 Virgo 06

See more eclipse dates in our eclipse table.

Sun enters Aries

Sun is in Aries from March 20-April 19, 2025. In Aries, the Sun is enthusiastic and spontaneous. We are motivated by the desire to conquer. We are more impulsive and have the urge to initiate.

Aries is a sign that bounces back quickly–there is little in the way of shame with Aries. It is brave and pioneering, and somewhat innocent. We are direct and rather uncomplicated in our needs, but we can also be short-sighted and lack the desire to plan ahead.

The Sun enters Aries on March 20, 2025, at 5:01 AM EDT, which is also the Vernal Equinox.

Aspects the Sun makes while in the sign of Aries in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of the Sun are in bold.

• Mar 22, 2025 9:07 PM Sun  2 Aries 39 conjunction  Venus  2 Aries 39
• Mar 22, 2025     9:44 PM Sun quintile Jupiter
• Mar 23, 2025 3:31 PM Sun  3 Aries 25 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 25
• Mar 24, 2025 3:48 PM Sun  4 Aries 25 conjunction  Mercury  4 Aries 25
• Mar 29, 2025    11:14 PM Sun  9 Aries 40 semi-square Uranus 24 Taurus 40
• Apr  4, 2025    11:47 PM Sun quintile Pluto
• Apr 6, 2025 5:44 AM Sun 16 Aries 51 sextile Jupiter 16 Gemini 51
• Apr 12, 2025 12:00 PM Sun 22 Aries 59 conjunction  Chiron 22 Aries 59
• Apr 14, 2025     4:52 AM Sun 24 Aries 40 semi-sextile  Venus 24 Pisces 40
• Apr 15, 2025    12:19 AM Sun 25 Aries 27 semi-sextile  Uranus 25 Taurus 27
• Apr 15, 2025     7:32 PM Sun 26 Aries 15 semi-sextile  Saturn 26 Pisces 15
• Apr 16, 2025     3:31 PM Sun 27 Aries 03 semi-sextile  True Node 27 Pisces 03

The Moon is New in Aries on March 29, 2025, at 6:58 AM EDT. This is a chart of the New Moon partial Solar Eclipse that occurs at 9° Aries 00′.

This eclipse is the final in an Aries-Libra set of six eclipses.

Its effects can be felt for up to six months after the actual date of the eclipse. In the sign of Aries, this eclipse puts matters related to personal plans, courage, independence, and self-assertion in strong focus. It’s about new beginnings regarding any of these issues, but at the same time, it’s about making final decisions. Long-term changes are in the works!

This phase of the Moon occurs at 9 degrees and 0 minutes of Aries.

A similar Solar Eclipse (at approximately the same degree of Aries) occurred on March 29th, 2006. Before that, it was March 29th, 1987. An eclipse set along the Aries-Libra axis most recently occurred from 2013-2016. Before that, it was from 2004-2006.

Note that this eclipse is opposite the October 2024 eclipse in Libra with an orb of just over 1 degree.

This March 29th Solar eclipse can highlight and challenge our issues surrounding independence and personal courage. We might take steps towards self-mastery and self-empowerment by tackling things that undermine us.

Circumstances nudge or encourage us to see where we haven’t been true to our authentic selves. Ultimately, we are now in a position to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth, and that we can handle these things.

This is a good time for focusing on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Ram–enterprising, straightforward, sincere, brave–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives. Aries New Moons are generally good for taking action – trying something new and innovative, and going at it with gusto and confidence. It’s a time to be assertive, take charge of our lives, start a brand new project, and discover our own personal courage.

It’s a powerful time to re-evaluate our relationship with ourselves. With this potent Aries energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and thus a New Moon in Aries is especially ripe with opportunity for new beginnings. We might consider acting on a constructive impulse and following a hunch or taking a risk. Aries learns through experience and action, so we might treat ourselves to a little adventure now.

It’s also a good cycle under which to discover the benefits of expressing ourselves with authenticity – expressing ourselves as we are, without putting on airs. We might also find ways to learn how to rely on ourselves and to be happy about doing so – it will go a long way towards finding inner happiness when we know that we can be self-sufficient without blaming others for not helping us out. It’s a time to revitalize ourselves through experiences that break the routine and that involve doing something new and fresh.

The New Moon loosely aligns with retrograde Mercury, and it’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings. As well, Mars, the ruler of Aries, harmonizes with Saturn and Uranus, suggesting a constructive desire to build and innovate.

With this eclipse, we might experience a strong urge to act on impulse. However, it will be important to avoid jumping to conclusions and asserting ourselves without considering others’ feelings and reactions. There is a big difference between asserting ourselves from a place of healthy confidence, and asserting ourselves brashly and blindly, which can give us a false sense of confidence or bravery.

With this potent Aries energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives that will benefit us well beyond this Moon cycle. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to these matters.

Flaws in an important system in our lives reveal themselves in the wake of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. Something ends in order for something else to start anew. We may be called to give up something in order to move forward into a new chapter in our lives. Although the “new” may be unrecognizable, it is important to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown.

An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is closer to the North Node of the Moon. While we’re heading into unknown territory in some ways, we have a good sense that we’re doing so to our advantage.

Major developments in the personal areas ruled by Aries in our charts are likely to occur over the upcoming months. It’s a powerful time for making changes that finally resolve a longstanding issue. There is some finality to its themes–we might make final decisions, reach conclusions, or more permanent changes now, and these things lead to a new beginning or fresh start.

The above chart is excellent for seeing the fundamental influences and chart pattern of this New Moon. The chart below adds more details with additional points. Click to enlarge:

 

This Solar Eclipse is the final part of a set of eclipses falling along the Aries/Libra sign axis from April 2023 to March 2025:

• Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2024 March 25 3:00:05 at 5 Libra 07
• Total SOLAR Eclipse 2024 April 8 14:20:37 at 19 Aries 24
• Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
• Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29  at 9 Aries 00

Mercury Rx enters Pisces

While Mercury began its retrograde on March 15th in the sign of Aries, retrograde Mercury returns to the sign of Pisces on March 29th, 2025.

Mercury is in Pisces from March 29-April 16, 2025 (it just recently visited from February 14-March 3).

Mercury’s retrograde cycle, lasting from March 15th to April 7th, is the reason for Mercury returning to Pisces so soon after leaving the sign. The retrograde began in Aries, but with reverse motion, Mercury now dips back into Pisces.

Mercury is retrograde from March 15th, at 9° Aries 36′, until April 7th, at 26° Pisces 49′.

Mercury Retrograde Cycle from March 15 to April 7, 2025:

• On March 1, 2025, Mercury enters the Retrograde Zone (pre-retrograde shadow) at 26° Pisces 49′
• On March 15, 2025, Mercury stations and turns retrograde at 9° Aries 36′ Rx
• On April 7, 2025, Mercury stations and turns direct at 26° Pisces 49′
• On April 26, 2025, Mercury leaves the Retrograde Zone (post-retrograde shadow) at 9° Aries 36′

 

 

With Mercury Retrograde in Pisces:

While Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Pisces, we might return to old problems, entanglements, and unfinished projects with a renewed perspective. Past ideas and perceptions of people and pursuits in our lives can emerge and change.

It’s a strong period for getting in touch with our dreams and ideals. We can be especially spacey when it comes to facts and figures. We’re also inclined to be quite past-focused. Second-guessing what we see or know can be a theme during Mercury’s retrograde in Pisces. There is a more obvious theme of inaction and ambivalence due to feeling stuck, with mental and emotional energies in conflict. However, as we face difficulties expressing ourselves with words, we might find highly creative ways to communicate our message during this period.

Mercury retrograde in Pisces implies communication snafus revolving around expressing care, compassion, and concern as well as talking about the past or unfinished business, in particular.

It’s a strong period for returning to an old study, writing project, or personal interest. It can be a time of scattered thoughts and mental disarray, however. Themes occurring now can include slander, snitching, resurfacing comments from the past, and misrepresentation on the one hand and creative vision, spiritual learning, guiding, more compassionate viewpoints, and a better understanding of the past on the other.

 

Neptune enters the sign of Aries

Neptune is in Aries from March 30, 2025, to October 22, 2025, and later from January 26, 2026, to May 21, 2038, and then October 21, 2038, to March 23, 2039.

While Neptune flirts with Aries in 2025, it won’t be consistently in the sign until late January 2026 forward.

 

• Mar 30, 2025     7:59 AM  Neptune enters Aries
• Oct 22, 2025     5:48 AM  Neptune Rx enters Pisces
• Jan 26, 2026    12:37 PM  Neptune enters Aries
• May 21, 2038     8:17 PM  Neptune enters Taurus
• Oct 21, 2038     8:19 AM  Neptune Rx enters Aries
• Mar 23, 2039     4:40 PM  Neptune enters Taurus

While Neptune is in Aries, we idealize independence, courage, bravery, freedom, and fresh starts. However, we may not see ourselves clearly, or we might struggle with defining ourselves and our boundaries during this period. We might also inflate our importance in times of insecurity, which can be quite detrimental. Presenting false images of ourselves that we end up identifying with can be especially tempting during this period.

As we strive toward our ideal of more independence and individualism, we should watch that we don’t leave people behind. The image of a spiritual warrior championing for the vulnerable would be the better theme during this cycle. It’s a good idea to check in with ourselves to be sure we’re not harboring delusions of ourselves and others who we might imagine to be courageous or free. Other issues to watch for include impatience with those things we don’t understand or with intricate matters and being caught off guard by competitors or anger that we failed to recognize.

It can be a time of great wonder and impulse–we tend to boldly follow our intuition wherever it leads us. We have faith in our ability to innovate, lead, start anew, and win. We can be talented at inspiring others to action and promoting our beliefs, ideas, and missions. It can be a time of decidedly new, exciting, and modern styles in fashion, art, and music and perhaps radical or pioneering changes in beliefs, religion, and philosophy.

New approaches to spirituality can figure strongly, and compassionate acts can be a goal. Aries is too stern to express itself compassionately, preferring action and revolution to express its care. We’re ready to reject and do away with dogma. The need for change and innovation is felt innately and intuitively.