ECLIPSES AND THE PISCES ARIES JOURNEY

The ocean at Isla Colón, Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Photo by Deb

Welcome to Eclipse Season, astrodarlings!

This is a highly unusual eclipse season as we experience the first eclipse of 2025, the Total Lunar Eclipse on March 14th in the sign of Virgo. This opens the eclipse corridor between now and the second eclipse on March 29th. That one is a partial Solar Eclipse in the sign of Aries. Eclipse seasons are always potent portals of transformation, bringing revelations, endings, and new beginnings. But this particular eclipse season carries an extra layer of complexity—Mercury and Venus will be retrograde, turning our focus inward and urging us to re-evaluate key aspects of our lives.

This Virgo Full Moon eclipse highlights themes of practicality, health, routines, and service. It calls us to refine our daily lives, release perfectionist tendencies, and create space for healing. Hidden truths may surface, urging us to reassess how we care for our bodies and minds. It occurs at the South Node and asks us to release any old habits that no longer serve us, especially in the areas of health and work. It also reminds us to not focus our attention on analysis and over thinking our lives, with too many details and being self critical. With the North Node in Pisces with the Sun, we are looking towards trusting our intuition and spiritual guidance we receive and to make effort towards healing our minds, emotions and bodies.

In two weeks, with the New Moon eclipse, we know that Aries energy is bold, fiery, and pioneering. This eclipse signals a powerful new beginning, pushing us to step into leadership, embrace courage, and take decisive action. It’s a call to break free from stagnation and forge a new path with confidence. This theme is going to play out again and again this year and into 2026. The story of now is very important in each of our lives.

Venus has been retrograde since March 1st and Mercury will retrograde on March 15th. Both of these inner planets are retrograding in Aries and going back into the sign of Pisces, emphasizing a shift from passionate desire to spiritual and emotional depth. They are preparing us for the greater transits of Saturn and Neptune who will also make these same shifts from Pisces to Aries and back and forth between now and next year. Retrograde Venus asks us to revisit old relationship dynamics, reassess our values, and confront any illusions we may have about love and abundance. Meanwhile, Mercury retrograde urges us to balance action with introspection. Logical plans may need to be reworked with a more intuitive approach, and we may find ourselves drawn back to unfinished emotional business.

Where do Pisces and Aries land in your astrological chart? What houses are they in and do you have planets there? The 0° Aries point is the beginning of the zodiac and wherever this is positioned in your astrological chart is a powerful point. This is the 29° Pisces to 0° Ares flip. It represents the Easter story, the end of disillusionment and the path of surrender. This is the place of spiritual exhaustion, where much feels intolerable. Where we think we cannot go a step further. And in the moment when we make that flip to Aries, we awaken and find good luck.

So much is in Pisces right now, not just because it’s Pisces season and the Sun is there. But we have the North Node of destiny, Neptune and Saturn there and we’re expecting the re-entry of both Mercury and Venus. Expect to feel exhausted at certain times, expect to feel the pointlessness as well. This is what Pisces is all about: surrendering to possibilities that exist if you go within, because at this moment everything on the outside will always disappoint you. It's all on the inside, you need to surrender to the universal plan for you. When you surrender, the Universe carries you to a place and puts you in a miracle.

We’re going to be having more conversations like this for a while, as we take the Pisces Aries journey with these planets. So, stay tuned!

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