mercury stations retrograde | more of March 2025's karmic storyline takes shape
Friday, March 14, 2025
Hot on the heels of an UBER powerful Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, Virgo ruler Mercury stations retrograde. This is happening at 9 degrees Aries - the degree of our next UBER powerful Eclipse in two weeks.
We know that whatever gets held up now, whatever turns around, whatever is delayed - is important and meant to be CLOSELY LOOKED AT, discussed. Arguments will matter (more than they might appear to) and what we are saying and thinking is IMPORTANT.
With Mercury in fiery Aries - words can be, and sometimes might need to be - blunt, angry, passionate, just be CAREFUL. If a disagreement needs to happen it will, but we don't want to say things we don't mean and will regret later. Mercury retrograde can bring a conversation or situation we thought we were done with back around. PAY ATTENTION. This is important. We will be back here in two weeks with an ECLIPSE!
For now, with Mercury retrograde expect possible delays, hold-ups and turn-arounds.
Sometimes Mercury retrograde can see us going back to an old situation to kind of 'pick up where we left off' - sometimes this makes sense and this time it will undoubtedly be karmic but know that the situation might turn around again when Mercury stations direct in April.
On March 29th, just a couple hours after the Solar Eclipse in Aries and a couple hours before Neptune enters Aries (for the first time in over 150 years) - Mercury is going to back into Pisces. THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE. We will have Saturn, the North Node, Venus retrograde and Neptune tightly conjunct in Pisces when Mercury backs into Pisces right on top of NEPTUNE - ruler of all this Pisces! They will all be trining Mars at 22 degrees (a powerful number) who will be in an EXACT square to Chiron at 22 degrees Aries (a powerful number).
What is all this Pisces?! Prayers answered? Spiritual awakening? Great grief? Major anesthesia? Water events? BIG magic? Major escapes from reality? Certainly, very old knots are dissolving.
The Mars/Chiron square has been an ongoing aspect since the middle of October when they first squared off. Then they squared again at the beginning of February with Mars retrograde and now we have the FINAL square. PAINFUL ACTIONS.
We are FORCED to confront the past. Very old family/country/roots and security issues and vulnerabilities and wounds are triggered.
We will be feeling VERY SENSITIVE. This square is going to happen with Mercury falling back into Pisces. Feelings will be uber raw, but can we have compassion? Can we forgive? Can we forget? Do we need to surrender/retreat/rest? We have been here before and we are older and wiser now. NOTE - this final square between Mars and Chiron is actually exact on March 26th as Venus retrograde meets Neptune. This is a BIG part of Venus retrograde's return to Pisces. This is the last time Venus will meet Neptune in Pisces in our lifetime and it happens just as Mars - bringing the war home - makes his final painful square to Chiron. Neptune is a conduit to something much bigger than we are and this story is, too.
There is a connection - right now - through this first Eclipse and Mercury retrograde with what is going on later. An old chapter we have long forgotten needs to close out. Know that events from about two weeks ago - before the first Eclipse this week - until the middle of April are very KARMIC. There is a reason we are having TWO of three of our personal planets retrograde for this time period. Retrograde planets are always asking us to re-align something. To look within. To slow down.
This time period is about major endings that have been VERY LONG IN COMING that lead to very fresh starts.
Karmic/fated - must happen.
For now, the usual Mercury retrograde stuff applies. Anything started with "re" becomes the most effective use of our time. Re-thinking, re-evaluating, re-flecting, re-peating, re-unions, re-novations, etc. Mercury retrogrades are re-curring opportunities to shift out of old mental patterns. We are often asked to pull back from the world and face our shadow self in some way. When we’ve exhausted the possibilities for what we can gain by projecting our shadow self onto the external events and people in our lives, we are ready to face them within our own mind (and heart).
Know that Mercury in Aries wants fast answers and Mercury retrograde is not so compatible with anything 'rapid-fire' causing tension and frustration. Don't shoot off an email (or your mouth) without double checking what you are saying and who it is going to. Not listening and rushing can be especially costly. Quick can be careless and come back to bite us.
Take a breath.
Mercury will be retrograde until April 7th.
xo all
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
the astrology of march 2025 | part I - Pisces pile up ahead, swimming with the fishies, heads up for some march madness
Thursday, February 20, 2025
And you might be asking yourself if things can get any madder?
Well, let's look ahead a little bit.
(and how mad you think things are now, at least in the United States, depends a great deal on whether you think Donald Trump and company are breaking things or showing us what is broken)
Mars is set to station direct in three days - after being retrograde since December (we are now back where we were in October). Mars stations at 17 degrees Cancer, where he is now and where he will sit, as us, for another couple weeks. I can't say it is full steam ahead, but I will say we have FIVE DAYS with all the planets direct (although Mars isn't actually moving).
Then we get the New Moon at 9 degrees Pisces (we have been in a cycle of 9 degree New Moons) on February 27th. ALL planets are direct at this New Moon in the final sign/the sign of endings - Pisces.
Then on March 1st, Venus will station retrograde. This is her 2025 journey from Aries back into Pisces. We talked about that HERE and we will talk about it again. We have to go BACK before we go forward.
We need to find a BETTER ENDING.
So, now we will have Venus retrograde in Aries, the Sun in Aries and Mars (who rules Aries) direct, when Mercury enters Aries on March 3rd. Aries is cardinal fire. Something is starting.
But we will only get so far, because on March 15th, Mercury will station retrograde at 9 degrees Aries. 9 degrees Aries will be where we have the FINAL Aries Solar Eclipse at the end of March.
In the meantime, before Mercury stations retrograde - and this is important because Mercury rules Virgo - we get the FIRST Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 14th. ECLIPSE SEASON IS LIT. Juno will station retrograde at 1 degree Sagittarius (now both our RELATIONSHIP planetary bodies are moving backward) and heading back into Scorpio (intimacy/intensity). Then Vesta stations retrograde in Scorpio. Fixed water. Emotions we are holding onto. Then Venus retrograde moves back into Pisces. This is on March 27th.
Then on March 29th, we have the BIG and FINAL Eclipse in Aries - 9 degrees - AND Mercury backs from Aries into Pisces on the same day and then a few hours later on March 30th - Neptune, the modern ruler of Pisces who has been in Pisces since 2011 - ENTERS ARIES.
BOOM.
(note - this "enters Aries" thing is a first pass/sneak peek because Neptune will be back in Pisces on October 22nd for about three months)
On March 30th as Neptune leaves Pisces for Aries FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 165 YEARS - crossing an important collective Aries point of 0 degree Aries (where Neptune will meet Saturn in 2026 and time will run out again) - we will have the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, the North Node and Ceres in Pisces.
What madness/magic is this?!
Before we can even begin to guess let's back up and think about Pisces.
Pisces is the final sign. The glyph for Pisces is two fish swimming in opposite directions. Imagine one going all the way to the edge of the sky and the other one all the way to the bottom of the sea and then they come back together/touch base and then flow back apart again. In some ways maybe this is the story of US.
Pisces rules our collective 12th house where there is no separation between us and everything else. There is no time. There is no space. This is where we find God/spirit/the Universe. Pisces is the last house - it rules endings and the things we do last. Because the 12th house is behind the 1st house (our physical selves) we can't easily see what is there. It rules what is behind us, what is done behind our back, what we have put away, our past, the things we have forgotten, memory, our ancestors, sleep, charities, prisons, hospitals, the ocean, water.
The positive expressions of Piscean energy include - connection, imagination, music, art, empathy, compassion, healing, spirituality, transcendence of the physical world. The negative expressions of any energy are really the positive expressions taken to an extreme. So, imagination becomes delusion/lies, empathy becomes martyrdom, transcendence (lack of physical connection) becomes addiction, escapism, sickness, mental illness, self-sabotage.
Think about the symbol for Pisces ruler Neptune - the trident (picture Aquaman without all the muscles). The trident is a HOOK. And with all this Pisces, and especially since 2023 with Saturn in Pisces, too - there is alot to get HOOKED ON. Alcohol, spiritual bypassing, movie marathons, SCROLLING, video games, escapes, mental illness, likes, lies, AI's algorithms that have us continually watching/looking. There is good stuff out there we can hook onto, too, of course, but for many people this is about the stuff we can hook EASILY. The stuff that will be continually biting no matter how lazy a cast we have made or how cheap our bait is.
Saturn (reality) went into Pisces (not reality) in March 2023. On a Virgo Full Moon. THAT was the Moon that allowed us to see reality just before reality changed.
So now with Saturn preparing to leave Pisces in May - and, yes, he will be back in Pisces, too - we have not only a Virgo Full Moon, but a Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse.
The Vedic astrologers who use a different system than western astrologers are anticipating something HUGE and unprecedented happening at the end of March.
In Part II this weekend we will look at the charts and see what is going on. I am glad the North Node (our collective best way forward) is in Pisces right now!
HAVE FAITH.
xo all
Some other tidbits that are not so 'bitty' -
The United States Chiron (wounded healer) return is exact right now. Chiron is back to his position from July 4, 1776. Benevolent Venus is approaching Chiron, but will turn around before she gets there. So will Mercury. There is healing coming, but there is this kind of festering first/airing of dirty laundry.
Nessus (trusting untrustworthy people with precious things, revenge themes, being destroyed by a dead enemy) is traveling with Saturn (authority, structure) and Saturn is back at 19 degrees Pisces where he stationed retrograde last summer and then popped that LONG squat. Elon Musk has a natal Venus (finances) and Nessus EXACT conjunction at 19 degrees Gemini, so sextiling (creative opportunity) our current Saturn/Nessus as he cuts spending, and again, your feelings about this can vary depending on whether you think he is breaking things or showing us what is broken. Surely the untrustworthy/revenge thing is something to think about either way.
Ukraine has an natal EXACT Juno/Ascendent tightly conjunct their natal North Node - destined to play Juno. And right now Juno (partners, what we do to retain power, Jupiter's wife and the United States is Jupiter ruled - IS Jupiter) is squaring the Sun and opposing Uranus. Trump has a very tight Sun/Uranus/North Node, so is destined to play Uranus and the Sun in the same way Ukraine is destined to play Juno. Their relationship is tense/frustrating.
Pope Francis is hospitalized with double pneumonia. A hopeful Sagittarius with a tightly conjunct Sun/North Node - also destined to play the Sun, although a different kind. Francis was sworn in during another Pisces pile-up in March 2013 with transiting Pluto on his natal Mercury, Venus and the Sun sandwiching his natal Saturn (he is having his third Saturn return now) and with Mars at the 0 degree Aries collective Aries point.
Germany, Europe's biggest economy heads to the polls Sunday with transiting powerful Pluto on their natal Jupiter and transiting Jupiter tightly conjunct their natal Venus/Astraea (do they have a woman running?) and trining Neptune (for some illusion/delusion, but also the ruler of all the current Pisces) and applying to their natal retrograde Mercury which is exactly conjunct Trump's Sun (!). The Pisces pile-up is in their 2nd house maybe indicating the economy/finances/resource issues is driving things?
(Astraea was discovered in 1847 by a German amateur astronomer named Hencke. At the time, the four Goddess asteroids – Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta – were still called PLANETS. Astraea’s discovery announced there were likely many more asteroids in that asteroid belt, and the four planets/Goddess energies were demoted to asteroids (kind of like what Eris recently did to Pluto). I think of these asteroids as the feminine energy placeholders (probably something like our junk DNA) for the discarded Goddesses during the patriarchal twist (the one son/sun shift where the power moved to the churches/governments) unleashed during the Cappy time-frame of the Age of Pisces (now ending). Astraea is the Goddess of service, peace and justice who became part of the constellation Virgo/Libra when she was the last Goddess to leave the Earth after Pandora's box was opened at the end of the Golden Age/Silver Age. She was said to return at the time of the New Earth/New Golden Age and thought to represent (in our charts) both this new awakening energy - where we come back to ourselves - and the part of us that might stay too long/have trouble letting go of things that are no longer good for us.)
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