Note: All dates in this report are in EST (-5UTC) until 3/9 where they become EDT (-4UTC)
March is a “3” [3 (March) + 9 (2025) = 12 = 1+2=3] Universal Month in a “9” Universal Year. 3 is a manifestation number – in 3 months, we begin reaping the rewards of the months before it. The potential for this does show up astrologically, but it comes with some major caveats as we enter both retrograde season and eclipse season at the same time. Things are changing, and it’s going to happen fast.
The Set Up
We begin March with the Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, and the North Node in Pisces, Venus in Aries, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Gemini, Uranus in Taurus, and Pluto in Aquarius. There is a LOT of planetary motion this month: the Sun, Mercury, and Neptune will both enter Aries, and Mercury and Venus will both retrograde and move backward into Pisces. Notably, these planets will be moving across the border between 29° Pisces and 00° Aries – either in forward or backward motion. Read this for more context about what is going on.
The Nitty Gritty
March is THE liminal month of 2025, including two personal planet transits and our first eclipse season on the Pisces-Aries axis. Adjustments will have to be made, and it may appear like the future is unknowable until we’ve gotten through the thick of it. In times like these, we often need to go back to the basics and focus on the minutia in our lives, all of the things that help us get through the day-to-day.
The Lunar Nodes and Eclipse Season
The lunar nodes aren’t bodies in the sky. Instead, they are mathematical points indicating where the Sun must be in the sky to fall into alignment with the Earth and our Moon to create our solar and lunar eclipses. Over time, this point moves through the horoscope wheel, showing us the area of life that will be highlighted during our eclipse cycles. For the last year and a half, the Nodes were in Aries and Libra, and we were forced to confront our biases toward individuality and togetherness. In January, the Nodes moved onto the axis of Pisces and Virgo.
Pisces and Virgo (read here in the opposite order of the signs due to Pisces being our North Node placement) are both signs of service. From a wide enough viewpoint, we could say that Virgo is the fixer in the horoscope – its job is to serve the physical side of humanity. On the other hand, Pisces is the enlightened dreamer who serves the spiritual side of humanity. The two nodes can be read like a compass pointing toward the North Node and away from the South. In this way, we are getting a cosmic nudge towards spiritual service over the next year and a half.
Now, in March, we are entering eclipse season. Because this is the first eclipse on the new axis, we have mixed eclipses: our lunar moon is in Virgo (the new axis), but our solar eclipse is in Aries (the old axis). This is very in line with the energy of the month, a mixed bag of Pisces and Aries energy as the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Neptune move across the boundary between these two signs. We are both stuck in the old (Pisces) energy and heading into the new (Aries) energy by the season, but it works oppositely with the eclipses where the old (Aries) is making way for the new (Virgo).
Pisces can have a bit of a savior complex, but it comes with a timely cosmic reminder. Trying to save some but not all people likely damns everyone. To be a true savior, you have to be willing to save EVERYONE, even those that are unsavory or you deem undeserving. The North Node in Pisces is a profound reminder that all of us – every living being on this rock drifting through space – are in this together, whether we want to admit to it, or not. On a long enough timeline, what happens to one of us happens to all of us.
You may see climate change more in the fires raging through the American West, but it affects everyone.
You may see that the Trump administration’s actions are affecting America, but they will affect the whole world.
Elaborate as necessary.
It’s too early to guess how this iteration of the North Node in Pisces will show up for us, but it’s coming in hot (eclipses always do). Standard eclipse season advice applies: expect the unexpected, and trust what is showing up in your life during the two weeks between our lunar eclipse on 3/14 and our solar eclipse on 3/29 – eclipses have a way of realigning us with where we need to be in life, the best option is to let it happen. I will write more specifically about the upcoming eclipse cycle soon: stay tuned!
Venus
Venus retrogrades on 3/1 at 10° Aries. This is our second biggest news of the month, after our eclipse season, and it’s a pretty big deal, as personal planet retrogrades often are.
Venus rules love and relationships, as we all know, but she also rules pleasure and the getting along half of interpersonal relationships. She is in exile in the cardinal air sign of Aries, the sun sign opposite of one of her two domains, Libra. Where Libra is all about relationships and connections to the people in our lives, Aries is about independence and setting out on your own. You can see why this energy does not vibe well with Venus. This is an especially touchy subject as we have just exited a lunar node cycle on the Aries-Libra axis, and will be highlighted around our lunar eclipse on 3/29, which is our last eclipse in Aries for the next twelve years.
We rely on Venus to be our planetary negotiator, and with her retrograde in Aries, she is doubly out of order. This means it will be doubly hard to find peace or strike an accord—both on the global level and in our personal lives. We can expect everyone to want to be Number 1; nobody will give an inch. The best-case scenario is this stalls out essential conversations that can be resumed at a later date. The worst-case scenario involves escalation…
Unfortunately, we’ve had a poor alignment of personal planets since early December when Mars stationed retrograde in Leo and Cancer. Mercury will also retrograde at the same time as Venus. We’ve got a couple more months where it will be hard to get along with the people you actually like, let alone those you aren’t as fond of. This is the astrological weather; we have to live in it.
This can be remediated, but it will take a lot of self-awareness and heart energy. The more you can stay in your own heart energy—even when your Others are not theirs—the easier your relationships will be. You love this person, after all. This doesn’t have to become a fight. People who have unresolved relational trauma are going to have a more challenging time with this. Standard Venus retrograde advice applies: do not start or end a relationship while Venus is retrograde. It’s not likely to stick.
That said, retrogrades of Venus and Mars are definitely breakup weather. You shouldn’t worry about that if you are in a committed, loving relationship. Situationships, though? All those shitty off-again-on-again things? That couple who lives to fight it out? Venus and Mars retrogrades test the stability of all of our relationships, but most people notice it the most in romantic ones. Expect some restructuring. Things you thought were long resolved may surface for further exploration.
As Venus moves backward, she conjuncts Mercury on 3/11 and then the Sun on 3/23 – this will intensify and focus this interpersonal energy. Mercury may force us to think things through, and the Sun tends to shine its light on what we’ve been ignoring. By 3/26, Venus is sitting at 00° Aries (see more about this here), and on 3/27, she has moved backward into 29° Pisces to conjunct Neptune. This carries all of the energy of our pasts returning to haunt us – exes of all varieties might come out of the woodwork during this time. I’d say, “Don’t Do It” – you aren’t there anymore for a reason – but I know everyone needs to learn that for themselves in their own way.
It won’t last, but that’s a lesson all on its own.
Neptune has a way of pulling the wool over our eyes; as the modern ruler of Pisces, it is why many Pisceans seem to move through life with rose-colored glasses. What glitters is most definitely not gold during this time. Buyer beware. I hope you signed a prenup. Apply that liberally wherever it works in your life.
If you’re chasing waterfalls, you might be in a rude awakening as Neptune enters Aries on 3/30.
The big flex through all of this is to remain kind. I don’t say “nice” here on purpose. You don’t have to be nice, but it always pays to be kind. Many people are going to go through it during this retrograde, and if you are paying attention, there will be many chances to step around their shit instead of getting into it. Stay in your own lane and tend your own heart. Know enough to disengage when it’s not about you.
Venus retrogrades for 40 days (that…always reminds me of Jesus, but I digress), so this is a long transit, and it’s not going to feel good for anyone. That is by design. While Venus is in Aries, people will want to fight it out; while Venus is in Pisces, people are likelier to stick their heads in the sand. Eyes wide open make transits like this a lot easier. Retrogrades are designed to help you retrace the steps in your life and course correct, work with it rather than against it, and there are many rewards at the end of this cycle.
More reading: Energy Update: Venus retrograde
Mercury
But wait, there’s more!
On the day Venus retrogrades at 10° Aries (3/1), Mercury enters their pre-retrograde shadow at 26° Pisces. These two are near matches to each other, Venus will retrograde from 10° Aries to 25° Pisces, and Mercury will retrograde from 09° Aries to 26° Pisces. We’re about to get a double dose personal planet retrograde passing over the end of the horoscopes (Pisces) and the beginning (Aries).
Something needs to end during this time. Eventually, this is going to lead to a new beginning. But there’s some work to do yet before we get there.
Mercury retrograde is business as usual, it happens 3-4x times every year. Mercury and Venus’s retrogrades overlapping is not uncommon – it happened two (Venus) retrogrades ago in 2021-2022. To have the entirety of Mercury’s retrograde occur inside of Venus’s in both time and degree is highly unusual and notable. We should all pay attention to 25° Pisces to 10° Aries. This astrological double whammy that crosses over the most important point in the horoscope wheel (the start of Aries). Notice the way that Mercury and Venus are crossing over 00° Aries thrice: once in forward motion, then back again in retrograde, and a third time in forward motion.
This is the secret to retrogrades, they comes in three parts: the pre-retrograde shadow, the retrograde, and the post-retrograde shadow. Any planets in our hot zone – in the skies or in your charts – are going to get tag teamed by Mercury and Venus. While they are both retrograde between 3/11 and 4/7 relationships are going to be rocky and nobody is going to want to talk about it. Maybe that will work to our advantage?
Time will tell. Or, it won’t, because the memory will get lost in the liminality of Mercury’s journey on the low road.
Again, I want to bring up the feeling of endings in the last degrees of Pisces that are impossible to ignore. This is the end of the astrological year (Sun in Aries, first day of Spring, 3/20) and these retrogrades weirdly enough, coincides with Lent and Jesus’s lost 40 days that lead up to his death, that also, is always a part of the late winter or early spring. If you are a Catholic, this is definitely a time to be paying attention.
It will be all mists, all of the time. Metaphorically speaking. Expect technology and communications to be seriously on the fritz. Mercury likes coffee. Putting it out there because I find that my days during their retrograde always go better when I share my cup of coffee with them in the morning. My partner pointed out to me recently that this is a sacrifice, and I guess that it is.
For the first half of the month, we will be in Mercury’s retrograde shadow, which means it’ll be looming large ahead of us. We might not notice then when the fighting begins. Since Venus’s retrograde coincides exactly with Mercury’s pre-retrograde shadow AND we’re headed into eclipse season, this might be a very underrated Mercury retrograde cycle. If you’re a crafty magician, you might be able to find some interest in roads when our words themselves go unseen.
We will notice when Mercury enters Aries, I think – this is one of the big magic days I mentioned in my post about this rare opportunity we’re having.
Things will slow down a lot as Mercury retrogrades on 3/15 (the ides, too, yet another death reference here, folks). When I say the Low Road here, I do mean the path humans cannot walk on and return. In Greek mythology, Hermes was the God who was able to enter Hades and bring Persephone back to her mother. See that death reference continues, and think about the earth coming back to life as we move into springtime. Beware, lest you too become a pillar of salt, I guess? Does that mean you aren’t supposed to look back? That doesn’t seem quite right…
If that is the path you need to travel right now, Mercury is your guide.
The Sun conjuncts retrograde Mercury at 04° Aries on 3/24 in a close stellium with retrograde Venus. If you are comfortable working with both Mercury and Venus in retrograde, this is a powerful day to take full stock of your life. Work the Sun and let Mercury and Venus guide you.
Finally, on the day of our last solar eclipse in Aries, Mercury drifts back into Pisces, the sign of their fall. This is yet another hit on that 29-00° point. Seemingly seconds later, Neptune enters Pisces.
By the end of the month, we might be feeling right and fully pickled by this double retrograde stew.
Our Lights: The Sun and the Moon
The Sun and the Moon got fourth billing this month – that’s how you know that things have gotten really juicy up in here. We’re rounding out Pisces season in the dark depths of a Venus retrograde and entering Aries season, which will light up our lives and that potent 00° Aries spot in all of our charts. Both our lunar events are eclipses. So yeah, its gonna be a lot.
The end of Pisces is power-packed right now with Saturn, Neptune, and the North Node in a heavy stellium. The Sun is going to have to conjunct all three of these and our retrograde Mercury and Venus before it has gotten itself through this mess. And we are the Sun, metaphorically, in this equation. The Sun is the seat of light in our natal birth charts, AND in our lives. The sun’s movement in our skies changes our seasons, and we are entering springtime.
Before we get there, the Sun will square Jupiter (unlucky, generally) on 3/2 and trine Mars (energetic but also not great) on 3/8 but with so much going on otherwise, these might be unremarkable.
Our Sun conjuncts Saturn at 22° Pisces on 3/12 which reminds us – irrevocably – that hard times are hard. This is a call to action to step up, Saturn is a lot of pressure, but pressure is what makes diamonds.
The next day (3/12) we experience a total lunar eclipse at 23° Virgo, tightly opposed to the stellium of the Sun, Saturn, Neptune, and the North Node in Pisces. This is the real deal of eclipses and not one to fuck around with lightly. It’s also worth noting that Jupiter is in a wide t-square to the Moon and South Node in Virgo and the stellium in Pisces. We should thank our lucky stars that Mercury and retrograde Venus are quite far away in Aries during this lunation.
That is enough. We don’t need any more planets involved.
Our eclipsed Virgo Full Moon is a 9/3 Full Moon.
6 (Virgo Moon) + 12 (Pisces Sun) = 18 = 1+8 = 9.
9 (Virgo Full Moon) + 3 (March 2025) = 12 = 1+2 = 3.
It should surprise no one that this is a 9/3 full moon. Virgo moons are always endings, they occur in the sign of Pisces, after all. And this one holds the power of pure manifestation through the number 3. It’s worth noting that three multiplied by itself, is 9. In this way, this energy can be used forward or backward, you could work it to banish or end something significant in your life, to create something new, or to multiply your blessings. Keep in mind that you want to set real and reasonable goals because Saturn is no fool. Eclipse magic is wild and untenable, DNI if you’re a control freak.
The Sun conjuncts the North Node at 27° Pisces on 3/17 which is going to be a huge check on our new normal. The Head of the Dragon is in Pisces now: are you being true to your own heart? Are you thinking about how that will affect all of us? How can you care for your physical self and be the wild and free creature your soul yearns to be? Pisces has a tendency towards martyrdom that is very likely to come to the surface as the North Node transits through our 12th sign. In its most mature form, Pisces is extremely altruistic and deeply caring for humanity as a whole. We need this right now. I believe that what happens to one of us happens to all of us, the more of us who can align with this Piscean energy, the more chance it will spread.
Our North Node in Pisces REALLY CARES. OUT LOUD. Probably in tears about it, but we can’t blame anyone for that, now, can we?
I don’t doubt that the whole fucking world needs to have a good old cry about what is happening in America right now. Because that’s the Piscean Dragon lesson: we are not alone in this. What happens to one of us affects all of us. This earth really isn’t that big. Not now, with near-instant communication, global travel, and nuclear weapons.
There are some deep holes we’ve gotten ourselves into. The world and, for many of us, in our lives. And we are going to tromp on them over and over again through these eclipses coinciding with these retrograde cycles. There’s no way around it. Know it’s coming, and shore yourself up the best that you can.
That’s will mean something very different for everyone, and that’s okay.
The Sun conjuncts Neptune exactly on 3/19 and enters Aries the next day. Happy Spring Equinox! We’ve made it through another astrological year. This is Sun in 00° Aries, the most potent of all of our 00° Aries days.
In Aries, the Sun makes an instant stellium with retrograde Mercury and Venus, and sextiles Pluto in Aquarius. This will likely create some turbulence and trigger much of what is coming up because of our double retrogrades.
And then, on 3/29, we experience our last eclipsed new moon in Aries in this lunar cycle. At 09° Aries, the solar-lunar conjunction is fairly far from the hard stellium in Pisces, but eclipses pack a punch whether they play with the other planets, or not. If you like to make big magical gestures and just let them go to let the universe do with it what it will, this is the day for you.
Our eclipsed Aries New Moon is a 2/5 New Moon.
1 (Aries Moon) + 1 (Aries Sun) = 2.
2 (Aries new moon) + 3 (March 2025) = 5.
Two is a connection number and fives can be used to break things apart, for good or for ill. I would forgo working with these numbers and go back to the basics of Aries/1 energy. This has strong fuck around and find out energy to it if that’s your vibe.
Since this is the last eclipsed Aries moon for a while, you could apply it to what you’ve learned in the last year and a half while the North node was in Aries.
Mars
Mars is finally in forward motion, but still in its retrograde shadow in the sign of its fall, Cancer. He isn’t hindering us much this month, but he’s certainly not helping anything either. As the ruler of Aries (and in the sign square to Aries), he may prove a minor aggravation all month long. Thankfully, he doesn’t square off with either of our two retrograde planets.
Neptune
By its nature, Neptune obscures so its often hard to pin down the effects of our nubulous outer planet. It is changing signs this month, though, which is worth noting. What will Neptune in Aries bring us this time around?
I think it’s impossible to know except in hindsight. Neptune was last in Aries in 1875, too much of our lives has changed to even try to make predictions of its impact.
Looking Ahead
The second half of Aries season will be smoother than the first because we will finally be done with solar eclipses in Aries, and that is a huge relief. We need to move through the rest of Mercury and Venus’ retrogrades, though, so we are not completely out of the water, it has just stopped churning quite so viciously. The eclipse hangovers may be long lived this time, but with the mists of Mercury gathering, its hard to tell as of yet.
The Details
3/1 – Mercury enters its pre-retrograde shadow 26° Pisces, Venus retrogrades 10° Aries
3/2 – Sun in Pisces square Jupiter in Gemini, Mercury conjunct Neptune 29° Pisces, Mercury conjunct North Node 28° Pisces
3/3 – Mercury enters Aries
3/5 – Mercury in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
3/8 – Sun in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer
3/9 – DST
3/11 – Mercury conjunct retrograde Venus 08° Aries
3/12 – Sun conjunct Saturn 22° Pisces
3/14 – Total lunar eclipse 23° Virgo, Sun in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus
3/15 – Mercury retrogrades 09° Aries
3/17 – Sun conjuncts North Node 27° Pisces
3/19 – Sun conjuncts Neptune 29° Pisces
3/20 – Sun enters Aries
3/21 – retrograde Venus in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
3/23 – Sun conjunct retrograde Venus 03° Aries, Sun in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
3/24 – Sun conjunct retrograde Mercury 04° Aries
3/25 – retrograde Mercury in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius
3/26 – Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries
3/27 – retrograde Venus enters Pisces, retrograde Venus conjunct Neptune 29° Pisces
3/29 – partial lunar eclipse 09° Aries, retrograde Mercury enters Pisces, retrograde Mercury conjunct Neptune 29° Pisces
3/30 – Neptune enters Aries
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