New Moon coming soon! The next month will be a time when our faith will yield a new “tactile intelligence” which should bring renewed hope to many.

This one shines a light on the abundance we’ve achieved the past year while marking a turning point in the emergent Aquarian energy field.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 21 Pisces, requiring emotional or social empathy or a sense of connection with others. As Mars is the same degree as last month’s New Moon, those themes of disappointment teaching us strength and resilience will be dealt with firmly these next four weeks. If you are disappointed, examine your expectations and assumptions and see if you failed to take some things into account before now, and be joyous that you’re “breaking on through to the other side.” With Venus in the Transfiguration Zone, we have a highly transformational four weeks ahead of us.

Mastering discouragement and disappointment is part of learning how the ego is enslaved to external things. We have to learn that not all things are possible while cultivating skill in seeing what we can bring forth. It involves vision, plan, and a time to execute the plan. This Lunation gives us all we need to see how to do all of these things with relative ease. The path from ignorance to skill can bring a sense of joy as we overcome limitations we no longer need!

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This activating, transfiguring, joyous and forward-looking New Moon at 21 Pisces occurs at 1 am PST, 9 am GMT on March. This is the next phase of Lunations with Pluto in Aquarius, showing us the sprouting of Aquarian seeds of the future which will impact generations to come. We

We’ve had Mercury, Venus, and Mars all conjunct Pluto, setting new forms of 1 Aquarius into motion. These are core Plutonic principles related to the global future oriented work in motion since 2020. Any conjunction with Pluto brings pinpoint clarity and a penetrating insight to the core of whatever is coming together.

We are now in a time of the Sun shining Light on all of us in our Pisces sector to bring the light of compassion and empathy as we close out the year cycle. We continue to be in the heart of the last Grand Compression, with all planets still within a 108+ degree span. We’re now turning a corner on our journey into our “newly opened lands,” and how we mobilize for some benefit these next four weeks will bring major rewards in April and May.

This New Moon will jumpstart Pisces energy wherever it falls in our chart. As that sign is now a focus of activity, along with a healthy dose of Aquarius and Taurus, use your clear view of future patterns and the new lands you’re entering to help you prove your worth as you “galvanize into action” to deal with some sort of “cosmic visitation,” even if it’s very subtle.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Pisces has Jupiter in Taurus as its ruler. As Pisces is in the axis of the Archetype of the Priest(ess), healer, Shaman and Guide, we enter into a period of guiding others or being guided into a new awareness. This is the Light of feeling vast feelings, saying goodbye to whatever needs to flow down the time stream, and allowing ourselves to experience a new “kinesthetic intelligence,” where we learn through touching and being touched, on all life levels.

The Lunation is ruled by Jupiter in Taurus, which is ruled by Venus in Aquarius, which is ruled by Saturn in Pisces. This is a closed chain of dispositors which share the power of ruling all the other planets except Neptune, which occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

So this month all the planets are ruled by the “chain of dispositors” created by Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. These rule all the other planets except Neptune. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs.

28 months ago we began the pattern which ended in April 2023 where the New Moon Sun was in the same sign as the following Full Moon Sun. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of the Natural pattern we shifted into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

The New Moon Solar eclipse at 30 Aries in 2023 was the first in the new sequence, as the subsequent Full Moon Lunar eclipse was at 15 Taurus/Scorpio, indicating the Light of the seed forms of that New Moon was illuminated in the next sign energy two weeks later. This month the New Moon Sun is in Pisces while the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Sun is in Aries. This indicates that while the seed forms of the New Moon are of an Piscean nature, the fulfillment in form at the Full Moon illuminates Aries energy. This New Moon falls at 21 Pisces, and the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse two weeks from now falls at 6 Aries/Libra.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Eclipses Effects in Play

Recent eclipses have already removed parts of our lives where we have 30 Aries, 22 Libra, and both 6 and 15 Taurus/Scorpio. We’re all learning to refocus our methods and our area of effective expression, found new things to nurture and care about, and removed many obstructions to our ability to “tear away from the known and familiar, gambling on a dream.” We now know old methods don’t work as we continue our work of bridge building. Soon we will see the Light of a special facet of our personality while either seeing the results of what we visualized before now, or seeing the need for a more careful visualization of what we want to see made manifest.

We are now freed of many old limitations and concerns. The Libra eclipse is showing us the value to surrender to the new ways of life we’re already living. What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into? And now we approach another series of eclipses, with the coming Solar eclipse a spectacular Light show AND another point getting shut down in our Aries sector so we may grow through the North Node.

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter, ruler of the Lunation, is at 13 Taurus in its third pass over its RX span, giving us a chance to apply our new answers and new approaches to build the bridges which need to be built which will carry us to the coming Jupiter conjunct Uranus in late April on a degree of “abundantly rich confirmation.”

While Jupiter remains in Taurus, it brings its energy to the sign which enjoys life to the fullest, so continue to accept the expanded capacity for a greater joy taking birth! As this month shows Venus quintile Jupiter, there are exquisite and unique joyous gifts and blessings to be had as we dance with the energies of transfiguration!

Saturn, as part of the Chain of Dispositors, is in direct motion and speeding up as it tests our qualifications this month. Soon it will enter into its 2024 Shadow Zone at 13 Pisces, and we’ll be in our first pass over the span from 13-20 Pisces which will guarantee we receive what we need for nourishment in the future. We’ve now finished Saturn’s lessons which began June 2023 in hearing a call for a life renewal, and by late March it’ll be complete. We now can skillfully use certain Pisces energies to flow into the next stage of our life renewal as we exchange energies with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers in an easy flow within the One Life.

Looking Back, Looking Forward

This is the thirteenth New Moon of the Saturn in Pisces era. We are now in the fifth year of the cycle set into motion at Saturn’s rare and very powerful conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn in January 2020, which I discuss a few paragraphs down.

Taking a look back, 2020 brought a “cosmic visitation” which mobilized us to “escape from adverse conditions.” That year Nature challenged us to listen, look, and learn that we are not separate from Her, and evaluate what parts of our Self-discipline and limitations worked and which didn’t. Whatever happened then will erupt in new forms this year and next thanks to Pluto!

2021 involved spiritual acceleration by getting a vision and a plan, with “New mutations” arising from Cosmos in late 2021 and all of 2022. June 2022 marked a threshold in our emergent Aquarian work when we began to learn how to administer “spiritual power” effectively. We then had to "rise to some emergency" and overcome something “out of control" between October 2022 and March 2023. Since the Summer of 2023 we’ve gone through a renewal, and now are in a time of showing our skill.

One of Saturn’s divine qualities is understanding as a prelude to wisdom. With Jupiter’s transit through Aquarius leading the Saturn transit, Saturn tracked what Jupiter opened. As Saturn traverses the span where Jupiter has danced, it will crystallize its understanding of what that span of experience is about, and how we can use it wisely if we find the right structure and discipline. This year and next Saturn structures what opened when Jupiter was in Pisces.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, Saturn at 12 Pisces is the “gateway to the Light.” This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves an awareness of subtle factors and the need to “prove ourselves” able to fulfill some office or task. With Saturn leading the Light, we can expect some “hard realities,” “mature empathy,” or “organized endings” to be evident right before we receive the tactile awareness which is promised by the Sun.

Saturn will continue to lead the Sun (except when the Moon is between it and the Sun) until the Sun conjuncts Neptune on March 17, when that planet will be the Gateway to the Light. The next shift will be in early April when Venus shall lead the light after its conjunction with Neptune, followed on April 11 by Mercury after its Inferior Conjunction with the Sun. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now sails the open seas of Pisces, the part of us learning how to be spiritually mature and grateful for our understanding of healthy boundaries and self-disciplines is now in a seascape of the collective feelings of all humanity over all time. This is a powerful restructuring spiritual force wherever we have early Pisces in our chart. Saturn now leads us in a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices, and learning a sober view of the collective human condition.

Between 2018 and early 2023, Saturn taught us to be more spiritually effective within a group work than we were before that period. It taught us skills we’ve used since then in the areas where we have Capricorn and Aquarius, and now helps us achieve closures so that we’ll be able to jump into the new era coming when Saturn enters Aries in May of 2025.

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A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

As I mentioned earlier, we’re now beginning the fifth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation on the same degree. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

That Aquarian pulse is renewed each year at this time, especially with Mars also giving another two year boost to the energies. This year we’re almost at the end of the last “Great Compression” for 330 years, so pay attention to what’s going on in your Aquarius and Pisces sectors!

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. As always, Saturn in the harvest signs at the end of the zodiac challenge us to ask “What is our purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do we need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?

No, and blessedly, will never be a factor activating the collective for the rest of our lives. This was a 30 year phenomenon which has now passed out of orb, and we are finally back to Neptune sextile Pluto and the coming Uranus sextile Neptune and trine Pluto. The spiritual field has shifted for the better!

If you want to know more about this hard edged Special Evolutionary configuration in play for three decades, I created an article which sums up the three versions of the Grand Irrationality in play during those years. I discuss what it is and which zones of the zodiac have been most impacted and when. You can find all you need to know about this configuration associated with widespread irrationality and hard-edged “forks in the road of destiny” we’ve all confronted at various times by going to The Grand Irrationality is Over (1993-2023).

This evolutionary configuration has been activated over the years when any planet moved through any of the hot zones of the configuration. However, even though it’s ended remember that almost everyone on Earth born the past 30 years has this in their charts! And all the eclipses these past years have also had it, including the April and May 2023 eclipses. So we’ll still have it working in the background for years to come. I’ll speak more about the aspects when I cover the special configurations.

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is direct at 18 Aries, giving us yet another look at how to “heal into our Higher Self” through the themes of that degree. 18 Aries shows us we need to balance going inward with going outward, finding a healthy rhythm between “Being” and “doing” so we can find time to rest and preserve our energies. It’s part of mentoring and being mentored about actions which focus our potency or which move us toward our potential. Chiron will remain in its shadow zone through early April when it transits 20 Aries, after which it will move us into a new level of social or emotional potency, eventually going SRX at 24 Aries.

In the bigger picture, Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron in early 2023 began a very long wave healing and mentoring cycles wherever we have mid- Aries. Because Chiron’s last direct station was at 16 Aries, it means in 2024 Chiron is mentoring us and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through getting a new inspiration while seeing the relationship between the conscious and unconscious sides of life.

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the second decan of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2022, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 16 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct recently, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles in 2024 - Chiron Stationary Direct at 16 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Neptune now approaches the end of its depth immersion in its home sign of Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

This New Moon shows Neptune at 28 Pisces, the degree of its retrograde station in 2023 promising abundance. This Lunation renews the focus on that theme and given the Sun will conjunct Neptune on that degree, we can expect forms of abundance to be “lit up” somehow! The abundance we’ve been promised and/or received has been helping us harvest all which is perfect for our individual needs. Look at the “aliveness” in the world around you, as well as your “garden of Life and Mind,” and listen to the Earth – you could find a deep mystery which will accompany abundance in 2024! The end of Pisces allows us expanded “non-local knowing.”

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. Jupiter raced through Pisces and Aries at perihelion after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials to be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn crystallized in 2022, and the promise of fortunate endings made when Jupiter was in early Pisces May through July 2021 and again in early 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

Recent Solar and Lunar eclipses continue to remove old elements of our previous “field and focus” so we may move into new ways of doing our Being. This continues the shutting down of old ways of “doing our Being” in our late Aries and Libra sectors, as well as our early Taurus and Scorpio sectors. Continue to release, “let go, let god,” and get clear about where your heart’s loyalties are.

We’re now at a stage where, having heard Saturn’s “call to self-renewal,” we can now flow forward into our mastery, our archetypal Self, and our part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediately lightness which follows will help us move easily into a new life adventure. This is the edge of a quickening in our Saturn experience, with a new dedication coming by March.

We are now solidly in the dawning of the emergent Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and see how all of these are related to relationships in the past. We are now on a new adventure, so enjoy the initiatives and the productivity of Jupiter in favorable aspect to Saturn through May 2024. This eases the pace as we anchor the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

Because we have all the inner planets within the outer planet span, the primary focus for the next month is in the larger span between 2 Aquarius and 20 Taurus, and more specifically the in the 40+ degree span between Mars at 21 Aquarius and Mercury at 1 Aries. As the inner planets all conjunct the North Node between now and May, there will be a major focus on the Nodes. In this North Node in Aries/South Node in Libra era, Aries wantsg to get it in gear and Libra wants to look good doing it! As the North Node is in Aries, be willing “to boldly go where you’ve never gone before.”

Because everything is compressed at this time it may feel like a crowded house wherever we have Aquarius and Pisces. These signs are our transpersonal orientation by house, so open to a great truth or vision, accept your power to discharge your duty, and allow yourself to remember you’re part of a larger future-oriented group work. Show Divine Grace when you can, and accept it by demonstrating gratitude and appreciation.

As Jupiter in Taurus is still one of the final dispositors for all the other planets except Neptune, allow your expansive imagination to fuse with your deep feelings in simple, straightforward ways shown by Jupiter in Taurus. Be enthusiastic in “mobilizing for gain,” and be joyous and cheerful as you balance your metaphoric “mountain of baggage.” The bridges we’ve built before now will lead to an “explosion of uniqueness” to come in April where we’ll use those bridges to enter into a new realm of ideas in Gemini.

Again, we’re now at the back end of the time of maximum compression as the planets will soon begin to expand beyond their current 108 degree span. We’re now in a period where all the inner planets have conjuncted or will conjunct the outer planets, ending the old transpersonal cycles and launching new ones.

Final Thoughts

In 2021-2022, we cultivated new heart strengths as a result of “spiritual linkage through emotional stress” and “the blessings which come forth after the death of useless things.” We’re now living new roles in new relationships as we play our part in the Aquarian energy field growing stronger by the month.

Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius takes it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the unknown “new lands” promised by Mercury’s last SD point, remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 3 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and the next few weeks renew the positives in play since December 2020!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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She is a visionary and transcendent force in this Lunation, and will help us to be calm as we project our vision on to our world, and catch glimpses of “the immortality of the real self.” Take a broad view, have faith, and if you can make a leap into a new realm, have confidence and then DO IT! Once She moves across the Lunation degree, we’ll see the value in the compassion, empathy, and sense of connectedness we’re cultivating these next few weeks. All of this will show in the house where we have 21 Pisces.

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See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!