As this eclipse has effects lasting 6 months, keep loving, forgiving, blessing, releasing, and reflecting on recent endings and beginnings.

Have faith, move through the fog with caution and discipline, tune into the World Soul, and see how difficult past experiences have opened you to a greater “nonlocal knowing.”

This Full Moon Total eclipse fulfills the Pisces New Moon themes, which means we’ve been learning forms of mastery and organized ways to begin closing out certain life areas and reconsidering recent entries into new life areas. This will give us strength arising from faith, and help us have greater and deeper compassion for the very stressed out human condition. We’re still liberating ourselves from the ghosts of the past, and are challenged to see what we want to perpetuate into the future and what must be blessed to flow down the timestream.

Evolutionary Configurations

This month we have 2 evolutionary configurations, involving completely different planets. In no particular order, this month the configurations are:

1) The Moon and Sun/Saturn/Neptune opposition is cut into a sextile and trine by Uranus. With Mars also involved, we have four points of a “6 Pointed Star of Stable Productive Awareness” which span the last decan of the Earth and Water signs with Mars adding energy to the 17-20 span. This is a purely building configuration.

2) Mercury and Venus RX are both bielftile Jupiter and bielftile Pluto, with Jupiter quadrelftile Pluto. This activates three zones in the 11th harmonic elftile series, requiring leaps of faith to overcome dualisms or some sort of non-rational situation which requires our faith in ourselves and/or the process. This activates 11 zones: 2-6 Aquarius, 5-9 Pisces, 7-11 Aries, 9-13 Taurus, 12-16 Gemini, 15-19 Cancer, 18-22 Leo, 20-24 Virgo, 23-27 Libra, 26-30 Scorpio, and 29 Sag-3 Capricorn.

Besides these two, we also have 2 other aspects which deserve mention. Like last month, we have Venus biseptile Mars. This continues to bring “fork in the road of destiny” events and realizations in the houses where this happens as well as the houses these rule.

Venus biseptile Mars opens zones around 6-10 Aries, 27 Taurus- 1 Gemini, 18-22 Cancer, 10-14 Virgo, 2-6 Scorpio, 23-27 Sagittarius, and 14-18 Aquarius. If you have one or more planets in any of these zones, you’re at a fork in the road in that area of your life!

This month we have Sun and Saturn septile Pluto, showing we’re at an emergent “fork in the road of destiny” in this year’s Pluto in Aquarius lessons! Active zones are 1-5 Aquarius, 22-26 Pisces, 14-18 Taurus, 5-9 Cancer, 26-30 Leo, 18-22 Libra, and 9-13 Sagittarius. If you have a planet in any of these zones, pay attention to what’s ending and new Aquarian “healing seeds” beginning to sprout.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include the Moon bielftile Mars; Mercury is semisquare Uranus; Venus is semisquare Uranus; and the Sun is binovile Jupiter.

Outer planet aspects include Mars decile Jupiter, trine Saturn, and tredecile Neptune; Jupiter is binovile Saturn and vigintile Uranus; Saturn is sextile Uranus; and Uranus is again sextile Neptune and Neptune will be in close sextile with Pluto in 2025!

Friction comes from 2 semisquares, and temporarily no squares, sesquisquares or quincunxes. Semisquares are internal friction at the beginning or end of a cycle, and to me represent the irritating metaphoric “grain of sand” in the oyster of our lives which creates a pearl or awareness.

Squares are integrative, while sesquisquares are interactive, annoying and/or agitating, but not necessarily crisis producing. This lunation there isn’t one quincunx, which always represents an adjustment or sacrifice of some sort. Just remember to decrease aggravation when a frictional aspect is in play.

For those new to the craft, quintiles and biquintiles are 5th harmonic aspects, septiles and triseptiles are 7th harmonic aspects, noviles are 9th harmonic aspects, deciles (semi-quintiles) and tredeciles are 10th harmonic aspects. The elftile series are 11th harmonic aspects, the quindecile is a 15th harmonic aspect, and the vigintile is a 20th harmonic aspect. Each of these has a unique function in the phase relationship of the two planets in aspect.

The 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th harmonic aspects are specializing and bring forth partially or fully developed quintessential elements of the planets involved. The novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments. These aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been gestating can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations.

Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, where we make choices determining karmic future developments. This series is ruled by Saturn, where we create and fulfill karma by our choices during those phase shifts. The 11th harmonic elftile series aspects involve situations where there is a need to transcend and master some form of duality by making a leap of faith. In transcending those dualistic situations, dilemmas, challenges, and thinking, we resolve the problem and learn techniques of mastering those sorts of dualities in the future. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

The various aspects in all these different harmonic series indicate points where the theme of the Whole Cycle becomes clear, whether through major developments or minor refinements in the process. Each aspect shows a phase relationship, specific to the special and unique circumstances of that particular Whole Cycle. It's how we can know when to work, when to play, when to create, when to imagine, when to have faith, and when to mobilize!

If you want to know more about these aspects, when you’re done here please go to The Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – Quintile, Tredecile, Decile, and Biquintile, The Specializing Aspects Pt. 2 – The Quindecile and Vigintile, and The Spiritual Aspect Series – The Novile, Septile, and Elftile Harmonic Aspects where you’ll find more about the meaning of these aspects and the glyphs associated with them. Also, remember that all of these set up harmonic resonance void points all over our charts.

The Eclipse Factor

This Total Lunar eclipse will shut many things down over the next 6 months in our late Pisces and late Virgo sectors, creating space for new life contents and activities to come forth. And of course, we have a Partial Solar eclipse coming on March 29 at 10 Aries, the same degree as Mercury’s stationary retrograde point.

This adds to a long run of eclipses which continue to affect us. As I gave you in the first article on this eclipse, we have some which are still showing effects 5 years later.

In 2020 we had a Solstice Solar eclipse at 1 Cancer and a December Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius. In 2021 we had a June Solar eclipse at 20 Gemini and a December Solar eclipse at 13 Sagittarius. In 2022, we had an April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus, a May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio, an October Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio and a November Total Lunar eclipse at 17 Taurus.

In 2023, we had an April Solar eclipse at 30 Aries, a May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 15 Taurus/Scorpio, an October Solar eclipse at 22 Libra, and an October Lunar eclipse at 6 Taurus/Scorpio. This year we just had an April Solar eclipse at 20 Aries, and this Wesak Festival Full Moon at 5 Taurus/Scorpio. As I explained in earlier articles, all the Lunar eclipses work over just a few months, while Solar eclipse effects last for years.

As you know, I see all eclipses as “cosmic recyclers” removing what we no longer need in the houses where they occurred. All these Solar eclipses, along with others, have allowed us to “shed skins” wherever we have 9, 19, and 30 Pisces, 28 Aquarius, 29 Leo, 10 Virgo, and 21 Virgo, as well as the degrees of the recent eclipses at 1 Cancer, 24 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 20 and 30 Aries, 11 and 22 Libra and 13 Sagittarius. As you can see, that involves a large part of our charts!

You can find out which Solar eclipses are still showing effects by referring to Astrology in March 2025 - On The Threshold of a Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon at 24 Virgo-Pisces which lists which eclipses are done and which are still in play (other parts which followed elaborate on the current eclipse.) That list has links to all Solar eclipses for the past 13 years.

A good meditation would be to take a look back at how something related to those points in your chart ended after those eclipses, and examine how new events, new people, and new life experiences came in those chart areas. All our losses of the past few years associated with these signs have left voids which have attracted, are attracting, or will attract life contents more appropriate to who we are now. Alternately, you may be feeling a void because someone else really isn’t there. Now it’s time to turn to what will nourish you.

Element Balance

This Full Moon Total eclipse shows a “balanced imbalance” in the elements, with Water in the forefront and the rest balanced. At this time, the traditional 10 planets show 4 planets in Water signs, 2 in Fire, 2 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This makes Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) heavily preponderant, with a balance of Air (Relatedness and Communications), Fire (Inspiration and Light), and Earth (Practicality and Grounding).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s slightly more hot than cool with lots of feeling.

The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This begins a new pattern. For now, as a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next 6 months as things some fall apart involves beginning activity with deciding, then feeling, and then thinking.

This Eclipse his Lunation shows we’ll enter experience with a sense of something to be done. This pattern is very strong, and leads with deciding and acting, followed by feeling and experiencing what those decisions and actions mean on deep levels. Ideally, those deep feelings then can lead us to a new vision, a new understanding, or a communication that can lead us to a different view. However, with Venus retrograde, it will be important to remember that just because we feel a certain way doesn’t make it true or useful. That’s why once we get to a feeling, we must find a new view, or new understanding, of what we’re doing.

This pattern gets it in gear, and then goes to feelings to check out how we’re experiencing those decisions and actions. From there it seeks a new view, a new understanding, new information, and new interactions that can help you see clearly what must be done and how. Do what must be done, stay on top of how you’re feeling when you do it, and then find new understanding.

Because Mercury’s going retrograde, after we’ve done all our searching for a new vision or new understanding, it’ll be important to make a decision and stick to it. Mercury retrograde sometimes second guesses itself and reverses course when it shouldn’t. That said, things usually wind up where they should, even if it takes a roundabout route to get there!

So make a decision and act as needed, and after the decision or action, sit with the feelings and experience them, bringing them to the surface of your consciousness and get clear about what you’re feeling and why. After you’re clear about what you’re feeling, then go get new information and update your perceptual files and what you think you know, or what’s being communicated. That will lead naturally to a new set of decisions and actions.

This pattern knows how to get things done! This is one of the two patterns which learns and teaches best by using anecdotes. Once something is explained, then practice doing it. Periods of solitude may be required after a critical decision or action. After that direct experience of feelings the results of your decision and action, then find the information from which a new understanding or vision will arise.

What is your vision or understanding telling you that you must do? Are your ideas inspiring action? Let your knowledge lead you to make clear decisions.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because of its conjunction with Neptune and the North Node and trine from Mars, Saturn is a major stabilizing presence was we move through the endings and beginnings of the next year. At the end of Pisces it continues to be a major player in creating dynamic change through letting go of the past and expressing our spiritual power with courage and intention. Saturn’s now on its way to Aries this May! Saturn is bringing us important Piscean lessons wherever we have late Pisces in our charts, and important decisions to planets we have in the late degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

Saturn has led us through a major life renewal since June 2023, so we continue to release all we cannot take into the Saturn in Aries phase beginning this year. Saturn brings maturity and structure to Pisces, and so is teaching us to open to the Grace which comes from forgiveness coupled with gratitude. Let go, let God, and let it flow down the timestream.

Saturn, our “spiritual teacher and spiritual friend” in Pisces brings an ocean of water to our Capricorn/Aquarius sectors and any natal or progressed planets we have in those signs. Though Saturn can accompany heavy lessons, it is the part of us which can take charge of our lives and destiny by using Saturn’s virtues in the right way and time. Our ability to steer our “ship of personality” into our higher destiny brings us new parts to play on the stage of Life.

We’re still in a long wave period of saying goodbye to old roles and embracing newer more effective roles to play in the emergent Aquarian era. We continue to master navigating the fogs and illusions of Pisces, finding understanding, Divine Grace, and spiritual power in forgiveness and steering the process of closing out old ways as they present themselves.

I explain how we can take command of our destiny in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us understand what we must do to fulfill our unique “destiny of Self-realization;” Its Capricorn qualities teach us how to use personal power within a socially responsible context, while its Aquarius qualities show us how to make a greater contribution to our world and join with others in a great effort “ensouled by a great vision.”

The book was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers. Even those with little or no understanding of astrology will benefit from understanding why you had to make certain choices at crucial times that shaped your life in profound ways.

Each time you read any section of this book you will find new insights about your power to throw off all the attitudes and memories which hold you back from finding and living the life and purpose. To get your copy, please go to the Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend page on Amazon to order your copy. It’s also available as an ebook on Kindle. If you would, whether you’ve gotten the ebook or the paperback, please write a review on the Amazon site, since the more reviews, the more of a boost they give it.

And now, on a related note….

Venus is a key player due to “bringing the Aries news” back to the Sun via Her retrograde. They will form their Inferior conjunction at 3 Aries, the “avatar” degree showing that after a delay, new world leaders are going to make their appearance on the stage of life. As she again biseptiles Mars, this time while retrograde, it marks a reconsideration of the choices we made back at the first biseptile in early February.

Venus’ retrograde station at 11 Aries a few weeks back marked the entry into an entirely new Venus experience in 2025 which will take us back, or bring memories and/or reconnections with people we once knew. Add the Mercury retrograde also beginning at 10 Aries, and many of us will get a new look at the past offering us chances to reinterpret it in the light of new developments.

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It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It also has an entire chapter dedicated to Venus retrograde, which will prove useful during Venus’ retrograde period in March and April.

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Summing it Up

Between now and the beginning of 2026, we are in a transition zone between “the end of the end and the beginning of the beginning.” The coming weeks will be one step forward, two to the side, one step back, one to the side, two steps forward, one to the side, and repeat.

This Total eclipse will quickly shut down many things we cannot bring with us into the new Aries era already dawning. Give up lesser things, or that which you haven’t used in a long time and may never use again. Dispersing creates space to navigate the deep emotional flow going on this year.

We are now developing through North Node in Pisces, so learn the flow, feel the larger spiritual field, and grow toward your sense of abundance cultivated this past year even as things begin to fall apart. With Sun, Saturn, Neptune, and the North Node in Pisces, we learn from Pisces, and show what we know in Virgo.

Despite the different pace, get as much done as you can, stay connected with Source, and honor your deep feelings which connect you to all Beings. This is a time of enhanced “non-local awareness” as we navigate several sets of foggy passages, so get clear and stay clear about the joyous promise of the future focused as an ability to glide across the surface of the hard conditions. Celebrate what comes, celebrate what goes, celebrate what endures, and celebrate the promise to major movement forward in April.

See the deeper elements in Nature teaching you about life passages, quicken to the promise which will be fulfilled in the Spring, and accept the power while also understanding that enlightenment is a verb rather than a noun. Pay no attention to the confusion, dread, or uncertainty as you find the “cloak” you need to go into the world so you are not exposed to the destructive elements now raging.

Jupiter moves forward, and at this eclipse occupies a degree of telepathic communication. Open to flashes of intuition, of “knowing at a distance.” Find new techniques of discovering spiritual powers. Jupiter in Gemini helps us see things from many different points of view, find a sense of humor and perspective, and have faith that if you pursue your understanding all dualities will be resolved.

With each coming year, we’ll see definite movement away from the ideas which dominated the old 200 year Earth Era and see more of the emergent 200 year Air Era launched at the December 2020 Solstice. This transitional period requires that we ask questions related to our spiritual purpose, fearless as we are One with the World Soul and walk through the world but are not “of” the world. We have found inner strength the past four years, and learned the spiritual power of gratitude which brought assistance from Devas and Angels.

Forgiving much with compassion for the generic human condition, we are being released from all which doesn’t serve our momentum into our greater purpose. This is the heart of a global acceleration in transforming those who are part of a greater service and group work. Embrace a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression in grounded ways, so keep your mind and heart open and keep coordinating your body, feelings, and mind to demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy. That's a great part to play as we dance through life's changes!

A Meditation on Light and Shadow

Because life seems to be a never-ending experience of out-breathing elements of the past and in-breathing elements of the new, it is useful to remember that when we are moving through major changes, and something new is introduced into our lives, it means that something else must leave, or has already left, to provide space for the new to be embraced. And lesser wisdom must give way to greater wisdom, and old forms give way to newer realities. As I’ve offered before “enlightenment” is a verb more than it is a noun.

While sometimes having to say goodbye to older, lesser ways of life can be a drag, it is important to remember that even though life can occasionally be painful, we do not have to suffer. And as we learn to break the link between pain and suffering, we heal our part of humanity and the world.

For your contemplation, a final meditation I offer each month at the end of our Full Moon journey of exploration.

We are Light. All things are composed of Light in various frequencies that express as limitless forms. Some light frequencies are of greater density than others.

All shadows result from light hitting a dense object. Psychological shadows too. Therefore, it’s good to become as translucent and translucid as possible to dispel lurking shadows.

If you must look at and/or deal with shadows, whether your own or another’s, then refocus your Light on the object being illuminated, since that form is the source of the shadow.

Find the correct 4 angles of illuminating whatever you want to focus on, and all shadows will be dispelled. Then you’re seeing things with an illuminated mind, and can act accordingly.

Previous articles in this series:

Astrology in March 2025 - On The Threshold of a Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon at 24 Virgo-Pisces

The March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of 24 Pisces-Virgo Pt. 1 – Leaving Old Beliefs and Old Work Behind

The March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of 24 Pisces-Virgo Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of Interdependence Expressed Through Spiritual Imagination

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