New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse in Aries

Sometimes it is only in the reach for something new, that you are faced with the realisation of that which you must first leave behind. For every new beginning invokes some form of an ending.

And thus, as the planetary energy culminates, forming a stellium of planets mingling together in the signs of Aries and Pisces respectively, this notion of past, present, future becomes only more prominent.

With Mercury having stationed retrograde at 9º Aries on March 15th, shortly after the Total Lunar Eclipse at 23º Virgo, the call to clarify your vision was intensified.

Thus, during its retrograde period, as it transitions back through the early degrees of Aries before re-entering Pisces, where it will station direct on April 7th at 26º of the sign, can you contemplate your desires for life moving forward. Can you formulate a picture of your dream scenario.

In doing so, you may find that doubts and insecurities arise, especially around the possibilities along with your capabilities, forcing you to confront your own internalised sense of lack or limitation. As such, you may be required to look to the past for guidance on the future, considering as to what, or whom, has shaped your sense of reality and self-identity.

Are there illusions that need to be dissolved, wounds that need healing, and perspectives that need shifting in order for you to step into your fullest potential and for life to follow suit.

In the midst of this reflective period there will be a potent New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse occurring at 8º Aries on March 29th (10:48am GMT). As the last Eclipse on the Aries-Libra axis, this lunation will be drawing to a point of completion a cycle which began all the way back in April 2023, when you were called to consider your relationship to self and other. Asking if things were in balance, aligned, and authentic.

During this period, you may have had to shift, change, realign, or even release certain dynamics or patterns of relating which weren’t serving to uplift and support you or your needs. In the process you may have been challenged to assert necessary boundaries, accept and express hard truths, or let go of unhealthy attachments, which may at times have felt confronting, unsettling, destabilising, and lonely.

Yet with this lunation serving as a graduation of sorts, you may come to find that what remains in the aftermath of this emotional chaos is actually an authentic connection to yourself. One that will be reflected in the relationships that you chose to create and foster moving forward.

However, before you transition into the next phase of your evolution, as the energy shifts onto the Pisces-Virgo axis for the next few years, things must reach their climax.

As to whether this comes softly or dramatically, will depend upon your experience along this axis thus far and what you have left to release or integrate. But in either case, this lunation will likely be imbued with a level of intensity that will serve to disrupt the peace, drawing to the surface any suppressed emotions - especially that of frustration and agitation - and forcing certain changes to be made and conversations to be had.

Whilst challenging, trust that this will be merely a transitionary period, within which you will be asked to have the willingness to sit in your discomfort, as you relinquish any lingering doubts, fears, and insecurities that hold you back from embodying the full truth of who you are. Transmuting, in the process, your past experiences into the wisdom that will carry you into the future.

After which, with the North Node in Pisces indicating the way forward, you will be called to move ahead with conscious intention by developing a higher perspective, one that is connected to universal truth. Thus, can you surrender your need for control and learn to live in faith. Trusting your internal compass over external distractions. And accepting that transformation is not a passive act, but one which requires you to take an active role.

If so, then you may find that change suddenly becomes somewhat accelerated as a new reality begins to unfold. One which until now may have seemed unimaginable.