Category Archives: Eclipses

Pisces Season & a Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

There’s a blood moon lunar eclipse in Virgo overnight on Thursday, March 13th, going into the morning of Friday, March 14th. It will be exact at 2:54 am Eastern Time.

The month of March is always a little chaotic, in my opinion, and I chalk that up to the transition from Pisces season to Aries season. Pisces is associated with a lack of structure; it’s about universality. Whereas Aries is the beginning of a new cycle, Pisces is the conclusion and the transcendence of the cycle. And in what is usually a roiling month anyway, this year we have two eclipses in March, one on the 13th/14th, and another one, the final one in the years-long Aries-Libra cycle, on the 29th.

I’ve been watching Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth (where my Joseph Campbell heads at?), the landmark PBS series from 1988. Campbell talks about the belief in many non-Western cultures that nature is divine, and what we call “God,” which is the great unknown, is in everything—in every plant, every animal, (somehow) in every person. This is Pisces. Pisces is the all-encompassing spirit. And then after we transcend, we move back into Aries season, which arrives on March 20th, for a new beginning. The transition from Pisces to Aries can feel disjointed and disorienting because the vibes are so different. Aries is about the singular. It’s the hero part of the hero’s journey. Pisces is the state of the sublime that the hero achieves at the end.

So that’s March in general. Now let’s look at the March 14th lunar eclipse in Virgo, a full moon opposite the Pisces sun. I wrote about the Pisces-Virgo eclipses here (reread to see where they fall in your chart). Events and themes of a Piscean nature will continue to play out during these eclipses, and because of the nodal placements, we’ll see a release or draining of Virgo themes and a swell and expansion of Pisces themes.

Virgo is health and service. Pisces is emotions and creativity. Virgo is order, Pisces is confusion. Virgo is perfection, Pisces is messy. Virgo is an earth sign, Pisces is water.

So while what we will see unfold in the world over this eclipse cycle, which started last fall and goes into 2026, may be unsettling for those of us who love order and boundaries, with drains on health and service, there is the opportunity to let go of the need for perfection, the nitpickiness of Virgo, and the judgment that inhibits us, and embrace some of that flowy boundarylessness of Pisces, helping us level up in our empathy, our passion and compassion, and our acceptance. The devil’s in the details; the sublime is in the mess.

There will likely be big changes coming (yes, more), and I wouldn’t be surprised if this eclipse carries with it some major news, but of course, when isn’t there major news these days, so it seems absurd to even say that as if that’s unexpected. But the Virgo-Pisces axis represents a tension between earth and water, between realism and delusion, between discrimination and broad acceptance, so watch for that. Water overtaking earth? It’s giving tsunami—hopefully a metaphorical one.

We also get Mercury retrograde on March 14th, just to add another layer of WTFness to the mix of eclipse season and the current Venus retrograde. Love that for us. Mercury stations in Aries and works its way back into—you guessed it—Pisces! Time for the communication to get emo and nebulous.

Hang in there. Ride the wave. Work toward accepting that the divine universal intelligence flows through every living thing. April is a little less nuts.

The Solar Eclipse in Libra & the Astrology of Late

This Saturday, October 14th, there’s an annular solar eclipse in Libra. Annular solar eclipses are the ones where the moon is at its farthest point from earth and it doesn’t fully block the sun, so instead of total darkness you can see the glow of the sun around the perimeter of the moon, making it look like a ring of fire. 

People generally seem to get a little nutty when the eclipses approach, even though they occur several times a year. But as human beings, we likely have some genetic instinct to freak out a little around eclipses. Can you imagine living in a time before there was an understanding of astronomy, and every so often, the sun just disappeared? It would have been terrifying! Eclipses are loaded with meaning and inspire both anxiety and wonder. 

The eclipses, astrologically, mark a time when major events unfold. However, as I’ve written before, even though we may experience some major life changes around eclipse time, much of that depends on our specific birth charts. Some eclipses will be felt more deeply by you than others. Most people don’t experience jolting, life-altering events between 4 and 7 times a year, every year of their lives. Generally, personally, we tend to see themes play out in our lives over the entirety of an eclipse cycle (the 1-2 year period when the eclipses take place in a set of opposite signs). There are milestones and changes but they are a little more fluid and gradual.

During this Aries-Libra eclipse cycle, which began in April, the same themes I wrote about during the Aries full moon are the same ones that will play out in a more protracted way between last April and March 2025. To see if this particular eclipse may strongly affect you, check your birth chart to see if you have any personal planets (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) or angles (ascendant aka your rising, descendant, midheaven, or IC) on or around 21 degrees of Libra, Aries, Cancer, or Capricorn.

In the world at large, though, eclipses are usually accompanied by some big news. And this time seems to be no exception. This week has been tumultuous and scary on a geopolitical level. However, there’s been a lot going on astrologically beyond just the coming eclipse on Saturday (and there’s a lunar eclipse in Taurus on October 29th), so I did want to call out that the intensity of this moment is not solely related to the upcoming eclipse. 

Last Sunday, Mars, the planet that represents action, drive, and aggression, formed a 90-degree angle with Pluto, the planet of life and death and transformation. The aspect the two planets were making (called a square) can be a tough one, marked by some conflict and usually a turning point. Definitely some parallels between these significations and global events.

Pluto, which had been retrograde since May, also stationed on Tuesday, at 27 degrees of Capricorn, which is exactly the same degree of Pluto in the US’s chart, and is now direct again. It’s the last gasp of the US’s Pluto return. Mars gained strength on October 12th, when it moved into Scorpio, a fixed water sign and its home base, where it can utilize its resources. Mars in Scorpio is about precision, intensity, and stealth.

On the 13th, Mars makes a helpful aspect to Saturn in Pisces. When Saturn, the planet of structure, discipline, and responsibility, is boosted by Mars and both are in water signs, this could be a time for building emotional support structures, both for ourselves personally and for the the community. This is especially important with everything that’s going on. 

Between the Mars and Pluto activity and the two eclipses, October is a wild month astrologically, and as they often are, the skies are a reflection what’s happening here on planet Earth. It makes for interesting days ahead. Hang in there.