Hunches
What do you actually need? That’s the query posed by Venus’s present retrograde in Aries. Specifically, what would you like within the space of life represented by the Aries home of your chart? As Mercury makes a conjunction with Venus (March 11, 2025, 3:55 pm PDT, at 08º47’ Aries), it is likely to be simply that a lot simpler to determine the reply.
The Sabian image for the conjunction is 9 Aries, A crystal gazer. Among the clues to our wishes could also be as direct and to the purpose as we would anticipate from Mercury in Aries. However some will come about as hunches, as they do to the crystal gazer. Though we don’t often consider the hearth indicators like Aries as being significantly intuitive, they actually may be – or at the least, instinctual. Theirs is just not the fathomless realizing of the water indicators, however comes via the hearth of the spirit.
Spirit Made Seen
Alert readers will recall that my late father, a textbook Capricorn, was a farmer. He was by no means happier than when he was driving a tractor, tilling soil in neat rows. He beloved the dust, the warmth, the humidity, the bugs, all of it. When he got here dwelling for supper, he was exhausted and as tranquil as a Capricorn ever will get.
I don’t imply to romanticize onerous labor. However one factor’s for positive – people aren’t designed to sit down nonetheless indoors for hours each day below synthetic gentle. We could get pleasure from what we’re doing throughout these hours, and will not even contemplate ourselves very bodily beings; however our our bodies beg to vary. Simply consider the glow of well-being and rest that follows a vigorous exercise.
Because the Solar makes its annual conjunction with Saturn this week (March 12, 2025, 3:29 am PDT, 22º05’ Pisces), we could really feel confined, regimented, achy, drained, or disgruntled – particularly within the day or two main as much as the precise facet. The bodily physique may be an uncomfortable, Saturnine container for the brilliant spirit of the Solar, particularly when it’s affected by disuse. However the Solar’s union with Saturn reminds us that our our bodies are spirit made seen, that it’s a privilege to be alive, and that we owe it to our our bodies to present them as a lot use as we give our minds.
Untangling
Every year because the winter solstice approaches, I believe, “Hey – let’s wrap some twinkly lights across the entrance porch posts!” So, I pull open the drawer within the hallway that incorporates an enormous rat-king tangle of strand lights, so jumbled and hopelessly knotted that my coronary heart sinks on the sight of them. And I shut the drawer for one more 12 months.
At every Full Moon, we’re revealed to ourselves. This Virgo Full Moon (March 13, 2025, 11:55 pm PDT, at 23º56’ Virgo and Pisces) is an emotionally difficult Lunar Eclipse, opposed the Solar, Saturn, and Neptune; and what’s revealed is the methods wherein we’re caught and hiding out, overwhelmed by the disarray of each our exterior and inner worlds.
Look to the Pisces home of your chart. After which, look throughout the wheel to Virgo’s home, as a result of that’s the place you’ll discover the important thing to untangling the knots. Taking an enormous previous amorphous, Pisces/Saturn/Neptune blob of overwhelm and patiently selecting away at it, soothing it into order, is one in all Virgo’s superpowers.
After all, the world itself appears to be hopelessly tangled and overwhelming some days. However typically, the important thing to breaking your impasse round overwhelm is to only take one small, simply measurable motion towards order.
A Change is as Good as a Relaxation
As soon as upon a Daylight Saving Time morning, I emerged considerably groggy and within the temper for just a little one thing completely different for my breakfast. What sounded good? A fast psychological scan lastly produced a consequence: “bagel.” I toddled off to the bagel store and got here dwelling with a pleasant, large sack full. Once I texted my neighbor to supply her one, she was delighted: “I simply couldn’t face my regular breakfast this morning,” she stated. “Now, it feels just like the solar has come out!”
“A change is pretty much as good as a relaxation,” because the previous saying goes. And it truly is superb how a lot vitality may be unleashed by the tiniest alteration in routine. It doesn’t should be something dramatic; maybe a unique breakfast, a brand new path to work, takeout for dinner – simply one thing exterior the same old.
The Solar’s sextile to novelty-loving Uranus (March 14, 2025, 2:16 am PDT) is a reminder to embrace change. This needn’t descend into chaos, however there’s little doubt that we will really feel cheered and enthused by even the smallest, sesame-crusted change.
How Far We’ve Come
One in every of my oldest mates despatched me some blurry images from our grammar college days. Though my reminiscence is mostly not what it was, I recalled the names of each classmate in these images with no effort. However who was that long-haired, fierce-looking, awkward lady with my title scribbled beneath? I remembered her, too, how she struggled to be ok with herself and to slot in. Taking a look at her made my coronary heart catch, made me really feel protecting of that lady. And for a second, I spotted how far I’ve come within the many years since then, and in addition how a lot I’m the identical.
Mercury turns retrograde this week (March 14, 2025, 11:46 pm PDT, at 9º35’ Aries). Notably when it’s in Aries, the place it’s impatient and tends to skip a step right here and there, Mercury retrograde may be aggravating for all the same old causes – technical and digital snafus, communication issues and misunderstandings.
However after we step away from Mercury’s regular terrain, it can be a great alternative to return to the previous to mine for inspiration, to recollect our reckless, youthful selves and to understand who we at the moment are, and the way far we’ve come.
Writing and pictures © 2017-25 by April Elliott Kent
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