Episode 281 | Virgo Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse: Clearing out the Stress!
This week, welcome to the primary eclipse season of 2025, which begins with this week’s Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Do you have to be terrifiiiiied?™ The Solar makes its annual conjunction to demanding Saturn however will get busted out of jail by Uranus a few days later. Mercury makes a conjunction to retrograde Venus simply a few days earlier than he begins his personal retrograde interval. And a listener query concerning the significance of the Midheaven and IC as South and North factors within the chart. Plus: Hunches, useless zones, and a tenuous grasp of astronomy!
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[1:30] Mercury conjoins Venus (March 11, 3:55 pm PDT, 08º47’ Aries) on the Sabian image 9 Aries, A crystal gazer. It’s vital to take a look at the world of life represented by the Aries home of your chart and take into consideration what you need in that space of life. A few of the clues could come about as hunches.
[3:36] On March 12 (3:29 am PDT, 22º05’ Pisces), the Solar conjoins Saturn on the Sabian image 23 Pisces, Spiritist phenomena. The Solar with Saturn is usually a very productive, character-building transit, however it often just isn’t a cheerful one. Present up, hold your head down, and plug away at your work.
[5:51] Moon Report! The Full Moon on March 13 (11:55 pm PDT) is a Lunar Eclipse at 23º56’ Virgo. This eclipse is near the Moon’s South Node, emphasizing launch and therapeutic. The South Node is in Virgo, so every eclipse on this signal factors to releasing the tough or damaging elements of that signal, corresponding to fear and stress, extreme perfectionism, and harmful criticism. Look again to earlier eclipses close to this diploma to get a touch of what it might imply for you personally: Sep. 13, 2015, March 14, 2006, and on March 13, 1998.
[10:55] Lunar Section Household Cycle (LPFC). That is the Full Moon in an LPFC that started with a New Moon on Sep. 14, 2023, at 21º58’ Virgo. The First Quarter close to this diploma was on June 13, 2024, and the Final Quarter is on Dec. 11, 2025.
[13:01] Void-of-Course (VOC) Moon intervals. On March 11 (1:16 pm PDT), the Moon in Leeeeoooo squares Uranus. It’s VOC for 11 hours, 40 minutes, and enters Virgo on March 12 (12:56 am PDT). The problem of this VOC is to concentrate throughout moments while you really feel like you don’t fairly slot in, and punctiliously whether or not becoming in is price firming down who you’re.
[14:27] On March 14 (10:47 am PDT), the Moon in Virgo opposes Neptune. It’s VOC for 1 hour 12 minutes and enters Libra at 11:59 am PDT. A part of this VOC Moon project is to get a transparent thought of your self, which typically requires getting previous idealizing others.
[16:00] On March 16 (2:53 am PDT), the Moon in Libra squares Mars in Most cancers. It’s VOC for 21 hours 37 minutes (!!!), then enters Scorpio on March 17 (12:30 am PDT). Restrain your self from sending nasty messages or dropping your mood on the highway. This very lengthy VOC interval is a crucial one for breaking habits the place we lose our mood and act out.
[18:37] The Solar sextiles Uranus (March 14, 2:16 am PDT) at 24°02’ Pisces-Taurus. Right here is a chance to attach with individuals who make you’re feeling as in case you, the true you, match into a specific group or community. The Solar is on the Sabian image 25 Pisces, The purging of the priesthood. Group is implied by Uranus’s image, 25 Taurus, A big, well-kept public park.
[20:15] Mercury stations retrograde (March 14, 11:46 pm PDT) at 09º35’ Aries. Mercury is the planet of connectivity and communication. When Mercury is retrograde, we could lose monitor of all these items or expertise technical malfunctions. Usually, Mercury retrograde is best for revisiting previous initiatives than it’s for initiating new ones, however is a rewarding time to meet up with previous associates, revisit favourite locations, assessment contracts and end previous initiatives. The Sabian image for this station is 10 Aries, A person instructing new varieties for previous symbols.
[22:21] Listener Savannah asks concerning the significance of the Midheaven and IC as South and North factors within the chart.
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