TRANSCRIPT Episode 272 (1.6.25)
Aries First Quarter Moon: Tea Kettles Boiling!
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Howdy invisible buddy, April right here, and the date at the moment is Jan. sixth, 2025. Welcome to Episode 272 of the Massive Sky Astrology Podcast, and welcome to 2025! This week, Mercury the Messenger enters Capricorn and helps with some sensible planning for the brand new 12 months, then squares imaginative Neptune. The lunar nodes enter the indicators of Pisces and Virgo. Mars retrogrades again into the signal of Most cancers, and its trine to Neptune encourages compassionate motion. The Aries First Quarter Moon is likely one of the most efficient First Quarters of the 12 months, and I reply a listener query about these transits that hit the identical level in your chart again and again.
Mars enters Most cancers (Jan. 6, 2025, 2:44 am PST)
Mars retrograde reenters Most cancers on Jan. sixth at 2:44 am PT. It first entered Most cancers on September 4th, 2024. Then it entered Leo on November third, went retrograde on December sixth, and now it’s again in Most cancers. It’s going to station direct on Feb. twenty third, after which reenter Leo on April seventeenth. An exhausting sounding journey.
The final time Mars was at this diploma, at 29º59’ Most cancers, it was on November third, 2024, and it was in a fairly tough opposition to Pluto in Capricorn at the moment. What was happening for you round that point? Had been you in a disagreement with somebody near you, maybe?
Only a fast evaluation of Mars in Most cancers. Mars is within the signal of what we name its “fall” in Most cancers. It’s reverse Capricorn, which is the signal of Mars exaltation, the place it’s very sturdy. Mars being exalted in Capricorn type of is smart as a result of Capricorn has these qualities of persistence, restraint, and technique that assist rein Mars in and harness its appreciable vitality for engaging in issues.
However what’s it about Mars that makes it deprived on this signal? Properly, the emotionalism of Most cancers is slightly little bit of a tough combine with Mars. We don’t at all times take essentially the most environment friendly or wisest actions once we’re feeling very emotional about one thing, and Most cancers is a really emotional signal.
Additionally, Most cancers is symbolized by the crab and that’s a creature that doesn’t transfer in a straight line. Now, that’s a great way to guard your self from getting attacked however it’s additionally the surest solution to frustrate your self and others. And that’s particularly so whereas Mars is retrograde. Not solely are we transferring backward, but additionally facet to facet, and it’s actually arduous to get wherever.
However on the plus facet, Mars and Most cancers will struggle furiously and unabashedly for his or her household and shut associates, for youngsters, for pets, and for the underdog. When it’s retrograde, we have to take the time to look at what actions we’re keen to take to have a secure and nurturing dwelling life, to guard our traditions. When you really feel that you simply’re always being attacked, picked on, or disrespected by others, it is a time to check out your behaviors and attitudes, and the way they may be bringing a few of that your manner.
After which by the point Mars leaves Most cancers on April seventeenth, and reenters Leo, try to be prepared to maneuver full steam forward, and stand as much as anybody who’s been attempting to place you down.
Mercury squares Neptune (Jan. 6, 2025, 5:56 am PST)
Mercury in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces on Jan. sixth at 5:56 am Pacific Time. When Mercury meets Neptune, instinct is very sturdy, and we’re higher than common at intercepting non-verbal cues. Which is simply one other manner of claiming, we’re choosing up on all of the vibes round us. We’re choosing up on folks’s physique language. We’re studying between the strains.
There could be some cognitive dissonance at this sq., with folks telling you one factor, whilst you get a really sturdy intuition that they’re really considering one thing else. It may be slightly bit tougher on the times surrounding the sq. to trace common, linear info.
For that reason, it’s a fairly good time to bask in any artistic pastimes comparable to music, creating artwork, doing artistic and imaginative writing. These are the types of instruments that assist us specific issues that may be arduous to place into phrases, comparable to our emotions and what we understand concerning the world. This may require extra effort from you than common, however in overcoming any type of artistic blockages, you’ll be able to finally create sharper work and highly effective communication.
And particularly since Mercury is in Sagittarius, entangled with Neptune, query your beliefs at the moment, as a result of possibly you’re proper about issues, and possibly you’re not. Make no assumptions about who’s proper and who’s unsuitable.
Aries First Quarter Moon (Jan. 6, 2025, 3:56 pm PST)
And now for the Moon Report. It begins with the First Quarter Moon in Aries on Jan. sixth at 3:56 pm Pacific Time, at 16º 55’ Aries and Capricorn. That is essentially the most First Quartery of any First Quarter Moon all 12 months as a result of it blends that “let’s get began” vitality of the First Quarter, with Aries, an indication that’s most desirous to provoke new issues and to get the ball rolling.
For all of these intentions that you simply set on the Capricorn New Moon on Dec. 30th, right here is the time to crack the seal off of them and put them into motion. Aries is likely one of the higher Moon indicators for breaking previous habits and standing up for your self, doing the issues that you simply’re afraid to do. It is a very brave First Quarter Moon.
Lunar Part Household Cycle
That is the First Quarter in a lunar part household cycle that started on the New Moon on April eighth, 2024 at 19º24’ Aries and that was that huge photo voltaic eclipse. We all know that that can have begun a really vital lunar part household cycle in order that as a substitute of simply lasting for a day, this eclipse is carried via for about three years.
This First Quarter is the time once we ought to start to see some type of motion going down associated to that New Moon, that eclipse. What was it that you simply have been imagining at the moment that you simply may wish to do for your self? Or what huge occasions might need taken place round that eclipse? We do typically get charged up round eclipses time, and there can generally be surprising developments. Assume again and have a look at the Aries home of your beginning chart to consider what might need been taking place in that space of your life.
Then the Full Moon on this lunar part household cycle comes on Oct. sixth, 2025. It’ll be at 14º08’ Aries and that’s once we get the total image of that photo voltaic eclipse. That’ll be a fairly dynamic Full Moon. After which the Final Quarter within the cycle is on July seventh, 2026, at 15º41’ Aries and that begins the method of winding down this essential photo voltaic eclipse lunar part household cycle.
Void-of-Course Moon intervals
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week. On Jan. seventh, the Moon in Aries squares Mars at 1:16 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for slightly below one hour and enters Taurus at 2:11 pm. When a Void-of-Course Moon interval begins with the Moon sq. to a different planet, we all know there’s some type of battle or problem that we’ll be confronted with.
This Moon is dominated by Mars, as a result of it’s in Aries, and Mars is retrograde and in that very emotional water signal of Most cancers. It is a passionate and unstable mixture. Harm emotions can simply lead to emotional outbursts. It’s type of like water boiling over in a pan when you could have the Moon with Mars, or a tea kettle coming as much as temperature and screeching. Void-of-Course Moon intervals, after all, are good for altering habits, and the behavior that we would want to vary right here is about studying to talk up once we’re offended or upset in order that issues don’t construct up after which come out in a manner that’s actually disproportionate.
On Jan. ninth, the Moon in Taurus sextiles Mars at 2:50 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for two hours and 17 minutes after which enters Gemini at 5:07 pm. The Moon sextile a planet because it goes void is about a chance or an invite that may be coming our manner.
I like the mixture of the Moon being in Taurus with that Mars in Most cancers as a result of it calms issues down and stabilizes the feelings of the state of affairs. So what now we have right here is an invite or a chance to actively nurture these in our surroundings. Significantly, consider your office, as a result of Mars is related to work, and what are you able to do for the folks that you simply work with day-after-day to make issues slightly extra nurturing and nice for them.
Typically this entails meals if we’re speaking about Taurus and Most cancers, so this may be bringing in some wholesome snacks or providing to make a day run to the native espresso store. If you may make your office slightly cheerier, folks will keep in mind the way you made them really feel and this has sensible penalties when it’s time to supply promotions or pay raises. These little acts of kindness can really repay in methods which are far past the emotional profit.
On Jan. eleventh, the Moon in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces at 4:03 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 4 hours, 21 minutes, then enters Most cancers at 8:24 pm. The Moon sq. one other planet initially of a Void-of-Course interval signifies a battle. And the battle right here is, the communication represented by Moon in Gemini could be very unclear – that’s the Neptune affect. Emails can seemingly evaporate. Telephone calls or texts are missed. What we are able to do throughout this Void-of-Course interval is observe the artwork of clarifying our communication, proofreading, confirming our communications.
And it’s essential to recollect to chorus from gossip. I’ve the Moon in Gemini myself, and I admit I type of love gossip. I really like to listen to all of the information and the little tales of individuals. However particularly when this Moon in Gemini is connecting with Neptune, these little bits of gossip can emerge when least anticipated and be overheard by the unsuitable folks and this will trigger damage emotions and misunderstandings.
Mercury enters Capricorn (Jan. 8, 2025, 2:30 am PST)
On Jan. eighth at 2:30 am Pacific Time, Mercury enters Capricorn. On the face of it, Mercury, as we affiliate it typically with Gemini, has no explicit sympathy with the signal of Capricorn. One is gentle and chatty, the opposite is kind of critical and prefers to give attention to simply actually essential subjects. However Mercury can be the ruler of Virgo, and when it’s in that signal, it’s keenly analytical and sensible.
So whereas Mercury is in Capricorn, it type of leans into its tempered, disciplined, organized facet. We will discover it a lot simpler to develop a technique and a sensible method to engaging in targets. It may be a unbelievable time to start to tug collectively the supplies that you simply’ll have to file your earnings tax return, for instance, ending up your submitting, caring for essential items of communication, are terrific, whereas Mercury is in Capricorn, which it is going to be till Jan. twenty seventh.
Take the total month of January to essentially plot for targets within the coming 12 months. Totally analyze all the info and figures from final 12 months, in order that this 12 months’s plans are constructed on a really sturdy and well-informed basis.
Lunar Nodes enter Pisces and Virgo (Jan. 11, 2025, 3:02 pm PST)
The lunar nodes enter the indicators of Pisces and Virgo on Jan. eleventh at 3:02 pm Pacific Time. The North Node has been within the signal of Aries, the South Node within the signal of Libra, since July 2023. Aside from the partial photo voltaic eclipse in Aries on March twenty ninth, eclipses will now start taking place on the Pisces-Virgo axis till Feb. twentieth, 2027.
The North Node represents the brass ring in life that we are attempting to succeed in for, and that if we do attain for it, we discover some measure of happiness and contentment. Whereas it was in Aries, the brass ring was present in pursuing new challenges in our personal manner and on our personal timeline. Because the North Node strikes into Pisces, it’ll be time to embrace compassion, spirituality, creative pursuits, instinct, growing religion that issues are as they need to be.
The South Node represents the consolation zone, the issues which are so ingrained in us, we’re so snug with, we’re excellent at, that it may be arduous to get out of that spot in order that we are able to transfer ahead. In Libra, that has been about maybe being over-invested in relationships. In being agreeable, in attempting to please all people.
Now because the South Node goes in Virgo, there may be the necessity to launch a few of the shadow sides of Virgo, judgment in a damaging sense, criticism, the insistence that solely what we are able to expertise with the senses is worth it. The nodes have been in these indicators between November 2015 and Could 2017 however at the moment, the North and South Nodes have been reversed with the North Node in Virgo and the South Node in Pisces.
So, now we have a short time now to expertise this dichotomy and to determine, as these huge planets, Saturn and Neptune, will likely be going into Aries very quickly, after years of coloring our experiences with Pisces, to determine keep that Pisces high quality of kindness and charity and searching for each other.
Mars trine Neptune (Jan. 12, 2025, 1:16 pm PST)
With an identical message, Mars in Most cancers trines Neptune on Jan. twelfth at 1:16 pm Pacific Time. What a beautiful transit, particularly for volunteering, for caring for others. That Mars in Most cancers very a lot has that nurturing high quality, and Neptune in Pisces simply desires to be good to folks. Contemplate volunteering at an animal shelter, a soup kitchen, a meals pantry, get entangled with a group backyard or a seaside cleanup group.
And if it’s simply too arduous to search out time in your schedule to volunteer, and I do know that’s an issue for folks. I do know that individuals wish to be useful they usually wish to be engaged and concerned. It actually is hard generally when you could have a job and a household and all these completely different tasks.
However you’ll be able to at all times discover small methods to point out kindness in your office or your neighborhood. Even making a small donation to some organizations that signify issues essential to you. Make it a precedence to present. Work to create a way of just about household closeness with the folks you spend essentially the most time with.
Listener Query: Transiting Planets Making A number of Precise Features
On this week’s listener query, Listener Saturn’s Little Helper asks, “Like everybody, without end, at all times, I’m going via a major Saturn transit. My query shouldn’t be about Saturn precisely. It’s about these outer planets that undergo lengthy retrograde intervals, backing over key factors within the private chart three or extra occasions.
It seems like an enormous dump truck backing over me again and again, though I’m typically higher at life by the very finish. The query is particularly about how the second and third passes, or extra, can have an effect on us. If we’ve labored actually arduous to climate via the teachings, or if life was simply excessive through the first transit go to a natal planet, can the second, and particularly the third, go as a planet goes retrograde, after which direct for the ultimate time, ever get simpler?
Am I asking as a result of I needed it to be simpler? You guess. However what I actually would really like is the reality as you see it. Thanks a lot.”
Properly, Saturn’s Little Helper, I really like your query and I really like your nickname! Let me dig in and see if I will help.
So, certainly, the outer planets, Saturn via Pluto, practically at all times, however not at all times, will make three or extra precise passes as they side a planet in your beginning chart. With Neptune and Pluto, specifically, we are able to typically get these as many as 4 or 5 occasions. They usually’re fairly vexing for those who’re having a troublesome time with them. Having Pluto sq. your Venus, for instance, 3 times can actually be excruciating.
I believe that the primary time is definitely normally slightly tougher since you’re experiencing one thing new that’s come on the scene. It type of takes you unexpectedly. The second time you could have the side, you are inclined to a minimum of have some body of reference for it, some context. You will not be loving it, however it doesn’t take you fully unexpectedly. And by the point you get to the third precise side, you’re fairly accustomed to the curriculum that you simply’re being requested to grasp.
I want I might offer you a solution that utilized in all conditions. I don’t assume there actually is one. I believe a lot is determined by the planet that’s being aspected. Your expertise with the transiting planet, what’s happening there, and the character of the occasions that occur through the precise features.
I inform this story to a lot of my purchasers about these sorts of features, and it’s the story of going to a rabbi since you’ve determined you wish to convert to Judaism. And the primary time you go to the rabbi’s home, he opens the door and also you say, “I’d wish to convert,” and he simply slams the door in your face. The second time, you go and also you say, “I actually wish to convert,” and he appears to be like at you for a minute, and a minimum of does you the courtesy of claiming “no,” and slams the door in your face. After which the third time you go, “I’m honest, I really wish to convert to Judaism.” And he stands there and appears at you for a second and says, “Okay, come inside.”
That’s how I wish to envision these precise features from the outer planets to a natal planet. They’re attempting to gauge your sincerity. I believe that is very true with Saturn, by the best way. Saturn is testing to see how a lot punishment you’ll take within the curiosity of getting one thing or doing one thing you actually wish to do.
And every of the massive planets is slightly bit completely different, however finally I believe that’s what that transiting course of is attempting to show us, the extent of our sincerity, to essentially get the image. Uranus comes alongside and there are disruptions. Neptune comes alongside and there may be disappointment or grief. Pluto comes alongside and it’s that feeling of powerlessness.
These are huge classes and we don’t be taught them instantly. In the course of the period of time that one in all these outer planets could be within the neighborhood of one thing in your beginning chart is type of a sacred time. It’s a time not of occasions, however of course of, of working via these huge messages. And generally you need to have a number of completely different sorts of occasions with some months in between to ensure that it to sink in.
I hope that helps, Saturn’s Little Helper, and I hope Saturn shouldn’t be too unkind to you and that you simply go his exams! Thanks a lot to your query.
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