TRANSCRIPT Ep. 280 (3.3.25)
The Solar Meets Mars: A Fiery Dance!
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Howdy, invisible good friend, April right here, and the date as we speak is March third, 2025. Welcome to Episode 280 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast.
This week, consider it because the calm earlier than the astrological storm. Mercury enters Aries and makes a facet with Pluto. It’s additionally the ruler of the First Quarter Moon in Gemini. The Solar and Mars move in a harmonious trine side, bringing loads of vitality and enthusiasm. And I reply a listener query about how one can work the planets in fall, detriment, or mutual reception.
And whereas I’ve you, I needed to inform you a few webinar that I’m holding this weekend, all in regards to the eclipses of 2025. It takes place on Saturday, March eighth at 10 am Pacific Time. Extra data is offered at BigSkyAstrology.com/studying.
Mercury enters Aries (March 3, 2025, 1:04 am PST)
Mercury enters Aries this week on March third at 1:04 am Pacific Time. Now, Mercury is slowing down as a result of it’s going to show retrograde on March 14th, and slowing down is just not a situation that any planet in Aries enjoys. Within the case of Mercury, the planet of considering, talking, processing data, Mercury on this signal tends to make its thoughts up fairly rapidly and it likes to get to the purpose.
I at all times say that when you’re sending an e mail or textual content to somebody with Mercury in Aries of their start chart, make sure that you set all of the essential data proper up entrance within the first line as a result of they could not have the endurance to get previous that!
That is going to be a wonderful transit for considering quick in your toes, defending your self fearlessly in a confrontation.
However do your finest to not transfer too rapidly with out considering issues by as a result of as soon as Mercury goes retrograde, that’s the time when these items are prone to meet up with you, and you actually may want that you just had given it a second thought earlier than plunging into one thing.
Mercury sextile Pluto (March 5, 2025, 5:13 am PST)
A few days later, on March fifth at 5:13 am Pacific Time, Mercury in Aries sextiles Pluto at 3º Aries and Aquarius. Now, as a result of upcoming Mercury retrograde interval, that is going to be the primary of three sextiles that Mercury will make to Pluto. On March twenty fifth, whereas Mercury is retrograde, it would make the second sextile on this collection and on April twentieth, after Mercury has turned direct, it would make the ultimate sextile. So, that is the start of a three-part story that concludes in late April.
I believe a part of this story is that a whole lot of what we have now been telling ourselves for years about ourselves, about different individuals, is improper. And both these tales had been improper from the beginning, or they’ve grow to be improper over time.
We do are inclined to get individuals stereotyped in our minds as being a specific sort of method, and infrequently, that does change over time. Folks develop, they evolve and mature. Now that Mercury and Pluto are interacting with one another, there isn’t any hiding from the reality about who we’re, about who others are, in regards to the nature of conditions.
And particularly with Mercury in Aries. This explicit mixture may be harsh. We may be susceptible to talking sort of bluntly, possibly even a bit of bit unkindly. The very best recommendation I can provide you right here is to depend to 10 earlier than talking or earlier than appearing. And possibly attempt to throw your self into some actions that may focus this considerably compulsive vitality of Mercury with Pluto right into a wholesome path. One thing like knitting or different handcrafts, puzzles, or simply getting a whole lot of train. Aries is a really energetic signal and likes to get exterior and transfer round.
Pluto’s Sabian image at this sextile is 3 Aquarius, A deserter from the Navy. And to an excellent extent, it’s in regards to the refusal to just accept the unacceptable, refusing to adjust to authority that we expect is inappropriate or giving us the improper orders. That could be a constructive expression of Mercury in side to Pluto, saying no to issues that we actually don’t agree with. However it’s solely constructive if we handle to restrain that Mercury in Aries impulsiveness.
Gemini First Quarter Moon (March 6, 2025, 8:32 am PST)
And now it’s time for the Moon Report. It begins with the Gemini First Quarter Moon on March sixth at 8:32 am Pacific Time at 16º21’ Gemini. So, it’s time to take motion on these New Moon in Pisces intentions from the New Moon on February twenty seventh. That is the section for motion, and the conjunction within the chart for this First Quarter between the Moon and Jupiter actually emphasizes the upside, the positivity of taking motion.
Mars, after all, is freshly direct in Most cancers after a really lengthy and irritating retrograde interval and on the time of this First Quarter, it’s in a trine side with the Solar, and that provides loads of energetic oomph to this First Quarter Moon. Let’s get issues achieved. Let’s inform our story.
This First Quarter Moon is dominated by Mercury, which is gearing up for its retrograde interval and it sort of has its fingers full with Pluto. Some the same old qualities that we affiliate with Gemini, which might be the lightness, the small speak, socializing, new concepts, they could be a bit of darker than regular due to this side to Pluto. If we’re gossiping, it’d get a bit of extra mean-spirited than regular, and that’s the sort of factor that’s prone to come again at us when Mercury turns retrograde.
So, use Gemini’s finest qualities, a love of selection, the willingness to strive new adventures, however actually curb the acerbic tongue or the gossipy side of Gemini at this First Quarter Moon.
Lunar Section Household Cycle
That is the First Quarter in a lunar section household cycle that started on the New Moon on June sixth, 2024, at 16º17’ Gemini. That was a fairly wonderful New Moon with 5 planets in Gemini, and most of them had been making a tough side to Saturn in Pisces. The character of that New Moon and its lunar section cycle is about sitting on these Gemini impulses to some extent. For instance, Gemini can get overextended in a whole lot of instructions and have a tough time specializing in only one factor that it needs to pursue. And the character of that exact New Moon, with the features to Saturn, mentioned that that was a time that possibly you had been selecting only one path, one curiosity that you just needed to comply with. And the First Quarter Moon now simply asks you to step again and consider how nicely are you doing with that.
The Full Moon on this cycle comes on December 4th, 2025, and that’s after we will get a fuller image of the issues that we initiated at that New Moon in June 2024. And the Final Quarter on this cycle comes on September 4th, 2026. And that may give us yet one more alternative to actually full this cycle and possibly one essential venture that we picked out for ourselves at that New Moon.
Void-of-Course Moon Durations
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week. The primary is on March fifth, when the Moon in Taurus sextiles Neptune at 2:53 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course then for 1 hour 36 minutes, after which enters Gemini at 4:29 am. Usually, a Moon in Taurus may be very regular and steady. It’s one of many nicer indicators for the Moon.
However on this case, it’s in a conjunction with Uranus, so insomnia could also be a problem, or unsettling desires that jolt us awake. That’s the nature of the Moon and Uranus being a facet with Neptune, the planet of desires and the unconscious. If you end up awake presently, possibly dip right into a ebook or discover a kind of ambiance movies on YouTube with a crackling hearth or rain noises. They’ve some with this beautiful jazz music and a comfortable bookstore setting that put me proper out.
On March seventh, the Moon in Gemini squares Neptune at 6:57 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 1 hour 32 minutes and enters Most cancers at 8:29 am. All the Void-of-Course Moons this week start on features to Neptune as a result of Neptune is so near the top of its signal. And after we’re speaking about Void-of-Course intervals which are linked to Neptune, they’re about reaching into our unconscious – why we do the issues that we do or say the issues we are saying, within the case of this Moon in Gemini.
We is usually a little moody when the Moon is in Gemini, a mutable signal, and connecting with Neptune as nicely. However this can be a Void-of-Course interval that provides us an opportunity to choose up some form of artistic therapeutic outlet for these emotional surges that may come up every so often.
It might be nice to get into one thing like a journaling apply, possibly with tarot, as a result of it has that visible high quality that Neptune actually enjoys and it’s additionally a great way to find out about symbolism. The Moon in Gemini may be very centered on language, however Neptune is linked with the visible, so tarot may help us complement our examine of astrological symbolism. Though we are able to actually strategy astrology from a metaphysical standpoint or religious one, it nonetheless is coming by written symbols, which have a really totally different high quality than that visible part of Neptune. So possibly give tarot a strive. I’m enjoying with it much more today.
And on March ninth, the Moon in Most cancers trines Neptune at 2:32 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 1 hour, 27 minutes, after which enters Leo at 3:59 pm. Appears like a good time for a Sunday brunch.
Life is traumatic. And recently, there’s been a whole lot of discuss pleasure. The pleasure of lacking out, for instance, sort of a play on the concern of lacking out. There may be a whole lot of enjoyment, and the Moon in Most cancers with Neptune actually speaks of this, the enjoyment that we are able to get from simply hanging out at residence, being very informal, not having to combat with the skin world.
Pleasure is essential, and so is nice foods and drinks to a Moon in Most cancers that’s trine Neptune.
Solar trine Mars (March 7, 2025, 9:13 pm PST)
The Solar trines Mars on March seventh at 9:13 pm at 17º52’ Pisces and Most cancers. Round this present day, we would see an uptick in vitality, enthusiasm, and focus. In the event you like to bounce, we have now a few enjoyable, quick movies that we’ll hyperlink to within the present notes to encourage you.
Total, that is simply actually good, vigorous vitality for tackling particularly artistic tasks which were on the again burner; to carry out or to entertain, particularly Sabian image 18 Pisces, A huge tent. That’s an emblem that at all times speaks to me of doing one thing performative.
However we do need to be careful for bouts of mood, at all times, when Mars is concerned. The Solar in Pisces and Mars in Most cancers are in mild indicators, and the trine is a fairly simple side between them, however they’ll nonetheless lose their cool. Particularly if somebody disrespects your loved ones, or a deprived particular person, or an animal who’s struggling. Mars’ Sabian image is eighteen Most cancers, A hen scratching for her chicks, and it speaks to this Mars in Most cancers want to tackle the position of caring and offering for others, each in our household and in our group. So, give your pleasure and your creativity to the service of the individuals and creatures that you just love.
Listener Query: Working with planets in Detriment, Fall, and Mutual Reception
On this week’s listener query, listener Percy on the PATH Prepare writes, “Expensive Madam Astrologer. My listener query considerations two of the maybe most action-adventure-affirming ideas in astrology.
Planets within the indicators of their fall or detriment call to mind movie classics equivalent to The Man within the Iron Masks or Air Power One, during which a normally highly effective determine finds him or herself in determined circumstances and should make clever use of each out there useful resource.
Planets in Mutual Reception evoke thrillers during which two characters, separated by granite partitions, stargates, or time portals, every have information of profit to the opposite, equivalent to the situation of treasure buried centuries in the past, or the stand down passphrase for the steam powered robotic prowling the decaying manor during which one character regains consciousness.”
April: I have to say, I really like listener Percy’s method with phrases! They proceed,
“In my very own natal chart, King Jupiter finds himself trapped in Gemini – as he does presently – within the Signal’s pure home, the Third Home of Communication, plaintively gazing throughout to Messenger Mercury, confined in Fort Sagittarius. Can I but revise my very own storyline to allow these two characters to assist each other survive and thrive?”
Effectively, Percy on the PATH Prepare – and I needed to look that up. I reside in Southern California. We don’t have a whole lot of public transportation, however I do have a couple of ideas for you. Initially, I’m not shocked in any respect that any individual who writes with such pleasure and cleverness – and quite a few phrases! – has Mercury in Sagittarius oppose Jupiter in your start chart.
My expensive astrologer good friend, Dana Gerhardt, is keen on observing that planets of their fall or detriment are generally truly stronger than regular as a result of we’ve needed to work time beyond regulation to attain their potential. And whereas issues didn’t find yourself too properly for The Man within the Iron Masks, Harrison Ford’s character acquitted himself fairly properly in Air Power One after overcoming some pretty dire circumstances, generally it takes emergencies, or no less than tough circumstances, to disclose a planet’s hidden strengths, simply as they do for individuals.
Now, as for planets in mutual reception, I’ve by no means fully grasped how that’s imagined to work. My instructor was fond of claiming that planets in mutual reception, which signifies that every of them is within the signal that the opposite guidelines, might form of swap locations and behave as if they had been of their rulership.
Perhaps it’s a sort of Star Trek transporter state of affairs. Or possibly Mercury within the Sagittarius Fort swings down on a vine from a close-by trellis, Tarzan fashion, after which Jupiter makes use of the identical vine to climb as much as the fortress parapet. I don’t know precisely. I used to be watching this for a bit whereas Mercury and Jupiter had been in mutual reception within the transits and questioning if I might see it at work. I’m undecided I actually might put my finger on it however I’ll say that they have a tendency to provide one another a lift in your chart in the event that they’re in one another’s indicators.
I’ll offer you an instance. As I’ve talked about earlier than, my husband and I’ve been working the New York Instances crossword puzzle. We’re each large phrase individuals and we’ve been actually having fun with it. However it appears neither of us can actually work one in all these items on our personal, aside from possibly Monday or Tuesday. Every of us has the information and particulars that the opposite lacks, and we are able to fill within the gaps collectively. Individually, we could also be like these planets which are of their fall or detriment, but when we mix our strengths, we find yourself a lot stronger general.
Suffice to say, I believe that planets within the indicators of their fall or detriment can truly be very robust and that within the case of planets in mutual reception, every has one thing that the opposite lacks and someway, collectively, they’re stronger, they usually assist one another out.
Anyway, Percy on the Path Prepare, I hope that that was useful. Thanks for writing in, and I very a lot loved your query.
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