TRANSCRIPT Ep. 281 (3.10. 25)
Virgo Full Moon-Lunar Eclipse: Clearing Out the Stress!
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Whats up, Invisible Good friend, April right here, and the date at this time is March tenth, 2025. Welcome to Episode 281 of the Massive Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, welcome to the primary eclipse season of 2025, which begins with this week’s Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Must you be terrifiiiiied?™ The Solar makes its annual conjunction to demanding Saturn however will get busted out of jail by Uranus a few days later. And Mercury makes a conjunction to retrograde Venus simply a few days earlier than he begins his personal retrograde interval. Plus, I reply a listener query in regards to the significance of the Midheaven and IC as South and North factors within the chart.
Mercury conjoins Venus (March 11, 2025, 3:55 pm PDT)
Mercury makes a conjunction with Venus on March eleventh at 3:55 pm Pacific Daylight Time at 8º47’ Aries. It’s on the Sabian image 9 Aries, A crystal gazer. It’s time to consider what we wish in life and that is very true as Venus has been retrograde. Particularly, it’s vital to have a look at the world of life that’s represented by the Aries home of your chart and take into consideration what it’s that you simply actually need in that space of life.
As Mercury comes right into a reference to Venus, it makes it somewhat simpler to determine this stuff out as a result of Mercury is the pondering planet. A lot of Venus is kind of instinctual. We expect, “I need that. That appears actually good to me. I’m actually craving this.” However Mercury brings a rational thought course of to those anonymous Venus wishes.
The Sabian image for this conjunction, A crystal gazer, says that a few of the clues to what we wish might come about as hunches. And though we don’t often consider the hearth indicators, like Aries, as being notably intuitive, they actually could be. Their instinct comes not by means of that deep, soulful, heartfelt intuition of the water indicators like Most cancers, Scorpio, and Pisces. However quite, Aries’ instinct comes by means of the hearth of the spirit. It’s not a passive sense of one thing that we wish or need. It’s one thing we’re keen about.
Solar conjoins Saturn (March 12, 20225, 3:29 am PDT)
On March twelfth at 3:29 am Pacific Time, the Solar makes a conjunction with Saturn at 22º05’ Pisces. It’s on the Sabian image 23 Pisces, Spiritist phenomena.
The Solar with Saturn is usually a very productive, character-building transit however it often is just not a cheerful one. You may actually really feel such as you’re carrying the load of Saturn itself in your shoulders. We’d really feel as if we’re working very arduous and never getting any outcomes or not getting the type of credit score we wish to get. Others would possibly assume that we’re being too severe, that we’re being a killjoy. It’s like dwelling with a darkish cloud over your head and also you’re dragging alongside a heavy load behind you. It’s like making an attempt to plant seeds within the backyard, however the floor is frozen stable and stuffed with rocks. You are able to do it, however it’s gonna take a number of work.
Nonetheless, that is the type of transit that reveals us our energy, reveals us our capability for endurance, and the work that we’ve been doing ever for the reason that Solar entered Pisces on February 18th will final as a result of we’ve really earned it and labored for it. Inside a few days of this transit, your project is fairly easy. It’s simply to point out up, to maintain your head down and plug away at your work. Don’t look too far within the distance and hold your eyes by yourself work and never what different individuals are doing.
That is type of a humorous planetary mixture to have in Pisces, which is a way more relaxed, go-with-the-flow signal. However Saturn is Saturn. And when the Solar is along with this planet, we have to work for what it’s that we wish.
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse (March 13, 2025, 11:55 pm PDT)
And now it’s time for the Moon Report. And it begins with a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on March thirteenth at 11:55 pm Pacific time. The Moon is at 23º56’ Virgo. That is our second eclipse on the Pisces Virgo axis. The primary was a Lunar Eclipse on September 18th, 2024, and that was the purpose reverse this eclipse.
Eclipses deliver main change, they usually’re not all the time optimistic. In truth, it typically takes issue to power us to develop. The indicators of the transiting lunar nodes pinpoint the themes which are being highlighted by these eclipses. And I feel as a result of eclipses require a New or Full Moon very near the lunar nodes, I consider them as introducing the type of disaster that can transfer us from the South Node level of consolation and complacency and towards the north node level, which is designed to assist us develop.
The eclipses that happen near the Moon’s South Node actually spotlight these themes of launch and of therapeutic and those that fall near the North Node’s facet present methods to maneuver ahead and what we’d fill ourselves up with. The South Node is in Virgo, so every eclipse right here will probably be motivating us to launch the cruel or adverse features of that signal, akin to fear and stress, extreme perfectionism, harmful criticism of ourselves in addition to of others. And in the meantime, the North Node is in Pisces for the primary time since 2007. The North Node gives a brand new path that may result in private development. And any eclipse in Pisces by means of 2026 will encourage us to develop a religious path or perspective, to commit ourselves to inventive pursuits, to offer ourselves in service and kindness to folks or animals who’re struggling.
This week’s specific eclipse is near the Moon’s South Node, so it’s a “letting go” eclipse. It’s against the Solar, after all, a Lunar Eclipse is all the time when the Moon is against the Solar. And it’s additionally against Saturn and Neptune. So, let’s say that this letting go course of has to do with our sense of self and identification, about being keen to take accountability for circumstances, and in addition in regards to the authority figures in our lives, and in addition accountability for the ways in which now we have fooled ourselves sometimes, and let ourselves be fooled.
What’s useful about working with eclipses is that they’ve reliable cycles. With this Lunar Eclipse, you’ll be able to look again to earlier eclipses close to this diploma to get a touch at what it may imply for you personally. It’s because an eclipse at a specific diploma and signal will fall in the identical home of your chart and can make features to the identical planets in your chart. And since the identical territory is getting triggered, related territory inside you is getting triggered.
For this eclipse, look again to September thirteenth, 2015, and a Photo voltaic Eclipse at 20ºVirgo; on March 14th, 2006, a Lunar Eclipse at 24º15’ Virgo; and on March thirteenth, 1998, a Lunar Eclipse at 22º24’ Virgo.
However actually, you’ll be able to have a look at the eclipses close to this diploma of any mutable signal, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, as a result of they are going to be making features thus far, both conjunction within the case of Virgo, or in opposition with Pisces, or a sq. with Gemini and Sagittarius. I received’t provide you with particular eclipses, however you’ll be able to look again to 2020, 2015 and 16, 2011, 2006, 2001, 1997 and 98, 1992, 1988, and 1982 by means of 84, simply for example.
Lunar Section Household Cycle
That is the Full Moon in a Lunar Section Household Cycle that started with a New Moon on September 14th, 2023. That was at 21º58’ Virgo. The problems and intentions from that point at the moment are being carried ahead by means of this Lunar Section Household Cycle, and each 9 months from that New Moon, we see one other main lunation close to that New Moon diploma. So, the First Quarter was on June thirteenth, 2024; that was a 23º39’ Virgo. So once more, actually shut thus far, the Full Moon now, March thirteenth, 2025, 23º56’ Virgo. And the Final Quarter on this cycle is on December eleventh, 2025, at 20º04’ Virgo. The New Moon on this cycle was the one which set the tone for the approaching three years. After which the First Quarter says, what are you going to do within the Virgo space of your life that’s in step with the intentions you made at that Virgo New Moon?
Now, now we have a much bigger image of what it’s we got down to do. Now we have gone down the trail for 18 months and now we’re beginning to have a look at issues in a barely completely different method. This may should do with work typically. It will probably should do with well being and the way we’re caring for ourselves. And in addition, once more, the home of your chart, the place 23º56’ Virgo lands.
After which the Final Quarter will probably be about how will you fine-tune what you’ve gotten been doing to date on this Virgo space and on the brink of make a closing resolution, push, or motion to attempt to deliver this cycle to a satisfying completion.
Void-of-Course Moon Intervals
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon durations for this week. On March eleventh, the Moon in Leo squares Uranus at 1:16 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 11 hours, 40 minutes, and enters Virgo on March twelfth at 12:56 am. Void-of-Course Moon durations that start when the Moon is squaring one other planet present that there’s some battle or some problem. It is a fairly lengthy Void-of-Course Moon interval. The battle of this sq. is not less than partially round having a robust, wholesome sense of self, Leo, within the face of exterior challenges that knock us astray.
Typically, this comes within the type of social conditions, perhaps the place you are feeling that you simply don’t fairly slot in. Once we concentrate on who we’re and what we wish to categorical, it’s true that that tends to separate us generally from the group. In a method, that’s the purpose. The problem of this Void-of-Course Moon interval is to concentrate throughout these moments and these conditions the place this occurs, the place we really feel separate, and punctiliously think about whether or not becoming in is value firming down who you might be.
On March 14th, the Moon in Virgo opposes Neptune at 10:47 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 1 hour 12 minutes and enters Libra at 11:59 am.
Void-of-Course Moon durations that start with the Moon’s opposition to a different planet are attempting to deliver us an consciousness. Oppositions often deliver this consciousness by means of our observations or interactions with different folks. When Neptune is concerned, we could also be experiencing disillusionment by means of someone that we had idealized. Or we might examine ourselves to a very glamorous or inventive or religious individual and discover ourselves wanting. A part of the Void-of-Course Moon project right here, I feel, is to get a transparent concept of your self and generally this requires getting previous idealizing others.
This Void-of-Course Moon interval is coming off that Lunar Eclipse that was actual simply hours prior, which helps making fairly vital modifications in our lives. And this Void-of-Course Moon interval is a time that we will ponder that, and we will work on making that shift that we have to make to get probably the most profit from this Lunar Eclipse.
On March 16th, the Moon in Libra squares Mars in Most cancers at 2:53 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course, get this, for 21 hours 37 minutes! That could be a very lengthy Void-of-Course interval. The Moon then enters Scorpio on March seventeenth at 12:30 am.
My drawback with the best way the Void-of-Course Moon is commonly described is that folks really feel that it’s a type of a useless zone the place you actually can’t do something as a result of nothing’s gonna work out proper. I don’t see it that method. I feel generally issues don’t essentially end up precisely the best way you had envisioned, however that doesn’t essentially imply that it’s a foul factor.
This Void-of-Course Moon interval begins with a battle between the Moon in Libra and Mars in Most cancers. So, the problem for the Moon in Libra all the time is to search out steadiness and equilibrium, and that typically is just not simple when Mars is concerned. So, what we will do throughout this Void-of-Course interval is to attempt to break the behavior of being very emotionally reactive.
The explanation that I say Void-of-Course Moon durations are good for breaking habits and forming new habits is as a result of symbolically, the Moon has completed making all the main features it’s going to make in its signal. And meaning nothing is coming alongside on the Moon’s trajectory to blow it astray. So, it’s a superb time to resolve you’re gonna divest your self of some outdated patterns and to deliberately attempt to set some new ones, particularly with Mercury stationing retrograde a few days after this Void-of-Course.
Assume lengthy and arduous earlier than you ship a nasty Mars electronic mail or a reactive textual content. Be very cautious, particularly about highway rage and shedding your mood on the highway. This very lengthy Void-of-Course Moon interval is a vital one for breaking these sorts of habits, those the place we lose our mood and we act out, and as a substitute to get in a brand new behavior of training emotional regulation and self-control.
Solar sextile Uranus (March 14, 2025, 2:16 am PDT)
The Solar sextiles Uranus on March 14th at 2:16 am Pacific Time. Pondering again to that Void-of-Course Moon on March 11th, which invited us to consider the methods we stand out and whether or not it’s value making an attempt to change ourselves to slot in… Right here is a side that gives the chance to attach with individuals who make you are feeling as if you happen to, the true you, belong, match into a specific group or community.
It may be liberating and revitalizing to open your self as much as new methods of being. The Solar at 24º2’ Pisces is on the Sabian image 25 Pisces, The purging of the priesthood. It’s about rooting out insincerity, on this case, of something that isn’t really you, as a way to be a part of the neighborhood that’s best for you.
Neighborhood is implied by Uranus’s image, 25 Taurus, A big, well-kept public park. It’s an emblem of the best way the neighborhood respects widespread sources. Regardless of how singular every of us is, most of us dwell inside a wider neighborhood, and all of us share accountability for its repairs and well-being.
Mercury stations retrograde (March 14, 2025, 11:46 pm PDT)
Mercury stations retrograde on March 14th at 11:46 pm Pacific Time at 09º35’ Aries. Mercury is the planet of connectivity, all the methods we join with each other, methods like computer systems and telephones and vehicles, and of the data that we gather and share and our communications with others.
When Mercury is retrograde, we might type of lose observe of all this stuff, or they could malfunction. It’s why astrologers always advise you, when Mercury is getting retrograde, it’s time to bust out your exterior arduous drive and again up your recordsdata or to ensure they’re being saved within the cloud to keep away from signing contracts as a result of there is perhaps one thing within the fantastic print that you simply didn’t catch or one thing in regards to the deal that makes it unfavorable to you. Communication, journey, and purchases can all flip into irritating experiences.
When Mercury is retrograde, it’s time to essentially go inward a bit. Normally, Mercury retrograde is much better for revisiting previous tasks than it’s for initiating new ones. However it could truly be a rewarding time to meet up with outdated pals or your prolonged household, to go to locations you’ve been to earlier than, and to assessment contracts and end outdated tasks.
The Sabian image for this station is 10 Aries, A person educating new kinds for outdated symbols and this evokes reviewing outdated understandings, deciphering outdated concepts and agreements in a brand new method.
Listener Query: The place Are North and South?
This week’s listener query comes from Listener Savannah, who writes, “This query is about how the Midheaven and Nadir are calculated. The east facet of the earth because the ascendant and the west facet of the earth because the descendant, I perceive fairly properly. That’s fairly logical. However why on earth and each chart I see are the midheaven and nadir in every single place? Aren’t they purported to be north and south? I’m being somewhat indulgent right here as a result of I do know that I may sit round and Google this for a few hours. However frankly, I actually take pleasure in your insightful and sometimes whimsical evaluation, and I’d like to only hear it from you first. Fairly a praise to you as a trainer.”
Effectively, I take that as a praise certainly, listener Savannah, and I’m flattered that you’d come to me with this query.
I all the time should proceed cautiously in issues like this as a result of my grasp of astronomy is just not practically as sturdy as my grasp of astrology! All the pieces in regards to the homes and angles of the horoscope begin to get complicated when you get previous the ascendant and descendant. These two factors are apparent and nonnegotiable as a result of they signify the seen horizon. We are able to simply determine the east as the purpose the place the Solar rises and the west because the sundown level.
However there isn’t a comparable seen level that helps us determine the Midheaven, marking the very best level within the sky, or its reverse level, the nadir, or IC. They do lie north and south. North is the place we typically search for the IC, and south within the case of the Midheaven. They’re north and south relative to the equator, however their actual positions and the opposite issues with home division comes down to accommodate system and latitude.
We think about routinely that there are 90º between the Ascendant, the place the Solar rises, and the Midheaven, the place it culminates, roughly round midday. However relying on the situation and the seasons, it truly could be fairly completely different. For instance, if you happen to see a chart with, say, Sagittarius rising, you type of count on that the Midheaven will probably be in Virgo as a result of that’s the signal 90º earlier than Sagittarius. However fairly often, you will note a chart that has Sagittarius rising and, say, Libra on the Midheaven due to the time of 12 months and the latitude the place the individual was born.
The Earth’s circumference is way narrower on the poles than it’s on the equator. So if you happen to’re born fairly a bit north or south of the equator, and once more, relying additionally on the season of the 12 months, the homes of the chart can differ in dimension fairly a bit. That’s in the home programs, like Placidus or Koch, the place the homes are uneven in dimension. That is the place we get issues like intercepted indicators.
These quadrant-based home programs all the time place the Midheaven on the cusp of the tenth home and the IC on the cusp of the 4th. However the entire signal homes and equal homes strategies minimize the chart into 12 equal-sized factors, with the ascendant because the reference. Nonetheless, the MC and IC are outlined factors within the sky. So, this leads to the MC and IC typically being located in quite a lot of completely different homes in these equal home programs, anyplace from the eighth and 2nd homes to the eleventh and fifth homes.
In these programs, you continue to learn the Midheaven, which is all the time included in these charts, as being about profession, standing, and status, the very best level one would possibly aspire to, and the IC, as being associated to residence, household, and the place we’re rooted. It’s simply that they’re not essentially related to the tenth and 4th homes. And that the Midheaven’s Home place provides extra insights into the place one would possibly discover one’s profession, for instance.
Savannah, I hope that this helps. It’s a fairly advanced subject, however I hope that helps you perceive why generally the Midheaven and IC will not be precisely the place you count on them to be in a chart.
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