The astrology of March 2025 has the makings of some of the most important and consequential astrology of the entire year. During the month, we’ll be experiencing both a Venus and a Mercury retrograde, and there will be a Full Moon Lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 14th and a New Moon Solar eclipse in Aries on March 29th. And if that wasn’t enough, the planet Neptune will enter the sign of Aries on March 30th for the first time in the last 150 years. To put that into perspective, the last time Neptune entered Aries was on April 13th 1865, and that was the day after the American Revolution began. This month has all the signatures for major upheavals and changes on both a personal and a collective level, and hopefully this celestial roadmap will help you navigate it all more easefully. So let’s start by unpacking how the upcoming eclipses this month may be influencing the geo-political landscape.
Consider this: Eclipses are astronomical events that occur usually 4-5 times every year, and they happen when the Earth, Moon and Sun come into a particular alignment. From an astrological standpoint, eclipses signify fated beginnings and endings that affect us on a personal and on a collective level.
Within the geo-political context, eclipses often represent the rise and fall of prominent leaders, nations and ideologies.
Eclipses always happen in a pair of signs, and for roughly the past 18 months, we’ve been having eclipses in the signs of Aries and Libra. The first eclipse in the Aries and Libra cycle occurred on October 14, 2023 - one week after October 7th - when the conflict between Gaza and Israel escalated significantly and shortly afterwards Israel began its genocidal campaign.
Since that New Moon Solar eclipse in Libra eclipse on 10/14/23, we’ve had a series of eclipses that have oscillated between Aries and Libra for the past 18 months. The time-periods around those eclipses have consistently aligned with escalations of violence within the genocide.
The dates of those eclipses are as follows: **1. March 24, 2024 Lunar eclipse in Libra
- April 8th, 2024 Solar eclipse in Aries
- September 17, 2024 Lunar eclipse in Pisces
- October 2nd 2024 Solar eclipse in Libra ** The Solar eclipse in Aries that happened on April 8th of last year was a week after Israel launched its strike against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria. On September 23 of last year, Israel launched over 650 air strikes on Lebanon, and that event was sandwiched in between eclipses that occurred on September 7th and October 2nd of 2024.
It’s important to track this timeline because the eclipse that’s happening on March 29th of this month - that New Moon Solar eclipse in Aries - that eclipse will be the final eclipse in the Aries and Libra eclipse cycle, a cycle that first began on October 14th of 2023. Eclipses inherently signify endings often, so it’s significant that this March 29th eclipse will be the final culmination within the Aries-Libra eclipse cycle that’s been happening these past 18 months. One can only hope that this upcoming March 29th eclipse in Aries will open the way for resolutions that prioritize a more safe and liberated Palestine.
While the March 29th Solar eclipse in Aries has the signature finality and culmination, the first eclipse of March - the Full Moon Lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 14th - has the energy of a grand new beginning. That March 14th eclipse will be the first eclipse that we’ve had in Virgo since 2015, so there will be a seed planted within our lives during this eclipse on March 14th that will then be growing over the next 18 months.
The day after the eclipse, Mercury will begin its retrograde journey in Aries for the next few weeks.. Mercury retrogrades are periods of time that can bring delays and miscommunications, and something to be on the lookout for mid-month is a potential government shutdown. On December 20th of last year, the U.S. House and Senate passed a second Continuing Resolution, which extended federal spending and averted a government shutdown through March 14th, 2025. It’s rather auspicious that the deadline date will be the day of the Full Lunar eclipse in Virgo, followed by this Mercury retrograde in Aries. The astrology of that time would suggest that we can expect there to be delays and obstacles popping up around then that might have profound impact on whether or not we can avoid a government shutdown or not here in the US. One of the things that I find most valuable about astrology is that you can track these energies and see how they’re impacting us on a global and collective level, but there’s also great value in tracking where these energies are playing out within our own charts.
I’m an astrologer who uses the Whole sign system (not Placidus), where each of the 12 houses corresponds to a full zodiac sign.
The significance of the houses are as follows: 1st house: Self, Body, Appearance, Self-Esteem, Ego, Individuality, Identity 2nd house: Money, Possessions, Resources, Value-systems, Income, Material world 3rd house: Communication, Writing, Speaking, Channeling, Siblings, Extended Family, Neighbors, Short-distance travel 4th house: Home, Parents, Ancestry, Early-childhood experiences 5th house: Creative self-expression, Children, Pleasure/Joy/Sex, Romance, Situationships 6th house: Physical health/Injury, Holistic health practices, Work/Coworkers, Pets, Routines, Diet/Gut 7th house: Marriage, Significant relationships, Clients 8th house: Shared resources, Taxes/Loans/Debts, Death/Occult, Inheritance, Investments 9th house: Long distance travel, Higher education, Religion/Divination, Astrology, Publishing, Philosophy 10th house: Career, Public reputation, Ambition, Long-term goals 11th house: Friendships, Social networks, Community, Social media, Humanitarianism 12th house: Solitude/Isolation, Meditation, Self-sabotage, Inner-criticism, Mental health
The signs of Virgo and Aries are prominent players in March of 2025, so I would be remiss if I didn’t leave you with some working knowledge of where these energies are occurring in your own chart. Let’s first focus on your Virgo house. We all have Virgo in 1 of our 12 houses. These are the areas of your life where there will be some major new developments happening over the next 18 months and those developments will be activated by the Lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 14th.
Here’s your Virgo house based off your RISING sign:
ARIES: 6th 🏠
TAURUS: 5th 🏠
GEMINI: 4th 🏠
CANCER: 3rd 🏠
LEO : 2nd 🏠
VIRGO: 1st 🏠
LIBRA: 12th 🏠
SCORPIO: 11th 🏠
SAGITTARIUS: 10th 🏠
CAPRICORN: 9th 🏠
AQUARIUS: 8th 🏠
PISCES: 7th 🏠
With so much happening also in the sign of Aries during March 2025, I also want you to track where you have Aries in your own birth chart. We all have Aries in 1 of our 12 Whole sign houses. Think about what lessons you’ve been learning and what changes have been occurring in these life areas over the last 18 months. That Solar eclipse on March 29th may feel like a culmination of recent lessons learned here.
Here’s your Aries house based off your RISING sign:
ARIES: 1st 🏠
TAURUS: 12th 🏠
GEMINI: 11th 🏠
CANCER: 10th 🏠
LEO: 9th 🏠
VIRGO: 8th 🏠
LIBRA: 7th 🏠
SCORPIO: 6th 🏠
SAGITTARIUS: 5th 🏠
CAPRICORN: 4th 🏠
AQUARIUS: 3rd 🏠
PISCES: 2nd 🏠
March 2025 will undoubtedly be a cosmic pressure-cooker, and we can expect to see some significant political shifts on a collective level and we can also expect there to be some beginnings and endings that we’ll experience on a personal level. ### The day after the Aries eclipse on March 29th, the planet Neptune will enter the sign of Aries for the first time in the last 150 years. The last time Neptune entered Aries it was April 13th 1861, which was the day after the American Civil War began. My advice over the course of this month would be to stay flexible and to take things one day at a time, and also to remember that eclipses and retrogrades ultimately serve as vehicles for transformations. I hope that the transformations we encounter help fortify and strengthen us so that we can keep striving to bring a world into existence that is devoid of colonial brutality. May Palestine and any other place in the world suffering from this brutality become more liberated this March and beyond. And so it is.
