Episode 281 | Virgo Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse: Clearing Out the Stress!

Episode 281 | Virgo Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse: Clearing out the Stress!

This week, welcome to the first eclipse season of 2025, which begins with this week’s Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Should you be terrifiiiiied?™ The Sun makes its annual conjunction to demanding Saturn but gets busted out of jail by Uranus a couple of days later. Mercury makes a conjunction to retrograde Venus just a couple of days before he begins his own retrograde period. And a listener question about the significance of the Midheaven and IC as South and North points in the chart. Plus: Hunches, dead 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 symbol 9 Aries, A crystal gazer. It’s important to look at the area of life represented by the Aries house of your chart and think about what you want in that area of life. Some of the clues may come about as hunches.

[3:36] On March 12 (3:29 am PDT, 22º05’ Pisces), the Sun conjoins Saturn on the Sabian symbol 23 Pisces, Spiritist phenomena. The Sun with Saturn can be a very productive, character-building transit, but it usually is not a cheerful one. Show up, keep 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 close to the Moon’s South Node, emphasizing release and healing. The South Node is in Virgo, so each eclipse in this sign points to releasing the harsh or negative aspects of that sign, such as worry and stress, excessive perfectionism, and destructive criticism. Look back to previous eclipses near this degree to get a hint of what it could mean for you personally: Sep. 13, 2015, March 14, 2006, and on March 13, 1998.

[10:55] Lunar Phase Family Cycle (LPFC). This is the Full Moon in an LPFC that began with a New Moon on Sep. 14, 2023, at 21º58’ Virgo. The First Quarter near this degree was on June 13, 2024, and the Last Quarter is on Dec. 11, 2025.

[13:01] Void-of-Course (VOC) Moon periods. 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 challenge of this VOC is to pay attention during moments when you feel like you do not quite fit in, and carefully whether fitting in is worth toning down who you are.

[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. Part of this VOC Moon assignment is to get a clear idea of yourself, which sometimes requires getting past idealizing others.

[16:00] On March 16 (2:53 am PDT), the Moon in Libra squares Mars in Cancer. It’s VOC for 21 hours 37 minutes (!!!), then enters Scorpio on March 17 (12:30 am PDT). Restrain yourself from sending nasty messages or losing your temper on the road. This very long VOC period is an important one for breaking habits where we lose our temper and act out.

[18:37] The Sun sextiles Uranus (March 14, 2:16 am PDT) at 24°02’ Pisces-Taurus. Here is an opportunity to connect with people who make you feel as if you, the real you, fit into a particular group or network. The Sun is on the Sabian symbol 25 Pisces, The purging of the priesthood. Community is implied by Uranus’s symbol, 25 Taurus, A large, 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 may lose track of all these things or experience technical malfunctions. Generally, Mercury retrograde is better for revisiting past projects than it is for initiating new ones, but is a rewarding time to catch up with old friends, revisit favorite places, review contracts and finish old projects. The Sabian symbol for this station is 10 Aries, A man teaching new forms for old symbols.

[22:21] Listener Savannah asks about the significance of the Midheaven and IC as South and North points in the chart.

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