
March’s cosmic landscape is nothing short of electrifying, ushering in a series of powerful alignments that challenge, illuminate, and propel us into transformation. From Mercury’s fiery Cazimi moment to a game-changing Solar Eclipse in Aries, and Neptune’s long-awaited shift into a brand-new era, this week is brimming with opportunities for deep reflection, bold action, and intuitive recalibration.
These transits ask us to pause, question, and realign—where have we been holding ourselves back? What dreams are ready to be reborn? How can we step forward with courage, authenticity, and clarity?
Let’s dive into this cosmic storm and uncover the insights waiting to ignite your next chapter. Also if you’re feeling the riptides in your life, don’t forget you can save 20% on a reading using code SPRING2025 at checkout!
March 24th: Sun conjuncts Mercury retrograde in Aries (Mercury Cazimi)
Mercury retrograde meets the Sun in Aries, creating a moment of cosmic clarity and insight, unsurprisingly known as Mercury Cazimi. This powerful alignment marks a time when the Sun illuminates Mercury’s retrograde cycle, offering a rare opportunity to pause, reflect, and realign our communication, thoughts, and decision-making in ways that validate our need to make an impact.
While Mercury retrograde often brings moments of confusion or delays, the Cazimi helps us gather key insights from these experiences. This alignment is a chance to understand where we’ve been overthinking or rushing ahead and where we might need to slow down to gain true clarity.
Mercury in Aries urges us to take action and speak our truth, but in retrograde, we are reminded to pause and reflect before rushing to conclusions. This is a time to assess how we’re communicating, where we might need to adjust our mindset, and where we can take responsibility for our words and actions. This also represents the halfway point in the Mercury retrograde, typically aligning with a moment of fresh awareness and information that can help you in your continued navigation.
Cosmic Guidance:
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Reflect on your current communication patterns—are you rushing or avoiding? What needs rewording, rethinking, or researching?
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Use this moment of clarity to gain insights into your thought process and decision-making, what “aha” is coming into view?
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Which ideas are stirring up your desire to act the most? How can you communicate your intent with courage and confidence?
March 25th: Mercury retrograde in Aries makes an opening sextile to Pluto in Aquarius
Power plays are on the brain when Mercury retrograde in Aries connects with Pluto in Aquarius, redefining what power, progress, and revolution really mean now that we’re taking some time to reconfigure our mental settings. Fresh awareness of old wounds may crack through some of our more shadowy thoughts.
This cosmic current can signal a dynamic breakthrough in thinking, an impactfully deep conversation, or a spark of curiosity that drives you to go deep into what hurts—and let your fears know what you really think of them. Hidden tensions may surface, upheaving stagnant energy and pushing us toward realignment.
Cosmic Guidance:
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Where are power dynamics influencing your thought process? How can you reclaim your inner authority?
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What fears or limiting beliefs are ready to be acknowledged and released?
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Allow deep conversations and introspection to guide you toward transformation.
March 26th: Mars in Cancer makes an opening square to Chiron in Aries
The tension between our emotional triggers and our need to push toward new solutions simmers this week, perhaps finally coming to a boil. When Mars, the action-oriented warrior, and Chiron, the meticulous technician, come to blows, it can spark a raw sensitivity, leaving us to wonder if our safe actions are actually impeding the practice it takes to improve our skills.
We may feel protective over our projects, endeavors, or initiatives, worried that our hard-fought efforts won’t be accepted. We may feel the need to defend our skills and fight back against hurtful critiques of our dearest pursuits. But the invitation of these energies is to embrace challenges with a discerning heart. Recognize any self-critical fears of rejection as a signal of how much you care about what you’re doing, and create a safe space for those intense feelings to surface.
Cosmic Guidance:
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Are you allowing fear of critique to hinder your progress?
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How can you transform self-doubt into motivation for mastery?
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Embrace discomfort as a necessary step toward growth and resilience.
March 27th: Venus retrograde reenters Pisces and conjuncts Neptune
Venus dips back into Pisces and melds seamlessly into Neptune’s shimmering waves, tinting our perspectives with rose-colored lenses once more. Relationships might feel mushy and gushy, our agreements might be murky—but, baby, at least we’ll look good doing it!
If there’s one thing this energy is well-poised for, it’s escaping into the rich expanse of your favorite high fantasies. But be mindful—the veil between imagined connections and real ones is thin. This energy is perfect for daydreaming, meditating, creating, romancing, or getting lost in a beautiful story.
Cosmic Guidance:
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Where are you seeing illusions instead of reality in love and creativity?
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What dreams or desires from the past are resurfacing for reevaluation?
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Use this dreamy energy for artistic expression and intuitive exploration.
March 29th: Solar Eclipse in Aries
In the midst of all the reshuffles and rewrites going on, we’ve got our biggest biggie of the week: the Solar Eclipse in Aries. Not only is this the symbolic ending of eclipse season, it is also the final eclipse in the Aries/Libra sectors of our lives for the next 8-9 years. Since April of 2023, we’ve been individually and collectively moving through an impactful story arc that has revolved around releasing people pleasing, cooperation, and playing nice and developed more agency, feist, and independence. The Solar Eclipse in Aries brings this cycle to a close.
This eclipse challenges us, one final time, to align our awareness with our emotions and burn through obstacles, using the momentum to propel ourselves forward into new creative endeavors with courage and ferocity. This is not an eclipse that will pass us idly by, and nor should you let it. Be raw, be real, be unabashedly honest about what you intend to bring into the world. This is a powerful moment to embody the essence of the impact you want to make with your one of a kind influence.
For the last two years, in some area of your life, you’ve been making strides toward asserting your impulses, pursuing what lights you up, and figuring out how to initiate action in your life. This Solar Eclipses marks the beginning of a new chapter in your life where you are free to set forth with your hard fought lessons and begin a new cycle of self motivated passion that could shift the trajectory of your impact.
Cosmic Guidance:
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Where have you been stepping into independence and agency over the past two years?
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What fresh start is calling you to take bold, decisive action?
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Release hesitation and embrace your power—this is your cosmic reset.
March 29th: Mercury retrograde reenters Pisces and conjuncts Neptune
This season we can’t seem to get an eclipse without also getting Mercury involved on the same day! As the lights are blinking, Mercury takes the opportunity to slip into Pisces and right into nebulous Neptune’s waiting arms. This recap with Neptune brings our boundless and impossible dreams bouncing to the surface once more. It’s another good day for brainstorming, day dreaming, and getting creative with your words, but perhaps not the best bubble of time for things that need precise thinking or clear communication.
As Mercury slides further and further back into Pisces, we’re all invited to reconsider the symbolism in our lives. Where are we clouded in our thinking? Which visions, dreams, or ideals are ready to be redefined?
This is a moment where the lines between fact and fiction are deeply blurred so stay diligent and curious about the information that you’re absorbing at this time, as this cosmic current requires us to reimagine what we think we know. Illusions and lies, whether from ourselves or from others may be burned away by the fiery energy of the eclipse, so be careful not to jump to any conclusions until the full truth can come forth.
Cosmic Guidance:
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What illusions need clarity before you act?
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Where are you being called to surrender control and trust the flow?
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Explore symbolic messages that may be emerging in your life.
March 30th: Neptune enters Aries
Whew. What a wild week we’re having. And believe it or not, something even more attention-grabbing than the eclipse is happening—Neptune, the planet of illusion, ideals, surrender, and transcendence, is shifting into a new dreamscape for the first time in 14 years.
That’s right. Just a day after the Solar Eclipse in Aries—and after a final powwow with Mercury and Venus in Pisces—Neptune begins looking through a brand-new filter of consciousness.
Now, Neptune in Aries might not make an immediate splash. As a planet governing the unseen and subconscious, its influence is subtle. Plus, with so much cosmic clanking happening all at once, there are plenty of other things vying for our attention. But don’t be fooled—this shift marks the start of a brand-new chapter in how we dream, idealize, and actualize our potential.
Neptune will linger in the early degrees of Aries until fall, when its retrograde pulls it back into Pisces to wrap up some unfinished business. But rest assured, a whole new whirlwind of active compassion and heroic inspiration is kicking off a fresh 14-year dream cycle.
Now, let’s be real—well, as real as we can be when talking about Neptune. While this transit offers incredible potential for personal elevation and inspired action, it also comes with its shadows. Over the next several months, we may encounter illusions, sacrifices, and moments of confusion that push us to assert ourselves in new ways. Glorifications of independence, force, or even conflict could start creeping into the collective consciousness. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows—especially since Neptune is also the cloud that creates the rainbows.
On a personal level, though, this shift can be a massive creative catalyst. Imagination, inspiration, and maybe just the right dose of reckless abandon can propel you toward what you truly believe is possible for yourself. There’s an elevation of the individual happening in the background. And while we might not feel the full weight of this celestial shift just yet, a new phase in your personal evolution begins now.
Cosmic Guidance:
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What ideals and dreams are you being called to actively pursue?
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How can you balance vision with grounded action?
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Stay mindful of illusions and the narratives you’re buying into—use discernment.
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