A Change of Heart: Full Moon in Libra 2025

Full Moon @ 23 degrees Libra 20'

April 12, 2025

4:43 PM PDT

7:43 PM EDT

This month's Full Moon in tropical Libra strikes an opposition to Chiron and occurs alongside Venus' direct station. On one level, this lunation is a critical culmination and turning point that focuses on key relationships and negotiations. It can relate to a magnification of interrelational problems and faults. With Venus' station near Saturn, a more critical focus is applied especially to challenges that begin to come to light or into a broader perspective or awareness.

There can also be a sense of emotional stagnation, an inability to get or fully express what you want or desire, or having to contend more intensely with imposed limitations and obstacles. The Full Moon's t-square structure is inherently frictional, suggesting that a new level of growth and maturity is possible, but it requires immense compromise and humility.

While the retrograde/eclipse overlap of the past month is on its way out, we can still feel blocked or stuck with certain issues or dynamics here, especially if we remain in more divisive (rather than integrative) positions. While we might assume a Libra Full Moon would highlight sociability or connection, Venus' current condition is more selective and focused, pushing us toward more inwardness and reflection.

While this Full Moon can feel particularly challenging, its most powerful correlation is getting to the heart of a matter or circumstance and working through to greater clarity and understanding. Reflect more deeply on whatever is coming to a head here with this Full Moon and what critical chapters are ending and/or beginning. Much of the action is likely subtle, hidden, or private, but it reflects a deep shift in your path, a subtle change of heart that can have powerful ripples.

Illuminating Vision: New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Aries 2025

New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse @ 9 degrees Aries 00
March 29, 2025
3:58 AM PDT 
6:58 AM EDT 

March's New Moon in tropical Aries is a partial solar eclipse, most visible over portions of north-eastern Canada and Greenland. Following the equinox and occurring in the cardinal and catalytic sign of Aries, there is a definite new beginning occurring here, but one that's complex in the dark of the solar eclipse archetype, Mercury and Venus retrograde, and Neptune's impending ingress into Aries.

The overlap of eclipses and inner planetary retrograde cycles directs us to subtle and inward dimensions. Of course, anything we've already put in motion and carefully and strategically worked through should see results and progress despite these dynamics. However, the most powerful shifts and changes are less likely tangible. There can be a strong sense of waiting for things to settle or emerge from hibernation, even though it feels like so much is happening. 

This gives this New Moon/solar eclipse a paradoxical energy with a desire for movement and action but also some ambiguity and delay. However, the more inwardly we are attuned, the less these dynamics will frustrate us. The sky urges us to reflect and revise, giving us more insight (and ultimately an advantage) into what we are doing or attempting to do. Also, valuable solutions and pathways are opening, especially in places we might not typically look or expect. Sometimes, an inconvenient redirection aligns us with more authentic priorities. 

The good news: we will progressively enter more fertile ground in the weeks following this New Moon/solar eclipse (most definitely by the Taurus New Moon April 27th), and one high note of Neptune into Aries is the coming into focus of a powerful vision, one that we can implement and realize with the proper determination, focus, and discipline. That is the Saturnian factor (Saturn's alignment with Neptune over the following year or so). Neptune and Saturn on the Aries Point (first degree of tropical Aries) are pushing us through a critical threshold in actualizing what was previously a conceptual fantasy. 

We can set our sights on a more graspable vision with this New Moon, a looking ahead to what is possible and within reach. While the intensity of the eclipse can feel like there is a lot to take in or deal with, there are some breaks in the clouds and amore straightforward path through if we widen our perception and flow with the rapid changes within and around us. 

Mindful Observing: Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo 2025

Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse @ 23 Virgo 57'

March 13, 2025

11:55 PM PDT

March 14, 2025

2:55 PM EDT

This month's Full Moon in tropical Virgo is a total lunar eclipse, visible over North America (the U.S. and Canada) and western portions of Greenland and South America. It is the first eclipse of 2025 and will be followed by a partial solar eclipse on March 28 in tropical Aries.

Mercury also stations retrograde while in near conjunction with Venus in Aries. Both Venus and Mercury retrograde cycles overlap with this eclipse season. Very broadly speaking, especially between this Full Moon and the New Moon/solar eclipse in two weeks, this is a time for laying low and being particularly mindful of impulse decisions, actions, and reactions.

There are a lot of "shadowy" aspects to the astrology of the moment, areas in which blindspots are being revealed to us. This is not a time that favors egoistic hubris or attempts to assert too dominance over circumstances. It is best to be in a state of receptivity rather than aggressive pursuit of desires.

Virgo highlights an archetype that, on one level, connects to humble service and a focus on inward growth and personal clarity. If we are to see some blossoming or fruits emerging, it would be in that realm, in areas in which we've been dedicated to assisting others or in which inward work has been consistently attended to. The positive yields of this eclipse are likely discreet but still profound, likely hidden from most of the world but significant from our point of view.

Yet, as a south nodal eclipse, there is more release here and letting go rather than getting and attaining what we want. Here is an important warning about whatever we're mired in at the moment, that we should practice less attachment to what shows up and what we're involved with. While the eclipse portal can be a period of rapid inner and outer changes, it is a time of shift and fluctuation, so it is wise to observe more, contemplate, reflect, and make those bigger moves when the dust has settled.

Subtle Emergence: New Moon in Pisces 2025

New Moon @ 9 degrees Pisces 41'

February 27, 2025

4:45 PM EST

7:45 PM PST

This month's New Moon in tropical Pisces occurs at a unique transition between interplanetary retrograde cycles. Both Mars and Venus are stationing (appearing to stop in their usual west-to-east motion), with Mars' retrograde cycle ending and Venus' beginning (shortly after the New Moon on March 1st). Mars passes the retrograde baton to Venus (and Mercury in just two weeks).

Yet, with both planets stationing alongside a watery Pisces New Moon, we are likely to feel the emotional and feeling dimension of life becoming amplified, as well as some interesting "turning points" and transitions in our personal life histories. We can anticipate some serendipity to play a role here, such as meeting with "soul mates" or reuniting/rekindling powerful karmic bonds.

There is also the dramatic feeling-based nature of the Mars and Venus archetypes and their connection to feelings of deep love, passion, sexual/romantic desire. But also jealousy, hatred, or aggression. Falling in or out of love (literally and symbolically) is a theme to pay attention to, which can relate to human relationships and creative and spiritual experiences.

In its most ideal expression, Pisces is an archetype of transcendent ideals and lofty human and cosmic unity desires. It can be a very glamorous and numinous archetype, especially with this New Moon dynamic squaring its ruler Jupiter (and the Mars-Venus station situation). So, we should be extra conscious of our ideals and how well they match (or don't match) with reality and an accurate assessment of matters.

Yet, with that said, Mars' direct station and trine to this New Moon is like a green light for a whole lot of things to begin to shift and change, even if that might feel like we're having to slog ahead or tread lightly rather than sprint. However, remember that we still have a Mercury retrograde cycle and eclipse season beginning in just two weeks. So, rushing ahead with specific plans and ambitions won't be without some delays.

However, suppose we use this New Moon as a starting point or launching pad to work out an ideal or vision more carefully. In that case, there is plenty of support. Venus retrograde can deepen our heart connection and help us attune with the layers beneath the actualization of our dreams and spiritual aspirations. Much of what is shifting may be more internal or less visible. Still, trust that and keep working out the details and intricacies; more clarity and solidly supported momentum will arrive in the latter part of April.

Creative Release: Full Moon in Leo 2025

Full Moon @ 24 Leo 06'

February 12, 2025

5:53 AM EST

8:53 AM PST

This month's Full Moon in Leo forms a t-square with the planet Uranus, the liberator, revolutionary, and sudden change-maker of the planetary pantheon. With the Leo archetype embodying playfulness and self-expressiveness, this Full Moon can creatively inspire and correlate with the spontaneous emergence or release of restless and innovative impulses.

Mercury's conjunction with the Sun in Aquarius also reflects communicative breakthroughs, novel insights, and an influx of ideas, solutions, or perspectives that can open creative or intellectual pathways. The t-square itself can also reflect a challenge to certain routines, structures, and habitual inclinations.

The more difficult side of this Full Moon might reflect Leo's shadow tendency for myopic subjectivity, stubbornness, or aggrandizement. The Moon's contact with such a tension-filled aspect structure subjects such inclinations to radical external input, feedback, and alternative points of view. For most of us, this may be experienced as a slight break in our subjective train of motion, allowing us to glimpse a new perspective or integrate a change in our point of view.

In other ways, the sudden emergence of such changes can be threatening or destabilizing. Still, this alternative pace and dynamics is something to get used to as we will continue to move through some significant boundary-pushing astrology over the following months (and, truthfully, the next two years). When it comes to a Leo Full Moon/Uranus combination, it is wiser to learn to playfully dance and creatively improvise with what shows up than fight or resist the current.

Glimpsing Ahead: New Moon in Aquarius 2025

New Moon @ 9 degrees Aquarius 51'

January 29, 2025

7:36 AM EDT

4:36 AM PDT

January ends with a New Moon in tropical Aquarius, technically the first New Moon of 2025. It represents a significant pattern change in the collective psyche that will have some ripples in our personal lives. Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius is stationing direct alongisde this lunation as well as Jupiter (on February 4th). Jupiter also trines the New Moon, a smooth opening to emerging pathways and widening perspectives.

These outer planet stations magnify the shift into new terrain, especially as Venus also moves past Neptune and the Aries Point in the proceeding days. The influx of Aquarius, Uranus, and Jupiter brings an element of something new, a fresh perspective, outlook, and direction is likely to emerge alongside this transition.

Near this lunation, Mercury and Pluto also hold court in the Aquarian sign while Venus and Neptune align in Pisces. There is a strong mixture of mental focus and imagination. A clear view into the truth of things, yet not too clouded by excess logic or reason. The fantasy remains strong under this lunation, but also not too dominant to blind us from the enduring truth of the now. We can integrate reason and intuition more easily.

There is still a haze of the omnious beneath what is emerging, a glimpse of the unconcious and underworld terrain that has dominated our perception the past several weeks, but something new is on its way up, into the light of conscious awareness. The following weeks support more stability and upward rising (at least as is possible in this Saturn-Neptune era), a constructive and supportive view of what's to come. A time to plan and see further ahead than we could before. Yet, also the ability to dream and romanticize with strong discernment.

Inward Reverberations: Full Moon in Cancer 2025

Full Moon @ 24 degrees Cancer 00'

January 13, 2025

2:27 PM EDT

5:27 PM PDT

January's Full Moon in tropical Cancer (and the first Full Moon of 2025) synchronistically culminates alongside Mars' building opposition to the Sun and the peak of its retrograde cycle. This suggests that, especially alongside this Full Moon and days surrounding it, the Mars archetype is getting particularly louder than usual. Mars is also at its brightest in the night sky and entirely visible due to its solar opposition.

Mars is, firstly, the archetypal warrior and trailblazer. It has synchro-symbolic ties to the more instinctual domains of the human mind and psyche--aggression, flight or fight responses, sexual desire. Both conscious and unconscious influences over willpower and volition fall into the Martian archetypal domain, our ability or inability to take action, impulses, fears, and emotional triggers.

A powerful Mars in the sign of Cancer, a water sign with its own symbolic ties to more unconscious undercurrents via its rulership by the Moon itself, is likely to feel more experientially and subjectively instinctual and impulsive than usual, especially on an emotional level. This can very well present us with a more emotionally volatile Full Moon that can amplify triggers and reactions. Sexuality or aggression can play a dominant role here.

Considering Mars' ongoing retrograde motion in opposition to Pluto, there is also that inevitable shadow current to much of what we're involved in personally (and collectively), such as a darker, perhaps ominous undercurrent to circumstances. It is likely to feel emotionally and psychically heavy. It is a confrontation with shadow. Ways in which we're confronted with deeply entrenched instinctual impulses that influence our choices, actions, and behaviors are likely facing many of us.

This is a Full Moon to be considerably careful and mindful of impulsive actions and choices, a time to reflect more deeply on what drives our behaviors and decision-making rather than forcing ourselves to make major choices unless there is no other option.

It is a Full Moon that can shift us more internally than externally (though, as always with astrology, there will be more external catalysts in various manifestations). Mars is uncomfortable in Cancer because it is not a sign interested with achievement and the outer world. Mars in Cancer is more protective of what is sacred and vulnerable, more fixated on taking the lead with healing, nurturing, care, and domestic matters.

With that, it can reflect some powerful and intense experiences, but those that are less visible to others, more low-key and intimate than overt and ostentatious. That is likely where these energies are leading us to a breakthrough or culmination at the heart of very personal matters and experiences, things that shift us ever so subtly but can have powerful reverberations.