Astrology on the Pisces/Virgo Border Signal Shifts

This is an exceptional year. The first time in 12,000 years so many outer planets change signs in a 12 month period. In an exceptional year, March stands out as an exceptional month.

We have a lot of movement on the Pisces/Aries frontier from now until the end of the month:

Venus is repeating a retrograde phase from 8 years ago - 2017. The year Trump was inaugurated, the Women’s March, the #MeToo movement, and climate related natural disasters - wildfires for one.. Venus has been moving backward since March 2 in the sign Aries. On March 28 she will re-enter the sign Pisces, and then resume direct motion on April 13. Old loves could return to your doorstep, but may leave as soon as the retrograde is over.

Mercury turns retrograde in Aries on March 15, backing into Pisces on March 31, and resuming direct motion on April 7. During any retrograde period, the R’s apply: Review, re-edit and Reflect. It isn’t a great time to start something brand new, but you may have a chance to respond differently to an old situation - more in line with where you are now.

The Full Moon occurs March 13-14: Sun in Pisces conjunct Neptune (ruler of Pisces) and the North Node (also in Pisces) opposing the Full Moon in Virgo which is conjunct the South Node. Because the Nodes are present, we will experience a lunar eclipse in Virgo. We are in eclipse season and will experience a solar eclipse on the Aries New Moon on March 28. These eclipse/node events are called bendings. Change is inherent in them, as well as unexpected events. There is often a fated feeling when the nodes are involved.

And the biggest shift of all comes on March 30 when Neptune leaves Pisces to enter Aries. Neptune peaks into the Aries world only to retrograde back into Pisces on October 22. Neptune stays in Pisces until January 27, 2026, then returns to Aries until early January, 2040. So you might think of this summer as a sneak preview of coming attractions for Nepturne.

In other words, a LOT of back and forth is shifting at the Pisces/Aries border. Neptune in Pisces can give us inspiration, but it can also confuse us. Gaslighting has been a feature of Neptune in Pisces. However, our Neptunian spirituality has grown, too - what was “out there” has often become mainstream. Personally, where our chart has been lit up with Neptune”s presence, we have often been called to face the loss of an old vision, only to free us up for a new vision more in line with who we have become.

Neptune in Aries may ask us what we want to stand up for and identify as, spiritually. We may feel called to defend a belief system. We may feel we ARE those beliefs. Neptune was in Aries during the Civil War and Reconstruction in the US.

If you have planets in early degrees of Aries, Cancer, Capricorn or Libra or in very late degrees of Pisces, Gemini, Virgo or Sagittarius, you may feel a stronger response to these shifts early on. But we all live under one sky, and we will all experience a shift in the astrological weather as planets change sign.

Other significant chiefs will happen this year:

Saturn will also leave Pisces for Aries on May 26, 2025 and return to Pisces for the rest of 2025 on September 2.
Jupiter will leave Gemini to enter Cancer, June 10, 2025.
Uranus is leaving Taurus where it has been causing a lot of grief for the earth sign to enter Gemini on July 8. Uranus will return to Taurus, briefly, on November 9, 2025.
Pluto, of course, moved out of the sign Capricorn just after the election. It is now occupying 3 degrees Aquarius, and it is muckraking every aspect of democracy as it goes.
Buckle up! We are all here for the ride of our lives, and we decide how we will respond to it.