Stormy Planetary Weather - March 2025
Cosmic Carol- Mar 5
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March is a tricky and stormy month, with a lot happening in the cosmic skies, ultimately offering us a profound opportunity for healing and resolution.
It’s not only eclipse season, which I liken to being spun around with your eyes closed and pushed – you never know what surprises you’re in for - but both Venus and Mercury turn retrograde, starting in Aries and moving back into Pisces, concurrently. Both planets are in the waxing phase of their synodic cycle, giving them greater prominence and illumination in the sky, and therefore intensifying their energies.
Most people have heard of Mercury retrograde, which is an alchemical phase when Mercury appears to be moving backwards, and being the "trickster" is known for causing disruptions to communications, contracts and contacts, travel and technology. However from an esoteric perspective Mercury acts as a channel for insight between our lower and higher self, and contact with our intuitive natures. Just as alchemists seek to turn lead into gold, Mercury retrograde encourages us to refine our thoughts, discard false beliefs, and transmute challenges into wisdom. Mercury retrograde's secret message is to pause, reflect and realign.
Venus, on the other hand, relates to the power of attraction, beauty, art, love and money. Venus is our inner goddess, our self-love and self-worth, our material values, and our soul connections. From an esoteric perspective Venus retrograde is an inner pilgrimage which strips away illusions and glamours, and teaches us that true love must first exist within. It is a time when we should step away from external validation and materialism, release toxic love patterns, and review old relationship wounds. We may find that shadow issues surrounding love, relationships, values, our beauty standards, our finances and possessions, addictions - which is blocked creativity - are suddenly brought into focus before the inner work can commence.
A Pisces stellium intensifies our emotional depth, urging a shift in consciousness through themes of grief, compassion, healing, and release. As Pisces is the sign of salvation and surrender, this lunation calls for letting go of illusions, past attachments, and outdated emotional wounds. It also highlights endings, reorientation of consciousness, mysticism, art, and music. It encourages us to sacrifice personal will for a higher cause, flow with life's transitions, and embrace wisdom gained through experience, deepening our connection to soul and karmic ties. In moments of emotional overwhelm, we may experience emotional and spiritual breakthroughs, leading to wholeness and a greater spiritual consciousness.
The Saturn-North Node-Neptune alignment may bring emotional suffering or isolation, yet also offers a path to higher understanding, spiritual compassion, and the release of karmic ties. Pluto, unaspected at 2 degrees Aquarius, is a force of deep transformation and detachment, urging the death of the old self. As Mars approaches a trine to Saturn and a sextile to Uranus, grounded action and unexpected solutions may emerge, helping to bridge the past with the future, offering renewal and liberation from emotional entanglements. However, with the Sun and Moon squaring Jupiter in Gemini, we must also guard against self-aggrandisement, overconfidence, or putting our needs above others' at the expense of our personal integrity.
There is no doubt that many of us will feel overwhelmed during March, so move gently and compassionately my friends, and don’t be at all surprised if you’re in a very different place - emotionally and spiritually - at the end of the month, than at the commencement. For your individual SunScopes, please click here. Love and Light, Cosmic Carol
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