RELATIONSHIP ASTROLOGY FORECAST MARCH 29 TO APRIL 12 2025

SYNOPSIS:

ECLIPSE! Again! We are in for some big shifts in the energy over this next 2 weeks. The NEW MOON on March 29th is a solar eclipse completing the eclipse series for the next 6 months. Hours later NEPTUNE slips into MARS ruled ARIES for a foretaste of its 14 year run in that sign. MERCURY returns to direct motion and VENUS too at the upcoming FULL MOON. Our structure and timing planet SATURN is sextile to the planet of sudden changes URANUS as well. Emphasizing committed relationships in all this is an ongoing trine of JUNO with anything near the cusp of PISCES/ARIES which is NEPTUNE, VENUS, MERCURY, NORTH NODE, and eventually SATURN Whew! So in a nutshell we are in a turbulent and uncertain time with many changes about which we may feel we have little control. NEPTUNE insists we look outside our narrow materialist/mundane perspective and put our trust in the biggest big picture. The Christians would say “It’s in the hands of God”. But we do have agency still in all this. We must make choices and moves even if we can’t see the precise outcome. If we can keep our hearts, minds and intentions focused on high principles, follow our most refined intuitions and humbly ask for guidance from Source. If we can keep our courage up and not give in to our personal and collective demons, we will do much to smooth this great transition we are all in and keep some harmony and love in our field.

THE DETAILS:
Eclipses will set a subtle tone in the music of the next 6 months and this series has NEPTUNE all over it. 2 weeks ago the FULL MOON lunar eclipse was within 6 degrees of NEPTUNE and this NEW MOON lunar eclipse has NEPTUNE following it into ARIES just hours after it occurs. The last time NEPTUNE was in ARIES (1862 to 1875) the world went through some major upheavals as well as big spiritual arisings and idealist movements. So, we’ll see, won’t we?  With so many other planets and points near the end of PISCES and near conjunct with NEPTUNE it would be good to know what NEPTUNE is all about archetypally. NEPTUNE represents a pretty wide and deep spectrum of reality. It encompasses “The transcendent, spiritual, ideal, symbolic, and imaginative dimensions of life.” and also  “tendencies towards illusion and delusion, deception and self-deception, escapism, disorganization and dissolution, intoxication, addiction, perceptual and cognitive distortions, projection, and fantasy”.* So you can see we are in for a ride, especially as URANUS the planet of “sudden change, sudden opening and awakening, inventiveness and creative breakthrough, brilliance, breakthrough, rebellion against constraints and the status quo, and erratic-ness, eccentricity, instability, unpredictability, the unexpected and disruptive, creative-rebel-trickster energy”* is synergistically sextile to NEPTUNE in a MINOR GRAND TRINE aspect pattern with PLUTO too for the next 3 years or so. This year is kickoff to those changes we will all live with for the rest of our lives. NEPTUNE will continue to bring an air of uncertainty and vagueness about the future through the summer and that can manifest either fear or hope, probably we will all experience both. The eclipses just emphasize and intensify what we have been undergoing for the last few years with NEPTUNE at home in PISCES. From the archetypal perspective it is inevitable and necessary to shake things up periodically and this is our time.

On a more personal level we are being asked and given an opportunity to implement changes in our relationships that serve the future we want to experience. JUNO is working together synchronously trine to NEPTUNE, VENUS Rx, MERCURY Rx, and the NORTH NODE of our future for now and through until at least June due to retrogrades. It’s been in play since the beginning of the year so that might explain any ferment and confusion we have been experiencing in our personal (and international) relationships. JUNO has been hovering opposite to URANUS and that means inexorable change for good or ill. JUNO is about commitments and trust in relationships so all that is getting tested and transformed. From April 1st onward JUNO will be in a strengthening GRAND TRINE with MARS and all the planets moving through PISCES into ARIES synergizing direct action on the changes we are all going through. Just stay loose on making irrevocable decisions until at least May, if you can, when NEPTUNE moves out of trine with JUNO. With the way the aspects are right now you may not be able to do that though and you will just have to roll with it as best you can.

Speaking of URANUS, it is coming in to a sextile with MARS, exact on APRIL 4th, stimulating courageous or impulsive changes in the Uranian manner; sudden, inspired, explosive, unexpected. Sigh… MARS is also trine to NEPTUNE, MERCURY Rx, VENUS Rx, NORTH NODE and closely to SATURN. That’s kinda a potential mess for navigating things that we want or need to do and can lead to a lot of frustration and outbursts. This is somewhat mellowed by MARS being in sensitive and nurturing CANCER (though that can also lead to passion or perhaps tantrums and tears instead of fights). URANUS is in a MINOR GRAND TRINE aspect pattern with all those planets which synergizes its archetypal action and it can and will manifest in both positive and negative outcomes. Kinda like when a river floods and brings new soil and nutrients, but sweeps away existing structures. Fortunately, when MERCURY and VENUS are direct, we get a bit of a do-over or rebuild and though SATURN trine MARS can be frustrating it also gives us stamina and courage to get through these harder moments. We won’t be quitters even though its challenging and uncertain right now.

JUPITER gets into the act briefly this period by bringing us some welcome confidence and luck through a sextile that perfects on April 5th. It is transiting through mental GEMINI without aspecting much, so its major influence will be to continually expanding our curiosity and urge for research, as well as communicative tendencies until June when it moves into CANCER. It’ll help with any necessary conversations we may get into to improve our relationships.

MERCURY Rx and VENUS Rx are moving more and less conjunct this next 2 weeks. So remedial conversations and thoughts are the order of the day. A good time to seek out mediation, counseling or relational education that will be ongoing to take advantage of when they go direct. MERCURY stations direct on April 6th and VENUS on April 12th just at the FULL MOON so we will be experiencing some positive shifts in the energy by then.

OK that’s enough for now. It’s a world in churn, I know, but I’ve found that if we individually stay steady on our highest principles it eventually does some good things. Courage, Trust, and Wisdom get us through.

*from archetypalexplorer.com