Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse - "You Are A Leading Light"
Saturday, March 29, 2025, 6:58am EDT
Saturday’s Solar Eclipse is an extra-powerful New Moon, planting seeds for a new life direction that will develop over the next six months and even 19 years. This will be the third and final Aries Solar Eclipse in a series that started on April 20, 2023, followed by the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.
Aries is the I AM, our core sense of identity which determines pretty much every other aspect of our lives. How we conceive of the self, the story we tell about who we are, provides the foundation for how we live our lives.
This third and final Aries Eclipse asks: Who have you been, what identities have you shed, and what is the NEW expression of self you’re now ready to step into? What else needs to be released so that more of your true self can emerge? Where are you stifling or suppressing your creative energy and how can you recharge your vitality?
The Sun is exalted - strongest - in Aries, and this Eclipse is a call to shine the light of your true self more brightly than ever before. To own your creative power and magnificence in service to creating a more beautiful future.
Just a day after the Eclipse, slow-moving Neptune will enter Aries for the first time in our lives. Neptune, planet of spirituality, dreams, ideals and imagination, has been in Pisces since 2011-2012. You might reflect on your spiritual journey since then - how has your connection with Source grown and evolved? What dreams have you achieved and what have you released or surrendered?
Neptune’s shift into a new sign marks the start of a new era, a new life chapter, a new expression of spirituality and a new dream. Neptune in Aries is a more active, yang, dynamic expression - the rise of the Spiritual Warrior. This shift could feel disorienting and destabilizing at first, as you adjust to the new frequencies.
When slow-moving planets move into Aries, there tend to be dramatic world events. Neptune’s last entry into Aries, in 1861, coincided with the start of the US Civil War. Neptune’s shift PLUS an Eclipse - also a common catalyst for world events - suggests that the collective story is about to get very interesting, possibly explosive.
Mercury - the media, news, information - in conjunction with Neptune at the Eclipse, indicates a strong potential for deception and illusion. Retrograde Mercury cautions that all the information isn’t in yet, and we might not be seeing clearly.
Whatever unfolds in the collective story, this Aries Eclipse highlights the power of the individual - a power that’s amplified when we’re connected to the bigger I AM, when we expand beyond “little me” and know ourselves as unique expressions of Source. As the old systems collapse, as a new world is being born, we’re each being called to strengthen our light and our courage, and become the leaders we want to see in the world.
I go into much deeper Virgoan detail about how to work with the current planetary energies - Mars square Chiron! Pisces stellium! and more! - in my 64-minute new moon audio transmission, which paid subscribers received earlier today. Upgrade below for immediate access, and to receive future new and full moon transmissions, as well as the replays of my Mars retrograde & Jupiter-Saturn webinars and my upcoming Neptune in Aries webinar! Founding subscribers ($185/year) can also join me for quarterly livestreams, and will receive my Pluto in Aquarius webinar as a gift!
p.s.! A note about upcoming events:
The magnificent Katie Todd and I are offering an 8-week Cosmic Container for Earthly Expansion starting April 10th and combining our superpowers of energy work + astrology. Are you ready to expand? Get all the details.
Save the date! Neptune is about to move into Aries for the first time in our lives and I’m teaching a webinar all about it on Friday, April 25, 9am PDT/12pm EDT. (Yes, there will be a recording if you can’t make it live.) This will be FREE for paid subscribers, or keep an eye out for registration, coming soon.
I’m taking a hiatus from leading writing workshops for the next few months, but I’m thrilled that Janina Fuller is stepping up to start leading workshops using the same Amherst Writers & Artists format. Janina is an amazing writer who wrote with me for years and completed my facilitator training. Workshops start in April - find out more.
And finally… When I record my new and full moon transmissions, I always pick a card that I share with paid subscribers. Since I stole the title of this post from the card I picked, and because the card is just so dead-on and I think helpful for this Eclipse, I wanted to share it with you.
XXI Strength, from The Healer’s Journey by Amanda Lux and Dzhan Wiley.
“You rise above the harsh absolutes,
Offering new possibilities, new potency,
You offer up your delicate petals of complexity and deep healing.
You shine with intrinsic brightness, holding your spine erect
Like a sturdy stalk, your crown open to the sky.
You are not of these cracks, you are not of this arid world.
You are lunar sourced, flourishing, lush and generous.
You are receptive and curative,
Born of the luminosity that uplifts and evolves you.
You are resilient and secure.
You are a force to be reckoned with.
You are a leading light.
You are subtly but distinctly your own,
Regal yet humble.
You drop all pretenses and let your petals fall as they will,
To be of service for the highest good of all.
You are aligned and powerful. You are strength.
What hidden treasures reside in your vacant spaces?
How else could you not hold back?”
- Dzhan Wiley