Breaking the Surface
New Moon in Pisces: March 18, 7:23 pm CST
Spring Equinox + Sun into Aries + Mercury Direct: March 20
Neptune conjunct Sun: March 21
Saturn conjunct Sun: March 25
It’s been a while, and I have missed my astro writing. And maybe this is the right place to begin, in that suspended space where you are no longer where you were but not yet where you’re going.
A note before we begin. I’m going to start weaving these transits together rather than presenting them separately, because astrology is a language of relationship, and there is real wisdom in moving with the flow of it rather than pulling each piece apart.
Something is about to open. It isn’t loud or dramatic, more like the way light moves through water as you’re rising toward the surface. These two weeks carry that feeling.
Tomorrow evening the new moon settles into the last dreaming degrees of Pisces. This is not a moon that announces itself. It arrives the way water arrives, filling space, finding its level in the dark. Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac, the place where everything gathers before it dissolves. New moons mark beginnings, but this one begins by asking you to release your grip on certainty before anything new takes form.
This moon asks not what you think but what you sense. How can you flow? Cast your net wide. You don’t need to know what you’ll catch. You only need to be willing to lower it.
So much has moved through Pisces and into Aries these past several months that it has felt less like a seasonal transition and more like something being handed off. Saturn crossed first, asking for structure and accountability in places that once felt boundless. Neptune followed, dissolving what could not hold. The waters of Pisces, which have held so much for so long, might finally begin to rest.
On March 20 many things shift at once. The Sun emerges from those deep waters and crosses into Aries. This is the equinox and the astrological new year, one moment with three names. The Sun in Aries initiates, it moves, it begins without needing full certainty. We emerge from the water and are suspended briefly in the balance before the light tips forward and the year begins to move.
On that same day Mercury ends its backstroke through Pisces and begins to move forward again. When Mercury stations direct, clarity returns slowly, not all at once. Give it some grace through April 9, when the shadow clears and the mind begins to find its footing.
Then the Sun meets Neptune on March 21 and Saturn on March 25. When the Sun meets Neptune, the boundary between vision and reality thins. Imagination, intuition, and longing are heightened. When the Sun meets Saturn, that vision meets form. Commitment, responsibility, and structure come into focus. Together, these two contacts ask what is possible and what will actually be built.
This is the arc. Tomorrow night you explore your intention in the quiet waters of the Pisces new moon. Two days later you rise and cross the threshold into fire. A week after that you are asked what you will do with what you carried across.
And when the moment comes, you will know. Not because everything is clear, but because something in you is no longer willing to wait.
The net you cast has long memory. New moons and full moons speak to each other across six months, two sides of the same conversation in the same sign. What you open to under this new moon will find its answer at the Pisces full moon on August 28, a partial eclipse, when what has grown in the dark rises and asks to be released. (no pressure. Pisces is not interested in pressure)
The fish always knew where it was going.
It just takes a Ram to say it out loud.
Write a sentence that starts with I am ready for…
Let it come from the part of you that knows before it knows. Then another that starts with
This season I am claiming…