As we sail into a New Moon at the tail end of Pisces, we’re crossing borders. All kinds of borders.
This New Moon ushers us out of the spring eclipse season. We emerge into a world remade, with challenges personal and global. Whatever began during these two eclipses in February and March is not finished and may not even be clear yet, but it is underway.
This New Moon sits at the end of Pisces, the border not only between one sign and another, but between the ending and beginning of the zodiac itself.
Every sign change is consequential, yet Pisces to Aries is especially so. The final degrees of Pisces signify the ending of endings, the dissolution of what was, the blurring of boundaries as all dissolves into a cosmic sea. The beginning of Aries is The Beginning, new life springing up from dark ground. New fire. New energy. New action.
When the Sun makes this transition, leaving Pisces behind to enter Aries, we have a turning of the seasonal year. This is the Spring Equinox in the Northern hemisphere, which arrives on March 20.
This year’s Equinox falls within the New Moon phase, so this New Moon contains within it that shift from dissolution to new birth.
The shift from the New Moon chart to the Equinox chart shows a boundary crossing. The New Moon chart has five planets and points in Pisces and five in Aries. The Equinox chart, just two days later, has only three left in Pisces, and a hefty seven in Aries.
This Equinox is sometimes called the Aries Ingress, a chart that becomes a prediction of the year ahead, for the location in which it is cast. For us as individuals, the location of 0º Aries is the Aries point, a place in our birth chart where new things come into our lives.
If you’ve never looked for this point in your birth chart, check it out. Perhaps this 0º Aries moment will help clarify whatever the recent eclipses want us to notice.
So every New Moon initiates a new lunar cycle. This New Moon has, within its phase, the beginning of a new seasonal cycle and a new zodiacal cycle. And we’re emerging from an eclipse season. I think we’re meant to notice how these very different ways of measuring time are lining up right now.
The Sun and Moon meet at 28º27” Pisces. Our luminaries have a 10º orb for aspects, which means this New Moon is already conjunct Neptune and Saturn, even though they’re in different signs.
The New Moon is 03º away from Neptune and 05º away from Saturn. Definitely close enough to count, while the sign difference highlights the sense of border crossing that appears again and again in this chart.
If we needed a reminder that this border crossing is unusual, the New Moon sextiles Uranus, the planet of the unexpected. There’s also a sextile to Pluto, which will come exact as the Moon and then Sun move toward Neptune and Saturn.
Pluto is very deep. Uranus can bring quick, disruptive change, and Neptune and Saturn remain close enough together to confuse each other. So, while the shift into bright Aries is usually decisive and clear, this time around, we need to prepare for some ongoing confusion.
Saturn and Neptune have been traveling together for months now, not typical for them. Neptune is expansive, dreamlike, fuzzy, creative, and wouldn’t know a boundary if it tripped over one. Saturn is precise, bounded, competent, follows the rules, and wants us to follow them too.
Together, they can potentially produce great works of art and inspiration and innovation. They can also create confusion, either from a genuine lack of clarity because information is missing or hasn’t resolved yet, or as a deliberate ploy to create disinformation and sow confusion.
The connections to Uranus and Pluto tie the New Moon to world events on long timelines, as well as potentially bringing surprising and/or deeply important changes into our lives.
There are other signs of border crossings in the New Moon chart.
Mercury is preparing to station direct. At the New Moon, they are conjunct the North Node. The official direct station is March 20, about 5 hours after the Equinox, and still conjunct the North Node of the Moon.
This means within this New Moon phase, Mercury in Pisces, who has already had their cazimi, and so carries new information for us, will turn direct while conjunct the point of desire and longing the North Node represents.
New dreams are emerging here. New dreams to help set our direction as we move into and through this New Moon, Aries Point, Equinox border.
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Jupiter exalted in Cancer is now direct and doing his best to shower expansive goodness all over the place. At the New Moon, he squares Venus in Aries, a connection that will try to shift Venus’ focus into creative collaboration and fresh ideas. Venus is not at her best in Aries, so, this Jupiterian blessing is very well timed.
Mars in Pisces, known for subtlety and guile, moves to trine Jupiter, another beneficent connection that can shift Mars away from self-interested or harmful misdirection into subtle strategies to protect those most in need of help.
This is a very focused chart, so having Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto outside the Pisces-Aries stretch is helpful in bringing in these other points of view.
The New Moon itself sits right at the border… the border between the old and new lunar cycle, the zodiacal year, the seasonal year, and eclipses. I expect this New Moon to take longer than usual to clarify, to settle, to make known what it’s calling for.
With this much Pisces around, it’s a great time to take note of night dreams, use open-ended journalling, experiment creatively in open-ended ways, and allow extra time for rest and sleep.
Keep in mind that with this much Pisces around, we can be more sensitive. Our emotions might be more easily stirred, and we can be more reactive to substances, whether medicinal or recreational. Allow extra time and space.
Do find the Aries point in your birth chart. Note where all this Pisces and Aries is falling, in which houses, and aspecting which planets and points for you. All of this will help us find our way across whatever borders present themselves.
Title image of the Twin Jet nebula from NASA
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