This week marks the second 90-degree distance (a square) from the March 29, 2025 eclipse at 9° Aries. That eclipse in Aries was the ‘leftover eclipse’ from two years prior. Leftover eclipses usually act out because the build up prior to them (about 1.5 years) has them holding all the cards -both challenging and uplifting – regarding the sign in which we find it. That March 29 eclipse was in Aries, ruled by Mars, which can be very war-like and if not disciplined can trigger unfortunate responses both in our personal as well as our professional lives if we don’t keep the emotions in check. At the time, however, Mars was moving in a retrograde motion, which assisted in stopping many of the sudden changes we saw in our country (USA) for that time. Now with Saturn and Neptune transit also in Aries, these two act as checkmates of impulse.
It is next year, 2026, when we find them far more effective in their checkmate abilities as they officially conjunct and move forward after February 20, 2026. For now, however, the blusteriness of the Aries eclipse energy of March is tempered with innovative ideas coming out of a very bad period of confusion earlier this year.
I am grateful that Saturn is in Aries because it is like a Saturn/Mars conjunction where one must work harder and in a more focused way to stay lean and healthy. The two energies together create a stop gap where one know enough is enough. At those times, taking a break or walking away from a conflict is the best way for gaining new insights in how to attack a challenge.
Mars entered Virgo on June 17, and Mars is the ‘engineer’ of the zodiac, more reserved, more analytical, and thinks its way through a problem. How do we become more inefficient after so much inefficiency? How do we recover important systems that have been deleted from our business computers or from government programs? How do we figure out ways to reframe and rebuild losses but in an improved way? With Mars in Virgo until August 6, call up your engineer and re-engineer your systems, computers, health practices for the better.
