2025, d. stapleton, acrylic ink on canvas

February 18: Sun enters Pisces

At 2:07 am PT, the Sun leaves crisp, mid-winter Aquarius to enter fluid Pisces until March 20. This transition marks the beginning of Pisces Season, which illuminates the 12th and final zodiac sign. Pisces consciousness is one of deep meditative awareness and spiritual fulfillment.

In watery Pisces, we dance with the images appearing on the dream plane, emerging from our soul’s oceanic depths.

The Sun joins Saturn, Mercury, the eclipsing Lunar North Node, and Neptune in the two fishes sign, illuminating a well-populated space and underscoring Pisces Season's potency and immersive activity.

Already, I have been experiencing a loss for words and a desire to stay in a dream state. Communicating on a sublingual level with images to say more than words ever can is calling my attention. I’m receiving a massive download of images and doing my best to pour them onto the canvas.

February 23: Mars stations direct at 17 degrees Cancer

Just as Mercury forms a trine with Mars, the planet of combat and confrontation grinds to a halt and prepares to move forward again at 6 pm PT Sunday, retracing its steps back through sensitive Cancer. This shift in Mars's direction provides an opportunity to regain momentum lost in early December.

If you’ve been feeling devitalized and rudderless, prepare to begin getting back on track. Mars’ direct motion may also rouse deep, self-protective feelings and raw sentiments accumulating under the surface this Winter. Be gentle with yourself and others as you find the emotional vocabulary for the storm within as Pisces Season unwinds.

February 27: New Moon in Pisces @ 9 degrees

The night skies on February 27 will be deep and dark under the Pisces New Moon. It’s a perfect time to withdraw into an imaginary world and embrace the potential for new beginnings. Notice if your dreams are particularly evocative around this date, and keep a dream journal close by.

March 1: Venus retrograde

Venus, in passionate and forthright Aries, moves retrograde until April 12. This period of Venus retrograde carries us back to what our hearts left behind, allowing us to refine a new creative endeavour or revisit a love pact, transforming an ideal love into an actual bond tempered in the flames of honesty and fierce devotion.

March 3: Mercury enters Aries

Mercury leaves poetic Pisces for pyrogenic Aries on March 3, putting a point on everything we need to say and igniting a spark in our minds. This ingress shifts us into the ground upon which we will experience the first Mercury retrograde of the year in a cycle that blends fire and water signs during Mercury’s journeys.

Mercury will return to Aries on a direct course on April 15, so if any ideas ignite now, we will revisit them later in the spring.

March 13: Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon in Virgo @ 23 degrees

On March 23, we have the first eclipse of 2025 at 23 degrees Virgo. In the botanical sign of the Virgin, this Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon emphasizes unearthing and uprooting energy, where forces of tremendous change will produce unusual fruit. Note if you have any planets or points at 23 degrees of the mutable signs in your birth chart, and check what house this eclipse is taking place to know where changes and transformations will occur this year.

March 14: Mercury retrograde

Mercury comes to a halt and begins to fly backward in the sky on March 14. The messenger planet’s pivot emphasizes a time to go back and refine agreements and conversations that began earlier in the month and retrieve information or details that we may have missed during Mercury’s initial entry into trailblazing Aries.

The details may become more apparent on March 24, when Mercury enters the molten forge of the exalted Aries Sun.

Consider the house Mercury is going retrograde in and back to when it returns to Pisces on March 29 to gain insight. This story is interwoven with Venus’ narrative, making it complex and heartfelt.

That is all for now as I dive back into a world of dreams.

Enjoy Pisces Season,

Debbie

Pisces season 2025