03/17/2026
๐ ๐๐๐จ๐๐๐จ ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฃ: ๐ผ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ | The New Moon occurs at 28ยฐ Pisces on Wednesday, March 18th (exact at 9:23PM EST). In Hellenistic (ancient) astrology, Pisces' rulership falls to Jupiter. In modern astrology, Neptune is the planetary ruler of Pisces. Both offer important insights this time around.
Youโll hear that this New Moon has manifestation potential. Thatโs because it makes a strong, supportive trine to Jupiter in Cancer, freshly direct. That trine extends to Mars, Mercury Rx, and the North Node in Pisces. The Moon is also quickly approaching a conjunction with its other planetary ruler, Neptune in Aries.
Between all the water and fire of these placements, I see ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป in my mind's eye. It feels a bit like a magic trick. Aries wants more than anything to pull the ethereal essence of Pisces into a new state of being. ๐๐ฆ๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐บ.
But we have a challenge before us. As elements, fire and water donโt mix. They stay stuck in a stalemate of co-existence until one eventually conquers the other. The winner comes down to volume โ enough water will extinguish a roaring fire, but a fire can easily destroy drought-prone landscapes. In this New Moonโs chart, water far surpasses the fiery potential of Aries.
So, while we can rave about the manifestation capacity of Jupiter in Cancer trining the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, and North Node, it would be bypassing to stop there. Trines help energy flow, but they donโt necessarily ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ of whatโs flowing. And beyond the all-you-can-eat buffet with Pisces, Jupiter is also forming an exact square to Venus in Aries. This is an undeniably awkward position for these two.
In some very important relationships in your life, you may sense that the Love is there, but that alone doesn't heal or repair the damage caused by differences and indifference. It should, and yet it hasn't. Here, we see fire and water failing to truly merge. The intention of Aries to take pain and turn it into courage could easily get lost in the tides of what-ifs and long sighs.
๐๐ถ๐ฟ is the in-between element of these forces, the conduit. When the three work together, hot air lifts water particles upward, creating steam. Air is the key to working with this lunation, but very little air is activated in the sky right now โ Pluto in Aquarius stands alone. This makes Pluto a crucial conduit to this New Moon.
In astrology, Pluto represents power and fear. It is often where we have experienced corruption, abuse of power, and disempowerment. Itโs also where we inflict such experiences onto others, intentionally or not. As the conduit, Pluto requires a deeper confrontation and conversation with self. Push back on your excuses. What truths rise to the surface then?
However tender the answers may be, they hold the keys to liberation. ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ. For the Aries planets to have a fighting chance โ for us to truly break some sort of cycle that keeps us stuck โ we must acknowledge the parts of us that are scared sh*tless.
As Joseph Campbell wrote, โ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ.โ Under this ambiguous New Moon, work to define the cave you fear to enter ๐ค