Weekly Astrology Forecast — February 24, 2025

Right here is the Ask the Astrologers Weekly Astrology Forecast for the week of February 24, 2025 – March 2, 2025: 

We’ve obtained so much happening this week, with two planets (Mars and Venus) altering course, a lineup of 5 planets all seen within the night sky, and a New Moon (plus 5 different our bodies) in Pisces, amongst different issues.

Mars goes stationary direct as we begin this week on Monday, having simply spent the final two and a half lengthy months in retrograde movement. Whereas Mars is far more snug shifting ahead than it’s shifting backwards, it can take till Might third to cross its shadow level and be thought of in full direct movement.

Mars turning direct can see you shifting ahead once more too. As in planning on your future somewhat than perseverating over errors in your previous. Or initiating new initiatives somewhat than attempting to breathe life into people who didn’t fairly work the primary time. It’s good for going after your targets — particularly as soon as Mars leaves Most cancers and strikes again into Leo (on April twentieth).

Mars isn’t completely happy in Most cancers, the signal of its fall. As Mars by nature is all about power, motion and assertion, it doesn’t actually know what to do with itself in Most cancers’s innately passive area. When you’ve witnessed — or been part of — conflicts with others over the previous couple of months, particularly these involving distortions, misunderstandings, passive aggression, defensiveness, overreactions and so on. You may blame all of it on Mars retrograde in Most cancers. However now with Mars shifting ahead once more, it is best to begin to see loads of these tough emotional quagmires changed by extra assertive, forthright and direct actions and reactions.

If you recognize which home Mars guidelines in your natal chart, you may look to see if that is an space you’ve been battling for the final couple of months. It is likely to be an space you couldn’t appear to get forward in, or maybe you felt you had been taking one step ahead and two steps again. You additionally wish to have a look at which home Mars is transiting via for you now. There are areas you may count on to begin making progress in — and gaining momentum in — once more.

Mercury conjuncts Saturn on Tuesday. This side is concentrated and disciplined, even in mystical, poetic Pisces. It’s good for planning and ironing out essential particulars. It’s additionally good for clearing away the cobwebs and taking a look at issues from a extra sensible perspective. You possibly can be placing a dent in any analysis you’re doing that includes scientific or step-by-step evaluation.

It’s possible you’ll really feel impatient with those that wish to have interaction you in informal or superficial dialog throughout this time. You’re going to be extra desirous about critical discussions about sensible issues. However strive to not take all the pieces so significantly although, as this side may also manifest as feeling pessimistic or morose. 

Mercury is debilitated by signal, because it’s at the moment positioned in Pisces, the signal of each its fall and detriment. But it surely’s in mutual reception with Jupiter, which helps to mitigate a few of that debility. Along with that, there are a lot of optimistic attributes related to Mercury in Pisces. Extra fluid pondering for one factor, which may result in enhanced instinct and psychic skills, in addition to extra vivid goals, extra empathy and compassion for others, and extra inventive or visionary streams of consciousness. The Saturn conjunction can preserve you grounded.

Wednesday’s Moon in Aquarius types a trine (or 120° side) to Jupiter. Whereas that is the one main side that the Moon makes on today, you nearly couldn’t ask for a greater one. With each of those planets in air indicators — the Moon in modern and progressive Aquarius and Jupiter in diplomatic and goal Libra — the main focus needs to be on harmonious interactions with like-minded folks, in addition to a extra forward-thinking change of concepts.

However get all that brainstorming accomplished earlier within the day, as a result of the Moon goes void after all later within the night, and can stay as such till it strikes into Pisces round dawn the next morning. The void after all Moon is a standard prevalence; it marks the time frame between the Moon’s final side in a single signal and its ingress into the subsequent. It’s usually not a time to make selections or attempt to nail down finite plans.

Mercury sextiles Uranus on Thursday. As Uranus is alleged to be the upper octave of Mercury, bringing them collectively in a harmonious (sextile) side permits for a way more pure path to greater consciousness. That is the construct a greater mousetrap side, particularly with these two planets in female indicators (Pisces and Taurus respectively).

The Mercury / Uranus sextile is nice for brainstorming and pondering outdoors the field. It’s nice for bettering effectivity and growing productiveness. It could actually open doorways for you that you just by no means anticipated to open. And it could actually enhance alternatives so that you can develop your consciousness and broaden your thoughts.

Now we have a New Moon on Friday at 9° Pisces 40′. It’s precise at 12:44 am UT (or at 8:44 pm EST on Thursday).

It is a loving, compassionate, inventive and extremely impressionable Moon. It could actually enhance psychic consciousness and make you extra prone to outdoors influences.

It’s mystical and ethereal, however may also be extremely naive. It’s not good at filtering out unfavourable or dangerous info, and may subsequently be simply deceived.

As New Moons all the time symbolize new beginnings and alternatives to begin anew, this one — in idealistic Pisces — presents alternatives for us to discover our innermost goals. It is a very female and somewhat other-worldly New Moon placement. We will put to good use this power by serious about what’s most significant, and what we will do to domesticate it throughout this time.

There’s a lineup of planets seen within the night time sky simply after sundown, all through the latter a part of this week, however most seen on Friday and Saturday. Throughout this time, ranging from simply above the western horizon after which arching upwards, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter ought to all be seen. Uranus, Neptune, Chiron and the North Node are all in that lineup as nicely, though none of them are seen to the bare eye.

Additionally on Saturday, the Moon strikes into Aries and in mutual reception with Mars. The mutual reception strengthens the bond between these two planets even once they’re not linked by side. On this case, the Moon first joins up with Venus (by conjunction) after which applies to a sq. to Mars later within the day. This might point out a interval of elevated libido and extra pronounced sexual appetites, which can then be disrupted by the sq. to Mars.

Mercury conjuncts the North Node and Neptune on Sunday, simply because the Solar squares Jupiter. The Mercury Node conjunction can point out a significant interplay that results in a major connection, so that you wish to concentrate. You wish to be conscious of what you say and the way you say it. Mercury represents communications and the Nodes are stated to be karmic in nature. Add Neptune to the combination and you might end up speaking ideas that got here to you psychically. Take note of what you place on the market because it might have long-term repercussions. 

The Solar / Jupiter sq. can see you feeling so expansive and gregarious that you find yourself biting off greater than you may chew or promising greater than you may ship. The mix of enthusiasm and benevolence can get you pondering you are able to do greater than you actually can. And whereas your coronary heart could also be in the fitting place, your incapacity to comply with via can get you into sizzling water.

This side is thought for over-indulging, over-extending and over-committing. In different phrases, overdoing all the pieces.It’s possible you’ll be feeling so jovial and so overconfident that you’ve a tough time reigning in it and exercising any actual self-discipline.

Additionally on Sunday, Venus goes stationary retrograde at 10º Aries 50′. From an astrological perspective, retrogrades inspire us to evaluation, revisit, refine and resolve challenges which can be holding us again from progressing within the space associated to the planet concerned.

They could relate to unfinished enterprise from previous lives, or they might check with repeating patterns in our current lifetimes. Both method, the presumption when that planet is Venus is that the challenges confronted are love and relationship challenges. This consists of your complete spectrum of “relationships”: romantic, familial, social, and so on.

Venus spends much less time retrograde than every other planet: solely roughly 41 days in its 584 day synodic cycle. The cycle itself begins both on the inferior conjunction (when Venus is precisely between the Earth and the Solar), the heliacal rising (the purpose the place it first turns into seen on the Jap horizon — about 10 days after the inferior conjunction), or the superior conjunction (when the Solar is between Venus and the Earth, about 216 days later).

Sacred Geometry: Right here’s what Venus’ synodic cycle seems to be like from a Solar-centered (heliocentric) perspective. The transits of Venus and the Earth — with Venus retrograding again every time it’s overtaken by the Earth — creates a surprising spirographic sample that repeats itself indefinitely.

Throughout its synodic cycle, Venus spends 263 days as a morning star; adopted by about 50 days when it’s not seen in any respect (resulting from its proximity to the Solar). It then reappears within the night sky for an additional 263 days and disappears once more for the ultimate 8 days earlier than it rises heliacally and begins another time.

As a result of Venus’ synodic interval corresponds to the Earth’s orbital interval at a ratio of 5:8, this cycle repeats itself 5 instances over a interval of 8 years.

This is applicable to your individual natal Solar and Venus relationship as nicely. For this reason — as soon as each 8 years — you’ll have each a photo voltaic return and a Venus return on roughly the identical day (round your birthday).

Venus is debilitated in Aries, the signal of its fall. It should stay in Aries till March twenty eighth, when it retrogrades again into Pisces. And, since on the planet of retrogrades what goes again should come ahead once more, it can flip again round and re-enter Aries on Might 1st.

Don’t be shocked if outdated lovers resurface throughout this time or in case you begin feeling the urge to achieve out to these out of your previous. If that’s the case, needless to say that is going to be extra about resolving unfinished enterprise or typing up unfastened ends, and also you’re more likely to see issues change once more as soon as Venus goes direct. 

That’s it for this week. See you subsequent week!

Right here’s this week’s Astro Calendar. Click on on it to view it full-sized. 

Fascinated about studying Astrology? I extremely suggest Stephen Arroyo’s Chart Interpretation Handbook and Demetra George’s Astrology for Yourself. 

Steven Forrest’s Inner Sky and Changing Sky books are classics that each critical astrologer has of their library, as is Tracy Marks’ Art of Chart Interpretation.

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