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March 2025 - Welcome The Spring!
Welcome to the Astrology Arizona (AAZ) website!
Here’s what’s up with our organization and the Astrological forecast for March.
What’s Coming in Our March Presentation
This presentation is not to be missed! Our March 29 talk features the great astrologer Ray Couture speaking on The Transpersonal Level of Astrology. He’ll discuss a heliocentric view, planetary fields, DNA, and the concept of Annata, the concept of “No Self.” This technique involves a new way of seeing the spirituality of individual lives within an astrological framework.
Ray Couture is a legend! He produced the only known video of the great Dane Rudhyar, and has been a practicing spiritual Astrologer for over 50 years.
He is the host and producer of New Dimensions podcast, bringing high level astrology to you tube. He also does special shows on the Equinoxes and Solstices featuring a panel of advanced astrologers offering commentary on the charts of those seasonal changes. Professor Robert of AAZ has been a regular guest on Ray's shows, which are always informative and great good fun!
I have no doubt it’s going to be another excellent discussion, and we hope you will join us for this event, since “what one astrologer misses another catches.”
As usual, the admission for the March event is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. You can register at https://azastrologers.org/.
Future Programs Down the Road
Stay tuned, since we have more good presentations on the way in 2025!
Our April 19 presentation features the return of Ray Grasse, who will lead us on a discussion of his new book In The Company of Gods. As you know from his previous visits, Ray is always profound, entertaining, and opens up thought provoking discussions in the zones where astrology and spirituality overlap.
For the rest of our 2025 talks on May 24, June 28, July 26 and beyond, I’ll post them here as soon as we set them up. In the meantime, mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you at our high-quality astrology talks offered by some of the best of the best in the field.
A Look at Some of Our Recent Presentations
Our September 28 presentation featured Lynn Koiner who gave us a fascinating look at Regressing Your Chart Into Your Parents’ Past. This is a technique where you can see key points in your parents' lives before you were born. This has been professionally edited and is available for a charge.
Our October 26 presentation featured yours truly, Professor Robert discussing Transmuting Squares and Oppositions to Good Effect. Based in concepts I wrote about in Horoscope Magazine we covered how to work constructively with our natal and progressed afflictions and how to transmute frictional aspect to good effect. Learning this we can become Masters of Our Destiny and bring order out of chaos as we flow through life. This has been professionally edited and is available for purchase.
Our November 23 presentation featured Andrea Gehrz speaking about Teleology: Hellenistic Astrology’s Missing Philosophy. She took us through many traditional tools of the craft and what the ancients thought about how planets and signs worked, and we had a great discussion about determinism versus infinite potential.
Our December 14 presentation was a free roundtable, where we examined the Solstice chart and some other interesting astrological subjects like the Mercury retrograde themes for the past several years and the next two.
Our January 18 event was our yearly Predictions for 2025 talk featuring predictions from astrologers and other forecasters all over the world. I assembled input from several dozen sources, and a great time was had by all.
Our February 22 event had Craig Hayenga giving a class on The Centaurs: Chiron is Not Alone. It was a fascinating discussion of the astronomical, mythical, and astrological dimensions of Centaurs in general, as well as the relationship of Chariklo and Chiron.
Many of our talks are available for purchase. Prices vary by length of the talk. The are all recorded on sound files which we then send to your email, but your box must be able to accept large sound files, like Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail, and a few others. Then you can download it to a file on your desktop. As it was an outstanding presentation, please consider getting your personal copy today and support the efforts of AAZ!
When we have a list of all the talks which are available, we'll lists them on this site. You can purchase a copy by either sending an email to astrologyarizona@gmail.com to let us know, or you can go to the paypal button on our website and make your donation which will generate an email to us.
How To Attend Our Events
This is the era of Zoom. We do all our presentations online at this time. If you would like to attend, please make sure you’ve downloaded the latest Zoom update so you don’t have to deal with it when you’re trying to get into the talks. If you go to the site, just download the latest software. They release new versions often, so please upgrade in advance. Details are provided in our two AAZ alerts in the two weeks prior to the presentation.
To anticipate a question, no, you don’t have to have a camera or microphone to attend a ZOOM webinar. All you need is internet access and speakers. If you’re interested in attending the webinars, please contact us at astrologyarizona@gmail.com and we'll put you on our mailing list to notify you in advance of the presentations. You can make your donation for membership and admission to events by going to https://azastrologers.org/donate Admission fees are usually $10 for members, $15 for non-members.
Please Drop By Our Facebook Page!
There’s always something going on at our Facebook page, with articles to feed your astrological imagination. To find out more, come on over to our Facebook page where questions, comments, and discussions are most welcome! You can find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/111582320851163and we hope you’ll join the social media initiative going on there.
Calling All Members!
If you haven’t already joined our group, please consider visiting our site at https://azastrologers.org/ and becoming a member. For $36 a year, you get a discount on admission to all talks and many other benefits, including free advertising for your business on our website, access to the awesome documentary Changing of the Gods, as well as a discount for audio copies of our talks as they become available.
For two people living at the same address, both can become members for $54. Don’t delay, renew today! We prorate your dues so that all subsequent renewals will occur in January. Of course your donations are always welcome.
As a member, you’ll continue to enjoy the full version of our newsletter sent directly to your email. An abbreviated version is available at our website homepage at the above link.
Who we Are - Contacts
We are an astrology group based in the Phoenix area dedicated to the art and science of Astrology. Our organization is a New Moon double Aquarius trine a Gemini Ascendant, affirming a wider Aquarian intention and a welcoming Aquarian vibe for all who come.
We encourage your suggestions about potential speakers and topics. We envision our 21st century group being a point of light to help students of Astrology who want to know more in the emerging 20 year Aquarian Era
If you have questions about who we are and what we do, or want to suggest a topic for a future program or apply to speak, please direct all correspondence to one of these current AAZ Board members:
Bill Nastasiak (Vice President and Education Director)
Robert Wilkinson (President and Editor of AAZ Newsletter)
laughingcat51@hotmail.com
Mary Katherine Kracht (Treasurer)
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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF March 2025
by Robert Wilkinson
(This column is an abbreviated version of what we send to members at the beginning of each month. If you want the complete overview, please join our organization.)
In 2025, the month of March puts the focus on the Pisces and Aries sectors of our chart. We’re now firmly in the Pluto in Aquarius era for the next 20 years, and this month marks the beginning of the Neptune in Aries era!
The month begins with Venus going retrograde followed by Mercury going retrograde. They begin at 11 and 10 Aries respectively, and retrograde back to Pisces by the end of March. During that time they make “Inferior conjunctions” with the Sun in late March, with Venus’ conjunction at 3 Aries and Mercury’s conjunction at 5 Aries.
This is important because Neptune will go stationary retrograde at 3 Aries in early July, spreading the Venus/Sun conjunction theme far and wide this Summer. As Saturn also enters Aries in late May and goes SRX at 2 Aries in July, it’s easy to see we have a LOT of activity going on in our late Pisces and early Aries sectors of our charts.
With Jupiter direct, continue leaving the ghosts of the past behind and face forward, since the adventure into the future quickens this month and accelerates like lightning by April! Still, with Mars and Jupiter direct while Mercury and Venus slow, the pace will be fast for some things, normal for other things, and slow for other things.
The entire month we’re blessed with Mars trine Saturn, favoring a stable flow and harmony to planets we have in the last half of the Earth and Water signs. We also have Mars decile Jupiter and tredecile Neptune for the first half of the month, showing an interactive favorable serendipity in the charts of those with planets near 1-4 Aries/Libra, 6-10 Taurus/Scorpio, 12-16 Gemini/Sagittarius, 18-22 Cancer/Capricorn, 24-28 Leo/Aquarius, and 30 Virgo/Pisces. As you can see, this month will bring major changes and extraordinary good fortune to many!
This month is dominated by the New Moon at 10 Pisces in late February which will help us say goodbye to many things, as the Lunation is conjunct Saturn, Mercury, the North Node and Neptune all in late Pisces. This is “the end of the end” as we see the dawning of a new era in the world. We’ll see what’s passing and what’s being built for the future, with solid feeling-understanding facilitated by Mars trine Saturn. With all the inner planets in Pisces and Aries, this month we have all the planets in half the zodiac from Aquarius through Cancer when the Moon is in those signs.
Pluto leads the outer planet occupied span in early Aquarius. Each year we have major oppositions between July and November to Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. We’ve completed our oppositions to those planets for the present, with the exception of the very intense oppositions between Mars and Pluto. We had our first opposition in early November, had the second one in early January and the third one coming in late April 2025.
Because Jupiter’s in Gemini, it gives a Gemini backdrop to planets we have in Sagittarius and Pisces, as well as the houses where these signs are on the cusp. Jupiter in Gemini brings new information and perspectives to those things it rules. Still, the conjunctions to Jupiter when it was in Taurus rule the coming year until the conjunctions with Jupiter in Cancer in June 2025.
Saturn went SD on a degree of showing courage as we focus our spiritual will. We’ve reviewed the span between 20 to 13 Pisces since June, and have now turned toward the future as we begin to finish the main lessons of Saturn in Pisces. We have received something which nourishes us “at the end of our day of labor,” and now need to put ourselves out into the world as we revisit our deepest and highest wisdom. Expect interesting returns and more coming in March and early April!
With Neptune direct, we now move forward collectively to finish some things before it enters Aries in late March. Abundance is promised for all of us by Neptune, and with Saturn direct and Neptune direct headed for Aries, we have a new collective atmosphere on the way!
For now, Neptune is still moving through the part of Pisces which is “the end of the end,” so keep flowing through these strange times and have as much compassion for yourself and others as needed. As I gave you last month, the primary Saturn theme for the rest of this year and early 2025 is going to help us finish some things, forgive some things, and bless some endings.
The Spiritual Field
We continue to be blessed by the closest Neptune sextile with Pluto in 30 years, joined by Uranus creating a “three note chord” last Summer, extending into 2025. With Uranus in Taurus, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto now in Aquarius for years to come, we have an out of sign but powerful “double sextile/trine” which should favorably impact all planets we have in late Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces. The Spiritual Field represented by these outermost planets has stabilized our late Earth and Water sectors in the spiritual sectors of their signs.
This is preparing us for an entirely new experience of Spirit and Life in 2025 when these Spiritual powerhouses shift out of Earth and Water into Fire and Air, joined by Saturn when it enters Aries creating a “three note chord” of harmonic consciousness. That means 2024 and 2025 will spiritually harmonize planets we have in the late degrees of the Earth and Water signs, while in 2025-2026 they will do the same for planets we have in the early degrees of the Fire and Air signs.
Uranus will occupy the third decan of Taurus for the rest of this year through early July 2025. This is a Capricorn sub-influence with an added dose of Saturn, so there’s more structure and discipline and less micromanagement of details. The Cosmic Awakener promises us a new life and a “genuine rejuvenation” and life renewal as a result of what we go through in August and September.
We’ve been moving through an individual and spiritual awakening which marks the beginning of a long term regeneration and renewal wherever we have late Taurus. This is the next step of the new 2 year cycle where we have 27 Taurus in our charts resulting from the July Mars/Uranus conjunction.
Neptune at “the end of the end” of Pisces is giving us all a sense of vast feelings and finality. We’ve been in a review of “our dream to come” these past few months, and now move forward into a “dream of abundance” on our way to a new Neptunian field in Aries. Keep dreaming the future you want to see become manifest. This year we begin to finalize our experience of the vast unifying field as we prepare to move into a more fiery collective energy in 2025.
Pluto in Aquarius puts us on the cusp of historic change. Its last RX station at 3 Aquarius began a wild ride into a time of defiance, rebellion, with many refusing to follow what they believe to be authoritarian control systems. As it is on its coming SRX degree in March, open to your latent “healing powers,” or abilities to restore a natural harmony to circumstances. Be fearless in making the decisions you need to make.
We also have several long wave Aries cycles in play. Jupiter launched a major healing and mentoring cycle when it conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 11, 2023. That began a long wave Chiron cycle which will last until the Summer of 2036. And we just finished a 2 year Mars/Chiron cycle and began a new one at 23 Aries.
Not all Chiron cycles are the same length. When Chiron transits between Aquarius and Gemini, it moves relatively slowly and has conjunctions with Jupiter about every 13 years. However, it can take 19-20 years for the next conjunction after Gemini or Cancer. That means once the conjunction at 16 Gemini happens in the Summer of 2036 we won’t have another conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron until the Spring of 2056 in Aquarius, which will launch another long term “expansive healing/mentoring” cycle.
Mars
Mars is now direct at 18 Cancer and moving forward through its shadow zone until early May. The pace will pick up speed for many months to come, so get ready to plug your energies into motion. We all had a chance to see what’s relatively permanent and what’s not since early December, and now we have to figure out how to find a consistent supply of our needs. As the entire world will be doing that as well, don’t feel like you’re alone in the challenge!
This month Mars activates the house(s) where we have 18 through 24 Cancer. The first 14 days of the month activates 18 and 19 Cancer, while the rest of the month Mars moves through 20, 21, 22, and 23 Cancer. So basically this month we’ll see an agitating effect on planets between 18-23 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
As I’ve offered before, when Mars is within a degree of forming or separating from a hard aspect with a planet, slow down and show deliberation and caution in how you use force. Hard aspects to/from Mars always require that we moderate or antidote impulsiveness and impatience.
We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set – The Bigger Picture
We’re still in the initial years of a new era in human evolution. The Grand Mutation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius began a new 20 year Aquarian Era in December 2020, as well as a new 200 year era, moving global energies out of Earth and into Air. We’ve begun to grow beyond the materialism of the past 200 years and have entered two centuries of Air emphasis, with its qualities of relatedness, receptivity, versatility, movability, lightness, and cooperative ideas, visions, and ideals.
We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses we experienced in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove what we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 20 and 30 Aries, 11 Taurus, and 2 Scorpio, since we’ve all had to let go of many things related to these sectors the past few years. You can find out more about Solar and Lunar eclipses by going to my site at www.aquariuspapers.com where there are numerous articles in the archives on how eclipses work.
The April-May 2023 eclipses have begun to work their magic on our Aries and Libra sectors for a long time to come. The 2023 Solar eclipse at 30 Aries and the October Solar eclipse at 22 Libra are also shutting down parts of our lives where we have those signs. We now have the Solar eclipse at 20 Aries added to the list, as well as the current Solar eclipse at 11 Libra.
As we study how successive Eclipses have affected various areas of our charts and lives, we can get a sense of the utility of these “Cosmic Recyclers” in removing what we no longer needed in those areas, creating a void which attracted new life experiences. They invite us to look back, and then forward, to see the continuity of “letting go, taking in, letting go, taking in” across the years.
Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month
March begins with the New Moon at 10 Pisces trine Mars, conjunct Saturn, and square Jupiter, stabilizing the flow while helping us define ourselves in new or diverse ways. This month has some planets moving forward, others moving backward, so keep making progress even if there are delays and echoes of memories. The beginning of March helps us develop a new “feeling awareness” as we prepare for a new Aries era coming like an express train!
The first week of the month brings Mercury conjunct Neptune at 30 Pisces and Sun square Jupiter. Mercury enters Aries and immediately trines Pluto and quintiles Jupiter, showing a great time for getting to the heart of any matter. The first week shows the Moon moving from Aries to Cancer, putting the Moon inside the occupied span. As it makes some fantastic aspects throughout the week, make the most of that time!
The second week of the month brings Sun trine Mars and conjunct Saturn, giving power to that stabilizing energy. The flow should be clear. That week also brings Mercury direct conjunct Venus retrograde, so pay attention to the ideas and perceptions of that period, since it can help weave past, present, and future into a clear picture.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The third week begins under the beams of the Full Moon Lunar eclipse, which as noted, should be very productive in removing what we no longer need in our late Virgo/Pisces sectors. With Mercury retrograde at that point, it’s a “back to the future” type of energy in the air. Be willing to take a new look at whatever pops up, and find a new meaning or interpretation of things in the past which used to be important.
The fourth week of March brings the Inferior conjunct of Venus with the Sun on a degree of “avatarship,” helping us reflect and review how we’ve overcome insecurities and now can serve as inspirations for others. That’s followed by the Inferior conjunction of Mercury with the Sun on a degree of imagining a higher quality of being through healing ourselves or others. During that week the Moon moves from Sagittarius through Aries, bringing new vision to our general experience.
The end of the month features the New Moon Solar eclipse at 10 Aries, showing a lot of old perceptions will be shut down in the next few years so we can embrace the new beginnings and new understanding represented by that eclipse. That eclipse has Mercury at 1 Aries about to slip back into Pisces, and Neptune at 30 Pisces about to slip into Aries. As the last week of the month has many favorable lunar aspects, a lot can be accomplished, whether during the “old Moon” of March 24-29 or the new Moon of March 29-31.
Evolutionary Development
This is the second month of the North Node in Pisces era! We have finished a period of our greatest development being served by self-initiated activity (Aries) demonstrated through our balanced response (Libra) to an ongoing transfiguration toward an ideal. So we have grown through focused action and demonstrate it through expressing our Archetypal Self, whether in the world of inner space or outer affairs.
We have now begun a period of the NN moving through Pisces and the SN through Virgo, marking many months of growing through empathy, compassion, and forgiveness, demonstrated through our sense of service. We will grow in our “nonlocal awareness” and tuning into Neptune and Saturn while “showing what we know” wherever we have late Virgo.
Our wise friend Saturn continues to teach us through the vast feeling experiences from its time in Pisces, and now we’re seeing what is to be perpetuated into the new era in 2025. We are still learning disciplines of forgiveness and compassion, and this month we see how we’re living a higher life than before, with a need to honor our transfigured Self, listen to the inner voice, and be ready to move into the unknown, rejecting some things while accepting others as we transmute magnetism into power.
The Sun in Pisces is a time to see the Light of compassion and the universal human conditions as we bless endings and move into a new year. Here we sort through things, eliminating some and retaining others. Empathy is powerful, as is the ability to use forgiveness as a spiritual power to invoke Divine Grace to come forth.
We are now beginning our fifth year of the new Aquarian era, with a new iteration of that future-oriented energy coming in March. Jupiter in Taurus helped us get a new grounded expansive view of how to sustain the Aquarian unfoldment which is finding forms of expression while Jupiter is in Gemini. We’ve all entered a new land. Let go of the lesser, accept the greater, and the new land you’re in is going to be far more enjoyable than the old land you’ve had to leave.
Because we’re about to begin the fifth year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned. Have courage and take the initiative to leave the Earth and fly free into the Air of what’s opening as the Grand Mutation expands its promise into the Divine transfigured ideal of a more just truth and future. While it may not look like that now, it’s just the beginning!
Even though the ideal is far away, we are the midwives and mid-husbands to a new way of relating to Life, Energy, Consciousness, each other, and the Earth Herself. Because our essential nature is Loving Wisdom, remember to lighten up, play a little, and be willing to explore new arenas of effective activity where you can work and play with other Light Spirits. This is the time to take heart as we navigate the dawning of the Pluto in Aquarius era.
We have now collectively transfigured into a greater vision of the one Light/Life we all are together. Continue to find your heart strength and new forms of genuine happiness appropriate for who you are now, and who you are becoming relative to just a few months ago.
We now navigate the cosmic time-space between endings and beginnings so bless and forgive much to flow down the time stream. The past is over and we all have begun our trek into a new world of new potential, new adventures, and new ways to enjoy being ourselves while doing our work of Destiny. Open to the abundance of the process of growth, since we are all on a rocket ship to the stars!
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Until next month
(or whenever we meet again, since tomorrow is never guaranteed)
Robert Wilkinson
Editor, AAZ Newsletter
http://www.aquariuspapers.com
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