Mercury Retrograde in Pisces Hosts a Powerful Lunar Eclipse — Horoscopes for March

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology.

Today we are going to take a look at your horoscopes for the month of March. There is a big Mercury Retrograde happening this month, which is also the ruler of another Eclipse that's taking place this time, a lunar eclipse in the sign of Virgo.

So we're going to sort of look at those two houses today and track out some of the major developments along the Mercury Retrograde timeline. It's a big part of the month of March, for sure. And I've, as always, I have the team with me today to break things down for you, so that's what we will be doing in just a second.

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Alright, well, on that note, I'm very excited to break down your horoscopes for the month of March with the team. Let's bring everyone back. Kelsey, Emily, Mal, Q.

Welcome back. Hey friends.

Adam Elenbaas: So good to have you guys back. We're still, we're recording this. To be completely honest with everyone listening, we're recording this still in the midst of some of the most powerful transits of February. So we're just like, alright, well, love letter to our future selves, who went through all—not to go through still.

So it's like, it's really interesting, because we'll actually be looking at these horoscopes really, all of us, from the standpoint of having weathered an incredible start to the 2026 in January and February. But the team has put together the agenda. I let them shape what we're going to talk about. I give a little input here or there.

But this month, our focus is going to be on Mercury's Retrograde. And I just want to show you this, because the Mercury Retrograde also rules a lunar eclipse. We're going to be talking about the Pisces-Virgo axis in your charts. But let's just take a look at this so you have a feel for it.

It was the very end of February, right around the 26th, 27th, that Mercury turned retrograde into conjunction with Venus in Pisces. Of course, that's Mercury's detriment and fall in traditional astrology. You know, it's like a poet trying to be logical. It's not illogical, but it's also not straight-up rational. So it's an interesting space for Mercury.

And starting this retrograde with elevated romantic and, I think, very artistic Venus, it feels very Shakespearean to me. It feels like a bard or a storytelling musician or something is on the mic with this Mercury retrograde. So that part of it, I think, is actually really interesting and kind of cuts against the grain of some of the normal Mercury debility talk. Because this is a Mercury who may actually be quite eloquent and otherworldly and romantic and imaginative.

Of course, you have to be a little bit careful for that heightened romantic quality of mind to take over. We're going to be exploring things like that today too. But as Mercury retrogrades in this month of March, we come into the eclipse window, really going to be feeling it. March 2, March 3, as the balsamic, as the almost full moon approaches full and we get a lunar eclipse in Virgo, that's going to come through very early Tuesday, March 3. The ruler of that eclipse is Mercury, and that's the Mercury retrograde.

This is why we think it's important to be focusing on these two houses. As Mercury's retrograde falls under the combustion of the sun, things intensify, as they usually do. And the transformation that Mercury brings about takes place as the cazimi occurs between March 6 and 7. We continue on from there.

And Mercury's station will occur not long after. Can you imagine if they were as long as Venus retrogrades? Every Mercury retrograde was like weeks on end? No. I mean, it's not that long. Overall, we get Mercury around the North Node of the Moon by about March 20, and it's stationed. You can see the little 'S' there with the North Node of the Moon. So this is a very purposeful retrograde, isn't it?

It's ruling the eclipse. It's debilitated, but hitting an exalted Venus. It has an exchange with Mars that looks pretty intense. And then it also conjoins the North Node together. The change of direction then occurs, and Mercury will gradually start moving forward. Mercury is not going to finally leave this sign of Pisces, just to be clear, until it hits zero Aries, right around the 14th, 15th of April.

You're going to feel that culmination of Mercury and then going back in. So that's a long period of time for Mercury to be in a water sign like Pisces, where it can have some mixed results when it comes to trying to stay clear and grounded rationally. But as we said earlier, this is also a Mercury that is with the North Node. It's purposeful. It's with an exalted Venus at the outset, very romantic. Maybe wants to articulate some things that words and logic fail to capture fully. So really interesting. That's my take on it, just walking everyone through the timeline.

But you're going to now hear from Kelsey, Emily, Mal, and Q about what that means for each of your signs. Anything you guys want to say generally about this before we get into horoscopes?

Kelsey Faith Wells: I was gonna mention that I find it really interesting that Mercury rules the South Node and Jupiter, which is the ruler of Mercury, while transiting Pisces, rules the North Node. So it's kind of like weaving the story together and helping us transition to the future, to the North Node story, helping us maybe let go of things with that eclipse that's coming in. So I find that really interesting, and how they both connect before, during, and after the retrograde.

Emily Tatomer: Yeah, yeah. I think this is like, not your typical Mercury retrograde. It has a real kind of karmic or fated quality to it, because of the connection to the North Node, because it forms a trine to that Jupiter, its host, literally, while Jupiter is stationed. It's pretty much stopped at a standstill. It's about to turn direct again, because it turns direct on that North Node hours before the Sun crosses the Aries point. So it's like ushering in the new year with that Aries ingress of the Sun just hours after Mercury stations. It has a real karmic feeling.

And I also think it's going to be a bomb, because there's so much loud astrology out there that we're all living through right now, that this kind of pause, a little bit slow down of the Mercury retrograde in Pisces, we might have the opportunity to process through memory, through music, through image, through synchronicity. All of these kind of non-linear, illogical things might allow us to kind of sift through all that we have been experiencing in the last couple of months too.

Que'Nyse: Yeah, I would agree with Emily. As someone who is just like finishing up their Saturn Return in Pisces, it's like, oh, now Mercury is about to spend some time up in there and have me really contemplate and sit with those lessons, the challenges that came up, and really just like be able to put understanding and new knowing to those lessons. Things that I was probably, am definitely still working through and processing to integrate moving forward. So it's like Mercury's giving this moment of reflection and release, also, which you all have mentioned.

And then Venus being there as well, being exalted, helps. I think it does soften it. And I think the trine to Jupiter also makes this a little bit more private and internal of a journey, especially with Mercury being in this inner realm of spirituality and intuition and really revising what that means for us and how we understand our worldview outside of ourselves from that place. So I, like y'all said before, the Grand Trine, the Grand Water Trine, is still being felt. We are still in the waters, in the healing motions of it all, for sure.

Yeah, yeah. I'm with you at Q with the finishing up the Saturn Return, and I think you're so spot on with that. And just one small thing I'll say is there's a person, Mr. Rogers, who was ruled by a Mercury-Venus conjunction in Pisces. And his message was all about kindness and looking for the helpers and sort of teaching what is intangible, kind of like empathy. So I like thinking about him with this configuration, this Mercury-Venus conjunction, or the Mercury-Venus influence over the Mercury retrograde. It kind of gives me hope for so much political tumult that can happen with Neptune-Saturn conjunction. We have that maybe support in the background in a weird way, from Mercury and Venus together in Pisces.

Adam Elenbaas: I love that. Yeah. Another thing that I forgot to mention that you guys are making me think of is actually you guys mentioned this in our meeting off camera before we started, and I failed to mention it. Which is that one very interesting thing that's happening basically at the time of the cazimi transition is that Mercury's host is Jupiter. So all of these Piscean planets are being hosted by Jupiter, who's turning direct in this process.

The change of exalted Jupiter into direct motion means that a process of revision, possibly a process where—I think of Jupiter retrograde almost like when we host occasions, we take turns. And my wife's family takes turns hosting holiday events like Easter or whatever, Christmas, Thanksgiving. And when I think about the aunties, my my wife's aunts that all come over there, and then there's this influx of people, and they're all like as a team. They're like Jupiter in Cancer, but they're back on their heels. They're like, serving people, hosting people, making food, taking care of the kids, making sure. And it's just this beautiful like home and hearth, sweetness and warmth and facilitating that they're doing.

It reminds me, but they're like, back on their heels. I think about Jupiter in Cancer as like the rush of people in Minneapolis supporting our neighbors right now, during a time where there's been like hostility, right? And you can feel like it's like Jupiter, Jupiter retrograde in Cancer is like handling it with this amazing display of warmth and community. But she's like, back on her heels. You know, it's like she's taking something in that's been maybe hard or difficult or whatever.

What I like about the retrograde period is like when I think about at the end of the night, typically, me and one of my wife's uncles and some of my cousins, we get out our guitars and we play, and everything's done. And all of the women who have been cooking or just doing so much work to serve everyone in that space, they all relax. We're all sitting around, we're all singing songs. It's my favorite time.

But one of the reasons it's my favorite time, and this goes back to when I was a kid, my grandma. You know, when my grandma would finally relax after making food and sit down with us and be part of it. I was like, Oh, thank God, because it kind of stressed me out watching her serve everyone. And when she finally relaxed, it felt like everyone could relax. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about, but when Mama relaxes, everyone can relax, you know?

And I feel like Jupiter in Cancer switching directions during all of this is subtly really important. It's like she's able to sink in and relax and be supportive in a different way. Same support, but different, coming from a place that's maybe not as much on her heels in the retrograde. And it's so interesting to me that this Mercury retrograde will capture that trine to Jupiter as she's turning direct. So that's something you guys had mentioned previously, and if any of those images are helpful, then good.

Okay, does it, by the way, am I alone? Is that like, can anyone relate to that? I know there's moms. Like, Emily, you're a mom too. So, yeah.

Que'Nyse: Absolutely feel that. Yeah, no, no, I get it. It's like, Hey, yo, sit down for a moment, because I'm real tense. Like, love you. But like—

Adam Elenbaas: Please, yeah. So funny, because right at this cazimi, we'll be hosting our meeting, and I literally thought, hey, you know what, like, after this surge that we experienced in Minneapolis, St. Paul, won't it be good to just like, sit down as a community and have a metaphorical group hug? You know what I mean? So anyway, we'll see. But it's cool to actually look at the astrology and be like, oh, yeah, that's neatly lined up with that moment.

So it's a lot going on in Pisces, and I think that what you'll hopefully find today is that we have a take that's a little deeper than just like, okay, you've got an eclipse in your Virgo house. Let's look at what's happening here a little bit with a little bit more nuance. So I appreciate the care you guys put into it, but let's get rolling.

We're going to start with Aries, and just so that I make sure that I've got everything. So today, Mal's got the fire signs, Emily's got the earth signs, Kelsey has got the air signs, and Q's got the water signs. So we're going to roll in that direction, and I'm going to sit back and I'll add some thoughts as we go, as I always do, but I'm going to let the crew here take over. So let's start with with Mal on Aries.

Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Aries rising. Well, I thought of you because I was listening to a podcast called Ologies. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with it, but it's very Gemini coded, I think. And ology, the root word, basically means the study of or knowledge. And each episode of Ologies is a different theme of a certain study. So I happen to be listening to the genealogy episode, which I will pin in the comments below of this YouTube video, if anybody wants to check it out.

And the episode was all about genealogy. Stephen Hanks was the genealogist teaching all about genealogy on the episode. And something he said really hit me and made me think of the 12th house. And he said his process for tracing back someone's ancestry is basically to work your way back from what you do know in order to trickle down into what you don't know. And I was like, Oh, that's so 12th house, because the 12th house kind of rules over what maybe we don't know, or what we can't see, or what is hidden.

And I could imagine an eclipse season highlighting both the 12th and the sixth house. Maybe there's a little bit of an overwhelming feeling at times of not knowing, or maybe there's a little bit of a feeling of being lost or not necessarily knowing the next move on something. And I find, like, when I personally get really amped up about not knowing the next move, sometimes it can become an unhealthy obsession that doesn't help anything.

And I'm going back to what this genealogist said on this podcast. Work your way back from what you do know, and then get to what you don't know. I mean, how many of us solve our problems like that by default? It's actually the opposite. You know, oftentimes we start with, oh my God, I don't know what to do. I'm so lost. But what would it be like to start with what you do know to be true about yourself? You know, are you a kind person? Are you a helpful person? Do you have a specific talent or gift? Do you have a passion that you can't imagine your life without?

I think all of these things would be helpful to think about before spiraling into the unknown, or the feeling of maybe being a little bit lost in this moment, or not quite knowing the next step. The good thing, I think, about eclipse season, is that even though it can be a very intensely purifying energy, I think it can give us clarity and it can set us up for receiving new information that helps us take the right next step, even if there's disappointment and loss that's included in that next step.

So I think that's my guidance for Aries risings, like kind of dealing with that 12th house, sixth house influence. Again, it's an influence that can often leave us feeling very cerebral, like very stuck in the head, and potentially defaulting to old thought patterns that no longer serve us. And I just wonder how you could begin your search for knowing with things that you do know to be true, which are things about how great you are and how many talents you have and how much you can contribute to the world right now.

Adam Elenbaas: I love that. See if I can get my face back there. Yeah. One of the things that I think, as someone who's just got the Neptune entrance into my 12th house, I've been thinking about the 12th house a lot and really feeling its presence. And one of the things that's so interesting, it's been just like the most obvious realization for me, is that when planets move into the 12th house, one of the things that it does is it makes us a little bit more aware of its existence. Oh, there's something called the 12th house. I don't usually see it. I'm not usually able to see this.

And I never really thought about planets in the 12th house before as possibly making the 12th house itself like more visible or conscious to us. And what I've been experiencing of the 12th house, there's a lot of stuff there, right? Whatever is in a blind spot could be unconscious. Shadow material could be one of the things.

I've become really aware of are just subtle influences that I wasn't recognizing that are not so healthy for me. Immediately, within a couple of weeks of Neptune, Saturn entering the 12th, they've been like, Oh, I'm suddenly more—it's more on my radar, the things that are kind of undermining, undermining my true sense of who I am, my health, my well being. And they're really small. They're not like, you know, sometimes hidden enemies. It sounds like monsters in the 12th house.

But I've been realizing, for for example, that coffee upsets my stomach more than tea. Okay? Like, I just wasn't aware of that. All of a sudden, these planets move into my 12th house. And it's little things like that, where I'm like, well, it's not like coffee is the devil, right? Like, my wife can handle it just fine. So sometimes I think we demonize the 12th house. It can be really simple. Anyway, just a little thought to add into that horoscope. I really like that.

Alright, let's move—I'm going to move the clock forward. Okay, we got Taurus there. So Emily's got Earth.

Emily Tatomer: Yeah, so this Mercury Retrograde in Pisces with Venus and the North Node is in the 11th house for Taurus, and that Mercury is ruling the eclipse in Virgo in the fifth. You know, I think Saturn, as you just talked about, Adam, just exited this place, right? And I think it's been there for the bulk of the last almost three years.

And then, you know, it's like, has there been a constriction or contraction, or a serious building up of community over the last bit of time? Of what it means to be amongst others, in networks, with friends? Has there been just like a heavy weight of gravitas around what your role is in community, and how you have been forming community? I think about you, Adam, as a Taurus rising, and the last couple of years, what you've done with bringing on these like us, and the year before, the other co-hosts. You know, creating your guild membership. It's like your sense of community has leveled up in maturation with Saturn having been there.

And I wonder, you know, since the North Node—or the South Node, excuse me—has been passing through Virgo in the fifth for the last year, what that emphasis on community, whether that's been either positive, the positive building of something, or challenging in feeling contraction in community, what that has said about your joy. Are you losing some joy? Are you losing some sense of personal joy in this emphasis on the collective or community, friends, or kind of your biggest dreams for what the future can hold?

And so I think this opportunity with Mercury going retrograde, slowing us down, possibly through all of the stereotypical Mercury retrograde things, you might be forced to slow down and delay because you've got travel problems due to weather, or you've got something that's happening, you know, a dishwasher springs a leak. You might be forced to slow down, which could be irritating and annoying. But I think it will offer the opportunity, as I said earlier, to kind of reflect and begin to process through and really, really feel and remember what the last few years has been like in the building, or the contraction, or the reordering with seriousness, with gravity, your sense of community, and what that has done, you know, for your sense of joy and personal expression.

With the eclipse in the fifth house, I think, also bringing in that Jupiter in the third, that's your local community, right? Your local environment. So this really feels like a moment for our Tauruses to be processing and sifting through what our connection with others, with networks, with friends, with allies, with community, how we want to show up in our local environment. Like Adam, you're hosting the equinox gathering, right? How we want to show up in community, but not at the expense of our own personal joy and self expression.

And that's what I think that that Virgo eclipse in the fifth might be bringing up, because it's a South Node eclipse. It's a full moon eclipse. It's like, Okay, can I, can I still find joy and self expression? Like, does there need to be a pendulum swing a little bit? Do we need to come back? Have I been focused too much on that outward sense of community, and have I lost my own sense of joy? And so I think this eclipse being ruled by that Mercury retrograde that's like seeing glimmers and synchronicities and images and memory and song that's bringing things up for you really is going to offer the opportunity to refine what brings you joy and and recommit to that. That's what I got for our Tauruses out there.

Adam Elenbaas: Love that. Yeah, that felt really relevant. And, yeah, it's really interesting that you mentioned the culmination of Saturn there, and how a lot of the more serious, a lot of that I've thought about is, what responsibility do I have as an astrologer for the fostering of healthy community through the success of my platform? That was like a constant question while Saturn was in my 11th over several years, which led to this. It led to the community gatherings, the daily meditation, as it was culminating, you know, a lot of things.

And I think one of the things I'm anticipating is that these structures, they just go through revisions, and they go through different iterations and different seasons. And it very well could be a time for Tauruses in general, to be looking at the balance between creative fulfillment and group or social participation. So I love that emphasis. That feels right on for me, as I know during this month, I'll be—we go on vacation when my kids hit spring break. It's like our yearly family trip, and I'll be handing over daily meditation to the daily meditation group, to some people on the Nightlight team. And I need to set up some structures in place, like a forum discussion for the daily meditation group. All that's going to be coming through in March, right? So you can, I mean, I can always already anticipate these little community shifts and dynamics and containers also sometimes are just being built out when things like this happen. So yeah, this is exciting, though. I'm excited for all of us, Tauruses out there.

Let's move forward. Thank you, Emily. Let's move forward to Kelsey, who is going to take air. Let me shift some things around. Yeah, okay, Gemini rising.

Kelsey Faith Wells: Sorry, yes. So for Gemini rising, this Mercury Retrograde is in your 10th house of reputation and public image. It's involving your ascendant ruler, Mercury. So Mercury also rules your fourth house where we're having the lunar eclipse, and that's private life. So I feel that this could be very personal and intimate, although it's happening in such a visible area in your chart.

You could be really reassessing your public image. What do you want to be known for? And learning more about yourself through the process, showing up and really searching for more emotional satisfaction in what you do in the world. Like you've been mentioning all of you about just the heaviness of Saturn. I think Saturn and Neptune having just left this house and Mercury's retrograde, kind of as the last thread to this overall story, really processing what leadership means to you and facilitating a greater sense of trust in your ability to take on responsibilities.

Certain dreams may have dissolved or may have been challenging to actualize. So now Mercury is offering you some chances to kind of reimagine what happens next. And it's important to slow down in this process, to reconnect with your inner authority and take a sacred pause as you become kind of like a conduit for information.

I mean, the lunar eclipse in the fourth, you could be really noticing some new things coming into your awareness about who you are at the roots, and how that connects with how you show up publicly. And I think Mercury in Pisces can sometimes be about deception and distraction. So if we reframe this as a tool for you, this could be about reflecting on the ways that you've deceived yourself about what you're capable of achieving, and maybe needing to kind of evoke certain emotions, like telling yourself something is true before it actually is, so that you can create sensory resonance and build upon that feeling, and bring it into the material, into the material world.

So what images are you visualizing for yourself to embody publicly, and maybe, what are you letting go of? I think this is a process of how you express yourself and revisiting certain goals from the past and letting them inspire you. Something's really taking shape here, integrating what Saturn has taught you about boundaries and leadership. So you could be literally finding your voice with Mercury retrograde here, finding the words, finding the plans and the ideas to convey something that you really want to share.

And through maybe a change in vocation, you could be reflecting on who you are without a certain title from the past. Mercury ruling the lunar eclipse in the fourth, you're really composting something at the roots and allowing this to be kind of like fertilizer for a new path to unfold in your 10th house. Maybe old patterns around what feels safe, conditioning around what success looks like to you, or what it should look like, really ending certain emotional cycles.

And I think it's really okay and recommended to take your time during this process so that you can come to a deeper sense of conscious awareness about what changes are really happening here, and really leaning into the wisdom of Jupiter, the host of this retrograde stationing direct in the middle of the month, really to provide you with some emotional support and guidance.

And with Jupiter ruling your seventh house, I could see maybe there are some business partnerships or mentors, relationships in your public life that are helping to shape this Piscean vision that you have. And I am thinking back to the Mercury opposition with Jupiter back in January, where collaboration and entanglements with others versus your personal security, there may have been some tension.

So I think maybe this month, the Jupiter trine with Mercury could be opening up new possibilities for you, where there may be greater support from clients, partners, other people that help improve your sense of financial security, but also emotional security and showing up publicly. It's really dissolving the shoulds of career and letting you dream a bit more.

And this is where, in preparing, I thought of this clip of David Lynch that I saw recently. He's like, really pissed off trying to communicate that he feels rushed in the creative process. And he's like, we never get a time to experiment. We never get time to go dreamy. And so I was thinking about that for Gemini risings, just coming to the understanding that you actually want to be able to experiment and follow a new path and take some calculated risks to break free from the way you used to show up publicly.

And as it is kind of a nebulous time of Pisces season, where we're moving through transitions. I think it's important to let yourself experiment and go dreamy. Any potential challenges could be lack of self confidence, self doubt, miscommunications can happen. But I do think that there's some help from Jupiter in that trine. And what I was thinking in managing the axis with Virgo and Pisces here is just helping you facilitate conversations with people in your private life about how you want to show up differently and grow out of maybe expectations that have been placed on you, or expectations from parents or people in your private life, and just finding that balance between your public and private life, I think, is important this month.

Adam Elenbaas: Nice, yeah. One thing I would think about too would just be the way that a shifting external reality, sometimes things start changing externally, and we don't immediately see the way that those changes have been preceded by the deep inner, private sphere of thoughts and feelings that we've been having. It's like, I hate my job. God, I'm really sick of it. You think that for a couple of months, all of a sudden, something changes at work, and you're not recognizing the connection. Not that one necessarily causes the other, but that what you feel about things in the private sphere of life is often tied to changes that happen in the public sphere of life or the work sphere of life.

So maybe there's some interesting connections that could be made, things that you deal with at work that suddenly you're able to understand or see the impact of personally or privately. Oh, it's making me feel this way. Just another way of thinking about it, I guess. Thank you. That was really nice. Really appreciate that.

I'm going to move Q up, and we're going to move this to Cancer rising, and I'm going to draw the connection here between the third house lunar eclipse and everything happening in Pisces in the ninth.

Que'Nyse: Yes. So my water rising signs in general, this will be highlighting your dharma houses with the Mercury retrograde and that trine to Jupiter, really expanding the way that you all are looking and understanding your life purpose, feeling about your sense of righteousness and moral direction and creation and your soul's evolution. These houses are going to be highlighted for you all.

And the way that I was kind of looking at it when I was breaking it down, is like, okay, from this place of who I am, I create in service to what it is that I believe. And so these understandings of who you are and how you create and what it is that you believe in is going through a bit of reform right now, is what I would say.

For Cancer specifically, like Adam said, this is happening across the eclipse that is happening across your ninth and third house, with it mainly highlighting that third house of immediacy, of your natural everyday environments, communities, your siblings, just that early understanding of life and perception that is going through a major sense of clarity and new understanding and shifts.

And this is happening while Mercury is retrograding in that ninth house of your belief systems, of your worldview, of your wisdom gained throughout life lived, and the experiences that you've chosen to have along your journey. So there could be quite a bit of sitting with yourself and intuitively sifting through your new understandings of what it is that you believe, and your theologies, and your structures around your reality.

This could be looking at plans of travel, or long term goals that you had and have been working towards, or just even the things that you're seeking to gain knowledge around. I have quite a few Cancers in my life who have decided in some which way or another, to start studying something that they were previously interested in and brought them a lot of joy, or just understanding of their realities now.

Now, Jupiter being in your first house, like I said, that first and ninth house are highlighted for Cancer. You're going to see the ways in which your beliefs are changing. It's allowing you to live in more of your truth, your emotional truth. I think this transit is really asking us not to try to make sense and make logic of what it is that we are innately feeling and how we create change around that new belief system that's come from the new feelings that we're having and we're sitting with and finding new understanding and ways to express with what around us.

And I think that's what really highlights that third house, because it's going to shift the ways in which your everyday—your beliefs around how you want your life to be and how you identify with that belief is actually changing in real time. So Cancers, definitely give yourself time to sift through all the information that you're seeking out in that ninth house, and really sitting and trying to understand for yourself and rearrange and reorganize the belief systems that you've been kind of you've inherited.

You know, Cancer is very like ancestral sign. So there's just truths and beliefs that you've possibly been sharing that Mercury is now sitting with and being like, hey, is this actually your truth? Because it could be misaligned with your actual identity, and you don't have to ask permission to exist in a certain way from those localized groups that you've maybe identified a little too much with, with the sense of Virgo wanting to be perfect and fit in.

There could be an ideology that was implemented at a young age in your early development of thought and understanding of your world views that have you living in a limited sense of who you could be. So with Jupiter stationing direct, it's like no, baby, I'm ready to feel and feel boldly and loudly, and I've learned these new things. I'm sitting with my beliefs and my understandings of what all that I could do, the flexibility that I truly have to seek and go and adventure. And that that could rustle some feathers in those just immediate spaces that you kind of have always worked your way through and identified yourself with.

So I'm really excited for Cancers to kind of sit with what these new understandings of self is and how they create from that, and move forward in their compassion, in their expression of nurturing, and just like feeling really confirmed in what it is that they're doing for their lives. I think that that's kind of where I would start with for Cancer risings going into March.

Adam Elenbaas: There we go. Had to take myself off mute. That was really nice. I appreciate that so much. Yeah, I love the idea that there's for Cancers, a kind of shift in thinking and belief. That's what comes to my mind right away, and maybe a softening of some edges, or a finding of edges you didn't know you had, or the need for better boundaries or discernment or discrimination within the paradigm or philosophy.

For example, you could be someone who, ninth house Pisces, generally believes in compassion, love, and so forth. But you could still maybe have to learn at times how to be more discriminating with your time, your energy, what you expose your mind or your thoughts to. You can't take everything in. If you're too much of a sponge, you could drain yourself. You know, just the working of that axis feels important, like cognitively, behaviorally, psychologically, as well as being about the broadening of faith or perspective or something like that.

So, yeah, that's what came to my mind there. Q, thank you for that. That was really nice. Um, let's go on to Leo. We're back to fire. So Mal is up again.

Speaker 1: Yeah, let's keep rolling. Yeah, Leo, this eclipse slash Mercury retrograde highlights the second house and the eighth house axis. And I've really been thinking a lot about how much I love Mercury in detriment in Pisces. I really do, because Mercury in Pisces has this uncanny ability to translate almost like energetic languages or intangible languages, like body language, or the ability to read a room. Mercury in Pisces is really good at that.

For instance, my grandma has Mercury in Pisces, and she will literally spell her grandchild's name wrong on the Christmas card, but she has an uncanny ability to kind of sense someone's energetic—their energetic output, I should say. So this has me thinking about specifically the intangible languages that have been inherited, especially when it comes to topics like finances.

And I actually happen to know a Leo rising who is launching their business soon. And it's funny because in order to launch this business, they are letting go of a stream of income that's a little bit more like regular and expected, which is a second house theme. And in letting that go, they're kind of stepping into a little bit more of an eighth house way of life, which I think the eighth house really maybe is a little bit more entrepreneurial in a way, because your income streams are kind of dependent on other people giving you money, you know.

So I can really see this entrepreneurial endeavor showing up in my Leo rising friend's chart. And at the same time, I'm also thinking about, well, if a Leo rising happens to be starting a business right now, or reevaluating their finances, or paying their taxes, you know, what are the unspoken things about money that we may have inherited from our family system, our ancestry?

And I do know that the second house and the eighth house have a broader meaning than just money, but for me, Mercury being the marketplace and the exchange of goods and services, there is something monetary and financial, I think about this transit specifically for the Leo risings that I find hard to ignore. So it might be a good time to bring this topic to maybe a therapeutic space or journal about the inherited narratives when it comes to receiving money and abundance.

How did your parents view money? How did your grandparents deal with that topic? Even if you make 10 times more than your parents or grandparents, I think that those attitudes often creep their way into our lives in ways that we can't even see.

One more thing I'll add is that Mercury being the planet of communication, sitting in the eighth house. This is coming from someone who has natively Mercury in their eighth house. Oftentimes, you're tasked with saying something that someone doesn't want to hear. You know, you're tasked with speaking to subjects that people don't typically want to speak about so loudly, like taxes, loans, insurance, debt, sex, you know, things that kind of can be topics of shame.

Collectively, I'm thinking about how Mercury in the eighth house might be able to speak to shame and thus transmute it in the process. It's a little bit like our secrets make us sick, kind of that saying. So I wonder what you're able to verbalize. Even though, I guess Mercury in Pisces is a little bit more on the nonverbal side, I'm even thinking, how are you able to speak to something or write about something? You don't even have to actually literally speak it, but write about it. Make art about it, make a song about it. How are you able to transmute something that isn't usually spoken about, especially if it's pertaining to what has been inherited when it comes to financial attitudes? If that makes any sense.

Adam Elenbaas: I love that. You just knocked it out of the park with your description of the eighth house. That was fantastic. I'm going to remember a few of those things that you talked about. Collective shame, that the places where we might feel that secrets make us sick. That was good. That was a good one.

Let's see here. So the only thing I'll add, I had a student recently ask a question and said, Why is it in the Hellenistic astrology and Indian astrology, there's so much written about the family in the second house? He said, Well, if you think about it from the perspective of the purusharthas, which are the these four areas of life, it's an artha house, and it's the artha house that most directly sustains and supports the native, their body, their health, their literal beingness. So food, second house, you know, money, resources, the clothing on your back, the shelter, the ability to provide those things, is shown by the second.

But our earliest container for survival and material dependence is our family. So in Indian astrology, the family's early, the kind of environmental conditions of material support are often shown by the second house, what was present in that environment, not just materially, but psychically, karmically, but it mostly feeds into the physical dependence and support of the environment.

But anyway, I just wonder, for Leos, if a lunar eclipse in this house, to me, could suggest that a form of dependence in the family is changing. This could be about changing karmic ancestral patterns with respect to self sufficiency and dependency that maybe have their roots somehow in the family. And that strikes me as an eighth house, potentially also an eighth house kind of negotiation. You know, where are those invisible threads of karmic contracts, and the invisible writing of those contracts in our lives that often become more visible during second, eighth house eclipses.

So, yeah, I'll just add those little thoughts in. Thank you, Mal, that was fantastic. Let's go to Virgo rising. Emily's got earth signs. We're going to move her up. It's like, what was that? Was it Hollywood Squares? I don't know what the game show I'm thinking of.

Emily Tatomer: Yeah. That was awesome. My sweet, my sweet son, who will be 13 in May, is a Leo rising. And I just was like, even though he, you know, he obviously is not earning income right now, it really resonated. So thank you for that. That was great.

Okay, Virgo. So Virgo, an eclipse in your first house, right, ruled by Mercury Retrograde in your seventh. You know, when I was thinking about this, the phrase that I kept thinking about was like, You know what, you might have to ask somebody to hold your hair back, your metaphorical hair back, this month.

And I don't mean like, like Virgos or everyone's gonna get a stomach bug, right? Like, if that's possible. But I mean, like, symbolically, you might be at a point where you have to surrender to asking for help, and that may be something that's not very comfortable or very familiar. Or for Virgos who like to feel like they can do it all and take care of all the details, and can probably do it better than most people. So why don't I just do it myself? You know, that kind of thing. And I'm stereotyping here, but I have a lot of Virgo in my chart. So I speak from experience.

So I just, I feel like with the South Node eclipse in the first house, there might be something coming up and then ruled by a retrograde Mercury. There might be something coming up that it's like you are forced to pause, you're forced to step back, you're forced to slow down. You need help, and it's okay to ask for help.

Conversely, of course, you might be the one who's holding your partner's hair back. You know, this could be something that's going on for partner, across this first seventh axis, that maybe there's some you're witnessing an important person, you know, partner, business partner, good friend, lover, any of those things, you're witnessing them having to sift through recent experiences, them having to process through image, all of these through music, through poetry, all of these things, synchronicities, something that they have been going through, and they are getting to the point where they're like, I just have to, kind of like, do the final release and let go. And I need your help through this, right?

But it really, I feel like it could go either way here, that there's something about help, assistance, surrender to the need for help, surrender to the need to ask for help and to then be in receipt of it, to receive it. And that's okay either way, if you're the one helping or you're the one who really needs it.

I think that Jupiter in the 11th house, you know, friends and allies, you know, maybe you're going to get some help from a friend or a benefactor, or, you know, any of those 11th house kind of keywords, your networks too. Like, it's okay, you can lean into that.

Jupiter itself will have just been retrograde and is turning direct during this month. And so Jupiter has been doing this process of kind of the healing work, as Adam was saying, back on the heels, and now Jupiter is going to be able to step forward in your 11th house too. So I think this month in general, just feels like a time to really be processing, sifting through how you need help.

And there might be some ugliness, right? There might be some, like, someone is having to witness me in my like, my, my like, worst moments, you know. I think about my best friends from college who've like, they've seen it all, right? They've seen me do all of the things, right? And it's okay. That's okay. It's okay. Sometimes we just need to go there, or we need to hold space for someone else who needs to go there. And that's okay. That's the main thing I'm thinking of for Virgos. I know that sounds kind of scary and harsh, but you've got this, you've got this.

And also, I think really look to after that Mercury station on the 20th, on the North Node, for some clarity to be coming in. Like, if you've allowed, if you allow yourself during the first couple weeks of this retrograde and the first couple weeks of the month to really just, like, surrender, let it go, like, ask for the help, receive the help. I think there's some real beautiful clarity that has the potential to come in around how to move forward. And like, once you know, it's like, once you clean out the closet, right? You have room again. You can start bringing in new things. So this feels like it's okay, let it, let that all go, receive the help, and then you can start building something going forward.

Adam Elenbaas: Thanks, Emily. Yeah, there's a lot taking place in the seventh house. The it's interesting to me, because the lunar eclipse in the first house, along with the seventh house dynamic, obviously speaks to things like the progression of your sense of self and identity in and through things that are changing in relationships, and that's like, very textbook.

But one thing that stands out to me is that the I'm really, for whatever reason, Jupiter was really standing out to me in the 11th. And I kept thinking, well, sometimes there's this thread that's being connected in our lives through our relationships to specific people that are acting like some kind of barometer for where we want our lives to go in some bigger sense.

Let me give you an example so it's clear. I remember meeting someone when I was, gosh, it was, must have been my late, my late 30s. I'm forgetting my age. This is like happening, forgetting my age. Anyways, like my late 30s. It was right before we closed our yoga studio, and Ashley and I met someone, and this person, in the way that they live their lives and in the interaction we had with them, kind of gently showed us a different possibility that didn't include living with a brick and mortar yoga studio that we ran in addition to all of our herbal and astrological programs.

And it was just sort of like a different, slightly easier, more laid back work from home, just focus on our online offerings, kind of kind of motive of doing our professional life. But it came through a meaningful encounter we had with a person who had a different vibe than we had, and whose example and whose friendship opened up a different possibility for us of being in the world.

And I'm getting that same kind of storyline in my head when I'm looking at this right now, like, what does another person or what do your relationships hold out to you right now as a different possible way of participating in life in a bigger sense, in a more holistic sense? Like, how do you define happiness as you are someone who interacts with the social world? Maybe that looks different because of something that's shifting in your relationships.

I mean, something as radical as like, oh, maybe I'm going to move to another part of the world, right? Like, because you meet someone and then all of a sudden, you're in a totally different culture, and that shifts your priorities. That would be a really, like, super exaggerated version of it. I'm looking at Uranus culminating in the ninth house right now, for example. But it's that kind of thing where it's like, I wonder what encounters in relationships are reshaping goals and priorities, dreams or visions for life. Okay, that that's my two cents.

Thank you, Emily, that was great. I'm going to move Kelsey up to the top of our musical chairs. And let's see here. Let me move the chart to Libra.

Kelsey Faith Wells: Alright, hey, Libra. Libra rising. So this Mercury Retrograde is highlighting some revisions in your sixth house, the place of work, labor, health, all that good stuff, and it's ruling over the lunar eclipse in your 12th. So the first thing that came to mind is just surrendering to uncertainty, to make sense of new information. Or maybe it's not new information, but you're seeing something in a new way, and trying to really allow your body to catch up with that.

I think this would be a great time to get quiet and contemplative about your day to day routines and a theme of what feels like devotion and what feels like sacrifice that you may not have the capacity for, and just adjusting accordingly over the retrograde and just finding some internal motivation to make those changes that would support your capacity to handle what's most important to you and to stay focused.

The host Jupiter in Cancer is at the top of your sky in the 10th house. So you could be doing some deeper processing on how you can refine your daily commitments to align with something larger, with an image that you want to step into as Jupiter stations direct this month, really processing the impact of Saturn, Neptune's time having spent years in this area of your life, and just really applying what you've learned about escapism and reflecting how you've really matured here in terms of responsibility.

And I'm also thinking about Mercury ruling over your ninth house of beliefs and knowledge. So there could be some important perspective shifts with this lunar eclipse in the 12th and integrating wisdom quietly in March. Maybe something needs to be unlearned first, so that you can make room for what's arriving to your awareness and growing in importance to you.

And then the 12th house eclipse, just major release happening where you're maybe acknowledging some fears or doubts that may be misdirecting how you wield your energy in your daily life. Letting go of habits and thought patterns that might be draining you, distracting you, or discouraging you from taking steps in your daily life towards more public facing goals. So just surrendering to that wisdom that's coming through the emotional body really comes up here for me, for Libra risings. And ultimately, you want to have a sense of emotional resonance with the decisions and commitments that you make.

So some classic Mercury retrograde experiences could be miscommunications with people you work with, or revising health protocols. I have a friend that's going through some health testing, so she might be like going back over tests or making sense of data now that Neptune is gone. Yay for you guys. And seeking maybe a second opinion from health practitioners, advisors, or maybe looking towards an alternative healer for your health this month. Therapy would be great as well. It always is, but especially now.

And yeah, with the sixth house, 12th house axis activated, I think there's a very deeply emotional, spiritual, mental push to develop your discernment and use your emotional intelligence to acknowledge how smaller habits or rituals or thought patterns that maybe even unconscious initially, how they're affecting your energy reserve, or your beliefs about what's possible.

And I think with Pisces in the six, there could be a nebulousness to your daily routines. Mercury retrograde could be just reinforcing the lessons of Saturn here and helping you integrate, revealing subtle clues as to where how you do one thing is actually a larger symbol for how you approach everything. So you might benefit from something like reconditioning your brain to recognize when it's time to focus with somatic rituals.

So I was thinking like you could wear a specific pair of sweatpants, work in a specific area of your room, play specific music, maybe drink the same kind of tea, something that helps your brain recognize when it's time to focus and get to work. Because refining your routines gives you a greater capacity to show up and really fulfill this growing sense of social purpose that you have in the world.

And if you've had any anxiety or a sense of analysis paralysis right now when it comes to productivity, I think this is a process of learning to trust yourself again. Like receiving signals that you know coming from the 12th house eclipse may be difficult to unpack, but just sitting with them and learning to trust the signals of your body.

And I do have a few clients and friends with Libra rising where they're coming to the emotional realization that it's safe to recognize and share the knowledge that you've acquired. So I have some friends that want to go back to school, and I have another client who's becoming a teacher. So there's something that you want to incorporate into your work, but maybe you need to readjust some elements of your daily life to make room for that.

Adam Elenbaas: Here we go. Yeah. One of the things that comes to my mind here is also, you know, when I see a lunar eclipse in the 12th, it's a moksha house, and then I'm looking at the presence of Jupiter up at the top of the chart. I really do wonder about things that involve mothers. And the archetype of the mother doesn't have to be about a literal mother, though it could. But it might have to do with the qualities of the mother: nurturing, caring, emotional safety, psychological health, physical health, as real themes, potentially for Librans.

Libra is very different from, say, Cancer. I feel like Librans may not love being in a place that is imbalanced enough to need to receive care. And frankly, sometimes Librans, and this is every sign has its shadows, right? So I'm not meaning to pick on Libra. But sometimes Libra also will struggle to give care when someone appears imbalanced. Like it's almost like offensive that someone should be imbalanced in the first place, you know. And so there can be seen as like a neediness.

But to whatever extent neediness is uncomfortable for Libras, that could come up somehow. That's what's come into my mind. And I don't know how it would come up. It would come up. It could come up in a million different ways. But exploring that neediness is okay. It's not a mistake. It's part of reality, and addressing it and working with it and through it is also part of reality. And it's part of what it means to be balanced, is to have the capacity to recognize it, embrace it as a reality, and work through it. So just my little, again, my thoughts there.

Let's move on to—thank you for that, by the way, Kelsey, that was fantastic. Q's got water. Let's hear about Scorpio.

Que'Nyse: Yes. So Scorpio, we are looking at your fifth and 11th house, and also your ninth house. And so, like I said, with it being the dharma house this year, I'm looking first at how I create in service to what it is that I believe in that ninth house, and how that, in turn, is going to rock and shake up a few things in the 11th house of communities and organization and belonging and groupings, also the way that you build for the future collective and your hopes and dreams and also fears that live within that house.

So looking at this, I'm like, okay, Scorpio, that Pisces house is lit up. What are you birthing? What are you creating? What are you sitting with as your truth of joy and pleasure? And how are you allowing that energy to flow and teach you what your new belief systems might be? With the fifth house, it's like you are realizing what your actual truth is, and if your collective, the communities you find yourself in, reflect that and are in alignment with what it is that you're creating, what it is that you are building for this new future that you envision and that you dream about and desire from the heart.

I was really looking at the fact that this eclipse is going to be asking you if the friend groups that you have, if they are truly supportive of your creative endeavors and your curiosity around that as you sit and intuitively reflect on what it is that Mercury is bringing about with it. Having its cazimi is going to feel quite explosive, your creative wanting and desire to just like, put forth what it is that is manifesting within you and what insights are coming through from that ninth house, with Jupiter also stationing direct.

So it could feel a little lonely when you are creating things that aren't necessarily immediately being supported, possibly by that 11th house. The Virgo is going to be really particular about, like, wow, notice that person didn't repost that. That's interesting. I thought that we were cool. I thought that they was really part of my squad. But why aren't you really, like, watching my stories? Why aren't you watching the videos I'm putting out? Why aren't you asking when I'm having events, or, like, just communicating to me, in some degree, that you are here for what it is that I've realized is my truth and my joy and my pleasure, and now I'm leading my life that way. It seems like that's uncomfortable for you, for whatever reason.

So in this journeying through what it is that you create and birth forth and decide to parent—because this is the house of children as well. But children don't necessarily have to just be what it is that you physically birth, but like, what is your heart's desire bringing forth? What is the sun trying to create through you, through this house? Because this is like, that's what the sun has this sole purpose, and is like, Baby, through your joy and expression of that courageously, boldly, fearlessly, you can change the realities and the communities that you are part of. The world building can really expand with Jupiter having this compassion and like, ability to create containers of care and nurturance and mothering, right?

So I do see that Scorpios could be diving deep into their pleasures, and it's going to be scary. The fifth house does require a level of fearlessness, because there's a lot of risk taking when you are unashamingly showing up as who you are, the true essence of what brings you joy and contentment and pleasure in life. You could be deciding to flirt. You know what I'm saying. Get your romanticism on during this time. Do so fearlessly, consciously. You know, feel it all out, because it is all intuition and nothing super duper clear during this time. But to reflect on what play feels like, what happens when you allow yourself to play, and who's there to play with you? I think that those are questions that come up during this journey with these transits.

And then, what type of wisdom do you gain from these experiences that you are literally creating from that fifth house? I'm really excited to see what growth Scorpios kind of step into, as far as expressing their true, authentic self and allowing for what is not supportive in the circles and the groups that they find themselves around currently to kind of fall away. Like we said, there's a lot of release with these transits. Water is all about, you know, be like water. Allow things to flow, or like, you know, be like water on a duck's back. Just fall off, you know, just roll off it. You know, there's no, there's nothing sticking to you while you explore this creation and what it is that you're birthing.

It could be messy. It could be a little embarrassing, Scorpio. It could be emotional. Allow yourself to kind of cry through these realizations of new self trajectory and understanding that not everyone and everything that you've birthed and cared for and loved and nurtured can come with you on this new journey and path that you are finding yourself on during these transits.

But I think that is going to be so, like, it's going to feel free. You're going to feel unshackled by the end of it, when you work your way through and you really figure out like, I'm creating and allowing my joy to be my spiritual teacher, and rebuild the world that I know can exist when I put the work and dedication and devotion behind it. In which, you know, Scorpios can be devoted and loyal to something once they really, you know, dig into it. So it's not going to be a problem once you get rolling into it. But that beginning part is going to feel, like I said, lonely, clarifying, but then liberating. Okay, y'all got this, yeah?

Adam Elenbaas: Yeah. One thing that comes to my mind is that there may sometimes friendships, certain friendships, have to be let go of, or certain, you know, the sense of social or the kind of validation we seek from others in the world, whether that's the kind of car you drive or the kind of clothes you wear, or the kind of people you hope your kids will hang out with. A lot of social conditioning in the 11th house could be up for review for Scorpios right now. That's the main thing that comes to my mind.

And it could be happening as you're also exploring what it means to belong in a much deeper way with the dharma of the ninth kind of, and also, like personal creative considerations. So I see this as a potentially really nice moment for kind of karmic feedback about what is the best, healthiest form of social belonging, social validation, things like that.

Okay, let's we're going to move along now to Sagittarius. Mal is back up.

Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Sagittarius, this is a big one for you, because when eclipses happen in our angular houses, I think it can really hit us hard. And we've got the fourth house of the home and the 10th house of the public life being highlighted. And I'm thinking about how perhaps overwhelming the public life has maybe felt for a while, and maybe you feel particularly pulled to answer to certain obligations, whether it's at work or your boss is very demanding or whatever it is. I think we all have those external obligations that we feel pressure to fulfill.

But I also am looking at such a big emphasis on the fourth house of the home, and maybe there are certain situations where the external world is pulling on us, and at the same time, we need to protect our sanctuary as much as we can, because without our sanctuary, we are actually left without any place to reboot, recharge, process through anything, and we're also left without a place to really be with ourselves.

And I keep using this word sanctuary, because it came to me looking at such a fourth house emphasis, and I was like, What does sanctuary really mean? Like, what is it? Where does it come from? And it actually comes from the Latin root Sanctus, which translates to Holy. So at its root, sanctuary means a holy place, but it can also mean a nature reserve or the act of taking refuge or seeking safety from persecution or danger.

So I'm getting this sense of like reconnecting with your sanctuary inside of your home is really necessary, especially if you have felt very pulled into the external world lately. I'm also thinking about how the broom is a tool of spell work used by many witches. And you know, witches don't just fly on brooms. I actually find it's way more powerful to use a broom as a cleansing and purifying way of doing some kind of spell.

So if you sweep your house with your sacred broom, you're sweeping old energy that isn't meant to be there out of your sanctuary. It's almost like you're cleaning the church, right? And you wouldn't want to pray at a church that has like a dumpster in the middle of it, right? You'd be like, What the heck kind of church is this? Just like you wouldn't want to go home to a dumpster fire, right?

So if there's a particular like room or pile of clothes or something. I'm speaking from personal experience. You know, if there's a certain area of the house that feels kind of dumpster-esque, how can you bring magic and spell work to that place to clear it, and not only clear that place, but clear what it energetically represents, which might be, maybe this is a little extreme, but it could represent self abandonment or forgetting about the self, or forgetting about the inner sanctuary.

One other thing I'm thinking about is so many of us didn't grow up in a home that felt like a sanctuary because of a multitude of circumstances. Maybe it was the neighborhood we grew up in, or maybe our parents were highly dysregulated people. Or, you know, we had a sibling that created a lot of conflict, whatever, whatever. So I think as adults, it can be hard to let our home be a safe place. But I wonder how we might be rewriting that story for ourselves, and how that might be contributing to some healing as well that could be going on in the fourth house. So that's what I'm thinking about.

Adam Elenbaas: Yeah, that was really nice. I think, especially the idea of what creates harmony and flow in the private sphere of life. I know that one of the things that I've noticed happens with the Virgo-Pisces nodes, because my wife has them, is there's like a push and pull between order and chaos. And I would call the chaos is Pisces, but it's a very flowy, magical kind of chaos.

So, but it's, it sometimes struggles to, I don't know, just like you can, I can walk into my wife's office, and it can feel like a bomb of a zillion unfinished activities have taken place, and they're all very creative and all very interesting and all very purposeful. They're all very meaningful, in other words, but it's also like Mary Poppins needs to get in this place, you know, and bust out her magic where everything puts itself away.

So I'm just wondering about that sense of bringing some measure of organization and then flow. Like, what is there more of a need? Is there a need for more of one than the other? You know, if you, for example, I think of Sag, if you have a home office space and you're a Sag right now, is the situation like I said? Or are you preventing yourself from getting into creative flows because you tend to try to control everything? And then it's like you can't ever just fully get into a stream of flow consciousness or whatever, to do something creative, because you have to micromanage too many things, and any distraction and loss of control is so irritating that you never let go enough to really deeply release something creative.

So anyway, that tension is coming to my mind right now around work and home. Okay, thank you, Mal, that was awesome.

Que'Nyse: I feel seen. Yeah, my workspace needs to be cleaned. Y'all, okay.

Adam Elenbaas: I like giving my wife crap because my office is usually pretty organized. But the other thing that's true is that my wife is just a nicer person than I am. So to learn from each other.

Emily Tatomer: We going on to me. First of all, okay, I have, like, so many thoughts. The song, there was a song coming up for me while you were speaking, Mal. If you go to Florence and the Machine, the most recent album, the song "Perfume and Milk," there's a couple of lyrics in there. One, she says, "Miracles are often inconvenient, and prayer is a spell." So I just wanted to share that, because when you were talking about the broom, I was like, Oh, that song just popped into my head.

Adam Elenbaas: Sorry, I didn't mean to forget to introduce you. No, that's okay. Yes, Emily.

Emily Tatomer: Chatter, here I am. Okay, so we're talking about Capricorns now. Capricorn rising, we've got Mercury retrograde, along with all of those other planets and placements in Pisces in your third, and Mercury retrograde ruling the Virgo eclipse in your ninth. First and foremost, just to get the warnings out of the way, third house of short distance travel, just be, just be a little bit more careful behind the wheel with Mercury fallen and debilitated in your third house in retrograde. Okay, so just try to take some extra caution when you're maybe driving or anything like that.

Having said that, okay, this is, I often think of this as the axis of the mind. With a third house, you have your local environment of your mind, your daily thoughts, how you think, how you process information, how you communicate that information. And then the ninth house of that, the higher mind, like the beliefs, the guiding life principles, that higher education space, the experiences that we have that shape those belief systems.

So I'm wondering, with the South Node having been passing through your ninth house for the last year and change, we had that eclipse last March, also, I think it was March 13 or something, at 23 degrees of Virgo in your ninth. And now we're coming back around with another South Node eclipse there. Like, what has been going on for your belief systems? Like, are you? What is being refined? What is being shed, what is being released in those guiding life principles that you have?

And this is another inflection moment, I think, along this year, year and a half long process of refining what you believe, refining, yeah, how you want to interact with truth, with a capital T, your sense of truth. And it's being ruled this eclipse by that watery, illogical, synchronistic memory, image, music. The music comes in with Mercury in your third house of your beginner's mind, right? The local environment of your mind.

I think that this Mercury retrograde period is really going to offer an opportunity to be sifting through those changing beliefs that you're having, the refinement that's taking place in your guiding life principles right now probably needs this non-linear or illogical processing and sifting through to kind of land a little bit more. And that, I think, has the potential to take place, as I said before, with more clarity once that station, once Mercury stations direct on the North Node in your third house of the mind. So looking for clarity and the ability to process what's shifting in your belief systems right now.

There could also be some miscommunications with a sibling here, or a neighbor. There might be some little tiffs going on in these three weeks while Mercury is retrograde with siblings, neighbors. I don't know any of those things. There could be miscommunication. So look for that. But how is that then informing what you believe? If you're having some kind of miscommunication, is that like triggering a little flag of something to do with what you believe in a bigger picture? Like, Oh, am I not communicating myself well? Because I'm not yet clear what's motivating where I'm coming from. I'm not making a lot of sense right now. But so look for clarity coming in later in the month around what you're believing, what's changing for you in your guiding life principles.

And then, like Adam was saying when I was talking about Virgo rising, the Jupiter in your seventh house of your primary relationships. I think that there's sometimes it's with connection or relationship to other people that we start having this clarity coming in. Maybe something your partner says around this time, or a business partner or close friend says or is going through, helps to highlight a new way that you can approach your belief systems. So that's what I've got for our Caps.

Adam Elenbaas: It's just the idea. I'll add that when a belief system has run its course, you don't necessarily have to think of it as, well, this thing that I believed is no longer true. It might be the case that something you believed, it turns out to be literally or factually not true. But a lot of the times when it comes to ninth house beliefs, when they've run their course, a lunar eclipse comes through, a faith, a way of knowing or believing, is eclipsed. It means it served its purpose. It doesn't have to mean that it was bad or that you were, you know, look at you, you were believing an illusion, you fool. You know, like we can be so hard on ourselves.

And sometimes it's better to understand that like, well, that belief, that paradigm, that teacher, that path, it served its purpose, and now something else can step in. But just being graceful and thanking what was. If there is a paradigm dissolving, it served a purpose. It might have been just protecting you. It might have been all you could deal with. It might have been all you could hold space for. Maybe there's something new now that reflects growth, but you know, should always thank things on the way out, because it's hard to see the evolutionary purpose that things serve. So anyway, just a few thoughts. There.

We are running out of time, so we but we have Aquarius and Pisces left. So let's make sure we get through these. And I'm going to Kelsey is going to take us to Aquarius.

Kelsey Faith Wells: Next, Aquarius rising. So this Mercury retrograde is in your second house, the place of personal resources, gains, your livelihood, your income, how you're supported and resourced in life, whether through your own volition of making a living or through the support from others. And also highlighting your eighth house of entanglements and attachments, with the lunar eclipse occurring here.

So Pisces being such a nostalgic sign associated with transition and memory, you could be really reflecting on what you have while contemplating dreams of what you want to gain, maybe dreams of getting free from a karmic contract or making a new union with someone. Reflecting on your relationship with money and the way that material desires are achieved or prioritized in your life. And it may also be bringing up emotional reflections on how you react when you need to let go of certain things that have brought you a sense of security in the past, how you handle negotiations and collaborations and trust when doing these things, and how certain entanglements are either exhausting you or resourcing you.

So, yeah, discerning what belongs to you versus what belongs to others. Inheritance does come to mind, but this could be any collaborations, deciding whether to join resources with someone else, and maybe going over a budgeting plan. Definitely going slowly because Mercury and Pisces can be a little confusing here, and deciding which options are really rooted in truth and aligning with what you emotionally feel connected to so that you can sustain whatever you're working on right now, maybe thinking about which financial moves are too risky or not risky enough with the fifth house ruler in the second.

And I got the image of cleaning out a drawer and finding old possessions that maybe you've lost or you forgot that you had, that someone has given to you, making room for things to come into your life, making room for that. And I was also thinking about this meme that always makes me laugh when I see it. And it says, "When you're cleaning your room, but you get distracted by all the things that you found." And it's an image of this girl, and she has a hat and a rainbow wig and Burning Man glasses and Mardi Gras beads and an airline neck pillow, and she's just sitting there in her deconstructed room.

And anyway, my point is that Pisces can get a little messy. So as a PSA, just keeping really close track to your finances and your things. But in allowing things to get messy, you actually find what really matters to you. And sometimes having to organize and make decisions can really highlight that.

So maybe you're doing some kind of Marie Kondo-style contemplation when it comes to your earnings and your support, asking yourself, Do I need this thing? Does it spark joy? As she says, Do I use it wisely? Do I feel well-resourced in the work that I'm doing with Jupiter in your sixth house, ruling this retrograde? And would this partnership bring emotional stability to my life? So it's important to contemplate which options feel supportive and which maybe lack integrity or resonance with where you stand after Saturn and Neptune have left this house.

And Jupiter ruling over this retrograde, maybe there's some kind of restructuring to your income based on changes at work. I could see potential changes with people that you work with, your role, and maybe adding to your plate of responsibility, but maybe negotiating your compensation as you take on more work. Although I would read the fine print here if you can, and take your time making decisions, because there might be some information that you want to become aware of, missing details, or maybe even changes in what you want or need.

And I was also thinking about with the eighth house eclipse, just any entanglements or attachments that you have that need to be resolved so that you feel more free to support yourself. I could see this as liquidating your assets or assessing which investments are emotionally worth it to you. Also thinking about rhythm when it comes to your duties and responsibilities of service, and really listening to the emotional wisdom of your body as useful data, thinking of which things that you feel devoted towards that can help you feel a bit more connected to the work that you're doing.

And yeah, really highlighting which groups and communities also feel resonating with you, because Jupiter does rule the 11th house for you. So maybe there's some kind of shift in your community at work and how that's affecting your sense of stability and the building of your livelihood.

Adam Elenbaas: There we go. Yeah, one of the things that I've noticed regularly throughout my practice is that a lunar eclipse in the eighth house will often pay off a debt. You know, those debts can be relational and emotional, or they can be financial. And it can also be about the end of a cycle or pattern of indebtedness. You know, what keeps you indebted, or what keeps other people indebted to you? Somehow, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those dynamics coming up.

Alright, we are a little short on time, so I just want to make sure we have enough time for Pisces. I won't say too much more. Let's go on to Pisces, and Q is going to close us out here.

Que'Nyse: Yes, yes. Okay, so Pisces risings. This is, of course, happening across your first and seventh houses, with the fifth house being highlighted with Jupiter there. And really, these houses, how I looked at it again, the first and fifth house, at least being based on who I am, I create from there, right? So there's this sense with Mercury retrograding in this house, along with all of these other planets and placements there in this first house. There is a major re-identification happening here. You are re-meeting yourself, almost. It could feel like for the first time, with the realizations, the new understandings of self that kind of come to you in waves at this moment.

Your voice, your body language, your way of thinking, literally just an identity revision that is happening with this Mercury retrograde going through its multiple trine with Jupiter at that right. So right now, Jupiter being in your fifth house is really wanting to expand the way that you create your joy. Wants to grow your, the way that you express from the heart, wants to be more open and true to the essence of who you actually are in real time, becoming into that.

And that could, again, ruffle some feathers in that seventh house where Virgo is sitting, meticulously making sense of what's happening. If there's balance here, if there's understanding and communication here, if there is nurturance and healing here, that's happening. So if you're feeling like you are having all of these almost like epiphany-like moments with the self, allow yourself to really sit with that as more and more information washes over you and comes into clarity.

Since so much of this is going to be intuitive feeling of who you now are and how you want to express yourself and how you want to create from this new knowing of self, it could be that you're realizing in real time what you've been quite tolerant of. The seventh house shows where we can be tolerant of others and things outside of ourselves, and kind of be complacent and negotiable and trying to seek harmony at the expense of the self. And so you could be realizing that you're turning that faucet off, and that could be upsetting to some of the relationships that you're in.

You could also find that some people really have been waiting for you to kind of step into this new sense of self and really want to support you and provide for you the things that you will need to flourish in this new understanding of self and what you create from this place.

A lot of the Pisces that I know personally, I have just been really excited about some of their creative projects that they've gone back into to explore, and how they're allowing themselves the time to really sit with what it means to be emotional and share from this place of emotionality that can be really relatable to the community, right? Because Cancer is a very communal sign. So what they're realizing is that they are bringing in more like-mindedness and energy that is harmonious to their true sense of self, that is supportive of the new relationships that they're creating.

So really, allow yourself to be revised during this moment. Be creative and explorative, exploitative in your sense of like, what it is you desire and how that is stemmed directly from who it is that you actually are, and allowing whatever realities to kind of fall into place and figure itself out as a puzzle. Virgo is very good at like placing things exactly where they belong. As more clarity comes to us as Mercury works its way through Mercury retrograde, allow for the pieces to kind of fall into place and not pressure yourself too much to fix and do and make sense of, because Mercury in Pisces in retrograde is just going to be very difficult to do.

So the best you can do is express yourself creatively. Like Mal said, you can write it out. Letters might be really great as a form of communication during this time, or like sending a song to those who you are in relationship with, like, Hey, baby. I can't really tell you how I feel, but this song somehow encapsulates that, so I'm just going to send that over to you. You sit with that, and then let me know how you feel from there. Just getting creative in the ways that you are expressing yourself and just realizing yourself in real time. I think it's going to be really important for Pisces here.

But I'm just like, so excited. I've seen a lot of Pisces content where they have just been really truthful about their journey and their experiences. And it's helped me connect with them in such an emotional, more empathetic way that I really enjoyed seeing them kind of step into and allowing for us to join them in that. So be courageous in your exploration and then the creativity that comes from that, knowing that who's standing at the end is exactly what you actually need, because it's been distilled and is going to work out for you. Fantastic.

Adam Elenbaas: Thank you. Yeah, I'll just add that I would think about, obviously cycles that have some history behind them, closing or reaching a point of resolution around relationships or intimacy. And also maybe questions about purity and impurity, what feels like pure and sort of healthy or wholesome, and also letting go of things that might be puritanical questions about intimacy and sexuality where there's been repression. Maybe something needs to open and feel freer. Some of those things came to my mind as well. But anyhow, we'll leave there, because we are at our time limit for the day.

Hey, thank you all of you guys so much for being such a great panel and doing such great work for everyone. I know everyone really appreciates it. I want to tell everybody briefly where they can find you. So let me just get into that really quick.

Kelsey is at Metanova Girl on Instagram. That's where you can find Kelsey's good work there. And at AstrologyRx.com, that's where you can book readings, follow her, content, anything you want to add, Kelsey.

Kelsey Faith Wells: That's it. And I'm really excited for just all this Pisces stuff to move forward. And yeah, that should be really nice to get through.

Adam Elenbaas: Yeah, let's go to Emily. EmilyTatomer.com is where you can book a reading, see what Emily is up to. Instagram is at Emily Te Astrology. Am I missing anything, Emily?

Emily Tatomer: YouTube is at Emily Te Astrology as well. Yeah, come on over there. I'm getting closer to my first 100 subscribers. So yay, get me there guys.

Adam Elenbaas: Yeah, that's awesome. And it is, like, it is, I'll have a banner next time. So for sure, but at Emily Te Astrology on YouTube as well. Yes, thank you. Mal is at underscore Mallory Hasty on Instagram, and that's where they can find a link through your Instagram to everything you do, right?

Speaker 1: Yes, everything's there. And I'll just quickly shout out that Q and I made a podcast slash YouTube video on my YouTube channel all about the Saturn Return in Pisces, like kind of retrospective forecasts. So if you happen to have just gone through a Saturn Return, tune into that. Or even if you don't have Saturn in Pisces, you'll probably still resonate a little bit with the retrospective forecast.

Adam Elenbaas: Too nice. And what is your YouTube channel? Just, I know it's good.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Mallory Hasty Astrology, and it should be linked in the show notes, I think, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas: And it's through your Instagram as well. Yes, okay. And then Q is at Sensual Noir on Instagram, and then that's where people click on your profile in the bio, there's links to all of your booking and stuff like that, right? Yes, yes. Of course. Of course. Anything you want to add?

Que'Nyse: I would say that outside of checking out that video with Mal, if you are in the Minneapolis area, definitely check out the Walkers Wellness Center event that I'll be a part of February 26. So head on over to the Walker website to see how you can be a part of that. I'll be talking about how to get in tune with your fifth house, that creative aspect of our natal chart.

Adam Elenbaas: I'm realizing as we're making this, people will be getting this seventh—so.

Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's fine. Another video, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas: No, that's fine. But if you want to, maybe Q sometimes has been seen at our equinoxes, solstice events. Maybe we'll be there together. But either way, check out everything Q is up on her Instagram at Sensual Noir.

Thank you, everyone on the panel for being here, for providing your wisdom and thoughtfulness. It's nice to feel like there's a community of people, and I like to make sure that this platform is being used to empower talented people who come through our programs, enhancing their astrological journey and education. And we try to pick people who represent the diversity of our audience and a diversity of perspectives and voices and creativity. And so it's just really nice to have you all here.

And yeah, we'll see everybody again for for April. Oh my gosh, it's hard to believe. Yeah, take it easy, everyone. We'll see you next time. Bye.