Weekly Astrology Forecast – March 10 – 16, 2025

Doors

In the news, aside from the big stories of international crises, there are also other stories that catch my attention. One such piece was an article about how a host of celebrities have been parading in see-through clothes at various award ceremonies recently, like the Brits and the Oscars. I suddenly found myself thinking about the great Pisces wave we are under right now, how water is see-through, how Pisces has no boundaries because water permeates everything. There is no separation, says Pisces, between me and you. Here I am, my skin on show for you to see, nothing hidden, everything transparent. We are different yet the same. It’s a backlash to the ’very demure and mindful’ that we saw last year. Perhaps it’s also a backlash against conspiracies and secrets, the feeling that half the time, people in power only tell us half the truth. Maybe the see-through clothing boom is a reflection of collective psyche saying, ‘let us see it all!’’

But of course, this too is about women freeing their bodies, women defying the norms, bucking the trend. Women have had enough of the male gaze and men’s violence. Eris peers over me as I type, warms my neck with her breath. She touches my hair and suddenly I find myself thinking of the Goddess Artemis (protector of women and children). Quickly, I locate her asteroid and find she has just dropped into freedom-fighter Aquarius and now sits conjunct power-broker Pluto. Warrior Goddess Pallas Athena is also close by. This combination of energies was perfectly expressed by massive marches in France on International Women’s Day - tens of thousands of women demonstrating solidarity with one another. And a large group of them also had ‘freed the nipple’, so to speak, in a bare-breasted mass demonstration of defiance against growing fascism, Trump, Musk and Russia. Weirdly I notice not a peep about it from the BBC, but I digress. Meanwhile, in Poland, the return to conscription feels like a foreshadowing of Neptune in Aries who will bring in the idealisation of warriors and war.

On a personal level, I’ve had a strange and muddled week. Within a day of Venus stationing retrograde and Mercury entering Aries (my natal placement), it seemed all hell broke loose. First was a weird hum on one of my microphones. Then came drilling and hammering as local improvement works got underway. I waited it out and just when the drilling stopped, voices outside started - arguing, pushy, angry. By the time it was quiet I was just too tired to record anything so I went to bed and resolved that the following day would be better.

It wasn’t.

Because now my main recording device was broken, and a weird time lag had appeared on my new computer making it almost impossible to work with whilst editing. My anger started to ignite. I’m not good with things not working for what seems no reason (!) and I stress until it’s all fixed. This natal Taurus likes functioning products that work forever and never break! Despite Venus retrograde, I bought a new recording device and new headphones. Venus (ruler of my 10^th house) approved of my investment. But laggy Mercury, tinkered with cables so I had to wait yet another day until I had the right connectors (little beast). Mercury and Venus were clearly giving me lessons in patience!

Meanwhile, builders turned up to replace my front door with a new fire door. Yes, replacing a fire door during Venus retrograde in Aries and Mercury in shadow of its upcoming retrograde in Aries. And Mars, the ruler of hot and fiery Aries, slogging his way through Cancer (the sign of home) after his retrograde. Sometimes the symbolism is oh so perfect. Too bad that the installation went as well as the stars would predict – terrible, with a side of absolutely awful. My poor apartment (and my neighbour’s!) had merry hell knocked out of it as they tried to get the door and its new frame, to fit. The measurements were wrong. The building isn’t square as it’s very old and they didn’t seem to have half the things they needed. The door also has a half-moon window that I didn’t want as the landlord forgot that we might like a choice in the type of door we have to live with. Yes, it looks pretty. No, I don’t like the compromised privacy. Yes, I’m still (Aries) annoyed and still waiting for a plasterer and painter to contact me to rectify the works. I took a photo of the moment when neither myself or my neighbour had front doors (see above). It was like a weird echo of old nightmares where I wake up to find people in my house and the front door wide open, unlockable or missing altogether!

And that night, after the installation, I had the most terrifying nightmare. I was in bed and there was something malevolent in my room. Once I woke up (a false awakening) and thought oh I’m just having a silly dream! But the next minute something took hold of both my legs under the covers and whipped me round so that my head was at the bottom of the bed. A split second later I was on the floor. The terror was so profound that I woke myself up yelling, Help me, help me! Thankfully my neighbour didn’t hear me calling out for someone who has long since passed away to save me. In that moment, psyche unprotected, wide open to the tug of the unconscious undertow, I regressed to being a little child, utterly helpless and beyond terrified.

I’m fascinated that Black Moon Lilith, who can sometimes symbolise a haunting, was exactly opposite anaretic ghostly Neptune at the time I awakened! The huge Pisces wave of planets all sat in the 4^th house of the chart indicating home, family, history. Mars in Cancer was in the ‘scary’ 8^th house.

I sat up for a while after that nightmare, shaken, disturbed, and curiously fascinated that my inner child is such a part of me. No longer just a nice concept to journal about, suddenly she was very real and very loud. It made me wonder, how much else is there, beneath this veneer of sanity, beneath this adult glazing of acceptability and accountability and responsibility? How much of me is down there, caged deep underwater with only seahorses for company? How much of us is there in the collective unconscious – a vast city of lost soul fragments, waiting patiently to come home. Mars by transit is still travelling through my 12^th house, stirring up uncomfortable feelings. Buried especially deep are feelings of being unsafe. Grown up Leah spent an hour the following day, salt and smoke cleansing the house and doing protection work on the new door, just for peace of mind. The new door and it’s lunar window are growing on me. The cracks after all, are how the light gets in.

There is so much happening now, astrologically, it’s hard to know where to look. Venus retrograde, Neptune anaretic. Mercury about to station retrograde. Mars out of bounds. Eclipse season coming! And that’s just this week ahead! Maybe this is why I was thrown out of bed in my dream. Maybe it’s not time to be sleeping or hiding like a scaredy cat under the covers. Maybe it’s time to stop expecting others to save us and time to start saving ourselves.

Perhaps I needed to be turned upside down, like the Hanged Man in the Tarot who gains enlightenment through sacrifice. This card is associated with Neptune in tarot correspondences. Retrogrades too are like card reversals. We go inwards instead of outwards, backwards instead of forwards. Sometimes retrogrades can make us feel like the sky is falling. Sometimes eclipses make us feel like the fundamental laws that kept everything together are now in flux and nothing is as it should be. Weird vibes, odd feelings, strange shivers up the spine, funny déjà vu – it’s all on the table this week, and it’s all okay.

Because this is an opening of the senses, a direct communion and/or necessary confrontation, a flow from hidden places erupting in the psyche. Sometimes we have to smash down the doors, create new entrances, re-frame, accept a different viewpoint or put up with a disturbance so that life can change. Sometimes we must be willing to show more of who we are. Right now, we need to free the secret parts of ourselves so that we can heal. And as we enter eclipse season, all kinds of revelations are about to appear.

Painting – Doors by Roman Selsky

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THIS WEEK’S MAJOR ASPECTS

10-Mar-25 No major aspects

11-Mar-25 Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde
Bring heart and mind together. Ask yourself what you truly want.

12-Mar-25 Sun conjunct Saturn
Taking responsibility. On the path to fulfilling one’s purpose. Adulting, Setting boundaries.

13-Mar-25 Venus sextile Pallas
Patterns in relationships. Heartfelt diplomacy. Aesthetics and artistic appeal.

14-Mar-25 Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Sun sextile Uranus
Letting go of perfectionism. Embracing originality and difference.

15-Mar-25 Mercury stations retrograde
Rethinking where you stand. Piping down instead of speaking up. Finding your inner voice.

16-Mar-25 Mercury sextile Pallas
Ask others for advice. Mental preparation and planning. Creative thinking.

Tarot – Nine of Cups (Forhaxa Tarot)
Abundance – but be careful what you wish for. Guard against just settling.

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