New Beginnings

Intriguing cloud 17 March 2026;

Well, here we are: another New Moon occurs tomorrow (Wednesday, 18 March 2026) at 9:53 p.m. EDT. So for those of you who live on the west coast, the New Moon won’t be exact until early Thursday morning, March 19^th.

This New Moon, is taking place in Pisces, even though both the Moon and the Sun are getting ready to move into Aries. (We’re in this sort of convoluted cycle in which the New Moon of a sign happens in the very final degrees of each sign – and then the Full Moon appears, two weeks later, in the following sign. That’s sort of backwards, in that the New Moon is a time of new beginnings, planting seeds, starting projects, etc., and then, in the shorter time span of those intentions, they are cultivated and nurtured with the expectation that they will reach their fruition at the Full Moon. And that progression is often envisioned as happening within the same sign.

But not now. And not for a while yet. This ‘backwards’ (only in a sense) lunar cycle began last year when we had two New Moons in one month – as opposed to the slightly more frequent ‘Blue Moon,’ which is the occurrence of two Full Moons in one month.

Not to get too deep into the weeds here, but it seems to me that this sort of reversal of the usual pattern of the moon fits these times. Honestly, it’s as if, lately at least, we’re constantly sort of going at things a bit ‘ass-backwards,’ if you know what I mean.

In this particular instance, as I said above, the New Moon is taking place in Pisces. And yet - we’ve been in Pisces season since the Sun entered Pisces on February 19^th. My sense is that the new beginning signified by this New Moon is all about cleaning up and cleaning out the last remnants of cobwebs that remain in our personal and collective psychic spaces after our year-long journey around the Sun (as well as the closure of all the other cycles discussed later.)

Bigger Picture of what was going on in the sky this afternoon; 17 March 2026.

Sometimes we can get excited over the promise of starting something new – and goodness knows, we’re in the midst of a year – 2026 – that’s calling in a ton of profoundly powerful new energies. It’s a big deal when the huge outer planets (which move so slowly, yet exert such profound influence on all of us) move from one sign to the next. And I want to remind you that Neptune and Saturn have both very recently moved from Pisces into Aries. Pluto moved from Capricorn into Aquarius last year, Uranus will move from Taurus to Gemini at the end of April, and Jupiter will move from Cancer into Leo at the end of June.

I’m writing all of this not to fully explore the ramifications of these events (Goddess forbid I try to do that - seriously), but simply to illustrate how profound and dramatic the shifts are going to be in all our lives. That’s because signs that are right next to each other are often quite different from each other. So, when facing similar challenges, for instance, they emphasize much different characteristics and often encourage dramatically new or different approaches.

So. We have a ton of profound changes to our fundamental ways of being heading toward us, beginning to happen now, and sticking with us over the next several years.

Which leads me back to our New Moon in Pisces that’s happening tomorrow night. Pisces is the dreamy, idealistic, sometimes ungrounded aspect of ourselves. And it seems to me that this New moon is asking us to sweep away all those dreamy idolizations of people or concepts and focus as a means of preparing the ground (i.e., our inner beliefs and perspectives for what’s to come next – i.e., in the next sign).

So even though tomorrow night we’ll be experiencing a New Moon, my sense is that our best use of the energy of this is to really take some honest assessments of what we may have been deluding ourselves about or insisting we still wanted, know, or believe that no longer fits our experience of reality. And at the same time, truthfully, in full alignment with our soul’s desires, hone in on what we want to create over the next several planetary cycles going around the zodiacal wheel:

Jupiter takes 12 years to complete the cycle from Aries through Pisces (spending approximately a year in each sign);

Saturn takes 28-29.5 years to complete the cycle from Aries through Pisces (spending approximately 2.5 years, on average, in each sign);

Uranus takes 84 years to complete the cycle around the zodiac (spending approximately 7 years in each sign);

Neptune takes 165 years to complete the cycle from Aries to Pisces (spending approximately 14 years in each sign); and

Pluto takes 248 years to complete the cycle from Aries to Pisces (spending approximately 15-20 years, on average, in each sign – but because of Pluto’s highly elliptical orbit around the Sun, it might spend as few as 11 years and as many as 30 years in a sign).

All of these photos (and the video above) were taken on a single walk. There’s nothing like the volatility of March weather. Tempestuous endings and beginnings…

Thus, it’s really important to do this ground preparation for the seeds we want to plant in our lives (and our world as a whole) because there are some absolutely huge changes that have already begun and are headed our way.

And just to tweak our collective noses with all of this change, change, change, only two days after this New Moon in Pisces, the Sun will enter Aries at the Equinox, which occurs this coming Friday, March 20^th, at 10:46 a.m. EDT. Which means not only is the Sun entering a new sign, it is starting a whole new journey on the zodiacal wheel, as it’s entering the first sign: Aries. (And also significantly, meeting up very quickly in Aries with Neptune and Saturn, neither of which move as quickly as the Sun and thus have only traveled a few degrees into Aries at this point.)

There’s just so very much happening that’s demanding we pay attention and consciously make the effort to take responsibility for our personal and collective futures by thoughtfully considering what we want to create in the world over the next 248 years (and each smaller orbit that occurs within Pluto’s reign). It almost takes your breath away if you think about it.

And for some reason, it just feels especially essential during this specific New Moon for us to seriously sweep out the old before this Spring Equinox arrives.

March sky; St. Patrick’s Day 2026.

I was going to pick a card for us for this New Moon, but I’ve gone on too long tonight. I think I wrote all of this out to help clarify it in my own head, as much as hopefully help you understand just how big the forces are that are playing on all of us.

Personally, I know I’m flirting with old ways of thinking and being that simply do not serve me anymore. At least, they are definitely not conducive to my continued evolution on a soul level. And my continued evolution is important to me. So tomorrow, I am going to do my best to make room – make time – for the requisite reflection.

And yes, while there are some very long timelines being triggered, thus making the feeling that it all needs to be decided in a single day utterly ridiculous, this is nevertheless a window of opportunity. We will have others. But the combo of the New Moon in Pisces and the Spring Equinox only two days later is powerful, and if we can give ourselves the grace to seize it, all the better.

Thanks for indulging me and helping me get all of this stuff a little straighter in my own head. I hope you don’t mind these occasional forays into how the movements of the heavenly bodies are influencing all of us. It behooves us to pay attention to the extraordinary maps we’ve been given.