New Moon in Pisces 2025: Eclipse Season begins

On Thursday, 27 February (Jupiter’s Day, Saturn’s hour) the Sun and Moon will conjoin in the 10th degree of Pisces. The first decan of Pisces is ruled by Jupiter by triplicity and by Saturn in the descending Chaldean order.

The first decan of Pisces brings to mind the structures of the Golden Age of Saturn, the resplendent deep past when human society was under the rule of the Great Goddess. The war between the Olympians and the Titans led to the immersion of the remains of many antediluvian cities under the sea, and the figurative immersion of our bizarre past in the semiotic racial memory.

It is a conundrum, a profound kenning that much of our nature is best described by things that we now call mythology, stories whose basic cosmology is largely lost to the modern mind. Confronting the semiotic aspects of humanity requires a deep dive into one’s own nature, and few of us can afford to take the time and forge the inner will required to commit to that. Fewer still can handle the fallout that would come from this undersea voyage, as it would inevitably shake us to the core.

Pisces is the watery place of imagination, of dreams and desire: in the Northern Hemisphere, the Life Force has been undergoing its Orphic journey to the underworld throughout the winter time. In Pisces season, the Sun becomes strong enough to begin to melt the ice, even on cold days, harboring radical change. The emergence of the Green Goddess (and Green Man, her Dionysian child) from the soil is palpable- but still very much in the imagination.

At the New Moon, the conjoined luminaries will be applying to a superior square with Jupiter in Gemini, ruler of Pisces, which is still in its shadow from its retrograde. Jupiter has been in close proximity to the fixed star Aldebaran for the last few months as it stationed direct. Aldebaran is also known as the Red Eye of the Bull, and is associated with strength and unstoppable will, determination and courage. It has the energetic qualities of Mars and Jupiter.

Though it tends to be unfocused, blustery, scattered, distracted and troubled, Jupiter in Gemini takes in too much information, yet he draws on the power of Aldebaran and receives the Moon in his sign of Pisces. The mutable signs each represent a different way of approaching change and instability, which comes at the end of each season: the rulers, Mercury and Jupiter, complement each other. In this chart, they are in each other’s signs, a mutual reception or a type of agreement to aid each other in taking care of their territories.

Mercury needs the support: he has even greater problems in Pisces than Jupiter does in Gemini: Mercury is both in detriment and in fall. Pisces’ turgid emotional waters demand that Mercury tread water. There is nothing to count, no announcements to make, perhaps this is an opportunity to write a sexy but tragic romance novel, with Venus about to retrograde in Aries.

Co-present in Pisces for this lunation are Saturn at 21 degrees, and Ketu (North Node) conjoining Neptune at 29 degrees.

Neptune’s conjunction with the Ketu at the very end of Pisces will bring the Neptune in Pisces energy to a literal head, the Head of the Dragon. Ketu is eternally hungry and disconnected, the shady and unsettling eclipse point that darkens the Sun and the Moon and leaves the natural world in a strange state of silence and awkward self awareness. Ketu reveals the delusional, shady, corrosive and criminal side of the Lord of the Depths as he prepares to boil in Mars’ individuating and conflict-loving fiery home.

Mars himself will have just gone direct at the time of the lunation at 18 degrees of Cancer where he is also boiling. The fallen War God is trining a frigid Saturn in Pisces. the two malefics agreeing on more conflicted emotions and squishy boundaries. Saturn will be in antiscia to Venus in Aries, giving Saturn more diplomacy and giving Venus more structure.

There are seeds to be planted in Pisces season: this is time to imagine the world you wish to see as the Goddess becomes flesh in the Springtime. An opportunity not to be missed, for all of the conflicts and distractions that may otherwise torpedo this potent time.