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Star-Weather Forecast: March 2025, Celestial Refinement

Writer: Ilin ShiehIlin Shieh

Before we begin, here is a short list of March astrological events:

3/1 Venus Rx 3/1-4/12

3/2 Mercury conjunct Neptune

3/11 Mercury conjunct Venus

3/14 Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse 23 Virgo 57

3/20 Sun Ingress Aries, Spring equinox

3/27 Venus conjunct Neptune (2/1, 3/27, 5/2)

3/29 Mercury conjunct Neptune

3/29 New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse

3/30 Neptune ingress Aries

4/1 Venus conjunct NN


I'm taking a break from video presentation this month. Feel free to see the short summary in the video then read on:


For the March forecast, we're going to analyze the progression of Venus-Neptune conjunctions that happens 3 times this year because of Venus's retrograde motion. The dates are 2/1, 3/27, and 5/2. Below are the first two conjunction charts:




You'll see that the narratives of the 2/1 and 3/27 conjunctions are consistent: Venus and Neptune conjuncting in 1st house Pisces bringing personal transformations and even the nectar of life from the celestial realms to replenish our karmic journey. As Saturn conjuncts ascendant in both charts, it takes CONSCIOUS WORK or at least INTENTION SETTING to receive these cosmic replenishments and/or insights. From now on until ~5/1 meditate, journal, reflect with the intention to settle the mind and receive higher guidance. Saturn-Moon-Neptune-Venus-NN in Pisces should help orient our sensory perceptions toward higher consciousness. Then Mercury comes into play 3/2, 3/11 to bring concrete and practical information that helps us integrate this celestial aspect into our conscious/dominant personality. It's like being able to access our higher-self during these NN-Neptune-Venus in Pisces transits, and then receiving messages and instructions on how to integrate and ground aspects of the higher-self to our main/earthly personalities with Mercury and Saturn. Even if the download does not appear spiritual in nature, it has a quality of grace and beauty and compassion that REFINES our personality in some way.



Then the 5/2 Venus-Neptune conjunction in Aries 10th house shows the fruits of this integration of refinement, which now yields currency in our public reputation, professional skillset/efficacy, and client or network circle's loyalty and patronage. The only caution here is Jupiter in 12th looking to Mercury 10th: make sure our responses and actions are just and pure-of-heart given the positive recognitions, and circulate the good fortune back to those in need. Guru Jupiter does well in the 12th, but he does require the spirit of service from his dispositor, in this case, Mercury in 10th. So this is asking us to use our influence to good cause and service. i.e. Use your newfound fame to spotlight up-and-coming artists, start a food drive or fundraising campaign for local shelters (Sun in Taurus 11th), humbly share/write/speak about your professional or personal know-how to help others without boasting or expecting returns. This reminds me of saints appearing as paupers to test the true hearts of men. If we fail the test, we experience Mercury-Chiron conjunction 5/6 adversely.


So looking ahead to the Mercury-Chiron conjunction on 5/6, ideally we'd like for it to be more about us giving voice to and shining light on those in need of healing, rather than us incurring injury for our pomp and verbal indiscretions. I think it's helpful to know this in advance so we make a clear choice of service instead of pomp when the test and choice point comes.


Overall, this Venus-Neptune conjunction series further help the celestial energies take root on our earthly planes and concretize it in our personal lives. At the very least, it gives us alms for replenishment to be able to hear the angels sing. 


This celestial energy will become more in contrast with the upcoming Mars-Pluto opposition on 4/26, and we'll analyze how to navigate the great dissonance between energies so graceful in March with energies so confrontational in April. If we're able to find an elegant transition, we are that much more likely to stay balanced during the Mars-Pluto interlude. We'll analyze more in April. Happy Spring!


Namaste❤️


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Additional Neptune-NN conjunction notes


I had further insights regarding the Neptune-NN conjunction 2/22/2025. And since they remain in close-enough proximity throughout the year and the conjunction energies continue to be effective until Neptune enters Aries for the final time in our lives on 1/26/2026 (while NN retrogrades into Aquarius 8/28/2026), I thought I would share my thoughts and not hold out.


During 2025-2026 when we still have a lot of planets transiting between Pisces and Aries as some of them retrograde, we can see an expansion of our capacity for compassion, and also the resurrection and restart of areas of our lives that were undergoing transformation (the deboning/deconstruction of last year, then the resurrection of new unfamiliar structures, then new seedings this year while we continue to tend the soil).


There are opportunities to seed/plant new intentions. We are given a portal to a new journey towards a new horizon. Still much will be unknown and unrevealed until due time (only hindsight will be 20/20). We're not given the full picture yet. Challenges will still come one after the other. And if we take it slow and take our time to replenish appropriately, the results can come with our good health intact and even reach a new height of whole-body wellness and financial healing.


And since the journey still test our resolve and determination and strength, follow-through in balance and take it slow and steady. There is heavy loads here that requires delicacy and sound of mind, so do self-care and whatever necessary to keep the stamina and morales up. Go to sleep on time, meditate, hydrate, exercise, diet appropriately to be able to have the sound of mind to move forward judiciously.


Essentially, only the next 2-3 steps would be revealed at a time, so some trust is needed. The process is not going to be "mappable" beforehand, so it's important to keep things flexible for shifts along the way. Success won't be able to be measured from where we stand right now. Again, we would only be able to measure its success long after (at least a decade-16 years). So release preconceptions about what this needs to be eventually. Only focus on grounding the arising opportunities. Chances are, by the next Neptune-NN cycle, we'll see that the tangible results won't outweigh the intangible gifts we pick up along the way. But this conjunction opens up the possible field of experiences, and those experiences are what's the most important to the expansion of consciousness itself.


For example, this conjunction can be the download of a new clean energy source that can be broken down to practical steps to be achieved. While achieving the actual technology is certainly desirable and sanctioned by higher-consciousness, it is the challenges we face along this new opportunity - in navigating government bureaucracy, special interests, human vices like greed and vanity, or just plain old fear of the new, is already the expansion of the range of experiences and consciousness that the universe seeks. So it is all about the journey, and we are forewarned not to put pressure and focus on the outcome, for that would drive us crazy. It's better to be nimble, amenable to change, and release the "how." We are already achieving personal and spiritual growth by stepping into the journey. The outcome is secondary.


Like my last Neptune-NN conjunction in 2008, I had a spiritual experience after reading the Power of Now. Did that last? No. The challenges and frustration grew in trying to integrate the essence of this understanding into my earthly existence. But I am reminded that being willing to step into the journey and move forward no matter the twist and turns, being able to receive the experience, IS already a part of the expansion of consciousness - no matter how much more enlightened I am right now compared to 16 years ago. And I swear I'm not trying to make excuses for myself ;)


Overall, this Neptune-NN-Venus journey will lead us to another level of prosperity and another level of experience in personal freedom, agency, and humanity. Just keep at it and don't forget the joy and happiness along the way. The process is the gift. Namaste❤️

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