March 10, 2025 • 36 mins
There is so much to cover this week! Alice goes over the lunar eclipse in Virgo and Mercury retrograde starting. Also discussed is the Sun-Saturn conjunction in Pisces, the Mercury-Venus conjunction in Aries, and the moon moving through Leo and Libra.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
05:52 – Monday, March 10
10:58 – Tuesday, March 11
15:32 – Wednesday, March 12
19:23 – Thursday, March 13
21:09 – Friday, March 14
30:10 – Saturday, March 15
36:04 – Sunday, March 16
For in-depth monthly horoscopes and other astrology articles, subscribe to my Substack: alicebell.substack.com
My transit course can be found here.
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Music is considered “royalty-free” and discovered on Story Blocks.
Podcast Produced & Edited by Julia Bell at Breaking Thru Productions
© 2025 Alice Bell. All Rights Reserved.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
05:52 – Monday, March 10
10:58 – Tuesday, March 11
15:32 – Wednesday, March 12
19:23 – Thursday, March 13
21:09 – Friday, March 14
30:10 – Saturday, March 15
36:04 – Sunday, March 16
For in-depth monthly horoscopes and other astrology articles, subscribe to my Substack: alicebell.substack.com
My transit course can be found here.
Follow me on Instagram for daily astro insights: @stalkalice
Music is considered “royalty-free” and discovered on Story Blocks.
Podcast Produced & Edited by Julia Bell at Breaking Thru Productions
© 2025 Alice Bell. All Rights Reserved.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
your host, Alice Bell and today's Monday, March tenth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We have a huge week ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is likely going to be a longer episode than
usual because there's so much going on astrologically over the
next few days. I don't even know where to start,
to be honest. We have a lunar eclipse in Virgo
happening on Friday. We also have mercury retrograde starting in
the sign of Aries that'll start up on Saturday, and
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then from that point on, we're going to have both
Mercury and Venus retrogrades going on at the same time
for about the next three weeks starting on Saturday. And
what else do we have going on?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This week?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The Sun will be conjunct Saturn in Pisces. And also
going back to that Mercury retrograde, it is so important,
It will be such an important transit to watch because
it rules the Virgo lunaric li lips. That's taking place
like one day before Mercury station's retrograde, so Mercury is
a big player this week. And then also yeah, that
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sun conjunct Saturn is also important because it just intensifies
the themes of whatever how Saturn has been transitting for
you for two years now, we're at the two year
anniversary of Saturn entering Pisces. So throughout this episode we're
going to go more in depth on what all of
these transits mean. I just want to give you a
heads up of, like, this is what we're dealing with
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this week. It is a in my opinion, it's a low,
low energy time. Like you may think that you want
to get ahead, and maybe you're second guessing yourself of
like should I be pushing forward with new opportunities, new projects?
Like should I just not be sitting around? Should I
actually be trying to do something? And the answer is
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honestly no, Like if you feel the need to rest,
listen to your intuition there because this is not ideal
energy to get new upper unities, new projects, new ideas
off the ground and running quite yet. It's rather a
time of going within, reflecting, really thinking through what next
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steps do you want to take? And have you planned
it out carefully enough? The beginning of this year has
been super hazy and honestly confusing of what the bigger
picture is here? What exactly like how you can plan
for the long term, what exactly you want to be
working towards in the bigger scheme of things. But I
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think that will become much more evident once we get
firmly into April, like around mid April, second half of
that month, may June, July. But right now, it's really
not a time of doing, like I said, it's more
for reflection and thinking of your next steps. And these
periods are actually so necessary because you can't expect to
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be going at a fast paced at all times in
your life. So I actually think of this as like, Okay, great,
I'm having this moment to kind of slow down. Maybe
you don't want to be seen as much. Maybe you're
working on something you're not quite ready to announce yet,
or you're just kind of reflecting on what does come next.
And and by giving yourself maybe a bit of space
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to breathe, that in turn will help you to have
more ideas and feel more motivated once that astrology picks
back up again and the opportunities arise. And this is
actually a topic I'm going more in depth on a
sub stack article I'm sending out I believe either today
or tomorrow, and I talk about how there are seasons
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for silence and learning and self improvement, and how there
are seasons for being out in the world and being
public facing, and how to spot when you're in those
certain phases of life, and also how to make the
most of it. Like it's not just because these transits
are difficult right now. It shouldn't be that you're counting down.
I mean, I honestly have to remind myself of this,
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Like I'm learning through saying this, you shouldn't be counting
down the days until a moment in time is over.
Like the whole goal is to be more present and
see how every moment of life has a lesson in
it and is necessary. So hopefully through that article, I'm
able to help you understand kind of how to work
with those energies. And then also are season is right
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around the corner at this point. It starts next week,
which we have to look forward to. I love the
start of a new zodiac year, and I'll be doing
my aris monthly horoscopes in depth. But if you want
more info on like what this Virgo lunar eclipse and
this mercury retrograde and this venus retrograde means for your
rising sign. That is something I've gone over in last
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month the Pisce season monthly horoscopes for each rising sign
over on substack. So yeah, I just wanted to flag
that for upcoming info I'm sending out. But with that
being said, we've got a huge episode. So let's get
into the astrology for the week ahead. Okay, we're starting
off the week on Monday, March tenth. A huge theme
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that takes up the full first half of this week,
so from Monday through Wednesday, and it really intensifies later
on on Tuesday into Wednesday, is that the Sun in
Pisces is coming up on an exact conjunction with Saturn
and Pisces. So this is not the easiest transit by
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any means, and you're probably going to feel these themes
that I'm about to go over building over the next
couple of days. This may leave you feeling kind of
emotionally heavy, or that there's just like this heaviness in general,
or maybe there's an area and again check the Pisces
World House of your chart to see where you may
be experiencing these themes. But like a feeling of being
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met with stress or delays, or you're just feeling the
weight of responsibilities on you that pertain to that specific
area of your life. And this week could also be
a time of like really needing to get down to
work and not procrastinating and not delaying what needs to
be done. Or on the other hand, you could be
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facing the reality of certain situations and you might be
reflecting on who and what is serving you in the
long term and really getting real about what adds value
to your life. And because of this, maybe you are
scaling back on what types of projects you agree to
do or what types of social plans you agree to attend.
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Like maybe this week you just feel kind of tired
and you need space to be alone, and or there's
just like because you're doing so much during your day,
maybe at the end of the day you just feel
very drained and you need those moments to recharge and
really think about what actually matters in your life and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What is serving you in the bigger picture.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Looking at that Pisc's world house of your chart, there
could be this reflection of like, how are you needing
to put more effort into that area of your life
or get more serious about something there, or how could
you be thinking about the topics of that house more
strategically for the long term, like not just wanting to
commit to anything in that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Part of your life.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So, for example, of your geminiising, this Sun Saturn conjunctions
taking place in your tenth house, so maybe you're like, wait,
I really want to focus and be more strategic about
what work projects I commit to as well as what
decisions I make regarding the future of my career and
scaling back on maybe this need to do everything all
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at once or be seen in a certain way, So
this conjunction could have you like scaling back at work
and for everyone that Piss's world house of your chart
will require a lot more careful thought and planning, and
you've already probably been doing a lot of work and
learning a lot of tough lessons in this part of
your life over the last two years while Saturn's been
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transiting this part of your chart. But just having the
Sun come along and trigger Saturn makes those themes more
prominent this month and especially this week than they are
throughout the rest of the year. On a more positive note,
the moon is in Leo all day on Monday, and
it'll be training Mercury and Venus and Ares and also
sextiling Jupiter and Gemini.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So there's this nice aspect.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Configuration between the fire and air signs happening on Monday,
and this could help you to feel extra creative or
maybe you are connecting and socializing with people, but again
keeping the Sun Saturn conjunction in mind, really taking stock
of like who those people are and what social obligations
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matter the most to you. But going back to the
Moon and Leo, like this is great for I don't know,
bouncing ideas off of others because it has that connection
with Jupiter and Gemini, and maybe the convert stations you're
having with people end up informing your approach to maybe
a creative project or how you want to express yourself
and be seen by others. So it's like bringing that
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social element into how you express yourself to the world.
And this maybe this Moon transit, making all of these
positive aspects to these other planets helps to counteract that tense,
that heaviness of Sun Saturn. And if you are encountering
maybe a more challenging situation right now, it could have
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you looking at it in a more optimistic light of like, okay,
that needed to happen so that I could change directions
in this way or figure out a new solution there.
And also maybe the moon triggering Venus retrograde in this
positive way through a trine. It could be that insight
into a recurring thought or a situation you've been having
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since Venus retrograde started on March first comes to you,
like maybe there's a sense of re or okay, maybe
this is how I need to navigate this relationship situation
or this thing regarding my personal creativity or my style,
all Venusian themes. Let's move on to Tuesday, March eleventh.
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So the moon is still in Leo all day on Tuesday. However,
it's not making as many pleasant aspects to other planets. Instead,
it's just squaring you're honest, before it goes void, of course,
in the second half of the day. So maybe throughout
the first half of the day and for time zones
ahead of America, this would be the majority of your Tuesday.
You could feel kind of an unsettled, anxious energy, or
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things may feel a bit frenzied, or there may be
sudden news that pops up or change in plans. Because
remember we're also getting pretty close to Friday's lunar eclipse
in Virgo, So in the few days leading up to that,
your life is naturally going to feel a bit more
frenzied or high activity, or like a lot is coming
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together at once. So that could leave you feeling kind
of anxious on Tuesday, and then later on on Tuesday
once the moon moves past that aspect with your honest
you may just not have as much energy, like maybe
there's a surge of stuff that goes on on Monday
and early on on Tuesday, but then going into the
second half of Tuesday, there's less planning or developments going on.
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Another aspect taking place on this day is that mercury
and Venus will be conjunct in ares so Venus is
currently retrograde. Mercury is not retrograde quite yet, but it's
zooming through arees. It's meeting up with venus retrograde there
and triggering the venus retrograde themes more fully. And because
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mercury represents like what you're interested in talking about or
how you're processing your thoughts and what you're interested in
learning more or discussing, could involve the topics of venus
retrograde on Tuesday, so check the ares World house of
your chart to see like where what the themes might
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be that you're having recurring thoughts about or you want
to explore more in depth, or maybe you're revisiting a
past situation having to do with that part of your life.
And it could also be that there's just more careful
thinking on Tuesday about Venusian related themes, like maybe you're
considering how can I communicate better in relationships or what
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decision do you want to make regarding the future of
a relationship, or even someone you've just started dating. It
could be that you're having contact and communication with someone
from your past, like meeting up with a friend you
had a falling out with, or maybe an ex text
you out of nowhere, So just stay on the lookout
for that type of thing involving relationships. I have noticed
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the topic of money being super prominent with this Venus
retrograde already, because finances is another signification of Venus. Something
in the news that happened recently that I found to
be very striking in regard to the Venus retrograde occurring
was the day before Venus stationed retrograde and when a
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planet stationed, the qualities of that planet become even more intensified.
And so on February twenty eighth, a day before Venus
stationed retrograde, there was this news of an economic blackout
where people were boycotting spending any money on that Friday.
So I thought that was very interesting because it has
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this Venus retrograde theme of like really thinking about, like
where are you putting your money, what do you value
spending money on, and how can you be smarter with
your finances. So in addition to that obvious theme of
relationships going along with Venus retrograde, maybe it's also that
around the middle of this week you're thinking or talking
more about money or your finances or getting better organized.
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There In my own life, I'm really noticing how where
I want to spend money is changing, and I'm also
noticing the Venus theme of personal style in that and
how that's shifting for me. I've been giving away a
lot of my clothes recently, like things I bought six
seven years ago in my mid twenties that just don't
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work with my lifestyle anymore. So kind of going back
and thinking, like, what what can I clear out here
first before I make any new purchases or embark on
that next chapter of my personal style or personal self expression.
And then, of course we still have this Sun Saturn
conjunction building on Tuesday. So what I said on Monday
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about potentially being a bit more stressed, or having bigger
responsibilities that you're coping with, or getting more serious about
what you want to spend your time and energy on,
those themes will still persist throughout Tuesday too and Wednesday.
So let's move on to Wednesday, March twelfth. Now, So
on Wednesday morning, right around four am Eastern, the moon
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leaves Leo and moves into Virgo. So for time Zion's
ahead of America, you're still you're going to feel the
Moon and Leo for the first part of your day,
so you may experience slower energy because the moon will
be void, of course, and maybe there's not as much
developments and new opportunities that are popping up throughout your
Wednesday work day, and it could be harder to find motivation.
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But for those of us in America and similar time zones,
once that moon moves into Virgo early Wednesday morning Eastern,
we're officially in lunar eclipse territory. The moon is still
in the early degrees of Virgo though throughout Wednesday, and
it hasn't quite come up on that opposition with this
stelium of placements at the end of pisces like north
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node Neptune Saturn. So maybe you're experiencing the more positive
side of the Virgo moon traits on Wednesday, and it
could be a good day to really put your head
down and accomplish things on your to do list, or
invest more time into a wellness practice, like maybe you
want to go to a workout class or make an fa.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
To eat a bit healthier.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It doesn't have to be anything major, but maybe finding
little ways to feel better in your body on Wednesday.
And also when I think about the Virgo moon, I
think about multitasking and keeping a keeping track of a
lot of smaller details at once. And again going back
to how we are in the lead up to that
full moon, there's going to be more going on this week,
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So maybe you are you do have like your hand
in many different pots and you're kind of struggling to
keep up, or it's it's a fast paced environment on Wednesday,
and then finally we get that Sun Saturn conjunction go
exact Wednesday morning, and again that made points still like
how there's just a lot on your plate at this time.
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If it does feel like there's no light at the
end of the tunnel with work and all these other tasks,
or how change is being slow to happen, know that
those feelings will pass at the time of the Sun
Saturn conjunction, which happens only once a year. Saturn is
always moving at its fastest pace, So right now it's
covering almost a degree a week throughout this month of March.
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It's zooming right through the end degrees of Pisces, and
it'll reach twenty four degrees of ices by the end
of this month. So I think that it's covering four
or five degrees throughout March. And the reason I want
to bring this up is because we're nearing almost the
end of this Saturn d pieces transit. It's preparing to
dip into Aries at the end of May. And although
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Saturn will go back to the end of Pisces this
fall like September, I believe September twenty twenty five until
February twenty twenty six for like another final six months
having to change signs is really going to show how
this new area of your life, this house ruled by aries,
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starts to become a lot more important. In the Mercury
and Venus retrogrades that we're spending so much time going over,
those become extra important because they're really setting the stage
for Saturn to later come into that area and put
up greater structures or have you take that area of
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your life a bit more seriously. All the way up
until twenty twenty eight. I can't emphasize this enough, but
interest and situations that are causing you to do a
lot of reflection or revisiting or changing up the way
you go about that area of your life. Those themes
are part of a bigger story that's unfolding over the
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next three years. Okay, let's move on to Thursday, March thirteenth.
The moon is in Virgo all day, but it's doing
a lot more on Thursday, and since the lunar eclipse
in Virgo is happening in the very early hours of
Friday morning Eastern Time, Thursday is the day that is
spent in that build up to the lunar eclipse, and
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before we get to the eclipse on Friday, the moon
will be wearying Jupiter and Gemini earlier on in the
day on Thursday, so your emotions may feel a bit
all over the place, or you could be feeling things
more intensely than usually would, or you could be craving
greater mental stimulation. So maybe you're looking at different books
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or exploring different podcasts you could listen to that are helpful,
or maybe you're craving having like conversations with people and
being able to bounce your ideas off of others. Since
the Moon will be in this Mercury ruled sign Virgo
connecting with Jupiter also in another Mercury ruled sign A
plus is that Thursday, maybe you're more inspired in what
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you want to write about or how you can share
your ideas and communicate with people. Then the moon moves
on to oppose the Sun and Saturn on Thursday night,
so there's a more somber tone to the end of Thursday.
Maybe you don't want to commit to a lot of
plans at this time, and you may want to take
time to be by yourself. I know I usually say
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the full moon is a time of community and coming
together with people, but because this is an eclipse, and
it's also an eclipse that is very closely configured with Saturn.
I do feel like it may leave view feeling more
drained than usual. So let's move on to Friday, the
actual day of the eclipse, so we can get into
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the nitty gritty of what this eclipse will be about. Friday,
March fourteenth, the lunar eclipse in Virgo goes exact a
few minutes before at three am Eastern Time, and it's
happening at twenty three degrees of Virgo, very very close
to an opposition with Saturn, which I believe is at
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twenty two degrees of Pisces. Yeah, Saturn's at twenty two.
And then also it's in a looser but still in
opposition with Neptune as well. So this is truly not
an easy energy for an eclipse. I mean, an eclipse
is not easy to begin with, but having Saturn and
Neptune thrown in the mix, it becomes confusing almost because
Saturn up tune our polar opposites in what they represent.
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But before we get into that, I first want to
go over how this is the first Virgo eclipse we've
experienced in this Virgo Pisces eclipse cycle that is just
beginning this year, and we had a Pisce's eclipse in
September twenty twenty four that really kicked off this cycle.
And now we're getting that first Virgo eclipse and it's
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going to be followed by a final Ares solar eclipse
which is happening two weeks after this lunar eclipse, so
at the very end of March, and that final Areas
eclipse will that'll be the wrap up of the Ares
Libra eclipse cycle that was going on since twenty twenty three.
So we really are entering into a new like two
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year era where we're going to have a series of
eclipses happening across these two signs of Pisces in Virgo.
So we've got this one happening in March of twenty
twenty five and Virgo, then another well a Virgo solar
eclipse in September twenty twenty five, and then we have
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another Virgo lunar eclipse in March twenty twenty six, and
then a final Virgo lunar eclipse in February twenty twenty seven.
So this is the first of four eclipses in this
Virgo ruled house of your chart, and it may bring
up realizations or emotions related to that house for you
and the area of life that that house is associated with.
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So I would say with this first eclipse, how it's
like one in a series and it's just on the
cusp of change starting there. Maybe you're just having that
first inkling of Okay, I want to change something in
this part of my life, but I'm really not quite
sure what that looks like just yet. And going back
to how this eclipse is configured with Saturn and Neptune,
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it may feel very frustrating or confusing, or you're extra
sensitive about the topics associated with this Virgo ruled house
and the few chure holds in that area for you,
or again it could feel like this change is taking
way too long to happen, or you're facing the tough
reality of a situation going on in that Virgo world
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house of your chart. So if you're not seeing like
fast paced developments go on in this area of your life,
like maybe you would hope there would be change going
on by then, for you know that that opportunity will come,
and there may be even like a series of changes
that happen across that part of your life that build
upon each other over the next two years until early
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twenty twenty seven, because we still got three more eclipses
in this area. And I honestly see this Virgo lunar
eclipse is bringing up the emotions in the realizations, and
then you get the new start in that same area
of your life closer to that September solar eclipse. I
would also say that maybe these realizations involving that Virgo
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world house of your chart are centered around how you
can find deeper meaning in that part of your life
or be of service to people somehow you'll want to
bring in these general Virgo themes to that specific part
of your life, So like, how can you be of
service to people, How can you have a healthier everyday
balance in that part of your life? What is a
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routine or work ethic that works best for you there,
or what are healthier habits or mindsets that you can establish.
And one final theme I would say is like how
can you get better organized or just find better structure
in that part of your life? And for anyone who
missed it when I put it out last fall, I
did a whole episode called Eclipse Stories. I put it
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out in September of twenty twenty four, and that was like,
that's what you need to know if you want to
know more about this eclipse and what it means for
your specific chart and what these Pisces Virgo eclipses might
mean for your rising sign. A ton of listeners wrote
in their personal stories with eclipses across a certain part
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of their chart and what they're feeling coming out of
those now and what rising sign is currently going into
that eclipse cycle based on what.
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Houses are activated.
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So like, as a Leo rising, I have a lot
to learn from Virgo and Pisces risings because they just
had the second eighth house eclipses and that's what Leo
and Aquarius risings are going into. So definitely revisit that
Eclipse Stories episode for further insight into what this eclipse
series might mean for you. I will say these eclipses
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will be a bigger deal if you have Ergo or
Pisces prominently in your chart. Typically when you have eclipses
in your rising or your sun's sign, you're going through
way bigger life shifts and maybe changes to your identity
or bigger life changes like moving to a new city,
or getting married, or having a major career change or
having a baby, something like, you know, those life changes
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that just don't come around often. That's what I would
expect to be happening for Virgo Pisces risings or Virgo
Pisces suns. Also, if like your moon falls in those
two signs, it would be changes to moon like themes,
so changes going on within your family, how you think
about your emotions, your living situation. So if you do
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have Pisces and Virgo placements in your chart, it's important
to get clear on what does that placement mean and
how is that element of change, and maybe releasing a
pastway of going about that planet or that angle as
you move into a new chapter there. I would also
add in bigger changes going on for Sagittarius and Gemini
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placements too, because I have noticed over the years that
even if your sign is not getting directly affected by
where the eclipses are, when the eclipses are square to
your signs, so in the same modality. So this be
all the mutable signs Pisc's, Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, they're all
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going through kind of bigger shifts with this eclipse.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Series.
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And it's also important to see, like what degree, So
this eclipse is happening at twenty three degrees of Virgo,
people that have later degree Virgo placements, maybe this is
the most meaningful Virgo eclipse out of all four of
them because it's hitting your chart placements to the exact degree.
But if you have like a Virgo placement at two
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or three degrees of Virgo, like super far away from
this twenty three degrees, maybe the eclipse that comes along
in very early degrees of Pisces or Virgo throughout this series,
that one's the most impactful and stirs up the most
change in your life. It will be really interesting to
see what happens in June and July of twenty twenty five,
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so in a few months from now, because that's when
Mars moves into Virgo and meets up with the South
node there, and because this Virgo eclipse is happening amidst
all these retrogrades and Saturn and Neptune are kind of
holding you back with making positive developments. Maybe in that
Virgo world part of your chart, Mars is going to
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come in there several months from now June and July
and it'll reignite this area of your life where that
lunar eclipse has recently taken place, and another one will
be happening shortly after in September, and by the time
Mars gets to Virgo, Neptune and Saturn have moved on
to Ares, so they're not restricting Mars either. So I
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just see that that two month time frame June July
as being very key in finding greater motivation or seeing
greater action take place in the Virgo world house, and
maybe that's when you're really seeing, Okay, this is the
change that I want to happen. I feel like I
have greater direction here. One last thing for Friday is
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that the moon leaves Virgo and moves into Libra a
little after three pm Eastern on Friday afternoon, So maybe
there's not as much heaviness, or maybe there's a more
social element to Friday afternoon. Friday evening kind of the
first time this week that we felt possibly a lighter,
more fun energy, and thankfully that does carry into the weekend.
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I think I've spent a ton of time on Friday.
Let's move on to Saturday now, Okay, Saturday, March fifteenth,
the moon is still in Libra all day and it's
opposing Venus retrograde in Aries and now Mercury retrograde starting.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So this is once.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Again a moonbeat and a sign that is aspecting a
planet the day it goes retrograde. So in this case,
it's opposing Mercury the day Mercury station's retrograde in Aries.
And if you'll recall two weeks ago, the moon was
in Aries triggering Venus the day Venus went retrograde in Aries.
So just something I'm going to note and see how
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it plays out. And maybe the themes of Mercury retrograde
starting are super prominent and felt more intensely on Saturday
than maybe they normally would be. But the moon is
thankfully also training Jupiter on Saturday, so there very much
may be this theme of feeling more connected in relationships,
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but also reflecting on how can you better relate or
compromise with people, or how might you assert what you
want in a relationship, because it's this opposite energy this
weekend of libramon versus Ara's retrograde planets, So it's definitely
that balance of like compromise versus what do I want
for myself? How can I be more direct, But overall,
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like Saturday may simply be more of a fun social
energy that we were really lacking over the days leading
up to this. Obviously, the main event I want to
focus on for Saturday is that Mercury retrograde begins, and
it starts at nine degrees of air on March fifteenth,
and over the course of its retrograde, it will backtrack
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to twenty six degrees of pisces, where it will end
on April seventh. So it's happening at Mercury retrograde's length
is a little over three weeks, and people with chart
placements in those last.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Three four degrees of pisces.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Twenty six to twenty nine degrees of prices and then
zero to nine basically ten degrees of aries, those chart
placements are affected the most by this retrograde, and there
may be a lot of restructuring reflection, kind of figuring
out how to integrate the energies of that planet or
that angle affected into your life in a better way.
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But yeah, it's interesting how this Mercury retrograde ends on
April seventh, and then Venus retrograde ends on April twelfth,
So the end of March is a very confusing time,
but then very quickly on into April. Before we even
get to the middle of the month, these retrogrades lift
and we can kind of finally enjoy life more is
what I'm hoping, as I was saying in the intro
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the next three weeks really starting from Saturday, because we
still have venus retrograde and now Mercury retrograde going on,
it's not an ideal time for trying to push ahead
with new projects and opportunities and getting frustrated maybe when
you're met with delays or things aren't turning out as
you would hoped. So honestly, my new approach to when
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life feels slow or frustrating, frustrating in this way is
to turn to learning. So maybe you want to do
the same too, And this can be learning for work,
like maybe revisiting past knowledge you've obtained at your job
and really getting more clear on that in order for
you to advance further in your career once the retrogrades lift,
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or maybe it's simply learning for pleasure, and because Mercury
is so much like what are you interested in? What
do you want to learn about?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
More fully?
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Maybe you want to immerse yourself in topics that you
have a genuine interest in and follow wherever your curiosity
is taking you during this retrograde, because you never know
how where your interests are leading you now may inform
what's to come for you in the future. And like
I was just saying, it could very much be that
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you're revisiting past subjects, past ideas and more fully developing them.
Or it could be that you're also revisiting past relationships
and reconnecting with someone you've lost touch with, or even
if it's not that literal, maybe it's that a situation
happening in your life is very closely resembling something you've
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already encountered in the past. And these two retrogrades simultaneously
are giving you that opportunity to move forward differently, or
maybe move past this past pattern that you keep encountering.
And I feel like I keep saying this, but in general,
this is the time to be refined, reflecting on next steps, brainstorming, experimenting,
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rather than placing high expectations on yourself that something should
work out immediately or get a super successful positive reaction
right now. It's kind of more a time of going
within and strategizing rather than pushing ahead and putting yourself
out there so much. And once again, the house of
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your chart and also the Pisces world House of your chart,
those are very relevant for this Mercury retrograde because Mercury
will eventually transition back into Pisces where it'll wrap up
the retrograde in April. So looking at those two houses
and the topics associated with each, what are you revisiting
or reflecting on more in depth in these two areas
of your life? And there may be delays that come
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up there, or maybe there's something important from your past
that you need to look at in that area, or
you could need to be open to change or redirection
going on there.
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When we come out of.
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These two retrogrades in the middle of April, you're going
to feel so much better about these two areas of
your life, the house world by Arias and the houseworld
by Pisces, and you're going to have a lot more
certainty about your next steps there. So overall, March is
just a huge lesson in patience. Let's wrap this week
up on Sunday, March sixteenth. Now, so Sunday, finally, we
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don't have any major transits. The moon is still in Libra,
so again maybe having more of that focus on relationships
or connecting with people in a more intimate way, or
feeling a bit up for social activity. It could also
be that maybe you're wanting to absorb art and culture
or fashion and you could have more creative inspiration, or
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you're more into learning about different topics. However, the moon
will be opposite to Chiron and aries and is also
going to be squaring Mars and cancer on Sunday, So
on the flip side of that, there could be some
challenging emotion or insecurities that surface on Sunday, or maybe
you're feeling kind of like on edge about something and
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very sensitive. I would just say maybe don't maybe try
not to pick fights or unnecessary like bickering with people,
or recognize that other people's emotions or reactions aren't really
a reflection of you. Okay, That is where I end
this episode. This is officially the longest forecast episode I've
ever done in the history of this podcast. That just
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speaks to how much important astrology is going on this week.
It's a big one. So I'm sending everyone love and
I'm hoping that your next few days aren't too chaotic,
but i'll see you back your next Monday.
Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
your host, Alice Bell and today's Monday, March tenth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We have a huge week ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is likely going to be a longer episode than
usual because there's so much going on astrologically over the
next few days. I don't even know where to start,
to be honest. We have a lunar eclipse in Virgo
happening on Friday. We also have mercury retrograde starting in
the sign of Aries that'll start up on Saturday, and
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then from that point on, we're going to have both
Mercury and Venus retrogrades going on at the same time
for about the next three weeks starting on Saturday. And
what else do we have going on?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This week?
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The Sun will be conjunct Saturn in Pisces. And also
going back to that Mercury retrograde, it is so important,
It will be such an important transit to watch because
it rules the Virgo lunaric li lips. That's taking place
like one day before Mercury station's retrograde, so Mercury is
a big player this week. And then also yeah, that
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sun conjunct Saturn is also important because it just intensifies
the themes of whatever how Saturn has been transitting for
you for two years now, we're at the two year
anniversary of Saturn entering Pisces. So throughout this episode we're
going to go more in depth on what all of
these transits mean. I just want to give you a
heads up of, like, this is what we're dealing with
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this week. It is a in my opinion, it's a low,
low energy time. Like you may think that you want
to get ahead, and maybe you're second guessing yourself of
like should I be pushing forward with new opportunities, new projects?
Like should I just not be sitting around? Should I
actually be trying to do something? And the answer is
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honestly no, Like if you feel the need to rest,
listen to your intuition there because this is not ideal
energy to get new upper unities, new projects, new ideas
off the ground and running quite yet. It's rather a
time of going within, reflecting, really thinking through what next
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steps do you want to take? And have you planned
it out carefully enough? The beginning of this year has
been super hazy and honestly confusing of what the bigger
picture is here? What exactly like how you can plan
for the long term, what exactly you want to be
working towards in the bigger scheme of things. But I
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think that will become much more evident once we get
firmly into April, like around mid April, second half of
that month, may June, July. But right now, it's really
not a time of doing, like I said, it's more
for reflection and thinking of your next steps. And these
periods are actually so necessary because you can't expect to
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be going at a fast paced at all times in
your life. So I actually think of this as like, Okay, great,
I'm having this moment to kind of slow down. Maybe
you don't want to be seen as much. Maybe you're
working on something you're not quite ready to announce yet,
or you're just kind of reflecting on what does come next.
And and by giving yourself maybe a bit of space
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to breathe, that in turn will help you to have
more ideas and feel more motivated once that astrology picks
back up again and the opportunities arise. And this is
actually a topic I'm going more in depth on a
sub stack article I'm sending out I believe either today
or tomorrow, and I talk about how there are seasons
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for silence and learning and self improvement, and how there
are seasons for being out in the world and being
public facing, and how to spot when you're in those
certain phases of life, and also how to make the
most of it. Like it's not just because these transits
are difficult right now. It shouldn't be that you're counting down.
I mean, I honestly have to remind myself of this,
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Like I'm learning through saying this, you shouldn't be counting
down the days until a moment in time is over.
Like the whole goal is to be more present and
see how every moment of life has a lesson in
it and is necessary. So hopefully through that article, I'm
able to help you understand kind of how to work
with those energies. And then also are season is right
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around the corner at this point. It starts next week,
which we have to look forward to. I love the
start of a new zodiac year, and I'll be doing
my aris monthly horoscopes in depth. But if you want
more info on like what this Virgo lunar eclipse and
this mercury retrograde and this venus retrograde means for your
rising sign. That is something I've gone over in last
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month the Pisce season monthly horoscopes for each rising sign
over on substack. So yeah, I just wanted to flag
that for upcoming info I'm sending out. But with that
being said, we've got a huge episode. So let's get
into the astrology for the week ahead. Okay, we're starting
off the week on Monday, March tenth. A huge theme
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that takes up the full first half of this week,
so from Monday through Wednesday, and it really intensifies later
on on Tuesday into Wednesday, is that the Sun in
Pisces is coming up on an exact conjunction with Saturn
and Pisces. So this is not the easiest transit by
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any means, and you're probably going to feel these themes
that I'm about to go over building over the next
couple of days. This may leave you feeling kind of
emotionally heavy, or that there's just like this heaviness in general,
or maybe there's an area and again check the Pisces
World House of your chart to see where you may
be experiencing these themes. But like a feeling of being
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met with stress or delays, or you're just feeling the
weight of responsibilities on you that pertain to that specific
area of your life. And this week could also be
a time of like really needing to get down to
work and not procrastinating and not delaying what needs to
be done. Or on the other hand, you could be
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facing the reality of certain situations and you might be
reflecting on who and what is serving you in the
long term and really getting real about what adds value
to your life. And because of this, maybe you are
scaling back on what types of projects you agree to
do or what types of social plans you agree to attend.
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Like maybe this week you just feel kind of tired
and you need space to be alone, and or there's
just like because you're doing so much during your day,
maybe at the end of the day you just feel
very drained and you need those moments to recharge and
really think about what actually matters in your life and.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What is serving you in the bigger picture.
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Looking at that Pisc's world house of your chart, there
could be this reflection of like, how are you needing
to put more effort into that area of your life
or get more serious about something there, or how could
you be thinking about the topics of that house more
strategically for the long term, like not just wanting to
commit to anything in that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Part of your life.
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So, for example, of your geminiising, this Sun Saturn conjunctions
taking place in your tenth house, so maybe you're like, wait,
I really want to focus and be more strategic about
what work projects I commit to as well as what
decisions I make regarding the future of my career and
scaling back on maybe this need to do everything all
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at once or be seen in a certain way, So
this conjunction could have you like scaling back at work
and for everyone that Piss's world house of your chart
will require a lot more careful thought and planning, and
you've already probably been doing a lot of work and
learning a lot of tough lessons in this part of
your life over the last two years while Saturn's been
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transiting this part of your chart. But just having the
Sun come along and trigger Saturn makes those themes more
prominent this month and especially this week than they are
throughout the rest of the year. On a more positive note,
the moon is in Leo all day on Monday, and
it'll be training Mercury and Venus and Ares and also
sextiling Jupiter and Gemini.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So there's this nice aspect.
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Configuration between the fire and air signs happening on Monday,
and this could help you to feel extra creative or
maybe you are connecting and socializing with people, but again
keeping the Sun Saturn conjunction in mind, really taking stock
of like who those people are and what social obligations
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matter the most to you. But going back to the
Moon and Leo, like this is great for I don't know,
bouncing ideas off of others because it has that connection
with Jupiter and Gemini, and maybe the convert stations you're
having with people end up informing your approach to maybe
a creative project or how you want to express yourself
and be seen by others. So it's like bringing that
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social element into how you express yourself to the world.
And this maybe this Moon transit, making all of these
positive aspects to these other planets helps to counteract that tense,
that heaviness of Sun Saturn. And if you are encountering
maybe a more challenging situation right now, it could have
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you looking at it in a more optimistic light of like, okay,
that needed to happen so that I could change directions
in this way or figure out a new solution there.
And also maybe the moon triggering Venus retrograde in this
positive way through a trine. It could be that insight
into a recurring thought or a situation you've been having
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since Venus retrograde started on March first comes to you,
like maybe there's a sense of re or okay, maybe
this is how I need to navigate this relationship situation
or this thing regarding my personal creativity or my style,
all Venusian themes. Let's move on to Tuesday, March eleventh.
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So the moon is still in Leo all day on Tuesday. However,
it's not making as many pleasant aspects to other planets. Instead,
it's just squaring you're honest, before it goes void, of course,
in the second half of the day. So maybe throughout
the first half of the day and for time zones
ahead of America, this would be the majority of your Tuesday.
You could feel kind of an unsettled, anxious energy, or
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things may feel a bit frenzied, or there may be
sudden news that pops up or change in plans. Because
remember we're also getting pretty close to Friday's lunar eclipse
in Virgo, So in the few days leading up to that,
your life is naturally going to feel a bit more
frenzied or high activity, or like a lot is coming
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together at once. So that could leave you feeling kind
of anxious on Tuesday, and then later on on Tuesday
once the moon moves past that aspect with your honest
you may just not have as much energy, like maybe
there's a surge of stuff that goes on on Monday
and early on on Tuesday, but then going into the
second half of Tuesday, there's less planning or developments going on.
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Another aspect taking place on this day is that mercury
and Venus will be conjunct in ares so Venus is
currently retrograde. Mercury is not retrograde quite yet, but it's
zooming through arees. It's meeting up with venus retrograde there
and triggering the venus retrograde themes more fully. And because
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mercury represents like what you're interested in talking about or
how you're processing your thoughts and what you're interested in
learning more or discussing, could involve the topics of venus
retrograde on Tuesday, so check the ares World house of
your chart to see like where what the themes might
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be that you're having recurring thoughts about or you want
to explore more in depth, or maybe you're revisiting a
past situation having to do with that part of your life.
And it could also be that there's just more careful
thinking on Tuesday about Venusian related themes, like maybe you're
considering how can I communicate better in relationships or what
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decision do you want to make regarding the future of
a relationship, or even someone you've just started dating. It
could be that you're having contact and communication with someone
from your past, like meeting up with a friend you
had a falling out with, or maybe an ex text
you out of nowhere, So just stay on the lookout
for that type of thing involving relationships. I have noticed
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the topic of money being super prominent with this Venus
retrograde already, because finances is another signification of Venus. Something
in the news that happened recently that I found to
be very striking in regard to the Venus retrograde occurring
was the day before Venus stationed retrograde and when a
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planet stationed, the qualities of that planet become even more intensified.
And so on February twenty eighth, a day before Venus
stationed retrograde, there was this news of an economic blackout
where people were boycotting spending any money on that Friday.
So I thought that was very interesting because it has
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this Venus retrograde theme of like really thinking about, like
where are you putting your money, what do you value
spending money on, and how can you be smarter with
your finances. So in addition to that obvious theme of
relationships going along with Venus retrograde, maybe it's also that
around the middle of this week you're thinking or talking
more about money or your finances or getting better organized.
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There In my own life, I'm really noticing how where
I want to spend money is changing, and I'm also
noticing the Venus theme of personal style in that and
how that's shifting for me. I've been giving away a
lot of my clothes recently, like things I bought six
seven years ago in my mid twenties that just don't
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work with my lifestyle anymore. So kind of going back
and thinking, like, what what can I clear out here
first before I make any new purchases or embark on
that next chapter of my personal style or personal self expression.
And then, of course we still have this Sun Saturn
conjunction building on Tuesday. So what I said on Monday
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about potentially being a bit more stressed, or having bigger
responsibilities that you're coping with, or getting more serious about
what you want to spend your time and energy on,
those themes will still persist throughout Tuesday too and Wednesday.
So let's move on to Wednesday, March twelfth. Now, So
on Wednesday morning, right around four am Eastern, the moon
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leaves Leo and moves into Virgo. So for time Zion's
ahead of America, you're still you're going to feel the
Moon and Leo for the first part of your day,
so you may experience slower energy because the moon will
be void, of course, and maybe there's not as much
developments and new opportunities that are popping up throughout your
Wednesday work day, and it could be harder to find motivation.
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But for those of us in America and similar time zones,
once that moon moves into Virgo early Wednesday morning Eastern,
we're officially in lunar eclipse territory. The moon is still
in the early degrees of Virgo though throughout Wednesday, and
it hasn't quite come up on that opposition with this
stelium of placements at the end of pisces like north
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node Neptune Saturn. So maybe you're experiencing the more positive
side of the Virgo moon traits on Wednesday, and it
could be a good day to really put your head
down and accomplish things on your to do list, or
invest more time into a wellness practice, like maybe you
want to go to a workout class or make an fa.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
To eat a bit healthier.
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It doesn't have to be anything major, but maybe finding
little ways to feel better in your body on Wednesday.
And also when I think about the Virgo moon, I
think about multitasking and keeping a keeping track of a
lot of smaller details at once. And again going back
to how we are in the lead up to that
full moon, there's going to be more going on this week,
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So maybe you are you do have like your hand
in many different pots and you're kind of struggling to
keep up, or it's it's a fast paced environment on Wednesday,
and then finally we get that Sun Saturn conjunction go
exact Wednesday morning, and again that made points still like
how there's just a lot on your plate at this time.
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If it does feel like there's no light at the
end of the tunnel with work and all these other tasks,
or how change is being slow to happen, know that
those feelings will pass at the time of the Sun
Saturn conjunction, which happens only once a year. Saturn is
always moving at its fastest pace, So right now it's
covering almost a degree a week throughout this month of March.
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It's zooming right through the end degrees of Pisces, and
it'll reach twenty four degrees of ices by the end
of this month. So I think that it's covering four
or five degrees throughout March. And the reason I want
to bring this up is because we're nearing almost the
end of this Saturn d pieces transit. It's preparing to
dip into Aries at the end of May. And although
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Saturn will go back to the end of Pisces this
fall like September, I believe September twenty twenty five until
February twenty twenty six for like another final six months
having to change signs is really going to show how
this new area of your life, this house ruled by aries,
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starts to become a lot more important. In the Mercury
and Venus retrogrades that we're spending so much time going over,
those become extra important because they're really setting the stage
for Saturn to later come into that area and put
up greater structures or have you take that area of
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your life a bit more seriously. All the way up
until twenty twenty eight. I can't emphasize this enough, but
interest and situations that are causing you to do a
lot of reflection or revisiting or changing up the way
you go about that area of your life. Those themes
are part of a bigger story that's unfolding over the
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next three years. Okay, let's move on to Thursday, March thirteenth.
The moon is in Virgo all day, but it's doing
a lot more on Thursday, and since the lunar eclipse
in Virgo is happening in the very early hours of
Friday morning Eastern Time, Thursday is the day that is
spent in that build up to the lunar eclipse, and
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before we get to the eclipse on Friday, the moon
will be wearying Jupiter and Gemini earlier on in the
day on Thursday, so your emotions may feel a bit
all over the place, or you could be feeling things
more intensely than usually would, or you could be craving
greater mental stimulation. So maybe you're looking at different books
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or exploring different podcasts you could listen to that are helpful,
or maybe you're craving having like conversations with people and
being able to bounce your ideas off of others. Since
the Moon will be in this Mercury ruled sign Virgo
connecting with Jupiter also in another Mercury ruled sign A
plus is that Thursday, maybe you're more inspired in what
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you want to write about or how you can share
your ideas and communicate with people. Then the moon moves
on to oppose the Sun and Saturn on Thursday night,
so there's a more somber tone to the end of Thursday.
Maybe you don't want to commit to a lot of
plans at this time, and you may want to take
time to be by yourself. I know I usually say
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the full moon is a time of community and coming
together with people, but because this is an eclipse, and
it's also an eclipse that is very closely configured with Saturn.
I do feel like it may leave view feeling more
drained than usual. So let's move on to Friday, the
actual day of the eclipse, so we can get into
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the nitty gritty of what this eclipse will be about. Friday,
March fourteenth, the lunar eclipse in Virgo goes exact a
few minutes before at three am Eastern Time, and it's
happening at twenty three degrees of Virgo, very very close
to an opposition with Saturn, which I believe is at
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twenty two degrees of Pisces. Yeah, Saturn's at twenty two.
And then also it's in a looser but still in
opposition with Neptune as well. So this is truly not
an easy energy for an eclipse. I mean, an eclipse
is not easy to begin with, but having Saturn and
Neptune thrown in the mix, it becomes confusing almost because
Saturn up tune our polar opposites in what they represent.
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But before we get into that, I first want to
go over how this is the first Virgo eclipse we've
experienced in this Virgo Pisces eclipse cycle that is just
beginning this year, and we had a Pisce's eclipse in
September twenty twenty four that really kicked off this cycle.
And now we're getting that first Virgo eclipse and it's
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going to be followed by a final Ares solar eclipse
which is happening two weeks after this lunar eclipse, so
at the very end of March, and that final Areas
eclipse will that'll be the wrap up of the Ares
Libra eclipse cycle that was going on since twenty twenty three.
So we really are entering into a new like two
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year era where we're going to have a series of
eclipses happening across these two signs of Pisces in Virgo.
So we've got this one happening in March of twenty
twenty five and Virgo, then another well a Virgo solar
eclipse in September twenty twenty five, and then we have
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another Virgo lunar eclipse in March twenty twenty six, and
then a final Virgo lunar eclipse in February twenty twenty seven.
So this is the first of four eclipses in this
Virgo ruled house of your chart, and it may bring
up realizations or emotions related to that house for you
and the area of life that that house is associated with.
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So I would say with this first eclipse, how it's
like one in a series and it's just on the
cusp of change starting there. Maybe you're just having that
first inkling of Okay, I want to change something in
this part of my life, but I'm really not quite
sure what that looks like just yet. And going back
to how this eclipse is configured with Saturn and Neptune,
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it may feel very frustrating or confusing, or you're extra
sensitive about the topics associated with this Virgo ruled house
and the few chure holds in that area for you,
or again it could feel like this change is taking
way too long to happen, or you're facing the tough
reality of a situation going on in that Virgo world
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house of your chart. So if you're not seeing like
fast paced developments go on in this area of your life,
like maybe you would hope there would be change going
on by then, for you know that that opportunity will come,
and there may be even like a series of changes
that happen across that part of your life that build
upon each other over the next two years until early
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twenty twenty seven, because we still got three more eclipses
in this area. And I honestly see this Virgo lunar
eclipse is bringing up the emotions in the realizations, and
then you get the new start in that same area
of your life closer to that September solar eclipse. I
would also say that maybe these realizations involving that Virgo
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world house of your chart are centered around how you
can find deeper meaning in that part of your life
or be of service to people somehow you'll want to
bring in these general Virgo themes to that specific part
of your life, So like, how can you be of
service to people, How can you have a healthier everyday
balance in that part of your life? What is a
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routine or work ethic that works best for you there,
or what are healthier habits or mindsets that you can establish.
And one final theme I would say is like how
can you get better organized or just find better structure
in that part of your life? And for anyone who
missed it when I put it out last fall, I
did a whole episode called Eclipse Stories. I put it
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out in September of twenty twenty four, and that was like,
that's what you need to know if you want to
know more about this eclipse and what it means for
your specific chart and what these Pisces Virgo eclipses might
mean for your rising sign. A ton of listeners wrote
in their personal stories with eclipses across a certain part
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of their chart and what they're feeling coming out of
those now and what rising sign is currently going into
that eclipse cycle based on what.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Houses are activated.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So like, as a Leo rising, I have a lot
to learn from Virgo and Pisces risings because they just
had the second eighth house eclipses and that's what Leo
and Aquarius risings are going into. So definitely revisit that
Eclipse Stories episode for further insight into what this eclipse
series might mean for you. I will say these eclipses
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will be a bigger deal if you have Ergo or
Pisces prominently in your chart. Typically when you have eclipses
in your rising or your sun's sign, you're going through
way bigger life shifts and maybe changes to your identity
or bigger life changes like moving to a new city,
or getting married, or having a major career change or
having a baby, something like, you know, those life changes
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that just don't come around often. That's what I would
expect to be happening for Virgo Pisces risings or Virgo
Pisces suns. Also, if like your moon falls in those
two signs, it would be changes to moon like themes,
so changes going on within your family, how you think
about your emotions, your living situation. So if you do
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have Pisces and Virgo placements in your chart, it's important
to get clear on what does that placement mean and
how is that element of change, and maybe releasing a
pastway of going about that planet or that angle as
you move into a new chapter there. I would also
add in bigger changes going on for Sagittarius and Gemini
(26:44):
placements too, because I have noticed over the years that
even if your sign is not getting directly affected by
where the eclipses are, when the eclipses are square to
your signs, so in the same modality. So this be
all the mutable signs Pisc's, Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, they're all
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going through kind of bigger shifts with this eclipse.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Series.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And it's also important to see, like what degree, So
this eclipse is happening at twenty three degrees of Virgo,
people that have later degree Virgo placements, maybe this is
the most meaningful Virgo eclipse out of all four of
them because it's hitting your chart placements to the exact degree.
But if you have like a Virgo placement at two
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or three degrees of Virgo, like super far away from
this twenty three degrees, maybe the eclipse that comes along
in very early degrees of Pisces or Virgo throughout this series,
that one's the most impactful and stirs up the most
change in your life. It will be really interesting to
see what happens in June and July of twenty twenty five,
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so in a few months from now, because that's when
Mars moves into Virgo and meets up with the South
node there, and because this Virgo eclipse is happening amidst
all these retrogrades and Saturn and Neptune are kind of
holding you back with making positive developments. Maybe in that
Virgo world part of your chart, Mars is going to
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come in there several months from now June and July
and it'll reignite this area of your life where that
lunar eclipse has recently taken place, and another one will
be happening shortly after in September, and by the time
Mars gets to Virgo, Neptune and Saturn have moved on
to Ares, so they're not restricting Mars either. So I
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just see that that two month time frame June July
as being very key in finding greater motivation or seeing
greater action take place in the Virgo world house, and
maybe that's when you're really seeing, Okay, this is the
change that I want to happen. I feel like I
have greater direction here. One last thing for Friday is
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that the moon leaves Virgo and moves into Libra a
little after three pm Eastern on Friday afternoon, So maybe
there's not as much heaviness, or maybe there's a more
social element to Friday afternoon. Friday evening kind of the
first time this week that we felt possibly a lighter,
more fun energy, and thankfully that does carry into the weekend.
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I think I've spent a ton of time on Friday.
Let's move on to Saturday now, Okay, Saturday, March fifteenth,
the moon is still in Libra all day and it's
opposing Venus retrograde in Aries and now Mercury retrograde starting.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So this is once.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Again a moonbeat and a sign that is aspecting a
planet the day it goes retrograde. So in this case,
it's opposing Mercury the day Mercury station's retrograde in Aries.
And if you'll recall two weeks ago, the moon was
in Aries triggering Venus the day Venus went retrograde in Aries.
So just something I'm going to note and see how
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it plays out. And maybe the themes of Mercury retrograde
starting are super prominent and felt more intensely on Saturday
than maybe they normally would be. But the moon is
thankfully also training Jupiter on Saturday, so there very much
may be this theme of feeling more connected in relationships,
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but also reflecting on how can you better relate or
compromise with people, or how might you assert what you
want in a relationship, because it's this opposite energy this
weekend of libramon versus Ara's retrograde planets, So it's definitely
that balance of like compromise versus what do I want
for myself? How can I be more direct, But overall,
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like Saturday may simply be more of a fun social
energy that we were really lacking over the days leading
up to this. Obviously, the main event I want to
focus on for Saturday is that Mercury retrograde begins, and
it starts at nine degrees of air on March fifteenth,
and over the course of its retrograde, it will backtrack
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to twenty six degrees of pisces, where it will end
on April seventh. So it's happening at Mercury retrograde's length
is a little over three weeks, and people with chart
placements in those last.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Three four degrees of pisces.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Twenty six to twenty nine degrees of prices and then
zero to nine basically ten degrees of aries, those chart
placements are affected the most by this retrograde, and there
may be a lot of restructuring reflection, kind of figuring
out how to integrate the energies of that planet or
that angle affected into your life in a better way.
(31:44):
But yeah, it's interesting how this Mercury retrograde ends on
April seventh, and then Venus retrograde ends on April twelfth,
So the end of March is a very confusing time,
but then very quickly on into April. Before we even
get to the middle of the month, these retrogrades lift
and we can kind of finally enjoy life more is
what I'm hoping, as I was saying in the intro
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the next three weeks really starting from Saturday, because we
still have venus retrograde and now Mercury retrograde going on,
it's not an ideal time for trying to push ahead
with new projects and opportunities and getting frustrated maybe when
you're met with delays or things aren't turning out as
you would hoped. So honestly, my new approach to when
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life feels slow or frustrating, frustrating in this way is
to turn to learning. So maybe you want to do
the same too, And this can be learning for work,
like maybe revisiting past knowledge you've obtained at your job
and really getting more clear on that in order for
you to advance further in your career once the retrogrades lift,
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or maybe it's simply learning for pleasure, and because Mercury
is so much like what are you interested in? What
do you want to learn about?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
More fully?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Maybe you want to immerse yourself in topics that you
have a genuine interest in and follow wherever your curiosity
is taking you during this retrograde, because you never know
how where your interests are leading you now may inform
what's to come for you in the future. And like
I was just saying, it could very much be that
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you're revisiting past subjects, past ideas and more fully developing them.
Or it could be that you're also revisiting past relationships
and reconnecting with someone you've lost touch with, or even
if it's not that literal, maybe it's that a situation
happening in your life is very closely resembling something you've
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already encountered in the past. And these two retrogrades simultaneously
are giving you that opportunity to move forward differently, or
maybe move past this past pattern that you keep encountering.
And I feel like I keep saying this, but in general,
this is the time to be refined, reflecting on next steps, brainstorming, experimenting,
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rather than placing high expectations on yourself that something should
work out immediately or get a super successful positive reaction
right now. It's kind of more a time of going
within and strategizing rather than pushing ahead and putting yourself
out there so much. And once again, the house of
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your chart and also the Pisces world House of your chart,
those are very relevant for this Mercury retrograde because Mercury
will eventually transition back into Pisces where it'll wrap up
the retrograde in April. So looking at those two houses
and the topics associated with each, what are you revisiting
or reflecting on more in depth in these two areas
of your life? And there may be delays that come
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up there, or maybe there's something important from your past
that you need to look at in that area, or
you could need to be open to change or redirection
going on there.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
When we come out of.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
These two retrogrades in the middle of April, you're going
to feel so much better about these two areas of
your life, the house world by Arias and the houseworld
by Pisces, and you're going to have a lot more
certainty about your next steps there. So overall, March is
just a huge lesson in patience. Let's wrap this week
up on Sunday, March sixteenth. Now, so Sunday, finally, we
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don't have any major transits. The moon is still in Libra,
so again maybe having more of that focus on relationships
or connecting with people in a more intimate way, or
feeling a bit up for social activity. It could also
be that maybe you're wanting to absorb art and culture
or fashion and you could have more creative inspiration, or
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you're more into learning about different topics. However, the moon
will be opposite to Chiron and aries and is also
going to be squaring Mars and cancer on Sunday, So
on the flip side of that, there could be some
challenging emotion or insecurities that surface on Sunday, or maybe
you're feeling kind of like on edge about something and
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very sensitive. I would just say maybe don't maybe try
not to pick fights or unnecessary like bickering with people,
or recognize that other people's emotions or reactions aren't really
a reflection of you. Okay, That is where I end
this episode. This is officially the longest forecast episode I've
ever done in the history of this podcast. That just
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speaks to how much important astrology is going on this week.
It's a big one. So I'm sending everyone love and
I'm hoping that your next few days aren't too chaotic,
but i'll see you back your next Monday.
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