Pisces Rising Horoscope - Aries Season 2024
Aries Season Horoscopes 2024: EQUINOX/ECLIPSE SEASON
Welcome to Aries season, my friends. It's the season of renewal, drive, passion, and outward expression — BLOOMING, one might say.
This zodiac sign is known to be bold, direct, fast, fiery, and opinionated. They are too busy going forward to care what others are saying and doing as they pass by. As the first sign of the zodiac, they're known for initiative and pioneering. Aries are also known to embody things that seem contradictory - disciplined as soldiers, but impulsive as addicts. There are all kinds of Rams out there, and we celebrate you this season!
This year, Aries season has a few different twists and turns that we may not be expecting. In this post, I'll give you the lowdown on the different astrological events that are taking place during the season of beginnings - spoiler alert: there are always endings where beginnings are concerned.
Any time we enter into a new season, we've got a chance for growth, transformation, and change.
Let me know in the comment section before you read about the upcoming month: what are you looking to grow into this year? Intentions are very powerful in fiery ARIES SEASON!
The Aries recipe is made up of Cardinal Energy and the Fire Element. It represents initiative, drive, and acting on impulse and instinct. It's a youthful, quick energy that can be irritable for some other personality types.
Let's see what additional layers of information we can find from the other planetary influences.
The ruler of Aries, Mars, is crossing the border from Aquarius to Pisces to hang out in a sign he’s not super comfortable in. He’ll be overtaking Saturn and heading closer to Neptune to be even further washed out. With the planet of action in watery-no-border-no-structure Pisces, I wonder if we will get much accomplished outside of the realms supported by Pisces - healthcare, isolating practices, escapism, spiritual practices, present-ness.
The planets of the season (Mercury, Venus, Sun) are going to start making connections to Pluto from the opening sextile position. They were conjunct during Aquarius season, so we might be seeing opportunities arising that are coming from whatever we were up to in Aquarius season (January 20ish - February 20ish).
Jupiter will be closing the 6° gap between him and Uranus in Taurus. This will certainly have its very own post, so keep your eye on this space for more surrounding this momentous conjunction.
Mercury’s on the move! The mind and messenger planet will station retrograde - marking the end of this all-planets-direct phase. Interestingly, at the beginning of Aries season, Mercury is at 17° Aries, and at the beginning of Taurus season, he is back at 17° Aries because of his backward-appearing motion. It will make multiple conjunctions with Chiron during this retrograde. The important dates are in the section for each rising sign.
Eclipse season! We’ll have 2 eclipses during Aries season on March 25 and April 8.
Another instance of the major sign-based stelliums we’ve been seeing over the first half of this year. Again, we’ll have a concentration of the majority of planets in 2 signs - in this case, Pisces (Mars, Venus, Saturn, Neptune) and Aries (Sun, Mercury, Chiron, North Node, and Venus - she will be in both signs during Aries season). Since January, we’ve had large stelliums in Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries, and this will continue in Taurus season as well because of the concentration of outer planets in the Aquarius-Taurus quarter of the chart.
Aries Season Horoscopes:
Pisces Rising:
1. Likely, you’ll be feeling more like yourself this month as Mars is about to enter your 1st house of the body. I find the weeks that Mars spends in my 12th house are very tiring. I don’t usually have a lot of new things to tackle, but even my daily life will be nearly too much, and I’ll have to sleep long hours just to get back to normal. Having Mars in the 1st house is far more useful.
Mars will be conjoining Saturn in your 1st house, creating some kind of semi-unpredictable chemical reaction. This isn’t like a Uranus or eclipse type of unpredictable—it's more like “what will happen if we mix these two types of soap together”? It’s not going to be insane or intense, but will the colors be pleasing?
Does the blending of their scents cause you to gag? Mars is action, decisiveness, conflict, and instinct. Saturn is delays, blockages, structure, discipline, hard walls. Will this create an environment of repressed conflict, opposition to your decisions, or structured thought-out actions? It can go either way—Pisces is not conducive to Saturn or Mars’ priorities!
How will all of these energies combine to tell the story through the lens of your sense of identity?
2, The seasonal planets are creating sextiles from your Aries 2nd house with Pluto in Aquarius who has recently entered your 12th house of mental health and isolation. I’d guess this will play out in a subtle opportunity for financial benefits through a 12th house means—maybe a meditation practice, visualization, etc.
I’d guess something intellectual (Aquarius is an air sign) that offers you insight to take action financially (Aries 2nd house) differently. It could be so subtle you’d miss it generally, as a sextile is an opportunity with no guarantee that you’ll actually capitalize on what is available.
3, Jupiter and Uranus are coming into a conjunction in your 3rd house of messages. When Jupiter and Uranus conjoin (this happens about every 14 years), their lasting legacy plays out until the next conjunction 14 years later.
This could be a cocktail of content or writing ideas, new strategies to increase productivity that leads to educational opportunities, or an innovative process to change the way you’re interacting with your siblings, neighborhood, or education generally.
The keywords associated with this transit for you are innovation, surprising changes, technological updates, expansion, growth, belief, luck, optimism, deep study, religion, wisdom and the 3rd house is messages, foundational education, content, writing, speaking, neighbors/hood, siblings.
Mercury is going retrograde! It is the first planet to do so since the All Planets Direct time period started in January. Shoutout to Chaninicholas.com for providing these dates:
This is the timeline for your reflective purposes—there will likely be something that you’re doing that will change over that time frame (often shortly following the station to retrograde) and require you to go back, revise, restructure, or reinvent and then (usually shortly after the station direct) you’ll start making new progress in the revision process.
After May 13th, you can feel more secure in what your forward momentum looks like on those themes. Since it's in your 2nd house it will likely have some connection to the 2nd house themes I mentioned earlier. Perhaps you’re working on a project of some kind that is causing you to spend more on something than you expected. It could also mean refunds and reallocating things.
Mercury enters its shadow on March 18th, 2024, at 8:39 pm PT—15°58 Aries.
Mercury stations retrograde on April 1st, 2024, at 3:14 pm PT—27°13 Aries.
Mercury is cazimi on April 11th, 2024, at 4:03 pm PT—22°32 Aries.
Mercury stations direct on April 25th, 2024, at 5:54 am PT—15°58 Aries.
Mercury leaves its shadow on May 13th, 2024, at 2:02 am PT—27°13 Aries.
5. Eclipse season! Boy howdy eclipse season is KNOCKING on our door. We technically entered eclipse season on March 11 when the Moon entered Aries after being New on March 10 in Pisces—and I think when the Sun enters Aries we’ll start to really see this energy boost.
The first eclipse is a Libra Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on March 25 only a few days after the ingress of the Sun and will be in your 8th house of other’s resources and the occult. The 8th house can be difficult to predict because the 8th house has a broad range of things that it can reference. While it regularly does represent other’s resources such as debts, loans, interest paid, inheritance etc- it can also have to do a lot with fears, wounds, and trauma that we are meant to deal with.
It does NOT need to mean that you’re getting divorced or breaking up or that you’re finding “the one” or getting married. It CAN mean those things - but It could also be more subtle. I’ve gone through eclipses that were (likely intense and unpredictable but ultimately) meaningless in the grand scheme of my life, and I’ve lived through eclipses that mark chapters of distinctly before and after setting off events that make my life what it is now.
The first Aries eclipse took place on April 19, 2023, and the Libra eclipse took place on October 14, 2023. And that's all we have had—one eclipse from each Aries and Libra since the nodes entered in July of 2023. What was going on during those times for you? Those are thematically relevant now and there will be connections that play out in the next whirlwind. This eclipse season will have a lot contextually—so if you’re not sure what was going on in April of 2023 or October of 2023 (get a better journaling system!) there will be a lot more clarity on the other side of this. There aren’t many Aries/Libra eclipses left!
6. Pisces planets vs. Aries planets: In your 1st house you’ve got Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Neptune—these planets are trying to establish security and foundation with Saturn before they go through the remainder of Neptune’s swamp.
Saturn and Neptune are kind of opposites—Saturn wants structure and boundaries and for there to be a reasonable reward to hard work, and the other knows nothing of those things. Neptune’s priority is to make things look ideal, beautiful, forgiving, even confusing and surreal. It’s so disorienting that you can spend a decade looking through a dungeon maze looking for the door that was on the ceiling the whole time.
This being particularly Mars and Venus, I can see these planets having more of an effect on how you see yourself as a whole, and establishing “what is good for me?” The 1st house is representing the priorities of the body, individuality, daily interactions with strangers, and who you are out and about.
As these other seasonal planets eventually converge into the Aries house of your chart, you’ll see this focus is switching from being conscious and focused on how it impacts your bottom line, income, spending, and values to how it affects your neighborhood/community environment as well as how it shapes the way you interact through media and messaging that the 3rd house is concerned with.
Aries energy as a whole is supportive of risks, impulse, being led by instinct, and for turning your focus more to the outward aspects of our life after a season of introspection, rest, and separation. This time frame is generally a time of newness and an explosion of potential—but this one in particular has its own twists—so stay on your toes and remember generally to try to stay in your lane. Chiron, the wounded healer, is going to be activated through the Mercury retrograde and the eclipse as well. There will be hurt people out there, and hurt people hurt people—try to be available as someone who can facilitate support and understanding—but not at the expense of your own wellness.
Remember to stay in your lane and avoid causing unneeded conflict. Use your best judgment to focus on the main arenas in your life. Strangers, service people, drivers—none of these are going to be worth extra dramatics.
Aries season is gonna be lit, though I think! This is always a great time for self-discovery as Aries rules the self and is an extremely independent sign all on its own—start piling lots of planets in that area of your life and it starts to become very obvious what needs our energy and what will have to be on its way out the door.
Embrace the fiery energy of Aries!
Join us for the next Full Moon Live event gathering for the Libra Lunar Eclipse! Lunar eclipses are usually an ending, and when the Sun is near the North Node and the Moon is near the South Node like in this situation, there is usually a reference to letting go. What do you think? Will this likely be a big event for you? Do you have anything specifically involved in the upcoming eclipse? Grab a drink or a smoke or a snack and join us live at 7pm mountain time on the 25th. :)
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