New Moon Pisces March 18th
The New Moon in Pisces on March 18th invites a gentle yet powerful reset. This is a time to tune into your intuition, your dreams, and your inner world. Pisces energy encourages surrender, compassion, and creative exploration. What feels intangible or unclear now may hold the seeds of your next chapter, and planting intentions under this moon can help them grow in alignment with your deepest truths.
Adding to this energy, Jupiter is direct in Cancer, bringing a sense of expansion, support, and forward momentum. Opportunities for growth, emotional healing, and connection with what nurtures you are more accessible at this time. This combination highlights blessings in your personal life, home, and emotional foundations, encouraging you to step into new beginnings with optimism and confidence.
Use this New Moon to set intentions that honor both your practical needs and your spiritual desires. Journaling, meditation, or creative visualization can help you clarify what you want to invite in. This is a moment to plant the seeds for the next phase of your journey, trusting that the universe is aligned to support you and that your inner guidance will show you the way forward.
New Moon in Pisces in the 8th House Opposing Natal Pluto and Mars in Virgo 2nd house 9:23pm
Crystal Recommendations
Amethyst
Supports intuition, emotional calming, and spiritual connection. This is excellent for Pisces new moon intentions around surrender, trust, and inner guidance.
Aquamarine
Encourages emotional flow, gentle communication, and nervous system soothing. Helpful if the Pisces energy feels overwhelming or highly sensitive.
Clear Quartz
Amplifies intentions and brings clarity to what you are calling in. A good all purpose stone for new moon manifestation work.
Moonstone
Aligns beautifully with lunar cycles and supports emotional awareness, receptivity, and new beginnings.
Lepidolite
Calms anxiety and supports emotional release, especially useful if this new moon is bringing up old feelings.
Candle Color Recommendations
Soft Blue Candle
Supports emotional healing, intuition, and calm Pisces water energy.
Seafoam or Light Green Candle
Encourages gentle heart opening and emotional balance.
White Candle
For purity, spiritual reset, and clear new moon intentions. This is the safest universal choice.
Lavender Candle
Supports peace, surrender, and nervous system regulation
The New Moon in Pisces in your eighth house illuminates themes of transformation, intimacy, and shared resources. This lunation invites a fresh start around emotional depth, trust, and letting go of what no longer serves you in relationships, finances, or personal power. Your attention may naturally turn inward, exploring subconscious patterns, unspoken fears, and areas where emotional or energetic control has been imbalanced.
With this New Moon opposing your natal Pluto and Mars in Virgo in the second house, the focus is drawn to material security, personal values, and self-empowerment. You may feel tension between surrendering control in the eighth house and asserting boundaries or taking action around resources in the second house. This opposition brings awareness to where old power struggles, perfectionist tendencies, or attachment to security may have limited your growth.
As this energy unfolds, you are being guided to balance deep emotional release with practical steps that honor your personal needs and values. Transformation is most potent when approached with patience, self-awareness, and conscious intention. By addressing both your inner emotional landscape and your tangible sense of worth, you can create lasting shifts in how you relate to yourself, others, and your resources.
5 Journal Prompts
Where in my relationships or shared resources am I ready to release control or old patterns?
How do I feel about my current financial or material security, and what can be transformed?
What fears or attachments might be quietly influencing my choices around intimacy or partnership?
Where can I honor both vulnerability and personal empowerment in my life right now?
What is one new intention I can set to strengthen trust, clarity, and flow in my resources or emotional connections?
3 Action Steps
Identify one area in finances or shared resources that needs reassessment or clearer boundaries.
Have a calm conversation with someone you share energy, resources, or responsibilities with to clarify intentions.
Take one step toward releasing a fear, pattern, or habit that has been holding you back emotionally or materially.
Closed Eye Visualization
Sit comfortably with your eyes closed and take several deep breaths. Imagine a soft, luminous Pisces moonlight surrounding your body, entering your eighth house energy and gently illuminating areas of emotional depth and shared resources. Visualize any tension, fear, or attachment as small dark clouds gathering in your second house and eighth house.
With each slow exhale, see these clouds dissolving into light, leaving clarity, calm, and empowerment in their place. Feel a warm, steady flow of energy balancing both your inner emotional depth and your sense of personal worth. Hold the feeling of release and renewal for a few moments, then take a deep breath and slowly open your eyes, bringing this grounded clarity into your day.
Music to play with visualization
https://music.apple.com/us/album/allowing/1436932440?i=1436932443
March 20 – The Sun Enters Aries Spring Equinox
When the Sun moves into Aries, a fresh wave of bold, courageous, and self-starting energy enters the atmosphere. Aries brings initiative, enthusiasm, and a sense of “let’s go” that can awaken motivation and confidence. The environment itself feels more dynamic, with opportunities to take the lead, try something new, and embrace challenges with a pioneering spirit. This is a time to notice where action feels exciting rather than forced and to honor the inner spark that encourages movement forward.
On a personal level, this shift in energy highlights areas of life where you are invited to step into greater independence and self-expression. It encourages you to identify what you want, make clear decisions, and begin new projects or routines with intention. The Aries Sun inspires courage, but it also calls for awareness, taking initiative without rushing, and balancing enthusiasm with mindful planning.
Where this energy shows up in your life depends on the house the Sun is transiting in your chart. Check out the house description below. The goal is to align action with authentic desire, using this vibrant period to plant seeds that support your growth while staying grounded and intentional in your choices
Sun Enters Aries March 20 – Activating Your Ninth House at the Equinox
As the Sun enters Aries and lights up your ninth house at the equinox, a new cycle begins around exploration, expansion, learning, and your sense of higher purpose. The equinox emphasizes balance, and with Aries’ direct, pioneering energy, you are encouraged to step forward into new experiences, beliefs, or philosophies that broaden your perspective. Travel, study, spiritual growth, or expanding your worldview may feel energized now, bringing clarity on the direction you want to take in the year ahead.
With Chiron present in your eighth house and touching the MC, this transit can also highlight deeper themes around personal transformation, authority, and professional identity. You may notice old wounds around control, trust, or power emerging as you strive to expand. These areas are not obstacles but invitations to integrate lessons and strengthen your personal and professional foundation. Courage, curiosity, and conscious self-awareness will be your tools during this period.
As this energy unfolds, you are supported in aligning your vision for the future with authentic growth. New opportunities may appear, but discernment is key: pursue what resonates with your higher values, and release what no longer serves your path. By combining bold action with conscious reflection, you create sustainable expansion that benefits both your outer achievements and inner development.
4 Action Steps
Identify one area of learning, travel, or spiritual growth to pursue actively this season.
Reflect on professional or life goals that may require facing old fears or patterns for transformation.
Seek mentorship, guidance, or insight that aligns with your long term vision.
Take one practical step toward expanding your worldview, whether through study, dialogue, or planning a new experience.
Crystals to Work With
Citrine – Supports clarity, confidence, and inspired action toward higher goals.
Amethyst – Enhances intuition, spiritual insight, and inner guidance during expansion.
Lapis Lazuli – Encourages honest self reflection, wisdom, and alignment with your higher purpose.
Sodalite – Helps integrate knowledge and truth with emotional balance and discernment.
Mercury Stations Direct Next to the Transiting North Node in Your Eighth House March 20th
When Mercury stations direct next to the transiting North Node in your eighth house, the flow of insight and communication around transformation, shared resources, and intimacy begins to move forward. Situations or conversations that felt stalled, confusing, or emotionally heavy may now gain clarity. This energy supports recognizing patterns in relationships, financial matters, and personal boundaries that have been quietly influencing your growth.
The eighth house calls for depth, vulnerability, and conscious engagement with what lies beneath the surface. Mercury direct encourages you to articulate your needs and intentions regarding trust, emotional honesty, and shared responsibilities. You may find that hidden dynamics, past misunderstandings, or unspoken agreements can now be addressed with more awareness and precision.
As this energy integrates, progress comes from combining reflection with deliberate communication. You are supported in releasing outdated patterns and moving toward more balanced and empowered interactions. By aligning your words and actions with the evolutionary direction highlighted by the North Node, you can strengthen trust, emotional clarity, and conscious connection in your most important relationships.