on the aries eclipse and the gift of hindsight

with journal prompts

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The Partial Solar Eclipse in Aries arrives at 6:57am Eastern, Saturday, March 29th.

Over the last two years, we have experienced eclipses in the Aries and Libra parts of our charts, and this is the very last eclipse in that cycle. And so even though it is a solar (or “new moon”) eclipse, it may end up feeling more like a completion of a cycle. Like you’re in the wrap up phase, or otherwise releasing something that has held your attention for a great long while.

The gift of astrology is hindsight. While the practice can be divinatory, it is most made clear in retrospect, through the lived experience of these transits. This is why I do talks for upcoming transits that are grounded in hundreds of years of history; it’s why I encourage mindfulness and patience over grasping at easy astro interpretations that promise a false certainty. “Attention is the beginning of devotion,” Mary Oliver once wrote, and so it is that practicing astrology helps us slow down and notice. Observe, without judgment. Live in the moment, and occasionally, have the wind knocked out of us with the obviousness of how the astrology is playing out in our lives.

To that end, let us look, together, at our respective lives (and Google Calendars, and paper planners), and reflect on what events, people, places, things, ideas, and desires this eclipse cycle has birthed — or put to rest. Previously, we had eclipses in Aries April 19, 2023 and April 8, 2024, and in Libra October 14, 2023; March 24, 2024; and October 2, 2024.

Some journal prompts to begin your reflection:

And remember that eclipse season is physically exhausting, so don’t rush: take your time, hydrate, rest, stretch, play. These will be here when you get back.

• Where were you in life in April 2023? Take inventory. Where were you living? What were you doing for work, or what projects were you working on? How was your health? How were your loved ones? And then: how did you feel about these things? What did you desire, or begin to notice that you desired, in this timeline?

• Where does life find you now? Same question re: inventory. Your relationships, your creative practice, your spiritual practice, your living situation, health and relationship to your body, your work. How do you feel about these things, in this moment? Where have you experienced change? Where are you letting go?

• How has your creative practice shifted, grown, changed in this time? What was your relationship to ~the work~ in spring 2023? Where have you given yourself more space, more empathy? Are your expectations of the work, and of yourself, different now than they were two years ago?

• Have any artistic endeavors been birthed in the last two years? How have they related to topics or themes that this eclipse cycle brought up for you?

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