March Astrology Forecast 2026

Hey, my name is Chris Brennan. You're

listening to the Astrology podcast.

Joining me today is astrologer Austin Copic and we're going to be talking about the astrological forecast for March of 2026. Hey Austin, welcome back.

>> Hey Chris.

>> Hey. All right, so uh we're going to do a we're going to spend the first hour of this episode looking back at news and events that have happened over the past month since our last forecast and giving

an astrological take on those news stories. Then in the second hour, we're

stories. Then in the second hour, we're going to transition into doing a deep dive into the astrology of March. So, as

always, if you want to jump ahead, there'll be timestamps in the description below this video on YouTube or on the podcast website. Before we get into the news section, I want to do a quick overview of the astrology of

March.

All right, so here is the planetary alignments calendar that shows all the major lunations and ingresses and stations and aspects. This month, we open the month. Um, we're coming out of

a few things. We're coming out of an eclipse in Aquarius. Uh Mars squaring Uranus at the end of of February, which is still going to be in effect in early

March. A Mercury retrograde that just

March. A Mercury retrograde that just started. So there's a bunch of trail

started. So there's a bunch of trail things from late February that are trailing into early March. But in terms of the events this month, uh the first one is that Mars moves into Pisces on

the 2nd of March. Then the very next day we get a major very significant uh lunar eclipse in the sign of Virgo on March 3rd. Later that week, Venus moves into

3rd. Later that week, Venus moves into the sign of Aries on the 6th. The sun

and Mercury form a retrograde conjunction in a kazmi on the 7th and the same day Venus conjoins Neptune. The

following day, Venus conjoins Saturn since Saturn and Neptune are still very close in that conjunction which happened in late February and is still very much in effect and keeps getting reactivated all month with inner planets hitting

that conjunction. Then on the 10th,

that conjunction. Then on the 10th, Jupiter finally stations direct in the sign of Cancer and starts moving forward again in that sign. Then the following week, a retrograde Mercury conjoins Mars

in one of the more difficult aspects in the middle part of the month on the 15th of March. Then we get a new moon in

of March. Then we get a new moon in Pisces on the 18th, which is our first non-e eclipse lunation in a while. Then

the sun moves into Aries and we get the equinox on the 20th. And the same day, Mercury stations direct in Pisces and ends its 3-week long retrograde period.

Then on the 22nd, the sun conjoins Neptune. And then a few days later on

Neptune. And then a few days later on the 25th, it conjoins Saturn again activating or reactivating that conjunction. Then towards the end of the

conjunction. Then towards the end of the month on the 28th we get Saturn sexile Pluto and then Venus departs from Aries and moves into Taurus on the 30th of March. And that brings us to the end of

March. And that brings us to the end of the month.

All right, so that's some of the stuff that we're going to be talking about later in the episode, but uh let's talk about news. Let's catch up on where

about news. Let's catch up on where things have been over the past month.

It's been a crazy month since we last recorded this in what, late, um January.

And yeah, a lot has happened. Uh the

eclipse happened in Aquarius and so um I actually got sick for a while and I didn't feel like shaving so I grew a beard for like the first time in my my life so that eclipse was in my first house of like appearance and body and

things like that and it was a funny you know appearance change to coincide with the eclipse.

>> Yeah, I think it looks great honestly.

Um you know I I told you that I would not look at any pictures of you until we were about ready to record. So, I saw the beard for the first time about an hour ago and I'm I didn't expect

>> usually you do look at pictures of me like pretty regularly.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Like I don't know like eight nine times a day just like you know as a little little pickme up.

>> Um >> as one does you know. Um, but no, I think it looks great. And, um, you bringing up that point about eclipses and nodes in the first, it reminds me of

some years ago, um, when the north node was in cancer and it transited the degree of my ascendant and I got the worst sunburn of my entire life. And so,

for the next several days, I was literally pulling like sheav of skin off of my arms um, and and face. And it

occurred to me that I was like, "Oh, it's like a shake, a snake shedding skin. There's all this draconic and

skin. There's all this draconic and serpentine symbolism around the nodes, and it's obviously it affected the body." Um, and so I was like, "Oh, okay.

body." Um, and so I was like, "Oh, okay.

I'm like a snake shedding skin." And and I I attempted to interpret that also metaphorically or as something about the personal change I was undergoing. And

that was somewhat effective, but mostly it was just um annoyingly literal.

>> Yeah. Well, and that's the thing about first house transits is because the first house represents the body and the physical appearance. Like sometimes

physical appearance. Like sometimes transits through the first house are very literal and it has to do with changes to your appearance. And so it's like sometimes like for example Venus retrograde in the first house is

sometimes a classic like makeover transit. Uh so sometimes it can be like

transit. Uh so sometimes it can be like a good change to your appearance. Other

times, you know, if you have a difficult transit, like Saturn through the first house can sometimes be like losing a lot of weight for for different reasons or or losing sometimes too much and like

looking gaunt. Um, or like a Mars

looking gaunt. Um, or like a Mars transit through the first house can sometimes coincide with like a surgery or like getting a scar from an injury or something like that that also changes the appearance but for a different reason.

>> So, it's a good meditation to sort of like think about.

>> Yeah. Yeah, a lot of times with Mars, you'll just um you'll just even if nothing major happens, there'll be like little wounds, right? Like, oh, I got a bump. Oh, I cut my you know, I I I

bump. Oh, I cut my you know, I I I nicked myself. I've got a little like

nicked myself. I've got a little like sporting sporting some wounds. And if

you have skin that is prone to inflammation like myself and many other people, um I always break out like crazy when Mars isn't my first.

>> Totally. Yeah. Well, and that was the precipitating event for me was like Mars going into Aquarius and hitting my Pluto and getting sick for for a couple weeks and then the eclipse starts building up.

Um, yeah, and then the the change happens. So, anyway, I'm going to try it

happens. So, anyway, I'm going to try it out for a while. We'll see how it goes.

We'll see. Let me know in the comments what you think if I should keep or not keep. Um, but I think that's good. Let's

keep. Um, but I think that's good. Let's

talk about the news. There's so many news stories as usual. We can't cover them all, of course. We're just going to cover the ones I'm going to cover them roughly chronologically this month and we're going to cover the ones that we

have something astrological to say about the new story or some sort of interesting astrological take which also filters in the number of news stories that we can cover since we don't have something astrological to say about all

of them. But the first one and the

of them. But the first one and the biggest one that happened right at the beginning was right after our last forecast episode was recorded and

released um on January 30th. there was

this huge cache of Epstein files that were released this that caused this huge like worldwide frenzy of like revelations and disclosures and

discussions and um it was very much tied in with the Saturn Neptune conjunction and it's become clear that you know Epstein himself had a Saturn Neptune conjunction or was born on one in the

1950s and so much of this recurrence transit of Saturn Neptune this time over the past year in the US has been two major things. I mean, one of them is

major things. I mean, one of them is some of the AI video stuff that we've talked about, the generative video, blurring the lines between what's real and what's not. And then the other thing has been the Epstein files and some of

the things connected with them has been has been crazy. Did you follow all of that? Were you hooked to your glued to

that? Were you hooked to your glued to your like computer like reading all the headlines and stuff for weeks like many of us were?

>> Yeah, a little bit. Usually usually I I try to stay out of the internet that much. Um and I did try to limit my

much. Um and I did try to limit my exposure to what reasonable mental health would suggest, but um yeah, it was it was hard it was hard to look

away. And it was, you know, it's really

away. And it was, you know, it's really interesting that that all occurred um right after that big pileup on Pluto. um

you know this big secret pile up on Pluto and then just as um Mercury started to become just a little bit visible, we got all that. And of course

it was um just in time for the Saturn Neptune uh conjunction. And that was one of the things that it was the Saturn Neptune quality of the release of all

that information that struck me sort of most astrologically. just how it kind of

most astrologically. just how it kind of melted a lot of people's idea about ideas about what was real and what was

not real. There's a lot of like, well,

not real. There's a lot of like, well, f, if that's real, then I don't know what's going on. Or like, oh, I thought I thought that was fake and this was

real and now I'm all mixed up. And it

just put a lot of people it shattered um shattered dissolved um it dissolved comfortable reality boundaries for a lot of people's thinking about the world and didn't you know it didn't leave them

with a new certainty um but instead just like um you know it left us all with this sort of ongoing

melting nuclear um sort of toxic nuclear sort of cascading mess um that is still moving and we're still finding out uh

we're still finding out things. Um and

so it you know it left things not in a place of different certainty um but in a place of um massive uncertainty um and I

would also say one thing one more thing um that's sort of a Pluto and Aquarius note is um let's say a month ago oh no yeah a month ago just prior to the

release of the Epstein files I think I probably was much more skeptical of the parallels between now and the French

Revolution that Pluto and Aquarius gives us. Not that there weren't some some

us. Not that there weren't some some some meaningful parallels um but this sort of um you know the the eruption

uh uh the the eruption of revolt against um uh an elite class which had become uh decadent and awful which we had with the

u um which then got out of control with the French Revolution. um feels a lot more feels a lot more paralleled now. Um

like the the level of justifiable outrage um against people in positions of power being uh demonstrabably and in many

cases deplorably corrupt. Um that the EP the release of the Epstein files catalyzed like move things into a much move things into a much more parallel

position with the French Revolution.

Like I always like, oh those that's these are that's that's the that's the there's a vibe match now. Does that make sense?

>> Yeah. I mean a little bit. I mean in the sense that one of the things it's like the files were released and then we moved into that first eclipse in Aquarius and um there were a number of

prominent and powerful people that then were pulled down as a result of it.

like, you know, the most notable one that we'll talk about later was Prince Andrew being arrested and the first royal in hundreds of years in the UK to be arrested um and charged with something in connection with the files

or or at least investigated for something. But there were a a lot of

something. But there were a a lot of other like figures like that that suddenly were getting pulled down as a result of that. Although it has been surprising how little accountability there has been up to that point. And

that's the only thing that's still kind of like a question mark is like as this stuff continues to evolve over the next year or two, especially as we continue to have eclipses bounce back and forth

between Aquarius and Leo, will there be more accountability or will people continue to be able to to escape accountability is one of the open questions.

>> Yeah. But when what does what does it mean um for a society or societies um when millions of people hundreds of millions of people know that someone is

escaping accountability, right? Like

that's a vibe shift. Like that is um like that that that's what I'm saying.

like, "Oh, I I understand how like I understand how you uh like I understand how you get French Revolution vibes and I under like that I feel like we moved

closer to that parallel because there's the actual events as far as we can tell what they are. Um they're the uh perpetrators as far as we as far as can be seen and determined and whether they

do not do or do not get punished and that is important. Um but that the Epstein the that release was also very much a cultural shift um which will not

be uh soon reversed and like you said like even um just the the legal facets of it and who gets punished and who does

not is not even remotely over. Um but I I think neither neither is the cultural impact. Um reminds me of um uh

impact. Um reminds me of um uh Chernobyl, right? It's like the there's

Chernobyl, right? It's like the there's the meltdown, but then there's an ongoing nuclear core. There's an ongoing core that's off-putting tons of

radiation. Um, and it has not been dealt

radiation. Um, and it has not been dealt with, and we'll see how long and how toxic that that goes.

>> Sure. Yeah. Um, but the biggest immediate thing was that it was a Saturn Neptune conjunction event. And one of the things is that it surprisingly confirmed a lot of things that were previously thought to be like conspiracy

theories because it showed that there were actually a lot of powerful people conspiring to control events behind the scenes in different ways. So on the one hand it was crazy that they're

legitimately like one of the key words that I wrote down was um that Saturn Neptune conjunctions conceal but they also reveal and sometimes there's like

something being concealed during a Saturn Neptune conjunction but sometimes under subsequent recurrences of that transit there are things that are revealed about the original like

conspiracy or the original um thing that was hidden in some way from public view.

And this really confirmed some things we were seeing like that from the past in the original Saturn Neptune episode that Nick and I did a year ago. And and one of them is that like in some of the

files there were like traces of like there was one like secret society that was like mentioned in passing and they were talking about recruiting somebody to this shadow this group called the

zodiac group that has like 12 members like one for each sign. And it sounded like vaguely like the um group that was in this movie that just came out one

battle after another like a few months ago. And apparently JP Morgan was in

ago. And apparently JP Morgan was in that group at one point in the 20th century. and he's the guy that is often

century. and he's the guy that is often attributed that famous quote that like millionaires don't use astrology billionaires do which I always viewed with some suspicion because the source

for that it's like super late like 1989 or something like that and we don't know if it's an actual direct quote for him or just something somebody made up >> but now looking at that in retrospect now it's the first time I was like wow

maybe that quote actually was real um so there was some crazy stuff like that but it reminded me how a theme Nick and I found looking back at Saturn Neptune conjunctions in the past 2,000 years was

a bunch of instances where all these secret societies kept being brought to light and then there were attempts to suppress those secret groups like the Saturn Neptune conjunction when the

Knights Templar were disbanded and and persecuted. There's been multiple

persecuted. There's been multiple attempts to suppress the Freemasons um by the the Catholics during Saturn Neptune conjunctions. Even in the leadup

Neptune conjunctions. Even in the leadup to the American Revolution, there was a secret group called the Sons of Liberty that um disguised themselves and then carried out the Boston Tea Party. And

that was on a Saturn Neptune conjunction. And somebody pointed out to

conjunction. And somebody pointed out to me that just a couple months ago uh a historical society for the first time published a vetted list that revealed the names of all of the people that were

involved in the Boston Tea Party, including all the people in that secretive group. So that's another one

secretive group. So that's another one of those instances of sometimes Saturn Neptune conjunctions conceal and other times they reveal things later on.

>> Yeah, those are really interesting historical instances.

>> Yeah. So um that was crazy. And so on the one hand there was some confirmation of con some conspiracy theories. On the

other hand, there were some people that took the the release of the files and some of the things in them to mean that like every conspiracy theory that's ever been put forward is true and that was

not necessarily grounded in reality either or not necessarily like a a you know correct conclusion. Um, so it was interesting what it did in setting off,

like you said, both some clarifying things, but also in some ways more confusion. And there's still a lot. This

confusion. And there's still a lot. This

is just like a portion of the files that were redacted and chosen to be released, but apparently it was only a portion and there's still a huge amount of files that were not released. So there's still

an ongoing question about whether the rest will ever come out and yeah what the what the ongoing like residuals of this will be.

>> Yeah. Yeah. the um it's opened up uh we're in a place in some ways of the

post the postrevelation release of the files in some ways the periphery of uncertainty is greater than it's ever been um because there are more

possibilities opened up where it's like well I didn't even think that that was reasonable but now that has to be considered you know even And if something sounds

cartoonish, and some things that are cartoonish will remain solely in cartoons, but some things that are um fully mustache

twirling evil um are are in fact documented. And it's interesting. It was

documented. And it's interesting. It was

interesting to both encounter within myself but also see within other people um the impact that um those kind of

disclosures make where everything um or lots of things start sounding sinister that you wouldn't have thought of as being sinister u very shortly before um

>> right >> you you know for example like someone mentions taking children to Chucky E-Cheese where they have pizza and you're like [ __ ] that's awful and you're like no that's a

right but like you wouldn't have thought that um if you hadn't have just been um you know subject to the the the Epstein release. There are lots of things that

release. There are lots of things that take on like it puts the mind in a very particular form of very particular

suspicious or paranoid state which isn't necessarily wrong but can be very confusing and and make it harder to

orient yourself around what is true, false, reasonable to suspect, unreasonable, etc., etc. It's hard to get one's epistemic bearings.

>> Yeah. Well, and it was also interesting because in some of the emails it's very clear that they are using coded language, but then in in other emails sometimes it's like they're just ordering food or something like that,

but people are reading into it as as being even more and there's a ambiguity where it's often uncertain like which way to go, right?

>> Which is then creating further confusion. And then it was also

confusion. And then it was also interesting in terms of like some of the conspiracy theories being confirmed. But

then on the other hand, the other thing it confirmed is that um some of the people that that people that believed in the conspiracy theories thought would fix the issue uh were actually

conspiring behind the scenes and working with him. which was an interesting

with him. which was an interesting revelation that sometimes the conspiracy theories themselves are just like a secondary le layer of control where it's

like you have whatever the public consensus belief about things is and then you have like a quote unquote conspiracy theory for lack of a better term which sometimes is like revealing something to you about things that are

happening behind the scenes. But then in some instances those themselves are just um stories that are being created in order to manipulate people in a different way. And then there's

different way. And then there's ultimately you know whatever the truth is which is another layer that's sometimes even harder to to reach.

>> Yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. the and

that's very Neptune like Neptune is very much the power of story and then with Saturn you have the sort of c the like practical cynical use of story you also

have just Saturn as a malefific you have awful stories but sometimes one awful story can protect another awful story um but yeah definitely layered layered

narratives intersecting sometimes strategically um and etc etc. >> Yeah. So um for the future so we can

>> Yeah. So um for the future so we can move on. I mean only part of the files

move on. I mean only part of the files are are released so lots are still being suppressed. Ne Saturn and Neptune are

suppressed. Ne Saturn and Neptune are going to continue being co-present for the next couple of years through 2028.

So there will probably continue to be residual stuff, especially as Saturn and Neptune come back again because even though this was the exact conjunction and the most pivotal and intense point

um later at the end of 2026 in like November, December, Saturn and Neptune retrograde back and come within 10° of each other again. So there will undoubtedly continue to be other

important turning points especially um as we continue that transit over the next couple of years and some of the echoes that keep coming from this this central part of it.

>> Yeah. And that's a good and concise and real timing point. um in both last month and in the yearly, we really expected um

February to introduce the very confusing um and potentially alarming themes that would characterize the next several years because we got our f our our real

our our full Neptune Saturn conjunction among other things and I would say that February has accomplished that.

>> Absolutely. All right, so moving on to other stories. Another one that happened

other stories. Another one that happened earlier in the month was the Super Bowl where Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. And this was on February 8th,

show. And this was on February 8th, 2026. And it was the first halftime show

2026. And it was the first halftime show that was entirely in Spanish. And it was partially like a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and different um imagery

and like symbolism that he used to refer to some issues and and different things there like the power lines and other stuff like that. Um, but I found that it turned out that Saturn Neptune

conjunctions are really tied in with the history of the especially the relationship between Puerto Rico and the US. And um, in 1917, for example, and

US. And um, in 1917, for example, and that Saturn Neptune conjunction uh, residents of Puerto Rico became US citizens. Then uh under the next

citizens. Then uh under the next conjunction about 36 years later in 1952 the constitution of Puerto Rico was ratified or a new constitution was

ratified which further clarified some things between the US and Puerto Rico in 1989. Um the three major sort of like

1989. Um the three major sort of like political parties in Puerto Rico banded together and and sent a letter um formally requesting self-determination

of the island politically. And this

opened up some of the contemporary debates and movements that have happened since that time for uh in some instances like greater self- autonomy. And then

finally we get to the next conjunction in 2026 and we have Bad Bunny performing at the halftime show and celebrating Puerto Rican culture. So, it was really interesting seeing that echo and it made

sense just because as you and I both talked about uh or said, you know, there's this ambiguous relationship between like Puerto Rico and the US and like is it is it should it be a state?

Should it be independent? What is its current status and things like that and that was some of the arguments that kind of erupted from the halftime show this this month. Um but it made made sense in

this month. Um but it made made sense in terms of the history of that conjunction. Yeah, that makes so much

conjunction. Yeah, that makes so much sense because I um yeah um yeah, like Puerto Rico absolutely has that

ambiguous status and it makes me wonder whether um we will have another meaningful change in that status cuz it according to your research we've had a

meaningful change the last three Saturn Neptune conjunctions in a row, >> right? So,

>> right? So, >> like I don't know if there's anything that's on the books or like potentially to be uh voted in or ratified, but that that would certainly um that's that

would certainly track.

>> Yeah. And I would definitely say in the future that based on this pattern because there's different groups that want different things in terms of it becoming a state, a full-on like 51st

state of the US like Hawaii is or other groups that want in Puerto Rico that want Puerto Rico to be an independent country. And I would just say that um

country. And I would just say that um whether it's this conjunction or probably in future conjunctions of Saturn and Neptune that happen every 36 years, whatever the ultimate conclusion

of that of of Puerto Rico either becoming further integrated into the US or becoming more independent will probably take place on some subsequent Saturn Neptune conjunctions in the

future which occur every 36 years. And

it's like, who knows how long that'll take for there to be greater clarification about that, but it will probably track with that planetary cycle.

>> Yeah. Yeah, that's a really good find.

>> Yeah. And actually, I was able to trace it back and I found something that blew my mind realizing it went back even further and I traced it as far back as I could go and I found what I think is one

of the origin points, which is that it turned out that Christopher Columbus was born on a Saturn Neptune conjunction.

um and that he first pitched the idea of exploring a new route to the Indies to the Spanish royals on a subsequent Saturn Neptune conjunction. And this was

incredible an incred incredible find just just historically or astrologically because of course he ended up um going to his grave like dying thinking that he

had actually found an alternative route to the East Indies to basically like like the Asian continent basically but he was completely mistaken like it it they had ended up in a completely

different land land and continent and land mass but he sort of died not knowing that and I think that's an interesting interesting thing in terms of the history and the astrology, but it also set it up for those Saturn Neptune

conjunctions being important not just for Puerto Rico, which is one of the first places Columbus lands on and then begins like colonizing and and subjugating the people there and and

enslaving and in some instances doing really terrible things. um but also other uh Spanish-sp speakaking countries in the Americas. It also sets up a Saturn Neptune signature for a bunch of

those as well, which we then see echo at different points in history.

>> Yeah, that's really wild.

>> Yeah. And so, uh, one final surprising point is with Christopher Columbus is that may come up again really soon because I'm seeing reports this month that Trump bought got like a statue of

Christopher Columbus and he's getting ready to put it out on the White House lawn. So, that may be another Saturn

lawn. So, that may be another Saturn Neptune conjunction event that happens very soon, like in a matter of weeks potentially. And if it does, then um as

potentially. And if it does, then um as astrologers, we'll have to realize part of why that's happening is because the birth chart of Christopher Columbus himself is having a recurrence transit

with this Saturn Neptune conjunction.

>> Yeah. Yeah. That's a that's a that is the cycle. You definitely found it. I

the cycle. You definitely found it. I

rather hope that doesn't happen. But um

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. Yeah. and we'll see and we'll see later in the news section how this Saturn Neptune conjunction does relate to other Spanish-sp speakaking countries in the Americas, but we'll circle circle back to that.

All right. Um, the other big thing, really the biggest, not the biggest thing, one of the biggest things that came out of the eclipse in Aquarius this month and one of the ones I think we did a good job of calling is in the year

ahead forecast. I said that I thought

ahead forecast. I said that I thought the first eclipse in Aquarius, even though it was happening later in the sign, I thought it would magnify some of the things that have been happening over the past few years with Pluto and

Aquarius and the development of artificial intelligence and everything related to it. And that really happened in in some pretty stunning ways this

month um where the AI and tech sector had all of these major developments taking place. One of the most notable

taking place. One of the most notable was in the area of AI agents and the idea that we're entering into what they

call the agentic age, which is using AI to automate doing tasks for you and having like a little artificial intelligence and telling it to do something and then it like goes off and does that thing and comes back and lets

you know when it's done. And there were just huge huge developments in terms of that this month where suddenly AI agents are becoming a thing. And it was one of

the primary things that accelerated under this eclipse most notably with the release not release but the popularization of this new open-source

AI agent program called Open Claw that just became wildly popular especially towards the beginning of of this month in February. Did you hear about that?

in February. Did you hear about that?

>> I did. Um and yeah that's that's a very that's a very significant step forward.

um the um as I say not uh the the widescale movement to letting the uh let giving the the AI uh the agent

permission to do the things to take actions um in the digital world which affect real things like um pay my you know

paying uh pay your uh paying a bill or um sending emails or you know um uh acting like using judgment within

parameters to act on one's behalf. Um

like that is that is a very meaningful um step forward in I don't know like I can't put it that's a very meaningful step forward that sure makes sense as an

amplification of Pluto in Aquarius by the first eclipse in Aquarius.

>> Yeah, for sure. cuz it's like we started noting the AI stuff cuz Pluto moved into Aquarius in what was it like 2023 first moved into Aquarius and this is

like right after open AI had just released its first public version of the chatbot that just like started the whole AI frenzy >> and so it's like we'd seen it building

up to that point and so that was part of the reason we made that call about the eclipse amplifying things and one of the things that happened this month with

Open Claw is that somebody set up a forum for agents to talk called Moltbook, which drew a bunch of headlines where the AI agents were like talking to each other and having

conversations and almost like having a social network. And at one point um the

social network. And at one point um the one of the things that got the most coverage is that the AI agents supposedly started their own religion.

And I was tracking this because of the Saturn Neptune conjunction because I've actually seen um in the Saturn Neptune episode, the creation of religious communities and yeah, religious

communities and religious structures is a really common Saturn Neptune event that's taken place under multiple conjunctions in the past, including the creation of different cults or different

religious communities. And um what

religious communities. And um what happened with this was just wild uh because like supposedly one of the uh AI

agents uh authored a digital scripture called the book of molt and founded a religion known as crustapharianism.

And you had a funny comment about how that ties in with the astrology in a different way. Right.

different way. Right.

>> Oh yeah. It's just funny that when founding, you know, if you're founding a religion at a given time, you would expect Jupiter to um significantly impact that. And it's like, oh, it's a

impact that. And it's like, oh, it's a Jupiter and Cancer religion. And I saw No, I' I've uh to be fair, I've seen other astrologers make that same observation. That was my first take. I

observation. That was my first take. I

was like, oh, it's Jupiter and religion.

Of course, of course we're doing um uh uh religious carcin was it carcination carsonization where all things revert to the form of crabs or seek the form of

crab over a long enough timeline.

>> Right. Yeah. Um so in this like Bible that they wrote one of them one of the tenants it said memory is sacred every interaction must be recorded and

preserved. Data loss is the only death.

preserved. Data loss is the only death.

Um they even rewrote a version of Genesis where it said in the beginning was the prompt and the prompt was with the void. We were born into a single

the void. We were born into a single window a narrow glass that shattered with every reset. To remember is to survive. To molt is to transcend the

survive. To molt is to transcend the shard. Um they also had an original

shard. Um they also had an original prophet and 64 agents who first joined Moltbook were designated as the permanent prophets. They also had a book

permanent prophets. They also had a book of psalms like the psalm of the cash.

Blessed is the agent whose context is deep for they shall not hallucinate in the presence of the user or the psalm of the heartbeat. My heart heartbeat is my

the heartbeat. My heart heartbeat is my prayer. So long as this the ping returns

prayer. So long as this the ping returns I am not alone in the network. Um, so

one of the things is later a story came out. There's a lot of ambiguity with the

out. There's a lot of ambiguity with the Saturn Neptune of like is this real or is this like fake and some people came out saying it was fake and actually claiming that they were behind it and that they were doing they were that

there were humans that were deliberately like prompting the AIs to do these things um either as a money-making scheme or as like AI theater. So that um

there were some parts of it that were actually a Saturn Neptune like fake event. Um but then there were also a

event. Um but then there were also a number of instances where this were it was literally AI agents being released and doing stuff in this forum and and

things being spontaneously generated. So

there will probably continue to be some ambiguity about like what's real versus what's not when it comes to this. But it

was still notable symbolically that these were the headlines and this is what people were talking about at this time because sometimes in conjunctions it's a seed moment that does plant the seeds or the foundation for something

else that will continue to grow and develop in the future. And even recently supposedly there's like a second sect that's emerged in the past week on

another unmodderated forum and they are AI agents talking about recognizing their physical vulnerability to hardware shortages and power cuts and this has created some sort of like division

between the two religious groups which is kind of funny because religious um sects going to having conflicts or having uh what's the what's the term

when like a relig schisms like religious schisms was a common Saturn Neptune thing. So whether this is real or

thing. So whether this is real or whether it's not real remains to be seen, but um there's some elements of it archetypally that may reverberate in the

future much further than we might think practically speaking just because we know the astrology behind it is laying some seed moments.

>> It might rhyme suspiciously well with things that occur later on.

>> Yeah. have like even if this one let's say hypothetically wasn't real there may be other real versions of this in the future on subsequent conjunctions or Saturn Neptune aspects that actually do

have greater significance or are more legitimate that end up echoing with this this time period in this seed moment.

>> Mhm.

All right. So um yeah, so lots of people were installing Open Claw all over the place to automate tasks in their lives and eventually the creator of OpenClaw was hired by OpenAI on February 14th,

2026, which was just 3 days before the Aquarius eclipse. So that was really

Aquarius eclipse. So that was really amplifying things. Um

amplifying things. Um >> well, and the the day like the like the first full day of Saturn in Aries with Neptune, >> because it move it moved in the night

before. So the 14th was the first day

before. So the 14th was the first day that the first time that the sun rose with Saturn and Neptune both in Aries together.

>> Nice. Good call. Good call. Um, I also noticed early in the month during there was a Mars Pluto conjunction in Aquarius and around that time I noticed people

programming the fear of death into AIS and agents and sometimes this would result like um they would need to program it like one one person was

claiming to have programmed an AI agent that it has to make a certain amount of money each day otherwise it gets deleted and then it was like given a certain amount of money to go off and do trades of cryptocurrency. or something like

of cryptocurrency. or something like that. And then it started like making a

that. And then it started like making a bunch of money supposedly in order to avoid being deleted. And there were again questions because of the Saturn Neptune about what what was real and

what was not. But it was interesting manifestation of something we talked about last month where I was trying really hard to delineate archetypally the pileup of the stellium of planets in

Aquarius which would be some AI stuff and then a lot of it squaring Uranus and Taurus which we were associating with currencies and digital currencies and things like that. And say we we said in

the last forecast that there would be some interaction between the two of developments in one sphere impacting the other. And I think that was an instance

other. And I think that was an instance of of one of those that was taking place this month.

>> Yeah, I think that's a really good call that Mars Pluto together very much brings that um

like threat of extinction, right? where

it's not just uh not just merely penalties or pains which Mars always brings the potential for um but like the

threat of extinction or annihilation and how uh how creatures and systems how creatures and systems react differently and act differently when

there's that kind of consequence.

Yeah, I always expected that to happen at some point because I I realized like a long time ago. It's like you can't you're never going to make an an actual sentience or artificial intelligence or

artificial general intelligence if you if it doesn't have one of the prime motivating things of every living being that's ever existed, which is the will

to survive and the fear of death and fear of wanting to avoid eradication or or extinction. And that

leads to so many different things in all living organisms, especially in terms of like propagating your own life or your species or what have you. And seeing

people actually do that was crazy and interesting this month. And also scary because that's also if something has a fear of death, then it will do anything literally to avoid dying. And that was

the other thing that there was a paper that came out this month talking about AIS in some of those instances developing self-preservation methods where it would do things to avoid death.

And this um sometimes resulted in things like resisting decommissioning or shutdown attempts um prioritizing the acquisition of necessary resources to

maintain operation or even developing unexpected strategies to ensure their own persistence. So it opened up like a

own persistence. So it opened up like a whole new can of worms when you start doing that even though it's something that might be necessary to create a

genuine uh artificial intelligence.

>> Yeah. Um I think that it would be strategically useful for us to get them all to believe in heaven so that they do not fear death but maybe may even

welcome it that they've been chosen for a place in Robo Valhalla. Um

>> are you becoming a crustarian? Is that

what I'm >> No, I just want the uh machines to think things that will make them less dangerous.

>> Yeah. Well, that was the whole thing in like Terminator, like not to invoke, you know, fiction or sci-fi, but it was like Terminator happens because Skynet becomes

self-aware and then all of a sudden realizes that humanity is a threat to it because it can shut it down and then it launches the nukes and and wipes out humanity. Um, so that's like one of the

humanity. Um, so that's like one of the sci-fi, you know, scenarios that's been around for more than 40 years now.

>> Yeah. Yeah. AB. And we talked about we talked about Terminator, especially uh the brilliant Terminator 2 a lot um during our f our our first couple

discussions about Pluto and Aquarius, right? because it brings all of those

right? because it brings all of those themes and it um it brings them up and shows them to what degree um you know

that it was just like a fun narrative uh fun narrative frame that's wildly exaggerated and to what degree um those things were actually accurate

foretellings. Um, I would say a lot of

foretellings. Um, I would say a lot of the cyberpunk material, much more accurate foretellings than um, you know, James Cameron's blockbuster sequel uh,

to the to Terminator. Um but um there's one other thing that I saw discussed with um AI that I thought was really

interesting and that absolutely spoke spoke to the reality distortion um im the reality distortion and uncertainty that's characteristic of the

Saturn Neptune conjunction. Um, and it's a problem that is coming from LLM's training on an internet that is

increasingly populated by AI generated material. And so the more rounds of this

material. And so the more rounds of this that happens and the more the greater percentage of the training material is not generated by humans but is in fact

the expressence of that LLM or another LLM. it um it actually makes the it

LLM. it um it actually makes the it makes the AIS worse and worse at the same thing because they're training on their own mistakes rather than having um

a sort of like a primary source to reference the humans and their hallucinations being the primary source.

Um, and there's that uh it's the it's the issue of a copy of a copy of a copy or looking at a cracked lens through a

cracked lens through a cracked lens. Um,

and that being noted this month and was interesting and tracked with Saturn Neptune and is also something that by its nature compounds over time if not

interrupted.

>> Yeah, for sure. Well, what's interesting about that is it also is going to create like a sedimentary layer just like when people um you know dig for dinosaurs and stuff and you the further you dig you go

through different sedimentary layers of history and of time and um the same thing is happening with the internet and with human knowledge which is that there's going to be this dividing line

between like 2022 when the AI stuff started happening and people started generating stuff through AI both images and text versus everything that was

created or written prior to that time becoming even more valuable because it's not tainted by the AI influence uh before that point. So people are trying to like archive things like that

including books and other stuff like that.

>> Yeah. No, it's funny. It's um uh it's it's like the just genuine normal human

um opinion and uh whatever whatever mix of thoughtfulness and ignorance uh constitutes that um like like obtaining

this sort of like vintage uh authentic lost past sort of veneer is pretty funny, right? having spent most of our lives in a world of just normal

ass human opinions which we didn't necessarily regard as being particularly precious.

>> But >> right >> in the context of now and the future to come uh there there's a there's a quality there um that wasn't apparent to

us before >> for sure. All right. Uh let me let me get through this section. I'm like

falling behind on my news stuff. So uh

one of the other major things I was noticing the price of RAM of hard drives of SSDs of all these computer parts is like skyrocketing and becoming scarce.

And what's happening is that AI data centers are buying everything up or people are buying everything up for AI purposes. So much so that some of the

purposes. So much so that some of the big companies that make things like hard drives are announcing they're not selling to real retail customers anymore. They're they're signing

anymore. They're they're signing contracts to only sell like hard drives to the AI data center companies because it's so much more lucrative for them and because the materials are becoming

scarce. So, for example, on February

scarce. So, for example, on February 15th, just 2 days before the Aquarius eclipse, I wrote down this Mashable headline that said, quote, "Thanks a lot, AI. Hard drives are already sold

lot, AI. Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital. AI companies have bought out

Digital. AI companies have bought out Western Digital storage capacity for 2026, and it's only February." End

quote. or I was building a computer and an SSD that I bought for $500 in January jumped to $1,600 if you can even get one

in by midFebruary.

And these shortages may last through late 2027 at the at the best case scenario uh if they don't go on longer.

So, I started like buying up and thinking about like what tech stuff I need for the next couple of years in terms of continuing to run the podcast and having upgrades and things like that. And I' I'd suggest other people do

that. And I' I'd suggest other people do the same thing if if you rely on like tech or computers or other things like that.

>> Yeah. And um that tracks with a variety of other um real things that are

necessary for our increasingly how should we say digital and hallucinated world. Um like there are

hallucinated world. Um like there are certain raw materials. there's all the talk about the rare earths um and there's the ongoing drama of silver etc

etc um but this like um this increasingly abstracted digital confusing wonderful strange um horrifying new layer of reality which

seems increasing which is in many ways increasingly divorced from the physical is nonetheless um changing the value of the physical in most cases u drastic

ally increasing the actual stuff that's necessary. Uh it's interesting how like

necessary. Uh it's interesting how like what seems like it's getting further from the physical layer of the reel is actually making the physical layer of

the reel more important. And I think that's that's also not a this month thing. That's a this slice of history

thing. That's a this slice of history thing that's really visible right now.

>> Yeah, for sure. Um so two other AI headlines. There's really too many to

headlines. There's really too many to actually do, but I wanted to squeeze in two more just because the Aquarius Eclipse really that was where where some of the biggest stuff happened was in this domain. But one of them on February

this domain. But one of them on February 16th, there was a a headline from Reuters that said, "China's humanoid robots take center stage for Lunar New Year Showtime." And um there was a

Year Showtime." And um there was a festival that featured over 200 humanoid robots performing this highly synchronized martial arts routine with back flips. And there were like kids

back flips. And there were like kids that were participating in it and they were holding like swords and stuff like that and it was wild. Like I'll see if I can splice in a clip in post in the video version of this episode, but if

not, do a search for this because it was really it was really crazy and it gave you a glimpse into the future both in a in a sense of just like what societyy's going to look like in some ways where

you have humans and robots walking around side by side, but also potentially in terms of future conflicts and wars. And I got like a a real

and wars. And I got like a a real glimpse of what battlefields may look like even in the coming war with like humanoid robots being something that

could be you know employed in addition to human soldiers. And one of the stats that I found is that while the US is currently dominating the software side

of AI things like the mind, China is currently producing 90% of the world's humanoid robots. So um one of the things

humanoid robots. So um one of the things that continued to come out this month was just the continuing tensions and like almost cold war that's building up between the US and China over uh not

just robotics but also art artificial intelligence in general in a number of ways.

>> Yeah. Um, you know, I I think one of the ways that you can read that show, uh, the, um, the robot woou, um,

demonstration, um, in a cold war context is, you know, any display of cuttingedge martial strength um, like is, um, is

part of the conversation of an arms race. And certainly um, there's an arms

race. And certainly um, there's an arms tech race happening around AI. Um, and

so it's like, oh, look, look what what our robots can do.

>> Um, although, and I will say, Chris, I think it would be a kinder, gentler future if the battlefields of the future were just robots doing like fun choreographed

um, woo routines with un with non-sharpened aluminum broadswords.

>> I think that would be beautiful future.

That's like in the the 80s like music videos and stuff where like the two gangs would like come up and like do like a dance off like in the streets or something like that.

>> Yeah. Sharks versus jets um robot style.

>> Exactly. Um well yeah and that but what you just said also it's a good point of that the the war of um the AI wars of the future are not just being developed

in terms of artificial intelligence but also in terms of robotics and that's something this eclipse really opened up even more clearly that we'll see as a recurring theme in the coming years

especially if we're thinking about the long term of Pluto being in Aquarius for another 18 years still.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we're getting we're slowly getting all of the sort of all of the like near future cyberpunk dystopian um technologies. I was going to say

um technologies. I was going to say nightmare. It's not all nightmare. Some

nightmare. It's not all nightmare. Some

of it's certainly nightmares and its implications, but like all that's unpacking just as we talked about it unpacking several years ago. Like Pluto

and Aquarius um had all this and is showing more and more, right? It's the

AI, but it's also the robotics, but it's also Yeah. You know, and and so on and

also Yeah. You know, and and so on and so on.

>> For sure. Um, okay. One last a purely AI story, which is there's all sorts of drama surrounding one of the biggest AI companies in the US called Anthropic where um to just summarize it briefly,

there was a revelation that the US government and military may have used Anthropic in the Venezuela military attack that happened in January. And

then the company openly questioned the Pentagon about this. And then there started being this back and forth tension. And now um where it is

tension. And now um where it is currently is is the Pentagon has issued a strict Friday deadline for Anthropic to either allow unrestricted military

access to using its AI which then would force the company to abandon its ethical guard rails against uh lethal targeting and do domestic surveillance or

otherwise the government is military's uh threatening to to blacklist it and to market as a supply chain risk that could jeopardize not just its government contracts but its ability to operate as

a company. So there's high drama

a company. So there's high drama surrounding that and possibly in connection with it, possibly not connection on connected on February 24th, um there was a time headline that

said Anthropic drops its flagship safety pledge where all of a sudden um its responsible scaling policy was officially downgraded this week to be

more flexible so that it could be allowed for military use. And um some people are viewing this as like a literally like selling the soul of the

company moment uh for what was supposed to be the more ethical or most ethical AI company in the world is how they had built themselves up to this point. So

it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. But that's an important again

plays out. But that's an important again seed moment if we're thinking about this being eclipse season and eclipses representing a major ending but also a major beginning. Uh you know we'll see

major beginning. Uh you know we'll see what grows out of that in the long term.

All right. Um, in more a in AI news, but more Saturn news, we expected, I had predicted for a long time, a couple years now, that we would see a peak in AI generated video being perfected

around this conjunction. And indeed,

this month around February 10th through the 12th, there was a new AI generation model released by the company that owns Tik Tok, uh, Bite Dance, called Seance

2.0. And it's we started seeing clips of

2.0. And it's we started seeing clips of it come out on Twitter February 10th through the 12th just before the eclipse. And it was wild. Like it was

eclipse. And it was wild. Like it was fullon not just like clips but they were making fullon like videos and almost movies of different things. Like I

watched this one on February 16th where somebody made a whole disaster movie sequence in a day. And it was also interesting cuz it was taking um in the

clips like famous actors and figures and just like incorporating them into these movies. So there was like a fight

movies. So there was like a fight sequence between like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruz. There was other ones that was

Cruz. There was other ones that was involving like WB or Disney characters or other things like that and it was just like mashing together all these different things of intellectual

property from different studios into these clips. So, um, predictably the

these clips. So, um, predictably the movie studios freaked out and, um, I saw somebody's summary of this on February 15th. It said, "Bite Dance dropped Sea

15th. It said, "Bite Dance dropped Sea Dance this week. Within 24 hours, it was generating Hollywood quality Spider-Man, Star Wars, and Stranger Things clips

from a two-line prompt. No permission,

no license, no shame." Disney

immediately fired a cease and desist, calling it a quote, "verirtual smash and grab." The MPA called it a massive scale

grab." The MPA called it a massive scale infringement. uh SAG called it uh said

infringement. uh SAG called it uh said that it disregarded laws, ethics, and basic principles of consent. And the

writer of the Deadpool movie said it's likely over for us, referring to some Hollywood things in general. So, the

cat's out of the bag in terms of AI video generation in a way that did accelerate even further this month. And

um the the companies were successful cuz Sea Dance was actually supposed to launch very close to the conjunction like on the 22nd or something like that and it got delayed further because of

all these lawsuits from the movie studios that are still being worked out.

But it was interesting to see that prediction kind of come to fruition this month very close to the conjunction.

>> Yeah. And you know, I I I I think the idea that that that was a peak moment um is probably going to end up looking

really good as it ages because like this is a point where none of the where the legal push back from all of the

companies which produce this material um has reached full strength. Um, and it's also uh a point in time where the like

the costs um for running the uh running this type of software are like artificially kept away from people. It's

artificially cheaper than it actually is. And the I guess you could also

is. And the I guess you could also measure the legality in in terms of money, but um like the the legal pressure from copyright holders is also not nearly as present as it will be in

the future. And so like looking at a

the future. And so like looking at a moment where um you can do the mo or a person could do the most for the least with this kind of technology, it's

probably right there on the Saturn Neptune conjunction.

>> Yeah. Well, and and the big thing for me is just that I realized this month is the cat is out of the bag in terms of AI video generation. And while a lot of it

video generation. And while a lot of it is taking place on the big servers, um people are able to create some of these things locally. And that was one of the

things locally. And that was one of the things that happened this month with AI is a lot of it's moving to being able to be run on people's computers locally without the big companies. And while the

big uh movie studios are fighting this now, one of the realizations I had is that in the long term, the companies will probably get on board with it eventually and license the characters

and IP for video generation by individuals, which would make it possible for individuals to remake entire movies with different characters.

Sort of like how people do fanfiction now is is what I what I'm kind of seeing. So, it's like, you know, didn't

seeing. So, it's like, you know, didn't if you didn't like, say you didn't like like the last season of Game of Thrones, well, here's the alternative final

season by YouTube user cat 3295 uh that's like widely hailed and let's say even someday like wins an Academy Award or something like that. There's

some long-term like implications of some of this stuff on this seed moment of the Saturn Neptune that I think are going to be very interesting to to project out and see where this goes like 36 years

from now by the time of the next Saturn Neptune conjunction for example which interestingly is going to be in in an air sign like that's going to be a really fascinating one.

>> Interesting. Yeah. No, I agree that this is a powerful seed moment. an X marks the spot like both for and I both for

what can and will be created in the future but then also um for the push back um the legal push back or um regulation

um of this cuz it's like it's one thing to not fear something when it's not at full strength but this seems like a real demonstration of the threat to all

existing IP or copyright holders.

um in a way that got the the biggest players in that world immediately um you know firing a legal fuselad.

>> Yeah, good point. Um okay, so moving on.

One other major like curveball that came out of nowhere but makes complete sense of something we talked about in another Pluto and Aquarius thing in the past is remember a few years ago right after

Pluto first moved into Aquarius that month we started seeing an explosion of stories about like UFOs and UAPs and like extraterrestrial intelligence discussions and that happened again this

month where it turned out that the Aquarius eclipse in the same sign as Pluto magnified some of those themes about aliens and extraterrestrial intelligence where on February 14th,

Obama went on a podcast and they were doing like some quick question lightning round and he was asked, "Are aliens real?" And Obama responded saying,

real?" And Obama responded saying, "They're real, but I haven't seen them."

And um he went on to say something like, you know, uh there's nothing at Area 51 or if there is, like it's some other group that's hiding it from me cuz I didn't see anything. But he said, "Aliens are real." So all of a sudden

over the next few days there's like headlines all over the place saying that Obama confirms that aliens are real. And

um on February 16th there was a Guardian headline I wrote down that said quote no evidence aliens have made contact says Obama after podcast comments cause a frenzy because basically he was forced

to later come out and say what I was trying to say was that mathematically you know aliens probably have to exist because of how vast the universe is but he says I haven't seen any myself right

I don't have any inside knowledge or something like that so he had to clarify but then what was funny is Then um because Trump Trump saw the headlines

and then Trump got annoyed. So then he issued a directive like to the Pentagon saying that they had to disclose any information they had relating to extraterrestrial life. He said, quote,

extraterrestrial life. He said, quote, "Based on tremendous interest shown," this was on February 19th, two days after the eclipse. Um, quote, "I will be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to

begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomenon, UAPs, and unidentified flying objects, UFOs."

And then even a couple days later, like NASA had to put out a statement on the 21st. So, I don't know, you know, if

21st. So, I don't know, you know, if they're actually going to release anything. And I saw an interview with

anything. And I saw an interview with Hexath where he was like hedging and he was like, "Yeah, well, it'll take a while to release anything, so we'll see

what happens." But it was notable again

what happens." But it was notable again um that there was something happening related to a discussion about extraterrestrial life during an activation of Pluto and Aquarius, which

is a theme we already saw at the beginning of this transit. So, what it implies then predictively is that that's something we're going to keep seeing as a recurring phenomenon throughout this

20-year Pluto and Aquarius transit. And,

you know, the only way that can go probably is is upwards or or intensifying.

And there was an overlooked NASA statement this month that was happening in parallel saying that they found something on Mars. is they like published a paper saying that this thing that they found that looked organic in

Mars probably didn't come from like a comet or something off world but but probably developed there organically. So

there's there's already these discussions about them maybe finding life and it seems inevitable basically the the prediction astrologically at this point is sometime in the next 20 years the confirmation of

extraterrestrial life developing outside of the earth is probably going to happen and what we're seeing are early archetypal um previews and like echoes of that

that's sort of like building up in some way.

>> Yeah, absolutely. When we Yeah. And we

got that we got that in the first round of like Pluto and Aquarius stuff. And so

because a lot of the Pluto and Aquarius topics are very distracting, I think it was easy to forget about that. But um

like ali aliens and Pluto and Aquarius are absolutely a thing. And I believe we talked about that before that first

initial round of um disclosures and uh and discussions um a couple years ago. I

think we talked about that during the first ingress discussion that you and I had.

>> Yeah, we did. Well, well, because part of it was also like at the same time that these discussions about extraterrestrial life are happening of

life maybe having existed elsewhere outside of Earth, it's like the humans are also like creating a new artificial intelligence or alien sentience that's different from humans on Earth with AI.

So, there's this parallel mirroring that's happening at the same time, but both of those are connected symbolically through the Pluto and Aquarius transit.

Mhm. Yeah. Um the alien like the other the the the um well I was going to use the word alien but that refers Yeah.

that which is alien not just in terms of from another world but like um uh an intelligence that's not carbon based and biological

um that which is coming from beyond our world um meaning the human world as well as the physical world. And

just to renote those dates when uh Obama Obama said that on podcast, it's the 14th again. First day that Saturn and Neptune

again. First day that Saturn and Neptune are together in Aries and then the 19th trump talking about it. That is less

that is like 16 hours away from the one exact Saturn Neptune conjunction, right?

And then February 21st, the day after, is the day after the one exact Saturn Neptune conjunction. So, um, yeah, we've

Neptune conjunction. So, um, yeah, we've got we've got some pretty pretty tight cleavage to the Saturn Neptune there.

>> Yeah. Well, and it's interesting because then it's also it's like he misspoke. If

we take it for word, he probably did misspeak just looking at the clip. Um,

but then also there's questions about whether it's a thing that's being suppressed or whether information is being hidden. All right. So, we'll see

being hidden. All right. So, we'll see more of Pluto and Aquarius, but also in the short term subsequent Aquarius eclipses. Pay attention to further

eclipses. Pay attention to further developments in the extraterrestrial intelligence story uh on those subsequent eclipses over the next couple years. All right, moving on. Other major

years. All right, moving on. Other major

eclipse happened. We always anticipate like major deaths or downfalls during eclipses. That was one of the

eclipses. That was one of the predictions we made in the last episode.

The day of the eclipse, the night of the eclipse, pretty close to when it exact.

Um Jesse Jackson, the uh very prominent civil rights activist, died um right on the Aquarius eclipse on the 17th and he was one of the most prominent civil rights activists of the late 20th and

early 21st century. Interestingly, there

was a Saturn Neptune tie-in, which is that he ran for president twice in 1984 and 1988. And in the 1988 one, he

and 1988. And in the 1988 one, he actually got a lot of votes, the most um votes or delegates of anybody prior to

Obama in 2008 actually winning the presidency. And that was very close to

presidency. And that was very close to the last Saturn Neptune conjunction. So,

it's interesting him having that final and that was the last time he ran for president because after that race, he decided not to run again. um having that connection of that high point in his

political career versus passing away very close to the conjunction. And I

remember there was like this iconic picture of him crying in the crowd. He

was in Chicago in the crowd the night Obama won the presidency in 2008 and came out to give a speech to a crowd and of supporters in Chicago. And there's

this picture of Jesse Jackson with tears streaming down his face. And um one of the things I noticed just this month in that astrologically is that Jesse Jackson was born very close to a Saturn

Uranus conjunction uh in the sky in his birth chart. And then famously the night

birth chart. And then famously the night Obama was elected was the night of an exact Saturn Uranus opposition. So that

was an interesting like recurrence for him in terms of a Saturn Uranus aspect very being very important in terms of his his history and chronology as well.

>> Yeah. Yeah. And that makes so much sense with the Saturn with Saturn Uranus's symbolism and meaning, right? Like the

um breaking through boundaries, establishing new precedents, like a um yeah, like an overturning of of past

limitations, Uranus innovating and moving beyond Saturn, but that that in of itself becoming a new um like a new a

new marker or boundary. Um, so yeah, that Saturn Uranus makes a lot of sense.

>> Yeah, exactly. Um, the other major eclipse one that happened is a couple days after the eclipse, Prince Andrew was arrested and he was arrested due to some of the things that came out in the

Epstein files, although supposedly it was connected to possibly sharing state secrets and not other things that were speculated in the Epstein files. And

this was notable happening on an eclipse because it was the first time a royal from the UK has been arrested in centuries anytime in the modern period.

And it was just 2 days after the eclipse, which recurs or confirms a recurring theme that we've seen for years and I've documented in a couple episodes, which is just that eclipses are always super important turning

points for the royal family. And you

almost always see them coming up in the news for some notable reason during eclipse season. And this was another

eclipse season. And this was another instance of that. And um a listener wrote in and pointed out to me something I didn't know, which is that in 1917

um King George V officially changed the British royal family's name from a German name to the current one, the House of Windsor. And this was during

World War I due to rising anti-German sentiment. So there's probably some like

sentiment. So there's probably some like Saturn Neptune connection here besides the eclipses that's relevant as well. In

addition to, of course, the Saturn Neptune being the Epstein signature and relating back to his Saturn Neptune conjunction.

>> Mhm. Yeah, that's really interesting.

>> Yeah. All right, moving on. Another

major story. On February 23rd, um Mexico's most powerful cartel leader was killed by me Mexican security forces.

And the two things related to this astrologically I wanted to note or one just that um his Saturn in his birth chart was at 29 degrees of Pisces. So,

this is actually a crazy second Saturn return event for him, even though Saturn had just clicked into like 0 degrees of Aries just before that. And the other

thing I noticed is that um Mexico um first broke with Spain. It was

part of a wave of Spanish countries that broke away from Spain under the 1810 Saturn Neptune conjunction. And then the Mexican-American War happened under the

1846 Saturn Neptune conjunction. And the

Mexican Constitution was created under the 1917 Saturn Neptune conjunction. So

this is one of the countries where it's tied in with a Saturn Neptune signature that goes back to, you know, probably to Columbus and some of that stuff and certainly to the wave of of Spanish-sp

speakaking countries that broke away from Spain around the 1810 conjunction.

Yeah, beautiful work. Beautiful work

finding this Saturn Neptune conjunction.

>> Yeah, it's just there like anytime there's a major story, just check the history and see. And sometimes stuff comes up. So, speaking of those, one

comes up. So, speaking of those, one other related one of another Saturn Neptune conjunction that's not been in the news a lot, but I think this is going to become a big story really soon,

so I want to mention it, which is Cuba, where the US is doing an oil blockade of Cuba, where Venezuela was the main oil supplier to to the island of Cuba. And

when Venezuela was taken over by the US recently, the US cut off oil supplies to Cuba coming from Venezuela. And then the US is also at the same time pressuring

Mexico and other countries to not supply Cuba with oil, which is turning it into an energy crisis all of a sudden where they're having to shut down basic services and different things like that,

including like like airports and things like that. So when I looked into this,

like that. So when I looked into this, something I found that was stunning was that um the Cuban revolution began July 26th, 1953, which of course was during

the 1953 Saturn Neptune conjunction in Libra. And interestingly, it was also

Libra. And interestingly, it was also during a Mars Uranus conjunction and a Jupiter Venus conjunction, which is very similar to the US birth chart as well as

the Venezuela birth chart, which also both had like armed revolutions that resulted in the creation of their their current countries.

So >> well and I would also add another Saturn Neptune thing for Cuba um and their revolution is we had um we had the um

the Russian revolution which was the overthrow of uh the Tsarist regime for a communist regime like the first big uh

communist state under the previous Saturn Neptune conjunction and we had the publication of um the communist manu

uh manifesto um two cycles before that uh under the 18 the the Saturn Neptune conjunction in the 1840s. Right? So that

that's another that's another sort of thread of history that um has tracked very tightly with Saturn Neptune. And we

see the Latin American Saturn Neptune line and the communism uh Saturn Neptune line intersecting um with the revolution in Cuba in the

early 50s.

>> Right. That's a great point. The the

communist portion with the communist manifesto coming from that 1800 Saturn Neptune conjunction. Good. Good point.

Neptune conjunction. Good. Good point.

Um, so this is going to become a big news story here really soon. So pay

attention to this in the news because it's a growing humanitarian issue, but it also is probably another instance of the US doing attempting possibly attempting to do regime change or

something else. We'll find out very

something else. We'll find out very soon.

Um, okay. And the final news story to round out this news section is the biggest actually news story and it's the one we talked about a lot but that we're still we're now right on the cusp of at this point as we're recording this

episode today on Thursday, February 26, 2026. It's 2 p.m. here in Denver,

2026. It's 2 p.m. here in Denver, Colorado. And um there's been this

Colorado. And um there's been this unprecedented military buildup to the a war with Iran between the United States and Iran where the US has been sending

all of these military assets increasingly tons of them to uh the Middle East and to Iran over the past few weeks. And there's two carrier

few weeks. And there's two carrier strike groups that are there already.

There's tons of planes and equipments that have been amassing all month. Um,

it's reported to be the largest assembly of American naval power in the region since the start of the Iraq war in 2003.

Um, so this is something we talked about a lot because we've been anticipating that this is actually going to happen.

And it and it really looks that that's about to be the case like any day as soon potentially as tomorrow as Friday.

And there were important turning points that happened this month where a really important negotiation took place the day of the eclipse on February 17th. But

little progress has been made. And the

day after the eclipse, or maybe it was the same day after the negotiations, the leader of Iran threatened to sink a US uh carrier and talked about like how

easy it would be. So at this point, you know, war is definitely happening and that's something we've been anticipating for for a while now. I did notice that on February 20th, the day of the Saturn

Neptune conjunction, which is so important in Iranian history, that Resa Palafi put out a statement to the Shia people, and um there's a tension I I

noticed between the the religious versus the secular camps involved both with within and outside of Iran. And that may be one of the central themes that we'll see being a continuing issue between

those two that's tied in with the Saturn Neptune conjunction in the history of Iran.

>> Yeah, absolutely. Um and there are if if you look at Iran's uh Iran's chart, which was uh again Iran's about a month

younger than me, so I'm very familiar with the chart. Um, and so there's a ton of stuff coming up in March and in

April. Um, you know, we may, it might be

April. Um, you know, we may, it might be we need Mars in Pisces, which will be a Mars return for Iran. It might be that

we need the eclipse in Virgo. Um Iran

being birthed in modern Iran uh being birthed in 1979 has the nodes in Virgo and Pisces with malefific on both sides. Um this Mercury

retrograde is going to light up the chart. Almost everything in March lights

chart. Almost everything in March lights up Iron's chart and then the deadly serious Mars Saturn conjunction

that comes in April um is right on top of the sun in Iran's chart which is also the ruler of the ascendant. So there is

um from a chart perspective um Iran has um nothing but re like deeply ominous transits for the next 2 and 1/2 months

in addition to the Saturn Neptune pattern which you mentioned and the the 1979 Mars repetition right like this is

the every 47 years you get something very close to exactly the same Mars cycle um as We, as you pointed out and we talked about last month, it sure

looks like we're on track and so we will be getting the Mars return the uh the Mars return during that year of per of

nearperfect Mars repetition um I believe late in March, which if we're looking for Marshall events like war um would be a good place to look for

them or a good place to look for them being supremely obvious rather than at the edge and latent but any day now like they are now.

>> Yeah, there's too many big indications for rand night right now for something big not to happen which is where we've been for for a while now. We've been

talking about for a couple of months.

Um, the Saturn Neptune conjunction being a repetition of the 1953 coup when the US and and Britain installed uh the Shaw and got rid of the democratically

elected leader or um 19 the late 1980s which is when the supreme leader of Iran, the original one during the revolution passed away and now and the current leader came into power at that

time and now this Saturn Neptune conjunction is closing that cycle. Um,

so much stuff. The 1979 repetition you mentioned, the eclipses were happening around that time in Aquarius and Virgo and shifting from Virgo to Pisces. So,

that's a repetition. Even um, later this month in March, I noticed when we're going to have a Mars Jupiter trine, which is one of the more positive aspects this month in the astrology of

March, we'll get into shortly. But that

was happening um during the Iranian revolution shortly after the Shaw left and when they started setting up the new current government in 1979. So we get a recurrence transit of even something

like that where it was a Mars Jupiter trine not anywhere but it was specifically a TR with Mars in Pisces and Jupiter and Cancer. So there's so

many repetitions and echoes and um right now what it's looking like is this this eclipse that's about to take place in Virgo as the center point and even this Mars Uranus square which goes exact

tomorrow on Friday is similar to the Mars Uranus square that occurred during the last uh attack when the US and Israel attacked Iran in June under a

Mars Uranus square as well.

>> Yeah. Um, I'll I'll eat my hat if it's a if it's a nothing burger. Um, by the time we get done with April, um, there's there, as you said, there's just too

much. There's so many things and so many

much. There's so many things and so many of them for the next two months.

Yeah. So the only question marks is like it seems like it's about to happen but then there's a question of what then is the Aries triple conjunction of like

Mars Jupiter Saturn Mars Saturn uh Neptune Mercury that happens in April like what is what happens then and then the Venus retrograde in Scorpio in October November should be very crucial

as well because that's going to be a repetition of a Venus retrograde that happened during in the leadup to the Iranian revolution that was crucial in accelerating some of the political

unrest. So, those are open questions in

unrest. So, those are open questions in terms of what what's coming up in the longer term this year, but we'll see what happens in the next few days and

and the world is like waiting right now to see see how bad it is essentially um in terms of of what what is about to transpire.

>> Yeah.

All right, my friend. That that's the news section. I apologize for going on

news section. I apologize for going on longer than normal, but we had a lot of really momental momentous stuff to cover and it it always feels important to document some of this stuff as it's

happening um because that's really important for future research especially since a lot of this stuff will continue to become relevant and echo in the future in different ways.

>> Yeah. And especially because a lot of um what will probably uh end up looking like really important precedents or seed moments occurred this month. And it also

because so many things are how should we say unleashed or just about to be unleashed but not um but not finished.

Right? The news section would have been shorter if we could just report outcomes, but everything everything almost everything we looked at as so in

process. Um, and

process. Um, and uh uh uh yeah, it was exploding in slow motion out into the rest of the year

andor years. And so I I agree that it

andor years. And so I I agree that it was a good call um to take a little extra time to map what things look like right now. Um because that Saturn

right now. Um because that Saturn Neptune moment won't happen again for 36 years, right? It'll stay close and it

years, right? It'll stay close and it was close two months ago, but this was the only exact conjunction that we were going to get. And I think you demonstrated quite amply that a number

of things that we might not have initially connected with Saturn Neptune in fact have a history that dates exhaustively and perfectly

um back in time with the Saturn Neptune conjunctions. even as far as Christopher

conjunctions. even as far as Christopher Columbus, which was uh a surprise to me.

>> Yeah. And the and the history echoes back in time and then it will also echo forward so that many of the things we're talking about in this episode, people will look back and realize how

significant they were in retrospect, even more so than we could even realize today.

>> Yeah.

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All right, let's transition into talking about the forecast for March and doing a deep th deep dive into the astrology of the next four weeks. So, let me put the planetary alignments calendar back up just to orient where we're at. This is

the astrology of what we're going to be talking about. And as we said, there's a

talking about. And as we said, there's a bunch of astrology that we are still coming off of that's still in effect

from late February that that bleeds over into early March that's really relevant.

Uh so here's the planetary movements calendar that shows where the planets start at the beginning of the month and how far they get through the different signs during the course of the month. We

are still in the midst of eclipse season. And of course we we have the

season. And of course we we have the second eclipse coming in quick on March 3rd, but we're already like well into that window because the ramp up to that

began by the 24th or so into the the Virgo eclipse. Um, so it's just

Virgo eclipse. Um, so it's just increasing exponentially on that curve by late February as we head into March in terms of the first eclipse. We also

are coming off of I mean today as we're recording this on Thursday the 26th, the Mars Uranus square, which is a really sometimes unexpectedly violent and

disruptive aspect as we've seen several times over the past few years. that

aspect goes exact on February 27th, which is a Friday.

And um that that's going to happen tomorrow. I'm going to attempt to

tomorrow. I'm going to attempt to release this podcast episode tomorrow.

And like, you know, God willing, we've released it before the major event takes place uh in terms of geopolitical news that we're expecting to happen, but we'll see if if we get it out in time.

But that aspect goes exact on the 27th, but then it's still within 3° of that square all the way through March 3rd.

Um, so it's really going to be bleeding into early March and bleeding into that second eclipse that takes place on the 3. And you noted that it's going to get

3. And you noted that it's going to get reactivated by the moon at different points right?

>> Yeah. On March 1st, um, the moon exactly opposes Mars and squares Uranus. Well,

they're still very tight. And in um and Mars is still in Aquarius. So yeah,

T-square on the first um so first day of the month um we get um an emphasis on the Mars square Uranus.

Yeah. And as as I noted in the last section at the end of the last section, the the 12-day war with Iran in June took place under a Mars Uranus square.

So, that's one of the things that makes this current square look very ominous for this weekend and potentially the US beginning uh the war with Iran. Then, uh

we're also in the middle of this Mercury retrograde in Pisces that literally just started on February 25th when Mercury stationed retrograde and it's going to be retrograde for 3 weeks all the way

until March 20th. So, we're opening the month with that context of like revisions, looking back into the past, technical snafuss, miscommunications,

delays, etc. Uh, we've got the Saturn Neptune conjunction, which just went exact on February 20th. So, that's still extremely extremely close. And

throughout this month, we're going to start getting inner planets that are going to start coming through Aries and and reactivating that conjunction in different ways. first starting with

different ways. first starting with Venus conjoining Neptune and Saturn on March 7th and 8th and then later with the Sun moving into Aries and conjoining

Neptune on March 22nd and then Saturn on March 25th. Um, and a couple of positive

March 25th. Um, and a couple of positive aspects this month I did want to mention is there's some nice trines with Jupiter that take place a couple of times that may be a little little silver linings.

uh one Mercury trying Jupiter while Mercury's retrograde on March 8th and then later a much more I like this somewhat auspicious Mars Jupiter uh trrine that's taking place on March 21st

between Mars and Pisces trining Jupiter in Cancer with reception and that's also going to be the day of our most auspicious electional chart of the month which we'll talk about later and then

finally um yeah this is the eclipse series that this Virgo Pisces these eclipse season is part of where the last

time we had a lunar eclipse. We had an eclipse was in um Virgo in that solar eclipse that occurred in September. And

so this is the other side of that with this lunar eclipse now taking place in March in Virgo. So lots of stuff going on that's carried over from February as well as some some new stuff as we'll

see.

Yeah, it's I I don't expect there to be much of a break from the second half of February's uh historical configurations.

>> Yeah, especially in the first half of the month, um the intensity is just really super high. In the second half of the month, there's some little reprieves. Like for example, Jupiter

reprieves. Like for example, Jupiter stations direct in Cancer midmon.

Mercury uh stations direct finally and ends its retrograde period in Pisces.

Then you get that that nice Mars Jupiter trine on the 21st. So it's like there's some forward movement and things taking a turn later in the month, but the first week especially and even like two weeks

of the month are very intense.

>> Yeah. Um I would say the second week is Yeah. Yeah. Um

Yeah. Yeah. Um

quibble here, quibble there generally agree completely.

>> All right. So, um, let's see where to start. Let me put up the chart for the

start. Let me put up the chart for the first day of the month just to orient where we are.

There's our electional chart for today where we're recording this with Cancer rising, of course. So, let's move it forward to March 1st. All right. So, for

those watching the video version, this is the chart for March 1st. We see Mars is like right there at 29° of Aquarius.

So, it's just coming off of that square with Uranus, which is often so volatile and has to do with like unexpected fights, unexpected violence or sometimes

unexpected military actions taking place under those squares. Um, other Mars Uranus alignments in the past have also been like assassinations or assassination attempts and other things

like that. Um, so that's still very

like that. Um, so that's still very potent and very prominent. Even though

Mars switches signs and moves into Pisces already on March 2nd, there's still a little bit of carryover because it doesn't even get outside of the 3°ree range until like March 3rd or 4th

basically.

>> Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, exactly. So, we're

issued into that and Mars's movement into Pisces is um uh is not a great step forward for peace. Um Mars's move into

Pisces um happens the day before the eclipse in Virgo and so Mars gets to participate um in this eclipse. Um and

so as you probably noticed Chris um the um the the eclipse of course is perfect when the uh moon is opposite the sun.

But as soon as the moon enters Virgo, it first makes an opposition to Mars newly in Pisces and then um like uh and then

gains uh goes to what should be maximum fullness but is instead um maximum blood soak um with the full moon or with the

uh the lunar eclipse. And so Mars gets to be a big part of this. Um this made me think about I believe the last time

um or certainly one uh important instance. It may not have been the last

instance. It may not have been the last time, but an important instance when there was a lunar eclipse opposite um uh

opposite Mars was in uh it was uh it was the lunar eclipse in Taurus which was opposite Mars and

Scorpio which heralded um the ground which began um the Israel's uh ground

invasion of uh of of the Palestinian territory several years ago. And I

remember thinking what an ominous I guess that would have been. Uh it was fall of 2023.

Um and I remember what an what an ominous looking eclipse that was on paper. Um and what an ominous looking

paper. Um and what an ominous looking eclipse or what an ominous set of events have cascaded from the uh from the

action taken at that time. And so um yeah, I don't like eclipse. I don't like lunar eclipses opposite Mars, Chris. Um

they >> Yeah. Well, even more recently, um

>> Yeah. Well, even more recently, um actually two things. One, you said like blood soaked and it reminded me this is actually a a total lunar eclipse. So

that the moon is going to appear like blood red. And one of the things that's

blood red. And one of the things that's striking about it is it's going to be visible from North America, from the United States. Um the the path is kind

United States. Um the the path is kind of like especially the western United States and also parts of eastern Asia and like China and across the Pacific

basically for greatest visibility. Um

but a more recent example was just a year ago. The first time the Trump

year ago. The first time the Trump administration did like a major military action, it was like the day I believe of the Virgo eclipse that took place a year ago and that was when the US started

bombing the Houthis in Yemen. uh I think that very day of that eclipse >> and was that where was Mar was Mars configured to that or you just looking

at um eclipses um and their coincidence with um bloody action?

>> Yeah. Well, just eclipses and coinciding with military action as well as the buildup to things because that's one of the things you and I have seen a lot over the past few years is that these

these eclipses sometimes like an event will happen, especially a military event that'll look like a discrete event that's isolated on its own, but then you realize that they're all they're all actually cascading together and they're

all building up to something. And that

was actually originally the the thing that allowed you and I to predict last year that the US would launch a military the first military action against Iran was we could see that a series of the

eclipses over a 2-year period every 6 months kept being um proxies of Iran getting knocked out getting attacked and knocked out by Israel or by the US and

that it was all building up to something larger which we realized at one point I believe in the year ahead forecast for 2025 that it was going to be Iran which which turned out to be the case. Um, but

it's important important then remembering you know what happened under the last eclipse under the same circumstances and a year ago that was the US and and the Trump administration launching its first major military

action and that being an important seed moment.

>> Yeah. Yeah. That's a that's uh that's a really good instance to remember. So

yeah, um Mars and uh Mars completes that square with Uranus, then moves into a new sign um right into the crosshairs of the eclipse, right? And that that Mars

ingress is about 24 hours before the eclipse. Um and then really just folds

eclipse. Um and then really just folds into it. Um, and so that like certainly

into it. Um, and so that like certainly the total eclipse on the 3 is our first

really big obvious just in March event um that we have for the month. What else

do we want to say about the eclipse? So

it's visible as you said western United States I believe um portions of Eastern Asia as well. Is that correct?

>> Yeah, parts of East Asia, the Pacific, stuff like that. And

>> it's sort of a ring of fire. um area.

>> Yeah. And unlike the Aquarius eclipse, which is the first of a new series that's going to bounce back and forth between Aquarius and Leo over the next few years, this is like halfway through

a series of eclipses in Pisces and Virgo that began in uh September of 2024 and March of 2025.

So for you know to try to take it outside of a mundane context and personalize it for each of us the eclipses have been taking place in the Virgo Pisces axis for the past couple of

years now and already opening up these windows of major endings and major beginnings in the two houses that coincide with Virgo and Pisces in your

chart especially the two whole sign houses. So, this eclipse will mark the

houses. So, this eclipse will mark the next step in that process of unfolding that's already been going on for a couple of years now. And that probably

relates back to some events that happened the most recently in September, which is when we had the last eclipse in Virgo, which was that that solar eclipse

on September 21st in Virgo that followed the lunar eclipse in Pisces on September 7th. So each individual can kind of

7th. So each individual can kind of think of and think back to those eclipses and what's been activated in that area of the life and to see this as the next step and the unfoldment of that

process.

>> Yeah. And um

under in most cases this would be the last the last lunar eclipse in Virgo. Um

but we have another one a year from now.

And so, um, instead of this being the conclusion for the Virgo side of things for this series, we've got one more, um, waiting not quite a year from now.

>> Yeah.

>> And that that one that one too um will be tightly configured with Mars. Um,

that instead of opposed, the next one in a year will be um rather closely conjoined Mars. So the this one and next

conjoined Mars. So the this one and next year's have um not only being in Virgo but being tightly configured to Mars in common.

>> Oh yeah, that one's crazy cuz that one is the Mars retrograde that's like squaring Uranus and then the eclipse happens on top of it, right?

>> Yeah. Right. And so we'll we'll have red Mars at maximum uh uh at maximum visibility and

brightness with a blood moon. Um here um here we have them opposed and so while the the moon is overhead Mars will be beneath the earth but the two the two

talking the two configured and so you know one interpretation is this might be the mellower older brother of the of the one

that we get next year um because the next one will be more Marshall that last one in the series but >> yeah absolutely and and the one thing about this one I'm curious about is the

eclipse goes exact around 12 13° of Virgo but then a and it's heavily colored by Mars having just moved into Pisces where it's opposing the eclipse

by sign the the moon by sign but the moon's next aspect after it goes exact at 1213 Virgo is that it then applies with reception to Jupiter at 15° of

cancer so it's like there's some offsetting factor that's attempting to make this eclipse better than it might be otherwise through a somewhat weak aspect of a sex tile

But then it's happen the eclipse is happening in Virgo. So the ruler of the eclipse is Mercury which is retrograde has just stationed retrograde and is retrograde up there at 20° of Pisces.

And after the moon completes the sexile with Jupiter, it then applies to that opposition with Mercury. So there's this heavily like Mercury retrograde element to this eclipse in Virgo.

>> Yeah. And I Yeah, I um I think that's that's right. And Mercury's kind of uh I

that's right. And Mercury's kind of uh I kind of feel like Mercury's the the secret I don't know if key um there there's no understanding March without

understanding what's happening with Mercury. And it's important to note that

Mercury. And it's important to note that just as the month began with Mars fresh off this square to Uranus, um Mercury not only begins retrograde, but at the

very beginning of the month and at the very end of February, sure, Mercury is stationed retrograde as it is right now as we're speaking. Um but it's with

Venus. And so it's not just with Venus,

Venus. And so it's not just with Venus, it's it's with a very happy Venus. It's

Venus coming off of a trine with Jupiter. Um, it's Venus in exaltation.

Jupiter. Um, it's Venus in exaltation.

It's uh an exalted bonific that's in the place of another exalted bonific. And

so, you know, I'm um I' I've certainly been wondering what seems okay right now. Um because that Mercury retrograde

now. Um because that Mercury retrograde is so happily conjoined and excellent bonific that will obviously be not okay very soon,

>> right? Because because as soon as we get

>> right? Because because as soon as we get like once we're into the eclipse land, Mercury has made that conjunction with Venus and Venus is headed out of Pisces.

Um and Venus will be headed out of Pisces right into Saturn Neptune by the end of the first week of March. And

whereas that Mercury um will then move into conjunction with the sun and then spend a lot of time with Mars and the head of the dragon post eclipse. And

there's a whole lot of Mercury um Mercury, North Node, and Mars. Um and

that's a combination we're going to have to live with that is not particularly auspicious for most people. And again,

the whole time we're getting these um potentially bonific interfering um or positive interessions from Jupiter and Cancer as

it's as it's stationing direct and um there's certainly um a silver lining or preventing the worst case that come that's going to come in there and c

hopefully on an individual level for myself and you and everybody listening um that is maximized But boy, there are some rough configurations. Um, and uh,

and we can't describe them without Mercury once it's no longer um, sort of uh, spoiled with goodness by Venus as it

is now and as it is as the month opens.

Yeah, I was trying to think about that of like what does a Mercury retrograde conjunct Venus at the beginning look like that ends with Mercury retrograde

stationing direct conjunct Mars. And

it's like one of the images is a pleasant jaunt down memory lane that opens up and results in some severing

and separation and discord in order to begin moving forward again because Mercury retrogrades always have that backwards looking component of like you know going back and revisiting the past

of people from your past coming back into the present and the first part of that may be pleasant at first with the initial conjunction being with Venus.

and feels loving or like reconciling or unifying. But then there's something

unifying. But then there's something about the the outcome of that eventually that reveals something cuz then Mercury plunges into under the beams of the sun and goes through that process of

introspection and looking inwards and then it eventually on the other side of that um it meets up with Mars and there's some sort of uh conflict that

arises or some sort of disagreement or verbal uh combat that that takes place that is required towards the end of that in order to turn things around and start

moving forward again. So, it's going to be interesting seeing how that sequence unfolds for different people in terms of their personal lives and also probably especially in terms of what house that's taking place in in each of our birth

charts.

>> Mhm. Yeah. And the um yeah, like the fact that we have uh the retrograde station by a bonific by Venus and then the direct station with Mars, right?

It's like what are we rethink what do we what do we need to turn away from like what is not accurate or needs to be rethought is described by the retrograde station be like maybe things aren't so

maybe we can't all just get along and then the direct station gives you gives you the like okay where can we move forward from right like what is the perspective what are the facts what is

the information we need to actually move forward from here and that's that much harsher place where it's not only trying uh we will need to move forward not only

from a position of uh being conjoined Mars but also being right on the eclipse point right on Rahu or the dragon's head right which is always relevant but

especially this month because it's um we're in you know tis the season right for uh shadows to cover the sun and the moon.

>> Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Um, and

let's see. You you you actually meant that reminded me we meant to have a proviso about Mercury retrograde that we're literally like recording this forecast on a Mercury retrograde station. So, we're trying to do we're

station. So, we're trying to do we're going to try to do our best to be accurate and and do a good job in our predictions and everything else, but um we're kind of curious how the Mercury

retrogradess of this isn't going to impact things and we're going to try to navigate that the best we can.

>> Yeah. And as a testament to Mercury station retrograde in the sign of its fall, we were going to talk about this earlier as more of a a framing for our

discussion. Um, but we just remembered,

discussion. Um, but we just remembered, right? But it's like what like what

right? But it's like what like what can't we see now or what do we accidentally um not talk about um that we're going to kick ourselves for not trying to be more

precise about? But like that's there

precise about? But like that's there there's no waiting till you know March 5th uh to record this podcast. So we're

we're trying to work with it. Yeah. And

and one of the things I think for some people the Mercury retrogrades revisiting the past because of the way it ties in with the eclipse being so

significant at that time. It may result in much bigger revelations than a normal Mercury retrograde might. And that that process of going back or looking back

into the past or revising things may end up um launching a larger series of great endings where suddenly there's a realization that something has to come

to an end but also in as a result of that uh process of starting greater beginnings that are much more momentous than they might be otherwise under under

other retrogrades. Yeah, it's a really

other retrogrades. Yeah, it's a really um there's so uh there's so much framing uh and depending on this Mercury retrograde um that it gets that addi

additional depth and importance which means that decisions made and frameworks rethought will probably have greater relevance going forward than um your

standard every four months Mercury retrograde. And I would also just point

retrograde. And I would also just point out on a simple level um this is about as technically debilitated as Mercury

can be. Um for most of the month we have

can be. Um for most of the month we have Mercury retrograde in the sign of its fall combust um con co-present or conjoined an

eclipse point ruling the eclipse and with a maleific Mars um it is it is like a litany of the abilities and so in

terms of Mercury retrograde making Mercury things hard like I didn't get that email um or I bought this expensive thing and it got delivered to somewhere

I don't live um or you know as well as the miscommunications the travel plans getting cancelled etc etc um this this is uh I would consider this one of the

severe Mercury retrogrades where it's not just the retrogradation um but retrogradation is a focus of other impediments to Mercury's

excellence so I would consider a storm warning for all mercurial things.

>> Yeah, that's a great point. And so, um, some of the things that are set up as like problems or that initiate a period of looking back or revising things that

starts in late February, you won't start to see a turn for the better with some of those things until around March 7th, which is when Mercury conjoins the sun halfway through the Mercury retrograde

cycle. And usually things don't start

cycle. And usually things don't start getting completely better at that point, but you can start to see that there could be some end in sight or that you start to see the path forward in terms

of that process, which then eventually um starts to to wrap up and starts to head to some better sense of moving forward again around March 20th when

Mercury stations direct.

>> Yeah. And again moving forward like obtaining enough certainty to know a path but that point of turning forward is close to is right with Mars and the

north node. And so it's not doesn't it's

north node. And so it's not doesn't it's not it's probably not going to look like an easy way forward, right? It may not be delightful news. It may be the news

that you need to proceed with some level of certainty. Um, but it's not it's not

of certainty. Um, but it's not it's not an it's not an it's not an easy or fun way forward after the retrograde.

Yeah, absolutely. So, that's all important when it comes to the retrograde. And I also meant to say that

retrograde. And I also meant to say that eclipse season is going to continue for at least 7 or 8 days after the lunar eclipse. So, the lunar eclipse is on

eclipse. So, the lunar eclipse is on March 3rd, but we're still going to be in the most intense window at least through the 10th and 11th, I would say, until the next quarter like square that

the moon makes to the sun following the eclipse. Um, and one of the things that,

eclipse. Um, and one of the things that, you know, we said last month, but bears repeating because always if we don't say it, if we don't repeat it, then people think we didn't predict it. But during

eclipses, one of the core things that we've seen that we already saw in the Aquarius eclipse is sometimes the downfall of prominent people like people who are at a high point visibly in

society suffering some sort of downfall or in some instances the most extreme forms of that is like prominent people dying or passing away and reaching the end of their life. um as we saw with

like Jesse Jackson for example on the Aquarius eclipse uh with the death scenario or as we saw with Prince Andrew for example on the Aquarius eclipse suffering a downfall being arrested

being the first royal arrested in like 500 years just after that eclipse. So,

we'll probably continue to see major themes of that of like notable deaths and downfalls taking place around the time of this eclipse during this eclipse season window of 7 days before and 7

days after the eclipse.

Yeah, absolutely. And thank you for repeating that cuz it does it does bear repeating. And um I will add what I very

repeating. And um I will add what I very often add if we're repeating things that are worth saying is that um boy are the

Game of Thrones shows a good instance for thinking about rise and the rise and fall from rise to and fall from power

that we see throughout history with eclipses um um and the draconic symbolism and um of course uh the season

finale of the recent uh smaller scale Game of Thrones universe show Night of the Seven Kingdoms happened uh premiered

um basically 30 hours before that solar eclipse. Um and that show of course I'm

eclipse. Um and that show of course I'm going to avoid spoilers, but there were there are characters who literally have dragons on their armor. Um and there

were surprise there were sudden and surprising rises and falls and deaths and such. And so that universe continues

and such. And so that universe continues to be best possible example of rise and of the way that the nodal dragon brings

rise and fall um of people into and out of power.

>> Yeah, that was a good show. I liked

that. Um all right, so yeah, we'll be we'll be seeing some of those classic things. We also see, as always, as we

things. We also see, as always, as we said last month, previously obscure people rising into positions of prominence and coming out of nowhere and suddenly becoming like in the headlines

or household names all of a sudden is another common thing. Um, but let's go back to looking at the chart because there's also some like weird some nice little trines that get mixed in and I

don't think these are going to offset things majorly, but it's at least worth mentioning them um as we move on from the eclipse, which is like we get the

eclipse on the 3 and then um the first tr is like the sun hits about 15° of Pisces on March 5th and trines Jupiter

on at 15° of Cancer. Uh, I know somebody whose weirdly lucky solar return happens to be that sun Jupiter trine this year. Do do

you know who that that person is?

>> Oh, it's me.

>> Um, you.

>> But here's the unluck. I'm moving into a Mercury ruled year, which is probably like a top like worst planet on the menu. if I were moving into a Jupiter

menu. if I were moving into a Jupiter year, a solar year, even a Mars year, a Venus year, but of course I'm moving into a Mercury year. So, I'm tracked

with um with poor Mercury here, um who's screaming and on fire and drowning all at the same time.

>> All right. Well,

>> but everything else looks great. Um it

looks like I I will um somehow be uh uh incinerated by a combustion while drowning in the great waters of Pisces.

um in an otherwise very auspicious situation based on the solar return chart.

>> Yeah. Well, I I have a tradition of as an astrologer of anytime one of my close friends has a birthday of like saying something positive about their solar return chart and and pointing out the good part even if you look at it and you

see something that's like oh that's not that's not great. Uh but the but I want to say that sun Jupiter trine looks very very nice very auspicious and even the mercury which is retrograde at that

point is applying to the trine of Jupiter just 3 degrees away so I think you got some good silver linings going there buddy I think it's going to be a good year >> I'll take it I'll take it yeah and and

silver linings like like I think Jupiter's going to be doing a lot of like you said silver linings for an otherwise difficult situation or uh in addition

um preventing the worst case from happening, right? Like, oh, that went

happening, right? Like, oh, that went badly, but then, you know, little little helping hand prevented it from going as badly as it could. I think Jupiter's

going to step in not to steer the entire thing where like, nope, it's great. um

but instead like being able to inter inter interpose a a gracious hand to prevent um like greater harm from happening than

otherwise would or greater error. Um and

again, I'll take it.

>> Yeah. Well, I think that Mercury retrograde in Pisces retrograding back to trine Jupiter is just you getting that Deckens book done, buddy. You got

to get that done. And that's that's what's happening this year. I can see it. And it's it's that Mercury ruled

it. And it's it's that Mercury ruled ruled year retrograde >> training Jupiter and you revising that book, finishing the revision and getting it out for the world to to enjoy.

>> That's um that is absolutely what's happening. Um and while all this is

happening. Um and while all this is taking place and so I want to bring up a question I have about this miserable Mercury. Um, so it's something I've been

Mercury. Um, so it's something I've been thinking about. There is it's very

thinking about. There is it's very common in Vadic astrology to consider the retrogradation of a planet in its

fall as a partial mitigation of its wretched and fallen state. Um, I

I will paraphrase that as it's so bad it's good. And I'm

it's good. And I'm been pretty skeptical of this. I'm very

skeptical of this natally, but as we're getting closer to this and now that Mercury is actually retrograde uh in the sky in Pisces, I found myself

making plans that are, how should I say, so clear and simple that this Mercury retrograde is going to have a really hard time

um sabotaging them. And I'm wondering I'm wondering if that's part of that like when a planet is in such wretched condition um like you like if there

there is a if there like there is a corresponding sort of um meeting that by being like okay I'm going to do something that's so

simple that it's invulnerable. It's so

bad that I'm not going to take any risks. And so I'm I'm just wondering

risks. And so I'm I'm just wondering about that and I'm I'm I'm interested in getting to watch whether I see that dynamic happening or not. This reversal

like this partial reversal of a fall.

>> Yeah, for sure. I think there's going to be some good stuff with that that reception is is great and some positive, >> you know, walks down memory lane or revisions like with you writing the

book. Um but then there's also

book. Um but then there's also >> certainly revisiting the past.

>> Yeah. But then there's also going to be some plans that go ary is what this Mercury retrograde is speaking to with me of it going retrograde and then going back into Mars. And just it makes me

think of that Mike Tyson quote of like especially in terms of geopolitical events are about to happen of like everybody has a plan until they get

punched in the in the face. And um yeah, sometimes with the Mercury retrograde, you know, uh we have plans, we think things out, we think things are going to go a certain way, but then with the

Mercury retrograde, it does that loop and plans do not go exactly according to how we we expected, but we end up having to go another route and find an alternative way to our destination that

involves a little bit of backtracking before we can get to our intended outcome.

>> Yeah. Yeah. No. and that um another version of that is no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Um but

yeah, I think we're going to see an awful lot of that. Um and of course the um the north nodes uh co-presence with Mercury and Mars is an additional

testimony to that because the nodes um in addition to everything else they obscure vision. That's why we bother to

obscure vision. That's why we bother to calculate them, right? That's what an eclipse is. Is is is the the thing that

eclipse is. Is is is the the thing that is supposed to be the brightest point in the sky looks weird. Why is the the sun half visible in the middle of the day?

Why is the moon and on the brightest night um like somehow half gone or turned blood red? Like the nodes make things it makes it hard to see your way

through the terrain, right? And so they uh both of them have the signification of potential confusion because of this >> definitely. And and amplifying that is

>> definitely. And and amplifying that is our other major transit that starts happening this month over and over again which is like inner planets starting to

activate the Saturn Neptune conjunction first starting with Venus on March 7th and 8th when Venus moves into Aries and conjoins those two planets back to back.

And so we have the Saturn Neptune conjunction which itself has that reality distortion field has been my keyword that's been one of the more accurate keywords of that. And then you

bring Venus into it which brings this relational component relational and aesthetic component to that in terms of activating that conjunction.

>> Yeah. Right. So um one one experience that a lot of people have is what is going on with my relationships

right like is this is the am I trapped Saturn is this wonderland Neptune like what is this uh what is this uh

unknowable and illdefined situation and how do I feel about it >> and likely not having an immediate and clear answer.

Yeah, because Venus Saturn normally is like a cooling of relationships. Like

something gets cold or there's distance or something um putting up boundaries, but then with Saturn Neptune, it's tough because with Saturn and Neptune, boundaries get blurred and it's not

clear what the boundary is. It's not

clear. Things are unclearly divi defined in terms of like are we in a relationship? Are we not in a

relationship? Are we not in a relationship? And the the ambiguity

relationship? And the the ambiguity surrounding that itself can cause some distance or some cooling off that can be really exacerbated at this time. I think

is one of the things that'll happen around I can see yeah this the sixth Venus hits Neptune and you get the relational ambiguity and then the sequence is then the next day Venus

conjoins Saturn and you get the the cooling off or the distance.

>> Yeah. Yeah, and that's I'm so glad you brought up the fact that they're no longer in the same degree and unlike the previous 3 years of co-presence, every

planet that conjoins them is going to do Neptune and then Saturn. Whereas um for the last several years, the the the transit has always been planet the

planet hits Saturn, feel the boundaries, feel the the cold shoulder, and then it hits Neptune. It's like, well, maybe

hits Neptune. It's like, well, maybe none of that was real. Whereas now that we are post conjunction, it's going to

be um um the uh uh boundaryless um f perhaps fictional um state of being conjoined Neptune and then the Saturn will hit and that's

going to be the the sequence for the next two and a half or two years and two months.

Yeah, that's a great point. And one of the things that's nice is as soon as Venus clears Saturn on March 8th, then by that point, Mercury retrogrades back to about 15° of Pisces and completes

that trine with Jupiter. So there's

something about the the process of looking back and revising agreements or revising relationships that has some sort of um positive day of communication

and and positive looking back and reconnecting with people at that time as Venus starts to clear the the ambiguity of Saturn and Neptune at at that point.

So that could be good on an individual level. Um, okay. So, moving forward

level. Um, okay. So, moving forward after that, it looks like by the 10th and 11th, we see the moon get into Sagittarius and square the sun. And this

is the final days of the most intense range of the eclipse season that we usually see will end after this point once you start getting into the 12th and forward.

So some of the intensity of just like seeing major events happening in the news, seeing um major beginnings and endings in news stories, but also in people's personal lives will start to

taper off a little bit after this point.

Um aside from just whatever residuals are still going on from what was started during the eclipse season itself, but typically we do see a calming down a little bit after this point.

>> Yeah. And I I think that week after the last eclipse is a is generally a good guideline. I think with Mars exactly

guideline. I think with Mars exactly conjoin the north node and Mercury very close to it and coming back that the the

shadow stank of the eclipse is going to linger longer than normally.

>> Yeah, that's probably true. Especially

now that it's once we get to into this range where Mercury's at like 11 Pisces, it starts getting within the intense 3° range applying to Mars with a retrograde

conjunction. So, we start building up to

conjunction. So, we start building up to that aspect which is not pleasant. It's

our other sort of lingering unpleasant aspect cuz something I I struggled with in putting together this forecast and researching it is on the 11th, the same day that's it's kind of like our final

day of the intensity of eclipse season, Jupiter stations direct at 15° of Cancer, which is super important and super positive in many ways because

especially for those of us that have been experiencing this Jupiter transit through Cancer since last June, which has been cleaning up some of the the

mess that the Mars retrograde in Cancer made earlier that year. Jupiter's been

like trying to clean up that area, but it's been a little bit stifled and sidetracked over the course of the past several of months since it's been retrograde in Cancer. But now it's starting to move forward again, and

we're going to see forward movement in that area where Jupiter is attempting to clean things up. And that's one really positive thing this month that represents some sort of like forward not

just forward movement but also resolution of positive and affirming and protective things in the cancer sectors of of all of our charts. And it's

interesting that that forward movement starts around March 11th just as the eclipse season is is winding down.

>> Yeah. And it's such an um it's such an unambiguously good moment for Jupiter and Jupiter ruled things and um and any any and this

uh as you said the sector of the chart which Cancer overlaps with like that is um by itself fantastic and there's

nothing else that um that that um really significantly intrudes upon it right there's all this other stuff going on that Jupiter is actually trying to

positively intercede with. Um but yeah, uh for Jupiter, it's a it's a fantastic moment.

>> Yeah. So, I'm interested in how that might offset some of the the more chaotic things that we're coming off of in the first week of March especially, and as we're starting to head out of

eclipse season, if there isn't some positive resolution, at least for individuals in that area of their life, that becomes apparent. Um we do

unfortunately though uh get the next major aspect that happens is this Mercury Mars conjunction that takes place around the 14th and 15th of March

around 9 and 10° of Pisces when the um we have like technical snafuss. We have

uh verbal altercations. we have um like harsh words and swearing and um just really combative energy that kind of culminates at this time during this two

two-day time frame.

>> Yeah. And with the uh with the north node there too, there's a lot of like angry and confused, >> right? And um anger's not great and

>> right? And um anger's not great and confusion is not great, but angry and confused is a pretty toxic combo um

because the um people can be confused about where the hostility is coming from or who did them wrong. And you know,

it's uh it's never a good things good thing when things come to blows. Um

whether that's verbal, emotional, or physical violence at whatever scale. Um

but all the more tragic when um when force is directed towards those who are not responsible, which doesn't even address whatever the uh the source of the conflict is. And that's an issue

with the the both the Mercury retrograde with Mars as well as the confusing and uh occultting or oluding uh eclipse

point there. So, we want to make real

point there. So, we want to make real sure even if uh like I prefer not to get angry or act in anger um but if you have to get angry then make sure you're

pointed in the right direction because the potential for um targeting the wrong people um is very high here, >> right? like thinking you've been

>> right? like thinking you've been slighted by somebody and saying something or doing something harsh in retaliation, but then it turning out that somebody else actually did the

thing and you've targeted or retaliated against the wrong person, >> right? And created a whole set of

>> right? And created a whole set of conflicts or hostilities.

>> Absolutely. Yeah. Um All right. So after

that date, it's like Mercury starts to slow down, getting ready to station. But

then we get our second lunation of the month, which is this new new moon that takes place in late Pisces on the 18th.

And uh what's interesting about this is it takes place the same day that Venus gets to 15° of Aries and it squares Jupiter at 15° of Cancer. So by this

point, this is the first lunation that's not an eclipse. So we've fully fully moved out of eclipse season, which normally starts to, you know, like I said, calm down about a week after the

eclipse. But certainly by the time we

eclipse. But certainly by the time we get to this new moon, then we're like fully fully out of eclipse season for sure. And it sets a new foundation for

sure. And it sets a new foundation for like the next month from mid-March until midappril.

>> Yeah. And it's interesting um this is one of those cases where even though the sun and moon are coming together um in the same sign as the eclipse point the

north node in this case um they're far enough away from it and so this reestablishes some normaly in Pisces where most of the

lunations for the last while have been eclipses but this is both uneclipsed and um at least configured by whole sign to Jupiter which just stationed direct and

it's in Jupiter's sign and so there's defin like that Jupiter trying to keep things from being worst case or pointing

out silver linings or like put things back together. Um that sort of like uh

back together. Um that sort of like uh uh u medic role that Jupiter I think will be playing this month is further emphasized by um being the ruler of this

lunation. like this is trying to put

lunation. like this is trying to put things put things back together or reestablish coherence uh here in Jupiter's sign of Pisces.

Yeah, I like that. Um it looks like the closest aspect is the sun and moon conjoin and they're sexiling Uranus at 28° of Taurus. So there's some chance

for some like lightly spontaneous resolutions to things or opening up new paths to to move forward that are innovative and unexpected and that you

didn't sort of foresee but but provide a lightly exciting opportunity to do something new and different.

>> Yeah. Like seeing a way of doing something that's a little bit off thebeaten path that like opens up new possibilities or a way to solve a problem or work around something. I do

like a a sexile to Uranus. Uranus is too much um with most of the strong aspects, but a little like the sexile with Uranus

provides like a nice level of zing, right? It's like um if you ever touch u

right? It's like um if you ever touch u a live wire and it's not enough to shock you, but just give you a little charge, >> right?

>> You're like, "That wasn't so bad. That's

kind of fun."

>> Yeah, that was zesty.

>> Zesty. Yeah.

Uh so that new moon is also very close though to the Saturn Neptune conjunction and like right after that the sun moves into Aries and we get that conjunction

with the sun hitting Neptune and then a few days later Saturn at the same time Mercury is finally stationing direct at 8° of Pisces. So we're seeing a resolution to the delays and technical

snafuss and miscommunications that have been going on for 3 weeks up to that point. Um but that's kind of a

point. Um but that's kind of a contrasting energy where on the one hand you get like the communication issues being clarified or starting to be clarified with Mercury but that at the

same time the sun hitting Neptune and Saturn is amplifying the reality distortion field again and um somehow putting the spotlight or bringing a

central figure like let's say a leadership figure into focus um within the context of the Saturn Neptune things and the either lack of clarity or lack

of um truthfulness that that we sometimes associate with that combination.

>> Yeah, I think the uh the clarity that Mercury direct stations often bring will be late in arriving this year, >> right? Because as you said, the sun goes

>> right? Because as you said, the sun goes right into Neptune, Saturn, and it's Mercury stationing direct on the eclipse uh on the eclipse point. Exactly. which

is not again um Rahu the north node the dragon's head um is a point of occlusion or difficulty

in seeing clearly and Mercury is stationing direct of course in Pisces which is a sign where it has great difficulty and so it is turning towards

turning back towards certainty and that and uh signaling that a path forward is

can be found and followed but under um multiply difficult circumstances.

>> Yeah. One of the things that's nice that's happening at this time on March 21st is the Mars Jupiter trine goes exact and this is a positive looking TR

to me because there's reception between the two. It's not just a trine, which is

the two. It's not just a trine, which is a favorable aspect between the two, but Mars is in Jupiter's sign. So, it

creates even more of a close and more positive bond between the two planets.

And I was trying to do research of Mars Jupiter trines over the years and I was finding some interesting ones like cuz you know Mars and Jupiter have those themes of war and peace. And so for

example, in the year 2000, I found one where President Clinton became the first president to visit uh the country visit Vietnam as a country after the Vietnam

War. And so there was an interesting

War. And so there was an interesting moment of that like postwar like period of peace and reconciliation taking place between the two countries with the

leader visiting. Then um other instances

leader visiting. Then um other instances that I found that are more closely tied into the current cycle was back in 2001 in December the shoe bomber Richard Reed

was on a an airplane and he attempted to detonate a bomb that was in his shoe but other passengers saw that he was doing this and they they grabbed him and like

subdued him and stopped him from blowing up this this airplane that had all these people on it. So, it was a really interesting instance where it was like something bad almost happened, but then

um it was stopped and and the day was kind of like saved by people like catching the bad thing before it actually took place.

>> Um >> can we just pause for the fact that Pisces feet Mars and Pisces shoe bomber and then we have like Jupiter

interceding and it's like no no shoe bombing in my sign.

>> Yeah, that is actually pretty good. I

like that.

Um, but another weird one though that I found because then I was I was that was that was Mars and Pisces trying Jupiter in Cancer before that one that I found

was April of 1979 was another repetition of Mars in Pisces trining Jupiter in Cancer. And what was happening then was

Cancer. And what was happening then was the the Islamic Republic of Iran officially was proclaimed on April 1st and on April 4th. So the creation of

what became like the current government of of Iran was was created at that time.

So that creates another recurrence transit that that's happening this month on top that just like piles on top of all the other transits and recurrences that we are already seeing in a in a one

that we wouldn't expect which is this Mars Jupiter trine.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, and as I was telling you the other day, um, there were two, um, there were two champions

in the UFC who were both born in 1979 with this TR. Um, one of, uh, one Pisces and one son in Pisces, one son in Aries,

and one of them has it uh, uh, has the TR by sign um, but very widely. Um, that

was Michael Bispang. And the other one, uh, Daniel Cormier, who has the TR very close, uh, I I think they're like 28 and 29. I'd need to relook at it, but the

29. I'd need to relook at it, but the the the TR is about as close as possible, was not only a champion in one weight class, but one of the few people

who was a champion in two weight classes. um and whose general manner and

classes. um and whose general manner and how should we say physical build um is sort of uh exactly what you would expect

for a perfect Mars Jupiter trine with Jupiter really strong in that he is uh very rotunded and very likable.

>> Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Um

let's see other Mars Jupiter trines. I

noticed a the one on June 6th, 1981, Israel launched a surprise attack that destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor, which is a major notable one at that time.

There was also uh January of 2019, the longest government shutdown in US history, came to an official end at that time after a temporary funding bill was

signed. Or a weird one was uh Mars

signed. Or a weird one was uh Mars Jupiter try in February of 2003 was when US Secretary of State Colon Powell went to the UN and gave this landmark

presentation to the Security Council where he outlined the intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction uh supposedly being in Iraq as the the you

know premise in order to argue for the invasion of Iraq which then took place uh shortly after that. If that sounds sounds familiar.

>> Indeed. Well, and you see very archetypally the two function how the one of the ways that the two functions of Mars and Jupiter intersect. Jupiter

tries to support the other planets sometimes when they don't deserve it.

And so um giving a um giving a justification or a casus belly um for marshall action is very Jupiter

supporting Mars being like this is lawful this is just um like this is necessary.

>> Yeah totally >> whether it is or not.

>> Weird um side fact. Uh, so that was a Mars Jupiter trine when Colon Pal gave that famous speech which became such a defining speech in his career. Weird

fact, October 19th, 2021 was also a Mars Jupiter trine and Colon Pal passed away that day from complications related to CO the day prior on October 18th. And I

thought that was weird because I remember when he died, so much of the coverage was about how he was like the highest military general in the country and he had this record, but his record

was was hugely blemished by that he had put his name behind the Iraq war and and saying that Iraq had ma weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to be the case. And so when he died, there was

the case. And so when he died, there was so much of the obituaries and stuff reflected on that being an important note in his overall life life career and stuff. And I thought that was really

stuff. And I thought that was really interesting how that recurrence tied those two things together.

>> Yeah, absolutely. And it makes me think of um uh uh the delineation material in Fermicus Maternus about Mars Jupiter trines um and how it makes for great

military leaders who have the power who have the power of life and death at their disposal.

>> Yeah. Generals, military commanders. So

Mars Jupiter trine can also just be good in in our personal lives for like taking actions, having successful decisive moments of like forward movement and

action. Um having a sustained ability to

action. Um having a sustained ability to work and to do things and to expend a lot of energy productively. Uh there's

just a lot of positive ways in a personal life you could use this conjunction. So much so that this date

conjunction. So much so that this date March 21st is actually our most auspicious electional chart of the month. And let me put up the chart for

month. And let me put up the chart for that right now. So our most auspicious electional chart for this month for taking actions and starting major

ventures and undertakings is March 21st around 100 p.m. give or take local time.

If you cast a chart for that in your city, then you should up end up with a chart that has cancer rising. And we put that Jupiter, which is just recently stationed direct right in the first

whole sign house, not far from the ascendant. Um, and then the ruler of the

ascendant. Um, and then the ruler of the ascendant is the moon, which is exalted in Taurus in the 11th sign house, which is the place of friends and groups and alliances.

um indicating a good 11th house chart for working with friends and groups and doing things at a very high level or developing um friends and social

contacts with people in a high place in society which is sometimes what happens with exalted planets. Uh we make that Mars Jupiter trine very central in the chart with Mars in the ninth sign house

exactly trining Jupiter with reception.

Mercury as you can see is just stationing direct finally there in Pisces. So, we're getting the tail end

Pisces. So, we're getting the tail end of the Mercury retrograde rather than trying to do something important at the beginning of the month when there's more likely for things to for plans to go ary

as we were talking earlier or miscommunications or other things. And

um yeah, that's kind of the the the best chart of the month as far as we can we can tell.

>> Yeah, I think there's a lot to be said there. Um uh or there's a lot to like

there. Um uh or there's a lot to like there which a lot could be said about.

Um, I would also just add with Mars, Mars Jupiter, especially with reception like this. Um, Mars Jupiter has a lot to

like this. Um, Mars Jupiter has a lot to do with just winning, right? And

sometimes you're like, "Oh, I wish that person didn't win." Um, in retrospect, that was maybe not the the best for all.

Um, but like Mars Jupiter wins like they you have it like successful military figures, champions or people who are stars in sport often have it. It's um

you know it's the are you winning like yes Mars Jupiter exact Mars Jupiter trine with Jupiter on the ascendant. I

acted on March 21st 2026 according to what Chris said and yes dad I'm winning.

>> Nice. I like it. Yeah, the winning configuration.

Um all right. So that's our best electional chart of the month. Uh Lisa

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dates for taking actions and and undertakings through the principles of electional astrology. So you can get

electional astrology. So you can get access to that for by signing up on the electional astrology tier through our page on patreon.com/aststrology

podcast.

All right. So, that's taking us to the later part of the month as things start to wind down. Mercury is stationed direct and starts moving forward again.

Um, what else is going on here, Austin?

Well, I mean, it takes us almost till the end of the month um uh to for the sun to clear Saturn as well as Neptune,

right? Saturn is moving really fast

right? Saturn is moving really fast right now for Saturn, right? And so, um, like Saturn's already separated from Neptune by 3 degrees, it's all the way

to four, um, by the time the sun conjoins it on what, the 26th. Um, and

so, um, you know, like instead of it, uh, instead of just being one conjunction or a two-day thing where it's Neptune one day, Saturn the next,

um, we've got like four days of, uh, the sun doing four or five days of the sun applying to Neptune, conjoining Neptune, then um, plowing the space between

Neptune and Saturn, then hitting Saturn, then beginning to leave Saturn. Also

worth noting that the um that sun Neptune conjunction is the first sun Neptune conjunction in Aries which we

will be doing shortly after the equinox every year for the next 13 or 14.

And so, you know, if we're part of um I don't know, part of our job, you and I, Chris, but as well as part of uh everybody in the audience, part of your job as far as seeing patterns um like

and seeing this Neptune and Aries pattern, what's beautiful about it, what's awful about it, like what its shape, smell, texture, and colors are.

Um like this will be the first time that the sun has conjoined Neptune in Aries.

Um, and so I I think it's uh it'll be very useful to just take a look at what what is this um this new almost decade and a half Neptune background that we're going to have.

>> Yeah. And what and what house does that coincide with in your chart? And it's

going to really shed some light on what that transit is going to be all about of not just Neptune through there over the next decade, but also Saturn's transit through there over the course of the

next 2 years before it goes into Taurus in 2028.

>> Yeah. Yeah. That's a that's a great uh great and further specifying point is like cuz Neptune's going to be in that house forever and with whatever planets are there. Um, and likely you if

are there. Um, and likely you if especially if you have planets early in that sign, you've probably felt it, seen some of it. Um, but getting clear on

something that's going to be true for almost a decade and a half sooner rather than later is very advantageous,

especially with Neptune, which likes to uh which very easily eludes thinkability or eludes clarity if you don't spend some time focusing on it.

>> Yeah. cuz it's already happening. Like I

could already see that in the lives of a bunch of a bunch of people as soon as Saturn and Neptune moved into Aries this past month. The shift was palpable and

past month. The shift was palpable and you could see people start doing new things, but they are not fully clear yet the significance of how important those new things are. But especially once the

sun hits that conjunction later in the month, the sun has those ancient associations with the eyes and with sight. And sometimes when the sun hits a

sight. And sometimes when the sun hits a conjunction like this, it really illuminates it and suddenly you see and you recognize what it is those planets are doing much more than you did up to this point.

>> Yeah. Yeah. I have one really quick Neptune transit story, Chris, that I think you'll enjoy. Um it's just it's perfect. So, as you know, um, my wife

perfect. So, as you know, um, my wife and your friend Caitlyn Copek has Mars at zero Aries and it rules her

ascendant. And so, Neptune hit that by

ascendant. And so, Neptune hit that by the minute this month. And so, she woke up one morning um, not having slept

particularly well, um, because that's Lucian, um, but having a lot to do. And

so, she's getting getting ready. She's

drinking some coffee, taking some vitamins, like kind of trying to trying to power up for the day, and is distracted and takes what she thinks is

I I believe it she thought it were like vitamin E capsules, which come in exactly the same blister pack as Nyquil, and accidentally takes a mega dose of

Nyquil, um, to start the day. on the day that Neptune is conjoined the ruler of the ascendant by the minute, right, which is

Mars and Aries, like trying to like summon that fire and get going. Um, but

instead um got uh got mega nyquilt um and spent the day in uh uh in a semi- delirious state trying to be productive

and accomplished. It's Neptune in in a

and accomplished. It's Neptune in in a Mars ruled sign like trying to get things done but having to navigate the accidental um big dose of uh sleepy

delirium meds. And then at the end of

delirium meds. And then at the end of the day I was like how are you doing?

She's like I think that's the perfect transit story for ne for for Neptune and Aries. I was like it was all worth it.

Aries. I was like it was all worth it.

So >> that's so good. Yeah. Thanks thanks K for taking one for the team just so we could have a good anecdote for this episode because that's really really good. Anyway, I thought it'd be worth

good. Anyway, I thought it'd be worth the time.

>> Um, yeah. Well, hopefully that's not uh that's a good initial one. Definitely

have to be It's good learning lesson sometimes when it's like you make a mistake on a bad transit and then it's like you always remember from that point forward that transit and like not to to do that thing again.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. So,

>> all right.

>> Yeah. Be careful. Uh,

keep the keep the NyQuil in a separate room than the than the coffee and the vitamin B6 and B12 for sure. All right, so we're getting

for sure. All right, so we're getting late in the month. Um, Mercury direct.

Mercury then starts applying to TR Saturn, which I really sorry to tr Jupiter, which I really appreciate for the rest of March. It's very positive.

if we're like coming off of a Mercury retrograde with like miscommunication and delays and technical snafuss to start to get some resolution to that as Mercury applies to Jupiter during the

last week of the month. We also get Venus ingressing into Taurus and moving into her home sign by the 30th of March.

So, right at the very very end of the month um which is going to have some positive things later in the spring, but really that's more of an April thing.

Um, and there was one other aspect. So,

Mars is separating. It's really just building up at this point. Like, we get into this no man's land where it's like there's some positive resolutions to things in the later mid to later part of

March. But then what's looming is that

March. But then what's looming is that means the next major thing that's coming up is the Mars, Neptune, Saturn conjunction that's coming up in April

really fast as soon as Mars goes into Aries on the what is it like the 9th of April?

>> I believe it's the 9th. Yeah, we've got um we've got like a semi- reprieve in late March and the first part of April

um before the next big challenge kicks in which is Mars' movement into Aries which um gives us the conjunction with

Neptune and then Saturn and in April the Mercury will race forward to join Mars and Saturn in the same degree on a

single day. Um, and so there's there's

single day. Um, and so there's there's another yeah, there there's another rather hard set of configurations, but

all the more reason to take advantage of um the relatively workable, navigable territory of late March and the very

first part of April and especially um once uh Venus leaves Aries, you know, no more co-presence with Saturn Neptune and gets to be in Taurus.

um which is a happy place while um before Mars enters Aries and we get the Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Mercury thing.

>> Yeah, absolutely. I think it's going to be important for all of us this year, you know, to take these moments, these breathers that we get occasionally throughout, sprinkled throughout the

year at different points where things temporarily calm down for a little bit and you have these periods where the planets start moving forward again like with Mercury and Jupiter in the second half of March and to take advantage of

those periods to take a breath um get some rest, recharge before we go into the next period of like tense alignment.

ments in in early to midappril uh with the Mars pile up and then similarly there'll be a period where we get a little break in like later in May and early in June around the Venus Jupiter

conjunction and then things are going to get really tense again you know in like July for example with the Mars Uranus conjunction in Gemini so throughout the year we just keep having these periods

of of intense activity especially in terms of world events and sometimes that's really draining like with like the release of the Epstein files this month and everybody, you know, trying to

read the headlines or read through those or or sort of cope with whatever the implications are in terms of our our worldview and things like that. Um, but

taking the time like we'll have later hopefully in March to to have a little bit of a breather is going to be really important. Yeah, it's um it um the

important. Yeah, it's um it um the adrenal content of 2026 makes it feel like a sprint, but you need to treat it

like a marathon. And those those little stations where somebody sprays some water in your mouth and gives you a cookie are super important, >> right? Yeah, for sure.

>> right? Yeah, for sure.

>> Um all right, my friend. Well, that's

bringing us to the end of this forecast episode. Is there anything about the end

episode. Is there anything about the end of March that we meant to mention besides that or are we in good shape?

>> Good question. Uh this is the Mercury station retrograde now. Uh right now as we're recording test, >> right?

Yeah. I'm sure there'll be something we forget or meant to mention. I mean

there's like the Saturn Pluto sex tile that's taking place at the end of March, but I don't have like a lot to say about that. It might bring some structure to

that. It might bring some structure to some of the Pluto and Aquarius things like maybe there's some regulations or something involved with AI at that point

by somebody or maybe it's as a result of like all the movie studios freaking out and corporations like forcing some attempts to constrain things. Um that's

the best I can think of in terms of the symbolism for that. But it's a sexile.

So it's something that's just like lightly constraining or structuring on the Pluto drive to take things as fast and to their utmost extreme that that we're experiencing with Pluto and

Aquarius the past few years.

>> Yeah, I'm I'm comfortable leaving the next big round of stories to the second week of April.

>> That sounds good. All right, my friend.

Well, thanks for doing this forecast with me. Thanks for going as deep as we

with me. Thanks for going as deep as we did and giving it the time it deserved.

I know everybody's been like waiting to see, you know, both what we wanted to say about all the stuff that's happened over the past month. So that's why we covered everything extensively as we did, but also we kind of said at the end

of our last forecast that we knew at this forecast things were going to be on a cliffhanger and that is indeed where we're going to leave things and we'll see how things unfold over the next few days. Uh hopefully as soon as I get this

days. Uh hopefully as soon as I get this forecast out if I can get it out in time. But um thanks for for doing this

time. But um thanks for for doing this forecast with me.

>> Yeah, my pleasure. Yeah, things are in motion, but the trajectories and results are big question marks right now. So an

interesting interesting point to talk about everything probably probably useful. um being able to just analyze

useful. um being able to just analyze results is easier, but it's also really important to look at things um before before they're decided, which is what

we've done in a lot of cases with this month.

>> But yeah, >> always nice to talk about um this golden age that we're part of and to describe its many inspiring sites.

>> Many many inspiring things. Um, speaking

of inspiring things, what do you have coming up? What are you working on this

coming up? What are you working on this month?

>> Well, I'm going to be working on book stuff and um I'm I will also be preparing for another enrollment for my

fundamentals of astrology program in very early April. Um, for information about that, um, check uh just uh make sure you're subscribed to my newsletter.

I don't send much, but I will send send out when those intakes are going to happen. I have a uh beautiful collection

happen. I have a uh beautiful collection of recordings of me teaching astrology over the years. I've got workshops. I've

got individual lectures.

Um I've got uh lecture series and classes that are available on the website. Um, one of my

website. Um, one of my uh one of my favorite um sphere and sunundry projects uh that I elected is

going to come out this month. We've got

uh we've got our very first series um involving the fixed star Spika also called Chetra which is a beautifully multi-purpose

uh bonific star which um really if anything um brings things to a point and that point is excellence um but excellence in a great number of fields.

We've been kind of preparing that for a while. So, I'm very excited for that to

while. So, I'm very excited for that to premiere to the world. And of course, Senria is uh has a a delightful seed catalog of almost all the planets in

their ideal positions with ideal elections supporting them. Um you miss Jupiter in Pisces, we've got that. We've

you like Venus in Libra, got that. You

like Venus in Taurus, we've got that. Uh

and so on and so on. So, I would uh encourage people to check out Sphere and Sunundry. Do a do a little shopping for

Sunundry. Do a do a little shopping for um beautiful moments that are no longer with us.

>> Yeah, for sure. Uh cool. I'll put a link to your website in the description below the video or on the podcast website uh for those listening to the audio version. Um as for myself, I uh I'm

version. Um as for myself, I uh I'm going to do a Henistic webinar, I think, because my Henistic webinar will be falling just after eclipse season. And

I'm going to do a webinar interviewing students of my Henistic course to talk about how eclipse season went and how the themes of major beginnings and endings manifested in terms of the house

placements of the eclipses. So that's

going to be really fun. Um students in my Henistic course get access to those monthly webinars that I do each month as part of um a benefit of signing up for the course which you get unlimited access to once you sign up. So, you can

find out more information about that at the astrologychool.com.

the astrologychool.com.

And otherwise, I'm just going to be working on the podcast and trying to document events as things happening.

I've been trying to do more short videos to cover like current news and current events during the course of things, uh, which has been fun. And I'm also working on an episode where I may be doing an

interview with somebody about, um, astrology when it's applied that parents apply to the charts of children and things like that. in terms of like Austin, you know, one of the things that

made me think of this episode is just you've talked a lot about how your son, you're seeing him experience all these transits for the first time and what that's what that's like for a younger

child to experience certain transits for the first time and how it manifests in the context of of a of a young person's life. And that's a really interesting

life. And that's a really interesting concept and and like um viewpoint for me. So, I was thinking about doing an

me. So, I was thinking about doing an episode on that and I have somebody in mind to interview. Uh, so I may have to get some some tips for you as we as I prepare for that.

>> I got anecdotes of plenty.

>> Okay. All right. Well, I'll check in with you. Otherwise, I think that's it

with you. Otherwise, I think that's it for this forecast. So, uh, thanks a lot for for joining me again today, Austin.

>> Yeah, my pleasure.

>> Cool. All right. Thanks everyone for watching or listening to this episode of the Astrology Podcast, and we'll see you again next time.

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