Powerful Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Virgo — the article

On March 14th, at 2:55am EDT/6:55am GMT, the Moon in 24 degrees of Virgo opposes the Sun in Pisces.

The entrance of the Moon into Virgo on March 12th starts the energetic build-up towards this powerful Full Moon — if you are an active Member of my online community, you may also want to watch my video on the subject

Before we get started: I wanted to invite all of you to join me for a FREE EVENT on Friday, March 14th at 12pm EDT/4pm GMT — the day of the Lunar Eclipse. It’s called “The Star Hour with Astrologer Coach Sonja Francis” on Soulivity.com

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This Full Moon is also a Total Lunar Eclipse; more about this below. Eclipses are extra powerful New and Full Moons, signaling significant endings and beginnings. They occur close to the same place in the zodiac every 19 years.

There are two Eclipse Seasons per year. They give us the opportunity to upgrade our energy, emotional, and mental bodies, together with our physical experience.

In 2025, we will encounter four Eclipses (two in March and two in September). These will be similar in sign and degree to the Eclipses in March and September of 2006.

This Eclipse Season started on Feb. 27th (at the time of the last New Moon) and lasts until April 21st (past the next Full Moon in Libra).

During this time, it’s important to stay grounded and flexible. Avoid rushing into decisions until April 21st.

If you feel a strong urge to take action, do your best to observe that urge unless it’s connected to something that arises naturally. If you are unsure about a potential action, waiting until Eclipse Season is over is best.

During a Lunar Eclipse, the Full Moon slowly dims as it passes through the Earth’s shadow; this stimulates our emotional body and increases our awareness of unconscious patterns and thought forms.

As noted above, this Full Moon is a Total Lunar Eclipse; these occur when the Moon moves entirely into the central, darkest part of the Earth’s shadow (also known as the “umbra”). During totality, the Moon can appear reddish-orange, earning these eclipses the ancient name of “Blood Moon“.

The Blood Moon may find us more easily triggered as buried emotions and/or fears surface. Please be alert for when you may be projecting psychologically and jumping to conclusions.

Our physical and emotional bodies strongly feel the intensity of it all, so it may help to remember that Eclipses ultimately support a shift in consciousness and thus bring us closer to our Soul’s path.

The entire Eclipse will be visible — and at its best — across most of the Americas (North and South), with glimpses for Europe, Africa, and East Asia. Totality lasts about an hour, so we can expect to sense the influence of this Lunar Eclipse for the next four weeks, until April 14th.

This Lunar Eclipse is the first of two Eclipses within two weeks; it offers an opportunity for a more balanced connection between the head and the heart.

A Partial Solar Eclipse in Aries will follow on March 29th — the last one of its kind until 2042! I will be recording a video about this around March 21st/22nd — so watch out for that.

==> You can join my next Forecasting Forum to ask questions about the Eclipses. Live on Wednesday, March 12th at 6:30pm EDT/10:30pm GMT. The Early Bird Special ends on March 10th at midnight EDT.

Reading this after March 12th? Get the mp4-video presentation of this live event, titled: “The Spiritual Warrior” here

All Eclipses transmit new energetic codes and transformative downloads, symbolized by the signs involved.

This Total Eclipse takes place with the Moon in detail-oriented, practical, analytical Virgo  and the Sun in creative, free-flowing, sensitive Pisces.

Eclipses are usually powerfully connected to the Moon Nodes and thus to our Soul’s Journey (collective and individual). The Moon Nodes started their journey through Pisces-Virgo on Jan. 11th, 2025, and they will remain there until July 26th, 2026!

Feel free to get & watch my webinar, “Our Soul’s Journey: Unveiling the Significance of the Moon Nodes in Pisces-Virgo”, here

You can also read my article on the Moon Nodes here

This Full Moon is the second Lunar Eclipse in the Pisces-Virgo polarity and marks the culmination of progress made since last September.

On March 14th, we can ask ourselves: How far have we come since the last Eclipse Season that began in September of 2024? What can we see now that was not apparent then?

This Eclipse also constitutes a new collective Soul’s Journey, which emphasizes the balance between making more of an effort to trust our connection to the divine and our intuition, and our ability to discern what works and doesn’t work for us when it comes to our day-to-day well-being.

This powerful Full Moon also calls us to release or redefine our conditioned minds, our judgments of ourselves and others, and anything disconnected from our hearts.

We are encouraged to become more aware of our biases, approach anything we do not know or understand with compassion, and bring acceptance and unconditional love to our interactions with others.

With a new Eclipse cycle, this is a longer-term process — in this case, one that will last until February 2027.

Full Moons illuminate the truth and consequences of our choices. We become aware of what has been suppressed or ignored. This being a South Node Eclipse, we need to bring greater awareness to the Virgo energy.

We might want to ask ourselves: What has become toxic, unhealthy, or unmanageable in connection with my rational/scientific mind?

Here are the astrological highlights of this Lunar Eclipse chart:

• The Sun aligns with Saturn, the North Node, and Neptune in Pisces
• The Moon aligns with the South Node in Virgo and opposes Saturn, the North Node, and Neptune in Pisces, and trines Uranus in Taurus
• The Sun/Saturn alignment trines an exalted Mars in Cancer and sextiles Uranus in Taurus
• Mercury (the ruler of Virgo and the Lunar Eclipse) is highly exalted in Aries at the time of the Eclipse, coming to a halt only 24 hours after the Eclipse, starting its 3-week Retrograde phase
• Mercury also aligns with an exalted Retrograde Venus in Aries and sextiles Jupiter in Gemini
• Neptune (the ruler of Pisces) remains in an exalted degree until March 30th

I will talk about all of these in more detail, but first, let’s take a closer look at the polarities involved here:

The Moon in Virgo advises us to…

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The more an Eclipse activates our birth chart, the more we feel called to go to the next level. Because Eclipses are so powerful, they require a bigger orb than a regular Full or New Moon. I tend to use a 4º orb instead of 2º — so since this Lunar Eclipse takes place in 24 degrees of Virgo-Pisces:

Do you have your Ascendant, Career Point (or personal planets) in 20-28 degrees of Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, or Sagittarius? If so, you are more affected by this month’s powerful Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse. The same is true for those of us who have our Ascendant or Sun-sign in Leo or Cancer (the Sun rules Leo; the Moon rules Cancer).