Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo + Mercury Retrograde
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed of late, thanks to the chaotic influx of never-ending information and events - both globally and personally - then you may just find that Mercury’s retrograde through Pisces serves to offer you some much needed respite.
Having stationed at 22° of the sign on February 26th, Mercury will traverse back through the watery realms until it reaches 8° on March 20th. During this time you are called to pause and reflect, bringing your focus within, so as to regain a sense of clarity and calm.
In the stillness of this three week period, you will be offered the opportunity to reassess, refine, revise, reorient, and redirect where necessary, with latent plans, unfinished projects, and unresolved issues all being brought into the forefront for examination. Asking, what needs completing or resolving and what simply needs releasing.
This may be a time when you are more introspective and sensitive, as you deepen your awareness of Self, acknowledging what, where, or whom creates an imbalance within your emotional and energetic body.
By initiating its journey sandwiched between Venus (in Pisces) and the Saturn-Neptune conjunction (in Aries), Mercury is calling you to consider not only where you’ve been but also where you’re heading. Asking, what does the past have to teach you and how best can you implement those lessons moving forward.
As such, you may find history suddenly repeating itself, with people or situations resurfacing, so as to provide you with the opportunity to express what was perhaps once left unsaid, heal that which still hurts, and complete a cycle by finally choosing to do things differently.
Providing you move through this period consciously and willingly, you may feel as though an inner recalibration has occurred when Mercury stations direct on March 20th, with both the internal and external distractions having dissipated as your attunement to your intuition and inner guidance is strengthened.
However, in the midst of this, there will be a Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse occurring in Mercury’s natal sign of Virgo at 12° on March 3rd (11:37am GMT), which will serve to further illuminate what is required of you during this time.
As the fifth of seven lunations of its kind on the Virgo-Pisces axis since September 2024, expect recurring themes around control vs surrender, faith vs fear, and intuition vs intellect to continue to arise, as you’re asked once again to consider what truly serves you and what ultimately saps you.
Are you prepared to shed past ways of being in order to grow into a new direction. One that is more supportive of your ambition than your anxiety. More focused on the bigger picture than the microscopic detail.
If so, then this period may help to accelerate your transformation, bringing sudden and unexpected shifts, changes, and events that radically realign your life.
This may require you to relinquish aspects of your life you have long been attached to - mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually - in the understanding that all things have their time and purpose. With that which is perceived to be lost merely creating space for that which now wishes to enter.
A new space, energy, opportunity, or connection which is better suited to the path that lays ahead, than the one you leave behind.
Whilst this lunation will no doubt provide a sense of completion, in regards to matters that arose back on September 21st 2025, with the New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo, this journey on the Virgo-Pisces axis is set to continue until it reaches its culmination point with the final Lunar Eclipse in Virgo on February 20th 2027.
Meaning the next twelve months will offer you ample time to process, release, and refine, allowing life to come into balance, before things shift energetically once again.