Pisces New Moon
- Lori Barnes
- Feb 25
- 10 min read
Aligning Goals with Purpose
Pisces New Moon Dates and Time
Thursday, February 27
4:45 PM, West Coast, USA
7:45 PM, East Coast, USA
Friday, February 28
1:45 AM, Rome, Italy
9 Degrees Pisces
Pisces New Moon Overview
The Pisces New Moon marks the beginning of a deeply introspective and spiritually attuned cycle, inviting us to dive into the emotional and mystical realms. New Moons are symbolic of fresh starts, new intentions, and the quiet preparation needed before growth. In Pisces, this energy becomes fluid, intuitive, and compassionate, encouraging a softening of boundaries and a deeper connection to both our inner worlds and the collective consciousness.
This lunation amplifies our psychic sensitivities and emotional depth, opening channels for creativity, spiritual connection, and healing. With a powerful Pisces stellium featuring the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Mercury, North Node, and Neptune, the pull towards introspection and emotional fluidity is intensified. It is a time for dreaming big while also navigating the delicate balance between imagination and reality.
The desire to merge with something greater than the self is at the heart of this New Moon. Whether through art, spirituality, or acts of compassion, this is a moment to dissolve boundaries and flow into deeper emotional waters. However, with the Sun and Moon squaring Jupiter in Gemini, there is a caution against overextending or becoming lost in idealism. It is essential to ground our dreams in reality and maintain healthy boundaries.
The duality of Pisces, symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions, reminds us of the constant dance between the material and spiritual worlds. This New Moon invites surrender to the flow, embracing the interconnectedness of all things while also holding space for personal growth and healing.
With Mars going direct and Venus preparing for retrograde, there is a shift in momentum, asking us to balance our forward drive with reflection on our values and desires. The Saturn-Mercury conjunction offers structure to our dreams, providing an anchor amid Pisces' vast emotional seas, especially with their supportive sextile to Uranus, encouraging innovative ways to ground our insights.
Ultimately, this Pisces New Moon offers a portal into deeper emotional and spiritual realms, a time to reconnect with our intuition, creativity, and compassion while gently setting intentions for the cycle ahead.
Sun and Moon in the sign of Pisces
Keywords:
Strong intuition and instincts
Compassion, sensitivity, empathetic, has a deep understanding of the emotional depths of others
Connection to the spiritual, emotional depth
Psychic, empathic, knows what others are feeling
Adaptable, flexible, chameleon like
Artistic expression, imagination, creative
Desire to serve, altruistic, helpful, healing, selfless
Enchanting, dreamy, artsy
Pisces Archetype: The Dreamer, Mystic, Artist
Watch Out For:
It’s important to watch out for challenges around maintaining healthy boundaries during this time. There can be a tendency to shape-shift into what you think others want rather than staying true to your inner intuition. Idealism may run high, which can lead to disorganization, confusion, or a lack of focus. Grounding this dreamy energy with structure and practical planning will help balance creativity with clarity and purpose.
Mutable Water:
As a mutable water sign, Pisces blends sensitivity with variability, creating a rich tapestry of emotions, expressions, and imaginative insights. This energy is highly sensitive to its surroundings, often absorbing the feelings and needs of others with compassion and fluid adaptability.
Guided by emotional connections, Pisces moves through the world with an intuitive awareness, responding with empathy and a deep understanding of the unseen currents that influence every moment.
Psychological Need:
Pisces carries a deep psychological need to merge with something greater than the self, seeking transcendence through creativity, spirituality, or profound emotional connections. This longing often manifests as a desire to dissolve personal boundaries, allowing for a sense of unity with the collective or the divine.
Whether through artistic expression, acts of compassion, or spiritual practices, Pisces aims to experience life beyond the limits of the individual ego. This urge to connect on a soul level can lead to moments of deep inspiration and empathy but may also create challenges in maintaining a clear sense of self.
Traditional Ruler Jupiter:
Jupiter, as the traditional ruler of Pisces, brings an expansive and visionary quality to the sign. Known for its association with growth, wisdom, and higher understanding, Jupiter influences Pisces through intuition, spirituality, and boundless compassion.
Pisces represents the receptive polarity of Jupiter, channeling its energy inward and allowing a stream of vision and service to flow outward from the depths within. This connection highlights the Piscean belief in the unity of all things, encouraging a sense of oneness and a desire to contribute to the greater good.
Jupiter’s influence nurtures dreams, ideals, and the pursuit of meaning beyond the material world.
Axis: Virgo and Pisces
To understand Pisces, it’s helpful to look at the sign opposite it, Virgo.
Virgo attends to details, organization, and practical solutions, often fixating on the parts rather than the whole, much like not seeing the forest for the trees. Pisces, on the other hand, becomes the forest itself, embodying the interconnectedness of all things.
While Virgo refines through precision and discernment, Pisces dissolves boundaries, embracing compassion, imagination, and an intuitive understanding that transcends specific details. Together, they highlight the balance between focusing on the intricate pieces and recognizing the unity of the greater whole.
Symbol: Two Fish
Duality & Fluidity: The two fish swimming in opposite directions represent the interplay between material reality and the spiritual realm, symbolizing Pisces’ ability to navigate both the seen and unseen worlds.
Interconnection: The intertwined fish suggests unity and interconnectedness, reflecting Pisces’ deep sensitivity to emotions, intuition, and the collective consciousness.
Surrender & Flow: Fish move effortlessly with the currents, embodying Pisces’ adaptable nature and tendency to surrender to the flow of life rather than resist it.
Mysticism & Depth: The ocean's depths symbolize the vast, hidden world of dreams, emotions, and spirituality, mirroring Pisces’ introspective and mystical qualities.
Compassion & Boundlessness: Without defined boundaries, the fish swim freely, reflecting Pisces’ boundless empathy, artistic vision, and ability to dissolve into something greater than the self.
Planetary Configurations
New Moon Conjunct Sun at 9° Pisces
The New Moon conjuncts the Sun at 9° Pisces, marking the beginning of a new lunar cycle deeply rooted in intuition, emotional depth, and spiritual connection. This is a moment to set intentions that align with your inner truth and creative visions, offering an opportunity to embrace renewal and spiritual growth.
Pisces Stellium: Sun, Moon, Saturn, Mercury, North Node, Neptune
A powerful concentration of energy in Pisces amplifies the sign’s dreamy, imaginative, and empathic qualities. This stellium encourages deep emotional exploration, heightened intuition, and creative flow. With Saturn anchoring the energy and Neptune dissolving boundaries, there’s a balance between structured commitment and boundless inspiration.
Saturn Conjunct Mercury in Pisces
Saturn’s grounding influence merges with Mercury’s communicative nature, prompting serious reflection and intentional dialogue. In Pisces, this conjunction can blur the lines between logic and intuition, encouraging deep contemplation while also challenging clarity. It’s a good time to commit to spiritual practices or creative projects that require focus and discipline.
Saturn Conjunct Mercury in Pisces Sextile Uranus
Saturn and Mercury in Pisces blend structured thinking with intuition, encouraging practical expression of imaginative ideas. While Mercury in Pisces can be fluid and abstract, Saturn adds focus and discipline, helping to ground insights. The sextile to Uranus in Taurus introduces flashes of innovation, offering fresh perspectives and breakthroughs. This aspect supports turning creative visions into tangible results, blending inspiration with practicality.
Sun and Moon Square Jupiter in Gemini
The New Moon’s square to Jupiter in Gemini creates an expansive and activating energy, encouraging growth while pushing boundaries. This aspect amplifies optimism and curiosity, inspiring new ideas and opportunities but it may also lead to overextending or overcommitting. The drive for connection and exploration is strong, but discernment is needed to avoid scattering energy across too many directions. This is a chance to broaden horizons and set bold intentions, while staying grounded in what’s truly meaningful.
Mars Goes Direct Trine the Water Stellium
As Mars stations direct on February 23, its renewed momentum forms a supportive trine to the Pisces Water Stellium, creating a powerful surge of emotional and intuitive energy. After months of retrograde reflection and internalized drive, Mars moves forward, offering clarity and the motivation to act on insights gained during the retrograde period.
The trine to the Water Stellium allows this forward motion to flow with emotional depth and intuitive guidance, encouraging action that aligns with your spiritual and creative goals. This is an opportunity to move forward with purpose while staying connected to your inner emotional landscape.
Venus Sextile Jupiter
Venus, which starts her retrograde cycle on March 1, forms a harmonious sextile with expansive Jupiter, offering a window for reflection on values, relationships, and abundance. This aspect promotes generosity, optimism, and the potential for meaningful connections, even as Venus’s retrograde motion encourages introspection about what truly brings joy and fulfillment.
Mars Retrograde: Navigating Energy and Action
December 6, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Mars, the planet of action, drive, and willpower, stationed retrograde on December 6, 2024, signaling a slowdown in forward motion and outward expression of energy. Mars retrograde shifts focus inward, prompting a reassessment of how you initiate, pursue goals, and assert yourself. It’s a time when motivation may feel stalled or actions don’t yield their usual results, leading to potential frustration.
Key Themes During Mars Retrograde:
Reevaluating Action and Drive:
Are your efforts aligned with your true goals? This is a time to reassess where you’ve been investing energy and whether that drive is still serving your purpose.
Redefining Strategy:
Mars retrograde offered space to refine your approach to taking action. It’s not about pushing forward blindly but stepping back to recalibrate and consider more effective paths forward.
Managing Frustration and Restlessness:
Stalled momentum can be challenging. Mars retrograde is a period to cultivate patience and focus on internal planning rather than external results.
Mars Stations Direct: Navigating the Shift
As Mars stations direct on February 23, 2025, the energy is at a standstill before momentum gradually returns. Stationing periods, both retrograde and direct, are often the most challenging points in the cycle, marked by heightened restlessness, frustration, and uncertainty.
While the desire to push forward builds, it’s not yet time to leap into action. Instead, focus on observation and patience as Mars slowly regains speed, allowing clarity and determination to strengthen naturally.
Practical Tips Post-Retrograde:
Ease Back Into Action:
Avoid rushing forward immediately after Mars stations direct. The energy is still recalibrating, so take slow, intentional steps to re-engage with projects and goals.
Channel Energy Effectively:
As Mars picks up speed, begin directing your drive toward goals that now feel purposeful. Focus on actions that align with your refined strategies and avoid scattering your energy.
Apply Strategic Insights Thoughtfully:
Use the lessons learned during the retrograde to make more deliberate and focused moves. Approach challenges with improved problem-solving skills and a clearer sense of direction, ensuring your efforts are both efficient and impactful.
Mars Retrograde Cycle Key Dates:
Pre-retrograde Shadow: 5 October 2024 at 17 degrees Cancer
Mars moves into Leo on November 4
Retrograde: 6 December 2024 at 6 degrees Leo
Mars changes signs in retrograde motion: Leo to Cancer: 6 January 2024
Direct: 23 February 2025 at 17 degrees Cancer
Post-retrograde Shadow ends: 2 May 2025 at 6 degrees of Leo
Venus Retrograde: Reassessing Values and Relationships
Venus stations retrograde on March 1, 2025, beginning its journey from 10° Aries back into 24° Pisces. This retrograde prompts a reflection on your core values, relationships, and how you connect with others, both personally and professionally.
In Aries, Venus challenges how assertively you express your desires and identity, asking whether you're leading with authenticity or pushing too hard.
As Venus moves back into compassionate Pisces, the focus softens, encouraging a deeper look at emotional connections, empathy, and spiritual alignment. This retrograde period isn’t ideal for starting new relationships but offers an opportunity to realign your personal relationships, connections and business relationships with your deeper values.
Pre-Shadow Begins: January 28, 2025
Venus Stations Retrograde: March 1, 2025, at 10° Aries
Venus Re-enters Pisces: March 27, 2025
Venus Stations Direct: April 12, 2025, at 24° Pisces
Post-Shadow Ends: May 16, 2025
Mercury Retrograde in March:
Mercury Retrograde occurs in Aries and Pisces, making it a time for revisiting and refining our ideas, plans, and communication. Aries brings a focus on revisiting personal ambitions and goals with determination, while Pisces encourages reflection on deeper emotional and spiritual connections.
As always, Mercury Retrograde is a time to slow down, revisit past projects, and ensure that communication is clear, all while navigating potential delays and misunderstandings. Use this period to reassess and refine before moving forward.
Mercury Retrograde Dates:
Pre-Shadow Begins: March 1, 2025
Retrograde: March 15
Direct: April 7, 2025
Post-Shadow Ends: April 26, 2025
In Your Chart
To look deeper into the cosmic patterns of the Pisces new moon, find the astrology houses the planets are traveling through in your chart. Here are the areas to look for:
Aries: Venus
Taurus: Uranus
Gemini: Jupiter
Cancer: Mars
Virgo: South Node
Aquarius: Pluto
Pisces: New Moon, Mercury, Sun, North Node, Saturn, Neptune
If you want to learn more about your natal astrology chart, schedule a consultation with me using the link below. If you don’t have a copy of your chart, you can get one free with one of the online calculators. I recommend either astro.com or astro-seek.com
Pisces New Moon Ritual: Intuition, Creativity, and Spiritual Connection
Theme: Surrender, Intuition, Compassion, Vision
What You’ll Need:
A quiet space
Candles (optional) (blue, purple, or white)
Bowl of water (Pisces element)
Crystals (optional) (Amethyst, Moonstone, or Aquamarine)
Journal and pen
Incense or essential oils (Lavender, Sandalwood, or Frankincense)
Ritual Steps:
Create Your Space:
Light candles and place the bowl of water in front of you. Burn incense or diffuse oils. Take deep breaths, visualizing soft light surrounding and protecting you.
Ground and Connect:
Close your eyes, place your hands over your heart, and imagine gentle waves washing over you. Say: “I open my heart to the wisdom of my intuition. I surrender control and trust in the flow of life.”
Reflect and Journal:
Ask yourself:
What dreams am I ready to bring to life?
Where can I surrender control?
How can I strengthen my intuition?
Write any emotions or insights that arise.
Set Intentions:
Write 3-5 intentions starting with: “I call in…” or “I am ready to…” Hold your list over the bowl of water, visualizing your intentions infusing it.
Close and Release:
Blow out the candles with gratitude. Pour the water into the earth or a natural water source, symbolizing surrender. Say: “I trust in the flow of life. My dreams are heard, and my intentions are in motion.”
Optional:
End with a creative activity like painting, dancing, or a meditative walk near water to connect with Pisces’ dreamy energy.
Pisces New Moon Inspirational Quote
'There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.' - Rumi
Wrap-Up: Embracing the Pisces New Moon Energy
The Pisces New Moon invites us to tap into our wells of intuition, creativity, and compassion. It’s a time to release control, reflect on our emotional connections, and realign with our true selves. As we embrace this watery, dreamlike energy, we’re encouraged to surrender to the flow of life, trusting that our dreams, no matter how big or abstract, are within reach.
This New Moon asks us to let go of old patterns, reframe our relationships, and set intentions that honor our inner wisdom. Whether you meditate, create, or simply reflect, use this sacred time to connect to the collective consciousness and your soul’s desires.
Trust in the quiet whispers of your intuition, and allow the gentle current of Pisces to guide you into a space of emotional healing and spiritual growth.
