Your March 2025 horoscope is here—and we won't mince words. It was written in the stars that 2025 would get off to a chaotic and bumpy start, and this month is (ufortunately) not when anything starts to stabilize. If anything, we might be in for heightened uncertainty this March as we wait for the lay of the land to reveal itself. Picking up the baton from a newly direct Mars, Venus and Mercury do double trouble as they retrograde together through Aries and Pisces, and eclipse season stirs the winds of change further. On top of that, Neptune leaves Pisces for the first time since 2012, and its initial ingress into Aries on March 30 ushers us further into the new timeline.
Though it might not feel entirely clear yet where all of this is going, “uncertainty” doesn’t have to look like “inertia” in March. Having turned a corner on this winter’s Mars Retrograde, it’s less “sheltering in place while you wait for the storm to pass,” and more “rearranging your life after you’ve assessed the damage.” It might be time to pull the trigger on some of our stalled plans, claw our way back to victory, and reassess our priorities after Mars Retrograde inspired us to rage-quit an aspect of our lives. Expect your plan to still feel like a work in progress, because this month has an element of figuring out where we stand. In particular, Venus Retrograde (which begins March 1) is a time of renewing our bonds and commitments, and possibly severing the ones we’ve outgrown.
An unstable and uncertain month for life portends a not-so-smooth month for travel too, though at the very least, Mercury entering Aries on March 3 allows the winged messenger to shake off some of its confusion from the second half of February. Still, a combo Mercury Retrograde and eclipse season is usually a sign to plan for the unplanned, and this will feel especially true in the second half of March. As we’re willing to embrace the chaos, travel can be a touchpoint for this month’s many meetings with destiny, and the retrogrades might even bring us back to places that were once meaningful to a previous version of ourselves. Maybe there are artistic and intellectual influences from before that are meant to come back into our lives again to be remixed—perhaps a return of moodboards past?
Astrologer's note: Below we refer to your signs as “rising” signs, also known as your ascendant sign. Horoscopes are more accurate when read this way—using your birth time and location, you can quickly find your rising sign online (it takes less than 30 seconds).
Aries Rising
March is an epic and important month for you, one that may look, in hindsight, like the moment when everything shifted. Venus and Mercury will both be retrograde in Aries, and the final Aries eclipse on March 29 punctuates a sequence of big personal activations that have propelled you forward in leaps and bounds over the last two years. As if that wasn’t enough, zeitgeist-influencing Neptune dips into Aries for the first time on March 30, signaling the beginning of a new 14-year chapter of soul-searching, glamour-wielding, and, yes, occasionally getting high off your own supply.
Though Neptune’s sojourn through Aries will take its sweet time to unfold (and its influence is likely to fly under your radar for some time). But a journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step, and this month’s rapid growth spurt puts you on the path of self-discovery. When it comes to Neptune, self-discovery can also look like confusion, delusion, and feeling lost at times, but you’re going to come out of this month wanting something more from life—maybe feeling like you haven’t reached your highest potential yet. Why wouldn’t reaching that potential take you down a long, twisty road of occasionally misguided detours?
In particular, the Venus Retrograde in Aries (beginning March 1) creates the inner ferment necessary to desire change. Venus retrogrades through the same part of the sky every 8 years, so think back to the personal milestones you reached in 2017, 2009, 2001, and so on. This is like that, but maybe bigger thanks to the eclipses and the soon-to-be longer-term impacts of Saturn and Neptune entering Aries in 2025. For now, Venus brings you down into the depths of your own underworld journey and prepares you for the next level of this video game called life. You might have to change your outfit and shed some old attachments while you’re down there, but it’s all in service to glowing up, growing up, and restoring you to a true sense of connection with your own pulse.
Until you get there, though, don’t be surprised if you feel like you’ve woken up on the wrong side of the bed. You might feel a bit unattractive and anti-social, like you’re going against the grain of what other people expect from you right now. In the sky, Venus will be literally disappearing from view, and you might take your cue from her as you prepare for what may feel like a (painful, but necessary for self-love) rebirth during the Venus-Sun conjunction on March 22. Don’t be shy about carving out some alone time if you’re traveling in a group this month.
Taurus Rising
Remember how we said last month that you’ll be tested in your willingness to assimilate into the Group Mind before you felt actually ready to commit to your community? Well, your forty days and nights of wandering through the desert begin on March 1, as Venus stations retrograde in your solitary twelfth house. There’s a lot going on this month, but this process of losing yourself to find yourself again is key for you personally. Yes, of course, this is bigger than you, because the end game is that you’re trying to establish a profound sense of belonging and common purpose in your friend group, your wider community, and the social movements you care about. But an understanding of belonging often requires an understanding of exile first, and that is the bigger meaning behind your process right now.
Circling around your feelings of rejection may take you on a trip down memory lane. Venus also retrograded through this part of the sky in the spring of 2017 and 2009. If you can think back that far, were you also feeling misunderstood back then? And did these somewhat darker nights of the soul ultimately bring you closer to yourself, and to friendships and community bonds that didn’t make you feel lonely in a crowded room? On March 22 and 24, Venus and Mercury both conjoin the Sun, respectively, and you will drop into a deeper sense of lucidity around all of this.
If there’s travel in your plans this month, you’ll probably feel more emotionally in sync with a solo trip. If you are with a group, hopefully they’ll be patient and understanding if and when you feel the need to break away on your own. Given that one of this month’s eclipses is a South Node-driven lunar eclipse in Virgo, your fifth house of fun and recreation (March 14), it wouldn’t be surprising if this marks the beginning of you falling out of love with a particular source of pleasure. If everyone wants to go out drinking and you’re the only one feeling like you’ve suddenly outgrown martinis, that could cramp your style for sure.
The operative word for you this month is sovereignty, and this has as much to do with rejecting consensus as it does with discovering what you actually like (and whether you’ve been running in the right circles accordingly). This could be about a shift in your sexual or romantic identity, absolutely. If you’re a creative, this could mark the beginning of an evolution in your artistry as you transcend the technical foundations you learned in art school. If you’re a parent or someone who works closely with children, this could also prompt a bigger process of releasing control and micromanaging tendencies.
Gemini Rising
The downstream effect of you becoming unstuck is that you’re starting to rethink some of your recent efforts. There’s been a good deal of momentum for you personally, professionally, and especially aspirationally—which is to say, not all of the spaghetti you’ve thrown at the wall has landed. Yet. As you head into March with more clarity and information under your belt, you’ll probably spend a good portion of this month retooling and reassessing some of your roles, goals, and the people you’re in league with to get there.
This month, Venus and Mercury go retrograde in Aries, your eleventh house of community, friends, and allies, and the final Aries eclipse on March 29 propels your shared agenda forward as you’re in the midst of figuring it all out. This could look like reconnecting with people from your past that may have a reason to be part of your future too, and it could look like changing your mind about what kinds of clubs you want to belong to. Venus Retrograde can be a time of shifting alliances, and you might realize you’re more in sync with a different friend group, online community, or social movement by the time we get to April. Remember: this isn’t just about who you associate with, but what your role is in the collective. If you’re going to assume any amount of leadership or greater visibility over this, you’ll want to really think this one through.
If you’re in the midst of a professional transition, then consider this a team transition too, so to speak. A rebrand is often a redefinition of who you’re serving and speaking to. The new dream may reveal itself to you in fits and starts, first at the very beginning of March, as Mercury conjoins the North Node and Neptune, and later during the Mercury-Sun conjunction on March 24. If you’re attending any networking events or going to any conferences this month, the people you connect with (and perhaps reconnect with?) may offer you a sense of kismet and opportunity.
Also be on the lookout for game changers that may affect your home, your plans to live somewhere, or your relationship to parents and family. The first Virgo eclipse on March 14 begins a longer process of potential relocation, changing family dynamics, and/or releasing old patterns that may date back to your childhood. It might be time to let go of the nitpicky, micromanaging tendencies you absorbed from your upbringing in order to allow the messier, less polished version of you to take up space in the world.
Cancer Rising
These past few months have not been easy. Maybe you were angry and frustrated enough to cry. Maybe you crossed lines you didn’t think you’d ever cross in an effort to hold the line. But if you’re a silver linings kind of person, you are probably coming out of this period now with a sharper sense of what you will and won’t tolerate—what’s not working for you, what’s not sufficiently energizing for you, and what’s harming you more than helping.
This is important context for the next set of transitions March has in store for you. This month, you begin to rethink certain aspects of your career trajectory as Mercury and Venus both retrograde through your tenth house of public roles, visibility, and professional status, a reevaluation process that is spiked by an eclipse in Aries on March 29. This is the final leap in a series of leaps that have catapulted you in new directions over the last two years, but you can also think of this in context of the eight-year Venus Retrograde cycle. What milestones did you reach professionally in 2017, 2009, 2001, and so on? You’re approaching the next level of that now.
Part of this reorientation process will involve getting back to the spiritual teachings, academic topics, philosophies, and travel opportunities that are close to your heart. If you’re in school, you might be changing your major, or maybe you’re a fully working person who is aching to infuse your work with more meaning and more excuses to go on business trips. What captured your soul back in January in this regard? This might provide a clue as to what’s afoot here. The Saturn-Sun conjunction on March 12 also lends something important to this story—maybe a needed dose of sobriety or clarity around the existential burnout you’ve been experiencing.
Retrogrades can be a time of looking back before you look forward, and you might get a lot of inspiration this month out of reading your old college essays or returning to some of your previous work. Perhaps it’s time to dust off an old thesis and give it new life? There’s also a lunar eclipse in Virgo on March 14, which kickstarts a process of changing how you write and/or bring your ideas into form—potentially encouraging you to drop some of the mediums and formats you’re currently working within. You’re reaching for the inspired word right now, and that could possibly benefit from less finesse.
Leo Rising
This month, “taking a trip down memory lane” could be an extremely literal experience for you as Mercury and Venus both retrograde through your ninth house of long-distance journeys, learning, and beliefs. After a long winter of summoning the inner fire to deal with life and come out on top, you’re starting to feel more energized about the possibilities before you, and there might be new kinds of adventures beckoning to you now. Will it be a transcontinental motorcycle journey, a solitary spiritual pilgrimage, or going back to school? You’ll probably feel the need to backtrack before you move full steam ahead, which is why returning to some of the places you’ve voyaged to before could help you find the right breadcrumbs on your path.
March is a significant moment, a launching pad into your future, but there are also traces of Venus Retrogrades past buried within it. Venus was also retrograde in Aries in the spring of 2017, 2009—really, you can trace this pattern back in near-perfect 8-year increments. What were the milestones you reached then in your education, your worldview, and in your identity as a world traveler? How did your values shift inside the crucible of your heart? Venus goes retrograde on March 1, taking you along on the next spiral of this cycle. Then, on March 15, Mercury goes retrograde, making the second half of the month potentially more error-prone for travel. You might need to cancel or revise some existing bookings, and this may not be the best time to commit to future plans. However, this can be a good time to do the backtracking we talked about earlier, to comb through old academic notes, and to revise your research.
Though this month will feature a good amount of whiplash, you will personally feel more empowered to deal with the turbulence after the equinox on March 20, when your ruling planet, the Sun, enters its exalted position in Aries. This brief (but potent) glow up endows you with more agency and sovereignty to make important choices about your life and feel less at the mercy of forces beyond your control. You will also feel more clear about where you stand and what you believe, and less prone to absorbing the opinions of others. You never lost your personal power—you’re just re-remembering it now.
Virgo Rising
Life has its seasons, and right now, you’re like a tree that’s sensing the imminence of autumn. On March 14, we get the first Virgo eclipse in a new series of eclipses that will play out along the Virgo-Pisces axis over the next two years. This is your signal to begin the shedding process, to allow nature to take its course and recycle the foliage that can’t come with you into winter. On the other end of this process, you will feel more stripped bare, less encumbered. But as of right now, you might be too attached to your familiar ways to understand that they’re holding you back.
Navigating the field of loss and surrender is one of your main assignments this month. Your ruling planet, Mercury, joins hands with Venus as they simultaneously retrograde through Aries, your eighth house of shared finances, grief, and fear. This isn’t just about making sense of recent losses, but about renegotiating some of the ways you’re enmeshed with others, whether through tangible property and assets or unspoken agreements. Yes, there could be very literal logistical things involved here, like paperwork and transactions. But there will also be something very familiar about this process—almost as though your heart is remembering previous times of bereavement, abandonment, and vulnerability in the face of the unknown. There is a reason for these things to be coming up for you right now, and not necessarily because you’re about to have the same exact experience again.
If anything, you might be overcoming old hurts and hesitations to enter into relationship or collaboration with others, and this is ultimately about arriving to a place where you feel ready to commit anew. If, along the way, you have to drop your need to know all the details in advance, to micromanage outcomes, and to nitpick the way other people show up for you, then consider it part of the heart healing that’s happening now.
Though it’s not strongly indicated you’ll be traveling this month, you might find it cathartic to return to places that have been too tinged with memories of heartbreak to revisit (until now), or visit the grave of a loved one to reconnect with their spirit and clear the debris from their headstone. There is a cyclical rhyme and reason that you’re now ready to make peace with the past. Who are you to argue with your own timing?
Libra Rising
The terrain of your love life is shifting, and you’re standing at the threshold of the new map, waiting to glimpse its layout. On March 1, Venus stations retrograde in Aries, your seventh house of partnerships. Venus will journey side by side with Mercury, and by the end of the month, a solar eclipse in Aries on March 29 and the first ingress of Neptune into Aries on March 30 adds to the possibility that things are heading in noticeably new directions. For solo travelers, you may recognize in hindsight that you went through an important inner journey in March that helped you feel ready for the next level of “being in relationship,” whatever that may mean to you. For coupled honeymooners, this month’s Venus Retrograde resurfaces old memories and perhaps old grievances, helping you summon the clarity to either renew your commitment to each other or create space for something better.
No matter your current relationship status, it seems like your desires and expectations are changing, and you don’t have to keep settling for the same old daily special. You can even think back to previous Venus Retrogrades in Aries (spring of 2017, 2009, 2001, and so on, going back in eight-year increments) to recall the milestones you reached then. When Venus is in Aries, we’re less likely to tone ourselves down to become more palatable to others. In deprioritizing harmony at all costs, how does your disagreeableness and irreverence help bring you closer to authentic connection with others? The first eclipse in Virgo on March 14 underscores the importance of not letting things fester in your head, of facing the ghosts of betrayal, and of freeing yourself from patterns of overthinking.
This doesn’t have to mean you’re breaking up—if anything, the right relationships will deepen and accelerate under this period of focused questioning. This could also have to do with many kinds of partnership, including the platonic varieties. Since this Venus Retrograde will also likely set the stage for important career milestones too, look out for inspired collaborators, business partners, and work spouses who show up to join forces with you (or play an important supporting role in whatever’s going down). You’re becoming clearer on how you want to serve a world in crisis, and maybe right now is for realizing that you can’t do your best work alone.
Scorpio Rising
Slowly but surely, you’re starting to regain some of the confidence you lost over the past couple months. And slowly but surely, you’re starting to put the pieces of your life back together again as you come back from a period of professional turmoil. This month, there is lots of cosmic turnover happening in your sixth house of work, colleagues, and health, suggesting that you yourself might be in the midst of changing jobs, restructuring your team, or adjusting various aspects of your work/life balance to better serve your own wellbeing. “Wellbeing” also includes a lot of things beyond your own physical and mental health. If you’re going to overhaul your life, make sure you’re doing this in a way that prioritizes your creative flourishing, your joy, your love life, and your children, if you have any.
That last sentence might hold the key to what this is all about, as these are areas of your life that have perhaps demanded more from you over the past two years. But if January’s lessons taught you anything, it’s that they’re worth the trouble, and everything that follows comes from your renewed commitment to all the things that make life worth living—not the other way around, where it comes as an afterthought. Your kids need you more than your job needs you. Your pleasure is worth more than your toil. Your hobbies are not just an occasional bonus perk of life. Your PTO days that you use to visit new places are the number one highlight reel of your year.
Keeping that in mind, your focus this month is not just figuring out your employment situation (if there’s anything to be figured out), but creating more alignment in this area of your life and taking steps to support your body’s ability to do the things you love. With Venus and Mercury both retrograding through Aries in March, you might find yourself in contact with old coworkers, previous gym crushes, or even doctors you haven’t followed up with in some time. You could also be digging up unfinished projects that might be ready to be given a second life, or rehashing other aspects of your work history to move purposefully toward your goals. Remember that waiting for someone else to give you permission first is part of how you ended up here in the first place. Taking the reins of your life back might look like setting your own agenda for a bit.
Sagittarius Rising
The Beastie Boys said you have to fight for your right to party, but what if the party is something you must reclaim within yourself? This month’s cosmic commotion intensifies your pursuit of pleasure, fun, and creativity, but this doesn’t look like empty hedonism. As a matter of fact, if you’ve been using the good life as a way to escape or numb out, March’s Venus Retrograde in particular will bring you face to face with your own dissatisfaction and disconnection from life. Not that anyone can blame you—there’s plenty in the world to want to dissociate from. However, getting in touch with an authentic sense of joy will also fortify you to face the hard stuff and show up for others in the midst of so much difficulty.
In your pursuit of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, you might feel inspired to revisit hobbies and creative pursuits that once lit you up. Maybe take up painting again just for the month of March, or go out dancing for the first time in forever. If you’re going somewhere interesting, put extra intention into the activities you plan—this is probably not the time to simply “dinner and a movie” it. If you work in a creative field, the eclipses of March are likely pointing you in interesting new directions professionally, maybe because of what you revisit during the retrogrades. Is it time for an overhaul of your creative direction, a renaissance, or a reevaluation of what your work is even about?
The potent transitions of March will probably influence your work regardless of what you do for a living, but don’t sleep on the potential breakthroughs that might be occurring within your family life. Questions of having children or not having children could become the central dilemma you’re trying to get clarity on, and it’s possible your family could get bigger under this influence—even if it’s someone else in your clan announcing happy news. With legacy weighing on your heart and mind right now, there are likely deeper processes at work around carrying on the family name and what that actually means to you in practice. Your contribution to a lineage is exactly that—your contribution. How you choose to raise the next generation and/or paint upon the blank canvas of your life is how you elaborate on the long song that wrote you into being.
Capricorn Rising
This month is a bit of a homecoming, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be the smoothest landing (or the warmest welcome) you’ve ever had. If anything, you’re doing some hard-hitting interior work to reconnect with your ancestry, rethread the needle that stitches you closer to the family you’ve got left, and understand what “home” is really about. If you start out feeling more alienated than together, more rebellious than harmonious, more “ready to ditch this clambake” than “excited for the reunion,” then that’s simply what March’s Venus Retrograde in Aries is trying to bring your attention to.
This is an important cyclical journey that might remind you of previous Venus Retrogrades in Aries, which repeat every 8 years (so, think spring of 2017, 2009, and so on). This time, though, you’re rerooting in anticipation of some bigger new beginnings starting this year, and you might have longer-term commitments on your mind (finding your forever home, perhaps?). The first eclipse in Virgo on March 14 also catalyzes a pattern interruption related to travel, your status as a world citizen, your studies, and your beliefs. Assuming this isn’t just an inner process around unlearning things, you might also feel a bit like Odyssesus returning from your voyages this month. Where is home now, and where is home next?
- 250,000 euros (around $260,000) to the conversion of commercial properties into residential use, or the restoration of listed buildings
- 400,000 euros (around $416,000) to the purchase of a property in Greece that is at least 1,292 square feet
- 800,000 euros (around $830,000) to the purchase of property in Athens, Thessaloniki, or islands with more than 3,100 inhabitants
A couple days before that eclipse, Saturn’s conjunction to the Sun on March 12 brings you to the precipice of a personal renewal, one that feels metaphorically like starting the third book of the epic trilogy you’ve been writing for the past two years. Your brainchild is ready for its next iteration, but also keep an eye on any sibling or friend relationships that have been demanding extra care from you lately. As a loyal friend who feels responsible for the people in your circle, you’re definitely not going anywhere soon. If anything, you’ll probably feel even more committed to being there through thick and thin by the time we get to next month. But maybe there’s a different way to hold that sense of duty so that you’re not wearing yourself down or enabling codependency? Finding ways to be more present with the people in your life is one of the major keys to the puzzle for you right now, but you still get to decide some of the terms this happens on.
Aquarius Rising
As much as you love a good globetrot, your mind and heart is resting a bit closer to home these days. All this talk about knowing your neighbors and forming stronger community bonds is starting to activate you into deeper participation within your local sphere, and this month, you’ll be making some of the necessary transitions to dedicate yourself more fully to the needs of the people around you. Though a lot of this rests on the kinds of resources you’re equipped with (and can afford to be generous with), the Venus Retrograde in Aries in particular—which begins March 1—involves a deeper internal check-in around who you feel most connected to and how you’re best equipped to engage. You can’t be everything to everyone. Perhaps you lack the green thumb to be of much use at the community garden, but you do know a thing or two about organizing food drives.
At the same time, don’t sleep on the significant turning points you’re reaching in some of your closest friendships, family ties, and group chats. Pay attention especially to key sibling and cousin relationships, classmates from school, and the people you regularly check in with on social media. Maybe you’re questioning whether you can still care for someone without being their financial rescuer, or whether you can have a healthier relationship with your phone when your livelihood is connected to your screen time. You are probably heading toward a deeper sense of commitment to these relationships, but trust your own process.
Lastly, another big possibility for these interesting times is that you’re becoming energized around an ambitious project you want to take on. Is it time to write that screenplay, or crack the first chapter of your novel? In March, you might be more focused on redoing your first draft or repurposing your old material as Mercury and Venus both retrograde through your third house of writing and learning simultaneously. The notes you took years ago during your classes and workshops might be collecting dust now, but maybe they shouldn’t be. The road trips you took for inspiration once upon a time could be worth taking again right now. The operative phrase in “getting back into a routine” that supports your aims is the “getting back” part. There’s something about this month that will inevitably feel like deja vu, but it’s meant to point you back toward the future.
Pisces Rising
You’ve been ready to break out of your rut since yesterday, but recapturing your own aliveness is not going to be a straightforward journey. In addition to unfreezing your capacity for joy and pleasure—or maybe just struggling to move beyond the existential glass ceiling that seems to limit your happiness so much these days—you’re also on the verge of changing some things about your financial reality. Yes, this is partially about what you’re willing to take into your own hands as you stop waiting for permission to fly. But your journey back to yourself will inevitably lead you through an inventory of your own talents and resources—a reappraisal of how much value there is in what you have to offer—before you can stop lowballing yourself in every aspect of your life.
This March, Venus and Mercury both retrograde together in Aries, your second house of income and resources, and an eclipse in Aries on March 29 propels you toward new frontiers in your livelihood. Think of this month as your opportunity to dust off some of last season’s merchandise to repurpose it for today’s market stall. Maybe there are services you haven’t offered in some time, or certain skills that might be worth more currency in this economy. Assuming you’re not literally in the middle of a job transition, March is a bit of a pressure cooker that urges you to rebrand, pivot, or open yourself up to new ways of being and surviving in the world. But if your material circumstances begin to shift from this point forward, that would be both on brand and on time.
Your long-term vision will probably require a good deal of effort and bootstrapping to bring to life, but your short-term mission this month is to feed your own personal glow up. If that means investing in yourself and your appearance, that would be one supportive way to move through this Venus Retrograde (though one word of caution: save the drastic makeovers and risky beauty treatments for later in the second half of April, after Venus goes direct). However, consider that every kind of self-investment can bring eventual returns, including energy, care, devotion, and sure, new travel gear to replace your beat-up luggage. The underlying message of the moment: you’re worth it.
On March 14, the first eclipse in Virgo also kicks off a longer transition process in your close relationships. Pouring back into yourself and firming up your boundaries will inevitably cost you some of the more extractive relationships in your life. However, you might also be ready to release your hyper-specific list of romantic partner specifications in order to embrace the kind of person who’s been in front of you all along, or who you couldn’t have even known to ask for.
Enjoyed your March 2025 horoscope? Look back on February to see how things lined up.