
Initiations
A weekly podcast that keeps you up to date on the astrological forces at play. Each week we are diving into the mythology, archetypes and initiations present in astrology with your host, astrologer Jules Ferrari.
Initiations
INITIATING NEW TIMELINES - PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE NEW MOON IN ARIES
This week in astrology land, Mercury and Venus spend there last week in Aries, we have a great partial solar eclipse and new moon in Aries on Saturday and Neptune moves into Aries for the first time since 1875. Aka there is a lot happening. And it is moving us towards action and making moves. The retrogrades bring awareness to the moves we want to make, the lunar eclipse showed us where we sabotage the dreams we want to actualise and it all culminates in an important day to Do. The. Thing.
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Hey, how are you going? We have a jam packed week this week. This is probably the week. Capital T, capital W. This is a lot, uh, of, there's so many things happening. There's so many moves that are being made astrologically, and so energetically it's one that we're likely to. Possibly, I don't wanna just say you will feel this, but there's a high chance that you'll feel a lot of the action that's happening this week. We have been in this, still are in this waning period of the moon until the eclipse happens on Saturday. The partial solar eclipse happens on Saturday. And again, following on from what I said last week in the lead up to this, we really want to be. Clearing space physically, energetically, in all the ways we've entered Airy season, the flavor is different. Mercury and Venus, uh, in Aries. This week, both of them will make moves out of Aries and back into Pisces later this week. Neptune will also make its move into Aries on Sunday, the day after the solar eclipse. So again, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while. If you have watched the workshop on the astrology of this year, you'll know that such a big part of what's happening energetically, uh, archetypally is this dance between Aries, Pisces, Aries and Pisces into Aries. Uh, which really to me is. The Piscean energy is where we are in the imagination. We're visioning whole new worlds, whole new timelines. The things that we're wanting to make manifest into reality. Today, this week, this year, in your lifetime, whatever the timeline is for you, there's the, the dreams are potent. And now as we move into Aries, we are moving from, I would say, a level of receptivity and passivity into action where we've moved through and we're still moving through as these planets move, you know, as Mercury and Venus move back into. Pisces and then they will move forward again into Aries. I think both in April we will do this dance again. Like it, it's, I was saying in class, in astrology school class on the weekend when we're making changes, personally, it's never. A one and done. We don't just go, okay, well I'm gonna decide that now I'm doing blah, blah, blah. Usually we, there's this to and fro. We go from, we go into the new and then we go back to what's comfort, comfortable. You know, we, we do this dance where making the space, we're making ourselves familiar to. The new ways, the new desires to the taking action, whatever the thing is. So it's, I I wouldn't expect of yourself that suddenly you are going to be perfectly doing whatever the thing is. You know, a big theme until July next year with the south node in Virgo is where allowing ourselves to be in the. Uncomfortability of trying, of doing the thing and not being so hot at it at the beginning. You know, to me, Virgo in one of its higher expressions or more conscious expressions is a craft energy. I think as I, as I've said here before, like when I was learning Raga in India, my music teacher. Thought it was hilarious when I told him about, you know, the whole Keith Richards thing of, you know, if you can play two chords, you can start a rock band. Uh, whereas in. The Indian cannon in terms of classical musicians, he said it's like 40 years of graft before, before you enter a realm of mastery. You know, it's like here we just have a different conception because we are inundated constantly with these people selling us these. This idea or this world of the hack, the optimization. Uh, and I just think it's, while time and space is likely is something that we can dance with and will be dancing with it in different ways over the next few years. Uh, we also need to put pen to paper. If we wanna write the book, for example, we also need to go to the easel, pick up our paints, and start painting if we're wanting to be a painter, you know, so there's, there's fundamentals of this reality that just exist. They're the, they're the foundations of this experience and. We are moving into more of this frequency of Aries, which is, I want this, and now I move my life force, my attention, my intention, my action, my energy towards that thing. When Aries is playing beautifully, it is wildly direct. And it's, there's, it's twofold. The first part, again, the, the mercury and venous retrogrades here right now, and also the Mars retrograde that we had earlier, the ruler of Aries, that these, these first three months, almost four months, are really allowing us to refine and viscerally begin to feel and sense. What do I want? What do I need? What do I desire? What are these things? Am I viscerally connected to what these things are likely? If you've come into this year with an idea of what your desires and goals are, you'll have been. Percolating on them, which isn't to say that you can't have made moves. I, I certainly have. I'm not waiting for all of the astrology to go direct before I make a move. That would be silly. But what I have been doing is just very naturally looking at what these things are, seeing how I feel on a, on a deeper level about these things. I'm getting so much clarity naturally on. How do I want to spend my time? What? What is the timeline that I wish to live on or live within, or jump between?'cause I mean, look, I'm a Gemini. I don't wanna do just one thing that would be, ugh. And now with this solar eclipse, partial solar eclipse. And New Moon in Aries that's happening this Saturday. It is energetically speaking the biggest clean slate of this year of astrology. If there is one new Moon that I would highly recommend you ritualize, it's this one. So let's talk about it. Here's what. I'm going to do, and I was just writing the copy, which I've just sent to my very amazing, beautiful designer, Molly, uh, for some things that I'm creating this week. How would we ritualize this one? This is a fire. Our, our sun and our moon are joined together. They're speaking the same language. Sorry. The birds are so loud. They're emanating the same frequency. They're dancing this to the same melody together in the archetype of Aries. Aries is fire. Aries is Cardinal. The cardinal signs begin. They're the beginning month of New Seasons. It's when we feel this flush of energy just very naturally. You know, half of you are, have just started spring, half of you, they're so loud. Sorry, they're having a big chat. Half of you are like me, have just started Autumn, one of my all time faves. And with both of these months, it's a beginning energy. There is this desire to begin projects to. Uh, move like to, to fire, wants to be expressed. So how would we ritualize such a potent new moon in Aries? Well, here's what I'll be doing. I will be taking action. I've had plenty of time to think about the ideas and the. The desires, the goals, the dreams that I wanna actualize this year. And like I said, I have already been making moves on these things, but some of them have really just come to life and taken form in ways that kind of exceed my, have exceeded my vision for what they could be really, since just before the this eclipse cycle started. Uh, it's been so cool to see what's just coming for life, and I'm sure it's the same for you. Uh, again, this is why we wanna pay attention to things. This is why we wanna have practices where we can process what's happening in our lives. You know, maybe it's, if you are time poor, it's like having a list in your notes app where it's like, here are the things that have come to fruition here. Here are the intuitions that I'm receiving so that you can revisit these things and. Here's what I've actualized so far anyway, so what I'm going to be doing is taking action towards the things that have been singing to me that I desire to do. If you think, if you can think of your life for one moment, visually like it is a slipstream, like energetically, it's a thread. It's a current, it's a timeline that you can fill. With as much magic and creativity and love and aesthetics and whatever you wanna be on there, flesh that out. What does that look like and feel like and sound like for you? Something that I've really been focusing on in my own visions of this is are the adventures. That I wanna have this year, um, uh, is the, the mysticism that I want to feel in more and more palpable ways, uh, this year. And also, yeah, so, so what I will be doing this year is, sorry, not this year, well also this year, but on Saturday, taking action. Doing that thing, whatever it is, maybe you want to go on a holiday somewhere. So on that Saturday, you research it, you break it down, you look at it. If you can, you book the ticket or you write to the tour guide, whatever it is. Uh, if you are a rider, if, if it's riding, that sets your soul alight, then. Carve out time on Saturday and then in the new moon phase that proceeds this three and a half day period. Write right in that time. If it's, if it's art, go to the not, don't just go to the gallery. Paint, sculpt, do the thing. Do the thing. This is Aries, this is fire, this is action. I see what I want. I move myself towards it. I take action towards it. So again, what is, what is that current, what is that timeline that's pulling you forward? So naturally, so intuitively, the more that you are connected to your wants, needs and desires, again, viscerally in your body, not just as concept. Not just as knowledge and theory and idea, but as feeling what literally feels like it's magnetizing your body towards it. Spend time doing that during this phase, during this period. You know, like, what, what better way could you possibly ritualize or, and, and symbolize, uh. You allowing yourself to live the life, to have the things that you desire. And I know so many of you are already on those timelines, and so it, it's also about celebrating that, but celebrate it through action. I guess Celebration is an action in its highest form. You know, it's not just like, Hey, yay, high five to myself. It's, um, bringing awareness to all the, all of the ways that you are already doing this and what is calling me now, how can I take action towards the next iteration of this? And if you're wanting to just jump onto this timeline that's calling to you. For the first time or what feels like the first time this year perhaps, then ceremonially enact it, do it. That's really all I have to say to you today. It's that simple. Um, and we have such supportive, a for that this week yesterday, the Sun and Venus were conjunct. Now she's just. Changing from Evening Star and now we will begin to see her very, very early morning. So she's transcended the night and now she is being reborn into day, into morning. Uh, I have a post coming out about that this week as well. Because it's something to really simmer in. You know, Venus is your relationship to yourself. Uh, it's self love. It's self worth. It's certainly you in love. Um, it's your relationship to the material, to abundance. You know, here in Aries it can get very competitive, but. In its ultimate form.'cause Aries can be very competitive, but in its ultimate form, abundance is there's enough room for everybody. And it's not just saying that it's feeling that, it's knowing that mercury will be conjunct. The sun tomorrow, often referred to as a Kami, so it's already in a conjunction with it, but. There's, there's so much intel that we're receiving in this archetype of Aries this week as we approach the solar eclipse. Listen to last week's episode, if you haven't, but this is, there's themes around, again, what do I want? What do I need? What do I desire? Who am I? Who have I come here to become and actualize more of? And then on Sunday, the day after. The solar eclipse, Neptune is going to move into Aries, and the last time it was there was 1862 to I think 1875. So it's been a long time, and it will be there from, I think it's the 30th of March to the 22nd of October. Then it will move back into Pisces until early 2026. So let's just pay attention and this will unfold in the coming weeks and months. But no, again, it's. Neptune is spirit. It's mysticism, it's creativity. It is the unseen worlds. It is your clairvoyance. It is your Clare sentience. It is your visioning powers. It is the ability to feel connected to things, uh, beyond language, beyond time, beyond space, beyond gravity. You know, it's like in your daydreams. They're not beholden to. Time, space and gravity. You know, it's now moving into the realm of action making moves your willpower instinct. Again, it's fire, it's cardinal. Start. Begin the thing. So this is a, a wildly. Epic week, really. Uh, so yeah, be gentle with yourself again, as much as you can have the space to process really. Clean that house, clean your body. Uh, practice the energetic hygiene, and then just make the moves. Also, part of what's happening in the astrology this week is Mars is squaring Chiron. Chiron is in Aries. Our wounds in this archetype of action. Are more obvious if you have them. I'm not saying that you do, but a lot of us do. Again, it's part of what we're purging with the south node in Virgo. I'm allowed to have what I want. I'm allowed to move my life force towards it. I don't have to second guess my desires. I don't have to run it through a filter of what will everyone else say about me doing this. I don't have to feel shame and embarrassment that people are going to see me trying to do this thing. I don't wanna get to the end of my days and be like, well, I'm glad I wasn't embarrassed. I played small. I, I stayed safe. Okay. That was, that was fun ish. I don't think any of us really wanna have that experience. That's all I have to say. Take care. I hope it's brilliant and profound, and do the thing that you love. Do the things that you love. Do the things that you are wanting to actualize. Do the things that are calling your name. I'm sure you can figure out great ways to ritualize them, you know, to, to find some symbol of the thing. But action is your friend. Don't think about it, just do it.