Going Within: March 2026

We begin this month as Mercury - God of mind and communication - is retrograde (walking backwards in the sky from our perspective here on Earth). There's always a lot of noise about Mercury retrograde. We're warned that things within Mercury's domain: communication - movement and transportation - thought - perception - observation - our words - will be negatively affected. Things that would normally be coherent and clear, will be muddled and incomprehensible. Thoughts scattered. Communication confused. Short journeys we take will be thwarted by unforeseen complexity. Technology we rely on to learn and communicate will break. And this may be the case. We may find that we are facing problems that mean our day to day ability to navigate our world is more difficult while Mercury is walking backwards. But this is just the surface experience of a God in retrograde - and the real opportunity lies in being able to see beyond what's happening on the surface and understand what it's happening for - what's the true purpose of the experience and what it's trying to teach us?

Mercury retrograde began on the 26th of February and continues until the 20th of March when Mercury stations and turns to walk forward once again. Mercury is in Pisces - Jupiter's sign - and already compromised through being uncomfortable in a domain more concerned with flow, with submersion in the expanded perspective. Mercury likes details - the individual grains on the shore - and Pisces is the ocean. We may find that getting clear on things is much more difficult over the next few weeks. So where does the opportunity lie?

Retrograde periods can be helpfully described as times of revision. We look back, and look within, in order to resolve some areas of our lives that require a second look. Something needs to be remembered. We need to be reminded.

And this retrograde in particular asks something deeper of us because Mercury is moving through Pisces. The final sign of the zodiac where the cycle completes itself before Aries begins everything again.

Pisces sits opposite Virgo - the analyst. Virgo is where the human mind is at its most grounded. Practical, real, measurable. Scientific. Mercury is both at home and in exaltation (think best self) in Virgo. But in Pisces, Mercury must work very differently. The usual tools don't work. Things don't always have a clear answer. Communication may arrive in ways that can't be explained by the rational mind. And that can be hard to wrap the logical, rational head around!

This is where we go within. Where we begin to understand that not all communication can be fully grasped by the rational mind. There are things that arrive not through analysis but through feeling. Through dreams. Through a quiet knowing that doesn't come with evidence you can lay on a table. Something greater is at work. And there is an opportunity to tap into that. To accommodate a higher wisdom into our understanding of the everyday.

We are rational and spiritual. We live in both worlds. And right now, the sky is asking us to remember that. How we think this month is changed - softened, deepened, turned inward. And this isn't a problem to solve or a battle to overcome - it's an invitation.

Pisces is where we realise ourselves. Where the accumulated weight of experience - everything lived, everything learned - begins to settle into something like understanding. When Aries arrives, we begin again. But we begin from a truer place. A cleaner foundation.

What does this mean to work with it? How can we tap into our inner wisdom to face the challenges we are faced with during this time? And is that the point??

Practically, this might look like pausing before you fire back a response to a difficult message. Sleeping on a decision instead of forcing it. Paying attention to what keeps coming back to you - the thought that surfaces again and again, the feeling that won't quite let you go. Writing things down. Giving yourself permission to not have it all worked out yet.

The rational mind wants an answer. Pisces isn't offering one - at least not in the usual way. What it offers instead is a different kind of knowing. The fog, the lack of clarity, the confusion, has a purpose. And maybe that is the point.

So this is the undertone of the month. Before we look at what the other Gods are doing we need to be aware that this is the undercurrent we are working with. Go back. Look within. Accept that there is learning in the complexities we face, and that we're being encouraged to grow through it and not just grit our teeth and curse the confusion. It's not another painful period we must survive but rather one that we need in order to be more fully who we are and live our best life.

At the same time we are approaching our second eclipse of the season - a Lunar eclipse in Virgo. Hosted by a backward facing Mercury - opposite, with The Sun, in Pisces.

Okay, disclaimer: This is as far as I got when I had time and energy to start this blog post. I am going to post it now and work on it again when I have the time and headspace to continue. For now, the day job beckons and I need to give my energy to what's paying my bills and keeping a roof over my head (for which I'm very grateful!). Check back in later for more.

We're now through the Lunar Eclipse and out of the intensity of this eclipse season. Themes that are highlighted now will continue for the next 6 months at least. Pay attention. This is showing us what we need to let go of in order to move forward with fresh and new. Lunar Eclipses are culmination energy and in Virgo this is about our daily habits. Our attention to details. If you've been martyring yourself at the expense of what you need then now is the time to change that. You are the main character in your life story. Start treating yourself as if you are. Everything outside of us is born from what's within us.

Go within to change what's without.

Jupiter turns direct - 11th March

(okay...back to it...) Yesterday - or close enough to yesterday that you'll feel it in the days ahead - Jupiter stopped still and begins His slow turn to start walking forwards once more. He has been walking backwards since November. Sitting in Cancer, The Moon's soft and feeling realm, turning inward, reconsidering. And if you've felt that some of the hopeful momentum from last summer quietly stalled, that things which seemed full of promise became complicated, or slow, or frustrating, that was this. Jupiter retrograde doesn't take things away. He just pauses the expansion. He asks you to look at what you actually want before He hands it to you.

Now He is walking forward again. And He is hosting quite a gathering: the Sun is in Pisces, Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, Mars is in Pisces. Jupiter rules Pisces. This is His house, and He has guests, and He has just opened the windows.

What does that mean for us?

It means that the larger story - the one Jupiter began writing in your chart back in May and June of last year - is moving again. Whatever opened up then, whatever shifted or softened or quietly arrived in that part of your life: that story isn't finished. It's entering its final chapter in Cancer. Jupiter leaves for Leo on the 30th of June. Between now and then, things in that part of your life can blossom. Can fruit. This is the harvest phase of a year-long journey.

Jupiter in Cancer is Jupiter in his exaltation. His highest expression. The realm of home, family, roots, belonging, the body, the emotional world, the things that actually matter when everything else falls away. He has been asking us - all of us, collectively - to come back to what nourishes. To remember that the foundation is everything. That without the soft and steady things, nothing grand can stand. He is asking us to come home to ourselves.

And this has been no small ask, given the world we've been watching.

The Epstein files. The ongoing devastation in the Middle East. Leaders behaving in ways that are difficult to witness - erratic, self-serving, indifferent to suffering in a way that can't fail to genuinely shake us. The collective nervous system has been under siege. There's a low-level grief that most of us are carrying right now, a loss of faith that is real and legitimate and deserves to be named. We have watched people in positions of trust fail that trust, spectacularly and repeatedly. It's exhausting.

Jupiter in Cancer, direct, is not an answer to any of that. But it is a hand on the shoulder. It is the reminder that the world is also made of other things. That family is real. That kindness is real. That the small, warm, human moments are not naïve or insufficient. They are the point and they have always been the point.

The Moon rules Cancer. And the Moon - our instincts, our need for safety, our emotional world - will feel this change of direction. Support will arrive. If you have been running on empty, this is the sky saying: let something in.

Mercury Retrograde - Jupiter Direct

There's an interesting tension here that's worth contemplating.

Mercury is still retrograde - walking backwards in Jupiter's sign - until the 20th of March. So we have Jupiter direct - forward motion, expansion, things beginning to move - while Mercury is still asking us to go back, review, and sit with what we haven't fully understood yet in Jupiter's domain.

These aren't contradictory. Everything is always perfect. Perfectly timed. Designed.

Jupiter offers the higher perspective. Mercury, in Pisces, is still asking us to feel our way through rather than think our way through. The clarity we've been reaching for over these past weeks? It may arrive not as a clear answer but as a felt sense. A knowing. Give yourself time to feel it into being and trust that the answers will come in their own time. Use Jupiter's now fully expressive presence to soften into yourself and be in the moment. There's no need to force it. It's as simple as breathing.

Mercury stations direct on the 20th of March - the same day as the Spring Equinox. A fresh new beginning in the arc of the stories both Mercury and Jupiter are currently writing.

Read more on Jupiter in Cancer.

What does this mean for you?

This is where it gets personal. Because Jupiter's final months in Cancer are happening in a specific house in your chart - a specific room in the house of your life - and that's where the fruit will fall.

In whole sign houses, your rising sign determines which sign rules which house. Cancer is in a different house for each of us. And Pisces - where so much of the current action lives (Mercury retrograde, the Sun, and more to come) - is also somewhere specific in your chart, completing its own story.

Find your rising sign below.

Aries Rising

Cancer is your fourth house - home, family, roots, the private self. This is the most intimate terrain. Jupiter here has been doing something quiet and profound: expanding what home means to you, bringing something into this space that nourishes. Direct now, things in this area of life that felt stalled - a housing situation, a family dynamic, something about where or how you belong - will begin to move again. Let it. And Pisces, your twelfth house, has been asking you to go very deeply inward. The Sun, Mercury retrograde, the Gods gathered there - this is all happening in your most interior space. The things you've been processing privately, the self-undoing you've been quietly doing, the hidden parts of yourself that have been brought to light: this is valuable work.

Taurus Rising

Cancer is your third house - communication, the immediate environment, siblings, the mind. Jupiter here has been expanding your voice, your local world, perhaps your relationship with the people closest to you geographically and emotionally. Direct now, conversations that needed to happen can happen. Connections you'd hoped for can resume. Pisces is your eleventh house - your community, your friendships, your hopes. The Mercury retrograde here has stirred something in this area: a friendship reconsidered, a collective you belong to that felt unclear, the question of where you truly fit. Feel inward for answers that will soon arrive.

Gemini Rising

Cancer is your second house - money, resources, self-worth, what you value. Jupiter direct here says: the financial expansion or the shift in how you value yourself that began last summer is back on track. Something you hoped for in this area is possible again. And Pisces - your tenth house, career and public life - has been the site of significant inner review during this Mercury retrograde. Confusion about direction, about what you're really building toward: this is asking for a different kind of knowing. Trust what you feel about your path - this needs to be truly right for you and not just what the world is demanding of you.

Cancer Rising

Jupiter is in your first house, and Jupiter is now direct. This is your year. It has been your year since last June, and it continues until June 2026. The expansion has been happening to and through you - your identity, your body, your sense of self. Direct now, the forward movement in how you show up in the world is real. And Pisces - your ninth house of philosophy, meaning, travel, the bigger picture, where we meet The Gods - has been the site of a slow, beautiful inquiry during this retrograde. What do you believe? What is your truth? Where do you want to put your faith? (Hint...it comes through you so find faith in yourself first)

Leo Rising

Cancer is your twelfth house - the hidden, the interior, the unconscious, the place of retreat and dissolution. Jupiter here has been working quietly below the surface. Not all expansion is visible. Some of it is the slow undoing of things that were never true, the making of space for something better. You may not have been able to point to what Jupiter was doing. But He has been doing something great. Direct now, you may begin to sense it: a lightening, a clarity about something you've been carrying a long while. And Pisces - your eighth house of transformation and depth - has been the arena of Mercury retrograde. Something is shifting in how you relate to what must change.

Virgo Rising

Cancer is your eleventh house - community, friendships, your vision for the future, your hopes. Jupiter here has been saying: your people are coming. Your tribe. The things you wish for are not foolish. Direct now, movement returns in this area. A community that matters to you. A hope that felt suspended. And Pisces - your seventh house, the house of partnership - has been the site of the retrograde. Something about a significant relationship - whether romantic, business, or a close friendship - is being reviewed, reconsidered. What do you actually want from your closest relationships? This is the time these answers will begin to be made clear.

Libra Rising

Cancer is your tenth house - career, public life, reputation, your contribution to the world. Jupiter direct here: whatever was expanding in your professional life, whatever looked promising last summer in terms of your path and your public presence - it's moving again. And Pisces - your sixth house of daily life, health, and work - has been the home of Mercury retrograde. Your habits, your body, your day-to-day routines have needed a second look. Something about how you are maintaining yourself - or not - is coming into focus. Jupiter knows that we must meet our own needs first before we can give anything back to the world. You need your care and nurture. You need to feel at home in an unsafe world. And then, you have a foundation from which to give back.

Scorpio Rising

Cancer is your ninth house - philosophy, travel, the search for meaning, higher learning, your worldview. Jupiter here has been the invitation to expand how you see things, to go further in your understanding, perhaps literally in terms of travel or learning, perhaps philosophically, ideally spiritually. Direct now, this journey continues. And Pisces - your fifth house of creativity, love, and joy - has been the site of the retrograde. Something about what brings you genuine pleasure, or a creative project, or a romantic situation, has needed revisiting. Jupiter direct will ignite that fire in your creative spirit. Follow your joy - it will lead you to where you wish to grow.

Sagittarius Rising

Cancer is your eighth house - transformation, depth, shared resources, inheritance, the underworld of life. Jupiter here has been asking you to go deep and rewarding you when you do. Direct now, movement returns in all things related to shared finances, intimacy, and profound change. This is powerful territory for you. And Pisces - your fourth house of home and family - has been the site of deep interior review during Mercury retrograde. Something about home, about belonging, about your foundation, about how secure and safe you feel in the world: is being revisited. It feels vulnerable to let others in deep. Especially for a freedom loving Sagittarian. This combined energy is pushing you to do it anyway. We all need the security of home and shared responsibilities.

Capricorn Rising

Jupiter is in your seventh house - the house of partnership, committed relationship, significant one-to-one connections. Direct now, relationships that felt stalled or unclear begin to move. Something you hoped for in this area of your life - a person, a partnership, an important collaboration - is available again. Pisces is your third house: communication, local environment, the immediate world. Mercury retrograde here has brought confusion or review into how you communicate, perhaps a conversation that needed to happen again, or a misunderstanding that needed time to unravel. The 20th of March clears this.

Aquarius Rising

Cancer is your sixth house - daily life, health, work, the body, service. Jupiter here has been quietly improving conditions in your everyday world: your physical wellbeing, your working life, the routines that hold you. Direct now, improvements continue. The small consistent things will compound. And Pisces - your second house of money and self-worth - has been the arena of review. Something about your finances or about what you value and what you believe you deserve has been up for reconsideration. Let the fog clear before making financial decisions. Trust that it will clear. These two houses are working together to ensure you have the resources you need, for the life you want to live.

Pisces Rising

Jupiter is in your fifth house - creativity, love, children, joy, play, the expression of who you are. Direct now, this area of life opens back up. Something you were hoping for in terms of a creative project, a romantic connection, or simple genuine enjoyment of being alive: it's back in motion. And Pisces - your first house - has been the most personal home of Mercury retrograde. This has been interior work done on the self. Who you are, how you present to the world, what you want to be seen for: all of this is under review and has been since late February. The answers arrive around the 20th, along with the equinox and the new cycle. Prepare to begin again from a truer version of yourself.

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The Equinox: a new turn around the wheel begins

We are at the end of the solar year. The Sun is finishing its journey through the final sign of Pisces, the sign of completion, of dissolving, of return to the source, and in a matter of days will cross the threshold into Aries.

When The Sun enters Aries at the Equinox, the wheel begins again. Every cycle completes and restarts. We don't arrive at Aries empty. We arrive carrying everything Pisces offered us: the depth, the surrender, the things we finally understood by feeling rather than forcing. This is a seeding moment. The stories that are ready to begin will begin. But they will grow from whatever we allowed ourselves to truly absorb during this going-within season.

The 2026 Equinox Chart

But there is something else happening in that Aries sky.

Look at the equinox chart. The Sun moves into Aries - as it does every year, as it has done since before we had words for it - and this year it steps into a room that is already occupied.

Saturn is there. Neptune is there. Together in the early degrees of the sign.

They met exactly on the 20th of February. Their union is fresh. And now The Sun arrives to illuminate what they have just begun.

Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Aries. This is not a thing that happens in a lifetime. It barely happens in recorded history. The last time these two stood together at 0° Aries was approximately nine thousand years ago - somewhere around 7,000 BC, when human beings were first learning to settle, to grow food, to build something that might last. The birth of agriculture. The first attempt at civilisation. That is the scale of what the sky is marking.

Let that land for a moment.

We are walking into an equinox the likes of which no living human has ever seen. No ancient grandmother, no great sage, no lineage of passed-down memory holds this one. It is genuinely new.

And the sign is Aries. Mars's realm. The warrior. The pioneer. The one who acts before they think, who bleeds before they build, who leads with the body and asks questions afterwards.

War has raged in every decade of every living person's life. It has been the white noise of our collective existence. The Middle East. Ukraine. The slow violence of poverty and neglect dressed up as policy. We have never known a world without it.

And now here we are, at the very beginning of a brand new cosmic cycle, with the God of Structure and the God of Dreams standing together in the sign of the warrior. Saturn brings reality. Neptune brings the dissolution of what no longer serves - and yes, also the vision of what could replace it. Aries is where identity is forged. Where we discover, through action, through confrontation, through fire, who we actually are.

Is this healing? I think it might be.

Not the tidy kind. Not the kind you read about in a wellness guide. The kind that requires you to feel the wound fully before it can close. We have to feel to heal - and collectively we have been very good at not feeling. At managing it. At watching the news and going numb because the alternative is unbearable. Neptune does not allow numbness. Neptune dissolves the walls we build against feeling. And in Aries, that is going to be uncomfortable and necessary and, perhaps, finally transformative in a way that our usual coping strategies have prevented.

The Kybalion tells us that everything moves in cycles. That nothing is at rest. That the pendulum swings back. And maybe - and I say this with full awareness that it sounds almost naïve given what we've been watching - maybe this is the swing back.

Not because suffering ends on a schedule. But because cycles have turning points. And the sky is marking one now.

We are not the architects of this story. We are the privileged witnesses to it - threads in a weaving so vast that we can only see the small patch of cloth directly beneath our hands. But the weaver knows the pattern. There is a pattern. There is always a pattern.

What is being asked of us - individually and collectively - is to stop pretending we cannot feel what we feel. To let Neptune do its work. To grieve what has been lost. To be honest about the state of the world without hardening against it. And then - and this is the Aries piece - to act from that honest, feeling place. To begin something from the truest version of ourselves we can access.

The equinox is the hinge. The year turns here. A new solar cycle begins, and it begins at a degree of the zodiac that the cosmos has chosen to mark as a Genesis point for the next several thousand years.

We are not the main event. The story is.

But we are in it. We are of it.

The world is still difficult. The sky is still kind.

These two things can be true at the same time.

We are living through a period of genuine disillusionment - with leaders, with systems, with the way power is wielded. And that disillusionment, painful as it is, is not meaningless. It is clarifying. It is Pisces dissolving what was never solid so that something true can be found underneath.

Jupiter direct in Cancer says: build from the inside out. Build from what is real and soft and yours. The family. The body. The home. The people you actually love. These are not small things dressed up as consolation prizes. They are, in every wisdom tradition that has ever existed, the point.

As within, so without.

When the Spring Equinox arrives on the 20th. A new wheel begins. We don't arrive there emptied out - we arrive there deepened. Changed by what we went within to find.