On March 29, 2025, at 4:47 AM MDT, the skies go dark with a partial solar eclipse in Aries. This is the final act in a transformational drama that began two years ago. The Aries–Libra eclipse cycle, which began on April 20, 2023, now reaches its close, leaving behind scorched ground and seeds ready to bloom.
This eclipse ends a chapter. A story about selfhood and relationship, action and reflection, desire and harmony—all seen through the lens of Mars and Venus, the celestial co-rulers of this axis.
And oh, how they have changed.
🪞Venus & Mars: The Rewritten Archetypes
Venus, the ruler of Libra and goddess of love, has been undergoing an epic transformation through her current synodic cycle. Her descent, retrograde, and rebirth have reshaped how we give and receive love, how we honor beauty, how we harmonize and hold preference. She’s no longer passive, nor simply alluring—she’s co-creative, clear, and whole.
Mars, ruler of Aries, has also been tempered by his retrograde, his station, and his journey through Cancer. He is not just the soldier now—he is the guardian. His fire is not for destruction but protection. He now holds sacred space in the fire temple of Aries, hosting the astrological saga of 2025!!
Their roles are reversed, rewritten, and reconciled. Together, they create a new template—one where polarity doesn’t mean opposition, but dynamic balance.
🌘 Reflecting on the Eclipse Season
This March 29, 2025 Solar Eclipse in Aries is the culmination of a cycle that began nearly two years ago, on April 20, 2023, with the first eclipse in Aries. Since then, the cosmos has been guiding us through a transformational arc centered on selfhood (Aries) and relationship (Libra)—on how we initiate, assert, connect, compromise, and reclaim our autonomy.
Let’s revisit the key moments of this story:
🌑 April 20, 2023 – Solar Eclipse in Aries
The spark of a new self.
What were you stepping into? What new version of yourself were you just beginning to glimpse? This eclipse invited a bold reclamation of identity and desire—before you had the full strength or clarity to carry it through.
🌑 October 14, 2023 – Solar Eclipse in Libra
The mirror appears.
This was a moment of recalibration—where the universe asked, “Are you betraying yourself in the name of keeping the peace?” Relationship dynamics surfaced to show you where harmony was built on self-abandonment or performance.
🌕 March 25, 2024 – Lunar Eclipse in Libra
A deeper truth revealed.
Under this light, hidden patterns in love, codependency, or avoidance came to the surface. Something relational ended, evolved, or was clarified—making space for a more authentic way of relating. When did I last confuse compromise with self-erasure? Where did I say yes to avoid rocking the boat—and what did it cost me? What relationship dynamics cracked open in spring 2024, and what truth spilled out?
🌑 March 29, 2025 – Solar Eclipse in Aries
The final flame.
You’ve faced the mirror, you’ve seen the truth—now you burn off what no longer fits. This eclipse asks: What are you ready to claim? And what truths have you been avoiding that are quietly holding your power hostage? Not just in theory, but in lived experience, in action, in embodiment?
🔥 A Ritual Reflection
These eclipses are not about casting spells or starting fresh. They are about witnessing what is revealed when the light changes.
You are not being asked to do more. You’re being asked to see more clearly.
So light a candle. Journal. Sit in stillness. And revisit these times:
April 20, 2023 – First Aries eclipse: What instincts were awakening then?
October 14, 2023 – Libra eclipse: What were you learning about balance and boundaries?
March 25, 2024 – Libra lunar eclipse: What truths did your relationships reveal?
March 29, 2025 – Aries solar eclipse: What is reclaiming your attention now?
🪞🔥 Deep Reflections: The Eclipse Season’s Last Word
💥 What do you now understand about who you are when no one else is watching?
🕊 Where have you released relationship dynamics that no longer served your sovereignty?
⚔️ Where is action needed in your life—not as a reaction, but as a claim to your own becoming?
🌹 What have you learned about love that empowers, not appeases? About harmony that includes you?
🌬 How has the space between Venus and Mars—between tenderness and truth, beauty and boldness—shifted in your own life?
🔥 What remains when the roles are gone, when the story ends, and the lights go out?
♈ Aries & ♎ Libra: Opposites in Essence, Mirrors in Meaning
In ancient astrology, the zodiacal wheel is built on polarities. Each pair of opposing signs reflects two halves of a whole. Aries and Libra are the first polarity of the cardinal cross—and their tension lies at the heart of initiation, relationship, and individual vs. other.
🜂 Aries – The Fire Temple of Mars
• Element: Fire
• Modality: Cardinal (initiating)
• Ruler: Mars
• Primary concerns: Selfhood, action, independence, instinct, survival, courage
• Ancient associations: Soldiers, pioneers, personal assertion, quickness of temper, the spark of life
• Domicile (home): Aries is where Mars thrives—active, decisive, bold, and unafraid of conflict. It is the sign of first breath, the “I am.”
In Hellenistic texts, Aries is often linked to the head, the place from which thought and movement emerge. It represents personal agency—the divine spark of will that separates you from the collective.
🜁 Libra – The Air Temple of Venus
• Element: Air
• Modality: Cardinal (initiating)
• Ruler: Venus
• Primary concerns: Justice, fairness, harmony, aesthetics, partnership, balance
• Ancient associations: Diplomats, judges, artists, lovers, social contracts
• Domicile (home): Libra is Venus’ domain of relational grace—not emotional like Pisces or Taurus, but social and ethical. It asks: What is fair? What is beautiful?
Libra is connected to the loins in the ancient system—the space of creation, union, and balance between giving and receiving. It holds the sacred geometry of reciprocity.
🌓 Why One Cannot Exist Without the Other
In ancient astrology, every sign is defined by its opposite. You can’t understand Aries without Libra.
You can’t understand the courage to act (Aries) without knowing the cost of that action on others (Libra).
Likewise, true connection (Libra) only exists if each person is standing in their full selfhood (Aries).
Together, they teach us how to balance autonomy and intimacy, instinct and grace, raw will and refined desire.
🔥🌬 In the Context of the Eclipses
This eclipse season asked:
• Are you too far into self-preservation (Aries) and unable to harmonize with others?
• Or are you dissolving yourself in connection (Libra) and losing the clarity of your own wants and needs?
• Where have I been moving on autopilot, mistaking motion for purpose?
• What does healthy self-trust look like for me now?
• Where does my assertiveness feel generative, and where does it still carry the sting of old wounds?
Mars has undergone his own purification through retrograde.
Venus has been reborn, redefining how we love and relate.
Now, as this Aries eclipse completes the story, the question isn’t just “Who am I?”
It’s also: “Who am I in the presence of others—and what do I bring to the fire?”
💫 Final Note
This eclipse doesn’t just crown the new version of you—it burns away the parts that shrink, deflect, or delay your becoming.
And in the ashes of what is stripped away, a new version of you stands ready to emerge. Not in haste. Not in performance. But in honest, embodied readiness.
Venus has taught us preference. Mars has taught us restraint. Now, what will you create in the space between them?
This is the end of one chapter. But it’s not the end of the story.