Witchy Sh!t : Aries Solar Eclipse 2025
Resources for your rituals and practices
Tomorrow at 3:58am PDT the Aries (New Moon) Solar Eclipse will be at its apex. As I shared with the Virgo Lunar Eclipse a couple weeks ago, Eclipse Season is considered to be a time when the Fates are most active, the veil is thin, and our main job is to surrender to the unfolding. This Aries eclipse will close out the Libra-Aries eclipse cycle that began in April 2023. (We won’t see another Libra-Aries eclipse cycle again until 2032, when the North Node will be in Libra and the South Node will be in Aries). This eclipse cycle has been about our relationships - with others and with our self. It has been about growing our autonomy to more forward (north node in Aries) and letting go of the relationships that (no longer) nurture and nourish us and or hold us back (south node in Libra).
As this eclipse is a new moon, it is about beginnings, however it is about continued beginnings of change that we have been growing over the last 18-ish months. It is about connecting more to our core self and soul, unmasking, being more of who we are at our center. Depending on where Aries is in your chart will inform what areas of your life this is most focused/prominent. For example, Aries is my fifth house, so the focus on growing my autonomy has been around creativity, pleasure, self expression, play, and children (including inner children/younger parts), and what I have experienced over the last year and a half has been a shift in my work focus (where my creativity mostly, but not wholly, lives) as well as me beginning to paint again. I’ve also been digging further into my own parts work and healing around pleasure and self expression.All of this is connecting me more and more with my Core Self/Soul and I am practicing more and more unmasking and emotional intimacy.
Regardless of where the eclipse lands in your chart, it is a time of reflection and allowing what needs to bubble up to the surface, to bubble up. It can be uncomfortable (shadow/trauma/soul work generally is), and if we are able to be in the liminal space and trust that what breaking down and bulding up needs to be doing so for our highest good (individually and collectively.
Resources
Somatic exercise
Heart Hold
Place your right hand over your heart so that the heel of your hand is at your heart and your fingertips are at your collarbone. Apply as much pressure with your hand as feels good to you. You can also put your left hand over the top of your right to apply more pressure. Alternatively, place your left hand on your abdomen. Apply pressure at your belly and heart at the same time.
Aries Solar (New Moon) Eclipse 2025 Inquiries
You can use these questions as a tarot/oracle spread or for journaling/pondering (or all of the above!). If an inquiry feels too uncomfortable, allow yourself to be curious as to why it feels uncomfortable.
What has been/is the overall message for me from the recent Aries-Libra eclipse cycle?
What parts of my Self/Soul need more nurturing at this time?
Which relationships is it time for me to lovingly let go of/remove my energy from?
What resources do I need to utilize to support these shifts?
What is has been brought to the surface for me to acknowledge, heal, and integrate?
What areas of my life do I need to lean into surrender?
What areas of my life do I need to lean into agency and action?
Aries Solar (New Moon) Eclipse 2025 Playlist by grlykitty
As always, listen to this playlist in whatever ways feel good and right for you. I generally recommend putting the playlist on “random” and going with the flow of what plays. As always, you do what feels right for you.
Aries Solar (New Moon) Eclipse 2025 Playlist by grlykitty
May this eclipse season (and Venus, Mercury, and Juno retrogrades) bring us expansion, contraction, and connection.
In rebellious solidarity and love, always,
xoox,
g.
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