The Sun Enters Aries to Mark the Equinox

This is the all-important zero degree of Aries, the onset of Spring and the start of the wheel of the zodiac celebrated by astrologers as the real ‘astrological’ new year. It’s known as the Vernal Equinox, when there is equal day and equal night. It is where the celestial equator intersects with the ecliptic (path of the sun).

This day marks the onset of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern and is used as to determine the date of Easter which varies year by year. Easter is the Sunday after the first full moon after this point, and so not until April 20th.

Predictions about the coming year can be made from this 0° ingress chart, hence it is so powerful as an indicator of not just the next 3 months, but what’s to come in the entire year, and all events that may echo throughout 2025. It is ruled by a still debilitated Mars which is in home-loving Cancer. Issues of security may come to the fore.

However, Sap rises in Spring; Nature reboots with a welcome colourful and light-filled flourish. Energy rises too, and you may begin to feel ‘joy’ again after winter. Life can begin to feel freer but it can be less easy to controlled too, increasing stress and nervousness.

So, there is still a need to have our wits about us to counter any impulses that lead to dead-ends. Go forward with vigour, just slowly and more mindfully might be the advice. Quick thinking is desirable but not always effective in every situation. In the eclipse window events are still very volatile.

The Sun is still only a degree from the previous day’s conjunction with Neptune at that anaretic degree. So, it is highly spiritualized and radiating subtle influences. And it’s at the centre of this build up of planets at the end of Pisces and beginning of Aries so if you check your chart that is where all this activity will show up

But the Sun is making its annual fresh start now. The Sun is trine to the Moon in Sagittarius, a fellow fire sign, which offers even more inspiration to act without hesitation and perhaps have more fun, if that is available.

Mars and Saturn are trine which softens those two planets in aspect when they can usually be harsh and full of friction or even abuse. And Venus and her scribe Mercury are dutifully taking note of everything as they journey through all this.

Jupiter in Gemini is conjunct the Ascendant so that could suggest a broad spread of optimistic news around the world especially at the time of the full moon in Sagittarius on June 11th ruled by Jupiter even though Jupiter is debilitated there.

And the Sun is sextile to Pluto in early Aquarius lending depth and intensity to any changes that take place. The Vernal Equinox this year is complex yet powerful and full of promise of the new all with a veneer of Nature’s magic in it for good measure. To consciously tap into this surge of energy can take you a long way towards your goals.

© Kieron Devlin, ProteusAstrology.co.uk, March 20th, 2025

Image: ‘Primavera’ by Sandro Botticelli. Venus with Cupid flanked by Mercury, the Three Graces and goddess Flora with Chloris and Zephyrus  (late 1470s-early 1480s).