The Last Dream of the Zodiac
New Moon · 28° Pisces · The Anoretic Degree
The New Moon settles at 28° Pisces, the anoretic degree, the last room in the last house of the zodiac. It arrives with the particular weight of something that knows it is ending, the way late afternoon light knows, without being told, that evening is coming. Everything unresolved feels it and comes to the surface to be acknowledged. Everything unspoken leans a little closer to the surface wanting to be heard. This is the new moon that ends a timeline and opens a new one.
I. How We Got Here
To understand this lunation, you have to follow the thread back. Not just months, but years.
In 2018, Uranus entered Taurus and began its long, quiet revolution of everything we thought was solid. Our values, our relationship to money, to land, to the body — all of it was slowly turned over, like soil before planting. We called it by other names: uncertainty, upheaval, the state of things. But Uranus was simply doing what it has always done: loosening our grip on what we've outgrown, so that something more honest might eventually take its place. It leaves Taurus for good in April. This New Moon finds it in one of its final degrees, still whispering its last transmissions before it moves on.
A year ago, a New Moon in Pisces planted a seed. You may not recall it clearly for these things don't tend to announce themselves with fanfare. A feeling that arrived uninvited. A question that took root somewhere quiet. By September 2025, the Full Moon in Pisces brought some of that into the light. What had grown well, and what needed to be let go of. Now, a full year on, we arrive at the completion of that cycle.
Then, just days ago on March 13th, Mars conjuncted the North Node at the exact degree where Mercury now stands. Mars, as ever, moved before it understood why. Something was chosen, or done, or stepped into. The kind of movement that comes from the gut rather than the mind. Mercury arriving at that same point now is the understanding catching up to the action. What the body already knew, the mind is only just finding words for.
And Neptune has recently crossed into Aries after fourteen years of swimming through Pisces. Its departure is fresh enough that you can still feel the particular quality of the air it left behind. This New Moon breathes that. The last, lingering atmosphere of an era still dissolving at the edges, not yet replaced by what comes next.
II. What the Sky Is Doing
Jupiter trines Mars in Pisces, and the feeling of it is less a push than an opening. Mars in Pisces doesn't move by strategy; it moves by love, by the quiet pull of what matters. Jupiter in trine doesn't add pressure; it adds room. It says: there is grace enough for this. If you have been trying to force something into being, this configuration offers a gentler way through. One that asks for more trust and less effort than you've likely been giving it.
But Jupiter is also in an exact square with Venus, and here is where the sky sharpens into tension. Venus in Aries is not soft. She knows what she wants and she wants it immediately, on her own terms. Jupiter, lit up with Mars energy, expands everything it touches, and what it's touching here is raw desire, appetite, the will to have and to win. The square doesn't dampen that; it inflates it, and inflation has a way of tipping into excess before you notice it's happened. Watch for wanting becoming grasping this week. Watch for confidence tipping into entitlement, or desire moving so fast it outruns discernment. The energy is potent. The question is whether you're directing it or whether it's directing you.
Mercury meets the North Node at the precise degree Mars touched on the 13th. What was set in motion then in instinct, in the body, in a choice that arrived before the reasoning mind could weigh in, is ready now to be named. The feeling is approaching its sentence. Pay attention to what comes to you in words over the next few days: the thought that surfaces without invitation, the conversation that wanders somewhere unexpected and true. These arrivals are not accidental.
Uranus in Taurus makes an exact sextile to this New Moon — one of its last gestures before it leaves the sign entirely. A parting gift: a flash of clarity about what you genuinely value, stripped of what you inherited, what you performed, what you thought you were supposed to want. Seven years of quiet revolution have a way of doing that — clearing the noise until only the true things are left standing.
In the background, Neptune in Aries forms a sextile with Pluto in Aquarius — a slower, deeper hum beneath everything else. Personal awakening and collective transformation moving in the same direction. What shifts inside you is not separate from what is shifting in the world. It never was.
III. Five Things to Watch For
A shift in what feels truly valuable.Uranus doesn't send notice. Something you've been clutching may suddenly feel ready to release; something you'd set aside may quietly reveal itself as the thing that actually matters. If your sense of worth rearranges itself this week, pay attention to what settles where.
Words that arrive with unusual weight. Mercury on the North Node at a previously activated degree means something meaningful is moving through language right now. The conversation that goes somewhere neither person planned. The sentence you write and then sit with. The thought that feels less like a thought and more like a recognition.
Dreams that feel like they're trying to tell you something. With the veil thin at this final Pisces degree, the unconscious is close to the surface. Keep something to write with beside the bed. What comes in sleep this week may offer more clarity than the waking hours.
The tension between wanting more and wanting peace.The Venus-Jupiter square is likely to show up not as a feeling but as a real situation — a decision about risk, about movement, about what enough looks like. Let the tension be present before you try to dissolve it. It is pointing at something real.
Something unfinished returning.The 28th degree has this quality — old patterns, unanswered questions, things you thought you had moved beyond have a way of finding the door again. They don't return to haunt. They return to ask, one final time, whether you are really finished. Be honest in your answer.
IV. Three Questions to Carry
What have you been dreaming that you haven't been willing to speak aloud?
Mercury on the North Node is asking you to finally name what you already know. Something has been living quietly beneath the surface — in the body, in sleep, in the feelings you've been shelving under "not yet." What is it, and what has made it easier to leave it unnamed?
Which part of you is being asked to dissolve so something truer can move forward?
The anoretic degree is gentle but it doesn't negotiate. A version of you — a role, a belief, a way of surviving that once served you — has quietly run its course. The question isn't whether it's over. It's whether you're still tending to it out of habit, and whether you're ready, at last, to put it down.
Are you longing for safety, or are you afraid of becoming?
The Venus-Jupiter square brings this question close. There is a real difference between needing stillness and using stillness to avoid the person you're being asked to grow into. One is wisdom. The other is fear in a familiar coat. Which one is it, honestly, for you right now?
V. The Closing
This New Moon is a rare convergence — a one-year lunar cycle completing, Uranus drawing its long Taurean chapter to a close, Neptune freshly departed from Pisces, and a fated action from March 13th now finding its language through Mercury. It is not often that so many threads arrive at the same point simultaneously, and it is worth pausing to feel the weight of that.
Something was seeded a year ago in the quiet. Something was set in motion just days ago in instinct and action. This lunation lives in the space between — after one thing and before the next. Aries season is coming, carrying with it the energy of new beginnings, of the self moving forward with fresh intention. But before that arrives, Pisces asks for something softer: the willingness to be present to what is ending, to name it clearly, and to release it with some measure of grace.
The last degree of the zodiac does not ask for anything dramatic. It asks you to say the thing that has been waiting, to set down what was never really yours to carry indefinitely, and to walk through the door that — if you are honest — has been open for longer than you have let yourself acknowledge.
In Other News!
While I thoroughly enjoy the creative and literary process of writing these astro-weather reports, I am aware that my Egyptian and Arab readers would appreciate an Arabic translation. However, given that my written Arabic is nowhere near as competent as my English writing, and my translating skills are equally disastrous, I have decided to commit to creating Astrology report videos in Arabic, since my spoken Arabic is much better than my written. And this is just an example of what’s possible under this new moon.
I thank you in advance for your support by subscribing to my channel here and hope that you will continue to support me through sharing my content and giving me much needed feedback as I travel this new path.
The New Moon in Pisces episode is now up and you can watch it here (Arabic).
There will also be more English content, energy healing and guided meditations to name a few. It’s nearly spring and it’s time to reap the fruit of one’s longing and share it, Virgo style.
In loving service
Venus xo
