The Complicated Story of the Virgo Pisces Eclipses 2025 - 2026
The lifespan of an eclipse may last from months to several years depending on several astrological factors, including the duration of it in hours/minutes. Transiting planets act as triggers to events related to the nature of the active eclipse. But the most powerful planetary transits are those of Saturn and Mars, the traditional malefic and the outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Currently, we are in an Eclipse period when coincidentally, several eclipses are hit by both Mars and Saturn during their lifespan and even before they happen. These conjunctions to the degree of an eclipse have already started, and they exactly relate to the events in the Middle East.
Of course, the Mars Saturn conjunction can be considered as one of the significators of the Israel conflict with Iran and its proxies.1 This could be traced even to previous cycles of these two 'malefics', their conjunctions of March 2020 at 0º♒️, April 2022 at 22º♒️, and the current one April 2024 at 14º♓️. At all those conjunctions Israel made noise regarding Iran's nuclear power development. However, this time around the eclipses were in Aries/Libra axis and now Virgo/Pisces and this makes all the difference after the long period of brewing animosity and even longer standing enmity. The reason is that Saturn and more so Mars are hitting the eclipse degrees one by one in succession.
In addition, the current cycle of Sun (main character of eclipses) Mars started in Scorpio, which has historically been associated with g*e*n*o*c*i*d*e*s. Please refer to a previous article called Sun Conjunct Mars in Scorpio, to read about the historical antecedents. This cycle and the Sign of Pisces seem to indicate more broader implications, especially considering also the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction at 0º♈️, and the unstable configuration they will be forming repeatedly.
Mars and Saturn Transits
Let's explore what happens when Mars and Saturn join the Virgo Pisces eclipses. The Saturn transit with a North Node Eclipse "show situations that mature fairly rapidly. If the situation is out of balance it requires a fast solution or it is resolved pretty quickly."2 Saturn has a restrictive influence over the themes of the eclipse, and often concludes the difficulties, creating obstacles or establishing rules.
Now Mars with South Node eclipses is always associated with the rise of conflicts from the past. Its transit times the stimulation of the conflict, by adding 'fuel to the fire' as it were. In this regard, "It's better to have Mars transit first and then Saturn"3
Nonetheless, just remember that even the transits of Moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter can also add their 'contribution' to the eclipse theme. It's also important to keep in mind all eclipses in the Virgo Pisces axis are Lunar except only one Solar in Virgo on September 21, 2025. Even if the Moon falls in Pisces, Mars will anyway join the degree opposite, where the Sun is.
The first eclipse (lunar) in this axis took place at 25º40'♓️ on September 17, 2024. Saturn was the first one joining this degree on April 10, 2025, Mars will oppose it on July 30, 2025, and Saturn comes back retrograde and stations over the 25º from October 29 to December 22, 2025! 54 days! This is major but, if not enough, Pluto is out-of-bounds from August 29, 2025 until November 23, 2025!
The headlines for April 10, say that U.S. Senate Confirms Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee as Israel Ambassador, Israel continues killing people in Gaza and occupying Palestine, France talks about recognizing the state of Palestine. And U.S. Continues Air Attacks on Yemen.4 |
| November 3, 2025 Tel-Aviv |
The second eclipse (lunar) took place at 23º 56' ♍️ on March 14, 2025. Mars will join this degree on July 27, 2025. Stay tuned on that date and observed how he stirs up the heat and sharpens the weapons.
The third eclipse (lunar) will take place at 15º22' ♓️ on September 7, 2025. Mars is setting an antecedent already by opposing this degree on July 15, 2025. And yes, eclipses live before they are born, just observe.
The fourth eclipse (lunar) happens at 12º 53'♍️ on March 3, 2026. Mars hits this degree on July 9, 2025, already forecasting what may come next year.
The fifth eclipse (lunar) is coming on August 28, 2026 at 4º53' ♓️. The sixth eclipse at 2º 05'♍️ coming up February 20, 2027. Mars is there on June 20 to 25, 2025. This coincided with the exchange of bombing between Israel and Iran, and immediate US intervention on the nuclear sites of Iran on June 23, 2025. Mars arrived to the 4º degree ♍️ coinciding with the Cancer New Moon, marking a new escalation level in the Middle East War.
The seventh and last eclipse on this axis at 29º 04' ♍️ (anaretic = critical degree) comes September 21, 2025 just the day before the Equinox. Mars gets to this degree exactly on August 5, 2025 anticipating already the theme of this eclipse.
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| August 5, 2025 Tel Aviv |
I left to the end another Saturn hit that exactly opposes this last eclipse on September 21, 2025. In fact, Sun and Moon oppose the midpoint between Saturn at 28º27'♓️ and Neptune at 0º48'♈️. The Sun at the Equinox exactly opposes Neptune just less than 24 hours later.
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| September 21, 2025 Tel Aviv |
Let's hope that Saturn closes the door to the Middle East conflict, and peace can be made with the Sun through the Sign of Libra, the sign of compromises, peace and balance. Venus in Virgo (also transiting the eclipses) can work hard to smooth out the wrinkles of troubles and problems.
But Sun Mars will start a new synodic cycle at 19º Capricorn, next January 9, 2026. About 2 months later, between March 2 and April 4, when Mars ingress Pisces, the conjunctions and oppositions with these eclipses will start all over again. Let's observe and hope for peace.
May all beings be at peace, be kind and gentle.
Sat Nam.
