Hello and welcome. This is the Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host,

your Astro Bestie, Channy Nicholas. We have another big, exciting week because it's March.

And that's just the deal with March. March 2025, if you have yet to hear me say this,

is one of the biggest astrological months of 2025. It is host to eclipse season, which we are

getting right into this week. It's also host to a Venus retrograde that started on March 1st. So you're now

very familiar with Venus retrograde, at least in part. And it's also host to a Mercury retrograde.

Isn't that cute that they're going to both retrograde together? and they're retrograding through the same signs

and they're actually meeting up this week. So as Mercury is stationing retrograde,

technically it doesn't station retrograde until Friday the 14th, but it's slowing down and

it meets up with Venus on Tuesday. Venus is already

retrograde. Mercury is about to retrograde. We're going to talk about what kind of messages from the

deep they are bringing us. What kind of messages about unity and intimacy and fighting the power

together, that they are definitely absolutely bringing to the surface,

bringing to the four. And then we have our first eclipse in Virgo near the South Node in a couple

of decades. This is a big deal when we have a new type of eclipse. An eclipse in and of itself is a big deal.

But when we have a new type of eclipse or an eclipse in a new sign,

in a sign that we haven't had in a while, again, near a node that hasn't been there for a couple of decades,

the nodes take a couple of decades to get back to the same sign,

so about 19 years. So when we have an eclipse for the first time in a sign that we haven't had

for a while with the north or south node there that hasn't been there for a while, you get the

picture. It's a whole new chapter that we're opening up.

And eclipses are times where things change rapidly. Eclipses are times where the events of life

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