Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse: The End is the Beginning

How often do you really end? Really allow for a sense of completion? 

We set aside. Leave until next time. We carry things in our cars and bags. Our houses. Our backs. Projects. Relationships. Identities.

We accrue endings we refuse to leave, and beginnings we refuse to start.

How many things have you, like me, been starting years worth of tomorrows?

Blinded by the dreams we want to see “come true” we become disconnected from the ground from which they’ll blossom. The ground of our lives that’s made fertile with old dreams that are past their peak, falling off the stem and rotting. This decay is the price that we pay to prepare the ground for planting.

Think of all that must first happen before a seed can break through the dark belly of the earth. The seed takes in water, swelling, softening, until the embryonic root is released in a process called radicle emergence. This first root works secretly underground, absorbing nutrients from the soil, creating a small system that anchors it in the darkness before entering the light.

Nutrient-dense topsoil is itself a living system, forming over hundreds and even thousands of years, integrating decaying plants and animals. What we see is the emergence, but a vast network of invisible forces must be in place to support each and every arrival. Consider all that had to die for nutrients in that soil to build, feeding that seed so it could come to root & stem & blossom.

Divorcing the vital outcomes from the process of death and decomposition, from the relational sacrifices and interdependencies that sustain these vital outcomes, we’ve attempted to cheat death. Death: The One Outcome Guaranteed.

Death: 

What makes kin 

of all the living.

Death is the very process that generates emergence.

A fallen tree is teeming with fungus and insects, containing more life than when it was “living.” It’s the tree’s identity that dies. The material of its being is not separate from the continuous cycle of regeneration.

Death is the source of our power. It is by holding this truth that we become sovereign co-creators. Capable of feeding our dreams within the vast regenerative network that sustains them.

The last eclipse in Aries until 2032, this lunation asks us to put an end to the ways we’ve internalized the culture of domination. For too long we have tried to have fertility without decay; growth without challenge; beginnings without end, life without death. 

This year, there is an emphasis on the art of ending & beginning. Where the wheel of the zodiac completes at 29 degrees Pisces and begins at 0 degrees Aries could not be more pronounced. In the first 5 months of 2025, the Pisces-Aries threshold is crossed 8 times, and in March and April alone, there are an additional 18 conjunctions occurring within 10 degrees of this threshold – including this New Moon Solar Eclipse.

This includes two planets moving into Aries – Neptunes the day after the eclipse on March 30th for the first time since 1861 and Saturn on May 24th for the first time since 1996.

The last time Neptune moved into Aries was the battle of Fort Sumter that began the U.S. Civil War.

The last 18 months of eclipses in Aries has been addressing where the United State’s greatest wound - the wound of domination - can become its greatest teacher.

We too must see how we can make a mentor out of the wound of our own internalized sense of domination. How a purifying fire can be born from embracing the intensity of our emotions. The pain of impermanence that connects all sensing beings is the very source of our transformation. From Pisces immersion, the individual is born, set on a journey to remember the whole she is a part of. The whole that is the source of all support throughout her individuation. 

Western rugged individualist culture centers on denying and forgetting the sacred truth of our interconnection. As a result, we mindlessly harness the heat of death at the expense of uncontrollable fire. Fire within us that expresses as burnout and rage and fire around us as wildfires and rising temperatures that intensify weather systems unleashing chaos and destruction. Disassociated from the death that created the internal and external resources that sustain us, we deplete them at our convenience. No wonder so many of us feel so depleted.

Even in our spiritual teachings, there’s often an undertone of the light dominating the darkness. We distort the truth of regeneration by over emphasizing the beginning, attempting to bypass the sorrow of what we lose with all there is to gain. But whether it's the big transition of death, or some initiation through which the fabric of your life changes forever, our lifeforce exists in that polarity and and our willingness to harness the power that stirs between it. This awareness of our edges is the attention that we pay to become sovereign creators of our destinies. We embody balance through awareness of the sacrifice that there is in any and all receiving. This is the awareness we are being called to use this year and this eclipse, to transform Aries, the sign of the warrior. The awareness that will allow us to come to recognize the value in the opposite and “Other” - the adversary that we demonize - so we can transform the scarcity of domination to a generative force of sacred balance. 

There is so much more to say about this than can fit in here. I’m working on a free guide for how you can work with this energy at this imperative time of collective transformation…

But know one thing - the future is built on our capacity to hold awareness of the quality of our ending in each moment of beginning. 

Only you can make your own life fertile grounds to grow the future, offering endings, and moving slowly and intentionally in preparation.

What we reap isn’t only what we sow – it’s what we nourish, and feed regeneration. Our dreams aren’t granted - they’re tended.

So before planting seeds of the dreams and outcomes you wish to harvest, prepare the bed of your life from which they’ll root and blossom.

For they’ll be sprouting in increasingly unstable ground.

Ritual & Reflection

Reflect on one or more of the following prompts. Once you’ve finished, for every beginning or intention that you’re calling in (ideally stick to just one - whichever is feeling the most potent for you), write at least one ending you are fully releasing to make space for it to blossom.

If it feels difficult to release, listen to some sad, dramatic, even angry music (maybe from your childhood) sing loudly (look up the lyrics if you  need to), dance, stomp your feet, scream into a pillow, move the stuck energy.

Once you feel complete, light a candle. Staring into the flame, swipe the front and sides of your body with long, intentional swipes, imagining the stagnant energy being swept out of your being. 

Write the ending you are releasing on a small piece of paper and roll it up into a scroll. Say out loud, entering in what you’re releasing to the _____:

“I release all energy and ties to _____ back to from which it came. May my life be a fertile ground to compost this disintegration and decay, providing nourishment for the vitality of my dreams to deeply root and come to blossom.”

Then, write the dream or intention you are calling in on a piece of paper on your altar or a place where you’ll see it daily. Say out loud:

“I call ____ deeply in my heart, where it will grow in me as I tend to it daily. Creatrix, please guide me when I am off course, showing me where I stray from my  values and forget the fertility of your sacred soil.” 

Connect with your dream every day until at least the next New Moon on April 27th, or until the next Spring Equinox in 2026. Reminding yourself regularly of your sacrifice to create an environment in your heart from which the seed of your dream will deeply root and come to blossom.

Journal Prompts

What in the garden of your life is asking for your tending?

What beginnings are you putting off? What stagnant energy, projects, relationships, and dreams can you offer up as sacred endings to make space for something more vital in you to blossom? 

You’ll know what is stagnant because it will create a “stuck” energy - feeling dense, heavy, draining, life-sucking. What narratives are keeping you attached?  Where do you lack trust in the future?

What are the sacrifices that you unconsciously make to receive all that sustains you?

Consider everything from your food to your clothes to the way you spend your time and energy. What are all the things you’re NOT doing, so that you can do all that you do? How are the resources you receive from the earth (heat for your house, electricity, nourishment) that energize your actions offering reciprocity and regeneration? How are you contributing to the circle of life that sustains you? The death that sustains you? Without seeking to change this behavior, can you simply commit to greater awareness of these sacrifices, to move through your life with greater presence and connection to the vital forces all around you? How might that awareness fertilize your inner world so the beginnings, dreams, or intentions you’re calling in will have the nourishment they need for emergence? 

What is the environment your dreams will need to blossom? 

Think of the future you want to create for yourself: what does it look like, sound like, feel like, taste like? 

Externally, what is the relational field that will sustain it? Where will the food you eat come from? What support will you need, what qualities are embodied by the people that will provide it? What is the societal field that will sustain it? The culture, the systems?

Internally, what routines will create a state of well-being? What supports rest and digestion - the vital processes of death and rebirth we all undergo daily? How must you relate to yourself? What are your internal narratives?

May these insights and practices bring regeneration to your life, and in return, the great web of creation all around you. 

Biggest Aries New Moon Eclipse Blessings,

Nico