Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 20, 2025 - Part 1 - Review

For the Winter Solstice, the prognostic was: 

This semester could be characterized as an intense reality check, where one's optimistic emotional enthusiasms get critically and rigidly confronted according to the realistic and practical validity of one's pretensions. There is a tendency for lively, outspoken discussions, with much cleverness, although rather unfocused and imprecise.

The tumult can bring capricious, unstable, rigid, moody tendencies, with a volatile combative, recalcitrant attitude that can be faced by bringing a friendly, creative, optimistic, energetic demeanour in a general spirit of resilience, flexibility, idealism and perseverance.

 

Mars retrograde opposite Pluto, January 3, with added pressure from the Jupiter-Saturn square and the still unstable Pluto ingress into Aquarius, heralded a dramatic start to the new year. Some events, over the full period of the aspect, which ended around January 29, including the dramatic Eaton, California fires where, sadly, the Altadena Theosophical Library Center and Press was lost: 

 

South Korea plane crash (Dec. 29)

Jimmy Carter passing (Dec. 30)

Lightning strike US Capitol, Washington Monument, and Empire State Building (Jan. 2)

Mass shooting (New York) (Jan. 2)

Puerto Rico power outage (Jan. 2)

Two US-based "terrorist" attacks (New Orleans and Las Vegas) (Jan. 3)

Massive fireworks explosion in Honolulu (Jan. 6)

Central US winter storm (Jan. 6)

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau steps down (Jan. 6)

Tibetan Earthquake (Jan. 7)

Los Angeles fires (Jan. 7)

Elon Musk Rotherham rhetoric (Jan. 8)

Korean President arrest standoff (Jan. 15)

David Lynch passes (Jan. 16)

Space X Rocket explosion (Jan. 17)

US Inauguration fallout (Jan. 20)

Garth Hudson passes  (Jan. 21)

Southern Us Snow storm (Jan. 21)

Turkish ski resort fire (Jan. 22)

Indonesia flood (Jan. 23)

Slovakia protest (Jan. 24)

Germany protests (Jan. 25)

Congo rebels (Jan. 27)

Colombia rebels (Jan. 27)

Kumba Mehla deaths (Jan. 29)

Washington Plane/Helicopter crash, 67 deaths (Jan. 29)

Storm Eowyn (Feb.1)

Australia fires (Feb. 3)

January 13 Full Moon in Cancer  conjunct Mars opposite Pluto, sextile Uranus, trine Neptune, a cradle pattern or trapeze, which gives good support against a strong opposition... Stern Venus conjuct Saturn opposite Jupiter. It was also close to comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as the  full Moon occulted Mars and Venus was at its greatest eastern elongation.

 

At this time, the initial Israel-Hamas cease-fire agreement  was reached. The Israel-Hamas war began October 8, 2023 Mars square Pluto (exact) (Oct 14  New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra) Israel-Gaza cease-fire Jan 13 Full Moon in Cancer conjuct Mars rx opposite Pluto (5 degree orb).

 

There have been several high-profile airplane crashes, with US fatalities from crashes more than doubled in 2025 compared to 2024. It seems to coincide with the ingress of Pluto in Aquarius, an air sign. 

 

One event that can serve as a good overall illustration of the prognostic was the Washington Ukraine Minerals deal press conference on February 28. 

2024 was a great year for the Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum legacy, whom his mother-in-law Matilda Joslyn Gage helped inspire. There was a very successful theater revival of The Wiz and the amazing success of the Wicked film, as well a well-received Russian film version of the original novel. The Oscar ceremonies on March 1 featured numbers from all three great 20th musicals, and so this very Theosophical fairy tale has cemented itself as an enduring myth maker in popular culture, with no signs of slowing down...

The Full Moon March 14, 2025 Lunar Eclipse saw Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on historic peace treaty, avalanches in Canada,  and severe storms in southern U.S. Around the same time, March 12, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live began its first tour in North America,