March 2026 Astrology Forecast

Theme: Refinement, Release & Re-Alignment

Where there is fire there is water.

March 2026 is a month of course correction. The energy is less about charging forward and more about refining direction, clearing emotional and mental clutter, and making space for a more aligned future. With a Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, a Pisces New Moon, Mercury retrograde, Jupiter ending its retrograde, and the continued influence of Saturn conjunct Neptune in Aries, this month asks us to slow down, listen inward, and recalibrate both spiritually and practically.

This is a pivotal month where endings feel meaningful, and beginnings feel subtle but fated.

Major Astrological Themes of March 2026

• Eclipse season activates fate-driven shifts

• Strong Pisces emphasis heightens intuition, emotion, and sensitivity

• Mercury retrograde invites review rather than action

• Jupiter retrograde ends bringing integration of all you have learned

• Saturn–Neptune in Aries asks for grounded courage and spiritual responsibility

• Healing old patterns is prioritized over immediate results

March is not about perfection — it’s about integration.

Key Lunations & Major Events

🌕 Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo — March 3, 2026

This total lunar eclipse highlights Virgo themes of health, work, habits, service, and discernment. Lunar eclipses bring culminations, closures, and emotional truth to the surface. In Virgo, outdated routines, perfectionism, or over-functioning patterns may reach a breaking point.

With Jupiter retrograde in Cancer forming supportive aspects, emotional healing and nourishment are available — especially through family, rest, and self-care. As the planet is nearing the end of its retrograde this eclipse asks you to purge all that is no longer aligned with your beliefs. This eclipse asks: What value systems in your life are no longer sustainable?

🌑 New Moon in Pisces — March 18, 2026

This New Moon opens a deeply intuitive and spiritual cycle. Pisces energy dissolves boundaries and encourages surrender, creativity, compassion, and trust.

Key influences:

• Sextile Uranus in Taurus → inspired, gentle breakthroughs

• Neptune conjunct Saturn in Aries → dreams requiring discipline

• Mercury retrograde in Pisces conjunct the North Node → karmic insights and soul-level messages

• Mars in Pisces opposing the South Node in Virgo → release control; act from intuition

Intentions set now grow quietly and powerfully over time.

Rising Sign Outlooks (Whole Sign)

Aries Rising: Rest, spiritual clearing, subconscious healing. This month prepares you for a major personal reset. With both Neptune and Saturn in your sign, it is time to bring form to your personal dreams.

Taurus Rising: Community shifts, evolving friendships, new long-term visions. Uranus in your sign moves you forward in unexpected ways. While Saturn and Neptune challenge you to face your hidden fears of being alone.

Gemini Rising: Career and public direction are refined. A role or identity may complete in order for you to get in alignment with your true calling. It is time to get out of your head and fully integrate your intuitive gifts into your personal toolkit.

Cancer Rising: Beliefs expand; old philosophies dissolve. Emotional wisdom deepens. You can realize a way of thinking that is no longer aligned with your personal values. You are more open to learning and going beyond the hurts of the past.

Leo Rising: Shared finances, intimacy, and emotional bonds transform. You are open to letting others in, no longer willing to carry the burden fully on your own. Your intuition guides you to allow yourself to feel more deeply than ever before.

Virgo Rising: Relationship dynamics shift. A major chapter reaches clarity. Will this chapter in your relationship lead to a new one or lead to the end? As the South Node nears the finally letting go in your sign, a major crossroads approaches.

Libra Rising: Health routines, daily structure, and work-life balance realign. This month has you doing an inventory on your health. Does the work you do support your health or is the stress too much? A change is coming.

Scorpio Rising: Creativity, joy, romance, and inner child healing emerge. It is time to let go of anything that doesn't spark joy in your heart. Release the burdens you carry there and get back in touch with the happy child within.

Sagittarius Rising: Home, family, and emotional foundations undergo change. Some of you may be going through a restructuring at home. This could be physical work, but most likely emotional. What does it mean to truly care and nurture one another at home?

Capricorn Rising: Mindset shifts, communication patterns refine, truth emerges. What you thought was certain, is completely the opposite. The truth you learn changes everything you thought you had so carefully planned for your future. In the end it will be better.

Aquarius Rising: Money, self-worth, and the work you do evolves. As Mars leaves your sign you may wonder what just happened. In its wake is a major evolution of how you align with the work you do now that the dust has settled.

Pisces Rising: Identity renewal. This is a soul-defining month for you. You are in the spotlight and ready to shine. You have all the supportive players showing up, some from years past. With them, they bring you new ideas based on your past connection that help you start anew.

Daily Astrology Highlights — March 2026

(Key themes for the days ahead may show up before or after the date shown here.)

March 1–2: Lunar Eclipse energy builds. Emotions heighten. Society feels on edge as Mars sits at 29 degrees of Aquarius. An uprising in the making. Then the planet shifts into the sign of Pisces where it actively encourages you to end feeling sorry for yourself. For the next 6 weeks there will be those who play the martyr and the victim, don't be one of them.

March 3:🌕 Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo — culminations, releases, clarity. It is time to release outdated patterns of self sabotage and negative nit picking. You know the things that are toxic to you and are ready to release them easily now. Jupiter is guiding you back to the path of natural healing and divine faith. See the full article here for a breakdown for every sign.

March 4–6: - Integration period. Avoid major decisions, until Mercury moves forward again. Rest and reflect. Digest carefully the downloads you are receiving. There are challenges with authority figures, likes legal battles, over what truth the eclipse has exposed. Remain in control of your emotions when others are setting out to upset you. Women will be called to rise to the occasion as the Sun in Pisces and Jupiter in Cancer combine their energies.

March 7–9: Mercury Retrograde Cazimi: Mercury slows — communication misunderstandings possible. As the Sun and Mercury combine it is the past that suddenly brings you clarity. You begin to see the truth of a situation that may have started several years ago. What will you do now that you know the truth? With Venus standing strong in Aries with Saturn and Neptune, chances are high you are ready to go it alone.

March 8–9: Heightened Pisces influence. Intuition strong; boundaries thin. The Grand Water Trine that appears briefly opens a short window in time where you can use your gifts to elevate yourself to a new level of success.

March 10–12: Jupiter slows to ends its retrograde. You have been learning about what truly matters to you ever since the planet of growth and expansion and blessings, began its retrograde on 11/11 of 2025. What did you wish for? It is time for the blessings to begin to unfold, slowly but surely.

March 13–15:  — review, revise, remember. As Mercury continues to slow, things can get a little fuzzy. But Mars is here to shake things up and bring you back to reality. As Mars and Mercury speak directly with the North Node in Pisces you suddenly realize the way forward, and what must be released in order for you to find your way back to your truth.

March 16–17: Mercury begins to station: Past conversations or emotional themes resurface. There are fated conversations about the past or with someone from your past that begin to help the fog clear. With this clarity you will understand everything in a new light and ready yourself for a fresh start.

March 18:🌑 New Moon in Pisces — intention setting, spiritual reset. The new moon in Pisces invites you to pursue your dreams. What you need to know now comes you via the hands of fate. With this knowledge you can end what needs to end and start on a new creative or spiritual journey. Perhaps both. Find all the details for your sign within the article here.

March 19–21: Quiet momentum begins. Subtle insights arrive. As the Spring Equinox arrives along with the end of Mercury retrograde the season of rebirth is upon us. Equal parts day and night restore the balance. Renewal is fated, as Mercury continues its conversation with the hands of fate. The North Node and Mercury have helped us review all we know, now we are ready to start over with a new truth that leads us towards the light. All while the Sun transitions into the sign of Aries, yet another sign that new beginnings are here.

March 22–24: Mercury–South Node tension highlights release of old habits. As you prepare to move forward it is the past you must release. Being over critical, being controlling, those behaviors can only hold you back now. As the Sun joins Neptune and shines a lot on our dreams, as Mars connects to Jupiter, we know we cannot stay stuck in the past a moment longer.

March 25–27: Emotional clarity improves. Creative inspiration grows. Mercury begins to move ahead, just as the Sun joins with Saturn in the sign of Aries for the first time in 29 years. This is a reset, the beginning of a new 29 years chapter that focuses on the identity you want to create for yourself. We have not seen the Sun with Saturn here since 1997. Who were you back then? How does it compare to now? Did you go it alone, or wish you had? It's time for a new chapter to begin. A global leader may be in the spotlight, challenging us to let go of those security blankets that are actually holding us back.

March 28–30: Ground intuitive insights into practical plans. As Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn in Aries connect there is a chance that a leader and their people are now aligned. With the power of the people working in harmony with this new leader a new future begins to emerge. One that is bright and available to all, not just the elite.

March 31: The month closes with deeper self-trust and emotional alignment. You come to better understand your emotions, your dreams and your desires. As Mercury continues to move forward you begin to integrate thoughts with feelings in order to manifest your dreams into your reality.

Final Thoughts for March 2026

March is not meant to be rushed. This is a threshold month, where healing, surrender, and recalibration create space for bold forward movement later in the year. What you release now makes room for what truly belongs.

If you want to understand how March’s eclipses and Pisces energy are activating your personal chart, this is an ideal time for a customized reading. Find your perfect time for this energy integration here.

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