Pisces New Moon/ Vernal Equinox 2026: Liberation Through Differentiation

We are a few days away from the point of the Spring Equinox on 20^th March when the Sun enters Aries at 14.46 GMT.

On the day before the Equinox, Thursday 19^th March we will have the last moon of the old astrological year at 28° Pisces.

In the Sabian symbols (which are always rounded up), the Sun and Moon are at the anaretic degree of Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac. This bridging of old and new is a theme that was ritually celebrated and enacted in ancient Greece through the Eleusinian Mysteries and the cult of Demeter and her daughter Kore/Persephone, and Ceres and her daughter Proserpina in ancient Rome.

A ritual enactment of Persephone’s return to her mother Demeter after her sojourn in Hades’ realm, honoured the cycles of life, death and rebirth. As well as a preparation for the initiation of the Greater Mysteries that would take place the following autumn, the Lesser Mysteries was a fertility festival and a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness.

The symbol for 29° Pisces is: LIGHT BREAKING INTO MANY COLORS THROUGH A PRISM.

KEYNOTE: The analytical power of the mind necessary for the formulation of life processes in their many aspects.

[…] unity will always break again into multiplicity. The “prism” is always there. There is no absolute unity; if anything could be called “absolute” it is the relationship between the One and the Many.

The most beautiful and seemingly everlasting experience of unity will in time be superseded by the need to attend to a multiplicity of details. Existence implies DIFFERENTIATION.

Interestingly, this description also speaks to the conjunction between Saturn and Neptune.

Reflecting on the ways in which we are bound in relationships with other people, systems, thoughts, beliefs, etc., particularly those things that are no longer representative of who we are or who we are becoming, may prove meaningful. Where have we become enmeshed, entangled, or lost to co-dependent, toxic and even harmful unions and binds.

To differentiate involves separating one’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions from the reactivity and influence of others. Differentiation gives one a sense of authentic identity, self-volition and autonomy. Psychologically it allows us to be in emotional connection with others while resisting becoming overwhelmed by them. It is essentially knowing and trusting ourselves even when external influence attempts to derail us or compromise our authority. It is maintaining one’s nervous system in relation to other systems, nervous or otherwise.

Differentiation frees us from the need to be overly identified with others no matter how connected we are to them. At its core, differentiation is psychological maturity

As a new astrological year begins, and as Saturn and Neptune are just beginning a whole new journey from the point of 0° Aries, what is it that you are being called to differentiate from?

With asteroid Persephone at the same degree of Saturn in the new moon chart, responsibility, psychological maturity, and claiming our authority and power despite the underworld journeys and descents we may have taken, is highlighted.

Time spent in Hades, in the Underworld, was not time wasted, it was initiation. After initiation we are ready to regroup as autonomous, differentiated and liberated individuals no longer embroiled in the darkness of the world.

In my own life, what I am ready to differentiate myself from is the crippling weight of ancestral trauma. As much as I love, respect, and honour my ancestors, and as much as I am deeply grateful for their lives and the steps they took while incarnate in the physical- steps that have surely led to this moment of revelation-I also acknowledge that I have carried too much for too long.

I have no doubt that on some subtle, unspoken level I was assigned the role of lineage bearer and cycle breaker, however it is time to free myself from the weight of this obligation. I do not resent the role I was given, nor do I hold any resentment towards my family. There is nothing to forgive; all of us, each one, had a role to play, each one guided by his or her soul. I feel only love and compassion for us all, and yes, some sadness too for what we have endured.

Above all, the love and compassion I have for myself, and for what I have endured now takes centre stage as I live out the final years of my journey in this physical body, this identity, at this extraordinary time.

I believe much healing has occurred down the line. Perhaps we don’t get to see the full picture, at least not while alive, but I have a sense of the deep healing that has taken place, and for now at least, there is nothing left to do but to love, and to discover who I am, free from the weight of my past and its inherent psychic entanglements.

On Saturday 14^th March 2026, two years to the day of my mother’s death, I experienced a strong revelation in which I realised that I could no longer carry my ancestral trauma, nor was I obliged to.

On the previous day, 13^th March, I was lost in a mystery involving my maternal grandfather who died seventy years to the day in a tragic accident. This is a long story that I won’t go into here; enough to say that the circumstances surrounding his death were hazy, and despite the uncertainty, or maybe because of it, the trauma surrounding his death penetrated my childhood and settled in my bones.

My mother was only four years old when she lost her father suddenly. Only recently was it discovered that the cause and circumstance of his death was not what we thought.

Trauma was already present in the mother-line as my maternal great grandmother had died while giving birth to my grandmother.

Families that are entrenched in generational trauma often have many unanswered questions, secrets, gaps in the narrative and blind spots. In such families, amnesia is not uncommon; fragments of stories filtered through the perceptions of different family members weave and wind through the ancestral landscape, fleshing out the bones, many of them broken or buried. The picture is fragmented, the family portrait a surrealist composite of memories, half remembered, remembered differently or else buried in the psychic fascia, and in the dreams and bodies of the living, i.e., the unconscious.

The feeling body remains.

Interestingly all of this personal activity is occurring as Pluto moves toward a conjunction with my lunar north node coming to exactitude on 15^th April.

Yesterday, I made a short video about the Demeter/Persephone myth, primarily because collectively asteroid Persephone was between Saturn and Neptune. At the time of the new moon, Saturn and Persephone will be in a conjunction at 3° Aries.

In my personal chart, asteroid Proserpina (Roman Persephone) will be in conjunction with my natal moon, and the Sun and Moon are conjunct my natal Proserpina.

I feel that all of this is pointing to an unravelling and a letting go of the ancestral ties that have bound me, and a reclaiming of personal power.

It is my perception that I have carried the unacknowledged, unhealed trauma of my mother line, and now I am letting it go. It is no longer mine to carry.

In the years that I have left to live in this body, in this life, I intend to live them in an authentic, wholesome way that is reflective of my essence and not my trauma. That is not to say that I amputate the limbs of my ancestral body, instead I integrate the experiences consciously. There are many stories to be told however I would rather tell them with words and images and not through unconscious behaviour, or my body’s score card.

In my natal chart, asteroid Persephone sits at 9° Aquarius, just 3 degrees after my lunar north node, and 2 degrees before my ascendant. This is also significant in the story of letting go and relates to partnerships formed on the foundation of this ancestral trauma.

With Persephone in a 2-degree conjunction with my descendant, there is a legacy of relationships underscored by loss, power imbalance, at the mercy of hidden forces (Hades). But here again, the medicine of Persephone is that we finally claim our crown and title as one who has not only endured the Underworld but knows its ways and can assist others in the passage between life and death.

In my natal chart, asteroid Demeter is at 16 ° Aries, opposite asteroid Dejanira at 15 ° Libra, and a stellium of planets including Uranus, the Moon, my IC. The ebb and flow of natural cycles between mother and daughter was impaired.

Shortly after Pluto activates my natal lunar node, it will also activate my Persephone. All this activity takes place in Aquarius where I have my north node at 6 ° Aquarius, Persephone at 9 ° Aquarius, and descendant at 11 ° Aquarius. All these points will be activated by transiting Pluto. I see this as an opportunity to differentiate from the weight of my ancestral legacy and reclaim my essence.

From death comes new life.

If you are interested in using astrology, myth, and archetype in this way, for personal and ancestral story-telling and revelation, I am available for sessions.

Here is the link to a short Youtube video on working with asteroid Persephone.

https://youtu.be/deRH5EyHvUI