Full Moon Collective Energy for March 2025
The moon's phases in March are:
🌓 First Quarter: March 6.
🌕 Full Moon: March 14.
🌗 Last Quarter: March 22.
🌑 New Moon: March 29.
This month’s Full Moon occurs just a few days before the Spring Equinox on March 20, 2025. The Moon will be in full illumination by March 13-14, depending on your location.
This year, the Full Worm Moon coincides with a total lunar eclipse, a celestial phenomenon that has not happened since November 2022.
During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon enters the Earth's shadow and takes on a reddish hue, which also makes it known as a Blood Moon.
According to NASA, a few other planets will also be visible in the sky along side the Full Worm Moon.
These other planets include:
- Mercury: Visible beneath Venus for the first week and a half of March, only for about 30 minutes each evening, as sunset fades.
- Venus: Venus hangs low in the west after sunset during the early days of the month. After mid-March, it will be more difficult to observe as it drops lower in the sky.
- Mars: Visible in the east following sunset, then again around 3 a.m.
- Jupiter: Visible high in the west after dark, then again around 1 a.m.
Significance & Influences of the 2025 Worm Moon
Similar to the theme of last month's Full Snow Moon (which focused on balancing reflection and action), this month's Full Blood Worm Moon encourages us to examine our life story and reclaim our narrative power.
The type of transformation asked for this year revolves around self-dialogue and the personal narratives we have about our purpose and presence in this life.
This energetic push to transform our relationship with our inner voice is amplified by the fact that Mercury, the ruler of Virgo, stations retrograde the day after the Full Moon.
Behind the Moon's Name:
March’s Full Moon is commonly known as the Worm Moon, named for the insects (especially earthworms) that emerge as the ground thaws.
It is important to note that this name was used primarily by Southern Native American tribes. In contrast, Northern tribes, such as the Shawnee, called it the Sap Moon to mark the start of maple syrup tapping.
In addition to the Worm Moon, other names for March’s Full Moon from Native tribes across the Americas include...
- Warming Moon — Shoshone
- Moon When the Leaves Break Forth — Pueblo
- Hard Crust on the Snow Moon, Onaabani-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Snowshoe Breaking Moon, Bebookwedaagime-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Crow Moon, Aandego-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Goose Moon, Nika-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Sugar / Sugar Making Moon, Ziinsibaakwadooke-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Wind Moon, Hiiye Nuti (hee-yay noong-tee) — Catawba Language, Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
- Strawberry/First Leaves Month, Anvyi — Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina
- Spring Moon, Upinagasraq — Inupiat Language, North Slope, Alaska
- Crow Moon, Kãʔkãʔkoowe Neepãʔuk — Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin
- The Day is Cut in Two Moon, Tewehnislya’ks — Oneida
- Hackberry Month, Komelitahch’a — Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
As the Moon rises in the earth sign of Virgo, it highlights how patterns of paralysis are often rooted in self-criticism, over-analysis, over-explaining, control, judgment, and comparison.
Since the energy of a Full Moon seeks to illuminate what has been hidden, while the energy of an eclipse invites the act of release, we have a profound opportunity to answer this call for transformation.
The spiritual nature of this total lunar eclipse is further highlighted by the Sun, Saturn, and the north node being in Pisces. These planetary alignments remind us to use our imagination without the limits of expectation.
By embodying authenticity rather than perfection, we can create the life we wish to live.
March's lunar events offer ideal conditions for transformation thanks to strong influences from Saturn and Uranus.
Saturn will be in conjunction with the Sun and opposing the Moon, which are aspects that encourage the establishment of new ground rules for your life based on self-trust. The opposition emphasizes the need to release attachments to fears that seemingly provide a sense of security or safety. Additionally, Saturn sextiles Uranus to support sustainable transformation, balancing revolutionary changes with stability.
Uranus will form harmonious aspects with both the Sun and Moon, facilitating breakthroughs from old patterns of unworthiness, self-doubt, avoidance, and perfectionism.
Reimagining the Hero/ine Arc
The stories we hear and tell deeply shape our relationships, life choices, and even the fears we hold. Unconsciously, we may be reenacting stories that leave us in stagnant situations.
For instance, many of the narratives we hear about heros and heroines use the language of confrontation to describe a linear path in which they conquer their fears. However, such stories are often latent with limiting beliefs thanks to the notion of some pinnacle being worked toward, achieved, and validated by others.
That is why, under March 2025’s lunar events, the Moon asks us to engage in complexity, redefine what it means to be a hero/ine, and share new personal narratives.
As the creative force behind our lives, we each have the responsibility to understand the difference between will, fate, and action.
During this month‘s lunar events, the cosmos is creating a space for you to interweave courage in your convictions. Be clear and courageous as you shift the language you use to express your life story.
Now is the time to unravel beliefs that harm and hinder your sense of self and mend them with tender care.
Meeting the Inner Critic with Grace
With the influence of several other planets, this Full Blood Worm Moon emphasizes the introspection of the scripts running through our hearts and minds.
While Virgo embodies Goddess energy (a seemingly perfect image of the divine feminine), it has its shadow side like all other signs and beings. March’s lunar alignments urge us to recognize how fear of rejection or making mistakes may cause us to procrastinate or engage in perfectionism.
Such fears can arise early in life. As social creatures, we tend to absorb messages transmitted through the experiences, conversations, and relationships we encounter throughout life.
To survive as children, we tend to take harsh messages at face value, freezing them in our hearts and minds. Even as adults, many still struggle to hone their tools for processing pain, let alone equip them.
An important filtering question to ask when encountering harsh messages is, "Whose voice is this?"
When we do not filter incoming messages by asking this question, we can clog our hearts and minds with limiting beliefs. Yet, if we start to use this question, we can begin to unravel what is ours to heal and what has been projected onto us.
Through awareness of how the inner critic speaks, we can begin to navigate any fears and anxiety that overshadow our intuition and sense of direction in life.
As this Lunar Eclipse prepares us for the Spring Equinox, we are reminded of how harsh, icy conditions begin to melt and give way to new life when met with warmth.
Take heed of the shifts occurring and extend yourself the same warmth necessary during this transition period as it may be intense for your spirit and nervous system.
Remember like all of life on Mother Earth, we are ever evolving, adapting, shifting, changing in the present moment. True worth comes from being, not doing.
If change is the only constant in life, then perfection is an unattainable goal for anyone, anything, any species.
Self-compassion is a loving kindness rooted in the acceptance, appreciation, and recognition of change in our being.
With this understanding, there is no need to present a perfect image to the outside world. Attempting to do so or constantly striving for perfection, can be a draining approach to life.
Instead, let the inherent beauty and potential within awaken by extending yourself the sweetness of unconditional love and grace.
Rewriting Personal Narratives with Purpose
Since this Full Moon is rising in a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury, it reminds us to ground in the reality that our life is a manifestation of the messages we share to ourselves and others.
The way we choose to express our being and thus manifest our life comes through our willpower and attitude — that is, how we process information and choose to interact with the world.
A proactive, willful attitude versus a reactive, directionless attitude is the difference between realizing your destiny.
Try to focus on what you can do in this life instead of what you could have done or should do.
Now is an ideal time to ask yourself what you are here to contribute.
- Are there expectations, goals, fears, or other factors in your way?
- What would it look like to acknowledge those factors and give yourself the opportunity to take that path anyway?
While rewriting and reclaiming your life story may be a privilege, due to challenges like responsibilities, work schedules, or even physical pain, the Moon is helping us to explore what is possible when tune out the inner critic.
Having a Full Moon aligned with an eclipse helps illustrate the chaotic expression of divine femininity and how destruction can lead to creation regardless of expectations. Once we understand this concept, we can wield our willpower beyond the constraints of self-censorship.
Create a talisman that represents your willpower.
Consider what colors, images, and symbols come to mind when you think of how you exercise your will and express yourself in this world.
Use any materials you may have available to do so (paper, pens, pencils, markers, paint, chalk, glitter, stickers, etc). When done, place this talisman in a spot you will see daily!
As the Moon blushes this March, may the antidote of self-compassion ease and soften the inner critic, allowing us all to rewrite our personal narratives and release anything that may be hindering how we uniquely contribute to this world through our life stories.
With love,
mgmc
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