March 18, 2026 · New Moon in Pisces at 29° · A Portal of Pure Possibility
Two weeks ago, the sky over Mesa blazed red. The Full Worm Moon — a total lunar eclipse in Virgo — asked us to release, to excavate, to hold our inner critic up to the copper light and consciously choose to let some of it go. If you did that work, even imperfectly, you’ve cleared ground.
Now comes the planting.
The New Moon on March 18th arrives in the very last degree of Pisces — 29°, sometimes called the anaretic degree — a threshold position that carries the weight and wisdom of everything Pisces has learned this cycle. And Pisces, my sign, the sign of mysticism, compassion, dreams, and spiritual surrender, has been absolutely saturated with energy this month. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and the North Node are all gathered in Pisces at once — a rare stellium of this magnitude that amplifies every intention you set under this moon like a signal tower aimed at the universe.
This isn’t a casual new moon. It’s a portal. And Mesa, with its vast desert sky and its ancient, dreaming land, is a powerful place to stand inside it.
What Is a New Moon — and Why Does This One Matter?
Full moons seem to get all the credit but I actually prefer the energy of a new moon. Each month, as the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, we enter a period of darkness — the New Moon. No light reflects back to us. What was full and illuminated retreats. And in that darkness, there is extraordinary creative potential.
New Moons are the blank page and I always like to say there is magic in a blank page. They are the exhale before the new breath. In almost every spiritual tradition, from ancient Mesopotamia to Indigenous lunar calendars to modern astrology, the New Moon is the time to plant seeds — intentions, prayers, new beginnings, creative visions. What you call in under a New Moon plants itself in the fertile dark and has the full 29-day lunar cycle to take root.
“Under the New Moon, you don’t need to see the way forward. You only need to know what you’re calling in.”
This particular New Moon in Pisces at 29° amplifies all of that by several magnitudes. Pisces rules the realm of the unseen — intuition, dreams, spiritual connection, the deep imagination, and radical compassion. The stellium of planets joining this lunation means the veil between your everyday awareness and your deeper knowing is unusually thin right now. Your intuition is sharp. Your dreams are vivid. Your heart knows things your mind hasn’t caught up to yet.
This is the moon to listen.
The Astrology: What This Stellium Is Asking of You
Let’s take a moment with this extraordinary configuration in the sky right now, because it’s genuinely rare and deeply personal.
Sun + Moon in Pisces (New Moon): The core of this lunation — a merging of solar purpose and lunar instinct in the sign of spiritual depth and compassion. This is a moment to align what you want with what you feel called toward.
Mercury in Pisces: Mercury governs communication, the mind, and how we process information. In Pisces, Mercury thinks in images, metaphors, and feelings rather than logic. Your intuitive mind is more accessible than usual. Journaling, dream recording, and meditative reflection will be unusually productive right now.
Mars in Pisces: Mars is our drive, our willpower, our capacity for action. In Pisces, that energy doesn’t push and fight — it flows. It moves through surrender and alignment rather than force. This is the perfect energy for intentions that ask: ‘What would it feel like to stop forcing and start allowing?’
North Node in Pisces: The North Node represents the collective evolutionary direction — where we as a species are being called to grow. With the North Node in Pisces during this New Moon, the entire lunation is aligned with a kind of collective soul contract. The universe is pointing toward trust, surrender, spiritual deepening, and the dissolving of fear-based separation.
Taken together, this stellium is one of the most spiritually potent configurations in recent years. If you’ve been waiting for a moment to commit to a meditation practice, a healing modality, a creative vision, an intention for your relationships or your inner world — this is that moment.
New Moon in Pisces: What to Intend
Pisces carries specific gifts and specific shadows. The intentions that flourish under this moon are those rooted in the Piscean realm:
✦ Spiritual connection and deepening practice
✦ Creative projects that come from the soul, not the strategy
✦ Compassion — for yourself, and for others
✦ Releasing fear and choosing trust
✦ Healing old emotional wounds, especially those involving grief, loss, or feeling unseen
✦ Intuitive gifts — strengthening your connection to your own inner knowing
✦ Rest, retreat, and the radical act of allowing yourself to receive
✦ Any dream or vision that feels ‘too big’ or ‘too soft’ to take seriously — this moon takes it seriously
The Full Moon eclipse two weeks ago in Virgo was about precision: seeing clearly what wasn’t working, what habit needed to go, what criticism needed to be released. This Pisces New Moon is the opposite end of the same axis. Where Virgo discerns and analyzes, Pisces dissolves and trusts. Where Virgo perfects, Pisces surrenders to the flow.
“You did the discerning work at the eclipse. Now it’s time to trust what you cleared space for.”
Five Rituals for the Pisces New Moon
These rituals are crafted for the energy of this specific lunation — honoring Pisces’ love of water, symbol, imagination, and spiritual openness. As always, I’ve woven in somatic awareness, because the body is always part of the ritual.
Set Your Intentions in Water
Pisces is the sign of the ocean, the river, the rain — it is fundamentally a water sign. For this New Moon, set your intentions using water as your medium. Fill a bowl or glass with water. Hold it in both hands and speak your intentions aloud into it — slowly, with feeling. Let your breath touch the surface. You might say: ‘I call in [intention]. I am open to receiving this. I trust the flow.’ Then place the bowl somewhere meaningful overnight. In the morning, pour the water onto the earth (outside, or on a houseplant), symbolically returning your intentions to the living world to take root.
Dream Journaling as Ritual
Mercury and the Moon in Pisces make this one of the most vivid dreaming windows of the year. The night of the New Moon and the nights immediately following, keep a journal and pen beside your bed. When you wake — even in the middle of the night — write down whatever images, feelings, or fragments you can catch. Don’t analyze. Just record. The Piscean mind speaks in symbol and metaphor, and your dreams during this window may carry direct messages about what is ready to emerge. In the morning, read back what you wrote and ask: ‘What is this showing me about what I’m longing for?’
A Pisces Body Scan
Pisces rules the feet and lymphatic system — the parts of our body that ground us to the earth and move what no longer serves. In the evening of the New Moon, draw a warm bath if possible (water honoring the water sign). If not, sit quietly with your bare feet on the earth or floor. Begin a slow body scan from your feet upward. At each part of your body, ask: ‘Is there anything I’ve been carrying here that isn’t mine?’ Let the answer be a sensation, not a word. At your feet specifically — the Pisces-ruled zone — visualize anything heavy, stuck, or not-yours draining out through your soles and into the earth below. The earth can receive it. You don’t have to hold it.
Crystal Altar for New Moon Intentions
Setting a crystal grid or simple altar under the New Moon is one of the most beautiful ways to anchor your intentions in physical form. For this Pisces lunation, I’d suggest stones that carry Piscean resonance (see the crystal section below). Arrange them in a way that feels right to you — there is no wrong — and place a written intention (or several) at the center. You might include a small vessel of water, a candle in blue, violet, or white, and any objects that feel personally sacred. Leave the altar up for the full lunar cycle (until the next New Moon) as a physical reminder of what you’re calling in.
The Pisces Letter
Pisces rules the imagination and the soul’s deeper longings — the ones that feel ‘too much’ to say out loud in ordinary life. For this ritual, write a letter. Not to a person, but to your own soul, or to the universe, or to whatever you consider sacred. Write the version of your life that you secretly long for — not the edited, ‘reasonable’ version. The whole dream. The one that makes you feel slightly embarrassed to want it, because wanting it means risking not having it. Write it in present tense, as if it’s already here: ‘I am living in a home filled with beauty and peace. My body feels strong and cared for. My work feels like service.’ Seal it in an envelope. Open it at the Full Moon in six months. Pisces asks us to dare to name the longing.
Crystals for the Pisces New Moon
If you work with crystals, this New Moon is one of the best of the year for amplifying their energy — especially the stones that carry Piscean resonance. Here are the ones I’d reach for:
Amethyst
The quintessential Pisces stone. Amethyst is a crystal of intuition, spiritual connection, and the opening of inner vision. It quiets the overthinking mind and deepens access to dream states and meditative awareness. Place it on your third eye during meditation, or beside your pillow to amplify dream work.
Aquamarine
Named for the sea, aquamarine carries the flowing, healing energy of water — Pisces’ native element. It’s a stone of courage and clarity, specifically the kind of courage required to trust your own inner voice even when it can’t be logically explained. Aquamarine helps you speak what you feel. Hold it while journaling.
Labradorite
Labradorite is a stone of transformation and magic — it literally shifts and shimmers as light moves across it, like something glimpsed through a veil. It’s one of the most powerful stones for intuitive work and for strengthening your connection to the unseen. Under this stellium of Pisces planets, labradorite acts like an amplifier for whatever you’re opening to.
Moonstone
Moonstone is the quintessential lunar stone — deeply resonant with every New Moon, but especially this one. It supports emotional flow, feminine energy, new beginnings, and the cyclical wisdom that comes from working with the moon over time. If you only work with one stone this lunation, moonstone is a beautiful choice.
Selenite
Selenite is the clarifying stone — it dissolves energetic residue and creates a clean, high-frequency field. After the heavy work of the eclipse, selenite is a gift. Use it to cleanse your other stones, your space, and your energetic field before setting intentions under this New Moon. It also amplifies the energy of whatever it’s placed near.
After the New Moon: Tending Your Intentions
Planting intentions under the New Moon is only the first act. The work of the next two weeks — until the Full Moon — is tending them. Not forcing them to sprout on your timeline, but staying in relationship with what you’ve called in.
Practically, this looks like: returning to your written intentions daily (even briefly), continuing the dream journaling as the moon grows, noticing synchronicities and what seems to be flowing toward you, and staying in your body through movement, breath, and rest.
Pisces invites us into the uncomfortable practice of trust. Of letting go of the timeline and the strategy. Of believing that the seed you planted in the dark will find its way to the light without you micromanaging every inch of its growth.
That’s hard for most of us. It’s especially hard if the Virgo eclipse stirred up the part of you that tracks and measures and worries whether you’re doing it right. This is the healing the lunar cycle is offering: learn to do the discernment work AND the surrender work. To see clearly AND to trust. To act with intention AND to release outcome.
“The Virgo eclipse asked you to weed. The Pisces New Moon asks you to trust the garden.”
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Support for Your New Moon Journey in Mesa, AZ
At Health + Healing Studios, we’ve spent years holding the space where the physical and the spiritual meet — and this lunar cycle has been one of the most potent I’ve experienced in my practice.
If you’re in Mesa and you’re feeling the call to go deeper — whether that means an intuitive reading to clarify what your soul is pointing toward, a stretch session to release what the eclipse stirred up in your body, energy work to support the integration, or simply a space in which you feel seen and supported — we’re here for exactly that.
You can book online at healthandhealingstudios.com, call us at (480) 504-7625, or stop by at 1916 W. Baseline Road, Mesa, AZ 85202.
The sky over the East Valley is extraordinary right now. Go outside tonight if you can — even in the moon’s absence, you can feel the stillness of the new moon sky, the particular quiet that comes when the great lantern goes dark. Stand in it. Breathe it in. And let yourself want what you want.
The universe has been listening.