Catalyst for Your Heart's Desire - Virgo Lunar Eclipse | Energy & Astrology Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

The cosmic forces are aligning in a rare and potent configuration this March, bringing a transformative lunar eclipse in Virgo that coincides with both Venus and Mercury retrograde periods. This celestial trifecta creates a powerful catalyst for change that will reverberate throughout your life until September's solar eclipse.

Feeling unusually emotional, reflective, or ready for change? The Virgo lunar eclipse on March 13-14 opens a portal for releasing what no longer serves you while Venus retrograde reviews your relationships, finances, and material comforts. Mercury adds another layer by turning retrograde immediately after the eclipse, bringing communication, technology, and travel under scrutiny. This isn't random cosmic chaos—it's a divine invitation to evaluate what truly matters in your life.

As we navigate this year of the Wood Snake (also a numerological 9 year), completion and letting go are central themes. The eclipse magnifies these energies, offering a perfect opportunity to develop exit strategies for situations, relationships, or patterns that have run their course. Rather than fearing change, embrace it as the universe's way of clearing space for your heart's desires to manifest. Through meditation, ritual, journaling, and compassionate self-reflection, you can tap into the profound magic of this eclipse season to align with your soul's deepest yearnings.

Remember that creation comes from love, expansion, and gratitude—not fear or worry. During this intense period, prioritize rest, review, and recalibration. The two weeks between this lunar eclipse and the Aries solar eclipse on March 29th represent a magical liminal space where inner work creates powerful foundations for new beginnings. How will you harness these transformative energies to create the life you truly desire?

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Chapters

• 0:19 Welcome to Living Magically
• 0:56 Powerful Virgo Lunar Eclipse Incoming
• 3:22 Venus & Mercury Retrograde Collision
• 7:36 Creating Your Eclipse Exit Strategy
• 9:50 Navigating Communication During Retrogrades
• 12:40 Rituals for the Liminal In-Between
• 16:07 Making Magic During Eclipse Chaos

Transcript

Magical Michelle Orwick: 0:19

Welcome to the Living Magically podcast. Living Magically podcast. I'm your host, magical Michelle, and this week, march 10th, all the way through the eclipses is going to be a doozy. Now, I know I say that all the time and I probably will for the entirety of 2025 and going into 26, but I will say this is the peak of it. This is possibly one of the most powerful and important weeks of 2025. You're going to be feeling the energy. So it doesn't matter where you are in this week when you're listening to it, there is a super duper lunar eclipse happening in the planet of Virgo on, depending on which day, the 13th or the 14th, so basically overnight, somewhere in that time frame you're going to have. This eclipse should be visible where you are. If you're watching this in North America but you might be sleeping, it's okay, because you're going to feel it. You feel an eclipse three days and 30 days before, starting 30 days before, but really in the energy of the portal of it, three days before and three days after and 30 days after, and then even out to the 90-day mark. You're going to truly feel that and it's a series of eclipses where this lunar eclipse is in Virgo. So you're going to see this kind of have this energy all the way until the new moon solar eclipse that'll be happening in September. So there's this period of time and it's a catalyst. There is no getting around change. However, there is choice and this is where it gets really, really good. I know that people are afraid of eclipses, but think of it as a catalyst for your heart's desire to come true. Now, virgo is a very analytical, very health-minded, very attention to the details kind of sign and it's being eclipsed and so, of course, you're going to feel it more. If you are a Virgo, you're going to feel it more. If you're a mutable sign, you're going to feel it more. If you're an earth sign, you're going to feel it more if you're a Pisces, because the sun is still going to be in Pisces at this time. So it's a little bit all over the place.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 3:14

Now, what is the opportunity in this? Well, I feel like I have to talk about two other things that will be going on at the same time. We are currently in a Venus retrograde period, and that means the planet of love and beauty and all the accolades of that Venus and all of the things that that represents money, love, home, those kinds of things is in a review period. It's looking at your relationships, looking at your expressions of joy and happiness through love and we all know I love love. So you're looking at what is working and what isn't working in your relationships your relationship with your money, your relationship with your money, your relationship with your home, your relationship with your body especially the body with this Virgo eclipse and then you're going to start your relationships with yourself, your friends, your family, your co-workers, your relationship with your work, your relationship with your spouse or partner, or lack thereof, whatever that is. That's what we're going to be focusing on, but then, on the exact timeframe, like the day after this eclipse on the 14th, venus is going retro I'm sorry, mercury is going retrograde, so we have Venus already in retrograde and then it's going to start the Mercury retrograde, which is communication and travel. And so it's how do we communicate, how do we relate to people, our telephones, our computers and our transportation, our cars, our airplanes, our trucks, our vehicles and I think it's going to be really interesting because it's such an interesting and possibly even volatile time in the world right now, and so I think this is going to be a review on how do you streamline all of this in your own life? What is important to you? What is your priority? And I think I think we get so wrapped up in. What do I have to do? What have I been doing? What do I need? What do I need that we don't look at what isn't working, and I think this eclipse is going to really bring to the forefront the opportunity to release and let go what is not working Because of the multiple review periods. I think that's really going to be a key here.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 6:02

If you want to unlock the door right now, look at what isn't working and how you create an exit strategy. Sometimes that's just letting it go, driving it to the dump or taking it to a thrift store. Sometimes it's a bigger part of completion, and we are in a completion year, since it is the wood snake. We're releasing, we're shedding, we're letting go, and it is a wood snake year. It's also a nine year, which is about completion and finishing things. So if you can't finish it right away, can't let go of it right away. Get an exit strategy and planning and step-by-step, what's your first action toward that? And especially knowing that this eclipse is six months from now on the solar eclipse in the same sign. You're going to see that this six month period and the faster you do it the better Three days after the eclipse, three months after the eclipse, okay, but hopefully no later than by September, when you are encouraged to be starting new with a new cycle of solar eclipse. So that's kind of what we're looking at.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 7:20

And so, with both Mercury and Venus in retrograde this weekend coming up, you're going to see that you don't want to make, you want to take a second before you react. Don't send the text, don't send the email, don't say something without taking a review, and that could just be to make sure the punctuation makes it the way you really mean it. Things can be misunderstood, it could be mistyped, it doesn't even mean that you did it, you meant it wrong, but someone could take it wrong. So just really, if you're traveling, if you're sending an email or a text or a voicemail, really kind of make sure that you're saying what you need to say. And if you are changing relationships, which people will be doing is changing these things up all the way into late April, mid-april, really, we're going to see this period of time. You're wanting to do it carefully and remember that compassion and kindness are two of your superpowers if you want to navigate this with love. And that's what we want to do. We are trying not to be aggressive and we're trying not to take it too personal, to take it too personal, and that's really important because we're in this big dreaming lots of Pisces, energy, and that's going to be about dreaming it into being.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 9:02

So good time for meditation, good time for ceremony and ritual. I know I'm going to be at Priestess Camp with Rima in Kansas City and we're going to be doing rituals and letting go and release and also rituals for inviting in. It's a really good time to review, and that's also true for the full two weeks from the 14th until the 29th, where we have the solar eclipse, and that solar eclipse is going to be potent. It's a new moon, solar eclipse in the first degree of Aries, and that means it's the full astrological new year and it is in the first degree, so we're talking about it being a real jumping start for a fresh start. Now they'll still have at that time both these planets in retrograde and review. So it's a good time for review for the full two weeks. I always call it the liminal in between.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 10:09

So, whatever you're doing on the weekend, it's a perfect time to be in the mystery, in the magic, in the ritual. I love ritual in Pisces season and so, this coming weekend, no better time than to create a little magic, to journal, to create a self-care day, to create a opportunity for expanding into your greatest possibility, and that's what this is going to do. This is going to give you a time to envision things, review things, actually sit with your angels and your guides and your soul self. This is a perfect time to be. Who am I? Where am I going? What am I going to do? What am I going to create? My word for 2025 is create, and so what are you going to create? I want to know, so put it in the comments, send me a message's. I want to know, so put it in the comments, send me a message. I want to know what you're creating. I know that I've created a compassion circle. If you're local to Orlando, we're going to be doing that here at the Urban Ashram. It's a wonderful location in the downtown area and it it's called the Compassion Circle. So if you feel like you just want to be held in some energy of compassion, we'll be doing that on the 25th.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 11:40

In this period I'm talking about where everything's a little liminal, nothing's really set in stone in those two weeks, it's more about creating and being in love and compassion and the mystery. I'm also working with Patrick on the 29th to do a solar eclipse new moon activation at the Center Street location and I'm pretty excited about that because it's a potent Saturday night new moon ritual and if you want to go on the really deep dive, I'm having a shaman fire and candle making and magic weekend on the 22nd and 23rd weekend of March. So lots to do this month in the form of creating. Of course, this is going to be a letting go period and a creating period. Anytime you have eclipses, it's all the cycles rapidly spinning and I've been asked do you actually do magic during the eclipses because it is so chaotic? And my answer is absolutely yes.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 12:54

My answer is that this is, for me, one of the best and most potent times because I can tap in to the true nature of my soul's desire. So I invite you to tap in, sit with yourself Instead of being outside in the doing, sit inward with the being and the expression of self. It's the perfect time. I'm in awe of what is possible, and so I am inviting you to lean into what is possible, what is the opening, do the review, what isn't working, what is, and do more of what is. Lean into what is and what is your soul's desire, because if you have a soul level desire, it is able to be manifested. It just might be that you have to sit with the how, let go of the way you think it's going to turn out, and sit in the mystery and the magic and the ritual and the meditation and be in the allowing, be in the being, visualize it and anchor it into your system, as already done, and this will allow for it to be a more solid, more true, more powerful inner experience for you. That then becomes what's my first action step, and from there you start moving forward, moving outward, into, and now we have this action step and now I can do this, and you will feel momentum.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 14:42

This is a year where change is pretty much guaranteed. The astrology this year is that of change, and so my invitation to you is that change into what you desire and what you want, instead of letting worry, fear, concern or the past or what's going on outside of you dictate to what's going on inside of you, because creation comes from a place of love and from a place of expansion and a place of gratitude. You cannot be in lack if you are in gratitude. You cannot be in hate and love at the same time. So choose your higher emotion, and I'm not saying that you're not going to have a negative emotion. In fact, it's probably going to happen.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 15:35

Earlier today, I found something out and I was like and use the F word and I was, you know, pretty like, oh, that is not great news, and yet in review, everything was fine. It just means that a lot of us are going to. The first thought is going to be to go to the negative, and the gift here, in this expression, is to come back to your center, to find the light at the end of the tunnel, to find this isn't how I want it to be, and so this is a challenge how do I create the opportunity that I desire? How do I create the frequency and the vibration of certainty and connectedness and gratitude and love that brings in the opportunity to be a magnet for what you truly want and desire? That's the gift in this. So I know it's a lot.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 16:43

I promise you will feel emotions and the last thing I wanted to say is anytime we have an eclipse cycle, and especially with the Schumann resonance, the depth that we have and all of these retrogrades, please rest, do not over plan, do not over schedule, do not over give. If you can help it, schedule in, rest, recalibration, renewal, review. This is a most powerful time for you to allow your resources to be refilled, your body to be recalibrated, your mind to be realigned and for your goals to be reset. And for your goals to be reset. And if you just kind of follow that in your process, I promise this is going to be a very magical moment in time with a great opportunity for you. So I will see you very soon. I love you. Live magically.