Timothy Leary, a sometimes shamed figure in psychedelic spaces, re-enters the Big Sky Story chat of 2025’s first eclipse season. Sandwiched between March 14th’s Total Lunar Eclipse Virgo and March 29th’s Partial Solar Eclipse Aries, this astrologically fertile ground aligns with Leary’s natal chart plus the psychedelic resurrection at play in the collective’s transpersonal field.
What ancestral medicine will psychonauts reclaim from Leary, who spoke of beaming to Earth from the Galactic Center? A cosmic database, esoterica consider the GC to contain the Akashic Records––quantum consciousness—and it’s located in the constellation of Sagittarius. (It tracks that Leary’s Rising sign is Sag’s Mutable Fire, natch.) Has the literal moment arrived to unashame Leary’s iconoclastic legacy, to integrate his shadow for rebirth?
Timing Is Everything
Leary arrived on Earth at 10:45 AM EDT and March’s Partial Solar Eclipse perfects in potency within two minutes of his birth time, at 10:47 AM EDT. His birthplace, Springfield, MA, is directly under the partial solar eclipse’s path. Leary’s Libra Sun in Cardinal Air opposes the Aries eclipse in Cardinal Fire. This direct juxtaposition of the natural 7th and 1st Houses, Relationship versus Self, indicates Leary’s widely acknowledged lack of reciprocity, and his relational imbalances with almost every person and institution he encountered—ever.
He may have faltered in right relationship while he was alive, but it looks like the time to repair ancestral wounds with Leary has arrived. It is right now, exactly. The cosmos, leaving nothing to coincidence, is offering psychedelics a second chance in the spotlight. Call it a renaissance, call it a resurrection—the next swell for psychonauts to surf arrives this month.
9 Is the Magic Number
Nine is a critical degree according to tropical astrology, belonging to Sag’s natural 9th House of Philosophy, sometimes seen as life after death. The year 2+0+2+5 breaks down to the number 9, a synchronicity echoed by our current series of six New Moons—all at 9 degrees, of course. Leary’s natal Sag ascendant is 9 degrees. His Chiron Aries Retro is also within conjunctional orb to the Aries eclipse at 9. His natal Pluto Cancer Retro, just shy of 9, has been activated on repeat by transit Mars Cancer in recent months.
The Beatles’ White Album features a track titled, “Revolution 9”, voiced by John Lennon—who shares Libra Sun and Aquarius Moon placements with Leary. Also worth noting, a common expression of this planetary pairing: Lennon’s brotherhood with intimate collaborator Paul McCartney, and likewise Leary’s deep connection to the acclaimed Ram Dass.
Big Cardinal Energy
Cardinal energetics, or the frequency of initiation, nominate Leary’s nativity. The Big Sky Story of Spring 2025 shares this marker. Greater malefic Saturn will ingress the Cardinal Fire of Aries in April, with outer Neptune hot on his heels. Look also for a wrap-up of the lesser malefic Mars’ anguished transit of Cardinal Water, in a heated debate with the lesser benefic Venus’ spitfire retrograde through Aries.
Just like Leary’s nativity, the collective energy of March broadcasts big beginnings after dramatic endings, dialed to maximum volume. Think of this time’s quality like the cosmos clearing way for the exalted Jupiter Cancer experience, on tap starting Summer 2025.
Transpersonal Cycles & Evolutionary Generations Matter
The teachings of Richard Tarnas and Jeffrey Wolf Green both speak to archetypal healing across transpersonal transit cycles that occur over planetary generations. Pluto Leo spanned a cultural moment embodying the trajectory and mythos of the transformational planet in the natural 5th House of Creation. Good, bad, and just plain ornery, Leary forged a very public path on a crowded stage for souls born between 1946 and 1964, known by culture as the Boomers.
During Pluto Leo’s transit, Leary was initiated into the holotropic principle, transforming into a slogan-wielding poster child. Ultimately, he stepped away from a circle of souls who felt he’d betrayed their collective work. Leary’s ego amplification was seen by society as a perversion, a hallucination.
Ultimately, his lack of serious accountability devolved into decidedly unserious antics. He’s notoriously known for driving psychedelics underground. Leary embodied some of the worst of Fixed Fire’s Plutonian themes: a need for attention, an assertion of privilege, and entitlement.
Maybe Karma Actually is a Chameleon
Leary died of natural causes in 1996, and the same cannot be said for Lennon, MLK, Malcolm X, and the Kennedys. Ethel, mother of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was an early participant in, and advocate for psychedelic medicine. Mundane echoes from Pluto Leo, like this one, abound in 2025’s consensus reality during transit Pluto Aquarius.
Pluto exacts a price, and generational Leo placements in the natural 6th House of Desire were taxed heavily from the jump with a star-studded body count. Fixed Air’s 11th House of Society now hosts the tiny transformational planet for the next twenty years, directly opposing Pluto Leo’s living ancestors—our elders. Pluto Leo was made for this moment, if the leonine impulse reaches a higher expression of Fixed Fire: sustainability, service, agape.
If not, consider our mutual psychonaut ancestor. Without Leary embodying Pluto Leo’s shadow, pressing every cultural edge past comfortability, would psychedelics have arrived in Pluto Aqua to meet mass interest? Would the children of holotropic pioneers currently be placed in posts, with the power and passion to raise the psychedelic public profile, from the grave to the mainstream? Maybe Leary’ll let us know, if he makes an epic return from the Galactic Center in March 2025’s eclipse season.
