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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

You are entering a fertile period of exploration right now, and yet on largely unconscious levels of your psyche. All your mushrooms are blooming in the dark. Ready or not, you are coming to a new depth of awareness that takes your hidden places more firmly into account. Future plans that you make are of great interest this time, and yet also greatly nebulous. It's as though you are trying to decide between alternatives without being sure of what they actually are. Toward the end of March you'll feel more definite, although still partly caught in the cross hairs of indecision. You are focalizing a new self-concept during this entire month. To get on with it or to stay stuck; when you look at it like that the choice seems easier to make.

As the month begins, with a Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse on the first weekend in your sector of discipleship to your highest purpose for yourself, you are pulled to the inside of your mind and soul, feeling your way through the minefield of memory and the inner dimension of dream realities. Plans for the future are on your mind, and these have a distinctly mystical overtone for you right now. Amazing information is available to you at this time if you are ready to tune in.

When Mercury returns to direct motion later in the week you may sense a change in life direction that is in the works for you at this time, involving a more informed assessment of future possibilities based on a truly compassionate stance and on recognizing how certain patterns of group participation have been holding you back. Being an individualist is essential, of course, and really the only way to fly, but being prepared to unite with others when necessary may be important to you also in the long run.

The Last Quarter Moon that comes along a week later, on Sunday the 11th, carries an important message also in terms of finding your own way amidst the din of circumstance and the pull of consensus thinking. Partnership with others is very important to you at this time, and helps you to sort out what is most important, but must yield to your own inner determination of your true path, as much of a sketch as it might be right now. The details will be filled in later.

When the Solar Eclipse New Moon of Sunday March 18th hits, you will be in a better position to evaluate where exactly you are heading, this time around, and perhaps more ready than ever before to acknowledge the unseen world all around you as an integral component. The acceptance of other planes of existence behind and beyond this one does not mean that you have to let go of the physical; quite the contrary. A thorough grounding in the workings of this Earthly arena is necessary in order to fully appreciate the other dimensions of reality that are available to you beyond the purview of simple logical rationality. That is where faith comes in. It may be a tall order these days to believe in the ultimate beneficence of the universe for you in particular, yet that is just what you are being asked to do.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are seeing things right now as though through a glass, darkly. You are connecting with your public statement all right but in an altered way, only partly present. Your vision for your future self continues to change based on recent life events, with irrevocable shifts in your basic fabric. Still committed to existing plans, as you focus your energies on the game that everyone is playing, you are simultaneously aware of worlds within worlds of your own making that defy the rational order and take you deeper inside yourself. The trick, of course, is to pursue your real-world goals with a spiritual silver lining, and to act as if nothing has changed.

As the month begins, you are putting quite a lot of your energy into the public sphere, although with a softer voice than might be expected given the nature of things in the mundane event-oriented world. You are simultaneously tuned to the inner realms of your psyche in a big way, and following soul-level pursuits such as home and family concerns or seeking to get a better handle on your psychological roots, the deepest basis of your being. Who you are at the core of course fundamentally colors your appearance in the phenomenal world outside yourself, and the integration of these two modes of being might be one important lesson of this time period for you.

The Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon of March 3rd may light the way to a new direction in your societal connection. This is a month of visioning new possibilities for yourself into being, made more complex by the multifaceted stew of motivations that surrounds you right now.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend is also an important period of time, when you are both inspired to see possibility in everything, and running into potential limitations with what you can concretely accomplish in this imperfect world. Vision will triumph to the extent that you can let go of assumptions and take everything that happens as it comes. This is an essentially positive stage.

The Solar Eclipse New Moon that follows on the 18th represents a new way of going forward into a more viable future and also a cutting off, perhaps painfully, of the past. There is loads of fresh energy in your life right now, and it is only logical that something must be left behind in order to give room to the newer conception. To change is to live; to remain static is to go the other way. Your public statement is more important than ever, as modified by taking in the idea that how you come across in the fields of ambition right now directly reflects the way that you pursue your inner goals. You may be discovering yet again that true security in this world can be had only by a process of including material striving into a larger paradigm.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

Big changes in point of view have occupied your thinking lately, with more of them still to come. New initiatives in your career and professional life are looming, as you begin to accommodate your position to match not only external realities but also internal truth. You are moving toward a more all-encompassing big picture vision of your possibilities, to the extent that you can allow your mind to go there. It may be time to come out of the closet with what is really going on inside your psyche; a seismic shift in working-world and life perspective that will color the remainder of your year.

As the month begins, you are full of pizazz and excitement regarding your possibilities, but also since your ruler Mercury is still retrograde in your higher mind sector, somewhat introspective, mulling over where you are coming from these days. This is a powerful time for you, especially with regard to work-related issues.

There may be some surprises in store with the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place on the weekend of March 3rd. This is a time when new information comes to you by mysterious pathways, and when your dual focus is on coming to a better understanding of your own core belief system and getting your point across to others, as well as making a large statement in your public persona.

You might have better luck with the latter goal after Mercury changes direction on the 7th. There are two other important points of interest in Mercury's timetable during March: it changes signs on the 18th, with the New Moon, entering your career sector, and then, having fully regained its lost Zodiacal ground, it finally leaves its "retrograde shadow" on the 27th. Both of these dates represent further opportunity for figuring out more precisely what you are currently engaged in, although you will be getting intimations of that all along. There's no doubt that major changes are available to you, in both the private and the public areas of your life, as the rest of the month unfolds.

One area which will likely be quite active is interpersonal relationships of all kinds, encompassing new and sudden opportunities, and major changes in attitude, especially around the time of the powerful Solar Eclipse and New Moon taking place on Sunday, the 18th, in your career sector. Business partnerships are particularly volatile at this time. There are necessary changes in the way that you do relationship in general that have been waiting to come to the fore when you are ready to absorb the information, and these are likely to be catalyzed. There is, as they say, no time like the present.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is a pivotal time for you. You are going through an important transmutation of values right now, but most of the action may be taking place on the inside. Although big things are happening and will continue to happen, not all that much is visible for others to see. You are putting yourself through a series of hoops, perfecting your circus balancing act, creating new perspectives and unexpected enlightenment, apparently with nothing up your sleeves. Even though old intimacy patterns keep coming up for working through and eventual healing, you might even convince yourself that nothing very major is going on. But when you look back over this period of time you will find that everything has changed.

As the month begins you find yourself in the midst of unexpected illumination. A new perspective is kicking in, or you may find that educational or travel plans alter suddenly and for no apparent reason, although the eventual outcome is sure to be enlightening.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in your sector of higher mind is a pretty major occurrence for you, at least in the inner realms of thought and feeling. Partnership in your life is active also at this time, and productive of career and philosophical goals, although you also may encounter old patterns of intimacy that stem from ancient trauma. You formed a response to these earlier woundings at a era of your life when you were not as able to cope as you are now, and it may be time to let these old tapes become erased or at least better accepted. Acceptance renders them less toxic and ensures your continued happiness. Through all these changes runs a concept of grounded service to others that forms the bedrock of your current thinking.

You are also likely to find yourself re-examining the intimate relationships that you have formed over the course of the years with an eye to realigning with your own spiritual center. This feeling of readjusting the past may ease when Mercury returns to direct motion on the 7th, perhaps still more so with the advent of the New Moon on the 18th, another eclipse, and the entrance of Mercury into your higher mind sector.

In between, the Last Quarter Moon that takes place on the weekend of the 10th and the 11th brings another type of feeling for potential change, and as well a feeling for the restrictions of resources and other real-world parameters that affect your situation adversely. You can't always get what you want, and you may be experiencing that sense of limitation quite strongly at this time.

The Solar Eclipse New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday March 18th, represents a fresh start on personal accomplishment and a new way of taking it to the limit of what can possibly become activated at this point in the arc of your life development. The new lunar phase brings with it new ideas, and they precede the actualization as surely as the blueprint precedes the final dwelling. Toward the end of the month, the First Quarter Moon of the 25th may presage the first appearance of the new shoot above the ground.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You are exploring novel facets of the ancient dilemma of self and other at this time, opening up to new dimensions of relationship. You are in the midst of a thorough transformation of who you are and who you appear to be, both just by yourself in isolation and with others. Coloring outside of the lines has started to blur them in your mind, and you are beginning to suspect that things are fortunately not always what they seem. Startlingly novel ideas that come to you over the course of this monthly cycle may bring you more fully into this fledgling self, the trial balloon of new identity.

As the month begins, you are tuning in to the idea that relationship in your life might be throwing you a few curve balls this time around. Startling information and unexpected modes of being are found in the area of intimate contact with others and of your values and resources as well, perhaps arriving out of nowhere on this first weekend, accompanied by the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Saturday, March 3rd. This is a time when all bets are off, essentially, and when you have the freedom to be a different person than you normally are, especially in connection with the intimate partners in your life, and with regard to your own sense of forward motion as well into the unknown future self that you will shortly inhabit.

The Last Quarter Moon, coming along on the following weekend, taking place on Sunday evening, March 11th, represents a time of consciousness raising and potential trials, when you are reminded of the reality as well as the idealistic side of what you are trying to accomplish. A new understanding of your situation is dawning. Old patterns of connection with others may become more fully integrated over the course of these final two weeks of the lunar cycle, including the one that follows. A fundamental shift is taking place at various levels inside your psyche, and not least the kernels of fundamental transformation found in higher mind perspective that is still to come.

These may be more powerfully present for you during the subsequent Solar Eclipse and New Moon in your sector of intimacy and personal transformation, taking place one week later on Sunday the 18th. A new sense of self is struggling to be born within you at this time, one that takes the input of others very firmly into account, but only so much. You are setting ideas into motion at this time that will last several months or more, as is the nature of the powerful eclipse energy. What you seed now in your life will therefore have a lasting value and characterize your subsequent philosophical re-workings. You are charged all through this cycle of activity to recognize the wheat of nutritional information amongst the chaff of circumstance. You do better when you dare to leave all your preconceptions behind at the door.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Your relationship dynamic with significant partners is playing a huge role in your life right now, and it's bringing you to a clearer understanding of your own hidden places. Delving into your core basis is completely necessary at this time, and also rewarding in the end result. It is after all a requirement for partnership with others that you first put your own house in order. That idea is not new, but it may be one that you finally ready for. Your belief system is undergoing a revolutionary and entirely necessary expansion at this time, to match a new-found sense of responsibility to inner needs and values.

As the month begins, you are powerfully constellated by the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in your sign, taking place on Saturday, March 3rd. Partnership with significant others in your life has been emphasized for the last few weeks, and is an even more powerful factor for you right now, transforming over the course of the remainder of the month. These first few days represent a time when things can change quite suddenly, and bring in new information.

There are likely to be surprises, and surprising revelations, in the area of interpersonal relationship at this time, which may pave the way for shifts in attitude and the transmutation of this function in your life. Of course the changes taking place at deep levels of your psyche are not really about others or even the effect that in the heat of the moment they seem to have on you, but rather they are about the fundamental metamorphosis inside yourself that the presence of others only catalyzes.

Your ruler Mercury returns to direct motion on Wednesday, March 7th, and that may be prove to be a time of reassessment, especially in regard to your life path. You have been caught up in a dilemma of values lately, and where in this life you are exactly heading is one facet of the uncertainty or even perhaps the cynicism that may have plagued you.

At the time of the March 18th Solar Eclipse and New Moon in your relationship sector, what is emphasized also is getting down to the heart of the matter as you really start to dig in to your core process, the bedrock of your soul purpose here in this incarnation. You may be feeling pressure, and perhaps difficulty or even despair in attempting to reconcile this deeper approach with the surface layers of life here in the physical. When you turn it on its head, it is not really a matter of despair so much as realignment to your most basic nature. This consideration may occupy the background of your thoughts over the next few weeks and even months.

There is a reality working its way through your life these days of impractical dream imagination that you are only recently beginning to credit. Although this type of thinking may seem paradoxical for your rational mind in its limited form of understanding, paradox is no problem for the soul.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are finding great inspiration in concepts of service to others lately, but in some very unique ways. There is a freedom of expression that you are seeking that does not easily confine itself to the usual categories. Partners in your life are helpful to the extent they understand that these are not ordinary times for you. There may be some pressure, internal or otherwise, to make commitments to outer forms, but the truth is that nothing conventional will fully satisfy you right now. There is a vast universe inside your mind that you really must explore before making any definite determination. You benefit when you really trust your instinct on this one.

As the month begins, you are finding joy in responsibility, and power in partnership with others in your life. This is a big month for you in terms of communication and outreach, and also in getting a better understanding of what in this life you are really trying to accomplish. Through it all runs a dedication to your pathway forward which is essentially a mission of service, and also some surprising information regarding what in the world that mission might be.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of the first weekend of the month, taking place on Saturday the 3rd, is the crux of this initial time-period. You are optimistic at this time regarding your possibilities, but cautiously so, which makes for a good balance. There may also be old patterns of self-worth that could come up for you, hopefully in order that you may move through them and transcend them.

You are looking more deeply into your situation with Mercury retrograding through your self-expression sector, which lasts until at least the 7th and perhaps longer. At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, March 11th, represents another crossroads, when you are full of possibility and communicative effervescence, especially in the area of relationship, and yet also making sure that your camel is tied up and your affairs are in order, another time of increasing consciousness regarding your situation. The ruminations of this period of time will serve you well in days to come.

Life begins anew with the Solar Eclipse New Moon of Sunday March 18th in your sector of discipleship to your highest purpose for yourself. This is not to say that some part of you will not be left behind, which can be painful. But what you take forward into the remainder of this monthly cycle and on into April will be what is essential for your continued well-being. You are definitely seeking what Carlos Castaneda called "the path with heart" in all that you say and do during this climactic time. That path has the advantage of never disappointing you, partly because acceptance is one of its major characteristics. You are engaging in a form of "trust fall," backwards with your eyes closed. It's amazing what happens when you surrender to your fate, and to your belief in the power of the universe to catch you.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

You are coming to some amazing conclusions lately concerning your core understanding of who you really are, and you also may be arriving at them rather suddenly. While you are enjoying a measure of success right now in the world "out there," delving down into the underpinnings of your home and family associations may engender a certain amount of confusion for you right now. You are in the process of discovering that what glitters for you is not the gold of material satisfaction, but is much more difficult to define and somehow stems from a feeling of linkage with Spirit inside you. You may find that you can rely on your exploration into an expression of self that is uniquely yours. Old patterns can play havoc with your mind until your heart shows the way.

As the month begins, surprising information comes your way, but it begins by arriving at the deepest level of your being. While digging in at the core, you are paradoxically spending tons of energy on achievement in the world outside your closeted psyche. But the personal is political and the public becomes for you right now a private study, involving more particularly your home and family scene and your own self-concept. Your artistic output can be fantastically creative at this time and is likely to be taking off in some new and unusual direction.

This is due to the Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon that takes place at almost the very beginning of the month, on the weekend of the 3rd, conjunct Uranus in your creativity sector.

This event is followed one week later by a very powerful Last Quarter Moon in your sector of resources and values. At this time you might find yourself reliving some part of the past, connecting the dots of old patterns of interaction with family members in a different way, or seeking a new basis of security in spiritual contemplation of your situation. There is a way that you are challenged at this time to produce a viable solution to some question that is being asked in the course of this month's lunations, and the answer may turn out to be none of the above. You benefit from allowing the unknown to remain alive and well in you, and when you quietly await the universe to reveal itself slowly to you, on its own terms.

The Solar Eclipse New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on the 18th, may well be a time of new beginnings and of forging a new sense of self. There are inevitable changes as you launch into the next phase, and something precious may be lost. But there will be something gained as well through this further unfolding of the cosmic breathing of your life's journey. All that glitters is not even close to being gold, and you are starting to recognize this truth for yourself beyond conscious understanding. Your values are being shaken up through all this exploration, that's another fact you probably won't be able to deny, or even want to.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

Your transformation continues into the present cycle. Along with your good fortune lately, you are also more fully invested at this time in home and family concerns than is usually the case. Can you find the gold of inner worth in your tribal connections with others and your relationships with family members while also exploring the fertile darkness of your own interior workings? Compassionate communication is waiting to happen and it only takes a gesture on your part to get it rolling.

As the month begins, you are feeling pulled to both inner and outer concerns. This is just the nature of the times that we are living through these days, made especially poignant for you by the Saturn – Neptune opposition in your higher mind and communication sectors aspecting your ruler Jupiter. Those born in December will be particularly drawn into this configuration, which is both an outright blessing and a curse that is in reality another blessing. Although there is plenty of joy in the equation for you right now, and unexpected epiphany, you may also encounter difficulties in reconciling to the so-called real world at this time. Your suffering will be lessoned if it is possible to embrace the idea that both inner and outer, mundane reality and spiritually present other dimensionality, are all simultaneously coexisting.

While Mercury is retrograding through your 3rd sector you might be more introspective than usual, and less available for spoken or written communication. This situation lifts on March 7th, although Mercury doesn't leave Aquarius until the 18th and does not regain its lost Zodiacal longitude until the 27th.

The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 11th, is another powerful nexus of energy that represents finding your way forward and taking what you can of the past along with you. Your vision for the future is potent right now, although there may be some tension in the mix, the more so the more you resist the flow of the universe and where it is taking you these days.

The Solar Eclipse New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday the 18th, is another chance for change and another chance to resist it. The pull of freedom is strong in you at this time, and along with it an equally strong feeling of limitation, of responsible metamorphosis in your best long-term interest. An important new aspect of self is coming into birth, while some part of your former existence is simultaneously fading away. Though something is taken, much abides; and no matter what you feel, still you cannot cease from exploration. To transform in your inner being is the very breath of life for you right now, and you may choose either to bemoan this simple truth or to celebrate it.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You are dealing with issues of self and other throughout this period, attempting to define the line of where you stop and someone else begins. Intimacy concerns demand your full attention but your own transformation holds the key. Startling information completes the circle unexpectedly. Your freedom in this world is more important than ever but you are in the process of discovering that to be truly free you must eventually concern yourself with the elements of your inner world. Rather than continuing to ignore these powers you must somehow align with them.

As the month begins, the powerful Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse, taking place on Saturday, March 3rd, in your sector of higher mind, has you investigating your life from a totally different perspective for a change. You values and your sense of who you are as an independent unit are under intense scrutiny right now. You are likely to be standing at the gate of personal evolution with no idea how to get yourself in, or whether you even want to. Communication is rapid-fire and life-transforming, and brings old patterns of self-expression to light for eventual transcendence.

With Mercury retrograding through your resources sector you might be reviewing some part of your financial arrangements for the fourth of fifth time, and that is just one more factor of the new concept that is forming right now within your psyche. Mercury returns to direct motion of the 7th, and leaves its retrograde shadow for good on the 27th, with several stages of potential for growth in between.

The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 11th, represents perhaps a few speed bumps in the road of progress for you, and also the chance to rise above. You are reaching out to others in a different and more compassionate way at this time, which may be scary for you, or may be just your cup of tea, finally arrived. The indications are there for a soft landing if that is your desire, but it is always up to you in the final analysis how you arrive at your conclusion. This weekend represents one crossroads on your journey of exploration.

The Solar Eclipse New Moon of the following weekend is another, and a reminder that your voyage of discovery will not stop until you have undergone a transmutation of values and found a sense of spiritual complicity in your own unfolding. This is all a dream, and a higher reality, and a subtle undercurrent to existence as usual. Your life is changing utterly, right before your eyes, and yet in another way, perhaps, nothing much out of the ordinary is happening.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

The time for action has arrived, but not with the slam-bang of your typical adventure movie. Issues of self and other color your world, as you find a mystical place to stand amidst the hard-nose realities of the political universe that surrounds you. Resources are abundant to exactly the extent that you allow yourself to see them that way. If you are formulating your plans based on the most optimistic assessments then you are essentially correct, although you could also be struggling a bit more than planned with your self-concept. You may be all that you want to be but then why pay so much attention to anyone else's viewpoint? The only way to win through is paradoxically to surrender utterly.

As the month begins, you are entering yet another phase of your on-going focus on partnership with significant others in your life and how that process affects your own self-concept. There is a fuzziness lately to how you feel about yourself as well as potential confusion regarding your goals and in the way that you get your point across. The Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in your resources sector may help you to make sense of what you are trying for at the moment. This is a time when you are more ready than usual to fully show yourself to others around you, and when you may find that you can transcend the chaos by accepting the various paradoxes of your existence. The little mind has to be rational, and that leads to suffering since life doesn't come in such neat packages.

On the other hand there is room for expansion and growth when you allow yourself to be taken away from simple logic by the larger vision encompassed in the powerful energies swirling around you right now. Once you accept all your possibilities you can go back to playing the game with more confidence. There is a vibrant future out there waiting to be enjoyed when you can allow yourself to open to it.

The Mercury station in the following week may further stabilize your grip on the mundane reality that underlies the cosmic turmoil. A firm base allows your mind to roam more freely. By the time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, you are beginning to accept limitation as training wheels on the vehicle of your larger mission. This month is all about getting past petty disagreements with the way your life is laid out for you and just getting on with it.

This process will undoubtedly be enhanced by the Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Sunday, March 18th. This time of renewed possibility also comes with a price tag in terms of letting go of whatever concepts no longer serve you in your climb to the top of your particular mountain. It's easier to get ahead without all that excess baggage that you were probably going to discard anyway when you arrived. You win when you turn gratefully to the stream of well-being impinging on your life and accept it all, right down to the parts that did not match your original conception.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

It's a complex path that you are weaving through the events of your life these days. Your birthday time is especially meaningful for you this year. Strange happenings and startling conclusions may become almost commonplace, as a fundamental transformation in career and professional life coupled with compassionate understanding and acceptance of your internal places leads you to a better understanding of how to best fit yourself into the structure of surrounding society. Active introspection and a spate of apparently coincidental lucky breaks in your workplace lead to a vibrant recommitment to your life-path. The real story in all this action and reaction is that it has the ultimate purpose of bringing you closer to yourself.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way into a new self-concept. This involves others in your life as an important component, but mostly taking into account your own uniquely unfolding personality at this time, and its connection to your deeper purpose. You are exploring hidden parts of yourself right now with a mission of bringing them to light and finding a better sense of integration all around, which will inevitably also affect your relationship dynamic with others.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in your opposite sign is a powerful one for you, and takes you deeper into your true self, to the extent that you allow yourself to open to that possibility., You are making a motion that is integral to your life purpose going forward over the course of this monthly journey, perhaps in accepting the possibility of greater soul-level connection to the surrounding cosmos. There are changes that have been percolating deep inside you for many months that are only now beginning to surface, with various times of greater and lesser constriction along the way, of course.

When Mercury changes to direct motion in your sector of dream imagination you might feel a shift internally. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday the 11th is another crux of changing awareness, especially if it comes within a week on either side of your birthday. This is a time of active participation in the world around you and with regard to the relationships of your life, appreciating their beneficial effect on your own sense of security, while still remaining cognizant of the high level of activity below the surface layers of your existence.

This weekend is one crucial period, and the following mid-month weekend is another, with the Solar Eclipse New Moon in your sign that takes place on Sunday the 18th. This new beginning is a time of great excitement and also comfort in just being in your skin, while at the same time remaining aware that life itself is change and that some of your parts may have outlived their usefulness for your present incarnation and will need to be abandoned if you are to fully inhabit your future. Even though you are more tuned in than ever to the numinous world beyond this one you are also very aware of the limitations of your physical situation. To hold both viewpoints simultaneously is quite a trick, but one that is well worth mastering. Sometimes it may be the only way to get through.

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Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of March focuses once more on the Saturn–Neptune opposition, now waning, and the continuation of the Mercury retrograde period of time that began in February. Although direct after the 7th, Mercury does not leave its retrograde shadow until March 27th.

Most of the month we are caught between two eclipses, so that these days are more powerful than usual, and are also aligned with outer planet energies. Neptune is greatly emphasized in March, being the ruler of the month's lunations and by a stationing Jupiter in Sagittarius. Numinous Neptune, in contrast to stodgy old Saturn, always remains elusive as well as illusive, suggesting that things are not what they seem, and that we are all connected, as we know beyond knowing in our most secret heart. The test of Neptune is to maintain our stance within the world of manifestation while still keeping in mind that all is illusion and a cover for the deeper meaning. This can be confusing, and have the effect of stalling our steering here on starship Earth, but that's just the way it is. The good news is that once we make that shift, we will never again be subject to the ravages of Saturn, at least not in quite the same way.

The other major effect of Neptune in combination with Saturn is a cynical puncturing of any form of hypocrisy and political posturing, something that we are observing on a mass scale these days. There is the danger of losing the positive message in the process, but because Neptune is buoyed up by Jupiter right now, we have an opportunity to rise above cynicism while not losing any of the accompanying clarity.

Our inner vision also benefits from a retrograding Mercury, which changes to direct motion early in the month, on the 7th, but remains in its retrograde shadow until late March. As the Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon on the 3rd conjuncts and opposes Uranus, we might expect further epiphanies and unexpected events as well as the usual communication and mechanical breakdowns. During the entire week leading up to the Last Quarter Moon of March 11th we will have plenty of opportunity to look inside rather than to the misleading consensus in order to better understand our unfolding future selves.

The Solar Eclipse of Sunday, March 18th squares Pluto, so that transformative realignment underlies everything that we say and do over this entire monthly cycle. We are ourselves the change that we expect to see in the world, like it or not. And if we want something different, for the world and for ourselves, we have only to take the necessary step to the inside to remember who we really are. And that is, as Marianne Williamson has stated, "powerful beyond measure."

Current Configurations

Lunar Eclipse Full Moon, Saturday, March 3rd. This powerful lunation takes place in Virgo, along the nodal axis, and with the Sun conjunct Uranus in Pisces. The Sabian Symbol reads "A strong hand supplanting political hysteria," which Marc Edmond Jones calls "consistent effectiveness in dramatizing personal potentials." Uranus, bringer of new concepts and unexpected enlightenment, makes a productive pairing with this symbol. The Sun also resides at the Venus / Chiron midpoint at this time, with the Moon also aspecting these two energies, so that old wounds and relationship patterns from the long-dead past may come up at this time for transcending them.

Last Quarter Moon, Sunday, March 11th. This is traditionally the "crisis in consciousness" spoken about by Rudhyar, when the rubber meets the road and we must see what portion of the impulse that began the cycle three weeks ago can concretely be accomplished, and survive in the real world of countervailing and supporting influences. This moment can therefore represent a time of tension in our process of growth. Since Saturn is also emphasized at this time, opposing the remainder of the planets, it is also a time of limitation in general. Saturn also forms a grand trine with Jupiter and Venus in Aries, making for an interesting mix of energies, all stop and go. We will want to move forward, especially since Mercury is also moving in direct motion at this time, having stationed on the 7th, but we may have to hold back against our wishes. The Saturn – Neptune opposition, now fading, is also powerfully constellated by the Quarter Moon at the 22nd degree of Sagittarius, conjunct Jupiter.

New Moon and Solar Eclipse, Sunday, March 18th. This is of course the potent energy of the New Moon, coupled with the eclipse emphasis, and takes place in 28 plus degrees of Pisces, exactly square Pluto. The effects of eclipses last for many months, and this one may be triggered again by the passage of Mars opposite this degree eight weeks from now around the time of the mid-May New Moon. There is obviously transformation in the air at this time, representing a springboard for action, just preceding as it does the Vernal Equinox. The Sabian Symbol is quite beautiful, "A prism." Marc Edmond Jones calls it "a symbol of the world's stability." Maybe we will make it after all.

At the Vernal Equinox on the 20th, two days later, as the Sun enters Aries to begin once again the cycle of the seasons, the Sun's ruler Mars resides at the Chiron/Neptune midpoint opposite Saturn. This brings once again the potential for change through effort of renouncing all that is buried away inside us, and toxic, and not really very good for us. May it be so!

The First Quarter Moon, Sunday, March 25th. Now Mars conjuncts Neptune, bringing compassion to the arc of development that is unfolding over the course of this monthly cycle. This is the time when the new shoot begins to emerge figuratively in our psyches as a result of the courage we have shown at the time of the New Moon just past. It may be a difficult emerging into manifestation, but if the impulse is consistent with our inner vision it is likely to be a viable birth.


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