www.psychicwalter.com Horoscope
2009 - March by
Henry Seltzer
Your
horoscope will be more accurate if you read your Rising
sign, your Moon sign,
as well as your Sun sign. This is what they mean:
Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the
self you show to others. It symbolizes how you appear to others, how others perceive
you, in your true interaction with the world.
Your Rising sign horoscope will tell you what to expect in these areas of your
self this month.
Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
The Moon also indicates the type of partner you will attract, since it represents
your emotional self.
Your Moon sign horoscope will show you what these areas of your self will encounter
this month.
Your Sun
sign represents your Self, your way of being in
the world. It can represent both the ego (mental) self
and the higher Self (soul purpose). It symbolizes your
will and sense of vitality.
Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will
encounter this month.
Aires (March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling
planet Mars. Top
This
is amazing month for you, Aries,
as you transform in service and
in spiritual insight, and in the
way that you put yourself out there
in the world. While your process
might be difficult at times, you
will find yourself amply repaid
when you choose to hunker down
and stay with it. Relationship
with significant others in your
life is a changing landscape, and
takes you back in some way to an
earlier period. Life is a series
of cycles, and everything begins
again for you with the Spring Equinox
on the 20th. The tide that is turning
can be seized for better effect
now than later, as the new world
that is being born around you and
through you begins to come to pass.As
the month begins, you are possessed
with a mystical sense of oneness
with the surrounding universe.
Your plans for the future are rich
and strange and in flux as well,
mostly along the lines of greater
spiritual participation, while
you simultaneously feel the pain
of separation from the absolutely
limitless imagination of this concept.
You have lately been plugging yourself
in to group activities and shared
goals that you think can better
serve the social order.
In the first week of the month centering on the First Quarter Moon of late
Tuesday night, March 3rd, these themes are more thoroughly articulated. Communication
within the circle of your peers brings out the inner ideal as well as the fundamental
contradiction of your all too human situation. You are sensitive to the subtle
vibrations of others at this time, and have a good feel for their perspective,
even though it is perhaps very different from your own.
The Full Moon of Tuesday, March 10th brings this form of connection to a climax,
and highlights ways in which you can be of true service to others. You might
begin by acknowledging that you are tuning in to the architecture of the universe
with every act of kindness.
The Spring Equinox of Friday, March 20th, and onward, is a time of empowerment
for you, when you recognize that you are the artificer of your world. It is
also a time when your need to morph to a different stance with regard to certain
areas in your life will become apparent.
The New Moon of March 26th in particular represents a potentially trying time
of deep transformation when you benefit most by letting go. Throughout the
month, there is as always the characteristic paradox to negotiate between spiritual
dedication and practical concerns, which has no logical resolution. You can
come to peace with it only by relinquishing logical categories and simply and
utterly relaxing into the flow of what is. You win when you recognize that
the contradictions are part of the picture here and that all your mental gymnastics
won’t change it.
Taurus (April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are springing for success in many quite different ways over this monthly
period, Taurus. Your work in the public arena draws you powerfully onward,
the indications all are on go. This beautiful series of opportunities leads
you further into the world, with a magical and optimistic vision for the future.
Whatever you put your mind to right now is possible; your wishes become manifest.
On the other hand, there is also a vital part of you that is in-dwelling within
the solitary spaces of your unconscious mind. Your higher Self, or your angel
guidance, is really pulling for you and alerting you to the most important
part of your experience, which is not only an eternal, but also an internal
one.
As the month begins, you are feeling the optimism of new beginnings and new
possibilities. It is likely that the ones of these that are supremely alive
for you right now are the very ones that draw upon your fundamental connection
to the All That Is, or Spirit. The working out of Spirit in the world is essentially
orthogonal to the mundane plane of existence, and this is a paradoxical time
for you.
On the one hand there is a terrific opportunity to remake your world in your
own image, closer to the ideals that you aspire to. You are drawn to imagine
success in your endeavors right now and your wishes have unusual power so that
whatever you sincerely visualize has an excellent chance of coming to pass.
On the other hand you are very focused on inner rather than outer priorities,
the more so with the retrograde of your ruler Venus in your sector of dreams.
Especially after the 6th, when the retrograde period of Venus begins, you more
fully inhabit the internal and rich life of the soul than the one in which
you must almost reluctantly transact business.
The days surrounding the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday and Wednesday, March
3rd and 4th, bring out this theme of the contrast between worlds. You are attempting
at this time to resolve contradictions between what you want and what must
simply be.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, March 10th, also highlights
and celebrates these concerns. No matter how you slice it, you are still operating
in the ordinary world for purposes of bread and butter, in spite of the tremendous
idealism you bring to the table right now. This is not a bad thing. You have
a body as well as a soul and you constantly mediate between a state of grace
and a mild state of insanity. This is life.
In the last two weeks of the month, particularly with the Aries New Moon of
Thursday, March 26th, you are powerfully drawn once more to the inside, while
still needing to deal with the practical and the pragmatic. The bottom line
is that while you are very invested these days in real world issues, in order
to be fulfilled you must remain firmly committed to the unseen world that consistently
underlies, supports and informs your vision of what is concretely realizable.
You won’t be satisfied with anything less right now.
Gemini (May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
Travel is broadening they say, and yours this month is mentally nourishing
as well, Gemini. You may not be physically removing from your current location,
but in your mind you are already long gone. Yet in another sense you remain
very grounded in yourself and in home and family concerns, which also predominate.
You are powerfully engaged in taking a second look at some facet of your experience,
and making a new start these days in your work in the world, which benefits
extremely from fresh perspectives and renewed idealism. You only need to watch
that your wishes not become so powerful that they border on illusion. As you
reinvent yourself, closer to your heart’s desire, everything around you
begins to blossom.
As the month begins, you are recovering from your recent rethinking of where
you are at in your life right now, and reveling in the new doors that have
opened as a result. On some level the world appears fresh and new, and ripe
for exploration. Travel is one possibility, of the armchair variety if not
in any other way, and higher mind activity of all kinds also beckons. You are
undergoing tremendous positive transformation these days whether or not you
consciously acknowledge it, and over the months and years you will likely look
back on this spring as an important turning point.
With the First Quarter Moon taking place early in the first week of the month,
you are feeling these energy currents quite strongly. You are drawn to the
adventure of it all and at the very same time might feel the inherent limitations
of life in the pragmatic world. You might identify the circumstances where
you are stuck rather than free-flowing, and the places within you that correspond
to old tapes rather than new potential. These basic conflicts are not entirely
resolvable, but learning to live with them can become a freedom rather than
a burden when you transcend logical expectations and attachments. Easy to say
but harder to do, of course, but any movement in this direction counts for
progress.
The Full Moon of the week following, taking place on Tuesday evening, March
10th, highlights both the unlimited possibility of your situation and also
the practical concerns that constrain it. Again there is a joy in accepting
the contrast and moving on, dwelling in the paradox, and that gifts you with
a sense of forward motion that comes to you at this time. The advent of spring
holds greater promise yet.
With the New Moon of Thursday the 26th and for the few weeks that follow, you
are in a good position to visualize as not only possible but likely some very
new ways of being in the world, and of plugging in and supporting everything
that you believe in. If you acknowledge the universe at this time, it will
acknowledge you, and like the buds you will transform as you burst out of your
confinement.
Cancer (June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
This is the first day of the rest of your life, Cancer; you are being reborn
over this monthly timeframe. A new way of seeing the world around you and of
reaching out to others in it has begun already to work its magic from your
head on down to your heart. The seed blossoms slowly at first, and then suddenly,
in an instant, nothing in your life is quite the same. Rapid movement competes
with a conservative tendency to preserve what matters. Afterwards, you will
be glad you paid careful attention to this process, even though it may seem
to be so very ordinary at the time. Full of nothing, it engenders everything.
As the month begins, you are reveling in the new possibilities that are opening
up for you, particularly with regard to important connections with significant
others in your life and with yourself as well. Recent adventures in intimacy
are starting to pay off in terms of a larger perspective. The relationship
with yourself counts most of all, and yet is sometimes the most difficult to
acknowledge.
The First Quarter Moon of late Tuesday, early Wednesday, March 3rd and 4th
has something important to teach you. Examinations of heartfelt union lead
inevitably to soul-searching exploration of some deeper issues, old patterns
that stem from earlier history and that might be preventing total connection
with others. It could be that those patterns that are in the way of true bonding
could come up at this time for greater acceptance and healing.
The Full Moon of Tuesday, March 10th, is powerful for you, and reveals parts
of you to yourself that you may have been neglecting. Communication is both
practical and inspired right now, and comes from a serious and responsible
place inside you while conveying revelatory information. You could emerge with
a brand new way of looking at the day.
The Last Quarter Moon of the 18th is also a very special time for you. You
may find that circumstances conspire to make you more aware of the difficulties
as well as the rewards involved in working closely with others. The traditional
explanation of this phase as a “crisis in consciousness” would
apply, and lead you in the direction of greater wisdom concerning your activities
in this important area of your life. You have been morphing in your relationship
dynamic, and the period of time surrounding this Quarter Moon represents an
excellent time to dig further into this issue. This would include business
as well as other types of partnerships.
Finally this month, the New Moon taking place on Thursday, March 26th, will
prove to be an eye-opener in many ways, and will nudge you toward transcending
some of the more problematic aspects of your relationship dynamic, while simultaneously
encouraging you to push off in a whole new direction with your career and public
expression.
Leo (July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
This is a good month for progress, Leo, but not so much in the outer world.
Partnership is powerful for you at this time, partly because you are ready
to make some important changes in the way you do it. Intimacy with others resolves
to intimacy with yourself at soul level, and the urge for this resolution has
never been keener for you. It helps when you make this a journey from self
to other and not the other way around. You are following your own unique path
to a more well-founded sense of security that comes from deep within your own
heart, including your dark places, and then grows to more fully encompass others
around you.
As the month begins, you are finding partnership an important component of
your life, and one that leads you both out of and further into yourself. Intimacy
and personal transformation are in the air for you this month, beginning with
the New Moon cycle from the last week of February.
The First Quarter Moon, taking place on late Tuesday and early Wednesday, March
3rd and 4th, could be a unifier in that it brings helpful partnership interaction
to the cause of promoting your ideals in the world and the concrete steps that
you are taking to achieve them. Inspiration and life-changing perspective shifts
this month are in your best interest for moving forward with your life, so
that what is recommended is that you let go of potential conflict in favor
of smoothing the road ahead.
With the Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday evening,
March 10th, you will be exposed to both the Sunny and the rainy side of the
street. You are reaching out for change, change at all cost that eliminates
previous foundations. Yet at the same time you are opting to hold onto what
you have and not let go in spite of anything, so that some aspect of your situation
has to give.
Compromise is not what is called for, but rather a new way of looking at the
world around you that permits a third and revolutionary perspective to emerge
that subsumes the others. This involves what is essentially a spiritual approach,
plus the willingness to accept even those parts of yourself that seem shameful
and scary, and to do others the same favor. There is nothing wrong with being
human. When you accept every part of yourself including your more awkward and
dysfunctional ones, you are along the way to healing them.
The Spring Equinox of the weekend of March 20th and the New Moon of the following
week, taking place on Thursday, March 26th, lead you into another way of looking
at the world around you and your place within it that while it does not avoid
the inherent conflicts, it could transcend them.
Virgo (August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
Things are becoming clearer for you, Virgo, and this clarity allows you to
let partners into the picture. In this regard you are forging new territory
of interaction as well as partaking of a grounded sense of optimism for yourself
alone, one that takes past failures as well as successes fully into account
moving forward. There is loads of energy available to you right now for putting
your feet more firmly on the path of your highest purpose for yourself. You
might be feeling a sense of isolation these days, or of limitation regarding
personal progress. This sense of self-reliance is also a comfort however, and
helps to stabilize the flurry of your outreach to others.
As the month begins, you are feeling a responsible sense of ministration to
the needs of others. There is a great deal of energy in your sector of service
and of discipleship to your true calling, owing to a collection of planets,
including your ruler Mercury, that is congregating there. This is in no way
foreign to your basic nature, of course, but as you feel the extra pull in
this direction, an opportunity is presented to really tune in to those feelings,
and to separate out what feels like obligation from what feels like joy and
true vocation.
You are also in a relationship mood, stemming from the New Moon in your partnership
sector from the end of the previous month. While partnership is beneficial
in the sense that two heads really are better than one, and merging is fun,
there are also issues that belong to yourself alone that must be dealt with.
Mediating between these polarities will prove to be an important theme for
you in the current monthly cycle.
With the First Quarter Moon of late Tuesday evening, March 3rd, these ideas
may come into sharp relief as subtle tensions highlight the bumps and rough
patches in the path that you are treading. You are coming at the moment from
an idealized and almost illusion-based position and you are wise to take a
second glance at what seems obvious and to look before you leap.
Another issue you will encounter now is the painful realization of the vast
gap between you and your ideal. This can apply to lovers or to what you love
to do in the world; and the odd thing is that the gap, though real, is only
a mental construct. There is really no gap, and yet there is, as you move into
and out of your highest soul-level attitude. The high cannot last as drug-takers
all know, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still there, waiting for
you to discover it once again. There’s no real disaster; this is just
what it means to be human. In the end, there is only what is.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday evening, March
10th, represents a balance point for these various perspectives, including
that of self and other. There is something entirely energizing right now regarding
significant others in your life, as they take you out of yourself, and yet
also an awareness of an important space within you where others cannot help,
which is for yourself, and yourself alone, to navigate.
As the remainder of the month unfolds, you will find yourself with a closer
look at your relationship behavior through the lens of recent experience, attempting
to determine what part of it makes total sense for you in terms of where you
need to go. It pays to remember that at some point you must let analysis fall
by the wayside, and learn to trust entirely to your instincts, which is really
your inner guidance.
Libra (September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is an era for you, Libra, of lost days returning. You are not exactly
dwelling in the past but you are hyper-aware of it. The question is exactly
which prior events, feelings and sensations are relevant and useful as you
make your way forward, by fits and starts, into a new reality for yourself.
Partnership with others recapitulates prior patterns as well over the course
of this month’s journey. There may be literally the recurrence of an
ancient amour, or just the rumbling echoes. You could be revisiting old wounds
there in order that you may heal them, although it can certainly get confusing
at times. This message will repeat until it self-destructs, into the light
of a new dawn.
As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward, finding a spiritual
joy in the unfolding present and yet aware of everything that you have come
through to arrive at this point. You are in a very good and peaceful place
right now, and have an extremely social attitude that takes partnership in
your life fully into account, but not too much. You are finding lessons from
the past to be a tremendous asset for you right now as you attempt to discern
where you want to be heading, both for the sake of your unique mission in this
life and in support of your own spiritual fulfillment.
The First Quarter Moon of the first week of the month, taking place on Tuesday
and Wednesday, March 3rd and 4th, highlights these themes and brings you to
a philosophical point of departure. You are asking yourself some pertinent
questions concerning the role the relationship plays for you and how and why
you pursue your connection with important others. There may be old patterns
that come up at this time to deal with and to eventually get past. You are
on the eve of the retrograde of your ruler Venus, and many things about your
life will be up for reflection and review, not least the relationship dynamic
that you have chosen to employ up to now.
The Full Moon of Tuesday, Mach 10th represents a culmination of these themes.
You will feel very strongly at this time the pull of the past, and also the
push of your present urge to transcend it. You are forging entirely new territory
for yourself with one part of you, your soul connection to everything that
you have ever hoped you could become.
At the very same time you are making god use of where you have been, as only
makes sense since you cannot ever completely discard prior experience but only
grow from within that original perspective. Although the contrast between these
polarities might seem confectioning and confounding to your logical sensibility,
in another way, from a height as it were, it all makes perfect sense.
The Spring Equinox taking place on Friday, March 20th, and the New Moon of
the following week, represents a period of time that is in many ways another
departure, a new phase. You are more invested in partnership now than ever,
but still questioning some of your basic premises there as well. This adventure
will take weeks to complete, and will eventually bring you farther than you
would have though possible into a more integrated balance of the energy for
others and for yourself alone.
Scorpio (October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
This is a powerful time for you, Scorpio, when you are remaking your role within
the world around you. You are partnering with your higher Self and thereby
teaching an old dog some new tricks. Home and family concerns are vital for
you right now, and represent a springboard into a new way of life. There is
a practical method of advancing your cause that is appealing to you these days,
and also limiting, but in another way you are entirely idealistic and visionary.
Your plans for the future are sober and all-consuming, and yet also subject
at times to extreme impulses and unexpected flashes of inspiration. What do
you do with these conflicting and life-engendering impulses? Why, dance with
them.
As the month begins, you are full of enthusiasm and personal esprit de corpse,
and simultaneously feeling the pull to inner realms within you that is also
an important key for you to this monthly cycle. The first ten days of the month
will be an interesting time for you, when you will find extraordinary spiritual
sustenance in going down to your depths. You are coming from a very idealized
place right now and must beware not to allow overblown ideas to take you in
the direction of actual self-deception.
You are reinventing yourself somewhat in this monthly timeframe and part of
that impulse is that you realize that you must take Spirit firmly into account
in doing so. This can be confusing to the logical and mundane-bound mind, but
everything works out fine if you can drop logical categories and just totally
accept whatever it is that is happening to you.
The highlight of this first half of the month, the dynamic and powerful Full
Moon of Tuesday, March 10th, takes place in your sector of societal connection.
This is a time when your maverick nature is called forth and your goals as
well. You are seeing how far you can get with future plans that will define
for you a new and more serious sense of purpose, while still paying attention
to the lighter side of your personality. There is a push-pull dynamic operating
for you right now that constrains you to past successes and failures even as
you strike out for entirely new territory.
The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, March 18th represents a consolidation of
the arc of development you have been on, a time for gathering the insights
gained.
Then, the New Moon of the following week taking place on Thursday the 26th
will represent a fresh start with incorporating these goals into your day-today
activities. This is also a time when you are looking into how significant partners
in your life play an important role in helping you to formulate your vision
for a better and more self-consistent set of future plans.
Sagittarius (Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
This is a month of celebration and communication, Sagittarius, and for turning
to the inside for what you need. A resurgence of home and family concerns has
got you rethinking your priorities. It is a time of pulling back as well as
pushing forward. There may be sudden information or events that change the
picture, dramatically, in an instant. Reaching out to others around you is
more important than ever, especially when it comes from your own deep center
and speaks to the most vital and heartfelt truth of your situation. Through
it all you are still fairly steady at the helm, in spite of stormy weather.
The tall bamboo bends before the wind, until it can regain its composure.
As the month begins, you are feeling the pull of home and family, riding the
wave of the New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of your psychical
and emotional roots. Communication of all kinds with others around you represents
another important focus at this time. This could take either a written or a
spoken form, within the circle of your peers, as you contemplate and attempt
to make sense of your current circumstances. The situation that you are in
right now involves a degree of idealism bordering on illusion and the danger
is that this could lead to self-deception. There’s nothing wrong with
idealism, even if the reality falls short of the mark and corresponds to the
impossible dream at times, since a healthy sense of what you are aiming for
counterbalances the cynicism of hyper-practicality. What takes you away from
the ideal of your own private world is too great a reliance on the outer world
of events and of the deeds that garner recognition. This month you are coming
to another and deeper understanding of the necessary balance between them.
Early in the month, the First Quarter Moon that takes place in the late evening
of March 3rd signals a time to take stock and to see whether what it is that
you are attempting in this current cycle will survive the ravages of hard-nosed
reality. This may in fact help you to get a handle on these factors and to
place them into stronger contrast. This is a powerful time for you, when there
is much joy as well as some painful doses of materiality to deal with. The
trick is to integrate the feelings on both sides of this issue and to arrive
at a synthesis.
At the time of the Full Moon a week further along, taking place on Tuesday,
March 10th, you will be exposed to the polarities of your situation even more
strongly. There is a push-pull within you right now of the pragmatics of common
sense versus the notion of freedom at all costs. This shows up in your commentary
to others, and represents both a trial in some ways and a desire for resolution.
You must honor the demands of hard-and-fast practical reality at this time,
even as you seek to transcend them. Your desire for balance will find its eventual
resolution.
With the retrograde of Venus in full swing right now, you are looking more
deeply into these and other issues and how they ultimately affect you. You
might find some answers, or at least a direction to go for answers, by the
end of the following month. The remainder of the current cycle, including the
dynamic and powerful New Moon of the 26th, serves to propel you further along
this path.
Capricorn (Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
This is an interesting month for progress, Capricorn, which comes in explosions
of insight. Innovations that have been creeping up on you slowly for weeks
may now suddenly burst through. You are focused at this time on outreach to
friends and family, partly because of a growing body of evidence that supports
a new mode of looking at the world around you. But changing worldviews is never
easy. Finding new ways to reach out to others in this monthly timeframe depends
on discovering new ways to reach into your own heart. You are transforming
over the course of this year and the changes are slowly accumulating into a
magnetic force that will eventually swing your pendulum into an entirely different
direction.
As the month begins, you are in a learning mode, based on the New Moon that
took place in your communications sector during the last week of February.
This current month in turn represents another powerful cycle, and one in which
you will enjoy the benefits of peer-to-peer interaction bringing you closer
to your ideals. You are defining your true goals for yourself in this lifetime.
Your recent philosophical meanderings have somehow brought you closer to the
real point. Enlightenment continues to come your way in the strangest of places,
and you win when you decide that everything that happens to you has its higher
purpose in terms of eventual outcome. This is easy to accept in the abstract,
although it might be just a tad more difficult to manage from within the particulars
of your situation.
With the First Quarter Moon taking place in the first week of the month, on
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, March 3rd and 4th, you will come to some
bumps in your road that when prodded may provide ultimately helpful information.
The retrograde of Venus is about to take place in your sector of home and family
and your psychological roots, and so you are slowing down in order to come
up with a better guess as to who you really are beneath the surface. There
is a huge shift happening in your world right now, as defined by your personality
plus your deeper center and how they correspond and interpenetrate. You are
actively seeking the right interaction with Spirit and with your own internal
guidance that will provide the set of clues you need for your journey of exploration.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, March 10th, provides
a significant degree of illumination. This is a time when the insights just
keep on coming, faster than you can store them up, so that a gut-reaction accounting
is what is needed rather than relying on your mind to keep track. There is
much to be gained when you descend into this deeper place within you, a place
toward which you are being gently shepherded these days.
The Spring Equinox that comes on the 20th, and the New Moon that follows a
few days later, will bring to deeper into the stillness if you pay careful
attention to the signs and symbols that surround you now. This represents a
period of time when the path before you seems powerfully present and attractive
even though it leads you down into your very depths.
Aquarius (Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This continues to be a powerful, fertile and creative time for you, Aquarius,
one in which the recent rebirth of your birthday time takes on added meaning.
Transformation begins on the inside and spreads to encompass every area of
your life, most notably your values. This might even mean that adding up your
accomplishments in the eyes of the world no longer holds as much appeal as
it used to. With a slightly different emphasis, social contact still engages
you, and is plentiful. If you find yourself retreating a bit in the later weeks
of the month, it might be because you have found an essential connection that
you need to pursue within your own heart.
As the month begins, you are still feeling the expansive energy of so many
planets gathered in your sign, as they were also last month, including Mars
and Jupiter. This line-up has been big for you ever since your birthday, and
it means that your thoughts are almost entirely centered on yourself these
days, how you appear and move through the world, and how you plan to develop
in the direction that your heart is telling you to go. Your values and the
resources necessary for your journey of evolution have also been the subject
of your speculation lately and a focus of your attention. You may have been
writing and discussing these issues, and this month you will be seriously rethinking
them. There is a way that you are bursting at the seams to move forward in
some important ways right now, and a way that you are also held back.
The very first week of the month is an important period for reflection on these
issues. The First Quarter Moon, which comes along mid-week, late Tuesday and
early Wednesday, March 3rd and 4th, represents a period of tension that promotes
philosophical speculation on your part and stimulates discussion. You may also
find that old patterns of interaction come up for you at this time for better
acceptance and for eventual healing. These relics of earlier conditioning represent
behaviors that you have outgrown, that were perhaps appropriate in their day
but which are no longer particularly applicable to your current and more mature
level of personality. Accepting yourself with all your drawbacks is the key
to moving past them.
Another question is how these ruminations relate to your current focus on assets
and values. You are innovating in these areas, perhaps experimenting with new
ways to earn income, or to conserve resources, and moving past feelings of
lack is a big part of what you are attempting. It is interesting to realize
the extent to which success is in the mind and emotional approach much more
than in the actual events. By the end of the month you will be taking these
ideas into their next phase, entering a full-on period of reflection and discussion.
The highlight of this current month for you is the Full Moon of the second
week, taking place on Tuesday, March 10th. The period of time around this date
represents a balance point for contrary currents of can and cannot, and also
highlights the dual nature of your situation as both practical and essential
spiritual. Other people also become of greater importance in settling your
own affairs at this juncture. You are feeling simultaneously the optimism of
your drive to establish yourself on this earth in a new way and the limitation
inherent in the real world that constrains you to practical solutions in doing
so.
Pisces (Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
This is an exciting season, Pisces, with your birthday just around the corner
or just passed. This time around, your rebirth involves more inner than outer
realization. You are coming into closer contact with your own true nature.
Although you are plainly effervescent and partnership-oriented, you are also
mysteriously caught up in the dreamtime of unconscious worlds within worlds.
This is an exceptionally magical and transformative time, when wisdom lies
within, and when future plans could change dramatically, especially around
March 20th with the advent of spring. The unexpected glimpse of the hidden
working of the universe that is vouchsafed you over the course of this month’s
journey might be enough to stir your soul into an entirely different track
from where it began.
As the month begins, you are coming into your own, after a period of self-examination
and self-exploration, in-dwelling within the consciousness of your own mind.
You are officially out in the world now, with the New Moon from the end of
last month in your identity sector, but still feeling the pull of the inner
dream worlds that take you back like a dark and silent undertow, to your roots.
This secret place is a customary habitation of yours in any case, now made
even more so by the presence of so many planets in your sector of dream imagination,
including your two rulers, Jupiter and Neptune. At the same time you are very
much joined to the mundane world all around you.
The time of the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3rd and
4th, allows you the chance to review this dichotomy and to explore it further.
You are caught between worlds at this time, half in and half out of peaceful
coexistence with creation, and with your inner depths.
In the week that follows, your finances as well as your resources are up for
review and revisioning, and this reassessment is based on a more complete reliance
on Spirit to provide the necessary groundwork for your journey.
This is a demanding as well as an exciting period of time, culminating in the
Full Moon of March 10th. The few days surrounding this Full Moon in the second
week of March constitute a fairly unpredictable period for you when anything
can happen. You are simultaneously pulled to the unknown and unexplored and
also to the solid and reliable, which could take the form of a valued mentor
or partner. You are searching out how to reframe your self-concept toward a
more inclusive sense of self, while still remaining true to a fundamental and
unalterable structure that remains one focus of your thoughts and explorations.
Your goals cannot help but change as a result. Your plans for the future and
your societal connections are in flux throughout this monthly cycle.
With the New Moon in the last week of the month, taking place on Thursday the
26th, you will enter a new phase of transformation and renewal.
The
Astrology of March features Saturn, Venus,
Mars and Uranus, plus Neptune. Saturn
is singular, on the other side of the
Zodiac from all the other planets, and
highlighted at the time of the March
10th Full Moon, which conjuncts it. This
Full Moon also majorly triggers the Saturn
and Uranus opposition (now separating)
since the Sun conjuncts Uranus. This
intense collision of antithetical energies
will become relatively inactive after
this point in time until their next exact
pass of their opposition in September.
Saturn in Virgo is isolated and industrious,
holding up his solitary lantern, good
for learning the hard lessons. Uranus
adds a good dose of extra pizazz to this
stodgy isolation and the old hermit will
peer out from behind his crusty shell
from time to time, to grant us a dazzling
smile of wisdom. We can expect surprising
mental breakthrough at this time, and
the call to freedom as well as tradition.
Venus is also extremely active right now, and turns retrograde on the 6th.
Leading into this retrograde period is a time when Venus moves slowly and therefore
becomes a more powerful force, for reviewing the way that we relate to others
and also for tuning in with our own internal concept of art and value. Venus
remains in Aries, or within one degree, for a total time of an amazing 12 weeks
as she moves all the way back to the very beginning of the sign, briefly dipping
back into Pisces, before straightening out in April. Venus enters Taurus on
June 6th. As Venus slows during the first part of the month, our relationship
energy correspondingly slows and becomes more purposeful. She will disappear
as the Evening Star around the time of the Spring Equinox, on March 20th, to
reappear as the Morning Star with her Heliacal Rise on April 3rd. The period
of time before reappearing as the Morning Star was known to Mayan astrologers
as Venus’ symbolic descent into the underworld, and affairs on earth
assumed a reckless and ungoverned aspect during this time. This coincides with
the approaching end of President Obama’s first 100 days in office, and
this period may well bring surprises and disappointments along with hoped-for
progress. This only makes sense as we as a nation still have a lot of work
to do, and many missteps to set right, before we can hold our own within a
changing world society.
Mars also has a prominent role in this month’s configurations, as indeed
he did also last month, beginning with the rulership of Venus as she slows
down and then retrogrades through Mars’ sign of Aries. Mars represents
the outward trending counterpoint to Venus’ gentle in-taking, and currently
resides in visionary Aquarius, where he joins Chiron, Neptune and Mercury in
a quadruple conjunction, also semi-sextile Uranus, which is nearly exact from
the 3rd to the 8th. This first full week of March is therefore full to the
brim of ideal and promise, illusion and potentially confusion, a time when
each one of us may come closer to understanding his or her own individual and
unique vision for the world. On the collective level the society may embrace
what President Obama referred to in the inaugural as “our patchwork heritage,” which
we must each somehow make our own.
The Pisces New Moon that kicked off the current cycle in the final week of
last month has as its backdrop the powerful Aquarius line-up, which includes
the North Node, as well as Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Chiron and Neptune,. The
Full Moon of March 10th also supports this Aquarian energy since the Sun conjuncts
Uranus. Then in the following week, the Spring Equinox taking place on Friday,
March 20th, makes another powerful chime with these same themes, since Jupiter
is coming to conjunct Neptune/Chiron while Mercury conjuncts Uranus. The Spring
Equinox is especially powerful this year because it ushers in the period of
Venus’ departure from the evening skies as indicated above. When Venus
reappears as the Morning Star on April 3rd a new Venus cycle begins. Since
Venus is in Aries, these next eighteen months signal a time of increased power
and prominence for the feminine. One sign of this would be the ascendancy of
Barack Obama and his appointment of several powerful women to high-ranking
positions within his administration. Another is the increasing acceptance of
the way of peace over the waging of war to solve problems. We can look for
other indications within our own hearts and minds. Only by balancing the feminine
and the masculine sides of our natures, restoring a societal balance that has
been long suppressed, can we collectively move forward into the new truly 21st
Century world that is emerging.
Current Moon Configurations
March 3rd First Quarter Moon
This First Quarter Moon is extremely powerful, with the Moon trine Jupiter
and Mars conjuncting Chiron and Neptune. This is the beginning of a two-month
long period of time when the painful process of recognition of where we feel
that we are separate from being able to fully articulate our ideals. This First
Quarter traditionally represents a “crisis in action” as we come
to see what can and cannot be fulfilled in the arc of our development stemming
from the previous New Moon.
March 10th Full Moon
This Full Moon highlights the Saturn – Uranus opposition once more, since
the Moon and Sun conjunct the separating axis of the opposition within two
degrees. This brings up again as did the Full Moons of previous months the
polarity of the urge to leap ahead without restrictions and the contrary pull
of necessary limitations back, and the past.
March 18th Last Quarter Moon
This Last Quarter Moon comes close to conjuncting Pluto, and represents the
consolidation phase of the cycle, a time when we will gather up the wisdom
we have gained from the prior three weeks.
March 20th Spring
This is an important transition, when the Sun enters Aries. Venus is retrograde
at this time, and square to Pluto, so that relationship plays a powerful role
as well.
March 26th New Moon
The Aries New Moon squares Pluto and conjuncts retrograding Venus. This is
therefore a time when we will feel quite strongly the transformation of structure
that Pluto, newly in Capricorn, represents, and also a time when relationship
will be on our mind. We are looking beneath the covers of relationships in
our lives at this juncture, attempting to find how they serve our highest purpose.
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling
planet Mars. Top
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. 