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You'll get a more accurate horoscope if you read your Rising sign, and your Moon sign, as well as your Sun sign.  Here's how:

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 represents your will and sense of vitality.
Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will encounter this month.

Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the self you show to others.   It represents 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 represents 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 represents 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.
What are your Signs?
Comparison Interpretation of You and your Lover

Aires       

You are in the course of carving deeper and more profound ripples in the tissues of your mind this month, Aries. Surprising revelations from beyond your physical senses are likely to have a startling effect on the way that you see the world around you, totally transforming your vision by month’s end. You may be puzzling over the bearing that your life is taking as you go through your process of discovery this month but one thing is clear: you are moving in the direction of more compassionate and loving interaction with the world around you including especially yourself.

As the month begins, you may find yourself less than fully present for real-world activities, although these are actually quite important to you at this time. There are powerful insights coming your way right now from a place that is within your psyche and yet also from entirely beyond this literal existence. It is a time for deep reflection as you plumb the depths of your unconscious mind. There are seismic changes taking place these days in how you see the world around you. Your compassion is stimulated and your sense of unity with all life. A mystical accord is forming within you that takes into account social spheres and group activities that you favor, including your circles of friends and associates.

At the time of the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place on Tuesday, March 14th, you are reaching one culminating point of the building energy for growth and change. As you are enter more fully into a new stage, a radical departure from previous ways of perceiving and being in the world, you are also being asked at this time to embrace a concept of right relationship with significant partners in your life as an important part of your emerging value system, and to communicate your most basic truth to others around you. You are sharing deeply of yourself at this time, including and perhaps especially the almost unconscious dream world of your hidden imagination.

The Spring Equinox of Monday, March 20th, and the days following, always a powerful period of time for you, becomes even more poignant during this cycle of deep reflection and searching. You are finding yourself in a new way, discovering a new self within you, as hidden parts of your nature emerge for perhaps the very first time.

Taurus      

You are once more on a transformational roll this month, Taurus, with renewed career possibilities and changing priorities. Startling new information from the very beginning of the month catapults you into rethinking your options. Partnership with others is beneficial and perhaps over-idealized as you rework your entire relationship dynamic. Everything is rosy to the extent that you can let go of past expectations; only there may be some issues of outside authority to be dealt with as you assume the powerful mantle of your own.

As the month begins, you are exploring your higher mind aspirations. This period of time, stemming from the Pisces New Moon near the end of February and lasting until the mid-month Full Moon, represents the best chance you’ll have all year to vision new possibilities for yourself into being. You are also likely to be reflecting on your future, with Mercury retrograding through your sector of group affiliation and societal goals. Paradoxically, even though you have the impulse for new beginnings right now, it may not be the best time to act on these impulses. You benefit when you simply get in touch with your vision and mull it over for now, preferring to watch and wait before taking action, perhaps until mid-April. Of course you can’t put your life completely on hold, but you want to be aware that actions taken and decisions made at this time may divert to a different course after the Mercury retrograde period of time has passed.

Since your ruler, Venus, crosses into your career sector on Sunday, March 5th, you are likely to be getting involved with your public presentation also at this time. You are in an entirely spiritual and numinous place right now concerning career possibilities for yourself; you are intent on following “the path with heart” as Carlos Castaneda puts it.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday March 14th is likely to further symbolically emphasize these impulses, as well as present you with the opportunity for continued change and growth in the area of personal relationships as an important part of your search for the inner core of your own truth.

Gemini     

Partnership with significant others in your life is a transformational experience for you right now, Gemini. You are getting to some surprising new places with how you see your world and your place in it, including your career and professional life and the path of your highest purpose for yourself. The workplace that you previously knew may suddenly be long gone, at least in the way that you knew it. Your plans may seem to change rapidly at this time, but don’t be fooled. You are right where to needed to be all along, even when events seem to conspire to be telling you otherwise.

As the month begins, you are finding new direction with your career and professional life, and renewed energy for a different way of looking at your public persona. Startling information that comes to you at this time, or in the last days of the previous month, represents the seed of change about to burst within you and perhaps take you down an entirely different path. You are fortunate at this time, and full of activity in the outer world of achievement, but also deeply invested in searching out the soulful perspective.

The First Quarter Moon, taking place on Monday, March 6th, represents a time of increased growth and perhaps difficulties along the way to finding a new path forward into your emerging destiny. At this time also, your ruler Mercury is retrograde in your career sector, perhaps ensuring increased reflection on exactly where you are heading these days, and bringing along with it an increased awareness of deep-seated changes in relationship connections with significant partners in your life.

These changes are emphasized further at the time of the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse that takes place a week later, on Tuesday March 14th, in your sector of psychological roots and home and family concerns. You are transforming utterly in your relationship dynamic during this period of your life, and this eclipse is one important turning point in that cycle of growth and change.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, March 22nd, represents still another growth-oriented crossroads, when the awareness of your situation and your desire for change becomes stronger than your resistance to that process. With the Solar Eclipse near month’s end, on Wednesday, March 29th, you are preparing for a new takeoff along the runway of your unique destiny.

Cancer      

Your self-concept and your basic belief system is changing rapidly this month, Cancer, along with your vision of your pathway forward into the future, which may take a dramatic turn as well. New philosophical truth seems suddenly evident where only a whisper of an idea previously existed. Your intimate bond with others around you is also a rapidly moving landscape that partakes of the infinite, but may also be confusing in the earthly realms here below. You are moving in the direction of an expanded sense of self and connection that brings more joy than pain, in the long run.

As the month begins, inspiration is coming your way from the time of the New Moon that directly precedes the first days of March. You are finding your way through to a new philosophy of life and living at this time. With the Pisces New Moon having taken place in your sector of higher mind, and Mercury also about to turn retrograde in this same area of your chart, there is plenty to review and rethink in your approach to higher learning and exposure to exotic points of view, perhaps involving travel to distant lands, perhaps more like travel of the arm chair variety. In any case there is likely to be a new wave of information submerging you at this time, unless you are able to surf it.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Monday, March 6th, you are pulled to the numinous world of your own internal workings, where you may discover drastically more than is available in the surface layers of your mundane existence. This is an exciting period of time, when you may uncover mysteries of your own inner nature that you were unaware of, and when you attempt to blend these with your outer world presentation, successfully, but not without some degree of struggle.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that takes place on Tuesday, March 14th, is transformative for you. You are at this time more ready to share with others the inner truth that you have been developing through this period, and feeling your way into the next phase of your life in a way that makes ultimate sense for you going forward. You are searching for the life path that is entirely consistent with your own higher purpose.

The week of the Spring Equinox, starting Monday, March 20th, is another big moment for you, when you are ready to step out in a new way with changes in your thinking. Since Mercury is unfortunately still retrograde you also do well to go ahead slowly at this time, rather than making any really big move just yet. After mid-April the stream will clear and it will make more sense to charge ahead with radically different projects.

Leo           

Ready or not, big change is coming for you this month, Leo. Issues of self and other will be highlighted, as you seek to find your own center through the fog of idealized relationship and redefined material or security concerns. New vistas of intimate connection with others may arise quite suddenly to shake up your world. You are being put to the test by forces beyond your conscious control, but if you keep faith with yourself and the universe you may find that you are in exactly the right place and the right time for your continued growth as an individual and membership in a larger community also.

As the month begins, riding the energy from the New Moon in Pisces at the end of last month, you are likely to be tuning into surprising feelings of new intimacy with significant partners in your life, as well as an important growth spurt within your own centered sense of responsibility. With Saturn in your sign, you are paradoxically feeling both a sense of isolation and independence right now and also sensing new possibilities for connection with others, coming at these ties from a broader and more balanced point of view. Partnership with others has an otherworldly glow at this time, and connects to your heart center in important ways, as you explore you inner workings with an eye toward change.

Mercury is also retrograde for the entire month, so you are likely to spend a great deal of time in full reflection on those issues of self and other that separate you from your source, and from your center, as these come up for review and perhaps ultimately for rewriting the final outcome.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, March 14th, brings issues of independence and dependence to the fore as you feel the balance or lack of it in your life, and mull over your possibilities. There is a deep-seated transformation at the heart of your journey through this numinous period of time. You are changing at the core, and involving yourself more directly in the process of your life, letting go of outside authority influences that don’t really serve you.

When your reach the Spring Equinox and Last Quarter Moon of March 20th - 22nd, you will feel more ready to accept new perspectives on your current situation, as your shift in consciousness parallels the shift in thinking your own way through to the dharma that is uniquely yours in this lifetime to fulfill.

Virgo      

You are getting clearer on your path going forward this month, Virgo, although not without a lot of muddle and soul searching. New information coming your way via partnership interaction helps you in your depth researches into the underpinnings of desire and self-assertion. Relationship with significant partners in your life is huge for you right now, and provides its surprises and changes of direction also. When breakthrough comes around the end of the month it feels like it’s all part of a larger plan, but where you eventually choose to go with it is all up to you.

As the month begins, you are opening to a new phase. The New Moon from the end of last month was full of surprises, and affected you in your relationship sector. The theme of this lunar cycle for you will be your connection with significant partners in your life, and perhaps startling changes that await you in that area. Even if you are single at this time, there will be developments in the way that you connect with others around you. Your communication is coming from a peaceful place these days, and partakes of an otherworldly understanding of where you would like your life to be heading at this time, in your heart of hearts.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon, on Monday, March 6th, your presence in the world of career and profession becomes involved with partnership concerns, with a hint of conflict there regarding perhaps their relative priorities. With your ruler Mercury also retrograde in your one-on-one sector throughout the month, you may be rethinking the important connections in your life with an eye to past situations and future possibilities. Some aspect of past events will likely come to the fore as this monthly cycle continues, possibly in the middle of the month.

In fact there is an important turning point for you represented by the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your sign that takes place on Tuesday, March 14th, when issues of self and other may emerge as more important than you had previously imagined, and deep reflection on your situation takes a serious turn, with plenty of food for thought regarding your core issues, and the home and family concerns that these underlie.

Even more profound changes may take place as the Sun moves into Aries with the Spring Equinox of Monday March 20th, and with the days following, leading up to the Solar Eclipse in Aries taking place on Wednesday, March 29th. It does no good to struggle. You are transforming at the very roots of your being at this time, and you do well to watch and wait to see where these changes will take your life organically rather than to flail about as though caught in a trap. You have the freedom to be who you are in fact becoming and that will have to be enough.

Libra     

Where are you going these days Libra, and what will you do when you get there? You are asking yourself some serious questions this month regarding your situation. Painful mid-month experiences may bring up patterns of self-expression that you are more than ready to outgrow and discard, as you grope for the deeper meaning behind your actions. Communication is key, as you seek to get across to others around you with true information and intent listening. Especially in the last days of the month, you may find yourself attempting to discern just how to find the right balance.

As the month begins, you find yourself with your feet set ever more firmly on the path of your destiny. Sudden epiphany has brought you to a new turn of your spiral way, with new perspectives to overlook, and deep reflection keeps you standing there on the brink of a new chapter. As the month unfolds, there are both triumphs and the hard work of looking back over your past with a newly formed gaze that takes in greater detail. You are being asked to discriminate between what you need to hold on to and what to let go, to become chaff in the wind blowing through you at this time. It is important not to bend to any superficial influence at this time, but only to the inner authority of your own voice that is slowly becoming surer. You are taking greater responsibility for your future in these important days and it is beginning to show.

The Mercury retrograde period of time that lasts the entire month, and beyond, is a guarantee that nothing will quickly change for you, or if it does, it will be a matter of three steps forward and two backward, but this is not cause for becoming discouraged. You are planting the seed and slowly nurturing it all this long while, for many weeks in this spring time of your soul, and the fruit will be borne of its own natural necessity, when it will.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, March 14th, emphasizes getting your point across to others, when you must tell the deepest truth you know to those around you and when your mission to serve your highest impulse for yourself and the sharing of a deeply spiritual perspective becomes transparent in your speech, or perhaps written communication.

The Spring Equinox of Monday, March 20th, and the days following, represents another crux of changes in perspective, when the consciousness rises of where you have been and, even more, where you are heading with this phase of your life.

Scorpio      

You are coming into your own in some new and different ways this month, Scorpio, and partly as a result of the role that intimate others play in your life. You are investing yourself these days in greater and more profound interpersonal connection with close partners, while staying even more true to yourself at the very same time, which could be quite a trick. You are also sincerely digging into your depths right now and investigating what you may find there, which may prove just a bit crazy making for you over the short term, or at least confusing. Your core level researches are helping you to seek the more compassionate stance in approaching others whenever possible, and that is a blessing.

As the month begins, you are riding a unique impulse of freedom that has sprung forth unexpectedly in the wake of the New Moon from the end of February that conjuncted revolutionary and trickster Uranus in your sector of artistic creativity. You may be in the process of forging new ground for the characteristic expression of your life force, and the offspring of this activity in terms of artistic production and also your children and even your romantic passion, at the same time as you reach for a peak of success in your career and professional life.

Your scintillating self-expression at this time finds however its contrapuntal tidal ebb in the retrograde of Mercury through this same sector of your chart. You may find yourself at times in a self-reflective mood as well, as the month unfolds, tying you to important cycles of growth and change that are also present in your multifaceted psyche at this time. You are deep sea diving this entire month into the chambers of your inner workings, and coming up with the pearl of newfound and hard-fought wisdom.

Especially at the time of the mid-month Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, taking place on Tuesday, March 14th, you are likely to be questioning the basis for your security, financial and otherwise, and seeking fundamental growth inspired by the enormous changes of perspective that are coming to you at this time. This is a case of going easy and gladly or else kicking and screaming to the same ultimate destination, which is an expanded view of yourself and your world. Might as well go willingly.

Sagittarius     

You are hiding out in your interior depths quite a bit this month, Sagittarius, taking the plunge. The nurturing urge is strong in you right now, and self-nurturing also becomes your theme, the more so as you begin to pay attention to the inspired communication of your angel guidance operating behind the scenes. Creative change comes from deep within your inner self, and especially toward the end of the month, from working in concert with active partners.

As the month begins, you are indwelling in the recesses of your mind, the furrows beyond and below consciousness; the place where dreams are born. This in fact may be the largest part of life, although certainly not the most obvious. You are very invested in home and family concerns right now, and the underpinnings of consciousness, your psychological roots. There may be startling changes taking place behind the scenes at this time, which will have implications for your future. Your communication at this time is softer and more confused in one way, more idealized in another, as you partake of the essence of spiritual intrigue and share this point of view with others around you.

The First Quarter Moon, of Monday, March 6th, may bring others more firmly into the picture of your own transformation that you are have been going through, massively, during this past year. You are enjoying a mystical viewpoint on everything in your life right now, including significant partners, and you benefit when you recognize their input to your own process of growth and change.

With Mercury retrograde in your sector of home and family during this entire month, there may also be ways that you reflect on the past with an eye to correcting previous patterns of relationship. You are gaining a new perspective on where you have come from as a jumping off point for where you ultimately are going.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse that comes along a week later, on Tuesday, March 14th, represents a time when there is a flowering of your process and you are ready to share this information with the world around you. There is a tremendous metamorphosis that is going on inside you and it is natural to want to be able to share this with others. Indeed being able to share from a place of wholeness is an important part of the changes that you are going through.

Capricorn    

You are on a roller-coaster ride of your own making this month, Capricorn; you are the vehicle for your own change. Reaching out to others around you in new ways provides unexpected results over the course of this month’s cycle, as you redefine your philosophy to include the bigger picture of a more expanded viewpoint. You may find that things get more than just a little confusing, but it’s for a good cause. The ultimate purpose is your spiritual growth, which is taking place as a natural consequence of the actions of your higher self, with or without your conscious agenda as a part of the process.

As the month begins, you are riding the crest of a wave of new information that has come to you recently, perhaps in the form of startling epiphany, perhaps just data of the more mundane variety. At any rate, it is possible that the cumulative effect of ideas only recently dawning upon you will be profound. You are gaining access to hitherto unseen and unknown parts of your psyche in the weeks and months that lie ahead, and one big turning point may come during this monthly cycle. You are approaching others from a somewhat internal and reflective place right now, with Mercury retrograde in your communications sector throughout the entire month of March and on into April. There are seeds of change sprouting within you that will definitely take quite a while to germinate, but the action has begun, and the trickle may turn into a waterfall of change before too long.

The First Quarter Moon, taking place on Monday, March 6th, is the harbinger of just such change, and may stimulate you to reevaluate your current life path. This is a time when you are more aware than usual regarding the fragility of your pool of financial and other resources, and perhaps the real message is that your true basis for security is only partially rooted in the physical world.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse that follows a week later, on Tuesday, March 14th, also signals a time of increased consciousness and the desire for deep-seated change. Something is transforming at the core of your personality and its movement can only benefit you in the long run. Your angel guides are near. Another moment of tension may be represented by the Last Quarter Moon, of Wednesday, March 22nd, when you are asked to fully plumb the depths of your being for renewed understanding of where your path is leading you at this time.

The Solar Eclipse at nearly month’s end, on Wednesday March 29th, could also be epic in this way. Throughout this period you are opening to the numinous inner reality of your unconscious impulse and you may find there a vastness that exceeds the more surface and normative sense of self that we all are used to as we go about our everyday affairs.

Aquarius      

You are feeling a little dreamy these days, Aquarius, not fully at home in the physical plane. This in spite of charging ahead with your financial and other resources where you seem to be so fully engaged at this time. Partnership in your life is more important than ever as you attempt to discern the deeper meaning and how you will actually connect with your future self. Perhaps there is a way of seeing the world through the temporary lens of the body, seeing the world whole and complete, and yet pulling away inside your own mind from the fantasy of permanence.

As the month begins, you are making an entirely fresh start with the resources in your life that form the basis for your security, including your financial ones. You are at this time very much in the process of looking to see where you are headed with these groundings of your activities here on planet earth. You are also fortunate in your circumstances and coming from a spiritual place inside yourself right now, being in an essentially mystical frame of mind regarding your attitude to life in general, and your working life in particular.

The Mercury retrograde period of time that lasts the entire month, and on into mid-April, means that you might be better off when you reflect on the philosophical underpinnings of your security situation than when you try for any concrete solutions to existing problems. The First Quarter Moon taking place on Monday, March 6th, reinforces the mystical parts of your existence over the merely practical, although not without some tension in the mix.

The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, March 14th, represents an important turning point for you, when issues of where you are going in your life may come up, and as well any partnership concerns that have been building. You are very invested in significant relationships in your life at this time, and these important relationships are likely to get a boost from the energy of this mid-month period. You are also very aware of your partnership with the rest of society at this time, and more conscious than ever of desiring a future for yourself that you can not only live with but for.

The Last Quarter Moon, of Wednesday, March 22nd, represents a time of increased awareness of what, in the final analysis, you are attempting to do with your life, and communicating your basic truth to others around you. You are seeking a blend of the mystical and the practical throughout this monthly period, and to your amazement, largely succeeding.

Pisces    

You are visioning your world a bit differently this month, Pisces. Perspective shifts and career changes are making for a wild lunar cycle as you celebrate the renewal that accompanies this, your birthday time of the year. The beginning of the month especially is an exciting and surprising time for you, when you may be subject to sudden changes of attitude. You are dwelling internally in some deeply personal spaces right now, at the same time as you are getting yourself out into the world in a truly different style than ever before, perhaps one that takes into account a more whole-hearted commitment to the spiritual unity of the planet as well as your own.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the recent New Moon in your sign. Since this New Moon conjuncted trickster Uranus, it is possible that you will find yourself in some surprising circumstances before this lunar cycle is past. You are coming from some very new places inside yourself philosophically at this time, and may be that you are getting the travel bug as well, or making changes to travel plans, or perhaps exploring different worlds through the power of imagination coupled with educational initiatives you have involved yourself with recently. In any case, there is likely to be some way that you are opening yourself up at this time to the yeasty interior of your dream worlds beyond conscious thought. Your work in the world is transforming as well in interesting directions these days, perhaps in concert with this brand of internal awareness that is hard to pin down or even directly discuss.

The First Quarter Moon taking place on Monday, March 6th, represents a moment of tension in the lunar cycle, a time when you may feel the pull of the inner regions of your soul more firmly than ever, and when you may also feel the basic conflict between this numinous inner world and the more superficial mundane one that surrounds your waking moments. Since Mercury is also retrograde in your sign all month long, this is not a period of time when you can push the river, but when you actually do better to let your ideas develop naturally, without much steering of them, allowing the universe to have its say.

Another turning point in your cycle of evolutionary growth is reached with the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse near mid-month, taking place on Tuesday, March 14th, when you are likely to bring others around you into your process, perhaps because at this point you feel ready, or perhaps because you feel compelled. You are transforming in some important ways right now, and your presence in the world reflects these changes, utterly. You can’t run away from the new self that is emerging from inside you and you can’t hide your light under a basket either, so there you are.

Overview of the Planets this month:

The Astrology of March is complex, beginning with the dynamic New Moon in Pisces at the end of the previous month, on February 27th, and featuring the powerful outer planet energies of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, plus two eclipses and Mercury retrograde. The Pisces New Moon was conjunct visionary Uranus, while a stationary Jupiter squares Neptune all month long, and the Pisces-Virgo Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place on March 14th highlights transformative Pluto. Because Pluto is tied to Neptune throughout this entire cycle, the transformation that we seek, or that seeks us, is intimately bound up with spiritual transcendence. We may be tempted to hide out in escapist fantasy, especially considering the tenor of the times, but we find that we can't really get away from the changes that we must go through. Change is a function of life itself, and our changes right now are built upon the recognition that all creatures are holy including even ourselves. This amazing information is likely to come to us in perhaps startling ways throughout the month as a function of prominent Uranus, visionary trickster energy of the unexpected.

Mercury is also retrograde in Pisces for nearly the entire month, so it's not a good idea to make any departures into very new plans. Mercury retrogrades on March 2nd, in a tight square with Pluto, sending us into a reflectively internal mode and perhaps a transformationally exciting one as well. Radically new ways of seeing our world may be percolating in our minds at this time. Mercury conjuncts the Sun on the evening of March 11th, which can represent one peak energy period for the retrograde, and changes to direct motion on March 25th, conjunct Uranus, although it does not leave its retrograde shadow until mid-April. We may expect communication and mechanical breakdowns all month long and into April, as well as plenty of opportunities for reflection on our situation.

With Pluto so powerfully emphasized at the mid-month Lunar Eclipse, this is a month about transformation, and the clearing away of old and outmoded parts of ourselves. Pluto has the tendency to sweep everything away in its path, which can therefore seem like meaningless destruction, but the upside is that the old structure must necessarily pass away before the new structure can be born in its place. That is the fundamental nature of Pluto. We are tested to the extent that we try to hold on to the past, and explode into freedom to the extent that we can embrace change. Since Pluto is also connected strongly to Neptune at this time, our transformation will involve a spiritual and compassionate component, and we must beware of too much compassion, bordering on self-sacrifice, into the bargain.

There is also likely to be some confusion with Neptune, and potentially self-deception as well. Neptune has many guises. The energy of Neptune, literally out of this world, does not blend easily with more mundane concerns. This pairing of energies suggests a wild and perhaps uncomfortable ride, but one that is necessary for our continued evolutionary growth. We will not escape from this period of time unscathed, continuing on into mid-April, but hopefully we will emerge stronger and better integrated in our search for wholeness.

With Mars opposite Pluto at the time of the Solar Eclipse near the end of the month, on March 29th, there may be also a further release of the violence and hatred we have recently seen revealing themselves into the world. Just at the time of this eclipse, Mars reaches conjunction with U.S. Mars, further emphasizing the transformation of this country's military impulse, and perhaps presaging further difficulties.

Current Configurations

The entire monthly cycle during March rides the energy of the February 27th New Moon. This New Moon conjuncts Uranus and also squares Mars in Gemini, which is sextile to Saturn in Leo as well. Meanwhile Jupiter squares Neptune, a configuration that lasts all month long, and Neptune is parallel to Pluto, also for the entire month. The cosmic forces are gathering in this powerful New Moon, taking us out of our mundane lives and offering us a glimpse of the numinous powers beyond this existence.

The First Quarter Moon takes place on Monday, March 6th, after both Mercury and Jupiter have changed direction. Mercury stations retrograde on March 2nd, and doesn't emerge from its retrograde shadow until mid-April. The Mercury retrograde period of time, lasting all month long, is a period of missed communications, mechanical breakdowns, and reflection on where we might be going with the direction of our lives, especially in a spiritual sense.

Jupiter stations retrograde on Saturday March 4th, and like the other outer planets remains retrograde for almost six months. In the current context, what is significant is that it retrogrades just past the perfection of its square with Neptune and therefore stays square within narrow orb for the entire month of March, during the significant eclipse energy of this monthly cycle.

Neptune is thus emphasized throughout the month, and especially at the time of this First Quarter Moon, which trines it while a stationary Jupiter squares it. Neptune brings in the numinous energy from beyond this physical world, and through its mutual reception with Uranus at this time, particularly invites us to visualize a social setting that is more spiritually based than our present one. Neptune is also opposed to Saturn at this time, so that the practical and the ideal are facing off during all of 2006, bringing to our awareness both to where we concretely are at this time and the contrast to where we could be as a nation and a species.

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, March 14th is a very special configuration, since it is an eclipse and thus more powerful and also forms a T-square to Pluto. Pluto in Sagittarius is getting ready to station, in the 27th degree of the sign, and by being brought into such prominence highlights the transformational energy of this powerful extra-worldly force for drastic change in our lives. That Pluto closely parallels Neptune at this time is also very important. Neptune and Pluto together represent an epoch-making archetype that sweeps aside previous conceptions to make way for the new phase to emerge, hopefully one that is closer to our true heart's desire, as represented by numinous Neptune. The Sabian symbol for the degree of Sagittarius occupied by Pluto, “A sculptor” suggests the creativity of the universe around us, contributing to our own personal evolution, the building energy of self-fulfillment, as Marc Edmond Jones has it.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, March 22nd, follows closely the Spring Equinox, when the Sun enters Aries each year. The Last Quarter Moon represents a ”crisis of awareness“ when we take a look at what we have accomplished, and failed to accomplish, during the preceding 3 weeks of the unfolding lunar cycle. This Last Quarter Moon emphasizes Saturn over Neptune, the practical over the unrealistic magnificent ideal. We may have to fold up some of our tents at this point and accept the limitation that living brings to the process of our heart's best intentions.

When Mercury stations direct on the 25th of the month, it is conjunct Uranus and trine Jupiter, just as Mars trines Neptune while Jupiter still squares it. This is another potentially quite significant period, depending on how sensitized we are to the outer planet energy that is humming in our collective psyche during these powerful times.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aries at nearly the end of the month is another powerful configuration, when hope springs anew with the emerging season. This powerful eclipse New Moon accompanies a stationing Pluto, trines Saturn, and also exactly sextiles Chiron, bringing up the possibility of transcending old patterns of social interaction that have held us in thrall for all of our adult lives, perhaps. We are striving at this time to accept our deficiencies without judgment, and to accept no outside authority other than our own. The transformational beat goes on as always. This New Moon is a powerful indicator of change within the limitations of this earthly frame.

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