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The Astrology of March features Mars with Saturn, Neptune, Chiron and Uranus. Mars is very prominent now, being at its closest point to the earth and standing almost still in the sky, still retrograde until the 10th and remaining in sextile to Saturn which is still in early Libra. The Spring Equinox takes place on March 20th, when the Sun enters Mars-ruled Aries, from which we get the meaning of the word "March." All nature participates in a very Mars-like leap forward at this time. But it's a terribly slow leap in the case of this particular March, since Mars remains at almost a standstill in the sky and stays in sextile with Saturn all month long, within a degree through the first 25 days. Mars with Saturn is similar to the retrograde of Mars: things move more slowly and with deliberation and introspection. What we do commit to requires more effort, but the results are also longer lasting.

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Neptune and Chiron, getting closer to the end of Aquarius, are also prominent in March skies, since both Mars and Saturn make an inconjunct to Neptune and Chiron's conjoined degree from early Leo and from Libra, creating another prominent Yod, or finger-of-God, formation. This is similar to what we saw last month with Mars at the time of the Aquarius New Moon. It means that the spiritual dimension represented by Neptune, which includes a large dose of confusion regarding true motivation, is still very much present for us right now. This becomes intensified with the March 15th New Moon, another powerful mid-month configuration involving this time a Pisces lineup of five planets. The New Moon almost exactly conjuncts Uranus, at less than a degree of separation, with Mercury squeezed into the middle and Jupiter nearby. This all makes for a very wild and crazy month, especially during the latter half, following that intense and volatile mid-month moment. We are enjoined to follow our dreams, wherever they might take us, no matter how improbable, and no matter how much of a departure they might be from consensus thinking. It is timely, for action of an idealistic kind is urgently needed if we are to collectively awaken and begin to pull our civilization out of its steep dive. The evidence can be seen all around us – and with increasing clarity – as this pivotal year continues to unfold.

In April, Saturn, dipping back into Virgo, will once more exactly oppose Uranus in late Pisces, and in mid-May oppose both Uranus and Jupiter as they come into close conjunction. By the end of May we have the entrance of Uranus into Aries where it will also square Pluto in the famous "Cardinal T-square" that is the hallmark of our era. This second decade of the 21st century, "the teens," is very likely to become as well-known for societal change as "the sixties." Following the preliminary alert of March, these next three months, April, May and June, constitute a one-two-three punch that will have the effect of an extreme wake-up call for the whole society. It is of course in another way quite surprising that the existing data has not served as a wake-up call already, but perhaps the alarm clock has to get a bit louder before the great mass of people will hear it. This next stage will probably involve greater suffering, as that seems to be the only way that we learn here on planet earth.

In this current month of March we can begin to see that we are on the edge of a precipice and that our social grouping will soon begin to go over it like lemmings. The information becomes more available and so does the alertness of mind to perceive it. We need only to let go of the past to get a jump on the powerful changes of this spring and summer, but that of course is more easily said than done. The most significant time this month will be the days between the electrifying New Moon on the 15th and the exciting entrance of the Sun into Aries on the 20th, where it will oppose Saturn and square Pluto. We might begin to see, during this middle week of the month, the writing on the wall of change. It is a bleak picture that emerges, but perhaps a joyful one as well, as the necessary pruning operation finally begins to commence.

Transits to the U.S. Chart

Last month we noted that the mid-month time period was once more significant, since we would see the New Moon in conjunction with Neptune and Chiron making strong aspects to the U.S. Moon and Midheaven. Prognostication is tricky with Neptune, being such a slippery planet, but we did in fact witness some interesting mid-February activity, with the first civilian deaths from the U.S. military stepped-up anti-Taliban offensive in Helmand Province.

The following headline and story appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now:

12 Die as U.S. Bombs Wrong House as Part of New Afghan Offensive

Thousands of US and NATO forces have launched one of the largest military offensives of the eight-year war in an attempt to remove the Taliban from the city of Marjah in Helmand province. US officials have described the operation as a success so far, but on Sunday twelve Afghans died when two rockets fired by NATO slammed into the wrong house. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for an investigation into the deaths. Ten of those killed were from the same family. The US said the dead included nine civilians and three insurgents. Prior to the errant bombing, Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a goal of the operation was to have no civilian casualties.

Of course there have been many more civilian deaths reported in the weeks following this report from February 15th – as many as three times the original number – but this was the first. The transit of Neptune and Chiron continued, and transiting Mars made a close aspect also to U.S. Midheaven in the weeks following the New Moon.

This report is interesting in the light of the Neptune transit, with the New Moon, to both the Midheaven and Ascendant of the U.S. chart as well as to the U.S. Moon at 27 Aquarius, only a degree away. There is certainly a confused attitude on the part of the public in this country and even within the administration. Is the war in Afghanistan producing inevitable civilian casualties because the U.S is defending its interests and waging a just and necessary war or is there another way to look at this foreign policy objective, begun under President Bush after 9-11 and continued by the Obama administration, as one that has become a quagmire with initial motives other than those officially stated in the beginning? Or even worse is there actual deception that is still ongoing? These questions are murky, as befits a Neptune transit. The U.S. public is definitely beginning to question the war in general.

With Chiron also involved we could even suspect that the American public is more concerned about the morality of this war than might be evident on the surface of public opinion, especially as revealed on the TV screen. If dozens of civilians in this country were killed by a series of bomb attacks directed at a criminal element but targeting “the wrong house” it is safe to assume that there would be a far greater outcry.

In the coming month the New Moon of course conjuncts Uranus and Mercury as Uranus sextiles U.S Pluto and opposes U.S. Neptune, while transiting Neptune conjuncts U.S. Moon exactly. It is also interesting to note that U.S. Uranus makes an inconjunct to U.S. Eris which can be linked to war-like activity just as Mars is. In Greek mythology, Eris was the mythological sister of Ares (Mars).

This combination of transits suggests unexpected events along the same lines as in the previous month, presumably involving the Afghan war but possibly relating to an equivalent issue elsewhere in the world. There will continue to be confusion on the part of the U.S. public and a growing empathy with the citizens of other lands that are directly impacted by military decisions made in Washington.

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Please note: dates given in this column for astrological events are based on U.S. Pacific Time Zone (UTC +8), for other locations dates may need to be adjusted depending on the number of hours of separation.

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You are moving out at the same time that you are moving ever inward, Aries. The first half of this month is a powerful dissolver of your troubles but in the nature of a stealth attack rather than a direct assault. Like the iceberg that sank Titanic you are nine tenths underwater right now, but just as deadly to your preconceived assumptions. Relationship with partners that you look up to still carries weight toward revamping your creative expression along more peaceful lines. Around mid-month you might just be able to surmise that most of your problems are but a mirage, a trick of the mind. Take a closer look and, poof! They're gone.

As the month begins, you are feeling you way toward better communication with significant partners in your life based on the mediumship of your deep inner core. This might feel like limitation and a slowing down of getting what you want, but it is in truth an opening to a new way of seeing and being in the world. This new vision takes into account the dream landscape of your unconscious as well as the more immediately available world of the physical senses. What we think of as mysterious and out of touch is in a way even more real than our conscious waking self since it is actually calling the shots behind the scenes. Rather than attempting to ignore these signals it might actually be best for you to yield to the wisdom they present to you over the course of this month in the form of dream imagination. The Last Quarter Moon that takes place on Sunday, March 7th, is a strong tug at your collar that serves to remind you of these issues and the received wisdom that you might be able to glean by means of a close examination of recent experience. This is also a powerful time for you in terms of relationship. Difficulties as well as upbeat attitudes are part of your coursework now, but its nothing that you can't handle. The New Moon that comes along a week later, taking place on Monday, March 15th, is powerful for you in its own special and strange way. This will be a good time to remind yourself that no, you're not going crazy, it's only the astrological weather. This is also a time of amazing information flow that seems to come your way direct from its Source, meaning that an intuitive level of your mind deep within you is darkly glowing and producing small miracles. This is definitely a feel-good experience especially if you can simply go with it, letting go of logical-brain judgment. The past ten weeks of the retrograde of your ruler Mars, ever since before the beginning of the year, have been leading up to this. You are definitely over the hump, although there are still obstacles to surmount in coming out fully for who you are with enhanced self-expression. These are some of the ideas that you will wind up working with for the remainder of the month. The Spring Equinox of Saturday, March 20th, is traditionally your time to shine. This is a very different seasonal transition this year however, since Saturn is sitting opposed to the Sun in your relationship sector shadowing your forward progress with a sense of seriousness and limitation. Then the First Quarter Moon a few days later, taking place on Tuesday, March 23rd, signals another time of testing when you will begin to see very poignantly what part of the New Moon impulse from the preceding week is truly viable. These few days between the 20th and the 23rd are immensely potent ones for you as you intentionally sort out your possibilities. The Full Moon that ends the month is also a unique moment in time when partners come more fully into the picture both as challenge and as validation for your own series of explorations.

Ready set go, Taurus. This month is the springboard for the rest of your year and perhaps even for many years to come. You are diving down deep to fetch the gold of inner process and it changes everything. Over the second half of this month you are launching yourself out above the winter of your discontent and the through the waters of your emotional commitment. You find yourself changing at the very core of your being; this is reflected in new plans that appear out of nowhere and lead you to the "now here" of a very different future for yourself. This metamorphosis is provided free of charge by the universe and you need only the courage to truly embrace it.

As the month begins, you are feeling the strong lure of intuitional realities calling you that seem more powerful and more real than the mundane world all around you. You are entering into a magical time period when your vision inspires you and moves mountains on your behalf. You are entirely serious about your calling now, and also are likely to be experiencing the courage to go deep inside yourself and come up with the gold of pure intention. Frustrations only seem to hold you back, but are actually allowing you to gather your energy for the eventual take-off. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, is a crucial period when you are accumulating the bits of information that you will need for your next step, to come a week further on. You are seeing where your ideas have currency and where they may have run aground in the shallows of unhelpful circumstance. This is only superficially disappointing as knowing what doesn't work prepares you for breakthrough. The New Moon that comes along on Monday, March 15th, in your sector of future plans is entirely powerful for you and takes you to places inside yourself that you have never been before, providing that you have the presence and the faith to look for them. All you have to do is sincerely believe in yourself and that you can have what you want – or rather what the deep soul purpose inside you wants, not always exactly the same thing. Check for that inner chime and then go ahead. Your wishes and hopes for a better world are engaged and energized now so that you might find yourself thinking your way through to unexpected solutions where you once saw only unsolvable issues. This euphoria cannot last, but it will leave you with a lasting impression of what is after all possible. The Spring Equinox of the following weekend, taking place on Saturday, March 20h, is another very special time, when you are open to the possibilities inherent in your circumstances and also almost painfully aware at the very same time of limitations that hold you back from being all that you can be. You can't help turning to the inside at this juncture and in a curious way the inside is exactly where you want to be. By month's end you will have explored this darker side of yourself more thoroughly with an intention to begin finally to comprehend part of it.

It's a mystery, Gemini. For a while there at the beginning of the year you couldn't do anything right and now you can't do anything wrong. Wherever you look you find abundance, at the very least in the form of a silver lining to the clouds and likely in more tangible terms. Business endeavors and your work in the world are especially favored right now and all your relationships are fed by and feed into that area. This is all based on detailed hard-working transformation that you have been going through at the deepest possible levels. You've done your homework and now you get your reward, the more so the more you have the nerve to simply accept it.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way through. Epiphanies are plentiful for you in this early spring season only you have to learn to take them straight up, no chaser. It's a come-as-you-are party for the ideas in your head that wouldn't stand a chance at the prep school or the board room table but are somehow quite fitting for the soul journey in which you are currently engaged. You are coming into a backward form of knowledge with the judgments reversed, so that two plus two no longer equals a simple four, which seems like total disaster but in the end makes perfect sense. Or perfect nonsense, which is another way of putting it. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, exacerbates these feelings of the strangeness of your path and also has the effect of bringing others quite firmly into the picture. The combination might not be particularly easy, since justifying the happenings of your life to anyone else when you don't even know how to make your own sense of them is not a rewarding task. It might be best not to go there if at all possible, but to maintain your witness in silence. The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Monday, March 15th, is very exciting and brings it all back home to yourself in a most unusual and yet fitting way. You are liable to sudden insights now, perhaps even including the insight that you must be off and running in some entirely different direction than you previously had in mind. There is genius in your impulses now, so one idea is giving up all thought of safety in just following them; although it must be said that another competing idea that you must look before you leap is also worthwhile. The activity is bigger than you are and you might just have to succumb to uncertainty, as if you haven't done so already over these past few weeks. The phrase "go with the flow" was made for your situation now; indeed there may not even be much of a choice about the going. In any case it helps to make sure to observe carefully everything that happens with as open a mind as is humanly possible. In the coming weeks, you will be exploring the ramifications of your continuing series of choices, as the Sun crosses into your sector of future plans with the advent of the March 20th Spring Equinox and the subsequent First Quarter Moon taking place early on Tuesday, March 23rd. You might feel the pressure of the momentum that you have generated propelling you through the tunnel of altered circumstances that you have engendered, as you sort out what part of your new-found commitments are truly viable and attempt to stretch your resources to cover. The Full Moon of the 29th caps off an exciting month of changes.

You are getting ready to fly, Cancer. This month is a powerful one for you. Transformation on the home front and with respect to the relationships in your life is the name of the game for you right now. The week of the 15th in particular is very special. The New Moon gives you insight to fuel your journey and energizes the remainder of your week. Then another big breakthrough comes with the Spring Equinox on the weekend. It's been a long haul lately getting through the changes and the challenges of this new decade, and it has been difficult to sort out where exactly it is that you are ultimately heading, but by month's end you will be visibly closer to your goal.

As the month begins, you are experiencing a strong sense of limitation on the home front. This could take the form of extra duties and obligations or simply getting serious about issues that you have been dealing with in actual physical home territory or the area of familial relationships. Either way these outer manifestations are symbolic of security concerns at a deeper level. There is a way that the universe is calling upon you to take the next step in your life with regard to these things, and a way that you are almost being forced by circumstances to respond, through the mechanism of your own free will. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, may be a time when you will experience tension but also clarity in this process and whatever else is going on for you, including relationship tangles. You are able at this time to evaluate the consequences of actions and attitudes over the past few weeks, and to prepare for the next stage of your journey into wholeness. The New Moon of Monday, March 15th, is powerful for you and represents in many ways a departure from previous thinking that could even represent a sudden shift. This might be what was in the works for you all along, and it is just that only now are you in possession of the eyes to see it. You are in general at this point feeling much lighter and ready to beyond your previous high-water mark in your thinking and doing. A good feeling about your own sense of security seems to come more naturally, and you are also more aware of the distance you have come in resolving long-standing issues regarding how you do relationship. It is also possible that at this time you will be ready to move beyond self-limiting patterns of thinking that have artificially constrained your actions all this time. These patterns, persisting from early childhood perhaps, have been holding you back in ways you did not even consciously recognize until recently. Once you acknowledge their existence and their power you have taken the first step toward healing their influence and moving past it in your life. One week later, the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, March 23rd, brings everything to a crux, challenging all your assumptions about what you can do and be. This is not a defeat of your new-found point of view but only a test. There are some parts of your design that will by the very nature of things fall by the wayside but your most cherished ideas will survive and thrive – especially if you are willing to fight for them. The flowering and the triumph of the Full Moon that ends the month brings you full circle back to the issues that began it, but with the added blessings and benefits of the new perspectives gained over the four weeks of this unfolding; and that makes all the difference.

You are struggling these days to redefine yourself, Leo, and for the most part succeeding. The latter half of this month will bake your new conception in the fires of spring for the final cooking. Inspiration pulls you onward while the pain of a dysfunctional past pushes you to try something quite different this time around. Fresh energy for your process of discovery and growth becomes available to you as the month progresses, along with fresh opportunities for transcendence, and you have to seize the moment when it presents itself. The universe is ready, willing and able to come to your aid, a shining portal that is clear to your mind's inner eye, but the first step toward that doorway is strictly up to you.

As the month begins, you are continuing to experience transformation through the agency of others. There is a way that you are dissolving some very thorny and ancient knots that have tied you up for far too long, and partnerships in your life are key to this activity. Although others contribute to your ongoing evolution, your path to fulfillment is yours and yours alone, and it is important that you make this distinction. The Last Quarter Moon that comes along on Sunday, March 7th, gives you pause and therefore time to think about where your life is headed right now. You might feel at this time as though action was at a standstill, but this can be viewed as a mixed blessing, since it enables you to look inside yourself, the better to examine your ultimate motivation. For some time now you have been recasting the image of your true calling, and this current monthly cycle is one more step along the way to a better realization of your highest purpose for yourself in this lifetime. The New Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, March 15th, is an exciting and progressive time for you when many factors in your life could suddenly alter, although not fundamentally. There are changes that have been in the works for some time now which will suddenly slip into place, as when the tumblers line up, or the key finally fits into the latch. Partners are once again a vital factor in your ongoing metamorphosis. Communication is both slowed and more serious and subject to unexpected shifts and changes of direction. This includes intimate connection with significant partners as well as more ordinary communicative pursuits such as speaking, texting and journal writing, which is communication with yourself. There could also be an unexpected connection between business partners in your life and new ideas for life direction, so that your concept of your true calling could come into even greater prominence, and your work life would also be affected. There is a burst of freedom that might come over you at this time, as Mars, newly turned to forward motion in your identity sector, connects favorably with the winds of change blowing through you. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, March 23rd, and then the Full Moon near month's end represent moments of tension in your process of growth, wherein will arise both a degree of conflict and more importantly, further self-knowledge.

Your self-concept has needed tuning for some time now, Virgo, but it might not have been getting your full attention. This month is the first moment of a new mandate for change that will sweep everything before it. By the time September rolls around everything is different. Loving partners lead the way through this month and next, but the transformation that you are contemplating is entirely up to you, and moreover in your own very best interest. The invitation to the dance – or it might be perceived as a warning shot across your bow – come to you this month through the agency of others, but make no mistake about the urgency of the message or the ultimate benevolence of the universe in offering it to you.

As the month begins, you are experiencing a time of powerful insights which will continue though in altogether different forms, as the month progresses. Partners come very much into the picture for you now, acting as a catalyst for your own process of growth and change. It is also possible that ancient patterns of trauma will arise for greater recognition and healing. These may stem from an earlier era and have to do with the long-term effect of relationship in your life. The Last Quarter Moon that takes place on Sunday, Mach 7th, will present you with an enormous factor in seeing through to these issues more clearly, and with greater optimism. Partners are extremely supportive to you now in sorting things out. Although there might be conflicts in this area to contend with, these difficulties are helpful in the long run, in terms of the greater wisdom that they engender. Your self-expression is blossoming as a result of freeing up energetic channels from within that have long been frozen. You are engaged at this time in a form of spiritual acupuncture that will have the positive effect of getting the electricity of your body moving once again. The New Moon of the following week that comes along on Monday, March 15th, represents an increase in vigor even beyond what you have already been experiencing. This energy is partly expressed in the area of relationship with significant others in your life, and is surprising in the twists and turns that it takes. There will ultimately be beneficial effects, perhaps as long as a year away. What seems scary in the short term could turn out to be seen in a more positive light in the rear-view mirror after the progress of the intervening months. This is the beginning of a time of vast change for you resulting in rapid progress in your understanding of the true meaning of life events. Your transformation continues over the last two weeks of the month. One crux of this latter half is the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, March 23rd. You are attempting at this time to ascertain which of your many options is the most viable, moving forward. Some tension could arise in your process of unpacking and unfolding the set of cards that were dealt you during the climax of surprisingly complex mid-month events. The Full Moon at nearly the end of the month, taking place on Monday, March 29th, is a time when many things might become clearer. Partnership is still powerful for you, but tempered with the knowledge that what is paramount is your own flowering.

This is gratefully a time of renewal for you Libra, and it involves others as well as yourself. With a different starting point the entire game has changed and changed utterly. You are coming into a new vision of not only who you are but what you intend to accomplish given this new understanding. Service to others becomes more important and your relationship dynamic might even shift in its tracks. Significant partners in your life of course serve as an important mirror for your own process. Although you are there for others to an inordinate degree right now it is important to recognize that you are there for yourself first and foremost and that there is nothing that is wrong with that notion.

As the month begins, you are unexpectedly finding new direction in your life where you once thought everything relatively settled. This month represents a jumping off point for you for changes that you didn't even quite know were in the works but which make sense with the perspective of time. This is a powerful transition point of moving forward with what you are intending in your heart of hearts. Your health and fitness is another growth area for you right now that you are just tuning in to, and where new impulses that are beginning to arise could lead to amazing consequences. The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, is an important moment when you might see more clearly the drawbacks as well as the positive benefits of what you are attempting. You might be feeling as Albert Edison did, when he said about light bulb filament attempts, not discouraged by the failures, "now we know 200 things that don't work." By the gaps in possibilities unfulfilled you can come to an understanding of where your true path lies. The New Moon that follows a week later, taking place on Monday, March 15th, provides by contrast plenty of optimism and good vibrations for future initiatives, with partners coming more fully into the picture now as well. You may have been going through a period of inner reflection where significant partners in your life were concerned, and now there is space and time for forward momentum. Your plans for the future that are more boldly stated now within your internal dialog serve to take you into that important next step for yourself that was merely hinted at a few short weeks ago, leaving behind dysfunctional patterns from the past that no longer appropriate to your present stage of cosmic evolution. With the Spring Equinox of the following weekend and even more so with the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, March 23rd everything might come into much sharper focus. This is a time when both the joys and the challenges of relationship are fully available to you, and it is at this moment that your growing awareness of what it is that are up to is put to the test of actual practice. A week later the Full Moon in your sign, taking place on Monday, March 29th, confirms for you that while partners are still very much in the picture, your path is what counts, and your path is essentially the correct one for you at this time. Partners are always important and during these closing ten days of the month even more so, and you are therefore given a chance to work with the critical matter of walking that fine line between needing and not needing the presence of others in your life in order to feel complete. Your true relationship is with yourself at deeper levels as you surly know intellectually if not emotionally. Partners can aid in that quest to really know yourself inside and out, and to continue to develop and evolve from within that knowledge. When this sinks in it may truly be said that you have returned to the place where you started and are beginning to know it for the very first time.

Transformation is the name of your favorite game and you are at it again, Scorpio, as you redefine yourself once more within this monthly timeframe. You are jumping through some unusual hoops right now all right, but they are entirely of your own choosing. Your self-expression and artistic production is so totally ecstatic that your friends and associates are liable to wait with baited breath for what will come out of it next. Your work in the world is also affected positively. It is a deeply spiritual place that you are coming from right now, but the practical side of your personality is also fully charged, although ideas for the future can change in an instant. By the end of the month a different plan is almost fully hatched.

As the month begins, you remain in a somewhat introspective mode, in keeping with the retrograde of your ruler Mars in your Tenth House of outer world accomplishment. Your tasks that are up for completion are more internal than external these days. Meantime you are getting ready to reinvent yourself yet once again, as indicated by the lineup of positive planets in your sector of self-expression and romance. The factor of intimate connection with another has been an important card for you to play lately as you mull over your choices, but of course it must be said that what is really going on reflects a groping connection with your own internal workings. You are responding to a shift that has been taking place at the deepest levels of your being, and one that you may be only dimly aware of in your conscious thought process. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, increases this feeling of introspection and also brings a sense of limitation into your relationship picture. You are attempting to see more deeply into your relationship dynamic at this time, absorbing the lessons of the past few weeks to create a better sense of yourself. You are motivated at this juncture to find the true underlying causes for the events and the connections in your life and although you might never get the whole way there, any progress that you make will be rewarding long-term. The New Moon that comes along a week later, taking place on Monday, March 15th, will represent by contrast a time of lightening up, when indeed anything seems possible. Your communication and artistic expression takes off in some very new and different directions now, in combination also with the return to direct motion of your ruler Mars, which stationed on March 10th. This is a time when the sky seems truly to be the limit and when also you are applying a thoughtful process of reorientation to the issues raised recently by relationship patterns that you have been considering, and which go to the very roots of your being. You are ready to put your outer activity in service to your inner world. With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, March 23rd, you might begin to see some points of tension arise as you consider how best to work though the changes in life direction to which you are currently drawn, and how to make your calling match your soul-level intentions. This is a testing time when you can begin to see what will actually work. You are making a thoughtful move toward a service orientation to others at this time, based partly on changes of attitude accumulated during these past ten weeks of the Mars retrograde. The Full Moon that comes a week later, taking place on Monday evening, March 29th, confirms you in these ideas and brings a creative tension to your process of working it out in terms of both communication with others around you and of action in the world.

Your roller coaster ride continues, Sagittarius. This is a time of transition for you as you find new outlets for your forward-going energy, and as you row your boat merrily with gay abandon and as sometimes your boat rows you. You are delving down to your depths and coming up with the pearl of inner wisdom. Home and tribe and family bring you unexpected blessings as this season of change progresses. Only the details need yet to be worked out, although as they say, the devil is in the details. You are coming by month's end to a better determination of where lie not only the difficulties but also the great joys you find in working out the truth of your challenge.

As the month begins, you are feeling a powerful pull to the inside. Although you are fully energized in the world of ideas and public commitment, and with regard to serious plans for the future, there is a strong impulse within you to place domestic concerns above the rest. This could take the form of an emphasis on home, family and tribe, and might also be expressed in revitalizing your own internal take of yourself, independent from any external feedback, including the opinions of others. This is a great time to journal, as you feel your way through to a better self-understanding and greater recognition of your connection to all creation, a time when you are encouraged to simply relax and "let the soft animal of your body love what it loves," to paraphrase nature poet Mary Oliver. The realizations regarding who and what you truly are at the deepest level have been plentiful in the past few weeks of this new year and decade, and they continue to arrive at an even faster pace as this current month unfolds. Hold onto your seatbelt because this could be a pretty wild ride. The Last Quarter Moon taking place on Monday, March 7th, is powerful for you, and is designed to allow the recognition of your signs and situations the fullest possible scope. You are coming into new understanding that rather than a mental space at all, begins from your own deep center, based on a summing up over the past few weeks of what has and has not worked out for you. The New Moon that follows a week later on, taking place on Monday, March 15th, is dynamic and catalyzes the potential for further changes at the core of your being. These might seem to be a sudden departure from where you thought that you were headed, but perhaps it is more in the nature of a direction you were already going that has only now become consciously acknowledged. The last two weeks of the month leading up to the Full Moon of Monday, March 29th, will consist of working out the impulse declared and defined by this mid-month period. There is quite a burst of new energy in your life right now, and it takes the form of a reorganization of all your previously held belief systems. This energy is also in service to a transformation of values that allows you to leave behind some old and troubling patterns of behavior that although fundamentally boring were also so firmly entrenched that they were quite difficult to shuck. It is a matter of spiritual epiphany, as everything changes in an instant based on perspective. Figure and ground reverse so that priorities become evident that were only a glimmer heretofore, while the seemingly important becomes relatively meaningless. This is of course more than a bit confusing, even dizzying at times, but you will sort out what needs to be sorted out by keeping your inner compass tuned to what your Higher Self has been consistently urging you toward, all along.

Your communication is sparkling, Capricorn. You who are ordinarily quite sober, stern and taciturn are now, not so much. What to make of this new-found joy of self-expression? Only that the gods have given you a holiday from the grim grindstone of your personal transformation just because you have been such a good little boy or girl and have done all your homework. The good news is that although there is more work for you yet to do in all your areas of transition, it does get easier the further you go through. As the butterfly knows in its chrysalis there are brighter times both ahead and behind you. When your perspective shifts back to a weightier mode toward the end of the month, remember the laughter.

As the month begins, you are feeling the fullness of the universe through information gleaned through the utterances of your circle. You are continuing to make a big splash in the world in this new decade and are intent on both efficiency and the proper direction for your life force to take in steering your accomplishments into a wider sphere of influence than the purely personal. What others have to tell you somehow catalyzes your thoughts and enhances a perspective shift for you that is still ongoing. Communication is big for you right now and allows you to more fully see the direction that your own thought is talking, while the beneficial feedback of others confirms you in your determination to make the best possible use of your time. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, is likely to be an eye-opener when a better idea of spiritual purpose in your life could emerge. Then the New Moon that follows along a week later represents a fresh burst of energy and information. This is a time when ideas may come easily to you. In fact there could be too many possibilities that come to you at this time to fully comprehend, so that the latter half of the month will be spent in sorting things out. Another stage in your on-going revolution of thought and belief is about to unfold, and this mid-month period is one of a series of early-warning signals. In the coming weeks your world, already rocked by recent happenings, will transform yet again as you consider structural adjustments that result in further enlargement to your point of view. Archimedes wanted a place to stand and a lever long enough to move the world and you are in the process of establishing the place to stand. Your understanding develops over the final two weeks of the month leading up to the March 29th Full Moon in your career sector. The First Quarter Moon that punctuates this time period, arriving on Tuesday, March 23rd, will be a moment of greater clarification of your larger and more fundamental purpose, when partners are brought more firmly into the picture, not to dominate the process but to guide it. You are finding out at this time what factors out of the infinite possibilities present to you make sense, and this understanding comes to you through the medium of actual experimentation. Your transformation that you have been steadily engaged in for many weeks and months now is moving on apace, and is the real goal. It is good to focus on what is really important for you; and not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, remembering, always, that you are the infant that is being birthed.

IThe seas of change are still running high for you, Aquarius. This is an exciting and paradigm-shifting month when many things in your life could alter, although not fundamentally. There is a way that you are still on course with the program of transformation that you have already embarked upon, and this current passage is only allowing for necessary alterations. You are likely to be somewhat dizzy with your rapid progress. The resources that you have at your disposal to effect these changes are all lined up nicely for you and will become even more advantageously positioned as the month unfolds. If there is any fly in your ointment currently it is that you are having a hard time believing in all your good luck.

As the month begins the thought process that has so engaged you lately reaches another plateau. You have been questioning the basis of your feelings of security in this world and indeed of all your beliefs. The good news is that it's not really an either-or situation when it comes to soul-level deliberations, but rather an and-and. You can continue to question your beliefs while at the same time taking them as a working basis for accomplishment in the sphere of mundane achievement. This is still an important world to be able to operate in, even though not the only one. Ego needs are no more able to be left entirely behind than our bodies that rely on them. You are fortunate in your financial picture lately, and it is that ease of material well-being gives you the leisure to look more deeply into it. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, brings some degree of tension to your process, and gives you the opportunity to glean further understanding from your situation. This is a moment of reevaluation as you digest the results of the past three weeks in terms of greater integration. The New Moon a week later, taking place on Monday, March 15th, is a powerful one for you that kicks you into a new orbit surrounding these and other issues with fresh energy for your process of growth and change. New information that leads to new and surprising revelation might come to you in messages brought by the agency of others. Active partners in your life are taking a more direct role in moving you along in the direction that you were already headed. These mid-month days constitute a potentially confusing but spiritually rich period of time when many things in your life could begin to come clear. With the First Quarter Moon a week later you are testing the viability of the changes coming over you and attempting to determine if everything in which are currently engaged has validity. The Full Moon nearly at month's end, coming along on Monday, March 29th, is also powerful and leads you still further into new perspectives that aid you in determining the direction that you need to go. These last two weeks are important for you, when you are making significant departures from your habitual thinking about your life situation. And yet in another way you are also staying true to them. You also might feel stuck in your existing rut; the truth as usual lies somewhere in between.

It's another wild and crazy month for you, Pisces, but not only that. There is rapid-fire movement on the social front that doesn't quite leave you gasping. Fortunately, you have a solid and sober-minded side to you right now that serves as a corrective factor, a rudder to your movements that will serve you well in this time of effervescent possibility. Your life direction has been morphing lately and it's been such a subtle shift that it has maybe flown under your radar, but all this is about to get much more noticeable. Your mission statement is becoming clearer, and with it your understanding of who and what you really are.

As the month begins, you are feeling both stuck and unstuck. You are on the one hand coming into yourself in new ways, in this your birthday time of the year, fully participant with the people that surround you and with the universe at large. You are both inspired and inspiring right now. On the other hand you also might be feeling a sense of obligation to intimate partners or to yourself that you continue evolving along the lines that seem to be opening up for you. This translates into a sense of responsibility that almost seems like pressure for being able to see yourself through to the changes that you feel in potential form within you. You are getting wiser by the minute but you still might be feeling insufficient as though nothing was ever enough. The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, March 7th, brings a note of tension to your process, and by summing up the time since the mid-February New Moon allows you to more clearly see whatever it is that you are currently engaged in, and also to see where it breaks down. Work is harder than usual over the few days surrounding this critical juncture, as you attempt to sort out what you can gather from the incidents of these three preceding weeks. You are in the midst of making what is essentially a spiritual gesture toward deeper fulfillment through the agency of your work in the world and through the people that you interact with. In the last analysis, the life of the spirit and the life of the mundane world are one. Things get much more exciting with the following weekend, and even more so with the subsequent New Moon in your sign that takes place on Monday, March 15th. This is a time when your mind might take a sudden sharp turn that you weren't expecting, but that works out for you in a way that seems as if it were planned all along. You are making a huge fresh start at this time, and plowing ahead with initiatives that have seems to be stalled for many weeks now, and that directly affect your future plans. The future is a misty landscape for you these days and only slowly getting clearer, but when the mists finally dissolve and your path stands out before you, it will be well worth the wait. As the last two weeks of the month unfold, your successes and also your issues become more poignant at the time of the First Quarter Moon of the 23rd, and then again with the Full Moon that nearly ends the month, taking place on Monday, March 29th. You are continuing to work through the dreams and schemes stemming from the time of the 13th to the 15th when the New Moon energy coalesced. These days at mid-month are a launch pad for prospective greatness and also something of a trial, as you seem poised on the brink of vast changes and yet unsure. The stiff upper lip with which you have viewed your transformation might serve you in good stead as you negotiate these tricky waters and arrive safely on the other side with your heart intact and more fully participatory in your life plan.

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