Saturday, March 30, 2013

Rebirth yourself!


Venus woke Easter morning with a willingness to renew her love, and give it away generously.   

This helped the evangelistic Sagittarius Moon, atop her soap box, to have a sudden epiphany!  Although her legal arguments for human rights were sound, she decides to change her pitch, to go for the rights for a happy life.

Sweeping out the debris of past relationships gone awry clears the space for something new.

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. A Course In Miracles


Optimism trumps caution for April Fool’s Day (this always occurs in Aries!).  Impatience and fresh entrepreneurial energy stoke the fires of action with an unbridled forcefulness all week.  

Tuesday has plenty of charm and sparkle when the solar-powered Sun gets up close and personal with a vivacious Venus and a potent Mars. A warm-up for the weekend!

In the wee hours of Thursday morning your intuition lifts off into the intellectual high towers of Aquarius.  Innovative genius gets unusually practical feet.

Date Night:  Venus and Mars
Venus and Mars are wide awake, standing on the rim of a volcano, soaking up the heat.  To leap, or to stay safe?  Together, they can be transformed.  This weekend is a Love Fest for phoenixes that will knock your socks off.    

The Force of rebirth is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of March 31-April 6, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

I know a boy who was born in a blizzard on April Fool’s Day!  Unique and optimistic in every way.  Just like the way you’ll feel this week.  If it happens to be your birthday, Wow.  This year you’re destined to think outside every old box the world has got!  The expansive horizon ahead requires a shift in perception from fear to love.  You can see that everything and everyone is love, or a cry for love.  Toward the end of the week you’ll be taken on a spiritual retreat in your mind.  And you’ll emerge loaded with generosity of spirit and presents galore!    


Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Don’t sell out your dreams for the sake of financial security.  You really can’t take it with you! You’re ducking the fiery impatience you see all around you, count yourself lucky.  If you remember that too much seriousness causes dis-ease, you find an organizational savant inside you.  And you’re happy to work behind the scenes, ferreting out secrets and solving mysteries.  No clue will escape your notice.  Get out your camera.  Archive the life you love.  Be like “The Swamp Lady” of the Florida everglades whose lens opened many eyes.  

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Fasten your seatbelt.  Every day this week is a traveling day for your mind.  You’ve come to expect genius ideas flying around your head like UFOs.  Now, the voltage of your optimism is cranked, enough to light up everyone around you!  In fact, your thinking may be so expansive, taking off in a hot air balloon, that action trumps caution.  You feel the need to teach, especially subjects that open up spirituality for others.  Reform of inhibiting doctrines, and rebirth of the freedom to talk in the tongues of angels, excites your mental circuits.  You’re a freedom writer!

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
You have a rare and winning combination of clarity in getting your point across, and at the same time being truly interested in another’s point of view.  Your mind is quick and receptive.  You are quite relaxed now, knowing you can handle whatever comes.  You may be asked to help someone, which you know is of no direct benefit to you, yet you enjoy doing a good job.  Your clear-headedness makes this a good time for organizing your in-box and handling the backlog. It’s smooth sailing for you.
 
Leo (July 22-August 22)
Use your strong will to and willingness to experiment to tap into new realms of experience, like The Force.  Watch Avatar and revisit it’s theme of rebirth into a spiritual life.  You’re hot wired for intuitive flashes.  As if all the creative impulses to be a pioneer in your field weren’t enough, this Friday you’ll also feel the wind at your back.  Since Leo is fixed fire (like a campfire), the Aries brand (olympic torch) of fire boasts your desire to take a leadership role.  This can really get you moving!

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
You are still integrating subtle psychic messages, and this Tuesday the intensity is amped up.  Expect surprises and secrets that you may have to process later, when it’s quieter.  Right now Neptune is throwing a fog over your perceptions, which are particularly colored by the past.  You want to fully understand certain memories, and then put them behind you.  It just doesn’t work that way.  Let go.  The one true thing you can say about the past is it’s gone.  

Libra (September 23-October 22)
It’s time to get used to conflict.  The hot-blooded Aries Sun is in a tense “discussion” with Darth Vader (does he even discuss stuff?).   Your muse, Venus, gets impatient with his insistence on going deeper, and more intensely, into the bottom line reasons for her romantic liaisons.   but after all, can’t a girl just have a little harmless fun? You want to incorporate Venus’ excitement and passion, but without upsetting anyone!  Especially you.  It doesn’t have to throw you off balance.  Sometimes the words spoken in the heat of the moment carry the real truth.  Let ‘em loose.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
Serious Saturn in Scorpio may be giving you some headaches with his restrictive ways, but your ability to control your willpower and put it to good, even magical, use is spot on.  Take a look at your scientific talents.  Read The Field by Lynne McTaggart.  You’re especially challenged this week to incorporate sudden flashes of “aha” experiences, even if they seem impulsively imprudent.  Your circuit breaker may pop, just use your intuition to reset the power of your ambitions to a slightly lower wattage!   

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
Your feet don’t touch the ground all day Monday, until the Moon falls to earth in tough ol’ goat Capricorn late in the evening.  Still you’ll be running under some impetuous steam, but rarely have you been so creative.  Seriously, get out your soap box!  The evangelical energy you have right now needs a focus that’s meaningful to you, otherwise you’ve got a wildfire of ideas to contend with!  Travel is essential to your peace of mind.  Not just for pleasure, but for opening up a new interest.

Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
Money matters can get entangled with your relationships and taint your desires.  Hang onto your hopes until Tuesday, ‘cause it’s going to be a powerhouse for you!  You’ll wake up from a night of sweet dreams with the Moon in your sign, taking you to the heights of intuitive understandings, courtesy of an ingenious imagination.  And then to a deep, fearless look at the true meaning of death and resurrection.  Even a Capricorn can go overboard. But if you can get comfortable with the intense passion you feel, you’ll be enormously creative and inspired.
Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
This week you give an enticing wink to the goddess of love, setting up sparkling conversations that connect you to everyone around.  Flirtatious fun is on the agenda.
Thursday you’re more comfortable in the Aquarian ivory tower of human rights, but now Serious Saturn is giving you a challenge to put some street smarts to your global ideas.  You never lose your drive and enthusiasm for changing the world, and just before midnight Thursday your intuition connects with the god of good fortune.  This is sweet dreams of freedom fighters rising up.  And, a signal to buy a lottery ticket!  

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
You are still being blessed with precision when it comes to craftsmanship and mental organization.  You could make a lot of money doing people’s tax returns, or you could sculpt a masterpiece or write the great American novel!   By the end of this week the level of intuitive promptings you’re receiving is sky high.  Curb any grandiose urges and your abundant ideas can find a balance and be put to practical use.  An emotionally sensitive Moon slips into your poetic waters early this Saturday morning.  You’re filled with unconditional love from the god of the sea.  You realize it takes two to be transformed.   

✶ Astrology Wonks
Uranus, Sun, Venus and Mars are traveling together in the fires of innovative Aries.  What affects one, affect all.  Pluto is squaring all four and Jupiter is sextile all four.  You can’t expand your life without transformation.

Sunday is explosively loaded with either passion or anger.  Venus squares Pluto at 3:11 AM, PDT, then she winks (sextiles) at Jupiter at 7:48 AM.  Expansive!   Next the Sagittarius Moon trines electric Uranus at 10:42 AM and goes on to harmonize with the Aries Sun at 3:15 PM.  Get a grounding rod!

Monday’s Moon falls to earth in Capricorn at 10:36 PM, PDT.  Looking for security.  Tuesday this Capricorn Moon is a very busy body!  She sextiles Neptune at 5:49 AM, squares Uranus at 1:26 PM, sextiles Saturn at 3:36 PM, and pairs up with Pluto at 6:11 PM.  This sets of the cosmic tension (square) that will be exact again on May 20th.  Revolution, hopefully with a better way to behead the patriarchy.

The Moon sails into Aquarius Thursday morning at 1:41 AM, and sextiles Uranus at 5:03 PM).  Brilliant ideas.  We settle into poetry morning at 5:59 AM, with a Pisces Moon.

Stardust Reminder:  Mental Mercury has shifted into forward gear, but he’s still in the imaginative but nebulous waters of Pisces.  Intuition trumps reason until April 13th.









Sunday, March 24, 2013

Alchemy of Libra's Full Moon


The status quo is thrown overboard, and you must reinvent your relationships or bury the remains. 

Wednesday’s Libra Full Moon fuels the alchemy of relationships, transmuting your life experiences into the gold of your heart’s desire. This comes with lots and lots of heat, fueled by the cooperative breath of Libra. 

Your relationships are put into a crucible formed by the joined fires of four planetary energies; passionate love, solar-powered drive, sudden changes, and courageous action.  All being stirred by the hand of good fortune. 


"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." Paulo Coelho

Monday delivers the optimism to loosen up the luck that wants to fall right into your lap! Hang onto it for Tuesday when tempers, even violence, flare up.  Stay light on your feet like an agile boxer, but listen for whispers of sweet nothings in your ear.   

If you compromised too much under Libra’s people-pleasing influence, it comes back to bite you Thursday afternoon when lightning bolts of sudden change strike from out of the blue.  You’ll have the powerful willpower to get to the bottom of what’s happening, courtesy of the zodiac’s Sherlock Holmes.

♡ Date Night:  Venus and Mars
Don’t go out unless you’re up for an intense encounter.  Patience is essential for your relationship that’s still reassembling itself after this week’s volcanic blow out.  Still, there’s reason to hope for happiness with the lovers both in passionate fire signs. Venus sobers up Saturday morning, not enough to be a total buzz kill, but serious enough to look at the realities. Thankfully Saturday night gets the sparkle of positive thinking and a jump into optimism. 


The Force of heat is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)


Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
You’ll wake up to this week with an unusually optimistic attitude that puts you in motion with enthusiasm. Your alchemy is in letting go of the approval of others while at the same time listening to their advice--patiently!  Your refusal to admit defeat is a source of your strength, and winning is great fun!  You’re recharging your batteries for the year ahead, which requires you to look at your needs.  Allow some enlightened self-interest.  Your first duty right now is to yourself. You have a lot of forceful energy at your disposal and a big need to express yourself--authentically.    

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
If you’ve been in a state of fatigue, don’t be discouraged.  What is really happening is you may feel defeated when in fact everything is working out just the way it should.  Relax.  Your perceptions are heightened and “mistakes” seem to stand out in relief. So will successes!  You need, and would love, some quiet time of solitude for emotional and artistic attunement to your deepest inspirations.  There is a wealth of kindness and compassion for those whose feelings are easily bruised, including yourself.  

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Single-mindedness slows your pace to a manageable and even relaxing flow, since you have less resistance to change.  Your relationships are in harmony with who you know yourself to be, and people are attracted to you.  Your alchemy is fitting into a group, even being the social butterfly, without losing your integrity.  Look for a friend who will introduce you to a new love interest, perhaps an artist or musician.  

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
Tests of the validity of the path you’re on are occurring.  The heads or tails of the two sided coin of crisis/opportunity is actually decided by you.  Toss the coin with love, not fear.  Opposition may make you very angry, but it’s really there to motivate you to prove yourself.  Enhancing your confidence and esteem.  This week can bring career success through someone who loves and appreciates you.  Climb the ladder with ambition, and don’t forget your old friends who put your foot on the right rung.  

Leo (July 22-August 22)
You radiate warmth, so this is a great time to go out and socialize.  Your alchemy lies in stopping to review your achievements, letting go of dead wood without regrets, and adjust to a new tack that minimizes opposition.  Salvage only the remains that matter.  The goddess of love is in your house of travel, and she’s only interested in making the trip for pleasure, not work.  Even so, you’re likely to meet someone who has life experiences that are unfamiliar to you and will broaden your outlook.  

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
The Moon settles into Virgo’s orderliness Sunday morning, but your usual keen analysis is curbed by the spiritual pull of Neptune.  It’s a chance for some well grounded daydreaming. You’ve been carrying tensions for some time and you’re just now recognizing what it’s been about, seeing it for what it really is. Something has not worked out as you planned, and you’ve actually known it all along.  Remember to put your trust in your spirituality and intuition for the solution. You’re very in touch with subtle psychic and psychological vibes.  Your sensitive antennae are tuned to feelings, perfect for self-inquiry.  

Libra (September 23-October 22)
The Moon moves gracefully into Libra on Tuesday afternoon, and you’re on your way to Wednesday morning’s Full Moon in your sign.  It’s the most dynamic and intense of this year. Your mood lifts right off the ground like a hot air balloon, then runs into a power struggle and quickly has to dodge some stray bullets.  All before noon! You’re oriented toward your relationships and they’re transmuting right before your eyes!  You’re in a time of culmination and climax of things that began on your birthday.  Venus doesn’t want you to go it alone, and she’s teaching you how through one to one intimate encounters.

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
Try not to interpret current events as failure, but rather that you entered a “life experiment” that helped you discover something you need. The alchemical heat of this week’s pile up in Aries will “cook” apparently divergent situations into your personal gold mine.  Venus says be of service, but do it in a way that connects you to your own artistry.  Thank God Mental Mercury pulls your thoughts together in some sort of order this Thursday afternoon, with the help of Serious Saturn in your sign. You appreciate your good health and stable beliefs.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
Your relationships with loved ones are particularly warm right now.  Your alchemy is transmuting the obstacles to being yourself into great zest to do whatever you want to do.  Review the projects you’ve started since your birthday that are working out well, they are reaching critical culmination now and success is around the corner.  You’re free from the turmoils and have a breathing space.  It’s good for you to be with others, while keeping your own dreams in sight.
 

Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
A low ebb in energy will actually help you increase your self-awareness if you focus on your inner world.  What’s actually happening is that you’re getting a look at what’s working out and what isn’t, and the effect it’s having on your life.  Your power to recreate and rebuild structures has never been stronger.  Let your life experiences recreate you.  You’re hunkered down with family and your solid base.  From these familiar surroundings you can feel exactly where you stand in the world.  


Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
You’re in a time of preparation and readiness regarding the projects you began on your birthday.  Put down the how-to books and use your subjective feelings to guide you.  Your sense of happiness and well being is fueled by the current lineup of Aries planets, just don’t adopt their impatience!  Venus is guiding your intellectual interest toward the arts and a love of poetry.  Listen.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
Some tense days ahead this week as your struggle between the demands of your personal life and your worldly ambitions.  You feel pulled in two directions and you want to go both ways!  The most important thing to do is decide.  Delay will be more uncomfortable.  Ask yourself, “what do I value the most?”  Surround yourself with beauty, dress outrageously!  Venus will guide you to the comforts you desire, the artistry you need.  

✶ Astrology Wonks
The Moon settles into Virgo’s clean house on Sunday at 8:49 AM, PDT.  Laundry!

Mars in Aries sextiles Jovial Jupiter in Gemini on Monday at 3:26 AM, PDT. Enthusiasm, self-expression, and self-improvement are all aspects of Mars winking at Jovial Jupiter.

The Moon moves gracefully into Libra on Tuesday at 2:31 PM, PDT.

The Libra Full Moon arrives in a fiery chariot Wednesday at 2:28 PM, PDT.  Venus 6°, Sun 6°, Uranus 8° and Mars at 11° line up together in Aries in opposition to the Libra Moon at 6°.  Integrate the Libra cooperation and fairness into all your actions.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Ides of March sizzle!

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rilke

Galanthus announces Spring
A symbol of hope, the courageous Galanthus flower blooms through winter's snows to herald the spring.  

Aries aggressive fire fuels the Ides of March, the conflictual time of tender seedlings pushing upward through all obstacles.  Hibernating dreams, awakened by the longer days, call you into action.  

The zodiac is heating up!

Mercury slowly turns direct Sunday, March 17th, still in close conjunction to foggy Neptune.  The road ahead beckons you to press the accelerator, but your mind's still sleepy and drawn to dreaming.  

Spring arrives in the early morning mists this Wednesday, celebrating the balance of light and dark on the Vernal Equinox.  The Sun has dried himself off and marched purposefully into Aries at 4:01 AM, PDT, pioneering the start of a new 12-month growth cycle for your year.  

Thursday the goddess of love moves into Aries, joining Mars for the next three weeks. This promises to be one of the most electric times for romance this year.  Big highlights coming on March 27th!  Stay tuned.

Gear up! Friday morning Warrior Mars, now in his hometown of out-of-my-way Aries, joins forces with the god of lightning who’s been on that battlefield since March 11, 2011.  Expect bolts of mental electricity and epiphanies.

Buckle up for safety Saturday, and take a risk for more adventurous horizons.  Load your GPS with optimism.  


♡ Date Night:  (♀ Venus and ♂ Mars)
Together again!  Sweeten by her stay in Pisces, Venus has been longing to follow her lover Mars.  She joins him in those Aries passionate fires this Thursday evening.  Now like-minded fools, they take up their swords and stand by their love. The universe rushes to their side with a romantic and loyal Leo Moon, adding awe and wonder to the playful weekend ahead.


The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded...From life to death, and back again to life.  It was indeed the greatest magic of the world.  Lauren Oliver

The Force of new life is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of March 17-23, 2013:


Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
Like the newborn beauty of a fresh start that has been 12 months in the making, you lead with the excitement of a novice, the unbridled enthusiasm of a child.  In the journey around the zodiac you picked up something of the lessons taught in each house, adding to the wisdom of your years and your tremendous creative drive.  Your thoughts are still foggy with past memories until April 14th, when your mental circuits are cleared for take off!  Meanwhile, enjoy your vivid imagination.  

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
The deep roots never doubt Spring will come.  Marty Rubin
You are the Green Thumb of the zodiac. You have the deepest, most secure roots (not ruts!). Others may see this outwardly as stubbornness, the bull is famous for it, but it’s really your rock of Gibraltar stability.  Spring announces the beginning of your most fertile time of the year. You plant the seeds of new ideas during Aries, and in your birth month they are fertilized. The better the fertilizer, the bigger the harvest. Make you plans solid before April 14th, because you don’t do your best thinking with your hair on fire! 

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
The Gemini Moon winks a curious eye at Uranus Sunday afternoon, exciting your curiosity and electrifying your intuitive mind.  You start the week feeling generous and sympathetic toward everyone.  You’ll get to reap the rewards of some good karma this week, and find people cooperating with you because they trust your integrity.  You’re engines are revved, and throughout this week there’s a progressive but not overwhelming increase in your energy and drive.  Mentally, logic and reasoning still take a backseat to imagination.   

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
Finishing up old business is the best use of your time at the beginning of this dynamic week.  Prepare yourself for some itchy wanderlust as Spring fever hits you like a tons of bricks! No fear though, you’ll get inspiration in big waves of intuitive hunches when the Moon goes sailing on your homey Cancer seas this Tuesday. Relax with a copy of Proof of Heaven, courtesy of Neptune, and enjoy your clairvoyance. Deeply intense feelings are trying to come to the surface, through the crusty bravado that covers your insecurity.  Just be vulnerable, it really won’t hurt.

Leo (July 22-August 22)
Pivotal.  That means staying light on your feet because so much is catching fire at once that you'll have to be uncharacteristically flexible to take full advantage of this enormously creative and productive time. You are literally solar powered. Between now and March 27th you’re pushing through obstacles like that proverbial fast growing blade of grass through the sidewalk 
cement. You're quick but not frantic. Take advantage of the end of this week to relax and glow. Your life has to heat up so the alchemy can take place. Yes, expect gold.  

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
You are completing a long period in which your have reached a new understanding of your self vis a vis the world around you. Your true self. You have access to a new spiritual view that requires you to use very different skills. This week in particular you will feel the awkwardness of being pulled to expand and at the same time trying to hold on to what’s familiar!  Read The Giving Tree, again.  Are you self-sacrificing or using your gifts wisely?  As Mental Mercury puts your mental circuits into forward gear again, you can harvest your spirituality like wheat from the chaff.  Time for you to teach.  

Libra (September 23-October 22)
Once you get your footing with the Alice In Wonderland thing, shrinking and expanding at the same time, this is going to be a wildly productive Springtime for you. It's clearly time to integrate your daring, adventurous self with the graceful but conflict avoidant Libran. Your passions will have such heat by the end of this week that their sheer force might inhibit you from acting on them, but for Heaven's sake let loose!  Messy but incredibility revitalizing.  And this week is only the beginning.  You’re on your way to a powerfully intense Full Moon in Libra on March 27th that is going to rock your world!  


Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
It’s an inside job.  If you think you feel tired, it’s really just that your identification with the endless demands of ego is fading. You are not driven by your old definition of success.  Your “go get ‘em” has a more diffuse, spiritual quality.  Your growing edge is in the mystical realms, even more than usual.  You can trust insights that previously deluded you, because now you can make practical use of them.  As Mental Mercury in Pisces turns (slowly) to direct expression of the logjam of ideas in your head, you’ll make common sense of your hunches. Take notes. Write!  (Yes, I mean you!)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
All fired up!  And it’s just beginning.  This week is a booster rocket gaining speed, so that you’ll be more and more energized.  For the most part, your time in the dark forest has ended.  Full mental clarity won’t return until after April 14th, but your drive and creativity has already taken off.  Beginning Thursday evening, a sense of well being fills you for the weekend.  Use the time to relax and have fun.  The pace is quickening.  Although Saturday has an awkward challenge, you'll feel like the life of the party. And you are!


Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
In astrology there’s an aspect called a yod, know as The Finger of God.  As a Capricorn, you’re in the palm of His Hand, even though the lord of the underworld is still renting space in your basement of old beliefs.  Right now the Finger of God is pointing you toward a pivotal spot, Optimism!  Your natural domain as a Capricorn is ambition and integrity, which is undergoing earth shaking transformations both in your inner and outer worlds.  Working hard comes easily to you, but now this Finger of God wants you to integrate a bigger, more positive outlook, and to broaden your horizons. It's time to expand your life, your ideas, and how you communicate, by embracing positive thinking.  You’ll always have your feet on the ground dear Capricorn.  Put your head in Heaven!  Look up!


Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
You must feel the logjam of ideas breaking up by now!  Communication glitches are slowly being repaired. Your old excitement about the possibilities of life returns, but with a booster rocket.  You’ll never lose your focus on global humanitarian concerns, but now your energy needs to shift to yourself.  Your confidence, self esteem, and even your identity as a person.  It’s me-time.  Jovial Jupiter has been calling you to expand since May, 2012.  Now Aries puts a fire in your belly. Touch your guiltless innocence. Live there.  


Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
Mercury, still in your sign until April 14th, slowly surfaces to allow for more unhampered communications.  You still need to rely on your intuitive functions rather than reasoning and logic, however your thinking emerges from Neptune’s fog with spiritual insights galore!  Your nerves may feel jittery this week, but if you sit still long enough to write you will be amazed.  And remember, you also have Serious Saturn helping you take it to the marketplace. Tuesday night will bring you the sweetest of dreams when compassion and sympathy for the sufferings of mankind enters your dreamworld, dressed in a new sympathetic understanding.  Linger there.  Take notes.


✶ Astrology Wonks
Mercury in Pisces slowly turns direct Sunday, in close conjunction with Neptune and squared by the Gemini Moon.  This sets lose lots of info that’s been in the retrograde log jam.  But we’re not out of the mental fog until Mercury enters the clarity of Aries fire on April 14th.  

Tuesday the Gemini Moon trines Neptune at 7:39 PM, PDT, and goes on to also trine Mental Mercury at 11:55 PM.  Talk about the sweetest of dreams!

Thursday at 8:15 PM, PDT, Venus enters Aries.  She’s on her way to an exact conjunction with the Sun on March 27th’s powerful Full Moon.  Effervescence!

Friday, Warrior Mars in his hometown of out-of-my-way Aries joins forces with the god of lightning (11:17 AM, PDT) who’s been on that battlefield since March 11, 2011.  This initiates the magnetism of the Full Moon coming on March 27th, the most dynamic one of this year.





Sunday, March 10, 2013

It's clouds illusions...

Like a bank of low dark clouds that seem to be a solid wall before the sun, illusions give way softly to the mountain tops that rise above them, and they have no power at all to hold back anyone willing to climb above them and see the sun.   A Course In Miracles

New hopes, dreams and visions meet with choice and intention under the Pisces New Moon this Monday. You emerge from the clouds of imagination you've been sleepwalking through for the past five weeks.  Compassion has washed you in the waters of forgiveness.

This is the last New Moon of the astrological year (Aries - Pisces). Preparations are needed for the beginnings of spring.  Clear out the dead wood of winter.  Uproot those useless beliefs and deadening attitudes.  Aerate the soil with your tender loving care.  

Late Monday night, Warrior Mars marches from the sea into the warm fires of his homeland, Aries.  You begin five weeks of forceful and fierce forward motion.  

Date Night:  Venus in Pisces and Mars in Aries
Mars is on his war path, while Venus is still dreamily drifting through clouds of romance.  She wants to read him another line from Rumi, but he’s rushed out the door on a new quest, never looking back.  The gap is temporary.  Keep faith in one another.

When you change your mind, life has no choice but to re-cluster itself according to the new level of vibrations at which you are operating.  Alan Cohen

The Force of actualizing your dreams is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for the week of March 10, 2013:
(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)
Tuesday is Wow!  There may have been some dizzy dancing through your active imagination recently, but now you’re ready to separate wheat from chaff.  You’re in the wrapping up phase that occurs annually just before your birthday.  Weeding, pruning and letting go.  Make a list of what you don’t need to take with you into your personal New Year.  The New Moon this Monday afternoon is a particularly auspicious time for you to start new projects. Then, it’s Good Morning Sunshine when Warrior Mars wakes you up as he enters pioneering Aries this Tuesday morning. The next five weeks will be characterized by an almost uncontainable energy that must have an outlet.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
From the field of your dreams, you’ve got a firm grip on the happiest of your visions.  Use the initiating energy of Monday’s New Moon to firm up your resolve to actualize your dream.  If an overdose of nostalgia has been dampening your spirits, or distracting you from being present, hang on that’s about to change.  Tuesday’s march of Warrior Mars into a fire sign will begin a five week period for you in which your will not tolerate opposition.  The Taurus tortoise has a bite!  

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Springtime is just around the last cloud of self-deception in your mind.  On the way to loving unconditionally, through all the illusions, missteps and bumbles, you have come to recognize all that love is not.  You know love just is.  In the dark of Monday’s New Moon is a time for unveiling truths.  Sit, use your inner spiritual eye, focus on the words you want to use.  They will put you in a place of prominence in other people’s eyes.  Beginning Tuesday, you’ll dry off your dreams and enter a five week period of self-expressive action that will lead you to evolutionary experiences.  

Cancer (June 21-July 21)
If you’re following your bliss, old friends will shake their heads and say you’ve changed.  That’s a good sign!  You are emotionally sensitized to the sufferings of others and Monday’s New Moon is the perfect time to initiate healing in your family and domestic life.  They need the scope of your spiritual understanding, so don’t withdraw.  Dry off the heart you’ve been wearing on your sleeve, and get ready to take the lead.  You’ve been flooded with emotions that may have kept you from decisive action, but beginning this Tuesday you’ll have renewed courage to go after what you want in your career.  

Leo (July 22-August 22)
You prefer dreams that have already come true to any that may be vaguely waiting on a more imaginative time in your life.  Nevertheless, let yourself do some lazy but regal daydreaming during the stillness of Monday’s New Moon.  It’s not future-tripping if you hold your dreams loosely without emotional attachment.  Your plans have had a “behind the scenes” flavor for the past five weeks, but you’re in for enormous shifts.  The first one begins Tuesday with a prolonged period of wide awake courage and desire to take the initiative on projects.  Events, “luck,” and the right people don’t come to you at random, they’re magnetized by your attitude.  And your energy is leaping into the creative fires of right action.  
 
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Your security comes from knowing that no one can take from you what you have earned by right of consciousness.  You’ve kept your footing, and your head, while being bombarded with emotions that have derailed many others.  The New Moon Tuesday is a perfect time for you to catalogue the spiritual gains you’ve made, in spite of pulls and tugs to go off course.  You’ve been swimming in of a sea of compassion, with your empathic heart ready to love unconditionally, to experience the full depth of the year’s spiritual growth.  Ideas that have been formless and vague now finds clarity in the light of a fiery Aries warrior who energizes you with persistence and strong desire.  Activities regarding joint finances, taxes and inheritance are favored.   

Libra (September 23-October 22)
You have a gift for looking at both sides, and knowing that the darkest cloud doesn’t have the power to stop the fall of a feather.  Likewise, guilt is blown away simply by withdrawing your belief.  Create a dreamtime moment Monday at noon to move that mountain with your mind.  For the past five weeks you’ve stumbled through efforts to assert yourself, to stand your ground.  But it’s been hard to hold it.  Beginning Tuesday, your initiative and drive is in forward gear again!  You’re mental processes and communications may still be knotted until March 17th, but that just needs patience with do-overs.  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)
Tears and fears and feeling proud to say “I love you” right out loud...”  is Joni Mitchell’s words for how you can use the energy of this week to initiate a new beginning.  Your imagination and emotional needs are heavily influencing your love life under the influence of a mysterious New Moon in Pisces this Monday.  It’s a very fertile ground for you.  If you’ve found yourself brooding over wrongs done to you in the past, don’t worry.  Profound changes in your desires, and the drive to take the initiative in new creative endeavors, begin this Tuesday (for the next five weeks) when Warrior Mars throws some fire around in Aries.  Go get ‘em!

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
You have the gift of leaving people laughing wherever you go, and you’ll be much appreciated for that right now.  The dizzying swirl of hopes and illusions that Pisces has brought, will begin to sort themselves out this week.  You’re going for the gold of a happy and meaningful home life.  Psychological insights you’ve gained in the past five weeks are ready to be put to the test beginning this Tuesday.  Act on them freely, particularly when it comes to romance.  If the next five weeks of enthusiasm brings too much fire, get out your sporting gear and throw yourself in the competition.  You’ll win.

Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
Love your vision, your project, and stand behind it.  The recent deluge of Piscean dreams have shown you a few blind spots.  Now you know what holds you back.  Monday’s New Moon is your opportunity to pull old attitudes up by their roots.  Clear your garden.  Keep in mind that your thinking is heavily influenced by your imagination.  Not so much that you delude yourself, but enough to warrant a cautious eye on your emotional biases.  You get to wake up Tuesday morning to a whole new ballgame of directness and honesty for the next five weeks.  

Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
Ice cream castles, even when built in your humanitarian air, begin to melt and break open some delusions that can heal in the sunlight of your take on reality.  You’ve probably been the truth teller all along, but not heard until now.  The need you’ve felt for quiet and solitude (whether you actually got it or not is another story!) gives way now to action.  Take the initiative to deliver the message.  You’ll spark some needed dialogue about news that has been held under wraps for five weeks.  

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)
If anyone could make bows from flows of angel hair, it’s you.  You’re more familiar with both sides of clouds than Joni Mitchell could ever be!  The New Moon in your sign this Monday begins a very auspicious week of new beginnings for you.  But you must watch for certain pitfalls.  You’re marvelously adaptable and a chameleon of moods, but your impressionability is so heightened you could lose sight of your true self.  The oversensitivity that has kept you hesitant about taking action is passing this Monday night when Warrior Mars marches into impulsive Aries.  You may be sitting on some leftover anger, so find some pillows to punch.  You’re ready to take a more empathic look at the people and ideas that have recently bubbled up from your past.

✶ Astrology Wonks
Up close and personal with Neptune’s cloudy illusions and delusions this week.  Joni Mitchell’s creative fame, Both Sides Now, came from her Moon in Pisces.  Monday’s New Moon in Pisces (12:52 PM, PDT) initiates the completion of a year’s journey through the 12 astrological signs.  The Full Moon in Libra that follows on March 27th is the blockbuster of the year!  

The Moon has spring in her step when she heats up in Aries this Tuesday at 4:17 AM, PDT.  She quickly joins Mars (Aries does everything quickly!) at 4:36 AM and then strikes up a lightning bolt or two with urgent Uranus at 6:07 PM.  

Warrior Mars marches from the sea into his Aries homeland this Monday at 11:25 PM, PDT.  He’ll spent five weeks pioneering new projects, new action.

P.S.  Caution.  Mercury is still retrograde, reversing and reviewing your efforts to move forward.  He turns to direct forward motion March 17th.