Extraordinary astrology marches in uncanny step with extraordinary world events. To take the latest example; President Trump launched his onslaught against Iran hours after the clash between planet Prometheus (representing pandemonium) and Mars, (still) God of war.
The war in turn is part of larger cycle, that of Saturn-Neptune, whose conjunction comes every 36 years. It’s well known as a cycle that resonates with the history of Soviet Russia (as your astrologer noted a couple of months back), and also, perhaps, with the British royal family.
Keeping pace with where eclipses and conjunctions fit into the picture of ‘As above, so below’ is a demanding task. Fortunately, there are plenty of astrologers keen to do the job, including Britain’s Marjorie Orr, Penny Thornton and The Oxford Astrologer and the USA’s Chris Brennan.
The same stars that describe world events also come in handy when looking at individual lines, which is where this month’s column fits in. It’s the month of the Spring Equinox, when the Sun enters Aries, the beginning the zodiac – this year at 2.45 pm on the 20th. The other big event is a total lunar eclipse of March 3; invisible to us in the UK but still very much present. I wish my readers all good fortune in coping with these and other lurking parts.
Cosmic timetable
- The full Moon is a Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd.
- The Sun is in Pisces until the 20th when it moves into Aries at the Spring Equinox.
- The New Moon is in Pisces on March 19th.
- Mercury is retrograde in Pisces. It moves direct on March 20th at the Spring Equinox.
- Venus is in Pisces. It moves into Aries on March 6th, then Taurus on March 30th.
- Mars spends all month moving through Pisces.
- Jupiter is retrograde in Cancer. Goes direct on March 11th.
- Saturn is in Aries.
- Prometheus is moving forwards in Taurus.
- Neptune is in Aries.
- Pluto is in Aquarius
Pisces and Pisces rising
Many Pisceans will be basking in the triumphs of recent months…and any failures of course, but when assessing the last two years – and this is the month to do so – be sure to count in the successes. March is about renewal, with Mars in your skies to get you out of bed and raking the lawn. Having a Mercury in retrograde is for once a blessing, a chance to reconsider and resurrect. There’ will doubtless be lots of yakking involved, but you’re good at that.
Directly ahead on the 3rd is a total lunar eclipse in your opposite sign Virgo, a void into which you can cast outworn relationships, and dull enmities, and – should you wish, do a disappearing act (significant others, of course, may do the same). Birthdays circa February 3 are those most in the frame here. Regardless of your birthday it’s a prize moment for unloading old baggage, emotional or material.
An important factor in play is Jupiter, Pisces ruler (don’t bother with the other one). The giant planet is strong in fellow water sign Cancer (from now until mid-summer ) and casting delightful overtures to your Piscean planets. If you admire someone, get a tingle when they are around, be sure to let them know. If you have a creative hunch, run with it.
The new Moon of March 19 is the time to firm up plans. Mercury is out of retrograde on the 21st, so decisions stick, orders are obeyed. Shipshape and lively, you’re on your way. Happy Birthday.
Aries and Aries rising
At the outset of March, the Ram stands alone, with nothing but a scary Saturn-Neptune conjunction for company while a total lunar eclipse whistles past your ears on March 3 .Going solo isn’t for long, however. March is a very busy month. Venus is in your sign to keep you company and draw in people on your wavelength. Venus is cosily involved at the new Moon of the 19th, a turning point for perhaps deeply personal relationships. With Saturn now in your skies, the hard decision may be the best one.
This new Moon is square to Jupiter, newly awakened after a lengthy retrograde. This is a green light for domestic/property/family plans. Most obligingly, this is also the moment Mercury snaps out of its retrograde cycle.
Stretch out your Aries month as long as you can. As ever, the equinox favours a fast start and a purposeful one too with Saturn present. Your ruler Mars will be along in mid-April to add steel to your resolve …looks exciting.
Taurus and Taurus rising
The Bull is often teased that it never knows when to stop, turn around the plough, and start working a new furrow. You can be sure that such a time is right now, with a total lunar eclipse in Virgo – the zone where you find true love and full self-expression. Some project or plan may have to go to make way for something more exciting, and someone may also decide that they have had enough (or vice versa).
Eclipses do not always produce instant results, but they are reliable way markers in one’s personal calendar. March, with a helpful water-earth axis accentuated, is super busy in any case, with earth supplying the eclipse and watery Pisces turning the heat on your wider social life. Here Mercury is retrograde – don’t expect instant answers, while a new Moon on March 19 relaunches your place among whatever teams/cohorts you belong to.
Venus in Aries all month here all month suggests, part of you is happy to stay out the limelight and tend your wounds, but Venus shows up in the Bull on the very last day of the month to announce the more favourable month ahead.
Gemini and Gemini rising
The total lunar eclipse on the 3rd is an early marker in your personal year, a time when the tectonic plates shift a little and one phase involving either career or home draws to a close. While the eclipse falls at the root of your solar chart and therefore signals domestic issues, its other end, and the place of a new Moon on March 19, is about your public role – most usually a career shift upwards. A turn in the limelight anyway. Ruler Mercury in retrograde here suggests lot of milling about before decisions are made.
Meanwhile Venus in Aries is in play, a cue for spontaneous schmoozing and number swapping. Now that Saturn is here, that sliver of ‘What can you for me?’ may be strong in the mix.
Cancer and Cancer rising
The waxing and waning of the Moon are always of interest to Cancer, the only sign ruled by Luna. The total lunar eclipse of the 3rd may therefore signal the end of one particular project or relationship, although the eclipse is oblique to your sign, succedent as we say, and therefore not as big a deal as you might expect. If you are contemplating the eclipse from a distant shore, or from an educational institute, you may feel differently, this being quite a month for travel and the acquisition of skills.
More evident, perhaps, will be events signalled at the peak of your solar chart, where Saturn is now ensconced, determined that your career will progress, even if blood and tears are involved. There shouldn’t be too many of those just yet. Saturn is joined by Venus for most of March to promise friends in high places, or at the least a chance to launch a charm offensive. Thinks kick in at the Equinox and with Mars and a new Moon arriving here in April, this looks like a long season for professional status. Romance may get pushed to the back of the queue.
Most importantly, from March 11 Jupiter in your skies will move forwards, bringing with it the luck of the draw. Flamboyance helps.
Leo and Leo rising
Hit the alarm! There’s a total lunar eclipse in your cash sone, someone has broken into the royal coffers (yours) and nabbed the loot. Just kidding, but you best have a peek at your bank account anyway. Who knows, perhaps your partner has been spending your jointly held assets. A close relationship is the frame this month, thanks to planets in your 8th house, where you share out incomings and outgoings. With a retrograde Mercury in action, expect to find some inconsistencies. The new Moon of the 19th promises a fresh start away from misdemeanours.
As pertinent this month and beyond are events in your fellow fire sign of Aries. With Saturn now firmly in control here, the opportunity to make a great public statement is on offer this year, all you have to do is identify what you want to say and work jolly hard to make it happen. Work should begin seriously once your ruler, the mighty Sun, arrives in Aries at the Equinox on March 20.
Helping this happen through most of March is Venus, asking you to present yourself with confidence – the usual loud colours and gaudy bling then – but also with grace, a quality merely being royal – like yourself – does not automatically endow (as you will have noticed from the news).
Virgo and Virgo rising
Run for the hills! Here’s a total lunar eclipse in the midst of Virgo’s skies! Put the alarm to one side and treat the eclipse of the 3rd as a marker date, one that finds an echo in six months’ time when another eclipse arrives to ruffle Virgo feathers. Since eclipses present us with a void, it’s possible to put them to good use by consigning unhappy pasts to them. Bad experiences and useless belongings can be cast into the dumper.
The eclipse is a full Moon, but it is followed by a new Moon in your opposite sign of Pisces, one that promises to rekindle relationships (unless they have been flung over for the new and ready for a new regime, complete with timetables.
For the romantics among you, March should furnish a thrill or two. Mars in opposition may be both an annoying critic or an itinerant knight; shouldn’t be hard to tell those two apart.
Libra and Libra rising
A total lunar eclipse in your twelfth house is the signal for some inward searching rather than a showy outward event, though there seem to be plenty of the latter on offer from other sources. First though, comes mind/body/spirit makeover, addresses to that magic trio of mental, physical and emotional wellness.
The last of those qualities should be helped by a transit of your Venus ruler in opposition from Aries a cure for allure and closeness with an argument or two thrown in. You should be able to find a pillow mate but keep restraint at hand – you are under far tougher scenario next month when Mars comes along. The temperature in your relationship zone rises at the Equinox when the settled Sun puts you on the back foot.
More news: Jupiter, sailing across the roof your solar chart, moves forward from mid-month; you’re still in with a chance to reach the golden ring!
Scorpio and Scorpio rising
Embrace the lunar eclipse, it promises much; the chance to put a happy relationship out of its misery, and to generally houseclean on the emotional front. There may be a bit of a conversation about it – Mercury is retrograde and changeable in mood but you will find your way to stick, twist or abandon.
The eclipse is followed by a new Moon on the 19th, nicely poised to start again with the emotional stuff or the creative stuff. Your red ruler, Mars, is heavily involved while Scorpio (i.e. you) provide the third of the zodiac’s water trio with Jupiter in Cancer and the current Pisces new Moon.
Jupiter’s position in the explorative 9th house and exalted in Cancer gives it an unusually strong aura, so to speak. A major adventure awaits between now and mid-summer.
Sagittarius and Sagittarius rising
You just scored a big hit on your solar horoscope, with the total lunar eclipse of the 3rd sitting more or less atop your chart, the place where you find a public, most obviously through your career.
A giant void where your name should be in lights looks disappointing but the eclipse invites closure and a new chapter. At the root of your ‘scope the new Moon of the 19th is a fresh start in family matters, but don’t expect peace in the valley (Mars is here) nor give cause others’ aggravation.
It’s time to focus on the new. Aside from the new Moon here’s Venus bringing a new broom and fresh ideas to your creative zone, which it shares with Saturn, Neptune and, after the Equinox, the Sun. Flame on! For the centaur after that – Seek, create, and celebrate.
Capricorn and Capricorn rising
A total lunar eclipse flickering on the far horizons of your chart is exciting – more of which later – but the most significant thing going down this month concerns your ruling planet digging in at the very foot of your ‘scope, a place of beginnings but also tradition. And, of course of family, the ancestors, the whole schtick.
Saturn invariably spells ambition and property. Saturn’s transit is two and a half years, so feel free to calibrate what you can achieve in said time frame. If that’s asking too much, limit yourself to midsummer, get a schedule and a stick to it. Saturn’s association with property means complete relocation could be on the cards.
The home zone is currently basking in Venus’s attentions, prior to the Spring Equinox, always a big date in the Mountain Goat’s calendar. The new Moon of the 19th in Pisces is revitalising, and invites further thoughts on the eclipse and how you might grab an adventure or two. The planet of exploration, Jupiter is now opposite you and about to move forwards; a new style beckons.
Aquarius and Aquarius rising
Your horoscope currently has you somewhat hemmed in, there is Pisces, Aries and Taurus pressing on you, aside from Pluto, now sitting on birthday circa 23 January and perhaps making unreasonable demands. On no account enter any agreement that is, as they say, shaky or underhand. Be a straight arrow.
The total lunar eclipse of the 3rd and the subsequent new Moon of the 19th bother accentuate your financial position, where a retrograde Mercury suggest you postpone big decisions until later in the month. With Venus around there seem to be funds available.
The more planets stack up in Aries the better for you. The equinox brings powerful energy into your enterprises. Not least that of your ruling planet, Saturn. The last week of the month is the perfect time to begin a venture or for that matter a relationship.
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