The way the astrology rolls out from March 16th-20th is not only fascinating but extremely unique. There are three major events occurring and each has a major impact on our lives: the last Uranus/Pluto Square on Tuesday March 16th, and a solar eclipse in Pisces and the Spring Equinox happening within thirteen hours of each other on Friday March 20th. If you’d like to celebrate this new moon and change in season, then invite some friends over, make some food and gather round to listen and participate in the Solar Eclipse of the Equinox Intention Setting Tele-Class where we will harness this unique astrology and make the most out of the burgeoning spring energy.
These are two-week horoscopes as I am about to give a presentation at the Queer Astrology Conference in San Francisco on March 21st and need the buffer to prepare and deliver to the people!
So just to recap, March 16th- 22nd is intense. March 23rd-29th not so much. But we are now in eclipse season. There is a solar eclipse on March 20th and a lunar eclipse on April 4th. That means that the entire time period is packed full of surprises and situations that pull out all the stops. The solar eclipse on March 20th is potent because of it’s closeness to the Spring Equinox but the mayhem that the lunar eclipse on April 4th looks to bring is also very real. These are the days when we can feel the most tested. These are the days when it’s most important to act from our integrity and not our fear. This is what is important. Love wins, fear gets schooled.
I’ll be back with a new set of horoscopes on March 30th and a post about the upcoming Lunar eclipse. Until then be bold and brave and not at all afraid.
LOVE!
xoc
Aries & Aries Rising
Friday’s solar eclipse comes to deepen your awareness of your inner life. That might sound really pretty and woo-woo, but it isn’t. Our inner life is fraught with dragons that hoard our gold, refusing to give it up until we find the pluck to slay them. Our inner life contains endless corridors filled to the brim with memories, fears and delusions of being less than, left and beyond reproach. Our inner life is generally neglected as the world we live in mostly validates outer achievements.
You don’t get awards for developing a dialogue with your dreams. You don’t get recognition for understanding the inner working of your fears. You don’t get paid for being deeply in touch with and conscious of your demons. That is precisely why it’s so important-the ego isn’t involved and can’t be applauded.
These next two weeks are not all hard times and laying on the therapy couch though. Also on Friday, the sun slips into your sign thirteen hours after the eclipse. Your clan bears the mark of spring and it’s temperament; you are fast in pace, impatient in disposition and marked with the energetic bursts that can galvanize the forces of creation to get on with it already.
Spring is springing.
And so are you. You have enough force on your side, thanks to the Uranus/Pluto square, to call on great reserves of your own endurance and power and put them both to work in your career. Great power also comes with great responsibility though so be a compassionate leader. The possibility of obliterating whatever gets in the way of your ego’s demands can be high at these times. Be humble.
This is the last time that Uranus in Aries will square Pluto in Capricorn in our lifetime. This aspect can lend you all kinds of sudden fortune, unexpected mishaps and wildly experimental experiences. This aspect could act like a rocket launching you out into the stratosphere. This aspect could also thoroughly burn you out well before your birthday party, so get steady with your efforts and respect the kind of energetic currents that are running rampant right now. Don’t crash and burn before you get a chance to shine.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
OMGOMGOMGOMG. Venus is in Taurus y’all. VENUS IS IN TAURUS!!!!!!!! From March 17th-April 11th.
(Quick, lets go shopping for pretty things!)
OK. Maybe it’s not at all the biggest deal in the coming weeks. Like at all. But, I will say that your ruling planet, Venus, adores being in her own sign and when she is happy you are more likely to be happy. Also we need Venus in your grounded, sensible terrain right now. She’s the only one holding down the fort.
Also she won’t be in another place of prominence until November and at that time she won’t be in nearly as good a place as this one. So let’s look at how you can make the most of it.
You are a connector. So connect. With whomever you need to establish a relationship or reconnect with.
Venus was just in Pisces (she is astoundingly gorgeous and gracious in this sign), from the end of January to the end of February which was most likely a sweet time for you in terms of how you connected with others both romantically and socially. Bonding was potentially significant and strong for you and Friday’s solar eclipse carries that lesson a little further.
Eclipses can signal beginnings and ends to things. Don’t fear here. Just notice what is arising and what is falling away and remember that you have Venus on your side. You have charm for days.
In fact if there is something that you want or need to start, especially on a group level or with the help of friends, this is the time to do so.
Initiate connection. Charm the pants off of those that can assist you. Then get to work on all of the behind the scenes business that you know needs to happen. This is where your focus needs to turn-what can you do to help your projects along. This is the shift in perspective that you need to cultivate. Take your power back.
And then repeat.
Tell people what your intentions are. Be your adorably strong-willed self. Throw some platonic flirting in there. Get to work on the business that no one can do but you. You’ve got this.
And repeat. And keep repeating until we talk again.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
Friday’s eclipse puts you in a unique position. Life is either beginning to unveil your purpose(s) and possible place(s) in the world you need to move into or you are getting a very clear signal on what to let come to an end.
If you experience the abrupt closing of a career door don’t be alarmed. It wasn’t yours to live out. Instead trust what is developing.
A more philosophical understanding of the meaning of your life may be emerging. A directive that feels much like an order might be coming to reveal to you your next pursuit in the world. Or you might be more comfortable in the unknown, which is really where you are able to shine.
Also on Friday the sun and moon quickly move into the terrain of your chart that deals with the people that can most effectively support this vision, dream or new adventure. Your best bet is to use any of the psychological issues that come up when you consider your place in the group as fuel for you finding your meaning in the world.
It’s OK for you to be uncertain, unsettled and untrained at knowing how to handle the kind of social pressure that might be facing you right now. The key is to hold it, be a container for it, witness it and stand by your side during it all.
In the face of all the friends that have ever come into your life, your job is to be the very best friend that you can be to yourself. In part that means letting this astrology help you break out into new social circles if and when you can and have as much fun as you possibly can in the process.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
We teach what we most need to learn. Our work in the world undoubtedly points to what we most need to internally heal. We fight for the thing that we weren’t protected against. We cry over what we were never allowed to grieve. We love in others what we fear we cannot become ourselves. We run from the very things that we need the most.
The kind of pressure cooker that your relationships supply right now is a once in a lifetime occurrence. It’s been a slow build but the friction and tension that your significant others and your career are simultaneously creating is monumental.
Use it.
You aren’t getting any younger and you can’t leave with anything but the knowledge that you faced your fears and lived with love as your main tenant. Whomever you are in partnership with, whomever you have agreed to be in union with, whomever you have said yes to is a spiritual companion helping you along your path of awakening. Don’t bounce just because you can. Let the lessons of commitment be your caldrons of creating more conscious awareness.
Stay through the discomfort and the fear.
Especially because whatever triumphs you have in the areas of intimacy and partnering are directly connected to the triumphs you have in your career. Your ability to grow and heal in your one-to-one affairs is reflective of your ability to grow and heal your relationship with your work and public image.
And that is where the heat is right now.
Friday’s solar eclipse/new moon in Pisces sets off your Ninth House of potential escapades abroad, as well as all things you might teach, learn and hold as true, but both the sun and moon quickly move into your Tenth House of career and honors joining the rambunctious ruckus of Uranus and Mars. Like we have been talking about, you have a lot on your plate either by assignment or internal pressure. Get through it by taking bigger chunks of work in smaller steps.
One. Day. At. A. Time.
Leo & Leo Rising
Life is full of ups and downs. So is astrology as it mimics/reflects/impacts the life we experience. There are times where we go underground. There are times when we come back above ground.
You are ending a recent and significant underground-type of journey but the good news is that it ends with Friday’s solar eclipse/new moon. Above ground you go!
Much like a coal miner coming out of the cave they work in, the light looks brighter – shockingly so – when we emerge. The air smells fresher. The sounds sing sweeter.
The memory of being below the surface cleaves to your peripheral vision, assisting you in appreciate the wide open spaces.
Underworld journeys help us understand the cyclical nature of life and anything that helps us to appreciate this human experience in its entirety is wildly valuable.
Friday’s eclipse might help you come to terms with a business agreement that isn’t working for you or might give you the faith to engage with one that would benefit your greatly. This eclipse might help you mourn something meaningful to the make up of your life. This eclipse might be the very thing that you need to help you appreciate the freedoms, the range of movement, and all the other ways that you are still extraordinarily blessed. Your job is to allow whatever grief that has gathered to leave naturally (do not cleave to it) and to begin to feel the spring celebration that is calling your name.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
Don’t be surprised if a new aspect of your beloved and/or business partner is revealed to you. Don’t be surprised if a relationship abruptly begins or ends. Don’t be surprised when the person that sits across from you confesses their long repressed crush for you. Don’t be surprised if the person spontaneously blurting out their feeling for a certain so-and-so is you.
You can’t keep every little passion sewn up in a tidy little heart-pouch.
Friday’s new moon/solar eclipse falls in your Seventh House of intimate relationships if you couldn’t tell. But it also eludes to how the Uranus/Pluto square plays out in your chart. You’ve got to deal with what terrifies you most to get to the good, good lovin’.
This may be a time of deepening your existing relationships. This may be a time that feels more honest and forthright in your hopes of the heart. It may just be time to risk what you have yet to and try on some vulnerability for size. But keep your wits about you. Cupid’s arrow may have recently dealt you a hefty and hopeful hello but only chase after it if it’s an inner hell yes!
Because this relates to your business/work relationships and those that can help you with such endeavors, I encourage you to make the effort to connect and correspond with the folks that encourage you to clarify your purpose and can help you to achieve it. Try not to fear help or the fact that you need it. We all do and we all want to be able to give it too. Let others help you, it’s good for you both.
Libra & Libra Rising
Friday’s new moon/solar eclipse occurs in your Sixth House of work and other things that ail you.
Just kidding.
But for real though, if you feel like your work is making you ill you might want to use this time to actively look for other employment. Your remedy is in your ability to address the wounds that need dressing and not wait for anyone else to do that dirty work for you.
The rest of your astrology is centered on understanding your interactions with others and the kind of emotional pressure cookers that come with intimate engagements. Only you know the inner turmoil or outer chaos that you manifest when you are not on your game in this department. Don’t succumb to old behaviors here. Treat your partner(s) like you want to be treated and you’ll learn to love yourself more freely in the process.
If you are a single Libra in the thick of dating up a springtime storm then just know that even though love burns bright for you right now, it’s not always permanent. Nothing as hot and volatile as this astrological climate could be. Your dating life could swing from hostility to passion and your relationship situations may or may not stay in their current incarnation. You need patience here. The tempo and temper of them will eventually cool down. Both the poisonous and the passionate pairings will find their way either out of your life or in but you’ll have to go through some upheavals to get there.
While Friday’s solar eclipse is still big news for you, bigger yet is the fact that two weeks later there will be a lunar eclipse in your sign. And it’s a doozy. Wild, provocative and untamed. The power of a full moon matched with that of an eclipse (especially this one) wants you to recognize. Recognize yourself. Recognize your significance. Recognize the ability that you do have to steer your life in the direction of your heart’s greatest longing but in order to do so there often has to be a radical acceptance of those that we are in relationship with.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
If your relationships with your siblings are in stressful circumstances, don’t be alarmed. The situation is right on time. The same goes if your relationships to folks that feel like siblings are under distress. The same goes for neighbors and folks that you run into on the day to day. This is in large part because you’re undergoing a monumental shift in the way you relate to your environment.
When we are developing as wee-ones, siblings and those that feel sisterly/brotherly influence our thought and beliefs in major ways. Their fears, their superstitions and their beliefs hinder us just as their strengths, their talents and their achievements can become things that inspire, overshadow or enable us. In some large or small way it’s time for you to do, think, act and communicate for yourself.
Perhaps you are learning how to relate and interact with everyday tasks from a more independent or self-assured place. Perhaps you are letting really old beliefs that stem from your birth order diminish in importance. Perhaps you get to feel yourself both as connected to a family system but also independent of it.
Friday’s new moon/solar eclipse occurs in an area of your chart that rules fun and feeling free to have some. If this has been hard for you lately then you may want to break some rules from yesteryear and let your hair down on a school day. We all know how much work is calling you right now and we all know how much work you have most likely accomplished. All the astrology is asking you to do is leave a little room for love and laughter too.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
The empowering aspects of Friday’s eclipse have everything to do with your ability (read willingness) to embrace your inner life and put your focus and your fortune there.
Make yourself at home. Make yourself a home. Make yourself home. We come into this world and leave it all on our own. Our only solace will come through our ability to feel solid and serene in our inner chambers and our inner world.
It’s too easy to get caught up in the #win and the #epicfail of daily life. It’s too easy to get lost in the shuffle of success stories and failure narratives that play on repeat in our meager little thinking mind. Use Friday’s eclipse to reset your success compass to inner happiness. It is an inside job after all.
The tides quickly turn though as both the sun and moon break onto the frisky, fun scene of your Fifth House. This is a place of creative abandon, sexual sweetness and summoning the courage to call yourself desirable, dammit! You and your projects are getting a wild amount ingenuity and are vibing on freakum frequencies. Your money making capacities are completely connected to how able you are to crack your own creative code.
This is likely to be a little frustrating. This is not necessarily about resolution. This is about allowing the friction and the unrest of the moment ignite your hidden pockets of resiliency and ability to innovate and create a work life that gives you life.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
Friday’s new moon/solar eclipse occurs in your Third House of siblings (including the rivalry), short distance/neighborhood travel, communications and divination (this is the house of Goddess after all).
Wherever the eclipse takes place in our charts signifies one of the areas that will be activated for the next 2 years. This area of your chart has been anything but dormant lately and I hope it’s brought you many chances to experience the thrill of feeling the power of your words. Publicly communicating what is meaningful to us can be a very terrifying/exciting experience. Writing, teaching and sharing your point of view is important for your evolution right now.
There are many other planets occupying your Third House including Mercury (communication), Neptune (psychic healing and captain of confusion), Chiron (the wounded healer) and the asteroid Salcia, (Goddess of salt water and the depths of the Ocean).
That’s a pretty hefty healing signature that could have you searching for escape from all that you are privy to feeling right now. Try to stay with the feelings. Instead of just blindly following your desire to disconnect, notice why you think that is your only option. Anxiety often accompanies this kind of astrology so be mindful of how it can kidnap your consciousness and fight back by staying grounded and in the details of the moment.
Your First House of self, identity and vitality and your Fourth House of home, foundation and family are the other aspects of your life that are being majorly triggered thanks to the Uranus/Pluto Square. This has been helping you to cut the BS and get down to your essential dignity. This has been helping you put down what you never needed to carry. This has been helping you to find the reserves of power within you that are regenerative and undeniable. This has been helping you to strip down to the basics and understand what you are working with beyond your family values and beyond your family drama.
Don’t be afraid of being raw, that’s the deal right now. Don’t be afraid of being real, that’s your key right now. Don’t be afraid of change, that’s the only guarantee you’ve got.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Friday’s new moon/solar eclipse elevates issues of making money and being financially independent. The issue really is about your ability to make your dreams a reality. Right now it most likely feels far off in the future but by November of this year you’ll be able to get a better handle on it. What you envision is possible and can come to bear fruit that is edible.
At least parts of it are, and this is the time for you to recognize which parts are workable and which need to edited. Don’t fear cutting away what can’t fit right now-if it’s really a great idea, it will come back to help you. If you try to keep everything that doesn’t really fit it will just come back to bite you in the ass.
One leg of this journey is undoubtedly about the psychological work that you are doing behind the scenes. Especially right now it’s important not to underestimate the value of a good therapeutic journey. Every little bit of excavation that you do, every little nuance about yourself that you were formerly unconscious of but are willing now to gain a better understanding of and every ghost that you decide to address from your past helps you move forward in your life by leaps and bounds.
This really is a moment of cleaning out your psychological closets and facing the age old fears you have about what might cause you misery. Actively, willingly, admittedly dealing with the forces of your life that threaten to drag you under if left unchecked is one of your biggest tasks on the menu. It will help you gain more clarity in your communications and help you be more confidently definitive in your decision making process.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
This week gives you a hint. Or an explanation. It might open a door. It might close a door. Which ever way the wind blows trust it, bow to it, do your best to bend with it.
Friday’s eclipse in your sign is the beginning of a series of eclipses with the fishes. There will be a total of four. This is the first. The last is on Feb 26th, 2017. This is a marathon, no need to burn out in the first lap.
Eclipses in our sign tend to put us into rapid growth gear. This can be for a multitude of reasons. One is that shit gets stirred up, shaken down or taken away from us (mostly our innocence). Major things begin and major things end.
The eclipses that fall close to your sun or other planets/points in your chart (within a degree) will most likely be the most significant. This eclipse is at 29+ degrees of Pisces. Take a look at your chart (I suggest going to astro.com) and see if you have anything there.
If Friday is your birthday you can bet this will be a year that will reveal something about your identity that was previously unknown to yourself or others. Prepare to be revealed. Prepare to live with less BS. Prepare to live with the knowledge that you have way less time to waste than you thought you did, as in you have none.
Also on Friday the sun and moon make rapid movements into the fields of springtime tra-la-la and your second house of how you pay the bills. This area of your chart is getting a big build-up of brouhaha so if there is something that you want to do to bring in extra energy (that’s all money is) then the only thing that you need to ask yourself is why on earth aren’t you pursuing that? Don’t let this season pass you by without making your intentions clear to yourself, to anyone who will listen and to the universe at large.